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Lautenberg repeatedly defended Amtrak throughout his Senate career, often playing a leading role during the 1980s as several attempts were made to eliminate any federal appropriations funding for Amtrak. He also routinely and staunchly supported public transit expansion and funding.
Nor was his work on rail limited to passenger matters. In a statement Monday, Association of American Railroads President Edward R. Hamberger praised Lautenberg as "a true leader on rail transportation issues on Capitol Hill," adding that Lautenberg "understood our nation's interdependent intermodal supply chain and how important it is to America's economy." Hamberger noted Lautenberg "supported legislative and regulatory initiatives that ensure private freight rail investments continue to help spur rail-intermodal growth, taking trucks off our nation's already overburdened highways and lowering the nation's greenhouse gas emissions."
Lautenberg retired from the Senate in 2001, but returned to the Senate in 2003 following a scandal involving Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) in 2002 that prompted Torricelli to withdraw from seeking re-election to his Senate seat. In an odd twist, Lautenberg's election in late 2002 made him New Jersey's junior U.S. Senator, behind Sen. Robert Menendez (D).
Prior to this return to the Senate, New Jersey Transit Corp. chose to honor Lautenberg by naming its Secaucus rail station on the Northeast Corridor after him. The station serves almost every NJT rail line in northern New Jersey, acting as a major transfer hub.
In recent years, Lautenberg frustrated New Jersey rail advocates questioning the wisdom of Access to the Region's Core (ARC), a plan advanced to NJ Transit to build a six-mile, stub-end railroad line parallel to Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (NEC) , but separate from it, to increase rail capacity under the Hudson River.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie scuttled the ARC plan in the fall of 2010, but Lautenberg then helped introduce Amtrak's current plan to increase NEC capacity under the Hudson River in February 2011. Last week Lautenberg was one of a trio of officials announcing funding for a key component of the Gateway proposal.
Lautenberg, a World War II veteran, was chairman and CEO of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. before entering politics.


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zerozero wrote:oboedad55 wrote:BTW, virtual desktops seem to be MIA.
step one:
- open systemsettings > workspace behaviour > virtual desktops: set the number of desktops you want, enable (or not) the different widgets for each desktop (this will allow you to have different plasmoids and wallpapers in every virtual desktop and give them a name (or not)
step two:
- right click the panel > unlock widgets
- far right of the panel (the cashiew) > click it > add widgets > in the search-box type pager > drag it to whenever you like to (just be careful here because the panel is in edit mode)
- when finished right-click the cashiew and lock widgets again.
Thanks, I couldn't remember the name of the widget. Usually it is enabled by default.

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THE last time Peter Nevill spent an extended period in Melbourne was mid-2008, when he predicted – correctly in retrospect – the emergence of a 20-year-old rival named Matthew Wade would thwart his ambition to be Victoria's No. 1 wicketkeeper.
Four-and-a-half years on, Wade is still above Melbourne Renegades gloveman Nevill in the pecking order. Yet as the setting for that competition has switched from the Victorian team to the Test team, the 27-year-old, now entrenched in the New South Wales team, is well entitled to feel content with the trajectory of his career. It peaked in April with a call-up for the Test tour of the West Indies.
Before the 2007-08 season, Bushrangers coach Greg Shipperd said there was a genuine three-way battle for their Sheffield Shield and one-day wicketkeeping berths between Nevill, Wade and Adam Crosthwaite. While Nevill's club form with the bat had been prolific, he nevertheless finished third in season one of that three-way wicketkeeping battle – Wade claimed the shield berth, Crosthwaite the limited-overs matches – and saw the "writing on the wall that there wasn't going to be any opportunity".
Fortuitously, his desire for a new start coincided with NSW stalwart Brad Haddin succeeding Adam Gilchrist as Test gloveman.
"When 'Hadds' got picked to play for Australia there was only Dan Smith on NSW's books as a wicketkeeper so they got on the phone and were eager for me to come up and join the squad, so it was an opportunity I was always going to jump at," he said.
Nevill spent his first season and a half at the Blues as Smith's understudy. Quality of glove work was never a hindrance for Nevill – he is renowned as one of Australia's elite – but it was his form with the bat in early 2010 that sealed his position.
The elegant right-hander made 50 in his first innings and 105 in his second. From there his batting form blossomed, to the extent he reached 1000 shield runs in just his 29th innings. Among wicketkeepers, only Queensland's Leo O'Connor and Tasmania's Roger Woolley trumped him for speed to that milestone.
"It did come as a surprise, I wasn't aware of that at all," Nevill said of that feat. "It's always pretty gratifying to get a bit of recognition, no matter what you're doing in life. It has been pretty pleasing but it's not something I dwell on for very long."
Nevill's silky glovework, combined with his robust batting, persuaded national selectors to call him up as Wade's deputy for the West Indies tour this year after his NSW teammate Haddin was forced to withdraw because of a family crisis.
"It's nice to know you're on the radar [for Test selection] but obviously with Brad's situation . . . knowing that he was coming home for personal and family reasons, it made it quite sombre. It was certainly mixed emotion."
Despite not playing a Test he said he got a lot of benefit from the tour, as in exposure to the commitment required to reach the highest level.
Had it not been for Nevill's fine batting he could have been a casualty of Wade's elevation to first-choice national-team wicketkeeper as it relegated Haddin to NSW custodian. Nevertheless, both have seamlessly played in the same team all season, albeit with national selectors directing Haddin to take the gloves.
The only format where the two glovemen have not been able to co-exist, and Nevill has been the official understudy, has been in Twenty20. It was therefore no surprise that Nevill could be enticed to leave the Sydney Sixers, the reigning BBL and Champions League winner.
The Renegades' season-one gloveman, veteran Graham Manou, was arguably the most impressive of the competition behind the stumps but, by modern wicketkeeper-batsman standards, offered little with the bat.
In four-day matches, Nevill has earned attention for weight of runs. In limited-overs his lack of top-order action has meant the right-hander is renowned less for the runs he scores as for how he scores them.
Renegades coach Simon Helmot described him as a player who "hits 360 degrees with the bat". Practically, that is in reference to his ability to deftly spoon deliveries over the head of opposing wicketkeepers, typically referred to as lap shots.
"I remember seeing on TV Ryan Campbell do it for Australia A, playing against Sri Lanka. In my first year of under-19s I did it in a game up in Brisbane, and then while playing second XI for NSW we had a warm-up game against South Australia's first team in Twenty20 and I was foolish enough to try and do it off Shaun Tait. I think I got it for four but it came off the toe and my teammates have ribbed me ever since that I nearly got killed," Nevill said. "It can force a captain to change his field, which can open up an opportunity somewhere else in the field to score a boundary. I think you're finding those shots are becoming a lot more mainstream."
After electing to leave the Sixers, the likelihood of him enjoying his stint at the Renegades, who almost entirely replaced their squad after the first season, was the fact he was followed by his NSW and Sixers "partner in crime" Ben Rohrer, who has already proven to be one of the BBL's best recruits. And so far the Renegades have won all three matches, more than they won in all of last season.
"It's fantastic. It's a very fresh group . . . and what's been so impressive is the way the team's jelled," Nevill said. "Only having a few days to come together, the sense of unity and team is [palpable]. It's amazing how fast it's happened. It's a testament to all the people around the group and the players themselves."
Jesse Hogan has been a reporter at The Age since 2004, and has been part of its sports department since 2008. He is primarily focused on cricket and has covered a number of the Australian team's overseas tours, including the 2011 World Cup. He also reports on AFL and soccer.
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The owners of Denby Pottery have put the firm up for sale despite a 'strong performance' last year.
Denby Holdings Group is being sold by Hilco Capital after several companies offered to buy the firm despite it not being on the market.
Paul McGowan, chief executive of Hilco Capital said: "Following a strong performance in 2013, particularly in key export markets, we have received a number of unsolicited approaches from trade buyers seeking to purchase the business.
"As a result of this interest, we have thought it appropriate to appoint advisors to run a formal sale process.
"We have been very happy with the progress of the Denby group to date and we recognise that a major international player may be able to further expand the Denby businesses faster than we can achieve."
Hilco has appointed Canaccord Genuity, am independent financial services firm, to pursue possible sale options.
In the sale announcement, the venture capital company said total sales of the 'Denby' branded product reached £44 million in 2013, an increase of ten per cent on the previous year.
A dispute between the Unity union and Denby saw a series of strikes last year which was settled by a vote in September. Factory workers took part in the action because they were offered little or in some cases no pay rise for five years, despite being asked to hit strict targets. The firm said tough trading conditions led to the pay freeze.


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Pelfrey delivers longest spring outing in Twins loss
By Rhett Bollinger / MLB.com
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Cardinals rallied for three runs in the ninth Monday, erasing a short-lived Twins lead en route to a 4-3 win at Hammond Stadium.
Daniel Descalso and Shane Robinson started the ninth inning with consecutive singles against left-hander Jason Lane before Matt Adams drove them both in with a single to tie the game at 3.
Oscar Taveras followed with a single -- part of a 4-for-5 day -- before pinch-hitter Adam Melker loaded the bases with a bloop single into left. Adron Chambers drove in Adams with a sacrifice fly for the decisive run.
The Twins took a lead in the seventh, which Trevor Plouffe led off with a single before Eduardo Escobar came through with a double. Cardinals right-hander Joe Kelly then allowed Nathan Hanson, pinch-running for Plouffe, to score on a wild pitch before Darin Mastroianni drove in Escobar with a sacrifice fly.
Two of the Twins' runs came via wild pitches, as Cardinals right-hander Shelby Miller threw one in the dirt in the first inning, sending Jamey Carroll home and tying the score at 1.
Miller, competing with Kelly for the final spot in the Cardinals' rotation, allowed runners to reach base in all but one of his innings before exiting with a man on second and one out in the fifth.
He limited the damage to Carroll's run, though, scattering six hits and two walks over 4 1/3 innings. Kelly allowed two runs in two innings on two hits and a walk.
The Cardinals got on the board first with a run in the opening frame against Twins right-hander Mike Pelfrey. Shane Robinson reached on a single before scoring on a two-out double from Adams.
But it was the lone blemish for Pelfrey, who turned in his best and longest outing of the spring. Pelfrey, who had Tommy John surgery on May 1, gave up one run on five hits and a walk over five innings. He also struck out four.
Up next: Right-hander Liam Hendriks is set to start for the Twins in a 1:05 p.m. ET game on Tuesday against the Orioles at Hammond Stadium. Hendriks is battling for a spot in the rotation and saw his chances improve Monday, when the Twins trimmed their roster by four players, leaving just 27 healthy players in camp. Right-hander Kevin Gausman is scheduled to take the mound for the Orioles.
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Be prepared for several college football rule changes this season that will cause confusion among the fans and controversy between players and coaches, officials and the replay booth. They were all made with the hope of enhancing player safety.
The biggest changes are to further protect players from getting hit in a "defenseless position." Clearly, the rule tweak that will be most apparent is when a receiver goes airborne to catch a pass. Beginning this season, the receiver must be allowed to come down and make a "football move" before he can be hit or tackled. No more intentional or unintentional mid-air collisions caused by defenders without a flag being thrown and a player being thrown out.
That might produce more skilled cornerbacks and safeties, but could also create more pass interference calls. Pass defenders will have to cover receivers more closely and go up when they go up instead of getting there a step late and nailing the receiver before he comes down with the ball. But tighter coverage could also mean more interference flags.
And hitting anyone, whether in the air or on the ground, head first will be heavily enforced this season, according to ACC Supervisor of Football Officials Doug Rhoads. "You cannot lower your head and hit a player with the crown of your helmet anywhere," explains Rhoads. "The one clear rule we give our officials is 'When in question, it's a foul.' That's the way we look at all calls and will definitely look at the defenseless player and initiating contact with the crown of the helmet calls."
These calls are more punitive in 2013. They carry an automatic 15-yard penalty and ejection from the game. Before, flagrant fouls were much more in the eyes of the referees. But the ejections are reviewable through either a coaching challenge or from the replay booth. If what was first called as "spearing" is shown to be, say, shoulder-first contact, the ejected player can return to the game.
However, the 15-yard penalty stands because, according to the rules, penalties are not reviewable. Go figure. So if a player is thrown out for committing a flagrant foul, and the replay shows he did not do it, the player can come back — while the penalty stands even though it was really no infraction.
An ejection will also carry over if a player is thrown out in the second half. He then must sit out the first half of the next game. Best to get ejected in the last minute of the first half with your team leading by three touchdowns!
Larry Fedora said at his season-opening press conference Friday that he believes "every coach out there" is concerned about the rule changes and, "if they're not they will be when one of their players gets ejected."
Fedora insisted he is a strong proponent of increasing safety in football, but "we're putting a lot on the officials when it's a bang-bang type of moment."
"Look, we have big, strong and fast guys running into each other at full speed," he added. "You can't take injuries out of the game. There's a fine line between taking aggressiveness away from a player and enhancing the chances of him getting injured."
The Tar Heels have made it part of their preseason training camp heading into Thursday night's opener at South Carolina on ESPN. Fedora said the team has watched video, the coaches have talked to officials and they have even had the zebras come in and talk to the team. And Fedora's staff is actually coaching how to tackle differently than in the past.
One danger, Fedora says, of "lowering the target area" to avoid helmet-to-helmet hits is that increases the possibility of more blown-out knees, "and those are devastating, career-threatening" injuries, he said.
So is the college game willing to trade more hits that will knock players out indefinitely for preventing more long-term debilitating head and neck injuries? Seems that way, especially with all of the studies and new information coming out on concussions from the NFL to right here at UNC.
Oh, there is another rule change that would have reversed the monstrous hit by 6-foot-7 South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney on Michigan running back Vincent Smith last season, which may have broken a record for YouTube views. Smith did not have full possession of the ball when Clowney blasted him in the backfield and Smith's helmet (which he had not buckled, by the way) went flying.
This season, that's a 15-yard penalty and Clowney is watching the rest of the game from the sideline instead of becoming an ESPN cult hero.
In the past, it seems that running backs have been "blown up" regularly by hard-charging defenders whether they were blockers or ball carriers receiving hand-offs. Now, the ball has to be fully tucked away before a defender can lower the boom. Good luck calling that one.
"I don't know how this is all going to work out," Fedora said. "It's a big judgment call."


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Upton, Kennedy garner top MLB.com honors
Infielder Roberts selected as Breakout Player of the Year
By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com
So far, the D-backs have brought home some individual hardware, and more is on the way.
In selecting its individual awards for the D-backs this week, MLB.com named Justin Upton Player of the Year, Ian Kennedy Pitcher of the Year and third baseman Ryan Roberts Breakout Player of the Year.
Upton, 24, earned his second All-Star appearance in 2011, hitting .289 with 39 doubles, 31 homers and 88 RBIs while playing in a career-high 159 games.
Kennedy put together a 21-4 record with a 2.88 ERA in 33 starts, establishing himself as the ace of the Arizona staff.
The 26-year-old came up big in key games, as he compiled a 10-0 record against National League West opponents.
Roberts, meanwhile, nearly did not make the club out of Spring Training despite leading all of baseball with a .519 batting average and a .609 on-base percentage. Only a knee injury to Geoff Blum cleared the way for him to make the roster.
Roberts made the most of the opportunity, hitting .249 with 19 homers and 65 RBIs.
So far this winter, Gibson has already been named The Sporting News National League Manager of the Year, and he figures to win the same award from the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
In his first full season as manager, Gibson led the D-backs to a 94-68 record and the 2011 NL West title. That came on the heels of back-to-back last place finishes from the D-backs, who lost 97 games in 2010.
Upton and right-hander Daniel Hudson recently captured Silver Slugger Awards presented by Louisville Slugger, while left fielder Gerardo Parra received his first career Rawlings Gold Glove Award.
Hudson led all Major League pitchers in hitting with a .277 average. He stroked three doubles and a homer, drove in 14 runs and was especially tough with runners in scoring position, hitting .389. He became the second D-backs pitcher to win the award, joining Micah Owings in 2007.
Upton was also named to The Sporting News All-Star Team.
The local chapter of the BBWAA chose Upton as the team's MVP, while Kennedy was named Most Valuable Pitcher. The other award winners were Josh Collmenter (Rookie of the Year) and Miguel Montero (Good Guy Award).
While Kennedy and Upton had outstanding years, they will likely come up short in a pair of national BBWAA awards.
Kennedy will likely finish behind Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw and possibly the Phillies' Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay in the NL Cy Young Award voting.
The same fate will likely befall Upton in the race for Most Valuable Player. He faces stiff competition in the race from the Brewers duo of Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder, as well as Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp.
In awards handed out by the team, slugging first baseman Paul Goldschmidt was named Organizational Player of the Year, while left-hander Tyler Skaggs garnered the Organizational Pitcher of the Year honor.
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @dbackswriter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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text: I have been saving my BMW/MOA News for about 7 years, but my apartment was gutted by fire last week. My '84 R/65 airhead survived in part and I am trying to figure out what to do about it. Those aforementioned Magazines by the MOA had an article about a mechanic that lives out in the countryside in upstate New York. My magazines have all burned, so can anyone help me find this mechanic? The article had some pictures of his semi-trailer boxes that were permanently moored on his property and had many parts for all ages of airheads. This homestead/garage was located in the Adirondacks, or maybe the Catskills(...OR-?). I am about to fly back to Brooklyn (I was away attending a family funeral!) to sift through the ashes and try to recover some of my belongings. This is the one guy I think I'd like to have work on this bike while I am at work at moving to a new home in Washington State.. I will be in the Brooklyn area from about April 13, to April 19th. I will be hotel-bound, and my computer is also "toast", so once in Brooklyn I will have very limited internet access. So, if you can offer clues to finding this mechanic - OR if you have an idea about this predicament would you please let me know by PHONE? My number is (347)232-7190.


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A new battlefield
Fr Eugene Sheehy with Hanna and Francis Sheehy Skeffington in August 1912.
The outbreak of war in August 1914 had serious repercussions for the women's movement worldwide. Throughout Europe, feminist groups espousing pacifism quickly lost members, especially in countries supporting the war effort.
In 1913 three Irish women attended the seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in Budapest: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington of the Irish Women's Franchise League (IWFL), Louie Bennett of the Irish Women's Suffrage Federation (IWSF), and Lady Margaret Dockrell of the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association (IWSLGA).
While these societies remained in existence during and after the conflict, there was no unified stance on the war. Suffragists with strong English/unionist connections abandoned or postponed suffrage work, turning to war relief work. Jingoistic references in IWSLGA reports suggesting that "women are helping to save our empire" offended both feminist and nationalist women. An emergency council of suffragists, formed in August 1914 to allow them to engage in remedial work, was firmly opposed by the IWFL, which commented: "The European war has done nothing to alter our condition of slavery". An early decision by the IWSF to support the emergency council was reversed early in 1915, Bennett writing in The Irish Citizen: "Women should never have abandoned their struggle for justice, war or no war". The Irish Citizen made its anti-war stance clear from the beginning of the war with its poster: "Votes for Women Now! Damn your War".
Initial differences within Irish suffrage societies reflected pro- and anti-war views, either on loyalist or feminist grounds. Hanna's husband Frank Sheehy Skeffington and Louie Bennett were among the leading pacifist voices during this period. The former continuously published anti-war articles in The Irish Citizen arguing that war was "necessarily bound up with the destruction of feminism; feminism is necessarily bound up with the abolition of war". Bennett argued that suffragists "of every country must face the fact that militarism is now the most dangerous foe of women's suffrage".
After the cancellation of the 1915 IWSA congress, a Women's Peace Party was formed in the US in January 1915, followed by plans for a women's peace conference at The Hague in April 1915. At a conference to discuss possible Irish participation, fears were expressed that this might imply disloyalty to those fighting at the front. Similar sentiments were expressed throughout Europe. The British press derided intending participants as "pro-Hun peacettes" going to "pow-wow with the fraus".
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington wrote that the IWFL planned to attend the conference, as it regarded war as the negation of the feminist movement. Early in 1915 she wrote to Thomas Haslam that every war was regarded by the countries engaged in it as a sacred and holy war, arguing: "Women must rid their minds of such cant". Bennett was the only one of seven Irish delegates granted a travel permit, but could not attend due to an Admiralty ban on travel.
It was at this point that international feminist pacifist ideals came into direct contact with burgeoning domestic militarism. A public meeting was held in Dublin in May 1915 to protest against this government action, with James Connolly and Thomas MacDonagh among the speakers. In a letter of support Pádraig Pearse declared that much good would be done if the incident aligned more women with the national forces. Bennett was troubled at the militarist tone of this meeting, writing that "militarism in the most subtly dangerous form has is hold upon Ireland". MacDonagh's address to the meeting was particularly controversial. Stating that, as one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, he had taught men to kill other men, he also declared himself an advocate of peace, because everyone was "being exploited by the dominant militarism".
In response, Francis Sheehy Skeffington enunciated clearly the view of pacifist feminism towards militarism: "High ideals undoubtedly animate you. But has not nearly every militarist system started with the same high ideals?" Shortly before the Easter Rising, he and Bennett took part in a public debate with Constance Markievicz on the motion 'Do we want peace now?' Of the 500 to 600 attending, only a handful supported Sheehy Skeffington's view. The murder of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington during the rising was a severe loss for pacifists. Bennett sought to uphold his ideals through her Irish Citizen writings and international work.
At the 1915 Hague Congress, the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (ICWPP) was formed. Bennett, initially included as part of the British branch, argued that "the peace movement in Ireland must be indigenous and independent to be in any sense successful". The Irish section took the name Irishwomen's International League (IIL), and was accepted as an independent organisation in December 1916.
At the second ICWPP Congress in May 1919, Ireland was represented for the first time, with Bennett its delegate. The ICWPP was renamed the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and its headquarters were moved to Geneva. An 'Appeal on Behalf of Ireland' issued to the Congress sought support for Ireland's "legitimate struggle for the rights of self-determination".
These were tempestuous times for a pacifist organisation. Writing to WILPF's international secretary in October 1920, Bennett noted "things are very difficult here and we are hard put to keep our little group together". Acceptance of the Anglo-Irish Treaty by Dáil Éireann and the ensuing Civil War posed difficulties for both the IIL and individual members trying to ally pacifist convictions with political commitment. Bennett told Geneva "the civil strife in the past few months has driven the larger majority of people into one or other political camp: both sides have raised objections to the attitude of the IIL". A meeting was held to consider Bennett's resolution that "membership of the Irish section is open to all who hold that, in resisting tyranny or striving for freedom, only such methods may be used as will not involve the taking of life". After heated discussion the resolution was lost by just one vote.
In July 1926 the fifth International Congress of WILPF was held in Dublin, attended by 150 delegates representing 20 countries. This was the first gathering of an international organisation held in the Irish Free State. A reception to mark its opening was attended by both Éamon de Valera and WT Cosgrave. This first public function attended by both leaders since the Civil War attracted much comment.
During the next four years further dissension developed within the IIL, with the election to its committee of some women with republican sympathies. In 1929 Bennett informed Geneva she believed a split was inevitable due to disagreement between the "really pacifist" group and those who believed the use of force "essential" to achieve national freedom.
A series of stormy meetings, allied to the clash between the strong personalities of Bennett and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, led ultimately to its demise in 1931. The issue of justifiable warfare was divisive in many national sections of WILPF up to and after the second World War. While condemning militarism in its imperialistic mode, some Irish women justified military action to attain national objectives. This the "really pacifist" members of Irish WILPF could not accept. It is ironic that the group foundered on differing emphases on the words "peace" and "freedom" in its title.


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Personal computing discussed
lonleyppl wrote:I did mean PowerMac sorry. I've since tried to have some sense talked into me and probably will not get one, but ohhhhh I want to.
LoneWolf15 wrote:lonleyppl wrote:I did mean PowerMac sorry. I've since tried to have some sense talked into me and probably will not get one, but ohhhhh I want to.
Don't, unless you're a hobbyist working with odd flavors of Linux. I say that as someone who still has a few dual G5's to look after.
OS X on PowerPC is a dead platform. Your final OS will be Leopard (10.5), two revs back, and app support is dying with it. While what they can run, they run well, you've got considerable limits. Replacement parts are also more costly than they're worth.
I like the dual G5's technologically, and performance-wise, but unless you can get one super-cheap though (by super-cheap, I mean $100 and under, though they're probably worth a tad more), I'd get something else just due to what you can't do with them, which is slowly increasing.
lonleyppl wrote:Well, that was one reason. It would be used mainly under Linux, though I really need to start learning the basics of OSX. I've seen quite a few in good cosmetic condition on eBay for less than $100. The main reason I want one is because they're they only way I'll buy an Apple product (used), I want a desktop again just because I want a desktop again, heat isn't an issue (and I'm not paying for electricity), it'd be only lightly used (or possibly not, depends on if I folded with it when not messing with Linux and OSX, playing Diablo II or document editing) and (main reason) because they're gorgeous. I absolutely love the aesthetics of the PowerMac/Mac Pro.
Lonewolf, I'd be happy to take one off of your hands for shipping + a nominal fee. I'm even only slightly joking (but only because I'm guessing you won't accept)!


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Already tried. Don't work here.
That was a fail paste, there is the closing bracket missing.
I edit my previous post.
referring to my previous post, I'd try with a Bash "if... else" conditional statement in the "spawnSync" function. Or not?
Escaping work.
"Else... if" in "spawnSync" don't.
Last edited by rix (2012-10-04 20:32:42)
I will not turn this thread into a javascript tutorial, you could parse stdout directly in javascript but if you want to do it in bash i would recommend to write a bash script and call that script with spawnSync, if you need some more hints, there is also an irc channel on freenode.
@ portix:
that wasn't my intention.
Thanks for your precious suggestions.
@ portix:portix wrote:
[...] I don't understand why you want this information in the statusbar of a webbrowser. [...]
Because I want a minimal system (also for the lack of memory).
For me, a minimal system also includes the idea of keeping it simple to configure and not patching up a program with hundreds of JS scripts just to show the time. That means a tmux statusbar is probably enough and when you've got another window open, just Ctrl+Tab¹ and you see today's date. Or you try tint2, a very good-looking and tiny panel. Integrates wonderfully with my tmux statusbar (and yes, it doubles some feature, but it saves me a lot of other trouble…)
Army: I tried bandcamp with cookies allowed for it… no avail. But as I said, this is probably just a codec/package issue then
¹ I meant Alt+Tab, sorry
Last edited by jakob (2012-10-04 22:24:05)
@ jakob:
you're quite right for me. "Quite" because in this case the patching wasn't so hard (thanks to portix) and everything here are working fine. And then it was just one Js for the entire status bar.
Also I don't get the "Ctrl+Tab" thing.
But we're already enough OT.
Thanks for your suggestions.
@ portix:
one Dwb related thing (not Js).
Is it possible some way to have a function that will make a search of the hilighted word in a search engine? In FireFox I used to select the word, right click for the menu, and do "Search with Google for [word]".
Last edited by rix (2012-10-04 21:34:29)
If you select text you can press pP, that will search for the text with your default searchengine. Or you can after selecting text with the left mouse button keep the left mouse button pressed and press the right mouse button, that will also search with your default searchengine.
Control+Tab just switches between the current and the last focused tab.
Can someone verify/help with link following on 4fuckr.com (imageboard, sometimes NSFW)? Pressing 'f' and then XY just reloads the page. ';i' doesn't help either, since they're using some "funky" JS trying to hide stuff.
Other than that, I must say I'm pretty much impressed, tried it yesterday (coming from luakit) and pretty much everything works ootb - except for the tiling, which unfortunately has been removed(I'm sometimes forced to use a webchat, thus having a small window always visible would have been nice).
Check your widget packing too.
Ah, that did it. Changing from Twds to twds produces the desired behaviour. Tanks.
@ portix:
thank so much.
About <^Tab> I think jakob was referring to Tmux.
I have been getting lots of failed SSL handshakes on https websites. Any idea what is causing this?
About <^Tab> I think jakob was referring to Tmux.
I wasn't exactly referring to tmux rather to your wm that probably has alt+tab functionality, but I mistyped it. Corrected my post.
Disable ssl-strict...
Other than that, I must say I'm pretty much impressed, tried it yesterday (coming from luakit) and pretty much everything works ootb - except for the tiling, which unfortunately has been removed(I'm sometimes forced to use a webchat, thus having a small window always visible would have been nice).
There's still some left, though; use xv to toggle visibility of a tab... Other than that, then just use two instances...
@ portix:
is it possible text selecting through keyboard?
It's only possible with the webkit builtin caret-browsing.
@ portix:
I've missed the option. Sorry.
Now I've found and enable it but I don't understand how does it work.
If you enable it you have a cursor on the web page, you can then navigate with cursor keys and mark text with shift. You don't have vi-like keybindings because it's a webkit builtin setting.
@ portix:
but I must do a click on the page first. Or am I wrong?
So it is click for start selecting text and Esc for start using vi-like keybindings again?
Last edited by rix (2012-10-05 20:37:32)
I don't know if anyone has reported this yet or not, but hint mode doesn't support voting on comments on Reddit. The arrows get hints, but typing the hints results in nothing happening.
@ portix:
but I must do a click on the page first. Or am I wrong?
So it is click for start selecting text and Esc for start using vi-like keybindings again?
I've also noticed that often Dwb crashes while browsing. If you need more infos (such is sure) let me know.
this isn't directly inherent to the thread but I've noticed that the "X: maximum number clients reached" issue is still there. Even with Dwb and without Firefox.
Last edited by rix (2012-10-08 20:14:12)
I was currently editing my band's homepage via CMS, when dwb crashed. Tried it again, dwb crashed again. Then I started dwb from a terminal. Here's the interesting lines
STACK: [value] [anonymous] [[native code]]
Received SIGSEGV, trying to clean up.
Last 6 stack frames:
6: dwb() [0x40d050]
5: dwb() [0x41fb05]
4: /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x35020) [0x7f901044f020]
3: /usr/lib/libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0.so.0(_ZNK3JSC7JSValue3getEPNS_9ExecStateERKNS_10IdentifierERNS_12PropertySlotE+0x31) [0x7f9010c3ed41]
2: /usr/lib/libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0.so.0(cti_op_get_by_id+0x5f) [0x7f9010c6d7af]
1: [0x7f8fc4ba7148]
[1] 5501 segmentation fault (core dumped) dwb
Maybe this helps. In the last few days dwb seemed to crash more often. Might be because right now I'm searching on sites which are crap, but maybe it's caused by something else.
edit: What I forgot to say: I didn't test it with other webkit browsers, so it might be (and I suspect it is) a pure webkit problem.
Last edited by Army (2012-10-09 17:07:20)
That seems to be a bug in the script-code, to confirm this you could disable all scripts and see if it still crashes. A backtrace would also be helpful.