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Like many you who read this, my life span is about the same as manned space flight. The 1950s and 1960s were the heady days of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, and the X-15. I was a giddy, wide-eyed nerd who took it all in (still am, I guess). But those days gave way to the letdown of Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Not great, but we were there.
Then came the space shuttle, first Enterprise's test flight off the back of a 747 in 1978, then the first real flight of Columbia on April 12, 1981. Now, today, the final flight of the last shuttle, Endeavor, as it passed over Tucson on its way to become a museum piece in California.
As I watched the flyby along with hundreds of others on top of buildings and parking garages at the University of Arizona where I work, memories from the last 55 years flashed through my mind. I am tempted to list out names, dates, times, other little odds and ends and trivia from my memory spanning those years.
But I won't. I'm just sad. Between the recent death of astronaut Neil Armstrong and today's Endeavor flight, it's the end of an era. The future is a big question mark. Sure there's the International Space Station - ho hum - and now the United States isn't even ferrying our own astronauts there and back. The strong national pride that was generated by our accomplishments in space is gone. This must be what "leading from behind" feels like.
I'm sad for another reason also. To be sure, NASA and the space program were born during the economic high-water mark of the 1950s and 1960s, in very stark contrast to today's economy. But what really drove our exploration of space was a challenge. The challenge of the Soviet Union, and then the focused challenge, pointedly verbalized by President Kennedy.
Spurred by that challenge, America's investment in space flight triggered a technological boom that hasn't yet stopped. The economic boost from that boom, however, seems to have fizzled out. Skylab, the Shuttle, and the International Space Station have not brought technological and economic advances that the early space program did. Maybe we've reached some kind of limits on that, but America does not now have a technology-producing, economy-infusing, pride-creating challenge anymore.
Such a challenge would pull us together, energize business and innovation, drive technological advances and create jobs, and restore pride in what we as a nation can do. I know, duplicating the space program somehow wouldn't really work; that was the response to another challenge of another time, another era.
But if ever there was need for such a challenge for America, it's time is now.
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Through the Poison Swamp
This planet is covered in an icky-paint like goop that will kill you instantly if you fall in, so avoid it at all costs. Get started by jumping across the islands to the bubble machine. Hop into a bubble to try out a new, crazy mechanic.
With the bubble's aid, you'll want to backtrack past the crashed Toad's ship to begin your quest for the five Launch Star pieces. Use the fan's air current to follow the straight-forward and easily find the five star pieces. If you have trouble, check out the screenshots below for all five:
Look for the first just past the crashed Toad Ship.
After following the air current, you should run into piece #2.
Maneuver around the rocks on the left for the third piece.
Look for the 4th near the next air current.
The final piece is just past the sandy island, where the Launch Star will appear.
After collecting all five pieces, the Launch Star will appear on the nearby sand mound. Launch from it to the next section of this level.
After landing, hop into another bubble ahead, then follow the coin path. At the giant spinning wooden circle, blow Mario into one of the holes and ride inside it to the other side (past the ? Coin).
Follow the air current here up to a pair of spinning wood fences. Hug them closely to avoid the nearby mines, then continue onto a grassy island.
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ALE Carries Out Jackup and Skidding Operations for Malikai Topside in Johor
International heavy transportation and lifting contractor ALE disclosed Monday that it has jacked-up the Malikai Topside 131 feet (40 meters) high, before skidding the Topside a distance of 295 feet (90 meters) whilst at this elevation -- making these the world's highest jackup and skidding operations performed on this scale. These operations were carried out whilst executing the Malikai EPC TLP Project at Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE) West in Johor Darul Takzim, Malaysia.
The global heavylift specialists were awarded the contracts for the Malikai Project on behalf of TMJV. ALE was given the scope of weighing and transporting four unit Hull blocks, Living Quarters and mega beams for the 'Superlift' activities. In addition, ALE was also awarded with the weighing of the Topside, skidding of the Topside, jacking-up of the Topside, skidding at height of the Topside over the Hull and mating of Topside and Hull.
ALE started to mobilize the equipment at the beginning of April and started setting up the equipment needed for the Superlift (including its further-developed computer-controlled skidding system, ALE mast system, Mega Jack system, weighing cells, strand jacks) in May. The Superlift was then executed in July.
The Topside weighed in at 13,800 tons and was skidded 279 feet (85 meters) onto ALE's Mega Jack system. The Mega Jack jacked-up the Topside to a height of 131 feet (40 meters) - the world's highest ever jackup on this scale. When jacked-up the Topside weighed a combined total of 17,300 tons. The Topside was then skidded a distance of 295 feet (90 meters) at elevation, until it was above the Hull. ALE then mated the Topside with the Hull.
ALE was also contracted to remove all equipment using ALE's 900 ton strand jacks (pre-installed onto the main deck of the Topside), skidding equipment and SPMTs (self propelled nodular transporters).
ALE's Project Manager Edwin Blosser, from ALE's Netherlands branch who coordinated the Superlift activities, commented: "It is fantastic to be part of a world first. At ALE we are always willing to push the boundaries in order to offer a bespoke solution for the client. In order to achieve such an operation, our engineers and crew have worked hard to carry out the necessary studies and safety checks.
"This Superlift would not have been possible without a great crew and the Mega Jack System. With its capacity to easily lift the Topside to the desired height, the Mega Jack enabled the client to work on both the Topside and the Hull on ground level, therefore optimizing the logistics needed for such a build. As both the Mega Jack and skidding systems are operated remotely via a control room and are equipped with computerized controls, which have numerous safety systems implemented, these provided a safe way of working and protected both workers and the client's equipment being lifted. Because the equipment is easy to mobilize and handle, ALE was able to install within the deadline set by the client and despite the challenges ALE faced on-site, the Superlift was completed without any delay to the project."
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'Tanks do not create peace': German politicians up in arms over NATO's buildup..
'Tanks do not create peace': German politicians up in arms over NATO's buildup at Russian borders
U.S. tanks, trucks and other military equipment, which arrived by ship, are unloaded in the harbour of Bremerhaven, Germany
January 8, 2017. © Fabian Bimmer / Reuters
German politicians have raised concern about thousands of NATO troops and equipment, along with hundreds of tanks, that have been sent to Poland and countries bordering Russia in what has been touted by Washington as "defense against Russian aggression."
"It does not help us if tanks will be going up and down on both sides of the border," Brandenburg's leader and SPD party member, Dietmar Woidke, told RBB. "I hope everyone will keep calm."
"I believe that despite all the difficulties, we should seek dialogue with Russia," he added on Thursday, warning that relations with Moscow could worsen even further.
Germany's ruling CDU party called Woidke's standpoint "strange," with parliamentary faction leader Ingo Senftleben saying the operation "takes place within the framework of the contractual arrangements of NATO and at the explicit request of Poland."
NATO's buildup in Europe also came under fire from Germany's Die Linke party. "Tanks do not create peace, anywhere," Christian Görke stressed in a statement, RBB reported.
read more: https://www.rt.com/news/373088-tanks-nato-germany-russia/
Germany: Scores protest transport of NATO soldiers through Germany
Published on Jan 7, 2017
Scores of people marched through the north German port of Bremerhaven, Saturday, to protest the transport of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) troops and weapons, headed for NATO's eastern border, through the town.
Protesters held signs and banners with demands like "No NATO deployments! End the militaristic march against Russia!" and "Out of NATO."
On Friday dozens of tanks, armoured trucks and military equipment accompanied by about 4,000 US soldiers docked in Bremerhaven as part of NATO's "Operation Atlantic Resolve." The deployment is supposed to act as a deterrent against supposed Russian aggression towards Poland and the Baltic countries.
Nato and Russia playing dangerous game with military build-up
It has been billed as Nato's biggest military build-up on Russia's borders since the cold war. Britain is sending fighter jets next year to Romania. The US is dispatching troops, tanks and artillery to Poland. Germany, Canada and other Nato countries also pledged forces at a meeting on Wednesday of defence chiefs in Brussels.
The move comes after Russia has been busy deploying hardware of its own. Earlier this month, Moscow said it was stationing nuclear-capable missiles in Kaliningrad, Russia's Baltic exclave. This week, two Russian warships armed with cruise missiles slipped into the Baltic sea.
Meanwhile, the hulking Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov has been belching its way through the Channel en route to Syria. Spain said Moscow had withdrawn a request to refuel on Spain's north African coast, amid western suspicions the Russian fleet will be used to flatten civilians in Aleppo.
Nato's apparent goal here is to deter future acts of aggression on European territory by Vladimir Putin's revanchist Russia. After a period in which Nato has seemed slow to react, and lacking in backbone, the alliance is now sending out a robust message. As the US defence secretary, Ash Carter, put it this week, these deployments are all about deterrence.
read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/27/military-build-up-along-russias-border-no-cause-for-alarm
Hundreds Of US Tanks Arrive In Europe To Support NATO Anti-Russian Buildup
by Tyler Durden
Jan 6, 2017 12:43 PM
As we reported yesterday, Lithuania confirmed the presence of U.S. special forces inside its territory, stating the deployment's purpose is to train local forces and act as a deterrent against Russian aggression. Supposedly, the move is in response to a "escalation" by Vladimir Putin, who has been deploying nuke-ready missiles in the Russian province of Kaliningrad located in the heart of central Europe. This move has prompted the neighboring Baltic states to become "highly concerned" about Russian military activity.
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After settling back in at work and home, Aaron and I were very excited to get back into DC, so we spent Saturday morning in the American Indian museum!
First up, the outside is absolutely stellar. I used to ride by it every day on my morning bike commute, and it is by far the most visually stunning and distinctive Smithsonian museum.
That being said, the outside was probably the highlight of the museum in my opinion. The exhibits themselves were pretty sparse and not as developed as other Smithsonians. It felt kind of empty inside! There was a cute children's play area, but us childless folk didn't care much about that. There were a few worthwhile exhibits we did enjoy. We've heard good things about the cafe, but it was a bit pricey for us.
Afterwards, we popped over to the Air and Space Museum to see the Spirit of St. Louis up close and personal. They bring down the planes sometimes to refurbish them, and we loved seeing it!
We made a quick stop in the World War II planes exhibit, because they're Aaron's favorite! It was a wonderful Saturday! Now I just can't wait for the weather to be nice enough to bike into the city!


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Australians are choosing small dogs over larger breeds.
New research by University of Sydney researchers has shown that Australian pedigree dog lovers are choosing pugs and bulldogs over Labradors and German Shepherds.
The problem with small dogs
So just why are these smaller dogs in favour? After all, these brachycephalic breeds – with shorter and wider heads – are more susceptible to respiratory problems, skin and eye conditions, and digestive disorders! In fact, life expectancy among these popular breeds is an estimated four years lower than non-brachycephalic breeds. Brachycephalic Airway Obstruction Syndrome (BAOS) is particularly prevalent, often resulting in mild to life-threatening respiratory problems. With increasing numbers, vets need to be prepared to treat these animals.
Why we love small dogs
There are many reasons that smaller dogs are becoming more and more popular. There may be practical reasons for downsizing dogs. There may be bonding advantages in choosing lap dogs. And small dogs may be purely a fashion statement!
The study, coauthored by Professor Paul McGreevy from the University's Faculty of Veterinary Science and PhD candidate Kendy Teng, examined changes in the Australian National Kennel Council (ANKC) registration statistics between 1986 and 2013, looking at trends in demand for Australian purebred dogs of various height, size and head shape.
The preference for smaller dogs correlates with a trend towards more high density living, says Prof McGreevy. "Changes in the types of dwellings Australians are buying may indicate the space available for dogs has shrunk. Moreover, the purpose of dog ownership has continued to shift from the early days of domestication, away from duties such as hunting and guarding properties, for which dogs are more likely to be larger, to pure companionship, which can be fulfilled by a dog of any size."
The researchers have suggested that their data may not be representative of the general dog population in Australia but may be better reflecting trends in Australia's purebred population. I, however, suggest that this may be an accurate representation of the trend in dog ownership in many countries around the pet-loving world.
We know that owners love the unconditional acceptance that dogs give us. Having a small dog sit on your lap and gaze into your eyes, can be a big drawcard for dog owners. Are they prepared to deal with the potentially accompanying small dog syndrome?!
About this research
Published in Canine Genetics and Epidemiology.
Professor McGreevy and Kendy Teng co-wrote Trends in popularity of some morphological traits of purebred dogs in Australia with Dr Navneet Dhand and Dr Jenny-Ann Toribio, also from the University's Faculty of Veterinary Science.
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Discussion in 'Rugby League Forum' started by easystreet, Sep 30, 2007.
Good stuff. I'll one up later from the nose bleeds on the 40metre line.
The crowd was huge but I have to agree with Dan. The stadium is a good one but the atmosphere just disappears by the size, the distance from the field and any cheering gets lost by floating out of the roof. Can't see me rushing back there to watch a game (unless we make it to the GF again next year!)


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> is, will it be possible to cut and paste baboon objects in GNOME? >
When Baboon is usable we will probably look into that, doing it before
would be a little premature.
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First of all, LOOK AT THE PRETTY!!
Beth at McNally Jackson took my PDFs of The Kairos Mechanism's book text and front matter and laid them out all sorts of pretty. Then, since I won't have Andrea Offermann's cover illustration until about mid-July, Erin at McNally made a basic cover from my title page (the back cover has the disclaimer on it about this being an advance copy and to check all quotes against the final text). Then, ten minutes later, there it was. The books come out warm, like cookies out of an oven or something. It is honestly and truly a really beautiful little book. I am going to be so proud to show it off.
Now. For the second half of the title.
You heard me. I literally have a grammatical error on the first page. Plus I also somehow deleted two lines of text from the last page that make the first line of one paragraph seem a bit like a momentary non-sequitur. Neither are things that will spoil the read, if I stifle my emotional reactions and look at them academically. Still. Perfect brackets, on the first page and the last. Plus, reading it through last night, I decided that Christine Johnson, the final editor to comment on this before my last round of revisions, was right about my needing to spend more time explaining how the mechanism of the title works.
Having read my previous posts about the editorial panic attacks I've been having, you might be thinking that I'm having a bit of a nutty here at Milford Command Central. The truth is, I'm not. On the one hand, the grammatical error on page one (although it's such a common error that most readers are likely not even going to catch it) is exactly the kind of thing I don't want happening even once in the book, and I certainly can't have issues of the "this needs more explanation" variety in the final copy.
On the other hand, this will be the third time I've experienced the exasperation that is the Advance Review Copy.
The first time I saw the ARCs of The Boneshaker, I was ecstatic. I was over the moon. My book, in actual-book form for the first time, with its beautiful shiny red cover and everything. I was too starry-eyed about that to freak out about the typos inside that were still being ironed out behind the scenes. With The Broken Lands, it was a bit different. I got the ARCs a week after I'd mailed the first mechanical pass back to Clarion, and the number of corrections I made on that mechanical pass made me look sideways at the ARCs because I knew none of those changes had gone into them, and because they were being mailed out to reviewers all over the place. The changes were mostly cosmetic matters of verbiage and poetry and that sort of thing, but there were a LOT of them, and I knew the ARC had been printed from a draft something like three iterations before the one I'd just edited. You can't freak out about that. You just have to make sure everything's caught before the final manuscript goes to the printers.
So, although it goes against every instinct I have, I am not going to freak out now, either. Well, not much, I'm not. I'm going to fix what needs fixing, and pass the ms on to the copyeditor. (This is not her fault, by the way; she only just received the manuscript last week. I'm the smartypants who up and decided last week that she wanted some ARCs for BEA. It's also not the fault of any of the readers who edited the manuscript up until this moment; I'm the genius who somehow deleted the sentences at the end while formatting the manuscript to the specs required by the Espresso Book Machine.)
And ultimately, the professionals of the book world understand what an advance copy is: it's a snapshot of the book at a stage when it is (to the best of everyone's ability), fully presentable while still being decidedly still in-process.
Plus, they're just too pretty and–well, too real not to be overjoyed about. I love them, and with the help of some wonderful, brilliant, dedicated friends and a hundred or so Kickstarter angels*, I made them myself.
So, in the immortal words of Vampire Weekend, who gives a f*ck about the Oxford comma?
*There is still time for you to become one of those angels, you know. The campaign ends June 9. No big deal. I'm just sayin'.


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Download myArabic Alphabet apk Version free for Android smartphone
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Player FAQs
Monte Lee FAQs, Biography And Facts
Monte Lee Bio & Career Stats
Position: Linebacker
Career: 4 Years
Height: 6-4
Weight: 225
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Birth Date: ,
Birth Place: Ballinger, TX
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College: Texas
Drafted: 1960 Philadelphia Eagles (Round: 8)
|Monte Lee FAQs
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Monte Lee was born in Ballinger, TX.
How tall is Monte Lee?
Monte Lee stands 6' 4".
Where did Monte Lee go to College?
Monte Lee attended Texas.
What Year did Monte Lee get drafted?
Monte Lee was drafted in 1960 by the Philadelphia Eagles.
In what Round did Monte Lee get drafted?
Monte Lee was drafted in Round 8 in 1960.
Which Team Drafted Monte Lee?
The Philadelphia Eagles drafted Monte Lee in 1960.
What Position did Monte Lee play?
Monte Lee played Linebacker.
What Teams did Monte Lee Play for?
Monte Lee played for the Lions, Colts and Cardinals.
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Unlocker 2.0.8
Download Unlocker 2.0.8
Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware V2.0
Please ask questions in this thread http://www.insanelym...s-x-unlocker-2/
1. Introduction
Unlocker 2 is designed for Workstation 11, Player 7, ESXi 6 and Fusion 7.
If you are using an earlier product please continue using Unlocker 1
Version 2 has been tested against:
- Workstation 11/12 on Windows and Linux
- Player 7 & Workstation Player 12 on Windows and Linux
- Fusion 7/8 on Mavericks and Yosemite
- ESXi 6.0
being patched:
- Fix vmware-vmx and derivatives to allow Mac OS X to boot
- Fix vmwarebase .dll or .so to allow Apple to be selected during VM creation
- Fix libvmkctl.so on ESXi 6 to allow use with vCenter
Download a copy of the latest VMware Tools for OS X
You will have to manually mount the darwin.iso for example on Workstation 11 and Player 7.
The vmwarebase code does not need to be patched on OS X or ESXi so you will see a
message on those systems telling you that it will not be patched.
In all cases make sure VMware is not running, and any background guests have
been shutdown.
The code is now Python as it makes the Unlocker easier to run and maintain on ESXi.
There are some challenges to write the code as ESXi has a subset of Python 2.7 which
constrains some modules that can be used.
2. Prerequisites
The code requires Python 2.7 to work. Most Linux distros, ESXi and OS X ship with a compatible
Python interpreter and should work without requiring any additional software.
Windows has a packaged version of the Python script using PyInstaller, and so does not
require Python to be installed.
3. Limitations
If you are using VMware Player or Workstation on Windows you may get a core dump.
Latest Linux and ESXi products are OK and do not show this problem.
If you create a new VM using version 11 hardware VMware will stop and create a core dump.There are two options to work around this issue:
1. Change the VM to be HW 10 - this does not affect performance.
2. Edit the VMX file and add:
smc.version = "0" |4. Windows
On Windows you will need to either run cmd.exe as Administrator or using
Explorer right click on the command file and select "Run as administrator".
win-install.cmd - patches VMware
win-uninstall.cmd - restores VMware
win-update-tools.cmd - retrieves latest OS X guest tools
5. Linux
On Linux you will need to be either root or use sudo to run the scripts.
You may need to ensure the Linux scripts have execute permissions
by running chmod +x against the 2 files.
lnx-install.sh - patches VMware
lnx-uninstall.sh - restores VMware
lnx-update-tools.cmd - retrieves latest OS X guest tools
6. Mac OS X
On Mac OS X you will need to be either root or use sudo to run the scripts.
This is really only needed if you want to use client versions of Mac OS X.
You may need to ensure the OS X scripts have execute permissions
by running chmod +x against the 2 files.
osx-install.sh - patches VMware
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You will need to transfer the zip file to the ESXi host either using vSphere client or SCP.
Once uploaded you will need to either use the ESXi support console or use SSH to
run the commands. Use the unzip command to extract the files.
<<< WARNING: use a datastore volume to run the scripts >>>
Please note that you will need to reboot the host for the patches to become active.
The patcher is embbedded in a shell script local.sh which is run at boot from /etc/rc.local.d.
You may need to ensure the ESXi scripts have execute permissions
by running chmod +x against the 2 files.
esxi-install.sh - patches VMware
esxi-uninstall.sh - restores VMware
1. Any changes you have made to local.sh will be lost. If you have made changes to
that file, you will need to merge them into the supplied local.sh file.
2. The unlocker runs at boot time to patch the relevant files and it now survives
an upgrade or patch to ESXi as local.sh is part of the persisted local state.
8. Thanks
Thanks to Zenith432 for originally building the C++ unlocker and Mac Son of Knife
(MSoK) for all the testing and support.
Thanks also to Sam B for finding the solution for ESXi 6 and helping me with
debugging expertise. Sam also wrote the code for patching ESXi ELF files.
12/12/14 2.0.0
- First release
- Removed need for Python for Windows
- darwin.iso was missing from zip file
- Added EFI firmware files to remove Server check
- Refactored Python code
- Added View USB Service to Windows batch files
- Fixed broken GOS Table patching on Linux
- ESXi 6 working
- Latest tools from Fusion 7.1.2
- ESXi 6 patch for smcPresent vCenter compatibility
- Workstation 12 on Linux fixes
- Player 12 on Linux fixes
- Get latest VMware tools command
- Removed firmware files
- Moved to PyInstaller 3.0
© 2011-2015 Dave Parsons
What's New in Version 2.0.8 (See full changelog)
- 12/12/14 2.0.0
- - First release
- 13/13/14 2.0.1
- - Removed need for Python for Windows
- 13/13/14 2.0.2
- - darwin.iso was missing from zip file
- 02/01/15 2.0.3
- - Added EFI firmware files to remove Server check
- - Refactored Python code
- 07/01/15 2.0.4
- - Added View USB Service to Windows batch files
- - Fixed broken GOS Table patching on Linux
- 18/06/15 2.0.5
- - ESXi 6 working
- - Latest tools from Fusion 7.1.2
- 20/06/15 2.0.6
- - ESXi 6 patch for smcPresent vCenter compatibility
- 16/09/15 2.0.7
- - Workstation 12 on Linux fixes
- 14/11/15 2.0.8
- - Player 12 on Linux fixes
- - Get latest VMware tools command
- - Removed firmware files
- - Moved to PyInstaller 3.0
On linux vmware workstation 11.1 always crashes when vmware tools finished to install from darwin.iso.
but unlocker works.
related part of log
2015-04-01T17:16:13.795+05:00| vcpu-0| I120: Stream 7F8A7C02F7D0 creating 2015-04-01T17:16:13.795+05:00| vthread-9| I120: VTHREAD initialize thread 9 "vthread-9" pid 24905 2015-04-01T17:16:13.795+05:00| vthread-9| I120: Stream 7F8A7C02F7D0 ready 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.011]| vcpu-0| W110: Caught signal 11 -- tid 24903 (addr 0) 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.011]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: rip 0x0 rsp 0x7f8b983d6bc8 rbp 0x55ef8d0 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.011]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: rax 0x0 rbx 0x55efc68 rcx 0x55eb710 rdx 0xe485a0 rsi 0x7f8b983d6c70 rdi 0x7f8a7c00b7a0 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.011]| vcpu-0| I120: r8 0x451be102 r9 0x16b3521 r10 0x1 r11 0x3246 r12 0xd624fd1470e99cb7 r13 0x52f0280 r14 0x15bbd60 r15 0x16bb360 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.011]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7F8B983D6BC8 : 0x00000000007ef5ba 0x0000000400000000 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7F8B983D6BD8 : 0x00000000055eb710 0x00000000055eb710 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7F8B983D6BE8 : 0x00000000000000fa 0x00000004000003e8 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7F8B983D6BF8 : 0x0000000000000004 0x00007f8ba12b6ec0 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7F8B983D6C08 : 0x00007f8a7c011140 0x0000000000000004 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7F8B983D6C18 : 0x00000000004793d1 0x0000000000000000 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7F8B983D6C28 : 0xffffffff00000000 0x00007f8ba12503a8 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7F8B983D6C38 : 0x0000000000499943 0x00000000015ce788 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace: 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[0] 00007f8b983d6520 rip=00000000005154be rbx=0000000000515290 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=0000000000000004 r13=00007f8b983d7650 r14=00007f8b983d6c48 r15=000000000000000b 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[1] 00007f8b983d6550 rip=000000000046ce49 rbx=000000000000000b rbp=00007f8b983d6c48 r12=0000000000000004 r13=00007f8b983d7650 r14=00007f8b983d6c48 r15=000000000000000b 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[2] 00007f8b983d6640 rip=00007f8ba0a40340 rbx=00000000055efc68 rbp=00000000055ef8d0 r12=d624fd1470e99cb7 r13=00000000052f0280 r14=00000000015bbd60 r15=00000000016bb360 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: Backtrace[3] 00007f8b983d6bc8 rip=0000000000000000 rbx=00000000055efc68 rbp=00000000055ef8d0 r12=d624fd1470e99cb7 r13=00000000052f0280 r14=00000000015bbd60 r15=00000000016bb360 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[0] 00007f8b983d6520 rip=00000000005154be in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx-debug loaded at 0000000000400000 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[1] 00007f8b983d6550 rip=000000000046ce49 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx-debug loaded at 0000000000400000 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[2] 00007f8b983d6640 rip=00007f8ba0a40340 in function (null) in object /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 00007f8ba0a30000 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: SymBacktrace[3] 00007f8b983d6bc8 rip=0000000000000000 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| I120: Unexpected signal: 11. 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| W110: 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.012]| vcpu-0| W110+ Attempting a core dump using an unlimited size limit 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.166]| vcpu-0| W110: Core dumped. 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.166]| vcpu-0| I120: Core dump pipes to process /usr/share/apport/apport %p %s %c %P, core file unreliable 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.166]| vcpu-0| W110: A core file is available in "/localhome/rion/vmware/OS X 10.10/core" 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.166]| vcpu-0| W110: Writing monitor corefile "/localhome/rion/vmware/OS X 10.10/vmmcores.gz" 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.168]| vcpu-0| W110: Dumping core for vcpu-0 2015-04-01T17:16:13+05:00[+0.168]| vcpu-0| I120: Beginning monitor coredump
from crashed tid I also see next messages above
2015-04-01T17:13:57.104+05:00| vcpu-0| I120: VTHREAD start thread 4 "vcpu-0" pid 24903 2015-04-01T17:13:57.219+05:00| vcpu-0| I120: Vix: [24903 mainDispatch.c:4291]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=0, newAppState=1872, success=1 additionalError=0 2015-04-01T17:13:57.219+05:00| vcpu-0| I120: Vix: [24903 mainDispatch.c:4209]: VMAutomationReportPowerStateChange: Reporting power state change (opcode=0, err=0). 2015-04-01T17:13:57.219+05:00| vcpu-0| I120: Vix: [24903 mainDispatch.c:4209]: VMAutomationReportPowerStateChange: Reporting power state change (opcode=2, err=0). 2015-04-01T17:14:28.572+05:00| vcpu-0| I120: Vix: [24903 mainDispatch.c:4209]: VMAutomationReportPowerStateChange: Reporting power state change (opcode=2, err=0).
Also tried to install new osx 10.10.2 but crash is the same.
Ubuntu 14.04
Vmware Workstation 11.1.0 build-2496824
downgraded to Vmware Workstation 10 and used unlocker-1.3. works like a charm.
so I believe Vmware Workstation is just unstable for now on linux and we have to wait some future releases.
I'm not sure but probably the crashes somehow related to sound system.
hm now it hangs randomly and sound doesn't work ("Failed to set Alsa hardware parameter (snd_pcm_hw_params): Invalid argument")
I know it's not a place to discuss vmware problems or old versions of unlocker. So you may just ignore my message.
Great software, thank you very much. I purchased Snow Leopard 10.6.3 and used it with Windows 7 Pro SP1, VMWare Workstation 11.1.2 and Unlocker 2.0.6. I followed the included instructions and had the following problems.
When I first created the VM the OS install was failing at the start with "Not a server" or similar message from OS X. I added both efi64.filename = "efi64-srvr.rom" and smc.version = "0" to the .vmx file. After that I progressed to the error "A virtual CPU has entered the shutdown state".
OS X 10.6 wasn't available as an option while creating the VM so I had selected 10.7 as the closest. This left me with an entry in the .vmx file of guestOS = "darwin11-64". By changing that to guestOS = "darwin10-64" I got past that error.
After that I kept using the Apple Software Update check until I got to OS X 10.6.8 and no more updates were available. At that stage I installed OS X 10.10.4 from the App store. That worked fine so I installed VMWare tools.
Hopefully these additional steps will help someone.
Lovely job, thanks again.
Works like a charm on VM11 !!!
Thanks a lot for this great job.
@ Aaron Priest
the file is not broken... it works fine here with os x 7zip utility
@gsull, you could just download a 10.10 VM directly, no need to update from an older Mac OS X version.
VMware Workstation for PC version 11.1.2 is out - happy to report latest Unlocker works fine with it on my PC, thank you! Using a Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit Host OS. Guest OSes - Mac OS X 10.7-10.10.
Trying "El Capitan" Beta3 on Workstation 11.1.2 on Scientific Linux 7.0 host, with unlocker 2.0.5
Followed instructions at http://pastebin.com/6pWGSB5bto create bootable ISO from OS_X_10.11b3 download
Created new VM with defaults (hardware version 11, so set smc.version = "0" in vmx file)
Booted to and ran installer OK, but at end of installation:
"The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk"
Retrying with VM hardware version 10...
Hi community,
Unlocker 2.0.6 sais its version 2.0.5. So wich is it?
Followed instructions at http://pastebin.com/6pWGSB5b
Working 10.10.4 on ESXi 6.0.0b! Thanks goadeff and uploader!
I just wanted to say thank you for these tools! Ive got 10.10 running on 2 developer machines for iOS. I almost cracked and bought a used MBP. I kinda game up on the entire hackintosh thing. Updates breaking things, wasting time to rebuild it all, etc. I got too annoyed by it. This solution is the perfect.
I am afraid I am a bit lost,
when I add the line "efi64.filename = "efi64-srvr.rom"" to my vmx file, VMWARE complains the virtual machine is corrupt.
I did patch the vmware using 2.0.6 using the provided patch script for windows. No error reported as far as I can see.
VMWare player 7.1.2 build-2780323, Mac Os X 10.10 installed via VMWare Fusion, (They are interoperable, since I copy an image of my Centos VM on both without any conversion whatsoever)
For some reason, after reinstalling the VMWare, applying the patch again, and skipping the modification to vmx file, it works perfectly now.
I am so much grateful for this, If you ever visit Germany, I will offer the developers all the beer you can drink.
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I would like politics to be peripheral. Government is essential. The state provides for law and order, to protect us from those who will do violence to us, who will defraud us. That is a given and the priority.This is a common view, believed by many from all over the political spectrum. Milton Friedman for example once said
[...] government is essential both as a forum for determining the 'rules of the game' and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on. (Friedman 1962: 15)But is this right?
We do have examples of where government enforcement of the "rules of the game" was missing and yet the game went on. Medieval Japan (ca. 1100-1600) was a period of economic growth but growth took place without much of a central government to enforce claims to resources. A recent working paper Property Rights In Medieval Japan: The Role Of Buddhist Temples And Monasteries by Mikael Adolphson and J. Mark Ramseyer argues that with regard to government in medieval Japan,
Emperors it had, along with regents, courtiers, warriors, and eventually shōgun and shōgunal regents. Yet these men seldom offered citizens much stability. Certainly, they seldom offered the security that would have induced citizens to invest scarce resources in easily appropriable investments or to undertake long-distance trade. These were not years of stability or peace. They were centuries of intrigue, murder, predation, and war.But they also point out that,
... the Japanese economy grew anyway. Despite the chaos, people cleared forests. They lent money. They built elaborate and expensive irrigation facilities. They constructed sake breweries. And they traded their goods over longer and longer distances.How then were property rights protected? Adolphson and Ramseyer show that temples and monasteries undertook the role of rights enforcer.
To obtain a secure claim to real estate, for example, a local landholder might "commend" his land to a temple (or monastery). Through the process, the temple obtained an equity interest in the land (took a cut of the harvest), and the landholder obtained an exemption from tax. At least as important, the landholder obtained the ability to call upon the temple to (and the temple had an incentive to) protect his land from rival claimants. Artisans and merchants obtained analogous protection by joining temple-sponsored guilds. They paid their dues, and the temple enforced their contracts.In addition to the tax exemption the temples and monasteries offered a landholder two other sets of valuable services. First, they would adjudicate disputes over trades and property between parties within their jurisdictions. So contracts could be enforced. Second, estates within a temple's or monastery's region of control would be protected against threats and intrusions from outside parties. While it is true that some private landowners has the ability to protect their own property, in many cases the temples and monasteries had under their control the resources necessary to more effectively protect property.
Not only that but the temples and monasteries competed with each other to such services to landholders.
What in effect occurred was that "government services" were provided not by central government but in a competition market by private suppliers. This private provision was effective enough to allow economic growth to take place.
In effect, the temples and monasteries competed with each other to provide landholders with what we usually consider basic government services. In effect, medieval Japan maintained a market in private governments. Imperfectly to be sure, the resulting arrangements gave landholders something close to the protection they needed to improve and maintain their land.Another case of private law enforcement is Medieval Iceland as discussed by David Friedman in Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case. Friedman argues
[...] medieval Icelandic institutions have several peculiar and interesting characteristics; they might almost have been invented by a mad economist to test the lengths to which market systems could supplant government in its most fundamental functions. Killing was a civil offense resulting in a fine paid to the survivors of the victim. Laws were made by a "parliament," seats in which were a marketable commodity. Enforcement of law was entirely a private affair. And yet these extraordinary institutions survived for over three hundred years, and the society in which they survived appears to have been in many ways an attractive one . Its citizens were, by medieval standards, free; differences in status based on rank or sex were relatively small; and its literary, output in relation to its size has been compared, with some justice, to that of Athens.The point? At least in the past, government was not essential. But what of today?
Medieval Iceland, however, presents institutions of private enforcement of law in a purer form than any other well-recorded society of which I am aware. Even early Roman law recognized the existence of crimes, offenses against society rather than against any individual, and dealt with them, in effect, by using the legislature as a special court. Under Anglo-Saxon law killing was an offense against the victim's family, his lord, and the lord of the place whose peace had been broken; wergeld was paid to the family, manbote to the crown, and fightwite to the respective lords. British thief-takers in the eighteenth century were motivated by a public reward of [[sterling]] 40 per thief. All of these systems involved some combination of private and public enforcement. The Icelandic system developed without any central authority comparable to the Anglo-Saxon king; as a result, even where the Icelandic legal system recognized an essentially "public" offense, it dealt with it by giving some individual (in some cases chosen by lot from those affected) the right to pursue the case and collect the resulting fine, thus fitting it into an essentially private system.
There are a number of countries around the world which can be classified as 'weak or failed'. In such countries, the state is so corrupt, fragile or otherwise dysfunctional as to create anarchic - eg Somalia - or 'near anarchic' conditions. Citizens in these places can not rely upon the civil magistrate to uphold contracts or protect individual property rights. In addition, international market activity, which now comprises close to a quarter of world GDP has no overarching supranational authority to interpret or enforce commercial agreements. In these markets as well, government cannot be relied upon to create or enforce the rules of the game required for exchange relationships to thrive. Despite this, markets in both 'weak and failed states' and internationally survive and flourish. The long-standing existence of markets under conditions of real or quasi-statelessness suggests that private 'rules of the game' must be possible without government. How is this possible?
To take the case of commercial law as an example, how can trade continue without the government to enforce contracts, guard against fraud and contractual violations. One reason is that if the interaction between a buyer and seller or a creditor and debtor, for example, is repeated then there are forces to stop people acting opportunistically. If in the case of, say, the creditor and debtor, the debtor or seller wants to enjoy the benefits of contracting with the other party again, he cannot cheat his exchange partner. If he did then clearly the other party would refuse any further deals. Thus, a trading partner's credible threat to terminate future dealing if the other party cheats credibly commits him to cooperation, making the contract self-enforcing without government or any other form of external coercion. But there will be situations where such bilateral punishment may not be enough to ensure contract are honoured. Other mechanisms are need in such cases. One such mechanism is multilateral punishment.
Under multilateral punishment, the punishment is carried out by not just one person but by a group of people. Under this type of strategy, if an agent violates his contract, a whole group of individuals refuses to deal with him again whether any individual group member specifically was the violated party or not. A common example of such a mechanism is the boycott or embargo. In the international trade arena, for example, the way it works is straightforward. Assume that an individual defaults on his contract with another person. In response, the cheated agent communicates this information through his relevant network of other international traders. International commercial associations and arbitration venues, such as the International Chamber of Commerce and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce facilitate this communication. By sharing the information about the identity of the trader who cheated him, the cheated individual coordinates the responses of his network of other traders, who, not wanting to be cheated themselves, refrain from any commercial dealings with the cheater. This has the effect of cutting off the cheater not only from future dealings with the individual he cheated, but also from this individual's entire trading network. This imposes a much higher cost to creating.
But multilateral punishment is also an effective way of creating reputations for individual traders who are honest. Honest individuals have good reputations and are able to cash in on this through contractual relationships with many others who are willing to contract with them because of their good reputation. Cheating would be very costly for individuals with good reputations because doing so would destroy the value of their histories of good conduct and with it the value of their reputations and thus ability to trade with others in the future. Reputation creation therefore acts as a kind of bond that commits traders to behave honestly. If they do not, they sacrifice the value of their bond.
But such private mechanisms are not useful only in state without government but can also play a role even in states with government enforcement of commercial law. As Peter Lesson writes,
Private mechanisms like reputation are highly important for enforcing contracts even where government is present and functional. The reason for this is straightforward. Even where government exists and is highly functional, state contractual enforcement is costly and imperfect. For many contractual agreements, it is not profitable to seek state enforcement even if a party has certainty he will win the dispute. The value he would receive is lower than the cost of pursuing state enforcement. Given this situation, one might expect that no contracts below this critical threshold would ever be established because, without recourse to state enforcement, defection would be endemic. But this is evidently not the case. Where state enforcement is prohibitively costly and thus cannot provide practical protection, reputation coupled with bilateral or multilateral punishment, discussed above, secures contractual fulfilment. (Lesson 2008: 50)So, Do markets need government? At the very least, the answer to this question is more ambiguous than you may normally think.
- Friedman, Milton (1962) Capitalism and Freedom, Chicago: The Univeristy of Chicago Press.
- Leeson, Peter T. (2008) Do Markets Need Government? In The Legal Foundations of Free Markets edited by Stephen F. Copp, London: IEA.


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Pensions Data Implementation Analyst
- Recruiter
- Alexander Lloyd
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Posted
- 10 Jan 2018
- Closes
- 09 Feb 2018
- Sector
- Technology & New Media
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
An award winning Pensions software firm who have been going through a sustained period of success and growth are currently looking for an Implementation Analyst to join either their expanding London or Guildford offices.
You will be required to work closely with and support the Calculations, Systems Management and Software and Products team. Some of your main responsibilities will include; implement new clients and migrate existing clients onto correct systems, be a point of contact with clients to ensure all scheme and system changes are correctly managed and assist in creating new calculations in respect of DB and DC schemes to help junior administrators.
It is essential that the successful candidate has an extensive knowledge of Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Pension schemes and has worked on a variety of different Pension systems and software. It is vital that you are a extremely confident whilst using Microsoft Office, especially Excel. It will be hugely advantageous if you have got a proven record in migrating data from one system to another.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work for an industry leading organisation who really take pride in the development of their staff. You will be provided with the freedom to work with a number of different teams to gain a full round exposure to Pensions software and systems. In recognition of your hard work, you will be rewarded with a very generous basic salary and benefits package.
Please quote 15030 when calling Alexander Lloyd on 01293 572900 and ask for our Pensions and Benefits division. This is only one of many vacancies we are handling. Alexander Lloyd is a specialist within Financial Services recruitment. Areas of expertise include IFA, Advisors, Employee Benefits, Compliance, Pensions, Group Risk, Paraplanners, Sales Support, T&C etc.
Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website www.alexanderlloyd.co.uk for any other roles which may be of interest.
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Angry over spying, Muslims say: 'Don't call NYPD'
by Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley
Fed up with a decade of police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to the police with their concerns about terrorism, a campaign that is certain to further strain relations between the two groups.
Muslim community leaders are openly teaching people how to identify police informants, encouraging them to always talk to a lawyer before speaking with the authorities and reminding people already working with law enforcement that they have the right to change their minds. Some members of the community have planned a demonstration for next week.
Some government officials point to this type of outreach as proof that Muslims aren't cooperating in the fight against terrorism, justifying the aggressive spy tactics, while many in the Muslim community view it as a way to protect themselves from getting snared in a secret police effort to catch terrorists.
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We are nearing the end of the busy part of the 2013 recruiting season. Many players look to commit relatively early so they can either enroll early or at the least start to mentally implement themselves in their new basketball program.
With that being said, some players will wait for a few loose ends to get tied up before they sign a letter of intent. Regardless of which route a prospect goes, all schools chasing after them are anxious to know who they "officially" land in each year's recruiting class.
The North Carolina State Wolfpack must be as happy as a walrus at an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet. The school has announced that 2013 recruit, Lennard Freeman, is officially joining the program and will be ready to play for the Wolfpack in the upcoming season.
Freeman is an interesting player for a few different reasons. Only 17-years-old, Freeman thought about reclassifying for the 2014 class, but after enough scholarships came towards his direction, he decided to stick with 2013. Also, he is listed as either 6-foot-7″ or 6-foot-8 (depending on which recruiting site you go to), which means he already has a nice size for a kid who is not old enough to buy a pack of smokes.
It seems like most recruiting websites have him as a mid-three star player, but one who has a decent amount of potential in his body. Surely, the Wolfpack are excited to grab this type of player as well as one who could pay out in dividends down the road.
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Soooo, after approximately three hours sleep and spending half that time wondering if I can demand redundancy by combat and if Oberon would be my champion (sorry - I am a Game of Thrones geek), I decided to get up as sleep wasn't going to return, and share the card I made at about 1o'clock this morning:
This is a card made using an LOTV die-cut, which are no longer available on the website, but I think are still available in the Ebay outlet store. I have nearly used up my stash so might have to see if I can get some more, or buy all the stamps (but that would be expensive).
Anyway, I followed the sketch over at Love to Create, because it doesn't matter how awake you are, at 1am, you need a bit of help with the designing.
The papers are from my stash and I have absolutely no idea where they came from originally, and I disguised the seam with some green raffia which was a magazine freebie recently. I was going to go all purple, but I love the combination of mint and purple.
I added a peel-off sentiment and some flowers as per the sketch. I then added some purple and silver stars with the flowers to tie-in with the image and little stars in the other corners of the image.
Finally, I added three mint pearls to the top right-hand corner of the card and stickles to the skirt and stars on the image.
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I was down in San Antonio for the Imaging USA Conference earlier this week. With some free time Tuesday morning, I took a walk through the print winners, and was struck by how few "straight" prints there were. Considering the state of the photography business these days, though, I shouldn't have been surprised.
As camera's have gotten better and better, more people are able to take good pictures. That's a far cry from twenty years ago. Back then, you had to understand the exposure basics of ISO, shutter speed and aperture, and the effect they had on each other. And you had to know how to focus the lens. With the improved automatic exposure and auto-focus systems of today's cameras, that's no longer the case. Plus, you don't have to deal
with getting film processed and using loupes to go through that film to find the best pictures. And finally, you no longer have to find a custom lab to make corrections and enhancements to photos during printing. That can all be done on your home computer.
For most people these advances have been a great thing. They mean that photography as a creative outlet is a door that's been opened to everyone. For commercial photographers, those people trying to make a living with their cameras, that door opening has often meant less business for them. Imaging USA is aimed primarily at wedding, portrait and event photographers, and so the vendors were promoting tools for them. That meant not only cameras and lenses, but lighting gear, backdrops, accessories and lots of software. To compete against the neighbor next door with a digital SLR, they're looking for things that neighbor can't easily do. And that often comes down to lighting, backgrounds and a unique "look" to the finished photos. And that's why the print exhibition was so interesting.
Yes, there were a lot of really nice images. But as I said above, most were manipulated in some way. I saw a heavy use of saturated colors, high-contrast,
sharpening and softening, torn-edge borders and some old-photo looks. To help make their work stand out, many photographers are resorting to heavy editing of their images. And it works. They catch your eye. If this was all being done manually, step-by-step in editing software, it would take more knowledge and time than most people want to spend. So there are loads of plug-ins and actions that automate these looks. Looking at them, I realized it had been a while since I've played with any of my images this way. Right there I knew what I was going to do when I got home.
I generally preach, "find ways to spend less time in front of the computer." Most of us already find ourselves in front of a monitor more hours of the day than we'd like. But there are times when it can be a lot of fun to sit down and waste an hour or two at play, trying new techniques or old ones you haven't used in a while. So after returning home I sat down and pulled up a group of images from a workshop I led to New Orleans last year, and started playing.
There are a couple of sets of plug-ins that I always go back to when doing this. I'm a long-time fan of Nik software (http://www.niksoftware.com). They first hooked me with their Nik Sharpener Pro software, to automate sharpening of images for screen and print. That saved me hours of tedious work, and gave
great results. Then I tried their Color Efex Pro package, and found a new favorite way to create some amazing looks to my photos. This plug-in set automates image treatments that run from "Cross Processing" to "Infrared" to "Polaroid Transfer" to "Fog" and "Glamour Glows" and on and on. A few of my favorites are "Monday Morning, "Classical Soft Focus" and "Indian Summer." What I like is that they don't just give you a "look," but also let you modify that look to your heart's content.
I was also a big fan of the "Black and White Conversion" option, but then they introduced Silver Efex Pro, which took black and white creation to an entirely new level. I used it on the plantation kitchen shot here.
My roots in photography go back to photojournalism, so I usually try to keep my photos honest to the scene I was recording. But every now and then, it's fun to play and experiment with new software packages, or re-visit old ones. After all, with the wet darkroom giving way to the computer, our only creative limit is our imagination. So go ahead, cut loose and go a little wild. Who knows, you may find new life in an old image.


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Fair Trade as a Tool to Empower Women and Girls3 years ago
In 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City to demand shorter working hours, better pay and voting rights. This was the beginning of a movement from which International Women's Day was born. Decades later, in 2011, the United Nations marked the 11th of October as the first International Day of the Girl Child, highlighting the continuing challenges which young girls still face in communities across the globe; especially in relation to accessing education, being safe from violence and exploitation. Within the fashion industry, the pressure to meet the demands of conventional fast fashion companies is enormous. To stay competitive, manufacturing factories keep their overheads low by paying low wages for workers. Child labourers can be paid even less and are an attractive proposition for employers. Parents are forced to send their children, including young girls to work in conditions which are unsafe in order to create enough income to sustain the family.
As a Fair Trade company, People Tree works with many social businesses who not only create decent employment and pay fair wages, but who also invest in their local community. For example, by funding schools, medical support and awareness raising on the rights of women and girls. We support communities in India, Bangladesh and Nepal who empower girls by giving them access to education and vocational training. By focusing on empowerment of women through dignified and artisanal work, we help keep handicraft traditions alive, as well as offer opportunities to help strengthen these communities and continue to support their learning and development. Equal opportunities are reflected throughout People Tree's supply chain, where 56% of leadership roles are held by women.
In rural Bangladesh, girls are often not given opportunities to go to school, instead they are encouraged to stay at home to help around the house and to get married very young. People Tree works with Swallows, an NGO set up to empower the poor and underprivileged population, especially women, in the village of Thanapara. Swallows runs a handicrafts program which makes beautiful hand woven and hand embroidered garments. This business helps to fund Swallows' development work in the local area, and the empowerment of girls and women is central to their work.
Mrs Gini Ali, Assistant Director at Swallows, feels that discrimination and lack of opportunity for women in Bangladesh are the biggest barriers to improving living conditions there. She says:
"The Fair Trade principles applied by People Tree have created economic stability for Swallows, allowing it to become an independent organisation, this has led to the empowerment of the women of Thanapara."
Swallows funds schools and awareness raising to ensure that girls have the same chance to study as boys. They raise awareness amongst parents, sharing the importance of education for young girls and its benefits for the family and the community. As well as sharing the importance of education, Swallows raises awareness around the issue of child marriage and the negative impacts this can have. Swallows provides free training opportunities for young women and also sponsor young women to study part time whilst the work part time making Fair Trade clothing. As well as this they offer legal support to local women who are victims of domestic violence and raise awareness locally on the issue.
In Nepal, People Tree partners with Kumbeshwar Technical School (KTS). Originally set up as a vocational training centre, KTS has now developed into a Fair Trade business creating beautiful hand knitted products. Established in 1983 with the goal of breaking societal barriers created by Nepal's caste system, KTS was set up to help Pode people, the so-called 'untouchable' caste in Nepal. Those born into the Pode caste are expected to clean the sewers and streets of the areas inhabited by higher castes for no more than scraps of leftover food. The discrimination which keeps these people out of other forms of work even affects children, who may drop out of primary school because they are unable to fit in. Until recently, Pode children did not go to school at all.
KTS now offers employment to 2,273 women who come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. On top of this, the profits from Fair Trade helps fund vocational training; a school; a day care centre for over 250 children from low income families and an orphanage.
Both KTS and Swallows are both 'Guaranteed Fair Trade Organisations' by the World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO). This recognises that the whole of the company is 100% dedicated to Fair Trade and ensures that all the groups adhere to the WFTO's 10 Fair Trade Principles. Key to these 10 principles is Principle Six: 'Commitment to Non Discrimination, Gender Equity and Women's Economic Empowerment'. At People Tree we believe that Fair Trade business is a key driver in the empowerment of women and girls worldwide.
For more information about how People Tree supports women and girls, please contact us for a copy of our Social Review and read about People Tree's latest Campaign Against Child Labour in our digital edition of the Eco-Edit: http://www.peopletree.co.uk/eco-edit


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Item title reads - Irish Red Cross parade.
Dublin, Eire (Southern Ireland, Republic of Ireland).
L/S of the platform outside the Post Office where Irish President Eamon de Valera stands. Various shots of members of the Red Cross as they walk past. De Valera takes the salute.
If it is from 1941 then he was not president then. He was Taoiseach (prime minister). He did not become president until 1959.


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Congratulations to Director Joel Franco (and Chesapeake Films) on his new film project, a documentary about Dino Costa. I got a little shout out in the press release — "Led by founder Joel Franco, Chesapeake Films has secured option agreements on a full slate of impressive stories for feature films and television programming. Chesapeake Films will attend Cannes Film Festival in May 2013 "to shop several film scripts, including "an espionage thriller trilogy franchise based on Susan Ouellette's novels."
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My boyfriend and I started dating a month ago. He told me from the beginning he is going with his friend to NYC for her book signing I was completely fine with that. After he asked me out the girl told him that she loved him and he had to be with her or they couldn't be friends. He chose to stay with me. Later they started talking things out and became friends again. Now they talk everyday I guess. One time I asked for his phone because I wanted to see something and he kinda snapped. I knew something was up so I told him I wanted to see his phone cuz I felt something was on it he said no. After messing on his phone he deleted the messages from her. I freaked out. He told me he deleted them because she asked if he would still go to NYC with her. He was thinking about it and he knew I would be pissed. After that I told him it was the trip or me well he chose the trip but some how convinced me to stay. Every time I tell him how I don't like them even being friends. Am I out of line or is he cheating or going to cheat? I have been cheated on it sucks.
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Ahhhhh … like a breath of fresh air! Very nice.
i would have have hung the curtains higher and also I am not in love with the mirror, maybe if it was just resting on the mantle
Looks beautiful!!!
Nice! It does look cozy … I especially like the painted out brick. But really, there doesn't seem to be any more colour than there was before. (And that's fine by me)
The painted fireplace is a huge improvement! It's still a calm room, but so much fresher and somehow looks more alive.
I got to say like the before best …sorry
Great makeover! Confused by the table and chairs… is it a kiddies version?
I do like the new room, however I think it still needs some pizazz. Personally I'd close in the gap above the fireplace and put a much bigger mirror there. Some colour really is needed and I think some warmth in the curtains would be good. The greeny tones and white give the room a cool feel rather than one of warmth. If they like the new room the way it is, then that's great! Just saying what I would do.
Oh wow! I love it!
Love the painted fireplace. I'm slowly but surely getting my husband 'used to' the idea of painting ours.


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We kind of love books for kids in this house. I love good book recommendations from friends – or being GIVEN good books for kids from friends!! Occasionally I get myself pulled together and share book lists.
This page is a collection of all my book lists of good books for kids – some books may find them self on more than one list, but it is only because it deserves to be.
I hope you find some new treasures for yourself and your family – and while our shelves are full of good books awaiting their turn to be explored, please do share your favorite books for kids – or books lists! – for us to look into. Also, if you have an idea of a fun book list, please let me know. Several of our book lists have been inspired from sweet friends that have ASKED about certain ideas. Like the lists we make up every year on our youngest's birthday to mark favorite books from the age we are saying goodbye to – such a fun idea that came from a friend! It's fun to look back on books from seasons past – and some books are still beloved favorites even though it has been a few years.
Books mark milestones, and memories of read ones evoke emotions. I think that is why I love these book lists so much – it's like a family scrapbook to go back through favorite books read and consumed. I can remember vividly the little one that listened to almost the entirety of David Livingston while standing on his head. Or how the boys started speaking in "Og" when we read about the land of Og. Precious memories that are relived as I compose and then look over these lists.
I am pretty far behind in making up book lists, however I regularly update my instagram account with books we have read and enjoyed, if you would like to follow there you can find me here.
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Attention all Forum Users.
We're working on a brand new shiny tool to make your experience as simple as possible.
Which means the community forums is now read only whilst we work on a new & improved 'My Contiki' space.
Culturally Freindly??
5 Oct 2007 Civilrightstoday1 asked
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If you like to have fun, party, drink and dance up a storm you will have no problem in fitting in.
If you are quiet, reserved, don't drink you may have trouble fitting in the australian way.
I'm Aussie and in my opinion we are very culturally friendly after all, we live in a bvery multi-cultural society.
I don't think it's fair to say that if you are quiet, reserved and don't like to drink that you won't be accepted – different strokes for different folks – i say.
Australia has what i consider the largest multicultural society in the world, you name a race/religion and they either live in or holiday to Aus!
Australia is a very friendly country culturally, and whether you are quiet and reserved, or more outgoing you will be accepted. If thats one thing Australia does it ACCEPTS all people.
Civilrightstoday1 you will have an awesome time on Contiki especially in Australia <!--graemlin::)-->
If I had to pick anywhere to live would be Australia. Spent 28 days on holiday there and loved it. They are the most open minded people I have ever met really laid back and easy going. I don't think you'll have a problem. I'll say it again contiki and travel is all what YOU make of it.
Australians are friendly, but like anywhere else they do have ones that aren't so friendly. The only thing I can say is that in lots of the small cities (which is probably most of them), the people are very friendly. I remember we looked lost and a woman just stopped and asked us where we needed to go. On the other hand, when we were in Sydney they are more reserved and are not as friendly as you would see in the smaller towns (not all people from Sydney are like this). It's like any country, take Canada for example, small towns are associated with friendlier people, whereas if you go to Toronto you may not get the same effect. Sydney is a beautiful place though. Again this isn't true for everyone. This was just how I felt when I went there, but most of your time in Australia will be spent in the little cities where the Australians are amazing, friendly, and helpful. I would also love to live in Australia, but in a little city. Overall, it is gorgeous, fun, and if you are reserved you will fit in fine. I'm reserved, I don't drink, and am not much of a partier and I fit in.
Generally Sydney is ok, you might meet unruley people though. Just be wise, if you need advice ask a group of middle aged people or a family, rather than a group of teenage guys.
As long as you try and blend in and not expect special treatment people will be nice.
Reference to the above post: i would be more than help female tourists as much as i could, im a little more sceptical about guys but thats only because im a 19 year old girl
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I am an African American woman who is very interested in traveling abroad and I wanted to know are the trips culturally friendly?
We had a good cultural mix on my tour and I cannot
remember anyone having any problems whatsoever. I've seen more ignorance in Toronto that we did on the tour. Do remember that the livelihood of the places you travel to is tourism so they're accustomed and welcoming to people from all over the world.
hey..guys hav no worries about the Australian culture. I'm Aussie myself. and it's like anywhere else in the world. Generally people are really friendly and helpful. Most of us are generally interested in tourists and their stories and so forth so strike up a conversation or wateva
I'm from a small town so I can't speak for cities, but as soon as you open your mouth and talk with a different accent, 99% of Australians will love you from then on.
Obviously in cities, people won't be as accepting, but I will never think of most of them as mean and when I got lost in Melbourne recently, people were very eager to point me in the right direction.
Australians are known for their laid back attitude so I don't think there is anything to worry about at all.
Whats not to love about this place…weather is beautiful, rarely have natural or man made disasters, have some of the most beautiful natural wonders and speaking for myself…i love people with accents…esp european/american
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The 2015 Hyundai Genesis burst onto the stage in Detroit this past year to introduce the world to the second generation of the Korean automaker's mid-size luxury sedan. Wearing the brand's new 'Fluidic Sculpture 2.0' styling, the new Hyundai Genesis features a mature look that goes hand in hand with a thorough re-think of the vehicle's entire platform. Tighter, more comfortable, and with increased driver engagement compared to the departing model, the 2015 Hyundai Genesis aims to peel even greater numbers of customers away from its European luxury rivals.
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AURORA — Officials with the city of Aurora and Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport have confirmed that the Rocky Mountain Airshows scheduled for each location in 2016 have been canceled.
"Rocky Mountain Aviation defaulted on their agreement," according to Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport.
The city of Aurora did not say why its air show was canceled, but confirmed it was canceled.
Last year's event at the Aurora Reservoir became a mess when traffic jammed and many ticket holders couldn't get to the show. Organizers had to issue refunds to hundreds of people.
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The Chiefs have plenty of time to get guys well, now that they lost in the first round of the playoffs again. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones suffered a torn MCL in Saturday's loss to the Titans, and will need surgery to repair the damage. He's facing an eight-week [more]
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The Bills broke a 17-year playoff drought, but they won't have to wait at all between their first-round picks in the 2018 NFL Draft. With the wild card results in the books, the Bills will have back-to-back picks in the first round. They earned the 21st spot on their own, and also have the 22nd [more]
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Working with a few of the O.G. Chiefscrowd members to put together a tailgate for the 2018 season at Arrowhead. Hopefully we can have as good a turnout as we did 9 years ago. More details to come. Hopefully over the next few months before Training camp starts. More info will also be on the Facebook page as well. Read more…
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In the first half of Saturday's game against the Titans, Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith went 19-of-23 for 231 yards and two touchdowns to help his team build a 21-3 lead. The second half didn't go nearly as well. Smith was 5-of-10 for 33 yards and the Titans scored 19 straight points to end the Chiefs' [more]
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Jeff Triplette, the much-criticized referee who worked Saturday's Titans-Chiefs game, has reportedly decided to call it a career. Triplette has told people around the league that he is retiring from the officiating business, Aditi Kinkhabwala? of NFL Network reports. Saturday's apparent career finale was not a good performance by Triplette, who drew criticism from former [more]
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The NFL's ultimate businessman appeared to make the ultimate business decision on Saturday night. Chiefs cornerback Darrelle Revis, a late-season addition to the team who surely hoped to parlay a couple of strong postseason performances into a big payday next year (either under the second year of his Kansas City contract or elsewhere), clearly pulled [more]
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With the replay-review function not consistently adhering to the "clear and obvious" evidence standard and with Saturday's postseason-opening game not featuring the kind of officiating the league's teams and fans deserve, the NFL has plenty of issues to address regarding one of its most important functions. And the easiest solution when it comes to the [more]
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I remember hearing a prophet say we should develop stamina for spending extended time in worship
That we needed to learn to be willing and able to engage at length in the presence of God. The challenge he brought was fitting then, and remains so now.
What if a shift in awareness comes as God makes his presence felt, but the time is getting late?
What might he do in our worship if we didn't rush away?
Do we have the stamina to remain in Father's presence if he moves in an unusual way, or even if he doesn't, but we just long to pour out more of an offering than usual?
Do we even want the necessary strength, or would we prefer to be in bed at our usual time?
We cry out for his presence but are we willing to stay with him, or do we think, 'Our usual finishing time will do…thank you very much.'?
I hope not
I would love for the church…and that includes me…to be hungry enough to keep asking for the more, and to have the strength of heart to stay the course when the 'more' is happening. We may have work in the morning, or the sure knowledge of a baby waking us later, but if we have met with God won't we relish what we have experienced rather than resenting the tiredness?
As I imagine these opportunities to linger, I'm not thinking of nightly meetings as has often been the custom during 'revivals', I'm thinking more of a deliberate decision to explore the wide open space of worship, enjoying the presence of Father God, after all this is where we are invited to dwell and to rest.
What will we decide?
Then perhaps there will be those times when something special is happening, right here, right now, and someone needs to make a decision, well, we all do. Will we call a halt, bring on the speaker, draw the meeting to a close, sidle off in hopes we go home unnoticed, or will we risk it and stay? Imagine Moses, when he saw something odd going on in a bush, was he tempted to think he would just press on with whatever he was doing there and then? Thankfully, he decided he would stay to see what was happening. He had to make a choice. So do we.
Are we keen for him to be free to do whatever he wants? Are we brave enough to stay when he makes his presence felt? What might happen to us, in us, through us, if we stay? Might we be history makers?