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Usman M. Bajwa 8/3/2012 11:30:30 PMBeautiful light and great sky, Terry. This we should see again, good luck!
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Terry A. Stoa 8/9/2012 8:24:22 AMThanks Doc and Carol. The Gateway Arch, or simply "the Arch" is really neat. The movie on how it was constructed is fascinating too - especially for engineers like me. #10268938
The Gateway Arch, or Gateway to the West, is an arch that is the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. It was built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States. At 630 feet (192 m), it is the tallest man-made monument in the United States, Missouri's tallest accessible building, and the largest architectural structure designed as a weighted or flattened catenary arch. The arch is located at the site of St. Louis' foundation, on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Photo taken July 9, 2012.
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I have the pan and the method for cooking tamagoyaki set to the point where it's more fun than chore. I'm just working on perfecting the recipe. My question is, does it have to be sweet? Every recipe I read has so much sugar in it. Sweet eggs kind of make me gag (I hate french toast), though I do tend to dip my slices in ketchup.
I make tamagoyaki with dashi (or vegetable broth), mirin, soy sauce and salt (and sometimes onion or garlic powder). Is that still, technically, tamagoyaki? Is it the method or the recipe that's important?
Sugar is not really important, and I do tend to put in far less sugar than is usually called for for tamagoyaki. I don't like overly sweet eggs either myself, though I do like French toast when it's not sweet (just soak the bread in milk, dip in egg and flour, fry in salted butter...mmmm) - sugar should just mildly enhance it and be a counterbalance to the salt imo. So anyway, leaving out sugar is fine! One of my favorite tamagoyaki just has salt/pepper, bit of soy sauce, and chopped green onions.
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One Direction's Harry Styles Strips Down At Chicago Concert
The singer was surprised by his bandmates when they ripped his shirt off mid-song — but it looked like the ladies sure didn't mind!
Harry Styles is the resident heartbreaker of One Direction, and he drove all the fans crazy when he lost his shirt during the group's June 2 show in Chicago!
Harry, 18, was stripped down by Zayn Malik and Liam Payne during a performance of "What Makes You Beautiful", and needless to say the crowd FREAKED out. What a treat it must have been for the 1D faithful to see his abs live!
Is Harry your favorite singer in One Direction, HollywoodLifers?
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An electro Jazz lounge music with spices of middle east and India sounds. Percussions and exotic instruments mixed with an electro groove and a bit of jazzy piano, this song will give you a sexy and peaceful ambience.
Thievery Corporation, Kruder, Tosca, Morcheeba, Zero 7 influence…Loop version included.
Also included an "International" alternative version, without the Indian Sitar, less exotic, more classic, but always "sexy" .
Tracks Included. -India Jazz Lounge Music: 3:00 (0 to 3:00 in the Preview) -International Jazz Lounge Music: 3:00 (3:01 to 6:01 in the Preview) -India Jazz Lounge Music Loop: 0:38 (6:02 to 6:40 in the Preview)
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Police are searching for a masked suspect who attempted to rob a woman in a parking lot Sunday night.
— Police are searching for a masked suspect who attempted to rob a woman in a parking lot Sunday night.
According to the Pennsylvania State Police, at around 10:40 p.m., Erin L. Greydanus, 31, Honesdale, left the Pizza Hut restaurant in the Route 6 plaza and was going to her car.
As she was entering her car, she told police she heard footsteps and saw someone running toward the vehicle.
Greydanus attempted to hurry up and get into the vehicle and close the door, however, the suspect was able to get to her before the door was closed.
The suspect grabbed the woman and asked her for money. Police said the victim continued to fight the suspect and he fled the scene without getter her purse.
The man was last seen walking along Highway 6 in the area of The Alpine. He was walking east.
The suspect is described as approximately 5-feet, four-inches tall, around 160 pounds with a stocky build, was wearing camouflage pants, a dark colored hoodie and a black, full-faced ski mask.
Trooper Robert Urban investigated the incident and he is asking anyone with information to contact the Honesdale Barracks at 253-7126.
Theft, fraud and forgery
A woman has been charged with felony theft, accused of illegally using another person's debit card.
According to the PSP, Lorena Mae Prussia, 32, was served a felony warrant on Feb. 14 in Sterling.
According to police, Prussia forged three checks and made numerous unauthorized charges on debit and credit card accounts belonging to Christopher George Schaffer, 57, of Sterling.
The alleged incidents took pace between Nov. 16, 2012 and Feb. 5.
Prussia was arraigned before Magistrate Bonnie Carney and remanded to the custody of the Wayne County Jail after failing to post $10,000 bail.
Trooper John Chervanka investigated the case.
PFA violation
The Honesdale Borough Police Department made an arrest last week of a man accused of violating a protection order.
The Protection From Abuse order was issued in January to Joseph Lipski, 44, of Yonkers, N.Y.
According to police, Lipski allegedly sent several text messages to the plaintiff on the morning of Feb. 14 which was in violation of the order. Lipski turned himself in at the borough police department.
He was cited for one count of indirect criminal contempt and was provided with a preliminary arraignment at the county courthouse.
Lipski was released on $5,000 unsecured bail. A court appearance is pending.
Criminal mischief
Borough police are investigating a report of criminal mischief near Mick's Barber Shop on Main Street.
According to police, sometime between 5 p.m. Feb. 14 and 9 a.m. Feb. 15, someone ripped apart decorative lighting which was hanging from a small tree in front of the barber shop.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the police department at 253-1900.


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Robert Szulis, farmer, owned Szulis Florists & Greeenhouses
Feb. 26, 1941 – June 13, 2013
Robert Szulis, a longtime Clarence farmer and owner of Szulis Florists & Greenhouses, died in his home Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 72.
Born in Clarence Center, Mr. Szulis was raised on Szulis Farms on Goodrich Road, where his parents, Chester and Mary, taught him at a young age how to grow vegetables and flowers.
He graduated from Clarence High School and then went on to study flower arrangement and design at the Canadian School of Floral Art so he could continue the family business.
Mr. Szulis took over the farm after the death of his father in 1985.
He enjoyed being a farmer and worked sunrise to sunset on the 300-acre farm and its dozens of greenhouses, family members said. He was a familiar sight at area farmers' markets, including North Tonawanda, Elmwood and Bidwell, Super Flea, Buffalo Place and Clinton-Bailey.
Survivors include his wife of 35 years, the former Patricia Gattie; a son, Robert Jr.; a daughter, Jennifer; a brother, John; and a sister, Dorothy.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Mary Catholic Church, 6919 Transit Road, Swormville.


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Global Internet traffic is expected to grow 32% per year from 2010 to 2015. In 2010, an average of 46 terabits/second traveled over the Internet and should surpass 199 terabits/second in 2015. But while IP traffic is growing exponentially, the budgets for network equipment are growing at less than 10%.
IDC predicts that spending on Ethernet equipment will grow about 8% per year from 2011 to 2014, so a critical challenge facing the industry is how to supply 32% more traffic annually while receiving only 8% more revenue per year. To meet both capacity and cost forecasts, the cost of bandwidth must decline at 18% per year (see Figure 1).
GROWTH SPURTS: The evolution of the Internet
Meeting this required reduction in bandwidth cost will come from numerous factors, but first let's examine factors contributing to bandwidth growth.
Factors contributing to traffic growth
1. Video. Internet traffic growth is largely due to video streams to millions of televisions and smart devices (desktops, laptops, media tablets and smartphones). The first generation of Internet video streams were short, low-quality videos at tens or hundreds of kilobits per second (kbps) to PCs. These video streams are now being sent to billions of other devices and second-generation Internet video streams are long, high-quality videos at 1Mbps-5Mbps sent to high-definition televisions. Instead of streaming amateur video of skateboarding dogs to PCs, users are streaming feature-length films with over-the-top (OTT) video services like Netflix to televisions in their living rooms. The combination of long-form, high-definition videos and billions of access devices creates exponential traffic growth. [Also see: "Cisco: Puppy cams threaten Internet"]
2. Proliferation of smart devices. IDC predicts that for the first time ever, more than 1 billion smart devices will ship this year. Smartphones will make up the majority of these devices, with more than 500 million sold in 2012. By 2014, the number of smart devices in use will grow to more than 3 billion devices. These devices will make the Internet more accessible than ever so users stay online from more places for longer periods of time.
3. Expansion of the user base. The user base of the Internet is expanding rapidly as the cost to connect declines and the ease of connecting increases. According to the Visual Networking Index, the Internet user base is growing at about 5% per year from 1.7 billion users in 2010 to 2.2 billion users in 2015. The users are not only growing geographically, but they are growing demographically as the Internet becomes easier to use with more smart devices.
These three factors whip up a perfect storm that will stay with us for at least a decade. Internet service providers need to build out their networks to weather the flood.
The American scholar Albert Bartlett stated, "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." Examples help. If you invested $100 and got an 8% return over 10 years, your investment would reach $216. Not bad. But if you found an investment that had a 32% return rate, the $100 would multiply to $1,606 after 10 years -- much better.
With 32% annual growth, the money grows almost eight times more. The amazing aspect of the growth in Internet bandwidth is that there are minimal limitations to the demand for cheap bandwidth. The limitation in bandwidth is mainly from the supply side.
Reducing the cost of bandwidth
The main limiting factor in the supply side of the Internet is the amount of money invested in equipment supporting the devices where all the Internet traffic starts. The only way to provide exponentially growing bandwidth with minimal growth in investment is to offer more bandwidth/dollar every year. Ethernet plans to deliver more bandwidth/dollar in a number of ways including:
1. Denser, faster ports. The first main factor of bandwidth costs declines is by increasing port density per blade or switch and increasing the port speed. When the first 10G switches were released in 2002, they would sport one or two 10G ports/blade or pizza box switch. In 2011, many switches or switch blades in modular switches supported up 48 or even 64 10G ports. Integration and technology maturity enable higher port counts that drive the cost of bandwidth to new lows. [Also see: "The push is on to cut 100G Ethernet's price"]
ANALYSIS: What's beyond 10G Ethernet?
2. Higher utilization. Many Ethernet ports and servers have utilization rates of less than 30%. With technologies like server virtualization and media servers, the utilization of the network can rise over 50%. This higher utilization rate doesn't cost the user any more money and delivers more bandwidth.
3. Economies of scale. As Ethernet technology scales in production, manufacturers invest more money in technologies to lower costs. If only a few hundred ports of an Ethernet variant are expected to be shipped in a year, then only a few vendors are investing in the manufacturing technology. When tens or even hundreds of millions of ports of an Ethernet technology are sold every year, the industry reaches economies of scale so that production costs go down and competition goes up.
4. Integrated photonics. Most technophiles know how semiconductors have been integrating more and more electronics and lowering costs for decades. The photonics industry only used one laser and receiver on a link up to 10Gbps, so integrated photonics was not that necessary. With 40G and 100G, arrays of lasers are needed to make an optical module. Currently, 40GBASE-SR4 uses an array of four lasers while 100GBASE-SR10 uses an array of 10 lasers. These modules are using integrated manufacturing techniques to drive the cost of the modules down.
In summary, this array of factors will drive the cost of Ethernet bandwidth down so the gap between bandwidth demand and IT budgets can be overcome. To bridge the forecasted gap of 32% increase in bandwidth with 8% increase in spending, the cost/bit for Ethernet will need to drop at about 18% per year on average. The largest change in Ethernet costs over the next few years will be moving to higher-speed ports at lower cost and density and the economies of scale of Ethernet in general. The maturity of 40G and 100G technologies will drive the cost of bandwidth down as well.
The next fundamental change in Ethernet will be related to using integrated photonics to drive down the cost per bit in terabit/second systems. Many modular switches already support terabits/second when hundreds of 10G ports or tens of 100G ports are supported. Next generation modular switches will support tens of terabits/second via thousands of 10G ports and hundreds of 100G ports. Larger data centers will require this scale of bandwidth and Ethernet use the latest technologies to enable new applications on unprecedented scales. The exact mixture of technologies to reduce the cost/bit of Ethernet are not known, but the cost/bit will decrease as sure as the demand for more bandwidth will rise.
About the author: Kipp serves as president of the Ethernet Alliance. He is an author and engineer who participates in industry organizations, develops standards and writes books as a senior technologist at Brocade. Kipp is an expert on networking, including protocols, fiber optic links and cable management.
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ListenGood: April 2008 Archives
Just when I was feeling guilty about heading into Passover without a thought of my desert-crossing ancestors or my going-without-bread family members, I ran into Ronald Lewis, a sweet-hearted, tough-minded guy who is still among the lonely pioneers who've returned to his Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood. (He was a key character in a piece I did for Salon last year.)
"You comin' to the Seder?" he asked.
"What Seder?"
"The one at my house."
Turns out LJ Goldstein, photographer, Jew-about-town, founding member of Krewe du Jieux, was holding his krewe's ritual dinner at Lewis's recently restored home. If my culture was on display for a night at Lewis's place, so was his, permanently: When I introduced my wife, Erica, Lewis commanded: "Go see my museum!" -- the House of Dance and Feathers located just behind his home (this is the second edition, and impressive at that, reconstructed after Lewis lost his previous artifacts in the floods).
Some guests had prepared traditional Jewish fare -- kugel and matzoh ball soup and so on. There was brisket, too -- from The Joint, a favorite Bywater barbecue spot. We sat on the floor and worked through two hours of a Passover service far more faithful than my family's version. And different -- the Haggadah, for instance, began with "Shalom, y'all." Helen Regis, scholar of all things second-line, was there, as was Joel Dinnerstein, who is on Tulane Univeristy's faculty. So was Willie Birch, whose paintings, drawings, and mixed-media sculptures tell stories of struggle and transcendence as powerfully as the Haggadah.
"Yeah. I'm doin' a multicultural thing," Lewis joked when Birch showed up. When it came time to give thanks and to reflect, he turned serious. "I'm thankful for being back. But I miss the Ninth Ward like it was. I used to be able to just walk and see everyone and everything where there is still mostly nothing."
From there, as any good Seder does, we traced the tale of enslaved Jews on the run from Egypt, and I thought about how little difference there is between "Let My People Go" and "Let My People Go Home."


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No longer does a bibliophile have to ponder in agony: Do I stay home and read and drink beer alone, or do I venture out and read among the masses at a bar? Well, fellow imbibing bookworms, your search is over. Rain Dogs in Riverside has it all. Good drinks, good eats (menu available soon) and its own precious little library.
With a plethora of books and beers from which to choose, your night is sure to be fulfilling. Opened in July by local entrepreneurs in-the-know Christina Wagner, Ian Ranne and Will Greene, the bar in Historic Five Points draws a diverse crowd — much like the surrounding neighborhood denizens.
The space also serves as a venue for travelling musicians and artists; a recent show featured The Slaughter Daughters from Oregon, and St. Augustine artist Tony Rodrigues has several pieces on display. Displaying local art is an important part of Rain Dogs' appeal, and owners Wagner and Ranne are themselves performing musicians.
Some ongoing monthly events include DJ D.O.T.S. Dance Party every first Friday (soul, funk, rock n roll on all vinyl), Dialectable Beats $BIG BUCK$ Crew every first Saturday (hip hop, funk, soul), and Tambor (five-piece Latin jazz fusion) on the last Saturday of the month.


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HIRE A VETERAN Week job fair held Nov. 14 at the DAV, 300 Sherwood Road. Veterans only from 9 to 10 a.m. All other job seekers from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
TAKE OFF POUNDS Sensibly meets every Thursday at Pine Valley Methodist Church. Weigh-ins at 4:30 p.m. meeting at 5 p.m. Call 910-455-4930.
SALVATION ARMY Thrift Store, 204 S. Wilmington Hwy., will hold a �Not So Scary Costume Party� from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Oct. 31 with prizes, candy and more. Call 910-378-7188.
LOWER CAPE Fear Hospice offers a free grief support group session for veterans from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at the USO, Tallman Street. Lunch served. Registration required at 910-796-7991.
SWANSBORO Shrine Club meets at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 with Noble Carl Smith, Sudan Temple Marshal attending. Where club shirts and fez.
SECOND CHANCE Mission of Hope will hold a fish/chicken dinner fundraiser at 11 a.m. Nov. 1 at 309 Court St. Plates $7. Delivery with five or more meals. Call 910-455-7111.
ONSLOW HOUSE Assisted Living will hold a fall festival from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1 with fun and games for the residents, families and community.
KIDS NIGHT IN, Parents Night Out sponsored by Swansboro Parks and Recreation from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 1 for kids ages K-6th grades at the community center. Register at 910-326-2600.
JACKSONVILLE Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual BASES awards reception at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 1 at Northside High School encouraging businesses to be involved in schools.
FIRST FRIDAY Community Contra Dances �Dance and Thanksgiving� at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 at Onslow Farmer�s Market. Call 910-548-0505 or visit onslowncfarmersmarket.com.
CHARITY PRO-AM Tennis Tournament to benefit Carteret General Hospital�s New Cancer Center held Nov. 1-3 at Country Club of the Crystal Coast. Call 252-808-6646.
COASTAL Carolina Clay Guild hosts its annual Holiday Show and Sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 2-3 at Hannah Block Community Arts Center, Wilmington. Free admission.
SEASIDE ARTS Council presents Samantha Casey and the Bluegrass Jam at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Assembly room at Swansboro Town Hall. Tickets $10 members; $15 non-members.
DAV CHAPTER 16, 301 Roosevelt Road, hosts bingo every Friday at 7 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m. Call 910-455-3400.


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Quote:So let me get this straight.You reject the celebration of Xmas simply because the 'herd' at large does it?
Quote:While I personally dislike the idea of christmas season, I have no problem telling someone else Merry Christmas. Just because I don't like it doesn't mean I can't tell someone else who does to enjoy it and wish them well.
Quote:And what is wrong with the reasoning of a child? It often times makes more sense than the reasoning of "mature adults".
Quote: Not having to deal with: large, frustrated shopping crowds, increased expenses, trying to return things you got two (or more) of, having to make sure that no one else was getting so and so the same thing you did...... A reward in its self.But if any Satanist finds a reason TO celebrate Christmas..... Whatever floats your boat.
Quote: Don't be surprised if you're awakened at night by my whispering: "My prescious......"
Quote:Christmas is a term in conversation - here and now. And if you were referring to Christmas as a holiday, and I was talking about my dog named Christmas, it would be hard to make sense of it all. Any term needs to have a very fixed meaning, otherwise different sides are talking of different things bearing the same names. Many misunderstanings arise from this practice.
Quote: Stop hating everything that you dislike.
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With voter numbers in county districts shifting out of balance, commissioners asked county staff Monday to devise a redistricting plan by the end of the year that would realign district populations within about 10 percent of each other.
With voter numbers in county districts shifting out of balance, commissioners asked county staff Monday to devise a redistricting plan by the end of the year that would realign district populations within about 10 percent of each other.
By a 4-0 vote, with Mike Edney absent due to a court appearance, Henderson County commissioners directed staff to look at ways to equalize the five "residency districts" in a way that avoids dividing municipalities or precincts. They also asked to avoid mapping two current commissioners within the same district.
Commissioner Grady Hawkins pointed out that the county's last redistricting was in 2001, which put the difference between the lowest and highest district's population around 1,200. Thanks to shifts in population since then, Hawkins' District 5 now has nearly 6,500 more people than Commissioner Larry Young's District 3.
Chairman Charlie Messer said commissioners last looked at redistricting in fiscal year 2007-08, "and I thought it was getting out of kilter then by a couple of large developments that were moving into the county. I agree the numbers need to be aligned."
"They're pretty much well out of balance," agreed Young. He suggested that county staff work with the Henderson County Board of Elections to draw up new boundary proposals that equalize district populations in a way that doesn't split up precincts, if possible.
Commissioners also unanimously agreed to ask the county's state legislative delegation to introduce a local bill that would require commissioners to serve their entire term within the district from which they're elected. Currently, the law only requires they live within a district to be a candidate there.
Hawkins cited an example several years ago where a sitting commissioner moved into another commissioner's district after the election, "which kind of left one district unoccupied. And that's because of the way the legislation was written, where you only needed to be a resident of the district to be a candidate."
"I think in order to be elected, quite frankly, you should live in the district, and in order to continue to sit as a county commissioner, you need to live in the district," agreed Vice Chairman Tommy Thompson.
However, County Attorney Russ Burrell warned that the University of North Carolina's School of Government has held the state constitution only requires that county commissioners reside within the county in which they're elected.
"We can try," Burrell said. "I'm just saying there may be a barrier that we can't jump over."
Hawkins also suggested the board could look at allowing a countywide selection of the chairman's position. Messer said he thought he would oppose such a move, preferring the current policy in which commissioners elect their own chair.
"We work with one another and we know who does the job," he said, adding that the board has mostly agreed on major issues such as the county budget. "Two years ago, I know we had three new commissioners on the board... You just try to be fair."
Thompson said he wasn't "in agreement, necessarily, with countywide selection of the chair, but all these things we can discuss."
In other business, commissioners thanked ABC Board Chairman Beau Waddell and his four board members for their work in determining whether there was enough demand to support a sixth liquor store in an unincorporated area of the county.
The commissioners did not object to the ABC board's decision in August to disband, a month after a consultant's report found the addition of three new ABC stores in that many years has saturated the area liquor market to the point where building another store would jeopardize some existing outlets.
The consultants said projected population growth could justify placing a county-run ABC store in Etowah or the Mountain Home area within three to five years.
"That being that far off in the distance, there's really no need for us to waste each other's time," said Waddell, who added that the $9,000 report sets the stage for commissioners to reassess the need for another liquor store in the future.
Thompson said the public should recognize that the county ABC board did a year's worth of work gratis.
"All your efforts, all your time, all the worry and everything you went through, you did not at all ask for any expenses from your budget," he said. "The only amount of money that was spent from that budget was to do the report."
Waddell said the report can be easily updated with new demographic data, which could help future boards determine where best to place a county-run ABC store when population growth merits it.
"I do think it was money well spent," he said. "People will debate that, but it is information that will be useful in the future."
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I should state that I've read Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry many, many times. In my younger days, I was fascinated by the facts of the case. That fascination has waned a bit, but I still seem to latch onto any new information I can. That book remains one of the few that I've read more than once. Therefore, I think I have a pretty good handle on the details as Bugliosi presented them. However, looking back on it now, I think Bugliosi's presentation style and ego hampered that book and perhaps distorted some of the facts. It's going to be hard to write this review without comparing it to that book.
As for this book, I really enjoyed it. I was surprised by all of the new information that Guinn was able to assemble. By talking to others who hadn't spoken to an author before now, Guinn was able to present some new information about Charlie's life, "the Family" and of course, the murders. Perhaps some of this information was just new-to-me because it's amazing that some of this stuff wasn't known before. It has been over 40 years.
I loved that Guinn presented the material chronologically. I had complaints about authors doing this with other true crime books, but in this case I was happy about the way it was presented. It really helped the facts and events in order as they happened rather than a mishmash of random happenings. The book also answered some questions that I had, some regarding the sequence of events. I won't go into them here because they won't make sense if you don't know the details of the story.
I loved that Guinn didn't editorialize the material. He presented the information in a clear, concise manner without adding his own two cents into the mix. What a welcome change from the other book.
This book focused more on Charlie's failed attempts to garner some interest from the music industry and his intense desire for a music career and less about the Helter Skelter, the race war that was supposed to come about from the Tate/LaBianca murders. It had me questioning whether or not that war was the main motive for the murders. I don't know if there will ever be a definitive answer to that.
Guinn doesn't just write about Manson and his Family; he also presents lots of information about what was happening in the world at that time, a very chaotic time in American history. I'm not a huge history buff, so a lot of the information was new to me. It was all fascinating. I also learned more about LSD than I'll ever need to know. I hadn't given the drug that much thought, but I did have some misconceptions about it that Guinn cleared up.
My one disappointment was the trial portion of the book. Although it was condensed quite a bit, that section repeated too much of what Helter Skelter had to say about it. There were a few new tidbits of information presented, so it wasn't all bad. This book wouldn't be complete without it, so I guess I can't complain too much. It's really my fault for reading the other book too many times.
Here are a few of my favourite quotes:
...compares Charlie to a cancer cell because he thrived by eradicating everything around him that was healthy. (page 399)
The unsettling 1960s didn't create Charlie, but they made it possible for him to bloom in full, malignant flower. (page 399)Highly recommended. If you want to know more about Manson and his Family, in my opinion this is the new go-to book.
For more information about this book, please visit Simon & Schuster's website.
I'd like to thank those nice people at Simon & Schuster for this review copy.
Manson: The Life and Time of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn, Simon & Schuster ©2013. ISBN 9781451645163(Hardcover), 495p, includes index and various appendices.


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Those who lament the lack of diversity in Chicago's off-Loop scene, and those who just enjoy a unstintingly immersive and gutsy piece of theater, will find much of interest in "Hoodoo Love," the very promising and powerful first production of a brand-new Chicago theater company known as The Collective Theatre. It sports the impressively intense directing services of co-founder Nelsan Ellis, currently best known for playing Lafayette on HBO's vampire-themed "True Blood," but clearly a stage director with striking commitment and potential.
Katori Hall's 2007 play, which has not been seen before in Chicago, is very much in Alice Walker territory ("The Color Purple"), filled as it is with poetic language and rough sexual themes. It's centered on Toulou (Lynn Wactor), a struggling, oppressed young woman in 1930s Tennessee who dreams of singing the Memphis blues on Beale Street. Toulou has two significant male problems in her life — and one tempting female solution.
The men are Toulou's rambling lover, Ace of Spades (LaRoyce Hawkins), who has to be persuaded to stay if Toulou is to attach herself to his dreams and his body, and Toulou's abusive brother, Jib (Mark Smith) who has to be persuaded to leave his sister alone. Eschewing the better choice of dealing with these problems directly, tough as that would be for a dirt-poor gal like this, Toulou turns to a neighbor, known as Candy Lady (Toni Lynice Fountain), who has various available potions and lotions that can help a struggling girl control her men. At a price.
"Hoodoo Love" is a play with music, which often means some dude laying down a few guitar licks at the side of the stage. Not here. The musicality of this piece is spectacularly realized here in the bowels of the Athenaeum Theatre, with a deeply focused three-piece band, one of whom seemed so lost in the ambience of the show that you feared for his ability to snap out of it and face the rest of the day, and the formidable vocal services of lead singer Opal Demetria Staples.
Staples is a legendary name in Chicago gospel music, and Opal Demetria Staples not only has the famous family pipes but a rich (and nicely sardonic) interpretive gift. Better yet, there are a lot of other legit singers in this cast (both Hawkins and Smith among them). If the reviews of the New York premiere of this show are to be believed, the musicality of Hall's language and of the music behind these characters were kept in opposite corners of a church. Not here.
If you're a fan of old-line acoustic blues, this show is well worth your time for the music alone, whatever you might think of the play.
I thought very highly of it — mostly because Ellis so clearly commits to the melancholy mood and sexual gestalt of this piece and the reality of these characters. One would not want to over-emphasize how much "True Blood" has impacted Ellis, who still is a young artist. But in my mind, you can see the influence of his spending so much time in a TV show that puts so much emphasis on sensuality of place — and on a kind of punk-Bayou aesthetic style that's not that far, really, from 1930s Memphis. "True Blood," of course, has the money to create many settings at once, each malleable to mood. To a large extent, Ellis achieves something similar here in a little Chicago studio, only with a lot less money and with a real talent for the particular needs of the stage.
Most of these actors are newcomers to Chicago theater and Wactor, who plays the lead role, has an endearingly earnest quality coupled with a matter-of-factness that only makes you care more for her character, stuck without an easy way to achieve her aspirations. The two men are both compelling in opposite ways: Hawkins has a rich sexuality; Smith feels aptly insidious. As Candy Lady, Fountain could use more definition and amplification, but she has the right searing eyes and unstinting presence.
Overall, "Hoodoo Love" needs to lose at least 10 minutes from its running time; if this company were smart, it would take care to fill in some pauses before the next performance. Granted, this is not a show that needs to move at breakneck speed — the Memphis blues always take their sweet time. But it still has to respect its audience's time. Clearly, Ellis and his cast know how to breathe as one, while making a world wail from the shadows. If they trim away just a little, they'd really have something to sing about here.
When: Through Oct. 21
Where: Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave.
Running time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
Tickets: $32 at 773-935-6875 or athenaeumtheatre.org


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"In May 2007 I ran some benchmarks of Dragonfly 1.8 to evaluate progress of its SMP implementation, which was the original focus of the project when it launched in 2003 and is still widely believed to be an area in which they had made concrete progress. This was part of a larger cross-OS multiprocessor performance evaluation comparing improvements in FreeBSD to Linux, NetBSD and other operating systems. The 2007 results showed essentially no performance increase from multiple processors on dragonfly 1.8, in contrast to the performance of FreeBSD 7.0 which scaled to 8 CPUs on the benchmark. Recently Dragonfly 1.12 was released, and the question was raised on the dragonfly-users mailing list of how well the OS performs after a further year of development. I performed several benchmarks to study this question."


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On a 6-1 vote with two members absent, the Kershaw County Board of School Trustees approved a resolution Tuesday amending a proposed bond referendum that would ultimately ask voters to support a penny sales tax in order to pay for new school construction and improvements. The board also voted, 6-1, to approve the language of a second referendum listing out those projects. Trustee Kim Durant voted against both measures; trustees Don Copley and Derrick Proctor were absent.
I stood on the edge of a swimming pool over the Fourth of July weekend and wavered between whether I should jump in or take the steps. I'd tested the waters with a foot dip and I knew they were cold. I spent the holiday in South Point, Ohio, which had just had some unseasonably cold nights. Though the sun was high in the summer sky, the water had not been warmed.
First Baptist Church of Camden Kindergarten and Child Care Program held its sixth annual 4th of July parade Friday. Students, parents and teachers were present for the event and to celebrate America's birthday.
The Kershaw County Board of School Trustees will continue discussions on language for a proposed Phase 2 facilities equalization referendum during its meeting scheduled for Tuesday evening.
The Kershaw County School District (KCSD) has something -- or someone -- in common with Winthrop University. KCSD Executive Director for K-12 Instruction Tim Hopkins is also a member of Winthrop's Board of Trustees. He joined the board three years ago.
As June ended, Salkehatchie Summer Service was underway in Kershaw County. "Salkehatchie" is a pioneering servant ministry created by John Culp that has taken place at selected sites in South Carolina since 1978. The camp is designed for high school and college age youth drawn primarily from the S.C. United Methodist Conference.
I was very impressed with Proctor & Gamble's recent #LikeaGirl commercial. First, let me make it clear that I think putting a # in front of a word or phrase is the stupidest, most mindless and useless trend, probably of all time. Moving on, I am such a fan of this commercial and the campaign itself.
Employees from the Target Distribution Center in Lugoff participated in a "Day of Caring" to help make improvements at the new Jackson Teen Center (JTC) on June 12 in Camden. The JTC, part of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands (BGCM), is housed inside the former home of the Kershaw County School District's (KCSD) old Continuous Learning Center across from Camden High School. The center is staffed by BCGM employees, as are other programs Boys & Girls Clubs programs in a number of KCSD schools.
Romantic comedies tell us that love is often funny. I don't believe in romantic comedies anymore than I believe in the Easter Bunny, but I do agree that love can be very funny at times … not funny as in laugh so hard you wet your pants, but funny in the sense of leaving you scratching your head and wondering what in the world has just happened to you.
The Community Medical Clinic (CMC) of Kershaw County remembered and celebrated one of its beloved, long-time volunteers on Tuesday. Jean Pruett was a CMC volunteer for 10 years, and during that time, touched the lives of many people involved with the organization. Along with CMC volunteers and staff, Pruett's daughter and son-in-law, Pam and Donnie Wilson, and their son Brian were at the celebration.
Tari Federer of Florence joins the ranks of the Artist's Attic, an art studio located at 930 Broad St., in Camden. Federer discovered her talents as a photographer and painter, unexpectedly. After more than 40 years as a ceramic artist, she returned to school to complete her degree in Visual Arts.
The Fine Arts Center (FAC) of Kershaw County is proud to produce the Arts Arising Summer Program again this year. This special arts program which began in 1988 through a partnership with the Kershaw County School District, serves third through sixth grade students identified as gifted or talented in visual arts, music, drama and dance. Auditions are held for rising third graders at Kershaw County Schools in January and February, then the selected students are screened through another audition in March at the FAC. More than 120 children from Kershaw County schools are participating this year.
Former Kershaw County Board of School Trustees member and Bethune resident Jim Smith addressed the board at their Tuesday meeting this week.
I've said it before, but cell phones today make it so we are never alone. I was texting with a friend of mine last weekend and she asked what I was doing. I told her I was going to the pool to swim and sunbathe. She asked if anyone was going with me and I said no. We got into a dialogue about how I often do things alone and how that doesn't seem to bother me as it does others.
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Has anyone else come across this ??
It seems that the resolution is very bad or its choosing the wrong size png for the required application
* notifyd volume icon distorted
* thunar icons in smb/network are missing and no matter what theme or icon pack I used they appear blank
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* xarchiver right click extract here and create icons distorted/wrong size i.e scalable
* tar.bz2 icons wrong resolution or not using scabale !
Im using the faenza icon pack 1.3 the latest ,which is farely good when it comes to icon quality
Ive tried other icon packs but the same happens Ive tried updating the icon cache but still no luck
Ive also tried adding my icon theme/themes to $HOME/.icon .. no luck some icons appear distorted
PS : I know 4.12 is unstable and not released but I just thought someone might have come acoress this and have a solution
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thats strange Ill look into it and see what is going on .. I did see on another forum that someone had the same problem and I never paid attention to it
until it has now happened me . so Ill see if I can find the post again and see if he or she found out what is causing it ,I'll also do some detective work myself
to find out why this is happening
I thought I just post and see if this was a common problem ..seems its not
edited ** But THEN AGAIN https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=160712
AS I said I did try to purge the 4.12 ppa but I think I need to remove thunar fully and all configs As I think this was a update bug
Seems some people are having this probelms and some are not
echo "weird" > /dev/null
Thanks for the reply
FYI the strange icons are actually the icons in the networking folder i.e the icons that represent the computers on the lan not the actual network icon that is fine
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>It seems that the resolution is very bad or its choosing the wrong size png for the required application
I can confirm this for emblems
Yea I knew there was a problem thanks for confirming this and reporting the bug
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What Iceberg Slim Means to Ice-T
Rapper-turned-actor Ice-T produced the new documentary "Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp" that examines how the Slim's novels influenced generations of African American artists. Rachel Dodes has an inside look on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.
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The Palm Pixie Plus is to the Palm Pre what the HTC Wildfire is to the Desire - a scaled down, affordable alternative to its premium sibling. But despite it's entry-level status, the Pixi Plus is a cracking little handset, full of features designed to make your mobile experience as intuitive as possible. And you can check it out for yourself in our video review.
It eschews the sliding keyboard of the Pre in favour of a QWERTY layout and just like the Xperia X10 Mini/ Mini Pro and Xperia X10, the Pre's dinky sidekick boasts most of its main features, including the flexible WebOS - just without the size and cost.
Best of all, it's a multitasking marvel, able to switch between apps and features with the utmost of ease. We can't exactly hold it up as a competitor to the iPhone or HTC Desire, but it is substantially smaller and cheaper and therefore certainly worth a look in our video review.


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|Jerry Nelson 1971-2012
The Big Bad Wolf is a famous fairy tale character, professional windbag, and connoisseur of pork and baskets of goodies. He continually engages in the good-natured pursuit of the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. He has been seen on Sesame Street in many different incarnations over the years, most commonly performed by Jerry Nelson. The character debuted in "Sesame Street News Flash" segments which reenacted or spoofed his stories, but later began making appearances on the street itself.
The earliest version of the Big Bad Wolf appeared in 1971, as a blue, shaggy wolf with an angry expression, a variation of the early Herry Monster puppet. One "News Flash" segment about the Three Pigs' feelings substituted a green Big Bad Wolf. By 1988, the character had been redesigned, and a purple puppet was used most often (and would also be used for Jackman Wolf). Other versions of the character with different fur colors have also popped up from time to time. However, all the puppets have had a moving eyebrow mechanism, save for the green wolf.
On occasion, the purple wolf puppet would be used for different wolves (such as the Big Mad Wolf in the song "Bad Wolf," or a Big Good Wolf in one segment when the Three Little Pigs were asked to identify whom was the Big Bad Wolf (it turned out to be the smaller green wolf, wearing a fake beard as a cheesy disguise.)
The Big Bad Wolf has occasionally displayed diverse talents or interests outside of blowing down houses and chasing pigs. In a 1980 News Flash with Cookie Monster as Little Red Riding Hood, he appeared as Dr. Wolf, tending to Cookie's sick grandmother. On another occasion, he invaded Ernie and Bert's apartment, where Bert assumed he was merely Ernie in another disguise. (When the skit was adapted into book form as The Many Faces of Ernie, the Big Bad Wolf was replaced by Frazzle.) The wolf was also a member of Guy Smiley's studio audience in a skit where Smiley takes his entire audience out to lunch. He also appeared in a Monsterpiece Theater skit parodying Dances with Wolves, in which the wolf and a female pig discuss their differences and dance with each other.
In the late 1990s and beyond, in his now mostly standard purple form, the Big Bad Wolf frequently played key roles in street storylines and in videos. He showed a flair for civil service as well, functioning as City Nest Inspector in Episode 3980, and using his hurricane breath to determine whether Big Bird's new nest was safe and could withstand the elements. In Episode 4035, the Big Bad Wolf's brother Leonard visited Sesame Street and taught Elmo and Rosita that not all wolves are the same.
On the video front, he appeared in the direct-to-video production Sing, Hoot & Howl. He also appeared in The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street, providing security as "Pig Control," helping Grover recite his speech for Kermit without being bothered by the Three Little Pigs. Additionally, the Wolf starred in the direct-to-video Elmo's Musical Adventure: Peter and the Wolf; as performed by Noel MacNeal, this was his most substantial role to date, appearing much more primal and less anthropomorphic.
The Wolf also made a cameo in the opening number of the 2008 direct-to-video special Abby in Wonderland, performed by Kevin Clash.
In 2007, the Big Bad Wolf was revamped again in a gray variation using a similar puppet pattern. In Episode 4145, he appears on Sesame Street to terrorize the pigs as Prairie Dawn provides a Special Report for Fairy Tale News. Here, the wolf acted more like a thespian than he usually does, and after he'd blow down a house, he would sing "Huff and puff!" This puppet alternated the role with the purple version in Season 38 as seen in episode 4149.
In Episode 4219, the Big Bad Wolf was suspected by to have been behind the whoosh that made Elmo and Telly's basketball, investigator's hat, and crayon away. The Big Bad Wolf appears and tells them that he is no longer in the pig-chasing business as he is now working as a hair dryer at the salon as he blows at Mrs. Hathahkugel's hair in order to dry it.
In Episode 4266, the Wolf, unable to catch up with the pigs running away, sees Slimey and gets the idea to blow him away. With his singsongy "Huff and puff!", he blows Slimey into Snuffy's spaghetti and later blows Snuffy towards the stoop of 123 Sesame Street, not realizing the harm he's causing. When he does, he apologizes and switches to a new hobby: blowing bubbles!
The purple wolf has been a guest at The Furchester Hotel and is seen in the show's opening sequence.
Casting history
- Jerry Nelson: 1971-2012
- Martin P. Robinson: 1984-2006
- Kevin Clash: 1980s-1990s
- Joey Mazzarino: 1990s-2006, 2012
- Tyler Bunch: 2007-present
- Peter Linz: 1998 ("The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street")
- Matt Vogel: 2013
Book appearances
- Grover's Little Red Riding Hood (1976)
- Big Bird's Red Book (1977)
- The Sesame Street Dictionary (1980)
- Elmo Visits the Dentist (2007)
- Friendly, Frosty Monsters (2007)
- Storybook ABCs (2008)
Other "Bad" Wolves
- In addition to the consistent Big Bad Wolf character and puppets, a few other skits have had "bad" wolves who are clearly intended as different characters. A Michael Jackson wolf was the title singer in "Bad Wolf" (performed by David Rudman), using an orange puppet.
- In the 2013 "Homelamb" sketch, an updated variant of the green wolf that has commonly been used on Germany's Sesamstrasse as Wolf vom Wörtersee since 2007 and on Eine Moehre fuer Zwei simply as Wolf thereafter, was used for Agent Nicholas Ba-a-a-a-rody (who is also the Big Ba-a-a-a-a-d Wolf), performed again by Rudman.[1]
- Oscar the Grouch is auditioning for the lead in the play The Big Bad Wolf in the storybook, Ernie and His Merry Monsters.
- In an interview, Murray Monster mentioned that "I read the Huffing-and-puffing-ton Post. The Big Bad Wolf runs that one." The interviewer mentions "Oh, that's powerful journalism," to which Murray replies "It sure is. Stories that will blow you away."[2]
- ↑ Facebook conversation between Anthony Thompson and Peter Linz. Nov. 3, 2013
- ↑ "Joshua Kors: Little-Known Muppet Takes Center Stage: Q&A with Murray Monster, Rising Star of Sesame Street", american superstar, December 1, 2011.


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With unparalleled versatility, the HP TouchSmart tm2 lets you touch, draw, type or move everywhere in between. This compact yet powerful notebook converts to a tablet with a simple twist. Next-generation multi-touch technology puts endless creative possibilities at your fingertips. Slim and stylish, the HP TouchSmart tm2 can make everything you do faster, easier, and way more fun.
Mobility multipliedDraw, write, and play longer with extended battery life. Power your next masterpiece with high-speed DDR3 memory and the 7200RPM hard drive. Enjoy top-quality entertainment wherever you go by watching high-definition video online, or adding an optional external Blu-ray drive, all enhanced by Dolby Advanced Audio. HP MediaSmart provides direct access to your favorite entertainment sites like Hulu, Netflix, Snapfish, YouTube and Rhapsody. Keep cool with power-efficient Intel processors and advanced thermal design. Take versatility to a new level with features like a fingerprint reader, and wireless WAN.- Integrated fingerprint reader simplifies password management and provides extra security for data stored on your PC and online accounts.Your world at your fingertipsNew HP TouchSmart software immerses you in a world of tactile fun. Flip through music, photos and videos with a flick of your finger.Scroll the web and play games with feather-light sensitivity. Organize your desktop, take handwritten notes, sketch a masterpiece or turnphotos into paintings. Whether you use your finger, digital pen, or full-sized keyboard, you are in control.Form follows fabulousSporting a stylish, engraved-aluminum chassis, the TouchSmart tm2 is more than a pretty face. The award-winning HP design team has crafted every detail to give you a highly refined experience-from an oversized HP Clickpad with hidden buttons for ultimate control to a high-definition, mercury-free LED panel that provides a clear, crisp picture as it consumes less energy.


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New releases from the GNUstep project include an update to the GNUstep Startup package, which includes all four core GNUstep packages: make, base, gui and back. Updated Windows binaries for the base and gui packages just came out today. Also, recently the latest version of their workspace manager, GWorkspace, was released.


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Registration and Title Bulletin - #005-13
Date: February 21, 2013
To: All County Tax Assessor-Collectors
Subject: Motor Homes and Recreational Vehicles Exempt from Sales Tax Emissions Surcharge
This is to remind you that diesel motor homes and recreational vehicles (RVs) which are registered for personal use are exempt from the Sales Tax Emissions Surcharge.
Under the Tax Code, Sec. 152.0215, diesel-powered motor homes and RVs are exempt from the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Sales Tax Surcharge, if the vehicle:
- Weighs over 14,000 lbs. and is
- Not used commercially or for the production of income
When processing a title transaction on applicable diesel vehicles, the Registration and Title System automatically selects and enables the "Diesel" remark on the "Title Additional Info TTL008" screen. On the "Sales Tax TTL012" screen, the "Charge Sales Tax Emission Fee" is automatically selected, which triggers the collection of the Sales Tax Emissions Surcharge.
To prevent the customer from being overcharged, you must deselect the "Charge Sales Tax Emission Fee" checkbox on the "Sales Tax TTL012" screen to avoid the collection of this surcharge, if the vehicle is being used for personal use.
If you have questions, please contact your local TxDMV Regional Service Center.


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text: Bombs Craft Tnt is a puzzle game to push you to the limit. Click the bomb and throw it around the screen to blow up stars! The less bombs you use, the more points you get. But timing is everything! The bomb countdown stops when you click it can you time your throw to have the bomb blow up when over the stars? This maddeningly addictive game will have you playing for hours trying to get that perfect score. As the environment changes per level, your tactics will too. Use laser canons to reach those hard to get stars! Canons will help too, and no touch zones will hinder you. Can you get the top score on every level?


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Four local graduates earn scholarships from church
COLUMBIA CITY — Each year, for 13 years, scholarships have been given in memory of Bernice Carver by the Women's Association of Trinity Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Carver was a long-time member of the church, a teacher at Columbia City High School and a community historian.On June 16, scholarships were awarded to four high school graduates who are congregation members. To read the rest of this story, see the July 3-4 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook and twitter.


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Talk:Create a package (tarball) for distribution
Discussion about sense or nonsense of pack_sync tool:
"Only in case that you're not using PACKAGE but another name you have to specify this. The script takes a walk thru the directory tree calling itself recursively. It compares all files with those of the living system (same directory path but w/o prefix <current-directory>/PACKAGE). If there are differences you are prompted to confirm a replacement. If you are not sure: Deny the replacement. Get informed about the differences. You may not want to replace configuration files if those of the living system contain personal data. But if you want the replacement, just run pack_sync again. Note that pack_sync may be called as often as you like but it doesn't have an undo."
==> This doesn't make sense. The mentioned tool does not change any hard-coded pathes compiled into binaries. These are, however, the ones who make trouble. Applications use hard coded pathes to find other component of themselves. This is not the cleverest idea, but many do. E.g. gcc does this. That is the reason why an applications must be compiled for the place where it will finally be installed. You can't compile this stuff for another location and fix it afterwards [well, in theory you can, but that is a tricky procedure, reshuffling the contents of object files)]. You either have a build system which supports this (e.g. a GNU build system), or you have to hack the build system until it complies. Running a diff on the binaries later will not fix the problem.
==> ls2newbee: Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. pack_sync does not patch any files. The idea was to install the package first to the running system. These files wil reside there where they shouldbe at any other installation. In a second step the whole installation is done again from scratch now targeting to a PACKAGE directory for creation of a tarball of compiled executables. This second make may compile wrong pathnames because the files actually do not reside where they should be on the target system (as on any system). So pack_sync is able to replace the files in the PACKAGE directory (having wrong hard coded path names) by the files of the first installation (having correct hard coded path names). For this purpose it compares files of the 2nd 'tarball' installation with the corresponding files of the 1st 'real' installation. The result is - in theory - a tarball with correct path names because the files are actually taken from the living system (i.e. from the first installaion).
In other words: If pack_sync replaced *all* files by those of the running system (correct paths!), you'd get a correct tarball. However there is no need to replace files if there is no difference.
If you have any questions, please feel free to send me a private message.


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Alec Baldwin's wife confirms baby news
The yoga teacher went public with the baby news during a pre-taped spot on her U.S. TV news show Extra, which will air later this week (ends15Feb13).
She says, "It was a surprise, a wonderful surprise."
Thomas, who wed the actor last year (12), reveals she took a pregnancy test without telling her husband.
Baldwin adds, "There's a scream I heard, which is a scream normally reserved if there's a spider in the house, not exaggerating. Normally I will be reading a book, we're in the country, it's quiet, some time to really relax and unwind and sometimes once a month you hear 'Ahhh, Alec, Alec!' I come upstairs and there's a spider on the wall.
"I hear that scream again, but it was not a spider."
Thomas recalls, "It was followed by 'I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant!' He runs up the stairs and I'm holding it (test) and showing it to him."
The couple is expecting the baby this summer (13).
The excited mum-to-be says, "Now, I'm showing, it's getting to be much more, like, 'OMG (oh my god) this is actually gonna happen!' Now we can start the nursery, the everything, the dreaming."


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There's been a lot of reader angst over shoes lately. But Angel's got your back. Or your feet. Or … whatever.
Dear Answer Angel Ellen: After much trial and error, I am frustrated with the two extremes of athletic shoes — clunky, orthopedic-looking or cool looking but not supportive. What athletic lace-up shoe brands can you recommend that are low profile yet supportive? I am very grateful for your answer.
—Flatfooted and hating it
Dear Flatfooted: Technology is your friend. People with the same brain power that makes it possible for the world to communicate in 140 characters have been working on athletic shoe designs. Today there are so many options for shoes that look good and give you the support you want it will make your head spin. To keep you coming back and buying more, shoe manufacturers are constantly coming out with new models and features. Frankly, it's so confusing that you might just want to do what I do: Go to the best running store you can find and tell a veteran sales associate what you want in a shoe. When I did that recently I walked out in a pink/orange Saucony "Kinvara 3 " which gets high marks (and compliments) for cute and does the job (although they might not be supportive enough for you). The guy who sold me the shoes even diagnosed my running injury and successfully suggested how to rehab it. If you want to do some serious shoe research, a good place to start is runningshoesguru.com. Want more? Check the Runner's World quarterly shoe guide (runnersworld.com) and its "shoe finder," which asks a bunch of questions, then makes recommendations. Unfortunately "cool looking" isn't one of the options.
A friend just ran a marathon (a personal best!) and raved about his Nike Flyknit Lunar1+ — a little pricey (around $160), but they were an "Editor's Choice" in the Runner's World shoe guide, and I love the way they look. You can search for "stability" under the women's running shoe tab on nike.com and find 16 recommendations including one (Nike LunarGlide+ 5 iD, $145) that you can customize with colors in eight different parts of the shoe. Other manufacturers' websites also allow you to search for the features you want. Long story short, once you get into it, there's way too much info and too many options out there. Good luck.
Dear Answer Angel Ellen: I'm burned up. I bought a pair of shoes for $200 and the soles wore out long before they should have at that price! Can you recommend a brand of men's dress shoes, comfortable, well-priced and durable?
— Cheated
Dear Cheated: Better yet, I'm going to tell you how to get your money back, the soles repaired or a new pair of shoes for free. Maybe. Many stores and many brands have generous (but often not well-publicized) return policies. You just need to ask. Seriously, be nervy! If you truly think the product did not hold up, take it back to the store and ask for a repair, refund or replacement. If it is a well-known brand, check the website for info on the guarantee and how to get your money back, a product fixed or a new one for free. But don't stop there. At the store, if you don't get satisfaction, ask to see the manager. Online, ask for a supervisor. Be polite but insistent. This also often works for late fees and interest fees on credit cards (but only if you are an excellent customer and only do it once or twice a year). And if a website offers a discount but the coupon code doesn't work on the brand you're ordering (this happened with a gift I was buying online), call the toll-free number and ask for the discount anyhow. That's how I saved $50. And, it's always a good policy to save your receipts.
Dear Answer Angel Ellen: I have severe heel pain and am limited to tennis shoes or Orthaheel brand shoes. I'm going on a cruise to Mexico in December and am at a loss as to what to wear to the formal dinner night. Any advice?
— Barb
Dear Barb: I'll grant you that the Orthaheel shoes are not much to look at, but that brand does make a couple models that look OK for your needs. The Milan flat ($129.95) is passable, and the Olivia flat ($89.95) with a tiny bow will work, especially in black patent, which is dressier than plain leather. Find both on zappos.com. Another solution is to add a detachable rhinestone shoe clip, which will give any shoe a fancier look. I've seen them on etsy.com and amazon.com. And remember this good news: Nobody can see your feet when you're seated at the dining table.
Dear Answer Angel Ellen: Is it worth spending the money to repair clothes? I was quoted a $40 price to have the ripped lining replaced in my favorite trousers. I need your advice.
— Confused
Dear Confused: I hate giving this answer but … it depends. If it's an item you like a lot or can't easily replace, spend the dough. Or if it would cost you lots more than $40 to duplicate the clothing, that's reason enough to have it repaired. But if the item is not that great, or if it's wearing out in other places besides the lining, you'd be better off buying new.
Angelic readers:
When a reader sounded off about the ridiculous cost of bridesmaids' dresses, Lois emailed this common-sense option: "I recently attended a wedding where the bride requested her attendants wear short, black dresses of their own choice. The young women all looked lovely, and each had a dress that was becoming to her, plus they had dresses they would enjoy wearing again. One girl said she had bought her dress for a party and wore it only once before the chance to wear it again at the wedding. I think this is an excellent idea for brides in this day and age."
Reader rant:
Someone simply must start commenting on the horrible, phony look of recent dental implant makeovers. They are whiter than any human teeth have ever been, too "perfect" to be believable (hockey players), and often, if just the front teeth, do not match in color or "style" of the remaining natural teeth! I think these are horrible looks, call attention to their fake-ness, and do little to impress me with the person's overall attractiveness.
Surely if I were paying thousands of dollars for new teeth, I would want them to improve my appearance, but look as natural as possible. What is all this money buying, if not an improved, natural look????
— Kathy M.
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Diego Maradona says Lionel Messi is an exceptional player who should be taking every free kick for Barcelona.
Messi has played 35 times this season for his club, scoring 46 goals and his former national team coach says he dictates the way the Blaugrana play.
"I don't like it when at Barcelona they don't let Messi take every free kick. He should take them all," he told Fox Sports Latin America.
"Each game that passes he invents something new, and it's fantastic. We are watching an exceptional player.
"I think that Messi makes Barcelona play the way he wants. I think that the last time Xavi was injured; he played deeper and wreaked havoc. You don't have to tell him anything."
The World Cup winner also revealed that Messi took defeat in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa extremely hard.
"When we lost to Germany in the last World Cup, we went to the dressing room and the only one you could hear sobbing and crying was Messi. He was hurt. He was sad. I'll never forget that," he continued.
"I told him jokingly that he was full again (Riquelme said he was empty when he left), because he has to play, he has to enjoy himself. Playing for Boca is the best thing in the world."
Maradona also spoke about Roman Riquelme, who has recently rejoined Boca Juniors.
He added: "I believe that the best decision Riquelme could have made is to feel the joy of being with his team-mates again and of course he is returning to a Boca that has to win.
"He is fully prepared to win everything, so I wish him the best."


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Finials are decorative architectural elements typically found on the tops of gables, domes, roofs, buildings, or walls. Finials have been used as garden ornaments for centuries, and are often used in pairs at entrances or as a centerpiece in a garden. They have always been considered a lovely and low maintenance alternative to urns and planters.


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President Barack Obama signed a bill early Thursday ending the 16-day partial government shutdown and raising the nation's debt limit after Congress passed a last-minute bipartisan deal just hours before the U.S could have begun to default on its debts.
The passage of the bill now paves the way for the federal government to reopen. The Office of Management and Budget ordered that federal workers plan to return to work Thursday and federal departments and agencies resume operations "in a prompt and orderly manner."
The impasse had shuttered national parks and monuments, and mostly closed down NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department. Critical functions of government went on as usual and most federal employees won't see their paychecks delayed, but the closure and potential default weighed on the economy and spooked the financial markets.
There were signs early Thursday that the federal government was slowly coming back to life. "We're back from the #shutdown!" the Smithsonian Institution crowed on Twitter, announcing that museums would reopen Thursday and the National Zoo in Washington on Friday.
Standard & Poor's estimated the shutdown has taken $24 billion out of the economy, and the Fitch credit rating agency warned Tuesday that it was reviewing its AAA rating on U.S. government debt for a possible downgrade.
President Barack Obama thanked the Senate and its leadership from both parties in brief remarks at the White House before the House passed the bill. "We've got to get out of the habit of governing by crisis," he said.
The House then voted 285-144 to pass the Senate's budget and debt ceiling deal, succeeding with the support of Democrats and some Republicans.
Obama and his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill prevailed in the fight, which was sparked by tea party Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who prevailed upon skeptical GOP leaders to use a normally routine short-term funding bill to "defund" the 2010 health care law known as Obamacare.
"We fought the good fight. We just didn't win," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, conceded in a radio interview. He was given positive reviews from Republicans for his handling of the crisis, though it again exposed the tenuous grasp he holds over the fractious House GOP conference.
The agreement was brokered by the Senate's top Democrat, Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, and its Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. They stepped in after the House was unable to coalesce around a Republican-only approach Tuesday.
McConnell is up for re-election next year, and his tea party primary opponent issued a statement blasting his role.
"When the stakes are highest, Mitch McConnell can always be counted on to sell out conservatives," Matt Bevin said. In the House, conservatives praised Boehner for tenacity.
The bill had passed the Senate with broad bipartisan support by a vote of 81 to 18, just a day shy of the deadline to raise the debt limit. It would fund the government through Jan. 15, extend the debt limit through Feb. 7 and have lawmakers work toward agreement on an overarching budget by mid-December.
Still, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew retains the capacity to employ accounting maneuvers to create wiggle room on the debt limit into mid-March or so.
The bill's passage was only a temporary truce that sets up another collision between Obama and Republicans over spending and borrowing early next year. It's the second time this year that Congress has passed legislation to increase the government's borrowing cap with few if any conditions on the president, reversing a 2011 precedent in which the threat of default was used to extract $2.1 trillion in spending cuts from a politically wounded Obama.
"With the shutdown behind us," Obama said after the Senate vote, "we now have an opportunity to focus on a sensible budget that is responsible, that is fair and that helps hardworking people all across this country."
At the same time, House-Senate talks will begin on a broader budget pact in hopes of curbing deficits and easing across-the-board budget cuts that have slammed the Pentagon and domestic agencies alike. Such agreements have proven elusive in the current era of divided government.
"No one thinks this will be easy" Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said of budget negotiations. Murray and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., along with their ranking minority members, immediately scheduled a breakfast meeting for Thursday to break the ice.


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3 early birds file as candidates in May 11 municipal election
A lone City Council incumbent, an engineer and a disabled man were the first San Antonians on Wednesday to officially become candidates in the upcoming municipal election.
Wednesday marked the first day of a monthlong period that would-be candidates can file for a place on the May 11 ballot.
All 11 council seats, which include the mayor's, are up for election.
This year's opening day brought only three filings — five fewer than the first day to file in the last round of council elections.
Not on the list of the quick-draw filers was Mayor Julián Castro, who arrived in San Antonio on Wednesday from more than a week in India, where he was promoting economic development.
Castro will officially announce his bid for a third term in office at 10 a.m. Saturday near his campaign headquarters on Broadway.
The trip to India, however, didn't prevent District 3 Councilwoman Leticia Ozuna from filing her paperwork. She was appointed to fulfill the unexpired term of then-Councilwoman Jennifer Ramos, who left office last year. Now, Ozuna wants her constituents to send her back to the dais for what would be her first full term.
The 46-year-old cyber-security specialist said she plans to use her campaign to highlight what she's been able to deliver to her district.
"I chose to file today because I wanted my constituents to know I've only just started. There's been a lot of positive things that I have worked for, for the district, and there's a lot more that I want to be able to complete," she said. "I have been working very, very hard on behalf of the constituents of District 3."
Ozuna pointed to six new playgrounds and $47 million in 2012 bond proceeds that will directly impact District 3. She also said she's proud of her efforts to land Nexolon America, a manufacturing company tied to a massive solar project spurred by CPS Energy. The company plans to build its plant at Brooks City-Base, where it will create 400 permanent jobs.
"That's a huge deal, and I'm so pleased with that," Ozuna said. "Four hundred new jobs — you don't sneeze at that. That was an awesome thing."
Ozuna is expected to face challengers in her race.
Rolando Briones, the engineer, was the first to file his paperwork. He's seeking the District 8 seat that's being vacated by Councilman Reed Williams, who announced last year that he wouldn't seek a third term in office.
Briones said his early-morning filing was symbolic of his desire to serve the community, something he's done for a decade on various boards and commissions. Filing first shows his commitment to the office, the 43-year-old owner of Briones Consulting & Engineering said.
"I've been knocking on doors for almost eight months. I think it shows my commitment to the voters of District 8, not only to work as hard as possible but also to make sure I was there as soon as possible to say, 'I'm not here to see who else is going to file,'" he said. "I was ready to step up and say, 'You know what? I'm doing this because I know I'm in the race for the right reasons,' and the first opportunity I had to file, I was going to be there."
Briones said he was joined by his parents, family and a group of supporters.
Though he's yet to file, Ron Nirenberg also has been campaigning for the District 8 seat for several months. He said he plans to file next week.
In District 6, Councilman Ray Lopez will face at least one challenger — Stephen Shamblen, a 52-year-old man who lists "disabled" as his occupation on his application for a place on the ballot.
Shamblen did not return a phone call seeking comment. He ran unsuccessfully for the seat two years ago. In 2011, he told the San Antonio Express-News that he was disabled and unemployed and was running on an environmental agenda that promoted manufacturing and maintaining solar grids for every home in the city.
Shamblen's most recent campaign finance report showed no political contributions and an account balance of $172.