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HAVE you ever yearned to live in Spanish Colonial Revival splendor, rattling around a 17,000-square-foot, 14-bedroom, 13 1/2-bath baronial mansion with deliciously thick stucco walls and an impeccable provenance?
If so, Steve Jobs may have a deal for you.
In what could become America's highest-profile tear-down, Mr. Jobs, the Apple and Pixar chief executive, is seeking this town's permission to hit the delete button on the 1926 Daniel C. Jackling estate, a moldering manse designed by George Washington Smith, the architect who created the look of Montecito and Santa Barbara in the 1920's.
The house, built for Mr. Jackling, a copper magnate who died in 1956, sits on six wooded acres that Mr. Jobs, then 29, purchased in 1983. Preservationists have deemed the house historic, an important example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, one that currently stands empty and derelict at the end of a stone-lined cul-de-sac. Mr. Jobs, however, can't abide the place. He recently described it publicly as ''one of the biggest abominations of a house I've ever seen.''
In this affluent community west of Palo Alto -- where bridle paths wend their way to hitching posts at grocery stores stocked with $800 bottles of burgundy -- the woodsy rural life, or a semblance of one, is valued above all. The debate over the Jackling estate has pitted preservationists from Woodside and beyond against those, like Mr. Jobs and many property owners here, who argue that a man's home is his castle and if the castle happens to be an outdated white elephant its fate should be his to determine. Historians say the house qualifies for the California Register of Historic Resources and therefore merits protection under the state's Environmental Quality Act. ''It's a significant house and it can continue to serve the community,'' said Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. ''It's symptomatic of a discard society. He ought to buy another lot.''
Last month, the Jackling brouhaha reached a crescendo of sorts when the town's planning commission, after a series of public meetings, gave Mr. Jobs conditional approval for ''site clearance'' with some notable caveats -- among them, that he shop the house around for a year to find someone who might rescue it and move it elsewhere. ''Steve is perfectly prepared to cooperate with anybody who wants to take the house, and let it go for nothing,'' Howard N. Ellman, Mr. Jobs's attorney, told the commissioners. He added, ''He does not regard it as having value.''
The open space that would result by replacing the estate with a smaller one was more beneficial to the town than saving the Jackling house, the commission concluded. Preservationists objected, and three people promptly filed an appeal, including Clotilde Luce, a Miami Beach resident who lived in the house in the 1970's, and Virginia Gill Andersen, the great-niece of Daniel Jackling. On Oct. 12, the debate moves to the town council, which will determine whether there are reasonable alternatives to demolition and whether there is a broad public benefit to letting Mr. Jobs demolish the house. ''I think it's irresponsible and predatory to deprive the house to future owners, ones who know the value of a 17,000-square-foot masterwork by a great California architect,'' Ms. Luce said.
Mr. Jobs was not available for comment, an Apple spokesman said. But at the public meeting last month, Mr. Jobs explained that he planned to merge two properties he owns, a total of nine acres, and build a smaller house that would be better suited for his family of five. They now live in a relatively modest English-style 1920's brick house in Palo Alto where Mr. Jobs tore down a one-story bungalow on an adjoining lot in 1998 to plant a fruit orchard for privacy.
Mr. Jobs said of Mr. Jackling: ''He was a very wealthy man. Unfortunately, he didn't have very good taste.'' He called the house ''poorly built'' and said that although he had studied architecture, he had never heard of George Washington Smith.
''It was never really a very interesting house to start with,'' Mr. Jobs, who is not known for his iPod-size ego, explained to the commissioners. ''So I think I could build something far, far nicer and far more historically interesting down the road.''
Today, his red-tile-and-stucco albatross sits in secluded decrepitude, dead vines creating spidery patterns on the walls. Mr. Jobs lived in the house for 10 years; in 1998, the Secret Service slept there while President and Hillary Clinton were visiting Chelsea at Stanford. It has been empty for four or five years. From the road, the estate has a desiccated grandeur, its windows boarded, its iron balconies askew. For years it stood open to the elements and, according to Mr. Jobs, was vandalized.
Daniel Jackling has been called the Henry Ford of minerals, developing the process by which copper is extracted from low-grade ore and pioneering the open-pit copper strip mine. As one of the world's richest men, he fit snugly into Woodside, the historical nesting place of elite San Franciscans fleeing the summer fog. Even now most lots are well over the three-acre minimum, most notably the ''Ellison village,'' as Lawrence J. Ellison's 24-acre recreated medieval Japanese compound is locally known.
Smith was an affluent former stockbroker whose portraits of houses in southern Spain so impressed his rich friends that they asked him to design houses like them.
In Montecito, Smith's own residence, the Casa del Herrero, is now a museum and considered to be one of the country's finest examples of Spanish Colonial architecture. A Smith house on four acres in Montecito is for sale at $17.9 million. The same property sold several years ago for $6 million, the difference being the condition, said Pamela Taylor, a broker with Pitts & Bachmann Realtors. Most Smith houses, designed in the 1920's, need restoration. ''You acquire one in order to restore it,'' she said.
The Jackling house befit a copper king, with copper gutters, copper downspouts and a system of copper pipes behind the bougainvillea to warm them in cold weather. But about 1930, the house was extensively altered, with a new wing and a lavish new organ room that caused ''the careful balance of the original facade'' to be lost, said Michael R. Corbett, an architectural historian who evaluated the property for the town.
Mr. Jobs is not, apparently, a Spanish Colonial type of guy. At Apple he is legendary for his minimalist aesthetic. At a Web site, Folklore.org, Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original Macintosh designers, describes visiting Mr. Jobs in the house in June 1985: ''We knocked on the door and waited a few minutes before Steve appeared and led us inside. The massive house was almost completely unfurnished, and our footsteps echoed eerily as he led us to a larger room near the kitchen, with a long table, one of the few rooms that had any furniture.''
At the public meeting, Mr. Jobs said he had purchased the property because he loved the land and the trees and that his intention was always to tear down the house, which he described as ''pretty much a dump when I moved in.''
Mr. Jobs has not outlined his plans for the property nor named an architect. It is possible that he might turn to Peter Bohlin, who has become something of a court architect, designing prototypical Apple retail stores as well as the Pixar campus in Emeryville, Calif. Both Mr. Jobs and his attorney have said his intention is to replace the sprawling house with a comparatively small one conforming to the town's restrictions for size and bulk.
''It's a long way from over,'' said Mr. Ellman, Mr. Jobs's attorney.
The Zen question for the town, which is developing historic preservation guidelines as an amendment to its general plan, may be, How historic is historic?
Thalia Lubin, an architect and vice chairwoman of the Woodside History Committee, said Mr. Jobs has done the property an injustice. ''If I were buying a house like that, I would want to research all the possibilities,'' she said. ''Woodside didn't just happen. It happened because of vigilance and because certain houses were part of the fabric of the town.''
The philosophical fissures surfacing among Woodside's dusty horse trails and leafy byways mirror the San Andreas fault, which, perhaps symbolically, runs through town. Mr. Corbett, the Berkeley-based architectural historian who documented the property, said: ''There are places in a lot worse shape getting restored all the time. But it does raise the question of public value. Is it appropriate to save a building that the public will never see?''
Peter Stent, a retired venture capitalist, is one among many residents disturbed by the implications of the debate, as well as future preservation restrictions, as a potential threat to property rights. ''The structure in question is neither virginal nor unique,'' he said. ''Jackling may be well-known in his day, but he's not the equivalent of Steve Jobs.''
Judi Beisler, a 30-year resident and real estate broker, said that the Jackling affair could have a chilling effect on the town's desirability, putting an end to ''the history of what we're now concerned about saving -- major personalities creating lovely estates and residing in Woodside.''
Indeed, Mr. Ellison's multimillion-dollar rural Japanese compound, a decade in the making, may provide a cautionary tale. Designed by Paul Discoe, a Buddhist priest and temple builder, it is an imperial wonderland with stone bridges arching over ponds approached through a ceremonial cedar gate.
Before building, Mr. Ellison was required by the town to document and then dismantle and preserve remaining historical elements from the Drexler House, a 1912 structure on the property designed by Julia Morgan, the famed architect of San Simeon, that had been substantially altered.
The historical remains of the house -- once a summer place for ''thin-towelled blue bloods playing at poverty,'' in the words of one who had visited -- now lie ignominiously entombed in two shipping containers near Half Moon Bay, awaiting resurrection that has yet to occur.
Michael J. Kilroy, 41, a real estate investor and architecture enthusiast who stepped forward to rescue the remnants, said he still hopes one day to incorporate the elements into a country house. But he likens trying to sort through disassembled Morgan pieces to a mortician ''trying to find the original person after a life of cosmetic surgery.''
Chris Mickelsen, a developer who is storing the containers for Mr. Kilroy, observed that at least the lonely fragments had an ocean view. ''We drive by containers every day and we have no idea what's in them,'' he said. ''Yet in every container there's a story. This is certainly one of the most interesting.''
Correction: July 22, 2004, Thursday A picture caption last Thursday about a debated plan by Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computer, to tear down a house he owns in Woodside, Calif., misidentified the town where another chief executive, Larry Ellison of Oracle, dismantled his. It is Atherton, Calif., not Woodside.


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1-room studio 18 to 22 m2, south facing position. Comfortable and modern furnishings: living room with 1 double sofabed and cable TV. Exit to the balcony. Small, open kitchen (dishwasher, 2 ceramic glass hob hotplates, microwave). Shower/WC. Balcony or terrace. Beautiful view of the mountains and the countryside. Facilities: Internet (WiFi, free). Reserved parking, garage (extra) at the house. Please note: non-smokers only. Maximum 1 pet/ dog allowed.
Accommodation Details:
Val-d'Illiez 9 km from Monthey: Beautiful, comfortable residence "Thermes Parc", built in 2010. Outside the resort, 2.5 km from the centre of Val-d'Illiez, in a quiet, sunny position, in a cul-de-sac, in the countryside. For shared use: indoor pool with internal staircase. WC in the pool area, shower/WC in the pool area. In the house: lift, storage room for skis, central heating system, washing machine, tumble dryer (for shared use, extra). Parking at the house on the premises, communal covered parking (extra). Grocery 3 km, shopping centre 8 km, restaurant 100 m, railway station "Fayot" 500 m. Tennis 2 km, cable car 5 km, ski school 5 km, children's ski school 5 km. Well-known ski regions can easily be reached: Portes du Soleil 6 km. Please note: car recommended. The catalogue photo is just an example. Or private shuttle service payable locally for the ski lifts. SPA: indoor pool of 200m2 (34C), one outdoor pools(34c), Spa river, spa, 1 jacuzzis,(34C) a hammam and a sauna, 2 restaurants and 1 bar. INCLUDED in your stay, 3 hours per day and per person in the spa area: sauna, steam room, indoor pool, whirlpools, outdoor pools and river.
Local Services near this Chalet:
- 500 m to public transport
- 5 km to the nearest ski lift
- 2.5 km to the centre


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REAL NAME: Mike Foley
BORN: June 7th, 1965 in Long Island, New York
6'2", 287 pounds
ALIASES/NICKNAMES: Cactus Jack Manson, Jack Foley, Cactus Jack, Dude Love, Mankind
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, the Rock, Hulk Hogan...all of these wrestlers have achieved success in fields other than wrestling, but perhaps no one, save perhaps for former Governor Jesse Ventura, has helped to bring respect to pro wrestling more than Mick Foley.
Foley grew up on Long Island, New York, a lifelong wrestling fan. Idolizing Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Foley hitchhiked to Madison Square Gardens on the night that Snuka lept off the top of a steel cage onto the prone body of then-Intercontinental Champion Don Muraco in 1983. In college, Foley made a movie of himself as the mythical character Dude Love, highlighted by a death defying leap off a neighbours house. The video made its way into the hands of Dominic DeNucci who would train Foley for his pro debut, when, wrestling as Cactus Jack Manson, he defeated Kurt Kaufman.
In 1986, with just a few years of experience under his belt, Foley wrestled in several matches in the WWF/WWE, as a jobber known as Jack Foley. A couple of years later, after working on the independent circuit, Foley began to wrestle for the Memphis-based CWA, aligning himself with Robert Fuller and his Stud Stable where he would become known as "Cactus Jack". In October 1988, Foley teamed with Gary Young and defeated Todd Morton and Bill Dundee in a tournament final to become the new CWA Tagteam Champions.
Leaving Memphis for Texas, Foley wrestled for the World Class Championship Wrestling (later the USWA) where he won the Light Heavyweight Championship by defeating Eric Embry on December 30th, 1988, despite being well over the weight limit. He was a member of Skandor Akbar's stable and teamed with Super Zodiak and Scott Braddock to win the USWA Tagteam titles twice in 1989.
In 1989, Foley would arrive in the World Championship Wrestling area of the NWA, and was used mostly as a mid-carder and jobber over the next two years, including losing to Mils Mascaras at Clash of the Champions XX in February 1990.
Perhaps it was Foley's work with "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert in Tri-State Wrestling where he really began to get noticed. Tri-State, almost a precursor to ECW, was known for its high impact and violent wrestling style and Cactus Jack fit in well with the organization. It was in Tri-State where Foley and Gilbert clashed in several no-holds-barred typed matches. On August 3rd, 1991, Foley and Gilbert met three times on Tri-State's Summer Sizzler card. Foley won a "Falls Count Anywhere" bout, lost a Stretcher Match to Gilbert and then the two men battled to a double-disqualification inside a steel cage.
With Cactus Jack now becoming noticed by promoters, he was soon back in WCW, where on September 5th, he jumped out of a large "gift box" and attacked fan favourite Sting, leading to a long series of matches between the two superstars. Foley's high-risk maneuvers soon won him respect even from Sting fans. It wasn't long before Jack's manager,Harley Race, turned on him and Cactus Jack was in the fan's favour as he battled Vader. During one of the initial Vader/Jack matches in April 1993, Vader beat up Cactus Jack so badly that Jack had to be "hospitalized" and led to amnesia.
When Foley returned (attacking Vader) at Slamboree, the two men tore up the WCW circuit with their matches. During one battle in Munich, Germany, during a WCW tour of Europe, Foley became entangled in the ring ropes and lost nearly a third of his ear. The injury simply added to Cactus Jack's legend.
Foley would later team with Kevin Sullivan to defeat the Nasty Boys for the WCW Tagteam titles. However, with Foley leaving WCW, the team would split up following the loss of the Tagteam titles and Foley would depart following a "Loser Leaves Town" match.
Foley would wrestle for the Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling where his style certainly fit in with the rest of the ECW competitors. Teaming with Mikey Whipwreck, Foley (still wrestling as Cactus Jack) defeated Public Enemy for teh ECW Tagteam titles.
In addition to ECW, Foley would work for many North American independents as well as in Japan. On August 20th, Cactus Jack would win the IWA's one-night King of the Death Match tournament, defeating legendary Terry Funk in the finals. Foley would also see action in the Japan-based Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW) organization, which became famous for its "junk" or gimmick matches.
By the spring of 1996, Foley had left both Japan and ECW behind, and Cactus Jack went into a semi-retirement. Mick Foley signed with the WWF and debuted as Mankind. Immediately targeting the Undertaker, Foley would receive help from the Undertaker's manager, Paul Bearer when Bearer turned on the Undertaker during a Broiler Room Brawl match at SummerSlam '96. In between battling the Undertaker, Foley would also challenge Shawn Michaels for the WWE Championship in the fall of 1996.
After teaming with Vader in an attempt to win the WWE Tagteam titles from Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith at Wrestlemania XIII, Mankind became a fan favourite and began fueding with Hunter Hearst Helmsley, meeting Triple H (as he would later be known) in a steel cage match where he emulated Jimmy Snuka.
When "Stone Cold" Steve Austin needed a tagteam partner in the summer of 1997 (following Shawn Michaels' walkout after a dispute with Bret Hart), Mankind campaigned to be that partner. Instead, Austin turned his back on Mankind and opted to battle Davey Boy Smith and Owen Hart by himself. Austin did eventually receive help from Dude Love and the pair defeat Hart and Smith for the WWE Tagteam titles.
Austin and Mankind would lose the belts via forfeit with Austin's injury at SummerSlam 98, but Foley would revisit his Cactus Jack persona and team with Chainsaw Charlie (aka Terry Funk to defeat the New Age Outlaws for the belts at Wrestlemania XIV, only to lose the belts the next night on Raw as the genesis for the reformation of DeGeneration X.
Claiming to be frustrated by the lose of the tagteam titles, Foley retired the Cactus Jack persona in favour of Mankind, who would align himself with Vince McMahon and battle both Austin and the Undertaker, the latter in the most infamous "Hell in a Cell" match where Mankind was thrown off the top of the cell and through the Spanish announce table.
Although at first a vicious character, Mankind began to show his lighter side, visiting McMahon in the hospital and introducing the world to "Mr. Socko". Mankind would become the first WWE Hardcore Champion, a gift from McMahon.
When McMahon's Corporation turned its back on Mankind at the 1998 Survivor Series, Foley targeted the Rock and on the last Raw of 1998, won his first WWE World Championship. The Rock would defeat Mankind at the 1999 Royal Rumble, but Foley would regain the title in an empty arena during "Halftime Heat" on Super Bowl Sunday.
After battling The Big Show, Foley enlisted him, along with Test and Ken Shamrock to form the short-lived Union that battled the Corporation. At SummerSlam 99, Foley would overcome Triple H and Steve Austin to win the WWE Championship in a bout refereed by Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.
Meanwhile, Foley was starting to garner attention for his best-selling autobiography "Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks" which would rise to Number One on the New York Bestseller Chart, the first wrestler biography to do so.
As 1999 ended and 2000 began, Foley once again crossed paths with Triple H, this time for the WWE Championship. Triple H would get the better of Mankind in a street fight at the 2000 Royal Rumble, but Foley and Hunter would clash again, with Foley adopting the Cactus Jack persona during a Hell in the Cell match, with the stipulation that if Foley lost, he would retire. Indeed, Cactus Jack lost and Foley retired from active competition, save for one farewell match at Wrestlemania 2000.
In June 2000, Foley would return to the WWF as Commissioner, making matches and dishing out justice and punishment, all the while garnering cheap pops and laughs.
After being fired from the GM position, Foley named himself as the special referee for the Shane McMahon/Vince McMahon Street fight at Wrestlemania VII.
Foley's second book "Foley Is Good" debuted at Number One on the New York Times Bestseller List at May 27th, 2001.
With the "Invasion" angle up and running, Foley would return to the WWE in October, 2001 and resume his role as WWE Commissioner. However, his time in that role would be limited and he would walk away from the WWE on the day after the 2001 Survivor Series.
Foley would not resurface in the WWE until June 2003 when he refereed a Hell in The Cell match pitting Triple H against Kevin Nash. After the match, Foley stuck around the WWE to be honoured as a "Hardcore Legend" and get into a confrontation with Randy Orton and Evolution.
In December 2003, after a brief period as co-GM of Raw, Foley was to have battled Orton, except that just before the match was to take place, Foley walked away from the arena. After weeks of taunting by Orton, Foley returned to the WWE in the Royal Rumble and attacked Orton. Orton got revenge with a subsequent beatdown on Foley by Evolution.
Foley got some help from his old Rock'n'Sock Connection partner, the Rock and the two battled (but ultimately lost to) Evolution in a handicap match at Wrestlemania XX. Orton would also defeat Foley one-on-one in a Hardcore match at Backlash.
Since leaving the WWE, Foley has been active as a special referee on the independent scene and in October 2004, Foley became involved with the Ring of Honor organization and although the two never stepped into the ring to face each other, he engaged in a feud with Ricky Steamboat in late 2004.
Foley continues to be active on the independent circuit, mostly in a referee's capacity, including a stint as the referee for a Chris Sabin/Alex Shelley match at a Border City Wrestling show in January 2005.
With the ECW Reunion shows in June, Foley revited his hardcore past and took part in both shows. He made a suprise appearance at Hardcore Homecoming and acted as the special referee in the Sabu/Terry Funk/Shane Douglas main event and then provided commentary, with Joey Styles, for ECW's One Night Stand.
Foley continued to make appearances on the independent circuit for much of the summer of 2005, both as a referee and as a wrestler, including appearances in Ring of Honor, Ballpark Brawl and Wrestlereunion.
For weeks, rumours circulated that Foley was on the verge of signing with TNA, but finally in September, Foley announced that he had signed a four-year deal with WWE.
After appearances on Piper's Pit and Carlito's Cabana, Mick Foley headed back into ring action in WWE, taking on (as Mankind) Carlito at Taboo Tuesday.
After appearing as the prosecutor in "the Trial of Eric Bischoff", Foley traveled to Afghanistan to take on JBL in a "Good Santa vs. Bad Santa No HoHoHolds Barred" match, won by Good Santa Foley.
Acting as the referee for one of the Edge/John Cena rematches, Foley drew the ire of Edge who blamed him for not being able to regain the WWE Championship. A match between the two was set for Wrestlemania XXII.
Foley won the bout, only to unite with Edge by turning on ECW mainstay Tommy Dreamer and turning his back on hardcore. Foley, Edge and Lita defeated Dreamer, Terry Funk and Beulah at One Night Stand.
After years of trading barbs in the pages of their respective books, Foley and Ric Flair would finally battle in the ring, with the culmination coming with a Flair victory in an "I Quit" match at SummerSlam.
-- complied by John Milner


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FSF News
FSF invites the free software community to its 30th birthday party on October 3rd, 2015
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, July 24, 2015 -- Today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced an open invitation to its thirtieth birthday party, to be held in Boston on the evening of Saturday, October 3rd. The party will feature an address by FSF founder and president Richard Stallman. It represents the culmination of an outstanding thirtieth anniversary year, including the biggest LibrePlanet conference ever and an article about GNU in the New Yorker.
Statement on Canonical's updated licensing terms for Ubuntu GNU/Linux
On July 15th, 2015, the Free Software Foundation's Licensing and Compliance Lab, along with the Software Freedom Conservancy, announces that, after two years of negotiations, Canonical, Ltd. has published an update to the licensing terms of Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
FSF endorses embedded GNU/Linux distro ProteanOS as fully free
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, July 8, 2015 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the addition of ProteanOS to its list of recommended GNU/Linux distributions.
The FSF is hiring: Seeking a full-time outreach and communication coordinator
Our current outreach and communication coordinator has moved into a new position at the FSF, so we are looking for another person to fill the role.
Free Software Foundation announces deputy director search
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Boston-based 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect freedoms critical to the computer-using public, would love to find an experienced, Boston-based deputy director to expand our leadership team.
The FSF is hiring: Seeking a Boston-area full-time web developer
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Boston-based 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect freedoms critical to the computer-using public, seeks a Boston-based individual to be its full-time web developer.
Community is the focus of 2015's International Day Against DRM
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 -- Today, a wide variety of community groups, activist organizations, and businesses are taking part in the ninth International Day Against DRM (dayagainstdrm.org).
LibrePlanet 2015 brings free software luminaries to MIT
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, March 23, 2015 -- The 2015 LibrePlanet free software conference drew nearly 350 activists from around the world to discuss issues of freedom, privacy, and security in computing. Free Software Foundation founder and president Richard Stallman delivered the opening keynote, "Free software, free hardware, and other things" before a packed room at MIT's Stata Center, with hundreds of remote participants tuning in online.
Sébastien Jodogne, Reglue are Free Software Award winners
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Saturday, March 21, 2015 -- Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan announced the winners of the FSF's annual Free Software Awards at a ceremony on Saturday, March 21st, held during the LibrePlanet 2015 conference at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Two awards were given: the Award for the Advancement of Free Software and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
Kat Walsh joins FSF board of directors
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA — Saturday, March 20, 2015 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the addition of Kat Walsh to its board of directors. She becomes the ninth director on the FSF's board.
LibrePlanet free software conference coming to MIT March 21-22
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and MIT's Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) are once again teaming up to bring the LibrePlanet free software conference to Cambridge, March 21-22, 2015 at the Stata Center at MIT. LibrePlanet is an annual conference for people who care about their digital freedoms, bringing together software developers, policy experts, activists, and computer users to learn skills, share accomplishments, and face challenges facing the free software movement. LibrePlanet 2015 will feature programming for all ages and experience levels.
Statement in support of Software Freedom Conservancy and Christoph Hellwig, GPL enforcement lawsuit
While the Free Software Foundation is not directly involved in the suit, we support the effort.
FSF adds Guix System Distribution to list of endorsed distributions
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, February 3, 2015 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the addition of the Guix System Distribution to its list of recommended GNU/Linux distributions.
Libreboot X200 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, January 29, 2015 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Libreboot X200 laptop. The RYF certification mark means that the product meets the FSF's standards in regard to users' freedom, control over the product, and privacy.
Committee begins review of High Priority Projects list -- your input is needed
Send your suggestions for projects of strategic importance to the goal of freedom for all computer users.
Software Freedom Conservancy and Free Software Foundation announce copyleft.org
This new site will not only provide a venue for those who constantly update and improve the Comprehensive Tutorial, but is also now home to a collaborative community to share and improve information about copyleft licenses, especially the GNU General Public License (GPL), and best compliance practices.
The Free Software Foundation opens nominations for the 17th annual Free Software Awards
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, October 17, 2014 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project today announced the opening of nominations for the 17th annual Free Software Awards. The Free Software Awards include the Award for the Advancement of Free Software and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
Matthew Garrett joins Free Software Foundation board of directors
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, October 16, 2014 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the addition of Matthew Garrett to its board of directors.
Free Software Foundation statement on the GNU Bash "shellshock" vulnerability
A major security vulnerability has been discovered in the free software shell GNU Bash. The most serious issues have already been fixed, and GNU/Linux distributions are working quickly to release updated packages for their users. All Bash users should upgrade immediately, and audit the list of remote network services running on their systems.
LibrePlanet is coming March 21-22, 2015, call for proposals now open for annual free software conference
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, September 16, 2015 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) at MIT today announced the dates for the LibrePlanet free software conference, which will be held March 21-22, 2015, in Cambridge, MA. The call for sessions is now open, as is the call for exhibitors and volunteers.


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Whitey Bulger recently requested a prison sit-down with Dorchester native and Hollywood A-Lister Mark Wahlberg, presumably to chat about the possibility of turning Bulger's mob life into a Hollywood film. Bulger's opponents, however, would rather the infamous mobster not be glorified or compensated by way of a film.
The Boston Herald reports that while it may not be morally correct for a film to be made in which Bulger could receive reparations, it is still perfectly legal under the Constitution's free speech doctrine.
Andy Kahan, a crime victim-assistance director for Houston, Texas, who speaks nationally against letting criminals see profit from their crimes, said "Most courts frown on anything that restricts free speech."
"Like it or not, it's legal. Is it morally repugnant? I'm sure you could argue," Kahan said. "The reality is, this is just the beginning of the merchandising of Whitey Bulger."
James "Whitey" Bulger is currently awaiting trial for federal charges at Plymouth County House of Corrections in Massachusetts. The accused mobster is infamous for his notorious crime record in that state.
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Despite attempts, lawmakers have failed to pass laws prohibiting convicted criminals from selling their stories. The Boston Herald reports that Frank Sinatra Jr sued Columbia Pictures and the three men accused of kidnapping Ol' Blue Eyes' son and holding him hostage in 1963 for a $240,000 ransom. The studio offered them $1 million for their story.
Initially, Sinatra won the lawsuit, but it was then overturned in 2002 when a California Supreme Court judge deemed that the kidnappers were protected by their right to free speech.
Similarly, families of those affected by Whitey Bulger's alleged crimes desperately wish that the mobster sees no profit from the stories. Thomas Hussey, father of Deborah Hussey who was 26 in 1986 when she was murdered after "Bulger throttled her for dropping his name around town", according to testimonies, finds the possibility of a Whitey film unsettling.
Hussey said, "I don't think they should make a picture glorifying the (expletive). He was responsible for killing my daughter. He's nothing to be put on a pedestal."
What do you think? Should a film be made about Whitey's life?
Below, check out an extra titled 'Stranger than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'' from the film 'The Departed,' which was partly inspired by Whitey's life.


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California Weed
Colorado's medical pot business is for-profit, regulated – and thriving
DENVER – After 15 years as a white-collar "corporate nomad," Dan Rogers found his new career in the thriving green-collar industry of Colorado, the only state in America with a for-profit medical marijuana market.
The equities trader and former investment banker now produces pot breeds "Reclining Buddha" and "Heartland Cream" in a converted printing press warehouse near downtown Denver.
In the nation's most heavily regulated medical cannabis industry, he also works under constant video surveillance.
Electronic eyes, required by Colorado's year-old Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, track packaging of each shipment from Rogers' warehouse to his four marijuana stores, called Greenwerkz.
He submits product manifests and delivery routes for state approval. Still more cameras are recording as marijuana is unpacked and his state- licensed employees sell to state-registered patients.
"Everything from seed to sales is on video," Rogers said. "You need to know where every gram goes, where every plant is."
In Colorado, America's second-largest medical marijuana market behind California, marijuana capitalism flourishes under strict regulations approved by the state Legislature starting last year.
In California, dispensaries handling millions of dollars in transactions are supposed to operate as nonprofits – with medical marijuana users giving "donations" to "reimburse" operators and growers for costs.
Colorado stores simply pocket cash as profit. And, under new mandates that stores grow at least 70 percent of the marijuana they sell, weed industrialization is flourishing. It is happening despite U.S. Justice Department warnings over attempted large-scale cultivation in California or suspected medical pot profiteering in other states.
In Denver, the marijuana boom grows in old brick buildings and shuttered factories that only five years ago were being converted into artist lofts and live-work spaces for urban professionals.
A former truck and tractor parts factory now houses indoor farms for eight marijuana stores. Elsewhere, real estate broker John Wickens has leased a half-million square feet of space to medical pot entrepreneurs – including a 76,000-square-foot cultivation room for one store.
"This has helped the city tremendously," he said. "It steadied commercial real estate. There are buildings with 40,000 square feet sitting empty. Who else is going to take it?"
Denver interim city attorney David Broadwell said the city took in $3.5 million in marijuana sales taxes last year and hundreds of thousands in local licensing fees from 300 marijuana stores and other cannabis businesses. Colorado's medical pot market may be one-sixth of California's, yet Broadwell said Colorado's cannabis capitalism took the Golden State model "and put it on steroids."
The industry worries Tom Raynes, a former deputy state attorney general and local prosecutor who heads the Colorado District Attorneys' Council. He says Colorado pot businesses operate as an "assumption-of-risk industry" – doomed to collapse if the U.S. Justice Department, which considers all marijuana illegal, decides to intervene.
"I think they're inviting the federal battle," he said. "They're poking the tiger."
But Tom Massey, a Republican state representative from central Colorado who co-sponsored legislation regulating the industry, holds Colorado up as a national model, one that eased federal concerns by providing meticulous oversight to prevent diversion of medical marijuana to the illegal market.
"I think the feds are thinking that as long as we keep it for its intended use, they're going to turn a blind eye," he said.
Fees fund enforcement
In Colorado, where voters legalized medical marijuana use in 2000, fees on 730 retail stores and more than 1,000 cultivation centers and other cannabis businesses now fund the $10 million budget of the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division. It is part of the Department of Revenue, which oversees the liquor and gambling industries.
Paul Schmidt is one of the division's medical marijuana G-men. An enforcement director in a black pinstriped suit, he drops in on marijuana stores and grow rooms, reviewing the security and integrity of sales transactions and cataloging plants marked for state counting with bar codes or special radio chips.
"It was really strange for me initially, because I used to call these people defendants," said Schmidt, a retired Drug Enforcement Administration agent who once directed federal raids on pot fields in Oregon. "Now I call them an industry."
With 55 employees and more than 30 compliance officers, the medical marijuana division licenses thousands of pot employees. Background checks ban anyone with a felony drug conviction from owning, investing or working in the marijuana businesses.
The state also registers all medical marijuana patients. Their numbers nearly doubled in a year to 130,000, with 20,000 more under review or rejected for improper paperwork. Last year, Colorado used $9 million in $90-per-patient medical marijuana program fees to help close a state budget gap.
Norton Arbelaez, a 31-year-old Tulane University law school graduate, is one of the emerging faces of Colorado's medical marijuana industry. He exuded professionalism as he led a tour of his River Rock store and cultivation center in a former Denver bus terminal building.
Before Arbelaez showed off his "Jack Frost Sativa" with its "very piney, very lush smell" or his "Bubba Kush" used by a favorite patient for her cancer symptoms, he pointed out his 32 video cameras.
Arbelaez and his partners invested $45,000 in surveillance, meeting state mandates that, by January 2012, will require all marijuana businesses to maintain 20 hours of video feeds that Colorado regulators can access online.
"We've waived our Fourth Amendment protections. We've given every piece of personal information to the state," he said. "It's Big Brother. Let's not kid ourselves."
Oversight costs are high
For Arbelaez and many others, it is also big business. He and partners invested close to $1 million in their retail and growing operation. They are only now close to turning a profit – but the future of his marijuana business looks prosperously green.
More than two dozen local Colorado jurisdictions have banned marijuana businesses. But in places such as Denver, Boulder and even conservative Colorado Springs, a medicinal Green Rush took off in 2009, before state regulation.
Denver's South Broadway Street was dubbed "Broadsterdam" or "the Green Mile" as pot shops opened in a frenzy. Dozens remain – mom and pop stores such as the Little Green Pharmacy with its shimmering neon marijuana leaf or the Little Brown House with its sign for "the house of the $5 joints."
"The model before (regulation) was embarrassing, uncomfortable, unwelcoming," said Alex Arguello, 25, who with two friends and his father later opened Colorado Wellness Inc., a dispensary and climate-controlled cultivation center. "I went into one business and there was a guy behind a black trash bag. He pulled it back and said, 'What do you need?' "
Arguello and partner Edward "Chuck" McLamb, who both came out of the jewelry and pawn shop business, are now comfortably operating in a state-licensed marijuana store. But many stores went under, unable to afford – or deal with – the demands and costs of new government oversight.
In Boulder, which took in $1 million in taxes and local fees on marijuana businesses in 2010, the college town that once teamed with more than 100 stores and grow rooms saw its industry shrink to an estimated 45 retail centers.
"There were a lot of people who got into this thinking this was going to be a real cash cow," said Michael Bellingham, 38, co-owner of the Boulder MM Dispensary, one of the city's original pot stores. "But a lot of them realized they were in over their heads."
Bellingham cashed out his 401(k) and borrowed from family members so he and his partner could outfit a warehouse to meet the state's marijuana store cultivation mandates. He said many stores merged with pot growers in shotgun marriages that were destined to fail.
Pair sells cannabis foods
State regulation offered the lure of legitimacy for Scott Durrah, an award-winning restaurateur known for his Caribbean-cuisine 8 Rivers eatery in Denver. With wife Wanda James, a marketing executive and leading Colorado fundraiser for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, they secured state medical marijuana licenses as "infused products" manufacturers.
Today, their Simply Pure kitchen makes cannabis foods – from marinara sauce and mango salsa to granola bars and gluten-free jam – for 285 Colorado marijuana stores.
"We grow all our own cannabis. We don't buy anything from anyone," James said. "We cook with 100 percent bud."
She said their regulated, professionally run kitchen and their personal standing in the community brought "a face to cannabis that people couldn't demonize."
But Rogers, operator of the Greenwerkz stores and two cultivation warehouses, decided he didn't want to stand out too much after Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole issued a memo June 29.
It said "large-scale, privately-operated marijuana cultivation centers" – even if legal under state laws – aren't immune from federal prosecution.
Rogers and his partners were considering buying two other medical marijuana retail chains – a deal that would have made them the largest pot provider in Colorado. They abruptly backed out.
"We decided there was no need to be the biggest," Rogers said. "We don't need to be the target. You don't want to poke the dog. We just walked away."


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Genealogists' profiles from all over the place
I apologise if there are errors in this post. Blogger has been a bit mischevious this morning and has not been responding to my save commands but, as I wanted to publish the profile I am doing so anyway
Michelle, you might be interested - there is a one name study registered with the Guild of One Name Studies(www.one-name.org) and you can email the researcher at email@example.com(this is the generic standard Guild email address, & mail is forwarded)
Tx for the connection, I have been in correspondence with Pat for about 10 years, met a number of IREDALE family as a result - found 9 one night in an email from Pat. Even held a few get togthers in Sydney for this family.The GOONS are a great crowd. Did think about being a UTHER goon at one stage, but realised I wasn't finished with other lines to limit myself, just yet.


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Touch Cover for Microsoft Surface tablet sports multitouch keyboard
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They're too much fun to hoon to death.
Here we see a Nissan S-chassis towing a dumpster and then a hovercraft, doing donuts around an exploding TV, and finally driving into a trash can at speed.
This is hoonage that we love ad adore and we hope it never stops. It is also why there are no more 1960s Novas with stick shifts around anymore. These cars all end up driven into walls or wrapped around telephone poles. It's just in their nature.
Let's celebrate RWD hoonmobiles while we've got 'em.
(Hat tip to Sal!)


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To some who saw it Ballade had afterimages of MacMillan's Triad. The dramatic tension in both ballets is a little similar; a woman disrupting the equilibrium in male relationships.
Ballade, a chamber work with a cast of four, was created for The Royal Ballet's New Group and premiered on a continental tour. The set is austere; white backdrop, white table, white chairs. As the ballet opens, the four dancers sit in line with their backs to the audience. They look at each other and the men look to the only woman. All move to the table as if to play a card game. What followed seemed to Peter Williams of Dance and Dancers an exercise in choreographic poker with the men making plays for the girl in a sequence of pas de deux or groups. She makes up her mind, chooses one, and the two other men leave the table.
"Out of that slender material", wrote James Kennedy in The Guardian, MacMillan has made a fluent, gently emotional and uninterrupted kaleidoscope of dance. The setting gives it an initial flavour of stern modernism; but essentially is it a series of variations on MacMillan's quite familiar neo-classical idiom – free and bold but very recognisably stemming from the grand tradition".
First performance: Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos, Lisbon, 19 May 1972
Company: The Royal Ballet New Group
Cast: Vyvyan Lorrayne, Paul Clarke, Nicholas Johnson, Stephen Jefferies
Music: Gabriel Fauré, Ballade for piano and orchestra
Benesh notation score: Jacquie Hollander (1972). Working score


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It took only seven days for Puerto Rican-born Pedro Rodriguez to earn two Silver Stars for bravery on the battlefield during the Korean War.
From his wheelchair in the long-term care facility at the Soldiers' and Airmen's Retirement Home here, the 88-year-old Rodriguez recalled his harrowing Korea adventures four weeks before his sudden death October 19, 1999.
"Most people who receive decorations say, 'I didn't do nothing -- I was soldiering,'" said Rodriguez, a resident at the home for the past 20 years. "I had to do what I had to do. You have to reach your objective, and if you don't kill them, they kill you. I'm alive because I shot first.
Rodriguez was a member of Puerto Rican National Guard's Company F, 65th Infantry Regiment, then assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division.
He earned his first Silver Star on March 24. A sergeant and acting platoon leader, Rodriguez was leading his unit to secure Hill 476 when a camouflaged enemy machine gun opened fire. He ordered one squad to fix bayonets and led an assault on the general area from which the gunfire had come.
When the enemy gun crew opened fired again, Rodriguez charged the position, yelling and shooting his rifle. The enemy soldiers fled, taking their gun but abandoning their ammunition and rations, he said.
Seven days later, his company came under a mortar barrage while attacking heavily defended Hill 398, near Choksong-myon. The lead platoon was pinned down and suffered heavy casualties from enemy machine guns and grenades. Ordered to assist the stalled unit, Rodriguez led his platoon in an assault that routed the enemy.
Born on Jan. 31, 1912, in Jajas, Puerto Rico, Rodriguez said his father was in the transportation business. He said the "transportation business" is what "drove" him into the Army in 1934.
"My father would get goods from the railroad station, load them on his ox cart and deliver them to the merchants downtown," he said. "I used to help him, and I had a wonderful time with him because he loved me. But it just happened that he died when I was 14." After his father's death, his mother, five sisters and younger brother told him he was the man of the house.
"So I had take over the ox cart -- go into the transportation business. Running the ox cart business and caring for the live stock for 11 years took its toll on him. At age 25, he joined the Army. "When I came in the Army, I was so happy. I needed a better job -- $21 a month, three meals a day and everything I needed. That was great."
Rodriguez was with the 65th during World War II, but saw no combat. He said the regiment, organized in 1899, remained in Puerto Rico until it shipped to Panama in January 1943 and then to France in September 1944. The unit landed in Marseilles and marched north. He didn't recollect ever encountering a German soldier.
The 65th returned to garrison duty in Puerto Rico until the Korean War, when Rodriguez and his fellows proved their mettle by earning four Distinguished Service Crosses, 125 Silver Stars, Presidential and Meritorious Unit Citations, two Korean Presidential Unit Citations and the Greek Gold Medal for Bravery
Rodriguez did well in the Army and had a good time because "I was smart," he said. "I was promoted from private to sergeant in three months. When you need a job, you're grateful when you get one you like."
The Army was a good job, he said, and it was followed by a good job with the post office after he retired as a master sergeant. He turned down a postal clerk job in favor of being a letter carrier. "I dream I'm still delivering the mail in Puerto Rico," Rodriguez said. The war hero suffered a stroke and lost his left leg about two years ago.
The father of three boys and two girls and grandfather of 22 reminisced with a proud smile the times he took his sons "downtown" when they turned 17. "I took them to the recruiting office and said, 'Here's a boy! Bring a man to me -- ready for living,'" he recalled. "The Army does that, takes boys and turns them into men."
His son Ariel followed in his footsteps from the Army to the U.S. Postal Service. "He's 54 years old and has more than 30 years in the postal service," Rodriguez noted. "He loves the post office, too.
"I'm 88 years old now, and I enjoyed my time in the Army, the post office and the soldiers' home," he said. "If I had to do it again, I would do it."
A 20-year resident of the Soldiers' and Airmen's Retirement Home in Washington, D.C., Rodriguez died October 19, 1999 of a heart attack. He was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on October 28, 1999. He is survived by his widow, Asuncion Toro Rodriguez, three sons, two daughters, 22 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.


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Fenway to Foggy Bottom
'Tis the season for MLB Awards, fa la la la la, la la la la. And what a bunch of awards. Jeff is happy because reknowned Mexican wrestler, Albert Pujols, won the NL MVP and some parts of the east coast are happy because the shortest, hardest-working man in baseball, Dustin Pedroia, picked himself up an MVP award, too. Me, I couldn't care less.
Yep, if Albert hadn't been in St. Louis this year, they probably would have finished with 90 something losses. And Pedroia hits a lot bigger than he looks. But it just isn't that exciting. It's nothing like Jimmy Rollins fueling the Phillies improbable run into the playoffs last year. Even Alex Rodriguez, last year's winner in the AL, felt like a more justifiable pick compared to the scrappy but ultimately undeserving Pedroia. Don't get me wrong, both winners are incredible baseball players. But forgive me for being underwhelmed.
Who would I have picked? Well, to be honest with you, I'm not sure. There's not really anyone who sticks out in my mind. In fact, I think this is one of those years when it would be better if MLB had the option of designating no winner at all.
In a lot of ways, this whole thing mirrors another tough choice being made right now. Every four years the new (or re-elected) president has to decide who his chief diplomat will be and it appears that this year's choice is the junior senator from New York. Once again, forgive me for being underwhelmed. To be fair, though, I wasn't really all that impressed with any of the other candidates, either. Bill Richardson? I've already shared my thoughts on him. John Kerry? I'm sorry but I can't think of one person I would less want running an agency devoted to talking through problems and avoiding embarrassing verbal slip-ups. Other front runners like Chuck Hagel have taken themselves out of contention which means that the task of managing one of the government's largest bureaucracies will most likely fall to soon-to-be President Obama's vanquished rival from the primaries. I'm not sure what I'm feeling right now but it sure isn't awe.
I freely admit that I'm a glass half-full kind of guy. And you should feel free to disagree with me on my conclusions here. But, as my friend Mr. Lung likes to say, don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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I am currently working on the homology of some moduli space and there exists a much simpler chain complex with the same homology. It is a quotient of a bisimplicial complex by a subcomplex. One could say that some faces are degenerate, thus are zero. Unfortunately, it's too hard to compute the homology groups by hand.
Given a free chain complex of finite type over the coefficient ring $\mathbb{Z}$ or $\mathbb{Z}/{p^k}$, with $p$ prime, I cannot compute the homology groups by hand. Some matrices have approximately $18.000.000 \times 15.000.000$ entries.
Question: Is there a C/C++ library or an external program that does the following (in descending order of importance)?
- computes the homology groups of the given chain complex
- describes the image of one or multiple cycles as a linear combination of homology classes
- is efficient (e.g. it is capable of using multiple CPUs)


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10 Famous Cuisines in Unexpected Places
It doesn't take a world traveler to recognize that a country's cuisine knows no boundaries. Thanks to globalization, a country's cuisine can be found in the most unexpected of places, which upon closer inspection, may not be surprising after all.
See 10 Famous Cuisines in Unexpected Places Slideshow
The phenomenon of foreign cuisines relocating can be traced along the paths of migration — when the Portuguese came to Massachusetts to work on whale ships, they brought along their recipe for fish stew, and when the British Empire welcomed the people of India from the British colonies, curry houses sprouted up along the streets of London. What once was simply the food of an outsider community, however, is now an inseparable part of the cultural identity of these places.
So what does all this mean for the hungry traveler? For one, it expands the culinary possibiltiies in cities large and small. Excellent, authentic international cuisine can be found not only in major metropolises, but also in places where tourists less frequently go.
Can't afford a trip to France or Spain to indulge in Basque cuisine? Then head to Boise, Idaho, where that food is flourishing. Hungering for the flavors of Havana? You don't have to wait for the borders of Cuba to open, because there's plenty of authentic Cuban food to be found in Tampa, Fla.
Instead of a cuisine culture clash, famous cuisine found in unexpected places also means that travelers should expect the unexpected when searching for an alternative to a country's native cuisine. You may find that it's not pão de queijo but sushi that satisfies your snack craving in Brazil or maybe you're not longing for crusty baguettes when you part ways with Paris, but the dense and chewy Algerian bread called kesra.
Sometimes the greatest risk when traveling is venturing outside your expectations. Whether you go searching for a city's international cuisine or stumble upon it, stay open to a place's unexpected food offerings and you may find that your taste experiences become much richer than you could have imagined. H ere are 10 famous cuisines found in unexpected places.


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A Way Out of Illiteracy
After a survey found that more than 40% of school children in a district of Ethiopia couldn't read, World Vision piloted a reading camps program. Read how these camps are transforming literacy and the lives of children in Ethiopia, and our plans for the future!
According to a reading skill assessment conducted by World Vision and Save the Children, more than 40 percent of primary school children in Wonchi, Ethiopia are unable to read or identify between letters, consonants, and vowels.
4th-grader Dawit confirms: "I only knew the A, B, C, but could not read texts. I did not know the difference between consonants and vowels. When I took text exams, I used to answer by guess."
Teacher Elfinesh Hailu admits that the students have difficulties with reading.
"Our children complete grade 4 without having enough skill of reading. This is shame for me as a teacher. I believe that our child unfriendly teaching methodology, inability of preparing teaching aids from locally available materials, lack of skill of managing large classroom size are the major contributors our students' weak reading skill performance," she explains.
In collaboration with Save the Children and the local government educational office, World Vision piloted a literacy boost project at the Wonchi and Hidabu Abote communities and begun implementing the project in March 2012. The project is aimed at increasing the percentages of children who are able to read at functional levels by age 11.
World Vision trained 180 volunteer reading camp leaders and community facilitators along with 130 teachers and supervisors from eight intervention schools with relevant reading skills at Wonchi. Through reading camp facilitators, World Vision provided awareness creation training to 2,803 parents.
So far, 49 child-friendly reading centers have opened in Wonchi District across 60 villages. Children meet on weekends to practice reading skills at each camp with the help of volunteer leaders. Each reading camp has its own book banks where students can access reading materials.
Chitu, about 123 kilometers southwest of Addis Ababa, is one of the 49 reading camps. Close to 40 children attend. The walls of the camp are filled with eye-catching print materials. Some of the letters are associated with familiar animal names, some with cultural items, and others with local materials to help children identify them.
The friendly reading materials, informal interactions, and sound teaching methodology have incredibly improved children's reading skills.
"This reading camp has improved my reading skill remarkably. I can now identify between letters and read stories. Previously, my mum had to knock the doors of our neighbors to ask them to read text of any kind, but today I can do the reading for her," 11-year-old Shewaye happily explains.
Dawit is also excited to be part of the reading camp.
"The way we learn at this reading camp has entirely changed our [reading]. We learn everything in fun. We learn through games, story times, songs, and activities. Once we learn this way, we will not forget. I have now reached from the point of not identifying a single letter to reading a text. I once was answering text exams by guessing, but now I can read and respond accordingly," Dawit proudly explains.
Abinet Tesfaye volunteers at the reading camp in Chitu.
"As I continued helping them, I saw amazing improvements. Now I feel proud on being part of this great job," he says.
This literacy boost pilot program has been successfully implemented in Wonchi and Hidabu Abote. World Vision trained 200 teachers from 15 intervention schools as well as 322 volunteer reading camp leaders and community facilitators, established 91 reading camps, and distributed 17,550 books to reading camps and intervention schools. In doing so, the program has been able to equip 8,350 children with reading skills.
Following its success, the reading camp demand is very high. World Vision is now planning to scale up the literacy boost projects in 25 communities in Oromia region, three in Amhara region, and four in Tigray region and Dollo Ado refugee response program through sponsorship education programs.
By Aklilu Kassaye
(2013 Aklilu Kassaye/World Vision)
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Tom Brokaw's best questions in Tuesday night's California gubernatorial debate were his first three. With each question, he effectively asked Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown if the voters themselves aren't part of the problem with California.
The candidates ducked all three.
First came Brokaw's lead-off query. Quoting from President Kennedy's admonition that Americans should ask what they can do to help the country, Brokaw asked the candidates to address voters and tell them what they would need to give up. Neither candidate gave a direct answer. Whitman talked about welfare reform. Brown talked broadly about sacrifice without specifics.
Second, Brokaw cited a poll showing that voters believe the budget can be cut without hurting people (which isn't true), and asked if voters were unrealistic. Whitman didn't address the question directly. Brown acknowledged only that everyone can be unrealistic when it involves giving things up. But he didn't go further.
Brokaw's third question was about a consequential decision by voters: the adoption of Prop 13, and whether it should be changed. Both candidates said no, though Brown circled back to suggest that the centralizing effects of Prop 13 (it took the power to raise revenues away from local governments and centralized it in Sacramento) deserved a closer look.
In their bobbing and weaving, Whitman and Brown denied the central reality that voters -- who hold huge power in California to change the constitution and approve ballot initiatives -- are the primary authors of the flawed governing system that has made the state such a mess. On one hand, it's perfectly natural for politicians not to blame voters, whose votes they want.
But, considered another way, Brokaw's questions were not hard--they were softballs in disguise, offering an opportunity to show leadership. Either candidate could have used this as an opportunity to say: "California's problems are so deep and so profound that we're all responsible for them, politicians and voters. And we have to work together to solve them--we can't have anyone standing on the sidelines." A bold candidate might have taken the opportunity to list some specific sacrifices that all Californians will have to make.
There would have been risk in such a strategy -- but also reward. Brown and Whitman took the easy way out. That's worrisome.


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Copenhagen Pro 2012 Presented by DC
Posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 by Rob
By Rob Meronek
A few photos from the Finals, our night after, and general tourist mission the following day. Copenhagen Pro 2012: Wow, what a weekend...
And the day before that...I've got the last day and a half in Copenhagen shaved down to 8 minutes of cell phone footage consisting of everything from working with my good friends, meeting new skate homies on the streets who explain everything from pronunciation to how health care works, the general culture here and how PDA is very common, and more. We've been doing the classic "work hard and play hard" here while we're in town to run Copenhagen Pro: Copenhagen Denmark: Skateboarding, New Local Friends, and Working.
A few photos from the Finals, our night after, and general tourist mission the following day. Copenhagen Pro 2012: Wow, what a weekend...
|Chris Cole's Storm Trooper.
|Jani Laitiala - front crook.
|Kelvin Hoefler - switch front blunt.
|Ishod Wair - backside tailslide.
|Ishod Wair - backside smith grind.
|Braydon Szafranski - frontside flip.
|Mike Anderson - frontside 180 nosegrind.
|Frank Gerwer - frontside boardslide.
|Mike Anderson - hurricane.
|Dennis Busenitz - feeble grind.
|Albert Nyberg - fakie flip tailslide.
|Austyn Gillette - frontside 180 to 50-50 the hard way.
|Austyn Gillette - frontside flip all the way around to switch carve out.
|Chris Cole - kickflip backside tailslide.
|Nyjah Huston - nollie heelflip crooks.
|Theotis Beasley - kickflip crooks.
|Wieger Van Wageningen - fakie crooks.
|We're in the middle of working out the taxes and other issues involved with international shipping for our online store. Alex Dang hit me up asking about placing an order from France. He mentioned he would be at Copenhagen Pro, so we packed up an order and personally delivered it to him today.
|Post Finals run nap.
|Koston and Staba had a hardflip battle out back on this thing.
|Taylor Bingaman - gap to overcrook.
|Staba gets what he asks for.
|Champagne, too.
|These two Danish do-boys are responsible for moving Brad's VIP section around with him.
|Erica's here doing stuff for DC and The Berrics.
|Sauced up vert guys offering up all kinds of interesting commentary during the Finals.
|I'm always at the bar with the partying ginger.
|Best Trick was a kicker over the roast pig. That's Neverton switch heeflipping it.
|Out back, this is how DJ Wade combines bid'niss and pleasure.
|Chris Cole is announced winner.
|Congrats, Chris, thanks for coming all the way over.
|They pay the prize purse out in cash over here. That's $70k Rothmeyer is holding.
|Tom Penny was around all weekend and is joining on the boat tour.
|Nyjah Huston, Evan Smith, Chris Cole, and Matt Miller getting bubbly. Can they spoil us any more? Damn!
|Master Fat Man, aka Euro Body, was our tour guide on the boat.
|My partners on the SPoT Media Team for the weekend, HiDefJoe and Porpe.
|Pause for a foot fetish by the foot warmer. It's been blazing hot all week, but today it got cold and rained all day.
|Braydon and William, the Brian Schaefer of Copenhagen Skatepark.
|HiDefJoe enjoying the local meat wands. Anteater in the cornhole! Thanks again to DC and everyone at Copenhagen Skatepark - we could not have had a better weekend.