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The average developer spends more time navigating, learning, and debugging configuration files than you'd expect. But you can save that time — and loads of energy and frustration — with one of the tools you probably use every day: your CVS tree. Take these tips on backing up, distributing, and making portable your peskiest Linux™ (and UNIX®) config files.
Working with configuration files can be a bewildering part of using Linux and computers in general. No standards exist, though several have been proposed. For example, Samba and rsync use INI-style configurations; passwd is in a decades-old colon-separated format that doesn't allow colons in any field; sudo comes with a visudo program to keep people from entering wrong information in the sudoers file; Emacs uses Lisp for configuration files. And the list goes on…
Now, I'm not complaining about the variety of configuration files. I understand the historical and practical reasons for this Configuration Tower of Babel. Changing the Samba configuration format, for instance, would annoy thousands upon thousands of administrators. In another example, Emacs' internal language is Lisp, a powerful high-level language, so using anything else for Emacs configuration files would be ridiculous.
No, my point is the effect all this variety has on the Linux user: a large portion of a Linux user's computer time is spent learning, writing, and debugging configuration files. Thus, it is useful to have a system in which these configuration files (1) are backed up automatically, (2) are distributed automatically, and (3) work on multiple flavors of UNIX and distributions of Linux. This article explains how to achieve the first two goals, and gets you started on the road to achieving the third one.
The Plan
We'll use CVS to hold the configuration files. Feel free to use any other versioning system. Subversion is gaining popularity quickly. The FSF has GNU tla (GNU arch), another nice versioning system. The essential features you need are provided by all those and many others, including the non-free ones like Rational® ClearCase®.
In my configuration scheme, each configuration file is in a single directory or in one of its subdirectories. The configuration files are be named uniquely, and the directories denote machines or platforms rather than location. Thus, the file name maps uniquely to a location in the filesystem. For example, passwd will always be used for /etc/passwd, while cshrc will be used for /home/tzz/.cshrc for user tzz.
For a few programs I use daily, I'll show how I handle multiple platforms with the help of my configuration system and changing the configuration files themselves.
All the examples I show use the C shell to set environment variables. Modifying them to use GNU bash or something else should not be terribly difficult.
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{mospagebreak title=Setting up CVS}
You probably already have CVS installed on your machine. If not, get it (see the Resources section) and install it. If you are using another versioning system, try to set up something similar to what I show below.
First of all, you need to create a CVS repository. I'll assume you have access to a machine that can be used as a CVS server through OpenSSH or Pserver CVS access (Pserver is the communication protocol for CVS; see Resources for more information). Then, you need to create a module called config, which I will use to hold the sample configuration files. Finally, you need to arrange a way to use your CVS repository remotely non-interactively, through OpenSSH, Pserver, or whatever is appropriate. This last point is highly dependent on your particular system administration skills, level of paranoia, and environment, so I can only point you to some information in the Resources. I will assume you have configured non-interactive (ssh-agent) logins through OpenSSH for the rest of this article.
Listing 1. Set up the CVS repository on a machine
# assume that /cvsroot is your repository's home
> setenv CVSROOT /cvsroot
# this will use $CVSROOT if no -d option is specified
> cvs init
# check that it worked
> ls /cvsroot
# you should see one directory called CVSROOT
Now that the repository is set up, you can continue using it remotely (you can do the steps below on the CVS server, too — just leave CVSROOT as in Listing 1).
Listing 2. Remotely add the config module to CVS
# user tzz, machine home.com, directory /cvsroot is the CVSROOT
> setenv CVSROOT firstname.lastname@example.com:/cvsroot
# use SSH as the transport
> setenv CVS_RSH ssh
# use a temporary directory for the module creation
> cd /tmp
> mkdir config
> cd config
# tzz is the "vendor name" and initial is the "release tag", they can
# be anything; the -m flag tells CVS not to ask us for a message
# if this fails due to SSH problems, see the Resources
> cvs import -m " config tzz initial
No conflicts created by this import
# now let's do a test checkout
> cd ~
> rm -rf /tmp/config
> cvs co config
cvs checkout: Updating config
# check everything is correct
> ls config
Now you have a copy of the config CVS module checked out in your home directory; we'll use that as our starting point. I'll use my user name tzz and home directory /home/tzz in this article, but, of course, you should use your own user name and directory as appropriate.
Let's create a single file. The CVS options file, cvsrc, seems appropriate since we'll be using CVS a lot more.
Listing 3. Create and add the cvsrc file
> cd ~/config
> echo "cvs -z3" > cvsrc
> echo "update -P -d" >> cvsrc
> cvs add cvsrc
# you really don't need log messages here
> cvs commit -m "
> ln -s ~/config/cvsrc ~/.cvsrc
From this point on, all your CVS options will live in ~/config/cvsrc, and you will update that file instead of ~/.cvsrc. The specific options you added tell CVS to retrieve directories when they don't exist, and to prune empty directories. This is usually what users want. For the remaining machines you want to set up this way, you need to check out the config module again and make the link again.
Listing 4. Check out the config module and make the cvsrc link
> cd ~
# set the following two for remote access
> setenv CVSROOT …
> setenv CVS_RSH …
# now check out "config" — this will get all the files
> cvs checkout config
> cd ~/config
> ln -s ~/config/cvsrc ~/.cvsrc
You may also know that Linux allows for hard links in addition to the symbolic ones you just created. Because of the limitations of hard links, they are not suitable to this scheme. For instance, say you create a hard link, ~/.cvsrc, to ~/config/cvsrc and later you remove ~/config/cvsrc (there are many ways this could happen). The ~/.cvsrc file would still hold the old contents of what used to be ~/config/cvsrc. Now, you check out ~/config/cvsrc again. The ~/.cvsrc file, however, will not be updated. That's why symbolic links are better in this situation.
Let's say you change cvsrc to add one more option:
Listing 5. Modify and commit cvsrc
> cd ~/config
> echo "checkout -P" > cvsrc
> cvs commit -m "
Now, to update ~/.cvsrc on every other machine you use, just do the following:
Listing 6: Modify and commit cvsrc
> cd ~/config
> cvs update
This is nice and easy. What's even nicer is that the CVS update shown above will update every file in ~/config, so all the files you keep under this CVS scheme will be up-to-date at once with one command. This is the essence of the configuration scheme shown here; the rest is just window dressing.
Note that once you've checked out a module, there's a directory in it called "CVS." The CVS directory has enough information about the CVS module that you can do update, commit, and other CVS operations without specifying the CVSROOT variable.
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For automatic updates and commits, I have written a very simple Perl program, maintain.pl. The longest part of the program is the help text, so you can imagine it's not full of complex code. I will go through it regardless, but keep in mind that a shell script could do the same job if needed.
The only thing maintain.pl does not do is make the symbolic links. Since that has to be done just once, and on some systems you do not want the links wholesale, the complexity of the task compared to the simplicity of doing it manually was simply too much. I know because I wrote the symbolic link code and got rid of it later.
I had to write and maintain yet another configuration file that mapped out many filenames. There were many exceptions; for example, two Linux and Solaris systems I use have radically different setups. There were just too many things to worry about, and I found that manually installing the links was much easier. Of course, your experience may vary — I encourage you to try to find the most appropriate approach for your own environment.
The maintain.pl script begins with the usual definition of configuration options, loading of command-line arguments, and help text.
Listing 7. Preliminaries in the maintain.pl script
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
# {{{ modules and constants
use strict;
use AppConfig qw/:expand :argcount/;
# }}}
$| = 1; # autoflush the output
my $config = AppConfig->new();
# update level, higher checks out more
DEFAULT => glob("~/config/maintain.conf") },
{ ARGCOUNT => ARGCOUNT_ONE, DEFAULT => 'cvs' },
{ ARGCOUNT => ARGCOUNT_ONE, DEFAULT => 'ssh' },
if (-r $config->CONFFILE() && -f $config->CONFFILE())
print "The file " . $config->CONFFILE() .
" was not readable, skippingn";
if ($config->HELP())
print <<EOHIPPUS;
Run $0 without any arguments to load
and update everything in it at level
@{[$config->LEVEL()]} or less.
-level (default @{[$config->LEVEL()]}) :
check out everything at this level or less
-help (-h) : print this help
-conffile (-f, default @{[$config->CONFFILE()]}) :
load this configuration
-cvs (default @{[$config->CVS()]}) :
where to find the cvs program
-cvs_rsh (default @{[$config->CVS_RSH()]}) :
sets the CVS_RSH environment variable
-update : populate the UPDATE hash in the configuration
file or like this:
-update /home/tzz/ see below for explanation
-commit (-c) : don't just update, also do a commit of
anything changed
-dryrun (-n) : don't run anything, just test directories
and levels
Configuration file:
Very simple AppConfig format; everything in the switches can be
specified in the configuration file as well, e.g.
UPDATE /home/tzz/config = 0
The example above says that /home/tzz/config will be updated at level
0 or higher, and that you always want to commit when you run this
exit 0;
$ENV{CVS_RSH} = $config->CVS_RSH();
If you are unfamiliar with the AppConfig module, you should check out the Resources section for useful info on managing configurations.
I do a glob() call to determine the default CONFFILE, because the user's home directory could be anywhere. If the CONFFILE contains invalid data, AppConfig automatically kills the whole program (this can be changed to be just a warning). The script can even run without a configuration file.
After printing out the help text, I set the CVS_RSH environment variable to the appropriate value (defaults to ssh). This is so that the user does not have to set that environment variable in some other way, which is especially convenient for users who put maintain.pl in their crontab.
After all these preliminaries, let's look at the heart of the script:
Listing 8: main loop of maintain.pl
foreach my $spot (keys %{$config->UPDATE()})
my $level = 0 + $config->UPDATE()->{$spot};
next if $level > $config->LEVEL();
print "Spot $spot, Level $leveln";
chdir $spot;
if ($config->DRYRUN())
print "Not updating due to DRYRUNn";
system($config->CVS() . " -q update");
if ($config->COMMIT())
if ($config->DRYRUN())
print "Not committing due to DRYRUNn";
system($config->CVS() . " commit -m "")
This is a simple loop. I run through every spot, which is really a directory, and do a cvs update if the spot's level is less than or equal to the LEVEL configuration variable, defaulting to 5. In addition, if the COMMIT flag is set, I do a cvs commit -m ", which commits all changes with an empty log message. In fact, if it weren't for the DRYRUN flag, this loop would be just a few lines long.
I use system() with the string form instead of the multiple argument form. You could do it the second way — see perldoc -f system for details on the usage of this function call.
Also, I don't check the result of the system() call, because it's unnecessary. There's nothing maintain.pl can (or should) do in the case of a CVS update or commit problem, since these are crucial configuration files we don't want to update blindly.
The configuration file is simplicity itself:
Listing 9. maintain.conf
# the number is the update level
UPDATE /home/tzz/emacs = 0
UPDATE /home/tzz/config = 0
UPDATE /home/tzz/articles = 1
UPDATE /home/tzz/gnus/gnus = 1
Remember you can set any AppConfig variable here, so you can override the default LEVEL or CVS_RSH, for instance. I update my Emacs, config, articles, and gnus directories through maintain.pl, but their update levels are different to reflect the frequency with which I update (I do level 0 twice every day and level 1 once daily).
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{mospagebreak title=Organizing your new configuration}
This section will cover my personal experiences with using the configuration system you've set up so far. Take ideas freely, but remember that my personal setup is not right for everyone.
I keep directories based on machines and operating systems, as specific as they need to be. For instance, I keep my Linux-specific configurations under "linux" but, because my home machine "heechee" has a specific keyboard, I have a heechee directory as well for the heechee-specific configurations.
The overriding rule, though, should be that if you can express a configuration in one file instead of multiple versions for multiple platforms, do it. Otherwise you'll spend most of your time maintaining two or more versions of the same file, and that's not fun.
Let's start with an example from my cshrc file, which has one version for all machines. I take advantage of the C shell language's built-in decision logic to make alternate decisions:
Listing 10. Define the precmd for various platforms
switch ($OSTYPE)
case "solaris":
case "SunOS":
alias precmd '/bin/echo "


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The legislation on chemicals is in place and is in line with the acquis. Authorisation procedures need to be introduced for biocides. A regulation on the use and marketing of dangerous chemicals was adopted in April 2000. A Chemicals Bureau has been set up. A regulation on procedures for notification and environmental and human health risk assessment of new chemical substances was adopted in August 2002. Legislation on asbestos was adopted in October 2001.
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Suor Angelica - the second installment from Puccini's Il Trittico - is to be broadcast this evening (22 June) on BBC Four at 8pm.
The one-act opera tells the tale of love, loss and religious redemption set in a children's hospital run by nuns. The tragic titular character is sung by Ermonela Jaho. The Albanian soprano will sing in select performances of La rondine in July 2013.
In the run up to opening night, ROH News contributor Gavin Plumley wrote an introduction to Suor Angelica on his blog, Entartete Musik. Find out what influenced the piece and why it was Puccini's favourite of the trio.
The beautiful score was explored by our Music Director, Antonio Pappano at an ROH Insights evening last year prior to the production's premiere:
Il tabarro, the piece preceeding Suor Angelica in the triptych, is available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Next week will see the conclusion of the trio with the airing of Gianni Schicchi.
Il trittico is available to buy on DVD, available from the Royal Opera House shop and and online from Opus Arte.


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- New York Times website, apps were down Wednesday
- The outage had lasted more than two hours
- Paper says outage coincided with routine maintenance
The New York Times' website and mobile apps went down for more than three hours Wednesday, the apparent result of an "internal issue," according to the company.
"The outage occurred within seconds of a scheduled maintenance update, which we believe was the cause," Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said Wednesday afternoon. "We are in the process of fully restoring access to the site."
The site went down sometime after 10 a.m. ET. The outage appeared to be lifting shortly after 1 p.m., when the site became accessible again to many users.
"We believe the outage is the result of an internal issue, which we expect to be resolved soon," Murphy, vice president of communications for the newspaper, tweeted at 12:47 p.m. ET.
"The New York Times Web site is experiencing technical difficulties," the paper wrote earlier on its main Twitter feed. "We expect to be back up shortly."
On Twitter and other social media, people were reacting to the outage, sometimes with humor.
"NYTimes.com is down," tweeted Renda Morton, a designer at the paper. "Luckily we printed it out for you last night. $2."
"The NYTimes Website right now has taken the need for "more white space" a little too literally," tweeted Nick Bilton, a New York Times technology columnist.
It was not immediately clear Wednesday what caused the problem.
During the outage, the Times was posting text versions of its top stories, including coverage of violence in Egypt, on its Facebook page.
The Times has been targeted by hackers in the past. The newspaper announced in January that Chinese hackers had carried out sustained attacks on its computer systems.


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CAD Alternatives?
For years, the high price tag of professional CAD software licenses has been a real sticking point for engineers. With many of the leading packages priced upwards of $10,000 for a single license (and oftentimes, that's without all the extra modules), and with annual maintenance fees pushing costs up even higher, engineers in smaller companies, as well as solo practitioners, have either had to shut up and put up with the huge expense or be shut out from using professional CAD tools.
SolidWorks and a coterie of other CAD tools knocked the price tag down a bit over the years, but most professional-grade programs can still run upwards of $5,000 for a single seat, and that's not including some of the more advanced functionality fast becoming mainstream like integrated simulation capabilities, sheet metal design functionality, and even some of the latest compliance and product analytics tools.
Luckily, a bunch of new trends are converging to help address the high price tag around CAD, and give cost-conscious users some relief. New subscription pricing models, a spate of lower-cost programs like SpaceClaim, Kubotech, and Alibre, along with a flood of new open-source 3D CAD programs, are giving users a greater variety of choice when it comes to affordable CAD options.
Even some of the big CAD players are getting in on the action. For example, Siemens PLM Software has taken steps to make its lower-end CAD tool, Solid Edge, more price competitive, particularly for small and mid-size companies, the education market, and enthusiasts. One of the more interesting programs it launched recently was an alliance with Local Motors, a new car company predicated on this notion of community co-creation (some would call it crowdsourcing). The pair is offering Solid Edge Design1, a subscription license of its base technology to the Local Motors community for $19.95 a month.
The pair expanded its partnership early this year to offer the Local Motors community a choice of options, including versions with higher-end, professional-level drafting and history-based modeling, FEA capabilities, sheet metal modeling, wire harness design functions, and other capabilities for fees ranging from $99 a month per user to $299 a month, depending on the configuration.
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Letter to Senate Urging YES Vote on Consolidated FY 2010 Appropriations Bill
December 10, 2009
Dear Senator:
On behalf of the 3.2 million members of the National Education Association (NEA), we urge you to vote YES on the consolidated appropriations bill for fiscal year 2010 (, scheduled for floor debate this week. This important legislation includes critical funding for education and other priority programs. Votes associated with this issue may be included in the NEA Legislative Report Card for the 111th Congress, first session.
The investments in education provided in the consolidated appropriations bill are critical not only to individual students, but to our nation as a whole. Investing in programs that help students succeed in school and prepare for the workforce results in higher levels of earnings for individuals and higher tax revenues for federal, state, and local governments. Studies show that the economic benefits of education investments will more than recoup the cost of those investments.
We are particularly pleased that the bill:
- Fully restores the Administration's proposed $1.5 billion cut to Title I. Restoring the full proposed cut will ensure that 20 million disadvantaged students in nearly 55,000 public schools receive the assistance they need to succeed. In addition, this funding will help set the stage for preventing a future devastating drop-off in funding for Title I after funding provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act expires in 2011.
- Meets the President's request for funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The $11.5 billion funding level provided in the bill, which builds on the $11.3 billion provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will result in a historic federal contribution level toward the costs of educating students with disabilities.
- Increases the maximum Pell Grant award to $5,500 ($200 increase over the 2009 level of $5,300). This increase will ensure that the neediest students have greater purchasing power to access and complete the post-secondary education so critical to success in jobs with career potential and upward mobility.
- Increases funding for English Language Learner Grants, thereby ensuring needed services for students for whom English is not the first language.
- Increases funding for 21st Century Community Learning Centers, thereby expanding the number of students who can benefit from safe, high-quality, after-school programs.
- Increases funding for the TRIO and GEAR UP programs to assist disadvantaged and first-generation students prepare for, enter, and complete college.
We support a robust international affairs budget and will continue to work with the Congress to ensure the funds necessary for educational projects around the world.
We are disappointed that the bill provides funding for the Teacher Incentive Fund, an unnecessary, duplicative program that serves merely to divert scarce resources away from proven, underfunded programs. We are also disappointed that the bill continues funding for the District of Columbia private school voucher program – a pilot initiative that was has not been proven to improve student achievement.
Overall, however, the bill provides essential resources for critical priorities. We urge your support for this funding package.
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YORK, PA – The York College field hockey team remained red hot as the Spartans won their third straight game as they downed Eastern Mennonite 5-1 in non-conference play Thursday in York.
The Spartans improve to 3-3 overall while the Royals fall to 0-6.
The Royals put the Spartans back on their heels in the opening three minutes of the game as they fired off four shots with one penalty corner in the opening 2:38 of the contest. The Spartans slowly steadied themselves and started taking the play to their guests.
York opened the scoring 10:17 into the game when senior Kirsten Bridgers (Gaithersburg, Md./Gaithersburg) finished off a Jillian Brezgel (Herndon, Va./Line Mountain) pass for her fourth goal of the year.
York wasted little time in adding to the lead as Brezgel found the back of the cage on a long distance shot from the wing with 24:27 left in the first half. The goal was Brezgel's fourth of the year.
The Royals got on the board for the first time this season with 20:30 remaining in the first half as Jenessa Derstine tipped in a Brianna Kauffman pass for the goal. The Royals entered the game having been outscored 28-0 in their first five games.
The Spartans struck for a third goal just before the half as the Spartans had a break away. The Royals got a defensive save on Laken Bull's (Glenville, Pa./South Western) original shot but sophomore Holly Martin (Hanover, Pa./South Western) did a fantastic job of following the play and drove home the rebound for the 3-1 Spartan lead. Martin's goal came with just nine seconds left in the stanza.
York capped the scoring with a pair of goals early in the second half. Sophomore Jamie Gallo (Pittsgrove, N.J./A.P. Schalick) picked up her first collegiate goal with a tip in of a Bull pass to push the Spartan lead to 4-1. Junior Nancy Saylor (Manheim, Pa./Manheim Central) closed out the scoring just over four minutes later when she put home a Bridgers assist for the final tally of the game. The goal was Saylor's fourth goal of the year.
The Spartans finished the game with a slight 18-17 edge in total shots including a 9-5 margin in shots on goal. The Spartans also had an 11-7 advantage in penalty corners.
Sophomore Abby Baker (Baltimore, Md./Mercy) notched four saves in the win. Mary Beth Danaher made three saves in the loss for the Royals.
The Spartans return to action on Saturday when they travel to Lynchburg to face the Hornets in a non-conference contest. Game time is set for 4:00 pm.
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Biomedical clinical research is a major component of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's mission and is critical to its commitment of maintaining excellence in patient care.
Cedars-Sinai investigators are currently conducting more than 800 clinical research projects with 230 unique Principal Investigators. These encompass basic, translational, clinical and health services research and cover the entire spectrum of disease investigation, including molecular genetics, biochemical analysis and disease-based areas such as cancer, cardiovascular disorders and neurosciences. With our bench-to-bedside approach to clinical research, some of our work leads to paradigm shifts and dramatic changes in patient care.
Areas of clinical research include:
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Wiens Wins AAUW Scholarship, March 16, 1999
SOCORRO, N.M., March 16, 1999 -- Julie Ann Wiens, a native of Moriarty who is now a senior majoring in electrical engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was named the recipient of the Socorro Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Scholarship.
Wiens, a 1995 graduate of Moriarty High School, is the daughter of Keith and Chris Neel and Jay Johnson.
She was selected for the prestigious honor from a field of several top female students at New Mexico Tech after submitting statements of her goals and future plans and providing academic
references from Tech faculty.
Wiens currently attends the state-supported research university on both a New Mexico Tech Presidential Scholarship and the Manuel Lujan Scholarship and maintains a 3.64 grade point average (GPA) out of a possible 4.00 while doing so.
Wien's senior design project involves designing and constructing a fiber-optic data acquisition device. Last year, she also contributed to the development of a "fire-fighting" robot, a team effort which garnered her and three other Tech electrical engineering students a fifth-place finish
at the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Robot International Competition in Hartford, Conn.
In 1997, Wiens was selected to participate in the ResearchExperience for Undergraduates (REU) program and worked that summer as a "storm chaser," collecting rain and hail data for
Colorado State University.
She currently serves as chapter treasurer of the Tau Beta Pi national engineering honor society and also is a member of the Student-Produced Leisure Activities at Tech (SPLAT) group.
In addition, Wiens recently was designated a "Tech Scholar" at the university. She also is the captain of the New Mexico Tech Women's Volleyball Club and is active in several other intramural sports programs on campus, including basketball and Ultimate Frisbee.
"The electrical engineering professors at New Mexico Tech are friendly," Wiens relates. "However, the curriculum is tough, but, it's well worth all the time you put into it. . . . New Mexico Tech is a great school for a great education."
AAUW, a national organization of more than 160,000 college graduates, is dedicated to promoting equity and higher education for all women. Since 1966, the Socorro Branch of AAUW has awarded scholarships annually to outstanding women students at New Mexico Tech.


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ROME/MILAN (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi said on Saturday that outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti was plotting with the left in his centrist alliance's bid to win Italy's national election in February, but centrist leaders denied any secret accord.
Monti, who replaced Berlusconi as prime minister last year when Italy was scrambling to avert a financial crisis, said on Friday he wanted to unite a broad coalition of factions around a reform agenda aimed at easing the country's economic woes.
Monti ended weeks of speculation when he confirmed his bid for a second term, pitting him against the center-left Democratic Party (PD) and Berlusconi's center-right People of Freedom (PDL) party in a three-way contest.
Speaking to reporters at Milan Central railway station, Berlusconi said Monti wanted to help the left secure power after the February 24-25 election so he could continue his austerity agenda of tax hikes and spending cuts.
"This grouping has been formed to favor the left - also the similarities with the left's programme points in this direction," he said, after earlier describing Monti as "the spare wheel" of the PD in an interview with Vista TV.
The 76-year-old billionaire, who caught the train from Rome with his 27-year-old partner, Francesca Pascale, said he did not believe Italian voters would "fall into the trap", which he said was aimed at stealing votes from the center right.
But Pier Ferdinando Casini, head of Italy's oldest and largest centrist party, the UDC, which is cooperating with Monti, denied the accusations.
"Our initiative was not born with the support of the PD. It has not been started with a predetermined alliance ... until election day what's important is aiming for the majority," Casini said at a news conference on Saturday.
Opinion polls suggest the PD, under Pier Luigi Bersani, will win a comfortable lower house majority but may have to strike a deal with centrist forces in the Senate, where the center left has struggled to gain control in past elections.
The PD, which has pledged to maintain Monti's broad reform course while putting more emphasis on jobs and growth, has urged the 69-year-old technocrat to clarify the approach the centrist forces will take towards the left.
"Will they present themselves as alternatives, as rivals, or as open to an alliance?" Bersani asked on SkyTG24 television on Friday, saying that the center left would be open to discuss an accord when Monti's position is clear.
Monti, a former European Commissioner, is a favorite with international investors, the Catholic Church and the business establishment, and has been widely credited with restoring Italy's credibility after the scandal-plagued Berlusconi years.
"For the first time, an atmosphere is forming that points towards the future for a Europe that needs Italy and a country that wants to change deeply," centrist leader Casini said on Saturday.
"As of yesterday, we are putting behind us the empty electoral promises, populism, demagoguery, fake assurances; a phase of responsibility is beginning," he said.
Also on Saturday, Italian magistrate Antonio Ingroia officially announced he was joining the election race, and backers of his anti-corruption, law-and-order platform said it was time for both Monti and Berlusconi to step aside.
"We can't give them back the keys to the country," said Felice Belisario from the opposition Italy of Values party, which said it supported Ingroia's candidacy for prime minister.
"Both have ruined Italy and have only acted in the interests of themselves and their friends at the expense of Italian citizens," Belisario said in a statement.
The PD has so far maintained a tone of polite respect for Monti, in contrast to Berlusconi's attacks on his "Germano-centric" austerity policies, which he blames for deepening a severe recession and fuelling record unemployment.
The media tycoon said on Saturday he was disappointed that Monti had made a bid for a second term because the economics professor had told him he would not use the exposure gained as an unelected technocrat for future political motives.
He said if the center-right won the election he would launch an investigation into Monti's ascent to power.
Later on Saturday Berlusconi met leaders of the Northern League, his former government allies. He told reporters following the meeting that he remained hopeful for a possible alliance but the PDL was still not convinced on some points.
PDL secretary Angelino Alfano said on Twitter that the disagreements could lead to the PDL and the Northern League heading their separate ways at the next election.
Editing by Louise Ireland


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
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Origins Recovery, LLC operates premier gender-specific residential recovery centers for adults who are seeking lasting freedom from alcoholism and/or chemical dependency. Origins mission is to assist Residents in developing the core spiritual practices required to maintain permanent sobriety and experience abundant and meaningful lives. The company has meticulously selected only the finest properties in premier locations around the United States, including Coastal Texas and the New York countryside.
Designers: Please learn more and take a virtual tour at http://www.originsrecovery.com. Also, read our press releases.
This Newsletter will go out to:
1. Alumni of our program
2. Thousands of Industry Professionals
3. Our Online Audience
We want an 11x17 printed landscape which folds in half into 8.5x11. For mailing, it then should fold into 8.5x5.5.
The newsletter should be visually powerful, incorporating our logo (attached to brief), color scheme and overall sophisticated feel. Our identity is one that is very clean and together and the newsletter should leverage this look and feel.
Underneath our logo should be (similarly to how Hard Rock Cafe has its cities) the words: South Padre Island, TX | Westchester County, NY
Our tagline, "You Can Recover (add trademark)" should be used.
Our web address should be featured prominantly. It is http://www.originsrecovery.com
The newsletter should be organized into sections for various topics of discussion. They are as follows:
Main Article - front page
Origins News: Page 2
Alumni Corner: Page 2 (Bottom Right)
Testimonials from Origins Alumni: Page 3 (top half)
A Word from Staff: (bottom half page 3, divided into two sections, left/right)
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Monday, 30 July 2007
We are sailing...
Don't get me wrong, Google Code is great, and I still use it for Affinity and other projects, but Awn is getting larger and larger, in community and developers, and this needs some proper structure. Launchpad provides that structure incredibly well, with excellent road-mapping/bug reporting/feature requests/translation infrastructure, and we hope to make the most of it!
Show me the source!
http://www.launchpad.net/awn is the new home of Awn. Over the past few days, those belonging to the awn-core team have helped me move everything over to launchpad.
Development of Awn will be in Launchpad from now on, bug reports, feature requests (blueprints) and translations should be directed there too. The Awn page in launchpad has instructions on how to download the development version.
I am working on transferring the existing bugs from code.google.com to launchpad. If you have previously opened/commentated on a bug, and would like to help me out, you can create the corresponding bug in launchpad, and just leave a comment in the original bug report that you have done so :-D.
What now?
Well, there's been a burst of activity on the Awn forum, with patches coming at me left, right and center. Consequently, Awn has gained some new developers and bug-people, and we are working towards a 0.2 release, with a ton of ideas for 0.3! I'll make an other post outlining the new devels and their contributions soon.
Also, Awn currently has an universal applet menu-system, a brand new preferences application, mac-stacks applet and many more applets in development in the forum, with updates everyday! I am currently working on a way to get everyone working in the same place, so we can have a awn-applets release along side the main Awn release, but more on that later.
I think that's it for now :-).
16 comments:
- Eric Florenzano said...
I think that this is really a sign of things to come. The switch from svn to bzr/git will be interesting, and I think lots of projects will end up moving away from places like sourceforge and google code and onto newer sites like Launchpad.net. Lead the way, AWN!
- 1 August 2007 at 03:33
How about a name tweak? Call it Awning. From dictionary.com:
"a rooflike shelter of canvas or other material extending over a doorway, from the top of a window, over a deck, etc., in order to provide protection, as from the sun."
It kinda relates to windows and stuff.
- 1 August 2007 at 05:00
- Matthew East said...
Have you asked the Launchpad guys whether they can help you with automatic importing of bugs? Maybe they have had experience with code.google.com bug importing already
- 1 August 2007 at 10:00
The stack remembers me on a few mockups, with a tracker enabled awn. One stack with Songs, one with documents ...
Is that still planned?
I really love that idea!!
thx for your work
- 1 August 2007 at 11:38
Great news! I'm curious to see what the future brings ^^
- 2 August 2007 at 09:18
- Cpt-Falcon said...
Hi !
I'd like to know what is the font on the screenshots of desktop search front end ?? On what OS the screenshot was taken and if there are any special configuration (like LCD cleartype) ?
- 4 August 2007 at 17:24
- Tunji.G said...
can you make this happen?
- 6 August 2007 at 01:20
- Peppie said...
Great, I realy like AWN. Do you know if there are yast repositores for the latest builds?
- 6 August 2007 at 11:07
- obsidian said...
Neil, I'm tagging you in a post.
- 7 August 2007 at 22:33
- Josep Sanz said...
Yesterday, I discover the awn application.
Work very fine and the future it's good for this application. I use the awn on my desktop and each day, update it to view the news features added.
very good work.
- 9 August 2007 at 23:19
It would be great if you could set up PPA now you're on Launchpad - it would mean much easier testing for us Ubuntu users at least! :)
See the blog entry
- 5 September 2007 at 09:53
- simo4 said...
why awn can't move in different side (right or left for example)?
- 6 September 2007 at 14:27
- alex_anthony said...
you mention affinity
anything happening with it at the moment?
in the ubuntu forums reacocard is talking about how the project is effectively dead - true?
- 8 September 2007 at 08:55
- 12 September 2007 at 16:55
After that conversation on the phone, and actually getting me to read this stuff, I must reiterate....
- 12 September 2007 at 16:57
- Dread Knight said...
Regarding Affinity, i think AWN will be a full substitute for it very soon.
- 25 October 2007 at 07:38


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Unlike so many brands whose customers remain a phantasmagorical enigma (and, one suspects, often a fictional one), you can see the Gucci man everywhere. At least, you can in Milan. He's the Latin lothario with the snake-hips, wearing skinny leather trouser in July, plunge-neck shirts in December, and without a single pair of socks in his entire extensive wardrobe. And the particular success of the Gucci brand over the past half-decade stems from the fact that Frida Giannini delivers exactly what he wants, albeit with a seasonal tweak to chime with the rest of the fash pack.
Hence for Spring/Summer 2011 Giannini latched on to next reason's key palette dominated by classic navy and neutrals, and packed her collection with relaxed suiting. Maybe that should be in hefty inverted commas as 'relaxed' for Gucci may mean louche but doesn't mean loose: trousers and jackets cleaved close, sleeves pushed up Miami Vice style for a casual feel. If those were casual, the chunky knitwear in yeasty beige worn with slender chinos or cuffed suede shorts was positively sloppy - again, maybe only for Gucci. We've been seeing an odd surge of knuckle-deep cableknit here in Milan, but the Gucci guy is the only one you can imagine sweating it out to quite this degree in the name of style.
That's not to say this show lacked identity - the bit and buckle scarf-print shirts screamed Gucci, as did the ostentation of materials. Fancy a drawstring pouch in electric-blue python, or a hold-all in cognac croc? Only at Gucci. It's always interesting to compare the menswear offerings of Gucci and Prada, both five-letter fashion institutions helmed by strong Italian women and creating instantly identifiable clothes for their countrymen. Just as you couldn't mistake Miuccia's touch for anyone else's, so Giannini is a dab hand at the Guccification game, twisting anything and everything just so, until it could only come from this house. Rather than innovation or experimentation, that's her enviable talent, and the Milanese will no doubt continue to beat a path to Gucci's door for it.


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RALEIGH � Continued outbreaks of whooping cough across North Carolina have led state health officials to encourage residents of all ages to be immunized.
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services says that because of high numbers of pertussis cases in Davidson, Forsyth and Rockingham counties, it's authorized the local health departments to provide vaccine at no charge to anyone, regardless of insurance status.
As of Aug. 14, state public health officials had tracked 326 cases of pertussis, including 50 cases in infants.
Acting State Health Director Robin Cummings reminds people that state law requires that kindergartners and all rising sixth graders be up to date on pertussis vaccination before going to school. Parents are also advised to check on immunizations for the whole family.


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PRINCETON — The Bureau County Board is moving forward with a plan to upgrade the grounding grid system for the communication tower at the county jail, with the hopes to eliminate any future lightning strikes.
At Tuesday's board meeting, Buildings and Grounds Committee Chairman Kristi Warren updated the county board on the recent field study completed at the jail tower by E & S Grounding Solutions of California. The study was "very thorough and eye-opening," Warren said.
The study has included testing of the grounding grid at the tower and writing an interpretation of the test results, with the final component to be the development of a work plan to correct the issues at the tower, Warren said. The E & S Grounding consultant has presented two plans for the board to consider, a short-term emergency plan and a long-term plan.
The consultant's recommendation was to go with the short-term plan, Warren said. The long-term plan would be much more involved and expensive. To put so much money into grounding and securing the jail tower, the county board would want to make sure the jail and communication equipment stay at its present site, the consultant said.
Warren agreed, saying taking the unknown future in consideration, the short-term plan seems to be the better choice.
"It's probably not likely that they (jail and communication equipment) will change, but we don't know that," Warren said. "A new board may do something different with the jail. The company is satisfied that the short-term immediate plan will be sufficient for us."
In a related issue, Warren said the Buildings and Grounds Committee was also concerned with the tower outside the county courthouse and wondered if the county should do a grounding study on that tower as well. Since the courthouse tower has not been hit by lightning, the E & S Grounding consultant was not overly concerned about that tower, but the consultant did not know how the tower was grounded.
Warren said the question before the board was whether grounding work on both towers should be done at the same time.
After discussion, the board agreed to go forward with the short-term work plan for the tower at the county jail and to look into getting a grounding study done for the courthouse tower.
In other courthouse concerns, Warren reported on the recent evaluation done on the courthouse roof which showed "several significant areas" which needed to be addressed. The roof was replaced in 1996 and had a 10-year warranty, she said.
After discussion, the board passed a motion to declare an emergency situation with the courthouse roof and to seek the needed roof repairs. The board authorized Key Builders to coordinate the work project with Oldeen Roofing of Ottawa.
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Welcome to the first installment of a series of special "spring purge" posts that I'll be publishing over the next couple of months. The topic? Environmentally dubious household items that you might want to take a second look at while tackling spring cleaning duties — some of them, like the subject of today's post, are even found in or used as cleaning products themselves. And when I say "take a second look at" I mean you should reconsider using and/or replace with a more eco-sensible alternative.
Up to bat today are products containing the ubiquitous and totally purge-worthy chemical, triclosan.
I've talked about triclosan before — most recently in an advice column about natural sponges — and you might already be familiar with it since it's found in a ton of household and personal care products, particularly those labeled as being "antibacterial." In our pandemic-obsessed culture, antibacterial products are insanely popular and provide much relief to both serious germaphobes but those who just want to keep their homes neat, clean, and germ-free. The popularity of antibacterial products extends well outside the home, too. Here in NYC, bottles of antibacterial hand lotion are just as commonplace in handbags as Metrocards and cell phones.
But here's the thing: plain old soap is just as effective at removing germs when washing up. In fact, the American Medical Association advises against using antibacterial soaps at home. One of the best triclosan resources out there is the Environmental Working Group's Guide to Triclosan. Not only does it outline the health and environmental risks associated with the chemical but it lists, room by room, every single product in your home — 140 of them — that might contain the stuff. I tend to dwell on dish soap and things like toothpaste and deodorant but vacuum bags, garden hoses and pet training pads? Triclosan is everywhere.
Some bill-fitting products that I've had the chance to try out recently are from the new line of natural disinfectants — Disinfecting Wipes, Disinfecting Bathroom Cleaner and Disinfecting Multi-Surface Cleaner — from Seventh Generation. Harnessing special, chem-free CleanWell technology, the active ingredient in the line is herb-derived thymol; the essential oils of thyme and lemongrass are also included to naturally deodorize and combat odors. The line is the first EPA-registered line of natural disinfectants approved to claim "kills over 99.99 percent of germs naturally on hard, non-porous surfaces."
I normally don't use disinfecting products unless I'm traveling, but I went to town on my kitchen countertops with the Seventh Generation Disinfecting Wipes this past week and was quite pleased with the results, especially the smell. In a time when keeping a home clear of both toxic chemicals and disease-spreading germs is a top priority, it looks like Seventh Generation's partnership with CleanWell is a home run.
Stay tuned for the next installment of "the spring purge" where I'll tackle — drum roll, please — paper towels. Do you have any purge-worthy items worth recommending this spring cleaning season?
Middle image: Jack Black's Stunt Double; product images: Seventh Generation