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- 1 Overview
- 2 Installation
- 3 Setup
- 4 Testing the Remote
- 5 Troubleshooting
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- 6.1 Setup a HID device with LIRC
- 6.2 Serial receivers that depend on lirc_serial
- 6.3 Checking module based receivers
- 6.4 Your serial port support is compiled as a module in the kernel
- 6.5 Your serial port support is compiled into the kernel
- 6.6 Device Specific Examples
- 6.8 Asus DH Deluxe series motherboard
- 6.9 ASRock ION series (Nuvoton) quickstart
- 6.10 Streamzap PC Remote (USB)
- 6.11 Serial Port "Home Brew" IR Receiver
- 6.12 Receivers that do not depend on a kernel module
LIRC is a deamon that can translate key presses on a supported remote into program specific commands. In this context, the term, "program specific" means that a key press can do different things depending on which program is running and taking commands from LIRC.
The Central Dogma of LIRC
The list below attempts to show the flow of information from the remote to the program using LIRC:
- User hits a button on the remote causing it to transmit an IR or RF signal.
- The signal is received by the receiver connected to the Linux box.
- The kernel (via the correct module) uses /dev/lirc0 to characterize the pulse-length information from the receiver.
/usr/bin/lircduses the information from /etc/lirc/lircd.conf convert the pulse-lengths into button press information.
- Programs that use LIRC translate the button press info from
/usr/bin/lircdinto user-defined actions according to
Summary of Required Files
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf- System-level config translating scancodes --> keys. Is specific to each remote control/receiver on the system and can contain configure for multiple remotes and/or receivers if need be.
~/.lircrc- File containing an include statement pointing to each program's lirc map, i.e.,
~/.lirc/bar, etc.
include "~/.lirc/mplayer" include "~/.lirc/mythtv" include "~/.lirc/vlc"
~/.lirc/foo- User-level config translating of keys --> actions. Is specific to each remote and to application foo.
Install the lirc-utils package, which is available in the official repositories. The most of LIRC kernel drivers are already included in the mainline kernel. Install the lirc package only, if the hardware requires the lirc_wpc8769l module.
Some remotes are identified as "keyboards" and function as such without LIRC. This can be problematic for users using to use LIRC to manage them. Test if this is the case by opening a shell or a text editors, and by pressing buttons on the remote itself. If letters/numbers appear, or if the up/down arrow keys behave as the up/down arrow keys on the physical keyboard, a workaround to disable this is required. See this troubleshooting section for several solutions before continuing.
The LIRC Config File
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf which is specific to each remote/IR receiver is the first step in setting up a remote.
Use a Prebuild Config File
Identify which remote/IR receiver is to be used and see if
/usr/share/lirc contains a pre-built config file for it. Once identified, create/edit
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf to use an include statement that points to the selected one.
include "/usr/share/lirc/streamzap/lircd.conf.streamzap"
Create a Config File
Users with unsupported hardware will need to either find a config file someone else has create (i.e. google) or create one. Creating one is fairly straightforward using the included
/usr/bin/irrecord program which guides users along the needed process. If using a detected remote, invoke it like so:
irrecord --device=/dev/lirc0 MyRemote
The program will ask users to begin hitting keys on the remote in an attempt to learn it. If all goes well, the user will be prompted to map out each key press to a specific scancode LIRC uses to identify that specific key press. The process should take no more than 10 minutes. When finished, save the resulting file to
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf and proceed.
Testing the Remote
Start the LIRC daemon:
# systemctl start lirc
Test the remote using
/usr/bin/irw, which simply echos anything received by LIRC when users push buttons on the remote to stdout.
$ irw 000000037ff07bfe 00 One mceusb 000000037ff07bfd 00 Two mceusb 000000037ff07bfd 01 Two mceusb 000000037ff07bf2 00 Home mceusb 000000037ff07bf2 01 Home mceusb
Remote functions as a keyboard
Xorg detects some remotes, such as the Streamzap USB PC Remote, as a Human Interface Device (HID) which means some or all of the keys will show up as physical key presses like the physical keyboard. This behavior will present problems if LIRC is to be used to manage the device. To disable this, create the following file and restart X:
Section "InputClass" Identifier "Ignore Streamzap IR" MatchProduct "Streamzap" MatchIsKeyboard "true" Option "Ignore" "true" EndSection
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Setup a HID device with LIRC
Some remotes are supported in the kernel where they are treated as a keyboard and mouse. Every button on the device is recognized as keyboard or mouse events which can be used even without LIRC. LIRC can still be used with these devices to gain greater control over the events raised and integrate with programs that expect a LIRC remote rather than a keyboard. As drivers are migrated to the kernel, devices which use to only be useable through LIRC with their own
lirc.conf files become standard HID devices.
Some HID remotes actually simulate a USB infrared keyboard and mouse. These remotes show up as two devices so you need to add two LIRC devices to
First we need the
/dev/input device for our remote:
$ ls /sys/class/rc/rc0
One of the files should be input#, where the number matches the event# of the device. (To clarify you can check that directory, it will have an event# file.
/sys/class/rc. Under event#
cat name to verify which device you are looking at.
then go to
$ ls -l /dev/input/by-id
You should find a file that symlinks to the input# above, and possibly others with a similar names for mouse events.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 10月 14 06:43 usb-3353_3713-event-if00 -> ../event9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 10月 14 06:43 usb-3353_3713-event-if01 -> ../event10
Here 'usb-3353_3713-event-if00' and 'usb-3353_3713-event-if01' are the Linux input device event for our HID device, one for the keyboard, another for the mouse.
Then, we need to edit
/etc/conf.d/lircd.conf. This file contains the parameters for LIRC daemon
# #Parameters for daemon # LIRC_DEVICE="/dev/input/by-id/usb-3353_3713-event-if00" LIRC_DRIVER="devinput" LIRC_EXTRAOPS="" LIRC_CONFIGFILE="/etc/lirc/lircd.conf"
The latest version of the config file for HID remotes exists in the LIRC git repository [1]. Simply save it as
In order to launch the LIRC daemon for HID remote, You must enable evdev module first
# modprobe evdev
/dev/lircd to
/var/run/lirc/lircd, but many applications still look for the socket in the old location. Since lirc-utils 0.8.6-3 the
/etc/rc.d/lircd script creates a symlink from
/dev/lircd to the
/var/run/lirc/lircd socket when it starts the lircd daemon and removes the link when the daemon is stopped.
Serial receivers that depend on lirc_serial
Make sure that your serial port is activated in the BIOS. There you can also set and lookup I/O address and IRQ settings of your ports.
Now there might be a problem: the module lirc_serial is build to use ttyS0 (COM1), if your device is not connected to ttyS0, you will have to either change the module-options or rebuild the LIRC module. If your device is connected to ttyS0, you can skip this step
To change the options for the lirc_serial module, you edit
/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf and add this line:
options lirc_serial io=0x2f8 irq=3
You should change the values after io and irq to reflect you serial port settings, the values above may work for you if you are using ttyS1 (COM2) to connect your IR-device. But you will find the correct values by checking dmesg:
$ dmesg | grep ttyS
Building the lirc_serial module for another ttySx
Update abs
# abs
Copy the LIRC files to a directory you choose yourself:
$ cp /var/abs/extra/system/lirc /some/dir
$ cd /some/dir
Edit the PKGBUILD in that directory.
Replace the line:
./configure --enable-sandboxed --prefix=/usr \ --with-driver=all \\ return 1[/code]
./configure --enable-sandboxed --prefix=/usr \ --with-driver=com2 \ || return 1[/code]
Where you replace com2 with the com-port you need.
Build and install the package:
$ makepkg # pacman -U lirc-version.pkg.tar.gz
Now try to load the serial module:
# modprobe lirc_serial
If this produces an error which says your serial port is not ready, you have the problem that your serial port support is build into the kernel and not as a module (in the default arch kernel it is build into the kernel)
If it is built into the kernel you will have to do the following (remember that it is built into the kernel, you will need to make some changes later too)
You will have to release the serial port:
# setserial /dev/ttySx uart none
(Replace x with your port number)
Load the module again:
# modprobe lirc_serial
Now it should not show any errors, and the modules lirc_serial should be listed in lsmod
Checking module based receivers
NOTE: This section only applies if your device requires a lirc_[driver] kernel module.
Before you start using lirc, you should check if your receiver is working, and if there is IR interference. Possible sources of interference include monitors/televisions (especially plasma displays), fluorescent lamps and direct or ambient sunlight. Start the following command to display raw receiver input.
# mode2 -d /dev/lirc0
If you press buttons on any IR remote, you should see a series of pulses and spaces. If there is very frequent output without pressing buttons on your remote, your receiver suffers from interference. You want to avoid such interference, e.g. by placing the receiver behind or under your plasma tv.
If you can't make out where the interference is coming from, you can try to put a cardboard roll right in front of the receiving diode, so that it only gets light from a specific direction. Invoke mode2 as above. Then point at different locations till you receive IR noise.
Your serial port support is compiled as a module in the kernel
This is rather easy: you will just have to add lirc_serial to the modules list and lircd to the daemons list in
Your serial port support is compiled into the kernel
This is more complicated, you cannot just add the lirc_serial to the modules list in
/etc/rc.conf, as the serial port should be released first.
So I created a custom startup script to fix this problem.
#!/bin/bash #/etc/rc.d/start_lirc #releases ttySx and loads lirc_serial module . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions case "$1" in start) stat_busy "release ttySx" setserial /dev/ttySx uart none #load lirc module modprobe lirc_serial stat_done ;; stop) stat_busy "unload lirc module" rmmod lirc_serial stat_done ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" esac exit 0
Now load the daemons: add "start_lirc" and "lircd" to the daemons list in
Device Specific Examples
There is a dedicated wiki page with information about X10
Asus DH Deluxe series motherboard
Check the output of:
$ cat /dev/usb/hiddevX
where X is 0,1 or bigger, and press some buttons on remote.
If you can see reply, device works fine, follow steps:
1. In file
/etc/conf.d/lircd.conf add:
2. Reload LIRC:
/etc/rc.d/lircd restart
ASRock ION series (Nuvoton) quickstart
$ ln -s /usr/share/lirc/remotes/lirc_wb677/lircd.conf.wb677 /etc/lirc/lircd.conf $ /etc/rc.d/lircd restart
Streamzap PC Remote (USB)
To disable this behavior, add the following to
Section "InputClass" Identifier "Ignore Streamzap IR" MatchProduct "Streamzap" MatchIsKeyboard "true" Option "Ignore" "true" EndSection
- Install both packages (lirc lirc-utils)
- Modprobe both kernel mods (lirc_dev and streamzap). To have modules autoload at boot create the following file
#modules for streamzap remote lirc_dev streamzap
- Create your
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf(for this remote, copy
- Fix the broken lirc.service file:
[Unit] Description=Linux Infrared Remote Control [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/lirc/lircd.conf ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/ln -sf /run/lirc/lircd /dev/lircd ExecStart=/usr/bin/lircd --pidfile=/run/lirc/lircd.pid -d /dev/lirc0 Type=forking PIDFile=/run/lirc/lircd.pid [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
You might have to play around with lircd and irw to find your remote. In the above example, it's /dev/lirc0.
lircd -d /dev/... to start lircd with a certain device. Run
irw and test it out. When you find the right device, modify
/usr/lib/systemd/system/lirc.service accordingly.
- Start lircd via
# systemctl start lircto survive a reboot use
# systemctl enable lirc
- Test the remote/lirc with irw
$ irw 00000000000028cc 00 CH_UP Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028ce 00 CH_DOWN Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028c8 00 8 Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028c5 00 5 Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d2 00 OK Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d1 00 LEFT Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d1 01 LEFT Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d1 00 LEFT Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d3 00 RIGHT Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d3 00 RIGHT Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d3 00 RIGHT Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d3 00 RIGHT Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d4 00 DOWN Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d4 00 DOWN Streamzap_PC_Remote 00000000000028d4 00 DOWN Streamzap_PC_Remote
Serial Port "Home Brew" IR Receiver
Here's how to get a "Home Brew" serial port IR receiver working:
1. Create a udev rule to give non-privleged users read/write access to the serial port. I will be using ttyS0 in my example.
# For serial port ttyS0 and LIRC KERNEL=="ttyS0",SUBSYSTEM=="tty",DRIVERS=="serial",MODE="0666"
2. Create the needed modprobe configs
install lirc_serial /usr/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none && /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install lirc_serial options lirc_serial type=0 remove lirc_serial /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove lirc_serial && /sbin/modprobe -r lirc_dev
3. Install your systemd service file.
[Unit] Description=Linux Infrared Remote Control After=network.target [Service] Type=simple PIDFile=/run/lirc/lircd.pid ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /dev/lirc /dev/lircd /var/run/lirc/lircd ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lircd -n -r -P /run/lirc/lircd.pid -d /dev/lirc0 -o /run/lirc/lircd ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/ln -sf /run/lirc/lircd /dev/lircd ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/ln -sf /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc ExecReload=/bin/kill -SIGHUP $MAINPID [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
4. We still need the default tmpfiles to be created, so copy that config file to
# cp -a /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lirc.conf /etc/tmpfiles.d/lirc.conf
5. Create a
.lircrc file in your home directory for your user or a
/etc/lirc/lircrc file for system wide use.
6. Have your service start at boot and then test with a reboot
# systemctl enable lirc.service # systemctl reboot
or load the module and start the lirc.service.
# modprobe lirc_serial # systemctl start lirc.service
Receivers that do not depend on a kernel module
Usually, you only need to specify your the device where the receiver is plugged in and the lirc driver. This is an example for pinnacle or miro serial receivers):
LIRC_DEVICE="/dev/ttySX" LIRC_DRIVER="pinsys"
Then, start lircd daemon and create the remote/s configuration (/etc/lirc/lircd.conf), either by copying one of the configured defaults that comes with lirc-utils or by using irrecord. Even if you find your remote in the list of preconfigured remotes it might not work so you will have to use irrecord anyway.
After this you can use irw to check the remote, create your ~/.lircrc to assign remote buttons to actions and start irexec if you need to run arbitrary commands.


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Love & Hip-Hop.
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T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle.
This show was created to essentially re-introduce rap artist Clifford "T.I." Harris to mainstream society while highlighting his everyday life with wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle after Harris's latest release from prison. Also featured in the show are their five children, and from what I've heard/read, the show is good and fairly popular. Unlike Love & Hip-Hop, I've never seen one nanosecond of this show, but it has more to do with me giving up on VH1 reality shows a year ago and nothing to do with any sort of disdain for either Harris or Cottle.
As I wrote before, T.I. is a convicted felon. "God, family and hustle" are the three most important things to him. While many hear "hustle" and immediately think of some low-life on the street peddling crap to suckers, I understand that for some, it's just a word used to describe the everyday grind of life. It can be going to school, working, or volunteering. I also understand that it is extremely difficult for the average convicted felon to reintegrate himself/herself into society in order to be a productive human being. Besides not being able to exercise a simple civic liberty by voting, there are also many other restrictions they face, namely not being able to find employment at most reputable places of work. While they put themselves in that position, I find it disheartening that it is so hard for them to do something like work a normal gig and provide for not only themselves, but for their family if they have one.
T.I. is a different story. His last two incarcerations came when he was already "on", and he has had no problems re-establishing himself upon his most recent release from prison. He didn't end up back in prison because returning to crime was virtually the only way he could support himself since he wasn't able to work, but because he was stupid, selfish and arrogant. And he's rewarded this go-round with a reality show. Riiiiight. Now, the other person felt I was judging him and other convicted felons and that I feel they deserve nothing. They couldn't have been more incorrect in their assessment. What makes this funny and slightly sad is we've previously had a very lengthy conversation about why the system can be ridiculously unfair to felons. Again, many revert to their criminal ways because just about every legitimate avenue is closed to them. If you have a husband/wife, kids, bills to pay, no real skills/experience outside of felonious activities and virtually no chance to get a job that would allow an adult to live, at your wit's end, what else would you do? I didn't even want to throw in their face that my fraternity brothers and I worked with ex-cons in the state of Michigan, doing everything from helping them with resumes, interview techniques, driving them to those interviews and even taking those willing to get fitted for suits while paying for it all out of pocket. I could've shut them up by telling stories of going to Cass Tech in Detroit, a high school filled with hopelessness and despair, and letting the students–some of them, felons–know that not everyone in this world sees them as nothing more than a criminal and that if they truly wanted to, they could do and be better. But, I'm not petty. It's beneath me.
I suppose another area where I went wrong in our conversation was expressing surprise that the other person found some sort of inspiration in this show; that the show is proof that the Black family dynamic is still alive and well. Now, while I am not a fan of most reality shows, I see nothing wrong with most of them. I understand that the main purpose of these shows are to entertain, whether they're about celebrity families, love, aspiring athletes, truckers, or some sort of Survivor-style getup. However, when it comes to learning real-life lessons from them, that's where I tend to draw the line. I've seen more than enough documentaries on reality shows to know that what most think is real is to an extent, partially scripted. This is not to say that I believe every single second of every single reality show is disingenuous, but it's hard to believe that there's much genuineness when you just know that a director will yell, "Cut!" whenever he/she feels that a scene needs some livening up, or to take on a more somber tone. Is it impossible to draw inspiration from a reality show? Of course not. Do I think it's a little far-fetched? Of course I do.
What I find hard to understand is why so many members of my generation look to celebrities for positive and negative examples of how to lead their lives. Does it take a celebrity family loving and cherishing each other for us to know that there's still such a thing as love and devotion? Why do we need to see a celebrity hauled off to jail to know that the law is something to abide by and not scoff at, no matter your social or financial status? They argued that T.I. and Tiny's show displays a loving, Black household, something that in the Black community, unfortunately, we (Blacks) don't see nearly enough of, especially on television. I agreed without having even seen the show, but to insinuate that there are no examples around them kind of reeked of asininity. I'm very observant, and I absolutely love to see a "normal" family out and about, enjoying themselves and each other. It gives me great joy to see a father at the library with his child, helping them with their homework. Seeing a passionate mother at her child's sporting event makes me glad to realize that there are parents who want to be involved in their children's lives, and would rather not drop them off at practice or a game as if it's a babysitting service. I did not once come close to saying that T.I. and Tiny's show is bullshit; I haven't seen the show. Didn't even say that their drawing inspiration from the show is bullshit. I just wanted to make sure that they see the examples around them as well and to appreciate them just as much, if not more. I don't relate to T.I., even as an urban Black male, and I probably never will. This does not bother me. I don't aspire to be like T.I., either. What happens when people get defensive about their beliefs is they misconstrue what you really meant to say, and I believe this is what happened. No harm, no foul, not all that much love to be lost, from the tone of our conversation, I suppose.
At the current moment, I'm not really a fan of T.I. Not so much for his recent felonious acts, but his recent subpar music. Xscape, the all-female R&B group that Tiny helped popularize was never really my thing, even in their heyday. But, I have no qualms whatsoever with people watching their show. I don't even really have a problem with people tweeting or conversing about it. On the other hand, I implore those who do choose to watch and speak on it, to be willing to notice the more vital things in life, and I'm not just referring to politics. While I am admittedly a PoliSci nerd, I understand that it's not for everyone. Life is more than just politics. My life is more than just politics. The same goes for entertainment, which includes sports. Fucking live, people. If I have to beg you for one thing, it's to just live life, and not through a half-scripted reality show featuring people who you'll most likely never come close to relating to. It's your prerogative if you want to accept these two and the rest of their family as role models. I don't, but I don't mean it to be an indictment of their character. I just love the everyday people in my life–whether I know them or not–who go about their business to ensure that their families are well taken care of. No millions of dollars, fame or reality show. Just hustling. And there's nothing wrong with that.

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Having recently had a baby, I am particularly interested in how
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heard stories of pregnant women craving unusual combinations of
food such as pickles and ice cream. My own mom stopped dead
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pregnant with me. An informal polling of previously or
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but also including fruits, vegetables, pickles, peanut butter cups
and French fries. People say that a mother's body craves what
the baby needs, which was certainly my excuse for eating dozens of
But does a mother's ability to taste actually change? To be
extra safe, I did not test my bitter taster status while pregnant.
However, it has been reported that some pregnant women
actually show an increased sensitivity to bitter compounds in early
pregnancy, but their preference for bitter increased in the second
and third trimesters (Duffy et al., Annals of the New York Academy
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women as well. This makes sense, since pregnant women do, in
fact, have an increased physiological demand for salt.
The mechanism for changes in food intake, metabolism and taste
during pregnancy is not well understood. Early studies
indicate that hormones may be responsible for some of these
changes. It has been shown that estrogen decreases food
intake while progesterone increases food intake (Asarian and Geary,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biology, 2006).
In other words, we might have hormones to thank for the
stereotypical mom "eating for two." Additionally, when
estrogen levels are high, women have increased sensitivity to
sucrose (Than et al., Physiology and Behaviour, 1994).
Hormones are my new excuse for eating doughnuts!
Another mechanism for change might be in the tongue itself, at
least in rats. Fascinatingly, a rat's taste buds actually go
through morphological changes during pregnancy (Yucel et al.,
Annals of Anatomy, 2002).
These changes in taste and diet are just another example of how
our bodies are amazing, particularly a mother's. The
chemicals in her body change to influence the food she chooses to
eat in order to enhance the development of her baby. Thanks
moms. Happy Mother's Day.


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Southern Jewel, the latest grape variety issued by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, is high-yielding, disease resistant and produces fruit in big bunches.
IFAS developmental biology professor Dennis Gray, who led the team that created the new muscadine variety, says the new grape has been in the works since 1994.
It is Gray's second grape cultivar release. The first was "Delicious," also issued this year.
Southern Jewel is the 19th grape cultivar created by UF researchers. In this month's issue of the journal HortScience, Gray describes Southern Jewel as having "an excellent taste and a crunchy texture with a palatable skin, making it well-suited for fresh fruit consumption."
Southern Jewel, created with traditional plant-breeding techniques, was grown and compared with other muscadine varieties at the Mid-Florida Research and Education Center in Apopka, starting in 2002. Its ability to produce fruit in bunches made it stand out, Gray said.
"Muscadines typically make very small clusters, maybe just four or five berries," he said. "This one can make more than 12, sometimes 16 berries on a cluster."
That allows growers to harvest the grapes by cutting the stem of the cluster rather than picking individual berries, he said. Researchers don't yet know how much of an advantage that might be, he added.
Southern Jewel is an open release by UF, which means any grower should eventually be able to grow the plant once nursery owners have enough established plants to sell. A few plants may already be available through some nurseries, he said. Interested growers should check the Florida Grape Growers Association Web site at www.fgga.org for information or check with larger nurseries for more information.
During the trials, Gray said researchers used minimal disease control treatments — just one spray per year with copper sulfate — to determine their disease resistance.
Muscadines are typically resistant to Pierce's disease, which plagues many grape varieties grown in Florida, but they can be susceptible to bitter rot or ripe rot, which cause the berries to decompose. Southern Jewel was resistant to all three diseases.
"You can have the most beautiful plant in the world, but if it won't survive outside, it's worthless," he said.
Jacob Paulk, who owns Paulk Vineyards in south Georgia and has been growing grapes since the 1970s when he planted the crop to replace tobacco, said the prospect of clusters that can be cut at the stem is an intriguing one. Most of his muscadines now must be hand harvested, put onto a conveyor belt and sent into a packing shed, where workers grade and sort them by hand before packing them in small containers. Eliminating that step could mean less expensive grapes for consumers, he said.
A variety that could go from the stem to stores "would be a novel thing for us."


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The marten chronicles
Framing the wrong guy isn't always a bad thing
The deer head hangs from a tree on a thin cable, picked clean save for a few visually arresting chunks of gore. Beneath it, a branch with a small log nailed to its end juts from the trunk, supported by a strut. The idea is that, tempted by the head -- because who wouldn't be? -- a wolverine will climb out on the branch, tense, and spring. In so doing, it will trigger the camera lashed to the fir opposite and make itself known, here in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest of Washington's North Cascades.
That is how the set-up is supposed to work, anyway. But there are occasional complications -- usually martens.
"Heads are good bait," says John Rohrer, a Forest Service biologist. His is a grisly logic. "Martens usually eat the skin pretty quick, but the skull's too thick for them, so a wolverine gets the brains."
Adam Kehoe, one of the field workers, checks the camera. "It took more than 200 pictures!" he says. Hushed, excited murmuring among the crew in attendance. They are all part of the North Cascades Wolverine Study, a multi-year, multi-agency, multi-national effort. All that is missing from this party is the wolverine.
Trapped for their fur, poisoned by bait meant for other predators, or simply shot on sight, wolverines hadn't been documented here since the 1920s. Then, in the late 1990s, Rohrer and Scott Fitkin, a biologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, detected wolverines in the North Cascades with a remote camera like this one. Martens, on the other hand, never left. Both are members of the weasel family. If the wolverine is the elusive wayfaring celebrity of the clan, then the marten, as its name might suggest, is the accountant. Skinny of body, bushy of tail, it's about two feet long and weighs close to three pounds. Although still trapped for their fur, martens are not thought to be in any immediate danger. They're just martens -- not unwanted, certainly, but not exactly sought after, either.
Kehoe swaps out the memory card and we all head back to the Methow Valley Ranger District office, in Winthrop, Wash. Rohrer loads the photos. We press in around him. "Is it Rocky?" Keith Aubry asks. Aubry, also with the Forest Service, heads the wolverine study from the Pacific Northwest Research Station in Olympia. Rocky is one of his wards, a wolverine caught and tagged a few weeks ago in British Columbia. He has since crossed the border and is rambling about the Pasayten Wilderness. If his satellite-collar is to be believed, he is within a few miles of the camera. Aubry would love to get another look at him.
"Nope," Rohrer says. "Looks like it's just a marten." General letdown. People drift off as Rohrer flicks through the pictures. At two frames per second, the camera has captured the marten's routine. It's like watching a Buster Keaton movie: The marten paces to the end of the branch, peers up at the head. Then it leaps, is caught in mid-flight, and soon all we see is its hind legs and tail thrashing around as the head swings in and out of the camera's field of view. Another blur when the marten loses its grip and falls to the ground. A blank minute. Then the sequence starts again: the marten on the branch, the pause, the sizing up of the leap, the leap itself! More thrashing, hind legs seeking purchase, tail rotoring madly. Another fall. Then once more.
This goes on for several minutes.
"Look at that guy," Rohrer marvels.
I, too, wish I had seen a wolverine, but it is impossible to begrudge the marten its hard work. In the basement, amidst the clutter of feathers and skulls and topo maps, pictures of martens are everywhere -- martens peering out of the big wooden live traps meant for wolverines, martens perched in trees, martens caught in some act of malfeasance and beating a hasty retreat. Compared with the Wolverine Wall of Fame on the other side of the room, these look like wanted posters. I see an earlier printout of a marten on the branch under the deer head. It seems to consider the camera, its eyes bright white flares in the cold grayscale night: I am marten! See me skulk!
I ask Rohrer if he would mind making me a copy of the photo. "No problem," he says. "You can just take that one if you want." He sounds surprised, a little amused. "You want one of a wolverine, too? We have a whole bunch of those."
"That's OK," I say. "This one's great."


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My left foot
This week?s Forum Sevens article is a recollection of the famous first State of Origin encounter in 2004. Written by Maelgwnau, it makes interesting reading in light of this season?s golden point victory, also in Game I.
AFTER an 83 minute arm-wrestle it was the unlikely left boot of Shaun Timmins that edged NSW ahead of Queensland in Origin's first ever golden point victory
The NRL Origin series of 2004 will long be remembered by the general public for one kick that ?sealed the deal?, but it was the undeniable build up that made it just that extra bit special.
Debate was fierce in the early part of the NRL season as to whether the golden point rule that was instilled in the NRL should be inherited into the Origin arena. It was decided upon that the Origin series would have golden point and no-one could have fathomed what was to come in the proceeding series.
It was hard to miss the delicious irony as Shaun Timmins set himself up for the most memorable solitary point of his decade long career. Four years ago, Timmins suffered a knee injury scoring a try against the Maroons. What followed was a soul-destroying nightmare, and there were times when Timmins feared he wouldn't get back.
For two years, the NSW pivot didn't play a game as he underwent a revolutionary bone graft to save his career. To this day, his limited or in some instances lack of mobility forces him to barely train with his team-mates. After matches, he is reduced to an old-man's hobble, forced to drain fluid from his knees.
An even more remarkable feat is that after 83 minutes of Origin 1, Timmins found the resolve to be a hero as he launched a spine-tingling 35-metre field goal with his battered left leg to seal the Blues' 9-8 victory in Origin's first ever golden point. The moment was even more special due to the voicemail and misconduct scandal that resulted in the axing of Mark Gasnier and Anthony Minichello. With this in mind, the moment provided deliverance for warhorse Timmins, and the entire Blues camp, which had been plunged into crises. The celebrations were astounding to say the least, in a pool of emotions men wept at what had been accomplished.
"I spoke to him (Timmins) before Michael De Vere came into the squad because we were looking for a second goal kicker," explained NSW coach Phil Gould.
"I knew he'd done goal kicking in the past and he said: 'I had a kick in front to win a game about five years ago and I missed it and I haven't had a kick since'. But I spoke about stepping up and doing things that people don't expect."
No-one could have envisaged the sweetness of Timmin's kick - but it never looked like missing. From the moment it left the boot the crowd rose in anticipation. There was rumbling in the stadium with a ripe mix of emotions from both the NSW and QLD stalwarts present. With the ball still 20 metres shy of the uprights, Timmin's leapt skyward and punched the night air with unbridled joy as team-mates piled on him.
For the Maroons, it was a devastating knockout blow. They had scored two tries to one, but the lacklustre goal-kicking of Cameron Smith, missing with both of his attempts at goal, killed them. The importance of Smith?s 62nd minute kick from the sideline was so phenomenal that the pressure was too great and the kick sailed wide, abandoning a possible, unassailable 10 - 8 lead. Later, coach Michael Hagan was not convinced the contest needed to be decided by golden point, a summation echoed by Maroons captain Shane Webcke.
"It was a tough way to lose," said Hagan, whose club side Newcastle won a golden point affair over the Broncos in round 10. "I was on the receiving end of golden point a fortnight ago and I thought it had a bit going for it. However, I've changed the way I want to vote on that."
Webcke said "I don't know that it's the greatest way to end what was a wonderful spectacle of rugby league." And one would find it hard to argue against that sentiment. Why a game of attrition should be settled in this means is beyond comprehension, but it has changed history.
On the score of quality, this, the 70th origin clash, was not the one for the highlight reels. But the closeness of the scores, the desperation, the unrivalled bravery of the combatants, the extra-time finish all combined with an irresistible finale, made it an unforgettable experience for any onlooker who had the privilege to watch.


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OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Judith Cabanillas was just 13 when a middle-of-the-night phone call from police conveyed the shattering news: Her older sister had been found murdered in an Iowa farmhouse. Her mother screamed uncontrollably.
That was in 1974. Year after year, the slaying went unsolved as Cabanillas grew up and became mother to her own daughter, who was named after her dead sibling. But she worked tirelessly to keep the case from fading away.
Now, almost four decades after that call, her quest could be near an end as authorities put a suspect on trial Tuesday in the death of Mary Jayne Jones, a carefree 17-year-old with beautiful brown eyes who worked at a drive-in restaurant.
"We hope that we can get some justice for Jayne, that she can finally rest in peace and we can stop grieving so hard for her," Cabanillas said. "It's been a long road."
When her body was discovered, investigators quickly suspected the homeowner's cousin, who had been accused of luring another woman to the same house days earlier and forcing her to perform a sex act.
But authorities did not charge Robert "Gene" Pilcher in the murder because they had no hard evidence. That changed in 2010, when DNA testing linked Pilcher to the sheets on the bed where Mary Jayne's naked body was found.
His trial on a first-degree murder charge is expected to last two weeks in Ottumwa.
Pilcher, 67, hopes to prove the innocence he has always maintained. But for Mary Jayne's relatives, who are coming from all over the U.S., the trial is finally a chance to lock up the man they believe was responsible the loss they suffered on April 9, 1974.
Pilcher's cousin, Max Marlin, owned the farmhouse west of Ottumwa, but was in California at the time. Marlin's father had come to the property that afternoon to farm. When his wife brought over dinner, she discovered the dead girl in a bedroom. Investigators say she had been raped, beaten and shot once each in the face and heart.
Mary Jayne had moved from Fayetteville, N.C., to Ottumwa in 1973 after her older sister, Jacque, married and settled there. She expected to stay only while Jacque was pregnant with her first child, but got a job at Henry's Drive-In, moved into an apartment and started dating.
At the time, Pilcher was the 27-year-old owner of an extermination business. He had access to his cousin's rural house, known as the scene of big parties. A barmaid who worked at the Tom Tom Tap told police that Pilcher took her there four days before the murder under false pretenses, handcuffed her to a bed and forced her to perform oral sex.
While they tried to build a murder case, prosecutors won a conviction against Pilcher for sodomizing the barmaid. But the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the conviction in 1975, finding the state's sodomy law unconstitutional. Pilcher was also convicted of perjury for falsely testifying about when he bought the handcuffs used to restrain the woman.
But the murder investigation sputtered. The family and the Iowa governor's office put up reward money seeking witnesses. Nothing materialized.
As years passed, Cabanillas kept pressing investigators. She traveled to Iowa in 1995, showing up unannounced on the doorstep of the woman who discovered her sister's body to learn more.
"I've never given up. Nobody in our family has ever given up. We might be quiet and unassuming, but there has been letters and phone calls back and forth for 37 years. What's happening? Why haven't you arrested him? Is he still alive? What is he doing?"
During the wait, Cabanillas routinely peppered Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agents with questions and kept meticulous notes. The family sought to publicize the case with local media, which often reported on the anniversary of Mary Jayne's death.
"The people there in the little town, they didn't forget," she said.
One agent, Wayne Sheston, took the case file with him after he retired and kept working on it until his 2007 death, she said.
When a cold-case unit took a fresh look at the murder, detectives sent long-stored evidence from the farmhouse off for forensic testing. Analysts found genetic material on the bed sheets and developed DNA profiles of three individuals.
A database search yielded a match for Pilcher, who had been required to submit a sample after an earlier felony theft conviction. Agents arrested him at a seedy Des Moines hotel in November 2012, and he's been jailed since.
When police called to tell Cabanillas, "it was just mind-blowing because it came out of the blue," she said. She was at the California home of her daughter, 28-year-old Marijayne.
Relatives know the trial will be difficult. They have been asked to meet with authorities to privately view graphic pictures of Mary Jayne's body before the images are displayed. They're ready for the defense to paint her as a "wild child," a caricature that Cabanillas said is false. They also know there's the possibility of acquittal.
Pilcher's defense lawyers argue that the presence of his DNA does not mean he's a killer, saying it could be from the previous sexual encounter in the home. And they note that other DNA materials, as well as hair and fingerprints from the scene do not belong to him.
Defense lawyer Allen Cook said Pilcher "had a pretty darn good alibi" in 1974: that he was working in a Jaycees circus office when the victim was killed. But, Cook said, the alibi has since been undermined because many witnesses are dead or have foggy memories.
"This is going to be a classic whodunit kind of case, and I don't think the state has proof to establish my client is guilty of anything," he said.
Mary Jayne was last seen at an Ottumwa bank. Former DCI agent Sam Swaim theorizes that she was walking to work when Pilcher convinced her to get in his car. He hopes the trial provides some long-overdue answers.
"Let's find out one way or another," Swaim said. Pilcher has "been allowed to live 40 years without assuming guilt for this."


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President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney face off Tuesday in a "town hall" style debate that has the potential to finally break the race's stubborn tie as their battle roars into its final, decisive three weeks.
The 90-minute debate at Hofstra University, which begins at 9 p.m. EDT, comes with the two men neck and neck after Romney bested Obama in their first debate, gained in the polls and climbed back into contention. The result could hinge on the way the two men perform, but also on a format that will allow members of the audience to pose questions, with follow-ups from moderator Candy Crowley of CNN.
Obama, sharply criticized for a listless performance in the first presidential debate on Oct. 3, is expected to more aggressively question Romney's shifts in tone and position over the years – and in some cases recent days – on tax cuts, immigration, abortion and other subjects.
"We saw this clearly in the first presidential debate on Oct. 3, as Governor Romney cynically and dishonestly hid the self-described 'severely conservative' positions he's been running on – and there's no doubt he's memorizing more deceptions as he prepares for Tuesday's second debate," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a memo Monday.
Obama, who has been practicing in Williamsburg, Va., is expected to press Romney hard on the Republican's contention that he can cut current income tax rates 20 percent across the board without increasing the federal deficit.
Romney, who has been preparing in the Boston area, is expected to counter not only with a vigorous defense of his plan but with a recitation of economic woes that he says the Obama administration has helped exacerbate. The more informal town hall format is likely to be more comfortable for the affable Romney.
Campaigning in Ohio, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan previewed a likely line of attack for Tuesday, ripping the president on unemployment, budget deficits and long-term problems in Medicare.
"We have a president that came in with so much promise. He came in with so much hope," Ryan said. "Unfortunately, what we've got now is a string of broken promises."
Crowley will moderate, the first time in 20 years a woman has had that role. Undecided voters in the audience, selected by the Gallup Organization, will ask questions, a format first used in 1992 as a way to more directly engage voters.
Crowley stirred grumbling in both political camps by suggesting she may go further in her own questioning than the campaigns want. She also plans to press the candidates to actually answer the questions asked of them.
"Either go to the next question or say, 'Wait a second, wait a second, they asked oranges, you responded apples, could you please respond to oranges?'" Crowley told McClatchy in an interview. "Or, 'Hey, while we're on this, could you please explain why this happened or what do you think about this?'"
Asked about the kerfuffle around Crowley and follow-up questions, Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki noted there were "discussions around every debate," but she declined to comment on the specifics.
"The president is looking forward to the debate tomorrow night, looking forward to answering questions from the American people who will be in the audience, and he is prepared for and ready to take questions from wherever they come," she said.
The Romney campaign would not comment about follow-up questions.
Asked if the campaign prefers no follow-up questions from Crowley, Psaki said: "I'm not going to get into any more specifics than that."
Despite losing his lead after the first debate, Obama has some history on his side. Incumbent presidents, notably Ronald Reagan in 1984 and George W. Bush 20 years later, lapsed in their first debates. Like Obama, they'd grown used to deference even opponents show to the president of the United States, and they seemed taken aback at the kind of onslaught they hadn't endured since their last campaigns four years earlier.
Reagan and Bush recovered in their second debates and went on to win their re-election bids. But they were running when the economy was thriving, and Obama is not. Obama's fate is more difficult to handicap, as he's being tugged by two conflicting historical forces – the sluggish recovery has kept his popularity down, but it's not dismal enough to make him an underdog.
Both candidates face new challenges Tuesday. Republicans sense this is their first big chance to question Obama's national security policy, a topic that didn't come up in the first debate.
For Obama, it could be Libya. His administration stumbled in explaining circumstances surrounding the death of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, in an assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya last month.
Vice President Joe Biden added to the controversy, saying during his debate last week with challenger Paul Ryan that the White House was unaware embassy officials wanted more security. That seemed to contradict congressional testimony earlier in the week, when a State Department official told Congress that she had received requests for more security in Benghazi but that she turned them down because the department wanted to train Libyans to handle the duties.
For Romney, it could be his claim that he'll be able to cut tax rates enough to stimulate growth but also able to limit unidentified deductions so that the wealthy end up paying the same amount of taxes.
Independent analysts have been skeptical of the claim. Congress' bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation staff reported Friday that even eliminating most tax breaks would only support a 4 percent reduction in rates. The Romney campaign called the finding "irrelevant," saying it did not account for the growth that rate reductions would spur.
Obama also has another tricky task: He has to make a fresh appeal to the small slice of undecided voters who could decide the election. They usually have doubts about the incumbent but are getting to know the opponents. They need time to assess whether they can envision Romney as president.
"It's harder for an incumbent to recapture votes from people who have jumped off his ship. Those people have begun to say, OK, I'm comfortable with Romney," said Brad Coker, managing director of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, which conducts surveys in several states.


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College Sports Roundup: UNH men's baketball falls to Hartford
January 24. 2013 11:10PM
Mark Nwakamma netted 23 points as the University of Hartford posted a 51-40 victory against the University of New Hampshire in an America East men's basketball contest at Lundholm Gym in Durham. Hartford improved to 11-9 overall and 4-3 in conference play. The Wildcats remained winless in America East at 0-6 and fell to 4-14 overall.
The game was tied 19-19 at halftime before UNH took a 25-21 lead on a lay-up from Chandler Rhoads with 16:18 remaining. A lay-up by Nwakamma tied the game at 25 and his jumper with 12:37 left gave Hartford the lead (29-27) for good.
Rhoads led the Wildcats with 13 points.
Suffolk 69, Rivier 66: In Nashua, Rivier, 8-10 overall and 4-6 in the GNAC, was led by Tom Poitras with 22 points.
Colby-Sawyer 75, Lyndon 49: In New London, Colby-Sawyer improved to 7-9 overall and 7-3 in the NAC. Corey Willis moved into second on Colby-Sawyer's career assists list, passing the 434 mark of Colin Bray '06. Willis had six for the game and now has 437 career dimes.
Women's basketball
Middlebury 60, Keene State 54: In Middlebury, Vt., Siobhan Carnell cracked the 20-point mark for the fourth straight game with a game-high 21 points in the loss.
Men's ice hockey
Plymouth State 2, UMass-Dartmouth 1: In Plymouth, Kyle Greco scored an unassisted goal with 3:13 remaining in the third period to break a 1-1 tie. PSU improved to 9-2 in the MASCAC, 13-5 overall.
Women's ice hockey
Northeastern 3, UNH 1: In Durham, the loss put the Wildcats at 10-12-2 overall and 6-5-1 in Hockey East.
Brittney Redlick tallied her fifth goal of the year for the Wildcats.


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Flexner on Finishing: Choosing an Exterior Coating
Five different types of protection exist. Here's a guide to choosing the best one for your project.
By Bob Flexner
Pages: 98-100
From the April 2005 issue #147
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The need to protect wood outdoors is much greater than the need to protect it indoors because of exposure to sunlight and rain. These cause wood to gray, split, warp and rot; and moist conditions make the growth of mildew possible.
You can use paint, stain, clear finish, water repellent and preservative to prevent or retard damage to exterior wood. But first, it's helpful to understand the causes of the damage.
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Gerry writes: "OpenSiteSearch is the new Open Source version of OCLC's original java-based web application for building Z39.50 portals (i.e. virtual union catalogues). This project is specifically aimed at the library community."
Ronda wrote in with a press release, most of which is available at the Fedora site. From the version 1.1 release notes, this is mostly a bugfix release, and is compatible with 1.0 repositories (after config file updates). New features include a new API for querying repository info, better self-referential URL handling, and Oracle 9i support. Several significant-sounding bugs were squashed also.
mdewsnip writes: "Greenstone v2.40 is now available for download! A big change in this release is the inclusion in the Windows download of the "Greenstone Librarian Interface", a tool for collecting, expanding and building digital libraries. It gives you access to Greenstone's functionality from an easy-to-use 'point and click' interface, and is also available for Unix systems. Other important changes include a new plugin for importing data from perl's DBI interface, a new plugin for parsing records from OAI servers, improvements to MGPP configuration, new Czech, Galician, Japanese and Thai interfaces, and many bug fixes and other improvements."
a little birdie yim'd me that DSpace version 1.1 (inc. docs) is available. From the sf news item: "New features include Advanced Search capability with fielded searching, better Unicode support, improved performance and lots of other good stuff. And bug fixes. Lots of bug fixes."
MARC4J beta 7
Bas writes: "This new version supports full character set conversion between MARC-8 and UCS/Unicode. For UNIMARC character set conversions are supported between ISO5426 and UCS/Unicode and ISO6937 and UCS/Unicode. This new version also fixes some bugs. The goal of MARC4J is to provide an easy to use library for working with MARC records in Java. MARC4J adopts MARC related standards and is tightly integrated with SAX2, a high performance XML interface, to enable robust conversion routines between MARC and XML. MARC4J is written in Java and published under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation."
Avanti MicroLCS-1.0 beta 2
Peter writes: "Avanti MicroLCS version 1.0 beta 2 has been released. New in beta 2 is a standalone GUI client application. It has the same clean, elegant look and feel of the Applet client, but it does not need to run in a web browser. This makes it possible to deploy Avanti MicroLCS in environments where a web server and browser may not be available or needed. Also in this release are a number of bug fixes, improvements to the API and the user interface. Attention turns to beta 3 development, which will focus on very intensive debugging, testing, and refactoring of the existing system. The aim is to ensure that what exists is rock solid in every way, is scalable, and works extremely well."
Metadata3 (md3)-0.1
Jeremy writes: "The initial release of the metadata3 application is now available. You can download the .gz file from the project's website. This is version 0.1 of the md3 application, and is a developer's release. The metadata3 (also known as md3) application is a peer-to-peer client/server that promotes the sharing and automatic translation of bibliographic metadata. The current version of the application focuses on the basic peer-to-peer functionality; the next version will add in basic metadata translation capabilities."
Avanti-1.0 beta 1
Peter writes: "Avanti version 1.0 beta 1 is released. As a beta version, this release is still rough around the edges. But it comes close in form and substance to what is expected of Avanti MicroLCS version 1.0 as a serviceable library system. Although far from perfect, this beta release is a tangible representative of what has been in the works in the past year and what is to come: a simple, flexible, platform independent general purpose library system. Hard work continues at polishing and thoroughly testing version 1.0 proper, which should be available in one or two months. Stay tuned."
MIT Libraries and HP have released version 1.0 of DSpace (source available from sourceforge). DSpace is a digital repository in production use since September at MIT Libraries as a service for capturing, persisting, and providing access to the intellectual (research) output of the MIT community. DSpace will also be the long-term archive for materials from OpenCourseWare. Now it's available as an institutional repository platform to the rest of the world. See also coverage from the Boston Globe and CNET.
Open Request-1.0 beta 1
Ian writes: "Hi All. A brief note that a first beta release of Open Request is available for download. Open Request is a pure java toolkit for developers wishing to implement the ISO 10161 Inter Library Loans protocol. The current release features helpers for constructing all protocol messages, encoders and decoders for the full protocol and components that store all incoming and outgoing messages in the database. Extensive use is made of the Hibernate project to provide as much database independence as possible. This initial release is provided mainly for feedback. We hope to integrate the open source component of OpenRequest with our cross searching z39.50 toolkit JZKit in the near future. As always, we are on the lookout for anyone interested in collaborative projects..." This is great news, something many of us have been looking/hoping for for some time now.


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BOSTON — Someday when Tyler Seguin is at the end of his multi-Cup-winning, 1,000-point-plus NHL career, he'll look back fondly at Mike Lundin.
Lundin, however, won't want to remember that he was the dupe in Seguin's first career NHL playoff goal.
The move by the Bruins' Seguin will be a fixture on highlight shows for years to come. Lundin might have to change the channel a few times, but on the ice there's no remote control. Forgetting about the play that nearly turned him into a pretzel is something he can only do with some mental fortitude.
"It's a mental battle. You got to just try to, whether it's a good play or a bad play, you just try to just play one shift at a time. And it's important to get that out of your head," he said today after the Lightning's morning skate in preparation for tonight's Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final with Tampa Bay up 1-0 in the series.
Lundin made it through the rest of his 14:29 of ice time without a Bruins goal getting scored on the Lightning. That's no surprise to Tampa Bay head coach Guy Boucher, who has come to hold the 26-year-0ld to a high standard.
"I would say for the biggest portion of the year, [Lundin] played against the first lines. And I don't think he was expecting that. I don't think anybody was expecting that," explained Boucher this week. "But he's so smart, he controls his gap very well. He reads the play, and so he compensates for probably his lack of size and maybe his lack of speed and strength.
"And when you look at the package, he becomes a guy that's kind of a mistake-free player. It was weird, the other day he fell on that goal and it was really uncharacteristic of him. And basically that's good, because that's his mistake of the month. So we'll take it at that."
Just one mistake a month? It has to be difficult to live up to that. It keeps Lundin striving for perfection, however. And it tells him his coach has faith in him.
"Definitely. I think at this level of play, hopefully I've proved to him that that's not what I do normally," said Lundin. "I think he knows that that's not going to happen."
So if Seguin and Lundin meet again in the open ice, maybe the result will be different … at least for the rest of this month.


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They won these games once. They took advantage of a little thing here, a little thing there, reversed imminent victories for the other team into series-altering losses.
Not anymore. They are that other team now. Officially. They run themselves into outs. They muff double-play ground balls, double-clutch on throws to the plate, watch third strikes pass by with runners in scoring position.
They tie the game, get a runner on second in the eighth inning with no outs last night, have their speedy shortstop at the plate, and don't bunt the runner over.
* Jimmy Rollins picked off in the second inning with his team down by a run.
* Carlos Ruiz waved around by third base coach Sam Perlozzo and thrown out at home for the first out of a four-run fifth inning. He would have scored the inning's fifth run.
* Shane Victorino double-clutched on a throw home with two outs in the fifth. Andres Torres just beat the throw for the Giants third run.
These are the plays of the other team, the plays that haunted the Los Angeles Dodgers over the last two winters, the plays that chilled the Tampa winter of 2008.
The Phillies? They were outpitched by the Yankees last year, that's all. Runs were scored, rallies attempted, plays made. They ran into good pitching, just as they have now.
But they didn't run themselves into the ground the way they have in this series. They didn't give opportunities away. Remember all that talk about playing the game the right way. Well bunting over a runner with nobody out in the eighth inning of a tie game on the road is the right way.
The Phillies are on the brink of going home not because of what happened in the ninth inning of last night's 6-5 loss in the NLCS, but what happened what happened before. In Game 4. In Game 3. In Game 1.
"We're so focused," Giants closer Brian Wilson said after pitching a perfect ninth last night to get the victory. "From the first pitch everyone is jumping around, fists pumping, confident.
``We've put ourselves in a great position."'


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It's a busy weekend ahead for basically all non-NHL levels of professional and amateur hockey. The World Junior selection camps loom on the horizon and we're getting down to the meat of the professional schedule, so a lot of players have things to prove.
Fresh off a pair of wins over the Lake Erie Monsters, the AHL's best team – the Flames' affiliate in Abbotsford – goes on the road for a pair of games.
On Friday night, the Heat are in Rochester to take on the Americans, the Buffalo Sabres' affiliate. Forward Marcus Foligno leads Rochester's offense with 15 points, while goaltender David Leggio has played all but one game for the Americans, amassing a 8-4-0 record in a dozen starts.
On Sunday night, the Heat face the Toronto Marlies in the Centre of the Universe. Keith Aucoin continues to lead the Baby Leafs in scoring with 12 points in 12 games, while Ben Scrivens and Jussi Rynnas continue to split time in net. Scrivens has played more, but Rynnas has better numbers.
Barry Brust is a period away from the AHL record for not allowing goals in consecutive minutes, set by the great Johnny Bower. In four games, he has three shutouts. Danny Taylor also boasts quite a solid record, and the Heat have only lost once in regulation this season. Sven Baertschi and Roman Horak were mostly held off the score-sheet this week, but the team still won. Weird, eh? Depth is wacky.
The ECHL's Utah Grizzlies play three games in three nights this weekend. They visit Stockton on Friday and make their first visit to the Bay Area to play the San Francisco Bulls on Saturday and Sunday.
Ryan Culkin's Quebec Remparts face the defending Memorial Cup champions from Shawinigan on Friday and then battle the Victoriaville Tigres on Sunday. Patrick Sieloff's Windsor Spitfires play Barrie on Saturday and Owen Sound on Sunday.
In the Dub, there's a lot of hockey going on. Edmonton hosts Prince Albert on Saturday. I'd expect back-up Tristan Jarry to start, as Laurent Brossoit should be tired from being so awesome on Wednesday night against Russia for Team WHL. Tyler Wotherspoon's Portland Winterhawks visit Kamloops on Friday and then goes home to host Medicine Hat on Saturday. Wotherspoon also plays for Team WHL on Thursday, so he may miss a game to avoid playing three in three.
Red Deer begins a new/old era with their new/old coach Brent Sutter at the helm (and minus their leading scorer) this weekend. They host Swift Current on Saturday and Prince Albert on Sunday. Expect a lot of weight to be on the shoulders of Flames prospect/Rebels captain Turner Elson this week. After visiting the Rebels on Saturday, Coda Gordon's Swift Current Broncos come to Calgary on Sunday afternoon.
And finally, Brett Kulak and the Vancouver Giants play three games in three nights. They host Regina on Friday, visit Everett on Saturday and return home to face Saskatoon on Sunday. It could get messy.
It's almost exam time (and Thanksgiving time) for our Ameircan college prospects, so the schedule will thin out pretty soon. For some teams, it already has.
Boston College, home of Bill Arnold and Hockey East player of the week Johnny Gaudreau, faces Merrimack on Friday. Merrimack is sub-.500, so the Eagles could run all over them. Providence College, where Mark Jankowski and Jon Gillies play, tangle with a similarly-placed team as they put their .500 record up against the .500 record of Northeastern on Friday night.
Elsewhere, Michigan State (Matthew Deblouw) face the highly-touted Miami (of Ohio) on Friday and Saturday, Notre Dame (Nick Larson) faces Michigan on Thursday and Friday, and lowly Wisconsin (John Ramage) puts their 1-4-1 record up against the juggernaut Minnesota club (6-2-1) on Friday and Saturday.
The KHL has returned from its break and another Flame property has made the jump over there!
Avangard Omsk (Karri Ramo) plays Traktor Chelyabinsk on Friday night and Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg on Sunday. Meanwhile, HC Lev Praha (home of newly-acquired Roman Cervenka) plays Yaroslavl Lokomotiv on Friday and Atlant Moscow on Sunday. Anton Babchuk and HC Donbass Donesk tangle with Salavat Yulaev on Friday and Ak Bars Kazan on Sunday.
In Finland, HIFK Helsinki continues its quest for the playoffs on Thursday against Jokerit and on Saturday against Joni Ortio's old team, TPS Turku. Maybe it's because they don't have his stellar goaltending on the club, but Turku is a ways down the standings.
Meanwhile, in Sweden's HockeyAllsvenskan, Mikael Backlund and VIK Vasteras face BIK Karlskoga on Saturday.


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Anger over IL GOP's Attempt to "Bamboozle" Delegates
ACTION ALERT: ILLINOIS GOP CONVENTION – JUNE 8 and 9th
Chicago, Illinois – The Illinois Republican State Convention begins this Friday, June 8 at the Tinley ParkConvention Center. But activists are already worried that corrupt practices will threaten to undermine the voting rights of registered Republican delegates.
Scores and scores of Illinois Republican voters have complained that they are being denied the opportunity to be a delegate at this year's convention. After multiple requests, the Illinois Republican Party has yet to release the official list of delegates attending the convention.
The corrupt practices have angered activists and voters alike and officials are fearful that delegates will fight back on the convention floor on Friday and Saturday.
"The Illinois Republican Convention is a historic opportunity for GOP delegates to vote on critical issues like 'direct elections,'" says William J. Kelly, longtime taxpayer watchdog and candidate for Republican National Committeeman. "But, already, some leaders in the State Central Republican Committee are engaging in dirty backhanded tactics that threaten both the spirit and principles of what the party was founded on."
Even former Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, long held in esteem for his ethics, has himself urged a return to direct elections in Illinois.
But there is a new sense of urgency in the fight for direct elections.
Last week, Illinois Republican leaders voted for early passage of ObamaCare, gambling expansion, tax increases, and no pension reform. Without direct elections, Illinois GOP leaders can continue to vote for legislation without fear of reprisal from Republican voters.
However, the real question is how will delegates to the convention react? Will Illinois conservative and Tea Party organizations fight back? Or will they attend CPAC Chicago instead?
On Friday and Saturday, convention delegates, in theory, will also vote on candidates for Republican National Committeeman and whether or not to maintain the conservative planks in the party platform.
Currently, there are three candidates for Republican National Committeeman – they include: Rich Williamson, Alexander "Sandy" Stuart, and broadcaster William J. Kelly. Rich Williamson is the current National Republican Committeeman and Alexander "Sandy" Stuart, a fundraiser for the Illinois GOP, is currently under fire for questions surrounding a downstate fundraising scheme with campaign bundlers to Barack Obama.
But corrupt practices threaten to undermine that voting process as well.
In an email to the candidates, Deb Detmers, Chairman of the selection committee, said that it is the committee's goal to supply the delegates with one choice for national committeeman.
"In the spirit of true democracy, shouldn't the delegates know the names of all the candidates for Republican National Committeeman?" says Kelly. "I think the committee will attempt to bamboozle the delegates by submitting to them only one name for consideration."
After Kelly requested a list of the selection committee members, Detmers again lashed out at him Friday afternoon.
"After I asked her for the list on the phone, she [Detmers] accused me of questioning her integrity and hung up," says Kelly. "I may not have questioned Detmers' integrity – but the federal government already has."
Previously, Detmers was the Finance Director for former convicted Gov. George Ryan, currently serving a 6 ½ year prison term on federal corruption charges. She was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony at trial. She admitted under oath that she took taxpayer money while serving as Ryan's political director and that she was aware of Ryan's "aggressive fundraising" tactics but said "I didn't do anything."
The Illinois State Central Republican Committee has a fine history replete with corrupt leaders. GOP Chair Pat Brady took over the role of National Republican Committeeman from Bob Kjellander, who was named as "Individual A" in the guilty plea agreement of former Blagojevich aide Lon Monk that he conspired to kickback $500,000 to convicted felon Antonin "Tony" Rezko.
Again, Brady was one of those candidates "recommended" to convention delegates by the "selection committee." He was also the only candidate in the running when Andy McKenna suddenly announced he was resigning for GOP Party Chair.
Kelly is calling on all delegates to vote "no" if they receive a ballot that does not contain his name. This will force the committee to include all three candidates for National Republican Committeeman on the ballot – not just the selection committee's handpicked candidate.
The three candidates for National Republican Committeeman will also be speaking to the committee on Friday at 12:30 p.m. "We want all delegates to attend and hear all three candidates speak and make their own decisions. They have a right to know and a right to vote for the candidate of their choice," says Kelly.
Delegates should plan to attend the Illinois GOP convention on Friday, June 8, and Saturday, June 9, and to stay the day to influence the rule-making process on direct elections, the Republican National Committeeman race, and the language of the party platform.


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Measurement in Sport and Exercise Psychology provides a complete
analysis of the tools and methods used in sport and exercise psychology
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A reference for academic libraries, researchers, and consultants in
sport and exercise psychology; a graduate-level textbook in research
methods or measurement courses in sport psychology or sport science
Gershon Tenenbaum, PhD, is a professor of educational psychology
at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he teaches courses on
measurement in sport and exercise. He previously served as the director
of the Center of Research and Sport Medicine at the Wingate Institute in
Israel and was the coordinator of the sport psychology program at the
University of Southern Queensland in Australia.
Tenenbaum's research on measurement and statistical methods in the
domain of sport and exercise psychology has been widely published, and
he has published over 300 articles in peer-refereed journals and book
chapters in leading journals in psychology, sport and exercise
psychology, sports medicine, and sport sciences. In addition, he has
edited and written several handbooks and books, including the Handbook
of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Third Edition (with Robert
Eklund), Case Studies in Applied Psychophysiology: Neurofeedback and
Biofeedback Treatments for Advances in Human Performance
(with William Edmonds), The Cultural Turn in Sport and Exercise
Psychology (with Tatiana Ryba and Robert Schinke), Brain and Body in
Sport and Exercise: Biofeedback Applications in Performance Enhancement
(with Boris Blumenstein and Michael Bar-Eli), The Practice of Sport
Psychology, and Research Methodology in Sport and Exercise
Sciences: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (with Marcy Driscoll).
Tenenbaum was the president of the International Society of Sport
Psychology (ISSP) and a fellow of both the National Academy of
Kinesiology (NAK) and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology
(AASP). Tenenbaum was the editor of the International Journal of
Sport Psychology and the International Journal of Sport and
Exercise Psychology. Each year, he organizes several sessions and
symposia on measurement issues at conferences in the United States and
In 2011, Tenenbaum received the Scientific Award for Scientific
Achievement from the American Psychological Association (APA) Division
47 (Sport and Exercise Psychology division). In 2005, he was awarded the
Benjamin S. Bloom Professorship from Florida State University and the
Presidential Award from the International Society of Sport Psychology.
In 2002, he was named a Distinguished Sport Science Scholar Lecturer in
sport and exercise psychology for the University of Utah. He was also
the recipient of the International Society of Sport Psychology Honor
Award in 1997.Tenenbaum holds a doctorate in measurement and statistics
from the University of Chicago. He resides in Tallahassee and enjoys
traveling to conferences throughout the world, visiting his homeland of
Israel, and watching competitive sport
Robert C. Eklund, PhD, is a professor of sport psychology in the
department of educational psychology and learning systems at Florida
State University in Tallahassee, where he was recently named the Mode L.
Stone Distinguished Professor of Sport Psychology. He earned his
doctoral degree in exercise and sport science with a specialization in
sport and exercise psychology from the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. He is a fellow of both the American College of Sports
Medicine (ACSM) and the National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK).
Eklund has published over 60 articles in referred journals; coedited
(with Gershon Tenenbaum) the prestigious Handbook of Sport
Psychology, Third Edition; coauthored two measurement manuals; and
authored or coauthored 12 book chapters in the area of sport and
exercise psychology. Eklund has presented his research and participated
as a keynote lecturer and invited colloquia participant at numerous
conferences worldwide.
Eklund is the current editor in chief of the Journal of Sport and
Exercise Psychology and has served in that capacity since January
2003. He has also served as associate editor for the Journal of Applied
Sport Psychology and psychology section editor for Research Quarterly
for Exercise and Sport. In addition to providing editorial review
services for a range of scholarly journals, Eklund currently serves as
an editorial board member for The Sport Psychologist; Sport, Exercise,
and Performance Psychology; Pamukkale Journal of Sport Sciences; and
Hacettepe Journal of Sport Sciences. In the past, he has served on the
editorial boards for the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
and the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.
Eklund resides in Tallahassee with his wife, Colleen, and two sons,
Garth and Kieran. He enjoys their sport involvement immensely as well as
their interest in spending sunny afternoons fishing at the beach.
Akihito Kamata, PhD, is a professor of psychometrics and
educational measurement in the department of educational methodology,
policy, and leadership at the University of Oregon. Before joining the
University of Oregon in 2009, he was on faculty at Florida State
University for 11 years, where he also served as the chair of the
department of educational psychology and learning systems.
Kamata's primary research interest is implementation of item-level test
data analysis methodology through item response theory modeling,
multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling. Kamata has done
pioneering work on multilevel item response theory modeling, which is
represented by his 2001 publication in the Journal of Educational
Measurement, a special issue on multilevel measurement modeling in the
Journal of Applied Measurement in 2005, and several book chapters on the
topic, including a chapter in the Handbook of Advanced Multilevel
Analysis (2011). He has other publications on psychometrics, measurement
theory, and applied measurement, including articles in the Journal of
Educational Measurement, Applied Psychological Measurement,
Structural Equation Modeling, and Psychometrika.
"This is a welcome contribution to the field of sport and
exercise psychology. The measurement and evaluation tools introduced and
expanded upon are based on past and current research practices and have
been validated in the context of the field's most respected scientists."
-Doody's Book Review (5 star review)
"…the text distinguishes itself from others within the domain and
provides a valuable and needed contribution."
-The Sport Psychologist (December 2012)
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text: Just took lessons while in Venezuela and psyched to get started in SB. Would love to have some folks to go with to make it more fun & safe. Drop me a line if you're a kiter in the SB or Ventura area! I'll be launching from East Beach to start.


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Jack Reacher wrote:What if the first reality is in an alternate universe with different laws of phsyics that allow for bigger planets/resources, computers?
Anyway this is a question I have been wondering about. If the multiverse theory is true and there are different universes with different physical laws, this just beign one of them, would the laws of nature and logic be the same in all of them? In other words, would there be different shapes in geometry that we cant possibly imagine? That the shortest distance between A and B in one universe might not be a straight line?
How would they create a simulation with different laws of physics than what they know? I think multiverses are more likely. Also the shortest distance between A and B is a straight line unless its a wormhole. The best wormhole analogy I've heard is if an ant is on one corner of a piece of paper, the fastest way would be for the ant to crawl in a straight line from it's corner to the other corner, right? What if you fold the paper? You can shorten the ant's journey to almost nothing.


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LONDON (AP) — Britain's defense ministry needs to set more realistic price and delivery forecasts for its largest equipment projects, a watchdog group said Thursday after finding cost overruns in the hundreds of millions of pounds and numerous deadlines pushed back.
The National Audit Office's report looked at Britain's 16 largest military equipment projects and found costs have risen 468 million pounds ($749.7 million) and delivery dates pushed back a total of 139 months over the last year. In one case, a communications system developed for use in Afghanistan has been delayed to the point that it won't be ready until after British troops are set to withdraw from the country in 2014.
Much of the cost increase came from three projects, with one instance largely due to fuel price inflation, but the fluctuations and delays reduce the ministry's ability to plan and manage its budget effectively, the report said. Finding ways to save money is increasingly important for the Ministry of Defense now because it has been hit hard by the British government's pledge to cut 81 billion pounds ($129.8 billion) in public spending through 2015.
"There are early signs that the Ministry of Defense has begun to make realistic trade-offs between cost, time, technical requirements and the amount of equipment to be purchased," the report said. "Nevertheless, the continuing variances to cost and time show the MOD needs to do consistently better."
The report analyzed the cost, time and performance of projects including the A400M transport aircraft, the Lynx Wildcat helicopter, the Type 45 Destroyer the Typhoon aircraft and the 32 million pound Falcon communications system , which had been intended for Afghanistan.
Since their initial approval dates, costs have increased by 6.6 billion pounds and the projects have been delayed by 468 months — or nearly a third longer than expected, the Audit Office said.
While it would be unrealistic to expect the defense ministry to identify every risk at the start of complex projects, the report said the persistent problems show the Ministry of Defense "has more to learn from historic performance and, in particular, set realistic timescales, although it believes it has started to do so in some cases."
Some costs, such as 336 million pounds of fuel price inflation affecting the cost of the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft, are out of the defense ministry's hands, but it nonetheless needs to learn from previous projects to make the most of the funds it has, said Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office.
"The Ministry of Defense faces a difficult task striking a balance between delivering the capabilities it wants and those it can afford," Morse said. "There will always be factors over which the Department has limited control."
Margaret Hodge, chairwoman of the parliamentary committee which oversees the Audit Office's work, said the panel will hear from the defense ministry later in January to find out what it is doing to "finally get a grip" on costs and delays. "Uncertainties around costs make it harder for the ministry to address looming capability gaps such as in air transport and air-to-air refueling aircraft," Hodge said.


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HARTSVIILE, S.C. – The Coker volleyball team had a difficult time with Lees-McRae on Saturday, falling 3-0 to the visiting Bobcats in Conference Carolinas volleyball action. The Bobcats knocked off the Lady Cobras in straight sets with scores of 25-14, 25-17 and 25-11.
Katie McElveen (Hartsville, S.C.) led the Lady Cobras with six kills and five digs, while Molly Bookhart (Orangeburg, S.C.) had 18 assists and a team high nine digs.
For Lees-McRae, Megan Epperson had a match high 14 kills with three aces and four digs, while Taylor Clendenin and Whitney Justice each had seven kills. Megan Mitchell had 32 assists and Clendenin and Dana Oliver each had eight digs.
Coker will now take a much needed break before their next match on Friday, September 24. The Lady Cobras will travel to Queens University of Charlotte for that match at 7:00 p.m.


text: University of Kansas Hillel Students to Visit Bulgaria and Romania by Hillel News |Nov 25, 2013|Comments On January 4, 20 students from University of Kansas Hillel (KU Hillel) will travel to Bulgaria and Romania. Through KU Hillel's European Leadership Mission (ELM). KU Hillel has paired up with the Entwine division of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to provide an insider trip to these two countries. ELM, funded by the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City's Israel and Overseas Committee, is a high-level trip for top Jewish student leaders at the University of Kansas. ELM will give students a deeper understanding of the economic and social issues that the Jewish communities in Bulgaria and Romania experience on a daily basis. Bulgaria and Romania both have small, yet thriving Jewish communities. The Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City supports the revitalization of Jewish life in both of these countries and helps meet the needs of the community's most vulnerable members including the elderly, children and families at risk. "I am so excited to add the European Leadership Mission to our program offerings," said Jay Lewis, KU Hillel's Executive Director. "It is vital that the future leaders of our Jewish communities have a deep understanding for and appreciation of global Jewish peoplehood. This experience is going be incredible for the participants, but it's impact will be felt throughout the KU Jewish community and the Jewish communities that these students connect with after graduation." The students will interact with the local Jewish communities, their leaders, and volunteer at many of the projects that the Jewish Federation supports. ELM is a way for students to see the issues first hand that Eastern European Jews are facing and then bring their knowledge back to their communities. This trip allows students to take the leadership skills they have acquired over the years and apply them to a new and unfamiliar environment. Students will not only learn about issues such as anti-Semitism and poverty, but also see these issues in the everyday life of Bulgarians and Romanians. Before the trip, all participants will participate in four pre-trip sessions, including a Shabbat dinner hosted by two of the participants. These sessions allow students a chance to meet the other participants of the trip, learn more about what the JDC is and Kansas City's partnership communities of Sofia and Bucharest as well as prepare them to better understand the goals of the trip. "This trip will be an eye-opening experience," said KU Senior, Allison Kohn. "As a civically engaged, socially aware citizen and Jew, I believe we have an obligation to help others and make our community a better place to live, whether that's on campus, our hometown or around the world." Jay Lewis, KU Hillel's Executive Director, Carly Stein KU Hillel's Director of Development, and Jen Berman, JDC's Program Assistant and KU Hillel alum, will lead the trip to Bulgaria and Romania, departing on January 4 and returning January 13. Back to Top Tags: Bulgaria Romania Hillel professionals Jay Lewis Alternative Break service learning ELM KU Hillel University of Kansas {{Title}} [x] Add or, Select from existing Opening existing... Close existing Most popular tags Click to select: Show all2441Tags Show only most popular Opening all... {{Title}} ({{ItemsCount}})


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this daring maneuver is the pinical of poo. starting with the Sam Elliot or the Paul Sr., as soon as one of the afore mentioned moves is completed the wiping partner then leans in for a sloppy kiss.
lauren moved in to seal the deal with the Super Trooper, and i thought no way. I punched her in the mouth.
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I know that this may be this may be quite annoying for some experts ... hopefully annoying enough to flame me. But I have heard too much about nessus. This thing comes along with many Linux distros. But after all what is nessus? Google and other searches tell it is a network vulnerability scanner. However I see some people tell that nessus is a DATA recovery software. While some say that it runs on *nix boxes but some say that runs even on Windows.
So is nessus a Network vulnerabilty scanner or Data recovery solution or both?
What OSes does it run on? Does it run on only *nix or Windows or both or even on others like Mac?
Thanks in advance.