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I just don't want to get involved with any group of Christians who have in any way ceased to be Christ-centered in there thoughts or in there prayers, so I want to make sure that Orthodoxy does indeed put the Son of God in the middle.
My concerns are simply that I cannot find and very-early Christian evidence that the apostles taught people to actually invoke saints in prayer, and I'm not yet comfortable with the idea. But more than that, I am also concerned that such a practice could conceivably be misunderstood and potentially take away from the Christ-Centeredness of the religion. Though one might outwardly pay lip-service to putting Christ at the center and understanding him as the only savior and intermediary, inwardly I have observed that some people, especially in the catholic fold, seem to love the saints and the Theotokos a great deal more, as though in their inner heart of hearts they feel as though their religion is one involving many wondrous divine beings, the saints and the angles and the wonderful Mother of God, "who all love us and help us, and there's one for ever purpose and for every need! how wonderful, so many saints and angles! And as a nifty little bonus, we got God and Jesus thrown in there too!"
CHAPTER XVII -- THE CHRISTIANS ARE REFUSED POLYCARP'S BODY.But when the adversary of the race of the righteous, the envious, malicious, and wicked one, perceived the impressive nature of his martyrdom, and [considered] the blameless life he had led from the beginning, and how he was now crowned with the wreath of immortality, having beyond dispute received his reward, he did his utmost that not the least memorial of him should be taken away by us, although many desired to do this, and to become possessors of his holy flesh. For this end he suggested it to Nicetes, the father of Herod and brother of Alce, to go and entreat the governor not to give up his body to be buried, "lest," said he, "forsaking Him that was crucified, they begin to worship this one." This he said at the suggestion and urgent persuasion of the Jews, who also watched us, as we sought to take him out of the fire, being ignorant of this, that it is neither possible for us ever to forsake Christ, who suffered for the salvation of such as shall be saved throughout the whole world (the blameless one for sinners), nor to worship any other. For Him indeed, as being the Son of God, we adore; but the martyrs, as disciples and followers of the Lord, we worthily love on account of their extraordinary affection towards their own King and Master, of whom may we also be made companions and fellow-disciples!CHAPTER XVIII -- THE BODY OF POLYCARP IS BURNED.The centurion then, seeing the strife excited by the Jews, placed the body in the midst of the fire, and consumed it. Accordingly, we afterwards took up his bones, as being more precious than the most exquisite jewels, and more purified than gold, and deposited them in a fitting place, whither, being gathered together, as opportunity is allowed us, with joy and rejoicing, the Lord shall grant us to celebrate the anniversary of his martyrdom, both in memory of those who have already finished their course, and for the exercising and preparation of those yet to walk in their steps.....We wish you, brethren, all happiness, while you walk according to the doctrine of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; with whom be glory to God the Father and the Holy Spirit, for the salvation of His holy elect, after whose example the blessed Polycarp suffered, following in whose steins may we too be found in the kingdom of Jesus Christ!These things Caius transcribed from the copy of Irenaeus (who was a disciple of Polycarp), having himself been intimate with Irenaeus. And I Socrates transcribed them at Corinth from the copy of Caius. Grace be with you all.
Thank you all, this has been most helpful. And thank you ialmisry for these passages from the martyrdom of St. Polycarp. I've read this before and I've researched him, seeing as he was a disciple of John the Apostle. I had forgotten these passages though, which help to establish that the earliest church actively venerated holy men and women who had contributed much and had done great things for the Kingdom of God. And the more I have read of the various saints venerated in the Orthodox church the more I see how important it is to put them in remembrance and learn from their examples, sense it seems plain the the Lord has held them up for Christians as examples. And all of this helps to reassure me of the Orthodox understanding of Christ.Perhaps I should clarify one point. The only reason I have been so concerned about this is that I am friends with a self-proclaimed 'Catholic' who tells me all about saints and who to pray to in various situations, and yet she seems almost clueless about everything else in the Christian teaching and has never read the Bible. But I also know that there are always going to be people in every faith who are a little confused, and I am certainly one of them! I try not to make generalizations. What I meant to describe are people who call themselves "Christians', but who have lost touch with the the teaching about Christ as the only savior. I know they are not truly Christan in such a case.
... self-proclaimed 'Catholic' who tells me all about saints and who to pray to in various situations, and yet she seems almost clueless about everything else in the Christian teaching and has never read the Bible. But I also know that there are always going to be people in every faith who are a little confused, and I am certainly one of them! I try not to make generalizations. What I meant to describe are people who call themselves "Christians', but who have lost touch with the the teaching about Christ as the only savior. I know they are not truly Christan in such a case.
It worries me to see an icon of Christ and an icon of the Theotokos given equal preeminence in any display of icons, and I've seen a lot of that in my image searches. Perhaps I merely misunderstand the gesture.
...you can imagine so-called healing services of the pigpen. The books that could be written, you know: Life in the Pigpen. How to Cope in the Pigpen. Being Happy in the Pigpen. Surviving in the Pigpen. And then there could be counselling, for people who feel unhappy in the pigpen, to try to get them to come to terms with the pigpen, and to accept the pigpen.
Just a thought, because I'm pretty sure that you didn't mean this as a criticism, but rather an observation. But I've come to realize that it ill behooves me to sit in judgment on other people and their faith or relationship to Christ. We cannot know their hearts, as He does. My goal, and believe me, it's hard enough, is to "see to myself and my own sins."
Hi Armchair Theologian,One advice : don`t try too much at a time and always be sincere with who you are and what you believe.. don`t try to grasp too much at a time..I will try to answer some of the things concerning Mary.God does not change.He remains the same.What we do when we plead Mary to "pray" to God or Jesus for us, we invoke the reverse of the Incarnation.. Mary's position that granted the Incarnation.I think the same is valid for the saints.When we pray to the saints or petition the saints we invoke their life and virtue that granted them sanctification.We venerate objects and icons as in to give everything its proper honor and glorification.It is just like saying thanks to God for the sun, for the air, for giving you a home and realizing the quality and qualification of everything, the beauty of all, in all and enjoying the full potential of things and life, enjoying things as they are, in their fit place.About something explicitly thought by the Apostles.Does it have to be?Were the Apostles so wide as to contain the whole truth in the world?We say that the Church has the fullness of truth.Yet even though the church is a wide socio-cultural organization there are truths that are not in the church.. Having the fullness of truth means teaching an undefiled truth.Don`t try to push things but accept them gradually.Patience, a lot of prayer and humility.God bless!
This is an iconostasis, in front of the altar of an Orthodox Church:You will notice three things: Left, an icon of the Theotokos and Child; center, the Cross or Crucifixion; right, Christ Pantokrator (which means, 'almighty').The icon on the left re-presents the First coming of Christ in the flesh.The cross/crucifix in the altar, in the center, re-presents the redeeming work of Christ, and where his Death is proclaimed, in the Eucharist, until he comes again.The icon on the right re-presents his Second Coming in glory, on the clouds of heaven.
Quote from: katherineofdixie on October 25, 2012, 12:07:25 PMJust a thought, because I'm pretty sure that you didn't mean this as a criticism, but rather an observation. But I've come to realize that it ill behooves me to sit in judgment on other people and their faith or relationship to Christ. We cannot know their hearts, as He does. My goal, and believe me, it's hard enough, is to "see to myself and my own sins."Thank you, and you're right. I think you've really laid out the heathiest approach to looking at people who seem to have a different way of doing things spiritually. I freely admit I'm guilty of inwardly looking down my nose at others. It's pride, and it has to be repented of. But I wanted to use this example to illustrate one of my concerns.
I don't remember what it was that I saw, but I think it was images of home prayer-corners
Hi people. I've been late getting back on here. I went to the Orthodox Parish with my wife and attended the liturgy. It was a very positive experience. I absolutely loved the liturgy, and I found it to be very much focused on Christ. Afterwards I was able to talk to a few of the people there, who enthusiastically introduced themselves, and they were very friendly and helpful. Interestingly, the first people to introduce themselves was a couple who had also been Nazarene before coming to Orthodoxy. They said it was crazy where the Holy Spirit will lead you if you let Him, and they told me the story of what brought them to Orthodoxy. I was introduced to the priest, and he gave me his card and told me I could get a hold of him if I had any questions. He told me about their Orthodoxy 101 classes and encouraged me to go if I wanted to learn more. I'm going to have try to get Wednesdays off from my job so I can attend. Over all a good experience, but obviously I'm still far away from being ready to make a call on the whole thing.
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Nurmahal-based dera Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan has started a toll-free number and also gone active on social media, including Twitter, appealing to the public to support the samadhi of their leader.punjab Updated: Dec 11, 2014 09:51 IST
With a week to go before the Punjab and Haryana high court's deadline of December 17 to the Punjab government to perform the last rites of Nurmahal-based dera Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan (DJJS) head Ashutosh ends, the dera has started a toll-free number and also gone active on social media, including Twitter. The dera is appealing to the public to give a missed call on the toll-free number (07878180025) to support the samadhi of their leader.
Dera head Ashutosh was declared clinically dead by doctors on January 29 and his body has since been kept in freezer. This is for the first time that the DJJS has publically expressed its desire to preserve the body in the form of a Samadhi.
The DJJS is also using the social media to spread the message and gather support for its initiative and the link carrying the number has received many hits on the internet. Twitter is also being used to spread the number and gather support.
The dera has also published posters of this campaign and has called it a "Call to preserve Samadhi, Culture, and Humanity. To support Ashutosh Maharaj's Samadhi give a missed call on 07878180025".
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To hear Davidson River teacher Josh Schneider tell it, the art of Taiko, or Japanese drumming, saved his life.
To hear Josh Schneider tell it, the art of Taiko, or Japanese drumming, saved his life.
"I was by far the worst-behaved kid" in Brevard Middle and Brevard High schools, said Schneider, who now teaches Taiko at Davidson River School in Brevard.
Despite being the first-chair percussionist in the middle school band, Schneider was bored in band and in middle school, so he started acting out. Things got worse when he moved to high school.
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Coming to Davidson River School as a student in his teens "was my last chance," he added. The school helps struggling students get back on their academic feet and earn their diploma at either their home high school or Davidson River.
When Schneider arrived at the school, he heard Taiko drums being played outside his classroom. The booming sounds of the drums renewed his interest in music.
"I wanted to play in the Taiko group but the principal, Miss (Donna) Wilde, wouldn't let me until I completed 80 hours of community service" at the Rosman dump, he said. The experience gave him time to reflect and "taught me not to mess with Miss Wilde."
Today, Schneider, 20, is a Davidson River graduate, the school's current Taiko instructor and happier than he's been in years. Not only does he have a huge smile on his face as he coaches students on tone and technique, but the class is awash in laughter.
Sophomore Anna Owen said she originally felt "forced" to take Taiko when she came to Davidson River during its summer program two-and-a-half years ago, but now it's her favorite class.
"Well, maybe I like lunch just a little bit better," she said with a laugh. Her favorite part of the class is being able to "hit things hard."
Taiko, which means "big drum" in Japanese, involves the entire body, with a lot of hard-hitting drumming and choreographed movements. The drumsticks, called bachi, are about an inch in circumference and can be up to 2 feet long. The sound the drums create is so loud and percussive that the class has to be held outside in the school parking lot.
"When you first start playing Taiko, your whole body hurts," said sophomore Jenna Nichols. "I wanted to do it because I thought it would help me get out of my shell, and it did."
Daihachi Oguchi created Taiko music in Japan after World War II, she added, "but the drums have been around for centuries. They used to play them to create a property line and establish territory."
Schneider said the drums were also used to intimidate enemies on the battlefield.
At Davidson, the drums have a more peaceful purpose.
"They give the students a feeling of belonging and acceptance and being part of a team," Wilde said. "Josh does a great job with team collaboration. Students help monitor and encourage each other. In the past, these were the academically not successful kids, and now they are the cool kids teaching other kids to play Taiko."
Taiko also teaches accountability and self-discipline, Schneider said, adding that "if one drummer is missing, the whole group has to adjust."
When a student recently had trouble with attendance, Schneider gave her a bigger part so that she had to show up or risk the displeasure of the entire class.
"When other people count on them, it makes a big difference," he said.
A koi fish is part of the class's official logo to call to mind an ancient Japanese legend of struggle. "The koi has to swim upstream to mate, so basically it struggles its entire life," Schneider said.
After swimming up waterfalls and rivers to get to "the top of the mountain, it turns into a dragon. All of that struggle, and the koi turns into a strong dragon."
Schneider's students now love Taiko so much that on a recent day, "we were so tired of being inside, we played in the rain," he said. The group played 19 concerts last year, including kicking off Brevard's White Squirrel Festival, where they packed the proverbial house, with hundreds of people lining the streets.
As Schneider wrapped up his Wednesday class with a final improvisational jam session, every student was smiling. With the final beat, the group let out a collective "Yeah!"
"I'm so proud of you," Schneider said.
Looking back at his early academic struggles in life, Schneider says he feels lucky to be sharing Taiko with his students while working toward earning his music education degree at Blue Ridge Community College. He is considering finishing his degree at Brevard College, which has a highly acclaimed music program.
Instead of getting in trouble like he used to, Schneider now finds joy and music surrounding him every day. "Every day, everywhere I go — walking, brushing my teeth, coming to school — I hear rhythms in my head. Taiko will be with me for the rest of my life."
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The comedian turned politician has been gaining popularity and is performing strongly in the polls. WSJ's Alessandra Galloni explains why he may be a force in Italian politics after the election results are announced.
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Pacific Northwest race promoter "Wick" is sick and we don't mean that in the cool, hip hop, dope way, but mounting hospital bills, devasting sickness way. He's in hospital now and the community is rallying around him, raising money.
Race the White River Revival @ Greenwater to donate
Wick has been an area race promoter for 20 years. He is the host of the famous "Wednesday Night World Championships" and has served as an integral part of our racing community. Currently our friend is in the ICU unit where he is battling a monumental infection that could keep him there for some time.
Registration is now open on [bikereg](http://www.bikereg. com/events/ register. asp?eventid= 11263) and [details here](http://www.ragnarok racing.com/)
Updated to remove the link to Caring Bridge.


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Molly McCrary, 11, speaks with reporters about the house fire that claimed the lives of her mother, her two sisters and two other children.
A mother, two of her daughters and two other children died early Saturday in a house fire outside Atlanta, authorities said. The only survivor was an 11-year-old girl who escaped after the mother woke her up and told her to run.
Firefighters were called just after 1 a.m. to the house, in the suburb of Newnan. The state fire marshal's office ruled that it was an electrical fire and an accident.
The fire killed Alanna McCrary and two of her daughters, Eriel, 5, and Nikia, 2, Newnan police said in a statement. NBC affiliate WXIA reported that the mother was 28. The two other children killed were Messiah White, 3, and McKenzie Florence, 1, police said.
The surviving child was identified by local media as Nautica McCrary, nicknamed Molly.
David Tulis / AP
Sisters Brandy McCrary, left, and Breona Montgomery, who are cousins of the five fatal house fire victims, share a hug with neighbors Bonita Beasley, center, and Jennifer Moss, right.
"The mother woke her up and told her to run," Police Chief Buster Meadows told The Associated Press. "There was someone outside who she ran to, and the mother went back after the others. Neither her nor the other four children made it out."
Investigators believe a faulty breaker in the electrical panel of the house started the fire, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Firefighters found the charred remains of a smoke detector, but it was unclear whether it had worked, a spokesman for the state insurance commissioner told the AP.
Neighbors left balloons, candles, teddy bears, a small cross and two bicycles beside the mailbox later Saturday, and someone spray-painted a Bible verse on a blanket and left it there, the AP reported.
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Arizona State must stop Navy's wishbone
Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year Will Sutton of Arizona State and his pals on that side of the ball are about to get a knee-full of Navy. It doesn't figure to be a pleasant experience.
One feature of Navy's wishbone offense is that its offensive line, usually undersized, fires out low and hard at the snap of the ball in hopes of taking the defensive line out at its knees.
It's called cut blocking and it's a pain in the butt for defensive linemen, so to speak. The late, great Bobb McKittrick, longtime offensive line coach of the 49ers in their glory years, likened the effect of a cut block to a person walking into a coffee table in a darkened living room.
The Sun Devils will try to do their best to contain the rushing attack of the Midshipmen in Saturday's Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl at AT&T Park. It will be the first ever game between Navy (8-4) and Arizona State (7-5).
"Our guys have been preparing so long they're ready to play," Arizona State coach Todd Graham said. "It's going to be an adjustment right away with their speed. We worked on pad level. We worked a little more on cut blocking. That's not going to be an excuse for us."
Besides, Graham said, "We're an attacking defense. We attack off the ball. We're not a read-and-react defense. We don't want to be sitting there. We want to dictate to them."
Good luck with that.
With freshman quarterback Keenan Reynolds keeping Navy's triple option humming, the Midshipmen averaged 275.6 rushing yards per game this season, sixth-best in the country. Navy gets it done with Reynolds (628 yards, 10 touchdowns) and his supporting backs Gee Gee Greene (765 yards), Noah Copeland (691) and Bo Snelson (273).
To help prepare for the speed of Reynolds, Arizona State had one of its cornerbacks, Robert Nelson, playing quarterback on the scout offense in practice to try to simulate his speed and quickness.
"To go out your senior year playing against an offense you've never played before, it's a real challenge for us," Sun Devils senior linebacker Brandon Magee said. "I'm excited for the opportunity, man. My assignment is to get the guy with the ball. I'm running all over the place."
It is often said that playing against the triple option offense, or its more contemporary iteration, the read option, comes down to "assignment" football, meaning defensive players are assigned to specific offensive players. A linebacker may have the quarterback, whether he ends up with the ball or not, and a safety may have the pitch man, whether he gets the ball from the quarterback or not.
"If you have the quarterback, get the quarterback," Magee said. "You better get that guy. It's simple when you talk about it, but when you get in the game, we have to be disciplined."
Magee said he faced the triple option once, as a high school senior, when his Centennial High team in Corona (Riverside County) played Martin Luther King High in Riverside.
"My experience with that was pretty good," he said. "I hope that will transition well to this game. This is something we've never seen. The offensive line gets off so fast, you've got to be ready. They cut block. In the Pac-12, you don't see that."
Just like that coffee table you run into in the dark.
Saturday's game
Who: Navy (8-4) vs. Arizona State (7-5)
Where: AT&T Park
When: 1 p.m.
John Crumpacker is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @crumpackeroncal


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I'm catching up on several weeks of Our Dogs papers, handed on to me by a friend. In one of them there's an interesting article headed 'Thermal Imaging could help diagnose syringomyelia'. Taking up a preliminary study by Dr Marino in the US, a UK firm called Veterinary Thermal Imaging is using Cavaliers and Chihuahuas to study using thermal imaging to diagnose SM. It requires no sedation, just the dog sitting on the table, gently held still by its owner, while the thermal imaging camera is held several feet behind it. Apparently Dr Marino found that when CM or CM/SM was present (evidenced by an MRI scan) the thermal image was 'cooler' than with a normal MRI. So if the correlation proves to be consistent, thermal imaging could be a reliable way of confirming the presence of CM/SM. Not to mention much cheaper, and avoiding anaesthesia and travel to an MRI centre. An interesting possibility - could Rod or Pat tell us any more about Dr Marino's study?
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by MICHAEL CARUSO
The 2012 season of free outdoor concerts in Pastorius Park ended last Wednesday, Aug. 1, with a disappointing cancellation. Two weeks before that, Runa's concert was moved to an auditorium at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. This time around, the decision not to perform outdoors due to inclement weather was made too late to move the Dukes of Destiny's performance indoors to the rain location.
I was one of several dozens of music lovers who showed up at Pastorius Park Wednesday evening to find the stage empty, even though the Chestnut Hill Community Association's telephone hotline continued to maintain that the concert would take place as scheduled in the park.
Like several dozen others, including a gentleman who had driven from New Jersey, I decided to drive over to Springside on the chance that the concert had, indeed, been moved indoors. Once there, I was informed by a helpful security guard that no concert was taking place at Springside that evening and that the building was closed. Calling the hotline once again, I then heard the message that the concert had been cancelled.
In an e-mail sent to me Aug. 2, Julie Byrne (co-chair with Neil Scheinin of the 2012 Pastorius Park concert series) wrote, "A decision on the concert location has to be taken during the afternoon on concert day to allow time for concert set up. The decision on park versus rain location is made based on the available information at that time.
"In the event we move the concert to the rain location, we communicate the decision to all involved in the concert AND our concert-goers. Our notification process includes updating the outgoing phone message at the CHCA office, updating the CHCA website and also sending an e-mail to CHCA members to notify them the venue has been changed. Fortunately, this is relatively rare.
"Yesterday afternoon, the forecast indicated the bad weather would pass by the time of the concert set-up and the concert itself, therefore we remained in the park. Unfortunately the situation changed late on and there was some heavy rain during set-up. Neil and myself were both extremely disappointed, however for the safety of the musicians and all concerned we had no choice but to cancel the performance. Given that this occurred during set-up it was unfortunately too late to move the concert to our rain location. Our apologies to all for the disappointment."
The Delaware Valley Opera Company opened its production of Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto" Saturday evening in the Salvation Army's Kroc Center in East Falls. Continuing Aug. 8 and 11 at 8 p.m., the mounting serves as a reminder of just how difficult masterpieces are to perform.
That "Rigoletto" is a true masterpiece goes without question. Just as Verdi stands head-and-shoulders above all other Italian opera composers and is the only legitimate rival of Richard Wagner in all of opera, "Rigoletto" stands head-and-shoulder above almost all of Verdi's other works.
Its story is compelling. The title character is a hunchbacked jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua, a handsome, virile young aristocrat whose principal hobby is seducing any woman who catches his eye. Rigoletto has dealt with his deformity by cruelly inflicting verbal pain on the Duke's couriers, even those whose daughters and wives he has ravished.
Francesco Maria Piave's libretto may not be a model of delicacy, any more than Victor Hugo's original play was, but it served as inspiration for some of Verdi's most highly charged and colored music. And then there are those notes to be sung. The opera boasts some of the most beautiful, dramatic, emotional and daunting vocalism Verdi ever composed.
So how did DVOC do Saturday night? Not that well. Music director and piano accompanist Elise Auerbach played well, but no piano can replicate the sound Verdi intended for "Rigoletto." Richard Shapp's stage direction was serviceable, but there was never that sense of foreboding menace that must permeate every moment onstage. The stage was filled with convincing props, but they seemed hard to maneuver between scenes. Of the cast, only soprano Suzanne Gerace performed well. She sang expressively and acted simply yet effectively as Gilda, literally doomed to love a man too fickle to love anyone more than his own pleasure.
It's all well and good to aspire to present a major work from opera's standard repertoire such as "Rigoletto," but if discretion is indeed the better part of valor, then lighter fare might have been a better choice.


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China is on track to further reduce the asset-liability ratio in its steel industry, which stood at 65.74% as of end-November last year, according to an industry meeting held on January 14.
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Participants in Chinese spot thermal coal market were divided in the short-term outlook before the Spring Festival holiday, with some holding back on sales anticipating strong pickups while the others
Indonesian coal prices have risen visibly in recent days, and some Chinese traders deemed it unreasonable, in spite of multiple positive factors including heavy rain that has affected local production
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China's solar power electricity could be 97% utilized in 2018, and only 3% of the total generation was idled, showed data from the National Energy Administration, down 2.8 percentage points from a yea
Thermal coal Domestic market Production area Thermal coal prices continued rising at major production areas. A large numbers of coal mines in Shenmu and Fugu of Shaanxi halted produc
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China's spot thermal coal prices might head down in a short term as the downward spiral of port transaction and sagging demand from end users unleashed bearish sentiments among traders for future mark
Mongolia's coal exports hit an all-time high in 2018, the country's finance ministry said on January 4. The landlocked Asian country exported a total of 36.5 million tonnes of coal in 201
Chinese thermal coal prices may lack sustained momentum to go up further, traders said, although cargoes settled and offered at northern ports continued edging up on January 7. This was m
Asia-Pacific benchmark Newcastle coal prices could decline by around 30% by 2020, from 2018 average levels, as Chinese import demand cools, an Australian government report said. The Newca
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There are some odds that recent price rebound of thermal coal starting late December may come to end at northern China's Bohai-rim ports, as traders scrambled to sell amid weakening demand before the
South Africa's thermal coal exports reached 7.92 million tonnes in November, hitting a new high since November last year, showed customs data. The November tonnage was basically unchanged
China's coking coal market was hit by widespread price drops in the past week, as prices of raw coking coal declined with the decrease of washed products in main-producing bases, under the bleak outlo
China's coastal thermal coal market lost strength after over one-week rebound, and the rate of decline seemed speeding up along with dwindling demand. On January 10, the Fenwei CCI index
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I went ahead and looked at this in game, and I am happy to report that I was wrong. Any Faerie Fire should allow you to get the 3% crit, even if you didn't cast it.This is exactly what we wanted. A final and definitive statement about Improved Faerie Fire. The bonus here is that by the tone of GC's post there isn't any plan to change it. This is a true win for moonkin.
So the tooltip should probably read:
Your Faerie Fire and Feral Faerie Fire spells also increase the chance the target will be hit by spell attacks by 3%, and increase the critical strike chance of your damage spells by 3% on targets afflicted by [anyone's] Faerie Fire or Feral Faerie Fire.
I don't always have the game right in front of me when I am reading forums (most often I am on a painfully topical beach sipping mai tais) so I try not to guess unless I am pretty sure about something. I was pretty sure about this, but I was wrong. It happens. There are like 15,000 spells in the game.
Now that this is confirmed, Improved Faerie Fire is a core talent of any moonkin raiding build. There is really no other way to get around it. If you have a feral druid in your raid it is a static 3% increase to crit. If you don't have a feral druid in raid someone has to apply the minor armor debuff and Faerie Fire is the best option.
Thank you Ghostcrawler for taking the time to look into this and clearing it up. Any rational player doesn't expect you know everything about the game off the top of your head, and you can't possibly research every question presented on these forums. So, a misunderstandings like this is bound to happen once in a while. As long as it is cleared up I'm fine.
Thanks to Foofy for being a pit bull on this topic. If you hadn't pushed it so hard I'm sure we would still be having this debate for months.


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My occasional technical diary of thoughts, tips, and tools from some of the more interesting things I'm playing around with at the time. That means all things Web, Open Source, Polyglot-programming, Electronics and Data, or just my latest rant.. who knows!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Cloud Computing - Why IT Matters
Soundtrack for this post? Mr Blue Sky
4 comments:
- Noons said...
Lovely! Another clown, masquerading as an "expert"...
So now: the definition of service bureaus created in the 60s, is totally ignored in favour of calling it "utility computing".
And we are told that providing a CRM service through the cloud is something you can achieve with Ubuntu's - an operating system! - software.
When can we break out the tar and feathers?
- Tim... said...
I thought it was a decent overview. It would be nice if most of the people harping on about cloud were as clear as this guy.
Noons: Regarding the Ubuntu issue, I didn't see it like that. Sounded to me like he was just saying you can play with Amazon-style provisioning in-house using Ubuntu to me. Maybe I missed the point. :)
Thanks for the post. :)
- Paul said...
Hi Noons, Tim, thanks for dropping by!
Noons, appreciate the prod at anything hypey;-) But when I listened to this I just enjoyed the jokes ... and thought he made a good point that the cloud is not actually about any specific technology (whatever you call it - utility, cloud, service bureau, virtualisation etc), but is a major socio-ecomomic transformation. That's the way I'm seeing it anyway..
There was some bare metal discussion of the (then) up and coming ubuntu cloud on FLOSS 99 - agree with Tim that I think it's really an infrastructure play (albeit with some services for end-users).
- Madison said...
That was a great informative blog on Cloud Computing and its services. Thanks for sharing it here. I am very much interested to know more about Cloud Computing and its services. I got a good opportunity to gather more information about Cloud Computing and also got a good chance to meet and talk with the world's leading experts of Cloud Computing through the World's largest and 1st annual conference named as Cloudslam09 conference. which is an virtual event.


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Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders This magazine format show features three stories and a special "global hit performance." Reporter Alexis Bloom meets with Wynton Marsalis in Chicago. Then SOUND TRACKS goes behind the scenes of the latest animated movie from Pixar to introduce the Scottish folk singer, Julie Fowlis, and follows African singer Youssou N'dour as he runs for president of Senegal.G
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History Detectives What are the details behind the heroic acts pictured in a poster about two African-American soldiers in World War I? Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) helps find the answer. Then, is this a hand-drawn map of Valley Forge that George Washington used during the American Revolution? And does a Tucson man own one of the first transistor radios ever made? Finally, after 70 years, a Washington man wonders whether a business card ties his father to Prohibition-era underworld crime. D


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Iphone gps app tracking jobs
A feedback app with custom questions and ratings. It should be able to take feedback and ratings from the customers. It should be able to accept digital signature. It should save date/time and the location where the feedback was taken. Feedback should not be editable once signed and no one should be able to view the feedback except for admins. Data
...understanding of the current GSM & GPS and/or Satellite technologies, who can design and build a vanward prototype of GSM & GPS Tracking Device with the following characteristics: * as small, as possible in regards of the PCB (electrical circuit board) dimensions; * accurate, sensitive and efficient due the amplified GSM (3G/4G) & GPS and/or Satellite t...
We are providing Gps tracking system. We want to solve the server problem which is implement in er-lang
I need an iPhone app. I would like it designed and built. It needs to combine gps tracking feature with the ability to notify location to the users
On-Field sales for GPS tracking system. A mandate by [login to view URL] Maharashtra. Huge commission upside
Android app with google form to fill + gps tracking background allways o (even if the app is not used)
We are planning to install some GPS device to the vehicles and track it online. We have GPS devices like Concox GT800, Wetrack lite. We need a socket program using PHP / JAVA to process the data received.
I want a food delivery app with real time gps tracking. The project should include three apps and one control panel. A rider app, a restaurant app and a customer app.
The project involves the development of a web app to interface with a GPS enabled vehicle, using Java and webSockets. The app includes: - Login view - Map view (Google Maps) with filtering by route, region, date. - The database should be in MySQL - Should consider interfacing with the current EPR system (Oracle) - Also experience in JS, CSS
Required GPS tracking app for vehicle tracking/personal tracking
I need to create a software for a new form of gps
Design a system to integrate my application so that u can log in application on restricted coodinates radius
...like an source in picbasic (proton IDE compatible) that i could use for my project. I use the old 16f877 chip with an adafruit gps antenna (i use the Ultimate GPS breakout v3). The only thing need programming is to set the gps antenna in 10hz mode, and a check if it is still in this mode (once every sec. will do). Im fine with the rest of the programming
I need someone that can program GPS modules. I need a phone as well as desktop app. I would need general info such as: location, speed, TEMPERATURE at the gps module to be displayed onto my phone/pc. I would also then need ad-hoc reports generated such as top 10 fastest moving objects etc
...implementing GPS solutions into an android project, and can not test the project on a physical device outside while moving around, do not bid on this project.** My project has a timer which counts down from a time selected by the user. When the countdown timer reaches under 30 seconds, the application is supposed to get the current gps location of
looking for someone who would be responsible for government tenders
Hello, I need a GPS gaming website. Website is for school: teacher can log in useraccount and choose topic and location (location comes with OpenStreetMap) map view - where she can add gps points with exercise. Exercise types can be answering question. If teacher gets all the questions and marks done, then after pressing button done - gets a code.
Guidelines for the Final Paper: The paper should include at minimum the following sections: a. Title page: Title of your paper, student names, course number and title, semester. b. Introduction: A discussion of the subject matter, how the topic was selected and general background. c. Operation: clear discussion of how the sensor works, what is the sensing mechanism used, how it is fabricated,.. ...
I need some help with finding some leads.
We are looking for an experienced e...working with motors and controllers, COMM and Bluetooth modules and development boards. The project involves developing custom firmware requiring interaction with GSM/GPS and Phone App for data exchange. Data exchange with sensors and electro-mechanical devices, and data communication with server is also required.
a quadcopter with waypoint GPS navigation feature. the quadcopter should be able to fly autonomously to a gps location selected by the user.
I need you to develop some software for me. I would like this software to be developed for Linux using Javascript.
Making a GPS tracking system for merchendisers
For a road assistance company. app for the customer. You had an accident. Press the button ans the app will send sms with long,lat and car plates. Nothing else.
Our Research and Development team is looking for an individual or group with experience in LoraWAN (or similar) telemetry systems to design a very compact GPS Tracking module with LoraWAN transmission of data. We need someone to assist us in the design and the unit, part lists and sourcing, in addition to providing us with guidance on LoraWAN system
I want to make a basic GPS program via JAVA language. GUI is not required. IMPORTANT NOTE: the code must be unique. if it has been given to someone before me then it won't be useful!
I want to Customaize Traccar GPS soft ware , the candidate should have good knowledge in Java and Traccar Software
Basically what is needed is an application for iOS, a server ba...iOS, a server backend and the whole design for that, possibly modern and very minimalistic. In particular it is an app tracking a cars location via GPS, and once it's parked it determines its position and marks it as a parked car on the app. Further information will be given later on.
I have an Adafruit Huzzah32 Feather, Adafruit OLED Breakout 1.27", and an Adafruit Ultimate GPS breakout module that i want to configure to display the coordinates onto the OLED. This is just the first milestone in a larger project so if the work is good, there could be a lot of follow up stuff.
...build me an app like Uber. It must have full admin and be able in android and iPhone. Must also have a website. I am looking for an app to help grow my company which transfers furniture instead of people. Features Installation Docs Logo Splash Screen App Name Setup FEATURES Native IOS App for Driver and Rider ios app ios app Native Android Ap...
I need a GPS tracking device wherein I can check the tracking details through a unique id onto a web portal.
I need help for installing and testing a node js script similar to this-> [login to view URL] We have modified version it so ...in Firestore DB We have correct connection with Firestore and from the script we can write in the DB. We open IP port, but we did not get it to interact with the Teltonika GPS devices.
This project is to c...Location (this is what the app would write back - 1965 Greenspring Drive Timonium MD 20193) The app would simply read the spreadsheet, check the coordinates via a mapping service such as google maps and then write the results back to the spreadsheet. It can be written in anything but should run on Windows as a standalone app.
LAPSSAV GPS Tracking System for Vehicles.
The idea is to build a small device which just sends GPS location to whattsapp once or twice a day. Idea is to make the device as small as possible with minimum power. It should have smallest size GPS module, smallest sim slot and battery the is utilized to the minimum.
Modify project " Teltonika GPS Server Node.js " to save data on Cloud Firestore instead of MySQL [login to view URL] Only make your proposal if you have carefully reviewed the project. Do not waste our time
I need a new freelancer / Android Developer from Pakistan at LOW budget I need a serious and hard working person I need with good knowledge of GPS Location setting
I need some help with selling something.
I need sample page that shows a GPS map using "mapquestapi", page must have a button that read current GPS position of user. I need that code is entire in codebehind page and write in c#.
Java or similar script that receive Teltonika GPS protocol data and upload to Firebase Cloud DB If possible, work like daemon on Firebase Cloud too suggestions accepted ;) That is all... Something that can be useful: [login to view URL] [login to view URL] [login to view URL]
I like to have a system which works as a GPS tracker and also displays and does announcement of upcoming station.
I need TCP/IP port listener, which collect the data from GPS tracking devices and store it in MySQL database. It must accept multiple connections at the same time. [login to view URL] sever (communication) software will listen on TCP/IP ports, collect the data from tracking devices and store it on the MY SQL database. It must accept multiple connections at the same
...headphone output with speaker system. What I need from you, I want to develop an android app which has Sync Feature: It can communicate with Central webservices to get all the configured route in the system. Each route has a name and list of stoppages ( GPS Location ), time of stoppage,distance form the previous point and approximate time required
To finish development of a basic GPS tracking app (13 main screens), part of the code is written. Log in with social networks, invite friends from social networks, connect device, create geo zones with notifications, track activity. Will provide app user flow upon request. Integration with Mapbox preferrable. API is ready & tested
Build a GPS tracker using raspberry pi and an iridium module using python. Transmit compressed message to API. Update message frequency remotely.
Need a webpage which spy gps coordinates of visitor and upload it to firebase.
I want a simple app for Galaxy Watch/Gear S3 with a button on it; when I press the button I want it to take my GPS location and send it to a webpage.
>urgent< need a simple webpage which tracks gps coordinates and saves it to database.
>> Need it urgent << get gps coordinates of website visitor and save it to .txt database
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French presidential candidate's team says it suffered 'massive' hack
French presidential candidate's team says it suffered 'massive' hack
The campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron says it has been the victim of a "massive and coordinated" hacking attack.
His campaign said in a statement late Friday night that some campaign emails and financial documents were hacked a few weeks ago and are now being circulated on social media, but that they have been mixed with false documents.
It said whoever is behind the leaked documents is trying to "seed doubt and disinformation" and destabilize Sunday's presidential runoff, comparing it to emails leaked from Hillary Clinton's U.S. presidential campaign.
Macron is the poll favorite going into Sunday's election against far-right leader Marine Le Pen.


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FALL RIVER — The phrase "vocabulary gap" is one that has seen increased use by early childhood educators and child psychologists in recent years. It refers to the difference in the number of words children brought up in low-income families hear, versus those raised in middle- or high-income families during the years from birth to age 3.
Some studies suggest that gap in number of words heard can be as large as 30 million words.
One of the goals of the Family Literacy Fair, which will be held at Fall River's Matthew J. Kuss Middle School on Saturday morning, is closing that gap.
The fair will run from 10 a.m. to noon, culminating with a performance by Toe Jam Puppet Band from noon to 1 p.m. Families can expect to go home with a book bag filled with at least a dozen books, and can expect to learn ways to read to their children.
Representatives from local organizations dedicated to early childhood development, social service agencies and health agencies, will be on hand to speak with parents and offer activities for children. Several of those representatives will be in costume, dressed as famous storybook characters, including Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man from the "Wizard of Oz."
About 300 families attend the fair each year, said Barbara Allard, who directs both Fall River Public School's Early Childhood program and the Coordinated Family and Community Engagement Council, which coordinates programs in Fall River, Westport and Somerset.
"The draw, of course, is the kids have a lot of fun," Allard said.
The event, held during the national "Week of the Young Child," has been ongoing for more than 20 years, but in the last three years has "really focused on early literacy," Allard said. "We have over 30 agencies participating this year. This is a very large turnout."
"One of the main goals is to get books in the hands of kids," Allard said. "If they have home libraries, more books, they are more apt to be read to.
"It makes a difference having those books in the house," Allard said, adding book handling skills, like flipping pages, are "very important in early literacy."
"Parents are their child's first teacher. We want to really focus in on that," she said. "Fifty percent of kids going into kindergarten don't attend any pre-school programs. Fifty percent of our kids haven't been exposed to a lot of kids, or adults who know how to read to kids.
"Just speaking with your kids, story telling, all of those are pre-literacy skills. These are ways you can encourage early literacy," Allard said.
Local businesses, including Book Enterprises, which provided at a discount many of the books children will get, have been supportive in helping get those books in homes, Allard said.
The Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care has been promoting a new website dedicated to early literacy development, Allard said. It's called brainbuildinginprogress.org.
It also doesn't have to be expensive. Any family member can speak and read to children, and early literacy also does not have to be in English.
"What we're trying to promote is the same. If a child is spoken to in another language, the development will still be the same as in an English-speaking family," Allard said.
The challenge for those students will be in kindergarten when they begin to acquire English speaking skills.
"We see them go silent as the brain is trying to translate those words they know into the English versions of words," Allard said.
Other challenges include finding the families that need pre-literacy development support. "I wish I could contact all of them," Allard said.
She said she has visited local community health clinics, speaking with pediatricians and enlisting them to distribute information about early childhood education programs and local play and learn groups, which are now up and running in several city elementary schools.
"All the research shows that starts right from when they're born. Kids need to be spoken to, that's how they build vocabulary, and need to be read to, that's how they learn new vocabulary," Allard said.


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An Undisclosed Location is a town located in the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Georgia. Historians believe An Undisclosed Location to be the site of Amelia Earhart's plane crash, the hiding place of Jack the Ripper and Dick Cheney, and the former site of the Garden of Eden.
An Undisclosed Location was discovered by pioneer Daniel Boone in 1770. Boone was searching for a pass through the mountains, when he stumbled upon an Indian village in a hidden valley. He found an idyllic utopia, where the land was untouched and the natives lived in perfect harmony. Boone decided to settle the land himself, and proceeded to massacre the defenseless Indians and burn their village to the ground. He went east to find settlers to populate the valley, but was tragically mauled by a bear on his way through the woods. The bear delivered a shattering blow to his head, causing Boone to lose his memory and forget about the valley. An Undisclosed Location faded into obscurity and would not be rediscovered for over a century.
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An Undisclosed Location is frequently visited by Vice President Dick Cheney. Since the 9/11 attacks, Dick Cheney has often mysteriously vanished from Washington to visit what he calls "an undisclosed location". It has recently been revealed that the undisclosed location Cheney has spoken of is, in fact, An Undisclosed Location, Georgia. Cheney has been seen holding meetings in An Undisclosed Location with numerous evil-doers from around the world, including Osama Bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Oscar Wilde. Dick Cheney also uses the town as his own personal hunting grounds, where he uses Iraqi prisoners of war as targets to improve his atrocious aim. He usually ends up shooting nearby buildings or bystanders, and has never actually hit one of the war prisoners.
The town of An Undisclosed Location has a very unique culture. There are only fourteen people actually living in it, although the town is huge. It contains the homes of four people, and the rest of the massive town is taken up by the headquarters of every major secret society in the entire world. The residents of the town have opened several gift shops, selling "I've been to An Undisclosed Location" t-shirts, hoping to do business. Bin Laden has reportedly purchased one which he wears around with pride. The town is also notable for its annual clambake festival and its astonishingly high divorce rate. Most people in the town get married and then get divorced in the same ceremony, to save time.
Although the location of the town should technically be "undisclosed," hence the name, in reality the location of An Undisclosed Location is, indeed, disclosed. It is located exactly eighty five miles east of Atlanta, and can be accessed by a highway that is completely lined with strip malls and burger kings. Despite the fact that its location is known, world leaders continue to meet there. However, in recent months it has become increasingly crowded, what with the rapidly increasing amount of secret procedures that the governments of various countries are enacting. "Well, right now we've got about 8 different underground bunkers where different countries are proliferating nuclear weapons," says the mayor of the town, Burt Munchpepper, "plus we have 4 different secret prisons where United States terror detainees are held, a bunker where Al Quaeda operatives meet, a database where the CIA analyzes the E-Mails and Phone Calls of thousands of Americans, and several Russian bunkers where they make poisonous cocktails. This is really causing some mass traffic problems for our main street, and is also starting to tax our sewer system. We'll really have to work hard if we want our town's economy to stay in the black. Plus, we've got so many tourists who come here wanting to take pictures of Bin Laden, Cheney, and Rumsfeld that our gift shops aren't able to meet the massive demands these tourists generate." One proposed solution to this problem would be to found another town, called Another Undisclosed Location, in Louisiana.


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"I have a different perspective on this, having built a product company (Zoho Corp) in India for the past 13+ years. Basically India's emerging IT industry coincided with the global credit bubble of the past 2 decades, which simply inflated the IT services industry to monster proportions, in the process sucking the oxygen of talent out of the system. So product start-ups that could have been never got off the ground.I have been discussing the impact of easy money with friends for a while now and while it's a crucial factor, it's important to keep in mind that countries like Israel have chosen not to take the services route. The availability of easy money must have dovetailed with something else for software services (popularly known as body shopping) to take off in a big way in India. Dharmesh Shah, a successful serial startup guy makes some an great point in his post Why There Aren't More Software Startups In India:
This is the mirror image of the process in the US that funneled talent towards the financial complex, which meant the IT industry had to import talent or outsource the work. A good percentage of the talent came from India, and a lot of the outsourced work went to India. In that environment of easy money flowing into services, product companies found it hard to recruit talent (which the author of the post also alludes to).
This process basically derailed the emergence of product-based IT industry in India. Some of the Indian services giants of today (Wipro and HCL in particular) were product companies originally. They built some innovative products in India (an x86 based Unix well ahead of Linux, an IP concentrator/router for ISPs in early, to quote two examples) in the late 80s/early 90s. But once the 90's boom got underway, they found it far more lucrative to rent out the talent than to build products.
In Economics, it is impossible to argue "what might have been", but I believe the configuration of IT industry in India points to how the bubble massively distorted an industry."
At the risk of drawing stereotypes, I think Indians in general are a little impatient and like to see quicker "payback" periods on their investments; There are a few number of them (than in the U.S.) that are willing to spend the 2+ years it might take to build a product, see how the market responds and "tweak" the business as necessary to get it to a successful state;Product companies are also more "random" and difficult to control the outcome of;They involve a large number of "creative" factors that will largely influence whether the product succeeds or not. I've found Indians to be almost overly practical (in the short-term sense) and not passionate about some of the softer things (like user experience, marketing, branding and other things) which in today's world are large contributors to future outcomes of software startups;They'd much rather work on the "harder" stuff that they can better control and predict;This is a bit of a "squishy" argument, but it's a squishy issue;I guess the evidence of progress I'd like to see is a cool software product coming out of an Indian startup along the lines of an Adobe Photoshop or even a 37signals Basecamp.An example of the impatience, inability to tweak the business, and overly practical attitude that Dharmesh talks about, is a Bangalore based company that's not too happy with it's clients for which it is currently developing and testing IPhone and Android applications (They inherited these customers after taking over a smaller company). The US based clients that outsource to them are mostly small to medium sized companies with relatively low billing rates. A lot of people would kill to get into IPhone and Android development now, but this Bangalore based company is very unhappy that they are not able to maintain their 60% plus boom era margins doing mobile application development. No attempt is being made to convert the expertise developed so far into a product making strategy. As a friend who works there observed, "They are only interested in projects that involve billing a hundred people or more".


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What is NetworkManager?
Applications like Firefox and OpenOffice.org get all the glory. They're highly visible as cornerstone applications of the free desktop. But what about the background apps that do the grunt work and sit silently in the background, ignored unless we run into a bug? One of the vital, yet unsung, applications Linux users depend on is NetworkManager.
What is NetworkManager?
NetworkManager comprises several pieces, a service that's used to manage a system's network connections and report their condition to applications that are D-BUS aware, and client applications that allow the user to manage network connections. NetworkManager was developed to simplify working with network connections and to help desktop and other applications become network aware.
Most users never have to worry about the backend services of NetworkManager and only work with the GUI applets that manages network connections. For GNOME and Xfce users this means the nm-applet utility, and for KDE users the KNetworkManager applet.
Many Linux users don't remember, or realize, the tremendous pain that came with managing network connections in the early days of Linux. Especially for laptop users who needed to connect to two or more networks. Though early iterations of NetworkManager were slightly less than painless to use (earning it the moniker "NetworkMangler" in some circles), it has evolved into a solid tool that makes managing connections virtually pain-free.
For example, I remember two years ago getting my Verizon Wireless EV-DO card and plugging it in to openSUSE 11.0. NetworkManager required no setup at all. It recognized the card, it appeared in the drop-down menu in the GNOME toolbar, and the only action required was to click "connect." This was hands-down the simplest way to configure the card that I'd encountered.
But there's always improvement to be had, and NetworkManager has continued to move forward. The upcoming 0.8.1 release, which can already be found in Fedora 13, comes with tons of improvements and new features.
New in 0.8.1
The latest NetworkManager series includes quite a few new features, most of which revolves around support for additional networking devices. Mobile users will be particularly happy with this release. 0.8.1 adds support for ModemManager to increase support for mobile broadband devices like GSM, UMTS, and CDMA cards. Using ModemManager also means new features, such as signal strength display and ability to choose between 2G/3G modes. Last, but certainly not least, it also means that you can turn off roaming to avoid any extra connection fees.
0.8.1 also has support for using Bluetooth to get online with support for the Personal Area Networking (PAN) and older Bluetooth Dial-up Networking (DUN) protocols. A list of all, or at least most, supported devices can be found on the wiki.
If you're one of the few users who connects via IPv6 (which they swear really will be relevant to everybody soon, really!), you'll be pleased to know that NetworkManager now supports IPv6 autoconf and static IPs. The 0.8.1 release will also bring IPv6 DHCP support as well.
Most of the changes to the most recent releases have been in the form of adding support for devices or rounding out protocol support, but 0.8.1 also sports a nice new client interface as well.
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One key 21st century skill students at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy are learning through the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership is the art of communication. That skill came into play this week on MLK Jr. Day of Service when second grade students in the school's Lower School for Boys visited Germantown Avenue to make a pitch to store owners and managers about participating in a food collection effort for Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministries (G.A.C.M.). While the boys have been collecting food for GACM from within the SCH community for many years, this year, because of a severe shortage in food supplies, they decided to expand their efforts to include the larger Chestnut Hill community.
With the help of second grade teachers Gerri Allen and Ellen Ward, the boys identified the stores on the Avenue they would visit and then drafted a compelling message they hoped would convince the stores to participate. On Monday morning, students and parents constructed colorful collection boxes to place in the stores, then paid visits along Germantown Avenue to deliver their message of service. The boys' communication skills must have been working well because they garnered 100% participation from the stores they visited.
Students Jack Gaghan and Owen DaVeiga made their pitch to O'Doodles owner Fran O'Donnell, who readily agreed to participate. Area residents can now contribute to the food collection effort by bringing non-perishable goods to the participating area businesses, including Chill on the Hill, Starbucks, Chestnut Hill Grill, Bone Appetite, and more. Look for the brightly papered blue and yellow boxes with signs reading "SCH + CH Food Cupboard for G.A.C.M." The food will be collected weekly and delivered to G.A.C.M. to help feed hungry families.
In addition to the second grade boys, students from all five divisions of SCH Academy participated in various activities during the school's 17th annual "DAY ON" of service, spanning out across the Philadelphia region to serve over 25 local organizations, including Cradles to Crayons, Friends of the Wissahickon, Audubon PA, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, United Cerebral Palsy, Meals on Wheels, Aid for Friends, several Philadelphia public schools, senior centers, and more.


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The American Petroleum Institute (API) filed a lawsuit this week against the EPA, saying the agency "should not penalize refiners that fail to use an unreasonably high amount of cellulosic biofuels as these are not produced in the U.S. on a commercial scale." The group said the EPA had set a quota for gasoline and diesel importers and refiners to either use or purchase credits covering 6.6 million gallons of cellulosic biofuels. The "EPA's unattainable and absurd mandate forces refiners to pay a penalty for failing to use biofuels that don't even exist," said Bob Greco, API's group director of upstream and industry operations.
This is the second time that the API has filed such a lawsuit. "They lost the first time and we think they're going to lose again," said Michael Frohlich, press secretary, Growth Energy. Frohlich said that the API "is continuing to fight for the status quo, and is doing nothing to wean the U.S. off an addiction to foreign oil." Oil imports are estimated to cost U.S. consumers $360 billion annually. This money should be reinvested in America whose hard hit economy could benefit from domestic ethanol production and the 400,000 jobs the ethanol industry has created, Frohlich said.
Frohlich added that with the recent approval for commercialization of E15, the oil industry is starting to see the ethanol industry cut into its market share.


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With summer almost at an end here in Melbourne I am looking forward to winter when I can snuggle up inside with the kids and pull out my big bag of wool and crochet hooks. I always have a project going in the winter, sometimes the same one carries over from one year to the next.
Crochet rugs are great as floor coverings as well as throws or blankets. The great thing about handmade rugs is that you can use up all your old scraps and create something really beautiful, a family heirloom which is functional as well as attractive and they really add a unique designer element to your home decor.
Rugs that are crocheted are usually hand washable, which is a big relief as you can clean them yourself regularly. This means you keep your home clean,and your family safe from dirt and germs. This also means you won't have to call in the professional carpet cleaners to take care of the mess. this is a big cost savings – you can spend the extra on more wool!
I am currently making a hexagonal rug from a pattern I found in a home decor magazine, but you can find free patterns and inspiration every where these days. You tube is invaluable for handy demonstrations and brushing up on your long forgotten skills or for learning new ones. I also have some granny square rugs the kids love to put over their knees when we go to the footy.
So what's stopping you, get our that bag of wool scraps and get creative!
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Mar 7, 2014, 06.05 PMby Ellen Hatteland
All these projects looks fabulous! Very colorful and nice!
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Mar 8, 2014, 01.03 PMby BlackGold
Thanks Ellen, I find crochet very calming and I love the rhythm of it.
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