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The University of Houston received a $2.4 million grant to fund the most promising young cancer researchers who are working at the cutting-edge of a new multidisciplinary approach to fighting cancer.
The award, announced June 18, was part of the latest round of grant disbursements from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), which oversees the state's new billion-dollar war on cancer. It is UH's second CPRIT grant, and the first in the science and engineering fields.
The money will fund post-doctoral scientists at UH whose research combines cancer biology with computational disciplines like computer science, or theoretical physics or chemistry. The grant builds on UH's existing collaborations with the Texas Medical Center within the Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience, which will help administer the program.
New science Ph.D. graduates typically complete a two year or more postdoctoral program before starting research careers in academia, government or industry. The CPRIT post-doctoral researchers in this new program will have two faculty mentors – one in a computational field and one in cancer biology – chosen from UH, Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, UT Health Science Center, UT Medical Branch Galveston or the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
"There's a realization that all the problems of cancer won't be solved by biology," said B. Montgomery Pettitt, the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor and director of UH's CPRIT training program. "We need to bring the expertise in a wide variety of fields to bear on these problems, because the most revolutionary stuff comes from thinking at the interface of disciplines"
One dozen post-doctoral trainees will be chosen, beginning in September. The program will also provide summer research opportunities for about 20 undergraduates. The cross-disciplinary nature of the program will, for example, allow a computer science post doctoral researcher to work in a cancer biochemistry lab. Conversely, a biochemist can work in a programming and applied mathematics lab to understand and enhance computational tools against cancer.
By gaining proficiency in a second technical area, these researchers will be equipped to tackle some of the most pressing problems in cancer research, Pettitt said.
For example, Pettitt said, a scientist studying genes to understand biochemical pathways in cells may find existing technology inadequate to piece together the giant puzzle of data produced by genetic sequencers and must work with computer scientists to produce new computational tools.
These sorts of collaborations are already thriving among researchers at UH the Medical Center. In one project highlighted as a model of future collaborations, Ioannis Kakadiaris, the Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor of Computer Science at UH, is working with a team at M.D. Anderson and the University of Texas Health Science Center to improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy through better imaging methods.
The so-called "leakiness" of a tumor's microvasculature network can determine how susceptible a tumor is to cancer drugs. However, existing computer imaging cannot precisely characterize a tumor's vascular leakiness. So Kakadiaris and his team are developing diagnostic tools that will not only measure a tumor's vulnerability to drugs but predict the outcome of treatment options. This will provide patients more personalized treatment and help avoid futile or ineffective treatments.
The grant to UH is part of the $3 billion in cancer research that Texas voters approved in 2007 to be distributed over 10 years. The first batch of funded projects was announced in 2009. The CPRIT award underscores UH's growing role in biomedical research, Pettitt said, and there will likely be more such grants in the future as the university's science and engineering expertise compliments the Medical Center's clinical expertise.
Additionally, the award puts UH with the leading research institutions in Texas receiving CPRIT funding and also boosts UH by adding more post-doctoral researchers, an important indicator for tier one status.


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With the specialty bar market being one of the most competitive product categories in the CPG industry, it's tough to be a stand out. But JoJé Bar is definitely on their way to being just that!
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Off and Running
Going out for cross country in Mississippi
I've always wanted to challenge myself and try something that'll be hard for me. After proper consideration, I decided to take cross country. In Ukraine, I used to run in the mornings from time to time, but I've never taken running seriously.
So after a couple of trainings, our coach said that we have a competition in a week. I was a little bit scared, because I didn't want to fail. I was even thinking about not going, because I wasn't ready—neither physically nor emotionally. But I asked myself one question, which I always ask if I doubt: "Why not?" So I got myself together and went to the competition. I ran three miles. It was so hard, and I was completely exhausted! But I don't regret it, because I managed to take third place and even received a bronze medal and a T-shirt!
Now, I know that I should never doubt and give up, because it's better to try and fail, than fail to try!
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Samsung has several devices upcoming in 2013. Yeah! It's the right time for these devices to come up in the various Benchmark test and NenaMark test. After successfully announcing Samsung Galaxy Grand, there is lot many devices scheduled for launch in early 2013. One big anticipated device is Galaxy S4 but it might not be launching that early. Samsung has recently announced Galaxy Grand and Grand Duos in India.
Samsung GT I9600
We happen to see Samsung GT I9600 passing through Benchmark test on NenaMark as the upcoming devices by the Korean giant. The device will certainly be an Android smartphone and will carry model number as GT-I9600 conventionally the Samsung's naming scheme for the Galaxy devices.
Through the benchmark test we obtained some specifications of the device. Samsung GT I9600 possess display screen with resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels providing 720p HD viewing experience. Powered with 1.4 GHz quad core processor it would mean that it's certainly a high-end device. The device will certainly see the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system pre-installed on the device. The graphical acceleration will be provided by Mali 400 MP chipset. Additionally Samsung will come out with TouchWiz customization to the user interface. Could this be Galaxy S4, no absolutely not!
We will let you know more about this device, once we have the perfect information available with us.
So put it up, Samsung GT I9600 has the following specifications –
- 1280 x 720 pixels resolution
- 1.4 Ghz quad core processor
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS
- ARM Mali 400MP
- Wi Fi, Wi Fi tether
- Samsung Touch Wiz UI
Additionally we will see the South Korean giant coming out with the Tizen OS self-developed by them and we might see many devices based on the Tizen OS this year.


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On 6 April 1947, newly sustained Church patriarch Eldred G. Smith began his first conference address by saying: "Brethren and sisters, I think you are all aware of the fact of the hereditary nature of the office to which I have been called. For that reason I was prepared to give a speech for this occasion fifteen years ago, but not today. Maybe it's because I don't like to get burned in the same fire twice." Smith acknowledged rumors that Joseph Fielding Smith (not the same person as the Church president of that name) had been called to the office instead of him because "I was not worthy." But he countered these rumors by describing how he had met with President Grant in 1932 the evening before Joseph Fielding Smith had been called to be Church patriarch to ask if unworthiness were the reason he was being passed over for the calling. Eldred Smith reported Grant as replying, "Oh, no, no, on the contrary. In fact you have made quite a reputation for yourself in Church activities." Smith went on to detail his activity, beliefs, and Church leadership positions in an obvious effort to lay his credentials before the congregation. Whatever the success of this move as far as establishing his personal worthiness was concerned, it inevitably raised the question of why, then, had he not been called to his hereditary position in 1932.
Smith was asked to edit the talk before publication. He did so, but the revision that was finally published in the April 1947 Conference Report was a third version, titled "A Testimony of Truth."37 In it, Smith's defense has been entirely rewritten to read, "I think that there are probably thousands of men in the Church who, if called by the proper authority, could come and fulfill any position in the Church, and the position to which I have been called is no exception."
Apostle Ezra Taft Benson made waves when he spoke at the afternoon session of the 6 April 1965 General Conference. He had recently returned from his European mission, which many people felt had been a way of removing him from United States politics and the John Birch Society.38 But his political fires had apparently not cooled, as he dedicated his general conference address to warning about a Communist threat to the Church.39
"The war in heaven is raging on earth today," Benson proclaimed.
Satan argues that men given their freedom do not choose wisely; therefore a so-called brilliant, benevolent few must establish the welfare government and force us into a greater socialistic society. We are assured of being led into the promised land as long as we let them put a golden ring in our nose. In the end we lose our freedom and the promised land also. No matter what you call it—communism, socialism, or the welfare state—our freedom is sacrificed."
Benson argued that countries have been pushed into Communism by evil forces and that these evil forces were operating also within the United States. Benson further claimed that the devil had, to a large extent, neutralized "much of the priesthood," but if they "should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom." At the end of the speech, he said "President David O. McKay has called communism the greatest threat to the Church."
Benson's talk made the national spotlight on 13 April 1965, when his speech was covered in a Washington Post article headlined "Benson Ties Rights Issue to Reds in Mormon Rift." In a meeting of the First Presidency on 23 April, Hugh B. Brown called attention to the negative publicity generated by the Washington Post article and the unfavorable reactions he was hearing about Benson's remarks. McKay's initial reaction was that he "had not noticed anything objectionable in what Brother Benson had said." McKay then asked Brown to bring him "a report" of the talk, and Brown told him "he would do it at once." Later in the meeting, N. Eldon Tanner told McKay that he had also "received telephone calls and letters" about Benson's talk.
On 3 May, in a meeting between McKay and Brown, McKay "authorized the elimination" of the following two paragraphs from Benson's talk:
Before I left for Europe I warned how the Communists were using the civil-rights movement to promote revolution and eventual take-over of this country. When are we going to wake up? What do you know about the dangerous civil rights agitation in Mississippi? Do you fear the destruction of all vestiges of state government?
Now, Brethren, the Lord never promised there would not be traitors in the church. We have the ignorant, the sleepy and the deceived who provide temptations and avenues of apostacy [sic] for the unwary and the unfaithful. But we have a prophet at our head and he has spoken. Now what are we going to do about it? Do homework. Brethren, if we had done our homework and were faithful we could step forward at this time and help save this country.40
On 4 May, a month after Benson's talk,41 apostle Harold B. Lee spoke at a BYU devotional. According to D. Michael Quinn, part of Lee's talk was directed at Benson and his remarks at general conference.
It all sums up to this: Beware of that clever advocate, even in high places in the government, or in the Church, who deals in cunning half-truths, or who endeavors to win his purposes by twisting the facts and so seeks for decisions based upon half-falsehoods. Sometimes that happens. So often men of authority in the Church seek to buttress their position by making it appear that they speak for the highest Church authorities, rather than to wait until that higher authority speaks for himself.42
On 5 April 1981, Hartman Rector, Jr., of the First Quorum of Seventy, gave a talk titled "Will the Earth Be Wasted?" focusing on the themes of family and genealogical work. Rector proclaimed that "the family concept is under very serious attack today all over the world," comparing our day with Noah's and suggesting that "as in the days of the flood He will surely destroy" the earth. Rector then gave examples of attacks on the family, discussing a TV documentary that had claimed that "'old people' are dying for a lack of love and attention," that children no longer visit their parents, and that some governments pay people to visit the elderly. Rector believed that because of this government intervention, "children no longer have to worry about their parents in their old age so they completely neglect them."
Rector then moved on to what he considered major attacks on the family: sterilization, vasectomies, abortion, birth control, and homosexuality. Rector expressed concern about one-child policies, though he did not actually name China, because the method of enforcing a one-child policy is "through birth control, abortion, and sterilization." If a parent has a second child, Rector said, the government takes it to be raised. He believed this policy would "literally destroy these nations."
Rector continued that the Lord would lay waste to the earth when he returned if children and fathers did not turn their hearts to one another. If latter-day saints did their personal and family history, Rector promised, their children
will get a great desire to raise a family of their own when they see what a great blessing they were to you. If children have a happy family experience, they will not want to be homosexuals, which I am sure is an acquired addiction just as drugs, alcohol, and pornography are. The promoters of homosexuality say they were born that way, but I do not believe it is true. There are no female spirits trapped in male bodies and vice versa.43
This talk was extensively covered in the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News on Monday, 6 April, and in the Church News on Saturday, 11 April, with quotations of passages that were later removed from the published talk. In May, the talk was published in the Ensign with the new title, "Turning the Hearts." All references to abortion, birth control, sterilization, vasectomy, homosexuality, and the dying elderly were removed, thereby transforming the speech from an apocalyptic jeremiad to an upbeat pep talk about genealogy.
When asked about the changes, Rector responded:
Sometimes it is not expedient to make people angry by telling them in too plain terms what their problems are. The Master many times spoke in parables to protect those who were not able to bear his message—also the church [is] hoping to gain entrance into communist China so didn't want to make waves. I presume a combination of things made the First Presidency decide to eliminate certain portions of my remarks even tho' they had received and cleared the talk before it was given. It is O.K. They know best. However, what was said is still true.44
Reporter Rodd G. Wagner, of the Salt Lake Tribune broke a story on 16 November 1984 about changes in a 7 October 1984 General Conference address by Ronald E. Poelman of the First Quorum of Seventy, titled, "The Gospel and the Church." Wagner wrote that not only was the address heavily edited and partially rewritten for the November Ensign, it was also re-videotaped, with "the new version [being] spliced into the conference tape" for Church distribution. In response, Church spokesperson Don LeFevre stated that "the most obvious place to retape [Poelman's] talk was from the pulpit," but when Wagner asked if this approach could give the "false impression" that the re-recording was the original, LeFevre said, "It could." The Deseret News ran a similar story on 17 November and the Provo Daily Herald on 18 November.
Some months later, in Sunstone 10:1 (1985), editor Peggy Fletcher wrote that "Poelman returned to the Tabernacle a few days after conference and retaped the speech with the changes. This tape was then spliced into the original conference tape replacing the previous address. In addition, a 'coughtrack' was provided to make it sound more like an audience was present." Stack also pointed out that "the cost of this video editing was between $10,000 and $15,000." Church spokesperson Jerry Cahill was quoted as saying, "I don't think that $10,000 is too much to pay to correct a possible misinterpretation. Besides, if the Brethren require it, we comply." (The Daily Herald reported "Poelman redelivered his speech in the studios of the Mormon Church-owned Bonneville Media Communi-cations," but this is likely an error.)
Apparently Church leadership's main concern centered on how Mormon fundamentalists would interpret the talk. For years, General Authorities had been countering fundamentalist claims that there were in fact two true churches: one church that was a part of the world and another that followed a higher spiritual law. Stack wrote "that Apostles who regularly deal with Mormon apostate groups 'pointed out' to Elder Poelman that his remarks might be misinterpreted." Poelman's brother Stuart was quoted in the Tribune saying that Ronald Poelman "was concerned his remarks would be used by Mormon apostate groups."
Some of the changes support this concern. A portion of the original speech reads,
Both the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ are true and divine. However, there is a distinction between them which is significant and it is very important that this distinction be understood. Of equal importance is understanding the essential relationship between the gospel and the Church. Failure to distinguish between the two and to comprehend their proper relationship may lead to confusion and misplaced priorities with unrealistic and therefore failed expectations.
That portion was revised to read:
Both the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ are true and divine, and there is an essential relationship between them that is significant and very important. Understanding the proper relationship between the gospel and the Church will prevent confusion, misplaced priorities, and failed expectations and will lead to the realization of gospel goals through happy, fulfilling participation in the Church.
Another section reads: "As individually and collectively we increase our knowledge, acceptance and application of gospel principles, we become less dependent on Church programs. Our lives become gospel centered."
The section was revised to read: "As individually and collectively we increase our knowledge, acceptance, and application of gospel principles, we can more effectively utilize the Church to make our lives increasingly gospel centered."
Poelman's treatment of free agency also seems to have been a concern. Of the three times the phrase was used in the original talk, two were removed and the third modified. Poelman stated in the original talk that people should not use their free agency to invent their own values and principles. The edited version reads, "The Church aids us in our effort to use our free agency creatively, not to invent our own values, principles, and interpretations."
After the revised talk had been published, "the church public communications office" released a statement saying Poelman had decided that his talk "might possibly be misinterpreted" and "any editorial changes were his own."45 In the Salt Lake Tribune article, Stuart Poelman "said he understood the changes were his brother's idea and not due to pressure of other church officials." Four years later, in April 1989, Poelman gave another speech at general conference, this time raising no controversy.46
A side-by-side comparison of Poelman's originally delivered talk and the edited version can be found in the October 1990 issue of Sunstone (14:5).
I began this article by briefly describing the reaction to revisions made to Boyd K. Packer's October 2010 conference speech.47 The portion of his speech that received the most attention was delivered from the pulpit as, "Some suppose that they were preset and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn tendencies toward the impure and unnatural. Not so! Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone?" Packer ended his talk by proclaiming that through repentance, people can overcome a "habit or an addiction that is unworthy."
By Sunday afternoon, discussion was raging on the Internet about Packer's talk and what it meant for the Church in relation to the issue of homosexuality.48 On Monday, 4 October, the Salt Lake Tribune ran Peggy Fletcher Stack's article headlined, "Apostle: Same-sex Attraction Can Change," the first of many stories about Packer's address. Stack wrote that the speech could have a negative effect on LDS Church members' attitude towards gay people. She also pointed out that the address seemed to contradict an October 1995 Ensign article by apostle Dallin H. Oaks on homosexuality49 as well as the Church's 2007 pamphlet on same-sex attraction, God Loveth His Children.50
On the same day, the Human Rights Campaign, an organization promoting gay rights, released a statement saying that President Packer needed to "correct" his statements, calling his talk "inaccurate and dangerous."51 By Thursday night, a protest had been organized, with 4,500 people gathering at Temple Square to show their disapproval of the address.52 On Friday, 8 October, a revised version of the address was posted on the Church's website, lighting off an entirely new round of discussions in the news media and on the Internet.
The revised version of Packer's speech eliminated the sentence "Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone?" and replaced the word "tendencies" with "temptations." Less talked about was a change to Packer's assertion that the Proclamation on the Family "qualifies according to the definition as a revelation and would do well that members of the Church to read and follow it." The sentence was revised to read: "It is a guide that members of the Church would do well to read and to follow."
More than 7000 speeches have been delivered in general conferences since 1897. I have documented eleven that were subject to significant revision or elimination. Likely other talks could also fit into this group, but for the most part, it seems that general authorities have policed themselves, keeping their remarks within prescribed boundaries.
1. For a transcript of the talk with editing changes, see "Edits to Boyd K. Packer's Talk," Mormons for Marriage, 7 October 2010, http://mormonsformarriage.com/?p=299 (accessed 19 December 2011).
2. Lavina Fielding Anderson's comments, Mormon-Library Yahoo discussion group, 8 October 2010 (accessed 12 January 2011).
3. A talk delivered at the 4 October 2008 afternoon session may be an example of where the speaker changed a word to create a better flow in the talk. In his talk "The Way," Lawrence Corbridge said from the pulpit, "Every other way, any other way, whatever other way is madness." The official online and printed text have changed the word "madness" to "foolishness," echoing Corbridge's use of "foolishness" six other times in the talk. An audience member at the 2011 Sunstone Symposium, held in Ogden, Utah, 6 August 2011, pointed out this change. See "Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge," Church News, 4 October 2008, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/54696/Elder-Lawrence-E-Corbridge.html; Lawrence E. Corbridge, "The Way," General Conference, 4 October 2008, http://lds.org/general-conference/print/2008/10/theway/?lang=eng (accessed 19 December 2011).
4. "LDS Church Addresses Changes Made to Pres. Packer's Talk," KSL.com, http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=299&sid=12749665&pid=1 (accessed 19 December 2011).
5. See also Gary James Bergera, Conflict in the Quorum (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, distributed by Signature Books, 2002).
6. Note that the Church discontinued Conference Reports in 2009, almost certainly because the Church's website makes conference talks so quickly available, along with the Ensign's prompt availability.
7. Brian H. Stuy, Collected Discourses (BHS Publishing, 1992), 5:457–64. The talks were originally published in the Deseret News Weekly, 15 October 1898, digitally available at http://archive.deseretnews.com/historic/.
8. 7 October 1898, Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1894–1899 (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010), 2:327. Joseph F. Smith's was the only address published in the Conference Report for the Saturday morning session. His talk was about looking after the "temporal welfare of the people" in Utah.
9. 7 & 9 October 1898 in Church, State and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith edited by Jean Bickmore White (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1991), 410.
10. 6 October 1909, Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1900–1909 (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010), 3:465–66
11. 6 October 1909 in In The World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot, edited by Harvard Heath (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 35.
12. 6 October 1909 in Church, State and Politics, 633.
13. 6 October 1909, Minutes of the Apostles, 1900–1909, 3:465–66.
14. For the complete text of the letter, see The Essential B.H. Roberts, edited by Brigham D. Madsen (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1999), 183–87
15. See 5 and 6 January 1909, Minutes of the Apostles, 1900–1909, 3:436–37.
16. Ibid 3:465–66.
17. Ibid 3:465–66.
18. See 15 October 1909 in Danish Apostle: The Diaries of Anthon H. Lund, edited by John Hatch (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005), 405.
19. The Essential James E. Talmage, edited by James P. Harris (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 135–41.
20. "Politics by Church Denied," Ogden Standard Examiner, 8 October 1923, http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/ogden11&CISOPTR=29750 (accessed 19 December 2011), "Influence of Priesthood in Affairs Denied," Salt Lake Tribune, 8 October 1923.
21. "Temporal Affairs of Members Not Governed by Church, Says President Grant in Conference" Salt Lake Telegram, 8 October 1923, digitalnewspapers.org (accessed 25 April 2011). "J. Golden Kimball one of the seven presidents of the Seventy, stirred the crowd and caused a ripple of laughter when he diverted from the usual solemn attitude. Arising from the 'keynote address,' he said in his unique phrasing: 'Last year I received a Christmas present C.O.D., I paid for it.' And then pointing out the moral; 'That's the way God's blessings come—C.O.D. You don't get anything unless you deserve and pay for it.' The genuine sensation came when Mr. Kimball, in bearing his testimony said: 'I know that the Mormon gospel is true; that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. And when I know a thing I know it. Why worry about what the other fellow says. As far as I am concerned they can go to hell—and that's where most of them belong.' The last statement brought laughter from the large crowd, and evidently provoked at the proceedings, President Grant arose and said: 'Pardon me, but I do not desire that laughter be provoked in our worship.'"
22. "Saints Urged to Be Worthy," Deseret News, 8 October 1923, 6.
23. Stephen L Richards, "Bringing Humanity to the Gospel," Sunstone, June 1979, 43–46.
24. 9 April 1932, Talmage Journal, BYU Special Collections.
25. 11 April 1932, Diaries of Heber J. Grant: 1880–1945 Abridged (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010), 305.
26. 5 May 1932, Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910–1951 (Salt Lake City, Utah: 2010), 4:318
27. 5 May 1932, Diaries of Heber J. Grant: 1880–1945, 306.
28. 8 May 1932, In The World, 778.
29. 27 May 1932, Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 306–07.
30. 30 May 1932, Minutes of the Apostles, 1910–1951, 4:318.
31. Photocopies of the three drafts are in my possession (courtesy the Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah), as well as the version published in Sunstone.
32. The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846–2000: A Documentary History, edited by Devery Anderson (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), 185–227.
33. Salt Lake Tribune, 10 April 1932, 1 and 12.
34. 16 April and 5 May 1933, Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 318.
35. 9 May 1933, Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 319.
36. Both Salt Lake newspapers mention Grant's reading from Widtsoe's book In Search of Truth as found in the Conference Report.
37. For most of the removed text, see Irene Bates and E. Gary Smith, Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 201–02.
38. D. Michael Quinn, Extensions of Power (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 77–80.
39. Benson mentioned McKay's name four times in the talk.
40. For the removed text, see Salt Lake Tribune, 7 April 1965, A-5; Gregory A. Prince, "The Red Peril, the Candy Maker, and the Apostle: David O. McKay's Confrontation with Communism," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 37, vol. 2 (Summer 2004), 69–70; Gregory Prince and Wm. Robert Wright, David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2005), 304–05.
41. At the October 1963 General Conference and at a BYU devotional on 10 May 1966, Benson spoke about early LDS Church leaders who had gone into apostasy and observed that even Jesus had his Judas. People understood that Benson was alluding to Hugh B. Brown and possibly N. Eldon Tanner. D. Michael Quinn quotes BYU president Ernest L. Wilkinson and Brown, showing that they understood Benson was calling Brown a Judas in the 1963 talk. Neither of these talks was censored or edited. Quinn, Extensions of Power, 76. On 6 May 1969, Benson spoke at another BYU devotional on the subject of the United States' military involvement in Vietnam. With the support of the First Presidency, President McKay assigned counselor Brown to respond to Benson in a talk given one week later at a BYU devotional. See McKay diaries for 12, 19, 20, and 21 May 1969, Marriott Library, University of Utah. For Brown's speech, Hugh B. Brown, "An Eternal Quest," audio available at http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=109. For Benson's speech, Ezra Taft Benson, "Vietnam—Victory or Surrender," Speeches of the Year (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 1969) 1–13.
42. Harold B. Lee, "Be Ye Not Deceived," BYU Speeches of the Year, BYU Speeches 1965, 4 May 1965, http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=698 (accessed 19 December 2011). See also Quinn, Extensions of Power, 81, 83.
43. A comparable text that was not censored is Rector's "Roots and Branches," BYU devotional, 10 February 1981, http://speeches.byu.edu/
reader/reader.php?id=6804 (accessed 19 December 2011).
44. Lavina Fielding Anderson, "The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26, no. 1 (Spring 1993), 15, n. 19.
45. "Elder Poelman Revises, Retapes Conference Talk," Deseret News, 17 November 1984, B-5.
46. See D. Michael Quinn, Extensions of Power, 879.
47. I have verified that the talk Packer presented was the same text distributed to the press before the conference session began. Peggy Fletcher Stack, email to Joseph Geisner, 26 March 2011.
48. See, for example, "Why Would God Allow His Children to Be Born Homosexual?" Mormons for Marriage, 3 October 2010, http://mormonsformarriage.com/?p=293 (accessed 19 December 2011).
49. Dallin H. Oaks, "Same-Gender Attraction," Ensign, October 1995, http://lds.org/ensign/1995/10/same-gender-attraction?lang=eng (accessed 19 December 2011).
50. Peggy Fletcher Stack, "Mormons Divided on LDS Apostle's Speech on Gays," Salt Lake Tribune, 5 October 2010, http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/
home/50413221-76/church-lds-packer-speech.html.csp (accessed 22 March 2011) and God Loveth His Children (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2007), http://lds.org/manual/god-loveth-his-children/god-loveth-his-children?lang=eng (accessed 20 December 2011).
51. See: "Packer Makes Changes to Sermon Regarding Homosexuality," ABC4.com, http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/UPDATE-Packer-makes-changes-to-sermon-regarding/OecTkSc980K76VXGKo2bSg.cspx (accessed 19 December 2011).
52. Rosemary Winters, "Mormon Apostle's Words about Gays Spark Protest," Salt Lake Tribune, 19 October 2010, http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50434583-76/gay-church-packer-protest.html.csp (accessed 20 December 2011).


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You'll be reading a lot of stories about the "hottest trends for 2015." Let us join the chorus.
Our take? Big data is going to top the trends ticker.
Big data — the term the information technology world uses to describe all the delicious details that can be gleaned from the web — is going to loom large.
The benefits of big data, accrued via what is alternately known as web scraping or web extraction, is the best marketing tool any business could employ.
Why? Because access to competitors' numbers and success can change the way your company creates and markets. Because knowing how other companies take advantage of advertising trends and what the outcomes were is valuable insight. Because — in a word — there's a veritable gold mine of actionable information ensconced in big data.
Consider, for instance, relevancy. It's something companies like Mozenda, a data extraction and analysis firm, has taken seriously since the beginning of the technology. Its mission has been to develop web scraping and data extraction technologies that allow marketers to do what they do best.
"It's all about knowing your targets," explains Brett Haskins, CEO of Mozenda. "Big data has become a buzzword, but what it means is more understanding, more knowledge. It's like Zen, which is derived from a Sanskrit word that means 'absorption.' If we can help absorb more data — meaningful information — we can help marketers be the masters of their art."
In a way, big data is about aggregating all the small details that combine to create "the big picture." Knowing what works — and what doesn't — is worth its weight in … well … a whole lotta trends lists.


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Frequently Asked Questions1. What happens after I become a Permittee?
Once you've been approved, you'll be able to call in your availability on a weekly basis. When your department has utilized all of its Members, our crewing department will begin calling Permittees. Each time that you work on a NABET 700-M UNIFOR production, 7% of your gross pay will be deducted and remitted to the Union. This is your Permittee fee. When you have acquired a minimum of $2000 in Permittee fees in one department, you are eligible for full membership within the Union, providing you meet any other membership/departmental requirements and your work history is reviewed. New Members are sworn in monthly, and until you are sworn in as a Member, permit fees will continue to be deducted from your pay. Permit fees are non-refundable.
2. I don't have the required 40 Days experience. How do I obtain that?
NABET 700-M UNIFOR has created the Apprenticeship Program which is designed to provide paid placement opportunities to anyone who would like to begin a career in the film, television and digital media industry. For more information about the Apprenticeship Program, please click HERE. Seek out work experience on independent and non-union productions by calling places like the Canadian Film Centre (416-445-1446) to see if they have any projects in production looking for help. Keep in mind that in many cases, these opportunities may be unpaid.
3. How much work will I get as a Permittee?
It's difficult to predict how much work you'll get as a Permittee. In general, some departments are busier than others, but overall, it's entirely dependent on a number of factors such as how many shows we have in production, what kind of calls we're getting and how many Members are already working. Keep in mind that you're a freelancer and steady work is not guaranteed. It's always good to have some back-up income.
4. When is the next NABETiquette Course?
If there is an upcoming date scheduled, it will be listed on the homepage of our website (www.nabet700.com).
5. I have many years of film experience. Do I still have to take the NABETiquette course?
Yes. Everyone must take it as part of the application process.
6. I took the NABETiquette course years ago and am only applying for Permittee status now but I can't find my certificates, what can I do?
Anyone who has taken NABETiquette prior to 2020, will have to make a request to be issued a digital version of your certificate. If you took NABETiquette after July 7, 2017, please remember that your certificate expires after 2 years and you may have to redo the course. If you are unsure when you took the course, please contact the office and speak to administration.
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Your application must be reviewed by the Department and/or Vice-President of the department to which you are applying. You will be notified via mail once your application has been approved.
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Halle is my "typical" Siamese=possessing a very "her way or no way" cattitude, kind of an aloof, reserved girl...She has become much more loving with me the last few years; she always slept on the bed with me and the other girls, but now, for the first time ever, she has begun to sleep by my head and sometimes snuggle with me under the covers at night...I am very grateful to finally have a closer relationship with my extremely independent baby!
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OnAir Entertainment to open a new studio in Spain – 2023
OnAir Entertainment, the live dealer casino game provider, has revealed the location of its fourth studio. OnAir intends to open a new studio in Spain in the first part of next year. The company plans to preview its state-of-the-art studio concept at SBC Summit Barcelona 2022 this week.
Auto Roulette will be available in 18 different languages while Standard Roulette and the upcoming Nexus Roulette will be presented by Spanish speakers, adding to the OnAir collection of localized and native language tables.
Digital branding is a big part of custom live casino entertainment and this studio will be no exception with the localized dedicated digital branding environment reflecting the particular needs of operators serving the Spanish market.
The small but locally important studio should open by the end of the first quarter in 2023. A release by the company states that operators are already expressing interest in the offering with an eye toward expanding their portfolios.
Spain will join Italy and Romania as a new market in the coming year. Riga, Latvia; Bucharest, Hungary; and Tbilisi, Georgia all host or will host studios from the company with the Georgia studio covering four floors and bringing the table to count to more than 220 worldwide.
SBC Barcelona runs mid-week from September 20th to the 23rd and OnAir representatives will be on hand with a new stand to unveil the innovative state-of-the-art live casino products and technology for industry observers and stakeholders. Of course, salespeople will be on hand as well to help operators make the decision to utilize this fast-growing company's products and services.
OnAir has broken records by launching in 10 new markets in just 10 months with an aggressive global footprint expansion campaign. These markets include a suite of specifically tailored solutions for players in the Netherlands as well as Denmark, the imminent launch of the company's Romanian studios, and the upcoming Tbilisi studios in Q1 2023.
OnAir Entertainment wasted no time in collecting regulatory compliance accreditation and is already certified in the key markets of MGA, the Isle of Man, the UK, Greece, Ontario, Canada, Latvia, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
Head of Operations at OnAir Entertainment, Mathijs Beugelink said: "As part of our global expansion plans, Spain has always been in our plans to launch our immersive and customized games experiences, and what better products than with our wide range of roulette tables?"
He continued, "The time to make it happen is already here. We are committed to becoming the leading provider of live casino content in the industry, and this studio is another step towards achieving this goal."
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While many renovation projects are best left to summer, you may be surprised to find out that there are a few projects that can be done with ease in cold winter months. Putting final touches on the house before gatherings can help spruce up your home prior to the guests arriving. Final touches might include new decorations, replacing furniture items, or even rolling on a fresh coat of paint. A soothing blue or glistening white coat of paint can change the atmosphere of an entire room with minimal effort.
Painting the inside of your home during the winter has many benefits including faster paint drying, time savings, and additional time in the summer months to focus on outdoor renovations. Believe it or not, paint dries faster during cooler weather. The humidity of the summer months slows the drying process and takes up precious hours of your time. You've got better things to do than to watch paint dry.
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Top 10 Christmas Movies - In my opinion. 2015
- Hazel Butterfield
- 20 December 2015
Every Christmas Eve in the Butterfield household we have a movie and luscious food night with one of my best friends and her bloke. We then get a tad tipsy and stage a Santa break in for the kids. Dress up, take photos of catching him in the act nicking a shot of baileys, eating his treats left out by the kids, using the loo etc.. Then excitedly show the kids in the morning. It's a tradition, it works for us and we like it. A week before we democratically decide on the chosen movie, last year was The Holiday, this year we are still amidst our selection process.
Currently we have narrowed it down to:
Love Actually
Die Hard
101 Reykjavik (Yes really)
What makes a great Christmas movie for me is a compilation of the feel good factor, nostalgia, fun, cheese, tradition and the lack of predictability.
My Top 10 - based on the above and my recent requirement to assess and offer up an informed contender for Christmas Eve...
1. Elf (obviously)
2. Gremlins
3. Die Hard (I'm hoping this one wins this year's vote)
4. Bad Santa
5. Home Alone 1 & 2 (I pretend any after these do not exist)
6. Fred Claus
7. Love Actually
8. Arthur Christmas
9. It's A Wonderful Life
10. The Holiday
If you come across a movie called 'Shelby' about a Beagle, stay well clear. Do anything else, sleep, drink, clean, watch paint dry, anything...
Here's hoping for a snow day or more realistically, a wet day. My pedometer is not going to like the next week or so.
Merry Christmas!


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Australia loves a BBQ and so do the Koreans. We are off to Eastwood to Get hands on and cook Korean BBQ at 678 Korean BBQ. If you are craving some BBQ they will not have a problem fitting you in, as the venue is not short of space, it's huge. With K-pop parafanalia adorning … Continue reading Let it sizzle @678 Korean BBQ
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Return for new additions @Rozelle Espresso
We returned to Rozelle Espresso to check out their updated menu and noticed they have partnered with The Tiny Giant to add the fairy floss brioche to the menu which is a bright and exciting choice. The cafè is centrally located across from the school that hosts Rozelle markets, making it a great place to … Continue reading Return for new additions @Rozelle Espresso


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The Europe Desktop Virtualization Market would witness market growth of 11.1% CAGR during the forecast period (2017 ? 2023). Desktop virtualization is a system that is used by the users to maintain their individual desktops on a single, central server and is connected to central server through a LAN, WAN or over the Internet. Desktop virtualization has many benefits such as lower total cost of ownership (TCO), increased security, reduced energy costs, reduced downtime and centralized management. The need for increasing employee productivity, cost saving to elevate financial pressure, and simplified management and enhanced security (centralization of IT functions) are the major factors that are driving the market growth.
Based on Type, the market report segments the market into Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Desktop-as-a-Service, and Remote Desktop Services. Based on Organization Size, the market report segments the market into Small & Medium Enterprises and Large Enterprises. Based on Vertical, the market report segments the market into IT & Telecom, Government, Energy & Utilities, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, BFSI, Education, and Others. Based on Countries, the Europe Desktop Virtualization market segments the market into Germany, UK, France, Russia, Spain, Italy, and Rest of Europe.
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Branded photography is a great way to get your brand out there, and right in front of your customers. But, it's undeniably better to paint a picture with immersive promotional videos. Here at The Little Big Voice, we are experts in branded and promotional videos. From explainer films, to website adverts, customer testimonials to case studies and so much more, we can offer an immersive video experience to really bring your brand to life.
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New Challenges of Using Remote Workers
Now that health conditions have generally improved, should your operation return to pre-pandemic business as usual? Some company leaders are advocating for a complete return while others are comfortable with a remote workforce. Still others prefer a hybrid.
On one hand, traditionalists with "production paranoia" maintain that output suffers when employees work remotely and that there are substantial benefits to keeping all workers on the premises. On the other hand, some businesspeople see productivity rising with work-at-home employees and have even expressed concern that they're working too hard and may experience burnout. These two schools of thought appear to conflict with each other — but they actually share a common objective.
Old School: Don't Trust Workers
Traditionally, supervisors have been reluctant to allow employees to work from home mainly because they feared workers would be distracted or simply goof off. How could you be sure that they weren't watching TV, doing household chores or taking a nap?
The problem was that the office couldn't monitor the work being performed at home. Now, however, it's possible to track keystrokes, mouse movements and onscreen activities to determine exactly what a worker is doing and when. Some jobs that aren't heavily connected to computer functions are more difficult to monitor but tracking other functions may be possible. Monitoring may seem like an acceptable compromise for some workers motivated to continue working from home. But many employees are likely to push back on monitoring as a form of surveillance and indication of distrust. Is there a better way?
New School: Expect More from Workers
A new wave of managers has embraced the concept of remote workers. In fact, some supervisors expect their remote workers to deliver even more than they did before the pandemic hit. After all, the reasoning goes, at-home workers no longer spend time commuting. Usually, their "commute" involves no more than walking from one room of their home to another room. So they have more time to devote to work.
Also, workers aren't distracted by social interaction with coworkers. There's no one to chat with around the water cooler. They're not dissecting last night's big game or their favorite TV shows. Again, this leads to a greater focus on work — the ultimate goal of many managers.
But it does create a different set of problems. Breaks from the daily grind are still necessary. Keeping employees in constant work mode while they're home — which means they're putting in even more hours than usual — isn't necessarily the answer, either.
Find the Proper Balance
A general desire for a greater work/life balance has largely driven the "Great Resignation." In the past two years, many workers have jumped ship when they felt dissatisfied with their work environment. How then can managers retain current employees and attract new talent? Consider these practical suggestions.
Emphasize outcomes over input. Take a closer look at what's most important to your company. If you're usually more concerned about quality than quantity, don't place undue significance on productivity. Concentrate on the value you're getting from employees rather than on insisting workers remain at their desk every moment.
Measure what means the most. Along the same lines, is it necessary to measure activity by monitoring an employee's keystrokes on their computer? You'll be better served by measuring the results stemming from employee activities while they're working from home. Check off goals achieved rather than the hours worked.
Be flexible. There's a lot to be said about adopting a hybrid approach that suits the needs of your business. For example, if occasional face-to-face meetings are essential, you might schedule employees to work at the physical building location once or twice (or more) a month
Communicate with employees. This discussion shouldn't be a one-way street. Ask your employees about their preferences. The answers may surprise you. For instance, employees may not want to work from home full time. Employee preferences may dovetail with a hybrid schedule you're proposing or encourage you to fine-tune your strategies.
Schedule work breaks. This can be a great way to get employees to take a deep breath and then refocus on their work. It also enables workers to avoid distractions that can come at critical times. Use software to accommodate scheduling that benefits your company.
Be judicious about meetings. Zoom, Teams and comparable videoconferencing programs have eliminated one of the main complaints that traditionalists had about remote work. They enable virtual face-to-face meetings with your staff. But that doesn't mean you have to overload on videoconference meetings. Gather your workforce together when it accomplishes specific goals, but be smart about holding meetings, just like you should when workers are on the premises.
Use, but don't abuse, monitoring software. No one likes the idea that "Big Brother" is spying on them. Many workers cringe at the thought of their supervisors micromanaging them in this fashion. But certain software can be less intrusive and even welcome if it offers resources such as providing reminders and notifications.
Customize Your Approach
There are challenges ahead for employers that choose to use remote workers in some capacity going forward. You may have to tinker with arrangements to find the balance your company is seeking. However, if you're willing to remain flexible, you should be able to develop a solution that accommodates your businesses — and your employee's — needs.


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Closed Bug 757762 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago
[Linux] alarms too late / internal time wrong after resuming from sleep / suspend / hibernation mode
(Calendar :: Alarms, defect)
(Not tracked)
(Reporter: mozilla, Assigned: mmecca)
(1 file, 1 obsolete file)
4.00 KB, patch
Fallen: review+
Fallen: approval-calendar-aurora+
Fallen: approval-calendar-beta+
Fallen: approval-calendar-esr+
|Details | Diff | Splinter Review
12 years ago
I am using Lightning 1.4 with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120429 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1. Since one of the latest Lightning updates (I think it was 1.3) I noticed that alarm popups very often appear to late. With Lightning 1.4 the new "now" indicator (the red bar) was new, so now I see why the alarms appeared too late: the time that Lightning keeps internally often lags behind the real time. A specialty of my setup may be that I am using it on a Laptop that I frequently suspend. After waking up I see that the software clock of the system is correct while it takes Lightning at least a few minutes (sometimes half an hour) to notice that it was wrong. Just now I woke the laptop up in the morning, the system time clock showed 09:22:32 (Wed 23 May 2012) but Lightning's red line was at ~22:45 on Wed 23 May. While I am typing this, I set up a test event at 09:42 with an alarm 0 minutes before. It is now 09:46:00 and the alarm still hasn't shown up and the red indicator is still a bit above the alarm. This is unacceptable.
Comment 1•
12 years ago
The alarm that should have appeared at 09:42 finally showed up at about 09:54:30. It took until about 10:00:00 to visually see that red "now" indicator move up across the 09:42 event. (The laptop didn't suspend again in between.)
Comment 2•
12 years ago
We don't keep an internal time, but the red bar only updates every 15 minutes to avoid too much useless system load. Check out the pref calendar.view.timeIndicatorInterval and set it to 1 if you really need updates every minute. The alarms issue could happen due to a different set of timers. When the calendar refreshes, timers are created for events within the next hour or so. Although we pass flags to get a precise timer, maybe its not working. Did you suspend between the refresh and the alarm firing? Could you test without suspending inbeween to see if it makes a difference?
Comment 3•
12 years ago
No, there was no suspend between the 09:42 alarm setup and its final firing 12.5 minutes later (as I wrote in comment 1, but maybe I misunderstand the question?). Where do I have to look to see the active timers? I'm totally outdated regarding ways to debug calendar code, but I would give it a try...
Comment 4•
12 years ago
Are the late alarms reproducible if the laptop is not suspended at all after restarting Thunderbird?
Comment 5•
12 years ago
I had to restart SeaMonkey (not Thunderbird) but for the moment the problem seems to have stopped.
Comment 6•
12 years ago
OK, after some more tests I can confirm that suspending the laptop for a longer time (like several hours over night) without restarting SM afterwards causes the problem with the delayed alarms. Once I do restart the program, the problem is gone. Suspending for a short time (e.g. 45 minutes) doesn't seem to cause any problems.
Comment 7•
12 years ago
Hmm strange, we usually restart the alarm service on wakeup, which should set the timers again. I don't really know how to further debug this aside from adding some debug info, would you be comfortable modifying the files in the .xpi?
Comment 8•
12 years ago
Sure, I can modify files.
Comment 9•
12 years ago
* In calendar-js/calAlarmService.js - add cal.ERROR("AS STARTUP") inside the startup() function. - add cal.ERROR("AS SHUTDOWN") inside the shutdown() function. - add cal.ERROR("AS UPDATE") inside the contained notify function - add cal.ERROR("ADD TIMER" + aItem.title + " in " + aTimeout + " for " + cal.alarms.calculateAlarmDate(aItem, aAlarm)); inside the addTimer function - add cal.ERROR("FIRE TIMER " + cal.now() + " vs " + cal.alarms.calculateAlarmDate(aItem, aAlarm)) inside the notify functio, contained in addTimer. - add cal.ERROR("REMOVE TIMER " + aItem.title + " alarm " + aAlarm.toString(aItem)); inside the removeTimer functon - add cal.ERROR("WAKEUP: " + aTopic) inside the first if block of the observe function. That should give you enough debugging to help us see where its going wrong
Comment 10•
12 years ago
I added all that, restarted SeaMonkey and then suspended the laptop several times (but only briefly). The WAKEUP message never appeared. It only enters the observe function (of course with aTopic == "xpcom_shutdown") when I quit SeaMonkey. I looked for documentation of "wake_notification" but didn't find anything. Bug 438040 comment 0 suggests that it doesn't work on Linux, although that comment is from 2008. That would also not explain why I never saw this problem until recently.
Comment 11•
12 years ago
Hmm indeed this search <http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/search?string=wake_notification> suggests that there is no support aside from mac and windows. Very unfortunate. If timers are not reliable over a sleep cycle, thats probably a core bug. We try to reinitialize them using the wake notification, but it seems we are out of luck on Linux...
Comment 12•
12 years ago
As a hack, we could track the current time in the alarm service, and run a consistency check every minute to check if current time > expected time, and reload alarms if so.
Comment 13•
12 years ago
Sounds like a plan. I'm not sure if the skew will be large enough to detect for a timer that runs every minute though. Maybe just set a timer that should fire every 10-15 minutes, save the expected time of firing with it, then when it fires compare the two. We should tinker with the interval to find out. If someone knows linux API to detect when the systen wakes, we could also try patching core.
Comment 14•
12 years ago
I have a possible patch for core that makes linux emit wake_notification. I don't know if it works yet and I don't know if it will be accepted since it uses functions from kernel headers not usually copied to /usr/include/linux.
12 years ago
Depends on: 758848
See Also: → https://launchpad.net/bugs/1052800
Comment 16•
11 years ago
This is a temporary workaround until wake_notification is supported on linux. I set the sleep monitor to check the expected time every minute, so that the alarms can be reloaded soon after a sleep cycle. I haven't tested this on Windows or Mac, I imagine there may be times where the alarm service could reload twice if the monitor timer fires before the wake_notification event. Maybe we could make the sleep monitor code OS dependant, or just use the sleep monitor for now until wake_notification is supported on all platforms?
Attachment #668783 - Flags: feedback?(philipp)
Assignee: nobody → matthew.mecca
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Comment 18•
11 years ago
Comment on attachment 668783 [details] [diff] [review] WIP - Temporary Workaround Sounds like a good idea. We could also make this platform dependent and only run the timer on Linux, or better yet turn around the condition and check if the os is not osx or windows.
Attachment #668783 - Flags: feedback?(philipp) → feedback+
Comment 20•
11 years ago
What's the status of this? I got a Fedora bug on this (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910976) with a suggested patch. Or I could try the WIP workaround here. Suggestions?
Comment 21•
11 years ago
(In reply to Orion Poplawski from comment #20) Looks like the patch attached in the Fedora bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910976 is just a copy of the WIP patch that is attached here.
Comment 22•
11 years ago
(In reply to Orion Poplawski from comment #20) > What's the status of this? I got a Fedora bug on this > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910976) with a suggested patch. > Or I could try the WIP workaround here. Suggestions? I'm planning to finish this up soon (when time permits). At a quick glance the suggested patch on the Fedora bug looks the same as the WIP patch, which will likely be the final patch with some OS conditional code.
Comment 23•
11 years ago
Ah, sorry for not checking. Also, 1.9.1 should be out soon, right? I'd like to do that update and this patch at the same time.
Comment 24•
11 years ago
I posted the patch to Fedora. It is a copy of the last patch here, with lines adjusted to run against the Fedora code. I posted it to Fedora because this bug harms 100% of Fedora users, while here in Mozilla-land you have a buffer of MacOS and Windows users you also have to keep happy. I would strongly prefer the bug to get fixed upstream, but until you take the patch, I'd like Fedora to pick it up. Because I hate missing my meetings :-)
Comment 25•
11 years ago
If Orion picks up this patch (or its fedora equivalent, see comment 21), that will make me happy. But what is needed to get this patch into Lightning proper, so other Unix users can make their meetings?
11 years ago
Summary: Lightning's alarms too late / internal time is wrong → [Linux] alarms too late / internal time wrong after resuming from sleep / suspend / hibernation mode
Comment 26•
11 years ago
Use sleep monitor on platforms other than Windows and Mac.
Attachment #668783 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #717538 - Flags: review?(philipp)
Comment 27•
11 years ago
Comment on attachment 717538 [details] [diff] [review] Fix v1 Looks good to me, r=philipp
Attachment #717538 - Flags: review?(philipp) → review+
Comment 28•
11 years ago
Pushed to comm-central - https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/51640de8ce37
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → 2.4
Comment 29•
11 years ago
Thunderbird just pulled in the 1.9.1 update, and the bug isn't fixed. I'm on Fedora 17. Fortunately, my meeting this morning had been canceled. The only way it works is if I restart Thunderbird after suspending. Otherwise, I never get the reminder. Is this fix only in the Fedora thunderbird-lightning package, or in lightning proper?
Comment 30•
11 years ago
This bug is only fixed in Lightning 2.4 for Thunderbird 22 (and newer), see comments and status fields above.
Attachment #717538 - Flags: approval-calendar-release?(philipp)
Attachment #717538 - Flags: approval-calendar-beta?(philipp)
Attachment #717538 - Flags: approval-calendar-aurora?(philipp)
Whiteboard: [wanted-1.9.x]
11 years ago
Attachment #717538 - Flags: approval-calendar-release?(philipp)
Attachment #717538 - Flags: approval-calendar-release+
Attachment #717538 - Flags: approval-calendar-beta?(philipp)
Attachment #717538 - Flags: approval-calendar-beta+
Attachment #717538 - Flags: approval-calendar-aurora?(philipp)
Attachment #717538 - Flags: approval-calendar-aurora+
Comment 31•
11 years ago
Carl Ollivier-Gooch added the following comment to Launchpad bug report 1052800: It would be great to see this backported to versions that the various long-term support Linux distros use. Otherwise this bug fix (long overdue) still won't reach a lot of users until their next OS upgrade, at least. -- http://launchpad.net/bugs/1052800
Comment 32•
11 years ago
I'm afraid this is another case of "yes we support Linux, but it's not a priority." After all, it's not like we have a lot of options. This is why I stopped using T-bird long ago, and only returned for exchange mail support. I only us it at work, otherwise I use a browser. Unfortunately there just aren't any reliable options for Linux, outside of Android.
Comment 33•
11 years ago
comm-aurora - https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-aurora/rev/884489720bf6 comm-beta - https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/b63fcd905c8e comm-esr17 - https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr17/rev/17a3b0e4c833
Whiteboard: [wanted-1.9.x]
Target Milestone: 2.4 → 1.9.2
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