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Rapidly growing VoIP market spurs new focus on network monitoring
Anritsu Corporation, a global provider of operational support solutions for advanced and converged networks, announced today at VON Conference & Expo (March 14-17, 2006, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose), powerful VoIP features for its InterQuest Analyzer, thus expanding the Anritsu portfolio for extensive and effective VoIP monitoring that has become a critical necessity for VoIP service providers.
Anritsu's InterQuest Analyzer VoIP provides service providers with a single tool to track network and service quality while providing the means to measure how end customers experience service quality. It enables service providers to quickly provision, troubleshoot and optimize convergent networks across VoIP and SS7 domains. Designed with advanced applications for service testing, network monitoring and data acquisition for existing and next-generation networks in a single box, InterQuest Analyzer is a highly efficient tool for testing interoperability in increasingly complex networks while simultaneously automating trivial tasks and reducing operational costs.
"InterQuest VoIP is a powerful tool to help our customers expedite the detection and resolution of problems in their IP and SS7 network, verify QoS of their IP network, and document interconnect SLAs," said Thomas Jensen, vice president and head of the Service Assurance Business Unit of Anritsu. "With this new offering, Anritsu is geared for further expansion into the rapidly growing VoIP monitoring market."
Capable of analyzing voice quality, jitter, latency, delay, and packet loss, InterQuest Analyzer VoIP can predetermine if voice quality will deteriorate. The product also provides the most cost-efficient way of passively monitoring RTP and RTCP packet flows in the network to ensure that service providers deliver the quality that customers demand. In addition, InterQuest allows service providers to analyze voice payload quality without the need for costly subjective tests with listeners, by providing objective measurements to produce a MOS (Mean Opinion Score) clarity index for measuring voice quality of calls.
Likewise, InterQuest helps service providers document voice quality SLAs with interconnect partners and customers to meet contractual commitments.
InterQuest's multi-user capability allows up to eight users to analyze, simultaneously and independently, different parts of the monitored network, thus optimizing work routines while minimizing investment in other test solutions.
Key features of the InterQuest Analyzer VoIP include:
-Voice quality analysis with MOS, jitter, delay, and packet loss -VoIP protocol analysis and sequencing -SIP & ISUP correlation, SIP/SIP-T, H.323, MGCP, SIGTRAN, RTCP/ RTP, BICC, H.248/MEGACO -Unique multi-user support for optimized rapid troubleshooting -Multi-protocol analysis for eon the spot' troubleshooting -Call & session tracer -GSM, CDMA, GPRS/EDGE, 3G, SS7/ISDN, VoIP -Real-time live streaming of data to hard disk and historical analysis for highest possible analyzer availability -Advanced statistical processing with intuitive statistical information -Remote or local operation -Modular and multi-technology platform for cost-efficient migration to emerging services & technologies
"The new VoIP capabilities of the InterQuest enable Anritsu to meet service providers' growing requirements for VoIP monitoring," said Frost & Sullivan's Jessy Cavazos, Program Manager, Communications Test & Measurement. "Going forward, the company is expected to continue to enhance its offering to meet future end-user needs. IP Multi-media Subsystem (IMS) is likely to be one of such targeted areas. Already, the new VoIP features being introduced today pave the way for Anritsu to launch dedicated IMS solutions in the future. Anritsu is expected to leverage its leadership in HSDPA/HSUPA base station and user equipment testing for the benefit of the InterQuest platform."


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Firstfall is a cabled convertible mitt with a simple gusset thumb knit in the round. The need for flip-tops secured with a button or Velcro is done away with by using flaps which are joined to the hand and thumb on three sides. The cable panel is reversible, so the cable looks lovely whether worn as a mitt or a mitten.
Price: $6.00 (USD)
Yarn: You will need approximately 220 yards of a worsted- or aran-weight wool that cables well in a solid or semisolid colorway for best results. A yarn with some stretch and give will be easiest to work with.(Pictured: Malabrigo Merino Worsted in Sapphire Green – aran, 1 skein / 100g / 216 yards, 100% merino)
- 5 US size 5 dpns, or 4 dpns and a cable needle
- 2 stitch markers
- stitch holder or waste yarn
- tapestry needle
Gauge: 4 inches = 20 sts / 42 rows in garter stitch
Finished Measurements: Wrist circumference is 7" flat, 8" stretched. Circumference may be adjusted by adding or subtracting equal numbers of stitches from the palm side and the garter-stitch sections of the cable.
Length from cuff to top (flap down) is 9.5". Length of hand flap is 3". Length may be adjusted to accommodate longer or shorter fingers by adding or subtracting equal numbers of rows from the hand and hand flap portions.

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How do you draw attention to the Earth's dwindling supply of Arctic Sea ice? Simple: slap a gigantic naked man on it.
What you're looking at is an enormous art installation piece, created by Greenpeace-funded artist John Quigley. But you won't find it in any museum; this massive reproduction of Leonardo DaVinci's iconic "Vitruvian Man" is tethered to a sheet of ice floating just 500 miles from the North Pole.
According to Greepneace's website, the goal of the piece—which is constructed from flattened pieces of copper usually used to construct solar pannels—is to draw attention to how climate change is causing the rapid melting of sea ice to outpace predictions.
Quigley explains:
We came here to create the "Melting Vitruvian Man", after da Vinci's famous sketch of the human body, because climate change is literally eating into the body of our civilisation. When he did this sketch it was the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, the dawn of this innovative age that continues to this day, but our use of fossil fuels is threatening that.
You can read more about The Melting Vitruvian Man at Greenpeace and inhabitat
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With the ability to leverage its proven technology in many diverse and compelling use cases, Reverb as a company is in a position to drive the future of content discovery, personalization, and engagement.
San Mateo, Calif. (PRWEB) January 22, 2013
The creators of Wordnik, the world's largest online dictionary, today announced that they have launched a new company, Reverb. Scaling up from Wordnik's focus on individual words, Reverb's mission is to connect people with larger pieces of meaningful content. Reverb was created to find and connect the rich associations between words, ideas, content, and people. Through its products, Reverb will enhance broader knowledge around favorite topics by surfacing interesting information readers might not uncover on their own. Building upon Wordnik's core 'word-powered' technology, Reverb's focus is on new applications and services for consumers, publishers, and developers. With its community of more than a hundred thousand word enthusiasts, Wordnik will continue to operate and grow as a stand-alone online dictionary and word-lovers' community. The company also announced today that Mike Maples, Jr., managing partner at FLOODGATE, has joined the Reverb Board of Directors.
"The infrastructure that powers Wordnik is one of the technology industry's most successful efforts. Capturing all the words in the world and providing people with a complete perspective on each word's meaning involves an enormous technical foundation that isn't limited to only an online dictionary application," said Maples. "With the ability to leverage this proven technology in many diverse and compelling use cases, Reverb as a company is in a position to drive the future of content discovery, personalization, and engagement. Reverb will impact how people, publishers and application developers take advantage of the endless amount of online content available and how to expose that content as it contextually relates to personal interests."
Introducing Reverb: The Company That Connects Words, Ideas, Content, and People
With its 'word-powered' technology built to understand the meaning of words and the associations between ideas, Reverb is focused on delivering the most relevant content – wherever a person is and whenever it's needed – through a more personalized experience. Delivering products that help people engage more deeply with the information they uncover and choose to read, Reverb's applications and services surface compelling content, directly and indirectly related to the topics you care most about. By optimizing ongoing engagement, Reverb will better understand each person uniquely and will ultimately provide discovery and reading experiences that are more personal, satisfying, and enjoyable.
"As a company, Reverb's vision builds from Wordnik's core competency centered on the meaning of a single word. We want to create an Internet that can associate ideas and the inter-relationships between concepts in a similar way to how the human mind naturally does," said Tony Tam, CEO of Reverb. "We understand that the best content experience for people is one that's meaningful and context-driven. Reverb is focused on building products to help consumers, publishers, and app developers uncover and connect to the most important and relevant information."
Reverb for Consumers, Publishers and Developers
Developed by the company's team of enterprise architecture, social networking, mobile, computational linguistics, and lexicography experts, Reverb's products for consumers, publishers, and developers help people explore the topical information important to them and surface the latest and most relevant content delivered in engaging, friendly ways. Reverb products currently available include Reverb for Publishers, Reverb for Developers, and the Wordnik online dictionary. New consumer applications are in development and expected in 1H 2013.
Reverb for Publishers: Formerly named Related Content by Wordnik, Reverb for Publishers is the company's first product developed under the Reverb brand. Launched in late 2012 as a beta release, Reverb announced today that Reverb for Publishers is now generally available. Reverb for Publishers is a content recommendation engine that identifies connections between related pieces of content and recommends the most relevant posts to readers. The product, using its proprietary algorithms, analyzes essential parts of a website page or blog post, including the tags, title, categories, and body. It then surfaces and displays related pages with similar content.
Reverb for Developers: As a company, Reverb is committed to the open-source community and proudly contributes infrastructure software to power applications and enterprises both small and gigantic. As an important part of its ongoing development plans, Reverb for Developers will continue to offer new releases and code contributions for the following:
- The Wordnik API: an API that lets developers request definitions, example sentences, spelling suggestions, related words, phrases containing a given word, word auto-completion, random words, words of the day, and much more;
- Swagger: an interface specification and complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services;
- Atmosphere: a framework that simplifies building high-performance, asynchronous web applications with a mix of WebSocket, Comet, and RESTful behavior;
- Scalatra: an open-source microweb framework that combines the power of the JVM with Scala and helps developers quickly build high performance websites and APIs.
Wordnik: Reverb's flagship application, the Wordnik online dictionary will remain focused on being the friendliest and most contextually-relevant English dictionary in the world, with more than 7.5 million unique words, 240,255 comments, 187,318 tags, 121,591 pronunciations, 112,676 favorites, and 1,373,822 words in 37,322 lists created by 104,019 Wordniks.
About Reverb
Founded by the creators of Wordnik, the world's largest online dictionary, Reverb connects people with the meaningful content that matters most to them. Reverb products find and connect the rich associations between words, ideas, content, and people. With applications and services for consumers, publishers, and developers, Reverb surfaces compelling content driven by relevant connections to the topics a person cares most about, providing reading experiences that are more personal, satisfying, and enjoyable. Built by a team of enterprise architecture, social networking, mobile web, computational linguistics, and lexicography experts, Reverb's products include Reverb for Publishers, Reverb for Developers, and the Wordnik online dictionary and word-lovers' community. For more information please visit helloreverb.com, or follow us on twitter at @Reverb.


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Heir to America's largest private company and the world's biggest agriculture and commodity-trading concern. Founder William W. Cargill started with grain elevator in Iowa after Civil War, son-in-law John MacMillan took over after patriarch's death. Last family chief exec, Whitney, retired 1995; fifth generation now on the board. Family owns nearly 90% of company, employees the rest. Sales now $75 billion. Expanding into agricultural consulting and other service industries. All known for keeping it private in daily life as well as business matters. Cousins James Cargill and Margaret Cargill both died earlier this year.
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Friday, August 4 2017
9:00am - 4:00pm
Michael Bazarevitsch's Eagle Project
High Point Academy
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Hello Troop 355,
My name is Michael Bazarevitsch and I will be doing my Eagle Scout Project on Friday August 4th and Saturday August 5th. I will begin my senior year at St. Francis High School next month and I'm a Life Scout in the Shark patrol.
My project will take place at High Point Academy in Pasadena - my former school. The project will have 3 parts: 1) placing a security barrier on the 25' rolling gate, 2) clearing a 7'x20' garden and adding drought tolerant plants, and 3) replacing several partitions in the locker room.
Please text me if you can make it. I hope to see you there.
Date/Time: August 4th & 5th 9am - 4pm
Location: 1720 Kinneloa Canyon Road Pasadena CA 91107
Lunch: will be provided along with drinks and snacks
Clothing: work clothes that you're ok getting dirty, work gloves and closed toed shoes.
Thank you,
Michael Bazarevitsch
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Emmanuel College proudly announces the hiring of former NCAA Division II swim head coach Allen Gilchrest to lead the Lions' new intercollegiate swim program.
"Emmanuel College is excited about bringing Coach Gilchrest on board," EC's athletic director José Larios says. "His strong history in recruiting, leading and teaching young men and women in and out of the pool separated him from many other candidates. Most importantly, Allen gets it—he understands very clearly our mission of using these athletic platforms as a privileged opportunity to share Christ's love."
Coach Gilchrest says he is looking forward to the opportunity to begin and build the Lion's new swim program at Emmanuel College.
"First, I would like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for this new leadership/coaching position," Coach Gilchrest says. "Second, I would like to thank President Stewart, athletic director José Larios and those who met with me during my interview process for giving me this amazing opportunity. It is my privilege and honor to lead and guide the student athletes of Emmanuel College through their collegiate career for God's glory!"
Men's and women's swim teams begin competing next year along with EC's other new teams in water polo and bowling.
For more information about the new swim program or nearly 30 other sports offerings at EC, please email email@example.com or visit www.goeclions.com.


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State officials have missed their first major deadline for complying with a three-year-old law calling for Maryland to curb its emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases.
Under the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act, the Department of the Environment was required to give the governor and lawmakers a draft plan by the end of 2011 for scaling back statewide releases of carbon dioxide, methane and other climate-affecting gases 25 percent by the end of the decade.
But Environment Secretary Robert M. Summers wrote Gov. Martin O'Malley and legislative leaders late last month that the draft plan would be "slightly delayed" until mid-February.
The letter didn't offer any explanation for missing the deadline. MDE spokesman Jay Apperson, when asked about the delay, repeated statements from the letter that MDE had been working hard to draft the climate-action blueprint in collaboration with 10 other state agencies, and that the document is essentially finished but undergoing "interagency review."
"It's a big job," Apperson said. "We want to make sure it's comprehesnive. We want to make sure it's right."
Summers letter says the plan lays out 65 strategies which "if fully implemented, we are confident will achieve the greenhouse gas emission reductions required by law." Many of those are state and federal laws, regulations and programs already in place, such as the state's mandate to utilities to get 20 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2022 and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a regional collaboration among northeastern states to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants.
In a nod to those worried that the effort could hurt the state's economy, lawmakers also required that the plan ensure no manufacturing job losses, a net increase in jobs overall and a net economic benefit to the state.
The law specifically exempts manufacturers from state regulation, a concession O'Malley administration officials made to neutralize industry and labor opposition that had blocked the law's adoption in 2008. A study done for the state has projected that development of "clean energy" industries could create 144,000 to 326,000 jobs in Maryland over the next 20 years and generate $5.7 billion in wages and salaries.
(The state's task of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions got unexpected - and to some, at least, unwelcome - help from the nation's sagging economy. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that energy-related releases of carbon dioxide declined 7.4 percent nationwide from 2009 through 2009. They dropped by 8.4 percent in Maryland, according to the EIA, with much of the reduction coming since 2007.)
MDE had planned to spend this year taking public comment on the plan and tweaking it. The law requires that the blueprint be finalized by the end of 2012, so the time left for review and revision has been shortened by the delay. The agency is required to report again in 2015 on progress toward meeting the law's goals, and the General Assembly must vote in 2016 to continue the effort.
Maryland acted to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions at a time when Congress was considering national climate legislation. But those efforts faltered in 2010 amid fierce resistance from industry and Republicans. The Environmental Protection Agency took some preliminary steps toward mandating reductions via regulation, but has since held up further action for further review.
Environmental activists said they were disappointed but not terribly worried yet about the state's failure to produce its climate action plan on time.
"We remain optimistic that the plan is going to get done and we're going to make the reductions," said Mike Tidwell, head of Chesapeake Climate Action Network. "There's been nothing that's happened to make me, at least, feel that they've lost their commitment or will power to make these reduction targets."


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You're a fashion role model and Internet style icon, what do you think others see in you that has inspired this?
I can only imagine it'Äôs because I'Äôm willing to 'Äògo there'Äô and take chances. ¬ÝGetting dressed is really the only area in my life that I can say I am fearless; I'Äôm terrified of so many things, yet am somehow not afraid to wear anything. For me, it'Äôs always been rather innate. As a 5 year old I was specific about the way everything fit, even a t-shirt.
What do you find is the biggest challenge for guys who want to look good, but don't know where to start?
Whenever it'Äôs out of their comfort zone, guys need a blueprint– they have an event: what do I wear? They'Äôre going to a black tie: what does that mean? They'Äôre going to meet their in-laws: how do I impress? I think that overall guys are interested in acquiring a wardrobe based on problem solving; finding something cool that fits into their lives.
All the young bloggers geek out about double monk strap shoes and tailoring– very old school, traditional elements. Cool doesn'Äôt necessarily mean avant-garde.
The thing that started it all was probably casual Friday; the thing that was supposed to be liberating fucked things up more than anything.
Are you now more aware of how you approach getting dressed every day?
I really don'Äôt think about what I'Äôm going to wear until I jump in the shower. ¬ÝHowever, I feel that the stakes are higher each time I make a purchase or decision about what I'Äôm going to wear, because there are several chances that it will be amplified.
I like to take risks and not everything I wear is going to be everyone'Äôs cup of tea. ¬ÝThat also means I cart around gigantic overweight trunks, because I never know how I'Äôm going to feel on a given morning. ¬ÝAirport check-in desks are the bane of my existence, absolute hell.
Has the amplified attention affected your self-esteem?¬Ý
If anything, it'Äôs made my self-esteem worse'Ķ ¬ÝI am my own harshest critic. ¬ÝAs much as I love to wear something that'Äôs a bit off, I'Äôm terrified that I will be made fun of. ¬ÝIt'Äôs a frightening conundrum.
I love clothes, but as the season approaches I always feel the need to add new things. ¬ÝIt'Äôs natural because I have the opportunity to see more, which makes me want to buy more– a very expensive occupational hazard.
If¬ÝI'Äôm wearing something it'Äôs nearly always because I bought it.¬Ý I'Äôve certainly accepted things along the way, but I never feel obligated to wear them. I have to intrinsically love something in order to wear it. I'Äôm grateful to be constantly surrounded by many of the things I love.


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Kabbalah 1
Thursday, March 23rd @ 7:00pm
With Yehuda Ashkenazi
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The Kabbalah Centre is a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to translate the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah and make it relevant to life today. We are committed to making these mystical writings accessible to anyone with a desire to learn them.
The Power of Kabbalah course is designed to be enlightening and practical because we believe that wisdom is served best when it is lived.
The Kabbalah Centre wishes to extend a special invitation for you to discover The Power of Kabbalah course. The price for the program – normally $270 – is currently being offered at the introductory cost of $49.99 for 10 classes, a savings of more than 80%.
We have created this opportunity for one simple reason. Our students keep telling us that if more people learned Kabbalah as it is presented in these simple but profound classes, the world would quickly become a better place. Over many years, we have witnessed over and over how using these ancient lessons has enriched the minds and hearts of those inspired to know them. It has transformed their lives, their families' lives, and their communities.
This is also a great opportunity for current students to get a "refresher" course at a fraction of the cost.
We hope you join us for this special offer and look forward to seeing you in Power of Kabbalah Level 1.
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IRON MAIDEN will headline the Topfest Festival at Piestany, nr Bratislava on Thursday June 27. The last time the band played in Slovakia was in 2003 during the Dance Of Death Tour and they haven't played in Bratislava since 1993 on the Real Live Tour.
For more details and tickets click here. For Iron Maiden's tour schedule visit this location.


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This week, Alfred celebrates his second birthday. And he likes to do it in style!
Hot on the heels of two big releases, we're offering a 10% discount on the Powerpack so if you haven't yet adopted the powerful add-on to Alfred's free version yet, this is your chance. With more useful features than a Swiss Army knife, you're bound to love this addition to your everyday Mac workflow.
If you're already a Powerpack user, be sure to tell your friends to take advantage of this week's birthday discount code while it lasts! You have until Saturday 3rd March to grab a single or family license at 10% discount.
Also, feel free to bake Alfred a birthday cake, cupcakes or cookies. We lo… ahem, I mean, he loves those very much.


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The status of Rastersoft CD-i projects in April 2008
>> Tuesday, April 15, 2008
For anyone who tried the Mode-7 style CD-i racer will be amazed what is possible on CD-i. The demo looks amazing and we're really excited by this game. CD-i is crying out for a racing game - especially after the disappointment of missing out with "Dead End". 10 years after Philips released their last game for our system, I never thought we'd see this kind of development for the system. Anyway, it's been a while since we've heard anything so let's have a look at the latest CD-i news. The news in January 2008 reported the use of alternate scan lines in the CD-i version; Is that a necessary evil to make this work on CD-i? By playing with the pixel repeat counts and display line start addresses, you can get the video hardware to double the memory pixels both horizontally and vertically, effectively reducing the screen resolution by a factor of two for the area.
Charles: "Before I tried horiz. doubling the pixels, and it looked odd. Maybe doubling in both directions wouldn't looks as bad."
That would eliminate the "black" space between pixels and might even allow more efficient drawing as two pixels would fit in one 16-bit word which can be written in a single bus cycle; as it is now they require two bus cycles because they are split over two 16-bit words. It would also reduce the memory requirements by four (not that this is really needed, of course). Charles: "I'm an optimization or two away from calculating 2 or 4 pixels in a single loop. I'm looking to eliminate 4 fixed points multiplies per scan line first. I'm investigating the smallest lookup table I can get away with."
If you have DVC memory, by all means put your code and data in it because it is significantly faster and would thus allow a higher rendering frame rate (I assume that your're not rendering at the display frame rate of 50 or 60 Hz). Video memory should only be used for the actual screen buffers in this case and the number of accesses should be minimized (always a good idea anyway). Charles: "It's not close to 50 or 60 hz yet. How much faster could I expect DVC memory to be? Unfortunately, due to using a tile map, transfers to video memory are probably the fastest part of the inner loop. It currently has to get the tile number, and then get the pixel within the tile. Currently this is a series of asl/asr or ands. I could go with a bitmap landscape, but that would push memory requirements through the roof. That's 1MB for the 1024x1024 map I am currently using, compared to less than 128k now."
Yesterday, Charles posted that all his CD-i activities have pretty much slowed to a crawl. He's hoping to get back into it over the next month or so. The Stanley Cup Playoffs (NHL) might slow things down quite a bit, though :)
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Popular South Indian actress Rambha, who tied the knot with Canada-based businessman Indhiran Padmanathan on April 8 in Tirupathi said that she would continue acting after marriage.
The marriage, performed in a grand manner at the Karnataka Guest House, remained a relatively low-key affair with invitations limited only to family members and close friends. Mostly family members and film stars including actress Roja and her director husband R.K. Selvamani, choreographer Kala Master and the entire unit of the popular TV dance reality show Manada Mayiladu and popular Telugu director Raghavendra Rao, arrived at Tirumala hills for the muhurtam. The couple offered prayers at the hill shrine and immediately after the worship, the newly-wed couple left for Chennai with family members.
The marriage has taken place in Tirupathi on April 8. They planned a grand reception at Rani Meyyammai Hall in Chennai on April 11.


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Erstwhile Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board (CSEB) was responsible for Generation,
Transmission and Distribution of electricity in Chhattisgarh State. In accordance
with the provisions contained in the Section 131-134 of Electricity Act 2003, Govt.
of Chhattisgarh has reorganized erstwhile CSEB into following five companies vide
Notification No. F1-8/ 2008/ 13/ 1 dated 19.12.2008 :-
• Chhattisgarh State Power Holding Company Limited,
• Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company Limited,
• Chhattisgarh State Power Transmission Company Limited,
• Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Limited and
• Chhattisgarh State Power Trading Company Limited
Accordingly Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Limited (CSPDCL) came
into existence w.e.f. 01.01.2009. CSPDCL provides electricity to consumers across
the Chhattisgarh State.
Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Limited has been registered
by the 'Registrar of Companies MP & CG' with Registration No. U40108 CT 2003
CIN No. of CSPDCL U40108 CT 2003 SGC 015822
PAN No. of CSPDCL AADCC6047K
GST Identification No. 22AADCC6047K1ZR
Vidyut Seva Bhavan,
Raipur (CG) 492013
CSPDCL Web portal e-Seva provides following online consumer services
Online Payment Service
Pay electricity bill through Net Banking,
Pay electricity bill through Credit/ Debit card,
Pay electricity bill through Airtel Money,
Print duplicate receipt of the electricity bill payment,
Know about different Bill Payments Mode available in CSPDCL,
Online Billing Service
View and print current electricity bill,
View details of previous 24 months electricity bills,
View details of previous 24 months payments,
View details of previous 24months billing summary,
Online Consumption Calculator
Online Energy Bill Calculator
Multiple Account Service
Add Multiple Accounts (BP Nos.) in profile
View Details of Multiple Accounts on a Single Screen,
Online Complaint Service
Register an Electricity Complaint
Know the status of his/her registered Electricity Complaint
Online New Service Connection Service
Online application for New Service Connection
Know the status of the NSC application
Online Payment for NSC
Online Informations
Information of nearest CSPDCL bill Payment Venue,
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Introduction: In this blog post, Gena Philibert-Ortega talks about how important food has been in the history of state fairs—both the food and recipe competitions, as well as some unusual treats offered for your consumption at the fair. Gena is a genealogist and author of the book "From the Family Kitchen."
Do your plans this summer include a trip to your state's fair? State fairs have been around since 1841 and are a showcase for all types of goods, though their origins focused on agriculture.* State agriculture boards utilized early state fairs as a means to assist farmers in learning how to improve their crops and livestock, as well as highlighting products used in farming.
Competitions provided cash prizes as well as bragging rights for participating farmers and their families.** Today, state fairs offer all kinds of competitions and prizes for the best in everything from agriculture and livestock to arts and crafts. The state fair represents the "best of the best," with those who have won ribbons and awards at a county fair competing at the state level.
And of course, there are the food booths at state fairs, making these events veritable smorgasbords—which offer some surprising cuisine. Chocolate-covered bacon, anyone?
1849 New York State Fair at Syracuse
As anyone who's been to a state fair can attest, food is integral to the experience. Often the food we eat at the fair is out of the ordinary and reserved for just such an outing (think deep fried Twinkies, chocolate-covered bacon and funnel cakes). The fair food often borders between what you want to eat and what you want to eat just this once.
1918 Idaho State Fair Cancelled Due to War
The food served at the fair has changed over time to reflect the region and current tastes as well as world events. Consider this newspaper article referring to a barbeque for the Idaho State Fair in 1918, during World War I. The event, referred to as the "eatfest," was cancelled in an effort to conserve food because the previous barbecue attendees had consumed "five beeves," "600 huge Pullman loaves of bread" and "200 pounds of sugar." Readers are assured that the eatfest would return:
when the war is over and the United States forces march into Berlin they will put on a barbecue that will make the world sit up and take notice…
1860 Utah State Fair Awards
Throughout the history of state fairs, all kinds of awards have been given for food. While some awards are aimed toward crops and livestock, others are for prepared food items. In this 1860 award listing from the Deseret Agriculture and Manufacturing Society (the original name for the Utah State Fair), Utah Governor and Mormon President Brigham Young won in several categories including the Vegetables category for best 6 stalks of celery, best 4 heads of cauliflower, and best "peck of silver onions." Interestingly enough, there is a Women's Work category that does not include food.
1933 Texas State Fair Recipe Contest
State fairs evolved to provide women with the chance to submit their favorite recipes for prizes. In this photo montage from the 1933 Texas State Fair, some of the winners in the food categories are listed as well as their street addresses.
Blue Ribbon Recipes from 1937 Illinois State Fair
The obvious question asked when someone wins a blue ribbon for their recipe is: what is their secret? In some cases, you can find state fair winning recipes printed in the newspaper. In this example from the "Homemakers Institute" column, encouraging women to get their children involved in cooking, two blue ribbon recipes from the Illinois State Fair are featured: Baking Powder Biscuits and Sugar Cookies.
Fruit Cake Prize Winner
In this article about Mrs. Florence Dickinson, a multiple blue ribbon-winning cook, she provides her fruit cake recipe and remarks that "as long as people like to eat, women will like to cook." She goes on to point out that the modern woman, a la 1935, has more time on her hands because of modern appliances and that allows them to not concentrate their entire day on cooking.
Did anyone in your family win a prize for a recipe they submitted to the fair? Did they pass down their prize-winning recipe? If so, please share your family recipes with us as we'd all love to try a taste.
Provide us a newspaper clipping or recipe card and we'll add it to our Old Fashioned Family Recipes Pinterest board. You can email the blog editor with your clippings and cards at: email@example.com
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* Time Magazine. "A Brief History of State Fairs": http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1916488_1921788,00.html. Accessed 26 July 2014.
** Shrader, Valerie V.A. "Blue Ribbon Afghans from America's State Fairs: 40 Prize-Winning Crocheted Designs." New York: Lark Books, 2003, p. 7.
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8/14/12 Rangers at Yankees: Yankee Stadium
So… I think I'll start off the entry with a "Before The Gates Open" video:
If you didn't get it from my video, this was my view of the field when I first got in:
I don't believe any of us ballhawks got a ball out there.
No, my first ball of the day came when the Rangers started throwing. Nelson Cruz tossed a ball to me, but it sailed over my head where Greg Barasch picked the ball up. Went all the way to the ball bucket and picked a ball out of there:
(Do you see him? He's the one closest to the bucket with the ball in his hand.) He then launched that ball over my head with relative ease from over 200 feet away. When I ran up the stairs chasing the ball, it bounced back towards the field and over my head where another fan got it. Cruz then got a third ball. This time, I made sure to be up higher on the staircase. He threw the ball, and I saw it was falling short, so I ran down the stairs, cut into the row, and caught the ball. All in all, it was a fun experience. Here's the ball as Cruz headed off to right field:
My next ball came when I headed to the left field seats in fair territory. Ian Kinsler hit a ball that I could tell wasn't going to reach me on the fly but might reach me after bouncing off someone's hands. It bounced off some hands, off a seat; it then went behind me, and it then bounced off a glove behind me, where it landed in the row behind me and I picked it up. It was in this general area that I snagged it:
After this it was time for Josh Hamilton's group. All of us four ballhawks who had met at Gate 6 had the same idea: go to right field. For the record, I was the first one out of the left field section, but the other three followed seconds after. So, on our way to right field, we divvied-up the right field seats as to not get in each other's ways, Zack got the field level seats, and Ben got the bleachers:
Meanwhile, Greg and I drew the short straws and were relegated to the second deck in right field.
There, I had one mission in mind: Get a ball from Joe Nathan. (He was/is one of my favorite players ever for his role on my beloved Twins.) Here was my view of him:
And this is how I tried to coax him in to throwing me a ball:
That would be my Twins shirt, which I bought at the Metrodome, turned around to highlight how much of fan of Nathan's I was.
Unfortunately, I wasted all of the remaining batting practice up there, but I *was* able to make it down to the dugout just as the players were running off, and I got a ball from a player I can best identify as Mark Lowe:
He's the left of the two players with their heads down.
After batting practice, I met up with a few ballhawks in the left field seats:
Then my neighbor, Greg Barasch showed up, so we had to take it again:
The people- left to right- are:
1. Ben Weil– A ballhawk best known for having the biggest collection of jerseys in the Milky Way. (If you want to see just how big, I put a link to his name for a reason.) However, Ben purposely pulled off his beautiful Rangers jersey to display the shirt you see in the picture.
2. Greg Barasch– Probably the best ballhawk at amassing as many balls in a single game as he can in the country (even if he DOES always go for third-out balls at the games he goes to).
3. Matthew Latimer– A reporter for MLB's Cut4, who may or may not interview me next season at a Yankee game if there's a slow news day.
4. Zack Hample– The man, the myth, the sweater (that's why he's holding out his two-shaded shirt out).
5. Moi- I'm holding out three fingers because it was the third game in a row Zack and I had been to a game together.
6. Mark McConville– A ballhawk who you saw towards the end of the video. We've seen each other at quite a few games considering how many games he's been to (12).
As for the game, Hiroki Kuroda threw a complete game two-hitter. Also, I personally found this stat amazing:
Am I the only one? That seems pretty spectacular.
• 3 Balls at this Game
Numbers 363-365 for my lifetime:
• 143 Balls in 33 Games= 4.33 Balls Per Game
• 3 Balls x 44,533 Fans= 133,599 Competition Factor
• 42 Games with at least 1Ball
• 18 straight Games with at least 2 Balls
• 86 Balls in 23 Games at the New Yankee Stadium= 3.74 Balls Per Game
• 23 straight Games with at least 1 Ball at the New Yankee Stadium
• 8 straight Games at the New Yankee Stadium with at least 2 Balls
• Time Spent On Game 3:58- 10:12= 6 Hours 14 Minutes


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- when people upload to Debian with an @ubuntu.com email address
- even worst, if they do that when they are DDs (so with a @debian.org address)
Things that make me angry
53 comments:
- Michael said...
Isn't it the proper way to do if you package and upload stuff on company time?
- November 9, 2009 at 12:04 AM
- Sandro Tosi said...
@Michael: then you'd use @canonical.com since that is the company you'd work for, not ubuntu, that's the "community" around the distro.
That's from what I know, I could care less how ubuntu is organized..
- November 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM
- Michael said...
They mostly use @canonical.com for uploads even to Ubuntu AFAIK. Though now that I look at their Linux kernel package, the changelog has @canonical.com addresses for recent uploads.
- November 9, 2009 at 12:17 AM
- Michael said...
Eh, they mostly use @ubuntu.com, I wanted to say.
- November 9, 2009 at 12:55 AM
- jamessan said...
I don't really see why the email address they use to upload matters. As long as they're taking care of packages and doing so well, what does one piece of metadata matter?
- November 9, 2009 at 2:08 AM
- slashdotaccount said...
It matters because it is an indicator of priorities and loyalties. A DD using their @debian.org address is way more likely to stick around and improve Debian than the equivalent whose loyalties lie with Ubuntu. An example is Mark Shuttleworth. He is both a DD and an Ubuntu developer. He is MIA from Debian but is very active in Ubuntu.
It is way too late in the game to let Ubuntu cause you angst, just accept that (like Fedora, Gentoo or other distros), they are here to stay and are bigger and better than Debian. Instead, channel your anger into making Debian better; recruit new people, kick out MIA people (like Mark), work on QA, package new stuff, work on infrastructure.
- November 9, 2009 at 3:08 AM
- directhex said...
What does using a non-debian-nor-ubuntu address say about priorities, for those of us with fingers in many pies?
- November 9, 2009 at 3:17 AM
- directhex said...
@slashdotaccount Ubuntu is literally nothing without Debian, so I'd be very careful about "bigger and better than Debian" comments. I know those I ally myself with within Ubuntu view Debian as our number 1 priority - and that the only way to make Ubuntu good effectively is to target Debian first and foremost
- November 9, 2009 at 3:19 AM
- Tom said...
What if the company policy is to use @ubuntu.com??
I guess petty bitching is the new informative blog post.
- November 9, 2009 at 8:47 AM
- Patrick Schoenfeld said...
A sign of priorities? What the hell? Isn't that some kind of over-interpretation?
Eventually its just a dual-distro-maintainer who struggles with different DEBEMAIL settings with different distros. And after all its not very interesting which email address is used to upload to Debian, isn't it?
- November 9, 2009 at 8:51 AM
- Sandro Tosi said...
email address is very interesting, because it's part of how you're "presenting" the work to the Debian project. using @ubuntu.com clearly identifies what you really care about...
- November 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM
- directhex said...
Clearly my priorities and presentation are focused on the storage of simians in cardboard containers
- November 9, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- suihkulokki said...
This is the most petty thing I've read on planet for a while. I never use my debian.org address because I already have a address somewhere else. using d.o address would only mean more addresses forwarding spam to same mailbox.
In debian we have much more real problems than what email address people use.
- November 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Sandro Tosi said...
@suihkulokki: you know that your @d.o is the official way to contact you for your Debian activities, right? and that is must forward to a working and monitored mailbox?
- November 9, 2009 at 9:52 AM
- directhex said...
As to your first point, Sandro, have you considered that perhaps the opposite rings true? Perhaps Ubuntu members have worked on a package in Ubuntu, and decided "man, I really care about Debian, so I want this work to be in Debian too"?
Far from their @ubuntu.com being intended as some kind of insult, it's used as some indicator that they want to cooperate with Debian - and that they've come from the world of Ubuntu to help? They don't feel ashamed about their Ubuntu involvement, so don't change to a non-Ubuntu address merely to hide it?
I've sponsored high-quality packaging from people with @ubuntu.com addresses, and will continue to do so as long as their work is of high quality.
- November 9, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Maybe you should get involved in the team that handles mail on debian.org. Personally I don't use my debian.org email address because of the worthless spam filtering. (No, I don't have/use an ubuntu.org one either.)
"you know that your @d.o is the official way to contact you for your Debian activities, right? and that is must forward to a working and monitored mailbox?"
Not true. Disabling the debian.org mail is perfectly acceptable. The official contact is whatever the control file says it is.
- November 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Sorry, why does it bother you so much? As long as proper work is done, where is the issue? And about non-proper work, I've seen way worse jobs done by upload with @debian.org addresses than from people with @ubuntu.com addresses.
Also, I don't use my @debian.org address since a long time neither and don't plan to unless the account gets renamed. And there are many people do good work and don't use their @debian.org address in their packages.
For a start, to give you a valid reason to do so: Some people like to do their own spam filtering. It's not that comfortable or even possible to filter properly through @debian.org. And that's only one of the reasons.
I really don't see the big difference between an @somewhere.foo address to an @ubuntu.com address. It's people like you that make the collaboration and patch-feeding-back to Debian harder, you are doing a big disservice to Debian with this kind of attitude and blogging, do you realize that?
- November 9, 2009 at 10:16 AM
And, about "you know that your @d.o is the official way to contact you for your Debian activities, right? and that is must forward to a working and monitored mailbox?" - neither of that is true. The official way to contact me for my Debian activities isn't my @d.o address, it's the one address listed in my packages, and it definitely must not be forwarded to a working and monitored mailbox. You can explicitly *disable* your @d.o address through ldap. If you don't believe it, go and check yourself.
Please stop spreading hatred and improper informations. Get over with your anger.
- November 9, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- Sandro Tosi said...
@a1fie: get your feet back to the ground: *I* am "doing a big disservice to Debian"? the small percentage of ubuntu contributors getting back to Debian is so small, that they can easily ignore my blog post.
Moreover, am I not allowed to express what I think? I do not like it, and I do say it. Feel free to agree or not
full stop
- November 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- Thijs said...
This is just whining. The used email address is a utility: a good way to contact the person responsible.
Yet another artificial attempt to polarise the Debian - Ubuntu relationship. What we need in the free software universe is more collaboration between projects, not less.
- November 9, 2009 at 11:09 AM
- Mez said...
Uploading to debian with an @ubuntu.com email? Why not? I started off working in Ubuntu, I felt that I wanted to contribute to Debian also, I applied, and became a DD.
In fact, I still have some that have my @ubuntu.com email listed as Maintainer.
I can understand part 2, though, even if an email is just an email.
@thijs -
- November 9, 2009 at 3:59 PM
- Confusion said...
Some Christians get angry when I explain my atheism. Some sports fans get angry when I explain their sport doesn't interest me at all. Sometimes people get angry when I explain I'm a tourist and hardly speak the local language.
People that get angry over petty differences in opinion have a problem.
- November 9, 2009 at 4:45 PM
- Jeff said...
Argh, this guy's email address is so unprofessional, how dare he contribute his time to MY free software community!!
- November 9, 2009 at 5:38 PM
- Tom said...
You are allowed to express your insanely petty and stupid thoughts, but don't whine when people correct you and tell you that you are wrong.
- November 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM
- Snirp said...
Oh well, this should keep me from ever contributing to Debian. I am ok with a bit of arrogance, but this about does it. Let me know when policy or sentiment changes around here.
- November 9, 2009 at 6:02 PM
- Benjamin Drung said...
I use my @ubuntu.com e-mail address to show that I *do* care about Debian. This address shows the Debian developers that there are *Ubuntu* developers who collaborate and contribute to Debian. A lot of work went into reducing the diffs between Debian and Ubuntu. Many of my packages can now be synced instead of merged.
I am a Debian Maintainer and no DD. So I do not have a Debian e-mail address.
- November 9, 2009 at 6:03 PM
- Zack said...
This all just seems like tribalism but in gnulinux distro terms. Can't we just get past this pettiness and all unite around a true common enemy (Windows)? This sectarianism is harmful.
- November 9, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Snirp: Please don't let this one person speak for the whole distribution for you and read up about the other comments. He sees it from the wrong perspective. It's actually the other way round: It's a sign that more ubuntu people actually *do* contribute back to Debian, which is a win-win situation for both sides. You can't please everyone, but don't let single people discourage you.
Sando: Thanks for discouraging yet another potential contributor. I hope you're happy with your rant now.
- November 9, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- Sandro Tosi said...
@Tom: count till 10 before calling someone else's thougths stupid...
@a1fie: if you want to contribute you contribute, no matter what. Accusing me of having discouraged someone from contributing is quite false because if they have the desire to do so, they'd do. My words count nothing, if you haven't yet realized...
- November 9, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Serious people, GET A LIFE!!! There is the Sine flu, War, US Economy, TARP, a 10.2% Unemployment Rate, and SOOOO much more important things to be concerned and active about -- than some stupid political email crapola.
What a waste of drive space, bandwidth and time this OP is. God, can I get my 1 minute back for my posted reply? Jezuz.
- November 9, 2009 at 6:45 PM
- Benjamin Drung said...
Sandro, your words (or writings) can have an impact.
Your blog post neither will stop me from contributing to Debian, nor from using my ubuntu address for the changelog.
- November 9, 2009 at 6:49 PM
- Tom said...
It's "count to" and I've done that. So?
- November 9, 2009 at 6:50 PM
As long as the Debian Desktop Project exists, Ubuntu should not.
- November 9, 2009 at 7:06 PM
"As long as the Debian Desktop Project exists, Ubuntu should not."
How utterly arrogant, short-sighted and elitist. Did Microsoft purchase Debian now?
- November 9, 2009 at 7:17 PM
- Arkadiusz said...
If you don't want developers from other distros to work on yours, then you should not be in the open source community at all, because you clearly don't understand how it works.
- November 9, 2009 at 8:28 PM
- Sandro Tosi said...
@Arkadiusz: thanks for teaching me. because you are.... yeah, who are you exactly?
- November 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM
- AgentOrange said...
My two cents: posts like this do discourage people from contributing to Debian. It highlights the fact that for you guys, politics is more important than contribution.
You are of course free to say whatever you like on your blog, and I am free to think to myself 'Jeez, I hope I never have to work with that guy'.
- November 9, 2009 at 8:42 PM
I'll never contribute to Debian. It's politics like this more than anything else that divide people vs unite them.
- November 9, 2009 at 8:47 PM
- Thijs said...
@Snirp: I don't mind you shying away from Debian if you generalise one small little boy's misplaced blog post to project-wide policy or sentiments.
- November 9, 2009 at 9:46 PM
- suihkulokki said...
@sandrotosi get your feet back to the ground: *I* am "doing a big disservice to Debian"?
yes. please try understand why instead of claiming that it is not true.
You all doing a disservice to all the Debian people who want co-operate with ALL *people* in free software community, not just with the "elite of @debian.org".
@sandrotosi the small percentage of ubuntu contributors getting back to Debian is so small, that they can easily ignore my blog post.
This is wrong. Many key packages in debian are maintained by ubuntu people (often using their "debian.org" mail address so perhaps you don't even realize it). And is also also contradictory with your post to begin with. If there is so few ubuntu contributors, how could you have noticed them to begin with? Either there are more contributors than you admit or you are getting angry on completly trivial stuff.
Howabout fixing a RC bug as an apology?
- November 9, 2009 at 9:50 PM
- Snirp said...
My reaction was a bit over the top, i guess. I am a happy kubuntu user and would love to start contributing. I do not begin to understand why the emotions keep running so high. In open source everybody wins, right? Forget about my previous comment...
- November 9, 2009 at 11:00 PM
- Martin said...
Howabout fixing a RC bug as an apology?
Great idea.
How about everyone posting on here fixes one too, just for the hell of it? :D
- November 9, 2009 at 11:15 PM
- Sandro Tosi said...
@Thijs: I hope you're feeling much better now...
@<all>: Anyhow, if everyone complaining here about how discouraging to contribute to Debian my blog post is, had actually invested their time in DOING SOMETHING for Debian instead of blablabla, we now have a better distro... Of course, it's always easier talking that doing something
- November 9, 2009 at 11:22 PM
- plAcid said...
inane and pointless, yet somehow compelling enough that i got to the bottom. Seriously, why care about such a microscopically small detail?
- November 10, 2009 at 12:59 AM
- dschulz said...
lame and segregative blog post. Doesn't construct anything.
- November 10, 2009 at 1:07 AM
- DCK said...
@Sandro Tosi:
Maybe I should've, but I've got an @ubuntu.com address and clearly I'm not wanted to contribute?
Just admit that you're wrong when you can't support your opinion with nothing more than petty loyalty issues, personal attacks and statements that your post should be ignored.
When we comment on your blog post and you don't like it, maybe you shouldn't have posted in the first place?
You do not have the attitude a free software developer should have.
- November 10, 2009 at 1:40 AM
- Sandro Tosi said...
@DCK: you (all) can stretch my post as much as yo want, but in NO point I talked about 'contribution', else please point to the exact location of that.
am I not supporting what I wrote? did anyone is actually trying to discuss what I wrote or everyone is coming here and insulting? Should I reply politely to them? NO WAY, hence my comments.
You can comment what you want, and I can disagree with your comments, and I can make it clear: does this mean I shouldn't have posted? non sequitur
I think you should think about all other insulting here as people that "do not have the attitude a free software developer should have.": did you do that? of course not, so please go away if you don't like it.
- November 10, 2009 at 7:22 AM
- Oledor de moles said...
You're boring. And the only reason why I'm replying on this post it's because I'm an asshole.
- November 10, 2009 at 7:24 AM
- Daniel Beck said...
so, is it possible to contribute with an @msn address?
- November 10, 2009 at 9:30 AM
- ओंकार (Onkar) said...
I am not a DD yet so the second point does not apply to me.
I use Ubuntu as primary OS. I am a Ubuntu MOTU team member so I have a @ubuntu.com address. I regularly feed back packaging fixes to Debian in the packages and I always use @ubuntu.com address. The main reason I use @ubuntu.com is because it is an alias to my primary email address. So even if I change my primary email address people can still reach me. I see nothing wrong in that.
There are exactly 10 packages where I am listed as uploader currently and 2 of them I created/revived in Ubuntu first and ported in Debian later. Since I am no DD/NM/DM yet so I always need sponsorship and I have pretty good response in that regard from nice developers in Debian java team. And none of them ever complained about why I used @ubuntu.com address.
Based on my experience I am already convinced that your sentiment/attitude is not representative of the Debian developers community. I hope that you are alone in this regard.
- November 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- Sandro Tosi said...
@Onkar (and others): it should be OBVIOUS that these are just MY opinions and absolutely NOT represent what the Debian project thinks. I'm NOT a representative, Debian speakman, nor a delegate, so I speak as JUST ONE developer.
- November 10, 2009 at 1:36 PM
- stew said...
This post made me wish I had a ubuntu.com email address to switch some of my packages too, just because the premise of this is so ludicrous.
- November 10, 2009 at 4:35 PM
- Wei said...
My email address is more prestigious than yours!
- November 11, 2009 at 7:26 AM


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