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Trusteer partnership
Integration of application protection and strong authentication prevents financial and cyber fraud
Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, Zurich, Switzerland, November 20, 2012 - VASCO Data Security International, Inc. (Nasdaq: VDSI), a leading software security company specializing in authentication products, and Trusteer, the leader in endpoint cybercrime prevention solutions that protect organizations against financial fraud and data breaches, today announced a partnership to secure online transactions, applications and access to sensitive information. With this agreement, Trusteer and VASCO unite their efforts against fraudulent attempts, each by securing a critical part of the transaction process.
VASCO's software solutions are used to authenticate users of identities and financial transactions. VASCO authentication significantly increases security for online access to web applications in a convenient way. Fraud attempts, such as Man-in-the-Middle attacks and phishing, have become an increasing concern to many applications and VASCO has focused its efforts to provide solutions against such attacks.
Trusteer Rapport protects endpoints, running VASCO DIGIPASS authentication, from malware and phishing attacks designed to steal users' access credentials. Once installed, Trusteer Rapport removes existing financial malware from end-user machines and prevents future infections by stopping attempts to exploit browser vulnerabilities and install malware on the endpoint. It blocks key logging and screen capturing used by malware to steal login credentials from online banking web pages. Trusteer ensures that the device, running VASCO DIGIPASS, and the browser are not compromised by malware while VASCO elevates the level of authentication to prevent account takeover attacks.
The combined solution of VASCO's DIGIPASS software with Trusteer's Rapport ensures convenient and banking level security to online applications. The solution is ideal for consumer applications that are accessing sensitive information. With the increase of fraudulent activity, the combination represents a major step in the evolution of consumer security.
"Our partnership with Trusteer is a good example of VASCO's continuing evolution into secure software and services to meet the needs of the consumer", says Jan Valcke, President and COO of VASCO Data Security. "Our software DIGIPASS was an answer to the market's need to create an easy-to-use, secure authentication system. By partnering with Trusteer, we are able to enhance this process by protecting against the growing concern of malware."
"Advanced malware is able to bypass all forms of authentication solutions. Even when using a strong authentication system, if the endpoint is infected with malware any application that is accessed, including online banking, enterprise applications, etc., is at risk," said Yaron Dycian, Vice President of Products for Trusteer. "Our partnership with Vasco provides end-to-end security that secures the authentication mechanism from tampering by malware and blocks any attempts to compromise online banking, enterprise and cloud application sessions."
Boston-based Trusteer is the leading provider of endpoint cybercrime prevention solutions that protect organizations against financial fraud and data breaches. Hundreds of organizations and millions of end users rely on Trusteer to protect their computers and mobile devices from online threats that are invisible to legacy security solutions. Trusteer's Cybercrime Prevention Architecture combines multi-layer security software with real-time threat intelligence to achieve sustainable protection against malware and phishing attacks and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Global organizations such as HSBC, Santander,The Royal Bank of Scotland, SunTrust and Fifth Third use Trusteer's solutions and leading online banking providers such as First Data, FIS, Harland Financial Solutions, Intuit and S1 integrate with Trusteer to provide world-class protection for financial institutions of all sizes. www.trusteer.com.
VASCO is a leading supplier of strong authentication and e-signature solutions and services specializing in Internet Security applications and transactions. VASCO has positioned itself as global software company for Internet Security serving a customer base of approximately 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries, including over 1,700 international financial institutions. VASCO's prime markets are the financial sector, enterprise security, e-commerce and e-government. Forward Looking Statements: Statements made in this news release that relate to future plans, events or performances are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements (1) are identified by use of terms and phrases such as "expect", "believe", "will", "anticipate", "emerging", "intend", "plan", "could", "may", "estimate", "should", "objective" and "goal", "possible", "potential", and similar words and expressions, but such words and phrases are not the exclusive means of identifying them, and (2) are subject to risks and uncertainties and represent our present expectations or beliefs concerning future events. VASCO cautions that the forward-looking statements are qualified by important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors have been described in greater detail in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and include, but are not limited to, (a) risks of general market conditions, including currency fluctuations and the uncertainties in world economic and financial markets, (b) risks inherent to the computer and network security industry, including rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards, increasing numbers of patent infringement claims, changes in customer requirements, price competitive bidding, and changing government regulations, and (c) risks specific to VASCO, including, demand for our products and services, competition from more established firms and others, pressures on price levels and our historical dependence on relatively few products, certain suppliers and certain key customers. Reference is made to VASCO's public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for further information regarding VASCO and its operations. This document may contain trademarks of VASCO Data Security International, Inc. and its subsidiaries, including VASCO, the VASCO "V" design, DIGIPASS, VACMAN, aXsGUARD and IDENTIKEY. For more information, contact Jochem Binst, +32 2 609 97 00, [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter.


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The Operations, Training & Exercise Branch develops emergency operations procedures for state and local governments; assists local governments in the development of emergency response capabilities, exercises and training.
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Recreation, relaxation, and excitement all beckon just kilometres from town. From Portneuf and Jacques-Cartier area to the Côte-de-Beaupré region and beautiful Île d'Orléans, have fun in our sensational outdoor playground.
Ride the cable car or cross the falls on the double zipline, take a walk in the paths and across the suspended bridge over the impressive 83-meter high waterfall (one and a half as high as Niagara Falls) to admire île d'Orléans and the majestic St. Lawrence River… that's Parc de la Chute-Montmorency!
Parc national de la Jacques-Cartier is perfect for hiking, mountain biking, moose watching, canoeing, and minirafting—all while admiring the steep gorges that soar skyward on both sides of the river!
You can also recharge your batteries in the Portneuf and Laurentians wildlife reserves. These protected areas are ideal for fishing, hunting, or simply relaxing—whether you choose to camp or stay in the comfort of a cabin.
Sainte‑Anne Canyon is a majestic natural attraction that's accessible to everyone. The trail system runs along both sides of the canyon and across three suspension bridges for a commanding view of the rock faces, the rushing Sainte‑Anne‑du‑Nord River below, and the mighty falls as they plummet a full 74 m (243 ft.).
Adventure-seekers will love the site's added thrill and challenge, the longest Air Canyon-style zipline in Canada.
This picturesque valley features a winding river, a spectacular waterfall, and picture perfect mountains and clifftops.
Explore an 80 kilometre network of marked trails (developed by young people on a job placement program) and stop at one of the huts along the way for your lunch break. Try via ferrata or canyoning with an experienced guide, rent a canoe or a kayak, hit the mountain bike singletrack trails, go wilderness camping, or spend a night in a yurt or a chalet.
Outdoor fun beckons on the shores of Lac Saint-Joseph!
Whether you stay at the Auberge Duchesnay lodge or in a cabin, this resort is great for summer activities (swimming, canoeing, tree-top adventure courses, and cycling). And it's just a hop, skip, and jump away from Québec City.
Visitors to the stunning Sentier des Caps trail are rewarded by incredible vistas of the St. Lawrence River and Le Massif de Charlevoix. It's heaven for fans of hiking!
Binoculars and cameras at the ready! Nestled between the mountainside and the St. Lawrence River tidal marshes in the Côte-de-Beaupré region, lies one of Canada's top bird-watching sites, with over 180 species of birds to observe.
Every spring and fall, snow geese gather here in tens of thousands—a sight to behold!
In Québec City, visitors will find all types of activities in the great outdoors.
Our mountain sites adapt their offers to each season, and our lakes, rivers and majestic waterfalls are accessible summer and winter.
For adrenaline junkies and for those who prefer to stay in their comfort zone, we have it all. Choose from our thrilling activities, or see these experiences everyone will enjoy.
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One in 50 North Carolinians has the flu. That�s according to the latest data released from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
One in 50 North Carolinians has the flu.
That�s according to the latest data released from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. For the week ending Dec. 1, the CDC determined influenza widespread in North Carolina, along with South Carolina and six other states.
Officials at Lenoir Memorial Hospital met Tuesday and chose to implement visitation restrictions to limit the spread of the flu among local children.
�In that meeting, we decided we will be posting signs shortly suggesting that children 12 and under not visit in the pediatric ward,� hospital spokeswoman Barbara LaRoque said.
LaRoque said the signs should be up by today, though, according to the information available, she doesn�t believe influenza levels locally are atypical for this time of year.
�Actually, the last statistics that I looked at, they did not (look unusual),� LaRoque said. �According to the North Carolina weekly influenza surveillance summary, there�s been an uptick � 1.77 percent to 2.3.�
According to the CDC, flu cases reached their national baseline at the earliest time of the year since the 2003-2004 season. Other hospitals in North Carolina have been taking what officials consider appropriate action.
Friday, the High Point Enterprise reported the High Point Regional Health System is restricting visitation for anyone under 18 years old to prevent viral infections. Monday, Vidant Children�s Hospital in Greenville limited visitation for children younger than 12 years old.
�When we get to around two percent of infectious illnesses coming through emergency rooms and doctor offices being influenza or influenza-like illnesses, we make a decision to start restricting, simply to keep the spread in the hospital down,� Dr. Alex Dalzell said to WITN.
If you haven�t received your seasonal flu shot yet, the Lenoir County Health Department provides them by appointment every Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. The LCHD suggests calling 252-526-4200, Ext. 0, to schedule an appointment.
The shots are $25, but are free if you�re on Medicaid, Medicare, a caregiver of a child younger than six months, attending a four-year college or university or under 18 years old and uninsured.
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A Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk of the 48th Fighter Wing crashed Tuesday on a beach in Norfolk, England during a training flight. The four crewmembers onboard all died in the incident.
The helicopter, one of two that set off from the base at RAF Lakenheath late in the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 7, were taking part in a training exercise in the dark. At this point it is not known whether the crew were using night vision goggles (NVGs).
HH-60G similar to the one that crashed off the UK coast on Tuesday. Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force
Local villages reported hearing the aircraft at a very low level prior to the crash at around 6:00 pm local time. News pictures revealed a long track of debris near a beach, which suggests that the helicopter was flying forward when the incident occurred.
"The loss of our Liberty Wing brethren is felt deeply across RAF Lakenheath," said Col. Kyle Robinson, 48th Fighter Wing commander.
Low-level training exercises are a normal part of the training cycle for those who man the search and rescue (SAR) HH-60G helicopters, believed to be from the 56th Rescue Squadron.
The U.S. military is coordinating with UK police and the Ministry of Defense at the crash site.
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Stockton University Students Accepted for Mission 11 of Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
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Students at Stockton University, home to ELS/Atlantic City, have been accepted for Mission 11 of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) through the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, according to a Stockton University press release.
Up to 30 undergraduate students will be selected to be mentored by Stockton faculty and compete on 10 different three-person teams, producing between 10-15 experimental proposals. The proposals will then be judged by a Stockton review panel. Three finalists would be submitted to the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) for final selection, according to the press release.
After a flight safety review by NASA, the winning design will fly in spring/summer of 2017.
The Mission 11 project at Stockton is a partnership between the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the Stockton Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Collaborative, the School of General Studies, and the School of Education.
ELS/Atlantic City is located on Stockton's 2,000-acre campus in the beautiful Pinelands National Reserve. Students can spend their free time strolling, shopping and sightseeing along the world-famous wooden walkway that is the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
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The EasyDriver is a simple-to-use stepper motor driver, compatible with anything that can output a digital 0 to 5V pulse (or 0 to 3.3V pulse if you solder SJ2 closed on the EasyDriver). EasyDriver requires a 6V to 30V supply to power your motor and can power a stepper motor of any voltage. The EasyDriver has an on-board voltage regulator for the digital interface that can be set to 5V or 3.3V. Connect a 4-wire stepper motor and a microcontroller and you've got precision motor control. EasyDriver drives bi-polar motors, and motors wired as bi-polar, i.e. 4-, 6-, or 8-wire stepper motors.
The microstep select (MS1 and MS2) pins of the A3967 are broken out, allowing adjustments to the microstepping resolution. The sleep and enable pins also are broken out for further control.
Caution: Do not connect or disconnect a motor while the driver is energized. This will cause permanent damage to the A3967 IC.
Compared to the previous version of the EasyDriver, this version has slightly different power ratings and better over-voltage protection. For most applications the function should be identical.


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Work of the Week: "Guarding Pumpkin" by Terry Gregoraschuk
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kigoobe necessitava di un nuovo design di pagina web e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 49 design presentati da 22 designer.
Please do not submit any new template. I have already forwarded the following 6 templates to the client and waiting for his feedback. Thanks.
Also, I have increased the contest duration to maximum, since I will have to wait for client's feedback, there will probably be some modifications, and then we will have to make the product display page.
However, please again note that I am not accepting any more new entries. Submission of new entries is closed now, and we will work with the following six templates. Thanks.
The link to logo is in the description page
put a place holder
Desired Color Scheme:
Desired Style:
Clean (not plain), professional, yet eye catching.
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
This is a website for a new business that will present their services and products through their website. Services are - Serigraphy, Embroidery, and custimized printing on office materials (pen, diary, mousepad, etc.)
Using their services, serigraphy and embroidery, they produce tshirts, caps, etc. to sell them to shops. They want to make a show case of those products. So, that's it.
Need a homepage to begin with that will be visually pleasing, will include the color #009DDC, and give an overview of services and products in the home page. The product images of the home page will be managed by php and mysql, and hence will change frequently.
I am making a shortlist of templates I have found and liked here at http://www.kigoobe.com/offshoring/sitepoint if you want to have a look at what I like.
The color should be blue (#009DDC), bluish-white and white. Don't be afraid to be creative here. Need a clean and professional, yet eye catching design that will show your design talent. Horizontal menu.
There will be basically three faces of the site.
- Home page
- Interior pages, structure of which will be same for all, will mainly consist of the header and footer of the home page + if you have any other idea, like a water mark kind of thing as the body background.
- This is what I forgot to mention earlier. One part of the site, 'Nos produits' from the menu, will be like an ecommerce site. Will contain the same header and footer as in the rest of the pages, but the body here will have a way to showcase the different products, a bit like any ecommerce site.
- The mentioned price of $350 is including all of the above.You can make just the home page to begin with, and if everything is OK with the home page, you can make the two other sections.Â
For information, some of the horizontal menus will contain drop down CSS menus, though it shouldn't make a difference in your design.
The horizontal menus that will be visible are -
- Accueil
- À propos
- Nos produits
- Savoir-faire
- Portfolios
- Nos clients
- ContactI don't have any photos for the home page for the moment, but feel free to take the same from open source projects like sxc.huÂ
The logo can be downloaded from http://kigoobe.com/offshoring/sitep…iletforme/. The color of the logo will be #009DDC.
I will probably code that with a fluid design (where webpage width changes with user's browser width), so please keep that in mind while doing the design. Minimimum width will be 760px.
As told earlier, this website will go for a client who do bulk silk screen printing and embroidery in t-shirts, and also delivers customized office products (like diary or pen with name and logo printed there). I am emphasizing this, as I think you can make a more relevant design if you know for whom you are doing this.
The contest is open for 8 days from today, though I would love to finish it earlier, if I get something good before that.
I am really looking forward for some nice design here, that will stand out from the crowd. :)
Also, just to avoid any misunderstanding, I want an eye catchy design, should be clean but it should not be 'plain'. In case you have any doubt, please contact me before to start working. Also, I have added western union as a mode of payment following a request, though I will prefer paypal, as it's simpler for me.
AÂ short from the previous entries, I am looking for something that will speak about the content of the site visually while being graphically eye catching.
Feel free to propose me anything different as well, let your creativity fly. :)
OK, so I am again trying to explain what I need. Going through the content of the site, we are having 4 different sections here. Serigraphy, embroidery, service of customized printed office products and selling of printed (using serigraphy and embroidery) stuffs like tshirts, caps, etc.
So, we may first divide the home page in two parts, a left part taking 70% of the space and a right part with the rest, 29.8%, say.In the left part, we can have an image at the top, someone doing serigraphy, if you can find a nice eye catching picture. Somewhere around we can have a brief description about the website.
Somewhere in the same left panel (70% space) we can have three blocks, each for serigraphy, embroidery and service of customized printing (on diary, pen, mousepad, etc.). Each with a small related image, a couple of lines of text or so, and probably a link to go deeper).
The right panel (29.8%) we can keep that for the section of selling of printed tshirts, caps, etc. At the top, we can have a few images of different products like caps, tshirt, etc. may be with some text and a link, this taking more than half of it's height, and then another block which will take users deeper.Â
I am not a designer, but trying to explain this like this as seeing the first few entries I got a bit disappointed realizing that I couldn't convey my needs to designers who are submitting their art works. Of course, feel free to change the positions and %ages etc. that I mentioned till now, if you find a better idea so that the home page gives an extract of the whole site, as properly as possible. I will appreciate if you can give me something in a better way than what I just told above.
Also, please have a look here => http://www.kigoobe.com/offshoring/sitepoint/


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Sera makes the callQuote(the hunter and the meatball).
I hope it is not JP I have him on me MW team!!!
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SLAX: A LiveCD featuring KDE 3.2 Beta 2 and KOffice 1.3 Beta 2
SLAX is a Slackware-based LiveCD. The latest release, available as a 177 MB ISO, features KDE 3.2 Beta 2 and KOffice 1.3 Beta 2. As a LiveCD similar to Knoppix in operation, you can simply boot off the CD to safely try out these new releases without disturbing your existing installation and see the future of the KDE desktop. As a dogfood exercise, I am posting this using SLAX right now!
Which hardware recognition?
Ha! Seems that now /me can finally also savely try one of these Slackware varieties... ;-)
Which hardware recognition does it use?
By Kurt Pfeifle at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Slackware & KDE
As a long standing fan of slackware, I must say that this project is a good thing (tm). For a while, I was trying to do something similar but as an installable distro (not a CD-based distro), but never had the time.
Now I use slackware whenever freebsd is not suited, and will continue to be loyal to it as the king of all hard-core distros! Now, I can have my KDE demo disc a slackware system -- groovy! :P
/me tips his hat.
Troy Unrau
By Troy Unrau at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
I'm currently a SuSE user.
Now my questions are:
So, basically, I'm quite interested in having a really free distro, but
By Mike at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Slackware
I installed KDE 3.2 BETA2 on three machines with SuSE 8.2: works fine, no glitches. So, no need to worry.
By Stonki at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Slackware
Huh? Are you referring to my question?
By Mike at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Slackware
The point of these distro's is not user friendlyness.
By Diederik at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Slackware
"Automatic hardware recognition is close to zero :)
Are you using Slackware 9.1 or something older ?
By aleXXX at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Slackware - Pretty simple and straightforward
Yeah right.
The information is not in any one place so you must waste the best years of your life scouring the net for fragmentary arcane items of information just to get it installed & working.
It's the year twenty o four and eliteist geek rationalisations are still being re hashed.
By garbage at Sat, 2004/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: Slackware
if you e.g. saved your XF86Config file, you likely can get any Linux distribution to just use that. Including but not limited to Debian.
Speaking of Debian, try it. When you manage to install it (use Woody, not Sarge yet unless you are prepaired that it's not stable), you can track testing like I do since 2000. This install has been updated from KDE as in Potato (was that 1.x) at least KDE 2.0 beta 3 all the way to KDE 3.1.4 and I can easily try the betas with Konstruct.
In my opinion Debian testing is a very friendly distribution for compiling yourself, because if you can so easily just apt-get install whatever-dev and the compile will work.
The best feature of Debian is that you have the choice to follow a community Linux which is updated daily via the Internet. You can see the progress, if you choose unstable, even day by day, with testing not that much later.
Yours, Kay
By Debian User at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Slackware
Debian VS Slackware
The biggest difference here is the way packages are installed. I believe most Slackware users will download tars and then either compile them, or unpack binaries directly into their system. Debian uses a highly advanced package management system that does all the work for you.
dpkg and apt-get are respectively the left and right hands of a Debian system. They have been ported to other distros, but they were born Debian!
I'd believe Debian to have a higher learning curve than most other distro's, but the end result IMO is so worth learning it. Debian does not currently have any hardware detection in the installer, which is curses based. I have heard of a project to revamp it to include hardware detection.
Many people have complained about how "Bad" the installer is, but I have always loved it. It is incredibly flexible. It's easy to boot, and you can install different parts from different sources. In fact, if I need to do a new install, I'll use my 2 (!!) year old install cd to boot up, install the base system, and then just apt-get upgrade from there (Really a testament to the power of apt-get and dpkg.)
Personally, the only hardware detection I need is lspci and cat /proc/bus/usb/*
I swear by Debian as much as you or I swear by linux. Perhaps more ;)
By John Hughes at Mon, 2004/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: Slackware
Want an easier-to-install Debian? Check out what the folks at MEPIS are doing (mepis.org). They offer a Live CD based on DEBIAN and KDE that can also be installed to disc. Hardware detection is superb, and the MEPIS folks have really made a fine distro. Check it out!
By Michael Barrett at Wed, 2004/01/07 - 6:00am
Re: Slackware
Yes I wholeheartedly agree.
Mepis can be installed & running in about 10 minutes.
You can go ahead and geek yourself to death with it after that but it's OPTIONAL not MANDATORY.
A truly excellent effort.
By garbage at Sat, 2004/01/10 - 6:00am
Mandrake has just released ISO's (not Live) that include the very latest of everything.
By Claus at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Mandrake
Yeah, too bad they are not even considering making a MandrakeMove-snapshot version... :-(
By Nobody at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Mandrake
The first 10.0 snapshot spent 5 minutes on my harddrive. KDE crashed once. Then it would crash systematicaly on start.
By ybouan at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Really cool stuff.
By OI at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Just wondering. Why did you use rdesktop in the screenshots? Our beloved KDE Remote Desktop Client can do exactly the same (using rdesktop code).
By Arend jr. at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: rdesktop
They're Slackware users, what would you expect?
I like Remote Desktop Connection, I use it for VNC. Its the first VNC viewer for Linux that I've actually liked.
By Ian Monroe at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
What's the difference with the original Slack CD
What is the difference between your live-CD and the one from Slackare ?
I'm updating my Slack CD with the Slackware packages found on kde's ftp and I have a working live CD.
By JC at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: What's the difference with the original Slack CD
What Live-CD "from Slackware"? "Slackware-LIVE CD" was renamed to SLAX, so perhaps we are speaking about the same?
By Anonymous at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: What's the difference with the original Slack CD
Well, I don't know :)
By JC at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
DC++ on the screenshot 7 - is it a win-apllication ported with wineLib or does it rune with Wine.
By Andre at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
Answers to your questions
I'm the creator of SLAX, so perhaps I am the right one to answer your questions :)
Before some time, SLAX was called Slackware-Live CD. It was confusing a little bit, because Slackware.com had own LiveCD, also called Slackware Live. I tried Patrick's official Slackware Live CD and I found it useless and ugly. So I made own one.
I wanted to be a part of Slackware team, because I felt that my LiveCD could be a good replacement for the official one. But Patrick told me that he doesn't want me to join their team, and also that I am violating their "Slackware" trademark by using the name "Slackware Live CD".
So I've renamed my LiveCD to SLAX and I am no longer interested in working for them :)
Now some answers:
DC++ is running by using wine.
I'm using rdesktop because I thought that KDE's remote desktop can be used _only_ for VNC. If it's able to conntect to windows remote terminal server then it's great news for me and I don't need to use rdesktop anymore :) I'll try it.
By Tomas Matejicek at Sun, 2004/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: Answers to your questions
Thanks for your SLAX distro!!!
Thanks again!
PS: sorry to hear the Slack people treated you like dirt...
By UglyMike at Mon, 2004/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: Answers to your questions
>sorry to hear the Slack people treated you like dirt...
I have to react here. Linus Torvalds has many many times explained the trademark issue. If you do not actively defend your trademark and let people use it without authorization, you loose your trademark.
Slackware people paid and did administrative paperwork to buy this trademark, they do not want to loose the money they invested. It's simple. There is nothing bad or mean in this. They are obliged to.
By oliv at Mon, 2004/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: Answers to your questions
Lol, I first taught that you were confusing between Patrick and Linus :)
Yes if I was working hard on a distro, software, or whatever I would protect my trademark. There are too many companies that want have a blue logo with at least a I or B or M in there name ... They will never have the strength of the original one :)
By JC at Mon, 2004/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: Answers to your questions
Sorry, but I was not referring to Patrick et al's protection of the Slackware brand, which I can understand and agree with. I was more referring to the fact that a volunteer stood up to help them offer a better product and they turned him down (protesting his use of the term Slackware-Live CD is just a logical consequence of this...) After all, he clearly demonstrated his mastery of Slackware and wanted to come aboard with a (to me) good product.
By UglyMike at Tue, 2004/01/06 - 6:00am
Re: Answers to your questions
Probably one good reason is the time to maintain it.
For example, if one day Thomas doesn't have time to maintain his project, who can handle this new amount of work. Slackware... the team already working hard. They probably don't have much spare time. They can hire, but now it's a financial problem. I don't know about their financial strength.
I guess there are many others reasons.
By JC at Tue, 2004/01/06 - 6:00am
Re: Answers to your questions
"I wanted to be a part of Slackware team, because I felt that my LiveCD could be a good replacement for the official one. But Patrick told me that he doesn't want me to join their team, and also that I am violating their "Slackware" trademark by using the name "Slackware Live CD"."
Is'nt this just so typical.
It's not unique to Linux though Look at BSD, forking & forking (check out dragon fly BSD).
I'm all for innovation but sick of seeing good code being shunned for ego reasons.
Windows succeeded whilst Unix vendors fragmented the OS & fought amongst themselves.
History repeating tiself?
By garbage at Sat, 2004/01/10 - 6:00am
Slax 3.0.25
There is a new LIVE CD available which has fixed USB mouse detection, kdepim added and language support for German and French.
By Anonymous at Wed, 2004/01/07 - 6:00am
Re: Slax 3.0.25
By Tomas at Fri, 2004/02/06 - 6:00am
Just tried this...
This is my first experience with KDE 3.2 and I'm truly impressed! Even though it was running from a liveCD, it was pretty fast and it looks very cool and clean!
I didn't play that much with it though since it didn't detect my Logitech Cordless Mouse :(
By Joergen Ramskov at Wed, 2004/01/07 - 6:00am
Debian and KDE 3.2
When can we expect KDE 3.2 in Debian Sid ? I installed Slackware on a machine just to test KDE 3.2-Beta2 and i'm impressed by the progress, can't wait to update the 10 debian-machines i'm maintaining.
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Golden Potto (
Arctocebus aureus
The average body mass for this species ranges from 266 to 465 grams (Nowak, 1999). The Golden potto has a reduced tail. The index finger is reduced (Rowe, 1996). The second digit on each toe functions as a grooming claw (Ankel-Simons, 2000). This species has a nictitating membrane, which is unique amongst primates (Montagna
et al.
, 1966). This species has a pelage coloration that is reddish brown on the dorsal side and reddish buff on the ventral side (Rowe, 1996). On the face, there is a white line from the brow to the nose (Nowak, 1999).
This species is found in the following countries: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. This species lives in tree-fall zones in
forests, farmland edges, in forestry plantations, and in agricultural plantations (Charles-Dominique, 1974; Lee
et al.
, 1988; Sabater Pi, 1972; Garcia and Mba, 1997).
This species is primarily
, and eats mostly those insects that are unpalatable to other insectivores, but will also eat fruit. The diet of the golden potto is made up of 85% animal prey and 14% fruits (Hladik, 1979). Caterpillars (Lepidoptera) are the most common insects consumed with beetles (Coleoptera), ants (Hymenoptera), and crickets (Orthoptera) also eaten (Lee
et al.
, 1988; Hladik, 1979; Charles-Dominique, 1974). This species will consume insects rejected by other animals (Hladik, 1979). The Golden potto tends to forage alone (Lee
et al.
, 1988). Before eating a caterpillar, an individual will wipe its hands along the caterpillar, removing most of the hairs that could cause an irritation (Charles-Dominique, 1977). Gums constitute a scarce part of the diet of this species (Charles-Dominique, 1974). This species is found between 5 and 15 meters in the dense undergrowth preferring to spend most of the time on lianas and small branches (Lee
et al.
, 1988). The Golden potto sleeps in trees with dense foliage cover (Charles-Dominique, 1977). This is a nocturnal and an
This species is a
climber. The type of quadrupedal locomotion is slow and stealthy in which three limbs are always grasping a support when moving (Walker, 1979). The Golden potto mainly moves on supports of small diameters because of its small size, 40% have a diameter less than 1 centimeter and 52% of supports are between 1 and 10 centimeters (Walker, 1979; Charles-Dominique, 1974). When resting, this species may hang beneath a branch (Walker, 1979).
The males have home ranges that overlap the home ranges of a few females (2-3), called a
social system (Charles-Dominique, 1974). When this species mates, the male and female are suspended upside-down from a branch during copulation. Mothers will either carry their infants or park them while foraging (Lee
et al.
, 1988).
infant contact call:
This is where an infant will emit at dawn "clicks" and "tsics" (Petter and Charles-Dominique, 1979). This call functions to help locate the mother so that they may reunite before going to the sleeping site (Petter and Charles-Dominique, 1979).
mother contact call:
This is when a mother emits a loud "tsic" after an infant emits the
infant contact call
(Petter and Charles-Dominique, 1979). This call functions to help the mother and infant reunite before going to the sleeping site (Petter and Charles-Dominique, 1979).
contact-rejection call:
This call is described as a "hoarse growl", an inspiration-expiration of the lungs (Petter and Charles-Dominique, 1979). This call is emitted when an individual is attacked and they will also roll up into a ball (Petter and Charles-Dominique, 1979).
distress call:
This call sounds like "weet" and is given when an individual is in pain (Petter and Charles-Dominique, 1979).
passing over:
this is where the male passes over the back of the female, rubbing her with his genitals, specifically with the scrotum (Manley, 1974). This behavior may be a single pass or occur in a series (Manley, 1974). Sometimes the male will leave a urine smear when performing this behavior (Manley, 1974). This occurs most often when the female is in
(Manley, 1974). It serves to scent mark the female (Manley, 1974).
alarm scent:
when the Golden potto becomes alarmed it produces a fear scent (Manley, 1974).
social grooming:
This is when an individual will groom another's fur using the tooth scraper and the tongue (Charles-Dominique, 1977). This behavior functions to reinforce social bonds between individuals (Charles-Dominique, 1977).
This species will role up into a ball, keeping the mouth open hidden beneath the armpit. If it is attacked, then it will bite the predator on the snout, not letting go. Infants will cling tightly to their mothers when she is alarmed (Manley, 1974). The newborns are born with eyes open and have the ability to cling to their mother's fur or tree branches (Klopfer and Boskoff, 1979).
This species gives birth to a single offspring. The gestation length for this species ranges from 131 to 136 days (Lee
et al.
, 1988). The interbirth interval for this species is 4 months (Rowe, 1996). The birth season for the Golden potto is from the middle of the dry season to the beginning of the wet season that corresponds to the months of January to April (Sabater Pi, 1972). Copulation will only occur in this species in the final estrous cycle of the series (Van Horn and Eaton, 1979). The female will signal receptivity to copulation by the male by suspending herself upside down (Doyle, 1974).
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Hit the jump to watch the trailer. The film also stars Kate Bosworth, Kyle Gallner, and Leslie Mann.
Here's the synopsis for Little Birds:
Fifteen-year-old Lily and her best friend, Alison, live on the shores of the Salton Sea. Sprinting toward adulthood, Lily wants to escape her depressing hometown. But Alison is content with her life; she enjoys being sheltered from the uncertainty of growing up. When the girls meet three street kids, Lily convinces Alison to follow the boys to Los Angeles. Thrust into a world of excitement and danger, the girls must decide how far they are willing to go to get what they want.


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Here's a piece from The Economist that discusses this idea. Does speaking a language alter how you think?
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Chatting on Facebook is inevitable, especially when you have a large friends list. Each time you sign into Facebook a friend tries to chat with you. Hopefully it is one of your top Facebook friends and not one you are trying to avoid.
Below is a screenshot of my Facebook account when I am signed in. At this point if anyone sees me online they could possibly start up a chat session with me.
This is fine, however the usual chat area on Facebook is very small and sometimes a bit confusing to keep up with what people are saying.
How to start chatting in a bigger chat box on Facebook.
1. When you are signed into Facebook, go to the bottom, right hand corner to see this Chat bar. It shows a green light that means there are three people I know online available to chat. See the screenshot below.
2. To start chatting on Facebook simply click on the persons name. See the screenshot below.
3. Type in what you want to say. See the screenshot above.
4. To chat in a bigger window, go down to the settings icon in the bottom right corner.
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As the air gets chilly and the holidays get closer, we all start pulling out the decorations. If you need a little inspiration this year, look no further than our talented designers! In their first annual tree decorating contest at Ferguson, By Design Interiors won first place in the Judge's Choice Award!
With Thanksgiving only a few days away, we here at By Design Interiors, are reflecting back on our year and counting our blessings. We have a lot to be thankful for including our wonderful families, friends and clients!
This week we will look at another inspired kitchen remodel. This kitchen underwent a dramatic makeover, bringing lightness and brightness to the space and making it current! By Design Interiors' designer, Erika Barczak, and builder, Keechi Creek Builders, won the GHBA's Prism Award for best kitchen remodel under $50K!
What is it that makes the kitchen so dear to our hearts? A family meal with comforting food? Entertaining friends that make you laugh?
Color selection is always an interesting topic. Some people are bold color lovers and it is evident in their clothes and homes! Others prefer a more subdued palette of neutrals. Color invokes feelings and expresses itself in many ways!
In this week's blog we will continue our tour of this sophisticated and 'high fashion' remodel in The Woodlands, TX! This spectacular home was designed by one of our amazing designers, Erika Barczak, and remodeled by Keechi Creek Builders! In this blog, we will focus on four exquisite bedrooms!
We are excited to continue our series, 'Spotlight on Design', with all new projects so you can see what our talented designers have been up to! This month we will focus on a stunning and sophisticated home remodel in The Woodlands, TX, designed by Erika Barczak and remodeled by Keechi Creek Builders! This gorgeous 'high fashion' remodel transformed the home, making it current and integrating the fantastic views of the outdoors inward!
Last week we looked at geometric designs covering walls, upholstered furniture and floor rugs, this week we will focus on accessories and case goods! As you will see, geometry is literally everywhere in interior design, and that is a good thing!
Geometry is used in interior design more than you can imagine, from space planning to proportions to pattern play and of course to the shapes themselves! Skilled interior designers have the innate ability to find the 'golden ratio' with design and proportion and to make an aesthetically pleasing space based on geometric explanations.
Last week we blogged about how important is it to keep current in the interior design industry. This week we are going to feature another one of our favorite furniture lines that have been blowing us away with their stunning designs, Bernhardt Furniture!
How important is it to keep current in this industry? So, so very important! We are not talking fads or trends that will come and go in a year or two but keeping up with the times in general.
Inspired by the summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we want to continue our blog on Global Glamour and the influences on interior design from around the world!Global and tribal elements, appear in motifs, colors and patterns, inspired by the American Southwest, Mexico, South America, Southeast Asia and India.
In honor of this summer's 2016 Rio Olympics and the coming together of 207 nations from around the world, we thought it would be the perfect time to blog about the "global village" influences in interior design!
In this week's blog we will continue our tour of this sophisticated and chic modern new build home in Houston, TX! This spectacular home was designed by one of our amazing designers, Ashton Morgan, and built by Flair Builders! In this blog, we will focus on the dazzling master suite, the bathrooms and the living areas.
We are excited to continue our series, "Spotlight on Design", with all new projects so you can see what our talented designers have been up to! This month we will focus on a stunning and sophisticated new build in Houston, TX, designed by Ashton Morgan! Since the home was a new build, Ashton was able to be involved in every aspect of the design process from the ground up!
For the third and final blog on flirty florals, we will take a look at all things floral in accessories, faux floral arrangements and lighting! These smaller pieces can add a fresh, flirty and feminine element to the room!
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Flirty floral patterns have been blooming everywhere in interiors including; wallcoverings, fabrics, window treatments, rugs, accessories and even lighting! From large scale prints to old school vintage inspired botanicals, these florals have been reinterpreted to look updated and fresh and they can be incorporated in a variety of interior styles from classic to contemporary!
As designers, we love to put a little something unexpected into a room! It may be one of the first things you notice when you walk in but more often than not, it is a little more subtle, like a surprise waiting to be discovered!
We love this handy reference guide of different home design styles and we thought we would share it with you all! For architectural aficionados, design lovers or house hunters, it you will teach you how to identify homes based on their façade, design style, windows, roof, and siding. History buffs will appreciate learning the countries of origin and how house styles adapted depending on the socioeconomic factors of the era!
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We are excited to bring back our series, "Spot Light on Design", with all new projects so you can see what our talented designers have been up to! First up is an exquisite, traditional home in Tomball TX, designed by Erika Barczak! This week we will focus on the kitchen and dining areas of the home.
Last week we took a look at some amazing writing desks and possible placements in the home. This week we will peruse different styles of desks that would suit a variety of tastes and styles from modern to girly to industrial and everything in between!
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In the third and final part of our series on "the man cave with a designer twist", we are going to explore some ways to incorporate manly art, accessories and rugs into a room!
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In the next few blogs we will explore the world of masculine designs! Furniture, accessories and art that any man or woman can appreciate and that elevate the "man cave" to a new designer level!
Trying to take in the hundreds of showrooms at High Point Market can be exhilarating and invigorating but overwhelming at the same time! Tours are offered to highlight some of the smaller showrooms or suites with designers or artist that possess exceptional talent or truly unique products! While on a tour with Celebrity Interior Designer, Bobby Berk, we were introduced to an exciting and up and coming furniture and textile designer!
Back in the day, the "plastic furniture cover phenomenon" was all the rage, some families encasing entire formal living rooms in the stuff! Well, thankfully modern day fabrics have come along to save us all, none more impressive than Crypton!
It is amazing to see how far Sunbrella fabrics have come since their introduction to the market in 1961. Over ten years ago Sunbrella branched out from their outdoor "canvas look" to the beautiful world of luxury interior and exterior fabrics and they have been impressing us ever since!
As designers we often see our clients come full circle with their emotions during a project. During the initial planning phase they are excited, hopeful and optimistic for the upcoming changes to their home.
In the last of our metallic series, we will be sharing some fantastic mirrors, wall art and accessories that will give your room the perfect touch of excitement and shine!
Accessories, mirrors and lighting have always come in different metals but we continue to be delighted at all the new, creative eye catching designs! These smaller pieces can be combined with any types of materials including metals in other tones.
In our last blog we focused on the idea of mixing different metals into interiors, this week we will show you some alluring individual pieces that you can incorporate into your space! Each of these furniture pieces will add character to a space whether through shine, intricate patterned designs or the perfect compliment to another material!
If you have been hesitant about mixing metals in the same room, fear not! The beauty of mixing metals is the added visual interest, enhanced character and the ability to blend warm and cool tones in any space! It fact, it is quite freeing and opens up endless design possibilities!
Bar carts have been making a "mad" comeback in interior design, inspired in part by the new vintage aesthetic seen lately on popular television shows! Bar carts are a fantastic and fun way to entertain and can compliment your style whether it is sophisticated and glamorous or hip and quirky!
Whether you are first time parents planning a nursery, redoing a nursery into a big kid's room or navigating the tween/teen years, interior designers can expertly and beautifully guide you through all of it!
As designers, we love the chance to design children's rooms as it gives us a chance to unleash our creativity in unique ways! There is no fear of using bold colors, vibrant graphics and whimsical accessories! The bonus is getting to work with an enthusiastic, little collaborator on the project!
While the use of crystals in lighting is nothing new, we were amazed at how creative lighting designers have become with the sparkle and shimmer! In some showrooms, it looked like it was raining opulence!
Inspiration can come from many sources but nature has long been a go to for Interior Designers. We see freeform lines in furniture, accessories and lighting that may have been sparked by an organic element! Organic shapes have the ability to draw you in since they are so unique.


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Breaking Bad is all I think about these days, and a choice find after our post on the auction of Walt's Aztek is making me look around for my wallet.
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I hope this car ends up in the Jalop family. And if it does, bring it by our offices. Please.


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In recent weeks, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has faced prison riots, a bridge collapse and the country's most lethal oil-industry disaster. Some wonder if the woes will stick to the Teflon comandante.
BOGOTA — It's been a rough month for Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. In less than two weeks, he has had to deal with a deadly prison riot, a collapsing bridge, flooding, an embarrassing confrontation with steel workers on live TV and the country's worst oil-industry disaster, which killed at least 41 and still has families digging through the rubble looking for loved ones.
The avalanche of bad news would be hard on any leader, but this train of troubles comes as Chávez, 58, is heading into an Oct. 7 presidential race that polls suggest is getting tighter.
For the last 14 years in office, Chávez has played the roll of an energetic leader with a common touch. Even when his administration had missteps, voters rarely held their charismatic comandanteaccountable.
But the scale of this month's calamities might change that dynamic, said Xavier Rodríguez Franco with Entorno Parlamentario, a legislative watchdog group.
"The events the country has had to face recently clearly show a breakdown in the government's ability to manage," he said "And that breakdown is dragging down the president's image."
Chávez's days of discontent started Aug. 15 when a vital bridge connecting Caracas to eastern Venezuela collapsed. Four days later, gangs at the Yare I penitentiary confronted each other with guns and explosives leaving 26 dead, including a visiting family member. It was an embarrassment for an administration that has declared prison security one of its top concerns but has been unable to staunch the bleeding. During the first half of this year, 304 inmates have been killed and 572 have been injured, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which called on the government to step up efforts to disarm prisoners.
The following day, Chávez traveled to the city of Guyana to hold a live broadcast — carried on all TV and radio stations — with workers of the state-run Sidor steel plant. Presidential cadenas are usually tightly scripted and designed to highlight government achievements, and they're a key part of Chávez reelection strategy.
That's why Venezuelans were surprised to see steel workers shout over the president and complain that the government hadn't renewed their labor contract, which expired over two years ago. Amid the commotion, Chávez's microphone was cut and the broadcast abruptly ended. It was the first time that anyone could recall a cadena being cancelled mid-transmission.
That the outburst took place in a Chávez stronghold (he won 68.8 percent of the vote in Bolivar state in 2006) only underscored the sense of malaise.
Russ Dallen, managing partner at Caracas Capital Markets financial firm, said Chávez appears to be distracted by his battle with an undisclosed form of cancer — which dates back to at least June 2011 — and which the president claims to have beaten.
"This is not the Chávez we have come to know over the last decade and a half," he said. "Clearly, his illness has affected him and he's not the maximum leader he has been in the past. And that's why you see so many things collapsing, and this time the problems are sticking."
But all the troubles were overshadowed early Saturday, when a huge fireball erupted at the refinery, part of the nation's largest refinery complex. The blast left 151 wounded and homes leveled.
The government said the plant would be operating again within two days, but the fire was only subdued on Tuesday and the administration now says it won't be operational until Friday.
Critics blame Chávez, who they say has used the state-run oil company PDVSA, which operates the refinery, as a cash-cow for his pet projects even as it neglects maintenance and repairs.
In 2011, the company invested $39.6 billion in popular social programs, including $4 billion in the government's housing program. But seven out of nine maintenance programs planned for Amuay that year were postponed due to lack of materials, wrote Daniel Kerner, with the New York-based Eurasia Group, citing PDVSA's 2011 annual report.
The Amuay accident "highlights PDVSA's significant operational problems stemming from both severe mismanagement and underinvestment," he wrote. "In recent years, the firm has become a key financing arm for President Hugo Chávez's social programs limiting PDVSA's investment capacity in a context where crude production… has steadily declined."
The man fighting Chávez for the presidency, Henrique Capriles, 40, has called for full investigations into Amuay, the jailhouse riot and the bridge collapse. Earlier this week, he likened the string of problems to a disaster film.
"This isn't a movie that unfolds chapter by chapter," he said. "It's unconscionable that the government's candidate [Chávez] can irresponsibly and insensibly say that the show must go on."
For the moment, Chávez is leading most polls. Datanalisis, a closely followed pollster, has Capriles with 34.3 percent of the vote and gaining versus Chávez's 46.8 percent. Consultores 21, another major polling firm, however, shows Capriles with a thin lead, at 47.7 percent versus Chávez's 45.9 percent.
It's too early to tell if August's woes will move those numbers. But Kerner predicted the Amuay disaster is "probably not a game changer…Chavez still remains favored to win, but the accident could sway some undecided voters."
Chávez has pledged millions in aid and offered to build thousands of new homes for Amuay residents. He's also trying to turn the tables, accusing opponents of being "vultures" who want to turn disaster into political gain.
"Just as we see streams of foam putting out the fire in Amuay," he said this week, "the bourgeoisie is also using disgraceful streams to try to put out our patriotic fire and fervor."
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Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe, who posted his Hall of Fame votes and column earlier today, slipped in an interesting aside about the clubhouse shenanigans of former MLB outfielder and HOF candidate Jeromy Burnitz:
"Burnitz would have fit in with the cast of 'Jackass.' As a practical joke, he would empty out bottles of shampoo in the showers on road trips after the last game of the series and pee in them."
Bottles, plural? That's a lot of urine, no?
[Boston Globe, via Hardball Talk]


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"I can prove Jesus was a Republican," writes Darrin Yaeger.
Jesus changed everything, notes author John Ortberg in his new book Who Is This Man? "He is history's most familiar figure. His impact on the world is immense and not a coincidence. And yet, Jesus did not brashly defend His movement in the spirit of a rising political leader."
So, why have His followers become so politicized?
"Some of my church brothers and sisters were appalled when I showed up at home group sporting my Obama tee-shirt and parked my 'Obama-mobile' front-and-center in the parking lot (pretty much assuring that I'll never be an elder . . .)," writes columnist Jeff Myers on behalf of a friend identified only as Bruce. "It's almost as though they question the legitimacy of my faith because I don't support the Republican viewpoint."
"To be sure, Jesus might commend Democrats for their concern for the poor, the downtrodden, the disenfranchised, the outcasts — the very people He reached out to again and again during His life on this earth," writes an unsigned editorialist for the Modesto Bee newspaper in California. "To be sure, Jesus might commend Republicans for their focus on personal accountability and responsibility – the very things He espoused over and over again during His ministry. To listen to many of the politicians and partisans on both the left and the right these days, He's one of their own. They show up at His churches, they talk of His principles and they ask His blessing on their policies and programs."
So who's right?
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by Michael Caruso
The Pennsylvania Ballet will present Christopher Wheeldon's staging of 'Swan Lake' by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky March 3 – 12 in the Academy of Music. These performances will mark the first time the company, which has its studios and offices in East Falls, has performed this mounting of the timeless classic since its world premiere in 2004 as part of the Edinburgh, Scotland, Festival and its 2005 series of renditions in the Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets.
Performances are scheduled for Thursday, March 3, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, March 4, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 5, noon and 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 6, 2 p.m., and Saturday, March 12, 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets are priced from $20 to $139 and can be purchased at 215-893-1999 or in the box office of the Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce Streets. They can also be purchased at the box office of the Academy of Music prior to performances.
This production marks the return of one of the Pennsylvania Ballet's most popular dancers, Meredith Rainey, who retired from the company in 2006. Rainey will return to portray the evil sorcerer, Baron von Rothbart. Newcomers Lauren Fadeley and Brooke Moore are cast in the double roles of the White and Black Swans, Odette and Odile. Veterans Zachary Hench and Francis Veyette are cast in the role of Prince Siegfried.
Roy Kaiser, the company's artistic director who recently moved to West Mt. Airy from Erdenheim, explained the popularity of "Swan Lake" with audiences by pointing to its magnificent score. "Both 'Nutcracker' and 'Swan Lake' are synonymous with the art form of ballet," he said in a recent conversation. "Both scores are incredibly beautiful, and both tell their stories compellingly. It's music that was composed specifically to be danced and specifically to tell a story and specifically to project character through the dance."
Kaiser pointed out that the Pennsylvania Ballet, unlike some ballet companies striving to cut costs, still employs its own "live" orchestra in the pit of the Academy of Music. "It's important that we do so," he assured, "because dancers lose that spark of spontaneity whenever you use a recorded performance of a score. When there's a 'live' orchestra, every performance is slightly different from every other performance, and I think that adds something special to each performance."
After deadline last week, I received an e-mail from former Chestnut Hiller Ignat Solzhenitsyn commenting on his return to the podium of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia for concerts March 6, 7 and 8. Solzhenitsyn will conduct Lutoslawski's "Funeral Music in Memory of Bela Bartok" and Haydn's "Drum Roll Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major." He will conduct and be the soloist in Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor."
Solzhenitsyn, his wife and three children are now living in Manhattan. He still teaches, however, at the Curtis Institute of Music on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, where he studied both piano (with Gary Grafmann) and conducting (with Hans-Werner Mueller).
"I have three students at Curtis," he explained, "along with coaching chamber music and a piano seminar." Solzhenitsyn takes up to four private students, explaining that "I don't have much time for private teaching because we have three small children and because of my touring." His recent tours have taken him to Europe, Russia (the Maryinsky Opera in St. Petersburg), Toronto and Montreal.
Solzhenitsyn and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia will perform Sunday, March 6, 2:30 p.m., and Monday, March 7, 7:30 p.m., in the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, and Tuesday, March 8, 7:30 p.m. in the newly restored Baptist Temple, 1837 North Broad St., on the campus of Temple University. For tickets, call 215-545-1739 or visit www.chamberorchestra.org.


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Students Paws for Study Break with Rome Humane Society Pets
For the third semester, Hamilton students were able to take a break from studying for finals and spend some time relaxing with pets from the Rome Humane Society in an event hosted by HAVOC and Active Minds. Three cats were brought to the Fillius Events Barn for the event on Dec. 13, followed by two dogs on the 14th.
Students made a donation and reserved a time slot to play with the pets. More than 80 people signed up between both days plus 40 walk-ins over the two-day event, according to Alana Christopher '14, event organizer.
"We raised about $350 for the Rome Humane Society through the generous donations of students on campus" said Christopher. "It was a great event, and I don't think anyone left unhappy!"


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Fake it.
I think many of us create a mythical view of the Ideal Speaker Experience, a perfect vision of What It Should Be Like. You know what I mean: The audience loves you and begs you to keep talking. You look fantastic. Your voice projects well and modulates effortlessly to fit the emotions and facts in your speech. You don't have to look at notes. Your words inspire, persuade, convince. Heads nod approvingly. No ums, ers and ahs pass your lips, and there's no question you can't answer. The lighting's perfect, everyone can hear you, the room is quiet enough that you could hear a pin drop. All the technology works perfectly, with no effort on your part. After you speak, the crowd rushes forward to offer you roses, champagne, lucrative book deals, and a ride to the airport. Unicorns and a magic genie accompany you home.
This has never happened to me, or I'd have shown you video of the unicorn by now.
What has happened: I've given some of my best speeches under conditions that don't fit nicely into that Ideal Speaker Experience. Some of my best lines have been unscripted and in the moment. One of my best talks was one for which I had almost no time to prepare; another had every kind of room and technology problem, all last-minute, that you could imagine.
My goal in coaching any public speaker or presenter is to help you avoid letting that Ideal Speaking Experience vision--the bar you are setting for yourself--keep you from trying. Thousands of would-be speakers fail to step forward every day because they think they have to be perfect. And that's a shame, because no one's perfect. But here's a wondeful secret. Your vision of perfection has something in common with your lack of confidence or fears about speaking: No one knows about it but you. And that will allow you to fake it.
With that, here are 12 ways you can fake it--that is, look confident and even feel more confident--until you get enough experience to feel you can handle any situation. Most of these also will help you reduce the stress you're feeling about speaking, which contributes to your lack of confidence:
- Banish that perfect vision. Just stop thinking and talking about it, even to yourself. Better: Spend time focusing on what might go wrong--and brainstorm one or two ways you can deal with those problems, in case they happen.
- Don't tell the audience. I've met fearful speakers who've decided to overcome their fear by telling the audience all about it, and they feel it's an asset to their speaking. I disagree. Most audiences are hoping you'll do well--you can almost always assume that, unless you're dealing with a confrontational issue. Alerting the audience that you are nervous is like waving a signal flag. From then on, they won't be paying as much attention to your content as they will to wondering when you're going to freeze up. And remember: They can't tell you're nervous, most of the time. Why share?
- Don't keep telling yourself. The mind is a powerful thing, and it's entirely possible to sabotage yourself by repeating over and over in your mind that you're nervous or that things might go wrong.
- Watch yourself on video. Better yet, get a pal to watch your video with you, and task her with sharing a few things she noticed and a few things she might suggest to improve. If you feel nervous while you're making the video, ask her whether she could see it. Use this handy tipsheet as you evaluate your video.
- Take charge of your introduction. Sometimes, all it takes is a lame introduction to get a speaker off on the wrong foot. Take charge of that situation with these tips.
- Smile. Smiling actually releases endorphins, a chemical response that makes you feel better. (Same with exercise.) Audiences love a smiling speaker, and you'll be counteracting the natural tendency of most mouths to turn down. Bonus: You'll feel better, they'll feel better.
- Breathe, before, during and after. Deep breaths before your speech will help moderate your blood pressure and calm you physically and mentally. Practicing the "relaxation response" breathing exercises also will help you master the art of calming yourself when you get into stressful situations, like speaking. Bonus: Breathing isn't just essential, it's invisible. So do it.
- Stand up straight. Great posture will help you feel better and make you look very confident to your audience. (What slouch ever looked confident?) A bonus: It'll help your breathing and ability to project.
- Don't overdo. Often, speakers get in trouble here, so seek to avoid overdoing. Especially when you are beginning as a speaker, keep it short and focused. Don't aim for the longest sentences--or the longest speech. Don't use elaborate props or technology until you feel more confident.
- Don't overprepare. Over-preparation is an agitated way of setting yourself up to fail--you'll never need all the facts you're trying to master in advance, and you can set some parameters for what you'll talk about. Again, better you should spend your prep time working on your message or practicing your talk.
- Wait quietly until the group is quiet. If you have a talkative, fidgety group and you're the first person to speak, just wait for them to settle down--it's the most powerful, confident-looking start, far better than repeatedly trying to call them to attention. Keeps you calmer, too.
- Plan your message. Knowing what you want to say with a structured three-point message can help you feel more confident. Plus, this type of message will help you find your way back to your points easily if you get off track. Just knowing you have a plan to follow will help reinforce your confidence.
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The fall out from John Galliano's racist comments continues. {WWD}
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are preparing for their California trip. {DailyMail}
Manohla Dargis doesn't hesitate to say that The Green Lantern is "bad" and Blake Lively "miscast." {NewYorkTimes}


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