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One big reason why I have not thought about OCA and Antiochian Jurisdiction is it will give me a feeling that Orthodox is not "Catholic" or universal, as I have said.
Here are also some other things relating to Greek parishes that I am also concerning. Why every time His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch seems only visiting Greek parishes when he is in the United States? I know Ecumenical Patriarchate is also not just caring Greek Americans since it also has work in Hong Kong and South East Asia, but I still do not understand why.
I think it is not good to read everything, but sometimes I had a feeling that Fr. did not care about my spiritual progress and treated our conversation more like business follow-ups(not responding to emails). Sometime I saw he was a bit hesitated to talk to me, He does not seem have time problem with other Greeks and professional people (maybe I am a student and have no establishment at all)? There were times where I just felt Fr. was trying to say some polite words than bringing something that is meaningful. I hope I did do anything wrong, I just stayed in the church longer than expected today (when everyone was about to leave) and talked to more people.
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The Wide-Open Career Landscape of FOSS Tech Support
Jul 22, 2009 4:00 AM PT
The growing popularity of free open source software (FOSS) is a sure sign that consumers and software developers alike are becoming more disenchanted with costly proprietary products. However, the promise of free software can be tarnished when software packages need configuration help and that help proves hard to find. When users have to wade through dozens of forum messages seeking a solution, the FOSS philosophy can turn into a turn-off.
Especially for business users, the cost of tech support for free software and the various Linux distributions can become an issue that makes IT managers and CIOs reluctant to migrate from the Windows platform. Although the software is free, users should not expect the developers to absorb the cost of helping them to use it.
"Microsoft Vista was so bad that it helped the need for an alternative support channel. This opened doors for Linux. The economic crisis also helped generate a need for tech support for Linux and open source software," Joel Bomgar, cofounder and CEO of Bomgar, told LinuxInsider.
Open sources is a cheap way for businesses to meet budgetary goals, he noted. Bomgar developed a remote service platform for companies such as Novell to use for providing tech support for FOSS customers.
FOSS Support Costly
The marketplace for paid tech support for most open source software is relatively small. What may count more significantly is the market share of a particular software niche.
"The cost of tech support for free open source compared to proprietary software ends up being about the same. It's really more about the market share of the products -- how many people are using the tools," John Whaley, founder and Acting CTO at MokaFive, told LinuxInsider. His company developes and supports a Mac-PC-Linux environment management tool around virtualization.
A few market drivers suggest that the use of FOSS tools is on the upswing, but it still has a very small presence overall in the enterprise relative to the full landscape of software offerings, he explained.
Helping Hand
As desktop Linux distros go, Ubuntu has been moderately successful, according to Whaley. His use of "moderate" here means if there is a 10:1 ratio of Windows to Mac, there is probably another 10:1 ratio of Mac to Ubuntu.
"The release of Ubuntu and Dell's adoption of it helped the open source movement somewhat," agreed Nathan McNeill, cofounder and vice president of product strategy for Bomgar.
Also, Google's recent announcement about its development of a new Linux-based OS is generating new interest in supporting open source products. A company like Google could give FOSS a lot of clout and change the game in terms of the adoption of open source, though it will be gradual, Whaley said.
Career Outlook
As free software use grows in business, so will the demand for qualified tech help. The demand for open source support specialists is growing at a tremendous rate, according to Kim Weins, senior vice president of products and marketing at OpenLogic.
"Although the economy is putting pressure on companies to save money -- and that helps fuel more open source software usage -- we think that other aspects of open source software, including quality of the code and the fact that there isn't vendor lock-in, will keep open source software growing well after the economy recovers," Weins told LinuxInsider.
In fact, some specialized software markets are already seeing a shortage of available tech support.
"Based on the in-bound recommendation/referral requests we get, it appears that there is a widespread shortage of deep domain expertise in Lucene/Solr technology, specifically in performance/operational optimization area. In my earlier life, I experienced the same thing for Linux. Good ones are always in demand," Anil Uberoi, CMO at Lucid Imagination, told LinuxInsider.
Growing Field
Many large companies are actively using 100 or more open source software packages. As enterprise governance policies mature, enterprises are requiring professional SLA support, accordihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_level_agreement.
Some companies choose to hire internal experts in certain projects, but many choose commercial support vendors, such as OpenLogic. This allows enterprises to cover their tech support outlay in a less costly way to get the expertise they need without adding dedicated head count.
"Almost all of the market research reports suggest that the OSS growth over the past five years has been above industry averages," said Uberoi.
For certain software and application segments -- most notably the LAMP stack -- he has seen a similar growth in Lucene/Solr deployments in the enterprise search segment.
Skill Sets
Open source experts are in demand both within enterprises and in the support departments of commercial vendors, noted Weins. Familiarity and experience with open source software is a critical skill in both development and support functions.
Generally, those skill sets differ greatly between proprietary and open source software. Most applications include multiple open source components integrated with custom and proprietary code, so it is not sufficient for tech support workers to just understand one open source package, according to Weins.
"Open source support experts need to understand how various packages integrate with each other and work together. You don't provide support on just one package. You have to view it as a part of an integrated stack," she said.
Pay Rates Stable
Given the growing need for open source tech support pros, the gap in pay between proprietary and open source technicians is slight. Some companies are even rewarding the specialized skill open source support requires with a pay edge.
"There is virtually no difference in pay. We pay competitive salaries to our tech support engineers. As anything else, it is a factor of supply and demand," asserted Uberoi.
While agreeing that the pay scales are mostly the same, Weins posited that the open source support experts her company hires are in fact generally paid better than the average support person for a proprietary solution.
"This is because we expect more of them. They need to be familiar with multiple technologies and understand how they work together with proprietary software and custom software," she explained.
No Monkeying Around
Most consumers and office workers have had ample experience with phone support technicians reading from a screen to asses the symptoms and figure out successful solutions. That approach may work with the Windows platform, but open source software generally is not as conducive to such template repairs.
"From a support standpoint, you can't have monkeys doing the support calls. The different flavors of Linux require different support solutions. The various Linux distros and the open source software packages developed for them have dozens of ways to configure them," said McNeill.
It is next to impossible to troubleshoot Linux that way. Linux has too many variables, Bomgar agreed.
Newest Needs
McNeill sees a growing placement for Linux support -- and thus open source -- for back end operations, and Bomgar noted that a lot more traction for Linux is occurring. Both factors mean a need for more tech support.
"Interest in netbooks is generating levels of tech support that are like a signal sent when the navy fires a shot across another vessel's bow," said Bomgar. "Netbooks are so inexpensive that workers are buying them without IT's permission. They buy it and use it and then stuff needs fixing, but the workers have nowhere to go for tech support. IT has to support it but isn't familiar with open source."
Marketing departments seldom talk to support departments when a new product is rolled out. So consumers are stuck with products that lack support from the companies selling them, he explained.


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Justin Bieber's sports car off the road over missing number plate
JUSTIN BIEBER has been forced to keep his beloved sports car off the road after the vehicle's number plate went missing.
The Baby hitmaker was given the Fisker Karma, a luxury sports hybrid, by his manager Scooter Braun and mentor Usher for his 18th birthday back in March (12), but he is now not allowed to drive the vehicle until the back plate is replaced.
A property manager working at the star's California home noticed the licence plate was missing on Saturday (07Sep12) and called local police to report the problem, according to TMZ.com.
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Tina Fey Joins Twitter
You can put Tina Fey on Twitter but you can't make her tweet. Chris Anderson, though? Don't even get the Wired editor started.
After reclaiming her Twitter name from a fakester, Tina Fey apparently had stage fright.
The Times' Jennifer 8. Lee was awesomely geeky, although she could have worked some kind of "SIGHUP" joke into this one.
British freelancer Louise Bolotin denied a friend request with extreme prejudice.
Wired's Chris Anderson not only gives away his content online, he throws in sassy rejoinders as a bonus.
Blogger Chris O'Leary had a few too many.
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I've embraced Ruby for my coding project. Ruby has been great: I really like it's object-oriented nature: it's inherently object-oriented, with that built in to the core of the language, rather than some sort of kludge built onto what is essentially a sequential language. Actually, I'm not sure whether "object" versus "sequential" is correct, here, since Ruby is still highly sequential, it just heavily uses objects. You can still write Ruby code which looks much like Perl code, with notable exceptions.
But I don't want to write Ruby code which looks Perlish. I want it to look Rubyish. So therein is what makes for slow going: I write stuff, check it, re-read the on-line documentation to make sure I'm not reinventing any wheels (there are a lot of standard methods in Ruby), make adjustments, run, and track down the inevitable bugs. Slow going, but it's what it takes to build aptitude in a language.
So my end-of-Feb deadline for this is not looking good... A few quick examples of issues with Ruby which caused me non-trivial hiccups:
- $LOAD_PATH: the default load path, stored in a global array called $LOAD_PATH, or $: for short, changed from Ruby 1.8 to 1.9. Ruby 1.8 loads by default in Ubuntu 2011.10 (which I have), and also in the Mac OS/X in my new, regrettably neglected Mac Air, but 1.9 includes substantial new features. The one which comes first to mind is a Complex variable class. I don't plan to use complex variables in this project, but it's cool that it's there. I prefer to use the latest version. Anyway, I eventually figured out that the local directory (".") is missing from the load path in 1.9, while it is there in 1.8. However, relying on the local directory isn't a good idea, anyway, since you may execute a script from another directory, in which case you want the script's directory rather than the local directory to be in the load path. This is fixed with the following code at the top of the Ruby script: $:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__). Okay, that's a bit obscure, but it's essentially idiomatic.
- type conversion: In Perl, strings are converted to floating point numbers as needed. And all math is done using floating-point (real) numbers, not integers. In Ruby, there is no implicit string-to-number conversion. For example, the "*" operator, which is a multiplier for numbers ("Numeric" class), generates repeated copies of strings. Additionally in Ruby floating point math is not assumed. So if you type puts 1/2 you get zero, because it does integer division which produces an integer result, while if you type puts 1.0/2 you get 0.5, since the "1.0" in the numerator is assumed to be floating point, and it "coerces" the denominator to be also floating point to produce a floating point result. This sort of issue can be particular insideous because you say tau = 0.5 and things work great, then you later change to tau = 1 (perhaps via a command line option), then somewhere in the code you divide an integer by tau and things go south. The key is to convert numbers of uncertain format (and therefore type) to floats with the to_f method, or if you anticipate using complex numbers, convert them to complex. So while Ruby lacks the strong typing of C or Java, it still has distinct number types, and you've got to watch for integer division if that's not what you want. By the way, I've had the same issue with Tcl at work, and it's even worse in Tcl because that language does do string-to-number conversions implicitly, and whether that number is integer or float is determined by the format, so you get a lot of [expr 0.0 + $var] stuff in Tcl to force floating point.
- variable names determine scope: In most languages you can name a variable pretty much anything you want (in FORTRAN, the first letter determines number type, but I've not done FORTRAN in many, many years). However, in Ruby you need to be careful. "$" as the first character means global, a capital as the first letter means a class, a lower case as the first letter means a variable, and a "@" as the first character means a class variable. This description may not be precise, but you get the idea... So for example, if I have a parameter describing the "CdA" product for modeling wind resistance, I can't call it CdA because that gets interpreted as a class name, not a variable name. So I am forced to use "cda" instead.
Okay, enough of that. So to mix things up, I then wanted to figure out how I was going to integrate this stuff with the Web. Two obvious options are server side or client side. I think server side is the way to go here because client side would basically mean embedded JavaScript and that wouldn't work so well on mobile platforms. For server side there's many options. DeltaWebHosting, on which I have two accounts, supports PHP and Perl CGI's. I'm trying to liberate myself from PERL, after all, and PHP is perhaps better for relatively simpler tasks than I had in mind. I want to use Ruby. Remarkably, DeltaWebHosting doesn't provide Ruby...
But I found that heliohost.org, a free hosting service, does support Ruby PHP scripts. So I set up an account there and will see if I can get stuff working there. If I successfully convince DeltaWebHosting to install Ruby than I can always move things to my domain there.
Anyway, a lot happening, but progress is slower than I'd like. This balancing the heavy day job + long commute + cycling + running + updating this blog + doing a moderately challenging web project thing isn't as easy as I'd like. Fortunately my cycling is going well this year, my running is hanging in there (once per week), and I am learning a lot in this project, so I can't complain.


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'Dying Breaths' explores 16th century soul capturing
Reincarnation has been at the center of a series of increasingly popular novels by M.J. Rose, but she stresses the fact that you don't have to be a believer to enjoy them.
"For me they're not really novels about reincarnation. That's just a metaphor for `Who we are is who we were.' Your childhood, your teenage years inform what you become and you have to decide whether or not you become a victim of your own past," the Greenwich novelist said during a recent interview. "You get to a certain point in your life and you can't keep blaming your father and mother, or you accept the fact that they're always going to be an issue for you."
Rose's latest novel, "The Collector of Dying Breaths" (Atria, $25), will be published on April 8 and will serve as a temporary conclusion to her series of "Reincarnationist" novels about objects and more recently, scents that have connected her characters to possible past lives.
"Dying Breaths" serves up two parallel narratives, one set in 16th-century Italy and France, and the other one in the modern world. The flashbacks involve a legendary Italian perfume maker, Rene le Florentine, who narrowly avoids execution on charges that he poisoned his mentor when Catherine de Medici rescues him. She quickly makes Rene her personal scent creator.
In the contemporary scenes, Rose's recurring character Jac L'Etoile -- who runs a high-end Paris perfume business with her brother -- investigates rumors that Rene found the secret of endless life in his experiments involving the capturing of a dying person's final breath.
Advance readers have been praising the fast pace and happy ending in the new book.
"I've never been a fan of happily ever after, so my books have had ambiguous endings," Rose said, adding that because she knew she'd be taking a break from the series, she decided to give readers a happy ending in this book.
"When I finished the last chapter I was a blubbering fool," Rose said, laughing. "I learned a big lesson. I don't want to go so far as to say I would change the earlier books, but there is something to be said for giving readers uplift at the end."
The writer has always enjoyed romantic comedies with deliriously happy endings, such as "You've Got Mail" and "Love, Actually," and was happy to craft a story in which resolution could replace ambiguity -- at least until she picks up the series again.
In addition to her novels, Rose was the founder of the first marketing company for authors -- AuthorBuzz.com -- a business she still spends a lot of time on.
The writer attributes this split personality career to her upbringing -- Rose's mother was a photographer and her father was a business executive. Going back another generation, she had a grandfather in the advertising business and a grandmother who was a painter.
"It's just who I am, a combination of all of them," she said. "I'm very easily bored and I need to be distracted. I can only write a certain number of hours each day. ... I like to get up and spend the rest of the day working on something else."
Rose believes that her talent lies in "connecting the dots," whether that is manifested in a new novel or in helping other writers to market their books.
"I like to think of myself as a matchmaker of ideas -- that's the one consistent thing in my books and my marketing business," she said.
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Susan Abeles is the Director of US Jewelry based in New York. She has more than 29 years of experience in the auction world and with the private jewelry trade.
Starting her jewelry career in the New York auction world in 1981, Abeles was first appointed Director of Jewelry at an international auction house, before moving to another in 1994 to serve again as Director. From 2001 to the present, Abeles has been working in a senior capacity at one of New York City's, leading family-owned jewelry businesses.
Abeles has an accomplished career in the jewelry industry with an emphasis on new business development, account management and expansion. During her career, her clients have included Bulgari, Cartier, The Musee of Decorative Arts, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Van Cleef & Arpels. She has represented private estates and individuals such as Gloria Swanson, Rock Hudson, Marilyn Monroe®, Mae West, Payne Whitney, Irving Berlin, the Mackay and Rockefeller families, James Beard, Diana Vreeland and the Duchess of Windsor.
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The Grammy's are a music award program that recognizes accomplishment in the music industry. It is a star studded event with glamour musicians, a night of awards, speeches, and performances by some of our favorite artists. You can win awards for song of the year, album of the year, record of the year, and best new artist. These awards are given out as overall ratings, and then a musician can also a win a more genre specific award such as best rock and roll album. The most coveted award by new bands and solo acts is best new artist. It establishes their place in the music industry and proves they can make it amongst legendary bands or soloists.
This year, the best new artist Grammy award was given to the Zac Brown Band. They were up against nominations MGMT, The Ting Tangs, Keri Hilson, and the Silversun Pickups. To be nominated for this award, you had to have made a public interest for the first time with your music. The band or artist doesn't have to be newly formed. For example, they may have started their career in music years before but hadn't gained a lot of popularity or public attention.
The Zac Brown Band gained a lot of public attention and had songs that were played on the radio, had songs requested, and made the Billboard music charts with singles from their album. In 2009, they had three number one singles make the Billboard chart which solidified their nomination to win best new artist in 2010. The singles are called: Toes, Whatever it is, and Highway 20 Ride. Only five country music singers or bands have won this award.
They are a country music band that formed in 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia. They record under the labels Live Nation, Home Grown Music, and Atlantic. The band is made up of members: Zac Brown, John Driskell Hopkins, Coy Bowels, Clay Cook, Chris Fryar, and Jimmy De Martini. Each member plays a musical instrument and sings. You will hear sounds coming from guitars, an organ, a fiddle, bass guitar, steel guitar, drums, and a mandolin.
It may have taken them nine years to gain a lot of public attention and national fame, but they have been nominated and won many awards. Their music can be heard on many different country Internet Radio and traditional radio stations. They have a unique sound that makes them stand out in the country music genre.
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Apple's first computer, the Apple-1, will be for sale at Christie's Auction House this month, and the bidding is expected to skyrocket to upwards of $200,000.
Forgot about the new MacBook Air, how about Apple-1? The original personal computer is being auctioned by Christie's beginning November 23 and is expected to net somewhere between $161,000 and $242,000.
The computer was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 in Jobs' parents' basement, while the two were in high school.
If you're truly interested, here are the ancient computer's specs: 8 KB of RAM, cassette board connector, 6502 microprocessor, and firmware in PROMS. No monitor or keyboard, for anyone hoping to eke out even some minimal use. Let's be clear: this is a collector's item only, and as The New York Times points out, this model "could barely power a game of Pong."
It's the historical worth of the machine that will lure in buyers. It's estimated that there are a mere 50 surviving models of the 200 originally produced, as they were (appropriately) swiftly replaced by the Apple-2.
In addition to this harrowing hardware, the winner will also become the proud owner of some Mac memorabilia. Its original box, manual, an invoice, and a letter to the first owner from Jobs himself are included – typed on lined notebook paper.
Everyone stateside interested in bidding is in luck – Christie's will be holding an online auction simultaneously. So skip Black Friday (for the next several years) and maybe you can afford to make the Apple aficionado on your Christmas list very happy.


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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The new creative and study space for students and faculty at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts has a new name, courtesy of a student naming campaign. The name – The Loft – is an apt description of the third-floor room at the arts center, said Ludwig Brunner, interim executive director.
The large space, with capacity for 70 to 80 people, is available for art installations, performance art, graffiti art, mini recitals, movie screenings, poetry slams, play readings, club meetings and as a study center.
"Students have already started using the space since it became available in January, and with a new name I think they are truly making it their own," Brunner said.
He noted that a couple dozen students are using The Loft as a weekday study space and it already has been booked for a number of events.
An open house was held Jan. 26 and launched a naming campaign in which students were asked for suggestions. Those ballots were narrowed down to three — The Loft, A Place to Be, and The Quick Stop. A second round of voting by students declared The Loft the winner. The new name will appear on graffiti art tiles in the third floor hallway of the arts center as a colorful greeting to the floor.
The Loft is open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and as a study space from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It can be booked for events from 4 to 9 p.m. weekdays, and is available for studying when there is no event taking place.
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Developer to demo 400Mbps powerline Ethernet
Double today's LAN-over-mains bandwidth
DS2, the Spanish chip maker behind one of the two rival ethernet-over-mains-wiring technologies, will next month demo a next-gen version of powerline that runs at up to 400Mbps - double today's top speed.
It may be ready to show the technology working, but it's some way from releasing chips that can be incorporated into products consumers can buy and install. DS2 said it was targeting the technology at people who want to stream around at least three HD signals and two standard-definition feeds around the home. It expects such an application to be in demand "from 2009 onwards", and that's when it expects to get 400Mbps technology into powerline Ethernet adaptors.
DS2 also promised the 400Mbps system would be compatible with its 200Mbps version, though it's unclear whether it means the two will co-exist on the same wiring - as today's 200Mbps links co-exitst but won't talk to older 85Mbps and 14Mbps adaptors - or will be able to communicate with them.
Like earlier powerline technologies and wireless networking systems such as Wi-Fi, the quoted speed is an all-out raw data transfer rate - and one that assumes perfect transmission conditions. Real-world speeds are likely to be rather lower than 400Mbps.
Using 200Mbps powerline links yields a real-world bandwidth of around 40-50Mbps, for example - sufficient for two HD streams. DS2's 400Mbps technology will need to deliver real-world bandwidth of approximately double that to handle three or more HD streams and various SD signals.
Rival powerline group, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, has yet to detail its own plans to push its 200Mbps technology beyond that speed.
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University Park, Pa. -- Dennis Scanlon, associate professor of health policy and administration in Penn State's College of Health and Human Development, has been awarded a three-year, $4 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to expand an evaluation of a RWJF national initiative, "Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q)."
This grant is in addition to an original $3.4-million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2007 and expands the scope of the project. "AF4Q" aims to bring together patients, health-care providers and payers to turn proven practices for improving quality into real results. Through regional collaboratives, it aims to lift the overall quality of health, reduce racial disparities and provide models for national reform.
"Aligning Forces for Quality" is a $300 million initiative involving 14 community-based programs across the U.S.: the Healthy York County Coalition in York, Pa., and others based in Detroit, Mich.; Western New York; Wisconsin; Williamette Valley, Ore; Memphis, Tenn.; Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Humboldt County, Calif.; Kansas City, Mo.; Maine; Minnesota; Seattle, Wash.; and Western Michigan.
Community teams will strive to improve health-care quality for all patients by helping physicians improve the quality of care for patients and by giving consumers information that helps them partner with their doctors in managing their own health and in making informed choices about their health care. The community alliances also will work to improve care inside hospitals, with a special focus on the central role of nursing; and on reducing inequality in care for patients of different races and ethnicities.
The continued role of Scanlon and his research team will be to evaluate the impact of the AF4Q program in the 14 communities. In particular, they will focus on whether the program resulted in changes in the care of patients with chronic illnesses or in improvements in structures and processes that can lead to improved health care.
Funding for this study came from the RWJF Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research. A researcher on national efforts to reduce medical errors and improve health-care quality, Scanlon also has received funding from the Centers for Disease Control, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, The California HealthCare Foundation and the Center for Health Care Strategies Inc.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans. For more information, visit http://www.rwjf.org online.


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In Part 1 of this two-part article about log files, I presented log file basics. You've seen how to write log files and how to use them. But how can log files be used in more complex situations? In this installment, I examine how you can use logging with large data sets and how to find rarely occurring bugs. You'll also see how to use log files in threaded or multi-tiered applications.
Rotating Log Files
For server applications, it is important that you don't fill the entire disk. However, it is equally important to keep information for a long time because the original cause of problems might be recorded. In such cases, rotating log files are a proven technique: You create a new log file after a certain amount of timevor when a certain size is reached, then only keep the last couple of log files. The filenames should not just increase an indexed suffix number in a round-robin fashion, but rather include the date and time of creation in a sortable format. This makes it easier to identify the "right" log file. Whenever a new file is created, the oldest files are deleted by a defined policy; for example, keep the last 10 log files, or those of the last three or so days.
Ring Logging
I once had a problem with an assertion that very rarely failed very deep in the database layer of my application. A class function was called in a class state where it wasn't meant to be called. This only happened at my client's machines, and I wasn't able to reproduce the bug -- not even once. This is where ring logging comes in.
Ring logging is implemented via the following steps:
- Create an internal array with a fixed number of string buffers (preferable c-Strings for good performance).
- Create a integer variable holding the last string used in the array.
- Create a function that adds a String to the array after the last used index. If the index points to the end of the array, than restart with the first element and just overwrite it -- but keep all other elements.
- Create a function that dumps all entries to your log file, starting from the oldest entry (which usually is the next array element to overwrite) up to the latest entry.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Single Ring logging Record class CRingLogEntry { public: void Set(char *File, int Line, char *String) { memset(this, 0, sizeof(CRingLogEntry)); strncpy(mFileName, File , sizeof(mFileName)); mLine = Line; strncpy(mText , String, sizeof(mText)); }; void Dump() { MyLogFunc(LOG_BASIC, "%s %d: %s", mFileName, mLine, mText); } char mFileName[255]; int mLine; char mText[255]; }; ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // RingBuffer and Counter #define LOGENTRYCOUNT 255 CRingLogEntry gRingBuffer[LOGENTRYCOUNT]; static int gCurrentEntryNo = 0; ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Add a Entry to RingBuffer void AddRingLogEntry(char *File, int Line, char *text) { gRingBuffer[gCurrentEntryNo].Set(File, Line, text); gCurrentEntryNo ++; if(gCurrentEntryNo >= LOGENTRYCOUNT) gCurrentEntryNo = 0; } // Dump All entrys void DumpRingLogBuffer() { for(int i = gCurrentEntryNo, turned = 0; i != gCurrentEntryNo || ! turned; i++) { if(i >= LOGENTRYCOUNT) { i = -1; turned = 1; continue; } gRingBuffer[gCurrentEntryNo].Dump(); } } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #define ADDRINGENTRY(x)\ AddRingLogEntry(__FILE__, __LINE__, #x); void testFunc4() { for(int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { char tx[255]; sprintf(tx, "i = %d", i); ADDRINGENTRY(tx); } // This will show the last entries from 9745 to 10000 DumpRingLogBuffer(); }
Listing One implements a ring buffer, along with macros that simplify the creation of log statements and that automatically added file and line numbers. I added these macros to most of the class members and inserted the call to the log dump function right before the failing assert -- calling the dump only if the asserted condition was True. I shipped the new version to customers who had reported the error and waited. After a while I received a log file that more closely showed what was happening -- but still I wasn't able to reproduce or fix the problem. However, I did have a closer view of where the problem was hidden. With this knowledge I added more ring log statements and shipped another version. When I received the next log file I saw within a few minutes what the problem was -- and I was able to reproduce it on the spot and fix it right away. And I had spenet only a hour (or less) for the log entries. This is why I say that ring logging is something like the secret service of programming.
Working with Large Datasets
A single log file is good, but what do you do with 100MB of them? You may just browse them, usually starting from the end of the last log file. However, the information you are looking for might be spread over several log files. When analyzing a large number of large log files, use grep or a similar search over several files. Searching for all occurrences of a specific ID will probably reduce the amount of data to a small number of lines.
For example, one application I maintain simulates hydraulic networks. Sometimes a problem occurs only in networks with hundreds of thousands of elements. In such situations I use a function that writes the state of all elements to a log file at certain states (i.e., when entering and leaving the simulation code). I only do this in my debugging version by uncommenting some calls. Of course, it then takes time to log the information for all elements processed. But afterwards I just search for all log entries referring to the element where a problem exists. I might add additional statements and rerun the program. But all that is much more feasible than using a debugger. Debuggers are great, but when working with huge amounts of data it sometimes advantagous to be able to search forward and backwards in a log file, to search for the state of related elements, to double check things again, and so on. This is easily done with a text file. You can't browse or search the execution history of your program in a debugger. You'll have to restart the whole program, which can take a while.
Using less, grep, and tail
Of course, you need good tools to analyze large log files. UNIX programmers are familiar with tools such as grep, less, or tail. They're also available for Windows(see http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) and arelightweight, fast, and have no size limit. Still, you need a little practice to work with them:
- Use less (not "more") to view a file and search in it.
- Use to search through many files and get a list of all matches (type grep --help to see all options).
- Use tail "f to view the last lines of a log file. Using the -f switch will keep tail alive and successively display all added lines as soon as they are written to the log file. This gives a program a "console" through a log file. Sometimes a relief.
While you can use Notepad or other editors, large files may be difficult. And also most editors refuse to open a log file that's still is in use. "Less" and the other "unix" commands do not complain.


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Surviving the Family Farm
By Keith Davis
IC grads are not only keeping their family farms alive; they're helping them thrive at a time when American farming may seem like a relic of a bygone era.
While most people think of the Big Apple when they hear New York, they may not know that New York State is the country's second largest grower of apples. It's also America's second largest wine-producing state and fourth largest cheese maker. Despite census figures showing that only two percent of Americans make their living by farming the land these days, orchards, vineyards, and farms in the Empire State are not things of the past.
One of those orchards belongs to Bruce Salinger '72, a third-generation farmer, and his wife, Maureen. Among recent IC alumni, two 2010 grads, Leverett Saltonstall and Pete Messmer, will assume ownership of a vineyard and a goat farm from their parents. Why did these three alumni leave their family farms for four years to study at South Hill and then go back to blossoms and grapevines and goat's milk? Read on to find out.
Pete Messmer '10
cheesemaker, Lively Run Goat Dairy
Leverett "Lev" Saltonstall '10
New York City Market Manager, King Ferry Winery
Bruce Salinger '72
Co-owner and operator, Salinger's Orchard


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Hurricane Sandy is only the most recent evidence that the grace of God doesn't always protect us from floods. That's where public officials can help, by setting, and enforcing, strict rules about where people can build houses and commercial buildings.
Hurricane Sandy is only the most recent evidence that the grace of God doesn't always protect us from floods. That's where public officials can help, by setting, and enforcing, strict rules about where people can build houses and commercial buildings.
Next Wednesday, Tobyhanna Township's Zoning Hearing Board will hear a plea from the owners of a third-of-an-acre, lakeside lot in Pinecrest development to allow them to build a house there. The property owners seek relief from the "strict application of Chapter 77, Floodplain Management," the federal rules on building in floodplains.
Officials should beware of granting such requests. Periodic flooding can alter or damage the landscape and damage or destroy buildings. Just talk to the folks who've had homes for several generations along the Delaware River at Price's and Eilenberger's landings, who experienced three devastating floods in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Some who rebuilt elevated their homes. One property owner sold his now-unlivable house to a neighbor, who razed it. Or ask the officials of Laird Technologies, formerly of Delaware Water Gap. Laird built a $1 million levee after the 2005 flood; it barely held off the 2006 flood. Laird left the area, taking 375 jobs and a $15 million payroll. The building remains vacant.
The Pinecrest lot is designated as subject to flooding, too. Should the Zoning Hearing Board grant a special exception, the owners could build an elevated structure, and buy federally subsidized flood insurance. But they'll still be susceptible to nature's wrath. And the cost of that insurance is expected to rise sharply, given recent history of huge claims thanks to Sandy and other natural disasters.
Government bodies have an obligation to respect nature's potential for destruction by curtailing or at least discouraging development in flood-prone areas. Sadly, many Pocono subdivisions were created long before people had a real understanding of flood dynamics and wetlands, and many an older subdivision features lots sited in those vulnerable areas. Then there's the fact that flooding has gotten worse, not better, as property owners along the Delaware can attest. Keeping development out of flood plains accomplishes more than heading off property damage, residents' attendant heartache and the taxpayers' pocketbook. Leaving the land open helps protect the larger watershed. The last thing an area already subject to flooding needs is more structures and more impervious surfaces.
Tobyhanna officials should be especially alert to the potential for problems here because they face an impending, May 3 deadline to gain approval of their draft revised floodplain ordinance. Eighteen of Monroe County's 20 municipalities have already submitted their drafts for review, with a goal of protecting citizens from flood-related damage.
As far as the Pinecrest lot goes, if the Zoning Hearing Board grants the Pinecrest request, it could just be a delay of the would-be homeowners' inevitable disappointment. After the next big flood, these property owners, who now envision their dream house, could wake up to a nightmare.


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SONOR @ Winter NAMM Show 2009
SONOR @ Winter NAMM Show 2009
Here it is... the official SONOR Video Report on the recent Winter NAMM Show 2009!
Check it out, we got Sean from Sonor USA talking about all our new products, Mark Hernandez from Forbidden talks about our new Danny Carey Signature Snare Drum, the mighty Derek Roddy blasts on the new Ebony Delite kit and much more!
Here are some shots from the show (see header):
- Time for a group shot...Sonor Artists and company members: (l-r): Sean Cox (Sonor USA Artist Relation Manager), Charlie Zeleny (Blotted Science, Jordan Rudess), Christoph Schneider (Rammstein), Thomas Lang (Independent), Dave Langguth (Nelly Furtado), Emmanuelle Caplette (Independent), Mark Hernandez (Forbidden), Mikkey Dee (Motörhead), Thomas Barth (Sonor Int'l Artist Relation Manager), Karl-Heinz Menzel (Sonor Germany Managing Director, sitting)
- One of our new 2009 Delite finishes "Ebony" - shown on a Danny Carey Setup
- Saturday - Time for signing! With 15 artists signing simultaneously, it was probably one of the biggest signings during Namm. Thanks to all our artists making it happen: Dave Langguth (Nelly Furtado), Sammy Merendino (Cindy Lauper), Charlie Z (Blotted Science, Jordan Rudess), Derek Roddy (Serpents Rise), Mark Hernandez (Forbidden), Sean Reinert (Cynic), Paul Collier (Angelcorpse), Emmanuelle Caplette (Independent), Tal Bergman (Independent), Samantha Maloney (Independent), Thomas Lang (Independent), Christoph Schneider (Rammstein), Danny Carey (Tool), Benny Greb (Independent), Jojo Mayer (Nerve)


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TheFancy.com is part store, blog, magazine and wishlist. It's a place to discover great stuff, to curate a collection of things you love, to get updates on your favorite brands and stores and to share your discoveries. Use it to create a catalog of your favorite things around the web and around the world. When you find something you love somewhere on the web, Fancy it.
Venture Slogan: Discover amazing stuff, collect the things you love, unlock crazy good deals
Venture Link: thefancy.com
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I began tracking my purchases sometime in 2010
after I had already started the blog.
But, in a more formal way in 2011.
By "formal" I mean, taking pictures of everything I bought,
how much I paid for it and documenting it through
my monthly purchases posts.
So, that's how I know that this year I bought:
4 Bags
14 Pairs of shoes
28 tops
11 Trousers
6 Skirts
12 dresses
3 belts
3 scarves
10 neckacles
3 pairs of sunglasses
5 rings
When I compare this to the clothes I got rid of during this year
(aka 2012 closet edits) in general I gave away MORE than I bought.
For example I purchased 28 tops and gave away 59 tops.
I find this very positive.
When I compare my 2012 vs 2011 purchases
In 2012 I bought 14 pairs of shoes while in 2011 I bought 25 pairs!
In 2012 11 trousers and in 2011 19 trousers.
In general there is a tendency...
My favorite purchase of 2012 ?
I don't have one.
Purchase regrets...
I don't want to go there :)
I don't have one.
Purchase regrets...
I don't want to go there :)
Finally, money wise - I had not set a budget.
But after checking my numbers: I spent less !
268.49 USD less than last year.
My 2012 total was more or less 1,725.67 USD
which is about 4.75 USD per day.
My goal for 2013 is to set a budget,
which is 1,400.00 USD
Let's see how that goes.


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We at BMW take your safety and driving pleasure seriously. For this reason we proactively monitor the performance of our vehicles and from time to time we may issue either a product enhancement or product recall.
A product enhancement, if required, is something that will improve the driving pleasure of your vehicle and is provided free of charge.
If, through extensive testing, BMW should found a deficiency in a component on a vehicle a recall will be issued.
Owners of NZ new vehicles: Your BMW dealer will contact you directly and ask you to bring the vehicle in as soon as possible to have this remedied again this will be at no charge to you.
BMW 1st registered overseas: As BMW New Zealand did not import the vehicle we will not be aware that the vehicle is in the country and therefore will not be able to contact you.
BMW does however take you're driving pleasure and safety seriously and if you regularly visit your BMW dealer they will automatically check for any outstanding product enhancements or recalls every time you have your vehicle serviced.
In case you wish to check for outstanding campaigns on NZ new vehicles or imported vehicles, BMW NZ encourages you to contact or visit your local BMW Authorised dealership. The BMW dealers have access into BMW's global system and can check for outstanding product enhancements or recalls relating to your vehicle. Again this service is free of charge.


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I have a problem with Quantum GIS and Mapinfo, in both Windows XP and Windows 7. I need to use French and Arabic. One field is called Name_fr, and the other Name_AR. The Arabic is fine until the moment I save the table, and all the characters turn into question marks.
Thank you for the help.


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is a listing of the quotes you see displayed on all Antiwar.com
pages. .
~Abba Eban
About the quote: Israeli diplomat (1915-2002)
~Abraham Flexner
~Abraham Lincoln
~Admiral James D. Watkins
~Adolph Hitler
~Agatha Christie
~A. J. P. Taylor
~Alan Watts
About the quote: from the book "The Way of Zen"
~Albert Camus
~Albert Einstein
~Albert J. Nock
~Aldous Huxley
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
~Alexander Berkman
~Alexander Hamilton
~Alexander Pope
~Alexis de Tocqueville
~Alfred Adler
~Allen Dulles
~Ambrose Bierce
~Andrew Greely
About the quote: Andrew Greely is a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times. You can read his articles at http://www.suntimes.com/index/greeley.html
~Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
~Anne O'Hare McCormick
~Anonymous (German)
About the quote: (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)
~Anthony Gregory
About the quote: Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at www.lewrockwell.com
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery
~A. Philip Randolph
About the quote: Randolph (1889-1979) was an African American civil rights leader. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)
~A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"
~Arthur Hoppe
About the quote: Hoppe (1925-2000) was an American writer. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)
~Arthur Schopenhauer
~Ayn Rand
~Barbara Bush
About the quote: Mrs. Bush spoke these words on ABC's "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003.
~Barbara Ehrenreich
~Barbara Jordan
~Barbara Tuchman
~Barry Goldwater
~Basil O'Connor
~Benjamin Disraeli
~Benjamin Franklin
~Benjamin Harrison
About the quote: from an 1888 address to Congress
~Bennett Cerf
~Bernard M. Baruch
~Bertrand Russell
~Blaise Pascal
~Brendan Behan
~Brent Davis
~Brooks Atkinson
About the quote: Atkinson was an American journalist who lived from 1864-1984. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)
~Bruce Springsteen
About the quote: This was part of Springsteen's introduction to his 1985 version of Edwin Starr's song 'War.'
~Butler Shaffer
~Calvin Coolidge
~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz
~Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
About the quote: from "The Spirit of Laws" (1748)
About the quote: Commonly known just as 'Montesquieu,' Charles (1869-1755) was a social commentator and thinker of the French Enlightenment.
~Charles Eliot Norton
~Charles Evans Hughes
~Charles-Louis De Secondat
About the quote: From "The Spirit of Laws," 1748
~Charles Sumner
About the quote: From his 1845 speech "The True Grandeur of Nations."
~Charles Tilly
~Charles V of France
~Charley Reese
~Chaz Bufe
~Chris Hedges
~Clarence Darrow
~C.L. Montague
About the quote: Quote from "Among the Dead Cities," by A.C. Grayling (Walker & Co., 2006).
~Colin Powell
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
~Condoleeza Rice
About the quote: Comment trying to convince mideast policy makers Russia, the EU and the UN to stop aid to the new Hamas Palestinian government; 1/30/06.
~Congressman Ron Paul
~Craig Murray
~C. S. Lewis
~C.S. Lewis
About the quote: Lewis (1898-1963) was an Irish author and scholar, most famous for his 'Chronicles of Narnia' series. (From 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)
~Daisaku Ikeda
About the quote: From his proposals for peace. Ikeda is President of Soka Gakkai International
~Dalai Lama
~Dale S. Mugford
~Dale Turner
About the quote: from an article in The Seattle Times, 1/11/03.
~Daniel Goleman
~Daniel O'Connell
~David Borenstein
~David Cross
About the quote: Cross is a comedian, most well known for his roles on the television series "Arrested Development" and "Mr. Show." This quote is from his 2002 comedy album.
~David Friedman
~David Hume
~David Lloyd
~David L. Wilson
~Davy Crockett
~Denis Diderot
~Dick Cheney
About the quote: Speaking to the Discovery Institute after the first Gulf War, on 8/14/1992, when he was Secretary of Defense.
~Donald Rumsfeld
~Dorothy Thompson
~Douglas Jerrold
~Dr. Ivan Eland
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
~Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
~Dr. Wayne Dyer
~Duke of Wellington
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
About the quote: from 1953
~E. B. White
~Ecclesiastes 9:18
~Edmund Burke
~Edward Abbey
About the quote: A naturalist and author, Abbey lived from 1927-1989.
~Edward Everett
~Edward Gibbon
~Edward M. Kennedy
About the quote: Kennedy (b. 1932) is a U.S. Senator (D, MA). (from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)
~Edward R. Murrow
~Eldridge Cleaver
~Eleanor Roosevelt
About the quote: Roosevelt (1884-1962) was the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and an outspoken political activist in her own right. (From 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)
About the quote: from "My Day," February 7, 1939
~Elias Canetti
~Ella Baker
About the quote: Baker (1903-1986) was an African American civil rights worker. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)
~Ellen Key
~E. M. Forster
~Enoch Powell
~Ente Grillenhaft
About the quote: from "Treatise on Reason and Hysteria"
~Erasmus, the 16th-century scholar
~Eric Alterman
About the quote: Alterman is an American journalist, born in 1960. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)
~Erich Maria Remarque
~Ernest Hemingway
~Ernie Pyle
~Eugene Debs
About the quote: (1855-1926)
~Evan Thomas
~Eve Merriam
~FA Hayek
~Francis John McConnell
~Frank Chodorov
~Frank Herbert
~Frank Kent
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
~Frederick Douglass
~Frederick the Great
~Fred Reed
About the quote: You can read Fred Reed's articles on LewRockwell.com: http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed-arch.html
~Fredric Bastiat
~Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist
~Friedrich Nietzsche
~Fritz Medicus
~Garet Garrett
~Gary Wills
~General Colin Powell
~General Douglas MacArthur
About the quote: MacArthur was an American army general who lived 1880-1964. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)
~General Omar Bradley
About the quote: U.S. Five Star General.
~General Omar N. Bradley
~General Smedley Butler
~General Smedley Butler (USMC, Ret.)
~General Stonewall Jackson
About the quote: 1824-1863. Confederate General of the US Civil War.
~General Thomas S. Power
~General Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnam)
~General William Tecumseh Sherman
~General William Westmoreland
~George Bernard Shaw
~George H. W. Bush
~George Jacob Holyoake
About the quote: Holyoke (1817-1906) was an English secularist.
~George McGovern
~George Orwell
About the quote: from his 'Politics and the English Language.'
About the quote: This quote comes from "Homage to Catalonia," Orwell's 1936 eyewitness account of the Spanish Civil War.
About the quote: This quote is spoken by the character of Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's novel, "1984."
About the quote: from his book '1984,' published in 1949.
~Georges Clemenceau
~Georges Sorel
~George Washington
About the quote: President Washington lived from 1732-1799. (From 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)
~George W. Bush
About the quote: From remarks by the president at the signing of The Defense Appropriations Act for 2005 (8/5/04)
About the quote: from a UN Speech in Sept 2004
About the quote: from a speech on 10/3/03
~George W. Bush (on Iraqi Insurgency)
~Georg W. Hegel
~Gerard K. O'Neill
~German proverb
~G. K. Chesterton
~Golda Meir
~Gregory Bateson
~Gregory Clark
~Groucho Marx
~Guy de Maupassant
~Hannah Arendt
About the quote: Arendt (1906-1975) was a German-Jewish political theorist and philosopher. (From 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)
~Hans Van Seeckt
About the quote: Van Seeckt was German military officer who lived from 1866-1936. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)
~Harry Elmer Barnes
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
~Harry S. Truman
About the quote: Truman (1884-1972) was president of the United States. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)
~Havelock Ellis
~Helen Keller
~Henk Middelraad
~Henri Barbusse
About the quote: from his book "Under Fire: The Story of a Squad" (1916). Barbusse lived from 1873-1935.
~Henry Havelock Ellis
~Henry Kissinger
~Henry T. Laurency
About the quote: from "The Philosopher's Stone"
~Herbert C. Hoover
~Herbert V. Prochnow
~Herman Goering
~Hermann Hesse
About the quote: Hesse (1877-1962) was a philosophical writer, best known for his work "Siddartha."
~H. G. Wells
~H. L. Mencken
~H.L. Mencken
~H.L. Menken
~Howard Thurman
~Howard Zinn
~Hugh Mann
~Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
~Ian Buckley
~Immanuel Kant
~Isaac Asimov
~Issac Asimov
About the quote: The character Salvor Hardin speaks these words in Asimov's "Foundation."
~Jacobo Timerman
~James Baldwin
~James Bovard
About the quote: http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/01/17/credo-from-attention-deficit-democracy/
~James Bryce
~James Carroll
About the quote: The Boston Globe, 9/21/04
~James Madison
About the quote: from "Political Observations," 1795.
About the quote: This quote is from the period he served as a US Congressman (he represented Virginia from 1789-1797).
About the quote: from "Political Observations," April 20, 1795.
~James Reston
About the quote: American Journalist (1909-1995), best known for his work with the NY Times.
~James Wolcott
About the quote: in his article "From Fear to Eternity" in Vanity Fair, March 2005
About the quote: in his article "From Fear to Eternity," Vanity Fair, March 2005
~Jean Anouilh
~Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
~Jeanette Rankin
~Jeanette Winterson
~Jean Jaques Rousseau
~Jean -Luc Godard
~Jean-Paul Sartre
~Jerome G. Fenster
~Jim Garrison
~Jimmy Carter
~Johan Christoph Schiller
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~John 8:32
~John Adams
~John Adams (composer)
About the quote: This quote is not from founding father John Adams, but from the Pulitzer Prize-winning modern composer and conductor of the same name (2001).
~John Andrew Holmes
~John Bright
~John C. Calhoun
~John Cory
~John F. Kennedy
About the quote: President Kennedy lived 1917-1963. (From 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)
~John Galsworthy
~John Greenleaf Whittier
~John James Ingalls
~John Kenneth Galbraith
~John Lennon
~John Locke
~John Milton
~Johnny Cash
About the quote: Speaking about his experience when he and June Carter went to Vietnam to entertain the troups in 1969. from 'Cash: The Autobiography,' Harper Collins, page 218
~John Quincy Adams
~John Stuart Mill
~John T. Flynn
~John V. Lindsay
~Jonathan Larson
~Jose Barreiro
~Jose Narosky
About the quote: Narosky is an Argentinian writer and musician. (From 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)
~Joseph A. Schumpeter
~Joseph Goebbels
~Joseph Heller
~Josh Billings
~J. Ramsay MacDonald
~J. R. Hobson
~Juan C. Mustelier
~Julia Ward Howe
About the quote: Julia Howe was the "founder" of Mother's Day.
~Justice Louis D. Brandeis
~Justice Robert Jackson
About the quote: Jackson (1892-1954) was a US Supreme Court Justice 1941-1954.
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Group seeks to inform on wind farms
If an international corporation builds the wind farm north of Wapa-koneta, the towers and blades will stretch more than 40 stories into the sky — visible to people as far away as three miles, members of a new local group say — and they believe local people should have input regarding if the project should proceed or stop.
The group — Auglaize Neighbors United — recently formed to disseminate information to the public about the advantages and disadvantages of wind farms in the area, especially those planned north of Wapakoneta.
"We have formed because we are concerned about local input into this process," local attorney and Auglaize Neighbors United member Mike Burton told the Wapakoneta Daily News. "These industrial wind farms are regulated by the Ohio Power Siting Board, so once the developer has the land leased, has done their environmental studies and their transmission studies they then can file an application with the Ohio Power Siting Board.
"We believe once the application has been filed then the ability for public input is somewhat limited," he said. "The group has been formed to educate the public, try to provide both sides of the story — some of the advantages and disadvantages of this industry — and try to have the community reach a consensus about whether or not this is a good project for this area."
Burton said they also understand and want to stress that public input is best to have early in the process rather than later when the application has already been filed with the Ohio Power Siting Board. The Ohio Power Siting Board also holds a public hearing, but public input rarely dissuades the board from approving the application.
U.S. Mainstream Renewable Power Inc., headquartered in Chicago with its parent company's headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, is looking at potentially 60 to 70 sites in Ohio. The company is focusing on an area that includes large portions of Duchouquet, Logan and Moulton townships in Auglaize County, as well as small parts of Noble Township and Shawnee Township in Allen County. The company has set a target of approximately 8,000 to 10,000 acres of property to lease from interested owners to build wind turbines that would generate about 1.5 to 2.5 megawatts of power per turbine.
Company executives said they are looking at generating between 100 and 150 megawatts of power per year in the area. The company has already signed up more than 5,000 acres in property from owners interested in leasing their land. At the earliest, the wind farm plans would begin being laid out in 2014-2015.
Homeowners must sign a long-term lease and receive about $7,000 to $10,000 per year for each turbine plus a small per acre land usage stipend of approximately $30 per acre per year.
A similar wind farm project completed in Van Wert and Paulding counties, a larger project, generates approximately 400 megawatts of power.
"For the public meeting, we intend to educate the public on both sides of these issues," Burton said. "We think that Mainstream Renewable Energy has been in our community for approximately one year, only sharing one side of the story with landowners.
"We hope to educate the public, raise awareness, hold these meetings, show a movie and try to get people engaged in whether or not the community as a whole is in favor of this project," he said.
The organization, which to date is comprised of 25 people, has scheduled three public informational meetings, with the first set for 3 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Buckland Community Center, and 7 p.m. on Feb. 21 at the Wapakoneta High School large group room and 7 p.m. on Feb. 23 at the Cridersville Elementary School cafetorium.
The group also is making arrangements for a viewing of the documentary, "Windfall," a movie about windfarms. A date of the viewing has yet to be set.
The group also has a website at www.noauglaizewind.org and a Facebook page.
Burton said people with an interest in this topic should attend to obtain more information and anybody within a two- to three-mile radius of the proposed project will be affected and is encouraged to attend.


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Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler has scotched claims by the Green Party that he has a bias in favour of the country's Australian-owned banks, and defended statements saying the lenders' return on equity is still below pre-crisis levels.
Wheeler, who delivers his maiden monetary policy statement on Thursday, released bank profitability figures given to the Greens, which he used to support comments before Parliament's finance and expenditure committee that bank profits were "about average or below" other developed nations. Greens co-leader Russel Norman accused Wheeler of misleading Parliament over the claim, which isn't directly addressed in the RBNZ statement.
Wheeler released charts showing New Zealand's banks' after-tax return on assets and equity between 2009 and 2001 was in the bottom half of OECD countries, excluding the euro-area. Pretax returns show New Zealand lenders' returns in the top six for the period. The comparisons aren't clean-cut with some countries shown as before tax, and others after tax.
"My response to the select committee represented my understanding of the information available at the time," Wheeler said in a statement. "Our analysis was completed after the hearing and we released to the Green Party in response to their request which followed the hearing."
The Nov. 7 select committee hearing on the central bank's financial stability report was Wheeler's first appearance before politicians, and degenerated into a farce when the governor, his entourage, and everyone else were cleared from the room so MPs could argue about whether they could seek more time after a late start.
Wheeler refuted the Greens' claim the central bank is biased towards the Australian lenders, saying the bank "takes seriously its mandate from Parliament to supervise the New Zealand banking system and does so without favour."
The Australian lenders' profitability has recovered on a return on assets basis, but was still below pre-global financial crisis levels as a return on equity, Wheeler said.
"That's partly because these banks are building up capital as part of the tougher Basel III regulatory requirements," he said.
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BrikWars Universe
The BrikWars Universe is an ever-growing explosion of creative output from the community built up around the game of BrikWars, spanning multiple decades and six out of seven continents (over 85%; a solid B grade).
The BrikVerse: Narrative of BrikWars
A key concept to keep in mind as one explores the BrikWars Universe is that there are often parallels in the in-game universe to the real world equivalents. A forum member may also appear as a character. A community website may also appear as an alternate dimension. Easily identifiable real-world construction toy parts may have in-depth backstories within the BrikVerse.
It may help to keep in mind that "BrikVerse" typically refers to the narrative structure of the game's fiction,whereas "BrikWars Universe" might be used to describe the game and its community or to refer to anything of a BrikWarsian nature. Perhaps the primary reason for this lies in the fact that the community takes an active hand in structuring their game of choice's Kanon, and the creator of the game responds in kind by remaining active in the community.
The Spirit of the Game
It can be seen, even in the very pages of this wiki, that BrikWars espouses a very particular attitude. It might be described as chaotic, often antagonistic, and free-spirited. It is also fiercely creative and, by its very nature, attempts to ram as many interesting concepts together in one place as possible. Such an endeavor becomes greater with a community on hand to help make it grow, snapping together like pieces building a great construction. And so, as the community grows, so too does the overall narrative of the game, funneled through the creative mind of the designer who chooses how best his game will develop over the years.
The BrikVerse has evolved to be a many-splendored place, an entire universe of bountiful bloodshed, delightful destruction, and clever creations set within the backdrop of an entire MultiVerse of construction toy based universes and their offshoot alternate dimensions. Star Empires wage intergalactic wars and horrid monsters invade through cracks in space even as knights hold sieges on medieval castles, gunslingers have duels at high noon, supernatural creatures fling themselves at one another across blood-soaked nighttime battlefields, and cyber-spies make runs against megacorporations and their goons. Heroes rise and fall, celebrities come and go, the fights never stop, and the fun never ends.
Historical Kanon
The BrikVerse is a broken universe, its time and space torn asunder and scattered without pattern. These errant elements are brought together by the force of Kanon. Elements of important story become the accepted narrative, while lesser elements are obliterated by a continuing cascade of awesomeness. These shattered timelines are called Ret- and Rekonstruktions. Thus, there is no true permanency in the BrikVerse. The Ossum survives only so long as it is not supplanted by the More Ossum. Battles may happen anywhere, at any time, for any reason, and between any forces. There are no true maps of the BrikVerse, for as soon as internal consistency is again supplanted, those maps are rewritten. The BrikVerse, then, is a universe driven purely by storytelling.
BrikWarsian Concepts
There are several major themes and ideas that run through much of the BrikWars community and narrative. It may be argued that some of these ideas are inherent to BrikWars itself (where not directly outlined as such by the author of BrikWars) but many of them aren't so much fundamental to BrikWars as they are prevalent in its community. As previously mentioned, many participants in BrikWars fiction will as easily ignore as embrace, add, subtract, or otherwise alter these ideas to suit their kanonical needs. Members who tend to hold things as being sacrosanct may find themselves generally outvoted. Their Kanon still counts, of course... just not so much as the other, better Kanon.
Legitimitium versus CLOan Brand
Legitimitium ore produces the narrative version of high quality acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (called Ablogical Binding Substance in the BrikVerse). Legitimitium is also called "Leg-ore" (another example of those punny parallels mentioned earlier). Conversely, low quality ABS is lumped under the derogatory term "Counterfeit Leg-Ore" or "CLOan Brand." Some BrikWarriors stand by only the good stuff and look down their noses at those who would stoop to playing with the off brand stuff. Other BrikWarriors insist that CLOans have their uses and still other BrikWarriors couldn't care less one way or the other. Certain companies produce very high quality materials that approach the quality of the gold standard, so the debate can become rather involved. This argument is an old one and it will inevitably spring up from time to time. Certain parts of the BrikWars Universe have been modeled after it. For example, see The NegaVerse.
Yellow versus Peach
Another old favorite argument among BrikWarriors, with the same general range of opinion, is the legitimacy of "Peaches." In the narrowest sense, the Peach race is specifically limited to minifigs with peach-colored flesh, but yellow supremacists use the "Peach" racial slur to refer to any minifigs who are not of classic standard yellow coloration, or who have the more "realistic" style of facial features seen on licensed characters.
Orange Transparent and Other Badass Things
Due to the relatively epic kanon written about Orange Transparent (or OT), which has been featured in the rulebook, the specially colored construction toy piece has become one of the most powerful elements in the BrikVerse. Weapons that are constructed of it are much more Ossum and damaging and structures that include it become nigh on indestructible. From OT naturally spawned much more narrative centered around the other transparent colors, called Transparent Elements in the BrikVerse. Each has a common story but certain BrikWarriors have developed differing types for some of the colors.
Though OT perhaps best epitomizes BrikWars' never ending need for awesomeness, there are several other examples of "the best" or the "most ossum."
In Inhabitants of the Universe, several of our community superstars are featured, for whatever reasons made them popular.
In Factions and Forces, certain groups are truly colossal in size, empires that span the stars, and are the major movers and shakers in the universe or MultiVerse. Certain of them are designated "Superpowers" because they maintain high level teknology of extraordinary destructive power that few others possess.
In the Bestiary, we are introduced to Humans as the top level, mythical creatures of the BrikVerse and SigFigs as their highly powerful avatars.
In Teknology, we come across The Nine Artifax of Pre-Creation, the most powerful artifacts in the BrikVerse. In addition, we are introduced to Heroic Items, Epitek, and Mythitek, three escalating categorizations for pure badassery in teknology.
In History and Chronology, we are shown several major wars, true impressions of BrikWars Kanon.
In Theology and Philosophy, we can experience the more powerful driving beliefs maintained by the inhabitants of the BrikVerse.
Locations gives us a top down approach where we can see how the shattered BrikVerse fits in with the rest of construction toy existence.
There are many other attitudes of bigger and better woven throughout the BrikWars Universe that will no doubt become obvious with the perusal of these pages and the engagement of the community.
Spelled with a K and Other Behavior
One of the more immediately noticeable things about BrikWars is its semi-consistent use of misspelled words. Very simply, this comes from a joke in the rulebook about how we don't really give a damn how things are spelled, an extension of "we don't care about the rules." It has become a large part of the community's loving attempts at nomenclature.
In fact, the BrikWars community embraces several modes of behavior, as evidenced by our Forum Code. To mimic us, minifigs have their own way of doing things.


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Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD) agreed on Monday to a $5.8 billion deal to buy back South Korea's Oriental Brewery from private equity firms KKR (NYSE:KKR) and Affinity Equity Partners, as the world's largest brewer looks to bulk up in Asia.
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The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, would be the largest for AB InBev since its purchase of Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo for $20 billion last year.
By bringing Oriental Brewery back into the fold, AB InBev aims to bolster its footprint in the region. The company's current businesses in Asia focus on China, where AB InBev is the third-largest brewer by revenue.
According to Bernstein Research, South Korea accounted for 3% of the region's beer volume and 4% of revenue in 2012.
"We are excited to invest in South Korea and to be working with the Oriental Brewery team again," AB InBev CEO Carlos Brito said. "OB will strengthen our position in the fast-growing Asia Pacific region and will become a significant contributor to our Asia Pacific Zone."
When Oriental Brewery exchanged hands in 2009, KKR and AB InBev agreed that the brewer could reacquire the business by July 2014.
News reports have said the two sides also arranged a preset price for the deal, calling for AB InBev to pay a multiple of roughly 11 times earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization. Oriental Brewery projected EBITDA of around $500 million for 2013, which is consistent with that multiple and the $5.8 billion price tag.
The final price is almost three times what KKR paid for the brewer. After buying Oriental Brewery for $1.9 billion, it sold half of its stake to Affinity.
AB InBev originally sold Oriental Brewery, which makes Cass beer, to help pay down debt following its $52 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch a year earlier. Oriental Brewery also had an exclusive license to distribute Budweiser, Corona and other AB InBev brands in South Korea.
Rival brewer SABMiller is also looking to expand its presence in Asia. CEO Alan Clark recently said the London-based company would like to pursue more acquisitions in Asia and elsewhere. SABMiller holds a 49% stake in the joint venture than owns Snow, the top beer brand in China.
U.S. shares of AB InBev closed Friday at $101.47, down 1.9% for the session.


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Supermodel/photographer Helena Christensen has given fans a peek into her New York home in a new magazine photo shoot – while posing complete nude.
The Danish stunner proves she still has what it takes to titillate fans at 44 by stripping off for FutureClaw magazine (NSFW photos, obviously) in various rooms in her apartment.
In one shot, Christensen, who styled herself with items from her own closet, wears a sexy La Perla bra as she stretches out on her bed, and she goes topless in another image, using her hands to cover her breasts.
She is also featured in a vintage corset dress, cheekily hiking up the hem to reveal her pert backside.
However, she decides to take it all off in one other picture, in which she perches on a wooden chair with her legs closed and one arm outstretched, pulling her ponytail above her head.
Discussing her fashion style with the magazine, she says, "It was interesting to have to go through my own clothes for a shoot. I tend to dress in items that don't necessarily go so well together, I like when style isn't obvious. I always end up feeling most comfortable wearing a combination of something quirky and strange. Maybe style shouldn't be defined but rather felt."


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Journalism, General Journalism Projects in China by Emma Cookson
After a sleepless journey filled with as many clichés as a romantic comedy (the obese snorer in the seat next to you, the screaming child who keeps poking your seat…) I finally arrived in a very clean Shanghai airport. Momentarily perturbed by the numerous guards pacing the decks in Soviet-style uniforms, my spirits were soon replenished by a friendly Michael, from Projects Abroad, who whisked me off to my accommodation.
Although being a born-and-bred Londoner, I felt distinctly 'country bumpkin' gawking at the vertigo-inducing Shanghai skyline on the taxi ride there. This feeling was not aided when, stepping out of the taxi, I was nearly made into some sort of foreign-flavoured jam by the swarm of oncoming motorbikes going what I naively thought was the wrong way.
One lesson I was certainly quick to learn in Shanghai: when it comes to driving, there is no such thing as the wrong way or, when it comes to that, an over-use of the horn - an instrument I was not previously that au fait with. Following this near-death experience, and what proved to be a valuable lesson in road-crossing Shanghai-style, my bag and I were ushered up to what would be our home for three months.
Journalism in Shanghai
The project I had decided to partake in was Journalism, largely due to the fact I want to work as a news foreign correspondent post university. Although having written for both school and local magazines before, this was a whole new level and one that was intensely rewarding, as well as being hugely enjoyable. Writing for 'That's Shanghai' (an ex-pat magazine dedicated to what's going on in the city), my position as the only intern meant a variety of jobs.
An average day might see me going over listings, researching (and writing) articles, doing interviews, transcribing and some general out and about stuff in the city. Yes, there were boring parts (editing listings being one of them) but that's part of any job, and also just served to make me realise I relish the boring bits almost as much as the exciting bits. Some of my highlights included some spa and club reviews.
As well as loving every minute spent with the magazine, I managed to squeeze in a plethora of Chinese fun on the side. Living with three other flat mates (only one of whom was also English, which made for very interesting mixes of conversation!) meant that I was never bored or lonely, which I had been slightly worried about before leaving. Dinner with up to 25 other volunteers from other flats was a nightly occurrence, and there was always something going on. Unknown menus, huge sharing tables, and the local brew of Tsing Tao just add to the lively atmosphere.
Aside from food, the rest of my free time was spent exploring this amazing city and all it has to offer, from fascinating modern art galleries to embarrassing KTV karaoke nights. Trips with friends to explore the Yellow Mountains and Beijing (both of which I would highly recommend) were also hugely memorable — even if, in terms of the former, they required a slightly higher level of physical fitness than I possessed!
Conservation in Cambodia
After a ridiculously action-packed three months I made my way to Cambodia to tackle my next, very different, project: Marine Conservation. Again welcomed by an extremely friendly Projects Abroad staff member (incidentally also called Emma) I was taken to Koh Rong Samleom Island, which was about two hours by ferry from the nearest mainland.
Managing to hit one of the early monsoon rains, I arrived soaked through and bedraggled to the main bungalow to meet the other volunteers. Slightly more basic than my city-self was used to — and, by that, read no electricity until the generator ran in the evening, no running water and a bucket shower — the bungalows were none the less cosy, and made even more homely by my three very friendly roommates, as well as our resident geckos: Tinky, Winky, Dipsy, La-La, Po and Baby Sunshine.
Having only done Try Dives previously, I turned up on the island up and at 'em to start my PADI Open Water, the basic qualification for scuba diving. Sadly, due to aforementioned pesky monsoon rains, I wasn't able to start the course until three days later. On the plus side, this did give me ample time to get to know the other volunteers through numerous card games and hanging round in hammocks.
Led through both the Open Water and Advanced (the two qualifications necessary for the project) by my amazing instructor Kim, I was soon prepped and ready for starting my Point Dives. Sectioned up into Invertebrates and Fish, I was put onto invertebrates, which meant surveying the huge variety of reef life on the island.
One of my highlights was seeing a cuttlefish for the first time, as well as a massive puffer fish, which sent me and my buddy into clipboard graffiti overdrive. Finally a fully-fledged member of the survey team, I was doing at least two dives a day (weather dependant) on different points around the island, leaving either mornings or afternoons free for beach clean-ups and teaching in the school.
Spare Time
When you weren't doing surveys, fun dives or helping out on land activities, time was generally spent hanging out in hammocks, playing cards or swimming on Long Beach. Evenings often saw mass game or pool nights outside Hua's — one of the two local bars on the island. One of my highlights, however, was the occasional night swim off the pier into the stunning bioluminescent plankton, which saw me happily reverted to my excitable six-year-old self.
Overall, these were the best four months of my life. What made them so special, however, were the people I met along the way. I made some amazing friends (a couple of whom I continued to travel with to Vietnam afterwards) and I know that these memories are going to stick with me for quite some time — I wouldn't change anything, even the lack of flushing toilets and some interesting Chinese delicacies.
Emma Cookson
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Hope College baseball and softball players are among the final 2012 statistical leaders in NCAA Division III.
BASEBALL (364 teams in NCAA Division III)
* Senior pitcher Adam Clements (Saline/Saline HS) was ranked in several categories -- #8 in complete games pitcher (8), #43 in victories (8-2), #57 in strkeouts per nine innings pitched (9.43), #59 in total strkeouts (72 in xx innings), and #105 in earned run average (2.36).
* Junior pitcher Cory Schmidt (Milan, Ohio/Edison HS) was ranked #159 in earned run average (159) and junior pitcher Jordan Carrigan (Buchanan/Berrien Springs HS) was ranked #39 in saves (6).
* Sophomore third baseman Eric Dawson (Grand Haven/Midland HS) was ranked 14th in the toughest to strkeout (4 strikeouts in 161 at-bats).
* Senior shortstop Chris Mattson (Muskegon/Mona Shores HS) was ranked 40th in times hit by a pitch (14).
* Hope was among the leaders as a team (top 50) in several categories including: #18 in fielding percentage (.968), #27 in fewest walks allowed per nine innings (2.74), #50 in sacrifice bunts (38), and #51 in earned run average (3.63).
SOFTBALL (402 teams in NCAA Division III)
* Senior shortstop Brooke Nienhuis (Zeeland/Zeeland West HS) ranked 77th among all Division III players in batting average (.442). She was also ranked in other categories as follows: #97 in runs scored (36 in 38 games), #147 in on-base percentage (.476) and #172 in triples (3).
* Senior outfielder Stephanie Faber (Byron Center/South Christian HS) ranked 75th in sacrifice hits (10).
* Sophomore first baseman Emma Page (Portage/Portage Central HS) ranked 69th in the toughest to strikeout category (4 strikouts in 142 at-bats).
* Junior pitcher Jess Kohlhoff (Reed City/Reed City HS) ranked 19th in the fewest walks allowed and 78th in fewest walks allowed per seven innings pitched (23 in 122 innings pitched). She was also ranked in earned run average (#13 at 3.92) and shutouts (3).
* Freshman Kelsey Cooper (Romeo/Romeo HS) and Stephanie Faber were each ranked 180th in sacrifice flies with two.
* Hope was among the leaders (top 100) in batting average (#89 at .315) and scoring (#99 at 5.45 runs per game).