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Nov 22 2007, 07:07 PM
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Easier said than done, but: we need images working.
Is it possible to make a plan to investigate required fixes and get them working ?
Nov 23 2007, 02:34 AM
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Easier said than done, but: we need images working.
Is it possible to make a plan to investigate required fixes and get them working ?
Some pages have images that display. Other pages have links to images that don't display. The images are present. If you look in Special Pages and look at Images , my memory for the exact page name fails me, you can access them. However the problem of displaying them on their pages seems to be related to the error message about not being able to create thumbnails. This appears to be something to do with permissions on creating directories.
There seem to be some limitations on size for some working directories and on permissions for functions to work on some directories. I suppose this is a legacy of the move from one provider to the other?
Ping dz! Ping dz! Ping dz!
I suppose this could be related to the apparent disappearance of the download files/facility from the ZUG page/portal? I'm sure that the problem about uploading images/files etc are also related to this.
I will look, but my time seems a bit limited at the moment...
I think a post or two containing the error messages when we try to access images might be helpful?
Nov 23 2007, 04:28 AM
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I will look, but my time seems a bit limited at the moment...
I think a post or two containing the error messages when we try to access images might be helpful?
First problem: Uploads are disabled so we can't add any new images.
Second problem: Viewing an image in the filelist broken seems to be a permissions problem, exemplified here: Page with image link but broken and here: Permissions and thumbnails problem at Uncategorized Images
The error is
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /public/vhost/o/oesf/html/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1671
This should be enough to get started...
Dec 5 2007, 10:45 AM
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I will look into the problem over the weekend. Definitely a high priority to fix.
Dec 9 2007, 11:07 AM
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I have enable image uploading, but have been unable to test it completely because now the Bad Behavior anti-spam extension is blocking me. I will now have to teach Bad Behavior a lesson on good manners before proceeding with upload testing and the image gallery bug.
Dec 9 2007, 11:46 AM
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Enabling Image Support Work Log
(This post is technical notes on the process of enabling image uploading and correcting the image gallery bug on OESF Wiki. I am recording it hear since a bug in our anti-spam software has me temporarily locked out of changing the wiki. I will transfer this information to the wiki once I am able to. I will update this post or its successor wiki page as I progress.)
1. Enabling File Upload
Relevant articles on MediaWiki and SiteGround.
Our LocalSettings.php sets only the pre-1.5 version parameter, $wgDisableUploads (to false, which would supposedly work if our wiki was still pre-1.5), so I comment-out that line and add a setting for the 1.5+ parameter:
$wgEnableUploads = true;
Now I can open the the wiki upload page.
2. Ain't Misbehavin'
Filling-in and submitting the upload form returns the following HTTP error page, which I believe is generated by the Bad Behavior anti-spam extension and not by MediaWiki itself (this is not the same as the error previously reported by gaarder):
Error 403
We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /index.php?title=Special:Upload on this server.
Your Internet Protocol address is listed on a blacklist of addresses involved in malicious or illegal activity. See the listing below for more details on specific blacklists and removal procedures.
Your technical support key is: cbd4-2c28-1366-73cd
You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.
If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact michael.hubbard at gmail.com and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.
The technical support key links to http://www.ioerror.us/bb2-support-key?key=...-2c28-1366-73cd:
Technical Support
Your request was intercepted by Bad Behavior, security software which protects the Web site you visited from malicious activity, such as hackers, spam and viruses. We apologize for the inconvenience, but your request matched a profile of suspicious activity. This problem is usually quite easy to fix.
Your request was blocked because of malicious automated requests received from your computer's IP address.
Your computer's IP address was determined to have recently sent spam or engaged in malicious activity as reported by a third-party monitoring service. This means your computer is most likely infected with viruses or other malicious software. See below for more information and removal instructions.
This problem may be caused by viruses or spyware on your computer, or by malicious software that pretends to be anti-virus or anti-spyware software. Ensure that you have REAL anti-virus and anti-spyware software on your computer, that they are kept up-to-date, and that you have run a full system scan using each tool. Once your system is cleaned of viruses and spyware, please try your request again.
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Dec 9 2007, 01:15 PM
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Well Meyer, I can't log in at the wiki.. I get the same response as you and a key which takes me to the same message.
I think it might be wise to revert your changes relating to uploads and see what happens. I'll try and review the files and look again at what I was looking at with regard to the problem. I'm rather pushed for time at the moment....
Meyer, my cursory research said to do 3, perhaps 4, things.
1. make the image directory writeable.
2. $wgEnableUploads = true; as you mention
3. and alter the DefaultSettings.php $wgFileExtensions to permit various image file extensions.
4. ?? setting StrictFileExtensions = false;
I presume you did number 1? You did number 2. I suppose the details are irrelevent if BadBehaviour is bugging us now?
I wonder if there are some security measures taken in the past that are conflicting with what you are attempting?
dz, if you get the chance please review what the changes were when you or Offroadgeek stopped file uploads. It might be relevent!
I'll pm dz and ask him to take a look and perhaps point us in the right direction.
Dec 9 2007, 05:02 PM
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I don't remember anyone of us stopping file uploads on the wiki. That must've happened when we upgraded or something.
Any idea where this Bad Behavior extension installs bad IP addresses? Why not just pull your ips out of there and see if it still acts up?
Dec 9 2007, 09:50 PM
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Directory images/ was user-writable, but not group- or others-writable when I did the work described above. I have now set it user-, group-, and others-writable, but if anything Bad Behavior is behaving worse: I'm at work now and now get the same error others have reported at login.
I have restored the pre-1.5 configuration parameter, but no apparent change in Bad Behavior behavior.
I, too, find the error message suspicious. I didn't know Bad Behavior had a black IP list and have certainly not added any addresses to it since I installed the extension, so I have know idea why it would suddenly start complaining about black IP addresses it allowed before.
I will give Bad Behavior a closer look at home tonight.
Dec 10 2007, 02:37 AM
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Hi meyer.
I tried logging in using Dillo and also deleting all cookies in Firefox, thinking it might be a browser issue. I got the same response to trying to log on.
I'm beginning to think that BadBehaviour is a bit buggy??!
I might try setting up a proxy and seeing if the problem persists.
From dz's response it doesn't look like any options set previously are likely to be causing the problem. I suppose I should stop complaining about being busy and look at the setup, directory permissions and such on the site? Don't panic I won't alter anything! If I spot anything I'll email you
This post has been edited by tux: Dec 10 2007, 02:59 AM
Dec 10 2007, 04:42 AM
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I tried to login at work this morning (behind a proxy) but BadBehaviour denied me.
I logged in from home, but https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Special:Upload still says uploads are disabled.
Dec 10 2007, 08:21 AM
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I have some suggestions on Bad Behavior in here.
Regarding upload: the reason why Special:upload says uploads are disabled is probably because Meyer set $wgEnableUploads back to false at the time you access the page. However I cannot debug the situation further unless an administrator post the current LocalSettings.php (in MediaWiki) up here.
Dec 10 2007, 12:48 PM
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Heh, I'm no good with Wiki stuff but if I can be of any assistance let me know.
Dec 11 2007, 02:20 AM
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The reason why people are blocked from logging into the wiki:
Bad Behavior 2.0.11
December 6th, 2007 by Michael Hampton
All users should update to Bad Behavior 2.0.11 immediately to prevent being blocked from your own site.
Within the past two days users have found themselves blocked from their own sites while using recent versions of Bad Behavior. A third party blacklist which Bad Behavior queries recently began sending false positives for any IP address queried, causing everyone using Bad Behavior to be blocked. This issue is fixed in Bad Behavior 2.0.11.
Download Bad Behavior now!
P.S. Yes, Bad Behavior is still in development. More news coming soon.
Update: Some people have asked for more details on what exactly happened. In brief, yesterday I moved all of my sites to a new dedicated server. In the process, I decommissioned an old blacklist I was running which I thought wasn't being used, not realizing that Bad Behavior was still set to use it. Shortly afterward, I found myself locked out of my own blog, just as you all did. So therefore, this release.
Dec 11 2007, 11:49 PM
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Thanks, again, gaarder. That indeed was the cause of the login trouble.
Back to images on the wiki. I redid the configuration parameter change documented above ($wgEnableUploads), and set not only the images/ directory but every directory in its subtree group- and other-writable.
Now I can upload image files, and all the problematic pages koan linked seem to display correctly now, other than thumbnails of PNG images showing blank (our problem? MediaWiki problem? MS IE problem?).
Let me know if you have any further problems. I'll put a summary of the image support configuration on the wiki later.
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[DCnU Revamp Index Page: ALL the News, Images, Interviews and Columns]In September, the creative team of Keith Giffen and Dan DiDio will stick together for O.M.A.C., a new series for DC's line-wide relaunch.
The two had already been working together on the now canceled Outsiders comic, so the pairing isn't a surprise. But what is surprising to Giffen fans is the fact that he isn't launching a new comic in September as a writer.
But today, he clears up the confusion. He is not done writing for DC.
For the last decade or so, Giffen has been more recognized for his writing than his penciling, including his recent run on Doom Patrol and Booster Gold (the latter with J.M. DeMatteis. But Giffen told Newsarama readers last year that he's enjoying the chance to draw again. "I picked up the pencil and can't put it down," he said.
That was fine with fans. Giffen's return to drawing for writer Paul Levtiz on the Legion of Super-Heroes Annual thrilled loyal Legion readers, even though the comic was delayed because of the artist's detached retina that required surgery. And as one would expect from busy Giffen, the eye problem only temporarily sidelined him, and Giffen jumped right back into his job as penciler on Outsiders, as well as continuing to write.
Yet his constant output of writing and drawing for DC ended earlier this year with the cancelation of Doom Patrol and the end of his Booster Gold run. Giffen's summer titles only included a DC Retroactive - Justice League issue that's coming out in August.
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Newsarama: Keith, what was the thought behind the way O.M.A.C. looks? He's bigger than we've seen before, isn't he?
Keith Giffen: First, let me say that what you saw is not the cover. It was a promo piece, just so we could show what we intend to do.
But in designing O.M.A.C., I was just looking for something "big and monstrous looking" as opposed to "bulky," since this O.M.A.C. is closer to beast than man. I was just trying to get something that had a lot of power to it. And then Jim [Lee] stepped in and helped out. He worked up some costume designs from what I had done, and then I cherry picked some stuff from Jim, because he had some really good stuff there, and combined the two and BAM! We had something everyone agreed about.
Nrama: So can you describe this new O.M.A.C.? The tech that transforms Kevin Kho is obviously not the same as the O.M.A.C. idea we've seen more recently.
Giffen: Yeah, this is not that O.M.A.C.. You know: the stealth guy in the blue and orange. It's a different take on the character. It's a different take on the concept of One Man Army Corp.
When Dan and I sat down and just started talking about O.M.A.C. in a preliminary manner, we knew what we wanted to do. We wanted a big, action-packed kind of comic. We wanted to do the kind of comic that, when we were comic readers, made us go, "Hey! I want to do that!"
It's really been an attempt to have a book that goes barreling along at full velocity. That doesn't mean we don't have our softer moments; that doesn't mean there's no character development. But it just means it's big and bold and full of action.
Nrama: We've been told that this is a war between Checkmate and Brother Eye. But the premise is that Kevin Kho is an unwilling participant, right?
Giffen: Yeah, the human element is that this guy who becomes O.M.A.C. is massively unwilling. It's not like he's suddenly O.M.A.C. and runs around beating up bad guys. This guy does not want anything to do with this conflict. But Brother Eye is basically giving him no choice.
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Plus, like with any comic, he's got a supporting cast, he's got relationships, he's got the type of human conflict that doesn't involve throwing a punch, but you've also got the big fight scenes where they're throwing buildings at one another and ripping up the road.
Nrama: DC is clearly trying to reach new readers with this initiative. Is that informing what you draw and what you're doing with this comic?
Giffen: I would hope it informs every single book coming out in September. As near as I can tell, the idea behind this launch was to provide some fresh air and get rid of some luggage while giving a chance for people to jump on board and let us see if we can reach new readers.O.M.A.C. #1,
page 14I think it's a great time to be working at DC right now, because you're handed a character and you're told it's a new #1: You have to approach it as if your readers might not have ever heard of the character before. And to me, that's thrilling! I can just go in and let the imagination run rampant.
With O.M.A.C., I've got an advantage because it's a take on a character that never really found a niche at DC, so we can use our imaginations. I feel quite comfortable in the... what are they calling them? DC Edge?
Nrama: Yeah, there are different "families" within the DC titles, and O.M.A.C. is listed as part of "The Edge."
Giffen: Yeah, they've got things like the Superman family, the Batman family, DC Dark... I was just glad, when I walked in and looked at the 52 titles up on the board and saw what DC was doing, I was glad to see that it's kind of eclectic groupings. There were a lot of books there that I didn't expect to see. And thank God there weren't, like, eight, nine, 10 Batman titles. You know?
Nrama: I also wanted to ask you about the cancelation of Doom Patrol, because I really loved that book.
Giffen: Well, you seem to be the only one. No, I'm kidding. I know a lot of fans loved the book and I obviously enjoyed doing it, but I'm really excited about what I'm doing now.
Nrama: Your fans have voiced a lot of concern about the fact you're not writing anything for DC, especially now that Doom Patrol is gone.
Giffen: Oh, no, they shouldn't worry. I haven't walked away from writing. I'm not really able to talk about any of that right now, but you'll be hearing about a couple things coming from me as a writer at DC.
These 52 comics come out of the block hard, then other things will be gradually filtered in down the road.
I have not put away the computer. You'll see what I'm writing later. But right now, my primary focus is making sure O.M.A.C. gets a good send-off.
Nrama: Are you helping at all with the art? We heard from Brett Booth that Cully Hamner was helping with character design.
Giffen: I'm helping out, but not with character design. Jim Lee and Cully are the ones helping out with that, and it's not like they're forcing designs or anything. It's really about "helping," because they know the guys who do the book day-in and day-out are the ones who make the costumes work for their book. It's a team effort. Then I think Cully does the official turnarounds on the characters so everyone will know what the character looks like when they appear in different issues.
It's been a lot of teamwork as we get ready for this. It's exciting. But it's a job. That's what comics really should be. We're removing a little bit of that high school aspect where it's like, "Oh, I'm so precious I should be able to do this or that." No, that's not what this is about. We're still having fun doing it. It is a fun job. But it is a job, and we're in the business of telling stories and publishing comics. This isn't my hobby; this is what I do for a living. And I think that's more of the approach to this whole thing. DC seems to be more serious about deadlines, more serious about keeping consistent teams on the book, and really, really serious about telling the best stories. You can have the best gimmick in the world, but if the story's weak, it's not going to go anywhere. So the quality has to be there.
Nrama: One of the things DC keeps pointing toward as a success in their efforts at diversity is the new Blue Beetle, which you created, and they're giving him his own comic again. Will there be more chances for you to create other new characters as a writer?
Giffen: Absolutely. DiDio and the editors have said they want to see new characters, and you'll see us doing that on O.M.A.C. and you'll see me doing that elsewhere. Part of our job is to be creative, not just to plunder legacies. Some of these characters still need decent rogues galleries. Some of them need their supporting cast rounded out. And there are new heroes in here. It's about being creative, so you'll see more of that.O.M.A.C. #2 cover Nrama: Then to finish up, Keith, is there anything else you want to tell fans about O.M.A.C.?
Giffen: It's going to be a lot of fun to read. We're going in with that kind of attitude. We're having fun. And I've always believed that if the creative team is having fun on a book, then the readers can tell. Paul [Levitz] and I were having fun on the Legion [of Super-Heroes] when we did it, and I think people picked up on that.
But O.M.A.C. is just a big, boisterous, loud book. We're going to move this story along fast, and it's going to be full of new ideas and fun concepts. All I can ask is that people take a look at it. If you like it, great! If not, I'll catch you on the next comic. Just give it a try.Got a comment? There's lots of Newsarama conversation on FACEBOOK and TWITTER. More on DCnU:
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"Generally, if you've got a group of traders, you have different limitations set up on each trader individually, and limitations on the activity of the group that usually would catch errors that are so large that would have caused this."
Right now it's not known whether such software was in place, was triggered, or how quickly it was triggered if it went into effect.
"Technological developments have far outpaced regulatory oversight; and traders who buy and sell stocks in milliseconds — capitalizing everywhere on small price differentials in a highly fragmented marketplace — now predominate over value investors," Kaufmann said last fall, in testifying before the Senate Banking Subcommittee hearing on market structure issues.
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William 'Bill' Velin
PEORIA, Ariz. — William "Bill" Velin, who accomplished much in a long and colorful life, but always insisted his greatest accomplishments were serving his country and raising six children, died on April 24, 2013, in Peoria. He was 88.
William was a World War II Veteran, businessman, civic leader, Little League coach, referee, public address announcer, miner, caterer, avid golfer, lifelong sports fan and most of all, a loving husband and father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
William Knight Velin was born on Jan. 1, 1925, in Bessemer, Mich., the eldest son of Conrad and Josephine Velin. He attended Bessemer schools and graduated from A.D. Johnston High School in 1943. Bill was a four-sport athlete for the Speedboys, excelling in football, where he was a speedy two-time first-team all-U.P. and all-state honorable mention halfback.
Soon after Bill graduated in 1943, he enlisted in the Navy, where he became a Navy Corpsman (Medic) assigned to the 3rd Marine Division. He saw action in the Pacific with the Marines on Bougainville and Guam. Though he participated in some heavy action, he seldom talked about it.
After being discharged from the Navy in 1946, Bill returned to the Gogebic Range and was married to Ann Obradovich in Wakefield, Mich. They moved to Ann Arbor, where Bill attended the University of Michigan. He studied geology, which would serve him well later in his life.
When they returned to the Upper Peninsula, after learning the meat-cutting trade from his father, owner and proprietor of Kelto-Velin Supermarket in Bessemer, he opened his own grocery, Bill's Food Shop, in Ramsay, Mich. The store thrived for about a decade before he sold it. Bill then went to work for the White Pine Copper Co., where he was a geologist. He retired from the mine in 1984 after nearly 20 years.
Bill and Ann operated A&B Catering for many years while living in Wakefield and spending their winters in North Fort Myers, Fla., where Bill pursued his passion for golf.
He was also a member of Eagle Bluff Golf Club in Hurley, Wis. During one round at the Lake Fairways course on which he lived in Florida, Bill scored two holes-in-one in a single round. He also had an ace at Eagle Bluff. After moving to Florida full-time, he played golf daily into his 80s.
Bill also took his civic responsibilities seriously, serving as a Wakefield city councilman and mayor from 1986 to 1988. He also served as a member and president of the Wakefield School Board and was on the board of directors of Grand View Hospital.
Ann and Bill Velin were married for 57 years before Ann's death in 2003.
He is survived by a brother, Julius, 87, of Marquette, Mich .; six children, William K. Velin Jr. (Elizabeth), of Rosemount, Minn., Robert Velin (Patricia), of Herndon, Va., Paula Tanner (Thomas), of Peoria, Randall Velin (Linda), of Pueblo, Colo., Conrad Velin (Emily), of Corvallis, Mont., and Judy Becerra (Miguel), of Oklahoma City, Okla .; 13 grandchildren, William K. III and Bradley Velin and Kristin Savell, all of Minnesota, Matthew and Michael Velin, of Virginia, Jamie, Jackie and Brett Haendel, of Arizona, Thomas Velin, of Minnesota, Katie and Kelly Velin, of Montana, and Ashley and Kim Hauser, of Oklahoma; and eight great-grandsons.
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Christopher Wells, ,
Macalester College
Poor and minority populations have historically borne the brunt of environmental inequalities in the United States, suffering disproportionately from the effects of pollution, dispossession of land, resource depletion, dangerous jobs, limited access to common resources, and exposure to environmental hazards. Paying particular attention to the ways that race, ethnicity, class, and gender have shaped the political and economic dimensions of environmental injustices, this course draws on the work of scholars and activists to examine the long history of environmental inequities in the United States, along with more recent political movements—national and local—that seek to rectify environmental injustices and develop new possibilities for understanding the human place in nature.
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Small-group seminar
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Private four-year institution, primarily undergraduate
Course Context:
This is an introductory course with no prerequisites. It is a required course for Environmental Studies majors with an emphasis in Environmental Justice. It also satisfies the humanities distribution requirement within the ES major and the college's general education requirement for multiculturalism. Typically the large majority of students major in the social sciences and humanities, with 10-20% of students majoring in a science.
Course Content:
This reading-and-discussion based seminar-style class pays particular attention to the ways that race, ethnicity, class, and gender have shaped the political and economic dimensions of environmental injustices. The first unit focuses on the long history of environmental inequalities in the United States across a range of specific topics, including slavery, enclosure, residential segregation, and older forms of activism focused on environmental inequalities. The second unit focuses on the rise of the modern environmental justice movement. The third unit surveys various types of activism around environmental inequalities since the rise of the environmental justice movement. The course concludes with student groups sharing the "toxic tours" that they have designed around various sites in the Twin Cities.
Course Goals:
Students will be able to assess the ways that environmental inequalities emerge from institutionalized social, political, and economic practices, and to think critically about the implications of environmental inequalities for marginalized social groups. They will be conversant in a wide range of ways that environmental inequalities have shaped the American past, and with the ways that the modern environmental justice movement has launched concerted (if fractured) efforts to remediate them.
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The final project for this course is a "virtual toxic tour" on a location in the Twin Cities. As one form of activism, many environmental justice groups put together toxic tours that expose tour-takers to the environmental inequalities and disproportionate environmental burdens that confront marginalized communities. For this assignment, students work together in groups to research a site in the Twin Cities and to assemble a virtual toxic tour.
Course Philosophy:
As a historian, I chose to design this course as an interactive, reading-based seminar. Although my own research is not in this area, I decided to put it together in response to substantial student demand. Because I am still familiarizing myself with the field, which is not predominantly driven by historical scholarship, each class begins with a 10-12 minute oral "book analysis" by a student on a key piece of environmental justice literature relevant to the day's assigned reading. I found that this helped me rapidly gain additional fluency in the field and gave students a sense of how many areas are touched by environmental inequalities.
Students deliver one presentation (their book analysis), complete daily reading responses, write a research paper on a topic of their own choice, and design a virtual toxic tour as a member of a group. Participation in discussions also comprises a substantial percentage (30%) of their final grade.
Wells Environmental Justice Syllabus (Acrobat (PDF) 41kB Mar15 13)
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|Argus (2) (AR-gus)
A hero from Arcadia with more than the usual number of eyes; also called Argus All-Seeing to differentiate him from others named Argus. Argus All-Seeing got his nickname from his unorthodox number of eyes. In a classical case of mythological inconsistency, some say he had four eyes - two in the standard placement and two in the back of his head - while others claim he had up to a hundred eyes all over his body.
This excess ocular equipment made Argus an excellent watchman, a talent which the goddess Hera used to good effect in the case of Io. Io was a young priestess with whom Hera's husband Zeus had fallen in love. Needless to say, Hera was jealous and angry, so she changed Io into a cow.
Or maybe Zeus himself brought about the transformation to hide the object of his passion from Hera. In any case, once Io had become a heifer, Hera asked Argus to so-to-speak keep an eye on her and let Hera know if Zeus came near. Argus was able to perform this watch around the clock since he could always keep a lid or two peeled while the rest caught a little shut-eye.
But Zeus told Hermes, god of thieves, to snatch Io away, and Hermes resorted to a clever ruse. Disguising himself as a shepherd, he bored Argus with long-winded stories, beguiled him with song and eventually lulled him to sleep by playing tunes on a shepherd's pipe, recently invented by Pan.
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We're documented fans of Gateway's latest FX case design, at least for the most part, but we have reservations about the FX6840-03e, a specific $1,099 configuration. We'll give the Gateway some credit for its strong application performance scores, but a $1,149 Dell system offers a more versatile configuration for only a nominal price increase. We do like certain aspects of this Gateway system, but there's not enough value in this PC to recommend it.
We like the Gateway case primarily because it introduces front-accessible hard-drive bays to a relatively mainstream PC. We're more used to seeing that feature on gaming desktops from boutique vendors. Not everyone will need the front-panel drive access, but it's a rare enthusiast design touch that is actually useful.
The case design has some polarizing elements to be sure, its red accent lighting chief among them. It's also large enough to qualify as a full tower system, as opposed to the midtower PCs that have dominated our recent retail desktop round up. If you're particular about the look of your hardware, you may have some reservations about picking up the distinctive Gateway. Heavy data archivers should consider the convenience of the front-panel hard-drive access, and either accept or overlook the Gateway's "gaming PC" looks.
You'll see below that the Core i7-based Gateway posted strong application performance scores, but the AMD-based $1,149 Dell Studio XPS 7100, a built-to-order system, offers better gaming performance, along with a better selection of features. The Gateway has a midrange 3D card, a standard DVD burner, and only wired networking. You'll pay $50 more for the Dell above, and it won't complete productivity-oriented tasks as quickly, but it will play games faster, and at higher resolutions. It also provides a Blu-ray drive, more hard-drive space, and 802.11n Wi-Fi. If we were shopping for a home PC with entertainment in mind, we'd happily sacrifice the Gateway's superior CPU performance for the Dell's more complete feature-set.
We cannot deny that the quad-core Gateway DX6840-03e is faster than the six-core Dell Studio XPS 7100 on all of our productivity-oriented tests. If you wanted a desktop for consumer-level digital media editing and light-gaming duties, this Gateway would make a reasonable choice.
The problem for the Gateway is that we have a feeling most consumers shopping for a performance-and-gaming-capable PC in this price range put gaming first. And as you can see from our Far Cry 2 scores, the Gateway can't come close to the Dell in 3D performance. You should be able to play current and future PC games on the Gateway at lower resolutions and minimal image quality settings without much difficulty. Introduce a 22- or 24-inch LCD that can support higher resolutions and the Gateway's shortcomings will quickly come to the forefront. By coming in above 60 frames per second on our high-resolution Far Cry 2 test, the Dell shows that not only can it handle current titles, but that it also has the headroom to accommodate near-future PC games as well.
If you want to upgrade the Gateway's 3D capabilities, that's certainly an option, and the 500-watt power supply will support a decent graphics card upgrade. You get no second graphics card slot, so you'd have to get rid of the current Radeon HD 5770 card, but that's more or less expected for PCs in this price range. Other card upgrade options include a 1x PCI Express slot, along with a standard PCI card slot. You also get room for three more hard drives: one internal, two via the front-panel drive trays. All of the RAM slots come occupied.
We're less pleased with the Gateway's connectivity options, which seem like a joke. It's possible this is a case of Gateway's retail partners restricting the ports to allow for an upsell, but with such a wide selection of ports on the back of the FX6831-01, we don't understand why the FX6840-03e's inputs and outputs are so limited. You get a few USB 2.0 jacks, Ethernet, old PS/2 mouse and keyboard inputs, and only 5.1 analog audio. The graphics card provides DVI, HDMI, and even DisplayPort, but without even 7.1 audio, let alone FireWire or eSATA ports, like you'll find on the FX6831-01, the FX6840-03e looks like a throwback. The Dell Studio XPS 7100 also features more connectivity options.
The Gateway's power consumption is impressive for its price class. Perhaps it's because other PCs in this price range that we've reviewed come with AMD chips, which have proven themselves comparative power hogs. We also note that the FX6840-03e's power consumption is lower than that of the FX6831-01e, which has a faster 3D card. Perhaps it's the 3D power alone that keeps the FX6840-03e's power draw low. In any case, this is a relatively inexpensive desktop to operate.


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To all of my lovely followers!
I have decided to take a break from my blog HiddenForms. Many things seek my eye and my attention at the moment and I want to stay true to myself.
I thank you for all your support throughout the years and I´m sure our paths will cross again at some point in the future.
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Another question on the site made me take notice that through is monosyllabic, but quite long. Are there longer monosyllabic words? What's the longest disyllabic word in English?
Edit: so, Wikipedia has a page for monosyllabic words, but none for disyllabic ones. Anyone can think of any long disyllabic example?


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Success motivates action. All of us are much more willing to continue to invest in something that has produced results than in something that hasn't.
As we approach World AIDS Day, we now have a tremendous track record of success from U.S. investments in fighting global AIDS. A decade ago, an HIV diagnosis in Africa was essentially a death sentence. Today, through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the American people support nearly 5.1 million people on antiretroviral treatment. That treatment is the difference between life and death, allowing people to continue to raise and provide for their families -- and build their nations.
Seeking to build on this success, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for PEPFAR to develop what she called a "Blueprint for an AIDS-Free Generation."
She asked us to provide the next Congress, the next Secretary of State and all of our partners with a clear picture of everything we've learned and a road map that shows what the United States will contribute toward achieving an AIDS-free generation.
You can read the blueprint at www.PEPFAR.gov. It sends an unequivocal message that the U.S. commitment to the global AIDS response will remain strong, comprehensive and driven by science. It provides a roadmap for what the U.S. will do to achieve an AIDS-free generation. Equally important, it calls upon the world to share in the responsibility to reach this goal. We cannot do it alone, but together, we can make an AIDS-free generation a reality.
The blueprint is driven by five key principles that are the foundation of PEPFAR's work with partner countries:
• Making strategic, scientifically-sound investments to rapidly scale-up core HIV prevention, treatment and care interventions and maximize impact.
• Working with our partners to effectively mobilize, coordinate and efficiently use resources to save more lives sooner.
• Focusing on women and girls to increase gender equality.
• Ending stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and key populations.
• Setting benchmarks that are regularly assessed to assure goals are being met.
When President George W. Bush and a bipartisan Congress created PEPFAR almost a decade ago, it was rightfully an emergency response. As the epidemic's tide has stemmed, PEPFAR has been moving to a more sustainable response with countries in the driver's seat. That's essential to keep the AIDS response effective, efficient and durable.
The U.S. will continue its leadership role but, increasingly, countries must own their epidemics. All partner contributions must adhere to and support the principle of country ownership, with partner countries leading, managing, coordinating and over time increasingly financing the efforts needed to achieve an AIDS-free generation.
This won't happen overnight -- nor should it. All partners must remain committed to this fight if we are to achieve an AIDS-free generation.
Here are the five goals the PEPFAR blueprint establishes, with specific action and implementation steps the U.S. will take with partner countries to reach these goals.
• First, we remain committed to scaling up combination prevention and treatment. As Secretary Clinton said last year, if we scale up prevention of mother-to-child-transmission, treatment as prevention, voluntary medical male circumcision, and access to HIV testing and counseling, condoms and other evidence-based prevention interventions, we can put countries -- and the world -- on a path to achieving an AIDS-free generation.
• Second, we will be smart about our investments -- going where the virus is and targeting evidence-based interventions for populations at greatest risk. And we will not support interventions that fail to target the epidemic. Understanding how the virus moves through a population is directly informed by understanding where new infections are occurring.
• Third, we will promote sustainability, efficiency and effectiveness. We will continue to ensure that we are getting the most out of every PEPFAR dollar spent in terms of saving even more lives.
• Fourth, we believe that creating an AIDS-free generation requires a global effort. No one country or entity can do it alone, but together, as you will see in the modeling we present in this blueprint, we can achieve our shared goal.
• Last, but certainly not least, science must continue to guide all of our efforts. It is science that has brought us to this historic point and it is science that will guide us home.
One way of measuring progress toward an AIDS-free generation, in a country or globally, is to compare the annual number of new HIV infections with the annual increase in new patients on treatment. By bringing this ratio below 1.0, through reduced infectivity and rapid treatment expansion, it is possible to achieve what many have called a programmatic "tipping point" in the epidemic.
In the blueprint, we used data from four countries that are at different stages of the response to assess the impact of various scenarios for intervention. What we found is that through robust scale-up, with support from all partners, it is possible for countries to get on the path toward achieving an AIDS-free generation in the next three to five years. They can reach -- and move beyond -- that tipping point where the number of people newly on treatment exceeds the number of new infections.
On this World AIDS Day, the success we have achieved to date provides powerful motivation to push on to an AIDS-free generation. Together, let's seize this moment.
For more by Ambassador Eric Goosby, M.D., click here.
For more on HIV/AIDS, click here.


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Kentucky Historical Society
100 W. Broadway
Frankfort, KY 40601
For a detailed description of some holdings in the Kentucky Historical Society Library, consult Joan E. Brookes-Smith, Kentucky Historical Society Microfilm Catalog, vols. 3'4 (Frankfort, Ky.: Kentucky Historical Society, 1981) or see descriptions online.
An older and outdated finding aid for names and addresses of over 300 Kentucky genealogical and historical societies is the Kentucky Historical Society's Directory of Historical Organizations and Speakers Bureau (Frankfort, Ky.: Historical Confederation of Kentucky and Kentucky Historical Society, 1988). A reprinted edition is expected.


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|This is the main guy. Puppy version 4.3.1 live-CD, with 126.96.36.199 kernel, heaps of drivers and applications.
|Service-Pack. If you already have 4.3 installed, there is a PET package that has most of the 4.3.1 upgrade.
|SFS files are "application combo
packs". This one provides everything you need to turn Puppy into a
complete C/C++/Vala/Genie compiling environment.
your own custom puppy live-CD from binary packages. This requires some
expertise with the Linux commandline and a hard drive partition with a
Linux filesystem. Broadband Internet access recommended. Please read http://puppylinux.com/woof/
|A word of advice
if you try more than one .iso file, be sure to delete all traces of the previous one before testing the next. When you shutdown the first time and save the session to hard drive (to what we call the "pupsave" file), one or two files off the CD are also copied to the hard drive: pup-431.sfs (and maybe zp431305.sfs). The easiest way to cleanup is to boot the next live-CD with the boot parameter "puppy pfix=ram" (which starts up with Puppy running totally in RAM) and after bootup take a look on the hard drive and delete those previous files.
However, if you shutdown without saving a session, then the above problem will not occur. Thus, for quick evaluation of these live-CDs, run each one without saving the session, so nothing gets left behind on the hard drive.
|This is in all respects the same
as 'pup-431.iso' except that it has less drivers. In particular, less
modem drivers. It will still satisfy 95% of users though, and is a good
choice for situations where Puppy is required to run totally in RAM --
such as the multisession-CD/DVD mode and diskless workstations.
|This is in all respects the same as 'pup-431.iso' except that it has more
drivers. The SCSI drivers enable Puppy to recognise and even boot from
SCSI drives. The Intel modem drivers are for the 536/537 analog dialup
|This is very similar to
'pup-431.iso', except has an older kernel. The 18.104.22.168 kernel is the
same as used in Puppy 4.1x and 4.2x. You might find this one works
better on some old hardware. This build also has the Intel 536/537 modem drivers (but less than above build).
is built with an even older kernel. The 18.104.22.168 kernel goes back to
Puppy 3.x. This kernel does not have the libata drivers so recognises
IDE drives as /dev/hd*. This build will recognise and boot from SCSI
drives and has the Intel 536/537 modem drivers.
|The 188.8.131.52 and 126.96.36.199
kernels use Squashfs version 3.x, whereas the latest 184.108.40.206 kernel
uses Squashfs 4.0. The SFS files are not compatible, so I have to
provide this "devx" file especially for the older kernels.


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|King, Kevin
|Fausey, Norman - Norm
|Dunn, Roderick - City Of Columbus
|Smiley, Peter - Rocky
|Sohngen, Brent - The Ohio State University
Submitted to: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/22/2011
Publication Date: 11/30/2012
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/56361
Citation: King, K.W., Fausey, N.R., Dunn, R., Smiley, P.C., Sohngen, B. 2012. Response of reservoir atrazine concentrations following regulatory and management changes. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 67(5):416-423.
Interpretive Summary: Atrazine is a cost-effective and proven herbicide for corn production in the US. However, atrazine concentrations in surface water frequently exceed drinking water standards. Agricultural programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentive Program provide incentives to farmers to adopt conservation practices such as pesticide management. However, quantitative information on the effectiveness of these practices is often limited. This study quantifies the effectiveness of the practice at a watershed scale. Significant differences in reservoir atrazine concentrations were measured between three distinct time periods: pre atrazine label restrictions, post label restrictions, and EQIP implementation. The benefits of the practice greatly outweighed the costs of implementing the practices suggesting that watershed scale implementation of conservation practices is a cost effective approach for addressing nonpoint source pollution.
Technical Abstract: Since the early 1990s, atrazine concentrations in United States drinking water supplies exceeding the drinking water standard of 3 parts per billion (ppb) have been identified as a costly and major water quality concern. Atrazine levels in Columbus, Ohio tap water reached 8.74 ppb in the early 1990s, leading to a watershed approach aimed to reduce elevated atrazine concentrations. In 1999, the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) was implemented in the watershed that feeds Hoover Reservoir, the primary drinking water supply for Columbus, Ohio. Through EQIP, the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) offered financial incentives to farmers and operators in an effort to reduce atrazine concentrations in the reservoir and maintain the concentrations below the drinking water standard. Monthly reservoir atrazine concentrations were measured from 1985 through 2005, representing three distinct time periods: no label restrictions (1985-1992); post label restrictions (1993-1998); and EQIP implementation (1999-2005). Significant (P<0.05) reductions in mean monthly reservoir atrazine concentrations were noted between all three time periods: no label restrictions (2.27 ppb) > post label restrictions (1.99 ppb) > EQIP implementation (1.18 ppb). No significant differences (P>0.05) were measured in precipitation or amount of corn planted between the three time periods. Additionally, for every dollar spent on conservation through the EQIP program, a $3.61 benefit for the City of Columbus was realized through savings for drinking water treatment to remove atrazine. For farmers and operators, atrazine is an economically viable and effective herbicide for crop production. This study indicates that annually eliminating application on approximately 16% of the crop production acres can reduce and maintain reservoir atrazine concentrations below drinking water thresholds. Thus, the findings from this study suggest that in the absence of EQIP, adding a second year of soybeans, a small grain, or a forage crop to the corn-soybean rotation even with atrazine application on corn should assist with maintaining reservoir atrazine concentrations below the drinking water standard.


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Here's a new trailer for the June-scheduled 3DS re-make of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. The graphics have been improved, though my memory already made them look as good as they appear in this new trailer.
Thanks to fans like YouTube user DarkShadowRage2, however, we can do more comparing of the 2011 remake and its 1998 original than we've ever done before. Check out DarkShadowRage2's video, and shame on me for not realizing they'd changed the into that much.


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CANNES REVIEW: Ryan Gosling Owns the Road in Drive
As we critics settled into our seats before last evening's screening of Drive, the big topic of conversation was -- what else? -- Lars von Trier's exile from Cannes after his sort-of but not-quite pro-Hitler remarks at Wednesday's Melancholia press conference. The consensus was that festival officials had gone overboard, turning Von Trier into a martyr when really, he's just a socially awkward guy who was trying to stir up some controversy with a few ill-considered, ill-advised jokes. The whole event is unfortunate from top to bottom, especially considering that Von Trier has just presented a strong film that has surely lost any chance of winning the Palme d'Or. But there we were, gearing up to watch a movie made by another -- although very different -- Danish-born filmmaker, Nicolas Winding Refn.
Drive is the most commercial picture in competition at the festival, and not just because it features medium- to big-name actors (Carey Mulligan, Ryan Gosling), but also because it mines a specific grindhouse genre: Existential driving movies of the '70s like Vanishing Point, The Driver and Two-Lane Blacktop. These types of movies are near and dear to my heart: I love watching good stunt-driving shot cleanly, but I also love the long, potentially boring stretches that fixate on the glorious averageness of the American landscape, and the way driving can be a sort of Zen activity.
Drive not only met my hopes; it charged way over the speed limit, partly because it's an unapologetically commercial picture that defies all the current trends in mainstream action filmmaking. The driving sequences are shot and edited with a surgeon's clarity and precision -- Refn (best known Stateside for Bronson and the Pusher trilogy) doesn't chop up the action to fool us into thinking it's more exciting than it is. This is such a simple thing. Is it really reason enough to fall in love with a movie? Considering how sick I am of railing against the visual clutter in so many contemporary action movies -- even some that are very enjoyable are not particularly well-made -- I think it is.
There's also the fact that Drive -- which screenwriter Hossein Amini adapted from James Sallis' novel of the same name -- doesn't skimp on human interest at the expense of its considerable (and considerably violent) thrills. Gosling stars as Driver, a laconic man of action whose very name doubles as a job description. By day, he's a movie stunt driver and car mechanic. He moonlights as a wheelman, and as the movie's dazzling, bracingly straightforward opening sequence proves, he's one of the best. Driver's preternatural sense of calm behind the wheel -- a toothpick perches delicately between his lips -- is a little like Fred Astaire's dancing: He makes it look like it's nothing.
When he's not driving, Driver has a crush on a neighbor in his apartment building, Irene (Carey Mulligan), a for-now single mom with a young son. Just as their romance starts to heat up -- and after Driver has bonded with Irene's young son, beginning with a captivating, exceedingly dry exchange that begins, "Wanna toothpick?" -- Irene's husband, Standard Guzman (Oscar Isaac) is sprung from jail. He may be free, but he's not out of trouble. And when Standard's thuggish "pals" threaten his family, Driver takes a job just to help him out.
If you're thinking Driver is the quintessential laid-back selfless hero, cool as cool can be in the Steve McQueen mode, the kind of guy you've seen hundreds of times in good movies and in bad ones -- you're right. In fact, if you've watched any movies made in the past 40 years, you'll see and hear lots of familiar elements in Drive: The slightly grainy, low-lit look of '70s cheapies (the DP is Newton Thomas Sigel); the new-wave neon-pink script used in the credit sequences; the at-first jarring but later sublimely perfect '80s-style synth score. I've already talked to some critics who have dismissed the film, saying they've seen it all before. But that's precisely the point. Refn doesn't pretend to have invented any of this stuff; his movie is 90 percent unapologetic homage, and he knows how to recombine familiar elements in a way that feels fresh and exciting.
Refn has a knack for both violence and romance: The love scenes between Mulligan and Gosling are casual and sweetly unassuming. There's lots of brutality in Drive, and while it isn't always discreet, it's not assaultive, either. (Refn isn't a slavish Tarantino imitator, but it's clear they share certain tastes in terms of references and tone.)
And Refn uses his actors well. Gosling, in particular, is a joy to watch. He walks the tightrope between being minimalist and mannered. His Driver is all about sharp reflexes and meaningful eye contact, and he has a jazz musician's ear for language -- he knows everything cooler when it's just a hair behind the beat. Even the movie's simple costuming is pure genius: Driver's signature garment is a satin baseball jacket with an abstract scorpion stenciled on the back.
Drive could have been the best drive-in feature of 1975, which explains why some of the critics I've talked to don't see it as particularly original. But last night I also ran into a solid crew of youngish colleagues who were as over the moon about it as I was. No one is claiming Refn has invented a new language; it's just that he uses the vocabulary so well -- he's got the right tools and the right touch. This is a mechanic who can make an engine sing.


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Volunteers were urged to continue battling the blight of marine litter as they were praised for their efforts at the Coca Cola Coast Care Awards.
The 10th anniversary event at Stormont rewarded community heroes who have gone the extra mile to clean up and look after our coastline and inland waterways.
The Live Here Love Here and Coca-Cola HBC initiative, which was hosted by BBC Weatherman Barra Best, also celebrated the beauty of the province's coastline and inland waterways through the Picture Perfect Award.
Attendees were entertained by music from talented, young musicians Fourte Strings and by sand sculptor, Tony Hawkins.
The guest speaker on the night was writer, surfer and founder of the #2minutebeachclean campaign, Martin Dorey, who he spoke from the heart, relating to and encouraging volunteers to continue in their fight against marine litter and highlighting the significance of even the smallest of gestures.
The Live Here Love Here Clean Coasts Programme supports the work of volunteers who clean up beaches, rivers and loughs providing equipment and support.
Dr Ian Humphreys, chief executive of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, said: "Our ten year partnership with Coca-Cola enables us to consistently support a growing movement of people who have the tenacity to keep on cleaning up our coast and inland waterways.
"Tonight we take the time to celebrate their achievements, their passion and their 'can-do' attitude that is keeping Northern Ireland's shores, loughs, canals and rivers beautiful. It is obvious such volunteers really do live here and love here and their work is truly inspiring. Thank you."
In 2008, the programme recorded a total of 110 volunteers but the number has grown dramatically to an impressive 4,642 participants in 2016.
A Clean Up and Drum Circle, a Cycle Sea Safari, Beach Clean and Boot Camp, and an Extreme Cave Clean in the underground rivers of Fermanagh are just a few of the events which engaged local people this time round.
Louise Sullivan, Director Public Affairs and Communications, Coca-Cola HBC Ireland and Northern Ireland, said, "We are immensely proud of our long-standing partnership with Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful. As leaders in sustainability, we strive to minimise our impact on the environment and a key element of our efforts are focused on environmental stewardship within communities."
The award winners were as follows:
Coca-Cola Coast Care Group - Ballyhornan Development Association, Downpatrick;
Coca-Cola Inland Waterway Group - Six Mile Water Trust, Antrim;
Brighter Futures - (joint winners) Ulidia Integrated College Eco Team, Carrickfergus and 29th Belfast Beaver Scouts Carryduff;
Better Business Partnership - Citi Belfast;
Local Hero - Pat Watson, Inland Waterways Association Ireland, Bessbrook;
Picture Perfect - Wilbert McIlmoyle, Portstewart.