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Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election 2010: Nominations
Candidates must be a member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps ensure that FAmSCo members have some experience with the processes of Fedora Ambassadors, but still allows relatively new contributors to sit on FAmSCo and bring fresh ideas to the table.
Ambassadors will be following the Fedora election timeline.
You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time.
Neville A. Cross (yn1v)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- Fedora User since 2006 and joined the Nicaraguan Fedora group in March 2008.
- Ambassador since August 20th, 2008 and Mentor since April 5th, 2010.
- Freemedia Team since Decenber 2008 and Administrator since April 2009
- Marketing Team since January 1st, 2010, working with Fedora Weekly News team making the marketing beat since February 2010.
- I have tried to get Fedora Ambassadors in all Central America. I have to said that Panama ambassadors came in their own, but I have made contact with people in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to achieve this, even before been appointed as a mentor.
- I have organized several events in Nicaragua, and participate in others events in Central America. Among the events that I have helped to organize there is the recognition as one of the best F11 release party.
- I have participated at FUDCom Latam 2009 in Porto Alegre Brasil and FAD Marketing 2010 in Raleigh. I will be attending to FUDCom 2011 in Tempe.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
I like to keep working to enhance the growth of Fedora in Central America and LATAM. I think it is useful to have a voice representing our region in FAmSCo. Budget has several time not used fully in LATAM, and in the other hand Ambassadors have been putting their own money to produce events. I think this needs to change. Events should be a several levels, big events with broad range of topics, and small very specific events to develop users into contributors.
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
FAmSCo should be a facilitator of the activities that Ambassadors undertake around the world. To bridge Ambassadors to the right people within the project when ideas arise that are involving more than Ambassadors team.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
Enable Ambassadors in LATAM and other regions to fully use their budget in a responsible and constructively way. Others goals that I have in the project does not require to be elected, such a revamp of distribution project that right now is only living as expenses of Freemedia team. I also plan to try to do hack labs in Nicaragua focusing en diferents topics: Packaging, design, translation, beta-testing, bug reports.
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
I think that the most important change is to change the fact that we have unused budget, we want to reach new collaborators and we need to invest on get them.--Yn1v 03:12, 26 October 2010 (UTC) updated --Yn1v 01:04, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Marcus Moeller (marcus)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
I have signed the CLA in 2008. Shortly afterwards I joined the Ambassadors group because I wanted to help promoting Fedora. I have already been participating in several FADs/events and am a package maintainer, too. This year I have organized FUDCon EMEA Zurich together with my college Sandro which was a lot of work (but also a lot of fun :))
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
- I want to help improving the mentoring process. The role of being a mentor is seen as something special (at least by most of the Ambassadors) and it should be attainable for everyone (with skills). To make it happen, slot based on the Ambassador approval rates could be an option or something like a waiting list. Maybe it even would make sense to limit the role of being a mentor for a specific time (e.g. one year) to let others do the job, too.
- I am thinking of new ways to distribute installation media (as DVDs are not that modern, any more).
- I want to help organizing FADs (yes, the good ol' classic ambassador days).
- Back in time there was an idea of having a Fedora swag shop. I want to help getting this up and running.
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
As the name implies it is the meant to give ambassadors a clear direction and aims. Members act as contacts on organizational tasks and should help solving disputes.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
Besides the goals I mentioned above I think money also matters for a project like Fedora (and I am not only talking about money from Red Hat, here). Funds are necessary to guarantee (some kind of :)) project independence.
In the past we had at least the e.V. to coordinate money exchange from America to Europe. But as the e.V. might not exist much longer we need to find alternative ways.
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
The Ambassadors project is already run in an adequate way, but I want to integrate some aspects more into the rest of the project (e.g. all group mentors are listed at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mentors but Ambassadors are liked to a separate page.)
David Ramsey (dramsey)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
I have been with Fedora starting at version Fedora 9.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
I want to be a member of FAmSCo in order to help the Ambassadors.
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
I think that FAmSCo's role may provide structure and help facilitate the needs of the Ambassadors.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
My particular goals related to FAmSCo would be the following:
- I want to understand and to address the Ambassadors' wants and needs.
- I want to help the Ambassadors achieve their own goals with appropriate support.
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
After having been an Ambassador and hearing their needs and wants, there is always room for improvement in all processes.
I believe that after an effective evaluation of the current way things are done, an appropriate way to interface via FAmSCo in order to address Ambassadors' growth and development is in my mind.
Gerard Braad (gbraad)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- I have been using Red Hat since one of the early releases, but from the perspective of a user. I was happy to hear that Fedora was the continuation of a commitment to the desktop. Although I have tried many different distributions in the meantime, I have always remained loyal to this RPM-based distro. Recently I have focussed more on the management and development side of the project by assisting the Chinese Fedora and Open Source community and getting the Fedora MIPS port on track. I am member of the Marketing team as the key to promote Open Source in China is get TOSW more generally accepted.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
- It seems like the best way to assist and help the Chinese and Asian community to get a better foothold in the Fedora project.
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
- Providing the Ambassadors a place to go for their questions about resources they need, how to co-operate with the other Fedora and Open Source communities in their region.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- My particular goals related to FAmSCo would be the following:
- Mentoring and support for current Ambassador
- Grow presence and awareness of Fedora and Open Source in general in Greater China
- Being a bridge between cultures
- Being a bridge between Marketing and Ambassadors
- Ambassadors in the APAC should have a good representation of your needs and resources
- My particular goals related to FAmSCo would be the following:
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
- Ambassadors play a role in not just representing the brand, but also in the promotion of 'The Open Source Way'. They are the greeters to our Community and assist in getting contributions to Fedora and our Upstream projects
== JoergSimon (kital) ==
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
My involvement with Fedora started with my first FUDCon in 2005, today i contribute to multiple groups in the Fedora Project and i am the current FAmSCo Chair. My main focus in Fedora right now is: the work on membership Community Development and Mentoring, Fedora as Security Testing Platform and the Fedora Security Spin, Fedora mailing list- and membership-administration and working on strong support for the Fedora Community in underrepresented regions in the world! Promoting Fedora on Events is another major part of my work and so i work as organizer, driver, helper, slogger, promoter on a lot Events since years and i produce, store and ship a lot of the EMEA SWAG and Booth Material.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
Because i care about the Fedora Ambassador Group. Once elected - FAmSCo means 12 month of ongoing reliable diligence and work - and often going a hard way - this is how i like it!
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
- FAmSCo acts as a liason to the Board and to the other Groups
- work on the vision and on "what is the proper role of the Ambassador Group in a global project like the Fedora Project"
- that Ambassadors get the ressources they need, but also accountability
- Mentors&Membership-Management - manage the grow with focus on quantity and quality of new Ambassadors Candidates
- continuous improvement of our policies like the Ambassador Code of Conduct
- encourage and support regional leaders
- manage our budget
- fix/resolve disputes within the group
- of course, listen and help Ambassadors to get their ideas working
- ...
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- help FAmSCo to fulfill his "proper role" ;)
- my ongoing goals and/or achieved goals from last Election :
- have more transparency - we established the monthly FAmSCo Report and opened the FAmSCo List Archives to the public
- stabilize Membership and Mentoring Process
- Mentors Survey and the Mentors Meetings
- we continued to improve the Ambassador Membership Process with clear guidelines for Mentors and for new Candidates
- a new Mentor Appointment Process
- a new Ambassador dispute resolution policy
- grow Fedora´s presence in underrepresented Regions
- the translation marathon in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 was prepared with Mirlan and Yaakov but canceled because of the violent unrests in the Region
- for Africa i initiated the contact with FOSSFA - and with onside Event-Leader Isaac made the IDLELO_2010 in Ghana happen and sent Pierros over to support
- we have now a stable base in Hungary thanks to Zoltan
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
As a Meta-Group with over 700 Contributors from all over the Fedora Project, this Group has the ability to spread not only Fedora the OS itself - we are more than that - we are Evangelist, technical Teacher, Mentor, Marketeer, Logistic, Artworker, Coder, Developer, PeoplePerson, SWAG&Media-Producer, Organizer, Project Manager ... in one Role. We all should strive to improve ourself in this Role! Ambassadors do a great job public facing, we have to get better to fulfil our Role as the glue between all the groups inside Fedora!
--Jsimon 17:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Rahul Sundaram (mether)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
I have been a user of Red Hat Linux when dinosaurs were still running around :-). I have been involved in this project (Remember Red Hat Linux Project 1.0 release plan before Fedora?), a couple of months after it was originally launched and have increased my participation like the tentacles of an octopus or even a banyan tree! over the last seven years. I am involved in various aspects of the Fedora community including documentation, marketing, packaging, helping out users and fellow contributors in getting started and staying involved.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
I was a founding member of FAMSCo (and first public Fedora Project Board) and the second official Fedora Ambassador in the world. Although I deliberately have stepped back and let others in the community take a active role in the past several years, I have continued to support FAMSCo and since my role at Red Hat is likely to change to being community facing again, I would like to be given an opportunity to be part of this leadership and support APAC and India activities as well as event management and support infrastructure in general.
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
I have always thought of it as a leadership activity in many ways similar to FESCo but with a people perspective instead of just a technical role. FAMSCo's role is to mentor, support and guide Ambassadors and resolve any conflicts that will arise from time to time.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
I want to ensure that Ambassadors are well aware of the details of Fedora in the past and in a new release, what's exciting and what's new and help provide ancillary support via infrastructure or packaging when necessary. I want to help with marketing efforts. I would also to guide and support Ambassadors, existing and new in APAC and India get started and stay involved.
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
I would like all Ambassadors to actively contribute in whatever ways that is possible. You don't have to be a technical person to do that necessarily and we already have a good history of Ambassadors getting involved in documentation, marketing, packaging, L10N etc and I want to encourage strongly a contributory culture to Fedora instead of Ambassadors limiting themselves to being marketing contacts only. I also want to ensure that whoever becomes a Ambassador has a strong hold on all the important details, including milestones, successes and failures in Fedora and atleast be aware of whom to redirect when they get a question they do not know the answer to. I want to do that by help documenting all those details in a guide which is a living document that will grow with more questions and answers. I aspire to organize a FUDCon in India in the next year as well.
Thank you all for reading and your support.
Zoltan Hoppar (zoltanh7211)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
I have used our beloved OS earlier from Fedora 7, looked for an stable translation platform for GPL programs. Therefore I have signed the CLA in 2009 and joined first to the localisation team, as l10n Hungarian translator. After this to the Ambassadors group because I wanted to help promoting Fedora, and help the expansion to Hungary, gather the heavily fragmented community. Currently, I try to do some marketing, art and swag research, swag creation - to make 'waves in still water'. I have already participated in few FADs/events, to learn, gather experience - and feel the pulse of the community.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
I would like to give aid and care to all of the ambassadors.
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
Gives suggestions, aids, builds structure, leads, protects, answers, communicating to/about the needs/problems of the Ambassadors, and binds every part inside-out of the community.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- I want to expand, strengthen our presence towards eg. Scandinavia, Russia, Poland, to former eastern bloc
- Improve mentor program, and expand to each groups to have at least one who educates the newcomers inside
- More regular classrooms to keep, build quality
- More "ninja" programs - incentives within the community
- Give support that is achievable from our resources without wasting
- More marketing - possibly more swags
- Tools for ambassadors - improve swag and free media handling.
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
We have to keep the unity between the Ambassadors.
-- Thank you for reading and your support.
Caius Chance (kaio)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- I installed RHL 6.0 in 1998, when I was looking for an OS which is easier to use and more efficient than DOS and its GUI successor. I remained as a part-time user and decided to become Fedora Contributor since Fedora Core 5 in 2006. Between 2006 and 2010 I was a developer in Fedora I18N Team. I joined Fedora Ambassador Team and be committee of Fedora Chinese User Group (FZUG) for a few years. Occasionally, I create artworks on Fedora and participated in activities like FreeMedia and organization of FZUG events.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
- As per my concern on growth of Fedora Chinese community, I had been concentrated on how to grow it rapidly and healthy. Looking at the huge population of Chinese computer users in greater China, SouthEast Asia and metropolitan cities around the world; I want to be a member of FAmSCo for making the strongest positive influence and lead along. I do believe my English/Mandarin/Cantonese/Japanese language skills could be leveraged in this scenario and make a big change.
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
- In order to increase users and contributors in non-English speaking regions, there are needs of bridge/middle-person who speaks their languages. A multi-linguist FAmSCo member ensures messages could be exchanged accurately and timely.
- The culture differences affect the results of every global project like Ambassadors. FAmSco member regulates the behaviors of ambassadors according to the culture of the regions of ambassadors so that they are doing morally and legally.
- Coordination has to be done among FAmSCo members of APAC sub-regions and global regions.
- FAmSCo should mentor new ambassadors by explanations to procedures of budgeting and campaigning.
- Be the first contact of ambassadors for all people and money issues they have encountered.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- Participate in plannings and fulfillment of plans of FAmSCo.
- Explain procedures of budget application to ambassadors.
- Mentor ambassador mentors and ambassadors.
- Assist ambassadors' organization of events and activities.
- Have fun! :D
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
- I would present the value of Chinese and Asian community within Fedora, which Open Source makes sense and attracts them!
Igor Soares (igorps)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- I started contributing with the Brazilian Portuguese Translation Team back in 2006. A year later I was coordinating the translation team and was invited to join the Ambassadors project where I started to work closely with local contributors from different parts of Brazil. I maintained the Fedora BrOffice.org Spin and helped on internationalization testing. In late 2009 I resigned the coordination of the translation team and now I have been concentrating my efforts on the Ambassadors project.
- I have been attending to major FOSS events in LATAM such as FISL and Latinoware in the past three years. I have attended to FUDCon Porto Alegre in 2009 and FUDCon Santiago in 2010. Next year I'll be attending to FUDCon Tempe in NA.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
- I want to help organizing our community growth not by only having new ambassadors, but also gathering new developers, packagers, designers and translators. I want to help specially in LATAM where we still have few contributors and need to grow qualitatively.
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
- FAmSco should be a committee that understands cultural and language diversities enabling ambassadors from around the world in order to achieve Fedora Project goals and share our core values with fidelity. It is highly important that Fedora ambassadors feel represented by FAmSCo.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- I would like to assure that decisions are taken in a open and transparent way in LATAM and other regions;
- I also want to help integrating the Portuguese and Spanish parts of LATAM driving the region together into common goals and objectives.
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
- I would like Ambassadors to be more integrated with other projects. Ambassadors should work closer with translation, packaging and internationalization projects in order to know precisely what those projects need so our ambassadors can dig in the FOSS community and help new contributors to arise and guide them correctly.
Pierros Papadeas (liknus)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- I've been involved in Fedora Project for 3 years now, and I am actively contributing to Ambassadors, Localization and partially in Design and Spins projects.
- In Ambassadors group I am organizing numerous events in Greece promoting Fedora and participated enriching Fedora presence in European, African and Asian foss event. Also I am chairing the EMEA Ambassadors Meeting helping logistics and regional tasks run smoothly for EMEA region.
- In Localization I am sponsor/mentor making sure that new translators find their way in the project and having more and more languages supported in Fedora. Also I am maintainer of the Design Suite spin of Fedora.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
- 12 months focused work on making sure Ambassadors all around the world have all they need, that's what I want! Also I am particularly interested to help EMEA region become more efficient with established procedures (we have already some e.g. trac! let's have more!) now in particular that the eVs are not going to be here (as it seems)
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
- Keeping Ambassador's project in-schedule for the releases
- Connection between Board and Ambassadors
- Consistent vision statement
- Coordination of regional vs global Ambassador tasks
- Budget handling
- Monitoring mentoring/sponsoring guidelines and practices
- ...and all the above in close collaboration and with feedback from all the Ambassadors
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- Keep the Ambassadors' Project in-schedule with the newly formed Ambassadorial tasks in our release schedule
- Close monitoring/reminds of the tasks
- Reform thee schedule to fit our needs (where needed)
- Define the regional and global Ambassadorial tasks for the schedule
- Keep logistics running smoothly in EMEA
- Quick budget handling
- FAmSCo presence in the local meeting to ensure that
- Improvise and deploy budget handling techniques in collaboration with Community Architecture team of RedHat
- Expand Fedora to APAC and Middle East/Africa
- We are already moving towards this direction and I am actively involved in that (Afica & Asia)
- Keep the Ambassadors' Project in-schedule with the newly formed Ambassadorial tasks in our release schedule
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
- Active participation in *all* regional meetings providing solutions and resolving conflicts
- Unification of all infrastructure services of Ambassadors
- More wiki bounties (wiki needs some love!)
- Constructive usage of unused budget. (and request some more!)
Thanks for reading all these :) Please feel free to contact me for any questions and/or ideas!
Ppapadeas 23:18, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Larry Cafiero (lcafiero)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
I have been a Fedora user since Fedora 7. I have been a Fedora Ambassador since a Fedora 9 release party at the Cabrillo College Linux Users Group meeting in the summer of 2008. Since becoming a Fedora Ambassador, I have been:
- A Regional Ambassador for the U.S. West Coast states (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii), until the "title" was abolished at the Fedora Ambassador Day in May 2010. However I continue to hold the same duties -- getting media and swag to Fedora Ambassadors -- without being called a "Regional Ambassador."
- An Ambassador mentor for North American Ambassador candidates.
- An owner/organizer on behalf of the Fedora Project at various large Linux expos, like the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Linux Fest Northwest, OSCON and the Utah Open Source Conference.
- A speaker on behalf of the Fedora Project to various college computer classes and Linux User Groups in California.
It would be an honor to add FAmSCo member to this list.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
Not only was I nominated by a current FAmSCo member, I feel I have a duty to serve. In addition, I have the time and desire to serve on FAmSCo.
<humor>Besides, I was told that all FAmSCo members get a pony.</humor>
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
Ambassadors are the "face" of the Fedora Project to the general public. As such, FAmSCo's role in the process is to make sure the Ambassadors have all they need -- whether it's media and swag or proper training and development -- to be the best representatives they can be to "put their best face forward" on behalf of Fedora.
To a large extent, as an Ambassador I have always felt that FAmSCo has done an excellent job in this regard. I would like to maintain and uphold this high standard and make sure that any necessary changes are in the right direction.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
As mentioned above, if I have a particular goal, it would be to make sure the high standards that are part of the Fedora Project's standard operations are maintained.
This is not to say that FAmSCo and the Fedora Ambassadors program are perfect, and the minor tweaking that comes from inevitable changes are a fact of organizational life. However, the core values and principles that have guided FAmSCo in the past serve as a great foundation from which to continue to build.
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
Before I answer this question, I would like to point out two important items about the Fedora Ambassadors program that deserve special mention.
First, if I were to pick out only one thing (and there are more, believe me) that I am proud of in being a Fedora Ambassador, it is this: I am proud to be a part of the Fedora Ambassadors program because the Fedora Ambassadors program has set the standard by which other distros should promote themselves. Recent proof of this is that OpenSUSE openly took several pages from our proverbial playbook -- if not the entire playbook itself -- in forming its own Ambassador program.
Additionally, I am also proud of the fact that one strong undercurrent in the Fedora Project -- though not implicitly stated -- is that the Fedora Project and its ambassadors have an understanding, dedication and commitment to the Free/Open Source Software paradigm to put FOSS first, which is something that is lacking in other distros. To be specific, the Fedora Project's Ambassador program clearly contrasts with Ubuntu's equivalent -- Local Communities (LoCos) -- which consistently puts Ubuntu first and FOSS a distant second.
Having said this, other than changes that come with unknown and unforecasted situations, I believe the Fedora Ambassadors program is on solid footing, thanks in large part to the dedication and commitment of Fedora Ambassadors worldwide.
One idea that I would like to see brought to reality is one recently proposed by John Rose (inode0) involving having new Fedora Ambassador(s) -- those who show commitment and promise -- attend Linux events where there is funding available to send them. The idea here is to get more and different people to larger events and for the new people to learn what is involved in event organization and coordination.
<humor>That and more bacon for all, of course.</humor>
Thank you for the opportunity to run for FAmSCo.
Guillermo Gómez Savino (gomix)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
Fedora user since Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow). I have translated many Fedora documents in the past, now I just finished writing the new Software Management Manual for Fedora 14.
In the field of community development, i recently founded (~1 year ago) http://rpmdev.proyectofedora.org in order to organize and promote various projects in the region, initially packaging and development. Then documentation and magazine and ambassadors projects recently.
I started founding Fedora Venezuela and aftewards driving proyectofedora.org Latin America, including their resources such as wiki, mailing lists such as firstname.lastname@example.com , email@example.com and assisting in the creation of the respective national blogs.
I've written a lot of wiki documentation for Fedora Venezuela which was then migrated to Fedora wiki Latin America.
I have promoted several ambassadors in Venezuela and other countries in Latin America since 2006.
- Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
I intend to drive growth to LATAM community.
Improve expenses effectively bringing people together and creating harmony for the healthy development of the LATAM community.
I want to increase the transparency decreasing the language barrier in the use of the budget resources for the good of the whole community and rationally increasing it always looking to expand our base of users and contributors.
Promote the proliferation of small events throughout the region. Major events can be very costly and results to date are questionable.
I want the ambassadors project more effectively support other groups, packaging, translation, writers, and no longer the center in LATAM, we are a group of servers and should help those to flourish, less control, morel help on their needs.
- What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
To give ambassadors a clear direction and help solving disputes.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
Enable Ambassadors in LATAM and other regions to fully use their budget in an effective way.
Improve communication without language barriers, particularly spanish/portuguese in our region.
Promote relationship with other commitees like FESCO and SIGs to better serve their needs from our perspective.
- What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
My only comment is about the name itself and what it implies in different cultures, Ambassador in LATAM really have a heavy significance and many times it can be missunderstood and many people looks at us in our region as part of a some kind of a bureaucratic organization, political organization, related somehow to a government and a "president", paid by someone to sell them something. I do believe that many times just the name Ambassador misslead our audience and touches their feelings in a negative way.
Antonio Sebastián Sallés (asalles)
Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- Fedora User since Core 1 and Red Hat user since 1994.
- Fedora Ambassador since 2005 and Fedora Expositor since 2006.
- Recent years I have made advanced training linux courses using Fedora and participate as exhibitor in the vast majority of free software latam events as Fedora Ambassador:
- 2003 to 2010 - EON : Encuentro Open Source y Nuevas Tecnologías (Encounter Open Source and New Technologies) (Main coordinator and Fedora Expositor) for all years.
- 2003 to 2010 - FLISOL Santiago de Chile (Coordinator and Fedora Expositor), for all years.
- 2008 - 9th Encuentro Linux (Red Hat Expositor).
- 2009 - Fedora Linux Day 2009, Santiago de Chile (Main coordinator and Fedora Expositor).
- 2010 - FUDCon Santiago 2010, July, Santiago de Chile (Main Coordinator and Expositor).
- 2010 - Fedora Linux Day 2010, December, Santiago de Chile (Main coordinator and Expositor) (not yet confirmed).
- I also participated in september at FUDCon Zürich 2010, Switzerland.
- My general profile is System and Software Architect and at this moment working as Remote Consultant for Red Hat Latam.
Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?.
- I think today in Fedora Community LATAM there are many people who could contribute with their knowledge and initiative, but unfortunately there is no good order in how to manage such potential. I think that putting together a good plan could change and improve transparency current order Latam fedora community.
- Creo que actualmente en la comunidad Fedora LATAM hay muchas personas que podrían aportar con su conocimiento e iniciativa, pero lamentablemente no existe un buen orden en la forma de administrar dichos potenciales. Me parece que armando un buen plan de cambios podríamos transparentar y mejorar el orden actual de la comunidad Fedora LATAM.
What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors? .
- Mainly looking for new potential partners that can help in different areas of the Fedora Project.
- Principalmente buscar nuevos potenciales colaboradores que puedan ayudar en las diferentes áreas del Proyecto Fedora.
What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?.
- My impression is that there are many people who wanted to help but don't have a good guide. I think to hold events and workshops in each of LATAM countries could reach widespread over the work we are doing as a community and also teach how to collaborate in different areas of the project.
- My main intention is to assist in the integration of current ambassadors, directing that they may learn to identify potential new developers, translators and participants.
- Create a better and simple process for generate Fedora disks for LATAM, to make it less difficult to deliver in the short term.
- Mi impresion es que hay muchas personas que quisieran colaborar pero no tienen un buen guía que los oriente. Creo que realizando eventos y talleres en cada uno de los países de LATAM se podríamos llegar a difundir más el trabajo que estamos realizando como comunidad y también enseñaría como colaborar en las diferentes áreas del proyecto.
- Mi intención principal es ayudar en la integración de los actuales embajadores, orientándolos para que puedan aprender a detectar nuevos potenciales desarrolladores, traductores y participantes.
- Crear un proceso mejor y simple para generar discos de Fedora para LATAM con el fin de que sea menos complicado entregarlos en un corto plazo.
What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?.
- I think that before being an ambassador must be an intermediate level. To become ambassador the person must go through a list of tasks to be executed before, based in his profile and defined by the Mentor. In this way we have for example, more development, more translation and work in all areas. There could even be a basic requirement to contact new testers and developers.
- Another important point try to assemble a large group of new developers with people drawn from universities and professional institutes. This could put together a plan of work to development courses in these institutions in order to find new potential participants.
- Creo que antes de ser embajador debe existir un nivel intermedio. Para llegar a ser embajador el interesado debe pasar por una lista de tareas a ejecutar antes según el perfil del candidato, definidas por el Mentor. De esta manera podemos tener por ejemplo, más desarrollo, más traducción y más trabajo realizado en las diferentes áreas de desarrollo, prueba y control de calidad. Incluso podría haber un requisito básico de contactar nuevos testers y desarrolladores.
- Otro punto importante es intentar reunir un amplio grupo de nuevos desarrolladores con las personas procedentes de universidades e institutos profesionales. Esto podría poner en marcha un plan de trabajo para el desarrollo de cursos en las dichas instituciones con el fin de encontrar los posibles nuevos participantes.


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While hunting for volcanic plumes on Io, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured these images of the volatile moon sweeping across the giant face of Jupiter. Only a few weeks before these dramatic images were taken, the orbiting telescope snapped a portrait of one of Io's volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide "snow."
These stunning images of the planetary duo are being released to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the Hubble telescope's launch on April 24, 1990. All of these images were taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.
The three overlapping snapshots show in crisp detail Io passing above Jupiter's turbulent clouds. The close-up picture of Io (bottom right) reveal a 120-mile-high (200-kilometer) plume of sulfur dioxide "snow" emanating from Pillan, one of the moon's active volcanoes.
"Other observations have inferred sulfur dioxide 'snow' in Io's plumes, but this image offers direct observational evidence for sulfur dioxide 'snow' in an Io plume," explains John R. Spencer of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.
A Trip Around Jupiter
The three snapshots of the volcanic moon rounding Jupiter were taken over a 1.8-hour time span. Io is roughly the size of Earth's moon but 2,000 times farther away. In two of the images, Io appears to be skimming Jupiter's cloud tops, but it's actually 310,000 miles (500,000 kilometers) away. Io zips around Jupiter in 1.8 days, whereas the moon circles Earth every 28 days.
The conspicuous black spot on Jupiter is Io's shadow and is about the size of the moon itself (2,262 miles or 3,640 kilometers across). This shadow sails across the face of Jupiter at 38,000 mph (17 kilometers per second). The smallest details visible on Io and Jupiter measure 93 miles (150 kilometers) across, or about the size of Connecticut.
These images were further sharpened through image reconstruction techniques. The view is so crisp that one would have to stand on Io to see this much detail on Jupiter with the naked eye.
The bright patches on Io are regions of sulfur dioxide frost. On Jupiter, the white and brown regions distinguish areas of high-altitude haze and clouds; the blue regions depict relatively clear skies at high altitudes.
These images were taken July 22, 1997, in two wavelengths: 3400 Angstroms (ultraviolet) and 4100 Angstroms (violet). The colors do not correspond closely to what the human eye would see because ultraviolet light is invisible to the eye.
Io: Jupiter's Volcanic Moon
In the close-up picture of Io (bottom right), the mound rising from Io's surface is actually an eruption from Pillan, a volcano that had previously been dormant.
Measurements at two ultraviolet wavelengths indicate that the ejecta consist of sulfur dioxide "snow," making the plume appear green in this false-color image. Astronomers increased the color contrast and added false colors to the image to make the faint plume visible.
Pillan's plume is very hot and its ejecta is moving extremely fast. Based on information from the Galileo spacecraft, Pillan's outburst is at least 2,240 degrees Fahrenheit (1,500 degrees Kelvin). The late bloomer is spewing material at speeds of 1,800 mph (2,880 kilometers per hour). The hot sulfur dioxide gas expelled from the volcano cools rapidly as it expands into space, freezing into snow.
Io is well known for its active volcanoes, many of which blast huge plumes of volcanic debris into space. Astronomers discovered Pillan's volcanic explosion while looking for similar activity from a known active volcano, Pele, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) away from Pillan. But Pele turned out to be peaceful. Io has hundreds of active volcanoes, but only a few, typically eight or nine, have visible plumes at any given time.
Scientists will get a closer look at Io later this year during a pair of close flybys to be performed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter and its moons for nearly 3-1/2 years.
The first Galileo flyby is scheduled for Oct. 10 at an altitude of 379 miles (610 kilometers), and the other will occur on Nov. 25, when the spacecraft will fly only 186 miles (300 kilometers) above Io's fiery surface. If the spacecraft survives this daring journey into the intense Jovian radiation environment near Io, it will send back images with dramatically higher resolution than any obtained before, according to mission scientists.
The Hubble telescope image of Io's volcanic plume is a composite taken July 5, 1997, in three wavelengths: 2600 Angstroms (ultraviolet), 3400 Angstroms (ultraviolet), and 4100 Angstroms (violet).

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Access Management Regulations and Standards
The Access Management Regulations 24VAC30-73 apply to state maintained highways in Virginia, including principal arterials, minor arterials, collectors, and local streets.
The Access Management Design Standards are located in Appendix F in the Virginia Department of Transportation's (VDOT) Road Design Manual.
- Access Management Regulations 24VAC (114 KB)
- Access Management Regulations provide flexibility in their application
- Frequently asked questions on the regulations and standards (PDF, 110 KB)
No entrance to a VDOT highway may be constructed unless its location and design comply with the access management regulations and design standards. Permission to construct an entrance is granted through a land use permit.
What Is Access Management?
Access management focuses on the location, spacing, and design of entrances, street intersections, median openings, and traffic signals.
Each of these creates conflict points where vehicles have to stop or slow down, disrupting the flow of traffic.
As the number of conflict points increase, so does traffic congestion and crashes.
Better management of access to the highway can reduce the number of conflict points and their adverse impact on highway operation and public safety.
Roads are a critical public resource and constitute a major investment of the public's money.
Access management can maximize this investment.
In other states, access management has led to a more efficient traffic flow that raises the average travel speed allowing the roadway to move more traffic.
Because the motorist spends less time waiting in traffic, fuel efficiency is maximized, air pollution is reduced, and commuting times become shorter.
Businesses benefit because better mobility expands their market area.
Virginia's Access Management Legislation
The 2007 General Assembly unanimously approved legislation (Chapter 863) (PDF, 32 KB) directing VDOT to develop access management regulations and standards during 2007 with the goals to:
- Reduce traffic congestion
- Enhance public safety by limiting conflicting traffic movements
- Reduce the need for new highways and road widening by maximizing the performance of existing state highways
- Support economic development by promoting the efficient movement of goods and people
- Preserve the public investment in new and existing highways
- Ensure that private property is entitled to reasonable access to the highways
To accomplish these legislative goals, regulations and standards were adopted for: spacing entrances; intersections; median openings and traffic signals; locating entrances a safe distance from intersection turning movements and from interchange ramps; providing vehicular, and where appropriate, pedestrian circulation between adjoining properties; and sharing highway entrances.
The 2008 General Assembly directed VDOT to implement the access management regulations and standards in phases.
The first phase regulations and standards applied to VDOT highways functionally classified as principal arterials and took effect July 1, 2008.
The second phase applied to VDOT highways classified as minor arterial, collector, and local and became effective on Oct.14, 2009.
These two regulations were combined into one on Dec. 5, 2013.
Information on the Regulations and Standards
Information on the functional classification of highways and a PowerPoint presentation on the regulations and standards are below.
- About highway functional classifications (PDF, 35 KB)
- Maps that identify the classification of state highways by locality and region
- Presentation on the Virginia Access Management Program (PDF, 3 MB)
The regulations and standards only apply to VDOT-controlled highways.
They do not apply to roads that are maintained by localities (such as cities, towns, and Henrico and Arlington counties).
All parcels of land abutting a state highway will be provided with reasonable access to the highway.
Exceptions to the spacing standards are listed in the regulations for: older business corridors of along VDOT highways, streets within traditional neighborhood developments, highway corridors with access management plans, and a traffic engineering study documenting a reduced spacing distance will not adversely impact highway safety and traffic flow.
Procedures are included for requesting exceptions with deadlines for VDOT decisions. Use the application form below.
Reductions to the Signal / Intersection / Entrance Spacing Standards
During the second half of 2011, the spacing standards in Appendix F of the Road Design Manual were evaluated.
VDOT staff, transportation engineering consultants and various stakeholders offered comments and suggestions.
Based on this information, the spacing standards were revised to assure they are reasonable in providing access to property, yet effective in preventing traffic crashes and maintaining highway capacity.
Additional Information on Access Management
From the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA):
- Benefits of access management (PDF, 809 KB)
- Safe access is good for business
- Virginia Tech access spacing study (62 KB) An excerpt from a study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute on the relationship between managing access near intersections and accident rates.
- Prior list of principal arterials for access management regulations


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Planning Briefs
Will M2 Be The Big Investment Story Of 2021?
Published Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at: 8:19 PM EST
Financial media coverage of the explosion in the nation's money supply, M2, is scant. With so much going on in the world, the parabolic rise in M2 has received little press, but it could be the most important investment trend of 2021.
M2 consists of currency held by the public, plus checking, savings and money market accounts.
M2 has skyrocketed because of the financial relief appropriated in the March 23, 2020 legislative response to the Covid crisis, and because Americans are staying home and saving at an astronomical rate since April 2020, when the relief payments first hit their accounts. It's a cash hoard unprecedented in modern history!
Where will that cash go in 2021? With interest rates low and the Fed saying it is not planning to raise rates for the foreseeable future, bonds are not an attractive investment. Likely places for the cash to go are stocks and real estate.
If Americans deploy the glut of savings into stocks and real estate, are you in position to benefit? While it is impossible to time the market, it is possible to assure you do not miss out on the expected investment trends.
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The Photographer2000 Drama | Comedy
Several stalwarts of the New York independent film scene make appearances in this tale of a creatively frustrated photographer and his search through the streets of Manhattan for ten mysterious snapshots which may hold the key to continued success. The film opens as Max (Reg Rogers), a former wunderkind in the city's art scene, awaits his eagerly-anticipated follow-up show. Although it's been a year since his big splash, Max has nothing to show for himself -- the pressure of his success has left him creatively stunted. His luck changes, however, when an enigmatic barfly shares a beer and some conversation with Max at a bowery-area watering hole. On the bar, the man leaves behind an envelope with ten stunning photographs. Hoping to pass them off as his own, Max leaves, elated -- only to have his artistic gift nabbed by muggers. Our hero spends the rest of the evening on a goose chase through the armpits of the city, encountering lovable misfits at every turn. Writer-director Jeremy Stein populates his debut feature with a wide array of notable N.Y.C. character actors, including John Heard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Tom Noonan.~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide


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Acting – The Power and Magic of Listening
Kimberly Jentzen presents a new and dynamic series: The Power and Magic of Listening, Part One. The following is an excerpt from her newly released book, Acting with Impact: Power Tools to Ignite the Actor's Performance.
Listening is opening up and hearing with not only your ears, but with each of your senses. To really hear the rain or take that moment to really taste the ice cream, or allow your eyes to take in the light through the trees in the early morning; these are all forms of listening.
Listening is being aware in the moment, like when a lover listens to your body and follows its message, or when a friend picks up on your indirect cues to leave the party and together you go. Listening is not only about hearing words, but being engaged with the whole communication of another and hearing with sensory intuition.
A skilled actor understands how to listen for more than just the words, sounds and tonality, but also with an emptiness inside that needs to be filled by the other character. When you listen to others, what do you really listen for? And what is your character listening for?
Listening is the first real obligation required to carry out a believable truthfulness in the moment. It creates an honest connection between scene partners. The actor has to surrender the planned response to allow a true response that can only come when really listening. Nothing can replace it.
Early in my acting career, I struggled with listening. I was playing the lead role in a play and I couldn't find my character. My friend told me to try to get a reaction from the other actor, some physical response, be it a smile, a laugh or even a raised eyebrow—just play the reality of attempting to get an organic, real moment from my partner on stage. This concept completely improved my work. I began to listen for a response instead of just my cues. I realized that predetermining how to say my lines gave a performance that pre-judged the experience of the moment. My lines now had a goal: to generate a response from my fellow partner. This was a major breakthrough, and I also had more fun in the process.
To listen is to put your attention on the other actor and what is being said both verbally and non-verbally. You watch, you hear, you wait; you are captivated in an active process. You can even listen to the silence of someone. Listening is taking in emotional reactions, body language, facial expressions and energy.
the next moment will bring.
You can't "act" listening
Never pretend to listen. Sometimes actors will move their head up and down, nodding or shaking their head, acting as if they are listening. How can you know whether you can agree or disagree until the other actor has finished their thought? You have to wait and really hear the actual thing that will generate your response.
When you really listen, your line deliveries gain nuances and become organic. Once this occurs, everything about the work can fall into place. When you really listen, you concern yourself with receiving the other actor—responding not in the way you previously planned, but with what naturally comes forth. It is genuinely accepting and connecting to what is being given.
The connection is above the communication
Have you ever engaged in a conversation in such a way that you forget what you were going to say next? The organic response that comes from that conversation is a true connection. What you were going to say isn't as important as the experience with the person with whom you are conversing.
Sometimes actors make the written words more important than listening to what lives beneath them. The truth of life is that the communication never rises above the connection.
Another life truth is how we listen. We respond differently in every relationship. Wouldn't you prefer to hear bad news from one person rather than from another? We have special bonds with a select few. All of that is taken into consideration as part of the real communication.
Let's say you are playing a small role as a messenger. The film takes place during 1944 and you must tell a Midwestern woman her husband was killed by the Germans in France. Your appearance in the film might be minimal, but the connection to the information will have a lasting effect on the life of this woman. And how you take her in, how you study her eyes as you tell her the news is crucial to the delivery of the lines.
**Acting with Impact is available at Samuel French Bookstore, Hollywood and kimberlyjentzen.com


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Jimmy Buffett - Dixie Diner Lyrics
Jimmy Buffett Lyrics
Dixie Diner Lyrics
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. wooo. we're going to take you up that Mississippi river
Now one time. yeah one time. up to an old favorite town of mine where i
Visit now and then just for one special reason, that's good eatin'. 'cause
I know a place on Tillman St. between ****** and ***** that can't be beat.
Emma Mae been cookin' there for forty-eight years and she ain't missed a
Lick yet baby. she's got hot sweet potatoes and cracklin' bread. ooh. and
Mulligan stew to turn Jimmy Buffett's head. woo, black-eyed peas and them
Good ol' collard greens, wooo. you know...
You know what...
That nothin' could be finer than to sit down and eat'n at the dixie diner."
"Alright Miami give it up. rock and roll on a Monday night."
"Help this skinny boy out. we've got two more days."
"Good rockin' tonight."
"I hear you professor."
"Thank you, thank you very much. God bless you. you're still the greatest.
We love ya."
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Samsung has entered the field of 4K HDTVs with their new 85-inch Ultra HD TV. For those that aren't familiar, 4K means four times the resolution of standard 1080p HD picture quality. Samsung calls their new TV a work of art, which works because the presentation looks like a canvas on an easel. It has a floating design that offers you control to tilt or raise and lower to perfect your eye-level viewing experience.
The Samsung 85-inch 4K HDTV is packed with a whole lot of exceptional features. The frame has speakers that pump out volume up to 120 watts giving you great audio with amazing picture quality. There is a camera in the upper frame which gives you accessibility to online chat through Skype and other various programs. Being connected to the internet is a breeze with Samsung's proprietary Smart Hub menu offering you a vast array of applications and more.
Stop by Abt Electronics this evening, May 15th and see and see the Samsung 85-inch Ultra HD 4k TV for yourself during our Samsung Live Event and be amazed! Hope to see you there!


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Climo History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The origins of the name Climo are from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It is derived from the given name Clement which means the son of Clement. The name is from Latin origin and applies to a mild or merciful individual. It gained popularity in Medieval Europe when it was borne by an early saint who was a disciple of St. Paul, and later when the name was used by several early popes.
Early Origins of the Climo family
The surname Climo was first found in Brecknock, in the Welsh princedom of Powys, located in the border country between Wales and England. A bearer of Clement is said to have arrived in the Norman Conquest of England with Bernard Newmarche. Together they later fought in Brecon where they conquered the Lordship of Caron; after this battle Clement was given land at Llangorse Lake and at Cathedine.
There is a record of a grant of these lands to Geoffrey Clement made at Westminster by Edward 1 on the 10th February 1290. There has also long been a family of this name in Oxfordshire, where record of the Knights Templar show William and Richard Clement in 1153, and Robertus Clemens in 1155. [1]
The name was "enormously popular in the 13th century. Hence as a surname itself and its variants will be immortalized in our directories." [2]
The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 included: Eustace filius Clement, Oxfordshire; Hugh Clement, Cambridgeshire; Richard Clemence, Huntingdonshire; Matthew Clemens, Oxfordshire; Peter filius Clement, Salop (Shropshire); and Clemens Janitor, Norfolk. [2]
Later the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 listed: Clemens Alius Elenoe; Johannes Clement; and Petrus Clementson as all holding lands as that time. [2]
In Scotland, "the following spellings all occur in 1684 (Parish): MacClymont, McClamont, McClamot, McClemen, McClement, MeClemin, McClymon, McCIymond, and McLymond, and Clymont. McClymonts are mentioned as farmers in Ayrshire in 1613. James McClymont, witness in Carrick, 1687." [3] The name is thought to have been "from Gaelic MacLaomuinn, 'son of Lamont.' In the Dean of Lismore's Book we find VcClymont along with Clynelymyn (i.e. Clan Lamont). M'Lagmanid 1358, MacLagmayn 1410, Mc Laiman 1802, M'Lawmane c. 1353." [3]
Early History of the Climo family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Climo research. Another 166 words (12 lines of text) covering the years 1162, 1210, 1233, 1273, 1379, 1489, 1685, 1742, 1258, 1594, 1660, 1660, 1508, 1570, 1508, 1572, 1626, 1797 and are included under the topic Early Climo History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Climo Spelling Variations
Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Climo family name include Clements, Clement, Clemens, Climer and others.
Early Notables of the Climo family (pre 1700)
Outstanding amongst the family at this time was Clement of Dunblane (d. 1258), a Dominican friar, and close associate of King Alexander II of Scotland, who was made Bishop of Dunblane; and Gregory Clement (1594-1660), an English Member of Parliament (MP) and one of the regicides of King Charles I, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on 17 October 1660.
Margaret Clements or Clement (1508-1570), was a learned lady, whose maiden name was...
Migration of the Climo family to Ireland
Some of the Climo family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Climo surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Climo Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:
Climo Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century


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New Comic Recommendations for 03.25.15
The question most often asked of the ComicsAlliance staff is a variation of, "Which comic books should I be reading?" or, "I'm new to comics, what's a good place to start?" The Wednesday deluge of new comic books, graphic novels and collected editions can be daunting even for the longtime reader, much less for those totally unfamiliar with creators, characters and publishers, and the dark mysteries of comic book shopping like variants, pre-ordering, and formats.


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WASHINGTON: The sun's abundant energy, if harvested in space, could provide a cost-effective way to meet global power needs in as little as 30 years with seed money from governments, according to a study by an international scientific group.
Orbiting power plants capable of collecting solar energy and beaming it to Earth appear "technically feasible" within a decade or two based on technologies now in the laboratory, a study group of the Paris-headquartered International Academy of Astronautics said.
Such a project may be able to achieve economic viability in 30 years or less, it said, without laying out a road map or proposing a specific architecture.
"It is clear that solar power delivered from space could play a tremendously important role in meeting the global need for energy during the 21st century," according to the study led by John Mankins, a 25-year NASA veteran and the US space agency's former head of concepts.
The academy is headed by Madhavan Nair, former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization. The study was billed as the first broadly based international assessment of potential paths to collecting solar energy in space and delivering it to markets on Earth via wireless power transmission.
The study said government pump-priming likely would be needed to get the concept, known as space solar power, to market. Private-sector funding is unlikely to proceed alone because of the "economic uncertainties" of the development and demonstration phases and the time lags, the study said.
Both governments and the private sector should fund research to pin down the economic viability of the concept, the study said, amid concerns about humankind's continuing reliance on finite fossil fuels that contribute to global pollution.
The study did not estimate a potential overall price tag for completing the project.
Space solar power is a potential long-term energy solution for Earth with "essentially zero" terrestrial environmental impact, according to the National Space Society, an advocacy group set to hold a news conference in Washington on Monday to publicize the academy's 248-page final report. A copy of the study was obtained by Reuters ahead of its release.
Turn sunlight into electricity
The idea is to put first one, then a few, and later scores of solar-powered satellites in geosynchronous orbit over the equator. Each as wide as several kilometers across (one kilometer equals 0.6 miles), the spacecraft would collect sunlight up to 24 hours a day, compared with half that, at most, for surface panels now used to turn sunlight into electricity.
The power would be converted to electricity on-board and sent to wherever it is needed on Earth by a large microwave-transmitting antenna or by lasers, then fed into a power grid.
Skeptics deem the concept a nonstarter, at least until the cost of putting a commercial power plant into orbit drops by a factor of 10 or more. Other hurdles include space debris, a lack of focused market studies and high development costs.
The study, conducted from 2008 to 2010 then subjected to peer review, found that the commercial case had substantially improved during the past decade, partly as a result of government incentives for nonpolluting "green" energy systems.
A pilot project to demonstrate the technology even as big as the 400-tonne International Space Station could go ahead using low-cost expendable launch vehicles being developed for other space markets, Mankins said in a telephone interview.
A moderate-scale demonstration would cost tens of billions of dollars less than previously projected as a result of not needing costly, reusable launch vehicles early on, said Mankins, president of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions LLC, a California consultancy.
"This was a really important finding," Mankins said,referring to a relatively modestly priced pilot project.
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His company has been awarded a NASA contract of a little less than $100,000 to pursue space-based solar power options -- small "but at least it's a start," Mankins said.
Ultimately, tens of billions of dollars would be needed to develop and deploy a sufficiently low-cost fleet of reusable, earth-to-orbit vehicles to launch full-scale commercial solar power satellites, the study group estimated.
The group said the necessary research and development work should be undertaken by countries and organizations in concert, including space agencies, companies, universities and nongovernmental organizations.
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Tokyo Olympic organizers postpone water polo test event
Tokyo Olympic organizers on Tuesday postponed a water polo test event set for this weekend and said it might be rescheduled for May or June.
Reports in Japan say technical officials were unable to go to Japan because of strict procedures to enter the country. Organizers did not confirm that but said in a statement: "Considering the schedule of each stakeholder under the current global COVID-19 conditions, it was felt that postponing the event was necessary."
The news comes less than four months before the opening of the postponed Olympics and could be a setback as organizers and the International Olympic Committee attempt to hold the Tokyo Games in the middle of a pandemic. The Olympics are to open on July 23.
Two other test events also appear to be off.
Swimming governing body FINA said on its website that a diving World Cup event set for April 18-23 in Tokyo had been canceled, and it reported the same for an artistic swimming event for May 1-4.
FINA said it would issue a complete statement later this week. FINA said the "decision of re-allocating the FINA Olympic qualifiers planned in Japan is under review."
Tokyo organizers did manage over the weekend to pull off a test event for Paralympic wheelchair rugby.
The BBC reported last week, citing a letter from FINA it had viewed, that the diving event was canceled because it "will not properly ensure" athletes' safety.
Japan has attributed about 9,200 deaths to COVID-19. It has handled the pandemic better than many countries, but not as well as most in Asia.
The Olympics and Paralympics will involve 15,400 athletes entering the country, and tens of thousands of officials, judges, media and broadcasters. Fans from abroad have been banned from attending.
North Korea on Tuesday became the first country to drop out of the Tokyo Games because of coronavirus fears, a decision that underscores the challenges facing Japan as it struggles to stage a global sporting event amid a raging pandemic.
A website run by North Korea's Sports Ministry said its national Olympic committee decided during a meeting on March 25 not to participate in the games to protect athletes from the "world public health crisis caused by COVID-19."
Last week the city of Osaka asked organizers to cancel a leg of the torch relay that is to go through the city on April 14. The city is experiencing a spike in COVID-19 cases.
The torch relay started on March 25 from northeastern Japan. It is circulating the country and is to reach Tokyo on July 23. It involves about 10,000 runners.
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Who Killed the Electric Car?, director Chris Paine's renowned documentary about the effort to save GM's EV1 and Toyota's RAV-4 EV, left the identity of the culprit an open question, and for good reason: the electric car wasn't killed; it was wounded. And now, with Nissan's all-electric Leaf and Chevrolet's plug-in hybrid electric Volt coming to U.S. showrooms in November, it's back, healthier than ever.
Plug-In America (PIA), which was born out of the protest to save the 1990s EVs, met at Paine's sprawling hilltop home overlooking Los Angeles Saturday night to celebrate the organization's fifth anniversary and the triumphant re-emergence of the car with a plug.
There was a profound question lurking behind the crowd's jubilation as it partied and examined a Leaf and a Volt that were made available by each vehicle's manufacturer. Hanging heavy in the L.A. air was the mystery of whether the enthusiasm and commitment of these visionary early adopters could be transformed into a market-driving majority. To do that, both Paines and PIA have media strategies.
To the crowd's enthusiastic endorsement, Paine debuted the trailer for The Revenge of the Electric Car, a sequel that documents the passionate people and stormy processes behind the pending introductions of Nissan's EV and GM's PHEV.
PIA also debuted a series of public service announcements that will begin airing in November. Utilizing the media savvy and contacts of L.A.-based PIA members like Paine and former Baywatch star Alexandra Paul, the 60-second spots are intended to smooth the E-transition by familiarizing the public with electric transport.
Longtime EV advocate Mark Swain is one of a fifteen-member Customer Advisory Board GM has formed to help win public acceptance. He believes the key to success is to make buying a Volt "as easy as buying a car today. Right now," he said, "there are a lot of hurdles that people don't want to jump." Swain added, however, that the Volt is "one of the most technologically amazing cars I've ever seen" and "once it gets out in the world," he said, "people will like this car."
As a template for the transition, PIA Legislative Director Jay Friedland referred to the track record of Toyota's Prius. "When someone bought a Prius," he said, "you would then see an entire neighborhood go out and buy Priuses." He foresees a million plug-in cars on U.S. roadways before 2020 and added that any spike in gas prices will accelerate uptake.
Friedland said the options of a pure EV and a PHEV will make the transition easier by giving buyers the opportunity to select the car that suits them best. And, he pointed out, "these are just the first two of 25 cars that will be introduced over the next two years." Whether the EV or PHEV will prevail, he said, "is all crystal ball right now."
PIA President Dan David ticked off the advantages of a plug-in vehicle. "It's cleaner, it's less expensive to operate, it's running on domestic energy sources, it's quiet and it's powerful," he smiled. "Once more people in the public experience that, well, Katie, bar the door." He predicted that demand will outstrip supply for the foreseeable future. He expects EVs to account for at least ten percent of new car sales by 2020.
A.P. van Deventer, a Dutch government researcher, has studied the challenges and opportunities of electric transportation in order to advise his country's political leaders. The Netherlands, he said, aspires to have a million EVs on its roads by 2025. Recently, van Deventer examined why EVs failed to reach U.S. markets in the 1990s.
He found that the reasons were essentially those reported in Paine's film, although one was overlooked. "What really needs to be done is to make sure all stakeholders are involved," he cautioned. "Otherwise, you create resistance," as happened in the '90s. "GM didn't want it, oil didn't want it," he said. "And by the time the mandate was decided," he added, "it was let go too easily. You have to have long-term vision." The coming E-transition, he said, "is going to take 20 to 30 years."
Paine explained why he believes electric transport will succeed this time around. "This is the first time," Paine said of the buying public, "they've ever had a chance to make this decision. Even the California cars that were available when we all found out about them were very difficult to get. This is the first time in a hundred years that 99.9 percent of drivers have the option to drive something that isn't an oil-based car."
Having spent the last few years interviewing the people who will lead the transition, Paine foresees short-run action. "I think the Volt and the Leaf, in the limited production numbers that they are doing, are going to sell right out." When the marketplace opens up in 2012, however, it "is going to be a whole new ball game." Early adopters in 2011 will "prove the cars work in their lives just like they did for this nucleus group here" and "that will propel what happens in 2012."
As to the speed of the transition in the long run, Paine sees two possibilities. "Nobody knows how fast it is going to happen, but when gas prices spike, it will happen really fast. If gas prices stay artificially low for a while, it will happen more slowly." But, he said, "this will roll out.
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|Instrument(s): Piano
|Style: Classical
|Opus: KV 401/375e
|Date of composition: 1782
|Source: Breitkopf und Härtel (1878-1887)
|Copyright: Public Domain
|Last updated: 2008/Mar/13. View change history
|Music ID Number: Mutopia-2008/03/13-423
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Dennis Pajot has written a short article about this piece and two other Mozart fugues on Mozartforum at: http://www.mozartforum.com/Discussion%20Archive/2004April.htm#573.
This is the score of the Fugue in G Minor KV 401 for piano (organ?), written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and completed by Abbe' Maximilian Stadler (1748-1833), presumably after Mozart's death. The source text used is a reprint of the Alte Mozart Ausgabe (Old Mozart Edition), published by Breitkopf & Haertel in the second half of the XIX century.
I included a transcription of this fugue for piano four-hands, in order to overcome the difficulty of playing it using only two hands (see "Performance Notes" below).
The score of Fugue KV 401 is extremely difficult to be played, particularly because of the broad intervals between simultaneous notes in the left hand (e.g. bars 16-17), which require the performer to have a very big hand. In his Mozart's bibiography ("Mozart", Suhrkamp Verlag - Frankfurt am Main, 1977), Wolfgang Hildesheimer notes that Mozart "played this piece with no help, while others could manage it only via a four-hand execution."
It has been suggested that such passages required a modified piano with pedals like an organ. Such instruments were used in Mozart's time with apparently good success, as a passage in a letter by Mozart's father proves:
"Since my arrival your brother's fortepiano has been carried from the house to the theatre or to another house at least 12 times. He has had a big pedal-fortepiano made which stands under the grand piano, is three spans longer and surprisingly heavy..." (letter from Leopold Mozart to his daughter, 12 Mar 1785)
In his preface to the Eulenburg edition (1981) of Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor KV 466 (which contains a passage of similar conception in bars 88-89), Paul Badura-Skoda embraces this theory and explicitly mentions Fugue KV 401:
"There is [...] another composition for organ or pedal piano by Mozart which evidently made allowances for such a possibility [i.e. to be played on a pedal-piano]: the unfinished Fugue in G minor K401 (375e). An arrangement for piano duet used for present-day performances of this Fugue and similarly in the D minor Concerto the low bass notes could be played by another pianist sitting next to the soloist." (Paul Badura-Skoda, preface to the Piano Concerto in D minor K466, Eulenburg 1981).
The fact that such a Fugue could require a pedal-piano is enforced when noticing that the broad intervals mentioned above appear only in the left-hand part.
All these facts fully justifies the need for a four-hand version of the score. This has been made by simply distributing the four voices among each hand.
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December is the month I associate with snow. Sadly I don't get to enjoy snow anymore, as I no longer live in Europe, but I miss waking up first thing in the morning and seeing white all around, the city tranformed into a magical land... and that land of course has a queen, the Snow Queen!
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A lot has changed both personally and financially for me this year. So much, in fact, that I've been reviewing the decisions I made in light of their financial and personal impact, and evaluating. I thought I'd share the best and the worst with you.
I don't spend more than I have, and that has always worked for me. Though it still worked this year, I have no idea where large chunks of my money went. If I had a budget, and recorded how closely I followed it, I would have this record and I would know how much I spent where, and where I need to cut back.
I don't do this very often, but I do it enough that it makes a dent in my budget. So many times, I remember having a $20 in my wallet and open it to find a $5 and change. I don't remember where the money went, but it is gone. If I thought about my purchases more, I would know where my money went, and I would be able to remember when it wasn't on the top of my head.
My time isn't always money, but I'm learning that, if I want to live the kind of life I've always thought I would, I need to value my time more. This doesn't mean that I don't need to rest, but it means I need to be intentional. If I have intentional times of work and play and rest, I will be more productive, both financially and personally, than I am now, and I will be happier because I won't feel like I spend so much time just putzing around.
I'm saving so much. Recently, I received information from Sallie May on my payments if I hadn't consolidated, and they're off the charts. Plus, in consolidating with Sallie Mae, I got all the benefits I could--lower interest rates (because I locked them in last spring), and a 6-month grace period. I could make the payments without consolidation, but it wouldn't have been a smart choice.
Talk about counter-intutive, I know. But, I value travel. Highly. And so it is worth it to me, on a personal level, to have struggled financially last spring for the trip I took over Christmas last year. The experience of spending Christmas with my family in England, and getting to visit a friend over there for New Year's, was simply worth the money for me. Also, I wouldn't have been looking for a job when I was looking, and so wouldn't have found the job I'm happy in now if I hadn't done that.
Since I'm planning a wedding, I've needed my money to be relatively fluid, but leaving it in a regular savings account seemed unwise. At ING, my interest rate has only gone up since I started the account this summer, and my money is available when I need it. ING actually turned out to be a better investment than some of the mutual funds I had. Though their interest rate is a little lower than some, I chose ING because I heard great reports of their customer service. At this point, I have nothing to complain about.
Overally, I'm satisfied with my performance in areas that touch on my finances this year. There are places where I could improve, but I was able to balance my money versus what it can get me better this year than I have before. I was willing to take the trip and not worry about the money, because I valued the experience more than the security. I was also able to find a solution to the problems that caused, and am now saving for the future.
Let me know if you find any of these helpful, or what your best and worst financial decisions were this year!
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