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Politics and government in the World of Avatar vary significantly between the different nations. There are five basic types of political systems, each of which has a distinctive character that corresponds with the element or ideology of its respective nation. The Air Nomads had a theocracy led by four councils of monks or nuns;[1] the Water Tribe has a tribal system which was led by two separate chiefdoms in the North and South Poles until the conclusion of the Hundred Year War;[2][3] the Earth Kingdom has a confederate monarchy led by an earth monarch;[4] the Fire Nation has an absolute monarchy led by the Fire Lord;[5] and the United Republic of Nations has a democracy led by an elected president.[3]
The Avatar acts independently of all states as a means of maintaining peace and order among the nations and also serves as a mediator between the mortal and Spirit World.[5]
Air Nomads
- Main article: Air Nomads
Air Nomads
Government system: Unitary directorial ecclesiocracy
Head of state and government: Four Councils of Elders
Most recent known head: Four Councils of Elders
Territorial divisions: Four air temples
Heads of territorial divisions: Head monks (Northern and Southern Air Temple) and mothers superior (Eastern and Western Air Temple)
Capital: No overall capital
The Air Nomads had no overall government that made unified decisions. Instead, there were four Councils of Elders that presided over each of the four temples. These assemblies consisted of wise and experienced airbending masters, either entirely monks or nuns, that made decisions regarding the temple and its people. However, in comparison to the political systems of the other nations, the Council of Elders had little real authority, and only served as supervisors or managers. The Southern Air Temple had five monks on its Council of Elders, including High Monk Pasang, Tashi, and Gyatso.[1] Sister Iio was the Mother Superior and thus the head of the council in the Eastern Air Temple. In the advent of the Hundred Year War, the temples' councils were killed along with the rest of the nation.
Air Nation
Government system: Unitary Pseudo-Ecclesiocracy
Head of state and government: No overall head of state; just certain respected individuals
Most recent known head: Tenzin
Territorial divisions: Five air temples
Heads of territorial divisions: Air Acolyte abbots (one for each temple)
Capital: No overall capital
To preserve the Air Nomad culture after the Hundred Year War, Aang founded the Air Acolytes, and over time, they grew to be the cultural successors of the Air Nomads, namely the Air Nation. Like the other nations, they too had a political representative on the United Republic Council. As the sole living airbending master and the son of Avatar Aang, Tenzin had a great amount of influence among the Air Acolytes and was held in high regard. Each air temple is administered by an abbot, but ultimately falls under the authority of the head of state.[6]
With the return of airbending following Harmonic Convergence in 171 AG, Tenzin was seen as the figurehead of the new Air Nation, serving as its representative in global affairs.
Water Tribe
- Main article: Water Tribe
Government system: Tribal chiefdom
Head of state: Tribal chief, currently no overall chief
Territorial divisions: Three independent tribes
Capital: No overall capital
The Water Tribe originally did not have an overall leader. After the Hundred Year War, both its main divisions fell under the rule of one chief.[7] Following a civil war, the Southern Water Tribe became independent and is now ruled by its own chief.[8]
Northern Water Tribe
- Main article: Northern Water Tribe
Government system: Unitary Hereditary Monarchic Chiefdom
Head of state and government: Chief
Most recent known head: Desna and Eska
Capital: Northern Water Tribe Capital
Politics in the Northern Water Tribe are more complicated than in its sister tribe in the South Pole. There is one all-powerful leader, but there is a small council that advises him, most recently including the tribe's greatest waterbending master, Pakku. Politics can also be personal. For example, marrying the chief's daughter, the Tribal Princess, can be a significant step in a political career.[2][9]
Southern Water Tribe
- Main article: Southern Water Tribe
Government system: Federal Parliamentary Elected Chiefdom
Head of state: Chief
Most recent known head: Tonraq[8]
Head of government: Chairman of the Council of Chieftains and Elders
Capital: Harbor City
Decisions in the Southern Water Tribe are made exclusively by the current chief, and politics appear to be extremely simple, with only one person in power and all others completely loyal to that person. Unlike in the Northern Water Tribe, the chief's children, such as Katara and Sokka, are not viewed as royalty.[10] Korra, by virtue of her paternal grandfather and uncle being the former chief of the North is technically royalty, but still treated as a regular citizen.
In recent years, its structure became more readily defined, with its Council of Chieftains and Elders handling day-to-day affairs of state and possessing its own judicial system. Due to the South's independence from the North in 171 AG, the council now elects their own chief into office.[8]
Foggy Swamp Tribe
- Main article: Foggy Swamp Tribe
Little is known about the politics of the Foggy Swamp Water Tribe. However, Huu seemed to have some kind of spiritual authority, although his relationship with the rest of the tribe is fairly informal.[11]
Earth Kingdom
- Main article: Earth Kingdom
Government system: Confederate Constitutional Monarchy
Head of state: Earth monarch
Most recent known head of state: Wu
Head of government: Grand Secretariat
Most recent known head of government: Gun
Territorial divisions: Various autonomous states, regions and provinces
Heads of territorial divisions: Kings,[12] governors,[13] mayors[14]
Capital: Ba Sing Se
Though the ruler of Ba Sing Se, titled as the Earth King or Queen, is the official overall leader of the Earth Kingdom, the country functions as a sort of confederation, with individual states, provinces, and cities given a great deal of autonomy. Outside of the cities, the central government has little influence. Furthermore, the Earth Kingdom has no unified system of laws, with each region having its own legal code.[15] These territories do, however, provide support and troops to the Earth King whenever necessary and the military functions as a unified body.[4]
In 174 AG, after Kuvira's defeat at Republic City, King Wu decided he would abolish the monarchy in favor of independent states with a democratically elected government akin to the political situation of the United Republic of Nations.[16]
Ba Sing Se
- Main article: Ba Sing Se
Title of leader: Earth King or Queen
Most recent known leader: Wu
Position: Earth Kingdom capital
Executive power of the government of Ba Sing Se and, by extension, the entire Earth Kingdom is vested to the earth monarch. It should be noted that the day-to-day affairs of the city are managed by the Grand Secretariat, who answers only to the monarch.
Title of leader Governor of Gaoling
Most recent known leader: Office vacant
- Candidates:
Position: State
The State of Gaoling is a state in the Earth Kingdom preparing for a transition to democracy. Historically, the area was ruled by the noble Beifong family. Its capital is Gaoling. The candidates in the elections are the traditionalist bureaucrats Ling and Bak, the Earth Empire loyalist Guan, and the Earthbending master Toph Beifong. However, the fairness of the elections has been jeopardized following Doctor Shung's brainwashing of Gaoling's citizens. King Wu planned to cancel the elections but was captured by Guan's army, who prepared to brainwash him.[17][18]
- Main article: Omashu
Title of leader: King
Most recent known leader: Bumi
Position: Provincial capital
Omashu, though part of the Earth Kingdom and therefore answerable to the Earth King in Ba Sing Se, has its own king and is relatively autonomous of the capital.[12]
- Main article: Zaofu
Title of leader: Matriarch[19]
Most recent known leader: Suyin Beifong
Position: Autonomous city-state
Zaofu was founded and built by Suyin Beifong, head of the Metal Clan and daughter of the famous Toph Beifong. Like Omashu, it is part of the Earth Kingdom while staying relatively autonomous of the capital.[19] In 174 AG, it was briefly annexed to the Earth Empire by Kuvira, who assumed total control over the city.[20]
Fire Nation
- Main article: Fire Nation
Government system: Autocratic Absolute Monarchy
Head of state and government: Fire Lord
Most recent known head: Izumi
Territorial divisions: Homeland (formerly including Fire Nation colonies)
Heads of territorial divisions: Governors [21] and mayors [22]
Capital: Fire Nation Capital
Centuries prior, the Fire Nation was formerly ruled by a council of Fire Sages until the Fire Lord broke from the council and established a monarchy. The Fire Lord's firstborn child is the Heir to the Fire Lord, usually referred to as the Crown Prince or the Crown Princess.[5]
Sun Warrior Tribe
- Main article: Sun Warriors
Government system: Tribal Chiefdom
Head of state: Chief
Most recent known head of state: Sun Warrior chief
Capital: Sun Warriors' ancient city
Although the Sun Warriors are firebenders, they are independent of the rest of the Fire Nation and are led by their own Chief.[23]
United Republic of Nations
- Main article: United Republic of Nations
Government system: Unitary Presidential Republic (formerly Unitary Directorial Republic)
Head of state and government: President (formerly United Republic Council)
Most recent known head: Zhu Li Moon[24]
Territorial divisions: Various states, regions and provinces
Capital: Republic City
The United Republic of Nations was formerly led by the United Republic Council, which was composed of one representative from each major nation, who represented the interest of their people.[25] However, in the aftermath of the Anti-bending Revolution, it was decided that this political system was flawed because it did not sufficiently represent the interests of the majority. The United Republic Council was dissolved and an elected president was designated as the new head of state,[3] thus making it the first and so far only democracy in the World of Avatar.


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BGTG 54 - April 1, 2006 - New Gamer and Gamer Dads (with David Gullett)
[A technical complication meant this show took the longest to pull together, but I'm pleased to say it worked completely. If you want to read the audio editing story, check out the boardgamepodcasters mailing list. -Mark]
This is a combination show, an interview with David Gullett that's about being a boardgame newbie, as well as about playing games with your kids. It's in the latter context that I met him when we pre-arranged some games for us to play with our kids at a SoCal Games Day. The last time he came over to my place with his boys to play some more family games, we took some time to record this podcast. The first third or so is about being that latecomer to this hobby, discovering it through a websearch in 2005 that led him to Boardgamegeek.com. Then we get to talking about playing games with our kids. Finally, we get the kids themselves on the air.
This is a subject I'm finding myself increasingly interested in, bolstered by the success I'm starting to have with my own family. Remember the dialing-it-back, family-focussed plan for my hobby in 2006? I think it's working. That's a future show in itself. David is having even more success earlier with his family, and you'll hear why. He's a very fun character who's making good decisions as a parent. He makes me wish I could turn the clock back and do the same with my family four years ago!
This show didn't have the same sort of outlined script I usually use. David's other hobby is amateur improv comedy, so the lack of an outline presented no problem for him. I'm not as quick on my feet, and upon listening to the show I think I jump around a bit more, interrupt myself and fail to finish my sentences sometimes! Hopefully you can get the gist of what I'm saying when I try to relate German children's games to movies like Spy Kids. Honestly, it makes sense to me but maybe I didn't finish the explanation in the podcast!
David is the first one to claim the title of Guest Host on BGTG for the part of this show when I sign off and he interviews his kid & mine at the same time. A podcast original! (For boardgame podcasts, anyway!)
The show was originally recorded way back on March 4, but it took me this long to get it out. If you make all the way to the end, I think you'll agree this publication date is appropriate. :)
P.S. A fun little gaffe when David mentions The Dice Tower as competition to BGTG, and I say "I don't consider them competition." What I meant to say was that I don't consider podcasting a competition, of course!
David Gullett's profile on BGG (davebo)
His many family-focussed Geeklists
True Colors (the game that led him to BGG!)
Games for the lunch hour: San Juan, Attika, Jambo, Lost Cities
Too geeky for work: Colossal Arena, Dungeon Twister, Memoir '44, Heroscape
ItsTime4Games podcast
Games we played with the kids: Diamant, Loco
German family games: Midnight Party, Gulo Gulo, Igloo Pop
American family games: Clue, Sorry, Careers, Life, Smarty Party Jr., Apples to Apples Jr.
Jake's favorites: Heroscape, Puerto Rico, Bang!

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Trish Hartman anchors Newswatch 16 at 7 and 11, and Newswatch 16 at 10 on WNEP2. She joined the station in January 2008, just in time for the opening of the Pocono Newsroom. Trish covered stories in Monroe, Pike and Wayne Counties before making the jump to Scranton in 2009. She covered Scranton and Lackawanna County for a year an a half before she was named anchor of the weekend newscasts in October 2010.
Trish grew up just outside of Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Maryland's College of Journalism. She started her news career in Great Falls, Montana as a reporter and photographer for the CBS affiliate there. In 2006 Trish traded her winter coat for a ticket to Savannah, Ga. That's where she anchored and produced the morning newscasts for the ABC and FOX affiliates.
Trish loves to run and has completed five full marathons, including Run for the Red in the Poconos and the Disney World Marathon! She says her lack of coordination makes long-distance running the perfect sport for her.
Her hometown is just a short trip down the Northeast Extension, so Trish enjoys spending lots of time with her family and friends in Bucks County.


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Rapids player ratings vs. Columbus: Moor, Kimura come up big in MLS opener
The first Rapids player-ratings of the season come care of Kevin Villegas, a Denver native who has been following the Rapids since their inaugural season, plays midfield himself and works as a producer for a local advertising agency.
Nothing came easy for the 2011 Colorado Rapids.
But after a decidedly tumultuous offseason fueled by coaching changes, front office replacements and personnel moves, last year is in the rear view mirror. The Rapids kicked off the new season against the Columbus Crew at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Saturday with a new look offense and a bevy of new players.
How good was the Rapids performance in the first game of 2012? The Rapids put 17 shots to the goal — and the stellar back line of the Rapids allowed only 5 for Columbus.
For all the attacking flair added in the preseason, it was the team's effort defending that ruled the day. To be sure, the Crew never really looked threatening. The Rapids, however, managed to defend and look dangerous going forward.
Here are the first player ratings on The Terrace for March 10 against the Columbus Crew:


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Since 1994, the American Academy of Pediatrics has advocated that infants should sleep on their backs to prevent "crib death." The campaign, called "Back To Sleep," was undertaken in response to research published first in New Zealand, then Australia, England and many other countries, which showed that infants who sleep on their tummies had a statistically significant greater risk of crib death than infants who sleep on their backs. It has been speculated that the reason for this is that infants, who cannot roll over will sometimes breathe in their own exhaled carbon dioxide when they are sleeping on their faces. This causes a deeper sleep in which their muscle tone becomes so relaxed that they allow themselves to smother.
Since 1994, the percentage of babies who are placed prone (on their tummies) to sleep decreased by about 80 percent and the number of infant crib deaths decreased by more than 50 percent. It has become apparent that at least some of what was labeled as unexplained infant deaths were really accidents.
In addition to the position of sleep, the research also showed that the nature of the bedding and the environment in the crib had effects on the infant's safety. In New Zealand, where babies sleep on sheepskin, the prone position was found to be particularly dangerous. All-natural bedding such as fur, straw and bean bags were also found to add to the risk. It was suggested from this research that infants should sleep on a firm surface covered by a flat well-fitted sheet, they should be dressed as warmly as needed and covered or swaddled only with loosely woven or thin cotton blankets. Overdressing was also found to be a risk factor. It was also recommended that no stuffed animals, soft plushy or quilted toys, bumpers or blankets be placed in the crib with an infant to avoid the risk of accidental asphyxiation.
Materials like plush and quilting are not "breathable." Try covering your nose and mouth with one of those plush "baby carriage" blankets. You will see what is meant by not "breathable." Obviously, these recommendations also apply to baby strollers and carriages. It seems, however, that there is one type of sleep environment that was not taken into account when these studies were done.
In a study out of Scotland, published this month in the prestigious journal, Pediatrics, a number of unexplained infant deaths were reviewed and one additional inquiry was requested of the families. That is, "Was the infant sleeping with anyone at the time of death?" The results of the inquiry showed that a very high percentage of these unexplained deaths occurred in a bed or couch with an adult sleeping nearby. There were infants sleeping with nursing mothers, infants sleeping with siblings, and infants sleeping with grandparents. The risks were particularly high if there was any use of alcohol, drugs or any smoking in the environment.
This is not so surprising if you think of what is in an adult bed beside the unconscious adult (all sleep is a form of unconsciousness). There are pillows, blankets, and quilts—all of the bedding we are so careful to avoid in the crib. Couches were particularly singled out in the study as dangerous for the baby when sleeping with an adult.
What does all of this mean? In the United States, where the crib death rate is pretty low, it means that anyone baby is probably not at great risk. If an infant simply cannot adjust to sleeping on its back, prone sleeping, in a proper crib environment is probably not going to cause any serious harm. As we know, many breastfeeding mothers are accustomed to sleeping with their infants.
How often do we hear of an infant's death from this habit?
It happens. The community doesn't always know about it. Many times parents are awakened by the thump and cry of an infant falling out of their bed. In my own practice, a 4-month-old baby had to be resuscitated after the mother awoke suddenly and found her baby blue and lifeless under her quilt. Another mother found her infant trapped by the neck dangling between the bed and the wall. That infant also survived. What do we expect from totally exhausted mothers who drift off to sleep with their nursing infants? All mothers of newborns are sleep deprived. It is not their fault when they lose their awareness of the baby as they sleep.
There really is no way around the danger. The infant must be put down in an infant seat, a bassinette, a crib, or even the floor before the adult falls asleep. Even if the risk is very small, it should not be assumed that any baby is safe in an adult bed. The statistics against co-sleeping with infants have been gathering over the last ten years. There is a danger in this habit.
I know that some people advocate sleeping with children, but in my 30 years of practice, I have not found a parent who enjoys a good sleep while sleeping with an infant or child. Sleeping with an infant is not only uncomfortable. It is not safe.
We must always do our best to ensure the health and safety of our babies. It is our end of the bargain we make with them. We agree to do everything for them. We have to feed them, burp them, change them, dress them, soothe them, hug them, kiss them, love them, tickle them and keep them safe.
What does the baby have to do to keep its end of the bargain?
The baby does not have to be good, or quiet, or pretty or easy to care for. It only has to be cute! They all seem to hold up their end of the bargain. So the rest is up to us.
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The first step toward saving money is making a conscious decision to devote the time and energy required to focus on saving money. You can save a tremendous amount by creating a spending plan, making a list of what you really need and taking the time to shop and compare. It can take lot of time and discipline to save money. Let's look at some suggestions to help you budget in eight key areas.
1. Stay Out of Debt
One of the most efficient ways to save money is to avoid going into debt. You will save a lot of money on interest by paying your credit cards off at the end of every month. If you are carrying a balance, prioritize paying off your credit cards as soon as possible. Most of us need a mortgage to purchase a home, but you should avoid going into debt to purchase consumer products such as vehicles, appliances, furniture and electronics, if possible. For loans that you do have to take out, avoid having to pay higher interest rates by managing your credit responsibly and keeping your credit score high. Checking your credit score regularly — using any of the free credit scoring tools available online (like the one Credit.com offers) – is an important part of building and maintaining good credit, and to saving you money when you do need to take on debt.
2. Save Money at the Grocery Store
There is no getting around the need to spend a large portion of your budget at the grocery store, but there are ways to trim this expense. Make a list of what you really need and stick to it! Try to reduce impulse purchases by sticking to your list, shopping less frequently and eating ahead of time so you don't shop while you're hungry. You can save by purchasing store brands, buying durable goods in bulk and selecting items from lower shelves – more expensive items are usually placed at eye level. When comparing prices, check the unit price, not the total cost of the package.
3. Spend Less on Eating Out
Most of us spend way too much on eating out. The logical solution is to eat at home more often and pack your lunch. However, if you want or need to eat out, there are some tricks keep your expenses down. Most restaurants serve large portions, so consider eating half of your meal at the restaurant and taking the rest home for lunch the next day. Limit yourself to a single drink or order tap water instead of coffee, tea or soda. Enjoy drinks, appetizers and dessert at home before going out for dinner. If you are going out to meet friends, eat before you go and limit your restaurant order to a side salad or appetizer just to be sociable. And rather than celebrate at a restaurant, organize a potluck or take turns hosting dinner parties.
4. Spend Less on Clothing
There is a huge mark-up on retail clothing, which allows for tremendous savings opportunities. Clothing is seasonal; if you are flexible, you can save by shopping at the end of the season when everything goes on sale. You can also save by shopping online. Online shopping makes it much easier to shop and compare. If you aren't looking for something specific, consignment stores can be a great option. Some excellent deals can also be found at outlet stores. However, keep an eye on the price and quality; many items found at outlets are not actually overstock from the full price store. Don't be fooled by marked down price tags, they may not be legitimate. Several companies create separate lines of clothing just for their outlet stores.
5. Reduce Holiday Spending
Save on holiday expenses by starting early, making a plan and creating a gift budget. Save by shopping for holiday gifts throughout the year. If you have a large family or a large group of friends, consider drawing names rather than purchasing a gift for every friend and family member. Save money by gifting homemade gifts or a gift of your services such as babysitting, home maintenance or music lessons.
6. Save on Travel
Frequent flier miles can be a great way to reduce airfare expenses. Earning miles on credit card purchases can be a good way to earn frequent flier miles, but be sure to pay your credit card off at the end of each month. You can also save by avoiding travel during the peak season, and staying off the beaten path. There are several websites that can help you find the best dining and lodging values.
7. Take Care of Yourself
In the long run, you can save a tremendous amount by getting plenty of exercise, eating right, getting enough sleep and managing your stress. Health care and medication is very expensive. You can minimize these expenses by taking care of yourself. Additionally, if you are healthy and energetic you should be more productive, which should lead to greater income potential.
8. Save Money on Vehicles
Avoid purchasing a brand new vehicle. Most cars drop in value by thousands of dollars, as soon as they are driven off the lot. Cars are a depreciating asset, so focus on safety and functionality. If your goal is to save money, don't buy more car than you really need. If possible, try to save enough money to pay cash for your new car and avoid paying interest on a loan. Finally, be sure to perform routine maintenance; this may save you from expensive repair bills in the future.
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Hi, I am having trouble figuring out how to put all of this code together since it combines methods and if else statements. I was wondering if anyone could help me out. Here is the problem:
Write a program that asks the user to enter five test scores. The program should display a letter grade for each score and the average test score. In addition to the main method, write the following methods in the program:
calcAverage This method should accept five test scores as arguments and return the average of the scores.
determineGrade This method should accept a test score as an argument and return a letter grade for the score, based on the following grade scale A=100-90 , B=89-80, C=79-70, D=69-60, F= below 60.


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Tsaomelissa needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 547 designs submitted by 72 freelance designers.
melissa tsao photography
My name is Melissa Tsao and I specialize in portrait photography. I love working with children and their families to create art pieces that they will treasure forever. I feel like my current site is lacking a professional logo and design. Currently, my site gives the impression that I do photography as a hobby and not as a profession. Here is where you, the designers, will come into play. I want my logo/site to reflect a business that is upscale and professional, and I am sure that your new branding will accomplish that. My blogsite address is http://www.melissatsaoblog.com
I am targeting middle class families. Clients who have a taste in boutiques, fine portraiture and value quality work. These types of clients appreciate the small details of my business such as cute packaging and hand written notes.
1. No cartoons or clip art.
2. My current colors are light blue and white, but am open to other color options. I think the light blue may be hard to read.
3. Clean logo that looks professional, fun and whimsical.
4. I would like a logo that works well both in color and in black and white.
5. Logo needs to appeal to middle class families interested in portraits for their newborns, children, or families.
6. No baby rattles, bottles or anything too literal that associates with the three categories of newborns, children and families.
7. I would like to see the suggestion of a family tree, maybe some "love birds" and an element that represents playfulness/children (like imica in #74 has already done with the tree swing.)
8. I love lower cap letters but am open to other ideas.
9. Abandon old logo (circle with the m) unless you can create something that works.
Thank you so much!
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How to set up a Python HTTP server
Python is a high-level programming language currently used for a variety of purposes. The source code is easy to read, and typically requires fewer lines than source code written in C. Python has a small HTTP server built in to it, which allows you to use a system directory as a web server directory. The Python HTTP server is most beneficial to users who need a basic HTTP server, but don't want to spend time configuring a larger server such as Apache. If you're using the CentOS operating system and already have Python installed, you just need to start the Python HTTP server and verify that it's working.
|Basic - 1 | Medium - 2 | Advanced - 3
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|Linux-based VPS or dedicated servers
Here is a quick tutorial on how to set up a Python HTTP server.
Install Python
You'll normally install Python as part of your CentOS installation. Verify that Python is running by entering "python" from the command line. This command should produce output similar to the following:
If Python isn't already installed, you can install it with a yum command similar to the following:
Start Python
Assume for this example that you want /etc to be your HTTP server directory. Go to that directory and start the Python HTTP server with the following commands:
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
You should see the following message indicating that the HTTP server is serving port 8000 by default:
Display the server page
Assume that your IP address is 127.0.0.1. Enter the following URL to display the server page: http://127.0.0.1:8000
If the directory in which the server is running doesn't have a file named index.html, the server page shows the contents of the directory. If the directory has a file named index.html, this file will determine the contents of the server page.


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Hi Gang...
Today, Google is releasing their "Search, Plus Your World", which moves them even more direct competition with social services such as Facebook. Not that this is surprising or anything, as they have been moving steadily in that direction for the past few years (see Google+). Here's a video from Google that quickly shows the service (a bit more promotion than instructional, but you'll get the idea.
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True to Myself
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You are always such a classy lady:) Love your look! .. and Sam Edelman wedges.. Beautiful!ReplyDelete
Monika from J'adore Fashion
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2010 at 8:20 AM
I love this! Gorgeous as always Delmy. Keep your head up, this too shall pass mama.ReplyDelete
You look gorgeous! Love the red trousers, and the lace top is so pretty and feminine :)ReplyDelete
♥ Leia's Delights
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2010 at 9:39 AM
lovely top!!ReplyDelete
you are gorgeous! that top is so pretty ♥ReplyDelete
You look amazing! I love the red pants in combo with the animal print wedges. xoReplyDelete
You are very classy, I agree with the above comments. And again - the wedges rock! You have such a sophisticated style. I love it :-)ReplyDelete
The red pants with the leopard wedges are brilliant together!! You look great!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2010 at 10:20 AM
U look so pretty, i love ur outfit so so much x3ReplyDelete
Ugh. I'm so jealous you're going to Hawaii! Have fun! I love that lace top :)ReplyDelete
Wow! You look great! (as always!)ReplyDelete
I love Your BLOGReplyDelete
wow! you look damn h-o-t!!!ReplyDelete
Those pants are the best red.ReplyDelete
what great pants!! that color is excellent on you and they fit like a glove. those shoes are quite killer as well..ReplyDelete
Fabulous outfit & wedges!!!!ReplyDelete
i love the red lip with your hair color, such a classic look :)ReplyDelete
love this look!ReplyDelete
wanderful lookReplyDelete
so sophisticate and classy the top and pants are so sheek xoxo hautedolleyes.blogspot.comReplyDelete
work it girl! ;)ReplyDelete
Those red pants look great on you!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2010 at 3:26 PM
You rock red pants! I could never do that.ReplyDelete
It looks sooo beautiful!! great style!ReplyDelete
love, Carlinka
You always look so beautiful! Loving your outfits! :o)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2010 at 5:07 PM
LOVE ITReplyDelete
you've got an inspirational blog
please keep it coming, i'll definitely be back!
thanks for sharing.
Hot girl in HOT pants. I could never wear those but you look great.:) ReLLY PRETTY!ReplyDelete
you look beyond amazing! red is definitely your color! have a good (well-deserved) weekend :) xReplyDelete
Love your look, Delmi! You always keep it classy but is never boring!ReplyDelete
I change my blog, now I'm on blogspot!
I love your little outfit it's so cute the white lace and leopard I love!!! love!!! Love!!!ReplyDelete
those pants are perfect on you!ReplyDelete
Those red pants are so fab!ReplyDelete
You look amazing in those pants! So sexy!ReplyDelete
girlfriend... you pull of those pants like no other. It is a gift. Hope your days get better! Have a wonderful weekend.ReplyDelete
-Kiersten, TheBellaLife
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2010 at 12:36 AM
Wow! Hawaii???Who's taking you on this usually once of lifetime trip? Congrats! Post pics!ReplyDelete
The red pants are unexpected and totally hot!ReplyDelete
I love this outfit, you look so sexy and hot!ReplyDelete
The trousers + lipstick combo are a fabulous mix.
See you soon.
LOve your shoes! Just became a follower, love your blog!ReplyDelete
- Elizabeth AboabaJuly 18, 2010 at 4:38 PM
im still im still delmy from the bronx. haha love you and your clothes girl (:ReplyDelete
Red+Leppard! Killer combination! :)) Love your pants!ReplyDelete
Take care, Lena!
this outfit is bangin!ReplyDelete
I hope that your weekend was wonderful.
wish i was going to hawaii!
i love those pants!ReplyDelete
ok e40 is playing background music in my head while looking at your pics.ReplyDelete
"oooo show me what you working with"
Delmy you are working those trousers!! that red is so striking :0ReplyDelete
Wow this outfiy is stunning!ReplyDelete
The red pants fit you well!
You're so pretty!!!
love these red leggings with that lace top! adorable! wow! <3ReplyDelete
You look gorgeous as always, hope your doing better : ) xxxReplyDelete
Gorgeous look!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2010 at 7:37 AM
wow, what great outfit. love the reds...hehe! ;) greets!ReplyDelete
It's so great to see a bold colored pant done right.ReplyDelete
Glad to have you back! Those wedges are to-die...especially with your red pants! Love it.ReplyDelete
These are such great pants - make a real statement!ReplyDelete
You always look amazing! x
You look stunning in red!ReplyDelete
Love the color of the pants and the lipstick! Nice matching. Pops nicely against the white!ReplyDelete
Those pair of red pant are fab!ReplyDelete
you looks so sexy! you know its true when a girl says it .. but in the best way .. i lovee those wedgesReplyDelete
Oh, how I do love those shoes.ReplyDelete
You have an amazing personal style! I love viewing your different looks. You're definetely an inspiration to me. Where do you get your inspiration from?ReplyDelete
the red pants are looking very cool with the lace topReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2010 at 2:49 PM
looove your top! :)ReplyDelete
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Very pretty things ;) I love your top ! And the red pants is...beautifulReplyDelete
I absolutely LOVE this look. The wedges especially. I've been wanting a pair of cheetah/leopard print shoes.. possibly the 99 by Jeffrey Campbell. Maybe the shoe fairy will bring them to me!! hee hee. So, you're visiting Hawaii? What part? The weather has been soo fabulous lately.. HOT, but lots of trade winds. ;)ReplyDelete
xx Love & Aloha
I love the outfitReplyDelete
the red looks great on you =)
Love your style and your blog! I hope you want to visit my blog too. Follow me and leave a message if you want! Thankyou xReplyDelete
This is the best post I've seen from you to date. You look absolutely fantastic. You completely shut-it-down in those red cigarette pants. You've sold them to me and I 1) loathe the color red and 2) don't do cig pants e-v-e-r.ReplyDelete
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Vancouver has taken a solid step backwards in its efforts to eradicate street homelessness, with double the people sleeping on heating grates, in alleys and in store doorways this year than last.
In a report Tuesday that left council members nearly vibrating with anger, city staff said the actual number of street homeless has gone from 154 in 2011 to 306 this year.
And they said the situation will get much worse by 2014, with a historic number of homeless being on the street unless the city, provincial and federal governments change the way they provide shelter and agree to continue funding several key projects.
"We run the risk of having the highest number of street homeless ever if we don't make these interventions sooner, versus than later," Brenda Prosken, the city's acting general manager of community services said Tuesday. "If we do not take early steps to intervene, we will see that instability increase."
Prosken and her staff laid the blame for the increase on the provincial government's refusal to reopen several winter emergency response shelters last year and a policy by BC Housing to use the majority of new units built on city-owned land to house people who already have accommodation elsewhere. As a result, many of the homeless the city expected would be given spots in its new buildings remain unhoused.
And with provincial funding for the existing emergency shelters ending in 2013, and the Dunsmuir and At Home/Chez Soi projects that look after 400 people with mental illness and addictions ending in 2014, the number of street homeless will hit record levels with nearly 2,000 people on the street by 2014, Prosken said.
The concerns stem from a homeless count done on March 27 that showed the total number of homeless people — including those in temporary shelters and those on the street — at 1,602. Of those, 1,296 were in shelters that aren't considered to be permanent housing. In 2011 the number of total homeless was 1,581, of which 154 were on the street and 1,427 were in shelters. In 2010 there were a total of 1,715 counted as homeless; 1,294 in shelters and 421 on the street.
This year's count showed three-quarters are men and that aboriginal people disproportionately make up one-third of all homeless. First Nations people represent only two per cent of the city's overall population.
Prosken's report to council was coupled with a new study on the health of the homeless by Dr. Michael Krausz, the UBC Providence Leadership Chair for addiction research.
His study showed that 93 per cent have a current mental disorder and 83 per cent a substance abuse disorder.
The rise in street homelessness caused Coun. Kerry Jang, Vision Vancouver's mental health advocate, to see red. He said he warned Housing Minister Rich Coleman to not close several temporary shelters last year, and the result, unsurprisingly, is that more people are back on the streets.
"It is not good news. We saw a reduction in shelter beds this last winter which resulted in 150 more people sleeping on the street. It's not rocket science to end homelessness," he said.
Coleman was in estimates debate and could not be reached for comment. However, his office provided statistics showing that the province funds 638 permanent year-round shelter beds at a cost of $17 million annually. It also spent $150 million to buy and renovate 24 single-room occupancy hotels with 1,500 units, most of those in the Downtown Eastside.
The numbers are in addition to an aggressive city plan to end street homelessness, including making 14 city-owned sites available to the province for 1,506 new supportive housing units. Five of those buildings containing a total of 439 units have already opened, but Prosken said only 38 per cent have gone to people classified as homeless, with another 38 per cent placed by BC Housing from SRO hotels it controls. The other 23 per cent are people deemed "at risk" or who come from other housing sources. The numbers fall far short of a memorandum of understanding between BC Housing and the city that 60 per cent of the units are to go to people who either live in shelters or who are homeless.
BC Housing is not providing the city with information on who moves into the SRO units formerly rented by people now in city housing, Prosken said.
At the same time, basic housing affordable to those on welfare remains largely out of reach. Only 27 per cent of single-occupancy rooms are being rented at the welfare rate of $375 per month, meaning nearly 75 per cent of the city's cheapest form of housing remains unaffordable for those on welfare, she said.
Prosken said if the city is to achieve its 2015 target it needs help from the province and Ottawa, including:
- Making 436 temporary shelter beds permanent;
- Continuing provincial and federal support for 400 units in the Dunsmuir and At Home/Chez Soi housing programs;
- Dramatically increasing the percentage of homeless people who get into the remaining 1,067 supportive housing units left to be built on city land;
- Adding 450 new supportive housing units in 2015.
Mayor Gregor Robertson said the results of the homeless count were "very frustrating."
"It is directly connected to the low barrier shelter beds not being adequately funded over this past year. I think the pressure on affordable housing continues to push more people out on to the street," he said.
"As soon as we have a setback like this we really need to double down and be resolved that we have to keep this work going. We have to be very honest with the facts, and there are some very disturbing facts here in terms of who is suffering on our streets. We can't let up, we can't give up."


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Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google. The way Page sees it, a 10 percent improvement means that you're basically doing the same thing as everybody else. You probably won't fail spectacularly, but you are guaranteed not to succeed wildly.
That's why Page expects his employees to create products and services that are 10 times better than the competition. That means he isn't satisfied with discovering a couple of hidden efficiencies or tweaking code to achieve modest gains. Thousand-percent improvement requires rethinking problems entirely, exploring the edges of what's technically possible, and having a lot more fun in the process.
This regimen of cheeky aspiration has made Google an extraordinary success story, changing the lives of its users while fattening the wallets of its investors. But it has also accomplished something far beyond Google itself: In an industry rife with bandwagon-hopping and strategic positioning, Page's approach is a beacon for those who want more from their CEOs than a bloated earnings statement. While Google has made some missteps in recent years, and while its power has deservedly drawn the scrutiny of regulators and critics, it remains a flagship for optimists who believe that innovation will provide us with not just delightful gadgetry but solutions to our problems and inspiration for our dreams. For those people—and maybe for the human enterprise itself—a car that drives itself (to name one of the company's recent tech triumphs) is a much more valuable dividend than one calculated in cents per share. There's no question which is more important to Larry Page.
Of course, it can be challenging working for a boss whose dominant trait is dissatisfaction with the pace of progress. Astro Teller, who oversees Google X, the company's blue-sky skunkworks division, illustrates Page's proclivities with a parable. Teller imagines wheeling a Dr. Who time machine into Page's office. He plugs it in and—it works! But instead of being bowled over, Page asks why it needs a plug. Wouldn't it be better if it didn't use power at all? "It's not because he's not excited about time machines or he's ungrateful that we built it," Teller says. "It's just core to who he is. There's always more to do, and his focus is on where the next 10X will come from."
Page thought big even when he was little—he has said he always wanted to be an inventor, not just to produce gadgetry but to change the world. As an undergrad at the University of Michigan, he found inspiration in a student leadership-training program called LeaderShape, which preached "a healthy disregard for the impossible." By the time he got to grad school at Stanford, it was a natural step for him to 10X his potential thesis idea—a tool to annotate web pages—into a search engine that transformed the web and the world. And once Google's riotously successful ad business provided a plump financial cushion, Page was free to push for innovations that bore only a passing relationship to his core business. Google would build an email service—with 100 times the storage of competitors. Google would provide translations—for the entire web, from any language to any other. Google would give readers instant access to a global library—by scanning nearly every book ever published and putting the contents in its indexes. More recently, Google launched its own version of an ISP service—laying its own fiber and providing broadband service to Kansas City customers at 100 times industry-standard speeds.
That moon-shot mentality is the basis of Google X, which the company established in early 2010 to identify and implement once-impossible sci-fi fantasies: Hail Mary projects like the self-driving car. Or Google Glass, a wearable computing system. Or an artificial brain, in which a cluster of computers running advanced algorithms learn from the world around them, much like humans do. (In one experiment, it took only three days for a digital colony of 1,000 machines, with a billion connections, to surpass previous benchmarks in identifying photos of faces and cats.)
Page was closely involved in establishing Google X, but since he has ascended to lead the company, he can't spend as much time there. Some Googlers wonder if Page, clearly at his happiest working on moon shots, is essentially taking one for the team by assuming the sometimes prosaic tasks of a CEO. (Talking to bureaucrats about antitrust issues, for example, is probably not his idea of a good time.) The evidence shows, however, that Page has attacked his role with full-hearted fervor, applying the same 10X mentality to the process of running the company. He reorganized the management team around an "L-Team" of top aides, and he relentlessly rallied employees around a sweeping effort to integrate all of Google's offerings into a seamlessly social whole. And in the boldest move in his tenure, he engineered the $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, one of the world's biggest handset companies.
In one of the rare interviews he has granted as CEO, Page recently discussed thinking big and other Googley issues with Wired at the company's Mountain View, California, headquarters. Later that same day, Page, who turns 40 in March, announced a new philanthropic venture. After observing epidemiological behavior via Google Search's flu-tracking service, he decided to pay for free flu shots for kids in the entire Bay Area. How 10X of him.
Wired: Google is known for encouraging its employees to tackle ambitious challenges and make big bets. Why is that so important?
Larry Page: I worry that something has gone seriously wrong with the way we run companies. If you read the media coverage of our company, or of the technology industry in general, it's always about the competition. The stories are written as if they are covering a sporting event. But it's hard to find actual examples of really amazing things that happened solely due to competition. How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing? That's why most companies decay slowly over time. They tend to do approximately what they did before, with a few minor changes. It's natural for people to want to work on things that they know aren't going to fail. But incremental improvement is guaranteed to be obsolete over time. Especially in technology, where you know there's going to be non-incremental change.
So a big part of my job is to get people focused on things that are not just incremental. Take Gmail. When we released that, we were a search company—it was a leap for us to put out an email product, let alone one that gave users 100 times as much storage as they could get anywhere else. That is not something that would have happened naturally if we had been focusing on incremental improvements.
Larry Page changed the world by co-inventing a search engine that could give us all instant access to the world's information. And he was just getting started. Here's a short tour of his long list of accomplishments. —Victoria Tang### 1995
After attending a Montessori school, which encourages creative thinking, graduates from the University of Michigan with a degree in engineering.
Starts the doctorate program in computer science at Stanford. After what he later describes as "a vivid dream," begins working with Sergey Brin on a search engine initially dubbed BackRub.
Launches the search engine—now called Google—commercially from a friend's house. Maxes out three credit cards to buy the initial hardware.
Receives a patent for PageRank, which orders each search result based on "an objective measure of its citation importance that corresponds well with people's subjective idea of importance."
Bucks Wall Street tradition by running the Google IPO as a modified Dutch auction, which makes it easier for everyday investors to snare a share.
Appointed to the board of trustees of the X Prize Foundation, which offers rewards to inventors who can accomplish seemingly unreachable goals.
Invests in Tesla Motors, a company that taps into Page's long-standing interest in electric cars. Back in his college days, he helped design a solar-powered car that raced in the 1993 World Solar Challenge.
Seeds a team to experiment with self-driving cars, capitalizing on technology like laser range finders and radar sensors to improve safety and efficiency.
After serving as Google's president of products for a decade, replaces Eric Schmidt as CEO.
Demonstrates the Google Glass wearable computer from the secretive Google X lab. In a move toward hands-free devices, the futuristic headgear projects information onto a lens above the user's right eye.
Launches the Solve for X event, where 46 entrepreneurs, innovators, and scientists gather to discuss "technology moon shots," a concept repeatedly touted at Google.
Establishes Global Impact Awards for nonprofits that use technology to "tackle some of the world's toughest human challenges," including projects like real-time clean water sensors and DNA barcoding.
Wired: But you have to gradually improve your existing products too, right?
Page: Of course. But periodically, every n years, you should work on something new that you think is really amazing. The trick is coming up with those products. I could probably give you a list of 10 major things that are wrong with email. I try to maintain lists like that in my head.
Wired: Now you have a separate division called Google X, dedicated to moon-shot projects like self-driving cars. Why did you decide you needed to set up an entire department for this?
Page: I think we need to be doing breakthrough, non-incremental things across our whole business. But right now Google X does things that can be done more independently.
You know, we always have these debates: We have all this money, we have all these people, why aren't we doing more stuff? You may say that Apple only does a very, very small number of things, and that's working pretty well for them. But I find that unsatisfying. I feel like there are all these opportunities in the world to use technology to make people's lives better. At Google we're attacking maybe 0.1 percent of that space. And all the tech companies combined are only at like 1 percent. That means there's 99 percent virgin territory. Investors always worry, "Oh, you guys are going to spend too much money on these crazy things." But those are now the things they're most excited about—YouTube, Chrome, Android. If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things.
"There are all these opportunities to make people's lives better. Tech companies are attacking 1 percent of them. That leaves 99 percent virgin territory."
Wired: On the other hand, as the canard goes, the pioneers take the most arrows. Look at the experience of Xerox PARC, where fantastic innovations didn't seem to help the corporation itself.
Page: PARC had a tremendous research organization and they invented many of the tools of modern computing. But they weren't focused on commercialization. You need both. Take one company I admire, Tesla. They've not only made a really innovative car, but they're probably spending 99 percent of their effort figuring out how to actually get it out to people. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an inventor. Then I realized that there's a lot of sad stories about inventors like Nikola Tesla, amazing people who didn't have much impact, because they never turned their inventions into businesses.
Wired: Why don't we see more people with that kind of ambition?
Page: It's not easy coming up with moon shots. And we're not teaching people how to identify those difficult projects. Where would I go to school to learn what kind of technological programs I should work on? You'd probably need a pretty broad technical education and some knowledge about organization and entrepreneurship. There's no degree for that. Our system trains people in specialized ways, but not to pick the right projects to make a broad technological impact.
Wired: I know that you and Google cofounder Sergey Brin have been thinking about some of these challenges for a long time. In an interview I did with you both back in 2002, you virtually wrote me out the specs to Google Glass.
Page: Why didn't we do it then? We'd have had a lot more time to get it done! It's like autonomous cars. I wanted to do them when I was at Stanford. That was over 14 years ago. The only thing that changed was we got the guts to actually do it.
Wired: Google X's moon shots aside, what's taking your time at Google?
Page: A great deal of my effort is spent making sure that we have a great user experience across our core products. Whether you're in Chrome or Search or Gmail, it's just Google, with one consistent look and feel. It's not a good user experience if there are 50 different ways to share something. That requires integration.
Wired: As Google now grapples with its image as a powerful, maybe scary company, does it get harder to implement big changes?
Page: It's harder, but there are also more benefits. A billion people use our products.
Wired: But have you done a good enough job explaining your intentions? Take Book Search. Providing a way to search through the world's books seemed to you to be an unalloyed good. But you ran into a backlash and chronic litigation.
Page: It's certainly not pleasant. But show me a company that failed because of litigation. I just don't see it. Companies fail because they do the wrong things or they aren't ambitious, not because of litigation or competition.
Wired: Steve Jobs felt competitive enough to claim that he was willing to "go to thermonuclear war" on Android.
Page: How well is that working?
Wired: Do you think that Android's huge lead in market share is decisive?
Page: Android has been very successful, and we're very excited about it.
Wired: Did you envision that kind of success when you bought Andy Rubin's small company in 2005?
Page: We have a good ability to see what's possible and not be impeded by the status quo. At the time we bought Android, it was pretty obvious that the existing mobile operating systems were terrible. You couldn't write software for them. Compare that to what we have now. So I don't think that betting on Android was that big a stretch. You just had to have the conviction to make a long-term investment and to believe that things could be a lot better.
Wired: One area where people say that Google is indeed motivated by competition is the social realm, where in the past two years you have been working hard in a field dominated by a single rival, Facebook. That's not the case?
Page: It's not the way I think about it. We had real issues with how our users shared information, how they expressed their identity, and so on. And, yeah, they're a company that's strong in that space. But they're also doing a really bad job on their products. For us to succeed, is it necessary for some other company to fail? No. We're actually doing something different. I think it's outrageous to say that there's only space for one company in these areas. When we started with search, everyone said, "You guys are gonna fail, there's already five search companies." We said, "We are a search company, but we're doing something different." That's how I see all these areas.
Wired: What's your evaluation of Google+?
Page: I'm very happy with how it has gone. We're working on a lot of really cool stuff. A lot of it has been copied by our competitors, so I think we're doing a good job.
Wired: Android has always prided itself on being a more open platform, compared to Apple's walled-garden approach. That came into stark relief when Apple pulled Google Maps from iOS6 and launched its own maps app. Did the uproar over that decision vindicate your commitment to openness?
Page: I don't want to comment on partner relationships. But we've been working on Maps for a long time, and it's nice to see people realize that we've put a lot of effort and investment into it. That's clearly more appreciated now.
Look, you may have the greatest maps in the world, but if nobody uses them, it doesn't matter. Our philosophy has always been to get our products out to as many people as possible. Unfortunately that's not always easy in this day and age. The web has been great; we were able to get products out to everyone, quickly and with high quality. Now we're going backward with a lot of the platforms that are out there. Companies are trying to wall everything off, and I think that impedes the rate of innovation.
Wired: Google has been challenged on the patent front, an issue you addressed by buying Motorola's portfolio.
Page: We bought the company as well.
Wired: Exactly. But since then the company has released only products that were previously in the pipeline. We don't know what your plans are. Should we expect Google to be as disruptive and innovative with Motorola as it has been in other areas?
Page: As we said when we acquired Motorola, we're running it independently, and Dennis Woodside is in charge. But that's very much what we want to do with Motorola and what Dennis wants to do. There's a lot of room for innovation in hardware. The phones we use now have glass that everyone worries will break if they drop the device. Five or 10 years from now, that will be different. There's going to be a lot of change.
Wired: As we speak, anyone who goes to Google's homepage sees a link to information in opposition to an International Telecommunication Union proposal that may constrain the open Internet. Last year you did something similar around the controversial SOPA bill. We didn't use to see that kind of lobbying on Google.com. Why do it now?
Page: Consider our own history. When we started Google, it wasn't really obvious that what we were doing wouldn't get regulated away. Remember, at the time, people were arguing that making a copy of a file in a computer's memory was a violation of copyright. We put the whole web on our servers, so if that were true, bye-bye search engines. The Internet's been pretty great for society, and I think that 10 or 20 years from now, we'll look back and say we were a millimeter away from regulating it out of existence.
Wired: My guess is that talking to regulators is probably not your favorite thing to do.
Page: I like talking to everyone. That's just the way I'm wired. But I do think the Internet's under much greater attack than it has been in the past. Governments are now afraid of the Internet because of the Middle East stuff, and so they're a little more willing to listen to what I see as a lot of commercial interests that just want to make money by restricting people's freedoms. But they've also seen a tremendous user reaction, like the backlash against SOPA. I think that governments fight users' freedoms at their own peril.
Wired: How do you maintain the Google culture—including the mandate to think big—within such a huge company?
Page: We're a medium-size company in terms of employee count. We have tens of thousands of employees. There are organizations out there that have millions of employees. That's a factor of a hundred, basically. So imagine what we could do if we had a hundred times as many employees.
Wired: You hold a weekly TGIF meeting, where any employee can ask you or other top executives a question, either in person or electronically. How can you keep that kind of intimacy as you grow?
Page: Anything is scalable. We do need to be more cognizant of time zones, because we've got a lot of people in different places. Short of building a giant space mirror that causes the whole Earth to light up at the same time, there's not much we can do about that. So we're moving that TGIF meeting to Thursday, so that people in Asia can get it during their work week. That process still works pretty well at our size, and I'm sure it will work fine up to a million people as well.
Wired: Wait, that's the second time you've mentioned Google as potentially a million-person company.
Page: Doesn't Walmart have more than a million employees? OK, maybe it's not important for us to have a million employees, but I like to think that we could build companies that are really scalable to that size. We could add people and still be really innovative. That would be great for us. We're one of the bigger companies of the world, and I'd like to see us do more stuff—not just do what somebody else has done, but something new.
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U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.) has written about "swashbuckling Americans seeking out adventures in exotic locales" before.
Now the former Vietnam combat Marine has made his fiction a reality by winning the release of American prisoner John Yettaw and receiving a rare visit with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and, separately, another visit with the reclusive head of the Myanmar's ruling military junta, Senior General Than Shwe.
The trip -- the first by a member of Congress in more than a decade -- received much coverage on Myanmar's state-run television.
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Since junta leaders crushed pro-democracy protests in 1988, "Washington has maintained a virtual blackout on Burma relations, declining to assign an ambassador to the country and promoting a policy of economic isolation to keep its leaders from benefitting from trade ties," Time Magazine reports.
Critics had said that Webb's visit would legitimize a brutal regime, especially in light of the regime's most recent sentencing concerning Suu Kyi, who has spent 14 of the last 20 years in detention in Myanmar for her pro-democracy activism.
She was convicted for violating the terms of her previous house arrest by allowing Yettaw -- the Missouri man who had swum to her lakeside house from Rangoon in May -- to stay with her for two days.
Yettaw, who had been sentenced to 7 years' hard labor for assisting Suu Kyi in violating the terms of her house arrest, was officially deported to the U.S. Sunday, the U.S. Embassy said.
Webb, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, brought Yettaw out of the country on a military aircraft that is returning to Bangkok on Sunday afternoon.
Yettaw was handed over to a consular official early Sunday evening to begin his trip back to the U.S. He is reportedly ill and suffers from epileptic seizures.
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So I have this issue that I'm sure alot of people have, but I haven't seen a great solution for it yet.
I use Serato Scratch Live, although I recently got a VCI-380 which uses Itch.
I have a huge collection and I keep a large amount of it on my DJ laptop.
It keeps pushing the size of the drive, so I have to remove things pretty often.
Upgrading is an option, but the problem of clutter ends up being pretty big too.
Is there any good solution for helping with this issue, either inside of an app or from a 3rd party software?
Things I'd like to see:
- Something that tracks total plays relative to the age of the file, and time since last spin
- Configurable "aging" that will move files to a backup (off drive?) location when it hasn't been played or previewed for a certain period.
- Active cleanup of duplicate files, either by size, exact name, or replacing lower bitrate with higher bitrate?
Probably more things that could be part of this, but I wanted to start a thread to see if i'm missing something,
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Unemployment Rate Not Phasing Columbia Entrepreneurs
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COLUMBIA - New businesses are popping up in Columbia with diverse sets of clientele.
Morgan Gohn decided to set up her mobile tanning business in Columbia after graduating from the University of Missouri in 2012. Tanbulance, Gohn's new business, caters to all different types of Columbia residents.
"Anything from sorority parties to stay at home moms who don't have a chance to leave the house to get a tan. So, we conveniently go to these people," said Gohn.
The entrepeneural growth in Columbia is something that is on the rise recently, said Matt McCormick, Columbia Chamber of Commerce President.
Current statistics for Columbia's employment rate show a 3.3 percent hike in more job creations, including more interest in entrepreneurial endeavors.
"The business diversity that we have in our city keeps the unemployment rate down and the employment rate up and helps weather those storms a little bit easier," said McCormick.
Although the state's unemployment rate is the highest it's been in the last year at 7.2 percent, it hasn't stopped new businesses from starting up in Columbia. Although the rate is currently very high, Columbia is normally a few points lower because of all the business diversity.
"We have all different types, so we're not just reliant on one type of industry. We're not reliant just totally on retail, or we're not just totally reliant on the service industry. We have a nice spectrum of all different types of businesses." said McCormick.
This type of business diversity is seen in Gohn's mobile business growth, too.
"We've been getting a lot of business lately. It's a lot of word of mouth, people really like the convenience that we offer," said Gohn.
According to the Missouri Department of Economic Development, Columbia is the 6th most entrepenurial city in the state and is expanding with every month.
"Columbia's a great market to get started in, just in the last few months, I've seen businesses grow a lot," said Gohn.
This growing rate of interest in setting up shop in Columbia is evidenced by the community's it drive to expand entrepreneur's businesses.
McCormick explains, "The more businesses opening, we're seeing good trends as they're able to grow because it is a business friendly community, so these businesses are able to grow their businesses and expand."


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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has material evidence to prove that it has captured an American unmanned aircraft, a prominent lawmaker in Tehran said Wednesday, rejecting U.S. Navy statements that none of its drones in the region was missing.
Tehran on Tuesday claimed to have captured a Boeing-designed ScanEagle drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf, and even showed an image of what it said was the aircraft on state TV. The Islamic Republic trumpeted its possession of an allegedly intact U.S. drone as another prize in its growing showdown with Washington over surveillance of Iran's disputed nuclear program.
"We have material evidence to prove that the drone we captured belongs to the U.S.," Ismael Kowsari, the head of the Iranian parliament's defense committee, told The Associated Press. "The unmanned aircraft took off from a warship. The Americans will have no choice but to confirm that one of their drones is missing."
Kowsari said Tehran will release more information on the aircraft soon. The ScanEagle is a slow-moving 1.4-meter (5-foot)-long craft with a wingspan of about 3 meters (10 feet).
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday, "We have no evidence that the Iranian claims are true." Cmdr. Jason Salata, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, also said all U.S. drones in the region are "fully accounted for."
The conflicting accounts could put pressure on both sides for more details on U.S. reconnaissance and Iranian countermeasures.
There is even the possibility the drone is authentic but was plucked from the sea after a past crash and unveiled for maximum effect as tensions rise over U.S. reconnaissance missions - including a Predator drone coming under fire from Iranian warplanes last month.
Kowsari dismissed suggestions that the drone could have belonged to other nations in the Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, that have ScanEagle drones in service.
"The UAE doesn't dare to engage in such activities against us. We have sufficient evidence to prove it is American." he said. "The capture of the drone demonstrates Iran's capability of bringing down such aircraft intact."
Salata noted Tuesday that some ScanEagles operated by the U.S. Navy "have been lost into the water" over the years, but there is no "record of that occurring most recently."
A conservative news website, rajanews.com, suggested that Iran captured the latest drone using electronic devices. It said the capture shows Iran's capabilities in an ongoing "electronic battle" with the U.S.
"In terms of electronic and cyber war, Iran is in a position to take control of the navigation system of (American) drones, cut their connection with the satellites guiding them or the control center stationed on the warships and bring them down intact," it said.
Kowsari accused the U.S. of stepping up its espionage activities against Iran as part of intensified Western efforts to force Tehran to abandon its uranium enrichment program, a key aspect of its disputed nuclear program. The U.S. its allies suspect Iran may try to develop atomic weapons, a charge Tehran denies.
"The Americans have increased their spying activities, including monitoring Iran's nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Bandar Abbas port and oil facilities and export terminals," he said.
Iran believes the U.S. and its allies are seeking data about the flow of goods into Iran and the status of its oil exports after the 27-nation European Union imposed an oil embargo against Iran July 1.
The International Energy Agency says Iran's oil exports plunged to 1 million barrels a day in July from 1.74 million barrels a day in June after the embargo by the EU, which accounted for around 18 percent of Iran's exports. Crude oil exports account for about 80 percent of the country's foreign revenue.
If true, the seizure of the ScanEagle drone would be the third reported incident involving Iran and U.S. drones in the past two years.
Last month, Iran claimed that a U.S. drone violated its airspace. The Pentagon said the unmanned Predator aircraft came under fire at least twice but was not hit, and that the drone was over international waters.
In late 2011, Iran claimed it brought down a CIA spy drone after it entered Iranian airspace from its eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan. The RQ-170 Sentinel drone, which is equipped with stealth technology, was captured almost intact. Tehran later said it recovered data from the drone.
In the case of the Sentinel, after initially saying only that a drone had been lost near the Afghan-Iran border, American officials eventually confirmed it had been monitoring Iran's military and nuclear facilities. Washington asked for it back but Iran refused, and instead released photos of Iranian officials studying the aircraft.


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Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: $110,000-$130,000 + bonus + excellent benefits
A tier one pharmaceuticals firm is looking to add a Regulatory Affairs Manager for CMC across Combination Products and Medical Devices. This person will be responsible for the development of current team members as well as leading the strategic direction of the group. A number of hires must be made over the next six months but these will only happen after this key hire is made as the successful candidate will be heavily involved in the hiring process. This role will also include strategy development, risk and regulatory analysis, and communicating project details across multiple groups. The firm are seen as one of the top publicly traded pharmaceuticals firm and their share price is constantly increasing. They have recently won a number of awards for their work and this hire is necessary due to the expansion of the group due to their success across 2014. The aim of this hire is to continue this expansion and success across 2015/2016 following plan set out by the business leaders.
The ideal candidate will have the following responsibilities: · Previous experience in Regulatory Strategy for Combination Products as well as CMC and Medical Device projects individually · Act as a liaison between internal teams and health authorities· Provide regulatory CMC product strategy and support on submissions· Preparation of Regulatory Submission documentationo New applicationso Renewalso Supplementso Variations· Approval of manufacturing change requests· Development of CMC Regulatory Strategy in accordance of combination Medical Device Products
Qualifications:· Bachelor's degree· Minimum 4 years of experience in a regulated industry (pharmaceutical and/or medical device products).· 3-5 years in quality systems or cross-functional project management.· Experience working in a complex and matrix environment. Preferred:· Relevant advanced degree preferred (MS, PhD, JD).· Minimum 5 years of experience in regulatory preferred but may consider quality assurance, research and development/support, scientific affairs, operations, or related area.· 3-5 years of experience at a regulatory agency, such as FDA, EMA or other national agency or experience at a Notified Body. · Certification is a plus (e.g. RAC from the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society.)
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Hopworks Urban Brewery is committed to sustainable building construction, healthy land use and management, mindful water use and re-use, organic and local ingredients for food and beverage production, healthy and fun work environment, excellent customer service, 100% smart energy and a zero-waste initiative.
- Certified B Corporation, as of March 2015.
- Certified Salmon-Safe, as of August 2015.
- City of Portland BEST Award winner, 2010 – BEST Practices for Sustainability: Medium Organization
- Energy efficient light bulbs, timers and sensors
- ENERGY STAR appliances including hand dryers in bathrooms
- Purchase 100% renewable "Clean Wind" energy for the brewery through PGE
- Greenhouse gas inventory completed and emissions 100% offset with ClearSky Climate Solutions
Water efficiency:
- Low-flow toilets, faucets and dish-washing machinery
- Catch and store 1,100 gallons of rainfall for dry season irrigation and outdoor cleaning
- Use pervious pavers on 6,000 square foot parking lot
- Roof run-off infiltrates to groundwater through a 5,000 gallon retention pond
- Purchase Bonneville Environmental Foundation Water offsets for 100% of the water they consume
- Recirculating hot water system saves water and energy by providing instant hot water in restrooms
Waste reduction:
- Zero-waste initiative
- Mandatory waste training program for all staff
- Participate in Portland Composts! program
- Work with local organizations such as St. Vincent de Paul Food Recovery Network, Organic Valley Coop and Dragonfly Chai to have usable food distributed and materials reused
Alternative transportation:
- More than 2/3 of all commutes to work are by bicycle, walking, public transportation, or carpool
- Sprinter delivery vans run on biodiesel which is supported in part by Hopworks' used fryer grease
- Participate in BTA's September Bike Commute Challenge
Purchasing practices:
- Purchase brewery and restaurant supplies from local, organic companies
- Support and work with like-minded businesses as much as possible
Promoting social equity:
- Supply employees with livable wages and a 30% shared tip pool
- Provide employee meal for each shift worked
Community service:
- Donated $35,000 in 2009 to schools and organizations
- Regular employee volunteer activities support Trillium Family Center, Polar Plunge, Friends of Trees, Growing Gardens, SOLV, Jackson Creek and others
- Offer money and in-kind support to numerous organizations around the region
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