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Linda is one of the best Realtors I've met. She knew the market extremely well and found us the perfect place. She knew the other Realtor so the negotiations went as expected and planned. She counseled us on pricing and expectations and at the end of the day we got more than we hoped for. Her Team is second to none, with constant contact, follow up and leading us through the process. I would recommend The Dear Team to anyone looking for a home.
Brandon Michael
My husband and I have had such an incredible experience with Allie Brewer and the Linda Dear team. We live out of state and Allie made the process as painless as it could be. One issue after another popped up with the final sale and Allie jumped in and took care of every single detail for us. We not only recommend her and the Dear Team, but wish we could take them with us out of state! Allie is the sweetest person, but represents and defends her clients with the utmost professionalism and expertise. If we are ever in the MD area again, we wouldn't even consider another real estate team.
Sarah Puhl
Linda and the Dear team made the home selling process easy and effortless. They were always available if I had a question or an issue. It was a pleasure working with such an efficient and professional group of people.
J. Lawson
What a tremendous experience working with this team. Our agent was Ben Daniels. We had an extremely short amount of time from offer to closing and they really took the worry and stress out of the entire process. The professionalism, prompt communication and follow up were exceptional. I would not hesitate to use them again. We have already referred the team to relatives who are using them as listing agents as well. GREAT experience!
Andy Francis
It was a pleasure to work with the Linda Dear Team. Brendon Twilley was very professional and helpful. He would always answer our concerns and phone calls promptly. I will refer you guys to my friends. I will also call you when I am ready to buy my new home. Thank you so much on behalf of my family and me.
Maritza Sanchez-Ordonez
I recently listed and sold my home of 30 years with Linda and Ryan Barkley from her team. I was able to get my full asking price after just a few days on the Market. Linda and Ryan led me though each part of the process until closing and made it very easy for me to manage. I then used the team to help me find a new place to live. They did a great job of finding me places that fit my needs. When we found the one I wanted they led me again through all the steps from writing the initial offer to closing. Ryan also helped me find storage and moving companies to manage the transition. If you are looking for professionals to help you sell your home or find a new home The Dear Team are the folks to work with.
N. Pohlhaus
My experience with Melissa Daniels and Linda Dear was amazing! They guided me through the selling and buying process. Melissa Daniels was our main agent. She always had my best interest at heart. Melissa was extremely knowledgeable about a variety of zip codes and the pros and cons of living within them. She was available 24/7 and responded promptly to all questions and requests. With her help, we were able to buy our dream home!
Noelle Hickock
We have bought 4 houses with Linda and sold 5 with her over 14 years. I would not go to anyone else. She masterful and has skilled support staff. She knows local resources and gets it done. She works night and day tirelessly to get you the right home or make sure yours sells well. Go Linda!
T. Cumberland
Linda Dear and the Dear team were key in our recent home purchase in Ellicott City. Her years of experience have made her fluent in real estate. She made us feel confident placing an offer in a high demand neighborhood. Linda was instrumental in helping us navigate the home inspection process. I would not hesitate to recommend Linda and her team.
E. Snodgrass
Wonderful real estate service experience! I have worked with the Dear team since 2013 with buying another home in 2017. They are very professional and know the area well. From the start of the home buying process to the end they answered and guided us through to help us find the home we were looking for. They made us feel like family with how well they were attentive to what we needed. I would highly recommend them even to my own family and friends.
D. Keffer
We interviewed multiple agents before going with the Linda Dear Team. When we interviewed Allie Brewer; it just felt natural. She is genuine nice person with our best interests in mind. We sold our house in 2 days! And she helped us find one to buy. Overall, very pleased with the process.
R. Keller
Great professionals, a pleasure to deal with! Showed me several houses and helped me think through the process, were there all the way. Ryan Barkley and the whole team are great to work with. Highly recommend.
Ariel Molina
I worked with the Dear Team, particularly Theresa Waskey, who was my personal realtor. They all were great during my first time home buying experience. Theresa got a feel for what I was looking for after just a couple of conversations and showed me the best of the best in my price range. She helped me weigh the pros and cons of each option, and then patiently walked me through all of the necessary paperwork. She was so supportive, informative, and really took a lot of the stress out of finding the right one!
H. Pontius
Linda is a fantastic realtor to work with. She helped us in both selling and buying in the Carroll county area. She has a great knowledge of the business and makes you feel very comfortable during what could be a somewhat stressful experience. We would highly recommend Linda!
D. Livesay
Linda is the perfect agent! She made what is a challenging process for someone not familiar with it, easy and painless. Thank you for being proactive, positive, patient and all around great.
Kenneth Crummitt
I just want to say what a pleasure it was to have Melissa Daneils working with us. She was always available and if not I was able to get in touch with the Team. Everyone on the Team made this home buying and selling a great experience.
Dave and Carrie Bowers
Linda and Ryan made this process a pleasure.
Chris and Regina Kozimor
Ben Daniels did an excellent job selling our home. My husband moved to Florida early, therefore I had to handle selling our home on my own. However, with all of Ben's help and attention to detail he made it possible for me to get through this stressful time. I am very grateful to Ben for all he did in selling our home. I will refer him to all of my friends and family.
Lisa Smith
What can I say? The entire Dear Team cam through in the clutch. Special thanks to Linda, Ben & especially you Melissa. I could have never gotten this house without your help. The last month was absolutely crazy & you managed to help me through it no matter how stressed I got. A million thanks!!!
Duane Waltz
All of you are wonderful- when I decide to buy my house I will call you guys. Thanks for everything!
Kristin Waltz
Both Linda and Ryan were very helpful in taking a first time homebuyer through the process and answering all the questions I had!
Jameson Cowan
Linda Dear went out of her way to get our mother's home sold. We appreciated all her efforts!
Cathy Eybs
Professionalism in the real estate field is defined by this Team!
Pat and Patti Fendlay
I cannot say enough praise about Linda. Linda was extremely professional and treats you on a very personal level. She is knowledgeable, helpful, enthusiastic, and considerate of individual's needs. Thank You! I will certainly recommend you totally!
Nancy Davis
We could not have been more impressed and pleased by the service Linda and the Team provided. Linda worked very hard to find us the perfect home and learned our wishes early on to help us relocate to a great home from out of state. Thank you to all for your dedication and extra effort.
Jason and Allyson Jackson
The service was excellent! Thanks so much to everyone!
Jack and Rachel Plating
Linda's tactics for making a strong contract were excellent! Very clever!
Yuko Ota
Linda, we appreciate all the help that you and your Team were to us during the selling process! You went above and beyond the call of duty to keep us informed of what was happening. Thank you for everything.
Craig and Arlene Hughes
You found the perfect home for our family! I still cannot believe it's owrs. We accomplished everything on our list of wants and needs. All of you are a great Team and we would recommend your services! Thank you so much from Christopher "I love my new friends", from Colin "I love my own room", from Caryn , "I love my Big purple room!".
Kim and Kevin Carhart
The Dear Team was exceptional. They really go the extra 110%. I would recommend them to anybody selling their home!
Sue and Mark Palmer
Great job and special thanks to everyone! The closing services were spectacular!
Todd and Elaine Sauer
We love our new home! Linda, Janet and Greg were fantastic in making the buying of this home a smooth transaction. We received great service and they went above and beyond our expectations to see that we receive all that we needed o get into our home. They called to keep us informed in all aspects of our purchase. We are so very hapy and thankful for this wonderful Team. I would recommend them highly. Thanks to all of you for all your sincere help in purchasing our wonderful new home.
Connie and Kenny Frazier
Great job and service by everyone on your Team. Thank you so much!
John and Ellen Codd, Jr.
I want to thank you all for doing a great job for us. I felt at times it would never happen and I want to thank you for being so responsive. It's really a pleasure working with folks who care about doing a good job. Keep up the good work. Thanks and I hope you all have a happy and prosperous New Year!
Pete and Marty Juhle
Our experience with Linda Dear has always been more than expected. Her sales Team also provided the utmost support during the sale of our home!
Linda and Jerry Blucher
Vicki and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your Team for the superior level of service during the sale of our Ellicott City home. The knowledge and expertise of both you and your staff made our transition...a flawless event. Thank you for the wonderful job you did! We have already recommended your Team to two friends and will continue to do so.
Vickie and Ed Sofianek
The entire group was professional and made the purchase experience a pleasant one. When I told Linda I wanted the house to be close to my kids, she was very helpful in spite of representing the seller.
Randy Snyder
I would like to thank everyone for making my experience very easy to manage.
David Kessler
Linda worked tirelessly and on short notice, to get contracts ready and to make sure everything went smoothly. She juggled settlement dates and times and was unflappable no matter what was thrown at her. Janet and Linda knew us better than we knew ourselves. Concerns and problems were handled quickly and professionally. Greg handled everything beautifully from the inside. He did a hundred things we saw and probably a thousand we didn't even know about. Thanks so much!
Pat and Emma Johenning
The whole team is outstanding with the service and attention they provide. We always felt like we were your one and only client. Thanks so much for all your hard work.
Bill and Maria King
Everyone was so knowledgeable and friendly and went out of their way to be as helpful as possible. It was a great experience. 6 days to sell the home with the entire team always available for any questions. We wouldn't hesitate to recommend the Linda Dear Sales Team to anyone. I hope we have the opportunity to.
Bob and Gina Bergin
Thank you, thank you! Everyone on the Dear Team was fantastic. Buying our home was such a wonderful and happy experience. From the showing, to the writing of the contract, to settlement. Everything was handled with professionalism and care. We will highly recommend the whole Team.
JB and Jenifer Marquette
Linda, you and your Team were just wonderful! You all made this a very enjoyable experience! Greg, special kudo's to you!
Kirk Denisuk & Lucy Stewart
Greg and Linda went above and beyond the call of duty for us. We would not have our new home without their help!
Julie and Tom Saitta
We worked with Jason and he was of the utmost help in assisting us in a rather time intensified purchase, and was there to help us through the entire process to settlement. We would highly recommend him to our family and friends.
Ronald & Carolyn Shorts
The entire sales team gave us great service, helping us throughout a very trying time! We would highly recommend your Team to anyone!
Bob and Rose Barnard
I would recommend the Team highly. At one time or another I had dealings with everyone on the Team and they were very professional in every aspect of their jobs. Jason was particularly helpful in helping me find the home that best suited my tastes. He was efficient and maintained a high level of professionalism during every aspect of this transaction.
Vincent Turula, Jr.
Greg Service did a fantastic job in helping me find my first home. His follow up and meticulous detailing of all steps involved, provided me with the knowledge and comfort to make it through the process without a single worry! Thanks, Greg.
Chris Regnier
It was a pleasure to work with both Brent and Jason. They were always available when we needed them and if we couldn't reach them by phone immediately, they'd always call back pronto! The office staff was also very helpful.
Bonney & Mike Dugan
It was a pleasure to work with Brent. He made us comfortable with the process and our purchase.
Kare Waddington
Everyone was great! The Team works well together! You made it a very stress free process. A very well-oiled machine and very professional and trustworthy Team. Thanks so much!
Rick and Jane Baker
Linda was awesome, Greg was always helpful and Trent was wonderful! Thanks,
Jack and Rachel Plating
Excellent work, The Linda Dear Sales Team are the Best! Great people to do business with.
Harry Patel
Brent Johnson is one of the best real estate agents I have ever worked with. I would recommend Brent to anyone looking to buy or sell a home.
David, Deborah and Terri Newman
Trent Gladstone provided excellent quality real estate service and helped us find our very first home together.
Chris and Jen Keefer
It was a pleasure dealing with both Jason and Greg. They were very professional and handled all matters in a timely fashion. The transaction was flawless and Jason went out of his way to make sure all the items were completed before inspection and settlement.
Julia Teti
Trent was a wonder realtor with which to work. He made himself available to us and was very helpful.
Patrick and Melissa Corkum
Jason Johnson was wonderful to work with: kind, always available and ready to assist with any duties. Brent and Greg were also helpful in the process.
Elizabeth and Mark Monson
I've known Jason and Brent for a little while, and they were both outstanding. This house was Jason's first as a listing agent and I thought he handled everything with class and enthusiasm.
Greg Cosden
Brent was an excellent agent. He provided exceptional service. He made buying our house a pleasant experience. Janet and Greg were helpful in the process, too.
Jeff and Sally Gill
We received outstanding, professional service and support from Brent. He made a potentially ifficult and complex international move and purchase understandable and achievable. I cannot praise him and the support and responsiveness of Greg, too highly. Many thanks. A first class Team and a pleasure to do business with.
Barry Conchie
You all did a fantastic job in helping me buy the home of my dreams. My sincerest thanks to everyone, but mostly Jason Johnson and Brent Johnson. They are my heros. I will refer everyone I know to the Linda Dear Sales Team!
Carin Prescott
Linda provided excellent service; prompt reply to phone inquiries and providing documents or information as needed. Also, Linda was watchful for appropriate homes for me.
Elise Nabholz
I had a wonderful experience with both Linda Dear and Janet Ashford. They couldn't have made our home buying experience any easier! They are both wonderful people, always going out of their way to make sure we were taken care of!
Melissa and Ken Kozimor
The entire team was wonderful to work with. I would also like to thank Jason Johnson who was always there for us.
Marge and Chuck Miller
Brent was wonderful. He treated us just like family. Gave us great advice and helped us to understand the process from beginning to end. The whole team was wonderful and very professional. Thank you for helping us find our dream home!
Brian Hines and Nicole Garnes
Absolutely outstanding from start to finish! What a team!
Nancy Brandt and Alfred Berquist
We experienced the ut most courteous professionalism from all members of The Linda Dear Sales Team. Their understanding and commitment were always present.
Susana and Miguel Macaoay
As first time home buyers, Cathy and I were totally confidant in the honesty and integrity of your entire sales team. Would we recommend your sales team? Entirely!!
Matthew Delia and Cathy Bargerstock
Excellent service by everyone, especially Jason Johnson! Jason is the best real estate agent I have ever had. He worked harder for me than anyone from OPF and other agencies!
Eric Rennerfeldt
Linda was super to work with - very professinal and caring. She helped us with every detail. Greg and Trent were great, always there to answer questions and handle details!
Linda Jo and Jim Nelson
I would not consider using anyone else for future real estate needs and would recommend Linda and her Team to anyone! They were the BEST!
Victoria Dolfi
Al and I have bought and sold 3 homes and we agree that dealing with Linda Dear and her sales team has ben an exceptional experience! We appreciate always getting our phone calls returned in a timely manner and getting prompt answers to all of our questions. ...We feel so grateful that we had your Team on our Team. Of course, we would highly recommend
all of you to friends and family. You truly stand far above anyone else we know in the business!
Al and Pamela Howland
We dealt mostly with Linda , Greg and Janet. They were very professional. Considering we were out of town, they did a wonderful job. Greg was always very polite and easy to talk to. I would highly recommend him to anyone else.
Joe and Marilyn Pfeiffer
Brent was great! Brent took the time and patience to find us our dream home and made our lives more special. He added a personal touch to his professional manner.
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Tetro
Greg was always so positive, upbeat and available. What a great asset. I am so grateful that I had Linda as my agent. Her patience was unwavering and as a single person buying a home, felt I had an objective friend on my side helping me make the best decision for myself.
Kathleen York-Smith
Linda, you were great! You are incisive, show personal concern, know the market and get results! Greg was polite, responsive to all of our questions and a credit to the Team. Gloria and I are most grateful for the great job you did in selling our house. We will wholeheartedly sing your praises to any of our friends who are anticipating moving!
David & Gloria O'Donoghue
We want to thank you and your team so much for all the support you gave us with the recent purchase and sale of our home. HONESTLY, I expected a rougher road, but I found the experience to be a pleasant one. We will continue to recommend you and your team to anyone looking to buy or sell a home. You're the greatest!
Carl and Georgia Yannuzi
We just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for all that you have done for us. Thank you for all of your help and patience through-out this whole process. We could not have done it without you. It is no surprise that you came so highly recommended.
Leah and Mike McGarity
Linda Dear and her entire staff were very helpful, professional and efficient in helping us with the purchase of our new home. We would highly recommend her to anyone looking for a new home.
Frank and Lisa Decker
Brent always seemed to look out for us. We are very happy to be in the house that he found for us. It was a very pleasant process.
Michael and Lisa Hume
Brent was great. This was the first house that we bought and he was very helpful.
Tom Ronnenburg & Beth Chemidlin
Thanks for all you have done for me. You have all gone far and above the call of duty. You handled my many questions within a matter of minutes and we always right on top of things, keeping me informed of every detail. Linda, you and your staff are wonderful people who really care about your clients and it really shows in the service you pay to each and every one of your clients.
Nelsa Knight
We were very impressed with Linda and her staff. They handled our situation with class and true professionalism. They kept in constant contact with my family on a weekly on the progress of our home. Their marketing plan was so impressive that our house sold in less than a week. They are organized and communicate well. They know the market and we highly recommend them to anyone. We will definitely keep them in mind for the future. Your staff gave us confidence that our house was going to sell. Thank you so much for your support
Jeff Clopein
Thanks so much for the work you did getting our house sold. We were very happy with your work and would gladly recommend you to friends and relatives.
Dan & Stephanie Donoghue
Thank you for everything that you did with such professionalism. You are "The Perfect Realtor".
Michele Drury
Linda did a fabulous job for us. She was always a total professional, yet very personable and friendly. She was always there no matter what we needed - even on vacation! She gave us excellent advice and made the whole business of selling and finding a new home remarkably less stressful. We couldn't possibly have done it without her!
Charlotte and Michael Snyder
Linda Dear is honest and sincere. We were out-of-state and she sold our home in 2 weeks. Linda went above and beyond her call of duty. I strongly recommend Linda Dear as a trusted realtor for listing your property.
Jim and Shirley Long
Thank you for the prompt and courteous service you and your staff provided!
Ruth Thomas
Linda Dear stuck with us through a long, difficult sale. She was very professional, very knowledgeable, hard working and nice to boot! We wouldn't hesitate to hire her again or to recommend her services to anyone else.
Stephen & Gwynn Ingley
It was a pleasure having Linda Dear as our agent, she is very professional. Linda did an excellent job in helping us sell our home. Homes in our area were selling slowly when Linda listed our house; she did everything necessary to help us. She always had a upbeat attitude, which made us feel much better at times when we would get discouraged. We could always call Linda with any questions; she returned our calls immediately, whenever possible. This is the second time we have had Linda help us with our real estate needs and I would definitely recommend her services to anyone who wants to sell their home. Again, it was certainly a pleasure.
Mary Whitt & Gary Cannon
Everyone on the team was always very helpful! Thank you all so much.
John and Kim Dillinger
You are all wonderful! Thank you so much for always being there for me. I will definitely stay in touch. Love to you all!
Bonnie Griffith
Brent took care of everything we needed! Special thanks to Greg Service, great job following up and communicating!
Craig and Shannon Hacklander
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Mary and I both want you to know that there is no amount of money that could ever compensate you for all that you have done for us in helping with the sale of our house. This is our second experience with Re/Max and Linda Dear and both transactions ran perfectly.You are, without question, the finest realtor who has ever served us. Please also thank your team, especially Greg, for his personal , attentive and professional service.
Kevin and Mary McNiff
We just opened the envelope you gave to us yesterday. We were so excited after signing all the paperwork that we went straight to the house and started cleaning--and didn't stop until 11:30 p.m.
Thank you for the generous gifts! I think Dave plans to visit Home Depot tomorrow.
We will recommend you to anyone we know interested in buying or selling a home. You are the epitome of "professional" in the realty business. You know your profession--and saved us more than once. You did all you could to help secure our new home--going above and beyond. We are so very grateful and appreciative.
Thank you--
Linda & Dave Lande


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Less than 48 hours after Donald Trump became President-elect of the United States, Kathleen Hanna was dancing. The Julie Ruin singer and feminist punk icon appeared onstage at New York's Irving Plaza last Thursday in a shiny black-and-silver leotard and told a crowd screaming its guts out, "We need you tonight." Keyboard player Kenny Mellman greeted us with a Whitney Houston quote: "No matter what they take away from me, they can't take away my dignity."
The band opened their set with "I Decide," an anthem of autonomy that sounded genuinely radical on our second day in Trump's America. As she delivered the lyrics in the intentionally bratty monotone of a woman too proud to beg for her independence, Hanna executed goofy Jazzercise moves and faux-*Riverdance *kicks. Between songs, she stretched like a boxer psyching herself up for a fight. Someone behind me whispered, "I fucking needed this."
It was the first moment of exuberant defiance I'd witnessed since Tuesday, in a city where millions of people were moving through the streets like mourners in a funeral procession. On Wednesday, too consumed by dread to work, I had watched tired parents walk eerily quiet children home from an elementary school in Brooklyn, where Trump had won only 16 percent of votes. Earlier Thursday evening, at a packed bar in his home borough of Manhattan, where he'd failed to crack 10 percent and gotten heckled at his polling place, I'd joined a grim happy hour crew sighing into pints of beer. Reports of racist and xenophobic harassment, even in this supposed oasis of tolerance, were flooding social media. My conversations with friends and family kept ending in mutual confusion over whether we were too worried or not worried enough.
In their refusal to perform defeat, the Julie Ruin cut through that haze of impotent uncertainty. Even after four decades of corporate efforts to reduce it to marketable meaninglessness, punk remains one of the most effective tools for harnessing righteous anger into productive energy. In a live setting especially, it brings artists and fans together as one supportive community that can be outraged, but never somber. Punk fosters the human connections that are necessary for organized resistance. That doesn't make it unique among musical genres—hip-hop and folk also have long traditions of uniting people for change—but it's punk that I have always turned to in moments when I've felt powerless.
The need to be jolted out of paralysis is what brought me to see Hanna's band and, the next night, the Thermals. "Here's Your Future," a bleak Noah's ark retelling that opens their 2006 album The Body, The Blood, The Machine, had long been the song that sprung to mind first when I considered the prospect of President Trump.
In the day between those shows, I managed to donate to the relevant organizations and check in with vulnerable friends and start planning to attend protests. Music hadn't cured my sadness or fear—nor would I have wanted it to—but I no longer felt immobilized by those emotions. It occurred to me that I was turning, without even thinking about it, to the musicians who had spoken for so many of us during George W. Bush's presidency. I trusted their voices and the communities they'd fostered, even though the crisis we'd survived together suddenly seemed tame compared with what we face in 2017.
Hanna and Mellman, whose work with Justin Vivian Bond as the cabaret duo Kiki and Herb often overlapped with LGBT activism, certainly didn't seem immune to the anxiety that had seized the city and much of the country. "We made it through the Bush years and thought it couldn't get worse," she said. "It did." But they also offered wisdom amassed over nearly three decades of work at the intersection of art and radical politics—messages of perseverance derived from the experience of caring for themselves and the people they loved while they fought through dark times. Mellman told us about the years he spent "protesting everything," in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis. "It got terrible in the '90s. My friends kept dying," he said. "Your elders are with you, but we are tired. We will be there for you because that's what we do."
There were the requisite stories of election-night anguish and exhortations to volunteer our money and skills. The band's ability to make a thousand sad fans of all races and genders—in a room where women vastly outnumbered men and dozens of queer couples hugged each other tight—dance was a rarer feat. It was a relief, too, to hear Hanna and Mellman vent a jumble of emotions that didn't all read as "correct" responses to the election. She suggested we run around our homes in red T-shirts and no pants, like Winnie-the-Pooh, and watch bad TV. No one could accuse Hanna, who'd been pushing feminism to tough crowds since she was a teenager and had contributed to Hillary Clinton's campaign by reuniting Le Tigre for the single "I'm With Her," of trivializing our predicament. Her words reflected the hard-won knowledge that silly pleasures can fortify you for necessary struggles.
The encore was Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl," a Kathleen Hanna song that has provided female-identified people with sonic armor against misogynistic bullshit for the past 23 years. Although the Julie Ruin didn't call "girls to the front," the way Hanna used to do during the riot grrrl era, Thermals bassist Kathy Foster linked the performances in spirit by opening their Friday night show at Brooklyn Bazaar with that familiar request.
After voicing some reservations about providing catharsis, they played *The Body, The Blood, The Machine *from beginning to end. Released during Bush's second term, amid widespread fears that the religious right would gain permanent control over the federal government, it is a concept album about lovers fleeing a fascist, Christian regime. Theocracy may look like just one of many possible dystopic scenarios in 2016, but the threat of persecution feels even more real now than it did then. A few lines from the single "A Pillar of Salt" are painfully prescient: "We don't want to die/Or apologize/For our dirty god/For our dirty bodies." In so many ways, this was an election about which bodies deserve to feel safe in America and which bodies do not.
"I didn't realize we were gonna play the whole album," Foster said when they'd finished. Hutch Harris, the Thermals' singer and guitarist, admitted that he hadn't anticipated it either. They had sped through each song with a ferocity that could only have come from a spontaneous need to press forward until there was nothing left to play. It felt like a miraculous reaction to the shock we were all suffering. I had seen them perform songs from The Body just a few months earlier, in honor of its 10th anniversary. We might have joked bitterly about it that night, but no one in the room then—band included—seemed fully awake to the reality that we were on the precipice of another potential dystopia.
There has been a lot of reflection, in the days since Trump's election finally became real to us, on what this moment means for pop culture, from trivial questions about whether he will "make 'The Daily Show' great again" to genuine inquiries into what role art can play at a time when organizing and action seem so much more important. Some writers have felt the need to rehash the old cliché that political turmoil is good for art, shouting over the voices of millions who now feel physically unsafe to remind us that punk arose out of the conservatism and poverty of the 1970s or suggest we can thank Ronald Reagan for hip-hop and hardcore. Others have pointed out that this argument is just as baseless as it is callous.
It is obvious to anyone capable of empathy that good art isn't worth sacrificing lives or freedom. Masterpieces created out of adversity contain essential lessons for future generations, but that doesn't begin to justify the horrors that inspired them. Art can only counterbalance suffering by propelling those of us who have the autonomy to act past hopelessness. Albums like The Body are reasons to live, not die.
Wise thinkers have warned us not to "normalize" this moment in history, and there's a fine line between finding a way to carry on and deluding yourself that everything is OK. Like the Thermals, I'm concerned about using music as catharsis when that anger could fuel so much necessary action. But music doesn't have to be an escape from reality—it can be an invitation to participate in it. A punk show, or any cultural event that unites us with people who share our values and outrage, can remind us that we love our community enough to fight for its survival. None of this is any substitute for activism, but all of it can prepare us to do that work.

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You can buy a lot of useful science with $2.3 million. That's what we hope to do with our choices this year for worthy research grants and fellowships. That $2.3 million brings our total investment in psoriatic disease research since 1987 to more than $19 million.
These choices weren't easy. We received more than 140 applications from around the world, and every single one received a thorough review. We have now committed to fund 45 projects focused on psoriatic disease and related comorbidities. These are the categories:
Discovery Grants fund researchers while they explore preliminary ideas and conduct proof-of concept experiments. The goal is to stimulate the development of new research programs in the field of psoriatic disease capable of competing for long-term funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other agencies in the future.
Amount awarded: $600,000
Translational Grants fund research initiatives that focus on the rapid translation of basic scientific discoveries into clinical applications with a clear benefit for patients with psoriatic disease.
Amount awarded: $600,000
Early Career Research Grants support graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and researchers at similar trainee-level positions interested in conducting projects focused on psoriatic disease. The goal is to support researchers at the early-career stage and welcome them into the collaborative community of scientists, clinicians and patients involved with NPF research. In turn, they will be better equipped to compete for future NPF funding and go on to establish successful careers in the field.
Amount awarded: $300,000
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With making reality television comes a lot of potential for trouble. You have to consider lighting, microphones, camera placement and other random concerns like your entire cast and crew becoming victims of a ghost-murder spree. On this week's episode of AHS, things were no different so let's start from the beginning. Despite not completely enjoying the big "twist" of Roanoke, the reality TV version of the series is beginning to better achieve success in the horror genre than the first half of the season.
We find the producer Sidney and others (PA, Cameraman, etc.) in an offsite trailer watching the others from a distance when one points out he saw Rory get stabbed, pointing to a pool of blood with no real sign of a body. Before they can rewind, they hear the scream of an employee that gets them to run outside – finding the body of the PA, and good 'ol crazy Agnes (the actress behind The Butcher) appearing in character murders them all with her cleaver. While this is occurring, the others find the blood from Rory and assume it's a staged prank, despite the 'R' in murder being present. After murdering a production crew, Agnes takes herself to the cellar on property with the camera and begins to question her choices in life (like possibly heading the serial killer route) but the indecisiveness is halted as the Blair-Witch stick figures surround her out of nowhere and send Agnes into a panic. Kathy Bates is really outdoing herself by adding psychotic-actress to her resume as no other could accomplish. Award season will see her plenty more next year, I can guarantee that.
The next day, Shelby retreats from the real-Matt/faux-Matt tension and notices a bloody camera lying on her bed. Of course it belongs to the new documenter and tormentor Agnes, who strikes Shelby with her weapon and she can do nothing but film her near-death experience, so they know Agnes is behind it. Luckily for her, the fake Matt finds them both and stops her in time for Shelby to live and Agnes to disappear. When things go further off the rails the group decides to keep doing confessional interviews and completely documenting via cellphones (much like Gaga says in "Angel Down" I'm lost in the age of the social.) They haven't seemed to immediately grasp that nobody is watching and they are on their own, but I suppose it doesn't matter because soon there will only be one.
Three of them split up (Lee, Audrey and Monet) deciding to head through the secret tunnel for help until they hit the woods… Which is when Agnes appears again, this time to be shot by Lee. Audrey takes a moment to record herself talking about the ongoing problems when blood begins to trickle down her face. As she looks up, she finds her husbands disemboweled body above her and panic ensues once again. The hillbilly family we had seen appear earlier through reenactments attacks them (one being Finn Wittrock) striking them all with a cattle prod and things couldn't be looking much worse for the three.
Back at the house, Matt, Shelby and fake Matt waited for some form of help to arrive as Shelby was still seriously injured, but with nothing but silence they fell asleep late into the evening (again.) Matt is awoken under a thrall, making his way to the basement where he begins to sleep with the witch (aka original supreme.) The actor wakes Shelby up to show her what they were doing and the witch flees into the shadows (but who is she?!) and Matt tells them that she's the real reason he returned – their undeniable connection. This pushes Shelby to her breaking point and she beats him with a fire poker(?) killing her former husband who she said she had such a "strong" love for. My only theory is that the supreme will bring him back of possible and he could be the sole survivor.
Things weren't looking too great elsewhere either, as Lee wakes up to being strapped to a chair while the cannibal family seasons her leg in preparation for their revolting meal. Poor Lee deserves so much better, but the next we see of her – is a piece of meat being served to Monet and Audrey against their will. A definite dark turn for AHS, but hopefully a one legged Lee can maybe kick some ass and escape if it's not her witch-loving brother? The episode comes to an abrupt end when we see Agnes dousing the home in gasoline, but is surrounded by the real lost colony spirits with the one and only real butcher. Agnes falls to her knees in awe, only to be killed by her idol with a cleaver through the skull. With Shelby and fake Matt in the house, surrounded as well as the other three in dire circumstances, who knows what comes next in AHS – but I'll admit, I can't wait to find out.
Overall Grade: 8/10
This episode has some major scares prepared that took a different approach from other seasons, a welcome change to shake things up. Bates, Rabe and Paulson delivered some of their best acting this season and I wouldn't be surprised to see any of them win an accolade for another strong performance. (Plus Gaga for that amazing witch-centric episode.)
Aedan's Final Thoughts:
-Shelby is not the woman I thought she was…
-I think we'll be seeing the witch of the woods again very soon.
-I have no idea what direction the series will take by the end which is what makes it enticing.


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After over two years of this blog, I am not sure who reads this on a regular basis, but for those who actually follow this blog (without the help of reddit) thank you for keeping up with my work. I don't deserve any of your time, yet you stick around, read the blog, and look at the photos.
I am writing today not to review a kit or to show off a custom build, but to apologize. I finished off my Secret Santa series with the HGUC Delta Plus and proceeded to fall off the face of the earth. Though my brother, while he was here living the landlubber's life, was posting his builds, I continued silence even after he shipped out again (Thanks for keeping the blog running, bro).
After the major hiatus in early 2015, I was determined to have a more constant schedule of posts in 2016, however, that slipped pretty quickly with a build up of work and the transition back to classes. I cannot make any promises right now, but I wanted to, at the very least, assure any committed readers that I am not dead and I hope to be posting a review soon. Once again, I apologize for disappearing.
Currently I have a rough article written for the next review: my first Real Grade! I finished building it in mid-February, finished writing a rough article in late February, but the photography needs a little work. Here is a preview of what is to come,
Hopefully I can find the time to finish this article and move on to other builds. Until then, keep your cuts clean! This is Gundariumsmith, I'll be back!


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Alpine flowers face multiple challenges in terms of abiotic and biotic factors, some of which may result in selection for certain colours at increasing altitude, in particular the changing pollinator species composition, which tends to move from bee-dominated at lower elevations to fly-dominated in high-alpine regions. To evaluate whether growing at altitude — and the associated change in the dominant pollinator groups present—has an effect on the colour of flowers, we analysed data collected from the Dovrefjell National Park in Norway. Unlike previous studies, however, we considered the flower colours according to ecologically relevant models of bee and fly colour vision and also their physical spectral properties independently of any colour vision system, rather than merely looking at human colour categories. The shift from bee to fly pollination with elevation might, according to the pollination syndrome hypothesis, lead to the prediction that flower colours should shift from more bee-blue and UV-blue flowers (blue/violet to humans, i.e. colours traditionally associated with large bee pollinators) at low elevations to more bee-blue-green and green (yellow and white to humans — colours often linked to fly pollination) flowers at higher altitude. However, although there was a slight increase in bee-blue-green flowers and a decrease in bee-blue flowers with increasing elevation, there were no statistically significant effects of altitude on flower colour as seen either by bees or by flies. Although flower colour is known to be constrained by evolutionary history, in this sample we also did not find evidence that phylogeny and elevation interact to determine flower colours in alpine areas
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The Tennessee Valley Authority announced a $467 million upgrade project at the Browns Ferry Unit 2 in Athens, Alabama, had begun on March 2.
The unit was taken offline for a refueling outage the will include installation of the final round of modifications necessary to upgrade the plant's capacity. Once "completed and thoroughly tested," the upgrade will allow the plant to generate a total of 465 megawatts of additional electricity, bringing the total to 3,933 for the three units at the plant. Unit 2 will be the third and final unit to complete upgrades under and Extended Power Uprate program approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Unit 3 started generating electricity at the higher EPU power rating in mid-July 2018 while Unit 1 started generating at full EPU power in late January of this year.
"We learned a great deal upgrading Units 1 and 3 to generate more power and will apply those lessons as we install modifications on Unit 2 during this outage and conduct extensive testing to ensure safety and verify plant response," said Lang Hughes, Browns Ferry site vice president.
The TVA said Unit 2 had produced 18 billion kilowatt hours of carbon-free electricity in the past two years.
"Being able to generate more power than ever before at Browns Ferry is the result of a lot of good, hard work by TVA employees and our vendor partners to uphold our top priority — protecting the health and safety of the public — while increasing our ability to meet the current and future energy needs of the Tennessee Valley," Hughes said.
In addition to modifications that support the power uprate, the Unit 2 outage will also feature more than 11,000 work activities, including the installation of 320 new fuel assemblies along with upgrades, modifications, repairs and testing of other plant equipment, including inspections of reactor components and maintenance of key safety systems. To complete this outage, TVA has augmented the Browns Ferry workforce with an estimated 2,100 additional contract employees.
Before being taken offline for the outage, Unit 2 generated electricity for 695 days, including a consecutive run of 401 days.
Browns Ferry Unit 2 is one of seven operational TVA nuclear reactors, supplying nearly 40 percent of all electricity used by nearly 10 million people in the Tennessee Valley.
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The three plants will generate an additional 465 megawatts, not Unit # 2 on it's own. The uprate is basically 150 megawatts per unit.


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Video in Education – An invitation to our first webinar – 1pm on Thursday November 22nd, 2012
Video in Education – a special interest group – invites you to grab a coffee and share best practice at our first webinar.
Formed in summer 2012, this group's focus is on sharing practice within the schools, and gathering examples from other institutions, in: production and publishing of video for education; techniques for engaging staff in use of video for teaching and learning; and pedagogical principles behind video for education.
Sharing Best Practice in Educational Video at City University
Webinar – Thursday 22nd November 2012 –1pm to 1.30pm
Webinar Room Link (opens at 12.45pm on the day)
Event Details
- Introduction – Mo Pamplin
- School of Law – Scenario-based learning video portfolios – Sophie Paluch
- Cass Business School – Dubai MBA student research presentations – Luis Balseca
- School of Health Science – Blood pressure self-assessment videos – Natasa Perovic
Moderators on the day, Stef Smith and Steve McCombe at the MILL
Instructions for participants:
There is no need to book a place, all City staff are welcome as are external guests.
Join the webinar room, via the link below and settle in from 12.45 pm, participants will be able to listen to the speakers, view a web cam of the speakers, watch clips from video projects and pose questions via the chat room. We will use the Adobe Connect webinar service to host this session for up to 100 guests.
Webinar Room Link (opens at 12.45pm on the day)
Its good to check your computer audio settings in advance, to find out more see the quick start guide.
Quick Start Guide – Participants
any enquiries, please contact the organisers via email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The webinar will be recorded and made available on this page after the event.
We look forward to meeting you on the 22nd,
Mo Pamplin
School of Arts and Social Science
Future Tense Learning and Teaching conference at Goldsmiths, University of London 18 May 2012: Lightbulbs, spoons and stigmas
What do you like best at conferences? Catching up with friends, get away from the day-to-day routine? Some might say the canapés? For me, it's definitely hearing a good speaker. Communicating your ideas effectively is an art in itself and I know when someone gives a good talk because it's as if a little light bulb lights up in my head when I hear something that makes sense. Lindsay Jordan (University of the Arts), co-presenting with Mira Vogel (Goldsmiths) on the world of MOOCs and open education was one of those speakers. So many light bulbs lit up in my head that I must have looked like a Christmas tree (had you had the privilege to access my head, that is).
Leading on the PgCert course recommended to all staff teaching over 60 hours per year, she opted to introduce a range of digital-based learning and assessment components to the course. Her aims were to broaden teachers' horizons through technology, use blogs as a truly key reflective tool and video as a means to assess.
Interestingly, the title of her presentation being 'Engagement by stealth' judiciously hinted at how there might be some resistance to use 'new' forms of assessment and learning.
On the one hand of the spectrum, some lecturers on the course spontaneously opted for video in their blogs to develop their point. Others could hardly bring themselves to publish content on the web and expose themselves. One student on the course (an experienced teacher) published a completely anonymous video assessment circumventing the exposure problem by creating a short animation and synthesising his voice to a female one.
So, clearly, the feeling of publishing one's work 'out there' on the web for everyone to see is something not everyone is comfortable with.
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are about allowing information to be everywhere, just a click away, and some of us have an issue with that. As one member of the audience asked: "But who has control over these MOOCs? Who monitors content?"
MOOCs are about participation, collaboration and sharing but there is something inherently scary about not knowing who will use your learning and whether it will be digested effectively. If it's out there on the loose, how can you gauge its validity? Some answers came from Mira Vogel who showed us that MOOCs can be time-framed and tightly-structured. Another member of the audience asked whether MOOCs may be an answer to soaring university fees in England. How could universities possibly reconcile with the relatively free-paying world of MOOCs? Of course, no-one yet knows the answer to this.
A personal highlight was when Lindsay Jordan talked about how learning outcomes had been negotiated by her students (by setting up learning contracts as a starting point) and were used as assessment guidelines. Having explored ways to help my students understand assessment criteria better in the past, and how this was something they were really interested in, a light bulb in my head flashed: there is probably no better way than this to engage your students with assessment. When it turned out peer assessment (up to 10% of the final grade) was also used for blogs on that course, I thought: definitely the way to go.
Other words I will go away with are the 'tyranny of participation': it had never occurred to me that some people do strongly resent discussion forums. And video as being 'disruptive': you should really not forget that videotaping does take some people out of their comfort zone, to say the least.
Now, this was not all dark. Lindsay Jordan shared with us student feedback which clearly indicated some students on the course felt that the process had helped them to get different perspectives on things, and that neatly takes me to another highlight of the day: the opening keynote entitled 'the importance of stuff', by Martin Conreen and Mark Miodownik, of Goldsmiths.
Two pleasant speakers, encouraging you to think outside the box, the keynote looked at how materials are a defining characteristic of society, and the related research projects carried out at Goldsmith. One such project titillated the audience no end, that of the spoons. Materials taste different, but why, was the starting point… The speakers took us through quiproquos and anecdotes, and the meanders of research processes and decisions. I won't go into details but something will stay with me (maybe that was not the speakers' point): if you stop to look at materials around you, you will see (well, taste) that they affect your perception of things.
And if you teach, or introduce new ways of teaching, then you need your participants to accept that there may be other ways to approach their learning or assessment.
A third and last favourite on the day for me was the 1 pm debate. The after-lunch timeslot is notoriously difficult as the audience digests its food, but the two well-experienced speakers, Melissa Benn and Fiona Millar rolled on with 'Education and Equality?' Melissa Benn started off with the remark that the question mark in the presentation's title was highly relevant. The fact that we ask ourselves the question shows that it may not be the case.
In a nutshell, the debate pierced through raw facts: that education is not equal and that the class system in England (the audience insisted this was not the case across the UK) still permeates families' decisions as to whether they should send their children to 'normal' schools (as someone in the audience put it) or to public schools. The discussion, it seemed to me, all came down to perceptions (that one again!).
Two striking examples were given: that better-off families felt compelled to send their children to public schools and that young people from modest backgrounds themselves thought that state schools, generally speaking, were failing them. The panel seemed to hint that the vast majority of people were still imbued with class-related stigmas. The question was: do comprehensive schools prevent social mobility? And the answer, as I understood it, was: yes, all of the layers in society seem to carry this message, like a virus, which turns this into a self prophesy.
So… the end note was slightly depressing but, at the same time, promising. No-one knows what the future holds, but the message behind such a conference title might have been it's for us to influence it.
Engagement by stealth, PG Certs for a Digital Age, Lindsay Jordan, 21 May 2012, http://prezi.com/alsj8mbdjvbt/engagement-by-stealth/
Learning for free? MOOCs, Mira Vogel, 18 May 2012, http://prezi.com/telbnollfzx4/learning-for-free-moocs/
Future tense schedule: http://www.gold.ac.uk/gleu/futuretense/schedule/


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Good Monday morning.
Light morning to start the week after what we hope was a tremendous Thanksgiving weekend for all of you. It's on the college hardwood.
The University of Puget Sound's women's basketball team spent the holiday weekend in Portland playing a pair of NAIA teams, and a Valleyite factored in to both Logger victories.
Junior Elizabeth Prewitt, from Snoqualmie, recorded her first "double-double" of the season for UPS in their game on Saturday night, a 68-65 win over Warner Pacific. Prewitt, a 2015 Mount Si High School grad, scored 14 points and added 14 rebounds for the Loggers in 31 minutes of work on 4-14 from the floor with one three-pointer and 5-6 from the foul line. She also collected an assist and two steals in the contest.
The Loggers also won their game this past Friday that started their weekend trip, 69-49 over Multnomah. Prewitt had seven points and three rebounds in 16 minutes of work for UPS in that contest. The Loggers are now 3-1 on the season and open conference play Friday night at home in Tacoma against Whitworth. The 6:00 tipoff will be available live on NWC Digital, which you can find at right in our news links, or on such devices as Roku, Amazon Fire or Apple TV.


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Several bushes were severely infested with Oleander Hawkmoth caterpillars. Many of the caterpillars were dead, possibly killed by pesticides.
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Daily Decay (20th June 2018)
This was one of the many casualties of a fish mass death in late February and March 2015, caused by a harmful algal bloom in the eastern Straits of Johor.
Several species of Grouper (as well as hybrids) are raised in offshore fish farms in the Straits of Johor, so this individual might have been a farm escapee.
Daily Decay (19th June 2018)
Daily Decay (19th June 2018): Giant Honeybee (Apis dorsata) @ Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
There was a large colony located next to a trail, and due to safety reasons, the hive had to be removed. Pest control was called in, and this was among the many casualties.
Common Treeshrew
Common Treeshrew (Tupaia glis)
Bukit Batok, 5th June 2018
This Common Treeshrew was most likely killed by a passing vehicle while it was attempting to cross a road along the forest edge.
- The Biodiversity of Singapore
- Wildlife Singapore
- The Tide Chaser: Mammals (Phylum Chordata: Class Mammalia) of Singapore
- Ecology Asia
- Animal Diversity Web
- IUCN Red List
- Using hand proportions to test taxonomic boundaries within the Tupaia glis species complex (Scandentia, Tupaiidae)
- Skeletal variation and taxonomic boundaries among mainland and island populations of the common treeshrew (Mammalia: Scandentia: Tupaiidae)
- Rule reversal: Ecogeographical patterns of body size variation in the common treeshrew (Mammalia, Scandentia)
Daily Decay (16th June 2018)
Daily Decay (16th June 2018): Caterpillar of Oleander Hawkmoth (Daphnis nerii) @ Changi
Several bushes were severely infested with Oleander Hawkmoth caterpillars. Many of the caterpillars were dead, possibly killed by pesticides.
Daily Decay (12th June 2018)
Daily Decay (12th June 2018): White Tamban (Sardinella albella) @ Changi
This was one of the many casualties of a fish mass mortality event that took place in the eastern Straits of Johor in February 2014, supposedly caused by a plankton bloom.
Striped Kukri Snake
Striped Kukri Snake (Oligodon octolineatus)
Dempsey Hill, 22nd August 2016
This Striped Kukri Snake roadkill was seen by Ho Ee Kid, and shared with the Nature Society (Singapore) Facebook group.
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- The Biodiversity of Singapore
- SLOG (Singapore Snakes Blog)
- Freshwater fishes, terrestrial herpetofauna and mammals of Pulau Tekong, Singapore
- Amphibians & Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia
- Ecology Asia
- Toward a Phylogeny of the Kukri Snakes, Genus Oligodon
- The Reptile Database
- IUCN Red List


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rudial (and friends) tools provide access to RUSS services via the command line/shell.
The dial call is central to RUSS. It is what connects a client to a server, after which, one or more I/O streams between them are set up for inter-process communication. Three I/O streams are standard and connected to stdin, stdout, and stderr.
rudial takes an operation value such as execute, list, help and a service path which is a /-separated list of names specifying the service to use and how to get to it. The operation tells the service what to do: execute the service, list subservices, return help information for the service(s).
rudial also takes an optional set of key=value attribute settings and an argument list. All items are passed as strings. The exit value of the service is returned by
Some convenience programs are provided to shorten the invocation:
RUDIAL(1) RUDIAL(1) NAME rudial, ruexec, ruhelp, ruls - Client-side tools for accessing russ servers SYNOPSIS rudial [<option>] <op> <spath> [<arg> ...] ruexec [<option>] <spath> [<arg> ...] ruhelp [<option>] <spath> [<arg> ...] ruls [<option>] <spath> [<arg> ...] DESCRIPTION These client-side tools are used to dial (connect to) a russ serivce. When connected to a russ service, file descriptors are returned, corresponding to stdin, stdout, stderr of the ser‐ vice, and can be used as usual. (Note that the file descriptors returned depends on the service.) The standard exit code mechanism functions as usual and, in most cases, is returned by the service. Common exit codes are 0 for success, 1 for error. When there is a problem with the dial step, and exit code of 126 or 127 may be returned. Options: -a|--attr <name=value> Pass a "name=value" string to the service. -b <bufsize> Set the buffer size for reading and writing operations. -t|--timeout <seconds> Allow given amount of time to dial before aborting and returning an error exit code. rudial is the generic form and takes a russ operation (<op>): execute Execute the service <spath> on behalf of the client user. help Return help for the server or service associated with the <spath>. list Return a list of services at the <spath>. The service path <spath> identifies a service as found in the service hierarchy of a russ server. Helper Programs To reduce verbosity of the rudial call, some helper programs are provided. All but ruls are direct replacements. ruexec is equivalent to "rudial execute". ruhelp is equivalent to "rudial help". ruls is equivalent to "rudial list" except when the <spath> is a local filesystem object (e.g., directory). In such a case, a modified directory listing is output. This is helpful when nav‐ igating the filesystem and russ services. SEE ALSO russ(7) AUTHOR Written by John Marshall. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to: <...>. COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2014 John Marshall. Unless otherwise indicated, this software is available under the terms of the ls Apache License version 2. russ 5.x RUDIAL(1)
To list the system services:
ruls +
+is shorthand for the
To list services of a server (e.g., the debug server):
ruls +/debug
To get help from the debug server:
ruhelp +/debug
To execute the
daytime debug service:
ruexec +/debug/daytime
To pass input over stdin:
echo hello | ruexec +/debug/echo
To pass file input over stdin:
cat /etc/hostname | ruexec +/debug/echo
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Regular update on the number of pageviews received from different parts of the world in the week just ending.
- United Kingdom 640
- United States 392
- Germany 73
- India 57
- Netherlands 30
- France 26
- Russia 24
- Australia 22
- Ukraine 20
- Japan 14
This week's total: 1,299 (last week: 1,651). These are aggregates of figures from the top ten countries only. Blogger's stats software doesn't show me numbers of pageviews below the tenth-ranking country.
The world map at the top of this post is the graphic that I see on the stats page. The darker the green, the more pageviews from that country. I can see different versions of that map for "now" (i.e. in the last two hours), "today", "this week", "this month" and "all time" (which seems to mean the last 12 months). They're updated each time I look at them.


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Ferrier Pearce roundtable lunch
Whether you like it or not, consumers are getting advice through social and digital channels
When20th February 2020, noon - 14.30
The word 'social' has become synonymous with social networks, but what does the future hold for what is now one of our favourite pastimes?
In a recent survey, it was found that the average person spends 2 hours 22 minutes on social media per day, and we're seeing this trend increase year-on-year.
Some people still believe that 'our industry' has no need to be a part of the conversation. We feel that there is a huge opportunity being missed, and in this session, we will be talking about how we can use data for good!
There are limited places so reserve yours here...


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Tips on Driving in a Dust Storm
In recent times with the events of climate change extreme weather events are noted to be a common phase that is happening and this has resulted to many people taking precautions when they have to drive through extra weather. Driving through a dust storm is noted by many to be dangerous and there is need for the drivers to ensure they take all necessary precautions to ensure they are able to keep safe in the dust storm and arrive to their destinations. In the event of a dust storm the first thing the drivers needs to do is to get off the roads ad ensure they stay off the roads, it is considered to be very dangerous for the drivers to go on driving yet there is a storm, the moment a driver notices there is a dust storm best move is pack fur from the highway till it clears. Upon packing the car on the side road, there is need for the individual to out on the headlights, the headlights need to be left on in order to signal there is a car that has been packed on the road side and avoid any collision that may occur.
In the event a dust storm strikes and the individual is on an emergency lane there is need to ensure the car headlights are noted switched on, the aim to ensure the lights are off is to ensure there are no other motorists trying to follow the car assuming that is the correct lane to follow. However, it is advocated when the driver still has some visibility there is need to ensure the car has been pulled off the road and the passenger do not try to leave the car as he or she may collide with another object. Drivers need to ensure all the windows have been rolled up and the doors have been tightly shut to ensure there is no dust that gets into the car.
Motorists are advised to ensure the car vents are closed, the objective to close the car vents and filters is to ensure there is no dust that tries to get into the car through the vents as the storm is passing. There is need for the passengers to stay in the car with seat-belts fastened and wait for the storm to pass, the objective to ensure the individuals have the seat belt. There is need to cover the face in the event the storm comes with debris the car windows may be hit and damaged hence to reduce any risks there is need for the individual to cover their faces and keep calm.
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