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Getting to the Bottom of Home Energy Use
A version of this article appears in the July/August 2011 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
July 01, 2011
In 1949, according to DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA), residential electricity consumption was 5% of total residential energy consumption. By 2009, it was 40%. This rise is attributable to many factors—appliance and equipment saturation, innovations in electronic technology, larger houses, and greater disposable income, among others. According to DOE, end-use electricity consumption will continue to grow as a percentage of total household energy consumption. As electricity consumption grows, so does base-load household electricity consumption—that year-round electrical load upon which seasonal electrical loads, like air-conditioning and space heating, are stacked. Water heating, refrigerators and freezers, lighting, laundry and kitchen appliances, electronics and entertainment devices, pumps, and miscellaneous plugged-in loads are common base-load end uses. All additional electricity use—from occasionally used devices, tools, or equipment; visitors; short-term construction jobs; and so on—is consumed on top of base-load use. And the fervent appetite for new and as-yet-unimagined appliances and electronic devices is expected to climb. Growth is why base-load end use is an important topic.
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April 2017
How to deal with everything in the Sicilian except 2.Nf3 & 3.d4.
Bogoljubow the Fate of a Chess Player
THE book about the legendary Efim Bogoljubow.
Max Euwe, 5th World Champion
The life and games of Max Euwe.
Morphy Move by Move
34 deeply annotated games of the great Paul Morphy.
Najdorf X Najdorf
The story of Miguel Najdorf's life, this book is a true delight.
H.E. Bird
Magnificent! Close to 1,200 games, incredible photos, and rich history makes this a must buy for any player who loves chess history.
Playing the Ragozin
A favorite of Bobby Fischer, this system is now one of the hottest openings in chess.
The Sicilian Sveshnikov
A move by move 400 page lesson in the ups and downs of this popular opening.
The English
A very interesting opening repertoire which starts with 1.c4.
Your Opponent is Overrated
A highly original book that, as IM Donaldson said in his review, could have been called "Chess Favours the Optimistic."
July 2016
A Simple Chess Opening Repertoire for White
A repertoire based on the isolated d-pawn.
Chess For Life
Insights into playing well as you age.
The French Defense: Volume Three
The final volume of a great French Defense series.
Fundamental Checkmates
300 positions and detailed solutions.
Lessons With a Grandmaster III
Boris Gulko's highly instructive series.
The Modern Tiger
An updated and expanded version of an opening classic.
Reaching the Top?!: A Practical Guide to Playing Master-Level Chess
Helping players to make master (2200).
The Old Indian: Move by Move
Play 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 for Black.
Play Unconventional Chess and Win
Taking the reader down little-known paths.
Opening Originals: Strong Sidelines for Club Cats
Shock your opponent with these surprise openings.
Saint Petersburg 1895/96
One of the strongest tournaments of all time.
Smerdon's Scandinavian
A massive tome highlighting 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Bg4 for Black.
The Caro-Kann
A new, updated edition of Jovanka Houska's magnificent opening book.
The Even More Flexible French
An updated and expanded version (almost 100 extra pages!) of an earlier work.
The Nimzo and Bogo Indian
A new look at two very important openings.
Understanding Rook Endgames
An excellent, but advanced, look at Rook endgames.
Donaldson's Fischer Masterpiece
The ultimate Fischer book - parts 1-3 are available.
October 2015
Andy Soltis teaches the art
of calculation.
A Cunning Chess Opening for Black
The Philidor Defense is alive and kicking!
José Raúl Capablanca: A Chess Biography
Every aspect of the great Cuban's life is finally
offered to the public.
Beat 1.e4 by learning the Sicilian
Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography
Harding's masterpiece about the life and games of the legendary "Black Death."
Tiger Hillarp Persson brilliantly updates his
2004 best seller on the Modern Defense.
This mix of chess and finance is both
fun to read and instructive.
Risk & Bluff in Chess:
The Art of Taking Calculated Risks
Tremendously instructive,
Tukmakov's latest book is must-read material.
July 2015
A sound, flexible system for
Black, explained in detail with Lakdawala's instructive prose.
Judit Polgar Teaches Chess
3: A Game of Queens
The 3rd and final volume of this magnificent series.
Tired of having a trapped
Bishop? 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Bf5 is the answer you've been looking for.
A new translation of a
classic, turning a good book into a great one.
The Ragozin Complex: A Guide for White and Black
A Fischer favorite, now the
secrets of this deep, sound system is available to everyone.
Samuel Lipschutz, A Life in Chess
lovely book that shares the history and game of the man who became U.S. chess
champion in 1892.
Sveshnikov vs.
Anti-Sicilians: A Complete Repertoire
for Black
September/December 2014
A charming book by Susan Polgar and Douglas Goldstein that mixes chess and investment strategies.
1.e4 vs. The French, Caro-Kann & Philidor
A brilliant effort from the 21-year-old grandmaster Parimarjan Negi.
Bologan's Black Weapons in the Open Games
If you answer 1.e4 with 1…e5, this is a must buy.
Anish Giri: My Junior Years in 20 Games
A lovely book about Giri's life and games.
Chess Training for Post-Beginners
Positional understanding taught by a well-known Ukrainian chess coach.
The Fianchetto System: Weapons for White against the King's Indian and Grünfeld
Worried about facing the Grunfeld and King's Indian? Not anymore!
The Sicilian Sveshnikov
The latest on the Sveshnikov from Black's point of view.
Mikhail Tal's Best Games 1 - The Magic of Youth
Yet another Karolyi masterpiece.
The Batsford Book of Chess
A beautiful hardbound book for beginners.
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov - Part lll: 1993-2005
The latest in Kasparov's magnificent series.
Chess Results 1971-1974
Candy for chess historians and journalists.
Chess Results 1975-1977
Candy for chess historians and journalists.
Chess Results: 1978-1980
Candy for chess historians and journalists.
July/August 2014
Beating the King's Indian and Grunfeld
Original ideas with an insanely low price.
Chess Explained: The c3 Sicilian
Filled with instructive prose about how to play and meet 2.c3 in the Sicilian.
The Doeberl Cup
Australia's top tournament, featuring games, a free CD-ROM, news, stories, and chess history.
Play the Accelerated Dragon
A new book on this popular Sicilian system, for players 1400 to 2200.
Avro 1938 International Chess Tournament
One of the greatest tournaments ever held. Enjoy the games, photos, notes, crosstables, and much more.
Chess For Zebras
An original work on chess psychology by grandmaster Jonathan Rowson.
The Safest Grunfeld
If you play (or play against) this opening, you'll want the book.
Elements Of Chess Strategy
Chess instruction by a famous coach.
Play The Benko Gambit
A dynamic Black repertoire, answers for everything White can throw at you, plus instructive prose.
100 Endgames You Must Know
Useful for players 2000 through International Master
The Stress of Chess and its Infinite Finesse
Six-time U.S. Champion Walter Browne shares his life and games [reviewed by John Watson].
Capablanca: A Primer Of Checkmate
Using Capablanca's games, this book demonstrates the various classic mating patterns that everyone needs to know [reviewed by John Donaldson].
Profession: Chessplayer
I love this book, and John Donaldson (who reviewed it) gives it his highest recommendation.
Vishy Anand: World Chess Champion, Life and Games
The 3rd edition of this classic book, by Anand and Nunn [reviewed by John Watson].
Two Classic Reinfeld Books and one Enlarged Heisman Book in One Review [reviewed by Donald K. McKim]:
1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate (21st Century Edition)
1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations (21st Century Edition)
Looking for Trouble: Recognizing and Meeting Threats in Chess (2nd Edition)
The Enigma Of Chess Intuition
A great writer explores a very important subject [reviewed by John Donaldson].
Chess in the Movies
The author gives over 2,000 listings, with some films having heavy chess themes, and others that only use a small amount of chess symbolism [reviewed by Jeremy Silman].
Modernized: The King's Indian Defense
Grandmaster Bojkov offers an aggressive but sound repertoire for fans of the KID [reviewed by John Donaldson].
A Vigorous Chess Opening Repertoire for Black
A Petroff Defense repertoire that also covers the King's Gambit, Vienna Game, The Four Knight's Game, and everything else White can throw at you after 1.e4 e5 [reviewed by John Donaldson].
Finding Chess Jewels
If you want very challenging training material then this is for you!
Foundations Of Chess Strategy: Applying Business Methods to Chess
In this review, Watson gives it an unequivocal recommendation.
Genius In The Background
A wonderful book about unsung chess heroes.
Chess Secrets: Great Attackers
Kasparov, Leonid Stein, and Tal.
Heroes Of Classical Chess
More chess heroes, this time Carlsen, Anand, Fischer, Smyslov, and Rubinstein.
Mastering Opening Strategy
An instructional manual for better understanding opening principles.
Mikhail Botvinnik: The Life and Games of a World Chess Champion
Yet another Soltis masterpiece!
The Classical Slav
Celebrated author Boris Avrukh turns his skills to the Slav.
Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov
A must own for Karpov fans or anyone (1600 – grandmaster) that wishes to improve his endgame play.
Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics
The 2014 edition makes this award-winning book even better.
100 Master Trade Secrets
Andrew Soltis' newest book.
Judit Polgar Teaches Chess 2
The 2nd volume about the life and games of the strongest female player of all time.
The Tarrasch Defense: Move-by-Move
A great opening against 1.d4, explained in a clear instructive manner.
The Panov-Botvinnik Attack: Move-by-Move
A fierce weapon against the Caro-Kann.
My Chess
A fascinating look at chess greats and other important players who also made their mark.
Seven Deadly Chess Sins
The best book on chess psychology.
Tango! A Dynamic Answer to 1.d4
An exciting way to deal with 1.d4.
Pirc Alert: A complete Defense Against 1.e4
A classic treatise on the ins and outs of the Pirc Defense.
Philidor Files
The Philidor Defense is alive and well! A wonderful book.
A Cunning Chess Opening Repertoire for White
If you're a 1.d4 player, then this book might well be for you
A new edition of Dvoretsky's magnificent work
This book, the first of 3, covers the super complex Winawer Variation (sans 7.Qg4)
Lakdawala teaches you to play 1.b3, which has been successfully used by Fischer, Larsen, and Nimzowitsch
A fine handbook of key positional methods
A deep analysis and discussion of Carlsen's World Championship victory over Anand, in a beautiful hardcover edition. A seriously impressive piece of work!
January 2014
Jeremy Silman's first novel! (Adults Only)
The first proper translation in English (for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch). Deeply reviewed by John Watson
The first proper translation in English (for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch). Deeply reviewed by John Watson
A simple but effective system for those that want effective but easy-to-learn openings
Another instructional masterpiece by Cyrus Lakdawala
How Magnus broke Kasparov's rating record
Another magnificent book by grandmaster Ivan Sokolov
Aagaard and Ntirlis team up to give you a complete, dynamic answer to 1.e4
November/December 2013
A K-8 educational math learning aid series that teaches you to play chess at the same time!
A classic "winner take all" between Botvinnik, Smyslov, Reshevsky, Keres, and Euwe
Jeremy Silman's first novel! (Adults Only)
October 2013
A delightful new book by Hans Ree, deeply reviewed by Donald K. McKim
A wonderful book offered at the insane price of $14.00
Dealing with something all chess players agonize over
The great Edward Winter takes us through the ins and outs of chess history
Facing multiple choices? This book will teach you how to deal with it
The greatest work on the Grunfeld defense ever
We all face strange openings. Now we'll know how to deal with them
A great book on a great opening
The latest in a groundbreaking series which now chronicles all major tournaments from 1747 to 1970.
Looked at from black's point of view, this fine book offers state of the art coverage of the Grunfeld.
Alekhine dominates one of the greatest tournaments of all time.
A highly original book that caused quite a stir back in 2007.
GM Beim's chess classic from 2006.
An ambitious one-system setup for Black.
The best English Opening repertoire book for amateurs.
Another important book by Scottish IM Craig Pritchett.
The best book ever written on 1…b6 (vs. everything but 1.g3).
Andrew Greet deeply explores my favorite opening.
The book to get for players under 2000 that want to understand the ins and outs of the QGD.
For those that want to avoid the mega-theory of 1.d4 or 1.e4 and instead embrace the sublime Réti Opening.
Karpov shows you how to deal with the Panov-Botvinnik Attack.
A White repertoire based on meeting 1.e4 e5 with the Ruy Lopez.
Reviewed by John Watson. An algebraic version (with added photos and crosstables) of Alekhine's masterpiece.
Bobby Fischer Comes Home: The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions
I loved it, but John Watson tells you why he doesn't.
Books from Siles Press


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New London cop fired for allegedly leaking memo
New London — Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio fired police Officer David McElroy on Friday for what Finizio described as McElroy's leaking of a document about an alleged sexual assault and subsequent "untruthful" behavior during an internal investigation.
Police Chief Margaret Ackley recommended McElroy's termination, according to Finizio.
The mayor's office said in a news release that McElroy violated department policies by leaking an internal police memo about the alleged sexual assault to the news media and did not tell the truth both in a memo to the police department and during an interview about the leak.
The document disclosed details of a reported rape last summer, which spurred a contentious debate about public safety in the city. Police, however, determined the reported assault did not happen as originally reported.
Police conducted an internal investigation into the leak, which included a review by a forensic document examiner. The investigation found that writing on the leaked document sent to a news anchor matched McElroy's handwriting. McElroy denied under oath that the writing belonged to him, according to the release.
The mayor's office said it terminated McElroy because of his "demonstration of his lack of integrity" by offering a document that he knew had false information and by lying twice under oath. "The New London Police Department has zero tolerance for this conduct," the release stated.
"This is a sad day for the New London Police Department because, while the City must hold Officer McElroy responsible for his conduct, this incident clouds the fact that the vast and overwhelming majority of our police officers do an honorable job serving our community and upholding the privilege of being called a New London Police officer," said Finizio in a written statement.
Eric Brown, the police union's attorney, disputed the charges against McElroy, saying they resulted from the administration's "attack plan" against the union. He said the city wanted to fire McElroy because Union President Todd Lynch would not resign.
The police union has said that Ackley had offered to give a more lenient punishment to McElroy, who at the time was under investigation, in exchange for the retirement of Lynch, who has pending litigation against the city. AFSCME, Council 15, Connecticut Council of Police Unions, released the information about the offer in a press statement last month.
"We're disappointed but not surprised," said Brown in an interview, reacting to the news on Friday. "This is a police chief and administration that has been trying to stop the police union since coming to office."
"Now a man who has been a dedicated police officer and has always had the highest integrity has to go through the holiday season without a job," he added.
The mayor's office denied that the city was targeting McElroy, the union's vice president, because he is a union officer.
"In an effort to politicize and cloud this issue, the police union has stated that McElroy was "targeted" because of his involvement as a union officer," the release states. "This simply is not the case and calls into question the motives of those making these statements, especially since they are all aware of the independent scientific evidence. The New London Police Department has an obligation to protect the citizens living in and visiting the city, including protecting them from dishonest officers."
The union also issued a written statement Friday afternoon and stated that the city had just proposed last month to issue McElroy a written reprimand for the alleged incident.
"Today's action continues the deterioration of the New London Police Department caused by Ackley and Finizio," the release reads. "... We will fight for Dave and get his job back. The citizens of New London should demand Ackley's termination and Finizio's resignation."
Finizio told The Day's editorial board on Monday that he made an offer for a more lenient punishment for McElroy through the city's attorney. But he said the offer came after Lynch had initiated and then retracted proposals to resign, to retire from the department and to dissolve multiple grievances on file in exchange for the lighter punishment.
"Today is another example of a pathetic leader — Mayor Finizio — who has taken a significant part in the destruction of the New London police department," Lynch said in an interview.
Lynch said the city had offered last week to give McElroy a written reprimand if he quit the police department. Instead, he said the police department terminated McElroy at his home, weeks before Christmas and two months away from his city pension. He said in his 26 years of law enforcement, he has never seen disciplinary action taken in a location outside of the police station.
Lynch accused Finizio of attacking and unfairly punishing the members of the police union while simultaneously classifying himself as a pro-union mayor to striking Lawrence + Memorial Hospital workers.
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text: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 Older Adults With Diabetes Benefit From Self-care Programs Authors of an article published online in Diabetes Care say that compared with younger adults, older adults receive equal glycemic benefit from participating in self-management interventions. Clinicians can safely recommend group diabetes interventions to community-dwelling older adults with poor glycemic control, they add. For their study, the researchers randomized 71 community-dwelling older adults and 151 younger adults to attend a structured behavioral group, an attention control group, or 1-to-1 education. Half of the younger group and nearly a third of the older group had type 1 diabetes, and the rest had type 2. All group interventions were delivered separately to patients with type 1 diabetes and those with type 2 diabetes. The researchers measured A1C, self-care (3-day pedometer readings, blood glucose checks, and frequency of self-care), and psychosocial factors (quality of life, diabetes distress, frustration with self-care, depression, self-efficacy, and coping styles) at baseline and 3, 6, and 12 months postintervention. Both older and younger adults had improved A1C equally over time. Older and younger adults in the group conditions improved more and maintained improvements at 12 months. Furthermore, the authors say, frequency of self-care, glucose checks, depressive symptoms, quality of life, distress, frustration with self-care, self-efficacy, and emotional coping improved in older and younger participants at follow-up. "Many clinicians are reluctant to refer older patients to group education, feeling that older people may require individual attention in order to benefit," study coauthor Katie Weinger, EdD, told Medscape Medical News. She notes that the new study answers research questions posed in a recent consensus statement from the American Diabetes Association and the American Geriatrics Society regarding which education approaches work best for older people with diabetes. "Our paper addresses these issues by including both middle-aged and older adults," Weinger says.


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General Overview
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When your hip joint begins to break down, you're in for constant pain. It wakes you up at night and curtails most of your physical activities during the day. Fortunately, there are a number of treatment options that can greatly improve this chronic, painful condition.
Special Topics
Osteoarthritis is by far the most common form of arthritis. So common, in fact, that if you are over 40, there is a 90% chance you already show signs, though you probably don't know it. Find out if there are supplements that may provide relief.
For people who have suffered through years of hip pain and discomfort, hip replacement surgery can change their lives.
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When conversation turns to "What are you doing for vacation this year?", wouldn't it be great to be able to reply, "Oh, we're renting an apartment in Paris"? Imagine your own Parisian pied-a-terre, where you can have breakfast on a balcony overlooking the Seine. It may sound extravagant, but with our great deals on vacation rentals in Paris, you can make it a reality. We have everything from spacious, furnished three-bedroom apartments in Paris to cozy studios in Montmartre. And we offer unbiased reviews from former guests, so you can book you Paris vacation rental apartment with confidence.
Deciding where in Paris you want to be is perhaps the hardest part in picking out a vacation rental in Paris—the city has so many charming and unique neighborhoods! Look for a Paris vacation rental in the 1st arrondissement to be close to the Louvre or Les Tuileries. The 4th arrondissement is home to Notre Dame, Sainte-Chapelle and the Centre Pompidou. Want to live the life of a Parisian intellectual in the Latin Quarter? Look for a Paris apartment rental in the 5th arrondissement. You'll find elegant Parisian apartments in the 6th and 7th arrondissements. And if you're in Paris for some antique shopping, consider the 18th arrondissement (Montmartre)—it's home to the famous Marché aux Puces de Clignancourt, a fantastic flea market.
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Salome is the first person in her Nigerien family to attend school.
Galmi Hospital: Going where no believer has gone before
This is an amazing profession, working at Galmi Hospital. I used to dream about becoming an astronaut. But here, rather than exploring barren planets devoid of life, we get to venture into unchartered territories where there are living beings made in the image of God.
Sorani Kurdish Bible translation finally complete
Translation for northern Iraq community is finished after 28 years of work.
Longing to breathe free
Pastor Shravan has been in a terrible place of bondage to drug addiction. And now his life mission is to prevent anyone he can from staying in that dark, destructive place.
Pop-up clinic leads Liberians to the Lord
A temporary clinic in a suburb of Liberian capital Monrovia is bringing people to Christ in the most unexpected ways.
From the overpass to the job market
Twice Lily found herself standing on the overpass, wondering what to do with her life and how to make ends meet, as busy city traffic whizzed underneath. But God was about to do something good in Lily's life through CUP (Children's Uplift Program).
The surprising ways God is at work in Bolivia
SIM has a commitment to the least reached people, where there is no gospel. In Bolivia this includes indigenous groups, rural residents and urban dwellers.
Loving the oppressor (and not only the oppressed)
The Bible talks about loving the oppressed – the widows and orphans, those who have suffered and have been treated unjustly. But what about loving the oppressors, the ones who have sinned against others? In Myanmar, the Bamar majority people are seen as oppressors and the perpetrators of some of the worst violations to human rights. These are the people Sandra and Tim want to share Jesus with.
Stitching dreams
Producing artisanal handicrafts and walking through life's hardships.
High-impact connections: Reaching university students for Christ
Universities are places where the faith of Christians is put to the test. Christian students need to know they are not alone and how to share the gospel with their classmates.
Sharing the light of Christ with Filipino Muslims
It's midday on a Tuesday. The day care for young children that Jo and two others run in a neighbourhood of Manila is coming to a close. Time for a break!
Ecuador and Ghana: Cross-cultural friendship produces a great harvest
Thomas responded to his missionary call after meeting an Ecuadorian mission team whose presence in Ghana spoke to him deeply — and they challenged him to go where Christ has not been known.
Being one in a million: Hope through occupational therapy in Niger
Occupational therapy helps Nigeriens regain mobility and engage with their world in new ways.
When women come together
During Lent, our community supports us as we experience the hard gifts of fasting. The community between Prabhouti, Pavitr, and Sambha - the ease with which they trusted and laughed with one another - almost made me jealous. Hearing their story makes me long to create the same sort of community around me.
Hindu World Prayer Guide: Reaching out through prayer
As many Hindus celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights, Christians will be praying that the True Light will be made known amongst them.
"The mountains have burst": Zimbabwe under Cyclone Idai
When the floods came to Chimanimani, it was as if the mountains exploded. "The people said, 'the mountains have burst,'" said SIM Zimbabwe Director Caiphas Ngarivhume.
Key of the kingdom
Enraged at his Christian wife for going to a church conference, the Muslim husband locked up the house as soon as she left, declaring to the neighbors that his wife would never enter his home again. To make his point, he threw the key into the river as he headed to his girlfriend's house for the week.
Evaluating risk and caring for missionaries
Risk is part of life, whether we stay home or become a missionary. And yet the parts of the world where Christ remains unknown are mostly the more dangerous ones.
Meeting the needs of migrants in Malaysia
In the case of Malaysia, the Lower House of Parliament in a 2015 session revealed a figure of 2.7 million registered migrants in the country.
Building good relationships in a tough place
New relationships surprise an anonymous central Asia SIM worker.
A man called Million
Who was this man named "Million" — and why did he have such an unusual name?
Chicken dinner ministry
Inmates take part in the Great Commission by donating from what they have.
World Refugee Day 2017
SIM Canada reaches out to diverse communities at its doorstep
Could you be the gospel worker to help refugees in northern Greece?
God's people are at work in Greece, helping the thousands of people arriving from the Middle East.
A child of war becomes a man of peace
Joseph Kur was a boy soldier in the Sudanese Civil War, both witnessing and committing terrible acts while still a child.
New missions Centre carries SIM Philippines into new era
The time intensive plants take tending and patience, finally yielding a crop many years after planting. So it goes with ministry to minority religious groups in the Philippines.
UN World Refugee Day: Reaching modern-day Hagars
The well-known story of Hagar in the book of Genesis is being repeated over and over again today.
The Yao of Mozambique hear the gospel for first time
Eleven years ago, God placed a dream in our hearts to teach his Word to people in Mozambique who have never heard his message.
Building the Church by motorcycle
The somewhat imaginary path dwindled away, and we couldn't make ourselves imagine it going any farther. We stopped the motorcycle and laughed.
A new wave of Latino missionaries
Nearly every Latino candidate I meet wants to work in the unreached places of the world and do some of the hardest work. God is raising up a new wave of missionaries in South America, and we are joyfully equipping them for service and sending them to these unreached areas.
Bringing sports ministry to some of the world's highest mountains
We may have been shivering 12,800 feet above sea level in the little mountain town of Ayaviri, but the warm welcome we received from our Andean brothers and sisters in Christ was unlike any other.
Cultivating a generous spirit
Let us accept that the itinerary and ministry of Elisha described in II Kings 4:8-17 fits the profile of a 21ˢᵗ century missionary. The question then is: Whose responsibility is it to care for Elisha?
Gospel hope transforms lives of addicted couple
Our partners in Mongolia are doing some astonishing gospel work among people with addictions, helping them out of their dependencies and into a living relationship with Jesus Christ. This is a first-person account of how one woman's life has been transformed.
An audience of 150,000 and growing
For gifted evangelists such as Getachew, the movement of 16 different Sudanese tribes from hard to reach areas into a single refugee area presents a wonderful opportunity. It's an opportunity to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with many more people.
Ministering in the mountains of Central Asia amidst Ramadan
We do whatever it takes to start new churches
The son of a Methodist father and a Muslim mother, Shodankeh Johnson serves with New Harvest Global Ministries in Sierra Leone. Making use of the principles of DMM (Disciple Making Movements), he and his team have planted some 2,000 churches.
Light at the end of the tunnel
I took a deep breath and reconsidered my options. The most appealing choice for me would require us to backtrack several miles to the place we took the shot cut and then climb over a high mountain pass.
Trading death for life
His name is Adam, and he was a witch doctor.
Kung fu Kwan
Kung fu master, Kwan, is living proof that almost any skill can be used in cross-cultural mission.
God's plan for devastated Doro
Missionaries returned to the South Sudan settlement of Doro, just three months after the compound was destroyed by fighting between rival armed groups.
What if God calls you to be an architect?
Our professional callings are pre-ordained to be spheres of service to God.
In the wake of Ebola, SIM offers ground-breaking medical treatment
In immense pain, James entered the Ebola survivor treatment unit in February 2015.
Banda Go: Helping healthcare heroes
Banda Health, an affordable IT solution designed by SIM's Banda Health team, is at an exciting chapter in supporting healthcare heroes in their local low-resource communities.
A spirit of freedom
When Prang came to know Christ, she finally felt freedom from the evil spirits that used to plague her.
New Uruguay mission school has vision for world missions
SIM has a commitment to see Uruguay reached for Christ. And through key partnerships with like-minded organisations, a new missionary training school called Todos Oiran (All Will Hear) is opening its doors in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Filling empty spaces
When Jyoti was first diagnosed with HIV, she was already pregnant with her daughter. The government hospital referred her to Shalom, whose workers offer the love of Christ, care, counselling, support and community.
Hope on the hard streets
Mimi's father died when she was only 10 years old and her family was left without anyone to provide for their them.
Demonstrating the Father's love to the fatherless
An AIDS and HIV orphan finds hope in Christ through an SIM ministry
Jonny speaks up for Jesus in Bolivia
Our founding fathers' goal was to share the gospel in places it had never been heard; now many missionaries want to help believers build a lifelong relationship with Jesus.
Crossing barriers to Filipinos
Ibrahim, a former Filipino Muslim, and his wife Mae are crossing cultural and religious barriers in Mindanao to support Islamic communities and the people who serve them. Through local arts, storytelling and the House of Barnabas retreat centre they are hoping to introduce Muslim Filipinos to the prophet Isa (Jesus).
How we can all join in God's work
Off the streets of India, into a new life
Shilpa is a survivor of sexual abuse. When she first came to the Redlight Greenlight aftercare home, she struggled to participate in school, group therapy, dance or art.
Ecuador earthquake disaster relief: One month later
God is at work, even through the aftermath of the destructive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck coastal Ecuador on April 16.
Latinos reaching Latinos: God at work in rural Ecuador
Martha was always full of questions. From the first time she attended the Bible study, her desire to know more was evident.
Opening doors through business in North Africa
Language and culture education business creates employment and ministry opportunities.
Skills for worship
Are we made simply for our own enjoyment or for something greater? Are our skills only for sale, or are they for worship?
Peruvians learn about clean water and the Living Water
Life-threatening diseases are being tackled by a unique partnership between a water engineer, a dentist, a nurse and an evangelist in remote parts of Peru.
Dickens is spared for a purpose in Kenya
As his home life turned sour, Dickens decided that the streets were a better option for him. In just eight months, his environment turned him from a soft-spoken boy to a hardened thief.
A jar of oil and a handful of flour
Today in Africa there are many churches – even small ones – that are sending or taking steps towards sending missionaries. A giving church is obeying God's commandment to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. But what if your church is not yet giving financially to mission?
Daphne takes the gospel from Kenya to the UK
Kenyan Daphne Kabeberi launches SIM UK's Engage project in a community church on an Edinburgh council estate.
Nepal earthquake recovery: The long road back to normal
Butel was finishing his sermon when he realized the communion elements were missing.
Taliban widow finds hope in Christ
One fateful day, after the violence came to her own doorstep, Aadab was left alone with two young children, no husband… and an opportunity to change her life. On that day, she realised she could only find safety for her family by escaping.
SIM missionary forerunner called home
It is fitting that Andrew finished his missionary career in a similar fashion to how he began it, as a pioneer of new ministry ventures for SIM, empowering people to serve in those least-reached places of the world where people are living and dying without knowing Christ.
How our small church grew a big heart for missions
Evangelical Christian Fellowship (ECF) in Liberia takes a special interest in missions and celebrates their recent missionary send off.
Going where there is no gospel in Asia
"Julie" is part of a small team hoping to bring the word of God and maybe, one day, the first church among the Central Asian minority we call "Cheuasai."
Connecting cultures through dreams
I am usually not a dreamer, but following that discussion I had a dream where I decided to cut my hair. In my dream, as I turned my head sideways my face turned into one of the local U people.
Hugging your daughter for the first time
Pastor Joelson Mwansa was not always a pastor. In fact, people knew Mwansa as the local drunk for many years in his town in Zambia, but then Mwansa had an encounter with God.
"Can I ask you a question about Jesus Christ?"
"Can I ask you a question about Jesus Christ?" That's what Ken asked me as we sat down in our living room, where I keep a Bible in the local language on display.
Nigeriens read Tamajaq New Testament for first time
After 30 years of hard work, the New Testament in Tamajaq is complete.
Mariama's cancer care comes with gospel hope in Niger
At Galmi, the aim is to heal the whole person, not just the body.
Transformed by short-term missions
For many years, I have felt that the Lord was calling me to something. I prayed for wisdom and clarity but a restless and unsettled feeling plagued me.
Ebola survivors find new hope in trauma counseling
Nancy Writebol remembers the exact moment her husband David told her she had the Ebola Virus Disease.
Six months in China: Short-term internship, long-term perspective
The students - all studying at a local university - have come to her 12-week class to improve their English. Rachel is here for a different reason.
One sugar cube: The sweet taste of the gospel in Egypt
Evangelism in Egypt is complex, but the steady work of SIM partners is inviting.
From noodles to soccer balls
Aof had gone to church for many Sundays and had said many "Amens" to the prayers people had prayed for her – but nothing really worked until she challenged God herself.
"A radio programme changed my life"
"Waves of Hope" radio ministry makes a difference to many people in Loja, Ecuador. Read why we want to expand this radio ministry and about Klever's story.
The piano bench ministry
Playing in an orchestra can open opportunities for heartfelt discussions about Jesus. Find out about Jill's "piano bench ministry."
The seed planter
This week we were privileged to hear the testimony of a man whose life was eternally changed by a simple question. We invited Martin to sit around a table on our back porch to share with us how the Lord saved him, and how God opened his eyes to the truth of the Gospel. This is Martin's story.
To life at ELWA Hospital
Dr. Rick Sacra, named 2018 AMH Gerson L'Chaim Prize winner, proceeds to benefit ELWA Hospital in Liberia.
Chileans to China
When Hans and Carmen Ziefle went to Chile as SIM missionaries in 1994, the Lord had put a strong desire in their hearts to mobilise Chileans to the mission field.
Crossing barriers with coffee
A cup of coffee is so much more than a person's preferences of milk or sugar. Inviting a friend to share a cup of coffee is inviting someone to share life, the highs and the lows, and everything in between.
Amid challenges, God at work in Mali ministries
From the outside looking in, ministering in Mali is a formidable task.
Ten million Hui with no church
Warren is from a Hui Muslim home. As his parents have become older, they've also become very devout Muslims. But for Warren, life has been busy with running his restaurant business and family responsibilities.
Youth ministry San Francisco
Building bridges in the community through teamwork and a labor of love
A way in the desert for widows
After their husband's death, widows in Burkina Faso were often left on their own with no material or moral support. Many times their in-laws would take their children or even accuse them for the death of their husband, saying that they had a "bad spirit."
Following God's call to the Middle East
While many young people in their 20s move to new cities for their jobs, Will* has moved to a new continent. He is preparing to serve God in the Middle East.
Fasting with our neighbors during Ramadan
Observing the traditional fast creates opportunities for meaningful conversation.
The Nepal earthquake: One year later
One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck, Nepal continues to heal and rebuild.
20 years later, God finds Pradip in Nepal
When Pradip* was a young boy growing up in Eastern Nepal, he found a Hindi Bible.
Walking into a ministry opportunity by accident
From drug addict to disciple: Finding Jesus through football
When the ace student from Malawi ended up in prison, his whole life was over--or so he thought. In fact, through an unexpected encounter with Christian members of a ministry-based soccer team, Patrick's spiritual life was just about to begin.
Affordable education where it is scarce in South Asia
Allied Model School still a blessing to the community as it turns 40.
Blind Manglo has a vision for the future
In our finite existence and brokenness, we continue to find hope and meaning in a God of infinite hope. Manglo may not yet know Jesus as her Lord and Saviour, but the door to salvation has been opened.
No longer an orphan
Rachel is 17 years old, living in extreme poverty and raised by a single mother when her father died.
Loving our neighbours at a cost
Recently, to ensure the peace here, some segments of the population were encouraged to move back to their hometowns.
How one young refugee encountered Christ
My father's urgent nudging woke me from a deep sleep: "Get up! Get up! We've got to go," he said and, with that, we set off in our truck in the blackest night.
The day I encountered my own heart-language
Heather shares about a unique encounter with her own heart-language while language learning in Ghana.
Disability in Kenya: Reaching out to the hidden and forgotten
Life is tough for families coping with disabilities in Kenya. Working with the local church, Sports Friends Kenya believes it can make a long-term transformation in their lives.
Modelling the Christian faith through relationships
Living out our faith with sincerity is often a powerful avenue for the Holy Spirit to minister to others.
Transforming lives in Peru
My husband, Paris, and I lead a sports ministry through our church called "Fire Eagles," and when some boys invited him to come to Fire Eagles games, Adam came. But he didn't believe in God, and he told us he didn't want to.
A ceramic community and God's perfect providence
Cera is a small ceramic community in the rural area of Loja Province. Read more about how God brought the Barbee family there to launch a missional business with a small group of believers who are eager to make an impact in their own community.
Sharing the light of Jesus with villagers in Niger
As soon as I get out of the car, I am greeted by six kids eager to learn. Their first question is: "Did you bring the video?"
Child soldier for Burma to follower of Christ
YooTaa remembers the day God saved his life.
From the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro
I awoke to the sound of the wind howling through camp. The walls of my tent shook violently as I glanced at my watch. It was just after midnight; in about an hour, our team would make the final push for Uhuru Peak, the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania — Africa's tallest mountain.
Against all odds
The road was blocked by a massive boulder, and there was no way around it; we would be walking the last one and a half kilometres. An hour late might still be considered "on time" in this culture, but we were now 90 minutes late.
Mustafa's miracle
Through an incredible encounter of God's power, Mustafa became a believer — but his friend Nabi made plans to kill him.
Economic and spiritual hope for North Africa
Missional business creates avenues for work and relationships to people in need
Asha has the hope of dreams in south Asia
Asha grew up in an environment hostile to women in general, particularly to young girls, who were considered nothing more than a burden to the family. Until now.
Planting seeds of hope
The Esan region of northeast Thailand is often described as one of the hardest places to do ministry in Thailand. Christians are few and far between, Buddhism is strong, and drug addiction is widespread.
Speaking without words
Sometimes I fail to realise that God is the One who is truly at work. He doesn't need me to say a single word in Swahili to move in the lives around us.
Prang's freedom in the Holy Spirit
The spiritual world was always real for Prang. But it was the world of dark, evil spirits.
Two years later, Liberians find healing from Ebola's emotional scars
In January 2016, the World Health Organization announced that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was over. In reality, the crisis is far from over for many who were caught up in the worst of it.
With God's help, Kumari is standing against giants in South Asia
SIM ministries are helping women caught in the sex trade stand up against crime and find hope.
Loving the children Jesus loves
When I began working with foreign, English-speaking women on parole, I had no idea it would include ministering to children. But when several women brought their children to the Bible study, we had to get creative.
Meeting migrants at our doorstep: SIM missionaries looking to Europe
In the past year, we have witnessed the worst migrant crisis in living memory, as more than 1.2 million people have fled to Europe to escape poverty and war.
Clean water, living water
Six years ago, after decades of drinking water with a dangerously high concentration of arsenic in it, Jalal's body finally began to succumb to severe symptoms of arsenicosis, or arsenic poisoning.
MANI 2016: Hearing and Obeying God in Times Like These
More than 560 delegates from more than 50 countries gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 7-11 March for the third consultation of the Movement for African National Initiatives (MANI).
Sacrifice and obedience, even when it's difficult
Hellen is a single mother of nine children. She works very hard to provide for her children. Every day she sells charcoal in Acholi Quarter in Uganda.
Cyclone Idai has brought devastation to parts of Mozambique
Cyclone Idai has brought devastation to parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. SIM's Disaster Relief Fund is being mobilised to help survivors.
My God will supply: A widow's faith
Naomi, a woman with a sweet, round face and warm smile, shared with the other widows that she and her children hadn't had enough money for rent or food for quite some time. There was simply nothing left.
Prabhouti's Wedding
Traditionally, Prabhouti should have married years ago. Girls in her village are married early – sometimes as young as twelve years old – just like their mothers were before them.
Choosing school
Ashish and Sachhi received another chance at education through SIM's partner, Chetna.
Ruth: A beacon for Jesus in Beirut school
An evangelical school in Lebanon is a lamp for the gospel in a country of many different faiths.
Deep conversations flourish during Ramadan
While some leave this country during the hot months, we stay for the opportunities to talk about our faith
Modelling the Christian faith through relationships
Living out our faith with sincerity is often a powerful avenue for the Holy Spirit to minister to others
Equipped and edified
Daniel started this course for young leaders with little expectations. But, on top of the ministry focused training, it turned out to be a life-changing personal experience.
Multiplying help for the brokenhearted
God wants to heal the brokenhearted. Read more about the local facilitators who were trained to support wounded people and to teach others with the "Healing the Wounds of Trauma" programme.
Launching the project "Let's Mobilise His Church" in Spanish
Mobilisation is not just about sending missionaries, but also about encouraging all the people of God to participate in the mission of God.
The Leaders of Sudan
With a deep desire to care for its children, the Sudan Interior Church has partnered with SIM to start a primary school, that educates and disciples those whom we pray will be the future leaders of South Sudan.
Changing the world starts with one camper
God can use a single camper to transform an entire village for His fame — we've witnessed it.
Restore hope to the vulnerable
The Children's Uplift Program (CUP) and the Girls off the Streets Fund extend hope to vulnerable women.
The broadcast that dries Anibal's tears
Finding himself downcast after a failed marriage, Anibal was touched by Radio Hope's messages.
Called back home
Servio and his family obeyed when God sent them home to plant a church in the remote Loja province.
Making cancer treatment a reality
In a place where treatment is out of reach for most, donations have made a way for Galmi Hospital to give hope to some Nigeriens
My story: Cries of the heart
Experience at an aftercare home for victims of human trafficking has taught one carer how facing the deep brokenness in our own hearts can be transformed into a deeper understanding of God.
The Hassaniya people of the Kayes region of Mali
Imagine you were one of the only believers among your people. Your friends, neighbors and loved ones knew nothing of the forgiveness, salvation and beautiful promises of Jesus. How would you feel? This is the reality for Oumar*, a Hassaniya brother in Christ from Mali whose prayers have gone before the Lord for his people for many years.
From nations to the nations
The Harvest Worker project is helping mobilise those who are ready to go to serve in South Sudan.
Evangelism: The foundation of missions
Dr. Stanley Ling shares his thoughts on evangelism and its role in mission work.
Food impact as mission
New Zealand's Good Neighbour rescues food as they point to the Saviour.
Nozomi Project trains Cambodian women in reclamation
The Nozomi Project shares its passion for redemption with women in Cambodia. Find out how this Japanese, faith-based enterprise is awakening hope.
Regie's remarkable journey: From bleak childhood to global mission
In the midst of a harsh childhood, Regie Wang encountered God's love – now she inspires the Church to do missions.
Check out the new hopeforlife.net website
SIM's Hope for Life ministry just launched a new website – hopeforlife.net. Check it out to see how they're ministering to HIV-affected communities.
Misheel's university students present Christmas
Lecturer and SIM worker, Misheel, had the chance to answer questions about the gospel, all because her students chose an astonishing subject for their group projects: Christmas.
Yasir becomes a motorcycle mechanic and child of God
Yasir was orphaned, forced to end his studies and left without work. But God saw him and soon led him to SIM's youth vocational training centre.
Evangelism: The Foundation of Missions
2 Tim 4:2, "Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction."
Restore Hope to the Vulnerable
After a long journey of mistrust and abuse, these were the healing words that Koli* heard at the Children's Uplift Program (CUP): "It's not your fault. We love you no matter what happened in your past. God loves you."
A rare gospel opportunity: Teaching at Murree
Nick recounts what a priceless opportunity it was to teach at a high-quality Christian school in Pakistan.
Galmi patients colour Christmas
Colouring pages gave Galmi patients a new perspective on Jesus' birth. Read on to share in SIM worker Hannah Peterson's hopeful anticipation.
"By Prayer to the Nations": A must-read for missions enthusiasts
If you've ever wanted to find out more about SIM's roots and fascinating history across generations, now you can.
Choosing divine love, for better or for worse
The Fawcetts were eager to enter ministry. But God called the Fawcetts to wait before they could embark to Ayutthaya.
A holiday trim
Jesus' gracious gift of salvation inspires many people to charitable acts, especially during the holidays. But would you let someone you don't know cut your hair? Or be prepared to give a haircut to a trusting soul?
Enock's bravery after an attack
Enock faithfully served God despite being ambushed and injured.
Kingdom opportunity follows house call
Samuel, a family physician from Australia, and his family moved to Paraguay two years ago to be involved in rural evangelism and church planting where there aren't any churches.
Five Christmas gift ideas that benefit missions
Are you looking for gifts that support missions? Check out our five ideas for missional-minded Christmas shopping.
The Quechua connection
A simple Quechua conversation in a hospital led to a couple committing their lives to Jesus. It also led to a resilient friendship at the perfect time.
#HowWillTheyHear's 10:14 campaign: Pray for refugees
The prayer campaign, 10:14, lifts displaced people up to God. Will you mark the 14th of October in your calendar and pray with us?
Jairo asks God to use him
Jairo, like many young Jesus followers, encountered struggles. Find out how he persevered and offered his life in service to Christ.
Tan and Izumi take the gospel from Japan to Tanzania
God led Tan and his family to Africa, though it took much time and prayer.
Senegal's Kaffrine Scholarship: Investing in the future
Find out how this scholarship is equipping the next generation of Christians through education and discipleship.
Benjamin trusts God to provide water
Benjamin wanted to emulate Jesus' ministry of reconciliation, while tangibly helping people through earthly problems.
Hang up your capes: Jesus is the real hero of the faith
Are we putting missionaries on a pedestal? Mission work isn't unattainable — find out more about how all Jesus followers can be faithful witnesses.
The road to Kayes
A young family is heading to Mali for the Faithful Witness initiative. Read on to find out about their preparation for the journey.
God listens: Reed & the Ecuadorian Deaf community
Reed encountered the Deaf in Ecuador. What he found was astonishing — and calls for Jesus followers to serve this isolated group.
By word (and care) of mouth
How often do Brendan and Erin Connally's ministries overlap? Dentistry and oral Bible storying complement each other more than you'd think.
When you are tested to despair
Australian Anne-Sophie says it's harder to see beauty in her surroundings back in Niger where she serves as a GP-obstetrician and chief medical officer at Galmi Hospital.
Delivered from overdose by Jesus
Edgar considered Jesus and spent time with Christians, but he also experimented with drugs. Soon, he feared for his life.
Can Good News transform Madagascar?
The Good News Project has grown in, engaged with and served Mandritsara in Madagascar. Find out how their gospel-centred service has impacted the town and drawn workers from across the world.
A friendship sculpted by God
God's hand is clearly on the friendship between the Wards and Frealem, and it all started with a common love of pottery.
Going where there is no gospel in Asia
Julie* is part of a small team hoping to bring the word of God and maybe, one day, the first church among the Central Asian minority we call "Cheuasai."


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Facebook's engineering team has confirmed that the organization is open sourcing Warp, a preprocessor for the C and C++ languages.
Authored by Walter Bright in a joint project association with Facebook itself, Warp draws upon the social giant's sophisticated build system that uses distributed compilation in conjunction with several cache layers backed up by memcache.
This sophisticated build is part of what makes Warp special to development shops that work with large C++ code bases, who always need to pay close attention to build times.
Facebook research scientist Andrei Alexandrescu says that while conventional wisdom has it that preprocessing time is a "negligible part" of building a C++ binary, C++ is in fact "notoriously difficult" to parse, which means that C++ parsers tend to be "large and slow" compared to their counterparts for other languages.
Alexandrescu points out that code generation is also quite the time sink, especially if a developer is using optimizations — and that linking is a large serial step at the end of each build.
"Therefore, it would seem that the lowly task of going through the included files and expanding macros would take a comparatively short time and be essentially impossible to improve upon. Not so! Replacing gcc's preprocessor with Warp has led to significant improvements of our end-to-end build times (including linking)," he said.
The team has measured debug build speed improvements ranging from 10% all the way to 40%, all of which were in complex projects with massive codebases and many dependencies.
Alexandrescu hosted a Q&A with Walter Bright himself to ask him how he feels about Warp today. When questioned on whether he was surprised that solid overall build speed improvements could be achieved by improving C++ preprocessing speed alone, Bright said not at all.
"But to really figure why… one would need some historical perspective. When C was created, RAM was a scarce commodity; so many programs wouldn't fit in memory. Therefore, a common approach back then was to do multi-pass processing — a complex program would be divided into multiple, simpler batch stages, each going over the output of the previous stage and producing a file for the next stage. The specification of the C preprocessor follows that mold. For example, the very first step is to blindly replace trigraphs. The second removes each backslash followed by newline. And so on and so forth. This design allowed each of these steps to be carried by a separate program, but is poorly suited to today's compiler with large memories and parallelism-hungry CPUs."
Explaining his approach to open source, Bright said that he would have approached Warp very differently 10 years ago.
"I would have probably used C-style hand-written code for everything, and I am not above using
goto (laughs). But I am always on the lookout for improving the 'sound' of my coding, as I think any programmer should be. The reality is that a C preprocessor is fundamentally a filter program, so range-based algorithms and pipe composition fit it best. For Warp, then, I hoped to get a lot of mileage from composing with range-based algorithms everywhere, and that is indeed what happened."


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Posted: Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:33
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I don't intend saluki to vie for the Puppy 6 title. I personally find building build systems dull so I'm thrilled that someone else wants to do it. Count me in for the "serious" team.
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Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2012, 19:56
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Thanks to Igu (aka Iguleder and Dima) and Jemimah
The next Puppys are likely to be 5.3.3
Wary and Racy
and then Saluki
By then cheap ARM motherboards (Raspberry Pi is still our best bet) will be freely available
and that is when we can evaluate Igu's solution
and Woof2 on ARM
So for Puppy 6 (also available in 64bit and x86)
we can aim for multiprocessor Puppy . . .
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Posted: Sat 11 Feb 2012, 09:40
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this all looks very promising
i'm giving the roar-ng a go and it seems to be working ok
i have just a couple questions that you may be able to answer:
1) will puppy6 have a system to update packages?
2) will you be ditching JWM in favour of something more maintained?
oh; and what do you think about making it a puppy based puppy which can use .deb .rpm arch packages etc; all the converters exist...
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Posted: Thu 16 Feb 2012, 12:14
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1) will puppy6 have a system to update packages?
2) will you be ditching JWM in favour of something more maintained?
XFCE is being used by Saluki, there is a fork of JWM
which is being maintained . . .
I think PARM is radical enough to be Puppy 6
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Posted: Wed 07 Mar 2012, 15:07
Post subject: What Should the Next Puppy Be?
I began with Puppy 5.1.1 then moved to 5.2.8. It has become my OS of choice replacing CentOS on both the desktop and laptop. My installations have grown large with addons which have been easy to install and fast to run. My hardware isn't ancient, but neither is it close to the latest, either. I am a happy Puppy user.
My next Puppy won't require that I drastically upgrade or replace any hardware. But, if I do upgrade, Puppy will like his new home and really run like the wind.
He will not require that all my applications be reinstalled from scratch. It would be acceptable to restore from backup with something like Clonezilla.
My next Puppy won't dictate that every six months he has to be swapped out for a new version that may or may not support a favored application. That was my reason for moving from Fedora to CentOS.
Maybe Puppy didn't propose to become a full-blown distribution. But, for some of us it did - and a really good one. However it goes from here, we are grateful to all who have shared their efforts with the rest of us.
If future development does not match my hopes for Puppy, it still would not be reason to jump ship. I'd continue to use what I have, 5.2.8, until either my hardware fails or until there are favored applications that will not run on my Puppy. Then I would be willing to start from scratch with a new Puppy.
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Posted: Thu 08 Mar 2012, 08:26
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there's not much info on UWM. Is JWM unmaintained? it had an update last year.
The most important for me is for JWM to add 'Configurable mouse bindings'. otherwise its a no-no for inkscape ; -)
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Posted: Thu 08 Mar 2012, 12:12
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Good job on the wikka
- the clear, clean layout you have created, and content belie the efforts you've made - many thanks!
Puppy development seems poised for a new direction....good work Igu/Jemimah/playdayz/01micko and others
A development that will have multiprocessor, himem, improved package management, and arm capability is certainly leaping forward in puppy development thinking - please don't neglect SCSI capability for the kernel....as slacko is our only modern SCSI-friendly puppy
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Posted: Thu 08 Mar 2012, 14:29
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Aitch wrote:
Good job on the wikka
- the clear, clean layout you have created, and content belie the efforts you've made - many thanks!
Your welcome, Lobster and CoolPup doing good things as well. Setting the information free. More editors and correctors always welcome
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Posted: Fri 09 Mar 2012, 15:59
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Could i be right if I assume that non .PET and.SFS packages like the ones for Lupu and Slacko, would have a better chance of working if they where based on a distro with even less arms and legs than Puppy?
Maybe lets say Slitaz? They have more than 3000 packages in their repo and Slitaz as its small, I believe its not going to keep on with this dependency requirements, whereas speaking for my self, I am dead tired of downloading a small package like Amsn, and end up with a large number of dependencies and often a program that will not start or run...
I can not believe I would be the only one feeling this is a bit weird, as one can simply not control or influence on these large distro's.
With Slitaz on can. Slitas is only 35Mb "big, so I guess it should be possible to try to make Slitaz repo the Puppy 6 repo and all that not working or missing this or that, could be gone once and for all?
I am not the right person to say that its like this or that. I just base it on some simple logic.
I suspect that the good folks at Slitaz, could be a great long term partner for Puppy, and that there is no conflict in that...
Today you can not change or invoke on the Ubuntu Lucid or the Slackware community as Puppy is small and just hanging on to them... Tomorrow there could be big time growth for BOTH Puppy and Slitaz if joined hands and made things work visa versa...
Imagine having a repo that you can talk to??????
There is another thread where I go
deeper into this...
Also there is some information about their package system
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Posted: Sat 10 Mar 2012, 08:33
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I don't know why not slitaz - presumably it would be possible to use woof with Slitaz
Problems of package management are discussed in depth here-
maybe add your thoughts . . .
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Posted: Sat 10 Mar 2012, 09:36
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Hi Darkcity...
I am a nobody when it comes to programming or understanding of packages, but I do understand that if a distro is less complex than Puppy, as Slitaz is, is more likely to have a repo that gives success on each install:-)
Thanks for the link. I could not make much out of the discussion, apart from a very small majority, wants a non backward compatible new standard, and that makes more sense to me.
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Posted: Sun 18 Mar 2012, 03:42
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I am a nobody
Me too.
Without the dogged determination of our developers, testers and users,
we are just another money making scam.
We are Puppy. We have fun.
Puppy has grown. The needs of nobody and everybody are increasingly complex. Users expect more. Developers need more support and testers. Wiki needs updating. Graphics always welcome, tutorials, videos need a Youtubing. Servers need a hosting. Nobody is going to hold your hand. Do . . . and it gets done.
Noobs need a buddy and so on . . .
New directions are all present. Puppy is still more fun that a barrel full of . . . puppies
The direction very much comes from the developers and suggestions of what is feasible is dependent on an understanding of what is possible and what users require.
All our developers are users too. They deserve as much fun as the next dog.
I was very pleased to hear on Barry's blog, that he is looking at Igus unique and revolutionary alternative to woof2.
Some of us are aware that Puppy will have to survive in a world where tablets are a norm rather than a prescription.
Touch screens, they be a coming . . .
Woof 2 and igus methodology (I am assuming - not yet tried) allows us to create a base Puppy in a few hours - (or in my case possibly longer)
The testing and refinement takes longer.
We have:
Puppy x86
Puppy x86 64 bit
and soon Puppy ARM (and for the future Puppy Mips - Puppy Dragon maybe)
The Dragon chip is being created in China based on Mips.
These Puppy's now and future can be built with
t2 (commonly 'Puppy in Puppy'), Debian, Slackware and RPM bases
However there is more than just multi-CPU or distro binaries to consider
There is touch enabled icons for the future tablet.
The Shuttleworth Express has already unified behind Unity.
However I believe Ubuntu is not a fan of fun. They are seriously
competing to be THE only penguin. It is a vision of sorts.
Is not Puppy. We welcome the big dogs. Use what works.
Even use Windows Hate (or 8 is it?) if you must.
Coming 2013 - possible early pre-alpha release late 2012
We may need to be Android compatible too . . .
So many possibilities. Are we having fun yet?
Slacko contains icons, Quirky, Wary, Racy, Lucid
Icons - we also can have up to 8 (I think it is) virtual screens.
With Puppy, everything is moving towards Puppy 6
It takes longer to get it just right. More is possible.
Puppy is owned by nobody.
It is answerable to no one.
Our developers, testers and helpers are independently minded
and self financed.
Our [non existent] committees are all busy designing camels and calling them horses.
You have enjoyed Puppy in the past. You are using Puppy now. Fun is in the future too.
Puppy 6 is coming . . . do you know what to expect? Nobody does . . .
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Posted: Sun 18 Mar 2012, 07:22
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I was very pleased to hear on Barry's blog, that he is looking at Igus unique and revolutionary alternative to woof2.
Some of us are aware that Puppy will have to survive in a world where tablets are a norm rather than a prescription.
Hi Lobster I read that link you posted, it sounded like a guy with a mission, but he didn't come across very positive, If he wants to fork it fine, it was done before with grafpup, also he said it would be impossible to have a gtk3 puppy due to gtkdialog, well I've prove with 2.14x GTK3 version that gtk3 can be added to gtk2 and it only increases the iso by around 3MB, heck 2.14X has gtk1,gt2,gtk3 and its still around 130MB iso.
He also really put down a lot of Barry's hard work on woof, He's not understanding that woof is breaking edge software and its 100% the way that Barry wanted, If he wants to make it different and easier fine, but really these no need to stomp on Barry's work like that. Its always easier to change and complain after someone develops it first.
He even put down the package manager compression, well I've seen other compressions used like tar.bz2. But Xarchive is useless with large tar.bz2 files, sometimes it takes hours to extract sources. I've always liked the package manager, it installs and uninstalls? what else do you need? lol
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Posted: Sun 18 Mar 2012, 08:57
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Barry said "I am not inclined to take on bringing an x86 (or x86_64) Precise Puppy to release status, it is just too much work, and I am going to get overloaded." However, he has done some development with Woof and even has it booting.
I hope that someone will pick up on Precise Puppy and goto release with two versions (x86 & x86_64). This could be a great start for Puppy 6.
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For puppy 6 I would like to see it Debian based without all the extra gnome libs, really if you compare puppy 4 to puppy 5 you'll see a crap load off lib creep, There could always be an extra sfs for all the extra gnome libs, I just would like to see it lean and mean, if it causes a few stability issues, then we simply recompile the broken libs, but I highly believe we could figure it out very quickly
, I more for a puppy release that has the option to use the debian repo, but if a user choose to use the repo, they first should be forced install a "Debian Upgrade Pet" that installs all those extra gnome libs and the ones that were replaced due to unstable results. Simple, I can't say when I ran dpup or upup I ever really used debian/ubuntu repo but still had a whack of libs that were not needed and added bloat and memory resources. I Just compile what I need, usually 90% of the time it comes out smaller due to less libs being as deps.
I look at it this way if we can shave 5-10MB+/- off a iso why not?
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