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I have made available a much truer Delitzsch database for BibleWorks.
This new version is called DLT. Go to my website and follow the link for "Bible Tools" to download this new version.
Copy all the files in the ZIP file to your BibleWorks DATABASE folder and then restart BibleWorks. The new DLT will now show up in the Hebrew list right before the DLZ.
While I will continue to work on this database, you can follow the date on my weblink to ascertain if you have the latest version.
Some of the changes that have been made are --
1 Timothy 3:16
1 Corinthians 10:9
Hebrews 11:11
1 Peter 3:10-12
Galatians 3:17
-- as well as other minor changes.
I have made no emendations of my own, but rather, all changes conform to the true printed edtion of Delitzsch.
Michael, you are free to post this ZIP file, as well as ongoing updates, to your blog if you want.
Today begins the Feast Of Trumpets. Shalom.


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From Openmoko
ReMoko is one of the applications that runs on the Openmoko Phones. For a list of all applications, visit Applications
- Openmoko remote controller is a Summer of Code 2008 project, that aims to write a application that can make Openmoko-powered devices appear to be a mixed Bluetooth keyboard-and-mouse device.
- Student: Valério Valério
- Mentor: Daniel Willmann
ReMoko v0.3
Install Instructions
- FSO Milestone 2
- The FSO images built before 20080807 have a bug in the framework bluetooth system, to use remoko in a older FSO image you will need to change the lines below in '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/framework/subsystems/ousaged/generic.py':
Line 98 - proxy = self.bus.get_object( "org.freesmartphone.Device", "/org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/" + self.name ) + proxy = self.bus.get_object( "org.freesmartphone.odeviced", "/org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/" + self.name )
Line 209 - genericUsageControl.addResource( DummyResource( genericUsageControl, "Bluetooth" ) ) + genericUsageControl.addResource( ODeviceDResource( genericUsageControl, "Bluetooth" ) )
after that you will need to restart the framework (kill the process and start it again or simply restart the device).
- Careful with this bug: Ticket #1744;
- Require remoko_0.2;
- Linux
- Start the remoko app in the neo;
- In a shell type 'hidd --connect <neo_bt_addr>' (need root privileges) or use a user interface to choose the neo as a bluetooth keyboard;
- Windows XP and Media Center Edition
- Start the remoko app in the neo;
- Go to the bluetooth preferences and choose 'Add a new device';
- Choose the neo (default name is 'BlueZ (0)') and choose 'no password';
- Connection
- Connection to the majority of the bluetooth stacks;
- Connection status daemon (possibility to connect to the remote device when the connection are closed);
- Information about the remote device;
- Mouse Profile
- 3 button's mouse;
- Left button mouse holding (for drawing for example);
- Tapping functionality, like a touchpad;
- Vertical Scroll;
- Keyboard Profile
- Full qwerty keyboard;
- Numeric keyboard;
- Holding for Capslock, Shift, Control, Alt and Control + Alt;
- Mouse area with tapping functionality;
- Settings Profile
- Option to run the app in fullscreen mode or window mode;
- Option to set the sensitivity of the mouse scroll;
Known Issus
- In some images (last FSO) the keyboard only show up, if the app is in window mode;
- The 'backslash' key is wrong mapped;
- In illume keyboard in the FSO milestone 2 have some bug's yet in the default profile and in the numbers profile;
- Connection problems with Symbian S60 devices with BT-HID keyboard app provided by Nokia;
Tested Bluetooth Stacks
- Working
- Linux BlueZ Stack
- Windows XP SP2
- Windows Media Center Edition (Toshiba Bluetooth Stack)
- Not Working
- Symbian Nokia's S60 - tested with Nokia Navigator (probably a BlueZ SDP bug)
- Games profile;
- Accelerometer profile:
Need help in:
- Application logo (Tag name: ReMoko);
- Set of menu icon related to the neo (Icons in use are from the Gnome project, enlightenment project and Nenadgrujicic. ReMoko icon made by Fradeve11)
- Remoko Menu
- Remoko Mouse profile
- Remoko Presentation menu
- Remoko Multimedia menu
- Remoko Multimedia menu configurations
- Remoko About Screen
Ideas for the application name
- MokoRemote
- BlueRemote
- ReMoko or ReMoto (maybe some character that's a combination of t and k, at least in the splash/logo)
- Mokomote
- Mokomo (shorter) -- + 1 vote
- FreeMote (Builds on freerunner and remote) -- +1 vote
- MokoKeyMouse (It can be a bit too long, so you can make it shorter as: MKM)
- Add your idea here
Ideas for the application logo
svg source avaiable, contact me --Fradeve11 15:14, 27 April 2008 (CEST)
- Add your idea here
Wish List
- Possibility to control presentations easily (few buttons, PG-UP, PG-DOWN for example) - Done
- maybe even navigation via gestures
- possibly use the touchscreen similar to a touchpad (mouse) - Done
- maybe it is too much, but if you manage to make the touchpad, you could get a small screenshot of the big screen (it is useful for presentations if you want to draw/write something without quality).
- ideally generic GUI that loads controls from some xml config file to make it fully customizable for different purposes (media remote, presenter stick, ...)
- Connect as a Bluetooth remote to a Sony Playstation 3 for Bluray/DVD playback. (JReese)
- Make use of profiles to change the interface easy and fast (interface for mouse, keyboard, a mix of those two, presentations, remote controller for videos and music, ...) - In progress
- Top part of screen as touch-pad, row of three mouse buttons across middle and whichever keyboard the user usually uses on the phone popped-up at the bottom as when adding text in any other app. - In progress
- A MythTV remote would be handy, just a subset of a BT keyboard for common commands with a few nice icons rather than letters on (large) keys.
- Have one Neo work as a keyboard for another Neo (which becomes the screen)! (should be possible even now i guess)
- Change the icons on the mouse screen, so they are oriented as one's mouse would be. Right now the left mouse button is on the left, which is good. However, the image of the mouse is facing the user and the left mouse button is to the right of the image.
- Add your wish here
- 1- Write a HID BlueZ driver that can enable the Openmoko to be seen as a mixed keyboard and mouse in the three major OS's. - Done
- 2- Map keys and mouse gestures to the USB HID usage tables. - Done
- 3- Write the UI and some other features. - In progress

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Oct. 15, 2011
BOSTON, Mass. – Led by senior goalkeeper Carl Appel, the Warriors of Eastern Connecticut State University (9-3-1, 5-0 LEC) defeated men's soccer (8-5, 1-4 LEC) by the final score of 2-0 Saturday afternoon at the Clark Athletic Center Field.
Appel, who was named an NSCAA All-Region selection last season, totaled a season-high 11 saves to help the Warriors remain a-top the conference standings. All 11 saves for Appel, represented every shot taken by the Beacons in Saturday's contest. For the Warriors, their offensive effort produced eight shots, with five of those ending up on goal. In corner kick chances Eastern Connecticut held a 6-3 advantage over UMass.
Giving the Warriors the edge in Saturday's match was Tom Vear, who broke the 0-0 draw in the 44th minute of the first half. He also assisted Eastern Connecticut's second goal in the opening minutes of the second half to help them secure the victory. The insurance goal was netted by the Warriors leading scorer, Matt Furman, his sixth of the year.
Saturday's contest was without a doubt a physical one as UMass looked to upset the eighth ranked team in New England. In the first half, the Beacons controlled a majority of the momentum, as they used their outside midfielders, Reyn Johnson (Mangilao, Guam) and Kelvin Martinez (East Boston, MA) to bring the ball up the sidelines and cross it into the box.
They also took advantage of openings in the middle of the field, and with solid passing were able to work the ball behind the defense to also create opportunities. Unfortunately, Appel held his line every time, preventing any early first half scores. With just under two minutes left before the break, the Warriors were able to take advantage of a long ball out of their defensive third, which landed right on the foot of Luke Capezzone. The midfielder then made a perfect pass across the box to Vear who pushed the ball to the far post to make it a 1-0 ball game.
Vear, would then come back in the second half and on another quick pass across the box connected with Furman to make it 2-0. As the half continued, Eastern's defense held strong, while the offense continued to pressure the Beacons defensive line. However with less than 10 minutes left in the contest, UMass went back to their original game plan and began testing the Warriors defense and Appel.
One of their best chances came on a cross from the left side of the field, which found the head of Dan Purchia (Winchester, MA). The junior forward got his head to it, and nearly snuck it to the far post. Victor Hugo Costa (Malden, MA) also had a solid chance in the closing minutes as he was able to get through the defense, but his shot was deflected wide by Appel. In the net for UMass, junior Brycen Dowd (Mansfield, MA) totaled three saves in Saturday's contest.
Men's soccer returns to action on Thursday when they host Wheelock College at 3:30 p.m.


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Today's negotiations between L+M and unions canceled
New London — Contract negotiations between Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and the union representing 800 nurses and technicians scheduled for 1 p.m. today have been canceled, after the two sides failed to agree about whether the session would be open to union members.
Each side blamed the other for the impasse.
The union insisted that the session be open to its members, while the hospital wanted participation limited to the two negotiating teams.
"By taking this position, the union is showing it is more focused on theatrics and grandstanding than it is on negotiating," hospital spokesman Mike O'Farrell said in a statement Monday night. "Given the seriousness of the situation, we are deeply disappointed by this development."
He said the union's refusal is "unlawful" and that the hospital would file an unfair labor practice charge against the union for "failure to negotiate in good faith."
AFT Connecticut spokesman Matt O'Connor said in his statement Monday night that a "closed" session would shut members out at a crucial time.
"We have been clear on this point," he said. "We cannot agree to further disenfranchising our members and allowing (L+M's) record of false claims and mischaracterizations of the issues being discussed to continue."
He said the union's negotiating committee members plan to be at the Best Western Olympic Inn in Groton at 1 p.m. as scheduled, and expect "a large crowd" of nurses and technicians "to be there to witness what we sincerely hope will be a session attended by (L+M's) representatives."
The session would be the 16th since contract negotiations began. Nurses and technicians began a four-day strike Nov. 27, nine days after the last contract expired, but were not able to return to work after the strike because of a lockout the hospital had previously announced. The hospital said the lockout was necessary because of threats of intermittent strikes that the union denies. Since the strike, the hospital has been staffed by 150 to 250 replacement nurses and technicians.
The union wants the hospital to pledge to let nurses and technicians move with their jobs if outpatient departments are moved out of the main hospital to L+M affiliates. L+M is offering to guarantee not to transfer jobs in acute care areas only, and would provide six special benefits and programs such as retraining and severance pay to any nurses and technicians displaced by future transfers.
O'Farrell said the cancelation of the talks means the lockout, in its eighth day Monday, will continue.
"We want our employees back," he said, adding that will not happen "until the union is ready to resume focused discussions."
O'Connor said the union hopes L+M representatives come to today's session after all, and that they will be "ready to work to reach a mutual resolution on the patient care delivery issues at the heart of this crisis."
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After months of speculation, WWE returned to NBC with Saturday Night's Main Event.
For me, SNME was as can't miss as any wrestling event. One of my earliest memories is sneaking away from my parents in Woolco as a kid to watch Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant battle in the famous "twin referees" match, so needless to say I was pumped for this broadcast. Did the night meet my lofty expectations? We'll see ...
The night starts off with the SNME traditional quick-shot interviews. The song, however, has changed. It should also be noted that the broadcast beamed into my living room didn't seem to be showing the "full" screen. My guess is this was intended to be an HD broadcast, but there was a communication breakdown somewhere.
Match 1 � Triple H/John Cena vs. Rey Mysterio Jr./Randy Orton/Kurt Angle
There were plenty of back stories here to work with, between Triple H and Orton's history and Cena and Angle's very recent feud over the WWE Heavyweight Title. Unfortunately, we didn't get either of those interactions as Mysterio and Triple H spend most of the time in the ring together.
Eventually, we reach the hot tag segment and it's Cena (who's heavily booed) and Orton mixing it up, in what many thought a year ago would be the two leaders of WWE's future. Cena, rather quickly, gets the FU but Triple H breaks up the pin and Pedigrees his 'Mania opponent. Orton's about to get the cover, but Mysterio pulls him off. Mysterio is Pedigreed soon after, then Triple H is thrown out by Angle, who in turn is RKO'd by Orton. Finally, Cena escapes an RKO and get a roll-up for the pin.
Winners: John Cena/Triple H
Rating � 2 out of 10 - Very confusing bout that ignored the history of the combatants.
Back from break, Booker T appears to have a knee injury. The M.A.D.E., Sharmell, asks Teddy Long to cancel his match with The Boogeyman. A smirk as the two leave tells everyone just how hurt Booker really was.
Next up, Edge and Lita come out for The Cutting Edge. After a couple minutes of Edge cutting a wicked promo, Mick Foley comes out with a satchel in tow. As he approaches, Edge lights a table, situated in the ring, on fire. As the fire is put out, the two come to blows. Foley then empties the bag, revealing thumbtacks. After more brawling, Foley ends up plunging into the tacks. Foley eventually recovers and attacks Edge on the ramp and gives him a Conchairto. Very, very hot segment here.
After a video package detailing Shawn Michaels and Vince McMahon's history, we head backstage where Booker and the M.A.D.E. are celebrating their big fakeout, well, at least until the Boogeyman shows up.
Next up is the beer-drinking contest. This was as predictable as one would expect, finishing with Austin stunning JBL. In between, we get great mic work between the two and a little TV time for Chris Benoit.
Match 2 � Victoria/Candice Michelle vs. Mickie James/Trish Stratus
Surprisingly, Candice Michelle has been given the chance to get some actual wrestling experience in, rather than just being another body, and the results have been something positive. Trish works virtually the whole match and gets the pin after the Stratusfaction.
Winners: Trish Stratus/Mickie James
Rating � 1 out of 10 stars - Too short to really judge.
After the bout, Mickie gets on the stick and says she will be leaving Stratus alone and offers to say goodbye, "the right way," which involves a handshake, a cheek kiss, a hug, a high roundhouse kick and a Stratusfaction. And so we have the long awaited "break up" I thought it would be a little more dramatic than it was.
Next, Mark Henry comes out to call out The Undertaker. It doesn't take long before the Druids come out with a casket, followed by 'Taker. The two come to blows quickly thereafter, with 'Taker dominating. Eventually, Khosrow Daivari gets chokeslammed and Tombstoned on the casket. It would've been a better effect if the casket broke from the impact, but I guess this was effective.
Match 3 � Shawn Michaels vs. Shane McMahon (Street Fight)
Michaels doesn't wait long to get the match started, attacking McMahon in the aisle. Once Shane gains control, after HBK gets a table set up, Vince McMahon comes out to help him set up a second table. Shane sets and climbs up a ladder while Vince holds HBK on the table, or tries to I should say. Michaels fends off the senior McMahon and ascends the ladder, resulting in both men going through said tables after a superplex after the ladder.
Once we get back from the break, both are in the ring, with Vince running interference again, saving his son. Eventually, Shane takes over with the ladder and really starts to dominate. Things go awry, however, when Shane O' Mac tries the Van Terminator, with help from Vince, and HBK moves out of the way at the last moment and Vinny Mac gets the brunt of the attack. We then pretty much go into HBK's routine, including the Superkick, but Vince pulls the ref out. HBK, of course, gets suckered into taking down Vince, and in a spot no one needed to see, Shane puts Michaels in the Sharpshooter while Vince orders the bell rung.
"Winner": Shane McMahon
Rating � 3 out of 10 - A spotfest that was ruined by a useless ending.
Well, if you wanted to get Bret involved in the WrestleMania match, you just blew whatever chance you had out of the water. Any casual fan watching tonight now will likely suspect even more that the "Survivor Series Screwjob" was a work.
Unfortunately, this SNME felt more like a big commercial for 'Mania than being the home of unique, long matches it used to be. Hopefully the June event will be better
Jon Waldman has been with SLAM! since 2000.


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I'm gonna have to agree with you guys. I can either make my Rancors look like monkeys by using their hands to walk, or have him stand straight up and lean on his tail. Neither of those options make for a hungry and ferocious looking enemy.
I went in to pick one up today and found it on clearance for $27.98!
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Hello spring
So it's back to the daily grind for me today. Unfortunately I was not a winner of the Mega Millions lotto drawing this past weekend so work I must. I guess I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed for the next one. ;)
My card is for the TGF Farm Fresh challenge to CASE one of the challenge team gals who have recently completed their term. And I knew just the card that I wanted to CASE. It was back in February when I first saw how Lisa tore the corners of her paper to reveal a second print below and, even then, I knew that I wanted to give this technique a try. So I inked up Easter Anya and altered her mouth a bit by wiping away the original open one and tracing in a more closed smile. She's colored up nice and bright to go with some more of that fun Doodlebug paper that I've been enjoying lately. I kept the over-all design pretty close to Lisa's original, though I did tend to go a bit crazier with the tearing. What can I say... I really wanted to see those jellybeans, LOL!
I also ended up doing a super quick little video tutorial on how I color grass. After posting my Masa card the other day I had several questions about it and this seemed as good a time as any to share how I go about grounding character stamps in a lush yard of green grass. You can see the video here or over on the CMC blog. :)
Alrighty then, I'm audi. Catch ya later!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper/die cut- Doodlebug (Hello Spring)
stamp- The Greeting Farm (Easter Anya)
ink- Memento tuxedo black, Colorbox creamy brown and Tim Holtx tumbled glass distress
Prima flowers
Kaiser Craft pearls
Marvy Mega Giga scallop circle punch
Copic Spica glitter pens
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- E40, E41, E42, E43, E44
clothes/basket- Y11, Y15, Y17, RV10, RV52, RV55, E40, W00, RV00, B0000, YG03, YG17, BG01, BG05, Y38, YR18, V12, V15, V17
grass- YG03, YG17, G46
23 comments:
- Vera W. Yates (Ling) said...
Such a cute & springy card, Amy!
- April 2, 2012 at 6:03 AM
wahou !!! wish i could make such beautiful cards !
- April 2, 2012 at 6:51 AM
- gobeagirl said...
Hi Amy. What an honor! I think your card is adorable and if I had used this paper for that card design I am sure that I would have torn a lot in order to see those jelly beans. I told Jerry(as I got this pad in the mail Saturday. Yay!) that I am calling them Jelly Bellies as their so tiny and so cute. Anyway, I watched your video last night when I was putting my card up for today. Love it as always my friend. I didn't win any money this weekend either, so I will work while Jerry and the M&Ms play this week. lol.. Have a great day. Hugs, Lisa
- April 2, 2012 at 7:03 AM
- Nancy Thomas said...
What a happy/spring-y card! Well done! We didn't win any money either unfortunately.
- April 2, 2012 at 7:22 AM
- Annette said...
so darn cute...i love it..
- April 2, 2012 at 7:38 AM
- Stephanie said...
How cute! I love the jellybean paper and Easter Anya looks really sweet:)
- April 2, 2012 at 7:42 AM
- Janine said...
aaaaaaaah so cute
- April 2, 2012 at 7:42 AM
- Creations by Shirl said...
Cute Easter card, love all the pastel colours..
- April 2, 2012 at 7:51 AM
- Heidi Brawley said...
OMG this is Super Cute!!! I love her new smile!!! Much better then the original one! She is a cutie!!!
have a Great week! I didn't win either darn it!!!
hugs, Heidi
- April 2, 2012 at 8:41 AM
- Tonje said...
Cute, cute easter card. Love the torn corners!
- April 2, 2012 at 9:00 AM
- Cami said...
Adorable Easter card with sweet colors. Thanks for the vid tut on grounding and creating grass! I will definitely try this! Have a great week, Amy.
- April 2, 2012 at 10:52 AM
- Dangina Martinez said...
Aww, This is just Precious! I love your coloring and that adorable DP.
Tons of Hugs, Dangina
- April 2, 2012 at 2:02 PM
- Leanne said...
Super cute Amy! This one just screams SPRING!! to me and I just love it. Those jelly beans peeking out are fantastik, great tribute to Lisa. Loved watching the grass tutorial, didn't think about using the chiseled side, so thanks for that "tip" ;) hehehe
Have a good week!
- April 2, 2012 at 4:47 PM
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- April 2, 2012 at 5:27 PM
- Kelly Schelske said...
This is fantastic Amy! Love how you've colored her hair...awesome!!!
- April 2, 2012 at 5:38 PM
- Craftdee said...
Another cutie, love the torn edge look, it is a great way to get another pattern on to a card in a "casual" sort of way, TFS Donna
- April 2, 2012 at 8:00 PM
- Memories 2 Keepsakes said...
I have been following and learning from you for quite some time. I LOVE your coloring to the max! It is always just so amazingly gorgeous. Is there anyway you could do a tutorial for this hair color! I would LOVE to see it! :)
- April 2, 2012 at 9:23 PM
- Arabella said...
Awww this is so sweet Amy! I love how you alter the stamps to suit you and those hair colours are awesome! I might have to add that combo to my book!
- April 3, 2012 at 1:41 AM
- Arabella said...
Awww this is so sweet Amy! I love how you alter the stamps to suit you and those hair colours are awesome! I might have to add that combo to my book!
- April 3, 2012 at 1:41 AM
- Chelsea said...
Sooo cute!
- April 3, 2012 at 4:31 AM
- Lissa said...
This is just DARLING! I'm a HUGE fan of Doodlebug stuff, so I totally LOVE everything you've been doing with these. ;) I'll have to go check out your grass tutorial because the grass I colored last week came up kind of sucky. Well, at least it looked better the grass in my yard. Must have been on the other side. hmmm...
- April 3, 2012 at 7:32 AM
- mousekemom said...
Love the jelly bean paper...just adorable and you did Lisa proud! Thanks for playing along at TGF's Farm Fresh Challenge!
- April 4, 2012 at 7:29 AM
- RiNNE said...
Great job on coloring an oldie but goodie! Love her colors and coloring!
- April 16, 2012 at 11:36 PM


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Valley City Native to Appear in FX Series Fargo
Valley City native Tom Musgrave is set to appear in an upcoming TV adaption of the 1996 film Fargo, which is slated to air in 10 episodes on FX this spring.
Musgrave will play Bo Munk, the boss of main character Lester Nygaard, played by Martin Freeman, a well-known actor who's appeared in The Office, Sherlock and The Hobbit film trilogy.
The TV series of the same name will somewhat mirror the 1996 Academy Award-winning film, which, set in North Dakota, revolves around a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for ransom. While the film actors won't be reprising their roles, the new rendition of the movie will focus on new characters in similar situations, in a story that takes place over 10 episodes.
Musgrave said the TV show's plot centers around Freeman's character finding himeself down on his luck and into some financial problems. By trying to better himself he digs himself a worse and worse hole.
"Billy Bob Thorton plays the outsider that comes to the upper Midwest and stirs the pot," he said.
Thorton's character is Lorne Malvo. According to Internet Movie Database, other actors and actresses set to star in the show are Kate Walsh, best known for her roles in ABC dramas Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice; Colin Hanks, best known for starring in the 2002 film Orange County, as well as television roles in Roswell, Band of Brothers and Dexter; Glenn Howerton, known for his role on FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; and Bob Odenkirk who played a lawyer in AMC's Breaking Bad.
Filming will take place in Calgary, Canada, beginning mid-November through spring next year.
Joel and Ethan Coen, who wrote, directed and produced the movie, will act as executive producers for the TV series project, Musgrave said. "To be working with the Coen Brothers is like a dream come true," he said, adding "they're from the upper Midwest too."
Musgrave said he hopes people watch and see the fun in the series and "what the Coen Brothers do with people of the upper Midwest. It's not trying to make fun of (them). It's a wonderful backdrop because in a way the upper Midwest is exotic to people, meaning they just don't know it."
"Our population is sparse, and so to put a dark story on that backdrop just works perfectly," he continued. "It's done with love."
The film's known for its actors speaking with what some call an exaggerated upper Midwest accent and dialect.
When auditioning for his role, Musgrave said, "The accent wasn't any problem with me. I just had to revert back to closing these vowels here."
"I think that was a big hurdle trying to get people to do the accent in a realistic manner and not go way too cartoony or over-the-top with it. I was lucky that was just there and I didn't have to work at it."
Musgrave grew up in Valley City, attending elementary school at St. Catherine's Elementary School. He later graduated from Valley City High School in 1992 and went on to attend the University of North Dakota for accounting. After realizing that didn't make him happy and with a little push from his dad, Tom Musgrave, Sr., Valley City, the younger Musgrave decided to transfer to the Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he entered its theater program.
His interest in acting began way before that, though.
"I remember one of my first roles, where I thought, 'This is awesome,'" Musgrave said. "We did Alice in Wonderland (at St. Kate's), and I played Tweedledee. I knew right then that this is something possibly I wanted to do."
When he was in the fifth grade, he auditioned for a role in Hansel and Gretel in City Park. He landed one of the lead roles, playing Hansel.
"I couldn't have been more excited for that," he said.
When he began at Minnesota State University Moorhead, he said, "I was a total fish out of water because I had no idea what was going on."
He soon realized acting is what he wanted to do and after graduating, he moved to Minneapolis, where he starred in Tony n' Tina's Wedding at Hey City theater as well as several commercials and in-house videos for Best Buy, which is headquartered in the metro.
He moved to Los Angeles, where he currently lives, after the suggestion from a friend working in a talent agency who'd seen him in commercials.
"I came out here and landed a recurring role on That 80s Show," a short-lived spinoff series of That 70s Show, Musgrave said. He also appeared in Beethoven's 5th film and has done several commercials and theater in LA. Those who want to stay current on Musgrave's acting career can visit www.tommusgrave.com.
Musgrave met his wife Shannon while attending Minnesota State University Moorhead and they have a five-year-old son Jack. Most of his family lives back home. His dad, Tom Musgrave, Sr., works as a caretaker at Maryvale Convent; his mom Colleen Musgrave manages and runs the hot lunch program at St. Catherine's Elementary School; his brother Dave Musgrave works at Heartland Flax in Valley City; and his brother Dan Musgrave is a Catholic priest in Fargo.
Musgrave's father said, "I remember when Tom moved out to LA to pursue his dream, he told me that on the average, it takes 13 years to be an 'overnight success' and he has been hard at it ever since. It is a very demanding job that requires a great deal of dedication and the ability to accept countless rejections. I truly admire his dedication to his trade."
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House immigration hearing shows challenges ahead
The House Judiciary Committee holds the first hearing on immigration in the new Congress and it captures the difficulty of passing reform through the GOP-controlled body.
WASHINGTON -- While senators work on a bipartisan solution to the vexing problem of illegal immigration, a House panel on Tuesday underscored why it is going to be much more difficult to pass legislation in that chamber.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., referred to a path to citizenship for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants as "extreme" as he questioned a witness at the first immigration hearing of the 113th Congress.
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An earned path to citizenship for those already here is a central part of both President Obama's immigration plan and the bipartisan blueprint announced by a group of eight senators last week. Obama met with immigration advocates and labor leaders Tuesday to push his plan.
Goodlatte, whose committee would take up any immigration legislation passed by the Senate, used the word "extreme" in a question to San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro.
"Are there options that we should consider between the extremes of mass deportation and a pathway to citizenship for those not lawfully present in the United States?" Goodlatte asked Castro.
The mayor, who supports the comprehensive immigration plan offered by Obama and the senators, objected to the characterization.
"A pathway to citizenship should be the option the country selects," Castro said. "I don't see that as an extreme option. The extreme would be open borders."
A spokeswoman for the National Immigration Law Center said the hearing showed that House leaders are out of touch with most Americans on immigration.
"Today's activities show that in Washington there are some elected officials who learned from the 2012 elections and there are some who clearly have not," said Marielena Hincapie, the law center's executive director. "When legislators call this solution, which is favored by a majority of American voters, 'extreme,' it simply shows that they are out of touch with our national needs and values."
Castro also said he opposes any plan to grant those already in the country the legal status to stay while barring them from ever becoming U.S. citizens.
"It would be unprecedented," Castro said in answer to a question by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the senior Democrat on the panel.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., agreed, saying it would create a permanent underclass in America. Lofgren is one of a bipartisan group of House members who are meeting quietly behind the scenes to try to come up with a consensus plan to present to the House.
"Partial legalization is not the answer," she said, pointing to the resentment such polices has caused among immigrants in France and Germany.
Goodlatte and other Republicans on the committee made it clear Tuesday that they are skeptical of a sweeping reform bill. Instead, some prefer to pass piecemeal legislation to deal with problems ranging from the need for more farm workers to the loss of high-skilled foreign workers who train in the U.S. but leave because it takes so long to get a green card or become a U.S. citizen.
"This year, Congress will engage in a momentous debate on immigration," Goodlatte said. "This will be a massive undertaking with significant implications for the future direction of our nation. As such, we must move forward methodically and evaluate this issue in stages, taking care to fully vet the pros and cons of each piece."
Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., said it would be "less heavy lifting" to pass a bill to grant more permanent residency visas to highly skilled foreign workers than to pass a comprehensive bill that includes a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
"That's a more toxic, contentious issue -- granting full amnesty," Bachus said.
Obama and the bipartisan group of eight senators have emphasized that they are not offering a blanket amnesty to those who are in country illegally. Instead, they require immigrants to go through a lengthy process that could take a decade or more to earn citizenship.
Under the Senate plan, illegal immigrants who pass a criminal background check would be allowed to live and work in the country with a provisional legal status. Once Congress agrees that the U.S.-Mexico border is secure, those immigrants could apply for a green card after paying fines and back taxes, learning English and American civics lesson, and meeting other requirements. They would then have to go to the back of the line behind people who have already applied to become U.S. citizens and have never violated immigration laws.
"The growing bipartisan support I think will make it possible for us to get it (comprehensive reform) done," Lofgren said. "We should avoid the temptation of piecemeal reform."
Despite the strong differences between Republicans and Democrats on the committee, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., said the hearing represented significant progress, especially in terms of a kinder, gentler tone to the debate.
"For years we have been talking about electrified (border) fences, overblown stereotypes of criminals and gang bangers, and mass deportation fantasies in Republican-controlled immigration hearings," Gutierrez said. "Most Republicans I talk to understand that 11 million people here illegally will not be leaving the country and that holding out for their 'self deportation' puts Republican lawmakers out of step with the country as a whole."
But groups that oppose any path to citizenship for illegal immigrants say the recent bipartisan efforts will ultimately fail.
"It is legislation that provides amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, more employment based immigration at a time of historically high unemployment, no end to family chain migration, and vague and worthless promises that illegal immigration will be controlled in the future," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
Next week, the Senate Judiciary Committee, is scheduled to hold what is expected to be a much different hearing on reform on Feb. 13. The committee is chaired by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who supports a comprehensive approach. His committee is working on taking the blueprint offered by the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" senators and turning it into detailed legislation.
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Butler Destabilized by Brad Stevens' Move to the Boston CelticsPosted by Chris Johnson on July 4th, 2013
Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn.
Burying news breaks in the lead-up to major work holidays or weekends is a totally normal thing. It almost never fails: use the benefit of most people's designated R&R time to stanch the quick-spreading news cycle and prolonged Interweb shelf life. Snip the story at the bud before it has a chance to grow. Classic. Except that tactic might not work with Wednesday night's news, dropped mere hours before our country's biggest patriotic celebration – at least not among college hoops fans – that Butler coach Brad Stevens is no longer. Indeed, the baby-faced, cool-mannered, whiz kid Bulldogs sideline boss is leaving college basketball for the NBA. And not just any professional coaching job: Stevens is replacing Doc Rivers just in time to lead the 17-time champion Boston Celtics through a massive franchise rebuild. For all the classic cases of college coaches failing to translate their success to the next level, Stevens feels like the perfect hire for where the Celtics are as a franchise and the general direction the NBA is moving as it embraces a larger presence of analytics-savvy decision-makers in high-ranking positions.
But Stevens is so much more than your average KenPom frequenter. In the process of lifting Butler from its Horizon League perch to a brief one-year stint in the Atlantic 10 to the new Big East, Stevens showed what comparatively lightly-recruited talent, empowered by tactical wizardry devised to maximize that talent's best individual and collective attributes, can become. The height of his tenure, needless to say, were the back-to-back national title runs Stevens presided over in 2010 and 2011, each win over each powerhouse program coach more mind-numbing than the one before it. That's when Stevens' Bulldogs became so much more than the plucky Horizon league stalwart most college hoops fans had acknowledged for years. Butler became a national story, and its head coach the envy of any major program looking to replace its fired one.
Offer after offer, Stevens stayed true to his home state convictions, rebuffing all manner of pay-raises and prospective profile-building program enticements, emphasizing over and over again his desire to stay at home, where he and his family lived a comfortable life (with a comfortable salary), where he could continue to nudge his endearingly buoyant program to NCAA Tournaments and insane deep-round upsets. You could have made the case, after witnessing Stevens turn down seemingly every job offer thrown his way, that Stevens would hunker down in Indianapolis for good. If college basketball breeds mid-major lifers, Stevens had given every indication. What offer could possibly sever Stevens' attachment to the program he lifted into de facto major conference stature? Who could possibly convince the stoic Stevens the program he vaulted to new heights was merely a step towards a brighter coaching future? Wednesday night provided a shocking answer.
Trying to speak in absolutes when appraising any coaching hire is a precarious endeavor. Any coaching transition is transacted with an implied undercurrent of uncertainty. It's when that uncertainty hardens into positive change that you know your decision achieved its intended purpose. But the fact remains that anytime you hire a coach, the only thing you know is what said coach has done either in his old job (or during his unemployment) to be rewarded with a new job. You never know what's actually going to happen, ever. And this move is even more difficult to predict: who knows how Stevens will handle the leap from cozy Horizon League conference post-game press conferences to the suffocating daily horde of Celtics media devouring every bit of breathing room he previously enjoyed? How will players respond to an unassuming mid-major coach with zero professional experience to speak of? Will Stevens be able to handle the ego-massaging and personality coddling coaches are regularly undermined by in today's superstar-centered NBA?
I'll let the NBA folks bounce those important unknowns off one other. College hoops fans want to know what this means for the game they will – despite seeing one of its brightest young coaches walk away – continue to follow relentlessly. Well, sorry to break it to you guys, especially those who claim Butler as their favorite team, but the instant analysis turns up a simple answer: not good. Butler was supposed to march into its new league with the man responsible for its recent dramatic rise pulling the strings, doing all the little things that led him and his team to the lofty landing spots – for Stevens, the Celtics; for Butler, the Big East – they could have never envisioned even six years ago. The main reason the Bulldogs were such an attractive addition for the transitory Catholic Seven in the first place was because of the long-term stability and winning permanence Stevens had proven over multiple Horizon League championships and thrilling Tournament upsets. Some mid-major programs have players that symbolize their respective ascendances, fleeting or lasting or otherwise. Other programs have coaches. Over the past six seasons, Stevens had Butler and Butler had Stevens. Few programs in the country had forged stronger practical and symbolic bonds with their head coach.
Now, the Bulldogs will have to replace that identity, and do so in extremely abbreviated fashion. Assistant Matthew Graves was seen as the most probable successor, but he reiterated Wednesday night his new job in South Alabama – accepted under the impression Stevens wouldn't be going anywhere any time soon – is a firm commitment. Whoever does replace Stevens, it goes without saying the encore will have a hard time living up to the headliner. Stevens took this program to a place few would have ever thought remotely possible, and now, on the cusp of making its biggest program leap yet, the entire operation is thrown into disarray. It's important not to paint Butler with one Stevens-colored brush — other coaches, including Thad Matta and Todd Lickliter, have won games here before. Those wins also came against the comparative leniency of Horizon League competition. The Big East is an entirely different beast.
Navigating this already tumultuous period – moving to a more powerful league with better teams was hard enough – without the engine powering their recent resurgence will test Butler's staying power in its new big boy conference digs. It will also plunder the depths of one existential question: did Butler make Stevens or did Stevens make Butler? Were the Bulldogs a product of or a facilitative platform for Stevens' work? The next few years, where Stevens will preside over Boston's post-Doc Rivers resurrection and Butler will attempt to stay afloat in a much tougher conference, could move us toward an answer. The Big East, if it had things its way, would have liked to know before it offered one of its three spots up to the Bulldogs.
But they didn't. The Boston Celtics came swooping out of nowhere, snatched up one of the best young coaches college basketball has produced in the past decade, and the Bulldogs – and quite possibly the Big East – will not come out on the positive end of the transaction. The idea of inviting an annually contending mid-major like Butler to occupy one of the new Big East's league roster spots made perfect sense at the time, with the unknown contingency that Stevens wouldn't suddenly leave his program gasping for air. The repercussions could be grievous for Butler. Or maybe the Bulldogs had the next Stevens lined up all along in anticipation of this very moment. Perhaps the Bulldogs will keep their current pace for the next few years, and eventually plateau without the innovative spark and unflinchingly workmanlike demeanor only Stevens could truly encapsulate. Every possible outcome is worth debating.
We can only address what we know. Which, to recap, is: Butler loses one of the top five coaches in the sport. The Big East extended Butler an invitation precisely because of what that coach built the Bulldogs into under his watch. Butler will frantically search for that coach's replacement and hope he can not only keep the Bulldogs competitive in their new league, but sustain the momentum that coach built during his time at the school. The web of unknowns is astounding, and Butler will need to face them head on in the coming years.
I have no idea what's in store.


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Modal, a lesser-known type of fabric, is entering the clothing scene. What is modal? This up-and-coming fabric has similar characteristics to cotton cloth but has extra benefits, and it's making way into tons of trendy t-shirts and tanks. Read on to discover all about this new fabric–and see if it fits your style!


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Steven Tyler – Then and Now
With Aerosmith now in its fourth decade of existence, Steven Tyler has been in our public consciousness for so long that sometimes it's hard to remember what the rubber-faced singer and 'American Idol' judge used to look like. Let's jog our memories a bit, shall we?
Compared to the photo on the left, taken waaaay back in 1976, Tyler's now 63-year-old face is still just as pliable, albeit with a lot more lines and wrinkles (hey, no one lives that fast without the requisite skid-marks on the guard rails). Whether or not he's had a surgical nip-and-tuck here and there is a matter of hotly-contested debate, but he has admitted to being a Botox devotee.
Regardless, he doesn't have the "wax museum" look so many older stars seem to favor these days — and for that, we are eternally grateful. Dude may look like a lady, but there's no rule that says he ever has to look like Joan Rivers.


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Measured phase diagram for the three solid phases of vanadium oxide (VO2): metallic (golden), insulating M1 (grey), and insulating M2 (purple). To locate the triple point, the material is stretched under a microscope, and the phases are determined by polarized optical microscopy.
Materials typically have more than one possible structure, or phase, depending upon the temperature, pressure, or variation in the material's elemental composition. Phase transitions in materials are notoriously challenging to study. The situation is worse near a triple point, where more than two phases are involved. The well-known metal–insulator transition in vanadium dioxide, a popular candidate for ultrafast optical and electrical switching applications, is a case in point. In a new approach to studying this important phenomena, stretching single crystal "nanobeams" of vanadium dioxide (VO2) under a microscope revealed when the material switches between conducting and insulating states – and showed that this transition occurs when three solid phases have equal energy, the . first ever determination of a solid-state "triple point."
Such insights are key to mastering the optical and electrical switching properties of the material. The techniques developed may also allow control of magnetic and superconducting properties for an array of energy-relevant applications.
The metal-insulator transition, the point where the material goes from conducting to insulating, in VO2 involves a rapid and drastic change in its optical and electrical properties, making it a classic candidate material for applications in switching and sensing. The detailed behavior near the transition was not known because of the complexity of bulk samples and because two insulating phases (known as M1 and M2) compete with the metallic phase near the transition. By working with nanobeams of VO2, which are tiny single-crystal wires of the material, in a purpose-built apparatus for applying axial stress under a microscope, researchers from the University of Washington were able to observe the convergence of the three phases with unprecedented control. They could map the stress and temperature at which each pair of phases coexisted and also deduce the precise triple point, at which all three coexist. It was found to be at 65.0 °C and at zero applied stress, meaning that it coincides with the metal-insulator transition in a free-standing crystal. This insight has important theoretical implications, and should help in efforts to exploit the transition in developing new technologies. It also demonstrates the value of such a controlled approach to complex materials in general.
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Jae H. Park, Jim M. Coy, T. Serkan Kasirga, Chunming Huang, Zaiyao Fei, Scott Hunter, and David H. Cobden, "Measurement of a solid-state triple point at the metal-insulator transition in VO2", Nature 500, 431 (2013). [DOI: 10.1038/nature12425]
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text: Greetings! "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy.duke.edu> writes: > But maybe this is all too complicated, or doesn't belong in the standard > per se. It is indeed like the ATLAS thing, but then, I think that ATLAS > is sheer genius although it is also cumbersome and clunky to build...;-) > I just dream of the day that ATLAS-like runtime optimization isn't so > clunky and is based on tools that create tables of microbenchmark > numbers that ARE sufficiently accurate and rich to achieve > near-optimization without running a build loop that sweeps and searches > a high-dimensional space...:-) > I'm of the opinion that the bulk of the benefit can be had by providing alternate binaries tuned for the coarse grained cpu differentials - isa extension, cache, etc. -- coupled with some smarts in ld.so to select the proper version at runtime depending on the running cpu. We do something like this, (alternate isa extension only), in the Debian atlas packages, which are now at the base of quite a large application tree -- no recompilation required. Am always appreciative of other thoughts on these matters. Take care, > rgb > > -- > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > -- Camm Maguire camm at enhanced.com ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah


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Many of the current top-of-the-range smartphones — iPhone 5 apart — have screens with a 1280 x 768 pixel resolution or similar, which is good enough to be labelled as HD. However, just as it did with flat screen TVs, 720p is about to be replaced by 1080p — as Sharp has announced that it has started production of its own 5-inch, full-HD smartphone displays.
The new panel boasts a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and a pixel density of 443ppi. As a comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S3's 4.8-inch display has a resolution of 1280 x 720 and a pixel density of 306ppi, while the 4-inch iPhone 5 has 1136 x 640 pixels and 326ppi.
Sharp may say its 5-inch screen is headed for smartphones, but any device with a display that large usually gets put in the smartphone/tablet hybrid category, joining the likes of the Galaxy Note, Note 2 and the LG Optimus Vu.
The benefits of such a high resolution screen almost go without saying, but Sharp states that it'll bring "crisp text, super clear maps and amazingly real HD images." Sharp doesn't mention on which devices its new super-screen will appear, but along with making its own smartphones, Sharp also supplies screens to other manufacturers too.
It's also not the only one to have announced plans for a 1080p mobile screen, as LG is also busy with its own full-HD panel, and Oppo has teased us with the Find 5, a 5-inch device with a 1080p display. HTC is also rumored to be preparing the One X5, a tablet/smartphone hybrid with a 5-inch, 1080p screen too.
The mobile industry loves big numbers, as they help convince prospective buyers that one device is "better" than another, and a 1080p screen with 443ppi is about as impressive as screens can get. Questions will no doubt be raised concerning just how much difference a 1080p resolution and a 443ppi density will make on a screen this small, but answers will have to wait until the first device with such a screen goes on sale — and judging by the increase in activity from these companies, we shouldn't have that long to wait.
Sharp's press release notes that the screen will be displayed at the CEATEC show — a CES-style technology exhibition — in Japan, which starts on October 2 and will run to October 6.


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Avon, Aug 2004, 12.95, 339 pp. ISBN: 0060595809 For someone more accurate than a Swiss watch, when she missed her monthly period, Annie Markham assumes she is pregnant. She tells her boyfriend of two months nineteen years old Jake Mead, who reacts by asking her who the father is before collapsing at her feet. Annie and Jake argue even after she learns she is not pregnant over his reaction. They end their relationship although neither truly wan...
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When nanny Jo Green turns 24 she finds herself reflecting on her life. She's totally bored living in the town of Niblet upon Avon and her romantic relationship with her long-term boyfriend Shaun is going nowhere. Although Shaun has repeatedly proposed to Jo, she has turned him down every single time. Although Jo cares for Shaun, she yearns for a different life than the one she is living. When Jo stumbles across an advertisement for a London nanny pos...


text: Talansky finished second overall at this year's Paris-Nice, having also enjoyed a stage win [EPA]Andrew Talansky is a changed man in a changed sport and that is enough for the young American to aim for the top 10 of the Tour de France in his first appearance in the race. The 24-year-old prospect finished seventh overall in last year's Vuelta without a team designed around him, and he has been showing he is a force to be reckoned with in the early season stage races. A cocky youngster has been modelled into a focused rider by his Garmin-Sharp team's old guard ready to be part of the new generation gradually taking command of cycling as the sport deals with the remnants of the Lance Armstrong era. Learning curve "If you ask David Millar about two years ago, I guarantee he's going to tell you what I was like and I know what I was like," Talansky told Reuters in an interview. "I showed up at the team, I was arguably one of the best Under-23 riders in the world and I came to the team thinking that I was really good, that I was going to show up and really just be good immediately. "I learned that wasn't true but I still acted like it was true at times. I was always trying to prove something and guys like David and Christian (Vande Velde) have helped me learn to stay calm at races. "They've helped me grow not just as a bike racer but as a person. They've helped me grow towards a leadership role where I can be somebody my team mates are excited to race with and help," he said after finishing sixth overall at the Criterium International two-day race. Talansky also had a team working for him at Paris-Nice, where he finished second overall earlier this month having worn the yellow jersey following a stage win. One of several US prospects who have grown up watching Armstrong cheat his way to Tour de France glory, Talansky believes it is now safe to be enthusiastic about cycling."The first thing I point out to people who want to say 'why can we believe in cycling now?' is that now you have guys like (Frenchman) Thibaut Pinot who on his first year on the Tour is top 10," Talansky explained. Pinot, 22, a member of the FDJ team at the forefront of the MPCC (Movement for Credible Cycling), won a mountain stage and took 10th place overall in his first appearance on the Tour last year. "You also have (American) Tejay (van Garderen) getting fifth and best young rider in his second Tour," said Talansky, who will be a protected rider within Garmin-Sharp in this year's Tour. "It should give a lot of hope to young riders," he said. "You never saw that before, you never saw somebody coming in their first, second or even third year and be top 10 in grand Tours. "It gives me a lot of confidence. You can get to the Tour and race to the top 10 of the Tour, there is no reason why you can't now." Tour build-up Talansky, a 1.75 metres tall climber with good time-trialing skills, will continue his season at the April 1-6 Tour of the Basque country, where he will aim for a top five overall finish before setting his sights on the Tour de Romandie from April 23-28. He will then take part in the Criterium du Dauphine (June 2-9) as a final warm-up for the Tour, which starts from Porto Vecchio, Corsica, on June 29. "We will go to the Tour with (Giro champion) Ryder (Hesjedal) having been top 10 of the Tour, Christian (Vande Velde) having been top five on the Tour and David (Millar) has done countless Tours and won stages," said Talansky. "He's been there for Christian, for Bradley (Wiggins when the Briton was at Garmin)... I just trust them, I know they'll guide me though my first Tour." Faith is the key for Talansky, who has earned the trust of his team. "I'm showing that when they send a team to support me, I can deliver a good result," he said. SOURCE: Reuters Sport Cycling US & Canada France United States


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Testimony of Katharine G. Abraham Commissioner of Labor Statistics Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight April 29, 1998
I very much appreciate the opportunity to appear once again before the Subcommittee to discuss the Consumer Price Index (CPI). As I indicated in my testimony a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has a long tradition of being in the forefront of price measurement research and operational innovation. In that testimony, I chronicled a lengthy list of CPI improvements introduced by the BLS over the years, emphasizing especially important improvements introduced in 1995, 1996 and the first part of 1997. My understanding is that the Subcommittee wishes to review both the further changes we have made since last year and our plans for future improvements. I am proud of the progress we have made, and welcome this opportunity to review our accomplishments and discuss our future plans.
As the Subcommittees invitation of April 17 notes, the BLS introduced a number of very important changes in the CPI effective with the data for January 1998, released two months ago on February 24. To be more precise, the CPI now is based on consumer spending patterns for the 1993 through 1995 time period, a new sample of geographic areas that better represents the current distribution of the U.S. population, and a new classification structure that better reflects the categories of goods and services consumers buy. These important changes represent the attainment of some of the more critical objectives of the large-scale effort to revise the CPI for which funds were first received in Fiscal Year 1995. Although major components of the CPI Revision project continue through Fiscal Year 2000, the changes introduced in February complete the expenditure weight and geographic area sample updating that also have been core components of every prior CPI Revision.
Although the updated market basket introduced in January is considerably more current than that it replaces, it still was 3� years old as of its introduction date. Our proposed CPI improvement initiative, which I will discuss in a few moments, will allow us to introduce future expenditure weight updates in a more timely fashion. Further, it has become apparent that shortening the roughly 10-year interval between comprehensive updates to the CPI would be desirable, and we have work underway to determine a more appropriate time schedule for such updates. I should note, however, that the availability of new Census of Population information likely always will necessitate some form of periodic CPI updating to account for shifts in the distribution of the population. Thus, I suspect that updating of the CPI geographic sample may well, of necessity, remain a decennial statistical activity.
Finally, both for the sake of completeness and because it is important in its own right, I should call the Subcommittees attention to an improvement in the treatment of quality changes in personal computers also introduced with data for January 1998. The revised item classification structure for the CPI that I already have mentioned includes a new stratum called Personal Computers and Peripheral Equipment. Analysts in the BLS Producer Price Index (PPI) program earlier developed and implemented a regression procedure, called a hedonic model, that attaches an implicit price to each important feature and component of the computer. Starting with the CPI for January 1998, when a personal computer or selected item of peripheral equipment, such as a modem, in the CPI sample improves in some way, a regression-based quality adjustment to its price will be made. The value of the improvement, as derived from the regression estimates, will be deducted from the observed price for the product. Conversely, if a model deteriorates, the value of the difference will be added to the price. Application of this method will improve our measurement of price change for personal computers and peripheral equipment.
Up to this point, I have focused principally on the changes to the CPI introduced with the data for this past January. Now, as your invitation to testify requests, I would like to turn to the announcement we made earlier this month concerning the use of the geometric mean formula in the monthly CPI. We expect to incorporate this change into the CPI for the month of January 1999, to be published next February.
When I testified before the Subcommittee last year, I spent a considerable amount of time discussing the issue of substitution bias. At that time, I noted that BLS had begun publication of an experimental index utilizing a formula which allowed for some degree of consumer reaction to change in the relative prices of the goods and services being purchased. Prior to my arrival at the BLS in 1993, CPI staff had raised the possibility of adopting a geometric mean formula in some or all index components, possibly in conjunction with the CPI Revision then being launched. By 1996, the issue had become a key element of the report of the Senate Finance Committees Advisory Commission to Study the CPI. In April of last year, we reported that we would conclude our review of the issue and announce our decisions by the end of 1997, and that we would incorporate whatever changes we believed prudent in the CPI to be published for the month of January 1999.
As I indicated in my March 31 letter to you, and as we also indicated in making our announcement the week before last, we found the evidence relevant to assessing the use of the geometric mean to be much sparser than we had expected. Taken in its entirety, however, the evidence unambiguously supports the proposition that consumers can, and do, alter their purchasing behavior in response to changes in the array of prices that they confront in the market place. Because the geometric mean estimator can better reflect the effects of such changes in consumer spending than can the current CPI formula, we have decided to implement the geometric mean estimator in most CPI basic indexes. The changes we will be making were announced on April 16, and, as originally planned, will become effective with data for January 1999.
The geometric mean estimator will be used in index categories that comprise approximately 61 percent of total consumer spending represented by the CPI-U and 64 percent of that represented by the CPI-W. The remaining index categories, which are shown on the attached table, will continue to be calculated as they are currently. Based upon BLS research, it is expected that adoption of the new formula will reduce the annual rate of increase in the CPI by approximately 0.2 percentage point per year.
Finally, Mr. Chairman, I would like to turn to the last question posed in your letter, which I believe was aimed principally at ascertaining our future plans and the resources required to implement those plans. In this regard, I would like to call your attention to the BLS Congressional Budget request for Fiscal Year 1999, in which we are seeking to build upon an initiative, started in 1998, to lay the groundwork for future improvements in the timeliness and accuracy of the CPI. For Fiscal Year 1999, our request seeks a total of $11.2 million and 47 FTE for the second phase of a three-year buildup to put this improvement program in place. The proposal has four major pieces.
First, in order to improve the timeliness of future CPI Revisions, we are proposing an expansion of approximately 50 percent in the size of the sample of households that supports the Consumer Expenditure Survey. About four-fifths of the proposed cost of the CPI Improvement proposal would be devoted to this project. At the present time, three years of expenditure data are required to construct a CPI market basket with an acceptable degree of accuracy. The proposed expansion will reduce the number of years of expenditure data required to two. Combined with a separate project to modernize the CPI market basket update system, this expansion will allow the BLS to reduce substantially the lag between collection of expenditure information and the introduction of future updated CPI market baskets. If funded, this proposed change will greatly enhance the Bureaus ability to adopt a policy of more frequent weight updates.
In addition to supporting more timely updates of CPI expenditure weights, the expanded sample for the Consumer Expenditure Survey also will support the publication of production-quality superlative indexes which, as I mentioned in last years testimony, will account for substitution across CPI item categories in response to relative price changes. At present, these measures are produced on an experimental basis, and the CPI improvement proposal will provide us with the additional resources needed to produce them on a regular schedule, to a higher standard of precision and reliability.
Finally, we are requesting funds to support expanded pricing of goods and services together with the collection of richer information on those items characteristics, to support additional regression-based quality adjustment applications. While it is not possible to predict the outcome of this work in advance, we do know that application of these methods has proven to be of value in improving adjustments for changes in product characteristics. In addition, for particular item groups that are greatly affected by the introduction of new goods, BLS will be able to replace or augment existing samples of priced items, the objective being to bring new goods and services into the index on a more timely basis.
In summary, Mr. Chairman, with the support of Congress and the Administration, the BLS has been able to make substantial progress in improving the accuracy and relevance of the Consumer Price Index. Certainly, more can and will be accomplished. But, just as certainly, further progress depends critically on the continued support of those making decisions about the Federal budget. Our success in improving the CPI also depends on the publics continued belief that our decisions about the construction of the index are arrived at independently and impartially, using the most appropriate techniques available to us. Preservation of that independence and impartiality should be important to all who depend upon the CPI.
Attachment A: Components Retaining the Arithmetic Mean (Laspeyres) Formula
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|E) Telephone services, local charges
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ChronicallyInclined wrote:yeah rolen is making some dough, but i believe its only 2 years, and villalona will probably be in the picture by then.
i hear rumor from yahoo that the giants are showing interest in former blue chipper from the angels, 1b/3b dallas mcpherson. his biggest problem has been his health, apparently he is on the comeback trail from back sugery. it'd be a low risk/high reward type of move, the angels got rid of glaus because they said dallas had 40hr potential. the kid is still only 27. might be worth a look, and fare better with a change of scenery?
Rolen is perfect. Who cares about the money? As long as they don't sign him past 2010 he's perfect. Rolen is signed for $12 million in 2008, $12 million in 2009 and $12 million in 2010, plus another million (or less) per season for his signing bonus.
But like I've said a dozen times, the Giants have money. What they don't have is young talent. They'll need AT LEAST three seasons (more like 5) to really develop a core of young players, so spending money on guys like Rolen for a few years doesn't hurt the rebuilding process. It does, however, put butts in the seats.


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William Bradford (1590-1657)
From Quotes
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.Roy Croft
William Bradford (March 19, 1590 – May 9, 1657) was a leader of the Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and became Governor of the Plymouth Colony. He was the second signer and primary architect of the Mayflower Compact. As Governor of Plymouth, Bradford is also credited as being the first to proclaim what popular American culture viewed as the first Thanksgiving.
Of Pilgrim Plantation (1620-1647)
- They knew they were pilgrims.
- Ch. 7
- So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed.
- Ch. 9
- Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.
- Ch. 9
- Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.
- Ch. 9
- The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.
- Ch. 12
- But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
- Ch. 12
- Cold comfort to fill their hungry bellies.
- Ch. 13
- Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.
- Ch. 13
- Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
- Ch. 21


text: On Fri, 14 May 2004, Joe Griffin wrote: > Hi All, > > Originally this thread was about the choice of Athlon vs. Opteron. > But the comparison between Opteron/Intel was brought up. > > I wish to state that the best choice is highly dependent > on YOUR application. I test various CFD and FEM As I said earlier in the same response (and have said for years, will write in the July CW Cluster Kickstart column and will say yet again, I'm sure:-) YMMV, the most useful "benchmark" is your own application, and even more, your own application compiled with the actual compilers and linked to the actual libraries you plan to use on production and run on a system that an exact prototype of the systems you plan to use in production and as you note you STILL can easily see sigificant variations in performance for many applications that can shift cost/benefit optima by simply changing the scale of the computation! A benchmark running out of cache in a "small" run may scale very nonlinearly in speed compared to the same benchmark running out of main memory in a "large" run, or a shift in parameters can cause a good algorithm to go bad. The ATLAS library is a wonderful example of the tremendous benefits that can be had just optimizing algorithm for a given architecture, and serves equally well to illustrate that running a benchmark with an UNoptimized BLAS may well not give you anything like an accurate idea of real comparative system performance. So absolutely, I agree! On the other hand, to be fair, a lot of times one's application is bottlenecked in just one or two core loops with a relatively simple and repetitive structure, and it isn't that uncommon to find performance scaling nearly perfectly with system CPU clock within an architecture family across many variations in motherboard, bus speed, cache size, and so forth. But YMMV! rgb > engineering applications. I have not only seen differences > when comparing different application programs, but also > when comparing different uses of the same program (say if a > person changes a job from statics to dynamics). The biggest question > should be how YOUR application is used. > > Below is a web site comparing IA32, IA64 (linux and HPUX), Opteron > and an IBM P655 running AIX. The site should only be used to > compare hardare platforms when running our software. I am sure > that Fluent, LSTC/Dyna, Star-CD have similar sites. I recomend > finding out about the software that you will be using. > > MSC.Nastran Hardware comparison: > > http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/prod_support/nastran/performance/v04_sngl.cfm > > Regards, > Joe Griffin > > > Robert G. Brown wrote: -- 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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Abusing the C preprocessor
August 29, 2011
Both tricks shown here are related with a change (by Peter Zijlstra) in the kmap_atomic() and kunmap_atomic() macros/functions. LWN has an excellent article about what that change involved. It basically 'dropped' support for atomic kmap slots, switching to a more general stack-based approach.
Now with this change, the number of arguments passed to the kmap_atomic() function changed too, and thus you end up with a huge patch covering all the tree, which fixed the issue (changing kmap_atomic(p, KM_TYPE) to kmap_atomic(p)).
But there was another way to go. Some C preprocessor magic.
#define kmap_atomic(page, args...) __kmap_atomic(page)
Yes, the C preprocessor supports va_args. 🙂
(which I found out when going through the reptyr code, but I'll talk about it in an other post.)
Today, I saw a thread at the lkml, which actually did the cleanup I described. Andrew Morton responded:
I'm OK with cleaning all these up, but I suggest that we leave the back-compatibility macros in place for a while, to make sure that various stragglers get converted. Extra marks will be awarded for working out how to make unconverted code generate a compile warning
And Nick Bowler responded with a very clever way to do this (which involved abusing heavily the C preprocessor :P):
#include <stdio.h> int foo(int x) { return x; } /* Deprecated; call foo instead. */ static inline int __attribute__((deprecated)) foo_unconverted(int x, int unused) { return foo(x); } #define PASTE(a, b) a ## b #define PASTE2(a, b) PASTE(a, b) #define NARG_(_9, _8, _7, _6, _5, _4, _3, _2, _1, n, ...) n #define NARG(...) NARG_(__VA_ARGS__, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0) #define foo1(...) foo(__VA_ARGS__) #define foo2(...) foo_unconverted(__VA_ARGS__) #define foo(...) PASTE2(foo, NARG(__VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__)) int main(void) { printf("%d\n", foo(42)); printf("%d\n", foo(54, 42)); return 0; }
The actual warning is printed due to the deprecated attribute of the foo_unconverted() function.
The fun part, however, is how we get to use the foo 'identifier'/name to call either foo() or foo_uncoverted() depending on the number of arguments given. 🙂
The trick is to use the __VA_ARGS__ to 'shift' the numbers 9-0 in the NARG macro, so that when calling the NARG_ macro, _9 will match with the first __VA_ARGS__ argument, _8 with the second etc, and so n will match with actual number of arguments (I'm not sure I described it very well, but if you try doing it by hand, you'll understand how it's working).
Now that we have the number of arguments given to foo, we use the PASTE macro to 'concatenate' the number of the arguments with the function name, and the actual arguments given, and call the appropriate wrapper macro (foo1, foo2 etc).
Another interesting thing, which I didn't know, is about argument expansion in macros. For macros that concatenate (##) or stringify (#) the arguments are not expanded beforehand. That's why we have to use PASTE2 as a wrapper, to get the NARG() argument/macro fully expanded before concatenating.
Ok, C code can get at times a bit obfuscated, and yes you don't have type safety etc etc, but, man, you can be really creative with the C language (and the C preprocessor)!
And the Linux kernel development(/-ers) prove just that. 🙂


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Home Minister Rajnath Singh asks Delhi Police to focus on security for the North Eastern people
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has called upon the Delhi Police to focus on providing security to people from the North Eastern Region (NER). Addressing the 68th Raising Day function of Delhi Police here today, the Union Home Minister said that the people from the NER should not feel alienated in the national capital.
Flagging Women's Safety as another major concern, Shri Rajnath Singh said that the Centre has also asked all state governments to constitute Investigative Units on Crimes against Women which will investigate crimes like rape. Lauding Delhi Police for coming out with innovative technological solutions like 'Himmat,' he said that Himmat is an effective application launched by the Delhi Police to provide women security in Delhi.
The Union Home Minister asked the Delhi Police to work in close cooperation with the new State Government in Delhi for the development of the national capital. He remarked that the development of the States is imperative to the development of the nation. Shri Rajnath Singh advised the Delhi Police to give protection to the vast majority of poor people. "Police should be sensitive to the right to livelihood of the street vendors, rickshaw pullers and small traders and strive to win their blessings."
Commenting on the security of minorities, the Union Home Minister assured that the Centre and the Delhi Police will extend full cooperation to ensure security of the minorities and their religious institutions. Shri Rajnath Singh said that the Centre has recently constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the `1984 riots`. He said that he was confident that now justice would be done to those affected by these riots.
Laying stress on adoption of modern technology for effective policing in the 21st century, the Union Home Minister said that the new procedure for issuing the Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) is a step towards that direction. He said that the Delhi Police should take lead to realise the Prime Minister's dream of `SMART Police` (S-Sensitive and Strict; M-Modern with mobility; A- Alert and Accountable; R- Reliable and Responsive; T- Trained and Techno-savvy).
Shri Rajnath Singh said, "I am aware of the challenges facing Delhi Police; providing security to a diverse city like Delhi is extremely difficult task." "In spite of all these challenges Delhi Police`s performance has been excellent," he added.
The Union Home Minister announced Rupees 5 crore to Delhi Police Education Welfare Fund to construct school buildings. Earlier, Shri Rajnath Singh inspected the guard of honour and took the salute of the parade. Delhi Police Commissioner Shri BS Bassi also spoke on the occasion.


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Best Things To Do With a Date in Tri-Cities – Our Top 12
If you're tired of going to dinner and a movie, 102.7 KORD has come to the rescue! Here are a dozen awesome ideas close to home or for day trips. Most are inexpensive and full of opportunities to get to know the other person or create some chemistry.
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Tuesday Night Couples Dance Lessons - Classic Island Casino
8524 W. Gage Blvd. Ask for Beth 5-6 p.m. is Jitterbug and Swing. 6:30 and on is all types of Western dancing. $5 per person. This is every Tuesday except Valentine's Day.
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This sport reminds me of Boy Scouts -- not what you'd call romantic. I'm new to the Tri-Cities, however, and half the people I meet casually throw out geocaching as a hobby. So if you haven't tried it, it's time to find someone who has to teach you in exchange for dinner and ice cream.
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Day Trip To Leavenworth, WA
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Wine Tasting At Any Vineyard
Small groups do not need an appointment.
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Couples Massage
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Chuck E. Cheese Games Then Wine Tasting Then Dinner Then Movie At Home
This was my co-worker's most romantic date ever. If you feel too old for Chuck E. Cheese, try any big bowling alley's arcade. The movie they watched was, "When Harry Met Sally" -- a safe classic.
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Cheese Tasting Class
Cheese Louise at 619 The Parkway in Richland offers 5-6 classes each season and lasts about two hours. Cost varies but includes all the samples and needed materials. Classes are about pairing cheese and other fine food topics.
- 9
Fly Over Tri-Cities
Bergstrom Aircraft, Inc. does 30-minute scenic flights over the Columbia River and surrounding cities.
- 10
Back-yard Projector To Watch Movies, Eat Snacks At Home
Check your local library to rent a projector.
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Country Mercantile For Lunch, Chocolate Samples and Ride Carousel
Country Mercantile Inc. 232 Crestloch Rd., Pasco 545-2192
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Sushi Dinner, Sunset Hike Up Badger Mountain, Then Listening to Mandatory Metallica on 97 Rock On Way to Dairy Queen For Dessert
Yes, this was the first date of someone in my office... and it worked. They got married.


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I got a lot of request to do a Tutorial on my Bridesmaid Makeup Look. I had used a lot of products to create that look and a tutorial would have been confusing. Instead, I thought of doing a basic Golden Smokey Eyes makeup look which looks great on brides and bridesmaid. UPDATE : You can find the tutorial and …Read More »
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Let's invest in mobile phone surveys to monitor crises
A devastating famine has struck parts of East Africa and the Middle East. As the world rushed to prevent the worst from happening, it was a good time to understand how a disaster of such proportions, affecting millions of people, could go unreported for so long.
There are many ways in which crises can be identified sooner and relief efforts monitored better. One of these is by calling people in affected areas to get a clear picture of things on the ground. With the amazingly rapid spread of mobile phones, it is possible to get accurate information about major events on an almost real-time basis.


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Sobr.com needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 243 designs submitted by 74 freelance designers.
Sobr.com is a site for members of Alcoholics Anonymous (and similar organizations) who want to give their real world support groups an online presence. Supported by donations, people will be encouraged to create free accounts and form groups where they can interact with others in online communities. Forums, private messages, events, etc.
I want a logo that conveys a sense of empowerment. When someone logs into Sobr.com, I want them to feel like a superhero knowing that they've stayed sober for another day.
Looking for a logo people will want to get tattooed on their chest as a symbol of their dedication to substance abuse recovery.
- Lean
- Strong
- Tattoo Material
- Comic Book Quality
- Incorporate or mimic AA logo
- Something close to this blue
- Should hold together at 32px
- Not Cartoony
- Not Bubbly
- Not Heavy
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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FreeBSD on the PowerMac G series.
I finally was able to get FreeBSD on my G3. The following is what I did.
You will need the following tools. A Debian install cd for the powerpc architecture. I suggest the business card iso.
Disc 1 from the current snapshot release. http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehor...-SNAP-powerpc/
A live powerpc disk. http://live.debian.net/cdimage/relea...t/powerpc/iso/
Some patience.
And a PowerMac.
Prepare all media.
After you burn disc1, mount the image. You will need to look in /boot for a file named boot1.hfs. Email this file to yourself. You will need it for the boot partition later.
Boot up the Powermac and enter the Open Firmware prompt. (alt +logo/opt+o+f)
0>setenv boot-device cd:(cd drive number)
Choose all of disk, all files in one partition, and enter the edit screen.
Delete the ext3 and swap.
Because the disk is read with a different geometry in Debian, you must add +10% to the value you want.
Create / with a value of 2.2G
Create a swap file with a value of 512M. If you're doing virtualization, graphics, or audio compression the value should be 786M or greater.
Create /tmp and /var with the value +10%.
Create /usr and /home plus any other directories you want.
Commit the changes and let it write them to the disc.
When the cd begins downloading the linux distribution, do a hard reboot.
Boot into the open firmware prompt. Remove the Debian cd and insert the disc1 iso.
0> mac-boot
Select shell.
Switch to tty4 and enter the following commands.
gpart show adX
gpart modify -i2 -t freebsd adX gpart modify -i3 -t freebsd-swap adX gpart modify -iX -t freebsd adX
Use disklabel to edit the partition names.
In order, mine were: /, swap, /tmp, /var, /usr, /home.
Commit changes.
Select the minimum distribution size.
Select CD as source.
Install. if you are asked about starting another shell on tty4, say yes.
Enter all information after the install is complete. Bring up the network interface. Reboot.
Enter the open firmware prompt and change to the live cd.
Let it boot.
Connect and open the email you sent yourself earlier.
Download it, close the browser, and open a terminal.
sudo -s # ls /dev (It should be hdc) fdisk /dev/hdc p (The bootstrap partition should be /dev/hdc2) q #pwd #cd Desktop #dd if=/path/to/hfsfile of=/dev/hdc2
Login as root and add your default user to the wheel group.
Logout then back in as $USER.
Su to root.
#mkdir cdrom
mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0 cdrom/ cd 9* sh man/install.sh sh ports/sh
If you need to add documentation, import the files later on from freebsd.org.
cd && umount /dev/acd0
You will have a base system setup with a working mouse, ports, and a simpler booting process. From here, you can follow other documentation for tweaking your system.
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Starting a new feature to highlight some recent tracks available to download on the Amoeba site. Take a listen and if you like them, add them to your Amoeba shopping cart (you won't be charged until you check out). All downloads are in the $.98 MP3 format; visit the album page to pick up higher-res M4A or WAV files.
Mikal Cronin – "Weight"
Starting with a stately piano and acoustic jangle, "Weight" opens Mikal Cronin's excellent MCII on a classy note. Those Rubber Soul-style harmonies and crunching guitars at the chorus don't hurt, either. This one's a free download. (From the album MCII)
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Ancient Animals – "Teen Wolf"