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History and Status of the ARM Program
More than 20 years after the dedication of the first research site of the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, ARM's primary tenet has remained unchanged: to improve the performance of the general circulation models used for climate research and prediction by improving how those models deal with radiative energy transfer and the impact of clouds.
To this end, ARM has made a significant contribution in improving climate prediction models: radiative heat transfer, radiation absorption, and cirrus cloud properties. ARM scientists use data gathered from ARM's fixed, mobile, and aerial facilities worldwide to address these issues and compare the observations to their models. Users worldwide propose and conduct field campaigns that target specific science questions as well as test and validate new instruments. This worldwide interest bodes well for the ARM Program and for the future of ground-based remote sensing for climate modeling and weather forecasting.
Initial Concept
The initial concept for ARM arose from a series of studies that fell under the auspices of the Intercomparison of Radiation Codes in Climate Models (ICRCCM). ICRCCM pointed to several key issues that are now central to the ARM approach and strategy. First, ICRCCM was based on the assertion that one must understand the quality of the physics inside a climate model if one is to understand the quality of the climate model itself. Second, it is possible, and in fact necessary, to understand the relatively coarse representations of the physical processes in a climate model in terms of higher resolution process models. Finally, the hierarchy of models that leads to needed parameterizations must be built on a sound base of experimental verification.
At the same time as the release of the ICRCCM results, it was becoming clear that the radiative transfer of energy in the atmosphere and the impact of clouds was, and remains, one of the greatest sources of error and uncertainty in the current generation of general circulation models used for climate research and prediction. With this starting point, DOE proposed a major program targeted at improving the understanding of the role and representation of atmospheric radiative processes and clouds in models of the earth's climate. Initially, the DOE program focused on the radiative aspects of the climate problem. As the scientific issue was studied in more detail, however, it was obvious that a study of radiative processes associated with clouds could not be decoupled from the problem of representing the processes by which clouds form, are maintained, and dissipate in climate models. As a result, the ARM Program was proposed to the then Committee on Earth Sciences of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science Engineering and Technology with two basic objectives:
- to improve the treatment of radiative transfer in climate models under all relevant conditions
- to improve the treatment of clouds in climate models, including the representation of the cloud life cycle and the prognosis of cloud radiative properties.
The Approved Plan
The ARM Program Plan was subjected to peer review in the fall of 1989. The key element of the proposed ARM effort was to be the Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART). This user facility would consist of four to six semi-permanent observational facilities designed to allow detailed investigations of processes represented in climate research models. These semi-permanent facilities would be supplemented with a mobile facility to allow related measurements at other locations on a campaign-oriented basis. The CART facility would include a data management and communications system capable of acquiring and quality-controlling site data; ability to acquire data from sources outside the program; and to communicate that data to a Science Team. The Science Team would be selected through a peer review process open to all investigators nationally and internationally.
Based on the peer review, the subcommittee on Global Change Research of the Committee on Earth Sciences approved the Plan. The scope was broadened beyond radiative transfer to include clouds and cloud processes represented in general circulation models, a change deemed necessary to adequately address those atmospheric properties important to radiative transfer in the atmosphere and the atmosphere's radiation balance. The Committee also recommended that the DOE implementation of this program involve the talents of other federal agencies to the extent possible and that an interagency steering group be formed to assist in that process. Finally, DOE agreed to coordinate its deployment of facilities with the schedules of other relevant national and international programs.
Early Implementation
The implementation of the ARM Program began in January 1990. First, a multi-laboratory team was formed to plan the detailed implementation of the ARM facilities. Because the science drivers were important to the design of the ARM facilities, a series of scientific workshops were held in the spring and summer of 1990 to clarify the scientific foundations of the program. In parallel, a solicitation process was initiated to establish the Science Team.
As the implementation moved forward, features of the program emerged. One of the most significant was a pattern of collaboration with other programs. This collaboration was characterized by a series of joint field campaigns and by involvement in program planning for other major research efforts. With the field collaborations, ARM attempted to bring a value-added contribution to another agency's or group's planned effort, while at the same time trying to gain operational experience necessary to guide its own field deployment.
From the standpoint of planning, ARM attempted to gain early involvement in the program planning of other programs that would be evolving in parallel with it. One of these joint planning activities culminated in the field deployment of the Pilot Radiation Observation Experiment (PROBE) to Kavieng, Papua New Guinea, as part of the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere-Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA-COARE), in the winter of 1992-1993. Experience gained during TOGA-COARE has been a crucial influence in ARM planning.
The science and facility tracks converged in the selection of a siting strategy for ARM facilities. This process resulted in the identification of five locales in which ARM should locate its semi-permanent facilities and a comparable number of secondary locales in which the program should consider shorter, campaign-like activities. The primary locales were the Southern Great Plains (SGP) of the United States, the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP), the North Slope of Alaska (NSA), the marine stratus zones of either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf Stream.
Deployment of the first instrumentation to the SGP site occurred in the spring of 1992, just 24 months after the program was approved. The site was dedicated in November 1992. TWP began phased operations in 1996 at its first facility on Manus Island. The second facility on Nauru Island was implemented in 1998. In 2002, a third facility in Darwin, Australia was established in collaboration with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to support the other two sites. The NSA site at Barrow was dedicated in July 1997. Barrow is located at the northernmost point in the United States, 330 miles north of the Arctic Circle. ARM chose this location because the Arctic is particularly sensitive to climate changes.
The ARM Climate Research Facility Today
The SGP site is the largest and most extensive climate research field site in the world, consisting of in situ and remote-sensing instrument clusters arrayed across approximately 55,000 square miles (143,000 square kilometers) in north-central Oklahoma. The heart of the SGP site is the heavily instrumented central facility located on 160 acres of cattle pasture and wheat fields southeast of Lamont, Oklahoma. The SGP site is designed to continuously sample all of the components of the radiation budget at the Earth's surface and all the relevant constituents in the atmosphere above the site. The largest event at the SGP site so far was the 1997 execution of a single field campaign comprised of seven distinct areas of research involving between 70 to 100 scientists and colleagues of the science team and collaborating programs.
Since the SGP site was established in 1992, more than 30 instrument clusters have been placed around the site. The delivery and installation of Vaisala ceilometers and atmospheric emitted radiance interferometers (AERIs) completed the boundary facilities and enabled studies to compare driving single-column model (SCM) research using remote sensors and satellite data instead of driving these models solely with radiosonde data.
Covering the area roughly between 10° N and 10° S of the equator and from 130° E to 167° E, the TWP locale includes a region that plays a large role in the interannual variability observed in the global climate system. For example, a phenomenon called the El Niño/Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, has far-reaching implications for weather patterns over much of the Northern Hemisphere and perhaps the entire planet.
The North Slope of Alaska (NSA) site, which includes facilities at Barrow and Atqasuk, provides data about cloud and radiative processes at high latitudes. These data are being used to refine models and parameterizations as they relate to the Arctic.
In addition to routine data collection, ARM provides opportunities for user-proposed field campaigns targeted at specific science problems. For example, field campaigns have been directed at understanding the accuracy of routine atmospheric measurements, and at specific cloud problems such as anomalous absorption of solar radiation. The ARM Mobile Facilities (AMF) and ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) provide additional methods of gathering measurements during field campaigns.
Collaboration with other agencies and programs is a fundamental philosophy of ARM. In December 1997, DOE committed ARM to support the GEWEX Water Vapor Program (GVap) by coordinating the establishment of the GVap ground-based validation network. This network was comprised of up to 20 sites worldwide that acquired water vapor profile data using advanced radiosondes. More recently, in September 2007 the ARM Climate Research Facility became an official member of the National Science Foundation's Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere, or CASA. CASA is a multi-sector partnership among academia, industry, and government dedicated to engineering revolutionary weather-sensing networks for the region of the lower atmosphere currently below conventional radar range. The Mid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment, planned for 2011, will take place at the ARM Southern Great Plains site. This joint campaign with the NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Project will study cloud and precipitation transitions and environmental quantities that are important for convective parameterization in large-scale models and cloud-resolving model simulations. This campaign also takes advantage of Recovery Act investments at the SGP site, providing enhanced radiosonde flights and new precipitation and cloud radars to supplement the already comprehensive ground-based instrument suite at the site.
History of the ARM Science Team
The Science Team's research efforts were largely focused on the activities of various working groups and fell into the two fundamental strategies through which ARM sought to achieve its programmatic objectives and to focus its scientific efforts. These strategies were also the basic organizing principle behind defining the requirements for field campaigns and determining what additional measurement capabilities were required. The first strategy was the "instantaneous radiative flux" measurement and modeling effort. The second was single-column modeling to evaluate the cloud and radiative process models either used in, or being developed for, general circulation models being used for climate studies. A third focused area of activity, related to establishing the lower boundary condition for both SCM evaluations and instantaneous radiative flux (IRF) calculations, was the effort to characterize surface fluxes, surface radiative properties, and planetary boundary layer behavior on scales appropriate to general circulation models.
On October 1, 2009, the ARM science component was merged with the Atmospheric Sciences Program to become Atmospheric System Research, and is no longer part of the ARM Climate Research Facility.
ARM was the first climate research program to deploy a suite of cutting-edge instrumentation for obtaining continuous measurements of cloud and aerosol properties. This strategy revolutionized our ability to collect long-term statistics of detailed cloud properties and now serves as a model for programs around the world. ARM has formed some surprising relationships along the way. For one, ARM works in close cooperation with weather forecasting operational centers. The weather centers have found that ARM data is extremely helpful for evaluation and improving their own models. In turn, they have supplied research support and ideas for the ARM community. The ARM Climate Research Facility has become an integral part of international collaborations and of U.S. government research programs sponsored by agencies such as NASA and the NOAA. This worldwide interest speaks well for the future of ground-based remote sensing for climate modeling and weather forecasting.
Ackerman, T.P. and Stokes,
G.M., 2003: "The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program." Physics Today
56(1): 38-44.
U.S. Department of Energy, 1996: Science Plan for the Atmospheric Radiation
Measurement (ARM) Program DOE/ER -0670T, Washington, D.C.


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One of the most rewarding parts of my job is seeing other people happy. In practice, I will give my all, be someone's personal cheerleader but also a major ass-kicker. Because if I do the work on my end, then I expect my patients to do the work as well. No excuses. And the interesting thing is, that no where on my site does it say that I specialize in weight loss. The reason why is because weight gain is a symptom not the root. So when working with people, I uncover the hormonal, digestive, emotional and spiritual component behind the weight. And you know what? People get results. Because guess what?
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Pro boxing vanishing in Oregon
World Wrestling Entertainment recently made its third stop here, drawing 12,000 people at the Rose Garden.
And on Friday, fighting superstar Randy Couture and partner Matt Lindland will put on their second mixed martial arts show at the Oregon National Guard Armory, 10000 N.E. 33rd Ave. The first one, called Sport Fight Revolution, went off successfully.
On Saturday, promoter Chael Sonnen will put on an amateur MMA show at the Roseland Theater.
But where has pro boxing gone? After a flurry of activity Ñ three cards by Golden Boy Promotions, and the Roy Jones Jr. and Winky Wright fights in the Rose Garden in 2002 and early 2003 Ñ it has disappeared from Portland and gone nearly extinct in the state.
Jim Cassidy, executive director of the Oregon Boxing and Wrestling Commission, says one event will be held at Seven Feathers Casino in Roseburg in June and another possibly in Bend in April. That's it.
'There are local promoters thinking about doing shows, but it's hard to get people to buckle down,' Cassidy says.
J.E. Isaac, senior vice president for business affairs for Oregon Arena Corp., says that while 'we are still very interested in major boxing matches, and have a couple of irons in the fire,' another series like the Golden Boy isn't in the works. The Rose Quarter did not fare well financially with the Golden Boy cards, and neither did the promoter.
It doesn't help that Cassidy, the commissioner since 1999, has been under investigation by the Oregon State Police for his part in a botched event in Pendleton last October where several boxers and officials had their checks bounce. A bond had to be broken to settle some of the debts.


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Famous football players Gerard Pique, Lionel Messi and Neymar feature in the latest
It has been almost traditional for Shakira, the famous Columbian singer, to come up with a FIFA World Cup anthem and this time also she has come up with La La La. If we recall Shakira during the 2010 World Cup had come up with Waka Waka which had become equally popular like the official world cup song Waving Flag. Waka Waka showcased the spriit of Africa and urged people to come to Africa and watch the soccer matches. There were famous football players who had featured in the song and appealed for an even more massier approach to the world cup in Africa.
This time also, La La La is giving tough competition to the official World Cup song We Are One, sung by Pitbull. This song takes the bar a notch higher. Not just are football players like Cesc Fabregas, Lionel Messi, Eric Abidal and Neymar featuring in the song, but also her husband Gerard Pique features in the song. In a scene from the song, Shakira and Gerard's son Milan is also seen kicking the soccer ball. To cap it all off, Sergio Aguero and Radamel Falcao also make a friendly appearance in the song.
Both the Shakira songs have had a lot of viewership on online video sharing platforms. We kind of are biased towards Waka Waka more than La La La. Which one do you like more BollywoodLifers?


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Is median family income growth keeping up with productivity growth? Do 1 percent of Americans really own more than a third of U.S. wealth? For what group is labor-force-participation rate lower than ever? What share of Ohio's jobless has been without work for at least six months? How far has Ohio's median wage dropped since 1996? Is growth in durable goods manufacturing jobs pulling Ohio out of its slump? Could the federal stimulus and the auto rescue be playing a role in Ohio's recovery? What do high-wage states have in commons?Get the answers to these questions and more in our comprehensive report, State of Working Ohio 2012, available online this Sunday, September 2.


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Ballmer Is 'Re-Imagining' Microsoft Around New Forms of Computing
Microsoft Corp. is pivoting to cloud computing from traditional computing, part of a sweeping revision of the software giant's business model.
Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday that Microsoft is "re-imagining" every part of its software empire to run on and through the cloud. Ballmer made the remarks in Los Angeles at a developers' conference.
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Draft Report on Best Practices PowerPoint Presentation
No decision has been made about whether hydraulic fracturing should be allowed in Maryland. MDE is proceeding methodically and cautiously to develop stringent regulations that will protect public health and safety, natural resources and the environment in the event hydraulic fracturing is allowed. The draft Best Practices report has been widely recognized as setting an extremely high bar for industry and for being tougher than standards in any other state.
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Brian your talking about the Buick Skylark or Special. If so that was the only car that Buick put that aluminum 215 in which I was referring to earlier. What other engine were they going to use? I don't remember them having a six at that time. If that ain't it you got me.
I use to own one also. Crap! I forgot that the 300,340,350 weren't nail heads. I had a 66 GS but to tell you the truth I never noticed those adapter plates. They must have had to drop those 401's considerably or were the small blocks that much wider?
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Yep, that motor was literally shoe horned in there. The reason for the adapters was that the motor mounts on the Nailhead mount to the motor at the front of the block. All the "modern" GM motors it's in the middle of the block. So the A body frame being designed for the others had the mounts in the middle of the motor. Not only did it use these mounts, the oil pan was a rear sump which Buick had abandoned back in 59. The exhaust manifolds were totally unique with the drivers side coming all the way down to the bottom of the frame like a header. The wire harness was unique with the battery being mounted on the left (the same side as the Nailhead starter). The brakes were different with bigger wheel cylinders. The rearend used station wagon bearings! The clutch fork on the three and four speed was forged iron! How they made any money on those cars is beyond me.
Ok a softball: What super rare option sat on tops of the front fenders on a 1969 Camaro? Brian |
The Doublemint twins?
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." - Mark Twain |
I'd answer it (I think) if I had a decent question (I owned a '69 SS427 Impala). Oh well.
Don't want to give it away, but did the Camaro have it for the rear too? |
I'm not certain, I can't imagine it would be in the front only. I do know that they are VERY rare I have only seen one in person with them.
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Chesspiece (�Ѥl) Wishing to walk out from the territory that you've controlled However I've walked into the battle that you've arranged I don't have a rock-solid defense Nor do I have a backroad to retreat Wishing to escape from the trap that you've put down However I've fallen into another deadlock I don't have the courage to decide upon my fortunes Nor do I have the luck to break free I am like a piece of chess My backs and forths are for you to determine I am not the only queen in your eyes But just an insignificant piece of pawn I am like a piece of chess My comings and goings are not for my own to decide Making your move and not taking back, you have never wave your mind As I am being controlled within your hands [Previous][Top][Next]
Comet Music: Lau Yee Tat Lyrics: Chow Yiu Fai I am at the corner of sea Yet you are at the edge of sky Two destined stars to appear Distantly summoning each other Yet never running close You and I in darkeness shining for each other Actually In this entanglement Or destroyance of each other It has been too long Unbearable I have to elude from your tender universe Metamorphosing into a comet No matter flying to wherever Behind me is a scintillating memory I am a comet I have a wish Leaving you I myself Beautifully dissappear Between us Is like a void Only a weeping milky way You are the cowboy I am afraid to be the spinning maid I don't want to continue the depressing poetry Don't want This entanglement Don't need The destroyance of each other It has been too long Unbearable I'ts time for me again to return To the world of vanity Metamorphosing into a comet I have only one wish Leaving you I myself Beautifully metamorphosing into a comet No matter flying to wherever Behind me is the scintillating memory Inumerable comets I have only one wish I find Myself A beautiful story. [Previous][Top][Next]
Pledge (�}��) I thought that we could be together forever Lots of times, I think of this and I don't want to fall asleep If you could give me a sincere certainty It doesn't matter; nothing matters to me The road ahead is perhaps not too clear After I proceed on confidently, perhaps I'll find it exhausting Perhaps I'll want to stop but can't stop The darker the sky becomes, the more tired my heart becomes I saw your face, listened to your unvoiced pledge At that moment I discovered That one day I walked past you and didn't catch your gaze I take my heart and give it to you to console Is it possible for me not to have to take it back? [Please] don't think that an assiduous heart is unbreakable [Please] don't think that nothing matters to me [Previous][Top][Next]
Cold War (�N��) Composer: Tori Amos Lyrics: Lin Xi How can I know that I am really embracing you in silence Like palpating a pile of mobile air Witnessing innumerable amounts of question marks kissed away by the Reticent you Can I only Prevaricate myself? Never fear, never dare to divulge you. Heard that you and that mime fell in love I too, like others silently act this act yet undesireable to separate Wordless together as if you and I having a tacit understanding, Never wanting childish disputes But countenance, both of our countenances, inarticulately suggests this Is cold war How many years together yet implicit Rumors, like wind, surround us, here and there Never listen never speak, never think of a sentence Fear to reveal unintentionally embarassing evidence how to face Trample true feelings in silence Transform into the most intriguing mime who doesn't nag or cheat Forever silently,solitarily impersonate your lover No matter who you are thinking of Wordless together as if you and I having a tacit understanding Never wanting childish disputes Both countenance, both of your countenances, as if no speech There is no speech There is no speech like cold war How many years together yet wordless Seems like how many years covet to love neglect to say Covet to love yet neglect to say Let you pass by in front of my bare eyes. [Previous][Top][Next]
Reservedness I always have never resisted your charm Although all along you have never fascinated me I always smile when I look at you My affections are always just permeated with lightly. I once thought of on a lonely night You finally care about me in my room You close your eyes and kissed me Did not say a word, but tightly hold me in your arms I do love you I'll love you till the end The first I stop being abstinent I allowed myself to have illusions regarding the both of us You do love me You'll love me till the end The first time I stop being abstinent I believed that I can really deeply love you. [Previous][Top][Next]
Sporadic night wind lightly cool tree sways moon shakes little clouds flying I am thinking water flowing flower fragrance a slice of night's view put on heart admidst happiness's melancholy admidst darkness's light how to measure how to weigh wild field moutain range beneath beauty's pity sporadic you see that moutain's view lake's light you see that blue sky white willow cannot see a shine of infinite you see again the sea sky green waves you see again twilight beam cannot help but hurry to save hope for dissapointment [Previous][Top]


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I'll beta read for anyone who needs/wants it!
By the way, if anyone just happened to notice, I am deleting my story, Not the Only One. That is because it is really difficult for me to complete it, having already read Deathly Hallows. However, I will be posting another fic sometime soon (within the next decade), using some of the same ideas that I had for this one.
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My sis likes to doll, so she did the elves from my fanfic, "Not the Only One". Not exactly what I thought of, but good, anyways.
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The Chancellor is to reveal plans to donate £1.3m, raised from fines imposed on banks for rigging interest rates, to three military charities.
The funds are part of a £35m pot the government has set aside from the Libor fixing scandal to help the armed forces by supporting injured troops and their families.
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Researchers from the University of Massachusetts say there's something special about Cedar Key dolphins. "They have unique feeding behaviors not seen anywhere else in the world," said PhD candidate Stefanie Gazda in a phone interview Friday. Gazda heads up the Cedar Key Dolphin Project, a program that operates in the area for a few short weeks each year aimed at a better understanding the creatures and the environment they live in.
Join area libraries for Fairy Tales and Bedtime stories from all around the world. We will listen to international University of Florida students, make crafts, play games, listen to music and enjoy snacks. Come to one event or all of them. Large groups welcome, but please notify us in advance. All events begin at 10 a.m.
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Corrine Ryan has been carving, shaping, chiseling and punching leather for over 20 years. Her works range from three dimensional portraits to earrings and pet leashes. Her commissioned pieces include personal portraits as well as horse and pet scenes. Many of her cherished works are held in collectors' galleries that have been added to over the years. Corrine will have her latest creations on display at the Cedar Keyhole throughout the month of June. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
How does Medicare work? What Part D Plan saves me the most money? Where do I find supplemental insurance rates? How does my employer's insurance work with Medicare? Are there any programs to help pay for my Part B premium? Any programs to help pay my drug costs? Come see SHINE, a volunteer program with the FL Dept. of Elder Affairs, for your answers.Call, 1-800-262-2243 for assistance.Or, come in to either of the following scheduled visits
Public hearing on Tarmac permit A hearing to take public comment on the draft environmental impact statement for the Tarmac King Road mine will be held at 7 p.m. at the Inglis Community Center in Inglis. The hearing is being held by the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection and the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency which drafted the report. For more information visit www.kingroadeis.com.
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The Cedar Key Lions Club held its annual election of officers and board members for the July 2012 - June 2013 year and celebrated with an installation dinner on May 8. The Board of Directors and officers for the coming year are: Pam Oakley, President; Lannie Cardona, Immediate Past President; Steve Rosenthal, 1st Vice President; Dale Register, 2nd Vice President; Faye Sanders, Secretary; Sarah Cardona; Treasurer; Marvin Franks, Director; Bill Stephens, Director; Maurice Hendrix, Director, and Ralph Selby, Director.
BP Settlement meeting set Information on the BP settlement agreement pertaining to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will be presented by Rhon Jones, one of the 15 Attorneys on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the multi-district (federal) litigation. Jones, of the Beasley Allen Law Firm, will also discuss how to participate in this settlement. Businesses associated with the clam farming and fishing industries may meet with Jones on Wednesday, May 30 from 4-6 p.m. at the Community Center in Cedar Key.
An incorrect date was publiched in the May 17 issue of the Cedar Key Beacon for the Bronson Home and Community Educators club's annual bingo
The event will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday, May 25, at the Levy County Extension Center. The cost is $5 for two cards and $1 for two additional cards. The club will provide drinks and dessert and there wil be prizes. For more information, call Dee Olsen at 486-2319.
The Levy County Public Safety & Hurricane Preparedness Expo, sponsored by the Levy Department of Public Safety, will be Saturday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Williston Airport. Admission is free. There will be demonstrations of vehicle extrications using the Jaws of Life, and working dogs for Search & Rescue and the Sheriffs' Office. Displays will include ambulances, fire trucks, helicopters, hazardous materials equipment, police cars, a medical simulator lab, and forestry equipment from several counties.


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William Hawrelak Park Riverside Walk is a 3.2 mile heavily trafficked loop trail located near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada that features a river and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a number of activity options and is best used from April until October. Dogs are also able to use this trail.
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Take a great walk by the riverside Hawrelak Park is one of Edmonton's busiest parks. It is a very accessible park for all ages and all levels of mobility. It is also a great place for a picnic, walk or to watch a festival. It is also a great jump off point for other trails in the river valley park system. William Hawrelak Park (or simply Hawrelak Park) is named after former mayor William Hawrelak, and was formerly known as Mayfair Park. The park is home to the Heritage Amphitheatre, which is used for many festivals and performances, such as the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, the Edmonton Heritage Festival and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's Symphony Under the Sky Festival. This walk takes us around the entire river bend starting in Hawrelak Park. Parking by picnic site #2 is a great place if you want to access the river valley trail system in a number of directions. You jump on the paved paths which lead through and out of Hawrelak Park for the time being. You have to navigate across a few roads to get to Emily Murphy Park, but the paths are well marked and are used by walkers and bikers alike. Be aware of traffic. We took one quick pit stop to look at the Mayfair Golf & Country Club, then carried on over to Emily Murphy park. Once in Emily Murphy Park, you can get back on the trail system, head under the bridge and you start winding your way through the nicely maintained trails. Covered in trees and foliage, it is a relaxing and beautiful walk. Occasionally, you get some great views of the river and sometimes come upon other users of the trails, but it is a very quiet stroll. There is an elevation change as you approach Hawrelak Park again and you find yourself on the backside of the park. You will pass the picnic areas and the lake as you make your way back to Picnic Site #2. An enjoyable and relaxing walk.


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Carlos Quentin deal done, Padres turn attention to closer Huston Street
Might the Padres make it 2 for 2 in multiyear deals for July 31 trade candidates?
On the heels of slugger Carlos Quentin's extension Sunday, the Padres continue talking with closer Huston Street. Discussions with Street remain in the early phases and it is too soon to gauge how they will play out, sources with knowledge of the talks told CBSSports.com on Sunday.
Street, acquired from the Rockies in December, earned his 16th save in San Diego's 3-2 win over Colorado on Sunday. He is 2-0 with 16 saves and an 0.95 ERA in 30 appearances.
Earlier Sunday, the Padres announced a three-year extension for Quentin that colleague Jon Heyman reported to be worth $27 million with a mutual option that could bring the package to $30 million.
One of the keys to that deal and the ongoing talks with Street is that general manager Josh Byrnes, in conducting the daily business of the season, received the green light from the Padres' muddled ownership situation to proceed with the deals. Outgoing owner John Moores is in the process of selling the club in a painstaking process that has been close to completion for weeks now.
The initial hope was that the Padres' sale would be completed by the All-Star break so that Byrnes and Co. would have a clear direction as they maneuver through the trade deadline season with an eye on 2013. Though the sale is not finished, it appears as if it will not paralyze the Padres.
Street's deal includes a $9 million mutual option for 2013 with a $500,000 buyout. The cheap buyout lessens the urgency for the Padres to trade him if they do not complete an extension between now and July 31.


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Scooter mishap had a happy ending
Editor: On Sunday, April 6, my wife and I were walking our small dog on the trail behind the Langley Seniors' Centre.
I was on my scooter when coming to the only large hill on the trail, thinking I could make the hill.
The scooter could not make it up. About halfway up, it stalled and both it and I fell to the ground.
I hurt my left side of my chest, and it was still sore some time later. I was very lucky, as two ladies passing by spent time with me and helped me to my feet.
Thank God they came along and hurried to help me. You two ladies are my heroes. Thank you very much.
The hill has been reported to the City, and I asked if it could possibly lower the hill,as it is dangerous.
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WINNIPEG – Families of some of Canada's 1,200 missing and murdered aboriginal women laid tobacco at the foot of a new monument to their loved ones on Tuesday.
The two-metre-high granite statue, a project led by the Manitoba government, provides relatives a place to grieve loved ones who were killed or have disappeared.
It stands at The Forks, the historic junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers that served as a meeting place for aboriginals for centuries.
"When you walk by, please take a moment to think about these women and their families," said Barb Houle, whose daughter Cherisse was killed outside Winnipeg in 2009. The 17-year-old's body was found in a ditch and her killer has never been caught.
"We'd like to raise awareness on this issue that's not only important to aboriginal people, but to society as a whole."
The monument, hourglass-shaped and human-sized, is meant to represent a woman. There is an opening near the top that allows sunlight through.
"The light and the darkness pass through without judgment in an endless cycle. There is neither a beginning nor an end," said Nahanni Fontaine, a special adviser for the government on aboriginal women's issues.
Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Minister Eric Robinson renewed his call Tuesday for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, an idea the federal government has rejected.
In May, the RCMP issued a detailed statistical breakdown of 1,181 cases since 1980. The report said aboriginal women make up 4.3 per cent of the Canadian population, yet account for 16 per cent of female homicides and 11.3 per cent of missing women.
The report also countered accusations from some quarters that aboriginal deaths are not taken as seriously by police. The "solve" rates were virtually identical at 88 per cent for aboriginal women and 89 per cent for others.


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Science in School - Issue 17 - Winter 2010
Science in School aims to promote inspiring science teaching by encouraging communication between teachers, scientists, and everyone else involved in European science education.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight European intergovernmental scientific research organisations, of which ESO is a member. The journal addresses science teaching both across Europe and across disciplines: highlighting the best in teaching and cutting-edge research.
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The Horse Forum
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- - Horse pushy for food....
Horse pushy for food.... I am new to owning...but loving it! I do have a concern with my new gelding however...I have noticed in the past two weeks when I am at the barn during evening feeding time that my boy is very pushy with the barn help as they are taking him hay and grain out to the pasture. He follows TOO closely ass the carry his hay and grain to his area (he is with three others who coincidentally show no interest in his food) and he puts his head very low and pins his ears back. I am concerned that not only will someone get bit by him, but also that he is not behaving as he should. In general, he is very pushy with food...I give him no treats b/c of this, but he gets fed twice a day and is turned out in a pasture with grass. How should I handle his behavior? Especially since I do not feed him myself??? Thanks! Melinda |
I would hit him with the bucket, just hard enuff to get his attention. |
i, on the other hand would refrain from hitting him with a bucket. the last thing you want is for him to become scared of buckets considering how often we use them for something in the horsey world :) my mare does the exact same thing to me. im always terrified that she is going to bite me in the back but she never has. i think it is more of a warning to other horses. its like theyre saying 'that food she is carrying is mine. and see how my ears are back?? well if you try and take my food and going to rip your head off!' lol my personal opinion is that as long as there is no aggression shown towards the person carrying the food i wouldnt worry. unless that changes of course. another thing you can start is teaching your horse to wait for his food. among many other problems, my wb was awful at food time and got really aggressive towards us. we started putting his food down and then holding his head up so he couldnt eat. all the time we were saying 'wait, wait, wait'. at first he got quite upset that he could see his food there but wasnt allowed to eat it. eventually he figured that as soon as he didnt try and go for his food he was allowed to have it. now he wont touch his food until we say 'go on'. it seems to have made him much calmer about the whole process. until he starts eating that is and then he's all protective again lol |
I really like the suggestion of making him wait until he is calm. Maybe I need to get out there during feed time and enforce some mellow time before eating. I don't like to even ride him when he hears the hay cart, because I no longer have his attention! |
A horse should not asociate anything with a bucket, (Yes His feed is normally in it, but sometimes there are fence mending supplies,etc) Ii dont whant my horse going after buckets. |
a horse will associate bad with near anything that is going to whack him. most horses wont 'go' a bucket they will sniff and see whats in there and if it isnt edible they dont care. if you can teach your horse a lesson without whacking it with a bucket that would be the best idea melinda - it is a good idea. horses need boundaries in many areas and behaving at food time is a good sign of respect :D |
well, i dealt with this when i first started feeding my gelding. it was starting to get really bad, and he would rush me and eat the food while i was carrying it up a muddy hill to his house (wasnt the best situation at first, now we moved him). So what i did was when he started to come near me, I stopped, put the bucket down, and made a scary voice at him and said 'UH UH! wait....' sometimes I had to carry the poop fork with me and kind of wave it at him when he started to come close. very very soon he learned that he needed to just wait in his own space until i put it at the top. then I would call him and reward him for being so good and waiting. he never developed a fear of me, the bucket, or the fork. good luck! |
he never developed a fear because you never gave him anything to be afraid of :) now had you whacked him with the fork or something he would have had something to fear. that was another good way of teaching the same thing as i have with jarred. melinda - another idea, if you have to feed in a paddock where you have to walk a while with him behind you is to carry a lunge whip. most horses know what a lunge whip is for and dont have a fear of it they just know that it goes crack and makes a scary noise. the whip can also act as an extension of your own arm to keep the horse further from you. if you hold the whip straight out on front of you a horse will rarely go past it :D just some more food for thought there :) |
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April 2 (Bloomberg) -- Getting what should be public information about major Wall Street firms can be maddeningly difficult.
Bloomberg News discovered this in its ultimately successful effort to get information on the $1.2 trillion in "secret loans" the Fed doled out during the financial crisis. And I've had no small experience of it myself.
As I started each of my three books -- about Lazard Freres, Bear Stearns and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. -- I submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to the appropriate government agencies (the Securities Exchange Commission, the State Department and the Federal Reserve) to obtain whatever documents, memos and e-mails they had about these companies and their senior executives.
I was hoping to find, among other nuggets, details of enforcement actions, or settlements that were reached where the firms "neither admitted nor denied" guilt, or other documentary evidence of the coziness that has for too long existed between Wall Street and Washington.
Sadly, getting this information in anything like a timely basis -- say, before my books were finished and published -- has been nearly impossible. At first, when I asked the SEC about documents related to Lazard's role in the Hartford-Mediobanca scandal starting in 1968 and ending in 1981, the agency told me it could not release the information. When I reminded the FOIA administrator that the SEC had already released the information, years before, to another journalist, the agency dug up the 40 boxes of unindexed, unorganized documents and invited me to a warehouse in Pennsylvania to take a look. After an hour or so, the clerk asked me if I was done with my review. (Eventually, I persuaded the SEC to ship the boxes -- at my expense -- to its office in Manhattan, where I spent months poring over them.)
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But that bit of beginner's luck turned out to be a fluke. To this day, the SEC has given me nothing -- zilch, nada -- about Bear Stearns or Goldman Sachs. After the Lazard book was published, the State Department sent me a thin file that was, supposedly, what it had in its possession about Felix Rohatyn's three years as the U.S. ambassador to France. I opened the envelope and discovered that most of the 10 or so pages had been redacted.
Last December, nearly nine months after my Goldman book was published, I received an official-looking package from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Slapped on the outside of the envelope was a bright orange sticker about keeping the contents -- a computer disk -- away from "magnets and electric motors" and, of course, the warning "Do Not X-Ray." This, I suspected, was my long-awaited document file about Goldman's dealings with the Federal Reserve in the days leading up to Sept. 22, 2008, when it, along with Morgan Stanley, had the good fortune to be allowed to become a bank holding company with lifesaving unlimited access to short-term funding.
I was hoping to discover how that whole thing went down at the time, and how Goldman and Morgan Stanley got the Fed's blessing but Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. did not. Also I was interested in Goldman's interactions with the Fed since that fateful moment. My hopes were raised further when I heard from people at the firm that Goldman had reviewed the contents of what was being sent to me and that its executives seemed worried about it.
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No such luck. On the disk was nothing more than a bunch of obscure -- but publicly available -- Federal Reserve documents about the details of Goldman's assets and liabilities on a quarterly and annual basis, everything from the kinds of loans the firm had been making to the tenor of its derivatives book to whether the real-estate loans it owns were backed by commercial properties or residential properties.
The documents contained a bunch of detailed numbers (without explanation) about the kinds of risks Goldman was taking at a moment in time, thus prying open ever so slightly the firm's black box.
For instance, who knew that at the end of December 2011 Goldman had $44.2 trillion in the notional amount of derivatives contracts on its books, about $1.3 trillion more than it did in 2010? Or that $36 trillion of that amount was for contracts of less than one year in tenor? Or that Goldman had $19 billion in insurance underwriting assets, up nearly 40 percent from the year before? Or that Goldman's book of commercial and industrial loans was $7 billion at the end of 2011, up dramatically from the $829 million it held at the end of 2010? Or that the firm's stash of mortgage-backed securities -- now $1.37 billion -- had nearly doubled what it had at the end of 2010?
Although I still have no idea how Goldman makes its money, I guess it is interesting to know that the government produces mind-numbing documents containing columns of numbers and then puts them on websites buried on the Internet.
But let's not pretend that the Fed's carefully scripted, and untimely, release of a disk of public information to me is even remotely the way FOIA is supposed to work. Where are the documents and e-mails about how Goldman was allowed by the Fed to become a bank holding company? Where are the documents from the SEC about Goldman? Where, for that matter, are the SEC documents related to the short-dated, out-of-the-money puts that investors spent millions of dollars buying in the last week of Bear Stearns's existence? The SEC said it was investigating who bought and sold these puts, but it has never made the results of its investigation public despite my FOIA request.
If our government agencies continue to do everything in their considerable power to keep hidden information that belongs in the public realm, all the regulatory reform in the world won't end the rot on Wall Street.
(William D. Cohan, a former investment banker and the author of "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World," is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Versailles' Raterman grabs top individual MAC volleyball honor
Versailles' Justine Raterman was rewarded for a strong senior season by being named the Midwest Athletic Conference's Volleyball Player of the Year by the conference coaches during their selection meeting for all-conference honors.
The 6-2 middle hitter/setter was fourth in the Grand Lake area with 3.75 kills per game and led the area with 2.23 blocks per game. Raterman was also recording 4.48 assists per game for the Tigers, who finished 22-2 and 7-2 in the MAC this season.
Marion Local, winning its first conference title in over 20 years, placed three players on the all-MAC first team with seniors Abby Niekamp, Megan Barhorst and Kristin Bergman.
Flyers coach Amy Steininger earned the MAC Coach of the Year award that goes to the conference champ's coach.
In addition to Raterman, Versailles was represented by Emily Bohman on the first team. New Bremen, 6-3 in conference play, also had two players on the first team with Taylor Jones and Jaclyn Dabbelt.
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The 2007 Midwest Athletic Conference
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First Team
Kelley Lefeld, Sr. MH, Coldwater; Kinsey Wenning, Jr. OH, Fort Recovery; Abby Niekamp, Sr. MB, Marion Local; Megan Barhorst, Sr. MB, Marion Local; Kristin Bergman, Sr. OH, Marion Local; Kara Monnin, Jr. S, Minster; Taylor Jones, Jr. S, New Bremen; Jaclyn Dabbelt, Jr. MB, New Bremen; Morgan Reineke, Jr. MB, New Knoxville; Marian Bevington, Jr. MH, Parkway; Justine Raterman, Sr. S/MH, Versailles; Emily Bohman, Sr. OH, Versailles.
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Second Team
Marla Hess, Jr. S, Coldwater; Lindsay Reindel, Soph. MH, St. John's; Alyssa Winner, Fr. OH, Marion Local; Erica Fullenkamp, Fr. S/H, Minster; Lauren Ranly, Sr. MH, Minster; Michelle Griesdorn, Jr. MH, New Bremen; Anna Jaynes, Sr. Libero, New Bremen; Emily Crowell, Fr. OH, Parkway; Shelby Buschur, Jr. MH, St. Henry; Chelsey Kremer, Sr. MH, St. Henry; Brooke Mattingly, Jr. RS, St. Henry; Megan Campbell, Soph. MH, Versailles.
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Coldwater: Ali Wenning; St. John's: Ashley Jettinghoff, Brittany Miller; Fort Recovery: Nicole Pottkotter; Marion Local: Katie Schulze; Minster: Erica Poeppelman; New Bremen: Stacy Timmerman; New Knoxville: Jena Braden; Parkway: Ashley Stose; St. Henry: Emily Post; Versailles: Shelby Shimp.
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I purchased this app for $9.95 and it does not work on my Torch 9800 or my 9810.
The app locks up all the time, normally when finding current Location. I have tried changing network settings, and it still will not work.
This App also makes visible the privacy password of each phone that it is installed on in every text message the app sends. Anyyone who knows that this app advertises privacy passwords can access all of my family members cell phones.
I have contacted e-mobile and they have stated that it's my connection speed causing the app to lock up. It is also Blackberry's fault that privacy passwords are advertised in each text message the app sends.
Bottom line is that the app does not work at all and I would like my $9.95 back. I have already filed a dispute with paypal, and hope that you can help me get my money back.
To get a refund on an AppWorld purchase, call your Telus technical support and get the call escalated to RIM.
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Paid for it using Paypal and have started a file with them
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The German Unix User Group (GUUG) will hold their annual conference "Frühjahrsfachgespräch" on September 23-26 this year (I know, not really "Frühjahr" anymore, but this is how it is).
The Call for Presentations is still open until May 31st. Talks can be proposed in German and English, and there are slots for longer tutorials as well.
The range of possible topics is broad, so if you think you have anything interesting to share with a very passionate and technical audience of sysadmins and developers, here are some suggestions:
This year, I'm honoured to be part of the reviewing committee and we've received a number of interesting proposals already. But we'd like to see more!
So please don't hesitate and submit your proposal now!
Thank you.
Sorry for the downtime of this site - until around a week ago I hosted my home page on a trusty Genesi Pegasos II system (powered by a PowerPC G4 Processor clocked at 1GHz, using Debian 4.0 PPC with 512 MB of RAM), serving these pages from my home DSL connection. Unfortunately this system provided no means of redundancy - the hard disk drive died.
Luckily I perform frequent backups, so I moved most parts of the site to a shared hosting space now - the picture gallery is unfortunately too big to fit into the space that I have there. I'll try to move the pictures into my Flickr account instead, but this will take some time.
Note that the primary domain name of this site is now lenzg.net - lenzg.org, (the domain that I tried to promote as the official domain for my site) used to redirect to the home machine at lenz.homelinux.org. Both now redirect to the new address instead. I've initiated the move of the lenzg.org domain to the other provider as well, so soon this site will be available from both the .org and .net domain. Please don't link to lenz.homelinux.org anymore, as that site will eventually go out of service. Until then, a small openSUSE Linux box (Intel PIII, 500 MHz, 192 MB of RAM) running lighttpd will perform the URL redirection.
As noted in my previous blog posting, I manged to revive my old Logitech TrackMan Marble FX on Linux (openSuSE 11.1b4), using a Serial-to-USB dongle with a Prolific PL2303 chip. But I also use OpenSolaris on my Laptop quite frequently (currently testing the upcoming 2008.11 release), so I investigated if it would be possible to enable the trackball there as well.
Luckily, the Driver Manager listed the plugged in adapter and the correct driver (usbsprl) was loaded already. Now the real challenge was finding out which device node to use. Some research revealed that the driver actually comes with a manual page , which indicated that /dev/term/0 was the correct device name.
Lo and behold, I copied the InputDevice section from my Linux xorg.conf file into the OpenSolaris one, replaced the Device parameter with the appropriate one and restarted the X server. Immediate success! Now I can enjoy using my most favourite input device on OpenSolaris as well.
I am probably different than most users, but I am a a fan of unusual input devices. I prefer Laptops with trackpoints - I immediately disabled the touchpads on my Lenovo laptops (a T61 and T42) in the BIOS when I received them. My first Laptop (a Toshiba Portege 3440CT) didn't even have a touchpad to begin with. It's a pity that trackpoints seem to a dying breed.
And I don't like using regular mice on my desktop, either! Actually, my most favourite input device is a trackball - I purchased a Logitech TrackMan Marble FX a long time ago, and used it for years. Then computers stopped having serial or PS/2 connectors, and I replaced the trackball with an USB mouse. I never really got the hang of using mice, but Logitech (or other vendors) somehow never came up with a suitable replacement model for the Marble FX with a USB port. I recently looked at the Logitech Trackman Optical, but was not convinced by the reviews I read, and the fact that it requires batteries (a trackball is a stationary device, so a cable does not really interfere here!). The Microsoft Trackball Explorer might have been an option, but it seems to be impossible to get nowadays.
After experimenting with several mouse models (Cherry, Microsoft), I decided to revive the TrackMan Marble again. It comes with a PS/2-connector by default, so I first tried to connect it to my PC using a PS/2-to-USB converter dongle. This actually worked without any tweaking, but had two limitations: the fourth mouse button was not detected anymore (I could have lived with that) and the Trackball stopped responding after it had been idle for a while, requiring me to restart the X server to get it working again.
So using the PS/2-to-USB dongle was ruled out and I tried an Serial-to-USB dongle instead:
lenz@thebe:~> lsusb|grep SerialBus 002 Device 006: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
When plugged in, udev creates a new serial device /dev/ttyUSB0 which I needed to inform the X server about. Fortunately it's possible to define multiple input devices in the xorg.conf configuration file. Using the serial port actually had another advantage - I was able to add some trackball-specific tweaks that would have collided with the settings of the "regular" PS/2 mouse section that I needed for the builtin trackpoint of my Thinkpad. It required some tweaking and testing, but this is what I added to xorg.conf to be able to use the TrackMan Marble FX in addition to the builtin pointing device:
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Trackball" "SendCoreEvents" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off"EndSectionSection "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Trackball" Option "Device" "/dev/ttyUSB0" Option "Name" "TrackMan Marble FX" Option "Protocol" "Intellimouse" Option "Vendor" "Logitech" Option "AngleOffset" "10" Option "Buttons" "8" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" Option "EmulateWheel" "true" Option "EmulateWheelButton" "8" Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "EmulateWheelInertia" "8"EndSection
You may wonder about the 8 mouse buttons, as the device only has four physical buttons. Interestingly, the fourth button on the TrackMan reported itself as "button 8" when I probed it with "xev", so I needed to make sure the server is aware of it. When pressed, the trackball now acts like a mouse wheel and allows me to quickly scroll across long documents - very handy! Now I just hope that the button switches in the TrackMan last for another while - until some vendor eventually comes up with a suitable replacement...
I recently installed the last release candidate version of OpenSolaris 2008.11 (ISO image available from here) and I am happy to note that the audiohd driver now supports the Intel soundchip (82891H) in my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 out of the box! This was one of the glitches I observed with 2008.05. In general, I am very impressed by the OpenSolaris driver support for this particular laptop - everything except for bluetooth is supported now. On the downside, suspending to RAM still fails for me, but I have not looked into this very deeply yet.
But what good is a working sound driver, if you don't have apps that produce sounds? Be default, the media players included in the distribution lack support for most codecs, e.g. MP3 or video formats. This is not much different from most Linux distributions, as these codecs are usually protected by patents or proprietary licenses which require the user to install these separately. Here are some hints on how to enable better multimedia support on OpenSolaris.
The Observatory has a detailed article on how to add the free MP3 gstreamer codec from Fluendo, so all applications that use the gstreamer API (e.g. Songbird) will be able to play back MP3 files.
If you want full multimedia support and an choice of video players/codecs, you should add the Life With Solaris (LWS) package repository to the package manager:
$ pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.lifewithsolaris.jp:10000/ pkg.lifewithsolaris.jp$ pfexec packagemanager
You will now be able to choose a new package repository from the dropdown list, which allows you to select players and codecs for download/installation. The packages will be installed in /opt/LWS, so you need to add /opt/LWS/bin to your $PATH, if you want to start the applications from the command line. But the packages will create menu entries for the GNOME desktop as well.
While Colin beat me in blogging about Project Kenai, I think I can still provide some additional background information about this new project hosting service from Sun.
If you are a maintainer of an Open Source project, you currently have plenty of choice when it comes to getting your project hosted for free. One criterion could be your software configuration management system (SCM) of choice.
Some of the hosting services that I am currently aware of and the choice of SCM they offer include:
As disclosed by Tim Bray some days ago, there now is another option - Kenai is open for project hosting (currently by invitation only)! In his blog post, he interviews Nick Sieger, one of the developers behind this project about their motivation and intentions:
We need to demonstrate credibility in building on top of more traditional LAMP/SAMP web stacks (not just Java EE); and we need to show viability of Sun technologies and hardware for next-generation web applications.
In a nutshell, Kenai is a platform for:
Some of the features that are currently available include:
Reading the interview with Nick and looking at some presentations slides for RailsConf from Fernando Castano (a jRuby and Database performance engineer at Sun and another member of the project team), I was able to gather a list of the tools and technologies they used to build Kenai:
I found it interesting that they decided to deploy and run the Rails application as a war file within the Glassfish application server (using Warbler). By the way, the fabolous OpenSUSE Build Service is a Rails application, too! So far, the entire site is powered by a single MySQL instance with query cache enabled.
The project is hosted on the following infrastructure:
You should check out Fernando's presentation for more technical details, tuning info and how they benchmarked the setup - it contains a number of useful tuning hints and performance graphs.
Last time I checked, 27 Projects have joined so far (e.g. jRuby, xVM Server). Kenai itself is developed on Kenai. It's going to be interesting what other projects will find their home there.
Nick also talked a bit about their future near term plans: to improve the usability and feature set, incrementally improve the site navigation and layout and adding support for hosting files/release downloads. They also consider offering Jira as an option to Bugzilla for bug tracking and Git as another SCM option.
There is an IRC channel #projectkenai on freenode.net, to get in touch with the developers directly. The mailing list for the Project Kenai site itself, is email@example.com - you can subscribe to this list here.
tar zxvf lt_hotswap-0.3.6.tar.gzcd lt_hotswap-0.3.6makesudo make installsudo rcacpid restartmodprobe lt_hotswap
You need to have the kernel-source package installed, as well as the gcc compiler, of course. Now when I eject the little lever that allows me to pull out the CD-ROM drive from the UltraBay, the following message appears in /var/log/messages:
lt_hotswap: Requesting IDE eject!lt_hotswap: Attempting to eject
Now the CD-ROM drive can be safely pulled from the UltraBay and e.g. exchanged with an additional battery. Inserting the battery yields the following kernel message:
kernel: ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
The battery info also appears in /proc/acpi/battery and is fully operational. Unfortunately battery monitoring tools like KPowersave or gkrellm don't display the second battery, but at least the kernel is happily using it. I can remove the battery again, but this event does not seem to get registered properly - the second battery remains visible in /proc/acpi/battery, but shows zero capacity and the "present" state does not change. But at least replacing the CD-ROM drive with the battery now workes fine, which was my major concern. And it is still possible to re-insert the CD-ROM drive again:
kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1868-0x186f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:piokernel: Probing IDE interface ide1...kernel: hdc: HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-4242N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drivekernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15kernel: hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
If you want to enable the lt_hotswap module at bootup, you need to add its name to the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT variable in the /etc/sysconfig/kernel configuration file.
If your Laptop uses an external docking station to host a CD-ROM drive, there are some good news for you: according to Andreas Jaeger's blog, the upcoming openSUSE 10.2 will actually provide a generic Dockutils framework that will support docking/undocking functionality for different laptops and vendors. It will be interesting to find out if this covers UltraBay devices as well.
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 19:08:39 +0200From: root <email@example.com>To: <email@example.com>Subject: SMART error (OfflineUncorrectableSector) detected on host: metisThis email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: metis DNS domain: lenznet NIS domain:The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:Device: /dev/hda, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectorsFor details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.No additional email messages about this problem will be sent.
Mar 20 19:44:05 metis kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 Mar 20 19:44:05 metis kernel: dvb-usb: found a 'WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (and clones)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware Mar 20 19:44:05 metis kernel: dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-wt220u-01.fw' to the 'Cypress FX2' Mar 20 19:44:05 metis kernel: dvb-usb: WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (and clones) successfully initialized and connected. Mar 20 19:44:07 metis kernel: usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 8 Mar 20 19:44:07 metis kernel: dvb-usb: generic DVB-USB module successfully deinitialized and disconnected. Mar 20 19:44:08 metis kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9 Mar 20 19:44:08 metis kernel: dvb-usb: found a 'WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (and clones)' in warm state. Mar 20 19:44:08 metis kernel: dvb-usb: will use the device's hardware PID filter (table count: 15). Mar 20 19:44:08 metis kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (and clones)). Mar 20 19:44:08 metis kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0 (WideView USB DVB-T)... Mar 20 19:44:08 metis kernel: dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 300 msecs. Mar 20 19:44:08 metis kernel: dvb-usb: WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (and clones) successfully initialized and connected.
Currently, my Laptop's BIOS version is 3.12 (latest version available: 3.19), the Embedded Controller is at version 3.03 (latest version available: 3.04).
The BIOS README tells me:
- This BIOS version will only work with Embedded Controller Program Version 3.04 (or higher). Please obtain the additional package, Embedded Controller Program Version 3.04 (or higher), and update Embedded Controller Program in the system with it.- If you need to update Embedded Controller Program as well as the BIOS, update the BIOS first.
OK, so I guess I need to update the Embedded Controller Firmware first. However, the README for the Controller Update tells me:
- This version of Embedded Controller Program will only work with BIOS Version 3.13 (or higher). Please obtain the additional package, BIOS Version 3.13 (or higher), and update the BIOS in the system with it.- If you need to update the BIOS as well as the Embedded Controller Program, update Embedded Controller Program first.
I think it's time to make use of my extended service contract and call their hotline. Or do I really have to update the BIOS from 3.12 to 3.13 first, then update the embedded controller to 3.04 before I can apply the latest BIOS update to 3.19? This is insane.


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is it bad if I can fill up half of the card by just walking into the local dive? If I stay for 30 min. it will be full.
what exactly constitutes, a "dive" bar?
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step two: fill out this card.
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sorry, couldn't read this w.o getting journey out of my head.
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As the Piranas refuse to elect her clan Leader, Dalhia has decided to leave town to explore new horizons and perhaps set up her very own clan. And she'd only just made up her mind to do this, when she received her first recruit in the form of Chiara, who'd also decided to go off adventuring away from the clan of her beginnings. From Monday, December 10th, Dalhia and Chiara will no longer be available in the shop's packs. However, players who already own them can continue to use them as normal. Sales of the two characters on the Market will be blocked until the morning of Wednesday, December 5th.
Actually Sicba, I don't.
Anways, This was as always an unexpected Cr release. I was contemplating the idea of stocking on chiara too but sadly decided not to the night before the Cr announcement. oh well.
Doombug most of the announcements are usually when we are sleeping they are like 9 hours ahead of us and it really varies on times for new character release or ld release
but if you wake up like around 2:30 am just to check if any announcements are up here that is fine by me
How many Cr cards do they put out every year?I've been a UR member for only 3 months
@MetalSnake182: In the last two and a half years (which is how long I've been here) there have been 16 new Crs. That's about 3 or 4 releases a year, two per release.
Right after we get a Frozn one.
Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, maybe never. All we know is that if you ask enough many times, nothing will happen.


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Mark Wahlberg will be the new leading man in Michael Bay's "Transformers 4," and the production may have its sights set on mainland China for this installment of the testosterone-fueled franchise.
Of course Bay and Paramount have profits in mind; setting the money-maker in China and partnering with a local production company will likely ensure a wide release for the film, where it can maximize its Chinese box office potential.
Cultural censors will reportedly serve as consultants on the in-the-works "Transformers" script, to ensure that the Chinese military are portrayed as "a highly competent group of superfighters." Because it is a Bay film, the American military will no doubt also get its usual ra-ra-USA time.
Chinese box office grew 35% last year alone, tallying $2 billion. This makes China the second largest international market in the world, following Japan, a market China is expected to eclipse by year's end. But because domestic productions only account for 40% of the country's box office, the Chinese government has been laying down restrictions for many big American blockbusters. For example, "The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Amazing Spider Man" were pitted against one another, receiving the same opening weekend in late August. Both films made just over $30 million upon release, considerably less than each would have made if given a separate opening weekend.