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The StarID is a username for use at all the institutions within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. If you are using your StarID for the first time and/or do not have a password, you will first need to activate your StarID and create your password.
Use your StarID to log in to most Minnesota State Mankato services, including:
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Welcome to the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club trail system. The trail system consists of 30 km of trails that are groomed at a minimum weekly, and after each snowfall as necessary, to ensure a quality experience for diagonal skiing, skate skiing, and snowshoeing.
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The trail system is open for free, public use during the ski and snowshoe season, but donations are always appreciated. The season typically begins December 15 and ends in late March. Well-behaved pets are welcome on the trail system.
See who's been on the Trails. Check out the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club Guest Book.
The Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club consists of a volunteer organization of people who donate many hours of time to promote and maintain one of the finest cross-country skiing and snowshoeing trail systems in Wisconsin. Many local companies, organizations, and individuals have recognized the value of this major area attraction, and support the trail system with both financial and material donations through our Friends of the Trail program. Their contributions are critical to the continuing operation of the trail system.
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Ranging from the Beginners Loop to the Championship Trail, the trail system has been designed to encourage the novice and challenge the expert, while providing an enjoyable experience for skiers and snowshoers of all abilities.
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The Timm's Hill National Trail starts at the Rusch Preserve on Hwy C, and is also groomed for diagonal skiing, skate skiing, and snowshoeing. It travels 10 miles north and connects to an extensive ski trail system in Price County maintained by the High Point Ski Club around Timm's Hill, Wisconsin's highest point.
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Magnitude 6.4 Quake Off Indonesia's Sumatra
April 15, 2012: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Sunday but there were no reports of damage, the geophysics agency said.
"The epicenter is in the sea and there is no tsunami warning because at less than 7.0 magnitude it is still considered moderate," said Arif Nurahim, an official at Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.
The quake hit 640 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Aceh province, which was shaken Wednesday by two massive earthquakes that triggered a tsunami alert.
At a magnitude of 8.6, the first of the two quakes was the strongest to hit since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 170,000 in Aceh but no major damage was reported.
Sunday's aftershock was not felt in Aceh, unlike the quakes last week which sent panicky residents pouring out of their homes.
April 11: Strong 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake hits Sumatra, Indonesia – Tsunami Warning Issued
Latest Update on Indonesia Earthquake:
A powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake and strong aftershocks struck off Indonesia on Wednesday, sending people as far away as southern India scurrying from buildings and raising fears of a disastrous tsunami as in 2004.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in Aceh, the Indonesian province closest to the initial earthquake. But an aftershock of almost the same magnitude, less deep that the first quake, hit soon after he finished speaking.
The first quake struck at 0838 GMT and an 8.2 magnitude aftershock just over two hours later, at 1043 GMT. Two more strong aftershocks hit later.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued fresh tsunami warnings for the entire Indian Ocean after the aftershocks. Authorities in Indonesia said there were reports of sea-levels rising off Aceh, but by less than a metre (3.3 feet).
But authorities in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, to the north of where the quakes struck, said waves of up to 3.9 metres (13 feet) could hit there.
Individual countries, including Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India, issued their own tsunami warnings and people near the coast in six Thai provinces were ordered to move to higher ground. Authorities shut down the international airport in the Thai beach resort province of Phuket.
The quakes were about 300 miles (500 km) southwest of the city of Banda Aceh, on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island, the U.S. Geological survey said. The first was at a depth of 20.5 miles (33 km).
Indonesia's disaster management agency said power was down in Aceh province and people were gathering on high ground as sirens warned of the danger.
"The electricity is down, there are traffic jams to access higher ground. Sirens and Koran recitals from mosques are everywhere," said Sutopo, spokesman for the agency.
Yudhoyono, speaking after the first quake, said there were no signs of a disaster.
"There is no tsunami threat although we are on alert," said he said at a joint news conference in Jakarta with visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said Britain was standing ready to help if needed.
"The situation in Aceh is under control, there's a little bit of panic but people can go to higher ground," Yudhoyono said.
Warning sirens rang out across the Thai island of Phuket, a tourist hotspot that was one of the worst hit areas in the 2004 tsunami.
"Guests from expensive hotels overlooking Phuket's beaches were evacuated to the hills behind and local people were driving away in cars and on motorcycles. Everyone seemed quite calm, the warning had been issued well in advance," freelance journalist Apichai Thonoy told Reuters by telephone.
Indonesian television showed people gathering in mosques in Banda Aceh. Many others were on the streets, holding crying children.
In the city of Medan, a hospital evacuated patients, who were wheeled out on beds and in wheelchairs.
Yudhoyono said he had ordered a disaster relief team to fly to Aceh, which was devastated by the 9.1 magnitude 2004 quake, which sent huge tsunami waves crashing into Sumatra, where 170,000 people were killed, and across the Indian Ocean.
In all, the 2004 tsunami killed about 230,000 people in 13 Indian Ocean countries, including Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.
Wednesday's quakes were felt as far away as the Thai capital, Bangkok, and in southern India, hundreds of office workers in the city of Bangalore left their buildings while the port of Chennai closed down because of tsunami fears.
The quakes were in roughly in the same area as the 2004 quake, which was at a depth of 18 miles (30 km) along a fault line running under the Indian Ocean, off western Indonesia and up into the Bay of Bengal.
One expert told the BBC at least Wednesday's first quake was a "strike-slip" fault, meaning a more horizontal shift of the ground under the sea as opposed to a sudden vertical shift, and less risk of a large displacement of water triggering a tsunami.
The quakes were also felt in Sri Lanka, where office workers in the capital, Colombo, fled their offices.
Mahinda Amaraweera, Sri Lanka's minister for disaster management, called for calm while advising people near the coast to seek safety.
"I urge the people not to panic. We have time if there is a tsunami going to come. So please evacuate if you are in the coastal area and move to safer places," Amaraweera told a private television channel.
In Bangladesh, where two tremors were felt, authorities said there appeared to be no threat of a tsunami. Australia also said there was no threat of a tsunami there.
Update: 8.2 magnitude aftershock hits Aceh, Indonesia within an hour of 8.7 magnitude earthquake.
An aftershock measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale hit Aceh around 5:00 Wednesday afternoon, according to Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).
Update: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says 'No Tsunami Threat' For Indonesia
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that there was "no tsunami threat, although we are on alert," in a televised speech from the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon, according to Reuters.
Update: 6.5 magnitude aftershock hits Aceh, Indonesia within an hour of 8.7 magnitude earthquake.
An aftershock measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit Aceh around 4:30 Wednesday afternoon, according to Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).
A tsunami warning is still in effect for Sumatra and more than 25 countries, including: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, India and Thailand.
The epicenter of the aftershock was 42 kilometers off the Indian Ocean.
Indonesia issued a tsunami warning Wednesday afternoon after an earlier earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.5 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province.
People on Twitter said tremors were felt in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India. High-rise apartments and offices on Malaysia's west coast shook for at least a minute.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the powerful quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from Aceh's provincial capital.
Said, an official at Indonesia's BMKG who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued for Aceh, West Sumatra, North Sumatra, Lampung and Bengkulu.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a tsunami warning for the following 27 countries: Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Burma, Thailand, Maldives, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Reunion, Seychelles, Pakistan, Somalia, Oman, Madagascar, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Comores, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Mozambique, Kenya, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, South Africa and Singapore.
Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.
A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.
Earlier Update of 8.7 Earthquake in Indonesia:
It was initially reported as 8.9 magnitude but was later revised down to 8.7 by the USGS.
The tsunami warning said quakes of such a magnitude "have the potential to generate a widespread destructive tsunami that can affect coastlines across the entire Indian Ocean basin".
The tremor was felt as far away as Singapore, Thailand, Bangladesh and India.
The Thai office of disaster management said people along the west coast of Andaman province should heed warnings and evacuate.
Reuters reports that people in the region were making their way to higher ground, but quoted Indonesian officials as saying there had been no immediate reports of damage of rising water levels in Aceh.
The BBC's Karishma Vaswani in the Indonesian capital Jakarta says there were reports of the ground shaking for up to five minutes. Contact with people in the immediate area around the quake has not been possible so far, says our correspondent.
Indonesia straddles the Pacific Ring of Fire, a zone of major seismic activity.
Earlier Update (Reuters) – Indonesia issued a tsunami warning after a huge 8.9 magnitude earthquake off its westernmost province Aceh, leading panicked locals to scramble out of their houses to seek refuge.
An tsunami watch was issued for countries across the Indian Ocean on Wednesday after a large earthquake hit waters off Indonesia, sending residents pouring from their homes in panic.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 8.7-magnitude quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 269 miles (434 kilometers) from Aceh's provincial capital.
People on Twitter said tremors were felt in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh and India. High-rise apartments and offices on Malaysia's west coast shook for at least a minute.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said a tsunami watch was in effect for Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Myanmar, Thailand, the Maldives and other Indian Ocean islands, Malaysia, Pakistan, Somalia, Oman, Iran, Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa and Singapore.
A tsunami watch means there is the potential for a tsunami, not that one is imminent.
The province was devastated by a 2004 tsunami that left 170,000 dead or missing, and that in total killed about 230,000 people in 13 Indian Ocean nations.
An Indonesian official says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.9 has hit off Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra.
A tsunami warning has been issued by Indonesian and US monitors.
Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning after a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.9 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.
Said, an official at Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued.
Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.
A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.
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Welcome to Up the Creek, y'all! In honor of the 15th anniversary of Dawson's Creek – which premiered on Jan. 20, 1998, and which filmed here in Wilmington – we're revisiting season one, one episode at a time. I'm Kate Elizabeth Queram, the StarNews environment reporter/former weather blogger, which obviously makes me perfectly suited to be your guide here (I totally bet that creek has water quality issues). I've never watched the show – though I think I tuned in for the very last episode SO I DO KNOW WHO JOEY ENDS UP WITH OMG – so please join me as I see the first season for the first time. New posts will go up every Friday. Legal parameters force me to say that all screencaps, and the teenage angst contained therein, are the property of Sony Television. Let's hit the creek.
In the opening scenes of episode 12 (real title: "Beauty Contest"), Dawson's in his room with Joey watching bugs have sex. Yeah, that's not a euphemism.
He says he doesn't understand how the bugs know who to be attracted to, because they all look alike. Racist.
So the whole gang (I can call them "the whole gang" 'cause it's a feel-good teenage show) is hanging out at the restaurant talking about how Dawson's mom's TV station is letting him cover something called "Windjammer Days," which culminates in a beauty pageant at which someone is crowned "Miss Windjammer." There are many incongruities in this scene. Let's discuss them in bullet points!
- No TV station is going to let a high-school student with zero journalism experience cover an event that seems fluffy but is presumably important to a lot of local people (lookin' at you, Azalea Festival). They are especially not going to do that when the student in question is the lead anchor's son, and they are double especially not going to do that when the student in question is Dawson Leery.
- In the last episode, Dawson and Jen, I'm pretty sure, decided not to be friends anymore, in a somewhat confusing scene atop a Ferris wheel that mostly consisted of blank facial expressions. In that same episode, Pacey tried to kiss Joey and she rejected him. The result of that would be a whole mess of awkward and avoidance, but apparently it's all cool now and they're all having lunch together.
- They're all drinking soda out of lowball glasses, which from a restauranting perspective just makes no sense. You'd be refilling those things every five seconds. None of the drinks have ice, either, so I'm pretty sure they're all drinking rum and Coke on the sly, and their resulting tipsiness is probably why they're able to exist in this social situation that would otherwise be too painfully awkward to even deal with. BOOM BROUGHT IT FULL-CIRCLE.
And for all of my analysis, nothing even happens in this scene. Joey talks about how she hates beauty contests, because Joey hates everything, and Pacey tells Dawson he should just get over Jen already, and Dawson says that he totally already has totally but now getting her back is his new hobby, and then Jen once again tells Joey that they should be friends fo' real without Dawson interfering. Joey agrees to this, albeit in exceedingly unexcited fashion.
At school, Pacey tells Dawson that his dad's all up on his jock for failing biology, and stealing the car, and not being more like his showtune-lovin' police-officer brother Doug. Pacey wants to move out and become an emancipated minor, but he can't afford an apartment that he's found in the newspaper, which runs a steep $250 a month. WHERE U AT, APARTMENT? I WILL RENT U NOW.
In the cafeteria, Jen partakes in her second-favorite pastime of hitting on Joey, telling her "You know you're one of the prettiest girl in school." Joey's all, OH MY GOD STOP I KNOW I AM NOT PRETTY. Still, Jen encourages Joey to enter the Miss Windjammer pageant, saying she'll coach her and it makes perfect sense because the top prize is $5,000 and all Joey ever talks about is how she is so broke and won't be able to go to college. Joey whines for a while about how she doesn't want to degrade herself, but ultimately the lure of 5,000 big ones is too much to resist so they go to the yacht club to sign her up after school. The entire way there, Joey talks about how she's setting the women's movement back 50 years, so I guess she's forgotten about that time she lied to a cute boy and told him she was rich so he'd take her out on his sailboat, or the time she spread rumors about a popular jock getting her pregnant, or the approximately 7,000 times she's passive-aggressively bashed Jen because she's secretly in love with Jen's ex-boyfriend who, by the way, is pretty misogynistic. I'm not an expert on feminism, but I'm just gonna go ahead and bet that Gloria Steinem isn't thrilled with Joey as a whole as it is, so entering the Miss Windjammer pageant probably isn't doing much for the women's movement one way or the other.
When they get to the yacht club, Pacey's already there, trying to sign up for the pageant so he can win the prize money and move into his bachelor pad. He says it's unconstitutional to deny him entry because he has a penis, especially since the rules for the Miss Windjammer pageant, like the Miss Bayside pageant before it, don't explicitly state that you have to be female to enter.
So he gets in. Joey does too, though she doesn't have a penis so the process is easier for her. Upon finding out that Joey's entering the pageant, Dawson, like the chivalrous guy he is, makes fun of and laughs at her. Joey is all, "YOU THINK I'M UGLY! FEMINISM!!! But money takes precedence over everything, including my pride!" I feel like that last line leaves wiggle room for a future Very Special Episode, where the gang intervenes to stop Joey from selling herself to afford tuition.
Later that night, Jen, in her self-appointed role as Joey's pageant coach, is teaching her the age-old useful talent of walking with a book on her head in heels. Look, I can walk like a rockstar in five-inch heels but I can't keep a book on my head to save my damn life, so if you ever thought this is a skill that actually mattered for anything, trust that it does not.
Seconds later the book falls and Joey is all, "Jen, why are you doing this?" and for a second I thought we were on the same page, but we're not – she's just fishing for more compliments under the guise of inquiring why Jen wants to be her friend. She's thwarted, though, because Jen's all, "Normally I just like dudes, idk," and then makes her start the pointless book-walking all over again.
Pacey rehearses for the talent portion by singing Sinatra for Mr. Leery and Dawson.
Mr. Leery is not impressed.
Dawson's all, forget this horrific talent situation, what are we going to do about evening wear?
He tells Pacey that he needs to take this seriously because if he wins, "The Associated Press will be all over this. Not to mention CNN. I mean this could be international news." Somebody get that boy a press pass, his news judgment is spot-on! Mr. Leery agrees and says it could make Pacey "a political activist." Pacey says he really just wants to make some cash, but thanks.
The next day, Dawson's taping pre-interviews with the pageant contestants. Excusing for a moment the implausibility of him landing this video journalism gig in the first place, I don't believe that an unaffiliated TV reporter would be the person taping the pre-interviews for the judges, but such is life in Capeside. Everything's going fine until Joey plops down in front of Dawson all full of 'tude. I guess they're not speaking because he dared to tease her for signing up for a pageant that she herself made fun of that same day.
He asks where she sees herself in five years (apparently he's interviewing her for a job, not a pageant) and she says, "On a research boat to Antarctica." He says that's far away and won't she miss anything? She spouts a snotty monologue about how everybody disappears and dies and moves away and grows up and EVERYTHING CHANGES, THAT'S JUST HOW LIFE IS, I AM VERY WISE. It's very dramatical. Dawson reacts accordingly.
Finally it's the night of the pageant. Jen does Joey's makeup and makes her put Vaseline on her teeth. Joey looks kinda cute in the big rollers.
The evening-wear competition is first. My extensive viewing of "Toddlers & Tiaras" informs me that most of these girls have no pageant experience at all. When Joey comes onstage, Dawson shoves the camera guy out of the way so he can get a close-up view of her. She doesn't really smile and she definitely doesn't do any punchy curtsies, so if she wins, this thing was totally rigged.
Pacey looks supa fly in his tux and the audience LOVES HIM.
We speed through the middle of the pageant in a cringe-inducing montage. Here are some highlights.
After answering a bajillion questions onstage, Pacey goes to talk to Mrs. Leery, who's a judge. She tells him that everybody loves him. Given her relationship with both Pacey and Joey, I kind of think she's got too many conflicts of interest to be judging this thing. Then she tells him there's no way he's going to win, because the snooty yacht club people would rather vote for a Democrat than crown him Miss Windjammer.
He's not psyched. Bachelor pad dreams hang in tatters.
For the talent competition, Joey's decided to warble something from Les Miserables. She doesn't even change out of her evening wear, so again, if she wins, I'm calling this whole thing a farce.
Look, I can't really make y'all understand how horrific this singing is, so here are my notes, verbatim:
"Oh my god you guys. IT'S AWFUL. IT'S AWFUL. THE SINGING. IT'S AWFUL. SHE'S SINGING THROUGH HER NOSE. I CAN'T. OH MY GOD IT IS SO BAD. AND I CAN'T SKIP AHEAD BECAUSE I MIGHT MISS SOME DIALOGUE. OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I CANNOT PROPERLY DESCRIBE HOW AWFUL IT IS."
Eventually I muted it, so I can't tell you whether it gets better, but I just think it's safe to assume that it really doesn't. She keeps shooting sidelong glances at Dawson during the song, which I feel he should interpret as a confirmation of her naked hatred for him, because nobody sings like that and then looks at you without meaning to imply that they wish you were dead.
Pacey's in a closet preparing for his magic act. See, even Pacey has a different outfit for the talent portion.
After his talk with Mrs. Leery, he's all pissed. He tells Dawson the Windjammer people are stupid and since he has no chance of winning, he's going to use the talent competition to let them know how much they suck. To do this, he's going to do a "dramatic interpretation." This entails facepaint, a vest with no shirt and a monologue about, I don't even know, something, in a Scottish accent. Actually, he sounds like Scrooge McDuck. I think this would make more sense to me if I'd ever seen Braveheart, but honestly, it still might not.
In the dressing room, Joey overhears another contestant saying that if Joey wins, it'll just be out of sympathy, since Joey lives in a trailer with her sister and her sister's black boyfriend and their enormous illegitimate baby. Dawson comes in – not sure it's really appropriate for him to be bursting into the girls' dressing room, but it's not like anyone's ever going to call him on anything – and calms Joey down, convincing her to go back onstage and answer a thought-provoking question about what she'd like to tell "today's youth." She gives an answer about small-minded people and how you shouldn't sell out or judge people by their station in life, because "one of them might end up being your best friend." Beyond the random "best friend" reference this answer has nothing to do with Dawson at all, but he still loves it.
Pacey doesn't place in the pageant (I guess they didn't understand the McDuck thing either) and Joey gets first runner-up, winning a "day of beauty from Betty's Hair Barn." The winner is a sweet girl who's going to Juilliard after she finishes a stint in the Peace Corps. I approve of this, Dawson's Creek.
I'm sure we'll never see you again, pageant winner girl. I'm glad for you about that, but I do think you would have liked Mel Silver.
Out on the dock, Dawson tells Joey that she left him speechless. Jen lurks in the background pouting as Dawson takes Joey's hand, telling her that she obviously has "newfound confidence" that "just seemed to burst" from her. He gushes over her, saying that his palms are sweating (gross) and that he feels like he's seeing her for the very first time, I guess 'cause she put on makeup and got on a stage and sang a song that killed my soul. Basically, he's telling her all this nice romantical stuff that she's wanted to hear for this entire interminable first season, so naturally her reaction is to get up, make a face and say, "Something's not right here."
She says she's all dressed up and not herself, and since that's what he's responding to, it can't work. "It's just lipstick and hairspray," she says, taking her hair down dramatically. Her hair comes down pretty quickly so I don't think there really was any hairspray in there, or if there was, it's not very good.
Joey, as she loves to do, yells at Dawson, telling him he's had his whole life to process his feelings and that she can't just wait around for him to notice her. I just. What? He IS noticing you, finally, after weeks of you moping and snapping at everyone in sight about his lack of affection. But Joey Potter does not care. Logic has no place in her world. She dramatically whips off Dawson's jacket and walks away. He's left looking confused. I understand why.
Jen goes over to Dawson's and tells him that she didn't have a good reason for breaking up with him. She asks if it's too late to ask him for another chance, thus fulfilling the wish he's had for this entire season. And just like Joey, he turns down the dream, telling Jen it's not the best time because he's got all this stuff to figure out, probably like why Joey just turned him down when she's been lusting after his big hair for 10 weeks now.
Also, isn't she dating QB Cliff? WHY DOES NOTHING ON THIS SHOW MAKE ANY SENSE? And then, just to add to my nightmares, they replay Joey singing that godawful song as they roll the final montage, which is just clips of Joey and Dawson smiling about nothing. Probably they are smiling about how they've managed to completely flummox me, a situation to which I thought I was immune after all this time. If I didn't hate you so much, you creeps, I'd give you credit for that.
Whatever, jerks. You know who would have been a good pageant judge? Mel Silver, that's who.
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The goals flowed at Scraley Road tonight as Colchester United ran out 8-0 winners over Heybridge Swifts in their latest pre-season friendly.
The U's, who once again fielded separate sides in either half, led 4-0 at half-time after a dominant first-half display.
And Joe Dunne's side scored four further goals in the second half to complete an emphatic victory over their Ryman League division one north hosts.
Colchester were in complete control in the first half, threatening the Heybridge goal from the start.
Swifts started with U's goalkeeper Chris Lewington between the sticks, after their regular keeper Danny Sambridge missed the kick-off after arriving late at the ground.
Colchester peppered the Swifts goal in the opening stages, with Freddie Sears, Drey Wright and George Moncur all going close before four goals in 14 minutes left the U's in complete control.
They took a 16th minute lead through the impressive Sears, who blasted home emphatically from close range after an excellent build-up by the U's.
And Colchester doubled their lead less than two minutes later through George Moncur, who converted from eight yards following an excellent build-up by the visitors.
David Wright made it 3-0 soon after heading in Dan Holman's delivery from close range, with the Heybridge defence struggling to deal with the League One's side movement.
And when Sears fired in a superb free-kick from little more than 20 yards that left keeper Danny Sambridge motionless, Swifts looked a little demoralised.
To their credit, Ryman League division one north side fought back well in the minutes leading up to half-time, with former Stevenage striker Lee Boylan forcing U's keeper Sam Walker to make his first save of the match and then blasting over from close range, soon after.
Colchester fielded an entirely different side in the second half and were gifted a fifth goal, just before the hour mark.
When Gavin Massey picked up a stray cross-field pass midway inside the Swifts half he still had plenty to do.
But he showed great composure to advance towards goal before planting a clean finish past Sambridge.
Dominic Vose scored what was arguably the goal of the night just after the hour mark when he cut in from the left and beat several Heybridge defenders, before tapping into the net from close range.
Jabo Ibehre made it 7-0 two minutes later when he controlled Massey's pass well before smartly beating Sambridge, who denied Colchester an eighth goal when he saved well from Sammie Szmodics.
But Ibehre finished well in the closing stages to score his second of the game and round off a huge win for Colchester.
COLCHESTER UNITED (first half): Walker, Clohessy, Okuonghae, Kent, Gordon, David Wright, Moncur, Drey Wright, Watt, Sears, Holman.
Second half: Lewington, O'Donoghue, Thompson, Eastman, Olufemi, Eastmond, Gilbey, Szmodics, Massey, Vose, Ibehre.


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All the companies symbolized by the "Four Rings", together with their elective partner NSU, have a tradition of motor sport of varying depth and dynamism which stretches back to before the First World War.
The one figure who stands head and shoulders above the rest is August Horch. This engineer and founder of the Horch and Audi companies identified the close links between the fortunes of his brands and the early reliability runs, which at that time were enormously influential in helping would-be car buyers to make their choice.
August Horch himself competed in the early days
As company owner, Horch had no reservations about entering the fray of competition himself, though he handed over the car with the better prospects of success to one of his best customers; the company's victory in the 1906 Herkomer Run was thus a reward for far-sighted civility. When one considers that the "also-rans" included brands of the calibre of Benz and Mercedes, the rapid gain in prestige for the fledgling Horch company becomes clear.
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When the company failed to emulate its initial successes in subsequent years, motor sport became a topic of some controversy among the company's management, and contributed to the eventual withdrawal of August Horch from the company he himself had founded.
August Horch was even more successful with his next company, Audi, which he established in 1909. At around the same time that Ferdinand Porsche rose to fame as both designer and racing driver, August Horch and his team won the Austrian Alpine Run in several successive years (1912-1914) and his Audi cars, although not long on the market, became well-known more or less overnight.
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Of the four companies based in Saxony, DKW with its two-stroke motorcycles demonstrated the greatest involvement in motor sport in the 1920s ("One thousand race wins in two years!" boasted DKW in its motorcycle advertisements), and this may possibly have helped DKW to fill the central role when the four finally merged under the "Four Rings" emblem.
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In 1914 Wanderer too made its mark in the Austrian Alpine Run with the legendary "Puppchen" model, and from 1928 onwards Wanderer cars were regular winners of such events. These motor sport successes led to contacts with Ferdinand Porsche, which later resulted in a contract to develop a racing car for Auto Union. NSU was meanwhile establishing a reputation of its own in South Germany: competition successes began to accrue from the very start of motorcycle production in 1901, and continued over many decades. Sporting triumphs by NSU cars were fewer by comparison, but the performance of the white car with six-cylinder supercharged engine at the first German Grand Prix on Berlin's Avus circuit in 1926 was an outstanding achievement.
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Last fall, our trusty Congress officially declared that pizza was a vegetable because it has tomato sauce on it. Yeah, that was definitely a high point for democracy. Anyway, that led to us all making tired cracks about how we were at least getting our vegetable when we ate pizza, but in some small way, it did make it seem slightly more nutritious to eat pizza. I mean, not really, but in that weird place in the back of your mind where you justify things by saying stuff like, "I've already had three drinks, and it's bad luck to have an odd number of drinks so I have to have one more... Oops. Oh well, it's good luck to throw up on the sidewalk!" Aaanyway, so now this do-gooder Congressman named Jared Polis (a Democrat from Colorado, in case you were curious) has introduced The SLICE act, which stands ready to rob us of our government-sanctioned pizza-vegetable, if it's passed. You'll be relieved to know that The SLICE Act, which stands for School Lunch Improvements for Children's Education, does not wish to destroy pizza altogether, only to declassify pizza as a veggie. Rep. Polis said,
Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.
Ugh. Fine, Congressman Buzzkill. You win, and so do the children... Whatever.
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Effective government agencies use performance measurement tools to make fact-based decisions.
Few CIOs are as openly accountable as Paul Cosgrave. As the IT chief of New York City, Cosgrave is in charge of an online performance measurement tool that allows the Big Apple's citizens to see just what they're getting for their city tax dollars.
Launched in February, the Citywide Performance Reporting (CPR) system gives New Yorkers access to constantly updated performance data from city agencies. Extending the reach of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's annual management report to the public, the CPR makes 300 performance indicators available online. The indicators are represented graphically with pie charts, which make performance trends easy to identify and comparable for up to a five-year period.
The system Cosgrave runs also gives city officials advanced analytical tools to run the city more effectively. The CPR integrates performance-related statistics from 60 city organizations, helping Bloomberg's managers make smarter decisions by giving them fast access to information about the public's demands and agency performance.
Dubbed "the mother of all accountability tools," the system is proving very effective. Using CPR, New York's environmental services managers can anticipate emerging issues and respond more quickly to problems, such as noise complaints. The CPR system's initial success is encouraging many New York City offices to plan additional applications. Already there are plans to adapt the CPR dashboard tools to track performance on other agency programs. City managers intend to integrate data-visualization tools to display service request information on a map and expand the analytics data offered to the public.
Innovative CIOs, like Cosgrave, are turning to analytics - defined as the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, predictive models and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions - to improve the delivery and performance of public services. Sophisticated analytics are rapidly finding applications in areas such as tax revenue collection, postal services, fraud detection, public safety, and health and human services. Local and regional municipalities, as well as the federal and government, are increasingly adopting analytics. They are as constructive in public service as they are in the commercial sector, where companies, such as Procter & Gamble, have long used analytics as a competitive weapon.
Recasting the CIO's Role
In effect, analytics can recast the role of many public-sector CIOs, shifting their focus from maintaining and upgrading IT systems to driving wholesale change for the constituencies they serve. By linking analytical tools to the organization's mission and values, CIOs can transform their agencies' effectiveness.
For many public information offices, like the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and for intelligence agencies, such as Britain's MI5, data gathering and analysis is a core function. But analytics is now sweeping through more public-sector activities. Accenture's ongoing research suggests many leading government agencies can be classed as high performers - on par with high-performance businesses operating in the commercial sector.
What's propelling such change? First, government agencies can access substantially more data, not only from publicly available sources, such as the Internet, but also from their own systems and those of other organizations. Many agencies are now more capable of capturing clean, integrated and timely transaction data. The data comes from more sources through a wider range of channels - from traffic cameras and under-highway sensors to e-mails and mobile communications handsets. And it's proliferating at staggering rates: According to a white paper by IDC and EMC, the volume of data added worldwide will increase more than sixfold between 2006 and 2010.
Organizations also have software and hardware can better capture, store, distribute and interpret data. There is more processing power on desktops and in data centers. And real-time business intelligence (BI) software, in which automated decision-making systems are embedded in business processes, is rapidly gaining ground.
There's also more demand for sharper insights and better ways of gathering and interpreting data to inform decision-making. A generation of technology-literate and data-savvy managers is one reason for that demand, which also stems from external factors, like the war on terrorism. There can be no more compelling argument for making decisions based on facts than in a study by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence about the U.S. intelligence community's culture following the 9/11 attacks. The study highlighted serious deficiencies in the intelligence community's analytical processes. The foreword's author concluded: "[The author] finds no baseline standard analytic method. ... The intelligence community does more reporting than in-depth analysis."
Link Between Analytics and High Performance
Accenture has studied high-performance organizations in depth over the last six years. An Accenture research report found government and other public-sector organizations, much like their commercial counterparts, are looking for bigger benefits from their enterprise systems. That research also uncovered a powerful link between organizations with pronounced analytical orientations and superior performance. High performers - those that substantially outperform competitors over the long term and across economic, industry and leadership cycles - are more likely to value fact-based decision-making and to have the skills and capabilities to effectively use analytics. They are twice as likely to use analytics strategically compared with the overall sample and five times more likely to do so than low performers.
Executives are increasingly aware of IT's power to aid decision-making. In a 2006 Accenture study, 28 percent of senior government managers polled said they use their enterprise systems for "significant or extensive decision support or analytical capability." And for the third year running, according to a worldwide survey Gartner conducted of 1,500 CIOs, BI was the top technology priority in 2008. As top performers develop analytical capabilities, they're migrating toward more powerful techniques, such as predictive modeling, forecasting and optimization.
Analytics at Work
Although many organizations use analytics in only limited ways, some can be described as true analytical leaders - organizations that make systematic use of analytics to achieve lasting advantage. They achieve large-scale results by:
Some of the UK's leading police forces fit that description. They use analytics to identify individuals who are likelier to commit crimes. Interpretation of crime statistics has revealed half of all crimes in Britain are committed by 5 percent of criminals. "We want to exert less effort on investigating each individual crime and more on understanding the criminals. ... This will bring a disproportionate benefit for preventing crime altogether," said Paddy Tomkins, chief constable of the Lothian and Borders Police, in an Accenture study.
A large national tax authority in another country employs analytics to boost voluntary taxpayer compliance. The initiative goes hand-in-hand with a customer service focus. By publicizing its moves and making it easier, cheaper and more personalized for clients to deal with the tax authority, it's improving voluntary compliance rates.
Data-intensive medical practices are also beginning to generate benefits. So-called "evidence-based medicine" has the potential to greatly improve individuals' health and well-being. Partnering with private-sector insurers, agencies such as Medicare are using analytics to discover the most cost-effective treatments and promote the best patient outcomes. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been recognized as one of the most effective health-care providers in the United States by employing analytical approaches, such as predictive modeling of chronic disease and the use of automated decisions for treatment protocols and drug prescriptions.
Similarly Germany's federal labor department, the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), now uses a "status assistant" tool that automatically defines and records the job placement status of the 7 million unemployed people on the BA's books. The individuals are placed in three categories: unemployed, actively looking for work and seeking job counseling. Data is collected from repositories: For instance, information on a person's work history is pulled from one source and data on the training offered by the BA from another source. The tool consolidates and analyzes the data to update the job seeker's status. This process replaces all the steps that previously were conducted manually by BA agents, and it improves the data quality and thereby the BA's statistical evaluation of the job markets.
In the United States, the federal Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia must allocate its scarce resources to protect Washington, D.C.'s citizens and help offenders reintegrate into society. Calvin Johnson, director of the Office of Research and Evaluation, recognized risk assessment and management are as central to the agency's mission as they are to an insurance company's business model.
"We share many of the same pains as business," said Johnson. "We may articulate them differently, but we still need to show the best possible return on our investment." Adopting a corporate approach, Johnson's office developed a predictive model that creates a risk assessment profile for probationers and offenders on post-prison community supervision. The model also generates a prescriptive supervision plan designed to improve the chances of successful rehabilitation. Officers use the risk assessment score and prescribed supervision plans to develop a program tailored for each offender that statistically has the best chance of success.
Analytics Excellence Fundamentals
To be clear, CIOs face plenty of barriers before they can design and implement an effective analytics initiative. Dirty data is a persistent and universal headache. In the commercial sector, an alarming proportion of business data is inaccurate, and there's every reason to believe it's the same in government agencies. CIOs face a battery of security concerns and privacy issues, especially in a world made more porous by portable and removable data devices. Agencies whose work is especially sensitive must balance security controls designed to limit information to those who "need to know" with the obligation to share data. For example, when national intelligence agencies use different encrypted e-mail systems, interagency communications are hardly seamless. Public CIOs also must decide whether and how to incorporate data from nongovernmental sources.
What then does it take to become an analytical exemplar? Accenture has observed four fundamentals at work:
· Leaders who "get it" -
Organizations aspiring to analytical excellence must confront big changes in culture, process, behavior and skills for many employees. These changes must be spearheaded by senior executives, such as the agency director or commissioner, who are passionate about analytics and fact-based decision-making. Given his background as founder of the eponymous financial news and data company, it's no surprise New York City's Bloomberg is the archetypal data-driven leader. He has plenty in common with Adm. Michael McConnell, U.S. director of National Intelligence. McConnell is tasked with integrating the nation's intelligence services, improving dynamic intelligence collection and upgrading data analysis quality. They both share much with Gary Loveman, CEO of Harrah's Entertainment, who regularly asks employees, "Do we think, or do we know?"
Such leaders take the long view, as Bloomberg did when launching New York's CPR system. "Our hope is that CPR will continue to empower the people to hold government accountable long after our administration has left office," he said.
· Staff who love numbers -
Leaders such as Bloomberg and McConnell have an enterprisewide view; they want to establish a fact-based culture across the organizations they lead and extend it to their partners. It's the job of their CIOs to "industrialize" an analytical approach by deploying easy-to-use tools organizationwide. It's the job of all agency managers to ensure their employees are data savvy or can quickly become so. Clearly this calls for hiring, training and rewarding for analytical skills, especially at management levels. It also highlights the need to understand where those skills matter most and where they will matter more in the future. We expect the growth of analytical competition to require a core of data-oriented professionals supported by a larger group of "analytical amateurs."
· Processes that revolve around facts -
Analytical CIOs begin with a single version of the truth. In too many organizations, leaders from different functions regularly clash over perspectives supported by data developed within, and suited to, each function's operations. What's needed is an integrated, cross-enterprise data view - a state that may require business process redesign on a broad scale. Fortunately there are tools that enable redesign without excessive pain.
· Technology to capture, clean, sort and make sense of data -
It's impossible to succeed as an analytical player if you can't trust your data. In many organizations, managers would be hard-pressed to tell which corporate data repositories are trustworthy and which contain duplicates, outdated records and erroneous data entries. Analytical leaders practice zero tolerance with dirty data, using data-quality software to pinpoint and deal with duplicate files, inconsistencies and inaccuracies. Then they apply their organizations' abundant processing power to support their analytics initiatives. Accenture sees wider use of dedicated "BI appliances" - de facto supercomputers that handle large databases and analyses. Much of the necessary analytical software is also available. Real-time BI is also gaining ground; we are also observing the emergence of right-time analytics. It has historically taken time to extract and analyze data, but today's powerful analytics tools let managers react rapidly to new inputs.
The good news for public-sector CIOs is they already have much of the necessary data. They just need to harness it in ways that help them arrive at better decisions more quickly. Analytics exemplars, such as Cosgrave and Johnson, are showing how.


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Book review: Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook
Posted by Harald van Breederode on November 27, 2009
I just finished reading Oracle Data Guard Handbook written by Larry Carpenter, Joseph Meeks, Charles Kim, Bill Burke, Sonya Carothers, Joydip Kundu, Michael Smith and Nitin Vengurlekar. In 544 pages you will learn everything you need to know about Data Guard.
This well written book begins with a lengthy introduction to the Data Guard architecture followed by a guided tour through the initial implementation process of a physical standby database. This forms the basis for the remaining 12 chapters which dive into redo processing, the logical standby database , the Data Guard broker, using Grid Control, switchovers and failovers, Active Data Guard, the Snapshot Standby, client failover, deployment architectures, backup and recovery, monitoring and troubleshooting.
This book contains a valuable section on optimizing redo transport and clearly explains how to configure both Oracle Net and the underlying operating system to optimize Data Guard network traffic. The Data Guard Broker explanation is beyond everything I have read before and clearly explains how the broker works and which background processes actually make up the broker besides the familiar DMON process.
Despite the fact that I teach Data Guard on a regular basis, I learned a lot by reading this absolutely fabulous book! This is a MUST READ for everyone involved in architecting, setting up and maintaining a Data Guard environment. I rate this book with 6 out of 5 stars. Well done Larry cs ;-)
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November 27, 2009 at 20:03
I'm absolutely agree with your review.
This books is a really deep dive into Data Guard Administration. Every detail is clearly explained by authors based on their huge experience and illustrated with results of tests performed by Oracle Consulting team. Perfomance bottlenecks, implementation's caveats and other tricky subjects are also highlighted.
This year I'd visited Data Guard Administration Course (by Oracle University). That lections and labs were quite enough for quick start. However this book is highly recommended to read before deploying Data guard in production environment.
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January 9, 2010 at 10:00
This's a great book. After I read your post and Chapter 1 on McGrawHill. I bought/read it.
Wow! I agree your review.
November 23, 2011 at 20:39
Thanks a lot for the review. Based on your recommendation I purchased it and also got Oracle Database 11g Release 2 High Availability: Maximize Your Availability with Grid Infrastructure, RAC and Data Guard (http://goo.gl/rNVuF), which mostly covers RAC, but also includes a section on Data Guard
November 27, 2011 at 09:32
It is really helpful to know that much details about DG.
But the writer lacks writing ability as he repeats the same thing multiple times as looks like he is writing the book for non DBA background people.And explain very basic DBA concepts also multiple times examples: RTO & RPO.
As a DG concept writer, he should know the every DBA knows about RTO & RPO who is about to read about DG. Or other wise rename the book as DG for DUMMIES(Non DBA's).


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|2010-07-02, 17:35
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|2010-08-26, 02:35
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Join Date: Aug 2010
1) K-On - mio is my waifu =3
2) Lucky Star - for its awesome otaku references
3) Hellsing (OVA) whats better than a battle with vampires, werewolves, and nazis? only thing better is Twilight =[
4) Angel Beats *sniff sniff*
5) Black Lagoon - pew pew pew pew
|2010-08-27, 01:06
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Darker Than Black- One of the best animes I've seen, and it has all my favorite genre
Baccano!- It's just a blast of a series I really enjoyed it
Code Geass r2- I loved the ending to this season (hopefully they don't ruin with season3)
Darker Than Black Gemini of the Meteor- A better continuation of the series than I thought it would be (The Black Contractor is still better)
Code Geass - The first season of code geass deserves on here too
Thats my list with only series, I was tempted to put movies on it, but I decided not to.
|2010-08-27, 01:19
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~Official Slacker~
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Xanadu
Age: 24
1) (Really obvious) Shakugan no Shana
2) Fate/Stay Night - This anime was truly great in many varieties. Saber is defiantly one of my favorite characters
3) Code Geass (Both Seasons) - Lelouch is one of the best military strategists I have ever seen that is not in like a time line where swords and arrows are the weapons for war.
4) Clannad - Just tear-jerking to the max *sniff*
5) The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - I don't know why, but I just get the feeling to put this into my 5th spot... Is this the work of God's powers?
|2010-08-27, 23:42
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Location: ~Bleh~
Very simple descriptions for each.
Toradora!:Very nice realistic cast(Ami), good romance and humor between the characters, and even if it was predictable at times I still enjoyed every minute of it.
Eureka 7: Loved the characters and the development between them all.
Code Geass: Liked how the roles were reversed, characters were developed well and likeable cast, nice twists.
Full Metal Panic: Awesome main characters, funny at times with good action and plot. Nice combination and pacing. KanamexSousuke <3.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: All the hotbloodiness you could ask for, good cast and nice twist in the average 'defeat the bad guy' story.
Would have defintely added Clannad but can only have 5.
|2010-08-28, 16:02
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Alabama
I'll pick the five tied for first! (not in order)
1) Code Geass - I just started the series and love it! I can't say a thing about it that is negative!
2) Death Note - I love the way L sits, it cracks me up.
3) Air Gear - Just plain funny! I love it!
4) D. Gray Man - Only one episode, but I totally love Allen! He's awesome.
5) Ghost Hunt - I watch so many ghost shows, you can see why I like it. The characters are likeable and the cases are beast. SPR is my favorite ghost hunting team ever!
Those are all tied for first place on my top five list, really dumb huh? Five-way tie...
|2010-09-04, 10:31
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Join Date: Sep 2010
My top 5.
My top 5 anime is a decent variety, all having good and bad points but all extremely enertaining.
[LIST=1][*]Naruto Shippuuden[*]Yu Yu hakusho[*]Desert Punk[*]Akira[*]Paranoia Agent
All of these were great anime and i still watch all these to this day. My friends wouldnt agree with my number 1 choice, but i dont see how, its extremely enertaining, it has drama, it has action, and it has a story and a battle style that you dont see in other animes, IE. dragonball z, it was the same shit over and over, i like it and i still watch it also, but repetitivness doesnt quite make my top 5.
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|2010-09-04, 12:27
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Join Date: Dec 2005
1. Sailor Moon
2. Fushigi Yuugi
3. Ayashi no Ceres
4. Mars
5. The Devil Does Exist
6. Sensual Phrase
alternate names
1. Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
2. Fushigi Yugi
3. Ceres Celestial Legend
4. Mars
5. Akuma De Sourou
6. Kaikan Phrase
Yes, most of these are manga, too.
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|2010-09-04, 21:41
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: West Virginia, USA
Age: 28
|2010-09-06, 13:37
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Azumanga Daioh
Samurai Champloo
Mysterious Cities of Gold (Japanese-French co-production, so not everyone would classify it as anime)
Golden Boy
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
Honourable mentions (must have those, no?) - K-On!, Paprika, Rebuild of Evanglion - You Can (Not) Advance, The Girl who Leapt Through Time, Ouran High Host Club.... Maybe I should stop here since I could go on forever (who came up with the number 5?)...........
|2010-12-20, 10:08
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Only 5? Well, Top 3 was easy to choose, but there are so much contenders for the last two spots that it is hard to choose. Not to mention that the choices would probably wary depending on exact time and mood. Still, you can watch my Youtube Top 10 List to get the general idea.
3. Shakugan no Shana (For a excellent pacing, nifty concept and sense of tension when watching the show.)
2. Great Teacher Onizuka (For a great sense of achievement every time the main character overcomes an obstacle and befriends a student.)
1. Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (For being an excellent blend of genres and meta concepts. Even after the second season it never left the top spot for me.)
|2010-12-20, 11:55
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The iDOL(ove Live!)M@STER
Heh. I was waiting for this thread to get bumped.
1. Time of Eve
2. Haibane Renmei
3. Clannd After Story
4. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
5. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
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|2010-12-20, 20:54
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Eh, this is hard. I'll try it though...
1. Soul Eater
2. Baka and Test
3. Death Note
4. Fruits Basket
5. Full Metal Alchemist
As you can see, I watch a variety of shows.. Honorable mentions? Ouran, Haruhi Suzumiya, O7-ghost..and many, many, more.
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text: On Monday 20 August 2007 17:22:41 Michael Krufky wrote: > Manu Abraham wrote: > > You will need to handle the IOCTL calls for analog operations some > > place, whatever you remove. > > > > I don't see at any place you are handling the IOCTL's directly in > > the drivers. So you will be using callbacks from the place where > > you are applying the ioctl's > > You are getting ahead of things, Manu. The tuner.ko module will > continue to remain as the v4l2 / i2c_client interface to the tuning > functionality. We do not (yet) have to add these ioctl calls to the > card-level drivers, as they will continue to interact with the > various tuner modules via tuner.ko's i2c_client interface. > > I do have plans to remove this tuner.ko interface in the future, but > that is way way in the future, after most of my planned tuner > refactoring work is complete. There will be a completely separate > RFC issued at that time. When that happens, the card level drivers > will include dvb_frontend.h, just as the dvb card drivers do, and > access the tuning methods that way, through the dvb_frontend > structure. > > I believe that is is very important to deal with one thing at a time > -- THIS step of the refactoring process deals with separating the > hardware-specific code from tuner.ko, making those modules usable by > both the analog and digital tuning systems. > > > you will need to put these ops somewhere in a header, to be used by > > individual drivers: > > > > 34 struct tuner_operations { > > 35 void (*set_tv_freq)(struct tuner *t, unsigned int freq); > > 36 void (*set_radio_freq)(struct tuner *t, unsigned int > > freq); 37 int (*has_signal)(struct tuner *t); > > 38 int (*is_stereo)(struct tuner *t); > > 39 int (*get_afc)(struct tuner *t); > > 40 void (*tuner_status)(struct tuner *t); > > 41 void (*standby)(struct tuner *t); > > 42 void (*release)(struct tuner *t); > > 43 }; > > > > You can put the struct "where this lump of fn. pointers will be" as > > they belong to the same "device class" > > No, these pointers are completely internal to tuner.ko, only > currently in a separate header because tda9887 has not yet been > refactored -- this will change after the analog IF demod refactoring. > > > Also: the analog operation (hybrid feature) is device specific, ie > > a private resource that which is not handled by the DVB frontend, > > hence no need for DVB frontend to know what it is, but the drivers > > needs the same, which is used elsewhere, ie not used within DVB. > > Manu, if you consider an hybrid NIM, for example, the LG-H06xF, you > find the following internals: > > tua6034 - tuner pll > lgdt3303 - digital demodulator > tda9887 - analog demodulator > > OK, now lets consider the fmd1216me > > tua6034 - tuner pll > tda9887 - analog demodulator > in this case, the digital demodulator is found externally. > > My point here, is that the "frontend" , in general, includes the > tuner itself, sometimes the digital demodulator, and sometimes the > analog demodulator. I feel that to keep this separate adds an > unnecessary layer of abstraction, and can only lead to further > confusion. The separation is logical, based on the structures within > dvb_frontend.h -- to have things in separate header files makes > things look dirty to me. > > Hans Verkuil wrote: > >> Manu Abraham wrote: > >>> Michael Krufky wrote: > >>> We cannot move struct analog_parameters out of dvb_frontend.h , > >>> since the new set_analog_params method must be a part of the > >>> dvb_tuner_ops structure. This is a very small price to pay, for > >>> quite a large gain, > >> > >> You mean to say it is impossible to do that ? sounds strange for > >> something that simple. > >> > >>> without creating any dependencies of the DVB subsystem onto V4L, > >>> and also without creating any dependencies of the V4L subsystem > >>> onto DVB. > >>> > >>> The idea of my refactoring work, was to add the analog tuning > >>> capability to the dvb_frontend style tuner modules, allowing us > >>> to have a single module that can receive tuning commands for both > >>> analog and digital. > >> > >> Still just one single driver only. Haven't been talking about a > >> driver split in two for analog or digital at all. One driver per > >> silicon, was what i stated earlier as well. > >> > >>> Since we are adding this capability to the dvb_frontend internal > >>> API, naturally, this must all appear within dvb_frontend.h -- > >> > >> Not necessarily. See attached patch. > > > > Why not just add a forward reference to the analog_parameters > > struct in dvb_frontend.h and have the actual definition somewhere > > else? As long as that struct is not actually used it still compiles > > fine. > > > > At first glance that certainly seems better than adding a void > > pointer as a replacement for the set_analog_params function > > pointer. > > > > Or am I missing something here? > > I don't like the void pointer either -- those _priv pointers are > usually used to store device-specific private data, and it seems to > me to be just a hack to avoid adding anything into dvb_frontend.h at > zero gain. > > If we really do have to do something like this, then a forward > reference does seem much more appropriate to me. Although, all in > all, this seems to be unnecessary, and only adds extra confusion to > what was originally quite a simple change. > > We must keep in mind that we are only trying to add a way to reuse > existing code to be able to tune analog -- this is something that > must be available to _every_ tuner module, and to store it in a > separate header only leads to the #include of that header into more > files, where the one appropriate place for this structure *is* within > dvb_frontend.h > > ...or are you suggesting to create a new header file and include that > one within dvb_frontend.h ?? Again, I dont see a gain from this, > unless we are simply getting hun up on the presence of these > structures inside the dvb_frontend.h file. To include the new header > in this same file make would leave everything as-is, just move the > structures elsewhere to satisfy Manu's desire to keep dvb_frontend.h > "to be purely digital for anyone reading the code". I was perfectly content with your original version, but if some people object to the presence of the analog_parameters struct in this header then a forward reference is an acceptable alternative. > Manu Abraham wrote: > > Hans Verkuil wrote: > >> At first glance that certainly seems better than adding a void > >> pointer as a replacement for the set_analog_params function > >> pointer. > > > > Sometimes elegance also matters. Other than that the convention > > that we have is (from dvb_frontend.h) > > > > 151 void* demodulator_priv; > > 152 void* tuner_priv; > > 153 void* frontend_priv; > > 154 void* sec_priv; > > > > for private resources. Since the hybrid operation is private to the > > device, just followed the same convention, which additionally > > brings in the advantage of *not* having private resources into the > > header for dvb core. > > THIS is the root of our disagreement -- The analog tuning > functionality is _not_ private to the device -- this is a system-wide > addition to the dvb_frontend structure, because we are adding analog > tuning > functionality to the dvb_frontend. > > I agree that elegance is very important, and that is why I disagree > with the extra layers of complexity that you are proposing here. I agree: void pointers assume that the type is unknown (differs for each driver). That is not the case here, so the correct type should be used in the interest of type-safety. Regards, Hans


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Today I was trying to deploy some rails code to a host with both an RFC1918 and IPv6 address. The RFC1918 address is only valid within my CREDIL office, while the IPv6 is globally unique. When I'm in the office, IPv4 or IPv6 is fine, when I'm not, then it has to be IPv6.
With other applications when I do this, I sometimes get a delay as it tries the RFC1918 address, fails and tries IPv6 instead. SSH works great like this.
Ruby 1.8 (at least) fails: the RFC1918 address does not connect, and then ruby gives up. This makes Capistrano fail.
Capistrano uses Net::SSH, which calls TCPSocket.open. This is implemented in C code in the ruby interpreter. My reading of ruby-1.9.2-p0/ext/socket/ipsocket.c suggests that it might be okay in ruby 1.9, but I didn't look at the 1.8 code yet, and I haven't tried ruby 1.9.p
The following code exercises the problem, but you need to have an address which is both IPv6 and IPv4. It also does not seem to be consistent: it seems to depend on the network activity a bit. In theory, /etc/gai.conf can change the order that is returned, but I suspect that ruby is not using the system getaddrinfo(3).
% cat socktest.rb
require 'socket'
require 'timeout'
factory = TCPSocket n = factory.open("sakura.gatineau.credil.org", 22)
puts n.readlines n.close </code>


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After suffering a defeat on the floor of the Senate less than one week earlier, the amendment authored by Sen.. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), which needed 60 votes for passage, was approved Jan. 29 on a 62-33 vote. But at least one Mid-South senator called the vote a "partisan game" aimed at making Republicans look anti-farm.
Originally included in the Senate version of the House stimulus bill, H.R. 3090, the amendment provides $1.8 billion for emergency financial assistance to producers who suffered losses in their 2001 crops and $500 million for livestock producers with losses in counties designated as disaster areas. It also instructs the agriculture secretary to spend $220 million to purchase agricultural commodities that experienced low prices during the 2001 crop year for the school lunch program to help restore some measure of profitability.
Most farm organizations have been focusing on passing a new farm bill. Spokesman for the organizations have said they will seek passage of an economic emergency bill containing $7.35 billion in funding that was passed in last year's agricultural appropriations bill if a new farm bill cannot be passed and signed by the president by spring.
The almost $2 billion agricultural aid package was included in the economic stimulus package, which stalled in the Senate last December. It was not, however, included in the stimulus bill currently being debated by the Senate.
To remedy that problem, Baucus, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee and wrote the disaster assistance language section of the stimulus package, offered the amendment to again include the disaster assistance.
"Sen. Daschle put together what he considered a bare bones economic stimulus package. The proposed legislation now includes only those consensus items with overwhelming support, and disaster assistance for agriculture was not included in that category," Baucus says. "Sen. Daschle himself supports the measure, however."
A Jan. 24 vote to override the Budget Act, and include the disaster assistance in the stimulus package, came up three votes short. Because only 90 Senators were present in the chamber at the time of the vote, supporters are hopeful a second vote would rubber-stamp the measure.
Shortly before the vote was taken, Baucus said, "We feel pretty confident we can get the 60 votes we need."
Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran, who voted in favor of Baucus' amendment both times it was brought up for a vote, says, "Because of the extensive damage to agriculture in our state just before, and during, the harvest season, I think additional disaster assistance is justified," Cochran says. "I hope the Senate will find a way to approve the Baucus amendment."
Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi voted against the measure, calling it a partisan measure aimed at casting a negative shadow on Republicans.
Lee Youngblood, press secretary for Sen. Lott, says, "Because a consensus couldn't be reached on an ag bill prior to the holiday recess, the Democrats agreed to move on to the economic stimulus bill. Then, they broke their agreement by bringing up an agricultural amendment in debate on the stimulus package."
"This is clearly a partisan game played so the Democrats can make the Republicans look anti-farm," he says. "The fact that Sen. Daschle has made this so political is what's hurting farmers."
Youngblood adds, "Trent Lott wants an ag bill more than anybody up there in Washington, D.C., but he wants the development of agriculture policy to be a bipartisan effort done through the farm bill, not through other pieces of legislation, like an economic stimulus package."
While most of the Sunbelt voted in favor of the agricultural assistance package, support for the agricultural disaster assistance amendment was split in Texas, with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison voting for the measure, and Sen. Phil Gramm voting against.
Despite the severity of 2001 agriculture losses and their impact on rural communities, Baucus noted that some members of the Senate have attacked the agricultural provisions of the legislation.
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Thanks for the bug report. I'll get into this the next days. --[[User:Kriss|kriss]] 12:54, 14 September 2007 (CEST)
Thanks for the bug report. I'll get into this the next days. --[[User:Kriss|kriss]] 12:54, 14 September 2007 (CEST)
== What does "ipkgorphan" do? ==
== What does "ipkgorphan" do? ==
Revision as of 23:18, 1 October 2007
Settingsgui bug
I added your repository (it took four tries because it's very poorly documented that the file name in /etc/ipkg/ has to end in ".conf"!), ran ipkg update, and installed settingsgui. This didn't seem to create any way to RUN it from the screen (perhaps you have to reboot? I wasn't willing to do that, seemed too much like Microsoft. My old Zaurus was able to install apps without rebooting.)
The desktop file that the packages installs has to be read by the openmoko application list program. For this to happen it is enough to restart that application or more simply done the xserver (the script in /etc/init.d/ would do the trick)
So I ran it from a shell with DISPLAY set. It ran and was able to control the screen brightness. But when dealing with GSM, it said on the terminal:
Executes subprocess [/usr/bin/libgsmd-tool -m shell] libgsmd-tool: <# # Power-On> libgsmd-tool: <# Register> libgsmd-tool: <EVENT: Netreg searching for network > Exception in thread Thread-3: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 460, in __bootstrap self.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SettingsGUI/ProcessInterface.py", line 131, in run event[1](line) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SettingsGUI/GSMPanel.py", line 112, in network_registration_changed location_area = line.split(" ")[7] IndexError: list index out of range
I don't know why. I was able to manually (with atcmd mode) get my SIM to register, make calls (no audio), and send an SMS. FYI.
Addendum: I tried the last settings page (GPRS), which won't work with T-Mobile Prepaid sim. But when I clicked "Connect", it failed without any error message. In this case I don't even think the GSM modem is connected to T-Mobile yet...perhaps better error reporting here would be good.
For this error you have to ask Kriss who is the developer of SettingsGUI (I just did the package). I'll drop him an email telling to read here.
Thanks for the bug report. I'll get into this the next days. --kriss 12:54, 14 September 2007 (CEST)
This bug is solved since Version 0.7. --kriss 01:18, 2 October 2007 (CEST)
What does "ipkgorphan" do?
I was unwilling to try it without some brief clue about what it's supposed to do :-)
It reads ipkg database and computes which packages are 'leaf' in the graph. That is those packages that are not needed by any other package. Examples are the task-openmoko-* packages which are only meta packages used to install all the needed programs. This program is useful when you need space in rootfs, as every program it lists can be removed without breaking any other dependency. It is also useful in the case you want to try a program that needs a library. You install both packages. Then you try the program and remove it as you don't like it. The package of the library remains if you don't remember to uninstall it explicitely. That package name will be shown by ipkgorphan.
elfutils fails to install; conflicts with busybox
root@fic-gta01:~$ ipkg install prelink Installing prelink (20060712-r2) to root... Downloading http://aiurlano.netsons.org/OpenMoko/ipk/armv4t/prelink_20060712-r2_armv4t.ipk Installing elfutils-dev (0.127-r0) to root... Downloading http://aiurlano.netsons.org/OpenMoko/ipk/armv4t/elfutils-dev_0.127-r0_armv4t.ipk Installing elfutils (0.127-r0) to root... Downloading http://aiurlano.netsons.org/OpenMoko/ipk/armv4t/elfutils_0.127-r0_armv4t.ipk Configuring elfutils-dev An error ocurred, return value: 2. Collected errors: Package elfutils wants to install file /usr/bin/ar But that file is already provided by package busybox Package elfutils wants to install file /usr/bin/strings But that file is already provided by package busybox root@fic-gta01:~$


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April 23, 2019 10:00 am
At last, we'll definitively know how far we can trust the local MP!
April 22, 2019 10:22 pm


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Double-O Of Kidz In The Hall Being Beaten At The Cherry Lounge & Pit In Tempe, AZ!
AZ reports "Video shows Michael Aguilar, who performs under the stage name of Double-O in the hip-hop group Kidz in the Hall, being beaten at the Cherry Lounge & Pit in Tempe"
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The number of African-Americans in the US in 2010 according to the Census is 42 Million (includes black and mixed race), which makes up 13.6% of the total US population. However, it is estimated that since 1973, more than 15 million African-American babies have been killed in the womb. Those aborted black babies make up almost 36% of today's population of blacks in America.
Most Republicans are aware of these figures and are fighting to end abortion, while most Democrats, who have no excuse not to know these stats, are trying to make the "service" more available in minority areas. So why do African-Americans keep voting Democrat??? It's a mystery.
The cool video above was created by the National Black Pro-life Coalition.
Hat tip: LifeNews