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I love the fact that it has a 2mb buffer and reads discs which can hold nearly 30gb of info (like, half a milisecond of buffering capability)
While you can get Blu-ray player for under $100. I don't see why buy this for HTPC setup..
I bought my Toshiba Blu-ray player last BF for $78 shipped. This drive for $56 doesn't make sense to me...
because people want a home media center (hub) and blu ray player in 1 device, not 2. should be pretty obvious.
#3 U r right! If we don't have those people that willing to spend more - how can the economy to recover?? Hoe can the manufacture make $$ & survive ??
I guess these people not only willing to pay more but also have patient to wait for a few minutes till the HTPC boot up to watch a movie. I would rather turn on the Blu-ray player, wait less than 10 sec then showtime....
Can't rip a BD with a STB player. When I had a HTPC I didn't turn it on and off whenever I wanted to use it. It was generally on all the time.
What player do you have that's ready to go in 10 seconds. Even a PS3 can't do that.
Hey, #2:
What would you say if, and believe me this is hypothetical, someone already had a HTPC, but didn't have a Blu-Ray drive in it? I realize this is pretty far fetched, but in this corner case, this tiny subset of HTPC owners would probably prefer to buy just a raw drive than buy a whole new device, make sure there are inputs available on the TV, buy the cables to go from the TV to the new device, etc.
Also, #5 makes a good point about backing up your media. When a disc is scratched, standalone player owners have to go buy a new one, including a new content license. It's much nicer to simply burn a new one, or even burn an "everyday-use" disc and keep your original safe.
#4, with HTPC, user can use the TV as monitor to browser the net, streaming internet content, viewing slide show on those pictures taken from dig. cam. etc. without the hassle of burning a DVD. I am sure others will have many other uses for HTPC. This is convinient more than saving some $$$.
My 2 cents.
I do believe HTPC got its advantage- like play media file w/o burn to DVD, and it also support whatever file format PC can support. Stream video... etc. That's the advantage of it I cannot deny it.
However, load the O/S and boot is kind of time consuming and keep a HTPC system on all the time that's not really a nice way to save energy. Normal HTPC set up is not really Hi end powerful system for intensive gaming either. So I do use player to play disc and use HTPC to play media files or some minor internet browsing.
Definitely you can rip all your DVD /Blu-ray into media file. But you do need a lot of HD space. Is it worthy ?? I don't know...
I love my HTPC. I can watch/listen to any streaming content I want, download a bunch more content and surf the web. Works perfectly for what I want to do, not to mention no cable TV bill (paid for itself in a few months). Now as far as this player goes, this isn't a terrific deal. This player regularly retails for $55-60. Also I'm surprised no one noticed Ben's math is off. The player is actually $62 and the coupon brings it down to $55.79 so the outcome is pretty similar.
do what i do. since i dont own a bluray player, i go out and buy the bluray disc, then i go online and download the mkv.
Some might like to know, This is a Blu-ray reader, It will not burn Blu-ray disk. Yes, you can download in HD. But It would still not burn in Blu-ray. Just a reader if you want to burn Blu-ray, then buy this..
Just a note, Blu-ray player is much better than Lite-on drive or any drive. Video is much smoother, If your monitor have a HDMI port, everything is easy. However!. If you have a HTPC is a killer machine, then drive is not bad at all, This was selling everywhere on BF for 49.99 ship, I use Power DVD 9.0 Ultra it turns all my regular dvd's in to HD Dvds.
Got this for $52 back in July. It doesn't burn anything but I already had a DVD burner.
I went away from HTPC's because media players are much better than they used to be and mine will play BD iso's which play much faster than the STB and PS3 I started with.
#12 Blue Ray blank discs are still too expensive to take the chance on getting a coaster. $12 each? That said, you might as well buy the original.
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga has reiterated his support for affirmative action and supported the constitutional position on election and nomination of women.
The PM said "My attention has been drawn to the debate that has emerged over affirmative action on elective seats and the hardening positions over gender equity."
Raila moved to clarify that positions so far taken by MPs from the Orange Democratic Movement are personal and do not reflect the stand of the party on the critical constitutional matter.
"ODM stands for, and remains committed to, a full and faithful implementation of the Constitution. ODM remains committed to gender parity, having fought hard for the inclusion of its provisions in the Constitution." Raila said in a statement sent to the media.
"I wish to appeal to all ODM MPs to remember their contract with the people of Kenya and rally behind the Constitution of Kenya Amendment Bill 2011, now before Parliament." The PM added.
The purpose of this Bill, he said is to address the question of achieving the right proportion of either gender in the coming election.
"In the interest of the Constitution, the minorities and the disadvantaged, I urge all MPs, regardless of party affiliation, to support the Bill and vote for it in the House." He added.
The PM said failure to do so would be a betrayal of the Constitution, the people of Kenya in general and the women in particular.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Luna Eclipsed Missing Scene
43 comments:
- hoverhoof said...
Sweet, though we actually know how she was supposed to look
- November 22, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- Ben Gibson said...
At first i thought this was an actual cut scene... But this is still excellent!
- November 22, 2011 at 2:02 PM
- Dawnmist said...
I swear, when they stop making episodes of MLP, the fans will continue.
- November 22, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- Nash said...
Pretty good. Pinkie Pie was the best one. Luna and Rarity were decent. Not feeling the Twilight voice there though.
- November 22, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- Harwick said...
Not too shabby... the world needs more Rarity any way it can get it.
- November 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- JordanRynes said...
I hate not being able to watch these because I use my phone. Clickable link, anyone?
- November 22, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- GWGV said...
The voice overs are pretty decent. Luna might have been a little bit louder, but otherwise I think it worked out.
That source material is great as well. - November 22, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- Mike said...
Oh... I thought it was an official deleted scene thingy...
oh well. Still pretty good - November 22, 2011 at 2:13 PM
- Maquabra said...
Me gusta!
You mean something like that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzz9g7TSvk4&feature=player_embedded ? - November 22, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- aJonathan said...
Lol@ 0:30 Bitch please!
Well, it is actually a fandub of a scene that Faust made up on the spot to tide over fans who complained about a lack of Rarity - November 22, 2011 at 2:17 PM
- Octavia said...
Well, I can't say the voices used match the actual shows voices the best. Definitely have heard better. But the voice work was still decent. Some slight shuddering where I don't think it really called for it perhaps. Overall it was executed well. Some parts of the blooper portion at the end had me giggling a little. :P
- November 22, 2011 at 2:29 PM
- sevooHypreD said...
That may well be the best Pinkie Pie I've heard in a fandub! The Luna and Rarity weren't too bad either.
- November 22, 2011 at 2:29 PM
- RavensDagger said...
That music... took me forever but I remember it now :)
Dr.Whoves background music - November 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM
- EngineerBrony said...
YAY, Suri is really good!! I remember that name from Fluttershy's song! :)
- November 22, 2011 at 3:33 PM
- Masquerade said...
And it shall be glorious. Not even multiple million-dollar lawsuits shall stop us. - November 22, 2011 at 4:20 PM
- Miles24 said...
Donna's Theme. Perfect choice for Rarity.
The voices are quite good. This is great. - November 22, 2011 at 4:28 PM
- TomA62975 said...
heheh Donna's theme in the background from Dr Who(oves). I must say the voices were done quite well. I love this comic for the expressions.
- November 22, 2011 at 4:32 PM
- Luna lover said...
Am I the only one that thought that rarity sounded like Jessie from pokemon?Also love Donna Noble's theme in the background,and the bloopers-well I'm of to watch me some dr.who~Luna lover
- November 22, 2011 at 5:22 PM
- Sketch Scribbles said...
In the last set of bloopers, she almost sounds like she turned luna british. Lol.
- November 22, 2011 at 7:37 PM
- Salvatore Haran said...
The reason there was no Rarity scene was because of something along the lines of. Luna and Rarity have the same actress, not only that she does a ton of other characters.
- November 22, 2011 at 8:03 PM
- Altherix said...
Again! Why? Why did they have to cut the scene!?
Voices not entirely spot on but it's a fan-dub, what do you expect?
'A' for effort and eternal gratitude because my voice sucks and I couldn't do it. - November 22, 2011 at 8:31 PM
- Alan Solivan said...
DAHA! I was thinking about "THE. WORST. POSSIBLE. THING!" scene from this comic at work today. YOU BRONIES GET OUTTA ME NOGGIN XD
- November 22, 2011 at 8:35 PM
- ultra8 said...
That was nicely done, her Pinkie Pie was spot on.
We need to get more comic dubs of this quality. - November 22, 2011 at 10:45 PM
- ElectricZoNe said...
Man that was pretty cool. And good job on the voices too.
- November 22, 2011 at 11:36 PM
- Mattwo said...
Rarity's voice was the only one that wasn't at least close to the actual voice actor's (or at least their verison of the voices, also Twi sounds like generic Tara Strong (like Sari Sumdac or the princess from drawn together) but not Twi something I've noticed in another case too).
- November 24, 2011 at 4:28 PM
- Brony_Girl said...
My favorite part in the bloopers was "Ah'm not Twilight, Ah'm Apple Jack!!"
- November 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM


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Another day, another cover. After the Chi magazine article a couple of days ago follows a 7-page spread in the equally popular men's magazine Sportweek, the weekly insert of the sports daily La Gazzetta della Sport. Alessia Cruciani goes for a different tack with her questions, her terminology all coming from the world of football. It works well.
Athletes are famous for taking great care over their look. Would you go on stage with a crest like Beckham?
Once I shaved my hair very short, but I couldn't do more than that for professionalism. Some dancers have tattoos.
That they then cover on stage?
That they then don't cover on stage, though they should. A colleague has thirteen!
Have you ever been booed?
It's never happened. So far.
Have you ever missed a 'penalty'?
More than once… In Helsinki during Swan Lake I had to jump, turning in the air. I lost my point of reference, put my foot down badly and landed flat on my face!
Are there hard-core fans in the theatre?
Certainly football fans are very passionate, for them it's a belief, a religion. In the theatre there isn't the defiant challenge that you get in football, we're not one against the other. Though, right from the beginning, when I dance at La Scala there's always been a kind of stadium atmosphere for my shows.
In Italy, and abroad, touring with Bolle & Friends to open-air theatres has created an enthusiasm very different to that which you normally see for ballet. My 'ultras' — the Bollerini who have been following me for over 10 years — have even taken banners into La Scala, and wave small lights. I like it, it makes the theatre more lively. Anyway, the audiences are changing, they're younger.
After various questions about how dancers are paid much less than footballers, how sponsors can't put their logos on ballet costumes and sets, and an extraordinary story of a Japanese fan who walked out of her job so that she could wait outside the theatre each day to see Bolle, the interviewer asks him if he has seen football, and if footballers come to the ballet.
I've been only once, to see Milan-Juventus at San Siro. Beckham was playing, and a few days later he came with Victoria to see me dance at La Scala. He liked it a lot. I think he enjoyed the ballet more than I enjoyed football. The ballet was Apollo, so very athletic. Shevchenko came to see me in London.
Roberto Bolle will be taking his Bolle & Friends to the Verona Arena on July 23. The €160 tickets for the best seats are sold out, and only some €40 unnumbered places (to sit on the marble steps) are left. So maybe San Siro is the next stop?
To dance in a stadium would be nice, certainly! I'm thinking about it. It's an ambitious project, but I'd like to do it. It needs someone who believes in it to support the event.
The football sponsors?
He doesn't answer the question, just smiles and sighs.
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May 23, 2013
The last four years I've been running Poetry for Personal Power, a stigma reduction campaign funded by SAMHSA. Poetry for Personal Power has been going to Missouri Universities and asking students what they do to get through hard times and we now have about 400 incredible videos on You-Tube, with youth wellness tools.
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May 10, 2013
My goal now is to focus on solutions for emotional distress, not talking about medical harm. We all know about the problems with medical harm, but not all people are clear about solutions. I'm not that clear, either, but I'm working on it. I'm not talking about revolution any longer, just trying to make my piece of the pie work.
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February 18, 2013
The primary lesson of the mental health civil rights community is that we have to learn to lean on each other to get though adversity, which means opening up and admitting when things aren't moving in a direction we want or expected or try to typically project publicly. We have to ask for help. Here's what I'm chewing on or what's chewing on me.
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February 13, 2013
Many advocates for a long time have been unhappy with federally funded conferences that have a budget in the six figure area that are only held at luxury hotels. I've tried to come up with an alternative to Alternatives. I'm partnering with Paul Komarek of Defying Mental Illness to host our very first event. We're calling this the UnDiagnosing UnPlanned UnConference series. Our first event is in Cincinnati next week, Feb. 15 – 17, and we'd love for you to come.
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January 25, 2013
A lot of posts on this site are about the problems in mental health care. This post is about some solutions. Many of us can do small, simple things to move advocacy forward. We can all make a difference so people can learn how to handle emotional distress without using disease based approaches with chemically based "solutions." Here are 5 things you can do in the next five minutes to promote UnDiagnosing Emotional Distress.
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December 25, 2012
The more we worry about the separation from reality, the more scared we get and the more separated we get. This month I found out about another trap. When you can see the beauty and spirituality and mystery and magic of what is going on, it's tempting to do things to make it last longer and help yourself get further into it, like skip sleep or skip meals or use drugs. I had to fight those temptations often through this month, and still am, to be honest, because there is so much of this process that was not just scary, but glorious and giganticly interdimensional and impactful.
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November 23, 2012
I've figured out there are five types of mental health advocates. We need to respect all five types of motivations and viewpoints in order to support or combat their agendas. The question for us, is how can we each of us maximize our own impact to share awareness of this situation and then impact change? The answer is that each of us has to work from our own passions and interests and talents and skills and motivations.
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November 17, 2012
I wasn't sure how to judge mental health first aid. I kept asking friends taking the course but it's hard to get a good assessment if they don't understand the risks of labels and medication. People need to understand that in order to hear how sometimes things that are intended to help can actually harm.
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November 15, 2012
I want to keep urging people to move toward the entrepreneurial approaches, because I think they are very powerful and not well understood or trusted in our community. I have chosen to build a business because I think it's one of the best ways I can impact on our world. After looking at the results of different types of advocacy work, this is the pressure point I've found most likely to make a difference.
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November 11, 2012
I just got back from the Carter Center Mental Health Symposium on Social Inclusion. I guess this is a prestigious invite, and I was expecting to meet people on the cutting edge of mental health research. I got invited based on my work with the Poetry for Personal Power program where I've helped get together over 1800 young people to talk on stage or listen to each other talking about what they do to get through adversity.
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October 1, 2012
1) We need to unite with other health care improvement advocates. 2) We can make money doing this. 3) Time to get more mental health folks on Twitter. 4)Have a good conference networking system. 5) Allow serendipity to happen.
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September 18, 2012
I am committed. Fully committed to creating a solution. Are you with me? I think medications and labels for people experiencing emotional distress should be almost entirely eliminated, and should not be applied first, for everyone and forever, to people experiencing extreme states. Our current mental health system is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. We need mental health exit ramps, we need human ways to help each other in crisis and through adversity, we need compassion and love and friendship in times of struggle. We need each other.
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September 10, 2012
I get a lot of ideas from other advocates from online forums like the Alternatives Facebook discussion group, where we have a gathering of about 750 psychiatric survivors who want to find non-mainstream ways to approach emotional distress. We started a …
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September 5, 2012
I've been working for 2 1/2 years on a system to provide non-medical care for people with emotional distress. I want it to be evidence based, peer provided, non-clinical, completely voluntary, cheap enough to pay for ourselves AND available nationwide …
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August 20, 2012
I've been hearing about translational medicine for a long time and wondering what it was. For the most part, it's a huge subsidy to pharma for more drug development, but there is a section of it that is focused on …
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August 12, 2012
There are two main problems with the term "medical model." First, it automatically frames the debate in the terms of the oppressor, and secondly, it's confusing. Many people in our community say "medical model" when we mean, "The idea that something wrong in my brain caused my emotional suffering." So why not just use a term that says this? When we say "Disease Model" we can clarify exactly what we are against. With just one word changed we can say we do not believe that a mental "disease" came from nowhere to put us out of action.
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August 2, 2012
This morning Kayla Harrison won the first ever Olympic gold medal in the history of USA Judo. Kayla has overcome many, many obstacles on her route to a medal, including sexual abuse by a previous coach. Kayla testified against that …
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July 26, 2012
I competed in the 1996 Olympics in Judo before I got sucked into the mental health system. I got sucked in due to a spiritual emergency, a marital mismatch, a career that didn't fit me, and using too much pot. …
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July 20, 2012
Right now I am working on the Connect Power site build to make an underground railroad to help people out of the mental health system. It will have both unpaid and paid peer support, since people need jobs but also …
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June 28, 2012
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ― Richard Buckminster Fuller. This is why entrepreneurship is our way out of the mental health mess. It …
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A proud Ian with both his sons.
Ian with Niece Alison and Sister-in-law Rochelle. Ian has known Rochelle since she was 13. Deep roots.
We crowded around the table to eat New Years Eve dinner, and then afterwards we cleared everything for a boisterous game of Left Right Center. It's the perfect game for all ages - even four-year-old McKay played. And for the uninitiated, the Scotch pronunciation is McEye. If you watched the movie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the headmistress was Mrs. McEye. If you haven't watched that movie and you're currently watching Downton Abbey, run, do not walk to your nearest copy of that movie to see Maggie Smith in her Oscar-winning role.
After dinner it was hot-tub time, always a hit with Alexia.
New Years Day we piled into two cars and drove an hour and a half across Orange County to Gardena to celebrate Japanese New Years at the Inouye's house. Gardena is where Ian and Rochelle went to high school with the five Inouye brothers. This tradition dates back to then but now the gathering is generational. Zach with the chopsticks is the son of Minihiro, Ian's brother's college roommate. The roots run deep.
This is actually the sashimi. Most of the sushi is on two tables in the living room. The tuna which is on the corner of the table went really fast and you can see the tako is almost gone. There was so much to eat, and I did my best. The sushi there under the foil has spam in the center. Mini's children are half Hawaiian so his daughter Kikuye always makes spam sushi. It's an acquired taste but it's tradition and I always eat it.
And the moment we anticipate - the tempura. Omar and Don get it kicked off. I've known Omar for 15 years. He's a friend of Don's son, and is so serious about this role that he had his wife drop him off in the morning so he could get the shrimp deveined in advance. There is another anticipated tradition - the saki toast to past, present future. Ian and I ducked out early. I drove down and he was the return driver but his eyes were tired so I didn't want to drink in case I needed to drive. I *hate* driving on LA freeways and want to be a sober mind when I do.
All good things come to an end and ultimately it was time for the return drive home. Alexia entertained herself with her DSI. We don't make the drive in a day anymore and at the hotel, she was thrilled to have WiFi so she could watch movies on my iPad. I wonder if we're an anomaly or if other people don't use the hotel TVs either.
Every year I think that this was the best New Years ever, and then it gets upstaged by the next year. We came home with full hearts.


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Charles Modica, SR. Hospitality Way Dedication
On June 21, 2012 the late Charles Modica, Sr. was honored as part of Scenic 30A between Scenic Highways 283 and 395 was named after him. The ceremony took place in Seaside and was attended by many locals, including the Modica family and Seaside town founder Robert Davis.
Senator Don Gaetz and Representative Matt Gaetz, who shepherded the designation through the Florida Legislature, were also on hand. Senator Gaetz, who served as Seaside's first Town Chairman, describes Modica as "the unofficial mayor and goodwill ambassador of Seaside." The Modica family still runs the market, which they founded in 1988.
The brief ceremony featured the presentation of colors by the Walton High School Air Force ROTC Honor Guard as well as participation by the Walton County Chamber of Commerce.


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Past Programs - 2013
The following programs and workshops were held in 2013; they are shown here so that you may view the range of activities of JGSGW.
Ellen Cassedy set off into the Jewish heartland of Lithuania to study Yiddish and connect with her Jewish forebears. When she read something given to her by an uncle, she learned something she had never suspected, and her journey to Lithuania changed her forever. What had begun as a personal quest expanded into a groundbreaking exploration of how people in Lithuania – Jews and non-Jews – are confronting their Nazi and Soviet past in order to move forward into the future.
Due to the brutality of the Bulgarians in the Occupied Zones of Northeastern Greece (Thrace and Macedonia) there are few descendants to shed light on Jewish genealogy (from 97-100% of the Jewish population perished in the Holocaust). Only amid the weed-covered tombstones do we get a glimpse of centuries of Jewish presence. Join us as Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos reveals recent genealogical findings from the Bulgarian Zone of Occupation in Greece. Ms. Ikonomopoulos is the Museum Director of Kehila Kedosha Janina in New York City.
The role of the family archivist and historian will be explored in the context of the how to begin researching your Jewish ancestors. Where do you start and where to go next? Collecting and preserving family photos and interviewing family members will be discussed, as well as getting started with JewishGen.
Participants will receive a copy of the JGSGW publication "Jump-Start Your Jewish Genealogy Research: A Beginner's Guide."
Participation in this workshop is a benefit of membership in JGSGW. Reservations are required; send an email to Class limited to 20 participants.
Click here for the meeting handout - Searching New York Roots.
What can be learned from the study of the Jewish tombstone (matzevah)?
This workshop will explore customs and symbols associated with Jewish burials, including a discussion of the Hebrew calendar, as well as the history and meaning of personal names and surnames.
Have you ever dreamed about walking where your ancestors may have walked? Most genealogists have experience that fantasy on an occasion, but some lucky ones get to fulfill their dreams. Hear what five of our JGSGW members have to tell us about various aspects of their trips – the the planning through the execution.
This program will be a series of presentations by JGSGW members. Each will focus on a specific location and each will address an aspect of the planning and execution of that trip. Each of the presentations will be accompanied by slides from the trip.
Jeff Miller Lithuania Faith Klein Ukraine Ben Terner Kishinev, Moldova Jeff Malka Transcarpathia John Hirschmann Germany
At the end of the program, there will be ample time to ask questions of the panel.
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May 23, 2012 BY Teresa Langness
Liberia is a country where low literacy rates and poverty are among the many challenges in the transition from war to stability. About 85 percent of adults are unable to read and/or write and unaware of the important roles girls can play in the development of communities and societies READ MORE
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I find the work of the United Nations inspiring. As a 23-year-old, I want my generation to understand the importance and significance of the UN and why it is a vital part of our world. Decisions made today will shape our future and I know the UN helps make all of our futures brighter. Join me and the Better World Campaign as we kick-off our new campaign - My World. My UN. We are starting a conversation about your hopes for a better world through the work of the UN. READ MORE
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As we prepare to return from India and the semi-annual UN Foundation Board meeting, I am struck by one of the themes that emerged from discussions this past week: the need for long-term investments in humanity. This is more than just a lofty phrase. It is a call for a fundamental shift in the way people think about philanthropy, partnership, and working with the United Nations. READ MORE
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I get this from the boards but let me get this straight. I can leave my bike in Costa Rica because they don't stamp "bike" on the passport and in Argentina for 8 months. Otherwise, I cannot leave a bike anywhere between LA and Argentina? How long is it possible to leave your bike in Costa Rica? Thanks in Advance. -Mark
You can leave your bike 3 month in Costa Rica, 3 month in Colombia, 3month in Brasil if you do not get papers on the boarder like we did than even longer, 8 month in Argentina! The other countrys i don´t remember yet, but i will be back in Brasil in 2 weeks again! Maybe i can find out some more for you!
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I have two KLR's in Chile. I'm from US. Just beginning plans to ride in 30 days as far north as possible. I've learned from past investigations that its possible to leave a moto in Costa Rica indefinately if you store it in a goverment bonded warehouse. I hve some information on the subject including warehouse names that are close to the airport in San Jose if anyone is interested. My bikes are in Temuco CHile(S of Santiago) and I'd like to bring them up to Equador and keep them there for 11 months, return and ride to Texas in another 30 day trip. Does anyone know how to store a bike in Equador legally for 11 months?
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I am very interested in that information you have on Costa Rica! How much does it cost to leave a bike/month? Are the proceedures for getting your bike back reletively easy? Thank you!!! -Mark |
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Regarding storage in Costa Rica. Do a web search for a goverment bonded warehouse in San Jose named Agencia Kabaat They respond via emails and also have english speaking agents. They were good about giving prices etc. I have not used them but they seemed reputable and knew what they were doing.
You can also do a search for other information on importing by doing a search Costa Rica Aduana. The infor I have from both sites is not current (2 years...) so best if you do your own searches. Good luck. Write me a personal email if questions. You can also just do a search for goverment bonded warehouse Costa Rica and you'll get lots of info............ |
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**Received from SRVUSD today**
SRVUSD appreciates Iron Horse neighbors willingness to communicate with our district management about Measure C concerns.
Just so you know, there is a meeting scheduled for April 16, 7:30 PM at Stone Valley Middle School. This is a factual presentation regarding the current and future budget outlook for our school district, as well as the mail-only parcel tax (Measure C) for which registered voters will receive their mail-in ballots next week. Our superintendent and a member of our school board will be there to present to the Alamo community and answer questions.
SRVUSD encourages neighborhoods to let as many people as possible know about the meeting and encourage them to attend and ask questions.
Thanks again for your support!
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HoopsHype.com RumorsDavid BlattVisit the HoopsHype Forums to discuss the latest news and rumors in the NBA. |
» Monday, May 13 2013 |
David 'Dubi' Pick: Misko Raznatovic, agent for David Blatt, denies rumors liking his client would opt out of Maccabi for NBA gig. Twitter @IAmDPick |
» Thursday, February 28 2013 |
David 'Dubi' Pick: Asian reports linked Maccabi TLV coach David Blatt to Chinese national-team. Sources tell me Blatt was offered the position but declined. Twitter @IAmDPick |
» Friday, November 2 2012 |
Take a look at the transcript below from Colangelo's recent interview on SheridanHoopsRadio. When the subject of who would replace Mike Krzyzewski was raised, Colangelo threw Rivers' name out there without any prompting. (And while he was at it, he flat-out rejected the notion of Russia's head coach, David Blatt, an Israeli-American who played collegiately at Princeton, coming under consideration for the job. The next Team USA coach will lead the team in the summer of 2014 at the World Cup (formerly known as the World Championship) in Spain. SheridanHoops |
» Tuesday, October 30 2012 |
A brilliant run for David Blatt with Russia's national team has come to an end. The man who guided the Russians to a gold medal at EuroBasket 2007 and bronze at EuroBasket 2011 and this summer's Olympics, has decided it's time to step down. In a statement issued by the Russian Basketball Federation, Blatt said: "With mixed feelings, I announce my retirement from the national team of Russia, a team that was a significant part of my professional life. "My decision is based solely on my sense of what is now the right time. "I do it for personal reasons. "Our joint achievements are exceptional, and have historical significance. "The impact that we have had on the development of basketball in Russia was very positive and ambitious. "I am grateful for the invitation from the Russian Basketball Federation leadership for the opportunity to work with outstanding, talented Russian players. FIBA Europe |
» Tuesday, October 2 2012 |
David Blatt confirms Malcolm Thomas will join Maccabi Tel Aviv. BasketActu.com |
» Thursday, September 13 2012 |
Michael Cunningham: Source says Larry Drew is not seeking to add Blatt to staff. At Maccabi camp to observe, learn, share ideas. Twitter |
» Wednesday, September 12 2012 |
The coach of Atlanta Hawks, Larry Drew, landed in Tel Aviv and will meet him, according to this report in the practice of Maccabi. Blatt signed this summer a new three years contract with the team, but nobody knows what the future holds for him as he is rumored to have a turbulent relation with the club's brass. However, he is expected to stay a resident of Tel Aviv for next season. EuroHoops.net The head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv and Russian National Basketball Team David Blatt may become the assistant coach of the Atlanta Hawks. Larry Drew has come to Israel today to watch and analyze Blatt's work with Israel's champions. Sport Express |
» Friday, August 10 2012 |
Sean Deveney: Rus coach David Blatt said #Timberwolves F Andrei Kirilenko (2-12 FG, 5-10 FT) played Fri's semifinal w a bad quad. "He had to have a shot" Twitter |
» Thursday, August 9 2012 |
On the eve of the quarterfinals game, French coach Vincent Collet stopped to visit with Russia's coach David Blatt at the Lee Valley Training Center to probe him on some defensive ideas for Spain. For a few moments, they talked about the Spain-Brazil game, and the French coach made clear his belief that Spain had gone down for the count. Yahoo! Sports "What's a little frightening and unjust about European tournaments is that you have all this tactical playing for points and for games," Russia coach David Blatt said. "In the NBA, you've got series, so there's no such thing. This is happening in a real-time, competitive environment, and you don't like to see it. I would say most don't do it, but there are those who play the system. I would never do it, under any circumstance. But some do." Yahoo! Sports |
» Wednesday, August 8 2012 |
Strange substitutions, wide-open Brazilian shots, the usual European brew for a tanking. Spain's coaches and players strongly denied it, but no one bought it. "What's a little frightening and unjust about European tournaments is that you have all this tactical playing for points and for games," Russia coach David Blatt said. "In the NBA, you've got series, so there's no such thing. This is happening in a real-time, competitive environment, and you don't like to see it. I would say most don't do it, but there are those who play the system. I would never do it, under any circumstance. But some do." Yahoo! Sports Jeff Zillgitt: RUS David Blatt on semi vs. ESP: "On paper they are stronger than we are. Fortunately, we are going to play on the court & not the notebook" Twitter Now the U.S. enters the medal round facing the possibility of a gold-medal final against Russia, and in many ways, the story of this Russian team is harder to believe than the outcome of 1972. For these Russians are coached by David Blatt, a Jewish-American whose religion and nationality would have made him an antagonist of the old Soviets. "Oh, people were looking at me like I had three heads," Blatt said of his 2006 hiring by the Russian federation. "It was not a popular decision. "You take an American growing up in the time of the Cold War, add to it the fact that I'm Jewish and with an Israeli passport, and then you time- warp me into the ex-Soviet Union as the head of the Russian men's basketball team. It's almost mind-boggling. And I lasted! I didn't get my head chopped off in the first year or two." SI.com "Now I'm part of the fabric of the basketball society,'' Blatt said of his standing in Russian basketball, which led to his recognition at a formal ceremony at the Kremlin after the European Championship. "Those good people gave me the highest order for coaching in Russia, and no foreigner has ever received that. That says it all right there." SI.com This Russian team is built around 31-year-old Andrei Kirilenko, who exploited the NBA lockout as a reason to return home and play for CSKA. He regained his health and his energy, and in these Olympics he has looked like the younger Kirilenko who was an All-Star for the 2003-04 Utah Jazz. His teammates are all younger with the wherewithal to provide Blatt with size at every position, enabling them to extend their defense and create easy baskets. "With him the Russian team got a face," Kirilenko said of Blatt. "We don't have a great scorer, but we're going to have a team game. We're going to have a great team defensively, we're going to have a press, and we glue it together." SI.com |
» Tuesday, August 7 2012 |
"I would hope that the countries would be in an uproar about this," Russia coach David Blatt told Yahoo! Sports on Tuesday "Who is one country to determine for everyone how international basketball should be played, and particularly how the Olympic Games should be managed? It's not supposed to be like that. If it's a global game, it's a global game." Yahoo! Sports On his way to the bus, on his way to perhaps a gold medal meeting with the United States, David Blatt had one final message for the Commissioner of the NBA: "You just don't mess with the Olympic Games." Yahoo! Sports |
» Monday, August 6 2012 |
David Blatt has told the story many times, but his first few days as coach of a Russian basketball team were not joyous. He couldn't communicate with his players; his players couldn't communicate with him. He was a Jewish American who'd lived in Israel and raised his family, now trying to make a go of it in a country whose history with Jews is littered with horrors. One morning, not sure if he hadn't made a terrible mistake, Blatt went to get something to eat with his assistant coach, Kestutis Kemzura. While waiting for their food, a man plopped down on the stool next to them. In Russian, he asked for a shot of vodka, and downed it. Thirty seconds later, the man asked for another shot, and downed that one, too. Blatt asked Kemzura what was going on. "Russian breakfast," Kemzura replied. "I knew then that I was gonna like it there," Blatt said Sunday. NBA.com Blatt has earned a reputation around the world as one of basketball's best coaches. He has won everywhere over the last decade, culminating in Russia's upset victory to capture the 2007 EuroCup over dominant Spain, a tournament hosted by Madrid. "He's got respect from Russia, which is a really difficult country to get respect from," says Tony Ronzone, the longtime international scout now working with the Mavericks, and who has scouted opponents for USA Basketball for the past several years. NBA.com |
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Yard sale season is upon us (even though the weather in the Northeast is uncooperative). This is a great time to examine your possessions and determine what you really need in your life. Sometimes it is difficult to face this task alone, so consider the services of a professional organizer.
The towns of Atlantic Highlands and Highlands, NJ have announced the dates for their town wide yard sales.
These events are great way to unload some of the useful clutter that is weighing you down and also have some fun. If you want to participate but can't face the prep, contact me. I can help.
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Don't wait for a visit from animal control, for a court summons, or—worst of all—for frustrated neighbors to strike before you solve your dog's barking problem. PETA's caseworkers are flooded with calls from people who have been ordered to subject their dogs to a cruel surgery of convenience, called "debarking," as a means to try to remedy their animals' excessive barking.
But barking is a dog's means of communicating many feelings—fear, frustration, pain, boredom, or even happiness. This cruel procedure strips dogs of their natural ability to vocalize and communicate. Depriving them of their primary means of expression is unjustifiably cruel.Debarking, or devocalization, is an invasive surgical procedure that involves removing a large amount of laryngeal tissue. It involves a great deal of postoperative pain. Because this procedure is unnecessary and inherently cruel, many veterinarians condemn it and refuse to perform it.
You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks!
If your dog has a barking problem, don't accept debarking as a solution. Instead, deal with the problem for what it is: a symptom of boredom and loneliness! There are lots of simple and effective solutions, including the following:


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Cellar/Tasting Notes "A good value among over-achieving St.-Emilion estates is La Fleur Cardinales 2009. Composed of 70% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, some of the abrasive tannins noticeable early on in this big wine (14.5% alcohol) are now sweeter and better integrated. Made from tiny yields..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Mocha, chocolate, spices, plums and black cherries seem to literally jump from the glass. Merlot plays a pretty important role in the 2010, which gives the wine much of its roundness and early accessibility. Round, expressive and racy, the 2010 Ranch is a terrific effort from Snowden..."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "White currants, honeyed citrus, and melons are present in this medium-bodied, richly fruity, slightly smoky white Graves. It should drink nicely for 5-7 years."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "...fresher and more linear than the 2009. Slate, minerals, crushed rocks and grapefruit linger on the precise, crystalline fi nish. This is a very
Cellar/Tasting Notes "... One of the sleeper cuvees of the entire cellar, ground pepper intermixed with tapenade, creme de cassis, and smoky barbecue notes are followed by a wine with great fruit, good acidity, and striking minerality. It should drink well for a decade or more."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Pale gold. Ripe pear, orange, creme brulee and ginger on the fragrant nose, with notes of vanilla bean and smoky lees adding complexity. Pliant but sharply focused citrus and orchard fruit flavors gain depth with air, picking up a deeper marzipan nuance. The pear and leesy notes carry through on..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "A strong effort for this estate, the 2006 Lagrange competes with the finest wines of the appellation. The oak is often excessive, but in this vintage, it is beautifully integrated, allowing the sweet cassis, licorice, herb, and spice box notes to dominate. Ripe and medium to full-bodied with..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "With a high proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon, this wine has both structured and superbly rich fruit. The tannins are firm, but show a sweet, enticing edge to them, giving a full body and classic, fresh black currant acidity. An impressive wine, which definitely needs to agefive years or more."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "The Cuvee Prestige, the 2006 Haut-Condissas (60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot from the vineyard's finest parcels), possesses a more saturated color as well as additional structure, body, and intense fruit. The finish is heady and long. This offering should drink nicely for 12-15 years...
Cellar/Tasting Notes "The darker, fuller-bodied 2010 Chateauneuf du Pape exhibits plenty of blackberry and black raspberry fruit as well as good acidity and freshness. This rich, dense ruby/purple-colored 2010 is capable of 10-15 years of cellaring."


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What's New
NYU Division of Endocrine Surgery now offers molecular testing for thyroid nodules
The incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing more rapidly than any other cancer in the US, with an estimated 56,000 new cases expected in 2012. Although the majority of thyroid nodules are benign, current guidelines recommend fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy of most nodules, particularly those larger than 1 or 1.5 cm. Thyroid nodules that are biopsied as inconclusive have typically required thyroid surgery for definitive diagnosis, and up to 80% of those patients with inconclusive biopsies do not have thyroid cancer. The New York State Department of Health has recently approved a new molecular diagnostic test for thyroid nodules with inconclusive FNAs. This test, the Veracyte Afirma Gene Expression Classifier, measures the expression of 142 genes to reclassify inconclusive thyroid FNAs as either benign or possibly cancerous. This may enable us to recommend observation rather than surgery in many patients.
The Division of Endocrine Surgery at New York University Langone Medical Center is one of the first institutions in New York to offer this test, which will allow more patients with inconclusive thyroid FNA to be observed without undergoing thyroid surgery. For patients with suspicious thyroid nodules who do require thyroid surgery, we also offer different types of molecular testing that may assist in planning the extent of surgery. Our goal is to provide individualized care for all patients with thyroid nodules.
Minimally Invasive Adrenalectomy
Minimally invasive adrenalectomy has become the standard of care for most patients with adrenal tumors. Performed laparoscopically through tiny incisions through the side, or retroperitoneoscopic ally through small incisions in the back, minimally invasive adrenalectomy is a safe and extremely well tolerated procedure. Most patients are able to be discharged within 1-2 days after surgery and recover quickly. Our experienced Endocrine Surgeons work closely with specialized Endocrinologists, Radiologists and Pathologists to provide appropriate, safe and effective care for patients with adrenal tumors. Minimally invasive laparoscopic and retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy is performed by Dr. Leon Pachter and Dr. Jennifer Ogilvie.
Minimally Invasive, Video-Assisted Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
We are pleased to offer video-assisted thyroid and parathyroid surgery at NYU. This new surgical technique, developed in Italy, enables appropriately trained surgeons to perform thyroid and parathyroid surgery through incisions smaller than 1" in length. This technique is appropriate for only a limited number of patients meeting certain strict criteria related to the size of the nodule and the overall size of the thyroid. We strive to offer our patients the latest advances in endocrine surgery, always remembering that the safety and well being of our patients is most important. Dr. Jennifer Ogilvie will be performing video-assisted thyroid and parathyroid surgery at NYU.
Parathyroid Cryopreservation
We are pleased to announce that New York State has granted final approval to our new program of parathyroid cryopreservation, which will be performed in collaboration with the NY Blood Center. Most patients requiring parathyroid surgery have one overactive parathyroid gland. The remaining three parathyroids are normal and are left in place after the abnormal gland is removed. In some patients, all four parathyroids are abnormal and 3 ½ glands need to be removed. In other patients who have had previous thyroid or parathyroid surgery, it may not be possible to know how many parathyroid glands remain. Sometimes after parathyroid surgery in patients like these, the amount of parathyroid tissue remaining is inadequate to maintain normal calcium levels. In these situations, cryopreservation permits us to freeze a small piece of the patient's own parathyroid tissue, store it at the NY Blood Center, and transplant it back into the patient if the calcium level remains low after surgery. While this will be necessary in very few patients, it will significantly benefit some patients with complex parathyroid problems.
Intraoperative Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring
The recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) is located in the lower neck, directly behind the thyroid gland. An injury to this nerve during thyroid surgery can result in hoarseness. Fortunately, when thyroid surgery is performed by experienced surgeons, this complication is very rare. To further decrease the risk of hoarseness, intraoperative RLN monitoring is now performed routinely on patients undergoing thyroid surgery at NYU. Special monitoring electrodes are used so that the identity and function of the RLN can be continuously assessed as surgery progresses. The availability of this advanced technique reflects our constant commitment to patient safety and to minimizing the risks of surgery.
Dr. Patel Receives Research Grant for Thyroid Cancer
Dr. Kepal Patel, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Biochemistry, has received a grant of $50,000 to support his research into the intracellular molecular changes associated with the development of thyroid cancer. By understanding these fundamental changes within the cell, new approaches to the treatment of thyroid cancer may be devised. This highly competitive grant is awarded by the THANC Foundation in cooperation with the American Thyroid Association.


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Following the release of the 2.6.21 kernel [story] Andrew Morton [interview] posted a list of patches in his -mm kernel, summarizing for each his plans as to whether or not they wil be pushed upstream for inclusion in the upcoming 2.6.22 kernel. He noted, "the overall stability in recent -mm's was not sufficiently high and we ran out of time to find all the bugs. I shouldn't have merged all those patches last week - they contained an exceptional amount of garbage. This all means that more bugs than usual will probably leak into mainline, and we'll have to fix them there." He went on to add, "I've been ducking most non-bugfix patches recently. I have ~200 feature and cleanup patches queued for later consideration, so people who sent those will be hearing from me eventually."
Theodore Ts'o posted an update on the ext4 filesystem [story], "I've respun the ext4 development patchset, with Amit's updated fallocate patches. I've added Dave's patch to add ia64 support to the fallocate system call, but *not* the XFS fallocate support patches. (Probably better for them to live in an xfs tree, where they can more easily tested and updated.) Yes, we haven't reached complete closure on the fallocate system call calling convention, but it's enough for us to get more testing in -mm." Jeff Garzik noted that none of this development was happening in the kernel as originally planned, "why isn't this stuff going upstream rapidly? AFAICT nothing much at all has happened upstream besides a mass renaming? The whole point of having ext4 in the kernel is to do development upstream, in the public view, getting new stuff in ASAP (even if that means changing or pulling some stuff later)."
Theodore acknowledged, "in general, yes, ext4 development has been a little slow; part of the problem is that we have a lot of people, but a number of folks are new and their patches need review before they are ready for upstream acceptance, and a number of other folks who should be doing the review have been overloaded with multiple other projects and have been time-sharing." He went on to note, "but we also get flamed when the patches don't meet various criteria, up to and including breaking on ia64. We are in the process of setting up automated testing to help address that problem, but it's a taken a little while to get that going. I'm also trying to schedule more time so I can do the needed review of the patches so they meet basic upstream standards so we *can* push them. If other folks would like to help with the review process, that would be more than welcome. But yes, we will try to get more of the patches pushed sooner rather than later."
Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the release of the 2.6.21 kernel, "if the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal for 2.6.21 is to have just survived the big timer-related changes and some of the other surprises (just as an example: we were apparently unlucky enough to hit what looks like a previously unknown hardware errata in one of the ethernet drivers that got updated etc)." Regarding the the dynticks code which was merged in -rc1 [story] he said, "the big change during 2.6.21 is all the timer changes to support a tickless system (and even with ticks, more varied time sources). Thanks (when it no longer broke for lots of people ;) go to Thomas Gleixner and Ingo Molnar and a cadre of testers and coders." He went on to note, "of course, the timer stuff was just the most painful and core part (and thus the one that I remember most): there's a lot of changes all over. The appended changelog is just for the fixes since -rc7, so that doesn't look very impressive, the full changes since 2.6.20 are obviously a *lot* bigger (and you're better off reading the individual -rc changelogs)." Linus finished with a running joke about the many debates centered around current CPU scheduler efforts [story], quipping, "we now return you to your regular scheduler discussions".
The future of Reiser4 was raised on the lkml, with the filesystem's creator, Hans Reiser [interview], awaiting his May 7'th trial [story]. Concerns that the filesystem wasn't being maintained were laid to rest when Andrew Morton [interview] stated, "the namesys engineers continue to maintain reiser4 and I continue to receive patches for it." He further added, "the namesys guys are responsive and play well with others." As to why the filesystem hasn't yet been merged into the 2.6 kernel, Andrew explained, "to get it unstuck we'd need a general push, get people looking at and testing the code, get the vendors to have a serious think about it, etc. We could do that - it'd require that the namesys people (and I) start making threatening noises about merging it, I guess." He then made joking reference to the recent debate regarding the new CPU schedulers [story], "or we could move all the reiser4 code into kernel/sched.c - that seems to get people fired up."
Namesys developer and author of the Reiser4 encryption and compression plugins, Edward Shiskin, offered some updates. Replying to some comments about the need to remove plugins from the Reiser4 code he explained, "the popular opinion that plugins make more sense in the VFS is a great delusion, as plugins are entities related to reiser4 disk layouts." In an earlier thread it had been suggested that the plugins were misnamed and would be better called an internal abstraction layer [story]. Edward went on to note, "currently there are two namesys employees working [on Reiser4] mostly on enthusiasm." He linked to a wiki page listing known issues with the code needing to be fixed before it's likely to be merged into the 2.6 kernel, "the main issues here are xattrs and support for blocksize != pagesize. I think that adding xattrs will take ~1 month of full-time working. Not sure about blocksize support." When it was noted that other filesystems have already been merged without support for either of these features, Edward said that they'd lower their priority and finish up with the other remaining issues left on the old todo list and resume the merge discussion at that time.
Avi Kivity is the lead developer and maintainer of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine project, better known as kvm. The project was started in mid-2006, and has been part of the Linux kernel since the 2.6.20 release in February of 2007. kvm is a full virtualization system for x86-based Linux hosts, allowing users to run isolated x86 guest operating systems in virtual machines.
A recent discussion on the lkml examined the possibility of a Linux implementation of Sun's ZFS. It was pointed out that the file system is released under the GPL-incompatible CDDL, and that Sun has filed numerous patents to prevent ZFS from being reverse engineered. Max Yudin pointed out, "according to Jeff Bonwick's blog Sun issued 56 patents on ZFS, but I have no idea what they patented. Sorry, binary compatible ZFS reimplementation with GPL license might not be legal." David Litwin noted that he had been told by a ZFS developer to talk to Linux developers to see about getting non-GPL'd code included with the kernel. Theodore T'so replied, "that was totally useless answer from the ZFS developers. What he should have told you is to contact Sun management, since they are the only ones who can decide whether or not to release ZFS under a GPL license, and more importantly, to give a patent license for any patents they may have filed in the course of developing ZFS."
Alan Cox [interview] suggested, "the real test of whether Sun were serious about ZFS being anywhere but Solaris is what they do to license it - they've patented everything they can, and made the code available only under licenses incompatible with other OS products. Their intent is quite clear, and quite sad. Compare it to what the old Sun company did with NFS, which is now a standard used everywhere." Theodore T'so added, "given that Sun has reportedly filed a huge number of patents covering ZFS and has refused to make them available for anything other than Solaris --- and there are senior Sun programmers who have on record stated that one of the reasons why Sun picked the CDDL was precisely because it was incompatible with GPL and Sun fears Linux ---- I wouldn't bet on Sun being willing to making a patent license available to a hypothetical alternate implementation of the ZFS format for Linux." He went on to note, "of course, this is all open source. If someone wants to work on reimplementing ZFS from scratch, either in userspace or in the kernel, certainly the Linux community won't stop them. Given the patent issues Linus might not feel comfortable including it in the mainline sources without a promise from Sun that they won't sue the pants off of him and The Linux Foundation, but again, that's Sun's decision, and no one else can help you there."
Ingo Molnar [interview] released a new patchset titled the "Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler". He explained, "this project is a complete rewrite of the Linux task scheduler. My goal is to address various feature requests and to fix deficiencies in the vanilla scheduler that were suggested/found in the past few years, both for desktop scheduling and for server scheduling workloads." The patchset introduces Scheduling Classes, "an extensible hierarchy of scheduler modules. These modules encapsulate scheduling policy details and are handled by the scheduler core without the core code assuming about them too much." It also includes sched_fair.c with an implementation of the CFS desktop scheduler, "a replacement for the vanilla scheduler's SCHED_OTHER interactivity code," about which Ingo noted, "I'd like to give credit to Con Kolivas [interview] for the general approach here: he has proven via RSDL/SD that 'fair scheduling' is possible and that it results in better desktop scheduling. Kudos Con!"
Regarding the actual implementation, Ingo explained, "CFS's design is quite radical: it does not use runqueues, it uses a time-ordered rbtree to build a 'timeline' of future task execution, and thus has no 'array switch' artifacts (by which both the vanilla scheduler and RSDL/SD are affected). CFS uses nanosecond granularity accounting and does not rely on any jiffies or other HZ detail. Thus the CFS scheduler has no notion of 'timeslices' and has no heuristics whatsoever. There is only one central tunable, /proc/sys/kernel/sched_granularity_ns, which can be used to tune the scheduler from 'desktop' (low latencies) to 'server' (good batching) workloads." He went on to note, "due to its design, the CFS scheduler is not prone to any of the 'attacks' that exist today against the heuristics of the stock scheduler".
Linus Torvalds announced the first release candidate for the upcoming 2.6.21 kernel, ending the two-week merge window [story], "there's a lot of changes, as is usual for an -rc1 thing, but at least so far it would seem that 2.6.20 has been a good base, and I don't think we have anything *really* scary here." Linus noted that the tickless kernel patch [story] was finally merged into the mainline kernel, "the most interesting core change may be the dyntick/nohz one, where timer ticks will only happen when needed. It's been brewing for a _loong_ time, but it's in the standard kernel now as an option." Thomas Gleixner explained a year ago how this could result in cooler CPUs and power savings, "the tickless kernel feature (CONFIG_NO_HZ) enables 'on-demand' timer interrupts: if there is no timer to be expired for say 1.5 seconds when the system goes idle, then the system will stay totally idle for 1.5 seconds."
As for the rest of the changes, Linus added, "there's a ton of architecture updates (arm, mips, powerpc, x86, you name it), ACPI updates, and lots of driver work. And just a lot of cleanups." Release candidate kernels can be downloaded from your nearest kernel.org mirror. You can browse through all the changes using the gitweb interface. Kernel Newbiews maintains a useful summary of all the changes going into the latest version of the Linux kernel.
Ingo Molnar [interview] posted a second version of his syslets subystem patch set, which offers asynchrous system call support [story]. He noted that the effort is a work in progress, and that there are still outstanding issues to be fixed, "the biggest conceptual change in v2 is the ability of cachemiss threads to be turned into user threads. This fixes signal handling, makes them ptrace-eable, etc," going on to list numerous fixes since the first release. He noted that prior to releasing a third version of the patch set he will add support for multiple completion rings, add logic to share the 'spare thread' between the rings to further reduce startup costs, and remove reliance on mlock().
Linus Torvalds commented, "I'm still not a huge fan of the user space interface, but at least the core code looks quite clean. No objections on that front." He referred to earlier comments in which he had reacted strongly to the syslets userland interface saying, "I dislike it intensely, because it's so _close_ to being usable. But the programming interface looks absolutely horrid for any 'casual' use, and while the loops etc look like fun, I think they are likely to be less than useful in practice. Yeah, you can do the 'setup and teardown' just once, but it ends up being 'once per user', and it ends up being a lot of stuff to do for somebody who wants to just do some simple async stuff." He later noted that he was in particular concerned with the "register" functionality, which Ingo then simplified.
Rik van Riel [interview] posted some thoughts on the page replacement requirements of the Linux VM, noting that the same kinds of bugs have been getting fixed and reintroduced over the past few years, "this has convinced me that it is time to take a look at the actual requirements of a page replacement mechanism, so we can try to fix things without reintroducing other bugs. Understanding what is going on should also help us deal better with really large memory systems." He added his thoughts from this email to the linux-mm wiki, which he plans to update as new requirements surface.
The initial requirements shortlist included seven items: "1) must select good pages for eviction; must not submit too much I/O at once. Submitting too much I/O at once can kill latency and even lead to deadlocks when bounce buffers (highmem) are involved. Note that submitting sequential I/O is a good thing; 2) must be able to efficiently evict the pages on which pageout I/O completed; 3) must be able to deal with multiple memory zones efficiently; 4) must always have some pages ready to evict. Scanning 32GB of "recently referenced" memory is not an option when memory gets tight; 5) must be able to process pages in batches, to reduce SMP lock contention; 6) a bad decision should have bounded consequences. The VM needs to be resilient against its own heuristics going bad; 7) low overhead of execution." He continued on with some more in depth discussion of the various requirements.
Following the release of the 2.6.20 kernel [story] Andrew Morton [interview] posted a list of patches in his -mm kernel, summarizing for each his plans as to whether or not they will be pushed upstream for inclusion in the upcoming 2.6.21 kernel. Andrew commented, "I'm getting fed up of holding onto hundreds of patches against subsystem trees, sending them over and over again and seeing nothing happen. I sent 242 patches out to subsystem maintainers on Monday and look at what's still here." In response to some confusion as to what happens to these patches, he went on explain, "once a subsystem has a subsystem tree (git or quilt) I basically never merge anything which belongs to that tree. It's always originator->mm->subsystemtree->Linus".
Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the release of the 2.6.20 kernel, summarizing, "a lot of stuff. All over. And KVM." He further noted, "I tried rather hard to make 2.6.20 largely a 'stabilization release'. Unlike a lot of kernels lately, there aren't really any big fundamental changes to some core infrastructure area, and while we always have bugs, I really am hoping that we fixed many more than we introduced." His announcement started with a news parody, "in a widely anticipated move, Linux 'headcase' Torvalds today announced the immediate availability of the most advanced Linux kernel to date, version 2.6.20." Linus continued:
"As ICD head analyst Walter Dickweed put it: "Releasing a new kernel on Superbowl Sunday means that the important 'pasty white nerd' constituency finally has something to do while the rest of the country sits comatose in front of their 65" plasma screens."
"Walter was immediately attacked for his racist and insensitive remarks by Geeks without Borders representative Marilyn vos Savant, who pointed out that not all of their members are either pasty nor white. "Some of them even shower!" she added, claiming that the constant stereotyping hurts nerds' standing in society.
Geeks outside the US were just confused about the whole issue, and were heard wondering what the big hoopla was all about. Some of the more culturally aware of them were heard snickering about balls that weren't even round.
Jens Axboe has been involved with Linux since 1993. 30 years old, he lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, and works as a Linux Kernel developer for Oracle. His block layer rewrite launched the 2.5 kernel development branch, a layer he continues to maintain and improve. Interested in most anything dealing with IO, he has introduced several new IO schedulers to the kernel, including the default CFQ, or Complete Fair Queuing scheduler.
In this interview, Jens talks about how he got interested in Linux, how he became the maintainer of the block layer and other block devices, and what's involved in being a maintainer. He describes his work on IO schedulers, offering an indepth look at the design and current status of the CFQ scheduler, including a peek at what's in store for the future. He conveys his excitement about the new splice IO model, explaining how it came about and how it works. And he discusses the current 2.6 kernel development process, the impact of git, and why the GPL is important to him.
"The Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development," Greg Kroah-Hartman posted in an open offer on the lkml, for all types of devices "from USB toys to PCI video devices to high-speed networking cards." He explains, "all that is needed is some kind of specification that describes how your device works, or the email address of an engineer that is willing to answer questions every once in a while. A few sample devices might be good to have so that debugging doesn't have to be done by email, but if necessary, that can be done." He added, "if your company is worried about NDA issues surrounding your device's specifications, we have arranged a program with OSDL/TLF's Tech Board to provide the legal framework where a company can interact with a member of the kernel community in order to properly assure that all needed NDA requirements are fulfilled." Greg suggests that companies participating can allow their developers to focus on drivers for other operating systems, "and you can add 'supported on Linux' to your product's marketing material." He further explains:
"You will receive a complete and working Linux driver that is added to the main Linux kernel source tree. The driver will be written by some of the members of the Linux kernel developer community (over 1500 strong and growing). This driver will then be automatically included in all Linux distributions, including the 'enterprise ones. It will be automatically kept up to date and working through all Linux kernel API changes. This driver will work with all of the different CPU types supported by Linux (for the CPUs that support the bus types that your device works on), the largest number of CPU types supported by any operating system ever before in the history of computing."
Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the 2.6.20-rc6 release candidate kernel, "it's been more than a week since -rc5, but I blame everybody (including me) being away for Linux.conf.au and then me waiting for a few days afterwards to let everybody sync up." He asked that people test the regressions reported against earlier release candidates [story], "so that we can confirm whether they are still active and relevant." Linus noted that he hoped this would be the final release candidate before 2.6.20 is released, then went on to discuss what's new:
"As to -rc6 itself: the bulk of it are the MTD updates (including a few new drivers), and the POWER update (and the bulk of _that_ in terms of patch size being defconfig updates ;)
"But there's various random fixes in infiniband, DVB, network drivers, scsi, usb, some filesystems (cifs, jffs2, nfs, ntfs, ocfs2) as well as core networking too. Oh, and KVM, of course. And stuff I probably have already forgotten."


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