text: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Starship Warrior wrote: > I am totally new to clusters but have been a list member for some time > and read all the emails trying to learn more - so can anyone tell me > where there is a good how to guide - I have three machines that I would > like to use linus and cluster together just to learn more - two are 3.0 > Pentiums and the last one maybe a 3.5 or 6 not sure yet they the two > have the same ASUS MB and will use SCSI drives the third will also > have a ASUS MB just not sure yet what I will get > > thanks for any and all information A "good howto guide" is a tough thing to define, because of the breadth of the problem, but here goes. See: http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma (for example) as a cluster resource clearinghouse, with links to other cluster resource clearinghouses such as beowulf.org, beowulf underground and others. In particular there are links to the beowulf howto, the beowulf FAQ, and an online book on cluster engineering that can probably suffice to get you started. See also a series of columns I wrote last year for the then brand new Cluster World Magazine on this very topic. See also the list archives -- this is a FAQ beyond the FAQ and has been discussed/described on list repeatedly over years. See also sites like the warewulf site -- there are now free cluster-in-a-box (so to speak) distributions that should permit you to build and configure a learning cluster very easily indeed, often without even installing an operating system image on the nodes (so they can continue to run whatever you like except when you boot them into a cluster). To give you the direct answer, it goes something like the following: a) Hook systems into a common switched LAN e.g. an ethernet switch. b) If possible use decent quality PXE-aware NICs c) If possible use nodes with a decent amount of installed memory (>= 192 MB) although it is possible to get by with less, with effort. d) Node hard disk is optional for at least some installation methods (e.g. warewulf) but is useful and enables others. e) At least one system NEEDS ample hard disk and will serve as a "server" or "head node" to your cluster. This node will manage boot images, the distro you wish to install, NFS or other shared filesystems, authentication, and gives you a place to "login to the cluster". Note that this is a sloppy requirement -- there are many different ways to manage this and I'm just describing one of the simplest and most straightforward ones. It then goes like this. Set up linux (of your choice) on the boot server/head node. Learn to PXE boot (dhpc, tftp) and set up head node as boot server. Learn to set up an installation repository for e.g. kickstart or the distribution and packaging scheme of your choice and do so via a mirror on your head node. Create accounts and NFS home directories and so on on your head node. Then pick a kind of cluster and install it. This could be a bootable remote mountable node image on your server (warewulf) or kickstarting an installation onto all your nodes native or using FAI or something else. What you choose here depends on what linux distro you're comfortable and how serious a cluster you want to build. For most beginners, I tend to suggest either using a canned cluster (warewulf) or a simple NOW cluster (e.g. kickstarted FC2 on all nodes). Install "parallel clustering" packages as desired, e.g. pvm, lam mpi or mpich, ganglion, wulfware (xmlsysd/wulfstat), whatever. Or not, you can actually do and learn about clustering without them in at least some modes of operation using just plain old compilers, modern perl, ssh, and some scripts. That's it. Write a parallel program (using PVM or MPI) or run a serial program in parallel (lots of ways) and you can start to learn about parallel speedup and scaling and everything... rgb > > Starship Warrior > Cluster user wantabe LOL > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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"Orange is the New Black" actress Laura Prepon said Ashton Kutcher was Mila Kunis' first kiss when the three starred together on "That '70s Show."
Prepon told Us Weekly "it's incredible" her two former castmates are now dating seven years after the "That '70s Show" ended. She said she and her costars from the comedy are still close after all these years.
"They're like my family," she said.
Prepon confirmed Kutcher was Kunis' first kiss when the starlet was just 14 years old.
"He was. He was," she said.
"I wasn't surprised either," Prepon said of learning the two were dating in April 2012.
Rumors began circling earlier this month that Kutcher and Kunis are engaged after the actress was spotted what appeared to be an engagement ring. Prepon said she expects to get an invitation to the nuptials should they take place.
"Obviously if people wanted us there, which she would because we're all family -- then of course I would be there," she said. "We support each other no matter what."

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You can compare Erin Taylor-Talcott to Danica Patrick, Annika Sorenstam or Michelle Wie. You can draw comparisons to Billy Jean King in the Battle of the Sexes II. Each story helped to shape the culture in their respective sports and that's exactly what Taylor-Talcott has done.
After reaching the qualifying standard, Taylor-Talcott's initial intention wasn't to become a pioneer for women's race walk. Without an Olympic 50 km distance for women, she began seeking approval to compete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials 50 km Men's Race Walk January 22 in Santee, Calif. While it wasn't by design, she quickly drew comparisons to the names listed above.
Her story started small, but built into something fitting of an Agatha Christie novel or a made for TV movie. Not only the first woman to compete in the men's race, but Taylor-Talcott will also have a second rare opportunity – competing next to her husband, Dave Talcott, who also reached the qualifying standard. It gives a twist to her story not seen with Patrick, Sorenstam, Wie or King.
"First, to be able to do this, second, to be the first woman to do it and, third, to be able to do it with my husband is so amazing," Taylor-Talcott said. "I just wish it would hurry up and get here."
When the race does arrive in just over a week, it will be a significant mark on a whirlwind journey for Taylor-Talcott. She sought entry for two months into the men's field before finally being allowed to compete. She will compete in these Olympic Trials with the stipulation that she cannot attempt to gain access into the 2012 Olympic Games. However, her chances of advancing are slim as her qualifying time of 4:41:36 sits significantly slower than the standard for the Olympic Games of 4:09.
But being an Olympic athlete competing against the men will be the furthest thing from Taylor-Talcott's mind during the race. Her thoughts will be about the progress she has made.
"Look at what a girl can do," she said with a laugh. "I'm not the first person to have gotten the standard. But I know I am the first woman to fight for it."
Her reasoning behind her efforts are simple - many of the female race walkers prefer a longer distance than the 20 km event, the only race walk event offered for the women in the Olympics. It's a group that obviously includes Taylor-Talcott as she won the past two U.S. 50 km Championships for the women. She was also the recent overall winner of the USA 40 km Championships and finishing ahead of the men's winner, her husband.
As the other women in similar positions have experienced, Taylor-Talcott has been met with a large amount of feedback, both positive and negative. She prefers to concentrate on the former.
"The people who have been supportive have been fantastic," she said. "I chose to focus on the positive feedback. But once the gun goes off I will have all positive energy."
Likely much of the positive energy has been coming from her home from her husband. At 51 years of age, Talcott will be making his first appearance in the Olympic Trials. His qualifying time of 4:42:19 sits just under one minute slower than Taylor-Talcott's. It adds a bit of a Battle of the Sexes element within the same household.
"I can help him and he can help me," Taylor-Talcott said. "It is so unbelievable to be married to your best friend and training partner. We try to do a lot of the training in the winter together but with his work schedule it gets tough.
"I was there when he qualified and it was tough. I think it was tougher to be the wife on the sidelines."
The story for Taylor-Talcott is like few her sport has seen. The 50 km Race Walk Trials will represent an important point, but a point she hopes is only the beginning.
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Although the government shutdown has ended, the Visitor Center at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge was still closed on my recent visit to this quiet gem, one of almost a dozen national parks and monuments in Florida.
A park volunteer at the closed gate told me that the Visitor Center (fws.gov/merrittisland) would be closed into November for repairs. I missed strolling its inviting boardwalk, where I enjoyed a point-blank staring match with beautiful painted buntings on a rainy-day road trip earlier this year.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker Cobra women's soccer team picked up their first win of the season with a 5-3 win over the Barton Bulldogs in a Conference Carolinas soccer match Monday afternoon. The Cobras' Sarah Kinsey (Windermere, Fla.) led the way in the win with a hat trick.
Coker struck first in the match with a goal from Emily Morrow (Columbia, S.C.) in the 16th minute off a corner from Jill Giguere (Myrtle Beach, S.C.). Barton quickly answered and evened the match at one in the 20th minute with a goal from Georgia Crow with an assist from Anna Tressler.
The score remained tied at one for nearly 20 minutes before Kinsey netted her first of the day in the 42nd minute on a breakaway goal. Less than a minute later Kinsey struck again; this time with an assist from Shakenia Johnson (Columbia, S.C.) to give Coker a two goal lead heading into halftime.
The Cobras wasted no time finding the back of the net in the second half, this time it was Rachel Solomon (Bluffton, S.C.) scoring an unassisted goal, the first of her collegiate career.
Coker held the three goal lead until the 75th minute when Barton's Hilary Peterson hit the first of a pair of goals. The first came from an assist from Morgan Brush, the second came with an assist from Erin Haddon just two minutes later bringing the Bulldogs within a goal, 4-3.
Kinsey completed her three goal night with the insurance goal for the Cobras in the 78th minute with an assist from Johnson, giving Coker the eventually 5-3 victory.
Carrie Hudnell (Goose Creek, S.C.) had four saves in the net for the Cobras, while Mileika Miki had two for the Bulldogs.
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Rep. Edward J. Markey was back in Taunton Saturday shoring up support for his special-election primary run to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry.
Rep. Edward J. Markey was back in Taunton Saturday shoring up support for his special-election primary run to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry.
Markey's brief appearance at the Trescott Street Gallery was the second time since February that the 5th district Democrat has appeared in Taunton after declaring his bid to replace Kerry, who is now secretary of state.
At least 100 supporters and onlookers filled the art gallery during the campaign stop.
The 66-year-old Markey hit on the same themes he discussed a month ago when he spoke to a smaller gathering at Off Broadway Diner.
These included support for President Barack Obama's affordable health care act; combating global warming and creating clean-tech jobs; ensuring that women in the workplace are paid wages comparable to those of men; and repealing Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that allows corporations and unions to make unlimited campaign donations.
Markey has been out ahead of fellow Democratic challenger 8th district U.S. Rep Stephen Lynch in the polls.
He said unlike former Republican Sen. Scott Brown he'll staunchly support the president's health care act. Markey also said he looks forward to working closely with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who defeated Brown in a special election after the death of Ted Kennedy.
Although Markey didn't provide specifics, the crowd applauded him when he mentioned his continued support for a commuter rail line that would run through Taunton from Boston to Fall River, and for keeping Taunton State Hospital operational.
He also picked up the official endorsement of state Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton, who in introducing Markey noted their close professional relationship over the course of a quarter century.
Pacheco noted he had thought long and hard whether to make the primary election endorsement and had just in the past two weeks decided to do so.
Pacheco, who is a vocal opponent of Gov. Deval Patrick's plan to shutter the Taunton mental health hospital in favor of a new Worcester facility, noted that he and Markey share similar blue-collar roots.
During his introduction, Pacheco acknowledged the presence of his parents and noted how his father for years worked for the now-closed Haskon plant on Weir Street.
Markey, who grew up in Malden, said his father's experience as a truck driver in Lawrence paralleled that of Pacheco's father.
Markey said he shares Pacheco's concern about global warming and carbon dioxide emissions, and suggested that pollution and climate change have cost U.S. taxpayers $65 billion in money spent to rebuild communities and infrastructure decimated by October's Hurricane Sandy.
At least a dozen union members of the powerful American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, some of them holding signs, greeted Markey outside the building.
"He's always gone the extra mile for us," said Jim Durkin, spokesman for AFSCME's Boston-based Council 93.
Durkin was respectful of Lynch, saying that "there are two very good good candidates in this race." But he said Markey's long record of leadership in Washington — specifically his efforts to stem the outsourcing of jobs and his support of Obamacare — warrant support.
Markey has served in Congress for 36 years. Pacheco said that sort of Capitol Hill familiarity and experience will provide Markey a running start once he's elected.
Giselle Barry, communications director for the campaign, said Taunton was Markey's first stop of the day. She said he was headed next to New Bedford, where he would mark the opening of his field office, and then to Attleboro, a city that until this weekend he had yet to visit.
Among local officials attending Saturday's event were city councillors Sherry Costa Hanlon, Donald Cleary and Ryan Colton, the latter of whom is co-chairman of the Taunton Democratic City Committee.
Also attending were school committee member Carol Doherty, Taunton Education Association president Janet Anderson, former councilman Gerald Croteau and former Mayor Dick Johnson.


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Yolanda Krupiarz is a model from Vernon, New Jersey, who enjoys the wondrous sounds of Lana Del Ray and Flight of the Conchords. She also enjoys watching The Wendy Williams Show. Why? We're not sure.
For some reason upon graduating high school she decided to ditch the trenches of northern New Jersey and head out west to soak up the sun, the people and perhaps even get herself into the Hollywood scene.
Currently she lives in Los Angeles, California, and from her pictures it seems she's done pretty well for herself. Since leaving the Garden State Yolanda has been seen around town with the likes of Paris Hilton, Jason Kidd, and professional poker player Phil Hellmuth.
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Ed is happy and silly almost all of the time. He's definitely not the brains of the group, and is always easily talked into Eddy's wacky projects. He cares a lot about comics, monster films and his younger sister Sarah, who is a bit spoilt and bossy.
Edd, or 'Double D' as he's known in the cul-de-sac, is really smart, really quiet and really really polite. He likes to spend his free time studying and inventing things, but usually ends up getting dragged into Eddy's silly money-making ideas.
Eddy is greedy, loud and loves to be centre of attention. He can be a bit of a know-it-all sometimes, and is always coming up with hair brained schemes that usually drag him, Ed and Edd into trouble. He is sensitive about his height, and will do almost anything for money.
Ed, Edd and Eddy are a super trio, at least that's what they like to think! Armed with spots, smelly armpits and some crazy schemes these guys are always trying to invent something that will earn them lots of dosh! They're the proud owners of an exclusive clubhouse called "Club Ed"... and so far they're the only members!


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I've read "middle age" is when you begin considering the number of years you have left. I've also read men in their 50s are more conscious of — and worry more about — their remaining time than men in their 60s and beyond. It's as though an internal mechanism is triggered in our 50s to remind us we've put off some important personal goals, and it's time to get started.
In coaching farm and ranch folks, I've found they invariably have a dream of what they'd like to do someday. It might be a trip, a community project, learning a skill or helping in a third-world country.
Most, however, don't have a plan to realize it. They put it off until they "get time" or "can afford it," not realizing most dreams are far easier to achieve than they think. All that's needed is a plan.
Europe on a shoestring
One couple's dream was to visit Europe and tour some organic farms. They'd switched to organic production six years before I met them, and they wanted to see how others did it.
They'd put off any planning because they assumed it was too expensive. I challenged them and within eight months they took the trip by getting creative and devising a couple of ways to save a lot of money:
A business executive they knew traveled a lot. They traded some grass-finished organic beef for enough of his air miles to get round-trip tickets. They connected with some organic farms in Europe through World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (http://www.wwoof.org) and volunteered their time on a number of organic farms in exchange for room and board. They toured a lot of country, learned more about organic farming and met some very interesting people on a budget less than half what they expected.
Some people I talk to gave up their dreams so long ago they don't think about them anymore. They say they're too old, it's too expensive, or any number of other excuses.
When I challenge their assumptions, they often realize they've simply been telling themselves the same stories their parents told them long ago. Maybe the stories weren't true.
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Call for Materials for "Missing Links and Secret Histories"
Most writers leave out a lot of what they know about their characters and the histories and workings of the worlds their characters live in. And that's practically an invitation for readers to barge in and read between the lines and invent more than is actually on the page in the official, authorized version of the story. For "Missing Links and Secret Histories," an anthology to be published by Aqueduct Press, I'm looking for wikipedia-page-style entries with the aim of compiling a Treasury of Missing Links and Secret Histories of stories we know and love. Such Missing Links and Secret Histories must shed critical or transformative light on the works they riff rather than appropriate them. These entries will probably not include zombies, sea-monsters, vampires, werewolves, and other such frequently interpolated monsters. They must, of course, make sense within the framework of the official, authorized version of the story they are glossing, and the more Wikipedia-like the better. Hyper-links are encouraged. Stylishness, wit, and ingenuity will be especially prized. And for Secret Histories, the more byzantine and buried they are, the better. A word of caution: if the official, authorized version of the story is not in the public domain, it behooves the contributor to be certain that author of the original story being riffed will not view the contribution as infringing their copyright.
Deadline for submissions is Nov 15, 2011. Submissions should be made by email to L. Timmel Duchamp (use this email address: ltimmel [at] gmail.com). You may either paste your submission into the body of the email or attach it as an rtf or Word Doc file. Payment will be 1 cent a word and two contributors' copies. Query me first before making multiple submissions.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Call for materials for a new anthology
2 comments:
- Cynthia Ward said...
Interesting, Timmi. Do you have any suggestions for models of what you have in mind (Philip Jose Farmer's secret histories of Tarzan, Doc Savage, et alia, perhaps, or the various retellings of Pride & Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, etc., with sex or squid or whatever)?
Cynthia Ward
- September 29, 2011 at 1:21 PM
- Timmi Duchamp said...
Definitely *not* the various retellings of P&P, Wuthering Heights etc., with sex or squid or whatever! Something a bit more creative (& critically interesting) than that.
- September 29, 2011 at 8:30 PM
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There's a new upgrade for NuGet. To update it just go to Tools –> Extension Manager in Visual Studio to lunch Extension Manager dialog. In Updates you'll see an update for NuGet Package Manager. It will ask you to restart your VS.
Tag: NuGet
Baby steps to create a NuGet Package.
You probably heard about NuGet (formally known as NuPack), an open source package management system for the .NET from Microsoft. Jeff Kwak, who works with me at Ultimate Software, recently wrote a nice post about how to create a NuGet Pakage. Jeff's article inspired me to create a package for my own open source project, SystemWrapper. In this post I want to describe step by step how I did it.
Step 1: Create a NuSpec file.
NuSpec file is an xml file that contains the metadata for a package. I'll try to describe every field of NuSpec format with an example.
In this first step we'll going to use the minimum set of fields.
|The identifier for the package. It used as a partial name of the package.
|The package version. Also used as a partial name of the package.
|Author name. Use a comma to separate multiple authors.
|You know what it is.
<package> <metadata> <id>SystemWrapper</id> <version>0.3.5.0</version> <authors>Vadim Kreynin</authors> <description> SystemWrapper is a library that wraps .NET classes for system resources like System.IO.FileInfo, System.Reflection.Assembly, and many other classes so you can easily mock them. </description> </metadata> </package>
I named the xml SystemWrapper.nuspec. I believe that it is a good logical name for NuSpec file.
One of the way to add a package is to use Add Library Package Reference dialog. I'll talk more about adding a package and Add Library Package Reference dialog later in this article but for now I want to show where NuSpec fields a re used. Bellow is the image that describes where above NuSpec metadata elements used in the dialog.
Step 2: Build the package.
First you need to download NuGet.exe command line tool.
Now when we have NuGet.exe, we are ready to create our SystemWrapper NuGet package. Fire up your Command Console and type the following line.
NuGet.exe pack SystemWrapper.nuspec
If everything runs at it supposed to, you should see systemwrapper.0.3.5.0.nupkg file in your Windows Explorer.
As you can see the name of the file is [id].[version].nupkg. id and version from our NuSpec file.
Step 3: Publish the package.
To release System Wrapper to the world we need to contribute to NuGet packages on CodePlex. In this example I'm going to show how to host System Wrapper NuGet package locally. You can follow this technic to host packages for your company. I learned how to host NuGet packages locally from a great Phil Haack's post.
First, I create a directory for my packages. It has an original name 'packages'.
Next, we need to add another package source. Out of the box you should have only one package source which named 'NuGet official package source'. We are going to create another package source and I'm going to call mine 'Vadim's package source'. I think that this is going to cement my legacy.
In order to add a package source in Visual Studio we need to go to Tools –> Options. Inside the option dialog box select Package Manager and enter values for Name and Source and press Add button and then OK to close the Options dialog.
You also can get to this dialog by pressing Settings button in Add Library Package Reference dialog, which is the first image of this post. The button located in the lower left corner of the dialog.
Step 4: Find the package in Visual Studio.
There are two ways we can browse for our package. One way is using Package Manager Console which is Powershell based. Another one is Add Library Package Reference dialog that I mentioned earlier.
First let me describe how we can browse using Package Manager Console. We can lunch the console by selecting View –> Other Windows –> Console from the menu or simply press Ctrl+W, Ctrl+Z.
After console is loaded, we need to select our package source. Just pick it from the Package source drop down box. In my case it's "Vadim's package source". Next, type List-Package at PM> prompt. See the result bellow.
I don't know why I cannot see my description in Package Manager Console. It shows fine in Add Library Package Reference dialog. Let me know if you have an answer for me.
Now let me show how you can browse for the package using Add Library Package Reference dialog. The way I do it is just right click on References in the project to see my add options. Select "Add Library Package Reference…" to display the dialog. The dialog has three panels. The first panel has three sections: Installed packages, Online, and Updates. "Installed packages" shows the package that installed for specific project. The second one "Online" shows packages that are available. We want to chose this option. Select your package source. The third option is updates.
The second panel shows the list of packages. The third panel shows details of the selected package.
It doesn't make scenes for us to install the package at the moment because we only describe the package but doesn't add any libraries to the project.
Step 5: Add SystemWrapper.dll to the package.
Our goal is to add SystemWrapper to the project. It means that we need to add assembly reference to SystemWrapper.dll. It's very easy to do, we just need to add files element to our NuSpec file. files element must be on the same level as metadata element.
Here's a fragment that we add to NuSpec metadata:
<files> <file src="SystemWrapper\bin\Release\*.dll" target="lib" /> </files>
file element has two attributes src and target. I just want to let you know that src is a path that relative to the nuspec file. Our target attribute has a value 'lib', it means that dlls under SystemWrapper\bin\Release will become assembly references on install. In our case it's going to be only one dll. You can get more details on your own by reading the NuSpec File Element Specification.
Here's the complete NuSpec file:
<package> <metadata> <id>SystemWrapper</id> <version>0.3.5.0</version> <authors>Vadim Kreynin</authors> <description> SystemWrapper is a library that wraps .NET classes for system resources like System.IO.FileInfo, System.Reflection.Assembly, and many other classes so you can easily mock them. </description> </metadata> <files> <file src="SystemWrapper\bin\Release\*.dll" target="lib" /> </files> </package>
After we updated NuSpec file, we need to repeat step 2 (Build the package).
Step 6: Install the package.
Once again you can install either from Package Manager Console or from Add Library Package Reference dialog. It's strait forward to install it from Add Library Package Reference dialog, you just press the Install button. After the installation, I have SystemWrapper in my Installed packages. I can easily uninstall it by pressing the Uninstall button. How easy is that? Also if I look in Online section, I can see that instead of an Install button there's a green check mark for my package.
In Package Manager Console I just type Install-Package SystemWrapper at PM> prompt.
PM> Install-Package SystemWrapper
Successfully installed 'SystemWrapper 0.3.5.0'
Successfully added 'SystemWrapper 0.3.5.0' to PackageObjectLibrary
You can uninstall the package by typing Uninstall-Package SystemWrapper.
For more details check out Package Manager Console Commands.
Step 7: Display more information about the package.
When developers browse for packages, they probably would like to more information about a package than just a description. Adding projectUrl element to NuSpec file will point users to the resource with more details.
Here's an example for System Wrapper:
You might also want to add a link to your license terms. Once again you need to add another field to the NuSpec file. This time we need to add licenseUrl. If you don't want a developer to install your package unless she accepts the license terms, than you need to add requireLicenseAcceptance element. The xml might looks like this:
<licenseUrl>http://systemwrapper.codeplex.com/license</licenseUrl> <requireLicenseAcceptance>true</requireLicenseAcceptance>
When a user tries to install the package, she will see a dialog similar to the one bellow:
You also can specify your own icon instead of default blue NuGet icon that appears in Add Package Reference dialog . The element for an icon is iconUrl. The icon should be a 32×32 pixel PNG file with a transparent background.
The complete NuSpec file might look something like that:
<package> <metadata> <id>SystemWrapper</id> <version>0.3.5.0</version> <title>System Wrapper</title> <authors>Vadim Kreynin</authors> <description> SystemWrapper is a library that wraps .NET classes for system resources like System.IO.FileInfo, System.Reflection.Assembly, and many other classes so you can easily mock them. </description> <projectUrl>http://systemwrapper.codeplex.com/</projectUrl> <iconUrl>http://systemwrapper.codeplex.com/32_button_green.png</iconUrl> <licenseUrl>http://systemwrapper.codeplex.com/license</licenseUrl> </metadata> <files> <file src="SystemWrapper\bin\Release\*.dll" target="lib" /> </files> </package>
I know that I didn't talk about dependencies or modifying config files at all. I just try to give a simple example to follow. I hope that it can help you to get started with NuGet. Here's some references I would recommend for you to read:
- Offical NuGet Documentation
- Hosting Your Own Locan and Remote NuGet Feeds – by Phil Haack.
- NuGet CTP 2 changes – by Phil Haack.
- Creating a NuGet Package – by Jeff Kwak.
- Introduction to NuGet – by Scott Hanselman.


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LGMOD v1.7.17: [http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8&p=174005#p174005 http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8&p=174005#p174005]
LGMOD v1.7.17: [http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8&p=174005#p174005 http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8&p=174005#p174005]
Latest revision as of 11:20, 22 March 2014
Current versions of LGMOD can always be found here: http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewforum.php?f=5
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Features
- 3 Changelog
- 4 Supported TV models
- 5 Supported USB to ethernet adapters
- 6 Background
- 7 Openrelease
- 8 Downloads
- 9 How to install
- 10 How to configure
- 11 How to contribute
- 12 Customizing LGMOD
- 13 LGMOD Patches for RELEASE
- 14 Removing LGMOD
- 15 Links
LGMOD is a modded rootfs for LG TVs models based on MStar Saturn 6 and 7 chipsets.
LGMOD was originally created by Vuk and was developed by him till v1.2. At that time, LGMOD supported only year 2009 TV LCD (LH/SL) models.
After Vuk dropped the project, Arno1 begun modding LGMOD from v1.3 and made it compatible with year 2010 LCD and PJ/PK PDP(plasma) series. He still active developer of LGMOD.
Beginning from version 1.5.7 Hawkeye made LGMOD sources available via SVN at http://openlgtv.org.ru/websvn/
At this time lprot joined the development. Patches have been released under many well-known versions of the firmware. Have been updated network card drivers to support more models.
On June 1st 2011, mmm4m5m ported LGMOD v1.6.10 to Saturn 7 platform and put it in SVN.
In October 2011 lgmodS7 version was ported to the platform S6. The new version of S6 has the following advantages:
- Configuring the startup mode RELESE through webui
- Built-in library libopenrelease
- Emulation of the remote control in webui
- Ability to place automated piece of software did not fit into the internal memory to external media.
- Web browser user interface (embedded HTTP server on TV) for configuration and control
- Ethernet network support via USB to ethernet adapters(dongles)
- NFS client
- CIFS/Samba/Windows network shares client
- UPnP client
- Easy installation/update from EPK file (Saturn 6 only) like official LG firmware
- Scripts for customising startup and patching memory
- Easy modules configuration through Web UI
- Allows to backup configuration, firmware, virtually any file from your TV set to connected FAT16/32 USB drive
- Ability to run linux shell commands from web ui
- DHCP auto network configuration and network name resolving
- NTP client
- FTP server
- Telnet server
- Unicode support
Can be found in LGMOD folder of SVN at: http://openlgtv.org.ru/websvn/
Supported TV models
LGMOD is compatible with all MStar Saturn 6 and Saturn 7 based models ('At the moment EUROPEAN ONLY'):
'WARNING: TV models which have R letter at the end of the model marking are NOT supported. For example: 50PJ350R - is not supported. R models are Saturn 4 based.'
In fact if your TV is not listed, check the following list: http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Opensource_packages_list
If you TV model has GP1 letters in the license column then your TV is supported no matter is it European or not.
List of all supported tv models. (All models are marked with the word "LGMOD" in the column "custom firmwares")
Supported USB to ethernet adapters
There is NO WiFi support at the moment. For Saturn 7 based models, read here: WIFI#Saturn 7
Currently supported only wired adapters with the following chipsets:
Asix (from asix.c driver file):
- ASIX AX88178 USB 2.0 Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter
- ASIX AX88760 USB 2.0 MTT HUB and USB 2.0 to Fast Ethernet Combo Controller
- ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter (0x125E, 0x180D)
- ASIX AX88772A USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter (0x0421, 0x772A)
- ASIX AX88772B USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter (0x0b95, 0x772B), (0x0b95, 0x7E2B)
- 0Q0 cable ethernet (0x1557, 0x7720)
- ABOCOM (0x1737, 0x0039), (0x14ea, 0xab11)
- Apple USB Ethernet Adapter (0x05ac, 0x1402)
- ATEN UC210T (0x0557, 0x2009)
- Axe USB Network Adapter (0x0b95, 0x1780)
- Belkin F5D5055 (0x050d, 0x5055)
- Billionton Systems, USB2AR (0x08dd, 0x90ff)
- Buffalo LUA-U2-KTX (0x0411, 0x003d)
- Buffalo LUA-U2-GT 10/100/1000 (0x0411, 0x006e)
- Cables-to-Go USB Ethernet Adapter (0x0b95, 0x772A)
- Corega FEther USB2-TX (0x07aa, 0x0017)
- DLink DUB-E100 (0x2001, 0x1a00)
- DLink DUB-E100 H/W Ver B1 (0x2001, 0x3c05)
- DLink DUB-E100 H/W Ver B1 Alternate (0x07d1, 0x3c05)
- Hawking UF200, TrendNet TU2-ET10 (0x07b8, 0x420a)
- Gembird NIC-U1 (0x0b95, 0x772A)
- Goodway Corp USB GWUSB2E (0x1631, 0x6200)
- Intellinet, ST Lab USB Ethernet (0x0b95, 0x1720)
- IO-DATA ETG-US2 (0x04bb, 0x0930)
- JVC MP-PRX1 Port Replicator (0x04f1, 0x3008)
- Logitec LAN-GTJ U2A (0x0789, 0x0160)
- Linksys USB1000 (0x1737, 0x0039)
- Linksys USB200M (0x13B1, 0x0018)
- Linksys USB200M Rev 2 (0x077b, 0x2226)
- Netgear FA120 (0x0846, 0x1040)
- Sitecom LN-029 USB 2.0 10/100 Ethernet adapter (0x6189, 0x182d)
- SMC (0x0db0, 0xA877)
- Surecom EP-1427X-2 (0x1189, 0x0893)
- Trendnet TU2-ET100 V3.0R (0x0b95, 0x7720)
Pegasus and Pegasus II (from pegasus.h driver file):
- 3Com USB Ethernet 3C460B (0x0506, 0x4601)
- ATEN USB Ethernet UC-110T (0x0557, 0x2007)
- Abocom USB HPNA/Ethernet (0x07b8, 0x110c), (0x07b8, 0x4104), (0x07b8, 0x4004), (0x07b8, 0x4007)
- Abocom USB 10/100 Fast Ethernet (0x07b8, 0x4102), (0x07b8, 0x4002), (0x07b8, 0x400b), (0x07b8, 0x400c), (0x07b8, 0xabc1), (0x07b8, 0x200c)
- Accton USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter (0x083a, 0x1046)
- ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet (0x07a6, 0x8511)
- ADMtek ADM8513 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet (0x07a6, 0x8513)
- ADMtek ADM8515 "Pegasus II" USB-2.0 Ethernet (0x07a6, 0x8515)
- ADMtek AN986 "Pegasus" USB Ethernet (evaluation board) (0x07a6, 0x0986)
- AN986A USB MAC (0x07a6, 1986)
- AEI USB Fast Ethernet Adapter (0x3334, 0x1701)
- Allied Telesyn Int. AT-USB100 (0x07c9, 0xb100)
- Belkin F5D5050 USB Ethernet (0x050d, 0x0121)
- Belkin F5U122 10/100 USB Ethernet (0x050d, 0x0122)
- Billionton USB-100 (0x08dd,0x0986)
- Billionton USBE-100 (0x08dd, 0x8511)
- Billionton USBEL-100 (0x08dd, 0x0988)
- Billionton USBLP-100 (0x08dd, 0x0987)
- Corega FEther USB-TX (0x07aa, 0x0004)
- Corega FEther USB-TXS (0x07aa, 0x000d)
- D-Link DSB-650 (0x2001, 0xabc1)
- D-Link DSB-650TX (0x2001, 0x4001), (0x2001, 0x4002), (0x2001, 0x4102), (0x2001, 0x400b), (0x2001, 0x200c)
- D-Link DSB-650TX(PNA) (0x2001, 0x4003)
- ELECOM USB Ethernet LD-USB20 (0x56e, 0x4010)
- EasiDock Ethernet (0x1342, 0x0304)
- Elsa Micolink USB2Ethernet (0x05cc, 0x3000)
- GIGABYTE GN-BR402W Wireless Router (0x1044, 0x8002)
- Gile USB LAN Card UN-001 (adapter on ADM8515 that randomly works) fake IDs: (0x835a, 0x7765), (0x835a, 0x7765), (0x835c, 0x7765), (0x835e, 0x7765)
- GOLDPFEIL USB Adapter (0x0db7, 0x0002)
- Hawking UF100 10/100 Ethernet (0x0e66, 0x400c)
- HP hn210c Ethernet USB (0x03f0, 0x811c)
- IO DATA USB ET/TX (0x04bb, 0x0904)
- IO DATA USB ET/TX-S (0x04bb, 0x0913)
- IO DATA USB ETX-US2 (0x04bb, 0x092a)
- iPAQ Networking 10/100 USB (0x049f, 0x8511)
- Kingston KNU101TX Ethernet (0x0951, 0x000a)
- LANEED USB Ethernet LD-USB/T (0x056e, 0xabc1)
- LANEED USB Ethernet LD-USB/TX (0x056e, 0x4002), (0x056e, 0x400b), (0x056e, 0x200c)
- LANEED USB Ethernet LD-USBL/TX (0x056e, 0x4005)
- Linksys USB10T Ethernet Adapter (0x066b, 0x2206)
- Linksys USB10TX (0x066b, 0x2202), (0x066b, 0x200c)
- Linksys USB100TX (0x066b, 0x2203), (0x066b, 0x2204), (0x066b, 0x400b)
- Linksys USBVPN1 (0x077b, 0x08b4)
- MELCO/BUFFALO LUA-TX (0x0411, 0x0001), (0x0411, 0x0005)
- MELCO/BUFFALO LUA2-TX (0x0411, 0x0009)
- Microsoft MN-110 (0x045e, 0x007a)
- NETGEAR FA101 (0x0846, 0x1020)
- OCT Inc. (0x0b39, 0x0109)
- OCT USB TO Ethernet (0x0b39, 0x0901)
- Philips USB 10/100 Ethernet (0x083a, 0xb004)
- smartNIC 2 PnP Adapter (0x08d1, 0x0003)
- SMC 202 USB Ethernet (0x0707, 0x0200)
- SMC 2206 USB Ethernet (0x0707, 0x0201)
- SOHOware NUB100 Ethernet (0x15e8, 0x9100)
- SOHOware NUB110 Ethernet (0x15e8, 0x9110)
- SpeedStream USB 10/100 Ethernet (0x067c, 0x1001), (0x083a, 0x5046)
- MCS7830 (0x9710, 0x7830)
Davicom DM9601 (USB1.1)chip based (from dm9601.h):
- ADMtek ADM8515 USB NIC (0x0a46, 0x8515)
- Corega FEther USB-TXC (0x07aa, 0x9601)
- Davicom USB-100 (0x0a46, 0x9601)
- DM9000E (0x0a46, 0x9000)
- DM9601 USB to Fast Ethernet Adapter (0x0fe6, 0x8101)
- DM9601 USB to Fast Ethernet Adapter (0x0fe6, 0x9700)
- Hirose USB-100 (0x0a47, 0x9601)
- ShanTou ST268 USB NIC (0x0a46, 0x0268)
- ZT6688 USB NIC (0x0a46, 0x6688)
Genesys Logic:
- GL620A (0x05e3, 0x0502)
Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB100:
- 3Com 3C19250 (0x0506, 0x03e8)
- 3Com 3C460 (0x0506, 0x11f8)
- Actiontec USB Ethernet (0x1668, 0x0323)
- ADS USB-10BT (0x06e1, 0x0008)
- ADS USB-10BT (0x06e1, 0x0009)
- AOX Endpoints USB Ethernet (0x03e8, 0x0008)
- ASANTE USB To Ethernet Adapter (0x10bd, 0x1427)
- ATEN USB Ethernet (0x0557, 0x2002)
- Correga K.K. (0x07aa, 0x0001)
- D-Link DSB-650C (0x0557, 0x4000), (0x2001, 0x4000)
- D-Link DU-E10 (0x07b8, 0x4000)
- Entrega E45 (0x1645, 0x0005)
- Entrega USB Ethernet Adapter (0x1645, 0x0008)
- I-O DATA USB-ET/T (0x04bb, 0x0901)
- Jaton USB Ethernet Device Adapter (0x087d, 0x5704)
- Kingston Technology USB Ethernet Adapter (0x0951, 0x0008)
- KLSI KL5KUSB101B (0x05e9, 0x0008), (0x05e9, 0x0009)
- Linksys USB10T (0x066b, 0x2202)
- Mobility USB-Ethernet Adapter (0x1342, 0x0204)
- NetGear EA-101 (0x0846, 0x1001), (0x0846, 0x1002)
- Optus@Home UEP1045A (0x0565, 0x0003)
- Peracom Enet (0x0565, 0x0002)
- Peracom Enet2 (0x0565, 0x0005)
- PortGear Ethernet Adapter (0x085a, 0x0008), (0x085a, 0x0009), (0x1645, 0x8005)
- Portsmith Express Ethernet Adapter (0x095a, 0x3003)
- Psion Dacom Gold Port Ethernet (0x1485, 0x0002)
- Shark Pocket Adapter (0x13d2, 0x0400)
- Silicom U2E (0x1485, 0x0001)
- SMC 2202USB (0x0707, 0x0100)
- NetChip 1080
Sharp Zaurus:
- SL-5x00
NB: In fact now supported all adapters from USB2NET drivers included in linux 2.6.26
MStar Saturn 6 and 7 chipsets are MIPS based.
Your LG TV firmware is divided into 3 parts: Bootloader, Linux Kernel, Filesystem (The later : Filesystem being subdivided itself into rootfs the master piece and other fs)
The application managing TV set is RELEASE (this is its name).
The bootloader U-boot is responsible of flash update firmware upgrade and starting linux.
The Linux kernel is the heart of the system and for Saturn 6 based on 2.6.26 version of linux.
The filesystem contains all context for RELEASE to execute.
LGMOD is in its current version is a mod to the Rootfs ONLY.
If you are interested in more customization better switch to (kernel + rootfs based on buildroot Saturn 6 only) openlgtv .
Currently rtokarev works on OPENRELEASE a wrapper with additional features that RELEASE is lack for: http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=62
You can set my lgapp.epk (with openrelease) lgapp with openrelease. Pre-need to install the latest version lgmod.
Settings files / etc / openrelease / openrelease.cfg and openrelease_keymap.cfg.
Really useful additional features not much:
- Enable / disable divx preview
- Reassign the button on the remote control to switch off screen
- Control your TV via virtual remote web interface
Everything you need for work openrelese have the current version lgmod.
You can always find the most current version of LGMOD here: http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8
ATTENTION: You have to be registered AND logged in to the forum to be able to download the files!
LGMOD v1.7.18: http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8&start=390#p174036
LGMOD v1.7.17: http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8&p=174005#p174005
LGMOD v1.7.16: http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8&p=173926#p173926
LGMOD v1.7.15: http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8&p=172655#p172655
Old version LGMOD v1.6.10: http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/download/file.php?id=117
LGMOD_S7 (tv based on saturn7) here: http://openlgtv.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=266
Source code
You can always find LGMOD sources here svn.openlgtv.org.ru
How to install
For Saturn 7 - please, download, extract and read the steps in changelog.txt file.
Method 1, Flashing epk file from USB drive (Saturn 6 only)
LGMOD can be installed like any LG firmware update, with a simple USB stick :
- Create a directory LG_DTV at root of your USB stick
- Copy LGMOD epk file there
- Plug you USB stick into TV
- With remote control press "Menu", and higlight option submenu (do not go into)
- Press 7 times "FAV"
- Go for TV firmware upgrade
You're done !
(!) Do not install the same version-LGMOD on already installed LGMOD. If there has been a restart after the firmware upgrade - do not turn off the TV and do not try to flash a full version of the standard firmware - it will lead to the need to recover partitions with the aid of the console cable. Unless there was a reboot - you need to try again to flash the same or a smaller version.
Method 2, Flashing lgmod_xxxxx.sqfs via serial cable by Zmodem in U-Boot
If you can access U-Boot on Saturn 6 or Saturn 7, you can do the following procedure:
- A serial cable RS232 (aka nullmodem cable)
- A PC with some terminal emulator (for example you can use HyperTerminal or teraterm in Windows)
- A USB pen drive FAT32 formatted (for firmware backup)
The procedure:
- Backup your firmware see here: How to backup TV firmware
- Flash rootfs (lgmod_xxxxx.sqfs)
- Switch off TV
- Plug serial cable beetween TV and PC
- Launch terminal program and set serial port parameters:
Port : COMx wher you connected cable (COM1 for me)
Baud rate : 115200
Data : 8 bit
Parity : none
Stop : 1 bit
Flow control : none
- Switch on your TV while press and keep holding "ESC" key on your keyboard until you get in terminal window the message (Saturn 6):
mstar #
On Saturn 7 you chould get:
saturn7 #
This is the command prompt of U-boot, the piece of the software responsible for flashing update if you followed the explainations above.
- Enter the command "loadz rootfs" which means to U-boot "update rootfs in flash via zmodem protocol"
- You'll get some strange things, don't touch any key anymore
- In terminal program send file by Zmodem and select lgmod_xxxxx.sqfs file (xxxxx - the version number)
- Transfer starts wait untill 100% finished
- When U-boot has finished receiving LGMOD it will write it to flash takes few seconds
- You will get again the "mstar #" or "saturn7 #" prompt once update finished, enter command "reboot" to restart the TV
LGMOD is installed !
How to configure
LGMOD include a web interface for easy customisation. Below are version 1.3.pre3 screenchots. Some further options/changes will appears along versions.
This web interface is password protected, default user is "admin" and default password is "lgadmin".
Web Interface Home Page
Web Interface System Info Page (1) Web Interface System Info Page (2)
Web Interface Network Page
- Example CIFS (Samba/Windows shared folder): First create "SMB" folder at the USB drive (or customize field "Custom"). Note that it is mandatory to enter a username (e.g. admin).
Device Path: //192.168.1.2/SHARED_FOLDER_NAME Type: SMB Local Mount Point: Custom... Automount: yes Username: NOT_EMPTY Additional mount options: iocharset=utf8 Custom: /mnt/usb1/Drive1/SMB
- Example NFS: First create "NFS" folder at the USB drive (or customize field "Custom")
Device Path: 192.168.1.2:/movies Type: NFS Local Mount Point: Custom... Automount: yes Additional mount options: nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,udp,vers=2 Custom: /mnt/usb1/Drive1/NFS
Note: On the server enable NFS v2 only. The network throughput is about: 3,5Mbyte/s on Staurn 7 and about 2Mbyte/s on Saturn 6 using Asix compatible adapter.
Web Interface Drives Page
Web Interface Tools Page
Special configuration options without network access
- If a file named "network" exist on root first partition of USB key it will be copied to TV and used as network configuration file, no more need to use vi on the TV to edit this file anymore, for those not familiar to linux/shell/vi.
- Feature : possibility to reset configuration to default and save the current configuration on USB drive.
1- insert a USB drive with a file name "lgmod_reset_config" at root no extension, lower case.
2- Reboot your TV. Your old coniguration is saved on lgmod directory of usb drive, file lgmod_reset_config renamed lgmod_reset_config_used and TV configuration reset to default LGMOD (like fresh install).
- Feature : auto_start.sh script now called at the end of lgmod, once RELEASE, USB and network working, you can add then anything you want to be done on your TV ! This script editable in webui tools page, some examples included (uncomment to make them active) :
- Firmware backup
- nvram backup
- lgmod configuration backup
- Added autostart script (auto_start.sh) called after lgmod (very end of boot process when drive/mounts/network available) and this script also copied from usb if exits.
Connect over serial port
- Start your TV set and wait until normal TV channel is playing.
- Start your computer and connect at 9600 , no parity, no flow control an 8 bits data and 1 stop bit (9600,8,N,1) with your favorit communication program (minicom is my case).
- Enter debug mode typing "debug" + enter key. Then again "d" + enter key and finally "sh" + enter key to get to the command console.
How to contribute
- Use it and report bugs
- Submit improvment suggestions
- Extract your firmware upload it somewhere and tell version, TV model and country and give link
- Propose your time to test new versions
- Make your own patch/development and submit them for merging
Customizing LGMOD
See Customizing LGMOD.
LGMOD Patches for RELEASE
See LGMOD Patches for RELEASE.
Removing LGMOD
Install the latest stock firmware.
Flashing LG stock FW after LGMOD could brick your TV! Reason - not every LG FW will restore the lginit partition. (LGMOD installation does erase lginit and write new rootfs.)
You can flash first FW 3.1.8 - this will restore lginit partition of your TV.
Then install the latest stock firmware.
- SVN of the current LGMOD versions for Saturn 6 and Saturn 7 TVs http://openlgtv.org.ru/websvn/
- Old GIT tree: http://openlgtv.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=openlgtv/lgmod;a=summary
- LG Hack forum : a place to read and re-read AND participate.
- OpenLGTV : kernel modding project
- LGTV : Similar rootfs mod by chojnaki.


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When Financial Crises Attacks
Since 2009, the World Bank has been conducting financial crisis simulation exercises and learning valuable lessons on where institutional vulnerabilities lie. These exercises are intended to test, or simply to practice, the use of existing or proposed legal instruments, interagency and/or cross-border agreements, and other crisis management arrangements. More than 20 exercises in all world regions have been executed so far, focusing either on the interaction among top national authorities (typically between the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank, the Bank and non-bank Supervisors, and the Deposit Insurance Agency), or on the interaction among bank supervisors of different national jurisdictions dealing with cross-border issues.


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Eric Nagel needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 61 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
http://www.homesweetshop.co.uk/ needs a logo
http://www.homesweetshop.co.uk/ needs a logo. Do not let the current color scheme, desgin, etc. limit you as this site is going under a complete redesign based around what YOU create!
The website will be a shopping price comparison portal.
We have decided to award several prizes to different designers for a grand total of $1000 shared in various proportions between them, where the winner is still awarded $250. I hope that is okay.
- Final product delivered will be hi-res PSD or EPS/AI
- No dollar signs ($) - use £ if you use a currency symbol
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Divorce is stressful for the entire family. Your child might feel as if his or her world has turned upside down. But there's good news. You can ease your child's adjustment to the divorce by interacting responsibly with your spouse. Consider these practical tips for children and divorce.How to break the news
It's best if you and your spouse tell your child about the divorce together. Speak honestly and simply, but skip the ugly details. You might say, "Your mom (or dad) and I have been having trouble getting along, so we think it's best for us to live apart."
Make sure your child understands that divorce is only between adults. Remind your child — repeatedly — that he or she did nothing to cause the divorce, and that both of you love your child as much as ever.
Also tell your child's teacher, school counselor and doctor about the divorce. They can observe your child, keep you updated on any concerns and offer guidance.Expect a mix of reactions
Initially, your child might be most interested in concrete things. Where will I live? Do I need to change schools? Who will take me to swimming lessons? As you work out the terms of the divorce, try to maintain your child's routine as much as possible — or quickly establish a new routine. Knowing what to expect will help your child feel more secure.
But soon, the reality of divorce will settle in. A younger child might respond to the stress by regressing to behavior he or she had previously outgrown, such as sucking on a pacifier or wetting the bed. A resurgence of separation anxiety could strike as well. Help your child put his or her feelings into words.
An older child might respond to the stress with a mix of emotions — anger, anxiety, grief or even relief. If your child's anger turns inward, he or she might become depressed or withdrawn. Anger can have the opposite effect, too, causing a child to act out or develop behavior issues. Encourage your child to share his or her feelings as openly as possible.Keep your child out of the fight
Respecting your child's relationship with the other parent can help your child adapt to the divorce. Keep these general "don'ts" in mind:
- Don't speak badly about your spouse in front of your child.
- Don't force your child to choose sides.
- Don't use your child as a messenger or go-between.
- Don't argue or discuss child support issues in front of your child.
- Don't pump your child for information about the other parent.
- Don't use your child as a pawn to hurt the other parent.
It might be tempting to relax your parental rules while your child grieves the divorce, but this could lead to even more insecurity. Children thrive on consistency, structure and routine — even if they insist on testing boundaries and limits. If your child shares time between two households, it's important to maintain similar rules in both homes.Counseling can help
You might feel so hurt or overwhelmed by your divorce that you turn to your child for comfort, but that's not your child's role. For help sorting through your feelings, consider joining a divorce support group or seeking counseling through a social service agency or mental health center. If you and your spouse need help reaching decisions about your child during or after the divorce, consider using the services of a family or divorce mediator.
Your child might also benefit from counseling, especially if he or she has significant behavioral issues, seems depressed or has trouble adjusting to the divorce after the first year.Put your child first
During a divorce, interacting with your spouse might be the last thing you want to do — but it's important. Your child needs both of you. Work out custody arrangements and other details with your child's best interests in mind. This could mean putting your child's needs ahead of your own wishes or desires.
Also, remember that a bitter or prolonged custody battle could take a serious, long-term toll on your child's mental health. Instead, help your child maintain a strong, loving relationship with the other parent as you work toward meeting common parenting goals. For your child, support from both parents might be the best tool for weathering the challenges of divorce.


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The Democracy Ranking is an annual ranking of all democracies (country-based democracies) in the world by focusing on the Quality of Democracy in an international perspective. The Democracy Ranking publishes the ranking scores and displays ranking score increases or decreases over time. The Democracy Ranking is a ranking of the Quality of Democracy in the sense that the ranking scores should reflect a ranking of democracies according to their differing qualities; and the Democracy Ranking is a ranking for the Quality of Democracy, because it wants to contribute conceptually to how democracy quality may be measured as well as wants to support the awareness how important democracy quality is for the further development, reform and enhancement of democracies.
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Pura Tanah Lot, on the west coast of Bali, is probably the most popular and photographed temple on the island. Tanah Lot stands for earth (Tanah) and sea (Lot), quite appropriate considering its spectacular setting on top of an impressive rock overlooking the sea. Tanah Lot is dedicated to the god of the sea and is one of the most important temples in Bali.
The myths and sagas of this sacred place are almost as beautiful as the temple itself. After the holy priest Danghyang Nirarta spent the night here, the people of Bali decided to build the Tanah Lot temple at this location. The story goes that there used to be a bridge from the mainland to the temple but it was destroyed by the powerful sea. Another interesting detail is that there is a cave with a magical spring underneath Tanah Lot. Oddly enough the water in the spring is fresh, whereas the temple is surrounded by salt ocean water.
"Holiday pictures that will be the envy of your friends"
Photographers who wish to impress their friends and family at home will fall in love with Tanah Lot. Various locations offer stunning views of the temple, making this a very photogenic destination. Depending on the position of the sun, the light is perfect for taking beautiful photographs. Take an immediate right at the entrance of the temple area and walk through the garden to the top of the hill. From this higher vantage point you will have an even better view of the temple – huge waves crash on the rocks, creating that perfect postcard picture.
Tanah Lot is only a 40-minute drive from Kuta and Ubud; both are a perfect starting point for an early morning visit to the temple. Tanah Lot is at its most mystical early in the morning. The impressive Hindu temple is best reached at low tide; visitors can walk across the beach to the temple. At high tide, Tanah Lot is only accessible by boat. Those who are not early risers may also visit the temple at sunset, but do expect more crowds.


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The idea came screeching into director Justin Lin's fuel-injected imagination in 2009: a fiery escape scene featuring a muscle car that crashes out of an airplane during takeoff.
In production at the time on "Fast & Furious" — the fourth installment of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise that has grossed $1.6 billion in worldwide box office since 2001 — he commissioned digital "pre-visualization" artists to mock up a rendering even though the stunt did not fit the movie he was making and was too expensive to film.
Two years on, the scene didn't make the cut for Lin's 2011 sequel "Fast Five" either. "The technology wasn't ready yet, and I couldn't find the right story to tell it in," the director explained. "Everything's limitless. But you have to make sure the sequence fits organically into the journey. I would never stick it into a movie just because it's cool."
Audiences can finally catch Lin's explosive car deplanement on Memorial Day weekend with the release of "Fast & Furious 6." Reprising his role as outlaw wheelman Dominic Toretto in the mega budget action-adventure, Vin Diesel can be seen smashing his Dodge Charger SRT8 through the nose of a Soviet-era cargo aircraft moments before the plane munches runway tarmac.
And that's just one of nearly 20 such adrenaline-punched scenes in "Fast 6," the latest edition of a franchise that was initially written off as "disposable cinema" before being resurrected to become one of Hollywood's most reliably lucrative movie bets.
"'Fast & Furious' became an adjective for neon lights and hot chicks or something," Lin said. "I felt like we could create something different."
Last month, Lin was going full throttle, attempting to cram a year and a half's worth of post-production into 12 weeks. The director had five film editors simultaneously cutting "Fast 6" together while teams of specialists made visual effects and color timing tweaks elsewhere on the lot. Sound mixing took up two movie-theater-sized stages all by itself.
Standing before a bank of computer consoles and mixing monitors in one stage, sound designer Peter "Downtown" Brown tossed Lin a football. And the director attempted to throw an arcing spiral through a basketball hoop nearly 50 feet away.
"I only get to practice this every two years on these films," Lin said sheepishly after his sixth clanger.
He's had the keys to the franchise since being hired to direct 2006's "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," and has honed his football hoops game ever since. But Lin's efficacy is better measured in the "Fast" films' continuing box-office relevancy: The director persuaded Diesel — who bailed as marquee star after the first movie — to return to the driver's seat for "Fast & Furious" (which grossed a robust $363 million worldwide) and effectively rebooted the series by deemphasizing the earlier films' candy-colored street drag racing in favor of revving up character development.
"Vin's a big Dungeons & Dragons guy, and we talked about what this franchise lacked: a mythology," Lin said.
In an email, Diesel extolled his "creative partnership" with Lin. "He has risen to the occasion time and time again, proving to be a director with a style that takes action to the next level," Diesel said.
Like previous "Fast" installments, the sixth movie follows the exploits of a mercenary band of speed demons (series regulars actor-singer Tyrese, actress-model Elsa Pataky, rapper-actor Ludacris, Sung Kang and Jordana Brewster among them) who are constitutionally incapable of driving 55. Led by Diesel and Paul Walker's ex-undercover cop character, the crew is recruited by government agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, reprising his character from "Fast Five") and travels to London to attempt to corral a lethal criminal gang in exchange for full government pardons.
Things get complicated when the bad guys' second in command is revealed to be none other than Letty, Dom's old love interest (Michelle Rodriguez), who was left for dead in the fourth "Fast" film and is dead-set against returning to the "Fast" fold. So much so, she pumps a bullet into her ex-beau for emphasis.
"Fast 6" became just the third movie production permitted to film in the British capital's Piccadilly Circus (where Dom's Dodge Daytona and Letty's vintage Jensen coupe can be seen drag racing among double-decker buses). And the film features such high-tech eye candy as Formula One-inspired "flip cars" that function like fast-moving jump ramps — any London police cruisers unlucky enough to run into the vehicles unwillingly get the "Dukes of Hazzard" treatment.
Then there's the chase sequence in which a criminal mastermind (Brit actor Luke Evans) commandeers a tank and proceeds to level roughly 250 cars on a Spanish highway. According to producer Neal Moritz, the filmmakers originally intended to pump up the action in those scenes with computer-generated imagery but ended up orchestrating no small amount of real-time automotive mayhem.
"When you see the tank running into cars on the freeway, that's real," Moritz said. "The tank was running them over on this road in the Canary Islands."
Despite the mounting pressure to deliver one of summer's biggest tent-pole movies on time and within budget — despite the pressure to continue the "Fast & Furious" winning streak — Lin betrayed no signs of fatigue or stress. He contrasted his predicament against making "Better Luck Tomorrow," the indie crime-drama that opened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002 and first put the director on Hollywood's radar.
"When you have 10 credit cards and you're $100,000 in debt with nobody believing in you or knowing if your film will ever be seen?" Lin said. "This is nothing compared to that."


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BERLIN — What are the odds that two men suspected of beheading their partners and dismembering their bodies would be arrested about three kilometres apart on the same day, and that they would end up jailed in the same cellblock for murders that were committed on different sides of the Atlantic Ocean?
Luka Rocco Magnotta — perhaps Canada's most notorious accused killer since Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka went to trial — spent nearly 24 hours incarcerated only a few metres away from a Turkish man, Orhan S., who is accused of tossing the remains of his Turkish wife, Semanur — including her severed head — into a courtyard as police, neighbours and some of their children, who range in age from one to 13, watched in horror.
Lin Jun's Chinese friends have denied that the computer-science student had been in a relationship with Magnotta, although many in Montreal believe otherwise.
Orhan's wife's offence was said to be that she had angered her husband by arguing with him after she discovered that he had fathered two children with an Iranian woman.
Other than the gender of the victims, another major difference between these two macabre crimes is that the Canadian apparently used an ice pick while the Turk used a knife.
Murder is murder. But judging by the attention that the beheadings have attracted in Germany, Canada and around the world, there is something particularly terrifying and, to be truthful, morbidly fascinating about such crimes.
Deaths by beheading are no less horrifying or revolting when carried out by states. This method of execution is used fairly commonly in Saudi Arabia for capital crimes such as murder, rape, drug trafficking, sodomy and apostasy (renouncing religion). The number of prisoners who die by the sword every year in the sheikdom has been as high as 153 in recent times.
Beheading is also the way the Taliban and tribal elders in parts of southern Afghanistan and Pakistan's tribal areas still mete out punishment for murder and rape, and for what are often very loose interpretations of adultery or moral turpitude.
Magnotta is accused of making a snuff film of Lin Jun's death and posting it on the Internet. In their own perverse way, the Saudis and the Taliban do much the same thing. Beheadings in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan are grotesque public events held in squares or stadiums where some among the huge crowds of cheering men that gather to watch make homemade videos that later circulate on the web.
Lest we become overly self-righteous because European and North American governments do not carry out such barbaric punishments, it must be remembered that beheadings using swords or axes were often turned into spectacles for the entertainment of the masses in Europe for hundreds of years after the Renaissance and for decades after the supposed Age of Enlightenment.
Thousands of Russians lost their heads over the years on a "chopping block" that Ivan the Terrible had built in the 16th century in what is now called Red Square. Henry VIII had the second of his six wives, Anne Boleyn — Queen Elizabeth I's mother — beheaded within the grounds of the Tower of London on trumped up charges of treason, adultery and incest. Another of his wives, Catherine Howard, who was a cousin of Anne Boleyn, also was beheaded there for adultery.
All this is not intended as a history lesson, but only to point out that death by beheading has always attracted a huge amount of attention.
Magnotta is in solitary confinement at Berlin's fortress-like Moabit Prison. The self-styled porno star awaits a complicated extradition process. No matter how long those formalities take, they inevitably will lead to his return to Canada where he will undergo a psychiatric assessment before facing at least five charges, including murder.
Orhan, described by relatives as suffering from schizophrenia, already has admitted that he beheaded his wife. He is now in a mental hospital where he is being examined by psychiatrists. There has been rampant speculation in Germany that he is so seriously mentally ill that he will be found not guilty by reason of insanity and will spend the rest of his life in a closely guarded facility for the criminally insane.
Given the depravity of the alleged crimes attributed to Magnotta — which include cannibalism and mailing body parts to addresses in Ottawa and Vancouver — he and his old cellblock mate from Berlin could face identical futures.
— Postmedia News
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Since the Speed Triple was introduced in 1994, it has represented one in seven of all Hinckley Triumphs ever sold. It has projected a playful, almost anti-authoritarian image on an otherwise conservative company – in engineering and new model terms – and also happens to have generated substantial profits.
So at the end of the last decade when Triumph's designers began the project to renew thoroughly the Speed Triple – named with a nod to the 1937 Speed Twin that transformed British motorcycle design – their instructions from the boss, John Bloor, were characteristically blunt: "Don't ---- it up!"
They didn't. The refreshed Speed Triple appeared in 2011; there was controversy over the replacement of the circular headlights with a pair of pentagonal ones, and that was it. It handled better, was faster, more agile and, most important of all for Triumph, appealed to bikers beyond Speed Triple fans so it sold better. We at Motoring loved it, not least because it was also outstanding value for money. Today the Speed Triple costs £8,800 while most comparable machines are into the five-figure zone, yet it is still a benchmark in the streetfighter class.
For 2012 Triumph has followed convention and given us a high-spec R version. No surprises either in how this has been achieved, with Öhlins suspension front and rear (including the latest twin-tube rear shock), the inevitable Brembo Monobloc brake calipers, some especially well-crafted carbon-fibre components and a pair of forged PVM wheels.
There's pinstriping and a red rear subframe to help distinguish it visually, but what you notice first is the price: £11,299 even without the ABS option, which adds a further £600 and places it in superbike territory. It's identical to the price of the new Honda Fireblade, which comes with high-end Showa suspension and sophisticated linked braking, race ABS and a lot more horsepower.
Should you feel the urge to buy these components for your stock Speed Triple, the added cost would be more than £5,000. What you don't get when uprating a bike yourself this way is the skill and experience of a development team such as Triumph's. The clearest improvement is to its speed of turn and response to the bars. The wheels are 1.5lb lighter at the front and 2.2lb less at the rear, and much of this has come from the rims, so rotational inertia and gyroscopic forces are reduced, enhancing agility disproportionately. It makes the bike feel far lighter than the mere 4.4lb overall that's been lost, to the point where I was initially having to readjust my lines to compensate for turning in too sharply.
Once dialled in you get used to throwing the bike rapidly on to its side then deftly flicking it up again to drive out of a turn. There's plenty of grip and feedback from the Pirelli Super Corsa SP tyres, and if it wasn't for the high‑ish bars and the lack of protective bodywork, you'd start to feel as if you were on a full-on sports bike.
The engine is clearly road-biased, running out of puff as you approach the red line and offering more when you dip into its mid-range, but the suspension makes up for that by offering outstanding chassis control, especially in pitch where the stock version would be burying its nose in the Tarmac before wheelying forward again as you reapply the power. Instead, the Speed Triple R scrubs off pace with panache, even as you're heeling it over into a turn and releasing the brakes progressively, remaining composed as you pull at the bars and grab the throttle.
Having said that, there's an element of nervousness that contrasts with the stock model's reassuring stability.
The engine, though, remains best suited to the road. On the track it runs out of revs too soon, its mid-range muscle being much better at firing past slower traffic in everyday riding.
For those who relish handling responsiveness and feedback, the R offers much more than the standard bike. But then again, a Fireblade ups the ante even further for the same money, so you have to be wanting a Speed Triple to start with, and then a sharp handling bike after that. You need to have more than £11,000 to spare too.
Me? I'd be perfectly happy with the stock version and £2,500 in my pocket.
Triumph Speed Triple R
Price/on sale: From £11,299 (£11,899 with ABS)/now
Power/torque: 133bhp @ 9,400rpm/82lb ft @ 7,750rpm
Top speed: 150mph (est)
Fuel tank/range: 3.9 gallons/ n/a
Verdict: Better handling, harder braking but a little more flighty. The stock Speed Triple is so good, it's hard to justify the R's extra cost even though the improvement is tangible
Telegraph rating: Three our of five stars
Ducati Streetfighter S, £14,995
About as raw as you get in this class, with a hard-edged throttle delivery, flighty handling and massive power. In the right hands it will beat the Triumph on a circuit, but it'll be hard work. Has traction control, Öhlins suspension and Brembo brakes but it's still overpriced.
MV Agusta Brutale 1090RR, £13,999
This and the Ducati start to make the Triumph look cheap, although there's a more basic Brutale, the 990, for £10,000. Top-of-the-range 1090RR is phenomenally fast with superb handling, the best-quality kit available and immense kudos.
Aprilia Tuono V4R APRC, £11,728
Much closer to the Speed Triple R's price and dripping with spec: ABS, launch control, traction control, computer, as well as a characterful V4 developing 165bhp. It's spoiled by heavy fuel consumption but otherwise it's the Triumph's most direct rival.


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