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"New Hampshire is the embodiment of personal responsibility," praised former President Bill Clinton.
These days, giving compliments seems among the best ways to make friends.
Ask any of the many college students in attendance at Clinton's campaign stop for President Barack Obama at the University of New Hampshire Wednesday afternoon. In your very first college course, tell the girl next to you she has cute shoes and you have a friend for life, or at least four years.
Having a way with words makes both Clinton and Obama appeal to my generation, because, frankly, if it's not delicately laid out in black and white and dusted with a positive message, we don't want to hear it.
In addition to being the sensitive generation, we're a generation that believes everyone makes mistakes and deserves forgiveness — a good thing for Bill Clinton. While in elementary school, looking up to our president of the United States, Clinton made some questionable moral decisions.
But, if you ask a 20-something about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky they'll likely say, "Hey, everyone makes mistakes, right?" While I don't believe Clinton is to blame for young adults tending to be far less accountable for questionable actions, watching his downfalls play out on television does make him more human, and less like Superman. Among my generation the mentality is if he can mess up and be forgiven, so can I.
Though Clinton left many with negative feelings toward him, President Obama has forgiven him — at least enough to accept all of Clinton's invaluable help on the campaign trail.
The "cool" president who played jazz music on a saxophone preceded the days of a verbal-fumbling George "dub-ya" Bush, and there's no question the 66-year-old Clinton who "did not inhale" appeals to a young and eager generation of voters who appreciate his oratorical skills.
During his visit he asked, "Are you gettin' high every day because you're makin' something good happen for yourself?" — which was followed by an extended rupture of cheers.
Looking back on the carefree days of bumpy school bus rides, and bringing what seemed like half the playground sand home in my shoes evokes a nostalgic feeling for my generation. Many of us still associate that feeling of freedom and joy with the eight years of Clinton's presidency. We saw our parents in a more stable financial place and our older sisters, brothers or cousins graduating college with lower debt and jobs waiting for them.
During Clinton's speech, in the field house at UNH, he assured students allowing President Obama to serve another four years will let them stay on their parents' health insurance until they are 26. Clinton also reminded the crowd that Obama's opponent, Republican Mitt Romney, would make their student loans "more expensive and harder to repay."
What better way to get us to jump on the forward-moving Obama Train than addressing our biggest fear — failing financially. Clinton promised our president can fix it. The young professionals of my generation are scared to death of having to collect welfare, or relying on the government.
Clinton was appalled at the secretly recorded and leaked audio from Romney announcing 47 percent of U.S. citizens do not pay federal income tax and want to rely on handouts. "The guy with a tax account in the Cayman Islands" is trying to call us lazy? he joked.
He also reminded the audience many of those 47 percent are college students who are adults, but don't have income; some are seniors who have depleted their assets and are living in nursing homes; but most of them are families who work. He said, rallying the young voters, "I'll tell you what, those families who don't make enough money to pay federal income tax would love to make enough to pay it — because that would mean they were moving up in the world!"
Using words of optimism and encouragement makes the at-times intimidating nature of government seem a little friendlier to the young, timid about entering the workforce. Clinton said to the UNH crowd there is no reason for a contradiction between taking responsibility for yourself and also helping your neighbor at the same time. He said, why not band together as a community instead of being on your own?
As his speech concluded Clinton said simply, "It's your future, go claim it." He stepped back and waved nobly.
Soon after, attendees filed out with a skip in their step and hope in their heart while good ol' American country music played in the background.
Who wouldn't want to be told, with such ease, Obama will continue on a path forward and give my generation a break we always seem to think we deserve?
And, on the way out I overheard a young woman say to a guy with her, "Can you believe he said all of that with no teleprompter?"
He responded, "Yah, he's the man."
Janine Mitchell is a 20-something and the Web editor for Foster's Daily Democrat. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
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It was 2011 and I fainted. Yes I admit I was one of those. . .I suppose there wasn't enough ventilation in my afro and that desert sun pruned me up pretty good and the faint happened. Now when I regained consciousness, what was a crowded shoulder to shoulder regime, was a perfectly circled sanctuary of worried faces. With me at the center I was blown on by 5 people, and fanned down by a few others, a white guy (w/ some serious dreds) was rubbing my back telling me to breath, a girl tied up my hair, and they got me some water. After a couple minutes they all decided to crowd surf me to the front, I was a good 10 rows back, but made it to security. Every one was so nice and understanding, left a good memory.
But srsly I've met some of the coolest strangers (now good friends) at this concert, each year seems to not disappoint.

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You know how I know you just cleaned your apartment? When the entire place smells like a Swiffer wet mop. Nearly everyone in the first world recognizes a Swiffer floral scent within their first few whiffs, but that standard might have to change now that Dyson's entering the mop market.
As you know, Dyson is known for its line of highly-priced, futuristic Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaners. This year, the company's hitting up the hard floor market with the unveil of the unfortunately-named Dyson Hard: A mop-vacuum hybrid that can suck up the atrocities on your floor while a wet cloth wipes the surface. The Dyson Hard (yes, I'm giggling immaturely) is basically a combination of the Dyson Digital Slim and a new cleaner head that contains two vacuum edges sandwiching a wet mop holder. This allows you to vacuum the floor, scrub the surface, and let the back edge of the machine suck up any remaining dirt.
Because the vacuum portion of the Dyson Hard bares similarity with the Dyson Digital Slim, it also runs on Root Cyclone technology powered by a digital motor. If you don't want to mop the floors, the head is detachable so you can use the vacuum to clean your car or smaller spots behind furniture. Dyson boasts that the Hard's motor can spin at 110,000 rpm, providing extreme power in a compact body. "Because you've got to have fantastic suction at the head," Sir James Dyson of the Dyson empire said on the Today Show. Yep, still snickering.
In our experience with the Digital Slim, we loved how effectively it cleaned carpets in just a few sweeps. However, battery life was minimal at just 20 minutes on regular mode, so we're hoping Dyson has made an upgrade to this new model. At $330, the Dyson Hard is actually less expensive than the DC44 we reviewed, but if that price point comes with an improved motor, perhaps we can expect greater battery as well. Additionally, we're hoping Dyson will figure out a way to sell the new vacuum-mop cleaner head as an attachment for those who already own a Digital Slim. Maybe they'll call it a Dyson Blow-J.
No availability dates announced just yet but if you're really interested, Dyson's currently taking contact info for its mailing list.
Update 07/15/2013: Dyson really took to our pun of a headline and provided us with a video of the Dyson Hard "banged 39,154 times" during testing. How we love a company with a sense of humor! Dyson also confirmed that the Hard will be available starting September 3, and the battery life will come at a minimal 15 minutes on regular mode, and 6 minutes on high intensity. An extremely tiny allotment, but hopefully it'll get the job done so quickly, you won't need more than 15 minutes.
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David Beckham is adamant his family won't be leaving its adopted home city of Los Angeles following his decision to quit LA Galaxy.
The British soccer star announced this week (beg19Nov12) that he will exit the club after the Major League Soccer (MLS) final on 1 December (12).
The news fuelled rumours Beckham could move Down Under to play in Australia, and there are also reports linking him with a return to Spain, where he played for Real Madrid, or to his native Britain.
The sportsman insists his future remains undecided, but he will keep his home in L.A. with his singer/fashion designer wife Victoria and their four children.
He tells America's NBC, "Whatever happens, L.A. will be regarded as our home... We will keep our house in L.A. We are not guaranteeing that we are moving back to England... Like I said, whatever happens, L.A. will be regarded as our home because we've been treated so unbelievably well by people, whether it be in soccer, in the Galaxy or around the States...
"Our daughter was born here... It's a very special place for us."


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Mike! I'm stoked you got the sunset spot on the orchid! Can't wait to see a few of those shots! It was a pleasure as always to see you on the fields again!!
Nice to finally see you in the flesh. Thanks again for taking my picture, I sincerely liked it. Much love and have a safe round 2 on the polo fields
Hi Ivan. Are you going this year? Do you have any advice on getting a photo pass. I was hoping to bring a larger camera in this year.
Thanks for any advice.
So, did I win that photo contest? I forgot what thread you mentioned it in and you weren't specific, but it seemed directed towards me.
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The Beginning of a Tradition
People began going to college in East Central Georgia one hundred and twenty years ago today. And, they are still going to colleges in places like Dublin, Swainsboro, Eastman, Sandersville, Mt. Vernon/Ailey, and Cochran, where the first college in the area opened its doors on January 10, 1887.
The leading men of the Ebenezer Baptist Association saw the need for a junior college to serve the needs of the growing areas of Laurens, Telfair, Dodge and Pulaski counties. Each county was asked to submit a proposal. Both Eastman and Cochran shared the same railroad, the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad. Laurens County did not have a railroad in place in the beginning of 1886. Railroads were critical to the development of a community. And, at the time, it appeared that Dublin and Laurens County, which did not submit a bid, appeared to be not as progressive. As it turned, things would change. Laurens County became a regional center of economic, business and cultural activity. Dodge prospered during the era of mass production of timber and cotton. Pulaski lost a substantial part of its northeastern territory to a new county, Bleckley in 1912. And, it was in the future county seat of Cochran, where the association decided to establish a college, which would be called New Ebenezer College.
John T. Rogers, of Reedy Springs Baptist Church in Laurens County, joined Jonathan Knowles, Charles Parker and J.G. Wright in forming an exploratory committee to begin preparations for the funding of the project and the acquisition of sufficient lands. Doctors P.A. Jessup and T.D. Walker, Sr. got on board and convinced P.L. Peacock and J.E. O'Berry of Cochran to donate the land for the thirteen-acre, ten thousand-dollar facility.
The association appointed P.L. Peacock, T.D. Walker, Sam Mayer, W.J. Mullis, and J.G. Wright to head the building committee. The committee chose Michael O'Brien, of Hawkinsville, who based the school's design on one of his favorite colleges in Ireland. E.B. Parker, J.G. Wright, John T. Rogers, M.L. Burch, T.D. Walker, and Jonathan Noles were selected to serve as the school's first Board of Trustees.
The cornerstone laying ceremony was held on July 22, 1886 under the auspices of the local Masonic Lodge. J. Emmett Blackshear, the lodge's Worshipful Master, presided over the grand observance.
One hundred and twenty five years ago today on January 10, 1887, the doors of New Ebenezer College opened its doors to approximately one hundred students in a hall across the street from the First Baptist Church of Cochran. Palemon J. King presided over the new school. Professor King, a large and powerfully built man, was already a well-respected school leader from Shelby, North Carolina and would gain wide recognition in Rome, Georgia. King, a graduate of Mercer and a former soldier in the Confederate army, came highly recommend by school officials in Cave Springs and Shorter College.
Within a few months, the students moved into the first permanent building on campus, a two-story structure.
Initial tuition rates that first semester were $2.00 per month for primary courses, $3.00 per month intermediate classes, $4.00 per month for music classes and $5.00 per month for college classes per month. By the way, it would cost you the mere pittance of $12.00 per month to board in the house with the principal.
The college's curriculum included mathematics, history, Latin, Greek, elocution and English as well as courses in vocal and instrumental music. Eventually courses in art, business and military science were offered. Captain Isaac E. Neff took charge of the military school and established what was called the "Broom Brigade," who dressed in bright and colorful Zouave uniforms.
College officials guaranteed that each boy and girl who attended would be thoroughly prepared for the best colleges and universities.
Perhaps the college's most well known professor was Lucy Mae Stanton, who taught art during the 1893-1894 term. Stanton was one of Georgia's most widely heralded female artists of the late 19 th and early 20 th Centuries.
J.M. King succeeded Palemon J. King in 1888. Other principals of the college during its eleven-year history were: W.B. Seals (90-93,) E.M. Turner (93-96,) A.M. Duggan (96-97,) and finally W.E. Jenkins (97-98).
Former graduate and long time Cochran attorney, Lucian A. Whipple, Sr. once hailed New Ebenezer College as a "beacon light" for that section of thee state. Whipple maintained that the college contributed greatly to the economic development of the region between Macon to Brunswick, where there were few if any high schools.
By the mid 1890s, the association's support for Ebenezer College began to wane. In an election to provide local funding, Cochran residents voted down the measure to support, "The Pride of Cochran."
When the New Ebenezer College closed, the facilities were taken over by the Cochran school system, with Dr. Jessup and Dr. Walker, two of the school's most ardent boosters, joining others in taking over the college's outstanding debt. After nearly twenty years, Cochran High School moved to a new location and once again, the school buildings were abandoned.
During the years of World War I, both Cochran and Dublin competed for the location of the newly created 12 th Congressional District Agricultural and Mechanical School. Despite the greater resources in Dublin, Cochran was awarded the location of school, which opened on the first Monday in October 1919.
After only eight years of operation, the Georgia Legislature adopted a law which changed the name of the school to Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical College. Two years later, the name was shortened to Middle Georgia College.
So, now you know a little history of the tradition of the one time Baptist school which evolved into one of our areas most important resources. And, it all began, one hundred and twenty five years ago today.


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Alright, I'm back and hopefully for good as this blog at the end of the day will end up being full of food and recipes either by request or things that I've found are just plain tasty.
It is no secret in my family that peaches are King of the Fruit. My uncle owns and operates an orchard in Cleveland, Alabama and I have to say they grow the best peaches around. Right now Big Red Peaches are the ripest for picking at The Hazelrig Orchard. This week in the Little house we have been slicing and freezing these amazingly juicy fruit along with cooking family favorite fried peach pies and trying a new recipe of peach pound cake.
Fried Pies or Hand Pies to me are one of the truly Southern desserts and how they are made by my mother tends to be a little different than most pies because we do not cook down the fruit of the peaches instead it's made of peach peels.
Fried Peach Pies
1 can of Grands Flaky Biscuits
Peels of 10 peaches
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
Directions: Takes the peach peels, sugar, and water and bring to a boil in a medium saucepan and good down until the peach peels start to breakdown and turn a light brown color, taste the syrup and make sure it is plenty sweet if not add more sugar. Open biscuit can and separate each biscuit into two biscuits and flatten out each piece and put on wax paper to wait for filling. Once the filling in ready spoon a heaping tablespoon into the flattened biscuit and fold over and seal with a fork. Heat a cast iron skillet over medium heat and cover the bottom of pan with a small layer of oil/butter (Mama uses a little of each) and cook until golden brown about 2-3 minutes if the pan is hot enough. Make sure you stand over the pies because they will burn quick if you don't.
Makes 16 if none are burnt and all are edible (If you couldn't guess we really ended up with about 10 because of the burning situation haha)
Serve with a dusting of powdered sugar or ice cream or in this case peach ice cream
Now onto the pound cake, the recipe was taken out of Johnnie Gabriel's first cookbook Cooking in the South. Johnnie has been famous around Marietta for years for her cakes, apparently my 2nd birthday cake from her bakery. She has since expanded her business into a restaurant and bakery and published two cookbooks. Mama and I love her! She is a truly Southern Lady and makes food that we would make and eat. Also you may have seen her on Paula Deen's show because they are first cousins and Johnnie is soon to have her own cooking show on Georgia Public Television. Anyways onto the recipe because it is just that good.
Johnnie Gabriel's Peach Pound Cake
1 cup (2 sticks) of room temperature butter
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
5 jumbo eggs
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted (we use White Lily)<-inserted in the cookbook by Johnnie again Southern
1/2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup whole milk
1/4 cup peach brandy--we had some peach schnapps leftover from another recipe--you can also use peach preserves or peach nectar from fresh or canned peaches
3 drops peach oil--this you could find at a specialty store but we just included 3 teaspoons of peach nectar(it's all about adding peach flavor)
1 cup chopped fresh, frozen and thawed or canned peaches
Directions: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 15-cup tube pan, tapping out excess flour (we used your basic bundt pan). In a large mixing bowl on medium to high speed, beat the butter and shortening until light and fluffy. Slowly add sugar at medium speed and then turn to medium high beating until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition at medium speed
In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Add the vanilla to the milk. At a moderately slow speed add the flour mixture to the butter mixture in four increments, alternating with the milk mixture in three increments. Begin and end with dry ingredients. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl as you are alternating dry and milk mixtures.You don't want to over beat so slow speed is sufficient.
Once combined stir in peach brandy and oil or whatever peach flavorings you are using. Pour half of batter into the prepared pan add cup of peaches in the middle of batter and cover with remaining batter.
Bake for 60-75 minutes or until a tester is inserted and comes out clean or with firm crumbs.
Peach Glaze
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup peach brandy--again you can add substitutes if you like
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1/4 cup water
4 drops peach oil
Once the cake has been baking about 30 minutes prepare the glaze. In a small saucepan, stir together all ingredients. Bring the glaze to a boil, stirring to melt the sugar and butter.
Remove the cake from over when it's done and let cool in the pan for 15-20 minutes, once cake is cool invert onto plate and cover with glaze.


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Following the announcement Chief Constable Andy Cooke, said: "Since Friday's attack at Parsons Green station in London and in response to the heightened threat level members of the public have seen an increased policing and security presence at key sites and other crowded places across Merseyside to help protect our communities.
"The Prime Minister has indicated today that the threat level has reduced from critical to severe. I want our communities to be reassured that the safety of our communities is paramount and we are continually reviewing our resources as part of a range of measures to reassure communities and make sure we are well protected during these times of high alert.
"People will continue to see firearms officers patrolling Liverpool and other locations across Merseyside for the foreseeable future, and we will continue to work with event organisers, travel companies and other partners to ensure appropriate security measures are in place.
"We urge the public to remain aware and alert but not alarmed - the police service and our partners are doing everything we can to help protect the security of our communities, public institutions, critical national infrastructure, and businesses and places of interest.
"Our security measures and activities are under constant review to reflect where the threats exist and the level of threat we are facing.
"The latest guidance on recognising the terrorist threat and remaining vigilant can be accessed via www.nactso.gov.uk
"Be vigilant. If you suspect it, report it. Nobody is better placed to detect something that is out of place in their communities than the people living in them.
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Volume 18 Issue 32 | December 23 - 30, 2005
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Far from heaven sent, Rent is all-Hollywood
By Sarah Ferguson
I finally went to see Rent. After hearing Lower East Side folk gripe once again about this Broadway musical-turned-movie ripping off local characters and tap dancing over the neighborhoods radical history, I dragged my butt over to Chelsea Cinemas to see Hollywoods candy-cream version of the East Village circa 1989.
But the East Village was largely missing in action. Jonathan Larson won a posthumous Pulitzer for the play, which used the East Village as a backdrop to explore the impact of AIDS on its young, multicultural characters and the role of rising rents as a killer of bohemia. (Rent was conceived as a rock opera adaptation of Puccinis La Bohème.)
But to anyone who weathered the Tompkins Square Park riots and heady gentrification battles of the 1980s, the play was always L.E.S. lite. Its squatters were really lazy rent strikers buying time to pursue art, elusive fame or oddball intellectual theories, and the only organized protest against the eviction of a shantytown of homeless people was a lame act of performance art that somehow sparks a riot.
Larson sampled actual people and events (and evidently the plotline of lesbian writer Sarah Schulmans novel People in Trouble), but the bohemia always felt painted on. Still, the play version managed to look the part, thanks to set designer Paul Clay, who borrowed heavily from Lower East Side street artists from the anarchic scrap metal creations of the Rivington School to the Xeroxed street propaganda of Seth Tobocman and Eric Drooker to the tiled lamppost mosaics of Jim Power, which were recreated on the ticket booths inside the Nederlander Theater.
By contrast, the movie is a flashback to nowhere. Although critics have praised director Chris Columbuss painstaking efforts to recreate the old flavor of Alphabet City, anyone who knows the neighborhood is instead confronted with a made-up landscape of mix-matched locales. Columbus filmed most of Rent in San Francisco and Oakland, then pieced bits of Loisaida back in to authenticate the scenery, sometimes to jarring effect.
The facade of the Marz Bar, that lowdown watering hole on Second Ave. and First St., makes a guest appearance but is digitally rendered to appear midblock instead of on the corner, near an improbably placed Wiz store. Vazacs bar on Avenue B is remade into Life Café (belying the Vazacs sign still visible on the side of the building) and theres an F train subway stop just off Tompkins Square.
And no East Village loft ever had such high ceilings as the one the central characters inhabit, which looks more like an old factory building in Soho or Tribeca circa the 1960s. Meanwhile the favorite drug-copping spot of the junk-addled stripper Mimi (played by Rosario Dawson) looks like it was filmed after hours at the South St. Seaport (or more likely, a lot in San Francisco).
Ditto for the riot scene at Maureens ditzy protest performance, which takes place in a cavernous warehouse that never existed down here. Maureen comes off like an annoying cross between Karen Finley and Sandra Bernhardt. And what to make of the aspiring rocker Roger (Adam Pascal) wailing Bon Jovi style in a brief, car-commercial-like detour to the New Mexican desert to mourn his breakup with Mimi? These Hollywood folks cant help themselves it seems. The impulse to dumb down and deliver a sanitized version of true grit is inexorable.
The reduction of the East Village into a series of bohemian-esque clichés is not surprising. Rent the movie is the apotheosis of the Lower East Side as Hollywood movie set, where the local residents are simply off-camera extras, and production companies are free to tow your car at will. (I remember them filming the La Vie Bohème scene outside Vazacs and watching them blow plastic snow into the trees.)
Its interesting that the characters in the movie are only truly fulfilled when they watch themselves projected onscreen in protagonist Marks 16-millimeter film, which simply plays back snippets of previous scenes in the movie like a grainy promo trailer for the flick. Given the overmarketing of the East Village as an expensive playground or entertainment district for wannabe hipsters, even these movie characters seem to find the celluloid version of themselves more appealing.
That said, it was a goof to watch Rosario Dawson belting out lines like Were not going to pay last years rent! when, according to a recent New York Post story, she and other members of her extended family have been refusing to pay their $100-per-month maintenance dues at the former squat she grew up in on E. 13th St. Dawson made much of her upbringing in the squat in publicity interviews for Rent. Yet in this case, the reality of not paying rent was far closer to home than the actress might like us to think. (According to tenants, shortly after the Post story ran, Rosario moved out and gave her apartment to her brother, who tenants say still does not pay rent.)
Given Rosarios real-life chops as a Lower East Side squatter babe, one wonders why director Columbus couldnt muster a more authentic representation of the place? Why didnt he cut in some actual footage of the old days, when theres so much available? Perhaps he was just too stingy. Videographers Clayton Patterson and Paul Garrin both filmed the Tompkins Square riot and may have inspired the lead character Mark, since like Marks, their riot footage landed on the TV news (the young Garrin even made an appearance on MTV, where he also got to screen his own politico work to the masses).
Both Garrin and Patterson say they were approached to sell portions of their tapes for a Rent documentary to be packaged with the DVD version of the film. But both declined the offers because they say the production company offered them pittances for their work. (They were offering like $200 for historical, unique footage, for a Hollywood release thats going to sell millions of copies, said Garrin. It was a slap in the face.)
Thats too bad, because some riot scenes or actual squalor would have injected a much-needed blast of reality which was always lacking in the play. Despite the title Rent, Larson glossed over issues of class and the real estate battles that tore apart the East Village scene by pushing out many of the minorities, immigrants, artists and crazed idealists that gave this place its bohemian élan not to mention the many homeless, who make a brief appearance in the play as the inspiration for Maureens self-indulgent performance crusade, but are virtually M.I.A. in the film (theres just one outspoken bag lady).
What was radical, if overly idealized, in Larsons play was his celebration of gay relationships both for portraying them as loving and enduring as any straight coupling, and for allowing gay lovers to intermingle, even overlap with straights in a web of friendship that many in Middle America still refuse to comprehend.
However cartoonish, the films embrace of gay love is more emphatic than I remember in the play, and the drag queen Angels struggle with AIDS remains quite moving especially today, when the suffering caused by AIDS has been relegated in much of the publics eye to Africa. For all its camp, Angels funeral brought tears from my eyes along with memories of the dear friends I lost here at that time.
So it felt like déjà vu when, riding my bike home from the cinema, I ran smack into a group of East Village folks headed to St. Marks Church, where a memorial service for longtime Lower East Sider Carmen Rubio was underway.
The scene inside was eerily similar to Angels funeral in the movie, which was filmed in part at Mary Help of Christians Church on E. 12th St., just a few blocks away.
In fact, it felt like watching bonus footage from the film, because in Carmens life lay the real story of Rent: How rising rents on the Lower East Side rent apart peoples lives and undermined the community. How rents robbed the scene of soul as the hipsters and dreamers were exchanged for the efficient worker bees of capital, who have transformed the tenements into pretty IKEA hives.
Carmen died of cancer not AIDS. And she had nothing of the lithesome curves of Rosario Dawsons Mimi, or the angst of young filmmaker Mark. But she studied painting at the Art Students League and taught her love of filmmaking to neighborhood youth at the punk rock performance dive ABC No Rio.
Yet her primary passion was community activism. Alfredo Feliciano, Carmens partner of 23 years, described how she took him in in 1983, when he was squatting in the basement of an apartment building where she was living on Norfolk St.
Together, she and Alfredo literally risked their lives to clear out the drug-infested lot next door and transform it into a community garden, the Childrens Magical Garden, for neighborhood kids.
Yet even in their fiercest battles, Rubio remained compassionate for those struggling with drugs, because she knew how our mixed-up system had forsaken them, Feliciano said.
As an organizer for the housing group GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side) for 12 years, Carmen went to bat for literally hundreds of tenants to help save them from eviction. Residents of Umbrella House, the former squat on Avenue C where Rubio lived for the last decade, praised her as a fighter and outspoken house member who did her best to remain fair to all. She was a teacher of activists, said Matt Metzgar, a former resident. Everyone learned from her righteous stubbornness when it comes to struggles for social justice.
And while it might seem flippant to compare Carmen to a fictional drag queen, like Angel, she fought to remain fabulous and upbeat right until the end. Former GOLES director Donna Ellaby, who hired Carmen, spoke of her refusal to let cancer kill her spirit, even as it ravaged her body. She was going around with this withered arm that gave her a lot of pain, Ellaby recalled, but when I asked her about it, she said, Oh yeah, my arm, it just wont get with the program. But look at this fabulous wig I get to wear!
But one of the most moving tributes came from Philly, a Lower East Side artist who lived in a building that Carmen helped organize. Philly told the story of a Japanese Butoh dancer who danced until the moment he died because that is what he loved to do. Carmen continued to work, dragging herself into the GOLES office just two days before she passed on Thanksgiving, because, Philly said, fighting for people was what Carmen loved to do.
I want to tell her its O.K. to go now, Philly told the crowd gathered in the church. Go, fly away. You dont need to stick around with us in our cold, dark apartments. We can fight for ourselves now, Philly said, then crushed the rose she was holding and threw the petals up in the air.
It was a wonderful blessing for a woman of such devotion. Carmens story wont make it to the big screen even if her name does seem worthy for a rock opera. But her life, and the lives of those she loved and fought for, is the real story of Rent; thats the real East Village that people battled over.
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Computing is still more of an art form than science even in this early part of the 21st century. However, the reasoning behind this seems to elude even the most knowledgeable of practitioners. The most likely cause for this is that IT looks at the final product, the application and the data, through many lenses. The three blind men and the elephant analogy is very apt for describing this phenomena. In this analogy, three blind men each touch a different piece of the elephant and, therefore, each derives that the elephant is something different.
In IT, we require many different skills and resources to come together under the guise of a system to meet a business requirement. Infrastructure operations manages the facilities, hardware and software required to run the application. Engineering is required to create the fabric of components needed to provide an end user with a set of capabilities. Security is required to analyze the environment to make sure that risks are mitigated regarding loss of data, breach and availability. The production environment must be monitored and users need a support infrastructure to contact when something is not working as planned. All of these pieces need to come together in a cohesive manner to deliver just one application environment, let alone the thirty or forty that most businesses require.
Needless to say, deploying and operating applications and computing infrastructure for an enterprise is a daunting task. Now, add to this the ability to manage a shared pool of resources that can scale to meet multiple workload's demands and the problem becomes exponentially more complex. Here's a basic summary of all the touch points required to answer the mail for delivering a big data solution. The reason big data was selected was because it offers such as rich solution environment that includes multi-parallelism, large volumes of storage, significant network bandwidth, multiple layers of information security and scalable compute infrastructure.
Traditional Approach
It would be easy to approach the big data problem domain with the same methodology that one would use for building a data warehouse.
- Review the data domain and deliver an information architecture
- Estimate the size of data that will be needed to be stored and increase by 25%
- Design the Hadoop deployment environment to have enough nodes to process the anticipated maximum load job within the expected time frame
- Acquire the necessary hardware and install into the data center
- Deploy Hadoop environment
- Load data into the allocated storage
- Cross fingers and hope business doesn't ask for more data to be processed or loaded into the environment
This traditional approach produces a one-off application stack dedicated to meeting some business intelligence requirement leveraging big data tools. It also is not extensible, easily reused and allocated capacity to a fixed function that may or may not be used enough to justify the capital expenditure.
Of course, one could also consider using an external cloud service provider for this purpose, but expect that moving large volumes of data, e.g. petabytes, into a public cloud service provider will take considerable logistics and perhaps unexpected costs.
The Cloud Way
So, what does a cloud-based design offer that is far and beyond what can be achieved through the traditional IT approach?
- Elasticity, so when the customers want to add new data elements into the analysis or add more data to incorporate into the results, there is not a race to meet the infrastructure demands to provision and respond.
- Greater leverage of existing resources through virtualization so that resources are not sitting idle when they are not used.
- The ability to deploy the runtime Hadoop environment in an automated manner so that it does not need to remain running when not in use.
- A common set of available services, such as identity management and network security, so that these do not need to be redundantly acquired, configured and managed, thus reducing costly operational overhead.
- Self-service provisioning so that the data scientists and business users can take advantage of this environment on-demand without long lead times.
Achieving these benefits requires appropriate planning and architecture to enable an infrastructure that can meet these goals. The figure below illustrates all the major touch points that must be incorporated in order to answer the needs of a cloud environment that can support big data.
While self-explanatory, it's important to discuss the effects each of these branches has on getting to the desired outcome.
Network Architecture – Big data can often be limited by insufficient bandwidth as well as has the potential to impact other applications running on the same network backbone. Implementing virtual networking and quality-of-service is important for ensuring that mission-critical applications don't get underserviced in support of the big data initiatives. Likewise, the network also must support movement of the data into the processing environment in order to be available for processing.
Storage Architecture – There are many options for supporting your big data initiatives that includes using multiple tiers of storage, e.g. high-speed, flash, commodity, etc. With many of these environments operating on petabytes or more of data, achieving scalable storage in an affordable manner is one of the more complex tasks that is being considered today. Moreover, many of today's networked storage architectures will also become dependent upon your network architecture, so even if you've selected a high-speed storage environment, the data may not be able to move in and out quickly enough if you have not implemented a suitable network architecture.
Compute Architecture – Big data environments are highly-dependent upon the number of nodes available to process tasks. The more nodes, the faster the processing can occur. This means that the compute architecture must respond to the scaling needs without starving other applications running in the same cloud environment. This is perhaps one of the more really complex areas of cloud computing. As good as we might be at planning, we eventually all suffer from finite resources. Hence, the compute architecture must provide the appropriate instrumentation to allow IT balance the resource pool to meet the demands of the consumer audience.
Security – Today's NoSQL and big data environments don't often offer fine-grained security that can be found in traditional relational database environments. This means that alternate security approaches must be implemented within the cloud environment in order to ensure that data is not compromised.
Service Management – This is a major component in delivering the goals described above. Service management covers the processes and methods for capacity management, configuration management, monitoring, automation, orchestration, provisioning, operations and support. Without appropriate service management the environment would most likely suffer performance degradation over time resulting in unhappy users and consumers. Additionally, service management entails the development of the service catalogs, which define tiers of services and makes services available to the provisioning processes.
As you can see from this list, cloud computing entails a lot more than simply installing some virtualization software and being able to provision virtual machines. Moreover, this is just one application of cloud computing. Consider how this is made even further complex by the addition of different types of workloads, such as Virtual Desktop, enterprise applications and development environments.
So, What Is The Secret To Cloud?
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, traditional approaches toward IT organizations will have a very difficult time building and supporting a cloud environment. Stratified IT with diverging reporting paths, varying agendas and differing reward models, spells trouble for answering the mail regarding delivery of cloud computing; challenges here both technical and cultural. For example, in a traditional IT department, if a particular application is consuming storage at an above average rate, the answer is for Infrastructure & Operations to add more storage versus exploring the root cause and seeing if the observed effects are appropriate and if they could be corrected in software or configuration.
The most successful firms have adopted a DevOps approach toward delivering IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS). DevOps is a collaborative approach between engineering and operations that shares the responsibility for producing high-quality, sustainable services. As noted above, the infrastructure impacts the application and vice versa, so, it's critical that there is solid collaboration between these teams exploring these dependencies and then taking the appropriate approaches to mitigating risks.
To quote my InfoQ article entitled, "DevOps: Evolving to Handle Disruption",
"A DevOps culture is represented by dissolution of the internal hierarchy, a move to meritocracy, breaking down of the stove-pipes, service orientation, service lifecycle management and, most importantly, agility. DevOps cultures thrive in the face of disruption versus bottleneck and stall. They produce the highest quality output with limited human resources. There are no political barriers to sharing information and responding to the inevitable system failures. There is team, where once it was us and them."
Cloud computing is becoming important to business because of the need to deliver more value with fewer resources in the face of shrinking budgets. When one looks empirically at the cost of operating IT for most businesses, there is a lot of waste that has been built into the existing environments due to both technology capabilities and a lack of focus on strong IT service management. Squeezing out every drop of value out of the existing IT investments is now forcing a change in how we approach delivering applications and data. Cloud computing is merely a vehicle than enables that to be done in a very cost-effective manner with reduced waste while still enabling innovation and agility.
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JP Morgenthal is one of the world's foremost experts in IT strategy and cloud computing. He has over twenty-five years of expertise applying technology solutions to complex business problems. JP has strong business acumen complemented by technical depth and breadth. He is a respected author on topics of integration, software development and cloud computing and is a contributor on the forthcoming "Cloud Computing:Assessing the Risks" as well as is the Lead Cloud Computing editor for InfoQ.
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I guess it would be easy, would it be right or even traditional? I'm less convinced. I've worked with a number of professional outfits that might be considered traditional that wouldn't do it as you describe. Further they employ a bunch of the techniques you seemingly classify as "cloud".
People seem to have forgotten that virtualization was around long before cloud became a fashion and it was used heavily for better, more effective use of rackspace and multi-core machines. Automation has been possible, and done, by smart people for years, it hasn't taken cloud to make that happen. There are plenty of books that provide advice such as "if you're doing something more than once, automate it". Lastly, decent architects (those that span infrastructure and software) long ago set about creating shared, common services as you describe (it dates back to before the likes of SOA).
Moving on to DevOps, there are now so many definitions of that term, I think it's largely useless but if you look at organisations that have adopted post-mortems and a mature approach to product delivery, you'll find operations and development teams working together and, again, those disciplines have been around long before cloud.
I think it would be fair to say that it's easier to do the things you describe these days which is good for everyone but I feel it is in no way particular to cloud and there are plenty of "traditional" IT departments that have been doing these things for some time prior. That's not to say I'm against cloud as such. Clearly there are benefits such as easier access to datacentre-type resources online for startups etc.
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Hungry for some homemade soup?
The January Soup-to-Go sale was such a great success that the Hospitality Team of First Christian Church is bringing back all the choices — chili, vegetarian chili, vegetable beef, vegetarian vegetable, and Italian pasta.
Now is also a chance to shop for some unique treasures in addition to some delicious homemade soup.
The Soup-to-Go/Yard Sale event is from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 26, at First Christian Church, which is located at the corner of the Turnpike and 100 Gum Hollow Road.
The soups will be available in pints for $5. Pre-orders will be taken now and until noon today. In addition to walk-ins, pre-orders may be placed by calling the church office at (865) 481-1481.
Sale day will be a joint venture between the Hospitality Team and the FCC Youth Group. The Youth Group is sponsoring a church-wide yard sale in a combined fund-raising event to help support and underwrite member support projects and to provide funds for church camp experiences for the younger members of the congregation.


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In order to make these Rocky Forge work boots fit comfortably and hold up extraordinarily well, the upper was crafted out of full-grain leather (very smooth, nice-looking appearance) and nylon (terrifically breathable yet strong). There are also pull straps to aid in getting these 10-inch men's boots on with absolute ease.
With each step, the bottoms of your feet will receive cushioning from the flexible polyurethane comfort footbed that has been positioned down inside of these work boots. The dryness protection that you receive from the Rocky waterproof construction is truly astounding; so when you are wearing these pull-on boots, you'll know that you can walk across wet terrain and work out in the elements and remain perfectly dry.
On the bottom, the rubber outsole was outfitted with traction pods, so you'll have a sufficient amount of grip and the sole will remain extremely hard-wearing. This also is a slip-resistant and heat-resistant outsole.
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Braintumor-uptake of Antisense-oligonucleotides against TGF-beta2, after coupling with nanoparticles coated with Polysorbate 80 in a rat glioma model
Aufnahme von Antisenseoligonukleotiden gegen TGF-beta2 in Hirntumoren nach Bindung an Nanopartikel ummantelt mit Polysorbat 80 im Rattengliommodell
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Especially because of its immunosuppression TGF-beta2 is held for one of the important growth factors produced by glioblastoma. Antisense-oligonucleotides should be a propriate instrument to inhibit the cytokine-production of glioblastoma cells, but they poorly penetrate the blood-brain-barrier. Polybutylcanoacrylate-Nanoparticles could be used as a carrier system transporting for instance peptides over the blood-brain-barrier. In a rat glioma model the intratumoral uptake of antisense-oligonucleotides against TGF-beta was determined after pure peripheral application in comparison to application after coupling with nanoparticles and coating with Polysorbate 80.
In Fisher rats (2 groups of 6 rats) a glioblastoma was induced by inoculation of F98 cells in the right caudate nucleus. 12 days after implantation the rats were treated in one group with i.p. injection of FITC-labeled antisense oligonucleotides against TGF-beta2 (10 nmol) coupled to nanoparticles and coated with Polysorbate 80. In the other group the pure antisense were injected. Six hours later all animals were sacrificed and brains were examined. The amount of FITC-labeled tumor-cells was determined immunhistochemically.
By combination of antisense-oligonucleotides with nanoparticles the intratumoral amount of labeled cells was significantly increased for 67,5%. While in animals treated only with oligonucleotides (control-group) no labeled cells were seen outside the glioma tissue, a number of cells with an uptake of FITC were found as well in normal tissue after application of antisense-oligonucleotides-nanoparticles. No significant side effects of nanoparticles did appear in this very short time after application.
Nanoparticles coated with Polysorbate 80 may work as a carrier system for Antisense-oligonucleotides against TGF-beta2 crossing the blood-brain-barrier in this animal glioma model. The application of this Antisense-oligonucleotides coupled to nanoparticles may be considered another approach of glioblastoma therapy, either alone or in combination with some kind of immunotherapy.


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OpenEmbedded Torrent Instructions
From Openmoko
After downloading an OpenEmbedded Torrent, there are two variables that need to be exported in the shell environment. The MACHINE and OE_HOME. Examples are used below, but please set the variables appropriately for your scenario. Also, please ensure that there are several gigabytes of disk space available in OE_HOME.
export MACHINE=om-gta02 export OE_HOME=${HOME}/oe
The following three variables are set here for the purpose of generality. They should be included in the name of your torrent file.
DISTRO=angstrom-2008.1 ARCH=x86_64-linux TIMESTAMP=20090214 TARBALL_LOC=${HOME}
Please follow the following instructions for preparing the pre-compiled OpenEmbedded build environment.
mkdir -p ${OE_HOME} tar xpjf ${TARBALL_LOC}/openmoko-${MACHINE}-${DISTRO}-${ARCH}-${TIMESTAMP}.tar.bz2 -C ${OE_HOME} cd ${OE_HOME} echo ${OE_HOME}/build-${MACHINE}/tmp > ${OE_HOME}/build-${MACHINE}/tmp source setup-env
The next step is to rebuild non-portable packages required for native and cross compilation. All of such packages are pulled in as dependencies, when building the 'console-image' recipe.
bitbake console-image
That's it! You are now ready to do system development or application development to your heart's content!


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Corsair Flash Voyager 32GB Review
Not that long ago, people were transferring files between computers on small capacity floppy disks. These floppies were then replaced by CDs and DVDs, and now flash storage. Flash storage has been around for a while now and has always been increasing in capacity. Flash drives have many benefits, including speed and size, and open new doors like putting live bootable operating systems and very large files on them. The possibilities are endless with this much space.
The Corsair Flash Voyager 32GB is absolutely huge. Corsair's Flash Voyager series has gained a large following because of how rugged they are, and they come in a large variety of sizes. They are also water resistant so you can do a large range of activities and be assured of your data's safety. With a flash drive this big, you can always have your information with you wherever you go.
Closer Look:
The packaging that the Corsair Flash Voyager comes in is the plastic packaging that everyone hates because its so hard to open. However, the presentation of the product is very nice, with a large indicator of the drive's capacity on the front, and the fact that it uses USB 2.0. On the back of the packaging, several more features are listed.
The drive itself is encased in a plastic covering that has a cap. Flash Voyager is written on the front of the drive and the back, corsairmemory.com. On the front, a small blue LED is near the end to indicate activity. There is also a small ring near the end that you can use to attach the drive to a keychain.
Finally, the drive comes with two accessories. One is a lanyard that can clip on to the drive and the other is a short extension cable so you can connect the drive in areas where there might be a bind on space.


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Adapting insights provided by St. Thomas Aquinas' analysis of
the contemplative and the active life and psychologist Henri Joly's
two classes of saints, Dr. Vost examines the life of the great
Dominican St. Martin of Porres on his feast day, through the lenses
of contemplative, apostolic, and charitable "spiritual styles,"
with special attention to the lessons St. Martin can share to help
us become better thinkers, doers, and lovers, spreading the gospel
message to all with charity, justice, and mercy.
Kevin Vost, PsyD, completed his doctorate in clinical psychology
at the Adler School of Professional Psychology with dissertation
research on Executive Functioning in Early Alzheimer's
Disease at the Southern Illinois University School of
Medicine. He has taught psychology and gerontology at Aquinas
College in Nashville, the University of Illinois at Springfield,
MacMurray College, and Lincoln Land Community College. He has
served as a Research Review Committee Member for American Mensa.
Kevin does public speaking, radio, and television spots on the
subject matter of his books Memorize the Faith!, Fit
for Eternal Life, Unearthing Your Ten Talents,
From Atheism to Catholicism, St. Albert the
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Saints, Memorize the Reasons!, and The One-Minute
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Jellyfish have inspired ideas for bird-safe wind turbines and artificial hearts. Now a team of researchers has drawn insight from a jellyfish's tentacles to design a better way to capture dangerous cancer cells at large roving through the bloodstream.
Cancer cells are often most threatening when they break off from their original site and start invading other parts of the body, a process called metastasis. Current methods try to filter these cells out of the bloodstream for analysis by running a tiny sample of blood through a channel in a microfluidic device. The channel is coated with antibodies that can latch on to specific proteins in the cancer cells' surface. But they're simply too short, just a few nanometers in length, to catch much in the flowing liquid, especially since whole cells can stretch 10 to 30 micrometers. (A micrometer is a thousand nanometers.)
The research published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked to nature for a solution to this intractable problem. Study senior author Jeffrey Karp, a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and colleagues at MIT and Harvard University thought about the way marine animals like jellyfish and sea cucumbers have long tentacles or arms with sticky patches that can snag tiny prey out of the water.


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By: Mark McGrouther, Category: Science, Date: 14 Sep 2010
The Slingjaw Wrasse is aptly named. The video shows excellent slow-motion footage of the greatly protrusible mouth during feeding. Click on the link to the fact sheet for more information on this species.
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Ruby on Emacs(journey from TextMate to Emacs…)
Im a GNU/linux fan to the core, so sooner or later this was gonna happen. Ever since i started using TextMate, the fact that it was a non-free ware and i couldn't hack it kept me uncomfortable. Besides that, it is not available for all operating systems(those who have used TextMate know its available only for MacOS). I don't feel too excited about my OS X Leopard anymore and im planning to move back to Ubuntu/Debian…. (i have a bunch of reasons, but i will keep those for another post), however, a ruby developer using TextMate would find it difficult to live with a not-so-good editor(especially so, when moving to other operating systems). Now here is the good news…. with sensible tweaking, Emacs is capable of outshining anything else(yes… and that anything else includes TextMate). Infact nothing comes close to a well tuned Emacs.
I spent last few days setting Emacs up to my taste… and having used it for a few days now, i got so addicted to it, that i have deleted TextMate altogether from my Mac. Being an ex-TextMate-user, i think a lot of other TextMate guys willing to try Emacs may find this post useful… So here is what my setup looks like….
Emacs(mac version): The editor itself. Mac users have a few options here, i used Carbon Emacs(personal preference).
ECB(Emacs Code Browser): This is a brilliant replacement for TextMate sidebar(the little window on one of the sides that acts as a handy file browser) in Emacs. It actually is more than a replacement. It gives you a few other great things like method browser and stuff. I use version 2.32. Install cedet before you install ECB(ECB needs cedet).
Ruby Mode: This defines Ruby mode(major mode) and has Ruby electric(minor mode) etc….. (i keep pabbrev disabled, once again… personal preference)
Rinari: This is the ruby on rails addon which i really love. This has a few shortcuts that are very useful for people doing RoR webapps.
test-runner: This is a killer even though it doesn't look like one. I find it really useful. It runs your tests in place and has a few sensible defaults like running test every time you save the test/spec file.
tempo-snippets: This is another killer. This one lets you define snippets(some developers call this feature live-templates). IDEs like IntelliJ Idea let you define templates which can be used for generating well structured but repetitive code. This is emacs' way of doing it. This one is another brilliant add-on.
window-numbering-mode: If you are planning to use emacs with ecb… don't miss this one. Window numbering allocates numbers to every window in the frame, and allows you to navigate seamlessly with M-<x>(x is the window number).
ido: This is really a 'must have' add-on. It makes switching buffers/finding files/commands….. a breeze. ido absolutely rocks(even if you are an iswitch guy, you definitely want to give this a shot)!!!
This is pretty much it(for ruby developers atleast….). I have a few more add-ons, but those are unrelated to ruby.
To make life easy for people starting out with emacs, i have posted my tweeks here. At times i acted impatient and hacked some files in-place(inside packages that i have installed), and unfortunately i can't post those hacks on the web because i don't remember the exact file and line, but im sure anyone with some understanding of elisp can to do those little tweaks without too much trouble.
Why should anyone move to Emacs….???
Well, emacs is available for all Operating Systems(so the day you feel you had enough of Mac, you don't have to think twice before switching to GNU/Linux). It has been there since dark ages of computer science, which means more hackers have used it, contributed to it, and there are more extensions written for it(so if you want that nifty cool feature, there is a good chance someone has already implemented it for you). Most of it is plain elisp code, which makes it easily extendable/modifiable(when you don't like something, you don't have to live with it and when you want something which no one else has done before, elisp makes implementing it a breeze). It is much more powerful and mature compared to anything else, decades of usability analysis and improvement has made it awesome. And the most important thing is it is Free Software(GNU ware), which means you have the source + permission to modify and re-package and use it your way.
I think sooner or later every developer using mac/windows will realize the fact that GNU/Linux is a lot more evolved and mature environment and when that day comes, you don't want an editor to come in your way.
I hope this will help someone…. Happy Hacking….. 🙂
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VIDEO | Betty Shelby's police interview after Crutcher shooting released
TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) -- Video of Officer Betty Shelby's police interview following the death of Terence Crutcher was released Friday.
The 47-minute video shows Shelby, at times emotional, giving her account to homicide investigator Sgt. Dave Walker three days after the shooting.
"And he just starts walking toward his vehicle and I said 'Stop, right now you need to stop'," said Shelby. "And I'm following because I don't want to lose visual on him because I don't know if he has a gun. I'm scared he has a gun in his pocket."
RELATED | Juror details 'not guilty' Shelby verdict; 'We question her judgment' as an officer
Accompanied by attorney Scott Wood, Shelby says she's aimed her gun at people dozens of times during her career but she had never been so scared in her life until her encounter with Crutcher.
"What's going through my mind is, 'cause I seen him look back at me, look at the vehicle several times," said Shelby. "He's looked at the vehicle several times like he's making a thought of what to do."
Shelby says she doesn't believe it would've been feasible to use less lethal force.
"And so this whole time, he's checking his pocket, pulling his pants," said Shelby. "I'm like, I know he has a gun. I make contact with another deputy. I say, 'hey, I think that guy has a gun on him'."
Shelby says Crutcher's arms were hanging beside his legs and he was motionless, looking at her and then his vehicle.
RELATED | DA says Shelby case was difficult, believes justice was served
"His hands are up and he starts taking steps to the front of my vehicle," said Shelby. "His hand drops to his pocket...'Man get your hands up in the air!'"
Shelby says she yelled at Crutcher to stop and he does but he positioned his body facing his SUV.
"Then I can see him look beyond me and he just starts walking toward his vehicle," said Shelby. "I say 'stop, stop right now, you need to stop!'"
"He goes on around his vehicle. He goes to the driver's side. I've come around and he drops his arm, he goes in. I say, 'stop stop stop!"
Crying, Shelby says Crutcher didn't stop.
RELATED | Police chief: Betty Shelby being returned to duty, not in patrol capacity
"I thought he was going for a gun and I took a target," said Shelby.
Through tears, Shelby says she thought Crutcher was going to kill her.
Three days after Shelby gave her statement to police and before the homicide investigation was complete, she was charged with first-degree manslaughter in the heat of passion.
During the trial, Walker testified the district attorney's office didn't consult his team prior to filing charges -- an unusual move, according to the lead homicide detective.
Ultimately, a jury found her not guilty.
RELATED | Crutcher family calls for termination of Betty Shelby, homicide investigator
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EU budget talks for 2013 collapse
Talks to agree the EU's 2013 budget have collapsed, after negotiators from the EU and member states were unable to agree on extra funding for 2012.
The EU Commission and European Parliament had asked for a budget rise of 6.8% in 2013.
But most governments wanted to limit the rise to just 2.8%.
The failure of the talks will dent hopes of agreement on the 2014-2020 budget, which is up for discussion later this month, correspondents say.
Friday's dispute was over an extra 9bn euros (£7bn; $12bn) in "emergency funding" for 2012, to cover budgets for education, infrastructure and research projects.
But Germany, France and other governments questioned the funding, and eight hours of talks produced no agreement.
"Under these conditions, we felt that negotiations which hadn't really begun by six o'clock in the evening couldn't reasonably be expected to finish during the night," said the parliament's lead negotiator, Alain Lamassoure.
At the European parliament, UK Conservative MEPs clashed with Parliament President Martin Schulz, a German Social Democrat, over the extra 9bn euros shortfall for 2012.
In 2012 the budget was 129.1bn euros, a 1.9% increase on 2011.
'Life-changing experience'
Among the schemes facing a shortfall this year is the Erasmus student exchange programme.
It has allowed nearly three million young Europeans to study abroad since it was launched 25 years ago.
In an open letter to EU leaders on Friday more than 100 famous Europeans, including film directors and footballers, warned that "thousands could miss out on a potentially life-changing experience".
Friday's talks did produce a declaration of political will to provide 670m euros to earthquake victims in Italy, but no agreement on how to finance it, the European Parliament said.
It said that if no agreement on the 2013 budget could be reached in the next 21 days, the European Commission would look to revise its budget proposal.
The UK's Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Greg Clark, said the EU needed to practise "fiscal discipline".
"The UK and a number of other countries were very clear from the outset that the Commission and the European Parliament should not be asking taxpayers for billions of extra euros when the spending in member states is being reduced," he said.
The UK government, led by the Conservatives, has also objected to a proposed increase in the multi-year budget for 2014-2020, threatening a veto if necessary.
An EU summit aimed at reaching a deal on that budget will be held on 22-23 November.


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The chair features a simple design - synonymous with Scandic style - with curved chair legs and base structure, a smooth, flat seating base and basic stick detailing for the seat back.
A multi-award-winning design, the chair is sold in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and will make just as a stylish impression in your interior.
The Design House Stockholm Family Chair No 4 comes in a white or black finish.
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Manuelle Gautrand set up her office in 1991 and she has handled all kinds of projects, ranging from housing and offices to cultural buildings, business premises and leisure facilities for 20 years. The 'C42' Citroën flagship showroom building, at the Champs-Elysée Avenue in Paris, has contributed to making a name for herself within the public realm and on the International stage.
Some of her artworks feature in the Parisian museums 'Centre Pompidou' and 'la Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine's collections. Exhibitions presenting the work of her office include the International Biennale of Architecture in Venice and many museums in France and abroad. Several monographic exhibitions have been already dedicated to her work, one of which, and the most recent one in Tel-Aviv in 2009 (Israel).
Some of her projects have earned distinctions in France and abroad (World Architecture News,
Contract World Award, Pyramide d'Argent, prix AMO, AJA, etc…). Monographs on her output have been published in many countries, and reports on her projects appear regularly in the press. Manuelle Gautrand has also been distinguished by national institutions, such as 'Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur' and 'Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'.
The office's events are the delivery of several major French buildings, including the 'LaM' – Lille museum of modern, contemporary and outsider art, 'la Cité des Affaires' in Saint-Etienne and the restructuring and conversion of the old theatre 'Gaîté Lyrique' to turn it into an interactive platform for 21st century music and arts.


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The tragic bus crash that killed 14 and injured 18 others in the Bronx needs to be thoroughly investigated. How fast was the bus traveling?
It must have been going at an excessively high rate of speed for it to slide over 400 feet along the guardrail before crashing into the sign pole which sliced right through the roof. Also, was the driver fatigued?
Another point that needs to be looked at is his claim that he was cut off by a truck. All of these factors are so very important.
Unfortunately, there are 14 families who are mourning the loss of their loved ones, and another 18 families who are dealing with the severe injuries of their loved ones.
Hopefully,they will make a full recovery, as well as the bus driver. Our thoughts and prayers go out to relatives of all the dead and injured.
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MSI R4830 512MB Overclock Edition Review
This is an exciting time to be a high-performance PC enthusiast. It seems the only thing progressing faster than the hardware architecture are the price drops. Competition in most areas of computing is present but is fiercest in the video card segment particularly. Both ATI and nVidia have taken advantage of the power of the price drop to maintain their competitiveness. Certain nVidia cards that started out close to $300 at their release are now less than $200. A well performing HD 4850 can even be had now for $130 after mail in rebates. In addition, there seems to be a video card available at every possible price point from $50 to $500. A lack of variety is also not an issue. There are nearly 10 seperate models in ATI's 4000 series and 10 in nVidia's 9-series as well.
So, where does the R4830 fit into all of this? On paper its hardware is nearly identical to a 4850 although its clock speeds are significantly lower. Specifically, they both share RV770 cores, GDDR3 memory and 55nm manufacturing processes. We can talk about specifications all we want but real performance will be measured in our benchmarks. Let's continue.
Closer Look:
As is typical with all of MSI's higher-end, ATI-based cards, the R4830s box comes emblazoned with the MSI orc. The front of the box lists a brief description of the R4830s specifications. The back of the packaging goes into much greater detail mentioning the cards solid state chokes, 4+1 power phase and system requirements. Interestingly, the box also has a handle on top of it.
After opening the box, we get our first clear view of the video card. Inside the box, the video card is safely packaged in foam and an anti-static bag to prevent damage. The accessories can be found in a white compartment below the video card.
The MSI R4830 comes with a variety of video adapters including a HDTV cable, S-video cable, S-video/HDTV adapter and a DVI/VGA adapter . Noticeably missing is an HDMI adapter however. Also included are two user guides and a drivers CD.
Now that we have a full comprehension of the packaged accessories let's move on to the video card.


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Don't Miss Missoula's Haunted Hallow in Caras Park
Dragon Hallow playground in Caras Park is usually a place where children play carelessly. It is often filled with the sounds of children laughing and having fun... but not this Halloween season!
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The joyous play area has been transformed into the Haunted Hallow!Don't miss out on this Halloween fun! The cost is just $4 for kids 12 and under and $6 for everyone else. The spookiness will fill the hallow each night through Oct. 29.
On the nights of Oct. 26 and Oct. 27 the Haunted Hallow will be geared toward younger kids. The fright factor will amp up from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the older kids. On Oct. 28 and Oct. 29 those times will be 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., respectively.
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Sometimes people just don't seem to be able to spot what you are talking about. You send someone a funny photo, they see the you, but they don't notice the person in the background walking into a tree.
Or sometimes you want to highlight some changes you want made - someone has sent you a picture of something with a "you mean like this" note attached. They always get it wrong, of course, which is when you want to just scribble on their picture and send it back, like you would on a sketched drawing.
Today's App of the Day has exactly that in mind.
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- Android
- Price
- Free
- Where
- Android Market
Skitch comes from Evernote, the note-taking application that has successfully bridged mobile platforms. It is, as we've already outlined, an app that will let you annotate pictures with a range of options at your fingertips.
From the outset you have three options: you can take a photo, open an image, or just start with a blank page. If you've mastered taking a screenshot on your Android device (which some phones currently allow, but will be much easier in Ice Cream Sandwich) then you can easily select a screenshot from your Gallery too.
As with any drawing package, Skitch then gives you a run of options for annotating your image. This isn't about image manipulation and isn't designed to let you edit photos, but will let you write and draw on them.
So it might be something as simple as putting an arrow on a picture or adding text. You can zoom images to get to a particular thing you want to highlight as well as change the colour and size of the annotation.
You also get a neat selection tool, so once you've made your annotation, you can select it, change the size of it or put it in a different colour and move it to another position.
It's simple, fast and takes very little effort which is what we like about it. It's also easy to undo actions (and redo them if you're too hasty to remove things) and you can crop images if there is a particular detail you want to work on.
Skitch also integrates seamlessly with Evernote and if you're using Skitch on a tablet (which gives you much more space to play), you'll find an Evernote icon on the right to upload directly to your account.
Otherwise Skitch will share your creation just as easily as other Android apps, so you can send via pretty much any route you choose, be that Twitter, straight to Facebook or using Gmail.
Skitch is just what we want from an app: simple, easy and fun, with a practical purpose.


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The Inter City Fire Protection District is having a back-to-school event today.
It's from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the fire station, 1702 Blue Ridge Blvd. It's for residents of Blue Summit, kindergarten through eighth grade. Schools supplies will be given out, and there are free haircuts.
There's also a back-to-school health and wellness fair from 9 to noon Saturday at the Jackson County Health Department's offices, 313 S. Liberty St., Independence.
It includes free immunizations that incoming kindergartners and eighth graders need. Parents are asked to bring their children's' immunization records.


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Much of what happens in The Paperboy is so luridly bizarre you can't quite believe what you're seeing.
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Gator-filled swamps, an ultra-grungy murderer, racial undertones and a sexually charged atmosphere make up the tense and lurid world of The Paperboy.
The Paperboy is great trash, and as Pauline Kael told us, the movies are so seldom great art that if we can't appreciate great trash, we might as well not go at all.
In the spirit of the venture, the entire cast gets down and comes off all the better for it. Both Efron and McConaughey get very messed up physically, and both actors seem stimulated to be playing such flawed characters.
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Lurid, depraved, messy crime story with lots of sex.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that The Paperboy is a '60s-set thriller from Precious director Lee Daniels about several volatile relationships surrounding a convicted murderer. It's astoundingly violent, with lots of bloody murders and scenes of torture and blood. Nudity isn't prevalent (though viewers do see both naked tops and bottoms), but sex is: One main female character has sex with three other characters, and one scene is very violent (it's not clear whether she's experiencing pleasure, pain, or both). Language is likewise strong, with pointed uses of "f--k," "s--t," and the "N" word, as well as tons of sexual innuendo. There's also heavy drinking. There are no role models here, and not much to be learned. Teens (and younger) may be interested thanks to star Zac Efron (who joins Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConaughey), but this one is best saved for adults.
Messages: A group of characters fails to work together well: Lying, cheating, and murder are the results. Mostly these characters learn what not to do, and they pay the price for it.
Role models: No one very admirable. One character is a journalist concerned with telling the truth, but he loses out to a less honest one; this character eventually exhibits some fairly low behavior. Other characters give in to their various sexual obsessions, causing people to get hurt.
Violence: Several brutal murders, usually committed by stabbing or slicing with knives. Main characters die. A woman is treated violently and murdered (off screen). One dead body is shown with its entrails hanging out. A main character is shown hog-tied and naked, victimized in some unknown way; he's beaten and bloody with a huge puddle of blood on the floor. Dead animals (mainly alligators) are shown, their guts sliced out. There's a scene of violent sex, and it's unclear whether the woman is experiencing pleasure or pain (perhaps both).
Sex: During the pain/pleasure sex scene, the woman is mostly clothed, but the man's thrusting bottom is shown (a shirt-tail hangs partly over it). The woman also has sex with two other characters, one off screen and the other only briefly shown, with no nudity. There's a bizarre sexual scene in which a woman visits a man in prison, and they both reach orgasm merely by looking at each other. Zac Efron is often shown naked except for his "tighty whitie" underwear. Matthew McConaughey is shown partly naked (mostly his bottom). Strong innuendo throughout, and other images of sex (in a car) and brief toplessness (a teen girl).
Language: Strong, constant language is probably about half sexual innuendo. Words include "f--k" and "motherf---er," "s--t," "c--k," "bitch," "ass," "vagina," the "N" word, "blow job," "piss," "goddamn," and "fag."
Consumerism: Not an issue
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Main characters smoke cigarettes throughout and are seen drinking in bars. In some scenes, characters get somewhat drunk. In one particular scene, a main character -- following a violent attack that leaves his face disfigured -- locks himself inside for a long, destructive drinking binge. He's shown staggering drunk, bottles everywhere, and a horrible smell is described.
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Our online dating site also offers multi-language options including Wikang Tagalog language, making your sign-up, experience and online dating profile easy.
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