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Lot 8: Danish model 1910/21 Bergmann Bayard semi-auto pistol
Auction No. 92 Featuring Fine Collectible Arms
by Amoskeag Auction Co
November 17, 2012
Manchester, NH, USA
Live AuctionDescription: serial #1146/5988, 9 mm Bergmann Bayard, 3 7/8" barrel with a bright excellent bore. The metal surfaces on this Danish-manufactured "Haerens Tojhus" marked vintage semi-auto pistol retain about 80% original blue, the loss is due primarily to light fading, high edge and contact point wear with the minor handling marks and scratches one would expect from a military arm. The hammer, trigger and magazine release are polished bright and are mostly brilliant with perhaps a tiny oxidation stain or two. The circular press-checkered arsenal-fitted walnut grips rate very good with overall minor handling marks and light dings from use. The extractor retains vivid fire tempered blue and the magazine and front extension of the frame are both numbered "1146. The gun comes with an original metal-tipped Danish holster which rates very good overall with the body rating excellent with tight stitching and seams but with the cover flap showing a good deal of scuffing, light flaking and handling marks. The internal pouches feature a spare magazine numbered "1016" and each of the ammunition pouches holds a nickeled stripper clip, one showing some minor-moderate damage; the cleaning rod is intact along the leading edge of the holster. Really a very complete and rather nice example of the Danish arsenal-manufactured Bergmann Bayard pistol. (35575-5) {C&R}


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Aces High: Five pitchers deliver brilliant starts on Wednesday
Between chilly early-season temperatures, getaway games and a doubleheader in the Bronx, Wednesday created conditions that elicited some great performances from starting pitchers. Here's a rundown the best of them — a quintet who combined to allow just one run in 41 innings while striking out 42 and walking just three. Wednesday's Yu Darvish-Felix Hernandez duel was covered in depth here.
Pitcher | Team | Opp | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | Game Score |
Johnny Cueto | Reds | Pirates | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 93 |
Masahiro Tanaka | Yankees | Cubs | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 87 |
Julio Teheran | Braves | Phillies | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 85 |
Cliff Lee | Phillies | Braves | 9 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 73 |
Michael Pineda | Yankees | Cubs | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 66 |
Johnny Cueto, Reds vs. Pirates
The Reds' 28-year-old righty set the bar high during his team's 4-0 win in chilly Cincinnati — 44 degrees at first pitch — on Wednesday afternoon. Not only did he throw the seventh complete game and third shutout of his career, but his outing was just the second of each this season, with the second-best Game Score. Only Andrew Cashner's 94 Game Score via a one-hit, 11-strikeout shutout of the Tigers on Apr. 11 surpassed it. Additionally, Cueto was the first pitcher to throw a shutout with zero walks and double-digit strikeouts since Shelby Miller's one-hit, 13-K masterpiece against the Rockies last May 10. His 12 strikeouts set a career high, surpassing an 11-K outing against the Nationals on Aug. 28, 2011.
Cueto needed just 107 pitches to go the distance, using more than 12 in an inning only in the eighth, when he needed 14 — as many as he threw in the third and fourth innings combined. He threw first-pitch strikes to 21 of the 30 hitters he faced, six of whom immediately hit into outs, and he retired the last 13 hitters he faced, and 17 of the last 18. Via BrooksBaseball.net, he got 11 swings and misses, including five out of 16 pitches via his changeup and three out of 13 via his slider. Of the three hits he allowed, two were infield singles; the other was an Andrew McCutchen double, marking the only time all afternoon that the Pirates put a runner in scoring position. Here's the highlight reel of his day:
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After a season in which he made just 11 starts due to a recurrent lat strain, Cueto has now gone at least seven innings in all four of his starts, something he did just once after May 31 last year. His 35 strikeouts and 30 innings both lead the NL, and his ERA is a sterling 1.50.
Masahiro Tanaka, Yankees vs. Cubs
Tuesday night's rainout created the need for a day-night doubleheader in the Bronx. The makeup game began with the thermometer at just 43 degrees, but the temperature didn't faze Tanaka, who looked worth every penny of the $175 million the Yankees spent on him. Granted, the Cubs — who came into the day 4-8 and tied for the NL's worst OPS+ at 76 — are no juggernaut, but he dominated them thoroughly. He threw first-pitch strikes to 20 of 27 hitters, kept his pitch count at 14 or lower in every inning but the second, when he needed 18, and generated 12 swings and misses from among the 27 split-fingered fastballs he threw (data again via BrooksBaseball.net). The splitter was his putaway pitch on seven of his 10 strikeouts, and the only two hits he allowed were bunt singles. Roll the tape:
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Before yielding to Shawn Kelley for a scoreless ninth, Tanaka threw 107 pitches and generated 16 swings-and-misses, with the other four coming from among the 17 sliders he threw. His 10 strikeouts matched his total from his previous outing against the Orioles, and through three starts, he now has 28 strikeouts against just two walks in 22 innings. In notching his second double-digit strikeout game, he became the third pitcher to do so within his first three major league starts since 1993, joining Daisuke Matsuzaka (2007) and Stephen Strasburg (2010). Meanwhile, his 87 Game Score was the season's fourth-highest, behind the aforementioned Cashner and Cueto as well as Yu Darvish, who put up an 88 in his Apr. 11 no-hit bid against the Astros.
Julio Teheran, Braves vs. Phillies
Cliff Lee, Phillies vs. Braves
Wednesday night featured the best pitchers duel of the young season, a two-hour, 29 minute affair in which the two pitchers doubled the complete game total to date, with the 23-year-old Teheran notching his first career shutout. The game's lone run came when Evan Gattis homered off Lee to lead off the fourth inning. The dual complete games in a 1-0 contest marked the first time that had happened since Seattle's Felix Hernandez got the upper hand against Minnesota's Liam Hendricks on Aug. 27, 2012.
Teheran didn't allow a hit until Ryan Howard beat out an infield single (!) to start the fifth inning, and through seven had faced just one batter more than the minimum, never going above 14 pitches to complete a frame. He began to flag in the eighth, throwing a game-high 20 pitches and working around a two-out single to Carlos Ruiz. Working the ninth while sore-shouldered Craig Kimbrel sat this one out, he showed considerable moxie after allowing a two-out single to Jimmy Rollins; he went 3-0 against Chase Utley, who then held off a changeup as Rollins stole second, but with the tying run in scoring position, he came back to induce Utley to hit into a game-ending groundout to second base. In all, he threw 115 pitches and got 14 swings and misses according to BrooksBaseball.net, nine on either his four-seamer or his sinker. His 85 Game Score was the season's sixth-highest behind the aforementioned quartet and Mark Buehrle who put up an 86 on April 2 against the Rays.
As for Lee, he became the first pitcher to throw nine innings in a complete-game loss since Arizona's Brandon McCarthy on Sept. 2 of last season, and one of just eight pitchers since 1993 to throw a complete game with double-digit strikeouts and hits allowed; here are the other seven:
Player | Date | Tm | Opp | Rslt | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | Pitches |
Jose Rijo | 4/30/94 | CIN | FLA | L 3-4 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 129 |
Denny Neagle | 9/16/95 | PIT | SFG | W 10-2 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 127 |
Denny Neagle | 4/14/96 | PIT | MON | W 5-2 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 117 |
Randy Johnson | 6/24/97 | SEA | OAK | L 1-4 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 142 |
Kevin Brown | 7/15/98 | SDP | COL | W 6-2 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 126 |
Pedro Martinez | 8/6/03 | BOS | ANA | W 4-2 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 128 |
Roy Halladay | 6/30/10 | PHI | CIN | L 3-4 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 119 |
That's some company, right? It had been nearly 17 years since a pitcher — the Big Unit, in this case — went nine in a losing cause while pulling off the feat.
Lee's 128 pitches were the highest total in the majors this year, surpassing Jose Quintana's 121 (in just six innings) on Apr. 13 for the White Sox against the Indians. The tally also set a career high, surpassing the 122 he reached three times, once apiece in the 2009 and 2010 postseasons and most recently on June 22, 2011 against the Cardinals (he struck out just three while giving up six hits that time). Via Brooks, he got 21 swings and misses, including 10 from among his 34 changeups. Among his total of hits allowed, four of them were by Gattis and three more by Chris Johnson. He allowed three hits in a row to start the fourth including Gattis' homer but escaped further damage by getting Andrelton Simmons to ground into a double play, needing just 11 pitches in that frame; in all, he held Atlanta hitters to an 0-for-7 showing with runners in scoring position. Despite his high pitch count, only in the first inning (19 pitches) and the eighth (18 pitches) did he go past 15 in a single frame.
Michael Pineda, Yankees vs. Cubs
In the nightcap of Wednesday's doubleheader in the Bronx, Pineda wasn't as dominant as Tanaka, nor did he pitch as far into the game. But with his six shutout innings of the Cubs, he did put the pine tar controversy of last Saturday's outing against the Red Sox behind him; no telltale smudges could be spotted on the ball of his thumb.
Using only his fastball, changeup and slider according to Brooks, Pineda generated just five swings and misses from among his 89 pitches, but he got ahead with first-pitch strikes to 16 of the 22 hitters he faced. He stranded runners in scoring position in the third, fifth and sixth innings, holding the Cubs to 0-for-4 in those situations. The key was his strikeout of Ryan Kalish on a low-and-away slider with one out and men on second and third in the fifth inning, when the Yankees were clinging to a 1-0 lead; it's at the 39-second mark of this video:
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The Yankees added a second in the bottom of the frame, and after Pineda worked one more inning, he gave way to David Phelps, Matt Thornton and Adam Warren, who finished off the shutout. According to the SB Nation MLB Twitter feed, the last time a team shut out its opponent in both ends of a doubleheader was on June 26, 1988, when the Twins blankety-blanked the A's. Via the YES Network broadcast, the last time the Yankees did so was on Apr. 19, 1987 against the Royals, while the last time the Cubs had it done to them was on June 27, 1962 against the Cardinals.

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Ira Winkler
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Bob Herbold
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Barry Lowenthal
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Trip Start
May 22, 2006
Trip End
Aug 05, 2014
On returning from Istanbul on Thursday we had booked a car to take us to the Ancient city of Ephesus on Saturday.
Ephesus has existed since 1000BC but it�s main claim to fame was as the Roman capital, and principal commercial city of Asia This is a bit cheeky of them when you consider that the Chinese were, at that time, way ahead of the game in the civilisation stakes and had a population about ten times that of the entire Roman Empire.
However, I digress. It was also one of the earliest places which took up Christianity. St Paul visited there in AD53 and, after the Ephesians had spent a millennium worshipping every other god and their dog�s uncles, Christianity was established here despite a some of nit-picking correspondence from Paul to the Ephesians after he left.
The site at Ephesus is really quite impressive. It has the ubiquitous amphitheatre, Odeon (council chamber), various meeting places, well preserved agora (ancient shopping mall), one of the earliest Christian churches, gymnasium etc etc. The real glories of Ephesus are: the well preserved Roman houses with remarkable mosaics, wall paintings and courtyards; the ancient library of Celsus; the well preserved avenues and the overall size and scope of the place; oh yes - and the brothel with remarkable wee statuettes of tiny dwarf like figures (now kept in the museum but on postcards everywhere) with immense willies!
It was quite busy when we got there. The coaches drop off their hordes at the top of the site and they all, dutifully, walk down the main avenues to be picked up at the bottom of the site. Thus all their walking is downhill. We did the opposite by walking up against the flow and then walked down taking in all of the less visited areas.
Whilst the main areas of the site are seriously impressive, the peripheral areas are delightfully quiet, covered in wild flowers and have a generally very restful and tranquil atmosphere. We found ourselves in splendid isolation ,on a 500 metre avenue, in amongst ruins that aren�t even in the guide book. Well worth the visit.
Kusadasi Again
On Sunday we suffered very strong southerly winds. We checked the 5 day forecast to find that the weather was likely to be a tad iffy until Thursday so settled into some serious reading, got bored with this and explored the town some more. Found a couple of large supermarkets and a B&Q DIY place (how bored can you get!) out by the coach station. On Tuesday we got some very strong winds which buggered our wind sensor, rattled the boat around all day and then sent a horrible swell (waves that is - not an unpleasant fat guy in a top hat and tails) into the harbour.
We noticed that a couple of cruise liners had arrived (they generally come here for a day, see the bazaar and Ephesus then go away. However, one of them had parked itself almost across the marina entrance and sat there, at anchor, side on to the strong winds. She was still there when we left on Thursday with a couple of tugs fussing around her. Clearly she had been driven aground. We wondered how the crew managed to keep the passengers occupied for 3 days. Did they tell them that the boat had actually sailed when they were asleep and arrived at another port where there was another bazaar and ancient city to see each day so sent them back to Ephesus twice more!!
As we were about to leave, at 6.30 on Thursday morning, a marinero in a RIB appeared to escort us out of the harbour. The standard of service in Kusadisi marina really is superb. We would thoroughly recommend it.
We headed off in light winds. Squeezing past the stranded liner, to travel the 33 miles to the port of Sigacik (pronounced Sarjick) where Tarbert neighbours, Ian and Ann had wintered with their boat in the 1980s. On arrival, in strongish winds and rain, we were greeted by the harbourmaster as if we were long lost family. We are the first visitors in 2008!
This is an attractive harbour incorporated in a small ancient walled village. The port itself is surprisingly large and actually has new marina pontoons but, as yet, with very few fittings to tie a boat to. Nonetheless the harbourmaster, using bits of string and chain, seems to find berths for everyone who appears here.
For yotties travelling this coast Sigacik is not to be missed. It is the perfect antidote to the brash, in yer face, rather soulless,Kusadasi. The locals are very friendly and helpful. The harbour and village are picturesque. It is like leaving modern day Southend and arriving in 19th century Cornwall, all in the space of 30 miles.
Also not to be missed is the Friday bazaar at Seferihisar 6kms away. We needed supplies for the boat and were told by the harbourmaster to head for there. We caught a dolmus. This is a mini bus with about 12 seats but seems to carry about twice that number. We boarded and noticed that passengers passed their money up the bus while it was on the move, where the driver sorted out their change and then pass�d it back while travelling at speed.
The bazaar was a local food and clothing market with traders selling everything from live goats to dead socks. The range of fruit and vegetables was incredible. The traders each tried to outdo each other with the quality and presentation of their produce and everything was very cheap. Of particular note was the range of cheeses. The cheese merchant offered us a taste of a cheese which looked like a Greek feta. It was delicious but he wouldn�t let us buy it until we had sampled others, each impossibly more tasty than it�s predecessor. When we were eventually allowed to buy some it cost just a few pennies for a very large slab.
After loading up with supplies we headed back to Sigacik but, as the dolmus had just left, decided to get a taxi. When we got out at the harbour Rob went to pay the driver the amount on the meter, 12 liras (�5), but the driver said 10 liras was plenty. Another first for us, a taxi driver who deliberately undercharges!
Ancient Teos.
One of the reasons for coming to Sigacik is that it is close to the ancient city of Teos. Teos was built in the 2nd century BC (this blog is starting to sound like a history lesson - bear with me, this one has plenty of sex ,drinking and dying) and was the home of the Temple of Dionysus, the god of wine, the arts and the "generative forces of nature" (bonking). Naturally there was Guild of Dionysus formed in Teos which consisted of poets, artists, actors and other n�er do wells whose behaviour became so outrageous that the locals banished them to the backwaters (Kusadasi maybe?). One local poet, Anacreon, who, after living a long and full life of wine, women and song eventually died, after an excessive evening, by choking on a grape pip - poetic justice or what!!
After Friday the wind strengthened from the North and it has got quite cold. On Sunday it was still chilly, but the sun was shining so we trotted over to Teos along an ancient track past women in traditional costumes working in the lettuce fields, goatherds and their flocks ambling along. A wonderful rural setting. Teos is about 2km out of the village in an idyllic setting among the fields and hedgerows. When we arrived Gina was wowed - it was alive with wild flowers, poppies, anemones, periwinkles and many others. There was no-one else there. It was divine, we could see why the Guild of Dionysus had rather taken to the place (well, there was also the sex and drinking). There are bits of the temple lying around all over the place among the long grass and wild flowers. Undoubtedly the memory of this peaceful place will remain with us for a long time.
After walking out of Teos we came to the coast which is littered with estates of expensive modern housing, all with marvellous views of the Anatolian coastline. Each estate is fenced in with barbed wire and security gates. It made a stark contrast to the simple and beautiful Teos.
Today, Monday, Rob went to pay the harbourmaster for our mooring (about 4 quid a night) as we expect to go tomorrow. The harbourmaster thanked him for the money and said "if you want to stay tomorrow night please do so as our guest"! What an incredible place - a marina that charges very little and then gives you a free night and taxi drivers who refuse to take the full fare - Essex this ain�t.
Tomorrow, our 36th wedding anniversary, we head for the port/resort of Cesme (pronounced Cheshmee), about 30 miles away, from where we hope to backpack up to Gallipoli to tour the 1st world war battlegrounds.


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Lahore: Feb 21, 2014
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has already started reconfirming its bilateral series scheduled between 2015 and 2020 with other Test playing nations in view of the anticipated changes in Future Tours Programmes (FTP) to be enforced from next year.
A PCB source told PTI that new chairman Najam Sethi had given top priority to reconfirmation of all bilateral series until 2020 since Pakistan has not voted in favour of the wide-ranging structural changes in governance and distribution of revenue in the International Cricket Council (ICC) revamp plan proposed by India, Australia and England.
"Sethi and his team have already started contacting other Boards and reconfirming bilateral series including the ones against England next year," the source said.
Under the new governance and structural changes in the ICC, member nations will be free to renegotiate bilateral series after the ICC World Cup 2015.
And Pakistan, having abstained from voting on the ICC revamp plan at the last ICC executive board meeting, wants to ensure its bilateral series are not changed or dropped.
"Sethi's idea is that Pakistan's vote in the ICC should be an asset for them and not a liability for them," the source stated.
"Even now he is confident that Pakistan can gain a lot from its lone vote," he said.
The source said that Sethi was also using government channels including the foreign ministry to prepare grounds for a bilateral series with India within a year.
"He has got the support of the government to play India but the Indian Board has stalled the issue blaming it on government policies on ties with Pakistan," the source said.


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The osmotic pressure (T=25°C) of a saturated solution of CaC03 is 0.0179 atm. Determine the solubility product of the salt
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My dad bought this camera when I was born to take pictures of me. I took this with my 5D MkIII and had some fun with picturesque to create this image.
Kentucky Sunset
Kentucky sunset
Typical Sunny day in Cincinnati
Mt. Rainier Washington
Phoenix Az near Camelback Mtn
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Cheap Virtual Assistance
It's one of the biggest topics of concern to both virtual assistants and those who use our services. How much does a virtual assistant cost? Do we provide value? Can you get good and cheap virtual assistance?
There are many schools of thought. Some people want help at the lowest possible cost, no matter what. For example, I was pointed to this post at Matt's Life Musings about his quest for a $3/hr virtual assistant to help him with his blogging tasks. Matt seems to believe that the typical range for a VA is $2-20 per hour. As I mentioned in a comment at this blog, the typical range STARTS at $25/hr or more. That is, if you are looking for a professional and efficient virtual assistant. Not surprisingly, Matt is already on his third "cheap" virtual assistant and may soon be looking for number 4.
I found Matt's post through this well written post over at Lawyer On! The Contract Attorney's Blog. Kimberly is a freelance contract attorney who shares an experience she has had trying to find inexpensive help for a couple of different needs. Kimberly recounts how she posted about her need for clerical work on a message board and had a range of responses from people who wanted a lot of money for virtual assistance ($45/hr – on the higher end for general administrative VA work, but still reasonable) to a law student that was willing to work for an unspecified "reasonable" rate.
These two posts highlighted a concern I have about the virtual assistant profession. It's one shared by many of my contemporaries (see here and here for a couple of interesting discussions). Virtual assistance as a profession still isn't fully understood. Too many people call what they do virtual assistance even though they are basically cheap, task-based help.
A virtual assistant is a business owner. Period. I don't care what you call yourself, you are not really a VA as defined by any of the industry leaders, unless you recognize that you own your own business. A virtual assistant almost certainly has his/her own website, business name, online presence on social networking forums of some kind, etc. A professional virtual assistant might answer your Craiglist ad or elance posting, but it's a poor way to find a good VA, as you'll also be inundated with responses from dozens (or hundreds!) of people who figure that because they own a computer and can kind of type that they can provide virtual assistance to you.
A professional virtual assistant is not "cheap". A virtual assistant will partner with you for the long term, they will learn about your business, help you grow your business and look out for your interests. A virtual assistant will offer you value. You will not need to repeat your instructions four times, your deadlines will be met and the work will be done correctly. If you get anything else, don't simply walk away – RUN!
So to answer the question – can you get good and cheap virtual assistant help? I'm going with a big NO! If you "can't afford" to spend more than $5 or $10 per hour, please recognize that you probably aren't actually looking for a long-term virtual assistant solution. You are not going to save as much time as if you contracted a virtual assistant. You may find a solution that is good enough, and I wish you much luck. If you only want to pay a few dollars per hour you probably aren't the right client for me, any more than I am the right virtual assistant for you.
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How To Get Involved with Open Source
OpenHatch: Non-profit advises projects, helps volunteers
ByOpenHatch teaches projects how to welcome recruits.
Most people know that newcomers sometimes struggle to fit in to free software projects. A few, like the GNOME Outreach Program for Women, have even tried to do something about it. But few have focused on the problem with the intensity of OpenHatch, a newly registered non-profit dedicated to helping newcomers find their place and advising other projects how to welcome them.
According to Asheesh Laroia, the president of OpenHatch and a member of the board of directors, the project began when he, Nelson Pavlosky of Students for Free Culture, and Raphael Krut-Landau, an acquaintance of Laroia when they attended Johns Hopkins University, decided to start a project together. "We weren't sure what we would do," Laroia recalls, "but we knew we wanted to help make free and open source software a more vibrant world, [to do] something to help users of apps engage with the creators and become contributors."
After some thought, the trio built OpenHatch's web tool to help people find open source projects with opportunities for volunteers. Still in use today, this search tool tracks bugs for more than 700 projects, organizing them by programming language, task, and size.
"But after a year of working on tools related to online engagement, I felt a little distant," Laroia says. "Are people using it? What is their experience like? How could we make the OpenHatch website more powerful, in terms of [encouraging] people to get involved?"
The answer to this question was the first Open Source Comes to Campus event in 2010. A two-day seminar with a low student-teacher ratio, the event became a template for similar events, introducing students to bug tracking, version control, and other aspects of free software development. Teachers did their best to match students with projects that might interest them and to keep in touch with students after the event.
Limited to 20 students, the event was heavily oversubscribed, and Open Source Comes to Campus remains OpenHatch's most successful activity to this day. According to OpenHatch's sole staff member, Shauna Gordon-McKeon, the project held 12 of these events in 2013, and expects to hold twice as many in 2014.
At the same time, the success of Open Source Comes to Campus has made the project aware that it lacks the resources to respond to every request to organize an event. In particular, requests that would require OpenHatch's volunteers to travel are often impractical because of the project's limited budget.
For this reason, the project also provides resources so others can organize successful events for newcomers on their own. Today, OpenHatch maintains a mailing list and IRC channel – where event organizers can ask for advice – and is in the process of writing on-line documents about how to organize successful in-person events; some of these guides have already been published online.
Additionally, OpenHatch now acts as an advisor to other groups that want to put on their own events, including local Python groups in Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Montreal and Django Hack and Learn in San Francisco. More recently, OpenHatch has also added to its list of affiliated events Deb Nicholson's SpinachCon, in which free software projects combine to do user testing.
"It's a project that just by existing improves open source," says OpenHatch volunteer Britta Gustafson. "It reminds people who manage projects to care about newcomers, and it gives them a place to ask questions about welcoming newcomers. It also sends a very clear message to any newcomers who are lurking around that 'you belong here.'"
The Problems of Providing a Welcome
Exactly why free software has the reputation of being unwelcoming to newcomers is uncertain. As Gordon-McKeon points out, "newcomers have problems joining any established community. Being inexperienced and unfamiliar is difficult for anyone."
However, Gordon-McKeon goes on to say that the treatment of newcomers "might be worse in open source than some other areas. Historically, a lot of free software projects have not done a lot of outreach to newcomers. It's a sink-or-swim culture, a collection of distributed, autonomous projects, and it's generally difficult to know where to begin unless you find someone to help you. The philosophy is that if newcomers are interested enough and talented enough to contribute, they'll overcome all the barriers that exist."
Nor is the problem helped, Gustafson notes, by the tendency of active members in a project to forget what being a newcomer is like.
In fact, the number of potential contributors who fail to find a place in free software is unknown. "There's no data on the people who fail silently," Gordon-McKeon says. Although at least one paper has researched the problem, "for the most part, it's not been studied. And it would be hard to study."
"One thing I'm noticing doing a lot of work with newcomers and students," Gordon-McKeon adds, "is that people will be very quiet about failing, because they'll assume that the problems they're having, whether technical or social, are their own fault, rather than providing feedback to the community about how it could make its materials more welcoming. I can imagine that if you're not in an environment like a newcomer workshop, if you're just on a computer by yourself, it's quite easy to decide not to help and just disappear forever – which is unfortunate."
These conditions can be especially challenging for women. The fact that men outnumber women in many projects by a ratio of 20:1 or more "is just going to reinforce the idea that it's not a community that women want to be involved in," Gordon-McKeon says. Also, "women are generally socialized to be less demanding, and there's research that shows that women are less likely to step forward and say that they can do a thing. We're less confident, and the way that gender socialization works is at odds with the sink-or-swim mentality that some communities have."
The problems can be so pervasive, Gustafson says, that newcomers are "happy that someone just answers their email. They can get kind of lost."
Admittedly, not every project has such problems. According to Gordon-McKeon, the exceptions tend to be extremely large projects, which have the resources to assign people specifically to newcomer outreach, and tiny programs whose maintainers care about welcoming people. She mentions Wikimedia, Gnome, Mozilla, and Dreamwidth as projects that are especially welcoming.
Growing Pains
Still, these exceptions are rare enough that the demand for OpenHatch's services is greater than its mostly volunteer organization can meet. Consequently, many of the project's future plans involve figuring out how to do more with less – specifically, developing software to help run events and to receive feedback.
At the same time, the project is continually hoping to reach out to new categories of newcomers. Gordon-McKeon is currently working with contacts in India to adapt the curriculum of Open Source Goes to Campus. She is also looking into expanding the project's operations for audiences of high school students, librarians, scientists, other non-profit organizations, and newcomers over 55.
"Doing open source outreach is itself an open source project," Gordon-McKeon says. "The main reason that we're currently targeting campuses is because that's the process we've figured out." However, given the ever-increasing demand on its resources, OpenHatch is clearly an upstream project that is filling a need that many projects can appreciate.
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Old Linux Kernel Bug Discovered
The bug was introduced back in 2009 and has been lurking around all this time.
OpenSSH 7.5 Released
The new release deprecates the sshd_config UsePrivilegeSeparation option.
Ubuntu Touch Not Dead
Lives on as a community project
Dell Launches Five New Linux Systems
Five new systems join Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition that come with Ubuntu pre-installed.
Microsoft Takes Skype for Linux Out of Alpha
The Skype Linux client now has almost the same capabilities that it enjoys on other platforms.
CeBIT 2017 OpenStack Day
At CeBIT 2017, OpenStack Day will offer a wide range of lectures and discussions.
Munich Plans to Ditch Linux and Go Back to Windows
A major setback for the Linux desktop.
Linux Kernel 4.10 Comes with New Security Features
Improved support for GPU in virtualization.
OpenSUSE Site Hacked
News site for the openSUSE community falls victim to a Wordpress exploit.
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Rancho Santa Margarita-born fighter scores early victory
COMMERCE – Don't get mixed martial arts fighter Rachael "The Panther" Cummins mad.
Michele "Diablita" Gutierrez did, and paid for it.
Cummins, spurred by what she described as "disrespectful comments" by Gutierrez about her on Twitter, disposed of the veteran fighter in 32 seconds to win the first-ever female fight in BAMMA USA history Saturday at Badbeat 11 at the Commerce Casino.
"I love being the first of anything," said the Lake Forest fighter. "I knew I could get rid of her early. The goal was to finish in 30 seconds."
Cummins, 28, pressured Gutierrez early, landing some quick strikes. With Gutierrez pinned against the cage, Cummins took her to the mat and attempted a triangle choke. It slipped, but Cummins grabbed Gutierrez's right arm and inserted an armbar. Seconds later, Gutierrez tapped out.
Immediately after releasing her grip, Cummins yelled at Gutierrez, forcing the referee to break them apart.
"Yesterday at the weigh-ins, she was very disrespectful. I wanted her to eat her words," Cummins said. "Who's laughing now?"
After losing her first professional fight, the Rancho Santa Margarita-born Cummins, who trains at Reign Gym in Lake Forest, has now won two consecutive bouts to improve to 2-1. Her previous victory was on June 6 when she submitted Maia Kahaunaele of Victorville with an armbar with 59 seconds left in the second round at The Hangar at the OC Fairgrounds.
For Gutierrez, who trains in San Diego, the loss was her fourth straight as she drops to 3-5.
Cummins dedicated the victory to former Tuff-N-Uff promoter Barry Meyer, who committed suicide last week.
"I fought for him as an amateur," said a teary Cummins. "He was a really nice guy. He was close with everyone and helped me get my career started."
Cummins said she does not know when or where her next fight will be, but said she might be on another BAMMA USA card in January.
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Title | Castro et al v. Holder, US Attorney General |
Publisher | United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Publication Date | 2 March 2010 |
Country | Guatemala | United States of America |
Topics | Grounds for persecution | Police | Social group persecution |
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The Political Machine I: Rise And Fall The Age Of The Bosses
They were usually corrupt and often inefficient, but the oldstyle politicians had their uses. Now almost all are gone
June 1969 | Volume 20, Issue 4
The new political style has brought an increase in municipal government efficiency and probably some decline in political corruption and misrule. But the politics of the television age puts a premium on hypocrisy. Candor has gone out the window with the spoils system. There is still a lot of self-seeking in politics and always will be. But gone are the days of Tammany's Boss Richard Croker, who when asked by an investigating committee if he was "working for his own pocket," shot back: "All the time—same as you." Today's politicians are so busy tending their images that they have become incapable of even a mildly derogatory remark such as Jim Curley's: "The term 'codfish aristocracy' is a reflection on the fish."
Curley entitled his memoirs I'd Do It Again . But the rough-and-tumble days when two-fisted, rough-tongued politicians came roaring out of the slums to take charge of America's young cities are not to come again.


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As the sun goes down the sun splashes across the leaves and says "goodnight" to everyone.... "See you tomorrow"! (Ref. used)
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Chronos (3.5e Deity)
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Symbol: | Hourglass |
Home Plane: | Time |
Alignment: | Neutral |
Portfolio: | Time, Perception |
Clergy Alignments: | Neutral |
Domains: | None |
Favored Weapon: | Time |
Chronos is the personification of time. He is both the ultimate creator and the ultimate destructor. He himself is the time that we go through, yet lies outside of time. To Chronos, all of time is as a book to be paged forward or backward as he sees fit. He knows the full breadth of history, yet is also ignorant of it. He is like a writer who keeps revising his work, and always surprised at what his characters do.
Chronos neither professes nor endorses dogma. His is the dogma of time itself. All things have a beginning. All things have an end. All things happen again.
Clergy and Temples[edit]
Few worship Chronos. Some state sponsored cults exist, usually side altars in a more prominent temple.
In the Endhaven setting, Chronos is a paramour of the Queen of Storms. Their child is Rem.
In the Valgora campaign setting, Chronos is an ally to Kurak, JuWell, and Mollarok
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Rookies report for Development Camp
by Ryan Dittrick / Edmonton OilersEDMONTON - In similar style to the NHL Scouting Combine, the Oilers' medical, strength and conditioning consultants put 35 prospects through their paces in an intense, three-hour-long workout and more bright and early Wednesday morning at Rexall Place.
Welcome to Development Camp 2013.
For newly drafted prospect Darnell Nurse, it's been a surreal whirlwind.
"It really started to hit me when I walked into the (dressing) room this morning," he said. "I looked around, saw everything, saw the history and had one of those 'wow' moments. There's certainly a lot of hard work ahead, but this is the fun part. You get to go to work playing the greatest game in the world."
Sunday night in New Jersey, Nurse was up on stage at the Prudential Center, celebrating his seventh overall selection with the likes of Craig MacTavish, Stu MacGregor, Dallas Eakins and Daryl Katz.
Less than 72 hours later across the border in Oil Country, he's decked out in orange and blue, ready to make an early impression and begin the most important off-season of his career.
"It's been a crazy week, but my head popped a bit -- it's time to go," he said. "I'm not going to make any assumptions or try to guess [what my role could be], but I'm going to work hard as hard as I can to be prepared for training camp next season."
At 6-foot-4 and 185 pounds, Nurse, 18, is already an imposing physical presence. But as with anything else, there's room to grow.
Looking up to the League's most powerful skaters, he knows exactly what to focus on. With the next six days dedicated to lengthy practice sessions and grueling off-ice workouts, he's getting a head start on his summer regimen here at Development Camp.
"I think it's crucial to have a strong core and lower body," Nurse said. "I look at a guy like Sidney Crosby and you can see you strong he is. He has one of the largest lower bodies and his core (strength) is unbelievable.
"A hockey player is going to train differently than a football player, so I'm not going to be doing too much benching."
While Nurse is one of over 15 newcomers, the rest have been here before and know what to expect.
Nineteen-year-old defenceman Oscar Klefbom will be making his second appearance at Development Camp. With an eye on securing a roster spot this fall, the smooth-skating Swedish blueliner is looking to have a strong showing after missing most of the 2012-13 season.
"It's feel good," Klefbom said of his shoulder, which was operated on back in November. "I can take slap shots and do everything you need to do out on the ice. At this point I'd say it's 100 percent."
Paired with veteran defenceman Sanny Lindstrom, a fourth-round pick of the Colorado Avalanche in 1990, Klefbom posted three assists and a +7 rating after only 10 games with Farjestad BK of the now re-branded Swedish Hockey League.
Playing over 25 minutes a night and quickly emerging as the team's most dependable defenceman, Klefbom's season came to an end on Oct. 9 after being run violently into the end boards.
"I spoke with my doctors and they said that if I wanted to play in the NHL next season, I needed to have surgery," he said. "I haven't played since October, but everything feels good. I'm lifting weights in the gym and it feels very stable. The left shoulder almost feels better than the right one."
Klefbom visited Edmonton numerous times over the course of the lockout-shortened campaign. He even got a chance to practice with the team late in the season, giving him an even greater taste of what life is like as an Oiler.
Now, with only a few short months until main camp opens, Klefbom is ready for the next chapter in his career.
"I'm ready (to make the NHL)," he said. "I feel like I took a big step last season. I've been here recently watching some games and it's very special. I'm very honoured to be a part of this organization. It's tough to make the team, of course. But I think this camp is very important for me to get into it and try to be in the best shape I can be heading into training camp in September.
"That's my goal. I want to make the team this year and earn a spot on the Edmonton Oilers. I'm very hungry."
For Klefbom, Nurse and 33 others, the time is now to make an impression. On-ice sessions begin Thursday (9:30am) at Millennium Place in Sherwood Park.
-- Ryan Dittrick, edmontonoilers.com | Follow me on Twitter @ryandittrick


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Texas Fines Testing Vendor $5.7M, Demands $15M In UpgradesTexas is fining the company that administers statewide standardized tests $5.7 million — and ordering it to invest $15 million in future safeguards — after computer glitches caused problems last academic year.
STAAR Exam At Center Of Lawsuit Filed By Texas Attorney Glitches, scoring errors and now the STAAR exam is the center of a lawsuit.
Texas Parents Ask Judge To Block STAAR ScoresA group of Texas parents want a judge to scrap results from a statewide standardized test that is under new scrutiny after a computer glitch this spring lost thousands of student answers.
Arlington ISD Students Stressed After STAAR Test GlitchSome students taking the STAAR tests Tuesday didn't know what to think when all of a sudden their answers disappeared.
Some Online STAAR Test Takers Face GlitchAdministrators are trying to determine whether some students taking an online version of the STAAR test lost answers in a computer glitch. Problems were reported in the Austin, Bryan and Arlington areas.
STAAR Tests To Get Less Time-Consuming In Grades 3 To 8State-mandated exams are getting shorter for Texas students in grades 3 to 8. The Legislature this session approved a requirement that STAAR tests be less time-consuming for young students.
Texas Plans To Gradually Increase STAAR Passing StandardsTexas is finally phasing in higher standards to pass its standardized tests — but will do so more gradually then initially planned.
STAAR Results Show Graduation OutlookTest results show that nearly 10 percent of all Texas high school seniors are not on track to graduate this year, the Texas Education Agency reported on Thursday.
Texas H.S. Tests Show Some Improvements Texas high school students showed improvements on end-of-course standardized tests in biology and algebra, and posted strong passing rates on a history exam administered statewide for the first time but lagged in English.
Texas Releases Math, Reading STAAR Results Almost 80 percent of fifth- and eighth-graders passed the Texas standardized math test on their first try this month while more than 75 percent passed the reading exam.
Senators Vying For Higher Posts Spar In Hearing A Senate panel's discussion about how best to overhaul the curriculum and testing procedures for high schools felt like a political debate.
Upset Irving Mom Pulls Child From STAAR ExamMany parents are frustrated by the state-mandated STAAR test, and at least one mother in Irving is removing her child from classes to keep her daughter from taking the exam.