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(Formerly Ahtanum Ridge Family Medicine)
This Notice Describes How Medical Information about You May Be Used and Disclosed & How You Can Get Access to This Information
If you have any questions about this notice, please contact the Facility Privacy Officer.
Who Will Follow This Notice: This notice describes the facility's practices and how the facility shares your information with others for treatment, payment and health care operations purposes.
Any health care professional authorized to enter information into your facility chart.
All departments and units of the facility.
Any member of a volunteer group allowed to help you while you are in the facility.
All employees, staff, agents and other facility personnel.
Health care providers and their authorized representatives who are members of the facility's organized health care arrangement, or "OHCA." These health care providers and their authorized representatives will be operationally and/or clinically integrated with the facility, or will otherwise be permitted by law to receive your information. For example, to the extent permitted by law and in accordance with our policies, the facility will share your medical information with doctors who are members of the facility's medical staff, even if the doctor is not employed by the facility.
All entities, sites and locations within this facility's system will follow the terms of this notice. They also may share medical information with each other for treatment, payment and health care operations purposes.
Our Pledge Regarding Medical Information: We understand that medical information about you and your healthcare is personal. We are committed to protecting medical information about you. A record is created of the care and services you receive at this facility. This record is needed to provide the necessary care and to comply with legal requirements. This notice applies to all of the records of your care generated by the facility. Your personal doctor may have different policies or notices regarding the doctor's use and disclosure of your medical information in the doctor's office or clinic. This notice will tell about the ways in which the facility may use and disclose medical information about you. Also described are your rights and certain obligations we have regarding the use and disclosure of medical information. The law requires the facility to:
Make sure that medical information that identifies you is kept private;
Inform you of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to medical information about you; and
Follow the terms of the notice that is currently in effect. This notice is effective as of September 23, 2013
Except with respect to Highly Confidential Information (described below), we are permitted to use your health information for the following purposes:
Treatment. Your medical information may be used to provide you with medical treatment or services. This medical information may be disclosed to doctors, nurses, technicians, and others involved in your care at the facility, including employees, volunteers, students and interns at the facility. This includes using and disclosing your information to treat your illness or injury, to contact you to provide appointment reminders or to give you information about treatment options or other health related benefits and services that may interest you.
For example: A doctor treating you for a broken leg may need to know if you have diabetes because diabetes may slow the healing process. The doctor may need to tell the dietitian about the diabetes so appropriate meals can be arranged. Different departments of the facility may also share medical information about you in order to coordinate your different needs, such as prescriptions, lab work and x-rays. The facility also may disclose medical information about you to people outside the facility who may be involved in your medical care after you leave the facility, such as family members, home health agencies, and others who provide services that are part of your care.
Payment. Your medical information may be used and disclosed so that the treatment and services received at the facility may be billed and payment may be collected from you, your insurance company and/or a third party. Please note, we will comply with your request not to disclose your health information to your insurance company if the information relates solely to a healthcare item or service for which you have paid out of pocket and in full to us. This restriction does not apply to the use or disclosure of your health information for your medical treatment.
For example: To the extent insurance will be responsible for reimbursing the facility for your care, the health plan or insurance company may need information about surgery you received at the facility so they can provide payment for the surgery. Information may also be given to someone who helps pay for your care. Your health plan or insurance company may also need information about a treatment you are going to receive to obtain prior approval or to determine whether they will cover the treatment.
Health Care Operations. Your medical information may be used and disclosed for purposes of furthering day-to-day facility operations. These uses and disclosures are necessary to run the facility and to monitor the quality of care our patients receive.
Reviewed to evaluate the treatment and services performed by our staff in caring for you.
Combined with that of other facility patients to decide what additional services the facility should offer, what services are not needed, and whether certain new treatments are effective.
Disclosed to doctors, nurses, technicians, and other agents of the facility for review and learning purposes.
Disclosed to healthcare students, interns and residents.
Combined with information from other facilities to compare how we are doing and see where we can improve the care and services offered. Information that identifies you in this set of medical information may be removed so others may use it to study health care and health care delivery without knowing who the specific patients are.
Individuals Involved in Your Care. With your permission, your medical information may be released to a family member, guardian or other individuals involved in your care. They may also be told about your condition unless you have requested additional restrictions. In addition, your medical information may be disclosed to an entity assisting in a disaster relief effort so your family can be notified about your condition, status, and location.
Research. Under certain circumstances, your medical information may be used and disclosed for research purposes. For example: A research project may involve comparing the health and recovery of all patients who received one medication to those who received another, for the same conditions. All research projects, however, are subject to a special approval process. This process evaluates a proposed research project and its use of medical information, balancing the research needs with the patients' need for privacy of their medical information. Your medical information may be disclosed to people preparing to conduct a research project; for example, helping them look for patients with specific medical needs, so long as the medical information they review does not leave the facility. We will almost always ask for your specific permission if the researcher will have access to your name, address or other information that reveals who you are, or will be involved in your care at the facility.
Marketing Activities. We may, without obtaining your authorization and so long as we do not receive payment from a third party for doing so, 1) provide you with marketing materials in a face-to-face encounter, 2) give you a promotional gift of nominal value, or 3) tell you about our own health care products and services. We will ask your permission to use your health information for any other marketing activities.
Appointment Reminders. Your medical information may be used to contact you as a reminder of an appointment you have for treatment or medical care at the facility.
Treatment Alternatives. Your medical information may be used to tell you about or recommend possible treatment options or alternatives that may be of interest to you.
Health-Related Benefits and Services. Your medical information may be used to tell you about health-related benefits or services that may be of interest to you.
Participation in Health Information Exchanges. We may participate in one or more health information exchanges (HIEs) and may electronically share your health information for treatment, payment and permitted healthcare operations purposes with other participants in the HIE -including entities that may not be listed under "Who Will Follow This Notice" on the first page of this notice. Depending on State law requirements, you may be asked to "opt-in" in order to share your information with HIEs, or you may be provided the opportunity to "opt-out" of HIE participation. HIEs allow your health care providers to efficiently access and use your pertinent medical information necessary for treatment and other lawful purposes. We will not share your information with an HIE unless both the HIE and its participants are subject to HIPAA's privacy and security requirements.
As Required by Law. Your medical information will be disclosed when required to do so by federal, state, or local authorities, laws, rules and/or regulations.
Lawsuits and Disputes. If you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, your medical information will be disclosed in response to a court or administration order, subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by someone else involved in the dispute when we are legally required to respond.
Law Enforcement. Your medical information will be released if requested by a law enforcement official:
In response to a court order, subpoena, warrant, summons or similar process;
To identify or locate a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person;
About the victim of a crime if, under certain limited circumstances, we are unable to obtain the person's agreement;
About a death we believe may be the result of criminal conduct;
In emergency circumstances to report a crime; the location of the crime or victims; or the identity, description or location of the person who committed the crime.
National Security and Intelligence Activities. Your medical information will be released to authorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, and other national security activities authorized by law.
Protective Services for the President and Others. Your medical information may be disclosed to authorized federal officials so they may provide protection to the President, other authorized persons or foreign heads of state or conduct special investigations
To Alert a Serious Threat to Health or Safety. Your medical information may be used and disclosed when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety and that of the public or another person. Any disclosure, however, would only be to someone able to help prevent the threat.
Health Oversight Activities. Your medical information may be disclosed to a health oversight facility for activities authorized by law. These oversight activities include, for example, audits, investigations, inspections, and licensure. These activities are necessary for the government to monitor the health care system, government programs, and compliance with civil rights laws.
Organ and Tissue Donation. If you are an organ or tissue donor, your medical information may be released to organizations that handle organ procurement or organ, eye and tissue transplantation or to an organ donation bank, as necessary to facilitate organ or tissue donation and transplantation.
Military and Veterans. If you are a member of the armed forces, your medical information may be released as required by military command authorities. If you are a member of the foreign military personnel, your medical information may be released to the appropriate foreign military authority.
Workers' Compensation. If you seek treatment for a work-related illness or injury, we must provide full information in accordance with state-specific laws regarding workers' compensation claims. Once state-specific requirements are met and an appropriate written request is received, only the records pertaining to the work-related illness or injury may be disclosed.
Public Health Risk. Your medical information may be used and disclosed for public health activities. These activities generally include the following:
To prevent or control disease, injury or disability;
To report births and deaths;
To report child abuse or neglect
To report reactions to medications or problems with products;
To notify people of recalls of products they may be using;
To notify a person who may have been exposed to a disease or may be at risk for contracting or spreading a disease or condition;
To notify the appropriate government authority if we believe a patient has been the victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence. We will only make this disclosure if you agree or when required or authorized by law.
Coroners, Medical Examiners, and Funeral Directors. Your medical information may be released to a coroner or medical examiner. This may be necessary, for example, to identify a deceased person or determine the cause of death. We may also release medical information about patients of the facility to funeral directors as necessary to carry out their duties.
Inmates. If you are an inmate of a correctional institution or under the custody of a law enforcement official, we may release medical information about you to the correctional institution or law enforcement official. This release would be necessary for the following reasons:
For the institution to provide you with health care;
To protect the health and safety of you and others;
For the safety and security of the correctional institution.
Federal and/or State law require special privacy protections for certain highly confidential information about you, including your health information that is maintained in psychotherapy notes. Similarly, Federal and/or State law may provide greater protections for the following types of information than HIPAA, in which case we will comply with the law that provides your information with the greatest protection and you with the greatest privacy rights: (1) mental health and developmental disabilities; (2) alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment and referral; (3) HIV/AIDS testing, diagnosis or treatment; (4) communicable diseases; (5) genetic testing; (6) child abuse and neglect; (7) domestic or elder abuse; and/or (8) sexual assault. In order for your highly confidential information to be disclosed for a purpose other than those permitted by law, your written authorization is required.
We will first obtain your written authorization before using or disclosing your protected health information for any purpose not described above, including disclosures that constitute the sale of protected health information or for marketing communications paid for by a third party (excluding refill reminders, which the law permits without your authorization). If you provide the facility permission to use or disclose your medical information, you may revoke that permission, in writing, at any time. If you revoke your permission, we will no longer use or disclose your medical information for the reasons covered in your written authorization. You understand that we are unable to take back any disclosures already made with your permission, and that we are required to retain our records of the care that the facility provided to you.
Changes To This Notice. We reserve the right to change this notice and make the revised or changed notice effective for medical information we already have about you as well as any information we receive in the future. The facility will post a current copy of the notice with the effective date. In addition, each time you register at, or are admitted to, the facility for treatment or health care services as an inpatient or outpatient, we will offer you a copy of the current notice in effect.
Complaints. You will not be penalized for filing a complaint. If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with the facility or with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Some States may allow you to file a complaint with State's Attorney General, Office of Consumer Affairs or other State agency as specified by applicable State law. To file a complaint with the facility, submit your complaint to the facility's Privacy Officer in writing. The facility's Privacy Officer can provide you with contact information for the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the State agency or agencies authorized to accept your complaints.
You have the following rights regarding medical information the facility maintains about you: ** NOTE: All Requests Must Be Submitted in Writing to the Facility**
Right to Request Access to Your Health Information. You have the right to timely inspect and copy medical information that may be used to make decisions about your care. Such access will be granted by the facility in accordance with applicable law. To inspect and copy medical information or to receive an electronic copy of the medical information that may be used to make decisions about you, you must submit a written request. If you request a paper copy of your information, we may charge a fee for the cost of copying, mailing or other supplies associated with your request. If the facility uses or maintains an electronic health record with respect to your medical information, you have the right to obtain an electronic copy of the information if you so choose.
You may direct the facility to transmit the copy to another entity or person that you designate provided the choice is clear, conspicuous, and specific.
The facility may charge a fee equal to its labor cost in providing the electronic copy (e.g., costs may include the cost of a flash drive, if that is how you request a copy of your information be produced). If you request an electronic copy of your information, we will provide the information in the format requested if it is feasible to do so.
We may deny your request to inspect and copy in some limited circumstances. If you are denied access to medical information, you may request that the denial be reviewed. Another licensed health care professional, other than the person who denied your request, will be chosen by the facility to review your request and the denial. The facility will comply with the outcome of the review.
A licensed health care professional has determined, in the exercise of professional judgment, that the access requested is reasonably likely to endanger the life or physical safety of the individual or another person.
The protected health information makes reference to another person (unless such other person is a health care provider) and a licensed health care professional has determined, in the exercise of professional judgment, that the access requested is reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to such other person.
The request for access is made by the individual's personal representative, and a licensed health care professional has determined, in the exercise of professional judgment, that the provision of access to such personal representative is reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to the individual or another person.
Right to Amend. If you feel that medical information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, you may ask us to amend the information. You have the right to request an amendment to information kept by or for the facility. Except where individual state laws are more stringent, this facility has a minimum of 60 days to act on your request. To request an amendment, you must submit a written request. You must also provide a reason that supports your request. Your request for an amendment may be denied if:
Your request is not in writing or does not include a reason to support the request;
The medical information was not created by us, unless the person or entity that created the information is no longer available to make the amendment;
The medical information is not part of the medical information kept by or for the facility;
The medical information is not part of the information you would be permitted to inspect and copy; or
The medical information is accurate and complete.
Right to an Accounting of Disclosures.
You have the right to request an "accounting of disclosures." This is a list of the disclosures we made of your medical information for purposes other than treatment, payment and health care operations. Except where individual state laws are more stringent, this facility has a minimum of 60 days to act on your request. To request this list or accounting of disclosures:
You must submit your request in writing.
Your request must state a time period, which may not be longer than six years and may not include dates before April 14, 2003
Your request should indicate in what form you want the list (for example, on paper, electronically).
The first list you request within a 12-month period will be free. For additional lists, we may charge you for the costs of providing the list. We will notify you of the cost involved and you may choose to withdraw or modify your request at that time before any costs are incurred.
Right to Request Restrictions. You have a right to request a restriction or limitation on the medical information we use or disclose about you for treatment, payment or health care operations. You also have the right to request a limit on the medical information we disclose about you to someone who is involved in your care or the payment for your care, like a family member.
To request restrictions, you must make your request in writing. In your request, you must tell us:
What information you want to limit;
Whether you want to limit our use, disclosure or both;
To whom you want the limits to apply, for example, disclosures to your spouse.
You also have a right to request that a health care item or service not be disclosed to your health plan for payment purposes or health care operations. We are required to honor your request if the health care item or service is paid out of pocket and in full. This restriction does not apply to use or disclosure of your health information related to your medical treatment.
Right to Request Confidential Communication. You have the right to request that we communicate with you about medical matters in a certain way or at a certain location.
For example: You can ask that we only contact you at work or by mail. To request confidential communications, you must make your request in writing. We will not ask you the reason for your request. We will accommodate all reasonable requests. Your request must specify how or where you wish to be contacted.
Right to Be Notified of Breach. We will notify you if we discover a breach of your unsecured protected health information.
Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice. You have the right to a copy of this notice. You may ask us to give you a copy at any time. Even if you have agreed to receive this notice electronically, you are still entitled to a paper copy of this notice.


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High on a hill overlooking Pakistan's scenic Swat Valley sits a recently excavated cemetery. Italian archaeologist Luca Maria Olivieri walks across the site and lays a sun-beaten hand on a clay slab jutting out from a high, dun-colored wall. It's an ancient grave.
Olivieri says the remains still have to be carbon-tested, but archaeologists believe the graves contain members of a Dardic community, which dominated this part of Pakistan 3,000 years ago.
It's believed Alexander the Great fought one of his battles here, in the village of Udegram.
The grave site was discovered when a landowner started to develop the area. Olivieri is one of several archaeologists working with the local Archaeology Community Tourism Project. He says his group made a deal with the landlord to stop building for one year so they could excavate the cemetery.
The archaeologists discovered a collection of 32 sealed graves. Olivieri says the site reveals the community's burial and post-burial rituals.
"So these graves were opened, reopened, reburied and filled and emptied and refilled several times because [they belonged] to families who were using it for more than one generation," he says.
In one small corner of one grave, Olivieri shifts two small stones and gets a glimpse of some remains. It's a femur. He says most of the graves contained two skeletons: male and female, facing each other.
A Wealth Of Artifacts
The archaeologists discovered hairpins and spindles, beautifully preserved pots, ornaments made of copper and bronze, and some pieces of iron. Olivieri says carbon-testing may prove the fragments are the oldest traces of iron on the subcontinent.
What they didn't find in any of the graves was a weapon. Olivieri says the contents seem to be carefully chosen to show the ancient community's values.
"If we consider this ... cultural assemblage as a positive proof of what this culture wanted to show, even to themselves, this was the most important thing for them," he says.
Olivieri says Swat Valley is a paradise for archaeologists and anyone interested in ancient culture. He's been coming to this area for some 25 years, mostly to work on the excavation of Barikot, an ancient city nearby.
Olivieri says Barikot is a much more important archaeological site, but it's the Udegram cemetery that has captured attention lately here in Pakistan.
In a country plagued by insurgent attacks, electricity and gas shortages, and a plummeting economy, the Udegram grave site has become a good news story.
"It's like something amazing for us to have major excavations all around, especially in ancient sites that belong to the time of Alexander the Great," says Niaz Ali Shah, the curator of a provincial museum. "A great experience, in fact, for the younger archaeologists of our province."
Olivieri says the biggest concern is finding enough time, expertise and financing to excavate all of the Swat Valley's buried treasures.
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PARIS (AP) — The price, smell and color should have been clear tipoffs something was wrong with shipments of horsemeat that were fraudulently labeled as beef, French authorities said Thursday. The government pinned the bulk of the blame on a French wholesaler at the heart of a growing scandal in Europe.
Police in the U.K., meanwhile, announced the arrests Thursday of three men on suspicion of fraud at two meat plants inspected earlier this week by the country's Food Standards Agency.
The two separate developments were part of an escalating scare that has raised questions about food controls in the European Union — and highlighted how little consumers know about the complex trading operations that get food from producers to wholesalers to processers to stores and onto their dinner table.
Europol, the European Union police agency, is coordinating a broad continent-wide fraud investigation amid allegations of an international criminal conspiracy to substitute horse for more expensive beef.
In Paris, Benoit Hamon, the government's consumer affairs minister, said it appeared that in the most prominent case fraudulent meat sales had been going on for several months, and reached across 13 countries and 28 companies. He did not name the countries or companies.
He said there was plenty of blame to go around, but most of it rested with Spanghero, a wholesaler based in southern France.
Officials at Spanghero denied knowingly buying and reselling horsemeat but French authorities immediately suspended their trading activities.
Hamon said Spanghero was one company in a chain that started with two Romanian slaughterhouses that says they clearly labeled their meat as horse.
The meat was then bought by a Cyprus-registered trader and sent to a warehouse in the Netherlands.
Spanghero bought the meat from the trader, then resold it to the French frozen food processor Comigel. The resulting food was marketed under the Sweden-based Findus brand as lasagna and other products as containing ground beef.
Hamon said Spanghero was well aware that the meat was mislabeled when it sold it to Comigel.
"Spanghero knew," Hamon said. "One thing that should have attracted Spanghero's attention? The price."
Hamon said the meat from Romania cost far below the market rate for beef.
A representative for Spanghero said company officials have been interrogated by authorities, who have raided Spanghero headquarters several times in recent days, but no one has been arrested.
The representative insisted the company acted "in good faith" and that it never knew the meat it bought and sold was horsemeat. The representative said he was not authorized to be publicly named according to his contract with Spanghero.
He wouldn't comment on French authorities' insistence that Spanghero should have recognized the meat as horse by its price, smell and color.
Food processor Comigel was not blameless either, Hamon said, declaring that the paperwork from Spanghero had significant irregularities, including a failure to specify country of origin.
"And once the meat was defrosted, we can ask ourselves why Comigel didn't notice that the color and odor was not that of beef?" Hamon said.
Romanian food suppliers rejoiced that the blame for the frozen lasagna scandal has shifted away from Romanian slaughterhouses to companies in France — a country that prides itself on its cuisine and culinary culture and isn't usually caught up in food scandals.
Sorin Minea, the chief of Romalimenta, the Romanian food industry association, urged tough sanctions for the French companies. "Romania, small and ugly as it, respected all European legislation. In the U.K., legislation was not respected," he said. "I am sad that first we were accused and then there was an inquiry. We feel we are not part of the European family."
Britain's food regulator, meanwhile, said Thursday that six horse carcasses that tested positive for an equine painkiller may have entered the human food chain in France and that horsemeat tainted with the medicine may have been sold to consumers "for some time."
The U.K. Food Standards Agency said eight out of 206 horses it checked had tested positive for phenylbutazone, commonly known as bute. The drug is banned for human use in countries including Britain and the U.S.
Almost no horsemeat is consumed in Britain, where hippophagy — eating horses — is widely considered taboo. But thousands of horses killed in the country each year are exported for meat to countries including France and Belgium that have a culture of eating horsemeat.
The scandal has also raised the uncomfortable idea that Europeans may unwittingly have been consuming racehorses, which are often treated with bute.
Britain's Aintree race track said a slaughterhouse in northern England shut down this week by government investigators had a contract to dispose of fatally injured racehorses. The racecourse said it was "as confident as we possibly can be" that none of the meat had entered the human food chain.
Despite the ban on bute for humans, Britain's chief medical officer, Sally Davies, said that horsemeat containing the drug "presents a very low risk to human health."
Davies said the drug was once prescribed to patients with severe arthritis, and while it sometimes produced serious side effects including the blood disorder aplastic anemia, it was "extremely unlikely" that anyone eating horsemeat would experience them.
"If you ate 100-percent horse burgers of 250 grams (8.8 ounces), you would have to eat, in one day, more than 500 or 600 to get to a human dose," she said. "It would really be difficult to get up to a human dose."
In other, separate developments in the multi-tentacled horsemeat scandal Thursday:
— Police in Wales said two men — ages 64 and 42 — were arrested at Farmbox Meats near Aberystwyth, in Wales, while a 63-year-old man was arrested at the Peter Boddy Slaughterhouse in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
—Germany said food containing horsemeat has also surfaced there, as two German national supermarkets have pulled frozen lasagna from their shelves.
—In Ireland, where fears about undeclared horsemeat first surfaced earlier this year, processing factory Rangeland Foods said it had withdrawn some batches of burger products that contained beef supplied from Poland after it tested positive for up to 30 percent horse meat. Food Safety Authority of Ireland said the products had been sold to the catering and wholesale sectors and distributed to Ireland, Britain, Spain, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
—In Britain, supermarket chain Asda said it was withdrawing a beef Bolognese sauce from its shelves after tests indicated the presence of horse DNA and would pull three other products from the same supplier as a precaution. The company previously has withdrawn four other products which tested positive for horse DNA.
—In the Netherlands, the Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday the country's Food Safety Authority is carrying out a large-scale investigation in coming weeks and plans to inspect some 100 companies from slaughterhouses to supermarkets and take 200 samples including meat cuttings, mincemeat and other prepared food. The authority also is investigating labeling at 40 companies, identifying meat and checking paperwork.
Lawless reported from London. Cassandra Vinograd in London, Angela Charlton in Paris, Alison Mutler in Bucharest, Romania, Mike Corder in the Netherlands and David Rising in Berlin also contributed.


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umass(4) [osx man page]
UMASS(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual UMASS(4) NAME
umass -- USB Mass Storage Devices driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: device scbus device usb device umass Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): umass_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The umass driver provides support for Mass Storage devices that attach to the USB port. To use the umass driver, usb(4) and one of uhci(4) or ohci(4) must be configured in the kernel. Additionally, since umass uses the SCSI sub- system and sometimes acts as a SCSI device, it requires da(4) and scbus(4) to be included in the kernel. HARDWARE
The umass driver supports USB Mass Storage devices, including: o ADTEC Stick Drive AD-UST32M, 64M, 128M, 256M o Denno FireWire/USB2 Removable 2.5-inch HDD Case MIFU-25CB20 o FujiFilm Zip USB Drive ZDR100 USB A o GREEN HOUSE USB Flash Memory "PicoDrive" GH-UFD32M, 64M, 128M o Huawei Mobile (SD slot) o IBM 32MB USB Memory Key (P/N 22P5296) o IBM 256MB USB Drive (MSYSTEM DiskOnKey2) o IBM ThinkPad USB Portable CD-ROM Drive (P/N 33L5151) o I-O DATA USB CD/CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM/DVD-ROM Drive DVR-iUH2 (CDROM, DVD-RAM only) o I-O DATA USB x6 CD-RW Drive CDRW-i64/USB (CDROM only) o I-O DATA USB/IEEE1394 Portable HD Drive HDP-i30P/CI, HDP-i40P/CI o Iomega USB Zip 100/250 drive o Iomega Zip750 USB2.0 drive o Keian USB1.1/2.0 3.5-inch HDD Case KU350A o Kurouto Shikou USB 2.5-inch HDD Case GAWAP2.5PS-USB2.0 o LaCie P3 HardDrive USB 200GB o Logitec LDR-H443U2 DVD-RAM/-R/+R/-RW/+RW drive o Logitec Mobile USB Memory LMC-256UD o Logitec USB1.1/2.0 HDD Unit SHD-E60U2 o Logitec USB Double-Speed Floppy Drive LFD-31U2 o Logitec USB/IEEE1394 DVD-RAM/R/RW Unit LDR-N21FU2 (CDROM only) o MELCO USB Flash Disk "ClipDrive", RUF-C32M, -C64M, -C128M, -C256M, -C512M o MELCO USB Flash Disk "PetitDrive", RUF-32M, -64M, -128M, -256Mm o MELCO USB2.0 Flash Disk "PetitDrive2", RUF-256M/U2, -512M/U2 o MELCO USB2.0 MO Drive MO-CH640U2 o Matshita CF-VFDU03 floppy drive o Merlin SM300 MP3/WMA Player (256Mb) o Microtech International, Inc. USB-SCSI-HD 50 USB to SCSI cable o Motorola E398 Mobile Phone (TransFlash memory card) o NOVAC USB2.0 2.5/3.5-inch HDD Case NV-HD351U o PNY Attache Flash Drive o Panasonic ("Matshita FDD CF-VFDU03") o Panasonic KXL-CB20AN Portable DVD-ROM/CD-R/RW o Panasonic KXL-CB35AN (DVD-ROM & CD-R/RW) o Panasonic USB2.0 Portable CD-RW Drive KXL-RW40AN (CDROM only) o Panasonic floppy drive o Qware BeatZkey! Pro o RATOC Systems USB2.0 Removable HDD Case U2-MDK1, U2-MDK1B o SanDisk SDDR-31 (Compact Flash) o SanDisk SDDR-75 (only Compact Flash port works) o Sitecom CN-300 MultiFlash (MMC/SD, SmartMedia, CF, MemoryStick) o Sony Portable CD-R/RW Drive CRX10U (CDROM only) o TEAC Portable USB CD-ROM Unit CD-110PU/210PU o Time DPA20B MP3 Player (1Gb) o Trek Thumbdrive 8MB o VAIO floppy drive (includes Y-E Data Flashbuster-U) o Y-E Data floppy drive (720/1.44/2.88Mb) Among the supported digital cameras are: o Asahi Optical (PENTAX) Optio 230 & 330 EXAMPLES
device umass device scbus device da device pass Add the umass driver to the kernel. camcontrol rescan 0 Rescan a Zip drive that was added after boot. The command above assumes that the Zip drive is on the first SCSI bus in the system. camcontrol rescan 0:0:0 camcontrol rescan 0:0:1 camcontrol rescan 0:0:2 camcontrol rescan 0:0:3 Rescan all slots on a multi-slot flash reader, where the slots map to separate LUNs on a single SCSI ID. Typically only the first slot will be enabled at boot time. Again, this assumes that the flash reader is the first SCSI bus in the system. bsdlabel -w da0 zip100 newfs da0c mount -t ufs /dev/da0c /mnt Write a disklabel to the Zip drive (see vpo(4) for the disktab(5) entry), creates the file system and mounts the new file system on /mnt. newfs_msdos /dev/da0 Create a new FAT type file system. Care should be taken not to run newfs(8) on devices that already contain data, as this will result in the information being lost. Many consumer devices such as digital cameras automatically create MS-DOS based file systems when storing information such as images and videos. These file systems can be accessed by specifying the file system type as msdos when using mount(8). SEE ALSO
ehci(4), ohci(4), uhci(4), usb(4), vpo(4), disktab(5), bsdlabel(8), camcontrol(8) AUTHORS
The umass driver was written by MAEKAWA Masahide <firstname.lastname@example.com> and Nick Hibma <email@example.com>. This manual page was written by Nick Hibma <firstname.lastname@example.com>. BSD
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More specifically, the researchers found that 16 of 19 metro areas "saw home prices decrease over the month; only Miami, Phoenix and Washington, D.C., home prices went up versus December 2011."
As The Associated Press notes, "the steepest declines were in San Francisco, Atlanta and Portland."
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International operations make it difficult to create an oversight body as forceful as the FAA is in aviation, but streamlining the related work of Coast Guard and CDC would be the place to start.
A byzantine maze of maritime rules and regulations, fragmented oversight and a patchwork quilt of nations that do business with cruise lines make it tough for consumers to assess the health and safety record of the ship they are about to board in what for many is the vacation of a lifetime.
Want to know about a ship's track record for being clean? Want to assess how sanitary the food is? It's not that easy to find, in part because there's no one entity or country that oversees or regulates the industry with its fleet of ships that are like mini cities floating at sea.
In the case of Carnival Cruise Lines, the owner of the Carnival Triumph that spent days in the Gulf of Mexico disabled after an engine fire, the company is incorporated in Panama, its offices are based in Miami and its ships fly under the Bahamian flag — a matrix that is not unusual in the cruise line industry.
For potential passengers seeking ship information, there's no central database that can be viewed to determine a track record of safety or health inspections. No one agency regulates everything from the cruise line's mechanical worthiness to the sanitation of its kitchens.
The U.S. Coast Guard inspects each cruise ship that docks in the U.S. every year for a range of issues, from operation of backup generators to the lifeboats. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a database of recent disease outbreaks and other health inspection information for cruise ships. Had Triumph vacationers looked up information about the cruise ship through those two agencies before boarding, they would have found mostly clean marks and few red flags.
And when something goes wrong, as it did on Triumph, there are limits to how much the Coast Guard can investigate.
These are not new issues — they had been raised by members of Congress before the Triumph incident.
"This horrible situation involving the Carnival Triumph is just the latest example in a long string of serious and troubling incidents involving cruise ships," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who led a committee hearing on cruise safety last year.
Last year, after the Costa Concordia, also owned by Miami-based Carnival Corp., ran aground off the coast of Giglio, Italy, Rockefeller held a Commerce Committee hearing to examine deficiencies in the cruise line industry's compliance with federal safety, security, and environmental standards and review industry regulations.
"As I remarked then, they seem to have two lives: One is at port, where the Coast Guard can monitor their operations; the other is at sea where, it appears once they are beyond three nautical miles from shore, the world is theirs," Rockefeller said in letter he wrote this week to Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr., the commandant of the Coast Guard. "The Carnival Triumph incident only serves to further validate this view."
The Triumph left Galveston, Texas, on Feb. 7 for a four-day cruise to Cozumel, Mexico. An engine-room fire paralyzed the ship early Sunday, leaving it adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. Passengers described nightmarish conditions on board: overflowing toilets, long lines for a short supply of food, foul odors, and tent cities where vacationers slept on deck. Tugboats slowly towed the 14-story vessel to Mobile, Alabama. It arrived there late Thursday.
Before a ship like the Triumph sets sail, it's possible — but not easy — to find information about past incidents and safety or health issues. The CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program is viewable online. The database shows recent disease outbreaks aboard cruise ships and how they were addressed.
Records for the Triumph show it was last inspected July 7, 2012. It scored 96 out of 100. The CDC considers scores of 85 or lower unsatisfactory. The lowest score the ship received was an 88, in 2009.
The Coast Guard also has a database, known as the U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Information Exchange, with inspections and any deficiencies found aboard ships, dating to when the vessels entered service. A search on the exchange's website for the Triumph turns up its certifications for things like passenger safety and pollution prevention as well as inspections. No violations or red flags are immediately evident. Searching a little deeper, the most recent report shows a propulsion issue from a Jan. 28 incident involving a short in a connection box of one of the ship's generators.
Bud Darr, the Cruise Lines International Association's senior vice president for technical and regulatory affairs, said the industry is "very heavily regulated," from the way ships are designed to how crews train for emergencies. He said standards are set by the United Nations' International Maritime Organization.
But Jim Walker, a Miami maritime attorney and author of the www.cruiselaw.com blog, said, "the IMO guidelines are not law and there is no consequence if the cruise lines ignore the guidelines and recommendations. Customers have no way of knowing whether they are well maintained safely. There is no federal oversight with real teeth."
Fires — though not all as major as the Triumph's — happen virtually every year on cruise ships. There were 79 onboard blazes from 1990 to 2011, according to a list compiled by Ross Klein, a professor who specializes in cruise industry issues at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada.
In 2010, the IMO adopted rules that require any large cruise ship built after July 1 of that year to have a separate, redundant system able to maintain the ship's propulsion, steering and so forth in case one engine is disabled by fire. The rules also mandate that ships be capable of maintaining basic services such as sanitation, water, food and lights in such circumstances.
The Triumph was built in 1999 and isn't covered by the rules, as is the case for most ships among major cruise lines. Experts say the Triumph might have been able to limp into port more quickly if it had the newer systems, but retrofitting is costly and time-consuming.
"Provided the emergency generators worked and had enough power, they would have been able to return to port under their own power, but much slower," said Andrew O. Coggins, Jr., a Pace University management professor who focuses on hospitality and tourism industries.
"Once Carnival has evaluated the full cost of this incident," he added, "it might be cost effective to retrofit their older ships."
On the Internet:
Coast Guard cruise ship inspections database
Associated Press writers Connie Cass in Washington and Bruce Smith in Charleston, South Carolina, contributed to this report.
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Photo credit: In this Feb. 14, 2013 file photo the cruise ship Carnival Triumph is towed into Mobile Bay near Dauphin Island, Ala., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Dave Martin / AP Photo


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Cardinal Donald Wuerl walk with U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as they leave the church, after the Red Mass at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is beginning a new term with controversial issues that offer the court's conservative majority the chance to move aggressively to undo limits on campaign contributions, undermine claims of discrimination in housing and mortgage lending, and allow for more government-sanctioned prayer.
Assuming the government shutdown doesn't get in their way, the justices also will deal with a case that goes to the heart of the partisan impasse in Washington: whether and when the president may use recess appointments to fill key positions without Senate confirmation.
The court was unaffected for the first few days of the government shutdown and there was no expectation that arguments set for October would have to be rescheduled.
The new term that starts Monday may be short on the sort of high-profile battles over health care and gay marriage that marked the past two years. But several cases ask the court to overrule prior decisions — bold action in an institution that relies on the power of precedent.
"There are an unusual number of cases going right to hot-button cultural issues and aggressive briefing on the conservative side asking precedents to be overruled," said Georgetown University law professor Pamela Harris, who served in President Barack Obama's Justice Department.
Paul Clement, a frequent advocate before the court and the top Supreme Court lawyer under President George W. Bush, agreed that the opportunity exists for dramatic precedent-busting decisions. But Clement said each case also offers the court "an off-ramp," a narrower outcome that may be more in keeping with Chief Justice John Roberts' stated desire for incremental decision-making that bridges the court's ideological divide.
There is a familiar ring to several cases the justices will take up.
Campaign finance, affirmative action, legislative prayer and abortion clinic protests all are on the court's calendar. The justices also will hear for the second time the case of Carol Anne Bond, a woman who was convicted under an anti-terrorism law for spreading deadly chemicals around the home of her husband's mistress.
The justices probably will decide in the fall whether to resolve competing lower court decisions about the new health care law's requirement that employer-sponsored health plans include coverage of contraceptives.
An issue with a good chance to be heard involves the authority of police to search the contents of a cellphone found on someone they arrest. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said over the summer that the right to privacy in the digital age "is bound to come up in many forms" in the years ahead.
The court may hear its first abortion case since 2007, a review of an Oklahoma law that would restrict the use of certain abortion-inducing drugs such as RU-486.
The campaign finance argument on Tuesday is the first major case on the calendar. The 5-4 decision in the Citizens United case in 2010 allowed corporations and labor unions to spend unlimited sums in support of or opposition to candidates, as long as the spending is independent of the candidates.
The new case, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, is a challenge to the overall limits on what an individual may give to candidates, political parties and political action committees in a two-year federal election cycle, currently $48,600 to candidates and $123,600 in total. The $2,600 limit on contributions to a candidate is not at issue.
Since the Buckley v. Valeo decision in 1976, the court has looked more favorably on contribution limits than on spending restrictions because of the potential for corruption in large contributions. The big issue in the current case is whether the justices will be just as skeptical of limits on contributing as on spending.
Three justices, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have signaled their willingness to do so. It remains to be seen whether Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, the other two members of the Citizens United majority, are willing to go along.
Among other top cases already set for review:
—Greece, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester, is asking the court to uphold its practice of opening town council meetings with a prayer, despite an appeals court ruling that found the invocations a violation of the First Amendment because they almost always were Christian prayers. The court could use the case to rule that courts should take a more hands-off approach to religion in the public square or it could hold more narrowly that the town's practice is consistent with a 1983 decision upholding prayer at the start of government meetings.
—Mount Holly, N.J., is defending a plan to demolish and redevelop a rundown neighborhood against claims that it discriminates because it disproportionately affects African-American and Latino residents. At issue is whether there also must be an intent to discriminate under federal housing law. The issue affects a range of transactions involving real estate and applies to banks and mortgage companies as well as governments, such as the one involved in this case.
—Michigan is fighting to preserve a constitutional amendment that bans the use of racial preferences in education after a federal appeals court ruled that the constitutional ban is itself discriminatory. This case, unlike last term's look at a University of Texas admissions plan, does not involve the viability of affirmative action, but rather whether opponents of racial preferences can enshrine that ban in the state constitution.
—Massachusetts is defending a law that creates a 35-foot buffer zone at abortion clinics to limit protesters' ability to interact with patients. The court upheld a buffer zone law in Colorado in 2000, but Roberts and Alito have replaced members of that majority and are considered more sympathetic to the free-speech claims of the protesters.
While several cases call into question high court precedents, the justices will be writing on a blank slate when they take up the president's recess appointment power under the Constitution.
In that case, the court will confront an appeals court ruling that effectively would end the president's ability to make such appointments, if it is left standing.
Former Justice Department official Peter Keisler said that justices often ask a lawyer for the best case in support of his argument. "No one is going to ask that question because 't'aint none.' No Supreme Court decisions are material here," said Keisler, a partner at the Sidley, Austin law firm in Washington.
The impasse that led Obama to install members of the National Labor Relations Board and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray in office without Senate confirmation has been resolved. So what remains of the issue is whether Obama and his successors will be constrained in the future.
The topic splits Democrats and Republicans, but their view of the matter is almost entirely dependent on which party controls the White House.
In another area, little drama is expected. Four justices are over the age of 75, but none is expected to retire in the coming year.
Ginsburg, at 80, is the oldest member of the court. Scalia and Kennedy are 77, and Justice Stephen Breyer is 75.
Ginsburg made clear in a series of media interviews this summer that she will stay on the court as long as she is able to do the work. Before the summer, Ginsburg had said she wanted to emulate Justice Louis Brandeis and stay on the bench as long as he did, 22 years. She will reach that mark in 2015, which also coincides with what is widely believed to be Obama's last opportunity to name her replacement because the presidential election year of 2016 is an unlikely time to fill a high court vacancy, especially in the eighth and final year of a presidency.


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This is the main page for the Etherpad Fedora Activity Day held Oct 8-9th at Olin College of Engineering. We worked to improve Etherpad, the wonderful open source collaboration tool and package it for Fedora. Thanks for everyone who helped out and check bellow for some details on how it went.
Its Over -- How we did
- Colin on Day 1 has pictures
- Colin on Day 2 has more pictures
- DJ took of the board
- Colin Day 1 and Day 2 posts
Slides from Jeff's Talk
Building and Managing Communities (Give Your Cat a Scratching Post and Watch it Claw your Sofa)
File:Etherpad FAD Jeff Mitchell talk Communities-2010.pdf File:Etherpad FAD Jeff Mitchell talk Communities-2010.odp
-- Jeff Mitchell (on KDE Projects)
By the numbers
Check my math and see the full list on the talk page
- Non-free-software libraries changed to free alternatives: 1 (thanks Sam)
- New packages created: 7+ (TODO)
- Dependencies tracked down: 17+ (TODO)
- Lines of code to make C3P0 lib build with Java 1.6: tons (TODO) (thanks Crawf)
- Licences inspected: plenty (TODO) some of many (thanks Spot, Jon, DJ, SDZ)
- Repackage EtherPad in a consistent, portable, more best-practice form
- Metric: Etherpad functions without bundled libraries
- Minus C3P0 yes
- Metric: Difference between EtherPad vanilla and GitHub code has been assessed
- Totally has been bonus points for us working with upstream (more difficult packaging)
- Metric: Etherpad functions without bundled libraries
- Create compliant, Fedora packages for EtherPad
- Metric: Etherpad Fedora package
- No, but 95% of the way there
- Metric: Etherpad package has been accepted into the repositories
- Outcome: no, but in due time
- Metric: Etherpad Fedora package
- Setup EtherPad instance on Fedora Infrastructure
- Metric: Etherpad is running on Fedora Infra staging
- Metric: Etherpad is running on Fedora Infrastructure permanent
- Metric: Written maintenance plan for Etherpad on Fedora Infrastructure
- No, once we finish packaging and make it to EEPL, we'll move this way
- Metric: Someone from Fedora Infrastructure is designated to maintain Etherpad installation
- JStanely says NO (not the way infrastructure works)
- Teach non-Propeller-heads about OSS development and the technologies used
- Metric: x# of people never used version control, now pros
- Maybe not pros, but 20 Olin students learned Git
- Metric: x# of new Fedora installations?
- several
- Metric: x# of people never used version control, now pros
- Package the upstream
When and Where
Olin College, 1000 Olin Way, Needham MA, 02492, USA
Crescent Room (CC209 and CC211 inside Olin Campus Center)
Time: Friday Oct 8th, 5pm - Oct 9th
Note: all times are US Eastern. GMT -5 hours.
Background (what is Etherpad?)
Background: EtherPad (video demo) was a high-performance web-based collaborative document editor, launched in 2008 from etherpad.com. It was acquired by Google during the development of Google Wave, and the service's code base was open-sourced. Several websites now run an EtherPad service and there is interest in making private installs (such as one for the Fedora Project) easier to create.
Buuut the EtherPad code-base isn't exactly in a packageable state, as demonstrated by SDZ, here. We would like to package EtherPad correctly for Fedora. Where possible, we intend to use good build system practices and clean up libraries used.
Finally, once complete, we'd like to use the new packages to setup an EtherPad instance for the Fedora Community.
I'm new to FADs / open source / hackathons what can I expect?
Expect to learn a lot. The FAD is mainly about a volunteer group working to make a dent in an awesome piece of software. Not an über-coder, we'll find ways for you to help, and make sure you learn something.
Not interested in working a whole weekend on Etherpad? Stop by 5pm Saturday for a presentation by Jeff Mitchell on managing the KDE community (agenda)! How do you manage a passionate, distributed group of international volunteers? We'll find out. After, we'd love to talk about open source, our communities, and technology in general.
I'm far away / can't physically attend, how can I help?
We'll be hanging out on IRC! I'll make sure there is someone dedicated to IRC / community contact.
Don't know what IRC is yet? It's the realtime chat system that many open source communities use. (Mel Chua) would be happy to teach you; just drop me a line at mchua {at} fedoraproject {dot} org.
Channel: #etherpad on Freenode (exclusively) Twitter Updates: http://twitter.com/olinetherpadfad
Send me a bit about yourself and will pull in: colin {at} zonion {dot} org If you're helping remotely, it would be great if you bopped in during Pre-FAD planning, 5pm Oct 2nd (agenda).
Communication Channels
Updates, news, PSA -- Twitter: https://twitter.com/olinetherpadfad
During FAD Backchannel -- IRC: #etherpad on Freenode
Contacting Us During FAD
We will have someone on IRC at all times to be "point person." Shout out Olin or Etherpad or Hackathon or Yanks and someone will hear you.
Channel: #etherpad on Freenode
(following times in US Eastern time)
- Friday, October 8th
- Availability starts: 5pm
- Availability NOT guaranteed: 7pm-8:30pm (dinner)
- Availability NOT guaranteed: 10pm-11:30pm (Weekend warriors!)
- Not available: after we pass out
- Saturday, October 9th
- Availability starts: 11am
- Not available: 1:30pm-3:30pm (Indian lunch =] )
- Availability NOT guaranteed: 7pm-8pm ( Dinner )
- Availability NOT guaranteed: 11pm-midnight ( being social )
- Not available: after we pass out
Nicks to ping for Olin Hackathon
- computercolin
- spot
- sdzallias
- kmehall
- djones
- djsaurus
- mchua (last resort)
- rockychat
- jds2001
Pre-FAD (very optional)
- Saturday, October 2nd
- 3pm - Assess skill sets, forge plans and detailed goals, run numbers for buying food, etc.
computercolin: Planning to connect with Joe Cornelli and some EP contributors from Europe here.
- Will occur in #etherpad on freenode.
- Friday, October 8th
- 5pm - Kickoff (introductions, share interest in Etherpad)
- 5:20pm - Intro to OSS development (for some)
- 5:20pm - Review of Etherpad Attack Plan, hacking kickoff (for others)
- 6pm - Integration of intro people into Hackathon
- 7pm - Pizza Dinner
- 10pm - Olin Weekend Warriors Break
- Saturday, October 9th
- 11:00am - Individual reports and progress check
- 11:30am - Hacking
- 1:30pm - Indian lunch buffet at Masala Art
- 3:30pm - Hacking resumes
- 5:00pm - Talk: Jeff Mitchell of KDE on Building and Maintaining Communities
- 7:00pm - Interactive Stir-fry Dinner
- 11pm - Break (descreen, pool, learn to unicycle, etc)
- Sunday, October 10th
- Breakfast by Colin for the hardcore
- Kickout
- Our purpose is to...
- Repackage EtherPad in a consistent, portable way, more best-practice form
- Create compliant, Fedora packages for EtherPad
- Setup EtherPad instance on Fedora Infrastructure
- Teach non-Propeller-heads about OSS development and the technologies used
- In addition, we will attempt to complete the following secondary goals as time allows:
- Build better(/more complete) test system for EtherPad
- Single config file
- Document EP
computercolin: Think we could do a most-of-night (all-night?) hack session one of the nights. Both, probably too much.
Skills Sought
- Javascript/scala/java decipherment
- Build system skills (particularly Ant and Scala/JS friendly systems)
- expertise in jetty, Comet, AppJet or Rhino would be helpful
- also some mysql or apache derby
- infrastructure deployment
- software project management
- code (re)architecture
- developer documentation
- Malleable mind to fill (don't know anything here? come learn something, hear war stories, join open source!)
Physically Present
- Jeff Mitchell (Boston, MA) - Asked to give talk, community management, coding, sysadmin - coming
- Tom "spot" Callaway (Ayer, MA) - packaging, polymath coding skills, legal - coming
- Jon Stanley (New York, NY) - sysadmin, polymath coding skills - coming
- DJ Gallagher (Boston, MA) - Java Propeller-head - dev, documentation, alumnus - Will be there
- Meet open-source Java people in realspace!
- Bringing the noodles evidently
- Interested in commercial applications of EP
- What's a propeller-head?
- Matt Crawford (Wellesley, MA) - polymath computer skills - Interested in coming
- Colin Zwiebel (Needham, MA) - Organizer (it appears) - developer, Oliner, Will be there
- Find great OSS mavericks
- Snag some cool space at Olin
- Get some awesome Oliners (not hard)
- Make sure everyone learns something and has fun
- Andy Pethan (Needham, MA) - Attendee/hacker/facilitator - developer, Etherpad fanboy Will be there
- Sebastian Dziallas ( Needham, MA) - Fedora Packager - developer, packager Will make it
- Paul Booth (Olin) - Coding, testing, jokes - Be there
- Jason Curtis (Olin) - Java - Interested
- Jeff Atkinson (Olin) - Java - coming
- Danny Bathgate (Olin) - polymath programming skills - interested
- Kevin Mehall (Olin) - coding, lots of linux admin - Presenting (and present)
- Mel Chua (Raleigh, NC) - advising and setup on running a FAD beforehand, followup afterwards.
- Joe Cornelli - (Milton Keynes, UK?) - linux admin skills, further evaluation needed - Interested in remoting
- John McClear - (UK) - PrimaryPad, admin, (more...) - Very interested in remoting, has week off!
- Brian Herman - (Chicago, IL) - polymath programming - Interested in remoting
- Henrik Heigl (Germany) - Fedora Marketing - Interested in remote participation, also can dialIn via Fedoratalk (e.g. Conference Call)
Welcome sheet
Not yet done. Needs to be put together.
A set of resources people can read up on and learn from before they arrive. It should contain the following:
Logistics: getting yourself over.
- Full schedule for the FAD: agenda
- Transit, lodging, and food scheduling/directions/coordination/recommendations, with estimated costs.
- "Who do I get in contact with if I have any questions about logistics during the FAD?" - see #Help desk.
- ??? Colin, or designated contact person
Contributing: how can you help work towards the FAD's goals?
- A list of goals of the FAD - primary goals, then secondary goals. Each goal should be measurable - in other words, at the end of the FAD, it should be clear to an external observer whether you accomplished a goal or not.
- Our purpose is to...
- Repackage EtherPad in a consistent, portable, more best-practice form
- Metric: Etherpad functions without bundled libraries
- Metric: Etherpad has a single configuration file (possibly part of build system)
- Metric: Difference between EtherPad vanilla and GitHub code has been assessed
- Create compliant, Fedora packages for EtherPad
- Metric: Etherpad Fedora package exists
- Metric: Etherpad package has been accepted into the repositories
- Setup EtherPad instance on Fedora Infrastructure
- Metric: Etherpad is running on Fedora Infra staging
- Metric: Etherpad is running on Fedora Infrastructure permanent
- Metric: Written maintenance plan for Etherpad on Fedora Infrastructure
- Metric: Someone from Fedora Infrastructure is designated to maintain Etherpad installation
- Teach non-Propeller-heads about OSS development and the technologies used
- Metric: x# of people never used IRC are now pros, have registered nicks
- Metric: x# of people never used version control, now pros
- Metric: x# of people new to open source registered to assist on OpenHatch
- Metric: x# of new Fedora installations?
- Repackage EtherPad in a consistent, portable, more best-practice form
- In addition, we will attempt to complete the following secondary goals as time allows:
- Build better(/more complete) test system for EtherPad
- Metric: # of unit test-cases for Etherpad.
- Metric: System to check uptime of Etherpad on Fedora Infra
- Metric: Automated script to type, edit, move text through Etherpad
- Create a EP web-config interface -- easier to deploy EP
- Metric: EP does not require any modification of source files
- Metric: Number of connections, name, colors can be configured via web-admin interface
- Metric: EP does not require configuration at build time or installation
- Question: Can we configure port / domain via web. Should we bother?
- Document EP
- Build better(/more complete) test system for EtherPad
- A breakdown of what steps are needed to accomplish each of these goals, what skills are needed to take on each of these tasks, and what resources can be used to learn those skills. See #Task list.
- "Who do I get in contact with if I'm not sure what to do next to contribute during the FAD?" - see #Help desk.
Learning: how can you gain the abilities you need to contribute?
- "I've never done this open source thing before. what's going on?" - See #Intro to FOSS contribution tutorial
- Skill category breakdowns, and learning resources and a mentor for each. Scheduled intro sessions and a way for each group to keep in touch during the FAD. Things I can think of:
- Packaging for Fedora
- Infrastructure/deployment within Fedora
- Testing, including infrastructure setup for QA
- Development, including code documentation and cleanup
- Release management practices and tools (ticket trackers, mailing lists, milestones and release schedules, etc.)
- FAD wrangling and event documentation
Remember: the purpose of the FAD is to complete the FAD's goals. All the learning that happens during the FAD should directly apply to making people better able to achieve the goals of the FAD - it's not a Barcamp (although if there's interest, it wouldn't be a bad thing to schedule one for later and redirect people to planning/teaching what they're interested in at that!)
Intro to FOSS contribution tutorial
Desired result: any interested newcomer who may not have prior exposure to open source contribution should be able to attend this session and then jump into the remainder of the FAD as a full contributor; they won't know all the skills they need to do everything, but they will know how the activities in this FAD fit into the big picture of Fedora and FOSS contribution, what things they can learn and help with immediately, how to communicate their questions to the community remotely and be self-starting in getting the knowledge they need to contribute, and how to report their status and progress to the rest of the FAD community (including remote attendees).
There are going to be a lot of new people at this FAD. We must find a way for all of them to be able to get the context they need to contribute. Especially if professors want to get involved, my thought would be ask them to teach an intro "how software engineering works" session for those who've never contributed to FOSS before. Topics like:
- what's open source
- what's Linux/Fedora
- what's packaging
- what's version control
- Using SVN (as a starter)
- How to use SVN mastery to learn Git
- what's the software development lifecycle (release cycles, the role of QA, etc)
- What are patches and diffs and how do I use them
- How do changes get pulled into Open Source projects
- What is this forking business
All rolled into maybe a 2-hour intro session at the start of the FAD - whatever they think people new to distributed software development ought to know, directly aimed at "how can we make you useful for the FAD as fast as possible?" rather than an isolated academic overview.
If professors can't teach this, get a Fedora person to do it - possibly remotely, via Fedora Classroom or some sort of video chat.
Colin comments:
- 2 hours seems too long, unless we plan to run then through an activity that will require a good deal of work (or checkins, pushing, branching, etc).
- Would be great to run them through the OpenHatch training missions: https://openhatch.org/missions/
- Still need to get them covered in terms of IRC and Git
- Kevin is doing it (yay!)
- Allen Downey will run around and help people
Task list
Thus far
- Assess libraries added / removed from GitHub version
- Assess difference between Rhino v1, v2 in regards to yuicompressor
- Progress checkins every 90min of hacking
- Have a discussion about some of the issues
- See if GitHub version libs can be packaged or if features can be removed
Mel's Notes on
Desired result: At any given point in time during the FAD, a remote person who hasn't been following the FAD should be able to look at one location and get an immediate answer to the questions "how far along are we to reaching the goals of this FAD, what remains to be done, and how can I get started helping right away?" (If it works for remote people with no prior context, it'll work for in-person attendees who are there for the whole weekend.)
Constraints: This must be one canonical, central location for the event so that work doesn't get scattered and it's easier to keep track of who's oing what. Because this is Fedora, it must use free and open source software. It is preferable, but not required, to use Fedora infrastructure for this (fedorahosted, etc.) because it will be easier for the Fedora community to set you up with resources beforehand that way.
Encourage autonomy; people can and will modify and spin off new tasks of their own, but make sure it all comes back here so you can keep track of it. The trick to running a large distributed event is to distribute the work and the management, but centralize the communication.
Another thing that is optional but extremely helpful: a way to mark tasks
- by team ("this task is packaging, this task is development, etc")
- by skillset needed
- by level (mark tasks that are good for beginners, vs tasks that need experienced folks to do)
For instance, some sample QA tasks (Mel used to want to take these, but can't any more since she'll be in Cape Town):
- Ticket tracker setup (move this to fedorahosted.org?)
- Collect all existing bugs/enhancement requests and get them written and triaged properly
- Test case/results system implementation
- Write and execute first round of test cases, starting with a smoke test, then moving to focus on scaleability, cross-platform/browser testing
- QA infrastructure experimentation (probably looking at Mozilla's tools for starters)
Colin Comments: This is a great. Totally what we need before the FAD... but we were going to do planning on Oct 2nd with the Euro EPaders. We can come up with general tasks beforehand, but drilling down (particularly technical) will require help on the 2nd.
Help desk
I strongly recommend using the #fedora-fad IRC channel for this, as it's the means of communication the Fedora community is used to and therefore the one you'll have the easiest time getting experienced Fedora contributors (who, at this point, are the people you need more of) involved in your FAD with.
Desired result: At any given point in time, if anyone - remote or in-person, is lost and doesn't know what to do to contribute, there should be one place they can go to reach someone on call (make shifts, make sure people take them) who will get them back on the right track."
One way to do this is to assign shifts to a "help desk," a person whose job is to:
- Sit in a given physical location at the FAD so in-person attendees can reach them, and guide them through finding something to do in the #Task list and going to get the mentorship/learning resources they need to be able to accomplish it.
- Sit on #fedora-fad and do the same for remote attendees
- Taking note of and marking attendee progress on the online task list, especially when you help someone start doing something
- Walk around periodically and ask teams for updates on their progress, then upload them - a check-in / status-sync every hour, on the hour, may be a good time period to set.
This doesn't take any specific technical skills, just the ability to use IRC. It does take project management skills; these are people who can keep track of the activity going on and point people towards easy tasks and mentors. These people also need to rapidly become accustomed to and shameless about asking people in the Fedora community for help.
Mel Chua is willing to run a helpdesk shift training session in the week before the event. It will take 90 minutes and require someone onsite to help attendees set up IRC and get online at the beginning (because that's how I'm going to be teaching it - I am allotting 30 minutes for that setup, and 1 hour for the actual class).
It may help to make parallel shifts for experienced, remote Fedora contributors to be on IRC so they can help the on-site helpdesk person tap the resources of the Fedora community.
It may also be useful to ask satellite teams (such as the one in the UK) for instructions on how to reach them immediately at any given point in time. For instance, a team may give you something like this:
- 3pm-5pm - ping djones on IRC; webcam available if needed for calls
- 5pm-7pm - we'll be unreachable and out for dinner
- 7pm-9pm - ping msmith on IRC
- 9pm-11pm - ping blee on IRC; all our developers will have gone home by 10pm so we'll only be able to help with docs and odd jobs
- past 11pm - not sure who'll be here, catch up with blee before 11 to find out the situation
Help Desk Hours
- Friday
- 5:20-7pm - YOUR NAME HERE
- 7pm-9pm - Dinner!
- 9pm-10pm - YOUR NAME HERE
- 11pm-early - YOUR NAME HERE
- This session is splitable
- Saturday
- 11am-1:30pm - YOUR NAME HERE
- 1:30pm-3:30pm - Lunch!
- 3:30pm-7pm - YOUR NAME HERE
- This session is splitable
- 7pm-9pm - Dinner!
- 11pm-early - YOUR NAME HERE
- This session is splitable
Colin Comments:
Again awesome. Re: training. Absolutely! Lets get people trained (I'd get trained). (Elena offered to help. Atkinson?) Re: Outside associates. We should identify useful Fedora people to ping and list where and when to find them
- Pre-FAD
- $0
- Food:
- Friday, Sweet Tomatoes Pizza - $15 / reg attendee ~$120
- Saturday, Masala Art Buffet (the discussion meal) - $14 / reg attendee ~$250
- Saturday, Communal Chinese Dinner - $150 total
- Drinks / Snacks
- $20 /night =$40
- Food:
Food total: $560
Contributor | Type | Dept | Arrv | Dept | Arrv | Cost | Final Cost |
Jon Stanley | Amtrak | Oct 8 ~6pm - NYC (Penn station) | Oct 8 - Route 128 Station (RTE) | Oct 10 ~9am - Olin | Oct 10 - NYC (Penn station) | $180 USD | $? USD + (undermined gas and wear for train <-> Olin transport) |
Contributor | Location | Check-in | Check-out | Cost | Final Cost |
Jon Stanley | BECC (~at olin) | Oct 8 | Oct 10 | $350 USD | 0 (Admissions room) |
Actual Cost
- Snacks part 1: $21(-ish need DJ input)
- Snacks part 2: $29.05
- Friday Night dinner: $55
- Saturday night dinner: $71.63
- Saturday Brunch: $157.50
- Jon's train ticket: $110 (need ticket change costs)
Roughly $444.18
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Watermelon Oreos Will Make Summer Even Sweeter
Is there anything more delicious than Oreos?
We will soon find out.
Nabisco has decided to unleash Watermelon Oreos onto the public for a limited time. The cookies are yellow on the outside with a creamy pink-and-green center to give you the feeling of eating watermelon, without the hassle of spitting out any seeds.
You can only find the cookies at Target, where they run about $3 per box.
Oreos have a long history of experimental flavors, including strawberry milkshake, gingerbread, lemon twist, birthday cake and candy corn. So, when's the bacon flavor coming?
If you're not sure you want to give the watermelon flavor a try, check out the review below to help you decide.


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Happy Puzzle Day, folks! Here's today's casse-tête:
Premise: Five centuries ago, in a small town in the south of France, an infant was born to a grain dealer and his wife. From these modest beginnings, the infant grew into a boy, the boy into a man. That man would go on to author The Prophecies, a collection of over a thousand predictions divided into three volumes that today stand as the most widely renown works of their kind ever written. They have been credited by many as foretelling some of the most epic events in history, including the Great Fire of London, the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, and both World Wars. The visionary of whom I speak is, of course, none other than Nostradamus.
Fast forward to last week at a rest stop off the New Jersey Turnpike. Upon reviewing the snack options offered by the stop's lone vending machine, I decided upon an inviting bag of Ranch-flavored Corn Nuts. As I fished through my pocket for some coins, a quarter escaped my grasp, and I ruefully watched as it dropped to the pavement and rolled under the machine. Reluctantly, I knelt down, rolled up my sleeve, and tentatively swept my hand under the machine, hoping it would quickly be met by the cold touch of metal.
To my surprise, my hand instead came across a weathered piece of paper. Curious, I picked up the document and looked it over, and despite its brevity (only one page), it soon became clear that I had stumbled upon Nostradamus' oft-rumored-but-never-located fourth volume of prophecies.
"Are you effin' kidding me?" I thought to myself. "Nostradamus' lost Prophecy right here in my hands?!?" Comprehending the magnitude of my discovery, I went straight to Kinko's to make photocopies. I also had the prophecy scanned to an electronic file despite the hefty $2.49-per-page cost (can you say 'rip-off'?) because I figured come-on, this is Nostra-freakin'-damus we're talking about. And hey, it was only one page.
So here, dear readers, is today's off-day puzzle, courtesy of the Great Nostradamus, with an assist from Kinko's:
Question: To whom is Nostradamus referring when he writes of 'the Being' (and why)?
Puzzle Rules: Comment freely, but if you have the solution, please don't give away the answer to everyone in the comments section. Instead, do the following:
- Email us your solution explanation (and please include your screen name somewhere in the email), and
- Post a comment simply saying you have emailed your solution attempt so I know to check our email.
And remember, the correct solution and the correct methodology must be submitted to receive full credit. Solutions arrived at through luck or incorrect methodology, even if correct, receive participation credit only. Deadline is midnight PT, and the solution will be posted sometime tomorrow. Thanks, and good luck to all!
Bonus! In addition to the prizes we're awarding to the Puzzle Championship Series, we're also giving away a participation prize for this individual puzzle. Here's how it works: All solution attempts submitted via email before the deadline - correct or not - will be entered into a pool*. From this pool, one name will be randomly selected in a manner both objective and transparent to be revealed later. As long as the person drawn is willing to send us his/her mailing address, they will receive a wonderful Dodger-related prize item.
*each name is entered only once, regardless of the number of solution attempts submitted
Hint #1 (9:08am PT): The prophecy is indeed solvable, and less open to subjective interpretation than most of Nostradamus' prophecies. The Being is indeed a Dodger, and keep in mind I created this puzzle approximately 2 months ago. Er, I mean Nostradamus did 500 years ago. You know what I mean. I hope.
Hint #2 (10:00am PT): Every line of the prophecy has some significance, although some are more important than others. There are several critical clues hidden throughout. If you locate them, put them together, and interpret them correctly, you will be 100% certain that you have the indisputably correct solution.
Hint #3 (10:51am PT): You won't need baseball-reference.com for this one. Stats or teams played on are irrelevant. As mentioned in the comments, someone who knows little about baseball could conceivably solve the puzzle, but it would be somewhat easier if he/she knew a bit about baseball/the Dodgers. And although every line has some level of importance, there is at least one major hint in each stanza.
Hint #4 (12:05pm PT): Don't try to necessarily match the literal meaning of the prophecy's words to the history or characteristics of a particular player - the solution is somewhat more abstract, but at the same the answer will be spelled out in no uncertain terms once you understand the prophecy.
Hint #5 (1:35pm PT): If I were to categorize each of the 12 lines of the prophecy as either more important ("A") or less important ("B"), they would go: B, A, B, A; B, A, B, A; B, A, A, B.
Warning (Not a Hint) (1:36pm PT): The solution, which will be posted tomorrow, is not for the faint of heart or easily frightened.
Hint #6 (2:00pm PT): Only the names of the players are relevant, nothing else about them matters.
Hint #7 (3:36pm PT): North = up, south = down, east = right, west = left. that may seem obvious, but it's important.
Hint #8 (5:57pm PT): When Orel wrote me an email saying "I'm rewriting it in MS Word," I suspected he was on the right track (although he hasn't yet solved it). How would that help, you ask? It's all in the Prophecy. Nostradamus was a deep if subtle guy.
Last Hint #9 (7:37pm PT): Here's an earlier draft that I, er, Nostradamus wrote. He ended up revising it at the urging of his editors after a series of consumer focus groups suggested it was not cryptic enough and could thus compromise his image:
Ok, I'm going to sleep now. Good night, and good luck!
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Our farmer's markets are flooded with legumes this week. There are bins of snow, snap and English peas just waiting for the taking. I'd love to believe they are field fresh and locally grown, but I suspect they've been shipped from a neighboring state. I guess that's local enough to prevent a guilty conscience on my part, but the locovore in me wishes they were truly home grown. The snow peas looked wonderful and the few I tested were stringless, so there was no doubt about which peas were coming home with me. I love to stir fry vegetables, especially at this time of year. The rapid tossing and high heat, assure the vegetables will be crisp tender and offer perfect resistance to the tooth. I like to finish certain of the vegetables with a light coating of an Asian-style sauce. The sauce used in this recipe is really interesting and I think those of you who try it, will enjoy it. There is, however, a caveat. The sauce coats the peas in an unappetizing shade of brown. The peas you see in the picture above were wiped clean for the photograph. If you saw them fully dressed you'd run for the hills and think that I had come undone. While they'll win no beauty contests, I can assure you the peas are delicious and appear regularly on my table. If you can look past the unfortunate color, I think you'll really enjoy them. Here's the recipe.
Stir Fried Snow Peas...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite inspired by Taste of Home Magazine
1 pound fresh snow or sugar snap peas
2 teaspoons canola oil
1 garlic clove, minced
2 teaspoons minced fresh ginger
1-1/2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
1-1/2 teaspoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 teaspoon sesame oil
Dash cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon minced fresh basil or 1 teaspoon dried basil
2 teaspoons sesame seeds, toasted
In a large nonstick skillet or wok, saute the peas in canola oil until crisp-tender. Add the garlic, ginger, vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil and cayenne; saute 1 minute longer. Add basil; toss to combine. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Yield: 6 servings.
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