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Barack Obama And The Caribbean
Polls throughout the region, particularly in the West Indies, indicate that he has support levels hovering at a remarkable 90 percent. So it goes with the rest of the world. Obama has inspired a new vision of tempered, multi-racial leadership in an unstable global order.
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That Barack Obama has captured the imagination of the Caribbean goes nearly without saying.
Polls throughout the region, particularly in the West Indies, indicate that he has support levels hovering at a remarkable 90 percent. So it goes with the rest of the world. Obama has inspired a new vision of tempered, multi-racial leadership in an unstable global order. And more importantly, he represents a rejection of the violence, greed and deceit that has marked the Pax Americana of George W. Bush over most of the past decade.
Even Bush's leading general, the Harlem-born Colin Powell, with his four stars and Caribbean roots, has endorsed Obama, calling the 47-year-old Senator from Illinois a "transformative figure" and noting that he has "displayed a steadiness, an intellectual curiosity, a depth of knowledge, and an approach to looking at problems" that warranted the support of the American electorate.
It was a resounding endorsement of Obama but an even more stinging denunciation of his longtime Republican colleagues, Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney, and by direct implication, John McCain.
The Mighty Sparrow, of course, now living in New York, issued his presidential endorsement long before, with his delightful calypso "Barrack the Magnificent":
The first black President to lead this mighty nation!
We'll regain worldwide respect
with Obama's vision and excellent comprehension!
Sparrow had the temerity to say what Powell did not: namely, that Obama's African heritage endows his impending presidency with an international gravitas of truly historic proportions. Can anyone imagine a recent U.S. president comfortably walking the streets of Port-of-Spain, Kingston or Georgetown? Hardly. An Obama presidency will immediately force a shift in the imagination of political possibility.
And make no mistake about it, with little more than a few days until the American polls close on Tuesday, Obama's lead here in electoral votes is formidable—if not, indeed, insurmountable. His strategists have run a brilliant campaign, from his initial grassroots win in Iowa on through to his marvelous television special this past week.
For those of you who will be watching CNN on Tuesday night, follow the early key states of Pennsylvania and Virginia. If Obama wins either, he wins the election. If he wins them big and takes other swing states like Florida, North Carolina and Indiana, a landslide will be in the making, one of epoch proportions. (I'm predicting he'll win New York by 63-33 and garner more than 320 electoral votes, with a possibility of reaching 350.)
What will Obama's election mean for the Caribbean and the rest of the world? Almost immediately, there will be a diminishment of political tensions and a new moment of global promise and cooperation. Obama will approach the international economic crisis with a refreshing sensibility and a commitment to economic democracy. "People around the world," writes longtime American activist Tom Hayden, "will look up from the treadmills of their shrunken lives to the possibilities of what life still might be. Environmental justice and global economic hope would dawn as possibilities."
Moreover, Obama's approach to economic disparities and institutionalized racism in the United States will force Caribbean countries to confront their own economic stratification and racialized polities, as well they should. He will lead by example on these critical issues facing the Caribbean. I expect him to be intolerant of the rise in poverty, and the corresponding rise in crime rates, in countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Guyana. He will likely be an ally of the forces of economic democracy throughout the Caribbean—and especially of women, who often bear the brunt of economic dislocation.
As for broader regional alignments, much remains to be seen. The Republican right will harangue Obama for any efforts at normalization with Cuba or a rapprochement with Venezuela, but I would not be surprised to see Obama engage in diplomatic discussions with either Raul Castro or Hugo Chávez, ushering in a new era of hemispheric relations.
Obama is not an interventionist in the mold of Bush, Reagan and even Kennedy (I write this on the 25th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada), and while he has argued for a staged withdrawal from Iraq (and opposed U.S. intervention there in the first place), he supports a counterinsurgency force in Iraq and for sending more troops to Afghanistan. The threat of future attacks by Al Qaeda looms large on the American psyche, and Obama will need to manifest a strong show of force in the face of any such posturing.
Do not expect Obama to work economic miracles, either in the United States or in the Caribbean. Certainly not immediately. Problems of poverty in American urban centers reflect deep structural issues with American capitalism and unregulated abuses of U.S. markets, and they will take years, if not decades, to ameliorate. Obama will be facing the greatest economic crisis of the last 80 years when he takes office in January (with a half-trillion-dollar U.S. deficit), and he will be challenged simply to hold back the tide of an impending national and international depression.
Contrary to the hyperbolic rhetoric of McCain and his mannequin running mate, Sarah Palin, Obama is not a radical Marxist nor even a socialist. Indeed, when it comes to economic theories, he is a free-market moderate and has been strongly influenced by his chief economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee and other so-called "behavioral economists." (Make note of that: You will be hearing more about these economic theories in the months ahead.) Nonetheless, the economy will gradually get better under Obama and the Democrats; they will grow it from the bottom-up. That, in turn, will augur shifts toward the better for the Caribbean economy (and economies) as well.
Moreover, the election of Barack Obama will call an end to the most corrupt and irresponsible tyranny in recent American history. Even more importantly, it will unleash what the fallen American president Abraham Lincoln referred to as "the better angels of our nature." It will mark the first step toward a new moment in global relations. But one man cannot change the course of history—and that is at the heart of Obama's message. He can lead, but we must all participate in addressing the challenges before us. If it is Obama's moment, then it is also ours.
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Making sure your book has a good cover is like making sure you are neatly dressed and well groomed when going on a job interview.
Although everyone says you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, this really doesn't apply to books themselves. In fact, the cover is one of the most important parts of a book. It's the first thing anyone will ever see and for that reason, it needs to make a good impression. If a cover is unreadable, looks amateurish or misrepresents a book, the potential reader may give it a pass and move on to the next book in a catalog or bookshelf.
There are no hard and fast rules in book cover design. Even if you are not an artist or designer, you can still make a cover that – while perhaps not as artistic or inventive as some of these covers – can still be attractive and effective. Here are some basic rules of thumb to keep in mind:
- The most important thing on a bookcover is the book's title.
- Keep things simple typographically. You may own a thousand fonts, but there is no need to feel compelled to use them all. Especially avoid really fancy, decorative fonts or using a lot of Photoshop effects on the title. If no one can read the title of your book, you may as well not have it on the cover at all.
- Likewise, keep your artwork simple. Try to limit yourself to just one image that best represents the book's genre or what it is about. Avoid the temptation to create a "kitchen sink" cover, where you try to cram in everything you think is important.
- Another reason for simplicity is that a cover needs to work at all sizes—and even in B&W. Most people will first see your cover as a thumbnail image on a webpage. Therefore, it needs to be as readable at postage stamp size as it is on the actual printed book.
Having read these suggestions, go back to the Indie Cover page and see how many of those covers reflect these ideas.
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Monday, August 25, 2014
Sports News
could face consequences for collision
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[August 25, 2014]
By Alan Baldwin
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS Belgium (Reuters) -
Mercedes threatened to review their policy of allowing their drivers to
race each other freely after Formula One leader Nico Rosberg and Lewis
Hamilton collided at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday.
"Unfortunately, yes," Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff told
reporters when asked whether the dominant team might change their
"It would be too early to elaborate in detail because the devil lies
in the detail. We are all fans and we owe it to ourselves and
everybody out there to let them race," he continued.
"Today that philosophy has ended in Mercedes losing many valuable
points and we don't want to end up in Abu Dhabi, with a season where
we lost the championship, be it constructors' or drivers', because
we were too much race fans."
Hitherto the team have been clear in allowing their drivers to race
each other, accepting that it is in the interests of the sport to
provide exciting races and to avoid the sort of processions seen in
the past when one team is dominant.
However, they have been shaken by Red Bull winning the last two
races and looking more competitive than expected at a long and fast
track that should have favoured the Mercedes hybrid power unit.
Sunday's collision, with Hamilton retiring with a damaged car and
Rosberg finishing second to take his overall lead to 29 points with
seven races remaining, left Mercedes fighting fires on two fronts.
There have been spats and sparks between the drivers ever since it
became apparent that they had the best car on the grid and were
prepared to go wheel-to-wheel for the biggest prize in motorsport.
Hamilton rejected on Sunday a suggestion that they were always an
accident waiting to happen, emphasising that it was an avoidable
collision and they had plenty of experience, but Mercedes have
certainly been bracing for it.
At Spa, with Rosberg's front wing slicing Hamilton's rear tyre as
they battled for the lead on lap two, the moment arrived.
"Now we are at the point which we always discussed, no?," said
Wolff, looking around at the scrum of reporters.
"Is it going to happen or not? An accident waiting to happen – it's
unacceptable. Racing accidents can happen, racing accidents among
team mates shouldn't happen. Racing accidents among team mates on
lap number two of a 44-lap race with a dominant car should be a
"It's exactly that point which we hoped we would never reach."
Mercedes have had so many clear-the-air meetings already this season
they could almost add them to their regular weekend programme and
there will be a few more to come after Hamilton accused Rosberg of
hitting him deliberately.
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The incendiary comments dropped into the paddock like a match in a hay
"We just had a meeting about it and he basically said he did it on
purpose. He said he did it on purpose," the Briton told reporters.
"He said he could have avoided it. He said 'I did it to prove a point'"
Wolff suggested that point was to show Hamilton he was prepared to hold
his line, rather than any payback for previous incidents.
But with many in the paddock wondering whether the governing
International Automobile Federation should investigate, Mercedes now
have to restore order with a weight of media and public pressure on
Hamilton, in comments immediately after the race, doubted that Rosberg
would receive any real sanction but that could also force their hand.
"It reminds me of when I was at school, the teachers will say something
but they won't do anything. The stewards didn't do anything...so I am
just going to have to push like hell," said the 2008 champion.
Wolff indicated in response that Rosberg could not expect to get off
"If Lewis has said that it's going to be a slap on the wrist, and that
there's going to be no consequence, then he's not aware of what
consequences we can implement," he said.
"Today we've seen the limits of the slap on the wrist. Maybe the slap on
the wrist is not enough."
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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Ivy Bridge Benchmark Surprises
Now that Intel has officially unveiled its 22nm Ivy Bridge processors, I wanted to see how well they would do while running complex spreadsheets. PCMag and others have benchmarks on things like games but I care more about productivity applications. The results were good, and in some cases, surprisingly strong; on some metrics, I saw faster performance on this quad-core chip than on the six-core Sandy Bridge-E chip Intel shipped just a few months ago.
I started by testing an Asus N-series laptop with a 15.6-inch screen running a mobile version of the 22nm Ivy Bridge family—the 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7-3720QM. As you can see in the chart below, it was notably faster on all the spreadsheets I ran, with one minor exception of a large Monte Carlo test. As I mentioned the last time I tested spreadsheets, this test is nearing the end of its usefulness because it now happens so quickly that the difference seems within the margin of error for manually clicking the stopwatch button.
As you can see, the Ivy Bridge-based Core i7-Q3720 generally showed better numbers than the previous top notebook I had tested, a Lenovo X220, based on a Sandy-Bridge Core i5-2520.
But that's really not a surprise: The N-series is more of a desktop replacement notebook and the processor has four cores and eight threads. The X220, on the other hand, is an ultraportable and the processor is a dual-core/four-thread version.
(I also tested some based on AMD's Fusion A-series, known as Llano, last year, but it lags well behind on spreadsheet performance despite having four cores. The Asus did have more memory—8GB versus 4GB for the others—but these tests don't take advantage of anything beyond 4GB.)
The real surprise for me came in desktops, where I tested the standard 3.4 GHz Core i7-3770 in an Asus Essentio and a 3.5 GHz Core i7-3770K in a gaming desktop from Velocity Micro. In both cases, the machines had 8GB of DDR3-1600 memory. The big difference is that the Velocity Micro system was overclocked to 4.7 GHz, and that made a huge difference, as you can see in the chart below:
I expected the 3.4 GHz Ivy Bridge (Core i7-3770) system would be faster than a 3.4 GHz Sandy Bridge (Core i7-2600) and it was, by a good margin: 15 percent on a very large data table, which took over an hour to run on the slower system, and more than 20 percent on a pivot table operation. What I didn't expect was that the overclocked i7-3770K-based system would be up to 20 percent faster still and would, in fact, beat the fastest six-core system I've tested—one based on the 3.3 GHz Sandy-Bridge-E or Core i7-3960X. (This is a complex but real-world spreadsheet—one that doesn't seem to make as much use of multithreading as a pure Monte Carlo simulation; those still seem faster on the six-core systems.) On the four-core/eight-thread Core i7-3770K-based system, it was even faster than a six-core/12-thread Core i7-3960X overclocked to 4.4 GHz.
What's happening here can be seen using the CPU-Z utility while running the benchmark. Although the base speed of the system still shows 3.5 GHz, you can see that the cores are actually running at 4.7 GHz. That's just a great amount of headroom in a system where Intel says the Turbo Boost normally only goes as high as 3.9 GHz.
On the regular 3770, I did see Turbo speeds of up to 3.7 GHz (again with a rated maximum of 3.9 GHz), but of course overclocking the 3770K to 4.7 GHz made a huge difference. By the way, both showed the processor running at about 1.6 GHz when idle. I expect a good deal of this is made possible by a good cooling system from Velocity Micro. As usual, when dealing with things like Turbo Mode and overclock, your results might vary.
What is quite interesting to me is just how fast these quad-core parts can get. They apparently can also run at high-speed for a sustained period of time, if the cooling is right. Now, most corporate users won't want overclocked systems, but note that even a standard four-core Ivy Bridge is nearly as good as a standard six-core Sandy Bridge-E on the big data table, although things that seem to take more advantage of multiple threads (including a pure Monte Carlo simulation; or just a huge count of things in a large pivot tablet) would still point to the six-core machine.
All and all, the Ivy Bridge performance on these kinds of applications look quite impressive.
Read PCMag's full review of Intel Core i7-3770K (Ivy Bridge).


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Carl Beam
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada
Carl Beam (1943–2005), considered one of Canada's leading contemporary Aboriginal artists, challenged the art world, questioning why contemporary Aboriginal art was marginalized to ethnographic presentations and was not respected on an equal footing with Western artistic traditions. This questioning of colonialism and the representation of Indigenous cultures was carried throughout his thirty-year practice. Within this exhibition Beam's contribution to contemporary art is further recognized for its poignancy in exploring global concerns.
Beam drew upon his Anishinabek traditions through the recognition of the important role of dreams, the place of spirit helpers, and the lessons of his Aboriginal ancestry. He was also well-known for working with photography and collage in an aesthetic style that was more akin to the expressive layering of American Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg than the more traditional forms of Anishinabek "Woodland School" painters such as Norval Morrisseau (1932 – 2007). Confounding expectations Beam masterfully combined his own diverse iconography of symbols drawn from a wide range of sources such as popular culture to scientific and historical imagery. In doing so, Carl Beam's works bridge the philosophies and traditions of both Western philosophical thinking and Anishinabek traditions.
This exhibition consists of 48 of Beam's most remarkable works featuring his powerful large-scale paintings, sensitive ceramics, and highly personal constructions. Included in the exhibition is The North American Iceberg (1985). Purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in 1986, it was championed as the gallery's first acquisition of an artwork created by a contemporary First Nations artist. It has since become recognized as a coming of age for contemporary Indigenous art in Canada.
The exhibition, curated by National Gallery of Canada's Greg A. Hill, Audain Curator of Indigenous Art, is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue available in the Gallery Shop.
Click here for an article by Alison Mayes, Winnipeg Free Press.
Click here for a review by Alison Gillmor, CBC Reviewer.
Related Programs & Events
Past Programs & Events
Carl Beam Public Opening
Beam's work bridges the philosophies and traditions of both Western and Anishinabek worlds.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 from 7pm to 10pm
Members' Event
A special day for WAG members to view the exhibiton Carl Beam.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 from 11am to 5pm
Greg Hill Talk
Talk by Greg Hill, curator of the Carl Beam exhibition.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 from 12:10pm to 1pm
Talk with NGC curator Greg Hill
Greg Hill, curator of the Carl Beam exhibition will speak on Beam's work that bridges the philosophies and traditions of both Western and Aboriginal worlds.
Thursday, July 14, 2011 from 7:30pm to 9pm
World of Belonging
A special day of family activities celebrating Canadian indigenous cultures through music and art-making.
Sunday, August 21, 2011 from 11am to 5pm
Curator's Tour - Carl Beam
Your last chance to see the Carl Beam exhibition in the company of Mary Reid, Curator of Contemporary Art and Photography. Don't miss out on this insightful and moving exhibition of one of Canada's most important contemporary artists.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 from 12:10pm to 1pm
Aakideh: The Art and Legacy of Carl Beam
Personal remembrances along with insights about Carl Beam's art and ideas are vividly illustrated through dozens of his artworks, family photos, interviews, performance videos, and journal
Thursday September 8, 2011 at 7:30pm
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- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
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Two young women from opposite ends of England have both had a tough start in life but as the country battens down for a long war in 1940, will the conflict bring the chance for a new start?
Welcome to the gripping, gritty and moving new story from Mary Wood, a much-loved saga author who started self-publishing her novels as e-books and has never looked back since she won a print contract with Pan Macmillan, one of the UK's biggest publishing houses.
Wood worked in the probation service in both Lancaster and Blackpool and her hard-hitting and emotional historical novels reflect her own experiences and the harsh realities of life at all levels of society.
The thirteenth child of fifteen to a middle-class mother and an East End barrow boy father, Wood's childhood of 'love and poverty' gave her a natural empathy with the less fortunate and a lifelong fascination with social history. Now a great-grandmother, Wood's exciting tales of romance, hardship and adventure have won her an ever-growing army of devoted readers and admirers.
Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Brighter Days Ahead follows the fortunes of Molly Winters, daughter of a butcher in London's tough East End, and Flo Kilgallon, a young woman from Irish stock who was orphaned when she was only months old.
Molly lives with her drunken and abusive widowed father who has betrayed and assaulted her more times than she can care to remember. From a young age, living on the tough streets of Edmonton, she has seen life in the raw but has found comfort in her job working at Goulds, a shoe shop owned by a Jewish family.
However, the Goulds fear the Germans are about to invade England, have booked a passage to America and will be closing the shop. It's a double blow for Molly who has fallen in love with their son David… but to her joy, she discovers that David feels the same way about her.
But before Molly can start to think of a new life, she is snatched by a gang of ruthless pimps and crooks, and held captive in their sordid underworld. Suddenly her future has never seemed bleaker…
Meanwhile Flo, who spent her early years in a orphanage and now lives with her foster mother, is also facing an uncertain future as the kindly owner of the Leeds chemist shop where she works can no longer help finance her night school education.
As maths whizz Flo's dream of becoming a teacher start to fade, her tutor approaches her about trying for a job at Bletchley Park, the Buckinghamshire base for hush-hush code-breaking work. It could be everything she never knew she wanted...
Can the two women, whose paths will cross, weather the hard times ahead because, as they both have learned, 'life isn't always fair. It lifts you up and then kicks you in the face.'
Wood, a worldly and wise author, is not afraid to peer into the darker corners of real life and this compelling, hard-hitting novel tackles some challenging topics which are just as relevant today as they were nearly eighty years ago.
In trademark style, she also brings us some enchanting characters, full of spirit, resilience and determination, and a story brimming with compassion, warmth, drama and adversity.
Romance with a seductive dark edge...
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By Ron J. Keller,
Lincoln Heritage Museum director
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Threescore and 10 years ago, our college brought forth to this
community a museum dedicated to the heritage left by our 16th
president. But the passing of years, cramped space, crucial
conservation needs and changing museum expectations all called for
a new museum. Lincoln College has devoted several years in
developing a unique and engaging museum experience, hiring an
internationally respected design company to creatively tell our
story. We are now ready to open this new Lincoln Heritage Museum to
the public. Those who have walked through the museum have commented
that it exceeded their "wildest expectations" and that they "really
felt it."
Abraham Lincoln is claimed to have quipped, "Die when I may, I
want it said of me that I always plucked a thistle and planted a
flower where I thought a flower would grow." He understood that his
time on Earth and his duty and service to his fellow man mattered.
That is why he is such a compelling and fascinating subject even
Abraham Lincoln's rise was developed on the frontier, molded
in courtrooms and legislative chambers, elevated by rallies and
stump speeches, and won in the personal and genuine relationships he
established in towns and cities across this nation. How Lincoln rose
to greatness, the character qualities he developed, and the people
who knew him and whom he knew are themes interwoven into our new
museum. Not only is Lincoln's life examined here, but also stories
of and voices from over 60 individuals are introduced. These are
people Lincoln met, befriended and were in part responsible for
his success and accomplishments.
In many ways this museum is our collective story —
who we are as a
country and a people, and what we wish to yet become. Through the
example of one person, and of those with whom he came into contact,
the new museum beckons us to pause and contemplate our individual
time on this earth, and the good we can do it make a better place
than when we found it.
Lincoln was perhaps the greatest American
ever, but beyond that, he serves as a character model we can
learn from and live like. It is a challenge for us to dedicate
ourselves to the great unfinished tasks remaining before us.
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There are ample opportunities for you to be a part of this
amazing museum. There is no more exciting time in our museum's
history than now. Might you consider helping our museum for
future generations by becoming a Friend of the Lincoln Heritage
Museum through a financial commitment?
Might you consider becoming a museum volunteer and enjoy the
welcoming of the many visitors we receive from across the
country and the world? By doing so, you will be continuing the
legacy of Lincoln.
I thank the community for its great support of our Lincoln
Heritage Museum. You rightly recognize that this museum has been
and will continue to be an integral part of the cultural,
economic and educational well-being of Lincoln and Logan
County. We feel blessed and honored to be one of this area's
greatest assets and resources.
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• Makes sense: I had the time, I had the 10,000 thumbtacks... I had to make the giant wallboard portrait of Cal Ripken Jr. [Home Run Derby]
Heads you lose, tails I win: Rutgers' top football recruit chose his school based on a coin toss. And who says college recruiting is not a serious enterprise? [Bootlegger Sports]
Gnarly, dude: Did Vladimir Radmanovic seriously show up to Lakers practice wearing Vans? Find your zen of basketball where ever you can, right? [Graney and the Pig]
That sounds like a joke, right?: Hey, watch the elbows, Devan Dumes. It's a basketball game, not an Indigo Girls concert. [MSF]
Retreat to move forward: These teams need a logo redesign so radical it should look like the old design that they never should have changed in the first place. [Legend of Cecilio Guante]
We miss you: Hat Guy writes about the Snuggie. Somewhere in Blog Heaven, FJM weeps a single tear. [Tremendous Upside]


text: 5 things you probably don't know about Ignatius of Loyola St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) is best known for founding the Society of Jesus. His story has been told a thousand different ways, but here are five things that might surprise you about the famous first Jesuit. 1. Canonized Soldier A cannonball struck Ignatius during the battle of Pamplona in 1521. His broken leg was not set properly, leaving an unsightly protruding bone. Without the benefit of anesthesia, Ignatius insisted on having the leg re-broken and re-set. Nonetheless, he walked with a limp for the rest of his life. His suffering was not in vain though – he underwent his famed spiritual conversion during recovery. 2. Record Holder Ignatius is likely the only saint with a notarized police record. The charge: nighttime brawling with intent to cause bodily harm. As you might imagine, this came before his conversion. 3. Non-traditional Student At 33, Ignatius decided to get a college education. Humble and determined, he attended a public grammar school to prepare for entrance into a university, studying Latin grammar with children. He completed his formal education by earning a master's degree at the age of 43. 4. A Man of Letters Ignatius penned over 6,800 letters in his lifetime. Just imagine what he might have accomplished in the age of email. 5. Inquisitive Prisoner During the Spanish Inquisition, Ignatius was imprisoned three times for talking about theological matters without a theology degree. Despite once spending 42 days in jail, he continued to speak his truth. Learn more about Ignatius' legacy.


text: I have just formatted the hard drive of my laptop, but I cannot reinstall Windows 98 SE. The laptop can only use one drive at a time, and it will not boot unless the startup disk is in the drive. If the CD ROM drive is in there, it says "Non-system disk or boot error" (ie, the traditional disk in the drive error). I have selected CD drive as first boot option, but it still wont work. How can I fix this?


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How to Rip Music from CDs into iTunes
You can rip music from a CD and import it into iTunes, thus copying songs from your CDs to your iTunes library. Then you can add the ripped songs to your iPod. So your CDs aren't useless just because you got an iPod!
1Insert an audio CD into your computer.
The songs appear in the List pane as generic, unnamed tracks at first. If your computer is connected to the Internet and you've turned on the option to automatically retrieve song information from the Internet, and if the CD is in the Gracenote CDDB database, iTunes automatically retrieves the track information.
2Click Yes on the dialog box that appears to import (and skip to Step 5) or No to set options first.
Click the No button to set preferences and import settings, to set songs to be skipped, or if you see unnamed tracks rather than the proper track, artist, and album names in the List pane. If all you need to change are the import settings, click the Import Settings button in the lower-right corner of the List pane.
3(Optional) Deselect the check boxes next to any songs on the CD that you don't want to import.
iTunes imports only the songs that have check marks next to them; when you remove the check mark next to a song, iTunes skips that song.
4Click the Import CD button.
The Import CD button appears next to the Import Settings button in the lower-right corner of the List pane after you insert a CD. The status display shows the progress of the operation. To cancel, click the small x next to the progress bar in the status display.
iTunes displays an orange, animated waveform icon next to the song that it's importing. When iTunes finishes importing each song, it displays a check mark next to the song. iTunes chimes when it finishes the import list.
5When all the songs are imported, eject the CD by clicking the Eject button When all the songs are imported, eject the CD by clicking the Eject button next to the disc name in the Devices section of the Source pane.
You can also choose Controls→Eject Disc to eject the disc. Mac users can press the Eject button on the upper-right corner of the Mac keyboard.


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11/05/2010 In addition to a range of new photographer-oriented features, Phocus 2.5 for Apple computers allows users to import RAW files from more than 150 DSLR cameras, and features support for most standard image file formats, making Phocus more flexible and powerful than ever before.
Hasselblad today announced the release of Phocus 2.5 for Mac, breaking new ground by adding RAW support for more than 150 third party digital cameras, including cameras from Canon, Nikon, Leica, Sony, Fuji, Olympus, and more, as well as support for the most common file formats such as TIFF, JPEG, DNG, and PNG. This added file support results in a single, comprehensive - and free - solution that will enable all Hasselblad photographers to streamline their work process by working with both Hasselblad images and those captured with their 35mm DSLRs in one and the same application. Phocus 2.5 also contains a number of new and exciting features that improve workflow and image quality, in addition to further enhancing Phocus's open environment by enabling the photographer to share keywords from Aperture and Lightroom. Photographers who use Leaf digital backs also benefit from this upgrade, with the inclusion of RAW support for Leaf digital backs.
"This new version of the software is perfectly in line with our overall ambition of providing the most seamless, photographer oriented tools possible," says Peter Stig, Product Director at Hasselblad. "Most high-end shooters work with a range of cameras, some Medium Format, some 35mm, depending on the challenges of the job at hand. Phocus 2.5 allows Mac users to stay in the same familiar and powerful Phocus environment, regardless of what type of camera the files come from. In addition," he continues, " the support for Leaf backs gives photographers the ability to accurately evaluate the benefits of moving towards an integrated Hasselblad product, such as one of our new medium format DSLRs H4D-40, H4D-50 or H4D-60."
The key to Phocus 2.5's file support capabilities is a clever use of Apple's OS X, as Peter Stig explains: "The new Phocus 2.5 architecture has been tailored to use the imaging engine of Apple's OS X operating system and takes full advantage of OS X's support for a wide range of digital cameras, allowing us to support this range of non-Hasselblad files. Support for additional cameras will come with each new version of OS X. Tethered capture is not supported."
"In addition," says Peter Stig, "for 35mm DSLR shooters considering the move up to Medium Format, Phocus 2.5 for Mac provides a great opportunity to get acquainted with the Hasselblad world of Medium Format photography and image processing, including workflow options with browsing, adjusting and processing 35mm RAW image files."
Maintaining the strengths of Phocus 2.0, the new release allows current Phocus users to seamlessly transition to version 2.5, with no learning curve. For those previously unfamiliar with Phocus, switching to the "lite" mode provides a user-friendly and streamlined interface that still provides access to the most important core features such as browsing, and the new full quality printing and slideshow creation options.
"With the launch of Phocus 2.5," Peter Stig concludes, "Hasselblad continues to deliver upon its commitment to provide the world's best camera systems to the world's most demanding photographers."
Phocus 2.5 for Mac is free of charge and available for download from the Hasselblad web site on May 19th 2010.
A current list of supported cameras is available here: Apple File Support.
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Interesting piece on The Ghosts of Wheaton in Suburban Life newspapers this week. Check it out here.
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Illinois High School Association Highlights The Ghosts of Wheaton
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – With athletes competing in five of six races at Saturday's Greater Louisville Classic, the Lipscomb men and women's cross country teams got a chance to race in big groups against diverse competition. The results included a team victory for Lipscomb's top men's squad and an 11th-place marking for the Lady Bisons in the top women's race.
Led by junior Isaiah Greer's 10th-place finish out of 285 runners, Lipscomb's men won the Blue race Saturday morning over Ferris State and SIU-Edwardsville. The reigning Atlantic Sun Male Runner of the Week, Greer finished the eight-kilometer race in 25:14.29s and was the seventh collegiate runner across the line.
Joining him at the top of the Lipscomb lists were juniors Geoff Musick (season-best 25:39.12s) and Ashton Fisher (career-best 25:42.14s), who finished 25th and 27th, respectively.
Junior Ben Wright, off a career-best run at last weekend's Erik Anderson Invite, nearly equaled that mark this weekend. The Vicennes, Ind. native finished 37th with a 25:53.30s mark, just over a second off last week's mark.
Freshman Ryan Gadsey rounded out the scoring for the Bisons at 25:55.48s, good for 43rd. Gadsey has been a top-five finisher among Bison runners in four of his five meets this season.
In other men's race action, the men finished seventh out of 35 teams in the silver race. Freshman Tate Honaker led the men in that race, finishing 33rd with a 26:54.33s mark.
In the women's Gold race, sophomore Tessa Hoefle paced the Lady Bisons with a 39th-place run, finishing the five-kilometer in a career-best 17:51.24s.
Senior Ashley Lehman was the next Lady Bisons runner to cross the line, finishing 50th following an 18:02.94s run.
Freshman Minna Fields shaved nearly 20 seconds off her previous personal-best, finishing 62nd following an 18:11.80s run.
Sophomore Emily Longden (95th, 18:25.73s) and freshman Maggie Lawrence (108th, 18:33.00s) finished out the top-five for Lipscomb.
Each of Lipscomb's top-five women's runners set personal-bests at Louisville.
Lipscomb's women had athletes in both the blue and silver races as well. In the Blue race, Lipscomb finished fourth as a team; freshman Kaitlyn Llewellyn finished 19th out of 257 runners with a 18:39.95s run, while junior Priya Pappu was 25th with an 18:44.18s run.
In the silver race Lipscomb did not have enough competitors to field a team. Among the individual runners, freshman Kaleigh Bueckert finished 23rd with a 19:57.83s run.
Lipscomb will take next weekend off before heading to Fayetteville, Ark. for the prestigious Chile Pepper Festival, Oct. 15.
Check lipscombsports.com for all the Lipscomb cross country and track and field news, and be sure to like us on Facebook (Lipscomb University: Track & Field).


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Network Switches
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As your business grows, innovative network switches can protect your investment while preparing you for the future.
Network switches are at the core of all networks. They provide high-speed connectivity to applications and communications systems, and efficiently and securely transmit bandwidth-intensive data, voice, video, and wireless applications. Local-area networks (LANs) rely on network switches to manage traffic patterns, support new services, and optimize application performance.
To meet current and future network requirements, network switches should offer the following functionality:
- Application Intelligence: Todays network switches must recognize many types of applications. They also should be able to help secure and set priorities for applications running on the network to provide the best user experience.
- Unified Network Services: Network switches can now apply security, scalability and services consistently across the network. Network switches combine the best elements of wireless networking and wired networking to connect to any resource or person through any device.
- Nonstop Communications: Network switches can prevent communication interruptions through existing features and capabilities like redundant hardware, non-stop forwarding, in-service software upgrades (ISSU), and software modularity.
- Virtualization: By supporting dynamic resource and service utilization over a shared infrastructure, network switches allow businesses to adopt new services on a common, virtualized network. This helps to enable highly secure access to network resources for guests and contractors, and provides department segregation for business compliance.
- Integrated Security: Network switches are the first line of defense against internal security attacks. They also prevent unauthorized users from entering the network. Security services provided by network switches include Network Admission Control and integrated security service modules that help enable virtual private networks, firewalls, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, and other security services.
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Former US President Jimmy Carter has slammed American assassination drone strikes in other countries, saying that killing civilians in such attacks would in fact nurture terrorism.
"I personally think we do more harm than good by having our drones attack some potential terrorists who have not been tried or proven that they are guilty," Carter said in an interview with Russia Today.
"But in the meantime, the drone attacks also kill women and children, sometimes in weddings... so this is the kind of thing we should correct," he added.
Carter, who served as US president from 1976 to 1980, also criticized incumbent American policy makers for violating the country's "long-standing policy" of "preserving the privacy of US citizens."
"We now pass laws that permit eavesdropping on private phone calls and private communication," he noted, explaining that in the past, in order to do that, the government had to obtain a court ruling that proved the nation's national security was at risk, "which was very rare, but now it's done all over America."
"We need to back off [and] restore basic human rights as spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)," the former US president underlined.
He concluded by saying that there are 30 paragraphs in the UDHR, "and at present time, my country, the US, is violating 10 out of the 30."


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Leander ISD's annual Choral Showcase will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, at LISD South Pac at Cedar Park High School.
This wonderful event will feature the talents of the LISD high school choirs.
Tickets are $5 per person, and they may be purchased at the door.
All proceeds from the Choral Showcase go to support Fine Arts programs in LISD.
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NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS was watched for either the Forgotten Pre-Codes series at The Daily Notebook or the Late Show: Late Films Blogathon, but ended up missing both. A shame, because it's weird as hell and twice as interesting.
It's the last film of director Lowell Sherman, that suave and portly screen Lothario who helmed plenty of sophisticated affairs in the early thirties — he died shortly after completing it, and it finally opened in 1935, after the Production Code was fully established, but it still has a certain racy vibe to it — where else can you see the hero of a film wilfully petrify a fishmonger?
Let me back up slightly and explain. The movie is from Universal, part of that great swarm of movies never released on home video — Universal have been good about getting their 30s horror films out, but have left the whole rest of their back catalogue festering in a vault, somewhere, it would seem. The film begins with this warning / statement of intent / helpless shrug —
Thereafter we meet an eccentric family, living under a barrage of explosions caused by mad scientist Hunter Hawk (Alan Mowbry) and his crazy experiments. When Mowbry eventually achieves his goal, a magic ring which can turn things to stone, his first act is to use it on all his annoying relatives, save the glamorous Peggy Shannon, whom he likes.
All of this is fairly high-concept and understandable, but then Hawke meets a leprechaun, gets drunk with him, and starts a relationship with his daughter (the free-and-easy, strongly implied extra-marital sex seems bold for post-code). This, to me, falls under the heading of Double Voodoo — when a film contains more than one unrelated aberrant concept, it is in danger of disintegrating into a bag of bits. It seems valid , for instance, for Dracula to meet the Wolfman, since they're both Mitteleuropean folkloric characters of supernatural origin, but if you throw in the Frankenstein monster, the product of electro-galvinism, you risk incohesion.
NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS, it is fair to say, not only risks incohesion but pursues it relentlessly with slavering jaws. Hawke discovers that his ring can also transform stone into living flesh and blood, so he sneaks into the local art gallery after dark and brings to life all the Roman statues, who all turn out to have the personalities and powers of the mythic figures they represent. Soon, he and his leprechaun lover are running wild in the streets with Neptune (Robert Warwick, obsessed with fish), Hebe (Geneva Mitchell, obsessed with cups), Bacchus (George Hassell, unused to modern bootleg liquor) and too many others. Hawke casually petrifies anybody who gets in his way, behaving altogether more like a psychopath than one is used to seeing in a lead character of the period, outside of gangster films.
It's very silly, mildly diverting and completely bananas — the early warning that most of the more insane parts are a dream is unfortunate, because it compromises the overall craziness which is the film's chief merit and trait.
"He's a hideous creature," said Fiona of Mowbry, which is true, if a little unkind. But, as Hunter Hawk, his aristocratic bearing works well with his privileged, dreamy, inhumane character. No wonder his son Hudson turned out to be a burglar, forever trespassing in art galleries himself.


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cowshrptrn wrote:Hate to burst your bubble, its a cool idea and all, but last i checked Lack hasn't added a means of forcing neutral territories, so they will start with player's armies on them
glee wrote:if you can make the white area neutral in the beginning, you could give the seven territories in the middle of the white area a rather large bonus for holding it, this'll give players encouragement to break into the neutrel area.
icettee wrote:I like your map, I think it would be a unique board to play. Although I think the color names is suitable - maybe you can use part of the chinese zodiac for continents names.
oaktown wrote:How's this glee: you receive a bonus for having a contiguous path through the center connecting two color triangles. This approximates the idea of chinese checkers in which the idea is to make a path across the board, and gives incentive for driving into the center of the board. This should be easy enough to code.
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Forza AZ wrote:If you have 1 possibility (so 5 countries), you can get a 2nd possibility by only conquering 1 other country. If you code all posibilities seperate you get twice a bonus. And I don't think you mean to have this.
I should be possible to avoid this somehow, but I think the coding will get very complicated.
Maybe a good idea to just make 1 or 2 paths for each crossing which give a bonus (for example S-F-A-B-I and R-E-A-C-J for orange-blue and the same pattern for the other 2 crossings).
happysadfun wrote:The map is good, but the black background may be a bad idea.
boberz wrote:Listen to what everyone says but do not have everything people suggest on one map otherwise it will all look bad.
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Summit County Community Notes, 4-14-2013
It's time to celebrate National Library Week at the Summit County Libraries. First sponsored by the American Library Association in 1958, this annual event was designed to recognize the importance of books and literacy in this country.To help us celebrate this special week, Denise Gard with Story Creations, will be performing with Sienna, her Border Collie and fellow entertainer! With 12 years of experience as a professional storyteller, children's librarian, and school librarian, Denise will share some snowy tales that highlight Colorado, the North Pole and other frosty places. Sienna, in the role of the Ice Princess, discovers that the three little kittens really didn't lose their mittens-they were stolen! Join Sienna as she hunts for the thief in this chilly tale. Kids of all ages are welcome. This is a free program!Denise will be performing at the Main Library, and both the North and South branches. > South Branch, Breckenridge – Tuesday, 11 a.m.> North Branch, Silverthorne – Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.> Main Library, Frisco – Wednesday, 1 p.m.We hope you will come and join the fun at the free presentation. For more information on this or other upcoming events or programs, or to learn about volunteer opportunities, please call Joyce Dierauer, at (970) 668-5555 or contact her by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com; visit our website at http://www.summitcountylibraries.org; "like" us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter; or simply come by and visit with us at any of our three locations, in Frisco, Breckenridge and Silverthorne.
In honor of Child Abuse Prevention month, FIRC and Prevent Child Abuse Colorado cordially invite you to a free dinner and author presentation, "The Sex-Wise Parent," presented by Dr. Janet Rosenzweig from 5:30-6 p.m. on Monday at the Frisco Senior Center. Dinner and child care check-in will be available with the presentation, followed by a Q&A from 6-7:30. Spanish translation will be provided. The presentation is appropriate for parents of toddlers through adolescents. Call FIRC at (970) 262-3888 x 330 or email email@example.com to reserve your space.
The Frisco chapter of the Summit County Chamber of Commerce will host an After Hours Business Mixer from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on April 18 at the Hotel Frisco. (The ad in the SDN on April 10 incorrectly listed the location.) The Hotel Frisco is located on Main Street in Frisco. Cost of entry is $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers and includes one free drink ticket for beer or wine, a light dinner and two raffle tickets to win a $200 circular saw donated by Lowes. Bring plenty of business cards and be prepared to meet new contacts and have some fun. If you'd like for your business to get a bit more exposure, donate a door prize by calling Judi at (970) 389-6470 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Parents who would like to visit Summit County Preschool for summer and fall enrollment are invited to an enrollment open house from 10 a.m. to noon and 3-5 p.m. on April 25. Stop in during those times to visit classrooms, meet teachers and complete paperwork for enrollment. Refreshments will be provided and questions will be answered. Summit County Preschool is located at 70 W. Main St. in Frisco and can be reached by phone at (970) 668-5508 or online at http://www.summitcountypreschool.com.
Registration is now open for the 37th annual Salomon Run the Rockies weekend on June 8-9. Registration is available online at http://www.RuntheRockies.com. Current discounted prices are $50 for the half marathon and $40 for the 10K. The trail race registration is $40 for the 5K and 10K. Prices go up May 1. Day-of registration will be available for both races. Registration for the road race on June 8 is available at the Frisco Recreation Building at Third Avenue and Main Street from 6-8 a.m. The 5K and 10K trail race day-of registration will be available at the Frisco Day Lodge from 7-8 a.m. on Sunday, June 9. For more information, please contact Linsey Kach at (970) 668-9133 or email@example.com.
Help High Country Conservation Center honor Summit County's deserving individuals, businesses and volunteers at this year's Party for Planet being held on Earth Day, Monday, April 22. The Green Scene Awards are a great way to recognize someone you know who has been an environmental inspiration to you and others. Visit http://www.highcountryconservation.org for details and a nomination form. All nominations are due by April 16.
The Alpine Earth Center in Silverthorne is screening "Dirt! The Movie" at 4 p.m. on April 14 and 6 p.m. on April 17. For this movie, presenters will be Sherie Sobke, from Alpine Earth Center, and Jen Santry, from High Country Conservation Center. Upcoming movies: "Dirt! The Movie," "The Greater Good," "Catching Babies," "Genetic Roulette," "Thrive," "Beautiful Truth," "Cats of Mirikitani" and "Law of Similars." The fee is $5.
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Now that we've moved - the unpacking begins, as does the trying to make this place feel like home. We moved into a place that had 4 different rooster decorations in it...definitely not our style.
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Mayor's Office
Mayor Chris Beutler and State Senator Ken Haar today announced that additional safety measures are being taken to help students living in the Highlands area of northwest Lincoln reach Schoo Middle School, which opened last year. Those students who live south of U.S. Highway 34 and walk to school must cross the highway to reach the school at 700 Penrose Drive.
Last winter, StarTran added service from a single pick- up location in the Highlands to the school. That service has been expanded for the upcoming school year. StarTran worked with the Schoo administration to develop the new route, which will loop through the Highlands with multiple stops. The new route is called the #52 Gaslight Booster.
At the same time, a new school zone with a speed limit of 45 mph has been created on Highway 34 north and south of its intersection with Fletcher. The regularly posted speed in that area is 60 mph. Prior to last school year, a countdown cross walk was installed at the intersection along with new sidewalks, a new left-turn arrow and new crosswalk markings.
"These are significant safety measures that will help us reach our main goal – getting students to and from school safely," said Mayor Beutler. "I want to thank the Schoo administration as well as the residents of the neighborhood who worked with us to make improvements. I also want to thank Senator Haar who represents this area for making this issue a priority and helping us find solutions."
"The health and safety of children is a top priority of mine," said Senator Haar. "I want to thank Mayor Beutler and the City of Lincoln for stepping up to the plate to address the potentially dangerous school crossing at Highway 34 and Fletcher with the installment of a 45 mph school zone and the booster bus route."
Information on the new StarTran route is available at startran.lincoln.ne.gov and 476-1234. StarTran staff will attend the Schoo open houses August 12 and 16 to meet with parents and students and sell bus passes. The new school zone will be in effect for the first time from 6 to 7 p.m on Safe Walk and Safe Ride to School Night August 16. The lower speed limit will be in effect weekdays 7:15 to 7:45 a.m. and 3:15 to 3:45 p.m. Recommended walking routes for all Lincoln schools are available from school principals and the City website at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: schools).


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DeveloperWiki:Building in a clean chroot
This article is part of the DeveloperWiki.
Building in a clean chroot prevents missing dependencies in packages, whether due to unwanted linking or packages missing in the depends array in the PKGBUILD. It also allows users to build a package for the stable repositories (core, extra, community) while having packages from [testing] installed.
Convenience Way
To quickly build a package in a chroot without any further tinkering, one can use the helper scripts from the devtools package.
These helper scripts should be called in the same directory where the PKGBUILD is, just like with makepkg. For instance,
extra-i686-build automatically sets up chroot in
/var/lib/archbuild, updates it, and builds a package for the extra repository. For multilib builds there is just
multilib-build without an architecture.
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|extra / community
|testing / community-testing
|testing / community-testing
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Classic Way
Setting Up A Chroot
The devtools package provides tools for creating and building within clean chroots. Install it if not done already:
pacman -S devtools
To make a clean chroot, create a directory in which the chroot will reside. For example,
Now create the chroot:
CHROOT=$HOME/chroot mkdir $CHROOT sudo mkarchroot $CHROOT/root base base-devel sudo
$CHROOT/root/etc/makepkg.conf to set the packager name and any makeflags. Also adjust the mirror list in
$CHROOT/root/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and enable [testing] in
$CHROOT/root/etc/pacman.conf if desired.
Alternatively, provide a custom
pacman.conf and
makepkg.conf with the following:
sudo mkarchroot -C <pacman.conf> -M <makepkg.conf> $CHROOT/root base base-devel sudo
It is recommended however users do not use custom
pacman.conf and
makepkg.conf during the initial creation of clean chroot to ensure no user-specific adjustments are made. Use with caution.
Building in the Chroot
Firstly, make sure the chroot is up to date with:
sudo mkarchroot -u $CHROOT/root
Then, to build a package in the chroot, run the following from the dir containing the PKGBUILD:
sudo makechrootpkg -c -r $CHROOT
A unionfs is used to maintain the clean chroot during building. All installed dependencies or makedepends and other changes made during building are done in $CHROOT/rw. Passing the -c flag to makechrootpkg ensures that this directory is cleaned before building starts.
Handling Major Rebuilds
The cleanest way to handle a major rebuild is to create a new chroot and build the first package (typically the package for which the rebuild is meant). Then create a local repo inside the new chroot. To do this:
sudo mkdir $CHROOT/root/repo sudo chmod 0777 $CHROOT/root/repo
The chmod statement allows for the coping of package files and for the creation of the local repo as your user rather than root.
cp <package> $CHROOT/root/repo cd $CHROOT/root/repo repo-add local.db.tar.gz <package>
Then add the local repo to
[local] Server = file:///repo
As long as you add only self built packages to this repo, you can add
SigLevel = TrustAll
and update the repo:
sudo mkarchroot -u $CHROOT/root
With every additional package rebuilt, copy the package to the local repo directory, add it to the repo database and update the chroot.
Alternate Rebuild Handling
The above directions will work fine, but they can dirty the "pristine" chroot that makechrootpkg tries to keep in check (that is the point of using unionfs - dirtying a separate 'rw' directory).
Using a custom repo
Follow the steps above to setup a local repo inside the chroot.
Build packages using:
sudo makechrootpkg -r $CHROOT -u
The -u will update the chroot before building (-Syu) but updates will be installed to the rw layer, maintaining a clean chroot.
Manual package installation
Packages can be installed manually to the rw layer of the chroot by using:
sudo makechrootpkg -r $CHROOT -I package-1.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
Installation after building
Tell makechrootpkg to simply install a package to the rw layer of the chroot after building by passing the -i arg. Unrecognized args get passed to makepkg, so this calls `makepkg` with the -i arg.
sudo makechrootpkg -r $CHROOT -- -i


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Maxillofacial Prosthetics
The American Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthetics provides a description of the sub-specialty:
Maxillofacial Prosthetics is a subspecialty of Prosthodontics that involves rehabilitation of patients with defects or disabilities that were present when born or developed due to disease or trauma. Prostheses are often needed to replace missing areas of bone or tissue and restore oral functions such as swallowing, speech, and chewing. In other instances, a prosthesis for the face or body may be indicated for cosmetic and psychosocial reasons. Prosthetic devices may also be created to position or shield facial structures during radiation therapy. Patients that typically desire prosthetic care are those that have been in an accident, have had surgical removal of diseased tissues, or have a neuromuscular disorder from ALS or a stroke. Children can also be born without full development of ears, teeth, or palate and need specialized care. Maxillofacial Prosthodontists are accustomed to working cooperatively with ENTs, oral surgeons, general and specialty dentists, plastic surgeons, neurologists, radiation oncologists, speech pathologists, anaplastologists and various ancillary personnel. The overall goal of all maxillofacial prosthetic treatment is to improve the quality of life.
Applicants for this program should have completed or are in their final year of completion of an Advanced Education in Prosthodontics program. Examples of prostheses fabricated by maxillofacial prosthodontists can include extra-oral prosthetics replacing the eye, ear, nose, and other facial structures. Somatic prosthesis may be made to replace a body part such as a finger, while radiation shields are fabricated to protect structures during radiation therapy. Intraoral prosthetics may include surgical, interim, and definitive obturators that cover missing parts of the palate to help mastication, swallowing, and speech. Prosthetics to move the soft palate or to replace a portion of the mandible can also be constructed.
Source: http://www.maxillofacialprosthetics.org/ReferringPhysicians/WhatisMP.html


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Using Mass Balance to Understand Atmospheric CFCs
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- scientific accuracy and currency
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- Accept with minor revisions
- Accept with major revisions, or
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Following the panel meetings, the conveners wrote summaries of the panel discussion for each resource; these were transmitted to the creator, along with anonymous versions of the reviews. Relatively few resources were accepted as is. In most cases, the majority of the resources were either designated as 1) Reject or 2) Accept with major revisions. Resources were most often rejected for their lack of completeness to be used in a classroom or they contained scientific inaccuracies.
This activity was selected for the On the Cutting Edge Reviewed Teaching Collection
This activity has received positive reviews in a peer review process involving five review categories. The five categories included in the process are
- Scientific Accuracy
- Alignment of Learning Goals, Activities, and Assessments
- Pedagogic Effectiveness
- Robustness (usability and dependability of all components)
- Completeness of the ActivitySheet web page
For more information about the peer review process itself, please see http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/review.html.
This page first made public: Sep 8, 2006
This material is replicated on a number of sites as part of the SERC Pedagogic Service Project
Learning Goals
Context for Use
Teaching Materials
- the CFC activity in pdf format for students to printout and use;
- the CFC model page so they can work through the activity.
Teaching Notes and Tips
References and Resources
The first and second activities are:
- Using a mass balance model to understand carbon dioxide and its connection to global warming. This activity has been student tested, reworked, and updated over the past 12 years.
- The activity described here "Using Mass Balance to Understand Atmospheric Levels of CFCs".


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Leuven Belgian Beer Cafe on Featherston Street is a little touch of Europe in the heart of Wellington City. Set in a fully refurbished historic building erected in 1907 Leuven offers a tantalising mix of genuine Belgian beers, the finest local wines and a well regarded menu of traditional Belgian and French inspired dishes.
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Belgium has been the home of beer for hundreds of years. Where tradition and myth entwine each variety and brand of popular beer, the best of which you can to enjoy at Leuven...
Renowned for a signature dish consisting of a one kilo pot of steaming mussels, frites and mayonnaise; we also keep a full table of seafoods, steak dishes, waffles, snacks, and lesser know Belgian delicacies.
We cater for a variety of functions, whether it's a full dining experience, cocktails, beer and food matches, breakfast meetings or private functions in the Fernie dinning room, we can create a memorable occasion to your personal requirement.
A regular range of events are staged, some public but many open exclusively to Leuven Waffle card members.


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Posted on October 8, 2012 | | Categories: File Security
FIPS 140-2 is a standard with which cryptographic-based (encryption) security systems must comply when protecting sensitive data in U.S. government agencies and departments. This FIPS 140-2 standard also extends to other entities that may exchange sensitive data with the federal government, including defense contractors, state agencies, county and city government.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce which establishes the standards for cryptographic modules used to protect and secure sensitive information. NIST issued FIPS 140-1, the first set of standards developed in conjunction with cryptographic industry vendors and users on January 11, 1994. This group specified four security levels and eleven requirement areas of meeting a cryptographic standard.
On May 25, 2001, NIST issued FIPS 140-2, updating its specifications to address the technology changes since 1994 and is currently working on the draft version of FIPS 140-3 issued in Sept. 2009.
The purpose of the FIPS 140-2 standard is to coordinate the standards to be used by U.S. government and other regulated industries in gathering, storing, transferring, sharing, and disseminating sensitive information. It also provides an FIPS 140-2 accreditation program for private sector vendors that develop cryptographic modules that can be used in other products. For instance, our GoAnywhere solution uses an encryption module from RSA® which is FIPS 140-2 certified by an independent lab.
Traditional methods of sending files such as email or FTP do not meet the FIPS 140-2 standards. If you intend to exchange files with the federal government, it is critical that your file transmission is encrypted with a FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption module.
When researching managed file transfer (MFT) solutions, it is important to determine if they have a FIPS 140-2 compliant module available, especially if you are exchanging sensitive data with the federal government. Read more about GoAnywhere's FIPS 140-2 support.
By utilizing an automated and secure file transfer solution like GoAnywhere along with FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption, doing business with the federal government and other such regulated industries becomes much easier.


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Extreme makeover: Ordinance offers city a new look
On ABC's reality show Extreme Makeover, contestants who've never had to worry about winning beauty contests retreat for a six-week ultimate makeover, generally including liposuction, implants of every stripe, and porcelain veneers to disguise yellowed, jagged chompers.
Now, it seems, the city of Charlottesville may be poised for an extreme makeover of its own– under a new zoning ordinance that took effect in September. But does the city really need the makeover, which admittedly could be decades in coming?
The result of years of discussion among city planners, government, and citizen groups, the new ordinance is the very first total overhaul since the original zoning ordinance was introduced in the early 1950s.
How did such a "makeover" come about?
The city commissioned a "commercial corridor study" in the late 1990s to help determine ways to improve land use and allow for growth within the tight city limits.
Mixed-use developments, the city decided, are the wave of the future.
And like the snaggle-toothed smiles of makeover contestants, Charlottesville's corridors– those entries to our city that offer first and last impressions– may need veneers to maximize our city's appeal.
Those veneers, according to the study, will turn the corridors into vibrant areas where people live, work, shop, and play. Once the density is high enough, new types of mass transportation may become viable.
In the final corridor study, various renderings offer a glimpse of what Charlottesville's "after" might look like.
The rendering shows possible changes to the scene you'd see driving south on Emmet Street, approaching Barracks Road. ALC Copies: gone. The Meadowbrook Shopping Center has been completely rebuilt and moved roadside to provide window shopping even from your car– er, bicycle.
Curious? The answer, in a nutshell: brick, brick, and more brick. Lots of mini-Downtown Malls, with wide pedestrian corridors, big bike lanes, and ample plantings.
Mayor Maurice Cox is quick to reassure that the city wants to maintain diversity in development. The renderings, he says, are simply artistic interpretations of what might work at a particular location– they don't constitute any sort of final plan. Others, such as developer Oliver Kuttner, worry that the city is trying to enforce uniformity.
"They want everything matching," says Kuttner. "Those are not just renderings." [See sidebar on Kuttner.]
Whatever the case, the large-scale city makeover encouraged by the new ordinance should make for some edge-of-your-seat moments in the years to come. Be sure you're tuned in.
Maurice Cox
Mayor Maurice Cox, an architect with the RBGC Architecture firm, believes the new zoning ordinance is a crowning glory for Charlottesville.
"To purposefully rig the rules toward creating a mixture of uses," says Cox, "is a very significant achievement."
He says that by putting businesses and residences together, "we are ultimately changing people's habits."
By habits, Cox is referring to people's insistence on driving everywhere. Creating mixed-use areas, Cox says, is the first step toward creating a city where public transportation and pedestrianism finally trump the automobile.
"People are going to have to make fewer trips to get to work, buy groceries, and get to cultural offerings," Cox explains. "Some people call it density; it ultimately is a decision about proximity."
Giovanna Galfione
When Galfione, an architect with RBGC (and wife of the Mayor), took on the former Woolworth's building project, she says, she had her work cut out for her: At 66,000 square feet, the building would be larger than any other on the Downtown Mall– and would boast nearly the same amount of space as the hulking former NGIC building that now houses SNL Financial.
"The goal was to articulate enough to create some vitality along the side street," says Galfione of the project, dubbed The Terraces.
Galfione says she believes the result is a success. "You really see how these series of facades or volumes come together to create something interesting to look at," she explains.
And Cox agrees– in fact, he credits the Terraces' successful combination of retail, office, and residential spaces with inspiring many of the changes in the new zoning ordinance.
Galfione, however, says the project could not have been done without the support of Terraces developer Oliver Kuttner.
"I'm really grateful to Oliver," she says. "He wanted to use durable materials; he didn't cut corners at all."
Gate Pratt
Although architect Gate Pratt says the new zoning ordinance didn't shape a big project he recently worked on– the City Center for Contemporary Arts on Water Street by Bushman Dreyfus Architects– he's optimistic about its effect on his future projects.
"I basically think it's a positive step by the city," says Pratt, who's working with the Piedmont Housing Alliance on a six-townhouse development on John Street, near 14th Street and the University. The new ordinance offers architects and developers "more leeway," says Pratt, in things such as parking, setbacks, and mixed uses.
Bruce Wardell
"Good downtown housing where you don't have to get in your car every time you need to do something"– that's how architect Bruce Wardell describes the new Lofts at Belmont, which he designed. And that just happens to be what the city wants.
The 49-unit Lofts project is a condominium complex rising from a brown field nestled up against the CSX railroad tracks in Belmont. While the Lofts don't make use of the new zoning ordinance, the project won the nod of city planners and neighbors to beat out several competing– and less dense– proposals during a public process in 2000.
Going vertical meant that three of the project's 4.3-acres could be devoted to a park.
To date, 33 of the 42 condos have been sold at the site, which will also include three single-family homes and four townhouses.
"This was all done in a Planned Unit Development," says Wardell. "The PUD gave you the freedom to plan before the new zoning ordinance."
Jeff Dreyfus
Architect Jeff Dreyfus is converting a nondescript '60s one-story office building near Martha Jefferson Hospital into a three-story structure that will house his architectural practice, Bushman Dreyfus, along with Summit Properties commercial real estate brokers and 14 residential units. The property at 820 E. High Street is one of the first structures to rise under the new ordinance. But it hasn't been a cakewalk.
While the new ordinance allows some nearby on-street parking to count toward the site's required total, the downside is that Dreyfus had to win design approval from the planning commission because the site is in an "entrance corridor."
Although the project was the first to apply for a "certificate of appropriateness," a new requirement under the revised ordinance, Dreyfus calls the process "perfectly reasonable."
And he feels sure that future projects will find the going even easier as they apply for that certificate.
"There were questions and bumps that needed to be ironed out," he says, "but it will get better as the process works its way through."


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Liz and her husband, Ben, spend time living in Portland and Uganda working with the women at Cornerstone Leadership Academy who hand make each pair of Sseko sandals allowing them to earn money towards a university education. (Watch the response to their recent exam scores here!).
This year Sseko started a new project called the Sole Sisters Challenge. If you're in a sorority I highly encourage you to watch the video below. (It's definitely worth 1:34 of your time!).
To find out more information about the Sseko Sole Sisters Challenge and how you can help during recruitment week, feel free to send Liz an email at liz{at}ssekodesigns{dot}com. One thing's for sure, if Tim and I ever visit Portland we know who's couch we're sleeping on!


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Women with chronic
high blood pressure require special medical care
before, during, and after their pregnancies.
Many women with chronic high blood pressure need little or no
medicine during pregnancy. Blood pressure usually falls during early pregnancy,
so medicine is often not needed unless blood pressure increases to higher
High blood pressure is a disorder with few or no symptoms. When planning
a pregnancy, see your doctor for a review of pregnancy risks, such as high
blood pressure.
Women with elevated blood pressure during
pregnancy receive frequent blood pressure readings, blood tests, and urine
screens for signs of preeclampsia.
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Nadine Dorries
The controversial 55-year-old Conservative MP Nadine Dorries expressed confusion over her sleeping arrangements on day one of the 2012 season of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! Dorries was roundly criticised for leaving her parliamentary duties to appear on the ITV reality show.
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Casinos sure can be a scary place. Low light, rows of flashing machines hungry for your money and chain smoking, walker using seniors willing to take you out for their favorite chair.
Most of us have to navigate that gauntlet on our own as we try to win our way into fame and fortune, but for musicians and stars it's not usually a problem. Unless you were Lenny Kravitz on Saturday.
"We're lost…we can't find our way to the stage," said a confused Kravitz on a video he took.
It seems the rocker got separated from his handlers and went astray inside The Borgata in Atlantic City.
"Somehow I'm not with my tour manager and I don't know where I'm going," he continued.
Kravitz chronicled his excellent adventure through the resort on his iPhone and later posted it to Twitter to prove to fans he wasn't blowing off his show.
"This is one of those real spinal tap moments," Kravitz said riding a hotel elevator over and over. "This s--- is crazy."
Once he made it off the elevator, Kravitz stood in a rotunda near the casino floor waiting for someone to notice him.
"I'm just gonna stand here until someone figures out that I need to be on stage," he said.
Funny thing was, no one did -- except for his fans.
"All you people think I got my stuff together and I'm so slick and so cool…I'm actually not," the musician said.
Kravitz was finally rescued by a Borgata security guard who led him to the resort's event center almost an hour after he was supposed to take the stage.


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Let $K_0$ be a bounded convex set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ within which lie two sets $K_1$ and $K_2$. $K_0,K_1,K_2$ have nonempty interior. Assume that,
- $K_1\cup K_2=K_0$ and $K_1\cap K_2=\emptyset$.
- The boundary between $K_1$ and $K_2$ is unknown. (To avoid the trivial case, I assume that the boundary is not a hyperplane.)
- Either $K_1$ or $K_2$ is a convex set, but we don't know which one is.
- We have two initial points $\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}$ on hand, where $\mathbf{x}\in K_1$ and $\mathbf{y}\in K_2$.
Essentially, $K_0$ can be viewed as a black box. Further assume that one can query any point in $K_0$ with a membership oracle, namely a procedure that given a point $\mathbf{p}\in K_0$, reports the set contains $\mathbf{p}$.
The goal is to determine which set is convex using membership queries.
My questions:
- Can this be done with finite number of queries?
- What is the complexity class of this problem?


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Recent News
August 12, 2013
Voluntary recall of all products for sterile use from Specialty Compounding
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting health care providers and patients of a voluntary nationwide recall of all products produced and distributed for sterile use by Specialty Compounding, LLC, Cedar Park, TX. There have been recent reports of bacterial bloodstream infections potentially related to the company's calcium gluconate infusions.
All sterile use products produced and distributed by Specialty Compounding are being recalled and none of these products should be used by patients or administered to patients. Facilities, health care providers and patients who have received the products since May 9, 2013 should immediately discontinue use, quarantine the products, and return the products to Specialty Compounding.
According to information provided by the firm, the recalled products were distributed directly to patients nationwide, with the exception of North Carolina. Recalled products were also distributed directly to hospitals and physicians' offices in Texas.
The FDA is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Texas state officials to determine the scope of the contamination.
Full recall here: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm364644.htm


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Friday, April 29, 2011
Sepia Saturday #72 - A Trick of Time
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I love the pose of these women with their babies. It makes a lovely composition.ReplyDelete
Ladies of the grove
- AnonymousApril 29, 2011 at 9:13 PM
I was looking at some old slides trying to find one of my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary and came across a photo of my sister. Then I realized it was my mother! The resemblance was amazing and I had never really seen it before that moment!ReplyDelete
I agree, a well-composed picture, with both babies looking in the same direction, and similar poses struck by the ladies. It's odd how family resemblances come to light as we sift through old photos.ReplyDelete
Family likenesses surprise at different times. I swear that as I get older I am becoming more and more like my father.ReplyDelete
Here you have gone back two generations. Good post.
This is why I love old photos so much! It's amazing to see traits that remain for generations! Sometimes it is nothing more than an expression, but more often its a nose, or the way the mouth tilts...just fascinating!ReplyDelete
Great picture! She's quite a beauty, very modern looking despite the hairstyle.ReplyDelete
Very healthy babies. And a nice photo.ReplyDelete
Yes those moments when old family photographs throw up magical "rendez-vous with ourselves" are special. And a nicely unusual photograph in its pose as well.ReplyDelete
Isn't it strange to see yourself in another's face? I have a photo of my maternal great grandmother who looks like my mother and me. Of all the old photos I've looked at she is the only one I resemble and I have no information about her other than her name because she died young.ReplyDelete
Thanks for all of the great comments! CeCeReplyDelete
My sister is the spitting image of my Mum its very strange to see Helen in 70s fashion...great photoReplyDelete
That's a really interesting photograph because of the way it fades at the bottom. I almost thought it was a double exposure. I think you should post a photograph of you next to your look-alike!ReplyDelete


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Taking Charge 1: Three Stories of Success and Self-Determination
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In this video presentation, hear testimonials from successful youth and adults with disabilities regarding living successful, self-determined lives. It can be shown to teens with disabilities or to educators, parents, mentors, and other stakeholders.
- Year: 2000
- Runtime: 16:34 minutes
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