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KINGSTON, Jamaica — A gay rights activist got his first court hearing Tuesday on his effort to bring a constitutional challenge to Jamaica's nearly 150-year-old colonial-era law that bans sex between men.
The rare court challenge to the 1864 anti-sodomy law is being pushed by Javed Jaghai, a young outreach worker for the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals & Gays, the Caribbean country's sole gay rights group.
On Tuesday, the matter had its initial mention in the chambers of Jamaica's Supreme Court. Justice Carol Edwards gave the attorney general, who is named as the defendant, until mid-September to file a response and the next hearing was scheduled for early October. Jaghai is seeking authorization to take his case to the Constitutional Court.
Edwards authorized a number of religious associations and a child advocacy group to join the case as interested parties. Homosexuality is perceived as a sin by Jamaica's influential religious lobby and nearly a dozen other Caribbean nations where anti-sodomy laws are on the books.
The rarely used law bans anal sex and sets a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment and hard labor. Anything interpreted as "gross indecency" between men can be punished by two years in prison.
On Sunday, several church pastors led crowded revival meetings in Jamaica's two biggest cities to oppose overturning the law. Church of Christ pastor Leslie Buckland called homosexuality "unlawful and unnatural" in the eyes of God and said "no government has the authority to rebel against God."
Jaghai argues Jamaica's anti-sodomy law fuels homophobia and violates a charter of human rights adopted in 2011 that guarantees islanders the right to privacy. He argues this must include the right of consenting adults to make fundamental decisions about their intimate relationships.
He claims he was evicted from an apartment by his landlady on the basis of his sexual orientation and says the anti-sodomy law encourages discrimination against gays.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Jaghai said he decided to pursue the challenge because "for us to challenge the anti-gay cultural order, it would be necessary for us to become visible and more vocal." Most Jamaican homosexuals have been unwilling to be public figures because of fear.
Jaghai, who turns 24 this week and is a graduate of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, said his family has been threatened due to his public advocacy and he avoids going to his rural hometown for fear a visit would stir up homophobic aggression against his loved ones.
Despite the easygoing image propagated by tourist boards, Jamaica is the most hostile island toward homosexuals in the socially conservative Caribbean, gay activists say. They say gays, particularly those in poor communities, suffer frequent discrimination and abuse but have little recourse because of widespread anti-gay stigma and the sodomy law.
Many in the highly Christian country of roughly 2.7 million inhabitants consider homosexuality to be wrong, but insist violence against gays is blown out of proportion by homosexual activists. Some say Jamaica tolerates homosexuality as long as it is not in the open.
But as an outreach worker, Jaghai says he daily encounters poor gays whose lives are often extremely difficult.
"When their sexuality becomes known, the community sometimes turns on them. They must confront the reality each day that who they are could, without notice, spark a riot and they could be on the receiving end of 'jungle justice,'" he said in his court filing.
Last year, the Jamaica gay rights group received 36 reports from adult gay males saying they were the victims of mob violence due to their sexual orientation. It says two homosexual men were murdered.

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Saub, R. and Evans, R.W. (2001) Dental needs of elderly hostel residents in inner Melbourne. Australian Dental Journal, 46 (3). pp. 198-202. ISSN 0045-0421, DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1834-7819.2001.tb00282.x.
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Background. The purpose of this study was to determine the oral health status and treatment needs of elderly hostel residents in Melbourne. Method: One hundred and seventy-five subjects aged 65+ were selected from 20 hostels within a 10km radius of Melbourne's central business district. Results: Subjects were clinically examined and interviewed using a standard questionnaire. In the course of the clinical examination, coronal caries, root caries, periodontal disease, denture status and related treatment needs were assessed. The mean age of the subjects was 83.7, the majority of whom were female (80 per cent). About 35 per cent of the sample were dentate. The mean number of teeth present among dentate persons was 13.8, the mean coronal caries experience was 24.9 DMFT and mean root caries was 2.3 R-DF Of the dentate subjects, 46 per cent required at least one restoration for coronal caries and 30 per cent required at least one restoration for root caries. Most dentate subjects had calculus and none had deep pockets, therefore, indications for periodontal treatment did not include complex care. More than 50 per cent of lower full dentures were retained unsatisfactorily and about half of the total number of subjects required prosthetic treatment. Conclusions: Although there was a high number of treatment needs, most requirements involved simple technologies that could be delivered by auxiliaries.
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Movement of freight within Australia is a significant part of the transport task. Goods are transported across vast distances because of the size of the country and the dispersed locations of its agricultural, mining, production and population centres. Key measures used to capture the freight transport task are tonnes carried and tonne-kilometres, which represents mass moved by distance.
Table 23.7 provides details of the major commodities moved by road in the 12 months to 31 March 2001. Food accounted for 21.9% of the tonne-kilometres travelled and 14.4% (89 million) of the tonnes carried by road. The second highest percentage (14%) of tonnes carried by road was for stone, sand and gravel, yet because of shorter trip distances this commodity only accounted for 3.8% (3,373 million) of the total tonne-kilometres travelled.
Rail freight activity
An estimated 134,109 million tonne-kilometres, representing 509 million tonnes of freight, were moved on the rail network in the 12 months ended 31 March 2001 (table 23.8). Freight originating in Western Australia and Queensland combined accounted for over three-quarters (76.7%) of the total tonne-kilometres travelled by rail. This was primarily due to the large movements of commodities over longer trip distances in these geographically larger states.
Of the total tonne-kilometres travelled by rail, nearly three-quarters (74.5% or 99,868 million) were for metalliferous ores and metal scrap, and coal (table 23.9). General freight, while accounting for only 2.9% (15 million) of the total tonnes carried on the rail network, represented 11.9% (16,018 million) of the tonne-kilometres travelled by this mode, indicating longer trip distances than those travelled by some other commodity types.
Sea freight activity
In the 12 months ended 31 March 2001, the sea network carried 47 million tonnes (table 23.10). This tonnage was moved over 97,349 million tonne-kilometres, or 30.4% of tonne-kilometres travelled by all modes combined in Australia. Due to the long average hauls for domestic shipping, sea freight accounted for a much higher proportion of total tonne-kilometres travelled than of total tonnage moved.
Metalliferous ores and metal scrap accounted for the highest percentages of tonnes carried (42.5%) and tonne-kilometres travelled (62.8%) by sea in the 12 months ended 31 March 2001 (table 23.11). Nearly three-quarters (74.1%) of all tonne-kilometres travelled for petroleum and petroleum products by all modes was by sea.
Air freight activity
Air accounted for less than 1% of the total domestic freight task in the year ended 31 March 2001. Freight originating in New South Wales and Victoria combined accounted for over half (53.5%) of all tonne-kilometres travelled on the air network (table 23.12).
The two major commodities moved by air were general freight, at 166 million tonne-kilometres (60.1% of the total) and other commodities n.e.s. at 66 million tonne-kilometres (23.8% of the total) (table 23.13).


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Pensions Tax Relief: Treasury publishes call for evidence on administration
The Treasury has published a call for evidence on the administration of pensions tax relief.
The call for evidence seeks to gather evidence on the operation of both of the main methods of administering pensions tax relief. According to the Treasury, the government recognises that the two systems produce different outcomes in certain circumstances for different groups of taxpayers, as some may receive tax relief at a different rate to their highest marginal rate.
The Treasury stated that it is important to note that many of these taxpayers will be lower earners who may not otherwise regularly have to engage with the tax system. The government is seeking to gather views on the appropriate balance between consistency of outcomes for individuals with similar circumstances and simplicity for individuals, employers and pension schemes.
Commenting on the call for evidence, John Glen, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, said: 'I am mindful that pensions administration can only be effectively delivered through successful partnership between government, the pensions industry, employers and professional administrators of payroll and other systems.
'The government therefore wants to listen to all those who work with these systems on a regular basis to understand the options available to improve the administration of pensions tax relief.'
Details on the call for evidence can be found here.
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Chattanooga State's Engineering & Information Technologies Department has forged a number of unique partnerships designed to provide training for the local workforce that will qualify them for high-tech positions becoming available in the Greater Chattanooga area.
The Tennessee Building and Construction Institute of Chattanooga (TNBCI), the Institute of Material Joining and Testing (IMJAT), TVA Partnership Program, Volkswagen Academy, and WACKER Institute are the result of Chattanooga State's rapid response to the needs of local employers for skilled workers.
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I grew up with a family doc, who still made house calls if we were too sick to make it to his office. Having just spent the past month dealing with hospitals for my dad, I am both appalled and delighted. The system sucks!!!! The people (most of them) wonderful.ReplyDelete
- dryheat45February 08, 2012 10:15 AM
I also grew up in a rural community with one doctor (think Doc Hollywood) who not only would come to your house if you were too ill to come yourself, he was a entrepenuer and a philanthropist; he would buy into your start-up if he saw the potential for growth, and would let you buy back his share when the business grew. He bought the land and installed the equipment for a neighborhood playground and an arcade (including a bucking barrel, it occurred to no one that the liablity could be great from an injury). He was a great guy, well loved and sorely missed when he died.ReplyDelete
Starting in the '60s with the Great Society and the intrusion of the government into medicine, the government set the pay scale for services with Medicare. Doctors being human, saw the potential for gaming these rates and the monetary gain for specializing in the higher ended pay scales. Now enter the lawyers, seeing a buck to be made with liability insurance claims against doctors. I worked for a company that made spineboards that had to carry a $4M liability policy because of the blood sucking LAWyas propensity to sue anyone and everyone for an injury claim. We never lost in court, but the cost of maintaining that policy added to operating expenses which are passed on to the customer. Add in the expense of a medical degree, typically $200K, who can afford to be a doctor, much less a country one? The PA (physicians assistant) is more likely to work these areas now, but I hear the same lament of long waits and denied care because "your insurance doesn't cover it". We have witnessed the end of an era I'm afraid.
Our kids doctor wouldn't even give one of my sons 3 stitches in his finger. We had to go to the hospital. For 3 stitches! Ridiculous.ReplyDelete
I recall doctors who came to the house up until the mid-1960s. After that no matter how sick we were it was off to the car, drive to a waiting room, cough and hack up in the waiting room, then examined. Progress.ReplyDelete
I was sorry to hear about that extremely long wait of your mom's. It always annoys me when we've had to spend such a long time waiting in the ER which I've taken mom to many times over the past 25 years and sometimes the place isn't even that busy. One recent doctor's office visit was 2 and a half hours and most of that was waiting time. It is ridiculous that your mom had to go to a specialist just for that shot. The current state of medical care in this country is pretty sad and it just seems to keep getting worse. Old time doctors certainly do sound nice.ReplyDelete
Sassy Lassies Vintage Life--I miss the idea of doctor house calls.ReplyDelete
dryheat45, thanks for summing up the decline of the American health care system for us. It's all about greed and how much insurance companies (and some doctors) can make today.
Retro Hound--WTF! That's what I'm talking about, 3 lousy stitches?
42N--few things worse than having to wait, especially when you're feeling under the weather.
LaraAnn--2 and a half hours should be unacceptable! I'm sorry you had to wait that long.
I called to book my annual physical in November ... the first available appointment was March 30!!ReplyDelete


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DiskOnChip (DOC) is a flash drive that is manufactured by M-Systems. The use of flash drives is emerging as a substitute for Hard Disks in embedded devices. Embedded Linux is gaining popularity as the operating system of choice in the embedded systems community; as such, there is an increased demand for embedded systems that can boot into Linux from flash drives.
Much of the documentation currently available on the subject is either incorrect or incomplete; the presentation of the information which is provided by such documents is likely to confuse novice users.
Another fundamental problem is that most of the documents assume the DiskOnChip to be a NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) device, and proceed to describe the booting process for NFTL devices. DiskOnChip architectures come in two variants, each of which requires different booting procedures: NFTL and INFTL (Inverse NFTL). Dan Brown, who has written a boot loader known as DOCBoot, explains the differences between these variants in a README document, which is included with the DOCBoot package: http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/people/dwmw2/mtd/cvs/mtd/docboot/.
An INFTL device is organized as follows:
Media Header
Partition 0 (BDK or BDTL)
(Optional) Partition 1(BDK or BDTL)
.. Up to at most Partition 3
Under Linux MTD partitions are created for each partition listed in the INFTL partition table. Thus up to 5 MTD devices are created.
By contrast the NFTL device is organized as follows:
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Under Linux, normally two MTD devices will be created.
According to the above excerpt, the process used by the boot loader when fetching the kernel image for an INFTL device is different from the method used for NFTL devices, since both devices have different physical layouts. (repetitive)
Using a 2.4.x kernel for an INFTL DiskOnChip device is complicated by the lack of native support in pre-2.6.x kernels (although native NFTL support is present). Such functionality is only available by patching the kernel; an approach which is ill-advised.
Patching the kernel with external INFTL support is discouraged; the developers of the MTD driver, the open source driver available for DiskOnChip, are apprehensive of this approach as well. For more information on this matter, feel free to peruse the mailing list conversation on the subject at http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2004-August/010165.html.
The drivers that provide native INFTL support in the 2.6.x kernels failed to identify the DiskonChip device used for this exercise, and the following message was reported by the system:
INFTL no longer supports the old DiskOnChip drivers loaded via docprobe. Please use the new diskonchip driver under the NAND subsystem.
So then we decided to use the drivers provided by M-Systems (manufacturer of DiskOnChip). However, according to the documentation provided by the vendor on these drivers, they were designed for NFTL devices only. As such, we decided to write this HOWTO which will address the use of INFTL devices. We have taken special care to remove any ambiguity in the steps and also tried to give reasons for the need of a particular step so as to make things logically clear. We have explained things in such a way that a person with less experience on Linux can also follow the steps.
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Use M-Systems DiskOnChip 2000 TSOP as an additional storage drive along with an IDE HDD running Linux on it.
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Install the Development Tool-Chain so as to compile and execute programs directly on DiskOnChip.
The method described here has been tested for DiskOnChip 2000 TSOP 256MB and DiskOnChip 2000 TSOP 384MB.


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Varying versions of that honeycomb pattern were on the Nike dudes as they showed up for clay events this week. JMdP wore the Green Apple version of the Showdown Movement tee during his first-round win at the Estoril Open, where he needed to beat Portuguese qualifier Pedro Sousa 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 to advance. Delpo has a potential quarterfinal match against top seed Robin Soderling. Draw: Estoril Open.
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And in Belgrade, John Isner's run at the Serbia Open ended abrubtly with his 6-4, 7-6 (4) loss to Ricardo Mello, who'll next face Blaz Kavcic. He shares the same quarter as top seed Djokovic. Live scores: Get caught up on the happenings here.
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I've had a couple of days to get my head around the US election results, and have been looking about me a bit more than usual to see how New York has reacted. On Friday my eye was caught by this particularly timely and inspirational sandwich board on the street, quoting Hillary Clinton: "Diversity is a strength, not a weakness. If we lift each other up, we can make each other stronger." It was outside Torly Kid, a tiny kids' boutique on Hudson & Duane Street in Tribeca, and I decided to pop in.
I'm so glad I did. Continue reading "Found a cool kids' store – Torly Kid"


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Griffin Mining Ltd ("the Company") announces that on 11th January 2011 it purchased 300,000 of the Company's own ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 67.0p per share. The Ordinary Shares have been purchased for cancellation (the "Purchase and Cancellation").
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Ken Waldman has six full-length poetry collections, a children's book of Alaska-set acrostic poems, and a memoir about his work as a touring artist. His nine CDs combine old-time Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry. A former college professor with an MFA in creative writing, he's made his living as a freelance writer, musician, performer, and educator since 1995.
This past November, Burlingham Books in rural Perry, New York, sponsored a Poets & Writers workshop and reading. At 5:30 on a chilly Tuesday evening, eleven of us gathered around a makeshift table in a corner of the bookstore. For ninety-minutes, we discussed our writing lives amidst four writing exercises. At 7:00 PM, I walked to another corner of the store, this time to stand before approximately thirty-five people, one of whom I'd learned was a local fiddler and violinmaker. To begin, I took out my fiddle, played a tune, then went into one of my collections and found a sonnet, The Violinmakers. After nodding to my new acquaintance, I shared the poem I'd written about his craft.
The fifty-minute reading was followed by a short question-and-answer session. All this was fine, but what made this event more special is that it enabled me to spend the following day at Letchworth Central High School, where I led a short assembly for 350 students, faculty, and staffers, then visited seven English classes. The daylong school visit, which was funded separately, would not have happened without the support of Burlingham Books and Poets & Writers.
What's instructive is explaining how the Perry bookstore event came to be.
Six months earlier I'd been invited by The Stage, a theatre in neighboring Warsaw, New York, for a Poets & Writers workshop and reading. Ahead of schedule that Sunday afternoon, I'd detoured through Perry specifically to stop in Burlingham Books, where I happened to meet a part-time employee, Melissa Stroud, an English teacher at a nearby high school. Before leaving the store, I gave Melissa a few of my books and CDs, as well as several sheets explaining my work in schools.
Later that month, when a library in Geneseo, in adjacent Livingston County, also secured Poets & Writers funding to host me, Melissa attended both the workshop and the reading. Subsequently, it was through her efforts that I was invited to Burlingham Books, and to her school, where I understood it had been five years since a visiting artist of any kind had come, and a longer time since a practicing, published writer had appeared. In this case, I not only stood answering questions in front of classes that had been reading my poems as preparation for my visit, but when I shared poems before the whole school, the assemblage included the high school principal and the school district superintendent.
One more thing about the Perry appearance. It was heartening that among the attendees of both the workshop and readings were folks who'd previously seen me in Warsaw. So, while I expect to return to the region in 2013, it's also my understanding that it won't be such a long time before another writer comes to Letchworth Central High School, perhaps again in conjunction with a Poets & Writers event.
Photo: Ken Waldman. Photo Credit: Kate Wool.
Support for Readings/Workshops in New York is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with additional support from the Friends of Poets & Writers.


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Starting Monday, the US Senior Open returns to the 2008 site, the Boca Raton Marriott, Boca Raton, Florida from August 23-28. See advance entries here--GM Alexander Ivanov is the top pre-registered player.
The 2010 U.S. Senior Open is a six-game event, one round per day, Monday-Saturday, Game/90 with 30 second increment, and is open to USCF members born before 23 August 1960. The winner is seeded into the 2011 U.S. Championship and the top player born on or before January 1, 1950 also becomes the official USCF entrant at the World Senior Championship in Arco, Italy. The first five games start at 7pm and the last round is at 11am. There is still time to register for the event and for the Awards Banquet taking place on Saturday, 28 August. You do not need to participate in the event to attend the banquet.
For more information, please visit the tournament webpage, http://www.uschess.org/tournaments/2010/senior/.
Former World Senior Champion GM Larry Kaufman will be contributing dispatches on the event to CLO. Kaufman tied for first in the 2004 US Senior Open in Boca Raton, losing out on tiebreak to local favorite Fabio La Rota. Kaufman won the Senior Open in 2008, and went on to win the World Senior later that year. In 2009, GM Larry Christiansen won the US Senior Open in Stillwater, Oklahoma, while Kaufman took second.


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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Slate's Series on Recovered Report Cards
Late last year, Paul Lukas from Slate released a series of articles chronicling his discovery of old report cards from a girl'strade school in New York City and the subsequent search to return the cards tothe students' families. Lukas discovered the old report cards in 1996 sitting in a box of soon-to-be discarded materials at Stuyvesant High School. Many of the report cards dated back to the early 1900's so Lukas kept the report cards sensing that they had significant historical value. More like detailed school records, the cards contained information including the girls' subsequent employment history, correspondence from school personnel, and notes about the girls from teachers, social workers, and doctors. Many of the girls were from immigrant families, but the cards revealed that there were also black students, one Hispanic, and one Native American student, each marked with a black dot, which Lukas believes to be a warning system to protect the students from job discrimination. In the series, Lukas threads the stories of several girls together to give a glimpse of the nature of the garment industry in which most of the girls found themselves: "difficult, usually short-term, and almost always low-paying." My own research on legal aid also reveals that smaller manufacturers and jobbers also failed to pay women's wages entirely. That the girls' employment stories were so meticulously documented by the school's placement office makes Lukas' find that much more important. Lukas' intuition about keeping the cards for their historical value was spot-on as what emerges from his discovery is a rich source of immigrant, education, and working class history. A number of these documents are now available to view on-line.
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I'd write my own OS but I have no intentions on being a programmer. I'm an OSs person and thats that. I can secure my systems and I would make my OS a mix; I would talk to the developers of Solaris, Trusted Solaris, and Open BSD to work on a security stand point.
I want things to stay simple yet effective. DOS was very simple yet did it's job. I'd have the people who write OSs similar to DOS work with the coders to make things stay simple.
I'd have them there, not to WORK on the system, but to watch over the other programmers. Also, SuSE, Debian, Slackware, and Mandrake Linux would also be hired in. I think those are the best of the best in the Linux world. I like SuSE and it is my favorite distro, so I would take parts from them and strike a deal with them.
I also like Slackware because it's simple and effective, mix that with the simple and ease of use of SuSE, and then add features from Mandrake because the way they do a few things I also like, and then Debian, another fav of mine.
Debian would have to be in there because apt-get would be a feature of my OS.
Then Id have a nice design ready. The actual OS would be a mix between Solaris, Trustred Solaris, Open BSD, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware *BSD, and BeOS. As for networking, I would hire in Free BSD. I think Free BSD is very good with networking and I would use some of what they do too. The Linux 2.6 Kernel from what I understand has been running circles around most OSs for networking, so that would be a big basis for idea to.
The TCP stack would be very much like the one in the Linux kernel, as it is one of the best. Also the only one completly RFC complient.
Something that pisses me off about any OS is when it becomes bloated. To try and combat this, I would try to keep the people coding it in check with the people from DOS. DOS was not bloated. Anything that can run of a floppy usually is not. And as I have said before, I want the install VERY customized. If you want that is. You will be able to do the install in a number of ways.
One of the things I like about an install is being able to do it my way. I think one of the hardest things that will need to be done, will be trying to get it all to fit on floppy/CD/DVD. I want people to be able to install this OS even on a 286. If DOS can run on it, my OS damn well better be able to. Regaurdless of how old these machines are, I do not think it is right that an OS can tell you when your machine is to old. That is not right.
I know this would mean making several versions of the OS. This may seem very stupid, and maybe all of them won't sell well. That's ok, I'm not doing this to become rich, I'm doing this because I WANT too.
I would make a version for the 286 - 486 machines, that would be based on floppy disks, and if possible, a CD-ROM. Obviously, this version would work on new hardware too, but it would come with the OS. The box for this OS when you bought it would obviously be huge. Bigger than a SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional box by far.
This would accomplish a few things:
Users would not have to upgrade, or toss out there old machines.
They would be able to install it on the main machines they use, and then use the other versions for an old machine they have lying around. So buying it would get you the CD/DVD disks to install, and also the floppies.
I would make the OS simple, yet seemingly complex. I would split the OS into peices and have each part to one job VERY well. If you know alot about UNIX, this is the basis for it too.
I would NOT make it like a Micro Kernel though. It would be a monolithic kernel, because making a Micro kernel is a pain in the ass. You have all of these ervers who need to communicate with each other, and then, if something goes wrong, you have to try and figure out which service does what, and when you fix one, you could break the others. It's a big head ache.
I would give the option to have a GUI or not, which during install would be chosen, but after picking it you would not be locked into the choice. You could type a command, and make it start booting in GUI mode. Also, I don't like OSs that make you type sopme weird ass command to make things happen. The command to go from booting into CLI only, into GUI at boot up, would be simple: bootup="gui"
I like that, it's easy to remember, and of course would require root access. There would be a root account, just as in UNIX, except unlike UNIX, installing software would not always require root.
Trojans, virii, worms, they all need to be able to run, and root kits do to, for them to work. Well, installing software needs root access on most OSs, and that gives the thing a chance to take over a system. So I would be making it so, depending on the software, and where it came from....Hmm, I just made up a new Idea, while you install software, it would do a scan of the code inside of it looking for strings. If a Virii or malicious like string is found, it would report this to you, and tell you about the string it found.
For installing trusted software, as in software coming from the OS install media, or from the OS web site, that would be ok with root. But software downloaded from the net, that would be scanned, and installed with maybe a sudo style tool, that would not allow the software access to anything it didn't need. Also, the software would be monitored, and watched. Kind of like a tripwire style tool.
If it tried doing anything else, or did something it wasn't supposed to, it would be locked in a "Code Cage" so that it could not hurt antything, and the root account would be notified of this, and then the proper action could be taken.
The "nobody" user in Linux is who would be running most server software/Daemons. That way if someone exploits code of say, apache, they don't get root that easy.
The GUI would have a meter you could use to basically choose how GUI intence the system would be. If you have a powerful machine and you like eye candy, You could set the system GUI FX up all the way and everything would look beautiful, tasks would start up like movies.
But, if you wanted you could also run it on a 386. and if you wanted it would have a user interface that ran on a 386, not just command line. Of course this would be similar to a DOS Shell, the mouse would work, but the GUI would be nothing more than colored text and things that would prolly resemble a drawing on the screen, kind of like PC-DOS uses.
Also, I would make it so that it had "patches" for compatibility. Like if you wanted it to run Windows **** or something like that, you could install the patch from the installation media. That way the system wasnt hogging resources for no reason.
Stability, Reliability, Security and Performance would be what I'd want first. The GUI would look awesome, but I wouldnt take away from reliability just to "make it look pretty". The installation I think would be new. I would have it set up so that while you were installing it was interactive.
Like when you booted it up it would have a nice looking splash screen and then detect your hardware, but while it was doing that, there would be a screen asking you to turn on your speakers and click a button when you heard a test sound. After the speakers were on and a nice sound level was choosen, a little text box would pop up and it would say Hello, what is your name? And then you could tell it your name and it would say Hello to you and ask how you were doing and ask if youd like to play a game.
Id have a couple low resources games for you to choose, like testris or tron, or a window would come up for you to draw on while you waited for hardware detection. Also, hardware support would be very important to me, all the new features of hardware can't be used if the OS cant find it, right?
That is why I would go to almost every hardware manufact and ask them for drivers or specs to create them. Then I would have the drivers tested. Also, I would recommend Nvidia cards to my users.
I'd have a chat with the people who make Nvidia cards and tell them about it and ask for them to include drivers for my OS on the CDs of there cards. Id also do this with juts about every other hardware maker. That way people using this wouldn't have the excuse that with Windows the **** works because theres support.
That wouldn't be aloud to be said anymore, because my OS WOULD have support. And everytime something new came out, I would have a patch ready on the OSs website that would add the drivers to your system. Before the thing was released though, I would hire hackers, crackers, and system analysis people to come in and seriously **** with the thing.
I'd give them a copy free for doing so, and, along with cash, I think they'd do good. After the OS was done, I would take the code form it, and chop it up into peices, and have secure code analysis done on it to be sure there aren't any holes in it or security flaws that make compromise the system.
Also, to everyone who used it, I would have the activation codes for every copy registered, and that way I could make the OS pop a Window up after the install saying "Congratulations! Your registration code was a randomly generated number that has a winning package" Or some **** like that where there would be a few of the packages sold having registration codes that, when registered, would alert the user that they won, and then, they could take the code and call up a special number for OS tech support and say they got the message, and then that person could verify this and they would win a new computer or $1000.00 in cash.
The registration code they used would then be marked off so it couldnt be used again. I duno I just think that this would be a nice change in OS installation than the usual "please set your clock" bullshit I see every week when I do an OS install.
The OS itself would be sort of UNIX based, it would be able to run KDE and all the other X clients, but also, by default, it would use a custom one that came with it. Also, pricing would be very similar to Linux distros you see in a store. I would charge around 70 Dollars for it. Thats a decent price and people can usually afford that much, **** they pay twice that for Windows anyway.
Also, I would have so much software available. By default Id let you choose what you wanted, but the install would be 2 DVDs at least. Unless you did it for 386s, then it would be on floppy, which I would have the OS come with the DVDs, CDs, and floppies for the installation. The floppy disks would contain software for the OS made to run on old machines. The DVDs would be like SuSE Linux, you could install from CDs or DVDs.
But to make it so you could have good software on your older machines, I would have the basics needed be on the floppies, and then, the software could be downloaded, or installed from CD, and compiled, or installed.
I guess after using more than 40 OSs, I know what I and a few others would like to see in an OS. Oh yea, more importantly, the OSs would come with Tux racer, Vi, Emacs, an Unreal Tournament Demo, Doom, Quake, and a firewall.
Wouldn't it be nice to have an OS come with a computer you bought at a store that was actually not Windows? Id strike up deals with alot of people like Microsoft did, and that way we could minimize how many viruses people were hurt by. There wouldnt be no damned VB script in my OS. Id start out with at least x86 and Alphas and Sun stations being supported. Id have it so you could buy the version for whatever hardware you were using it for.
Also, that piracy bullshit wouldn't have people in jail. Well not as much anyway. I'd make it so when you bought your copy, you could install it on 3 machines. Not 1, but 3. Most people have 3 or less machines and I dont think it's right you have to buy 3 ****ing copies of the same software because your kids wanna play with it too, ya know?
So I'd allow 3 machines to use it at once, for the same price. That way they could try it out on one machine, and if they only had, say, two machines, they could let a friend borrow the CD to try it out.
This way, people aren't being accussed of piracy, and they can go back to being people who actually share, but with some rules. I know that bit would probably make Richard Stallman smile.
I'd have a built in command line that could use DOS and UNIX commands so you wouldnt have to re learn anything. But also, I'd have extra commands built in. Also the fact that it would be cheaper than Windows would help.
And I would stick by what I said about installation, I'd let it go for 3 machines. Because it really is ****ing dumb to have to spend 900 Dollars on Windows because the kids wanna play with it too. As for using it as a server, I'd have the most common servers able to be ran on it and also, I'd have new ones.
A new FTP server, a new Web Server, all kindsa ****. I'd make sure it was compatible with **** though too. Also, by default, all servers and or Daemons would be shut off. But also there would be a program to configure services and **** like that. But also the thing would have a text version too. Kind of like YAST2 from SuSE.
Also, maybe I'd make it so the server **** didn't come on the install media, but after you registered you could download them or...Hmmm *Heh, neat watching the thought process happen isn't it? * Maybe I'd just have a CD that came with it that had all the servers on it.
With a warning about them saying something like "You will usually only need these if you are a sys admin or if you are setting up a computer in which other computers need to access the machine, if you aren't sure, you don't need them".
Hmm, yea, that sounds good. And I think that having the site have patches you can add everytime new hardware is released would help. Like when a new peice of hardware was released the site would have a patch to download which contained drivers.
Heh this would rock man! Also, the OS would be able to run Windows software, Linux software, BSD, all kinds of OSs. That way people who wanted to try it or buy it but couldn't switch there platforms over could continue using what they already have and this too.
If it's not compatible with anything, no one will want to use it. Specially companies who use Windows, they aren't going to use this if they have to buy all new ****, but if this works with it just fine, they'll buy it, then if they like it, then they buy it and use it exclusevly, that little ability to CHOOSE what you want to do, will make me rich.
Also, I would have another patch to download or have it on the CDs or DVDs, that would allow you to run DOS programs, Windows progs, all kindsa ****. So people could buy it and use it as a server without having to ditch what they use as the server software.
Also, I would have it so games would be supported to, that way gamers could use it. I would also add a program to it that would monitor temps inside the machine, so that when it got too hot, it would display a warning message and play a series of beeps so sys admins and users could adress the problem without having to buy new machines.
I think system availability is important for a company, and you cant use a machine that bursted into flames because it over heated. Also, I would add a custom multi media player. I know I for one did not like Winamp, XMMS is cool as hell though, but I'd wanna go better, I would have OpiuMedia Player as a program that came with it. It would be fully skinable, resizeable (****ing small Video windows get on my nerves, and getting pissed about a problem leads to creativity), And also, I would make sure it was NOT a RAM and resources hog. It could be ran in Command line mode or "Text" mode, and Also in GUI.
It would play ALL media types. Codecs are a pain in the ****ing ass to search for, this would play everything. Also built in key strokes would be used. Not like exclusivly, but if you didnt feel like using a mouse, I'd have keystrokes for all tasks. And if you had the player in full screen, I'd have a pop up saying how to exit full screen mode so people wouldnt get disgruntled.
This OS will change computing as we know it. I have almost 40 OSs. and if you include some I downloaded a few days ago; I have like 49. Iv used A LOT of OSs, I know what I liked and what I didn't like from each one, I'd take away what was annoying and I would add my favorite parts from each one.
I would also have man pages like UNIX has. But also, help tools would be very important too. You can't tell someone to read the ****ing manual if they don't know where to start. I'd have it come with basic manuals for how to install and how to use it, but also for the people who enjoy hacking OSs, I'd give them something to quench that extra "how does it do that?" type of thinking.
I'd have a help menu with a search bar that would allow you to ask questions, and also just search for something by key words in general. It would be set up so you'd ask a question, and it would use the words you typed to find matches. Also for the people looking for more info, it would work the same way. It would take each word you typed in and find every manual/help file with matching words and display them.
But for people new to the system I'd have more options available, like it would ask YOU questions and then display what it would think you want. Also I'd have it with a few minor learning capabilities. The things you did most for example, It would do a sort of "defragment" on the fly. Like when you opened a program or did something, it would take a note of this and then after you used it for say 3 days and it had a decent amount of "notes" it would cache the things you did the most so they loaded faster.
The command line I think would be a very strong point. I'd have a tool kind of like YAST2 because YAST2 ****ing owns. Except I would make it so you could add hardware and **** without rebooting. I think it would take some neat tricks to pull that off.
Like one of the custom commands would be to make part of the File system (Morphine138) sleep, or sort of save all changes for you and shut that part of itself down so you could pop in hardware and then issue another "Wake up" command and it would refresh everything in memory and find the hardware and install the actual drivers for it...Actually, no, I have it pop up a menu and have it ask how youd like to install the drivers.
It could connect to the OpiOS website and download the latest driver, or install it from the install Media, or..Something like that. Just about anythinng to keep it from ever needing a reboot. I know I hate having to reboot, specially when you got a nice uptime going.
Another part of the OS would be protected memory. I'd make it part of the OS. I'd call it "memory Body Gaurd". It would keep an eye on everything in memory and if it detected something about to happen that could cause the system to become unstable in anyway, it would try to prevent it, and if it did freeze the system or become unstable, it would pop up a message telling you about it and then have a few options, you could basically just refresh that part of the OS and it would kill anything that seemed to be giving a problem.
I dont think that would happen though because of the people who would be working on this. And this would also go back to how the OS would be able to shut a part of itself down to allow the installation of hardware without rebooting. The ability to do that would be a main feature.
I know something like this is possible because Solaris doesn't usually need a reboot for hot swap **** or other hardware. The commands to shut down a part of the file system and bring it back up would be the sedate command, to make a part of the system fall asleep while you performed the surgery on the case (taking it off and adding hardware...kind like giving the PC a boob job, there both silicone right?) and then the coffee command would bring it back up.
I think another way to achieve this would be to have every part of the MOBO monitored by the OS, the PCI slots and drive bays could be monitored, and then AGP slots, and the RAM slots, and then when you wanted to add new hardware but didn't feel like rebooting the machine, you could tell it to sedate a certain area, it would sort of shut that part off, you could add it, then coffee it back on and it would find and use the new hardware.
I think the file system I picked would be a good choice name wise. Morphine was named after the Greek God of dreams, so The Morphine138 file sytem, which would work like a dream, would be very nice. Also the 138 is in there, because so many file systems seem to have numbers. Fat16,32,EXT2,3....**** like that. And 138 would of course be taken from my Love for the Misfits.
I'm really glad you all are in this thread. I think its going VERY well. I'm getting a lot of feed back and Also thanks to everyone for thinking its a good idea so far. I love it! And me being an OSs person, well it's fitting that me, whos used so many, be the one who makes the ultimate OS.
I'd also strike a deal with ISPs. I'd give them the OS for free to use on there servers and to give a few employees. In return, all of the users of OpiOS would get free internet access if they wanted it. Kind of like, you scratch my back and give me a reach around and I'll hook you up and save you a few thousand dollars in software costs.
I would have the file system (Morphine 138) have encryption built in. Also, if someone somehow got into the machine from an exploit or whatever, or if your a bastard like me, I would have a logout command.
Logout would work like:
logout -user -now or later or whatever.
Also, I would have it so that logs were stored in a special area, that way if someone did break in, you have logs, and if they whiped those, you have a back up that no one can get to because they'd be encrypted and stored on a separate partition.
Also, I think I'd want to add something like, for example, being able to handle a couple TBs of RAM. Also if you wanted you could allocate RAM for DDOS attacks. That way if someone was DOSing you, you could set aside RAM to handle that. The OS would detect the attack. Mainly by seeing that you had a **** load of useless data coming at you, and then use the allocated RAM to deal with the problem by not only sending some back, but also not responding to the rest.
That way some lamer bitch DOSing you would get DOSed himseld and you'd seem to dissappear.
I'll probably be adding more to this as I come up with it.
I'm still thinking of a way to do the name. I like OpiOS, but Opius may work too.


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Pollinator Highway
In a push to save the pollinators, the City of Deer Park is developing a "Butterfly Highway" to connect the natural prairie areas we have located within the City. These include the Deer Park Prairie on the South side of town and the Deer Park Wetlands on the Northeastern side of town. Both of these areas are unique and part of a world-wide habitat loss. We are incorporating pollinator gardens in many of our parks linking them together to increase both native plant species and native pollinator species. This highway will also be useful to birds and butterflies during their annual migration.
- Over 80% of the world's flowering plants require a pollinator to reproduce!
- Pollinators come in many shapes and sizes and include species of bats, butterflies, moths, flies, birds, beetles, ants, and bees just to name a few.
- Did you know that bees are by far the most effective pollinators? Remember, BEE kind to bees!
- Around the world, pollinators are declining due to factors that threaten all biodiversity. Loss of habitat is the principal reason, followed by improper use of pesticides, pollution, and invasive species.
Pollinators are important! Their numbers have been rapidly declining. If communities come together we can save the pollinators before it's too late! Community gardens like this are a big step in the right direction. You can help out at your house too. Here are some things to keep in mind for your pollinator garden:
- Refrain from using pesticides and herbicides. They will harm the pollinators and their source of food.
- Provide a variety of flowers that will bloom over an extended period of time to provide a stable source of food or nectar.
- Include both host and nectar plants to attract and keep pollinators in your garden.
- Use plants native to the area for best results. Avoid hybrid type species.
- Don't forget to provide protection from wind and a source of shallow water.
Our gardens are registered with the Monarch Watch Organization. For additional information visit the Pollinator Partnership.
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Woodbridge Art and Music Event 2014
The debut Woodbridge Art and Music Event in Elmhurst Park takes place on Saturday 9 August and Sunday 10 August in the medieval market town of Woodbridge, Suffolk, opposite ancient Sutton Hoo.
Situated next to a tidal river, one hour and thirty minutes from London, the event features a line-up of innovative acts representing a diverse range of music – including electronic, jazz, indie rock, funk, folk, disco, house, electro and more.
Acts announced so far include: Red Snapper, TY, Polar Bear, The Reflex, Severino – Horse Meat Disco, The Woodentops, Justin Robertson, Si Begg, Ben Osborne, Noise of Art, The Intermission Project, Thomas J Spieght, Ben Hauke, Blue Bus Tour, Kevin Pearce, Rhiannon Mair, Artwerk, Jan Pulsford, Non Such DJs, Talulah Goodtimes, Ben Allen, Oculus, Swallow and The Wolf, Charlie Law, U2R and Robert Castellani, plus art installations and exhibitions and more to be announced.
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Since 1926, February was known for the celebration of Black American history. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., initiated "Negro History Week." and remained so until 1976 when Black History week became Black History Month as part of America's bicentennial celebration. For those of us over forty years old, Black History week was one of the few times we learned about famous Black Americans like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington as our American history books were pretty mostly devoid of Black folks. For those of us who were fortunate enough to have parents committed to furthering our awareness of Black contributions to this country, we learned about Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Mary McCloud Bethune and W.E.B Dubois to name a few. I have to admit that I still get a little bit excited when February rolls around as American and Black history is one of my passions. However this February I feel a complex mix of emotions.
Super Bowl Sunday was January 29, 2012; nevertheless, thanks to stupid tweets by Roland Martin, a CNN's contributor, during Super Bowl night, by February 1st the Black LGBT community was once again forced to confront the great divide of being LGBT and Black. Gay Media watchdog organization, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) wanted him fired (and perhaps tarred and feathered him as well) for making homophobic tweets. In my judgment firing Martin would have been an extreme act; CNN probably did the right thing in suspending him.
Many in the Black LGBT community have weighed on this on blogs, Facebook, tweeter and other social media. Some of my friends and associates that I spoke to felt caught in the middle once again in the way described by the W.E.B Dubois in landmark book, The Souls of Black Folks (1903). Dubois wrote about the duality of being Black and American, "One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." The same can be said for being Black and LGBT in America. Do you side with the white LGBT organization that's calling for Martin's head -- while largely remaining silent on issues of race -- or do you stand with the Black man who has a history of making homophobic remarks?
Meanwhile, while this controversy is swirling in early February yet another Black transgender woman was stabbed to death in Washington and a young Black Gay Man is beaten-up and taunted with homophobic remarks by a gang in Atlanta. Then pop music icon, Whitney Houston dies after the specter of drug addiction destroyed her career. And Black history month is not even half over. All this should be a cause for reflection in the Black community. It's time the entire Black Community started to have serious dialogues about the violence in our community – not just violence perpetrated towards the LGBT community but the entire Black community. We also need to talk about drug addiction which is still a serious issue in Black community and far too often ignored, while those with addictions are marginalized and treated as society's throwaways. Black History Month should be a month of celebration of our contributions to American History and human civilization; however, it should also be a time to reflect and seek solutions to all the isms in the Black Community.
Fowlkes is the President/CEO of the International Federation of Black Prides, Inc. – the largest Black LGBT organization in the world.


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St. Petersburg, FL – Wade Miley worked 6 1/3 scoreless innings as the Arizona Diamondbacks blanked the Tampa Bay Rays, 7-0, in the finale of a brief two-game interleague set at Tropicana Field.
Miley (8-8) gave up pair of hits, both of which came in the fourth inning, and five walks while fanning a season-high eight batters to win for the fourth time in five starts.
"He's been on a pretty good roll for us," Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said of Miley.
Eric Chavez went 2-for-3 with a two-run homer and three RBI and, Paul Goldschmidt hit a solo homer and scored three times. Cody Ross added three hits and a pair of RBI for the D-Backs, who had dropped three straight entering the contest.
Earlier on Wednesday, Arizona acquired left-handed reliever Joe Thatcher and minor league pitcher Matt Stiles in exchange for starter Ian Kennedy.
After winning 15 games a season ago, Kennedy has been largely ineffective this year, posting a 3-8 mark to go along with a 5.23 ERA. He also has a 1.419 WHIP, the worst of his career for a full season.
Thatcher, meanwhile, has appeared in 50 games for the Padres and is 3-1 with a 2.10 ERA. Left-handed hitters have batted just .215 against him.
The 31-year-old will be expected to bolster an Arizona bullpen that has blown 19 saves this season.
Ben Zobrist went 2-for-4 for the Rays, who lost for just the fifth time in their last 28 games.
Jeremy Hellickson (10-4) was tagged for four runs on seven hits and two walks over 4 1/3 innings to absorb his first loss since June 13.
"(Hellickson) wasn't as sharp as he had been," Rays manager Joe Maddon said.
Arizona pushed a pair of runs across in the first and third innings to take an early 4-0 lead.
With the bases loaded and two down in the first, Ross singled to left to score Martin Prado and Goldschmidt.
In the third, Goldschmidt worked a one-out walk and Chavez followed with a line-drive home run just inside the foul pole in right field to put Arizona up by four.
The D-Backs added one run in each of the final three innings to account for the final margin.
Prado and Goldschmidt hit back-to-back singles to open the seventh and Chavez followed with a base hit to push Prado across.
A.J. Pollock opened the eighth with a base hit, stole second and third base then scored on Gerardo Parra's infield single.
Goldschmidt's solo shot in the ninth made it 7-0.
Game Notes
Just 65 of Miley's 116 pitches went for strikes ... Miley's five walks were two shy of a season high ... Wil Myers extended his hitting streak to 12 games ... Tampa Bay used six pitchers ... Hellickson had won seven straight decisions entering the contest ... Hellickson allowed more than three runs for the first time since June 13.


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Protect your site from Google's new toolbar
To the delight of gadget freaks and the consternation of some web designers and thinkers, the new Autolink feature in Google's latest toolbar sticks links on your site that you didn't put there.
For instance, if your company's site includes a street address, a link to Google's map service will magically sprout from your page when users click the Autolink button. Likewise, a book's ISBN number will trigger a link to an Amazon page selling that book. The BBC and CNET cite additional examples.
Critics point out that with this technology Google is approaching the very thing Microsoft tried to do in 2001. See Chris Kaminski's "Much Ado About Smart Tags" (A List Apart 22 July 2001) if you missed that drama. Kaminski cited three problems with Smart Tags:
- Per Walter Mossberg in The Wall Street Journal, Smart Tags enabled Microsoft to "edit any page on the web without the author's knowledge."
- They extended Microsoft's monopoly power into new markets, giving the Redmond giant the power to decide which non-Operating System companies would live and which would die. (Companies Microsoft's Smart Tags division partnered with would live; their competitors would eat worms.)
- Not least, Smart Tags were "amenable to nefarious uses, such as covert user tracking" (Chris Kaminski in ALA, paraphrasing Dan Gillmor).
Google has been a good corporate citizen and outstanding netizen for so long that one wants to give the company the benefit of the doubt. And, to be fair, consumers might derive benefit from Google's new service — as, indeed, many might have benefited from Smart Tags. But Google's new toolbar doesn't solve the three problems cited above. It merely makes Google instead of Microsoft the arbiter of life and death in the information space.
You can't stop a juggernaut in pursuit of its own increase, but you can do something about the part where they mess with your website, adding links you didn't create.
Namely, you can download this script from Threadwatch, install said script on your server, and link to it from the
<head> of your web pages.
Drew McLellan explains how it works:
The script cycles through all the links in the page and removes any that are found to have been placed there by Google.
Obviously, the more links your page contains, the more work the script must do. Client-side wear and tear could go away like a bad dream if Google would do what Microsoft did with Smart Tags: namely, provide a meta tag that disables them. (Unlike Smart Tags, which were on by default, Google's new Autolink feature is off by default; this is the company's rationale for not providing a disabling meta tag.)
Please note that the toolbar is still in beta; the company is soliciting consumer feedback. Like previous Google toolbars, this one works only in Internet Explorer and only on the Windows platform. But most of its actual benefits, such as popup blocking and in-page Search, are built into newer browsers like Safari and Firefox.
New and different
- Screenfont.ca bows
- Screenfont.ca covers the typography of captioning and subtitling and will serve as an activity hub for the design of new fonts in the category. Helmed by Joe Clark, Screenfont.ca is "part of an upcoming project to research and develop a set of standards for captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing."
- Virtual Stan
- You make Stan smile or frown. You make Stan sing Roxanne. You plop Stan down in an Apple Store, Hogwarts, or Middle-Earth. Concept, design, illustration, animation, programming and more by Rob Weychert. Crank up your Flash player and enjoy Stan!
- Designers Toolbox
- Designers Toolbox is a handy resource for folks who push vectors and pixels around.
- We Are Basecamp's Bitch
- Happy Cog Studios' productivity has increased by 413 percent since we started using Basecamp™ to keep our creative projects on track.
A List Apart 195
In Issue 195 of A List Apart, for people who make websites:
A passion for web standards can become a broken heart when effects that are easy to achieve with table layouts seem to defy the earnest CSS- and markup-conscious designer. Fortunately, new ALA author Nandini Doreswamy loves a challenge. In "Bulleted Lists: Multi-Layered Fudge," she shows how to create two columns of bulleted lists in the flow of text.
Return of the son of Linkmania
- Uncle Milton (Glaser on Film)
- Milton Glaser is my neighbor. His studio is around the corner from mine. One of the world's best known and most influential graphic designers, Glaser has been practicing for something like five decades, yet he still wakes up inspired — as this short film directed by Hillman Curtis shows. (Hat tip: JSM.) [Related]
- Davezilla on Sexy Chevrolet Redesign
- The Weekly Standards interviews Dave Linabury on the sexy, CSS-driven redesign by Campbell-Ewald of the official Chevrolet shopping site. (Note that the content of this article will disappear in the Safari browser due to its difficulty parsing The Weekly Standards's layer-swapping trickery. This happens with all Weekly Standards content when viewed in Safari.)
- GooeySAX
- Web and software developer Todd Ditchendorf (hey, nice blog!) presents GooeySAX, a product whose name probably discomfits him when his mom asks what he's been working on. The free product tests XML documents for well-formedness and can locally or remotely validate XHTML docs against a standard or custom DTD. Available for Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Linux.
- Looking for People Who Like to Draw
- American Illustration announces its 24th illustration competition. The deadline for submissions is 18 February 2005. The jurors:
- Christine Curry, The New Yorker, (Jury Chair)
- Joan Ferrell, The American Lawyer
- John C. Jay, Wieden + Kennedy
- Joe Kimberling, Los Angeles magazine
- Hannah McCaughey, Outside magazine
- Richard Winkler, Curious Pictures
- Old Browser Archive
- We posted this link back in the 1970s (or so it seems), but we are always getting new readers, and some new readers may be unaware of this magnificent resource made possible by Adrian Roselli, Algonquin Studios, and the hard-working volunteers of evolt.org. And so, once more with feeling:
- Need to find out what your site looks like in old browsers, dead browsers, outdated versions of still living browsers? Look no further than Evolt.org's free Browser Archive.
- Lightboxing
- Hot designer-on-designer action!
- AIGA design archives
- A browsable record of design work honored by AIGA.
- Weightshift
- Beautiful and unusual presentation by small design agency out of Chicago. CSS layout, valid XHTML structure.
- What if...
- A visual experiment in personal narrative by FlipFlopFlyin.
- Eric Meyer: Be a Parent
- Got kids? Run a blog? Then read this.
- Cloud King: Owen Mundy
- Fine art photographer, straight outta Lawrence County, Indiana.
- Seventies!
- A collection of 70s images.
- The dullest blog in the world
- I know, I know. I've linked to it before. How dull of me.
- Mezzoblue: Getting unstuck
- Fighting creative doldrums.
- Backyard
- Incredibly unusual site of what appears to be a film production company. I say appears because the site does not explain itself. And maybe that's okay. Could be a marketing ploy. (If you have to ask who they are, this company is too hip for you.) Main thing is that the site, fashioned by ex-Designers Republican Matt Pyke, is unlike any other.
- Goldberger on Johnson's passing
- In the 7 February New Yorker, architecture critic Paul Goldberger has penned an eloquent epitaph for Philip Johnson, American architecture's enfant terrible, who died this week at age 98. Accompanying Goldberger's perfectly pitched prose is an incredible Arnold Newman photograph of Johnson in Manhattan in June, 1959, with the Seagram Building looming behind him.
- Although The New Yorker posts much of its content online, and intended to post Goldberger's epitaph, the magazine's link to its own content is broken (or the content was never uploaded — or a data entry error scotched the database). Whatever the cause, the content cannot be retrieved from the web.
- So buy a print copy.
- Homeland Insecurity
- From the same New Yorker issue, William Finnegan on the U.S. government's efforts to look like it is trying to protect citizens from terrorist attack.
- In today's Report:
- Special double issue on separating behavior from structure and presentation.
- Black History in Motion
- As Black History Month begins, The New York Public Library launches In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience.
In a special double issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Peter-Paul Koch shows how to separate behavior from structure and presentation via JavaScript "hooks," and J. David Eisenberg explains how to make those hook-laden pages validate.
JavaScript Triggers
Now that you've separated your website's (XHTML) structure from its (CSS) presentation, wouldn't it be great to similarly abstract the behavioral (JavaScript) layer from the others? ALA prodigal Peter-Paul Koch shows how to use JavaScript Triggers to do just that.
Validating a Custom DTD
In his article in this issue, Peter-Paul Koch proposes adding custom attributes to form elements to allow triggers for specialized behaviors. The W3C validator won't validate a document with these attributes, as they aren't part of the XHTML specification.
Not to worry! This article will show you how to create a custom DTD that will add those custom attributes, and will also show you how to validate documents that use those new attributes.
Black History in Motion
In the U.S., 1 February is the first day of Black History Month. This year it also marks the launch, by The New York Public Library, of In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience:
A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Told in historical texts, rare visual materials, and contemporary photo-journalism.
Although it is not instantly apparent, the site provides immediate access to rare documents in The Library's collection. It is a web interface to non-web documents. In Motion is a joint production of NYPL's Digital Library Program and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Hat tip: Carrie Bickner Zeldman, who helped birth the colossal site.
Gunner Palace double launch
We would link to the newly launched Gunner Palace website even if it were not crisply designed and compellingly written.
The indie documentary Gunner Palace ("Some war stories will never make the nightly news") chronicles the daily experiences of 400 young American soldiers headquartered in a bombed-out pleasure palace once owned by Saddam Hussein.
Compiled by co-directors Mike Tucker and Petra Epperleinand, the Gunner Palace blog...
...consists of notes from the production of the film in 2003–2004 and emails sent from 2/3 FA soldiers during their 410-day deployment to Baghdad and Najaf.
The film (view trailer) has been picked up for nationwide U.S. theatrical release on 4 March 2005. Leading up to the wider release, director Tucker and soldiers from the film have begun a sneak preview tour of select U.S. cities.
God bless the brave.
Issue 193 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, features Norm Carr and Tim Meehan's gentle introduction to use cases:
One of the biggest problems in creating and delivering a site is how to decide, specify, and communicate exactly what we're building and why. Use cases can help answer these questions by providing a simple, fast means to decide and describe the purpose of your project.
Also in this issue, please note that ALA's translation policy has changed.
Picture for a Friday afternoon
As the weekend approaches, I leave you with two good links and one interesting stinker:
- The Mindness of Strangers
- Over three months, Danish designer Simon Hoegsberg stopped 150 strangers on the streets of Copenhagen and New York City and asked them what they had been thinking about the second before he hailed them. Using a microphone and a dictaphone, he recorded their answers, then snapped their photos. The result, launched today, is The Thought Project.
- Dooces Loaded
- Dooce.com, the website of Heather B. Armstrong, continues to provide the pleasures of real human writing (see, for instance, "Why simply enjoy an organism when you can experience a sensational organism?") in an enviably clean yet smartly branded blog layout. There are even nifty Categories for those who like to slice reality into comprehensible pieces. If you like your personal sites personal, this Dooce is for you.
- Not so bright
- Mensa International is a society of people who are much, much smarter than you or me. (You or I? See, that's one reason I'm not a Mensa member. Them cats knows they grammar.) Anyway, the people of Mensa are bright, which makes deliciously ironic the fact that their website is kind of dim.
- For openers, when you go to mensa.org, you are redirected to mensa.org/home.php. No, I am not kidding.
- According to the home page, Mensa "'provides a forum for intellectual exchange.'" (I use double quotations because Mensa wraps quotation marks around its own site copy.) Perhaps they should exchange intellectual ideas with someone who knows how to configure a web server. There's tons more but I'll leave it as an intellectual exercise for the reader with time on his or her hands to list all the bone-headed mistakes on the smart folks' site.


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What is the deal with oval chainrings?
I know that eliptical chainrings have been around for a long time and their use seems to have peaked back in the 70's & 80's. I recently saw a professional rider using them in the TDF and I started thinking...
Is there any empirical data that supports or refutes the claim that eliptical chainrings provide more power output with less muscle fatigue?


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Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign received a boost this morning in the form of State Senator Liz Krueger's official support.
"I know all of the candidates and I've been … listening to their vision for where they want to take the City of New York if they were to win," she told Politicker, citing affordable housing and education. "I find myself–on topic after topic–being most consistently in agreement with Bill de Blasio."
Ms. Krueger's endorsement likely carries more weight than the average pol as she's a well-known brand on the Upper East Side, a neighborhood that sports a large pool of active Democratic voters. (Another mayoral candidate, Council Speaker Christine Quinn, has earned Upper East Side Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's backing.)
For her part, Ms. Krueger said she was excited by what she called a "surge" in the de Blasio campaign, which has suddenly seen a boost in public polling since former Congressman Anthony Weiner's own bid imploded after another sexting scandal last month.
"When I talk to people–not just in my community but citywide–I think there's a recognition of, 'Gee [I] didn't really know who he was.' But now that there's been more and more media attention to the different candidates as we get closer and closer, I think people are thinking, 'I really agree with that guy de Blasio. Tell me more,'" she said.
Ms. Krueger further addressed the increasing spectacle of this year's election season, featuring not only Mr. Weiner's brouhaha but Monday's arrest of long-shot comptroller candidate Kristin Davis on drug charges.
"Did anyone think that she was a serious candidate without some problems going on there, with all due respect?" Ms. Krueger asked. "Some of the candidates who are running you sort of just go, 'Really?' It's the Mayor of New York City we're talking about."
Still, as the State Legislature has experienced more than its fair share of its own scandals, Ms. Krueger said she's no longer quite as bewildered by the bad behavior of public officials.
"I come from the New York State Senate," she added, "so I'd be lying if I told you I hadn't seen it all or been surprised. Pick a month. Pick a year."


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Urban Outfitters Misses Where it Counts
Urban Outfitters (NAS: URBN) reported earnings on Nov. 19. Here are the numbers you need to know.
The 10-second takeaway
For the quarter ended Oct. 31 (Q3), Urban Outfitters met expectations on revenues and missed estimates on earnings per share.
Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue grew and GAAP earnings per share grew significantly.
Margins grew across the board.
Revenue details
Urban Outfitters recorded revenue of $692.9 million. The 29 analysts polled by S&P Capital IQ predicted a top line of $692.2 million on the same basis. GAAP reported sales were 14% higher than the prior-year quarter's $610.0 million.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Dollar amounts in millions. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
EPS details
EPS came in at $0.40. The 30 earnings estimates compiled by S&P Capital IQ predicted $0.41 per share. GAAP EPS of $0.40 for Q3 were 21% higher than the prior-year quarter's $0.33 per share.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
Margin details
For the quarter, gross margin was 37.6%, 220 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was 13.5%, 150 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was 8.6%, 30 basis points better than the prior-year quarter.
Looking ahead
Next quarter's average estimate for revenue is $818.4 million. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is $0.52.
Next year's average estimate for revenue is $2.76 billion. The average EPS estimate is $1.57.
Investor sentiment
The stock has a three-star rating (out of five) at Motley Fool CAPS, with 619 members out of 721 rating the stock outperform, and 102 members rating it underperform. Among 226 CAPS All-Star picks (recommendations by the highest-ranked CAPS members), 200 give Urban Outfitters a green thumbs-up, and 26 give it a red thumbs-down.
Of Wall Street recommendations tracked by S&P Capital IQ, the average opinion on Urban Outfitters is outperform, with an average price target of $39.02.
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Geophysics, Inversion, and Programming
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Cloud security options are set to widen today as RSA teams with Microsoft and Citrix to support use of RSA SecurID authentication, and separately, McAfee unveils enhancements to the McAfee Cloud Security Platform.
RSA, the security division of EMC, said the Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS 2.0) security token service can now support RSA SecurID token authentication.
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Amazon adds app for easier two-factor authentication
Through integration with Microsoft ADFS 2.0, someone authenticating using RSA SecurID two-factor authentication could extend that identity assertion into cloud-based services supporting ADFS 2.0 in a federated way. These could include those built on the Windows Azure platform as well as secure access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud-based Web applications, according to RSA.
"In terms of virtualization and the cloud, this means you can take these islands of identities and bring it up into the cloud context," said Sam Curry, chief technology officer for identity and data protection business unit of RSA. "If someone is building on this platform, they can now use SecurID."
In related news, RSA also said support for RSA SecurID had been integrated into the Citrix Receiver virtual desktop software client.
With Citrix Receiver, organizations can support employee access to enterprise data, applications and desktops from any computing device.
It can be used with Windows, Mac and Linux desktops and laptops; thin clients; and Apple iOS, Google Android and RIM tablets and smartphones. Users are provided a virtual image of these resources via Citrix Receiver, with no data or applications residing on the mobile device itself.
Curry pointed out this "container-like approach" is optimized for mobile applications so that the one-time password authentication entry is done automatically using RSA APIs with the RSA SecurID software token. He said SecurID support in Citrix Receiver is expected to be available next month.
McAfee on a cloud
McAfee also broadened its cloud horizons today with an updated version of its Cloud Security Platform. Out since May, it's a set of modular security services, including an email gateway and data-loss prevention, that can be used between an organization's network and a cloud service. It can be deployed by the enterprise for specific security services to the cloud, or by the cloud service provider.
New modules include McAfee Cloud identity Manager, originally developed by Intel, which acquired McAfee. The McAfee Cloud Identity Manager is compatible with SAML and allows companies to establish a single sign-on portal for centralized access to cloud services.
Marc Olesen, senior vice president and general manager of cloud and content at McAfee, also said the McAfee Data Loss prevention module in the cloud platform has been updated for improved classification in the discovery process. It can also be deployed as a virtual appliance in a VMware-based environment.
One module, called McAfee Services Gateway, which was also originally developed by Intel, now has support for IBM MQ and Splunk for reporting.
Olesen said AT&T and Verizon are among those using the McAfee Cloud Security Platform, which now has about 10,000 business customers in both the enterprise and service provider segments. The McAfee Cloud Platform is available in software or hardware or a mix of both.
Read more about wide area network in Network World's Wide Area Network section.
This story, "RSA and McAfee add cloud security offerings" was originally published by Network World.