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Gameplay impressions are difficult to form under the lights, sights and cacophony of E3 in full swing, where you never have enough time to see all of what you want, and there's always an appointment five minutes from now. It's even more difficult to get a good read on a sports game.
Usually what they show is head-to-head gameplay which, if the title is any good, is pretty consistent year to year. The subtler refinements, such as new animations, adjusted artificial intelligence, are things that you need a lot of time to see, and see repeatedly, to understand how well they work.
So, yeah, I saw Madden NFL 12, and I saw NBA 2K12 and I saw FIFA 12 and they all look great. But then, we knew that going in, and many were preceded by rollout campaigns that already highlighted their new features well before we got to L.A.
The real impressions, the newsy ones anyway, that I formed at E3 were more of the behind-the-scenes picture of sports gaming. Here they are, without any unifying theme, other than they're the 15-minute snapshots I took of sports gaming at the year's midpoint.
NBA 2K12 showed the least and came home with the most. I think they took at least half-a-dozen nominations in the sports category from various publications, including IGN's top honor in the category.
"We'll take it," a 2K rep told me with a smile and a shrug.
The shrug acknowledged that they showed less than half of what the game will deliver at release in October. It was a closed-door, hands off demonstration that spotlighted upgrades to the broadcast presentation. It looked good, but there's a big "to be continued," on this.
The honors show the power of incumbency in sports publishing. The successor to a great title starts out ahead of the game, like a college football team ranked high in the polls largely for what was done in the past year. It doesn't mean NBA 2K12 isn't or won't be good, but it does show the added importance of ratings in sports, especially as a segment that has shrunk noticeably in the past two years.
Of course, NBA Elite 11 got best-of nominations at E3 2010, and we know how that turned out.
Speaking of NBA Elite, where does that project stand at EA Sports, now that it's been postponed another year and moved from the label's Canada studio down to Florida?
"It's in the shape you would expect it to be for a title that's a year and four months away," EA Sports president Moore told me. "There's a non-answer for you!"
Moore did say that "absolutely" there will be an NBA simulation coming from EA Sports in 2012, dispelling doubts (including ones I've voiced) that the two-year postponement will ultimately mean the end of NBA Elite or Live or whatever it will be called. What will it be called, anyway?
"Don't know," Moore said. "I've got to get through 2011!"
In seriousness, though, Moore admitted that the threat of a lockout, expected by nearly everyone in and around the league after the end of the month, held some sway in the decision to put off an NBA sim.
"It was certainly a factor but it was much less a factor than the fact we needed to get the game right," Moore said. As for the label's relationship with the NBA, contractually EA Sports was obligated to deliver this title last year and this year. The hiatus, Moore said, has not ruptured that partnership.
"They have been unbelievably sympathetic, understanding and cooperative." Moore said. "[NBA Commissioner] David [Stern] would tell you this if he sat right here, one of his most treasured business relationships is with EA Sports. When we ran into difficulty, they couldn't have been more accommodating. They were disappointed, and they could have done all sorts of nasty things contractually, as you can imagine. To their credit they said, let's sit down as a team and work this through."
I'd say it is indeed a strong relationship if Moore can speak for the NBA commissioner, on the record.
If you're THQ you don't want to hear this, but UFC Undisputed 3 is a game whose major upgrades seem to be co-opted from competing titles, and not just in the head stomps and soccer kicks sanctioned by Pride Fighting rules, which were a feature of last year's EA Sports MMA
Most obvious is the new submission system, which replaces the "shine" system of UFC Undisputed 2010, which many folks didn't get the hang of. In UFC 3, submissions are a minigame in which two bars race around an octagon, one bar trying cover and trap the other. It looks a lot like EA Sports MMA's submission, in which both sides felt blindly around the perimeter of a circle, trying to find a moving spot that made their controller rumble.
I didn't get to play the game and test this for myself, but in talking with a developer, they know that EA Sports MMA's submissions were, with some fighters, easy to implement and to escape multiple times against the CPU, and promise this technique will be more challenging.
The second aspect of UFC 3 that will follow a competitor is the fighting-game focus. The camera's been lowered to more of a Street Fighter style angle, and the game will get a Competition mode that equalizes all the fighters and makes a bout more like Tekken, where it's all about the moveset, not a fighter's ratings. The presentation, in fact, cited those two fighting games, by name.
Though developer Yuke's has been working on this for some time, it'll arrive after Supremacy MMA, built as a fighting game (and touting that street cred) from the start. Fighting-game hybrids, like Lloyd Dobler said of kickboxing, is the sport of the future, evidently.
Sometimes you do get a strong gameplay impression out of a hands-on. It's funny sometimes what ends up making the most impact. FIFA 12's precision dribbling, tactical defending and collision system were front-and-center in a 10-minute presentation given behind closed doors. Crecente declared himself "in awe" of the dribbling. And it did look good in my hands-on with the game. But it was how that dribbling can be applied that left its mark on me.
The tighter dribbling control, and the adjusted press defense (which no longer sends defenders after their man "like a heat seeking missile") will mean that the center of the pitch, particularly in front of the penalty area, will now be more useful for staging one's offense, as is seen in football as it is played live. In FIFA 11 and before, the wider dribbling distance and the press defense encouraged players to take the ball up the pitch on the wings, cross the ball and score, a video-gamelike (and dare I say Americanlike?) approach to the Beautiful Game.
EA Sports pulled NCAA Football 12 from the show floor and put it behind closed doors this year, a curious decision for a title releasing next month. Some read that as a lack of confidence in the game but I think that's going a little too far.
Whatever the case, had it been out among the public, scenes like this one on Tuesday would not have happened: Ben Haumiller, the game's producer, and I were talking about defensive AI when suddenly the room went very quiet and I was politely asked to put down the sticks and leave my seat. In walked Snoop Dogg, escorted by some very serious, very robust individuals.
This photo (not taken by me) is the only known evidence of the sighting.
Ben showed Snoop a Pac-12 matchup featuring his beloved USC. Snoop was noticeably impressed by the pregame pageantry, smiling and pointing when the Trojan twirled his sword and plunged it into the 50-yard line. But playing the game's producer, against Oregon's offense, Snoop went into a 21-0 hole in the first quarter and that took the smile off his face, I suppose.
Why was Snoop Dogg at E3? Aside from living in L.A., he was there to appear in a Yoostar promotion.
The interior of EA Sports' booth was decorated with the box-art shots of their current cover athletes: Alabama's Mark Ingram, Tiger Woods, Cleveland's Peyton Hillis ... and the Cincinnati Reds' Joey Votto? The hell?
I briefly, irrationally considered this was a secret message that MVP Baseball, dormant (as an MLB license anyway) since 2005, was coming back. Chatting up some developers, I was reminded of EA's latest MLB-licensed Facebook game, World Series Superstars, which is what Votto was representing up on the wall.
As for the future, 2K Sports' exclusive deal with Major League Baseball will expire after next year's game. Word has it that MLB's starting figure is way too high for EA, and that it will seek a deal of similar structure to the one it inked six years ago, including an exclusive third-party development license. (The Show is around because a console-maker, Sony, develops it.)
If so, that sounds completely out-of-touch. Baseball landed an exclusive pact for many reasons, but a big one was 2K's desire for revenge. When EA Sports' agreement with the NFL took the beloved NFL 2K series out of commission, 2K struck back at MVP; most observers believe 2K overpaid and at any rate, their core baseball titles have consistently underdelivered. 2K is widely expected to walk away from the license, if statements like these are any indication.
EA Sports may be the only label with any experience willing to listen to MLB, which will understand exactly how much leverage it has once 2K says adios. So I wouldn't write off a return of MVP Baseball simply because the price isn't right, right now.
Stick Jockey is Kotaku's column on sports video games. It appears Saturdays.


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My Friends Activity
How can we get My friends activity list in the home theme, for example add it to the index page, I tired to play with the function bp_activity_get_list but I'm getting empty list, any advice please? And thanks
Burt AdsitParticipant
Exactly how are you playing with bp_activity_get_list()? It requires a valid user id (you). Do you have any friends? Have they done anything? One of the params is a custom message for 'no activity by my slothful friends' result.
for example if I want to get my activity I'm using:
<?php bp_activity_get_list( bp_current_user_id(), bp_word_or_name( __( "My Activity", 'buddypress' ), __( "%s's Activity", 'buddypress' ), true, false ), __( "You haven't done anything yet.", 'buddypress' ) ) ?>
this function works with member theme only, when I try to add the same function to the home theme (i.e: index) it wont work, it gives me the above custom message (You haven't done …..)!! thanks for your cooperation!
any update please?!
Guys – can someone help with bp_activity_get_list function?!
Trent AdamsParticipant
Haven't look at the exact calls, but have you looked at the code in the sitewide activity widget and what global functions it is calling and how exactly the lists are produced?
I've checked it, but the sidewide activity widget is querying different table, and the function "bp_activity_get_list" is not used! and thanks
This is exactly what I want to. It would be great, because people want to see their friends… (like facebook).
I came as far as sdq80, but then I am lost… Any idea?
Ps: Yes, I have friends, and they did stuff…
Ps2: You can take a look here: http://berra.graphic-studio.ch
Does anybody have a solution?
I find a solution, actuality I've added more privacy to members:
– No one can view any details about other members (Activity, Wire, Profile, Friends list) unless they are friends,
– Also at BP front page I replaced the sidewide activity widget with Friends activities, once members login to bp it shows them their friends activities, check it out on my test environment: http://wpmu.telecomize.com/
But the problem, all what I've done is playing with the code, so whenever I update my BP I have to go over the same changes. Also its not optional feature which members cant set it by themselves, its applied for all members.
WOW, sdq80 – it sounds that I would like that. Can you tell me, what you did? Give me the code or something?
Question: It's hard to check it out, because I'm not a momber and don't see anything… . Does it have to be like that on the BP Frontpage?
->Mainly I'm interested in having the friends-activity on the Frontpage-Code…
Thanks already!
Trent AdamsParticipant
@sdq80 I would be interested in your hacks as well. There might be a way to put it in as a plugin if you share your code.
I am still looking deperatly for a solution…
@sdq80 – are you lost? Would be great, if you would share your code?
Or: Anybody else having a solution to put the friends-activity per example in the home-theme???
Here you go guys, its a workaround solution, it might impact the activity plugin, however what you need to do is to edit bp_activity_template in the activity templatetags, remove the code $bp != $bp || from the if statement or add your home page component, then you will be able to use the function bp_activity_get_list in the home page, let me know about the result
You are my HERO!!! It works just great for me!!! Thanks alot!
You are very welcome!
@Trent regarding members' privacy, you can use the following function to get the friendship status and then you can play with it accordingly to hide the profile info from non-friends members:
$friend_status = BP_Friends_Friendship::check_is_friend( $bp, $bp )
Sorry, I found, that it doesn't work, how it should. I am not really a programmer, so you might help. I just deleted the piece of code you mentioned. The problem is, that now in every activity-stream in my friends profile not their activity is shown, but the activity of all my friends (everywhere the same…). Did I do something wrong or is there a fix for that?
Thanks again!
Try to add the home page component to the if statement.
Hmmmm – sounds good. Can you give me a piece of example code (as I said, I am not a programmer and don't know, what it means… – sorry). How would that look like and is it instead of the original code (which I just deleted by now…)?
Thanks alot for your efforts,
Please !
Greez, Michael
This is very interesting. I'd love to see a nice write up on it too.
@Michael, it depends on the page that you are using! for me I've added the profile component, but I'm not sure if this is going to work with you.
I'm not sure, maybe for me it's a language-problem (which "Page"?, profile component???). Can you give me the example, what code you put there instead of the original. Then I will just hope, that I can adapt it… (otherwise I will ask no more )
Thanks alot!
why couldn't you just do this: (of course add style
's etc… just hacking this out quickly)
<?php if ( bp_has_friendships() ) : ?>
<?php while ( bp_user_friendships() ) : bp_the_friendship(); ?>
<?php bp_friend_avatar_thumb() ?>

<?php bp_friend_link() ?>

<?php bp_friend_last_content_update() ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else: ?>

<?php bp_word_or_name( __( "You have no friends", 'buddypress' ), __( "%s's friends list is currently empty", 'buddypress' ) ) ?>

<?php if ( bp_is_home() ) : ?>

<?php _e( 'Why not make friends with some of these members?', 'buddypress') ?>

<?php bp_friends_random_members() ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif;?>
perhaps I posted wrong the line:
<?php bp_friend_last_content_update() ?>
doesn't do much, you'll need to decide what material you want to display there.. I assume this is going to be the "home" theme of the wordpress mu right?
- <?php bp_friend_avatar_thumb() ?>
- The topic 'My Friends Activity' is closed to new replies.

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Imphal: Manipur's new Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, heading the state's first Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, on Monday won the floor test in the assembly by voice vote.
BJP's Y. Khemchand was earlier elected the Speaker.
In the 60-member house, the BJP won 21 seats and the Congress 28.
But the BJP joined hands with the Naga People's Front (NPF) and National People's Party (NPP), which have four legislators each, as well as an independent and a member each from the LJP and Trinamool Congress.
Also, Congress MLA T. Shyamkumar defected to become a cabinet minister.
Speaker Khemchand too was elected by voice vote, defeating Govindas Konthujam of the Congress.
Congress leader and former Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh conceded defeat but insisted that his party should have been called first to form the government as it was the single large group in the house.
BJP sources said the portfolios would be allocated to the ministers soon.
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Happy Holidays! I'm thrilled to announce the release of Inn for the Holidays, a Pleasure Inn Series short, featuring Logan and Elyse from Master of the Inn.
Innkeepers Logan and Elyse Cole have been making people's fantasies a reality for the past six months at their popular bed and breakfast. While running Pleasure Inn has been a rewarding experience for the happy couple, it also requires long hours and busy weekends. Catering to their guests' whims and fantasies doesn't leave much free time for the Coles. They need a few days to reconnect and indulge in their own fantasies.
Logan makes that happen with a surprise gift to his wife. He reserves the inn for just the two of them several days before Christmas. Two nights of uninterrupted romance is exactly what this couple needs. Logan reminds Elyse what drew her to him in the first place. He vows to make good on his promise to always make all of her fantasies a reality.
She wants nothing more than for the Master of the Inn to make an appearance this holiday season.
A Pleasure Inn series short, featuring Logan and Elyse from Master of the Inn. All books in this series can stand alone and/or can be read in any order.
Content Warning – Graphic sex and explicit language.
Available now on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Logan took her chin between his fingers and shot her his signature intense glare. The very stare that had her obeying his every command between the sheets. Logan was Dominant to the core. It was his Dominance that drew her to him in the first place. When he offered her the opportunity to relinquish control and let go intimately, all of her desires had been fulfilled. He had awakened a sexual awareness in Elyse that brought her the most pleasure she had ever experienced.
"Trust me," he whispered never taking his gaze away from hers.
"I do."
"Good girl." He brushed his lips against hers. "You've been extremely busy. You're working so hard to get this place perfect. They only reason we are as successful as we are is because of your attention to detail and the satisfaction you bring our guests."
"We did this together."
Logan had transformed the old place into its former glory and then some. He worked non-stop tending to the grounds. He made sure everything inside was in perfect working condition. Not a door squeaked or a loose floorboard could be found. There were several rooms that he had yet to tackle but they were in his plans for the new year. The upcoming year was going to be big for them. They were even starting to get repeat customers. With the new rooms underway, they'd be able to take on more than two couples at a time on any given weekend.
"I know but with Christmas just around the corner, you've had extra things to do. You worry about getting us through the holidays and I'll take care of everything else."
"How did I get so lucky to find you?"
"You stumbled onto my porch one night and I felt compelled to take you in."
"You insisted, if I remember correctly."
"What can I say? I have good taste." He ran his tongue along her lips. "Kiss me."
She threw her arms around his neck and parted her mouth allowing him access. He held her tight against his masculine form, exploring her long and hard. When he finally stopped kissing her, the room spun and she had to catch her breath.
"Feel better?" he asked, already knowing the answer.
"I'm always calmer when you're around."
"I'm going to get that bath ready." When he took a step back, she could see the excitement bulging against his jeans. "You have five minutes."
"Or what?"
"It's been a while since I've taken you over my knee."
"Too long. I might have to be a few minutes late." She teased.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He shook his head as he allowed his gaze to take in her body. "I don't want to waste any time tonight with frivolous punishments."
But I love those provoked punishments. "I have a fantasy that needs fulfilling." She hoped he got the hint. "We are, after all, in the business of making that happen."
"Indeed." He pulled his shirt over his head, revealing his defined six-pack abs to her.
She reached out, running her hand down his chest and over his rock hard stomach. He sucked in a breath when she unbuckled his belt.
"What would you wish for if you were a guest this weekend?" He watched as she toyed with his belt.
"If I were staying here, looking to reconnect and spend some quiet time with my husband, I would request that the Master of the Inn make an appearance."
"Really?" He arched a brow as she unbuttoned his jeans. "I think that could be arranged in the very near future."
The timer on the oven buzzed, interrupting their conversation. It figures! "I have to get that." She walked over to the oven not wanting her cookies to burn. "I'll be up in a few minutes to finish what you started, Mr. Cole."
"Five." He swatted her backside. "I'm not in a patient mood, Mrs. Cole."
The Pleasure Inn series launched with Master of the Inn, book one in a multi-book series that centers on Pleasure Inn and the couples who spend a weekend indulging in their fantasies. The first book introduces the reader to Logan and Elyse and they learn how the inn came to be.
Meet the first guests to stay at Pleasure Inn…
Indulging the Professor, A Pleasure Inn Steamy short
About the Author
Ella resides in New Jersey with her husband and two young boys. When she's not chasing after her kids, she's busy writing, attending PTO meetings, kickboxing, and scrapbooking.
She hopes you'll get lost in her words.
She loves connecting with readers. You can find her here…
I'm giving away 5 eBook copies of Master of the Inn, the book that launched the series, throughout the tour. Enter here…


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The CCBER zoological collections include both vertebrate and invertebrate specimens. The vertebrate collection contains over 32,000 herpetology, ornithology, mammalogy, and ichthyology specimens from around the world, with special emphasis on the vertebrates of the central and southern coast of California. The invertebrate collection contains over 15,000 arthropods collected primarily in California.
All collections are housed in the CCBER building except the ichthyology collection, which is stored in the Biological Sciences Instructional Facility (BSIF) building at the UCSB campus.
Global Access To CCBER Herpetology, Ornithology and Mammalogy Collections
Over the last few years, there has been momentum growing in the natural history collections community to digitize collections from museums and related institutions all over the world. In the case of natural history collections, digitizing entails transferring data recorded on catalog cards and in field notebooks into digital collections. Sometimes, specimens are scanned or photographed as well, to provide additional visual information and reduce handling of specimens.
Thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) CCBER has completed the digitization, cataloging, documentation and curation of the CCBER herpetology, ornithology and mammalogy collections.
Digitization of these collections will increase data accessibility and facilitate the tracking of specimen loans, collection inventory and organization, and updates in nomenclature and taxonomy. During our digitization project, the information for CCBER's ~18,500 amphibians and reptiles, ~3,500 mammals, and ~9,400 birds was added to the Specify database application, our collections management software, thus facilitating access to specimen data here at CCBER.
Once in Specify, collections data can be exported to other data portals. The vertebrate specimen data have been uploaded to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)


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November, 2013
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May, 2013
CMAC launches their new iPhone and Android App developed by Layer 8.
April, 2013
Layer 8 launches
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new web site.
February, 2013
Layer 8 announces partnership with Managed Services Team.
Layer 8 has launched a VMWare virtual server environment in our enterprise datacenter. Ask us how VMWare can help you.
Tired of managing Antivirus license and update renewals? Switch to Layer 8's NOD32 monthly Antivirus Subscription and get one of the industry's most advanced antivirus and antispyware technologies. With ESET NOD32 Antivirus enjoy fast, light and proactive protection against viruses, trojans, worms, hackers and other cyber threats. And since its in the Layer8 Cloud, let us manage, maintain and support it. Call us for a free evaluation.
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to enforce your company's Internet usage policies through content filtering, application blocking and "best-of-breed" spyware protection. The Barracuda Web Filter also integrates the Barracuda Spyware Removal Tool that automatically removes spyware from infected Windows PC's.
The Barracuda Web Filter is one content filtering solution that organizations of all sizes cannot afford to overlook.
The Layer 8 Group is now actively selling the Switchvox IP PBX product line to its customer base and has become a Registered Reseller. Switchvox SMB is available in three sizes and can be peered together to easily link your office locations, so you're sure to find a solution that fits your needs.
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ANALYSIS:Intelligence File Privacy's Long Shadow
Intelligence agencies face a skeptical public as they carry out a vital mission.
Intelligence agencies face a skeptical public as they carry out a vital mission.
On Oct. 23, 2009, Glenn Gaffney, the senior U.S. official responsible for collecting intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, joined Utah Gov. Gary Herbert at a news conference in Salt Lake City. Together, they announced the construction of a new intelligence data center at Camp Williams, a National Guard site south of the capital.
The center has an important mission-providing foreign intelligence about cyber threats, as well as support to military networks and the Homeland Security Department, which is in charge of securing civilian agencies' networks. The National Security Agency will be the executive agent for the new site, which Herbert called a "godsend" in troubled economic times. Construction is estimated to cost $1.5 billion, and the center could employ up to 5,000 people throughout the state. "This is a win-win. This is good for the federal government; this is really good for Utah," he said.
But some Utah citizens aren't convinced. They recall that not so long ago, NSA was secretly sucking up the phone calls and e-mails of people in the United States who were believed to be in contact with terrorist suspects abroad. Now the agency plans to use the same kinds of surveillance tools to patrol the Internet for hackers and foreign cyber warriors.
"In a quest for safety from potential unemployment and economic hardship, principles (and liberty) are thrown to the wind," Connor Boyack, a Web developer and blogger in Lehi, Utah, wrote in an op-ed for the Salt Lake Tribune. Boyack tossed NSA in with some ugly company. "Would Utahns praise an industrial meth lab, prostitution ring or child labor camp simply because they created jobs? Surely not."
Comments on his blog reflected a broad mistrust of the intelligence community. "Our government must end the Bush administration's de facto suspension of the Constitution," wrote one commenter, echoing the fact that the Obama administration has embraced its predecessor's surveillance policies. Boyack noted, "The existence of such facilities infringes (potentially and realistically) on the civil rights of all Americans. So while I don't want it in my backyard, I likewise don't want it anywhere."
To be sure, Boyack's vehement opposition probably attracted similarly outraged citizens to post comments. And there were some supportive remarks on the blog and on the newspaper's Web site. But the theme of the opposition remained consistent, and pointed up a fundamental dilemma NSA and all agencies with a role in the crucial mission of cybersecurity face.
Technology has given the government extraordinary power to collect information, analyze it and share it. But the law governs mostly the acquisition of personal data, not what agencies actually do with it. This is why some Utah residents, and many Americans, are so concerned. They know that somehow the government can grab their e-mails and phone calls. What they don't really know is what agencies do with that information in those big data centers.
The answer isn't encouraging. While government has spent billions of dollars on systems to process vast amounts of data, agencies like NSA are not very good at anticipating threats and protecting Americans' privacy. That is no easy task. But the government hasn't made a strong and concerted effort to accomplish it. Until NSA and all intelligence agencies demonstrate they are committed to balancing the equation, and with more than just public reassurances, the long shadow of privacy will hang over everything they do.
Shane Harris' first book, The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, will be published in February by The Penguin Press. He is a correspondent for National Journal.
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Perseverance Is Key
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
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Linux 2.6.22 Released, 8 July 2007 (full SCM git log)
- Short overview (for news sites, etc)
- Important things (AKA: ''the cool stuff'')
- Various core changes
- Architecture-specific changes
- Various subsystems
- Drivers
- Crashing soon a kernel near you
Short overview (for news sites, etc)
2.6.22 includes an optional, more SMP-friendly SLUB allocator (http://lwn.net/Articles/229984), new and much better wireless and firewire stacks, a new architecture called Blackfin, a LVM-for-flash-storage-devices called UBI, event notifications through file descriptors (http://lwn.net/Articles/225714), the POSIX-draft utimensat() syscall, the 'TCP Illinois' and 'YeAH-TCP' congestion control algorithms, IPV6 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection, AF_RXRPC socket support, relocatable x86-64 kernel support, improvements to the CFQ I/O scheduler, more process footprint information in /proc, various new drivers and many other improvements.
Important things (AKA: ''the cool stuff'')
New Slab allocator: SLUB
(Recommended article: "The SLUB allocator")
The slab allocator is a object-caching kernel memory allocator used for dealing with "objects that are frequently allocated and freed" (see the "slab allocator" paper from Jeff Bonwick). It is a critical piece of the innards of the memory management subsystem, and a critical piece to get good performance. The Linux slab allocator works quite well for pretty much everybody; however some people (SGI) has found its current design inefficient in some cases. For example, in 1K nodes/processors configurations, several GB of memory are wasted only in object queues, not counting the objects themselves. The memory management quickly becomes too complex when adding features like proper NUMA policy support.
As result, a new slab allocator called "SLUB" has been developed by Christoph Lameter from SGI, to solve those and other problems. Its design is simpler, but it also addresses some problems that can result in better performance in some cases and more efficient memory usage (see the full design notes in this commit link). It also has better debug capabilities. There's a slabinfo userspace tool that you can find in Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c.
Its aim is to transparently replace slab, but in 2.6.22 this new slab allocator is optional and not enabled by default. You can enable it at compile time (making it the third option along with SLOB, the embedded-oriented slab allocator). SLUB has been tested for some time and it's solid enough to try it on your systems, but due to the importance of this part of the kernel, it won't completely replace the current slab allocator until more exposure and testing has been done, hence it's not recommended to use it in production systems. Testing reports, specially regressions, are greatly appreciated.
User documentation can be found here
Code: mm/slub.c;
New Wireless stack
For too many years, Linux wireless support has worked, but not very well. 2.6.22 has a completely new, better wireless stack included. This new wireless stack has been donated by the known WiFi specialist company Devicescape (many thanks to Devicescape for their contribution and support to open source!). This wireless stack has many features, like a complete software MAC implementation, WEP, WPA, a "link-layer" bridging module, hostapd, QoS support to prioritize things like VoIP, 802.11g support, and full debug capabilities. All of this comes in a single implementation that drivers can use without rewriting those features themselves, which sadly has been done multiple times in the linux WiFi world.
Another feature of this stack is a completely new user interface. The old stacks have an ugly ioctl-based interface which were standardized under the name of "wireless extensions" (wext). The new interface uses a netlink-based interface, suited for the needs of desktop-based configuration interfaces, but retaining at the same time userspace compatibility with the old interface.
The disadvantage is the lack of drivers using this stack: the drivers that have been in the tree for a long time do not support this stack, and will need to be ported (which will hopefully not be that hard, since the new stack is actually a much better ground to build drivers upon that the current mess). There are quite a lot of new and ported drivers that are already using the new stack which have not been merged in this release, but will get merged in future releases, like the RT2x00 drivers, the bcm43xx driver, zd1211rw, adm8211, rtl818x, Intel iwlwifi (ipw3945 and ipw4965). Distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora already are using them.
In any case, this is the building block that will bring better wireless support to Linux.
Code: (commit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
New FireWire stack
The FireWire stack is also getting a rewrite, with the old stack being kept around for the time being. The main driver behind this work, according the author, is "to get a small, maintainable and supportable FireWire stack, with an acceptable backwards compatibility story".
This stack has many advantages: Considerably leaner codebase (less than 8k lines of code compared to 30k lines of code in the old stack, and a similar size reduction in the sizes of the binary files), cleaned-up and improved in-stack APIs (with the side effect of getting rid of a bunch of old bugs) and design (no kernel threads, compared to one subsystem thread and one thread per FireWire controller in the old stack), consolidation of the currently four userspace ABIs into one improved ABI, the userspace ABI is changed, but compatibility is kept stable at library level (libraw1394 and libdc1394), and per-device device files, letting userspace set up finer-grained access control, such as preventing direct access to FireWire storage devices.
Still missing features relative to the old stack are: eth1394 (IP over 1394) not ported over, and no support for the PCILynx chipset (less important because that chip is very rare), isochronous support at the moment only for OHCI-1.1 chips, not on OHCI-1.0 chips. Plus the disadvantage of any new piece of code: despite being tested in Fedora rawhide etc, it can contain many bugs.
Linux1394.org's Release Notes: posting, wiki
Signal/timer events notifications through file descriptors
(Recommended article: "Kernel events without kevents")
Linux currently lacks a proper way to get complete event reporting like other systems do. poll/epoll isn't a solution for everything, because it only works in file descriptors so things like timer and signal notifications aren't covered by it, so to get fe. signal notifications in the main event loop people has needed to use (clever) hacks, like writing a byte between two internal pipes.
After considering the inclusion of an implementation of a FreeBSD/OSX-like generic event notification mechanism, a simpler, more Unixy solution (inspired by Linus some years ago) has been adopted.
Three new syscalls have been added: signalfd()/timerfd()/eventfd(). What those syscalls do is to implement event delivery into file descriptors. You can use the standard read(), select(), poll(), epoll() on those fds. They've the following differences
- The signalfd() system call implements signal delivery into a file descriptor. That fd supports the standard calls poll(), read(), select(), epoll() etc. This allows a program to receive signals via that file descriptor, which are more flexible.
- The timerfd() system call implements timers event delivery into file descriptors. As with signalfd(), you can use standard calls poll(), epoll(), select(), read()...
- The eventfd() system call is a very simple and light file descriptor that can be used as event wait/dispatch by userspace (both wait and dispatch) and by the kernel (dispatch only). It can be used instead of pipe(2) in all cases where those would simply be used to signal events. As the two previous syscalls, you can use the standard calls with the returned fd.
Code: Anonymous inode source (commit), (commit) ; signalfd: (commit), (commit), (commit); timerfd: (commit), (commit), (commit); eventfd: (commit), (commit), (commit)
Blackfin architecture
2.6.22 adds support for yet another architecture: The Analog Devices Blackfin processor architecture, and currently supports the BF533, BF532, BF531, BF537, BF536, BF534, and BF561 (Dual Core) devices, with a variety of development platforms including those available from Analog Devices (BF533-EZKit, BF533-STAMP, BF537-STAMP, BF561-EZKIT) and Bluetechnix! Tinyboards.
The Blackfin architecture was jointly developed by Intel and Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) as the Micro Signal Architecture (MSA) core and introduced it in December of 2000. Since then ADI has put this core into its Blackfin processor family of devices. The Blackfin core has the advantages of a clean, orthogonal, RISC-like microprocessor instruction set. It combines a dual-MAC (Multiply/Accumulate), state-of-the-art signal processing engine and single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) multimedia capabilities into a single instruction set architecture.
The Blackfin architecture, including the instruction set, is described by the ADSP-BF53x/BF56x Blackfin Processor Programming Reference. The Blackfin processor is already supported by major releases of gcc, and there are binary and source rpms/tarballs available for many architectures. There is complete documentation, including "getting started" guides, which provides links to the sources and patches you will need in order to set up a cross-compiling environment for bfin-linux-uclib. All the code is actively supported by Analog Devices Inc, at: http://blackfin.uclinux.org
Code: (commit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
The shortest description for UBI is "LVM for NAND flash memory devices". Why duplicate LVM? Well, because flash devices can't really be handled as typical hard disks. UBI provides wear-levelling support across the whole flash chip. UBI completely hides 2 aspects of flash chips which make them very difficult to work with: 1. wear of eraseblocks; 2. bad eraseblocks. UBI also makes it possible to dynamically create, delete and re-size flash partitions (UBI volumes).
Home page: http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html
Secure RxRPC sockets
The RxRPC protocol driver included in 2.6.22 provides a reliable two-phase transport on top of UDP that can be used to perform RxRPC remote operations. This is done over sockets of AF_RXRPC family, using sendmsg() and recvmsg() with control data to send and receive data, aborts and errors. The AFS filesystem has been ported to use AF_RXRPC instead of the old RxRPC code.
Process footprint measurement facility
2.6.22 adds a "Referenced" line to each VMA in /proc/pid/smaps, which indicates how many pages within it are currently marked as referenced or accessed. There's also a new /proc/pid/clear_refs file. When any non-zero number is written to this clear_refs file, the Reference fiel is cleared-
With those mechanism it is now possible to measure approximately how much memory a task is using by clearing the reference bits with "echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs" and checking the reference count for each VMA from the /proc/pid/smaps output at a measured time interval (fe. 1 second). This is a valuable tool to get an approximate measurement of the memory footprint for a task.
The next revision of POSIX will support fine-grained filesystem timestamps. struct stat will report nanosecond values. During the development one additional problem was found: there is no interface to set the file timestamp with that precision. utimes only takes a timeval structure which allows only micro-second resolution. This is why the utimensat() interface was created. It is basically the same as futimesat() interface but it takes a timespec structure.
Code: (commit)
New drivers
Add ivtv driver for Conexant cx23416/cx23415 MPEG encoder/decoder. It took three core maintainers, over four years of work, eight new i2c modules, eleven new V4L2 ioctls, three new DVB video ioctls, a Sliced VBI API, a new MPEG encoder API, an enhanced DVB video MPEG decoding API, major YUV/OSD contributions from Ian and John, web/wiki/svn/trac support from Axel Thimm, (hardware) support from Hauppauge, support and assistance from the v4l-dvb people and the many, many users of ivtv to finally make it possible to merge this driver into the kernel (commit)
Add driver for the Maxim DS1WM, a 1-wire bus master ASIC core (commit)
Add au1550 SPI controller driver (commit)
Add sensable phantom driver (commit)
Add RTC class driver for the Maxim MAX6900 (commit) and for the rtc-rs5c313 driver (commit)
Add MPC52xx PSC SPI master driver (commit)
Add serial drive for RM9000 (commit) and for PMC MSP71xx (commit)
Add user mode SPI device driver (commit)
- Graphics
pm3fb: Preliminary 2.4 to 2.6 port (commit)
New framebuffer driver (vt8623fb) for VIA VT8623 (commit)
Hecuba framebuffer driver (commit)
arkfb: new framebuffer driver for ARK Logic cards (commit)
atmel_lcdfb: AT91/AT32 LCD Controller framebuffer driver (commit)
Add Sun XVR-500 framebuffer driver. (commit) and Sun XVR-2500 framebuffer driver. (commit)
- Hwmon:
New Apple SMC driver (hardware monitoring and control) which provides support for the Apple System Management Controller, which provides an accelerometer (Apple Sudden Motion Sensor), light sensors, temperature sensors, keyboard backlight control and fan control. Only Intel-based Apple's computers are supported (MacBook Pro, MacBook, MacMini) (commit)
New coretemp driver for the digital temperature sensor found in recent Intel Core CPUs (commit)
New max6650 driver for the Maxim MAX6650 and MAX6651 fan speed monitoring and control chips (commit)
hwmon-vid: Add support for VIA Esther (commit)
New driver for the Analog Devices AD7416, AD7417 and AD7418 chips (commit)
Add keyboard blink driver (commit)
MTX-1 Watchdog driver (commit)
- Network:
Add a driver Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand adapters (commit)
Add Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (commit)
Add zr364xx V4L2 driver for USB webcams based on the zr364xx chipsets (commit)
- pasemi
Various core changes
Futex priority based wakeup. Today, all threads waiting for a given futex are woken in FIFO order (first waiter woken first) instead of priority order. This changes makes use of plist (priority ordered lists) instead (commit)
PRIVATE futexes (commit)
Replace pgd management via slabs through 'quicklists'. Quicklists cut allocation overhead for page table pages down to a fraction in platforms like x86_64 (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit)
Change default dirty-writeback limits. This means the kernel will write "dirty" caches differently. If you notice your system behaves poorly, please report it, but before that change the limits (via /proc/sys/vm) to check if this change is the cause. dirty_background_ratio defaulted to 10, now defaults to 5. vm_dirty_ratio defaulted to 40, now it's 10 (commit)
Many improvements to the CFQ I/O scheduler: Implement logic for detecting cooperating processes (commit), (commit). Rework the queue handling, inspired from Ingo's CFS process scheduler: currently CFQ uses a doubly linked list per priority level for sorting and service uses, those lists are killed and now an rbtree of cfq_queue's is maintained, sorted by when to service them (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit)
Make multithreaded probing work per subsystem instead of per driver (commit), (commit)
Notify userspace of network device renames (commit)
Overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents (commit)
Add support for the Motorola sysv68 disk partition (slices in motorola doc) (commit)
Add support for finding out the current file position, open flags and possibly other info in the future. These new entries are added: /proc/PID/fdinfo/FD/* and /proc/PID/task/TID/fdinfo/FD/* (commit)
Add support for deferrable timers (commit) and
Make vm statistics update interval configurable (commit)
Add a new deferrable delayed work init (commit)
Remove artificial maximum 256 loop device that can be created due to a legacy device number limit (commit)
Kprobes: provides a debugfs knob to turn kprobes on/off (commit)
CRC ITU-T V.41 (commit)
vt: allow for the palette to be exposed and changed via sysfs (commit), add color support to the "underline" and "italic" attributes as in OpenBSD/NetBSD-style (vt220) and xterm (commit)
Architecture-specific changes
- x86-32
Add an option for the VIA C7 which sets appropriate L1 cache (commit)
Make COMPAT_VDSO runtime selectable. (commit)
Support Oprofile for AMD Family 10 CPUs (commit)
Allow boot parameter "noreplace-smp" for disable of SMP altinstructions (commit)
Implement alternative_io for i386 (commit)
x86: add command line length to boot protocol (commit)
Voyager: add SMP alternatives (commit)
- x86-64
Powermac: Support G5 CPU hotplug (commit), suspend to disk on G5 (commit)
Introduce address space "slices" (commit)
Spufs support for 64K LS mappings on 4K kernels (commit)
PowerPC MSI infrastructure (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit)
Early serial debug support for PPC44x (commit)
Handle recursive oopses (commit)
64K page support for kexec (commit)
Use generic apm-emulation (commit)
EDAC ECC software scrubber (commit)
Add powerpc PCI-E reset support (commit)
Create Marvell mv64x60 MPSC (serial) platform_data (commit), create Marvell mv64x60 ethernet platform_data (commit), add interrupt support for Marvell mv64x60 chips (commit), add Marvell mv64x60 PCI bridge support (commit), create Marvell mv64x60 I2C platform_data (commit)
Add arch/powerpc support for the Motorola PrPMC2800 (commit), (commit), (commit)
Support for the Ebony 440GP reference board in arch/powerpc (commit), (commit)
Add bootwrapper support for Marvell/mv64x60 I2C (commit), (commit), Holly bootwrapper (commit), add bootwrapper support for Marvell/mv64x60 hostbridge (commit)
Add uartlite boot console driver for the zImage wrapper (commit)
Remove the unused HTDMSOUND driver (commit)
ibmebus: dynamic addition/removal of adapters (commit)
86xx: Added 2nd PCI-Ex controller support for MPC8641 HPCN to DTS (commit),
83xx: Add MPC832x RDB board support. (commit)
85xx: Add initial MPC8544 DS platform files. (commit)
Add arch/powerpc driver for UIC, PPC4xx interrupt controller (commit)
PS3: Add DABR support (commit), CBE thermal support on (commit)
Add ARM V7 support (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit)
Add support for Atmel AT91SAM9RL processors. (commit), (commit)
Support for Micrel/Kendin KS8695 processor (commit)
Add Intel KIXRP435 Reference Platform based on IXP43x processor (commit)
Support for dynticks and hence the new clocksource/event infrastructure (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit)
Add stacktrace support and make oprofile use it (commit)
Add ability to dump exception stacks to kernel backtraces (commit)
Add GPIO debug support. /sys/kernel/debug/omap_gpio dumps the state of all GPIOs that have been claimed, including basic IRQ info if relevant (commit)
Add new boards: picotux 200 ARM (commit), KS8695 Micrel Development board (commit), (commit); mach type cc9p9360js (commit), DSM-G600 (commit)
iop13xx: msi support (commit)
H1940: Add bluetooth support (commit)
Add support for ICSIDE interface on RiscPC (commit)
AT91: Support ADS7846 touchsceen on boards SAM9263-EK (commit) and SAM9261-EK (commit);
Clockevent/clocksource/hrtimers/nohz TMU (SH-3 and SH-4) support. (commit)
Kdump support. (commit)
Bring kgdb back from the dead. (commit)
Generic BUG() support. (commit)
Support for: solution engine boards 7722 (commit) and SH7780 (commit), (commit); MS7712SE01 board (commit), SH7785 Highlander board (R7785RP). (commit), L-BOX RE2 (commit), se7780 PCI (commit). SH7722 clock framework support. (commit)
Improved oops output. (commit)
Improved kernel stack overflow checking. (commit)
Generic BUG(). (commit)
Add hardware capability support (ELF_HWCAP). (commit)
Processor degradation notification through uevents. This can happen e.g. because the cpus are overheating. The cpu capability can be read via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/capability (commit)
zfcpdump support. (commit)
IA64: Add the Itanium Machine Check (MC) Error Injection Tool . The IPF Machine Check (MC) error inject tool is used to inject MC errors from Linux and is a test bed for IPF MC work flow including hardware correctable error handling, OS recoverable error handling, MC event logging, etc. Documentation here. Code: Commit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
SuperH: smc91x support (commit)
Various subsystems
Implement basic file write support, including write, truncate, fsync, fdatasync, chmod, chown, chgrp, utime. Shared-writable mappings are not supported right now (commit)
Clean up the AFS sources (commit)
Handle multiple mounts of an AFS superblock correctly. (commit)
Add "directory write" support. Add support for the create, link, symlink, unlink, mkdir, rmdir and rename VFS operations to the in-kernel AFS filesystem (commit)
Add support for the CB.GetCapabilities operation. (commit)
Implement the CB.InitCallBackState3 operation. (commit)
implement statfs (commit)
Add security support. Kerberos IV tickets are added as RxRPC keys are added to the session keyring with the klog program. open() and other VFS operations then find this ticket with request_key() and either use it immediately (eg: mkdir, unlink) or attach it to a file descriptor (open) (commit)
Update the AFS fs documentation. (commit)
NFS: Introduce rpcbind: replacement for in-kernel portmapper (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit)
JFFS2: Improve read_inode memory usage (commit)
UDF: Support files larger than 1G (commit)
FAT: It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's undocumented. Windows doesn't update ->free_clusters correctly. This patch doesn't use ->free_clusters by default. (instead, add "usefree" for forcing to use it) (commit)
TCP Illinois congestion control. This is an implementation of TCP Illinois invented by Shao Liu at University of Illinois. It is a another variant of Reno which adapts the alpha and beta parameters based on RTT. The basic idea is to increase window less rapidly as delay approaches the maximum. See the papers and talks to get a more complete description (commit), (commit)
YeAH-TCP congestion control algorithm implementation. YeAH-TCP is a sender-side high-speed enabled TCP congestion control algorithm, which uses a mixed loss/delay approach to compute the congestion window. It's design goals target high efficiency, internal, RTT and Reno fairness, resilience to link loss while keeping network elements load as low as possible. For further details look here: http://wil.cs.caltech.edu/pfldnet2007/paper/YeAH_TCP.pdf (commit)
TCP cubic update for 2.6.22. The new version improves on its scalability, fairness and stability. So in all properties, we confirmed it shows better performance (commit)
Add RFC3742 Limited Slow-Start, controlled by variable sysctl_tcp_max_ssthresh (commit)
Add support to IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel (commit)
Replace compile-time debug option CONFIG_NET_DEBUG with a runtime switchable sysctl, /proc/sys/net/core/warnings (commit)
Implement the SACK-enhanced FRTO given in RFC4138 using the variant given in Appendix B (commit), (commit)
Add two new spurious RTO responses to FRTO, sysctl tcp_frto_response is added to select amongst these responses (commit)
SNMP: Support InTruncatedPkts (commit), OutMcastPkts and OutBcastPkts (commit), add definitions for {In,Out}BcastPkts, specified in the updated IP-MIB RFC (RFC4293) (commit), support InNoRoutes (commit), support InMcastPkts and InBcastPkts (commit)
CCID3: Handle Idle and Application-Limited periods as specified in [RFC 4342, 5.1] (commit)
Use ktime as clocksource, which provides nanosecond timestamping support (commit), introduce SIOCGSTAMPNS ioctl to get timestamps with nanosec resolution (commit), add SO_TIMESTAMPNS / SCM_TIMESTAMPNS socket option (commit), export real timer resolution in /proc/net/psched (commit)
SCTP: Implement SCTP_PARTIAL_DELIVERY_POINT socket option (commit), implement SCTP_MAX_BURST socket option (commit), implement SCTP_ADDR_CONFIRMED state for ADDR_CHNAGE event (commit), implement sac_info field in SCTP_ASSOC_CHANGE notification (commit), implement SCTP_FRAGMENT_INTERLEAVE socket option, introduced in draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-13, (commit), honor flags when setting peer address parameters (commit)
IPV6: Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429) Support. (commit)
ebt_arp: add gratuitous arp filtering, it allows checking that the IPv4 source address matches the IPv4 destination address inside the ARP header (commit)
bridge-nf: filter bridged IPv4/IPv6 encapsulated in pppoe traffic (commit)
rfkill: add support for input key to control wireless radio (commit)
New device-mapper target that can delay I/O (for testing). Reads can be separated from writes, redirected to different underlying devices and delayed by differing amounts of time (commit)
log: fault detection (commit)
Allow offline devices (commit)
Export initial SID contexts via selinuxfs (commit)
Extract the NetLabel SELinux support from the security server (commit)
Add SIGNAL syscall class (commit)
Audit signal recipients (commit)
Abnormal End of Processes (commit)
Audit inode for all xattr syscalls (commit)
Complete message queue auditing (commit)
* auditing ptrace (commit)
Add cryptd, a software async crypto daemon (commit)
Power Management
Network drivers
zd1211rw: Add ID for ZyXEL AG-220 (commit), add AL7230B RF support for ZD1211B (commit), add AL2230S RF support (commit), add another ID for Linksys WUSBF54G (commit), added new USB id for Planex GW-US54ZGL (commit), add ID for ZyXEL AG-225H v2 (commit), add ID for Sitecom WL-117 (commit), more device IDs (commit)
tc35815 driver rework. Current tc35815 driver is very obsolete and less maintained for a long time, and has been replaced it with a new driver based on one from CELF patch archive. The advantages of this version are: improved performance, NAPI, ethtool and netpoll support, power management support, 64-bit proof, TX4938 support, independence from JMR3927 (commit)
BNX2: Update 5708 firmware (commit), and 5709 firmware (commit), add ipv6 TSO and checksum for 5709 (commit), add support for 5709 Serdes. (commit)
Infiniband: Convert the IP-over-InfiniBand network device driver over to using NAPI (commit), add CQ comp_vector support (commit)
Netxen: Port swap feature for multi port cards (commit), multi PCI support for Quad cards (commit)
ucc_geth: migrate ucc_geth to phylib (commit), implement Transmit on Demand support (commit)
ehea: NAPI multi queue TX/RX path for SMP (commit), dynamic add / remove port (commit)
dmfe: add support for Wake on lan (commit), add support for suspend/resume (commit)
hostap_cs: support ADLINK 345 CF (commit), add D-Link DWL-650 Rev. P1 product id (commit)
qla3xxx: Adding support for the Agere PHY (ET1011C) (commit), add ethtool get_pauseparam for improved bonding support. (commit)
Add NAPI support to sb1250-mac.c (commit)
Support for Marvell 7042 Chip (commit)
ipw2200: add 'channels' sysfs entry (commit)
sgiseeq: Add support for Seeq 8003 on Challenge S Mezz board. (commit)
Netpoll support for Sibyte MAC (commit)
S2IO: getringparam ethtool option (commit)
Add support for the Davicom DM9161A PHY (commit)
atl1: add netconsole support (commit)
pasemi_mac: PHY support (commit)
AT91RM9200 Ethernet: Support additional PHYs (commit)
HPA support (commit)
pata_hpt3x2n: Add HPT371N support (commit)
pata_cmd640: CMD640 PCI support (commit)
sata_mv: clean up DMA boundary issues, turn on 64-bit DMA (commit)
pata_pcmcia: recognize 2GB CompactFlash from Transcend (commit)
Add the ATI SB700 SATA controller device id to AHCI pci table (commit)
Add MCP73/MCP77 support to AHCI driver (commit)
sd: implement START/STOP management (commit)
lpfc: Add support for async scanning (commit), added support for 8G speed and new HBAs (commit)
ipr: Enable multi-initator RAID support (commit)
Add SG_IO ioctl to cciss (commit)
qla2xxx: Add MSI support. (commit)
SUNESP: Complete driver rewrite to version 2.0, with tagged queuing support (commit)
Make /proc/ide/ optional (commit)
pdc202xx_new: enable DMA for all ATAPI devices (commit)
ide-cs: recognize 2GB CompactFlash from Transcend (commit)
cmd64x: fix multiword and remove single-word DMA support (commit)
sl82c105: DMA support code cleanup (commit), rework PIO support (commit)
Add the IDE device ID for ATI SB700 (commit)
Add the MCP73/77 support to PATA driver (commit)
fbdev: display class (commit)
pm2fb: 3dlabs Permedia 2V reference board support (commit)
fbdev: add support for AVR32 (commit), advertise limitations of drawing engine (commit), (commit)
Geforce 7300 gt fb support (commit)
radeonfb: Add support for Radeon xpress 200m (commit)
tgafb: TURBOchannel support (commit), acceleration code (commit)
pm2fb: accelerated fillrect and copyarea (commit)
intel_agp: Add support for 965GME/GLE (commit), 945GME (commit) and G3x (commit)
i915: Add new pciids for 945GME, 965GME/GLE (commit)
Add support SiS based XGI chips to SiS DRM (commit)
ice1724 - Functioning support for Prodigy 192 (commit)
ASoC Samsung S3c24xx build (commit)
hda-codec: Add support of 96kHz back (commit), add ALC662 support (commit), add ALC861VD Lenovo support (commit), add support for Gigabyte S-Series GA-M57SLI-S4 motherboard (commit), allow opening SPDIF while analog dup mode (commit), add support for Asus A8JN Laptop (commit), add support for new HP DV series laptops (commit), add ATI RS780,R600 HDMI audio support (commit), add support for MSI K9N Ultra (commit), add support for ASUS A8J modem (commit), add support for Gateway NX860 (commit)
hdspm: support for Master mode of AES32 and recent MADI (commit)
ASoC Samsung S3c24xx audio DMA (commit) and I2S support (commit)
ASoC WM8753 codec - build changes (commit)
ASoC AT91xxxx - SSC port DSP support (commit)
ASoC WM8753 codec support (commit)
ac97 - Smart 5.1 for VIA 1617a codec (commit)
usb-audio: another Logitech Quickcam ID (commit)
Add Native Instrument usb audio device support (commit)
The scheduled removal of OBSOLETE_OSS options (commit)
i8042: add Fujitsu touchscreen/touchpad PNP IDs (commit), add Panasonic CF-29 to nomux list (commit), add HP Pavilion DV4017EA to the MUX blacklist (commit)
psmouse: Add support for eGalax PS/2 touchscreen controller (commit), allow disabling certain protocol extensions (commit)
Lifebook - add signature of Panasonic CF-29 (commit), work properly on Panasonic CF-18 (commit)
Add driver for MIPS Cobalt back panel buttons (commit)
Wistron: Add support for Travelmate 610 (commit), add acerhk laptop database (commit)
Add logical channel support for ATI Remote Wonder II (commit)
Remove old USB touchscreen drivers: itmtoch, mtouchusb and touchkitusb. They have been replaced with composite usbtouchscreen driver some time ago and can be removed now (commit)
Driver support for NAND flash devices on CM-x270 modules (commit)
Support for generic platform NAND driver (commit)
Remove MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS (jedec, amd_flash, sharp) (commit)
MTD Driver for AT26Fxxx dataflash devices (commit)
NAND: Add Micron Manufacturer ID (commit)
Nandsim: Add partition capability (commit), allow arbitrary NAND size (commit), optionally report wear information (commit), simulate flash errors (commit)
NOR: Support for auto locking flash on power up (commit)
Usbmon: Extended text API (commit), and add the "bus zero" feature to the usbmon. If a user process specifies bus with number zero, it receives events from all buses (commit)
Remove ancient/broken CRIS hcd (commit)
Add power/level sysfs attribute. The new power/level sysfs attribute allows users to force the device on (with autosuspend off), force the device to sleep (with autoresume off), or return to normal automatic operation (commit)
Add "busnum" attribute for USB devices (commit)
Add the detection for the Bandrich Bandluxe C100/C100S/C120 HSDPA Data Card (commit)
cxacru: ADSL state management (commit)
Add picdem device to ldusb (commit)
ftdi_sio: Add USB ID of ADSTech USBX-707 (commit)
CP2101: new Device IDs (commit)
Make usbdevices export their device nodes instead of using a separate class (commit)
Add Freescale high-speed USB SOC device controller driver (commit)
Add FF support for Logitech Force 3D Pro Joystick (commit)
Thrustmaster firestorm dual power v1 support (commit)
Add support for Wisegroup MP-8800 Quad Joypad (commit)
Add support for Olimex arm-usb-ocd JTAG interface serial port (commit)
Add support for Sierra Wireless Aircard 595U (commit)
Add support for video output overlays. (commit)
M920x: Initial support for devices likely manufactured by Dposh (commit)
Add support for the "Elitegroup ECS TVP3XP FM1246", the "KWorld DVB-T 210", and the Animation Technologies LR214 Rev F onwards (SAA7131) to the saa7134 driver (commit)
Add support for VIDIOC_INT_G/S_STD_OUTPUT (commit)
- Added VIDIOC_INT_G_STD_OUTPUT and VIDIOC_INT_S_STD_OUTPUT to allow drivers to set the TV standard for video output separately from the video capture. This is needed for cx23415 support where the decoder is separate from the encoder and can have a different TV standard. Modified the saa7127 module to listen to VIDIOC_INT_G/S_STD_OUTPUT instead of VIDIOC_G/S_STD.
Additional card support for bttv driver (commit)
Add support for the cx23415 MPEG decoding features. (commit)
Add support for the extra keys in the black Technotrend 1500 IR (commit)
Add support for VIDIOC_G_CHIP_IDENT (commit)
Add tveeprom entry for tuner LG S701D MK3 (commit)
Add raw bayer support to the ov7670 driver (commit)
Added support for tda827x tuners with preamplifiers (commit)
Add support for three new MPEG controls. (commit)
Dvb: Remove lgh06xf driver (commit)
Add radio support for the Lifeview FlyDVB-T Duo (commit)
Add support for remote of Asustech P7131 Hybrid LNA (commit)
Add support for Opera S1- DVB-USB (commit)
Pwc: cisco VT Camera support (commit)
Tda10023: Add support for frontend TDA10023 (commit)
M920x: add support for Anubis Electronics / MSI Digi Vox Mini II (commit)
400e: Add support for Pinnacle PCTV Sat Pro USB (450e) (commit)
Added / corrected support for some ASUS hybrid boards (commit)
Add some missing Hauppauge and Belkin devices to the driver (commit)
Added support for Sabrent TV-PCB05 card. (commit)
New Simtec I2C bus driver (commit)
New i2c-tiny-usb bus driver (commit)
Bitbanging I2C bus driver using the GPIO API (commit)
i2c-nforce2: Add support for the MCP61 and MCP65 (commit)
ibm-acpi: rename driver to thinkpad-acpi (commit)
thinkpad-acpi: driver sysfs conversion (commit), (commit), add sysfs support to the thermal subdriver (commit), add sysfs support to the cmos command subdriver (commit), add sysfs support to wan and bluetooth subdrivers (commit), add sysfs support to hotkey subdriver (commit), update brightness sysfs interface support (commit),
sony-laptop: Replace sonypi (commit), add SNY6001 device handling (sonypi reimplementation) (commit), add edge modem support (also called WWAN) (commit), make meye use sony-laptop instead of sonypi (commit), add camera enable/disable parameter (commit)
asus-laptop: add GPS support (commit)
Add support for the w83627thf chipset. (commit)
The scheduled removal of the i8xx_tco watchdog driver (commit)
Add HCIUARTGETDEVICE support for HCI line discipline (commit)
Add support for Targus ACB10US USB dongle (commit)
Support rev H AMD64s in powernow-k8 (commit)
hwmon/smsc47m1: Add support for the LPC47M292 (commit)
Add new_id to PCMCIA drivers (commit)
IrDA: KingSun/DonShine USB IrDA dongle support. (commit)
Firewire (old stack): eth1394: allow MTU bigger than 1500 (commit)
tifm: add sysfs attribute for tifm devices (commit)
mmc: Support for MMC 4.2 sector based cards (commit)
smsc-ircc2: add PNP support (commit)
Remove the blink driver (commit)
Crashing soon a kernel near you
This is a list of some of the ongoing patches being developed at the kernel community that will be part of future Linux releases. Those features may take many months to get into the Linus' git tree, or may be dropped. The features are tested in the -mm tree, but be warned, it can crash your machine, eat your data (unlikely but not impossible) or kidnap your family (just because it has never happened it doesn't mean you're safe):
- Ingo Molnar's CFS / Con Kolivas' RSDL process scheduler
- Con's swap prefetching
Utrace (LWN article)
Revoke()/frevoke() system calls (LWN article)
- Mel Gorman's fragmentation avoidance patches and Lumpy reclaim
- Unionfs
EXT 4 patches (wiki)
- Lguest
- Xen for x86-64
- Tickless patchess for x86-65
- Reiser 4


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Founded in Dublin in 1912, CSJE was an attempt to establish Religious Life in the Church of Ireland, although it did not receive official recognition. The founder believed that a group of sisters living hidden lives of prayer and service would exercise a powerful influence. When he died in 1939, there were twenty-four professed sisters and six novices.
From the 1930s, the Community had a branch house in Wales, which became the Mother House in 1967. In 1996, however, the Sisters returned to Dublin to the house originally taken over in 1959 from the Community of St Mary the Virgin. (This CSMV was not connected with the CSMV sisters at Wantage, but was a small community founded in the 1890s which had never grown beyond nine members.) The present house was formerly a school and then a home for elderly ladies of the Church of Ireland. It is now a Registered Nursing and Residential Home under the care of the Community but run by lay people.
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Society of Physics Students chapter honored with Marsh White Award
Posted by Jayme Blaschke
University News Service
March 7, 2014
The Society of Physics Students chapter at Texas State University recently received the Marsh White Award from the national organization.
The Marsh White Award is a program aimed at assisting chapters in implementing projects designed to "promote interest in physics among students and the general public." Of the more than 700 chapters across the country and internationally, 15 or so are typically selected to receive this award annually.
The Texas State chapter's project, "Elementary Physics Videos," builds on a relationship between the physics department and Sara Torres, the science coordinator at Travis Elementary School in San Marcos. The project will produce short videos that will be used by elementary school teachers to illustrate science concepts in a way that is accessible to their students.
The chapter will produce two videos: one which illustrates the concept of density and buoyancy using balloons filled with different gases, and one which demonstrates pressure by causing a 55 gallon drum to implode. Development of the project was led by the Texas State chapter president, Gregory Beuhler, and video development is being led by Patrick Lisk (density video), and Jessica Conn (pressure video). Completion of the videos is expected in early May.
For more information, contact Tom Myers at (512) 757-2077 or via email at email@example.com.


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All too little is said these days about the blood of Christ. Some of us seem to avoid the subject as much as possible. If there is one truth more than another that Satan would oppose, it is the truth of 1 Peter 1:19, that we were bought by the precious blood of Christ. If there is one subject that he would like to turn our minds away from, it is this. Satan tells us that we can be saved by reformation, by good deeds. He tells us that we can be saved by doing our best.
But all the way through the New Testament we find that the only way to God is a blood-marked way–the precious blood of Christ!
Jesus Christ died, and in dying He paid the penalty for my sins. His death, therefore was a penal death. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us" (Galatians 3:13). He came into this world and suffered in my stead. He bore the shame of the cross. He was made a curse for me. As by faith I lift my eyes to Him and take Him as my Savior, I take His place in the love and favor of God.
His was also a voluntary death. "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself" (John 10:18). I wish that I could help you to see what our salvation cost. He turned away from the joy of Heaven to the shame of earth. He turned away from the vast throngs saying "Holy, holy, holy," to this world where they veiled His face and smote Him. He turned away from the immediate presence of the Father, and came down into this world where men spat in His face and heaped shame upon Him, and even placed the cross upon His tired shoulders.
They did even more than this. They put Him on the cross and drove nails through His hands and feet. They lifted Him up between Heaven and Earth, as if He were unfit for Earth and as if they would hold Him back from Heaven. He came down to Earth to meet all this, and He did it willingly. He was ready to suffer, ready to die for you and me. All you need to do to have the bondage of sin taken away and to have sin cast behind God's back, is to take Him as your personal Savior and, with His help, turn away from sin.
And His death was substitutionary. He takes my place and offers up Himself for me. I find this throughout the Word of God, and it takes hold of my soul and grips me. "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin" (2 Corinthians 5:21). He was made sin for us. When the man who was a drunkard comes to Him, or the lecherous man, or the dishonest man or the woman who is weak, my blessed Redeemer knows all about their trouble, and knowing their trouble and staggering beneath the weight of the world's woe, He hurries to the cross and dies. Peter knew this when he spoke of the precious blood of Christ!
Hear me, too, when I give you this text from the Old Testament: "For the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Leviticus 17:11). What does this mean? It means that when Jesus Christ came into this world and lived and loved and suffered, when His heart broke on Calvary's cross and the blood poured from His veins, He was laying down His life for you and for me.
No matter who you are, He is able to save you. Do not resist Him. Do not reject His precious blood. There is just one thing between you and judgment, and that one thing is the precious blood of Christ. I beg you not to treat it carelessly.
But someone is saying, "You don't know my sins. You don't know my habits. If I should start this evening, my old habits would come back at my heels like hounds scenting blood." True, I don't know your habits, but I do know my Savior.
Do you remember the story in Scottish history, when enemies were seeking to take Bruce the King? They heard that he was in his palace, and they started after him. The king heard that they were coming and escaped with his trusted few. They made their way through the fields and into the forests, and when they thought they had escaped, in the distance Bruce heard the baying of bloodhounds–his own bloodhounds. He gave himself up for lost.
But then he heard the babbling sound of a stream. With his followers he went into the stream, and by going up the stream some distance and across to the other side, they covered their trail. When the hounds came to the stream, so history tells us, they lost the trail and Bruce was saved.
But I know a story a thousand times better than this. I ask you to give your hearts to Christ. The moment you start, all the old habits of your life are after you again; the old passions and lusts and desires. You have only half started when you sink back and say it is hopeless. But wait a moment. You can cover your trail–with the blood of Christ.
A friend and I landed one night on the Fiji Islands to hold services. The people who gathered that night sang two songs. One was the "Glory Song," and the other was a song that belongs to our subject today. We did not know the words, but we knew the music. We have heard this song in every land under the sun. We have heard people sing it with tears rolling down their cheeks. We have heard it sung while multitudes pressed up to the altar and sobbed their way into the Kingdom of God. This is the song they were singing in the Fiji Islands:
"There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins."
Can you not see it? Plunge in! Today! Nobody is too sinful. Nobody is too far away. The precious blood of Christ can cleanse and save unto the uttermost. Nothing less than His blood can do this. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool" (Isaiah 1:18).
I can say no more. I can only add this: I love Him. He is to me as real as you are. I want you to love Him. I want you to take Him.
J. Wilbur Chapman (1859-1918) was a pastor and evangelist who also wrote the words to several hymns.


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Your laugh line of the day: "The party has grown by becoming the party of inclusion."
…which is the worried reaction from a Lefty blogger who can't quite understand why Barney Frank, head of the House Financial Services Committee, would say anything like the below in response to the way that the bankruptcy bill got shot down in the Senate (if only temporarily):
The reason that he said something like that, of course, is because the Democratic party is not the 'party of inclusion:' it's the 'party of expedience.' The leadership (which is somewhat more liberal than its current Congressional roster, and very much more so than the rank and file) have been throwing this inclusion line around, with admittedly some success: but they have no intention of actually living up to it.
That's why the Speaker of the House has completely suppressed 'regular order' in legislation and is now running one branch of Congress like it was a private fief. That's why the 'Blue Dog' Democrats are currently being bribed or cowed into submission on fiscal conservatism. And that's why Specter's about to have the deal altered, and he really should pray that they don't alter it further. In light of that, Frank's comments seem a good deal more understandable: the man must be bored silly with having to constantly pretend that he likes or even tolerates anybody to the right of him, and if you can't sound off on those awful trimmers and equivocators on Bill Maher's show, then where can you?
So I suggest that this Politicususa.com fellow get with the program. The people who actually run his party will let him know when they need him to express an opinion; until then, all that's desired is the usual money, vote, and critical willingness to accept whatever today's talking points are.
Business as usual, in other words.
Moe Lane
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EDC hires new marketing specialist to help lure retail
Published 12:00 am Thursday, July 11, 2013
By Emily Ford
SALISBURY — A Salisbury native and Catawba College graduate has been hired as the new marketing specialist for RowanWorks Economic Development Commission.
Jessica Gaskill, 24, will start work July 22. She replaces Laura Jollay, who left in June after six months on the job to pursue other professional opportunities.
Jollay joined RowanWorks in December 2012 as the organization's first marketing specialist after Salisbury Mayor Paul Woodson asked for a bigger effort to recruit retailers to the city.
The position was created to market both Salisbury and Rowan County to business and industry with the goal of attracting jobs and investment to the area.
"Laura did a good job and gave us a good foundation," EDC Executive Director Robert Van Geons said. "We are really excited to have Jessica joining us and building on what we started.
"It's great that we have someone so passionate about Rowan County."
Gaskill has been working as a market research associate for Shat-R-Shield Inc. Prior to joining Shat-R-Shield in 2011, she interned for Lutheran Services of the Carolinas.
A lifelong resident of Salisbury, Gaskill graduated cum laude from Catawba with a bachelor degrees in business administration and communication arts, with a concentration in marketing.
While at Catawba, she was co-director of Volunteer Catawba and a member of Phi Beta Lambda, Student Government Association, Business Honors Society, Communications Honors Society and Catawba cheerleading squad. She received the first-ever Dr. Karl Hales Award for Excellence in Communications.
"I am extremely excited about the opportunity to blend my experience in marketing and communications with my passion for Rowan County," Gaskill said. "I truly believe in the potential of our community and look forward to contributing to its growth and success."
Gaskill will earn $39,900 a year, more than Jollay's salary of $32,500.
Van Geons said Gaskill's salary is within the range set for the position.
The EDC's personnel expenses for 2013-2014 are lower than last year's because Van Geons didn't hire Jollay until halfway through the fiscal year.
Last year, the EDC budgeted $350,650 for personnel but spent only $310,785. This year, the organization budgeted $339,490 for personnel.
Contact reporter Emily Ford at 704-797-4264.


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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Vida Vegan Con, Part 2
Saturday began with the VVC Portland Breakfast Showcase in the ballroom. Restaurants from across the city served up bite-sized menu items. Most were breakfasty foods (doughnuts, quiches, etc.). But of course, I had to go straight for the pizza and burgers table. Only in Portland can I eat pizza and burgers for breakfast and not feel a twinge of food guilt.
Sizzle Pie was serving "Eggs" Benedict Pizza with Ranch Dressing. Definitely my fave breakfast item of the weekend.
And I had some BBQ Jackfruit and Beet Burger Sliders from the White Owl Social Club's table. Yes, BBQ for breakfast. I'm a true Southern gal.
Everyone at my table was raving about these gluten-free Tofu Quiches from the Back to Eden Bakery table. Delicious! I couldn't even tell it was gluten-free.
And even though I was stuffed, I found room for this sample-sized Tofu Scramble with Meatloaf and Cheezy Sauce from A.N.D. Cafe.
After all those carbs, I was happy to see the Portland Juice Press folks were offering juice samples for balance.
After breakfast, the panels began. I attended a great panel on Vegan Community Building. Jason Das from Vegan Drinks was on the panel (along with Maeve Conner, Laura Beck of Vegansaurus, and Leigh-Chantelle of Viva La Vegan), and his words inspired me to get a Memphis Vegan Drinks chapter started here. More on that soon! I'm planning the first meet-up for July.
I didn't have any panels to speak on on Saturday, so I just hung out and attended lots of other peoples' very informative discussions.
Lunch was a Build-a-Bowl buffet! There were all sorts of goodies for bowl piling, and I think I managed to fit every one of them in this bowl — brown rice, quinoa, tempeh bacon, Upton's seitan, tofu, black beans, pinto beans, raw walnut meat, Galaxy vegan cheese, hummus, Nacheez, hemp seeds, lettuce, carrots, and garlic sauce. Oh, and Secret Aardvark habanero sauce and sriracha!
After lunch, Kittee Kake of Cake Maker to the Stars, Amey of Vegan Eats & Treats, and Mo of Mo Betta Vegan hosted the Vegan Battle Royale, a vegan trivia game show in which audience members were called to the stage to answer questions like, "What cookbook features Caulipots?" (hint: Appetite for Reduction) or challenges such as naming 15 blogs in a matter of seconds (The badass Ashlee Piper of The Little Foxes won that challenge, and Vegan Crunk was the last one she named!). There was also a blind taste test in which contestants had to guess ingredients in a mystery food. Isa Chandra Moskowitz won that one.
There were more workshops and panels after the Vegan Battle Royale. We had a short break between the conference and the Galarama, a fancy vegan gala to benefit the Chimp Sanctuary NW. It was held in a really rad venue with a model train track that spanned the inside and part of the outside of the building.
My friend Joel (whom I stayed with while I was in Portland) didn't attend the conference, but he did join me at the gala. Joel ordered beer, and I made a b-line for the samples of Miyoko's vegan cheeses. Miyoko Skinner wrote Artsian Vegan Cheese, and she's pretty much the world's greatest expert on vegan cheese. And she made these herself!! OMG! These were amazing! I wanted to eat this entire tray, but I had to be nice and share.
We had the local Bridgeport Summer Squeeze. Don't you love the tracks?!
And there were Vegan Jello Shots! They didn't set properly, but that didn't stop us.
Outside the gala, a couple of food carts were selling dinner. There was a taco cart and a hot dog cart. Joel and I both chose the Tandem Treats hot dog cart because their logo was a two-headed rainbow unicorn.
I got a Tofurky Hot Dog with Grilled Onions, Black Olives, Tomatoes, Spinach, and Jalapenos. Joel had the same but with a Tofurky Brat.
There was a silent auction at the gala to benefit the chimp rescue. And when I spotted these Viana Sunflower Spreads that I'd sampled (and fell in love with) at NOLA Veggie Fest a couple of weeks ago, I had to bid! And guess what? I won! $32 for 8 jars.
After the gala, a group of us decided to walk to the legendary Casa Diablo, Portland's vegan strip club. Yes, folks, a VEGAN STRIP CLUB!
All of the food served there and all the booze is vegan. One person in our group had a White Russian! I had Taquitos! There's actually a far more interesting shot of these taquitos with a stripper's boobs in view, but it's probably not appropriate for my food blog. Use your imagination.
Whew! Saturday was crazy! But Sunday morning came quickly. We awoke to another breakfast buffet at the conference. This one was all about cold and hot cereals. I'm not a huge sweets-for-breakfast person, so I was afraid I wouldn't find much I was excited about eating here. But thankfully, there was nooch (should I have ever doubted that there wouldn't be?) and Secret Aardvark habanero sauce to make Savory Oats. And there were Breakfast Potatoes. I added some Chia Pudding for good measure. And some fruit cause why not?
Lunch was another buffet, but this time it was all about building sandwiches! I made an Everything Sandwich with tofu, Upton's bacon, Tofurky slices, roasted veggies, hummus, greens, Nayo Whipped spread, and basically a little of everything on the buffet.
I also built a sort of Raw Taco using raw walnut meat, a romaine leaf, and some carrots. But then I made it un-raw by covering it in Nacheez spread.
There were more panels after lunch, including one on Inter-dietary Cohabitation with me, Dawn of Vegan Moxie, and Joni Marie Newman of Just the Food. My partner Paul, whom I share space with, is an omnivore, so I talked about how we handle sticky situations, like dinner, fridge space, and separate pots and pans. I also had some great news to report during the panel — Paul has decided to go vegetarian until dinnertime every day. Not vegan, because he wants to eat Morningstar Farms black bean burgers for lunch. But still. Progress. Baby steps. It only took 8 1/2 years.
And then the conference was over. Sadness! We said our goodbyes and snapped the last pics (I'll be posting many of those on Facebook soon). Until next time, my friends.
But wait, that's not all! After the conference, my friend Joel and his friend Scott and his girlfriend took me to Multnomah Falls, just about 30 minutes outside of Portland.
Wow! I've never seen a waterfall this amazing! It was lovely seeing some Northwest nature for a change instead of just stuffing my face (though I do really love stuffing my face).
After our waterfall journey, I met up with a few vegan blogger friends for one last meal at the appropriately named Bye and Bye (the same vegan bar where we ended out the conference in 2011). I had the Samurai Bowl (brown rice, nooch-covered tofu, slaw, miso-chili sauce, and avocado).
And of course, I couldn't end a trip to Portland without one more Vegan Bloody Mary! Sadly, I only had time for a couple of these because my flight left Monday morning at 6:55 a.m.!
Cheers to my vegan blogger buds! I'll see y'all again next Vida Vegan Con (or hopefully sooner!).
14 comments:
- tamara said...
I loved your VVC recaps!! I moved to Portland this year and wished I could have attended, but I'm not a food blogger and didn't have the scratch. I am glad you got to so many great spots in town. Isn't that beet burger, and the mac and cheese patty, from White Owl to die for? Portland food is amazing!!
- May 30, 2013 at 11:10 PM
- tamara said...
Oh and PS I am dying to check out Casa Diablo... I've never been to a *real* strip club, and I mostly want to eat, but it sounds like an experience. : )
- May 30, 2013 at 11:12 PM
- JL said...
I absolutely LOVED that Meatloaf Benedict. But I loved seeing you even more!
- May 31, 2013 at 10:02 AM
- Rachel from The Vegan Mishmash said...
That cheese plate looks fantastic. I wouldn't want to share it either. Looks like you had an amazing weekend!
- May 31, 2013 at 10:13 AM
- Jamey said...
So nice meeting you! Great recaps too! I got to see that same waterfall and thought the same thing - how amazing!
And for the record, the Chimichanga at Casa Diablo was great too! ;)
I run Vegan Drinks here in Dallas, let me know if you want to discuss any of my experience with that. We do it a little differently than they do in NYC, but the gist is the same.
- May 31, 2013 at 10:21 AM
- Chef Amber Shea said...
I never did snag one of those mini quiches at breakfast on Saturday!
Bahaha, I think you should've posted the uncropped taquitos photo ;P
- May 31, 2013 at 10:35 AM
Your food recaps are so detailed. I just shoveled stuff in to my mouth! Especially love the sausages on the train tracks. Choo chooooo chomp!
The only thing missing from this post is you and me getting silly drunk. Next time, my friend.
- May 31, 2013 at 10:40 AM
- Michelle said...
I'm so sold on Prtland. I want to go RIGHT NOW! Love these recaps :)
- May 31, 2013 at 10:42 AM
- KEVIN MARKS said...
glad you got to go... loved the pics..
- May 31, 2013 at 11:19 AM
dam how didja eat all that?
- May 31, 2013 at 4:12 PM
- GlutenFreeHappyTummy said...
so much delicious food! my my my!
- June 1, 2013 at 6:58 PM
- Hannah said...
Nooooo never stop posting! Once we all stop posting our recaps, it will REALLY be over! Noooooo!
P.S. I was totally the opposite to you on Saturday morning. I was all SWEET SWEETS TAKE ME TO THE SWEET BAKED/FRIED GOODS FOR BREAKFAST>
P.P.S. Really enjoying your panel on becoming a cookbook author! :)
- June 2, 2013 at 5:35 PM
- Barb@ThatWasVegan? said...
A vegan strip club? That's awesome!
- June 6, 2013 at 2:17 PM
- Meg Travis-Carr said...
New reader/fellow Memphian/first-time commenter here:
Bianca, first off, I loved reading your recaps on VVC as well as your blog in general...
As an aspiring vegan with few vegetarian/vegan friends (actually, I can only think of one), I wanted to say that 1) I *love* the idea of Vegan Drinks... it would be SO incredibly great to find a like-minded community in the heart of the mid south/BBQ central. And 2) I would have loved to hear the panel you spoke on, "Interdietary Cohabitation", as I haven't been able to find much on the subject. Most of the vegan resources/role models I have found out there on the internet are surrounded by or co-exist with fellow vegans, and my husband, who helps makes me into a stronger, better person and who I adore, is an omnivore. Therefore, diet, specifically transitioning into a vegan one, presents more of a challenge for us.
So, sorry for the epic comment, but I wanted to throw in my vote for "Vegan Drinks" here in Memphis and to say that I'm glad to hear that interdietary cohabitation is indeed something that people do successfully.
Thanks for the awesome blog, I'm done. Amen :)
- June 9, 2013 at 4:39 PM


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