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Create a package (tarball) for distribution
This article assumes you want to download and build some software from the software's source code. It further assumes the source code is available as some tar file (a tar ball). In the first section it is assumed that the software source follows a common structure and comes with a common mechanism (GNU build system) to build it. In the section chapter a workaround is described for getting along with other cases.
Since there are many, many different software packages out there, there is no guarantee that the particular package can be build exactly as described here. There is no guarantee that it is packed as a tar file, and there is no guarantee that you have everything to build it. That's why many packages come with documentation! It might sound shocking, but it is a clever idea to read that one first. Often the documentation also explains what additional tools and libraries are needed to build the software, and how to fine-tune the build.
The remainder of this article further assumes you have all the common development tools installed.
Building GNU build system based Software
Many, but not all free software is build as, or structured in a similar way, to what the FSF established as the GNU build system. The most apparent hint, but not an absolute proof, is the existence of an onfigure script which is supposed to be run to configure the build system for the current platform.
For a GNU build system the configure script usually has been created with
- GNU autoconf and using
- GNU automake and
- GNU libtool.
Further the source code author should have used autoconf, automake correctly and in compliance with the GNU coding standards by keeping directory output variables in the Makefiles unexpanded. This allows to use
make install and overriding install locations. This is a feature which is used later in this description in order to prepare for packaging. In case the author did not confine to these rules you may try to fix this by using pack_sync script as described below.
1) Download the source to a preferred place:
#I suggest to create a folder on /dev/hda3.../mnt/ on ppc-LS, /mnt/hda/ on the LS2 mkdir -p <compiling-folder> cd <compiling-folder> wget http://<download-location>/<app-source>
2) Untar the package - use xzvf if it has a tar.gz-extension (=.tgz) and xjvf if it has tar.bz2
tar xzvf <app-source>.tar.gz
3) change into the new directory
cd <app-source>
4) check which options are available for ./configure by executing
./configure --help
5) configure the application with the right prefix for the final destination (e.g. /usr/local), instead of your local temporary installation directory PACKAGE/usr/local. If you cross-compile you also need to point to the cross compiler, linker, assembler.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CC=... ...
Further options to be considered may be --sysconfdir, --infodir, and --mandir 6) Compile, but don't install the application
7) Become root
8) Clean and prepare the temporary installation directory structure to which the package will be temporarily installed. This cleanup ensures that no left-overs from previous build attempts or accidentally moved files will be packaged, too. Warning: If you do this on the wrong directory, you might accidentally delete your whole Linux system ...
rm -rf PACKAGE # DANGER Don't do this with the the wrong directory! # Create temporary version of the prefix directory mkdir -p PACKAGE/usr/local
9) Install the compiled application into your temporary packaging directory. For that you need to temporarily overriding the prefix setting. This installation must not trigger a recompilation, and it won't if the software author has created the configure system correctly. The installation should keep path information already compiled into the application and related files. That is, the application should contain the final destination pathes, as set with
--prefix=... when
configure was run.
make install prefix=PACKAGE/usr/local
Further options to be specified may be infodir and mandir.
Building Non-GNU build system Software
In case the software author didn't create the configuring system as properly as assumed by the previous step you may fix this by pack_sync tool. This requires that you have installed the software to your running system in advance.
1) up to 4) Just same as above.
5) Configure
# Create temporary version of the prefix directory mkdir -p PACKAGE/usr/local # configure the application with the same paths as for the provious 'real' installation, # prefixed by '$PWD/PACKAGE': ./configure --prefix=$PWD/PACKAGE/usr/local --sysconfdir=$PWD/PACKAGE/etc ... Again, --infodir, and --mandir may have to be used.
6) and 7) Same as above.
8) Same as above, except that mkdir -p PACKAGE/usr/local has already been done.
9) Install the compiled application then to your temporary packaging directory:
make install
Since you have pointed the --prefix to some local path you probably have a package which can't be installed anywhere else than on <some strange path>/PACKAGE/usr/local while you really want it to be working in /usr/local. This is because the package may contain files with hard-coded paths. In order to fix this problem these files must be replaced by the corresponding files of your previous real installation. pack_sync tool may be used for this purpose:
wget http://downloads.nas-central.org/Uploads/OldUploads/mktarball/pack_sync ./pack_sync PACKAGE
If you are really using 'PACKAGE' you may omitt this (default parameter). The script takes a walk thru the directory tree starting with PACKAGE by calling itself recursively. It compares all files with those of the living system (same directory path but w/o prefix $PWD/PACKAGE). If there are differences you are prompted to confirm a replacement. Note: <br\>- You may deny replacement, get informed about the differences and rerun pack_sync later. <br\>- pack_sync doesn't provide an undo of it's replacements.
10) Continue with the next chapter
Please find a discussion about sense or non-sense of pack_sync tool in the discussion area.
Package the built Software
After the software has finally been build (see the previous chapters), one can now wrap the stuff up in a package for distribution. A simple package would be a tar file, a more convenient package would be an ipkg package. The following sections describe both alternatives.
Scripting the build as described above, and the packaging might make sense, instead of typing the same commands again and again.
Package as a tar File
tar is the traditional Unix archiving program, which is still popular in the Unix and also Linux world. It was originally intended for tape archives, but for ages it is used for file archives. These days a tar file is often compressed in addition, to reduce its size.
For packing the built software perform the following steps:
p1) Become (or stay) root. p2) Pack and compress the data in one go
tar cvzf <appname>_<architecture>.tar.gz -C PACKAGE .
where architecture should be ppc for LS1/HG/HS, mips for the LS2 and arm9 for the LS Pro.
That's it.
Package as an ipkg
ipkg is the package management tool chosen for OpenLink. Building ipkg packages is much simpler than it might appear at first sight. This wiki contains rater extensive ipkg documentation, particular Construct ipkg packages (for developers).
The following is just a quick rundown of what to do, so one doesn't get distracted by the multiple ways of creating an ipkg package. The details can be found in the referenced documentation.
- Decide if additional install and remove scripts are needed. E.g. to automate otherwise tricky setup steps, to display a license during install, to ask the user for some configuration parameters, to merge existing configuration, etc.
- Write the script(s), if any.
See Construct ipkg packages (for developers)#Scripts for details.
- Create a package description (control) file. This is mandatory.
See Construct ipkg packages (for developers)#CONTROL/control file (mandatory) and Construct ipkg packages (for developers)#Sample CONTROL/control files for details.
- Become (or stay) root.
- Create a directory called CONTROL in your PACKAGE directory:
mkdir PACKAGE/CONTROL
- Store the scripts (if any), and the control file in the PACKAGE/CONTROL directory and give them proper file access rights:
cp <scripts ...> control PACKAGE/CONTROL; chmod a+rx PACKAGE/CONTROL/<scripts ...>; chmod a+r PACKAGE/CONTROL/control
- Run ipkg-build:
ipkg-build -c PACKAGE
See Construct ipkg packages (for developers)#Using ipkg-build from ipkg-utils for details, but ignore the statements about tedious setup. That "tedious" setup was already performed by building the software in the PACKAGE directory as described in one of the above chapters.
That's it.


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What If
Year: 2013
Duration: 98 min
IMDb: 6.8
Country: USA
Actors: Zoe Kazan, Megan Park, Daniel Radcliffe
Wallace - a dropout, is always haunted by his bad relationships. Therefore, while his roommate Allan is looking a perfect lover, Wallace decides to lock the inside love life. Then he meets Chantry, a cartoon artist living with Ben - her boyfriend. Wallace and Chantry quickly gain the cohesion and build up a close friendship. But they notice the similarities between the two person is too obvious, making them wonder What if the enemy is only a best friend?


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Sept. 1, 2005
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT entered Thursday night's season opener at Jack Barry Field having lost the last three contests with Gordon College. Senior Cheryl Texin made sure to end that losing streak and added a pair of goals, helping MIT hang on to a 4-3 victory over the Fighting Scotts.
Texin set the tone early for the Engineers at 11:42 of the first half when she fired a pass from freshman Janet Pan past Gordon freshman goalkeeper Chyanne Wilson. Twelve minutes later Texin was at it again, beating Wilson to the left on a penalty shot. Refusing to head into the half down by two, Gordon came storming back when freshman Sarah Orlando dug out a rebound and fed senior Ashley Denyse in front of the net for an easy goal.
It wasn't long in the second half before the Fighting Scotts evened the score. Senior captain Megan Benevides slammed home a penalty corner pass from junior Whitney Plaster at 38:42. But that was as close as Gordon would get. A minute later junior Anna Ayuso scored on a pass from Noelle Kanaga, putting the Engineers up for good. The MIT defense was solid, keeping Gordon from penetrating far into the offensive zone. Freshman Katie Boothe was particularly quick to send opposing players away in her first game as an Engineer.
With nine minutes remaining in the game, Gordon appeared to have tied the game but the goal was waived off by the referee. In need of an insurance goal, the Engineers pressed and were able to control play for much of the last ten minutes of the game. At 64:27, senior Lauren Nowierski found her way through the chaos in front of the Gordon net and scored what would prove to be the game winning goal. Benevides answered four minutes later for the Fighting Scotts, slapping a shot through the legs of MIT sophomore goalkeeper Alexa Herman, but it was too little too late. The Engineers contained Gordon in the final minute and a half, and time ran out on the Fighting Scotts.
Herman made four saves on seven shots for MIT in the victory, while Wilson stopped six of ten shots in the losing effort for Gordon. The victory for MIT evened the all-time series against Gordon at 10-10.


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National Rifle Association president Wayne LaPierre stood before national media Friday morning and called for armed guards at schools across the country as the only effective preventative measure stopping school shootings like the one that occurred last week in Newtown, Conn.
"I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school — and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January."
Unfortunately for LaPierre, two disastrous examples directly contradict his position.
On April 20, 1999, Columbine High School had an armed guard--Sheriff's Deputy Neil Gardner on duty on campus. Although Gardner was on duty (he was eating lunch when the shooting started), Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were able to kill 12 students and a teacher, and wound 21 others and before committing suicide.
And Virginia Tech, which remains the site of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, had what amounted to a SWAT team on campus. According to the governor's report on the 2007 shootings that left 32 people dead and 17 wounded, the Virginia Tech police department, a fully accredited police force, has an emergency response team. On April 16, 2007, 34 armed officers were on duty.
Neither Gardner at Columbine High School, nor the Virginia Tech Police force, were able to prevent the events of two of the worst mass gun murders ever to occur in the U.S.


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an antibiotic that is a penicillin analogue similar in action to ampicillin but more efficiently absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and therefore requiring less frequent dosage and not as likely to cause diarrhea.
A semisynthetic penicillin antibiotic with an antimicrobial spectrum similar to that of ampicillin.
amoxicillin/amox·i·cil·lin/ (ah-mok″sĭ-sil´in) a semisynthetic derivative of ampicillin effective against a broad spectrum of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
A semisynthetic penicillin, C16H19N3O5S, having an antibacterial spectrum of action similar to that of ampicillin.
a beta-lactam semisynthetic oral penicillin antibiotic.
indication It is prescribed in the treatment of infections caused by a susceptible gram-negative or gram-positive bacteria.
contraindication Known hypersensitivity to any penicillin prohibits its use.
adverse effects Among the most serious adverse reactions are anaphylaxis, nausea, and diarrhea. Allergic reactions and rashes are common.
amoxicillinInfectious disease A broad-spectrum semisynthetic penicillin with activity similar to that of ampicillin
amoxicillinAmoxycillin, an AMPICILLIN-like penicillin antibiotic, effective in TYPHOID and many other infections. Brand names are Amoxil and Galenamox. Compounded with lansoprazol and clarithromycin it is marketed as Heliclear.
amoxicillinpenicillin antibiotic of similar action to ampicillin; usually administered as 250 mg by mouth every 8 hours (125 mg every 8 hours for a child) for soft-tissue infections
A semisynthetic penicillin antibiotic with an antimicrobial spectrum similar to that of ampicillin.
amoxicillin, amoxycillin
an aminopenicillin, similar in action to ampicillin and susceptible to β-lactamase, but more efficiently absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and with a longer duration of action.
amoxicillin-clavulanic acid
addition of clavulanic acid widens the spectrum of activity and renders amoxicillin resistant to β-lactamase. A widely used antibiotic in dogs and cats.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – After a standout senior season that saw him lead the MIT men's basketball team in scoring and rebounding, senior Will Tashman (Atherton, Calif.) picked up another postseason honor today when the National Association of Basketball Coaches announced its 2013 Division III All-District Teams and Coaches. Voted on by NABC member coaches in Division III, Tashman was named a first team all-district player and is the third player in program history to be selected to the prestigious NABC All-Region squad.
Tashman, who was the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Athlete of the Year and a first team all-conference selection, averaged a double-double this season with his 16.3 ppg and 10.8 rpg averages. A three-time NEMWAC Player of the Week, Tashman led the conference in rebounding while leading the Engineers in both scoring and rebounding. The MIT career leader in rebounds, Tashman became the first MIT player to reach 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career this season. He finished among the top-10 all-time at MIT in points (1,414), rebounds (1,023), field goal percentage (.541), free throw percentage (.740), assists (270) and blocks (82).
In addition to Tashman, fellow senior Noel Hollingsworth (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Jimmy Bartolotta '09 are MIT's previous NABC All-District selections. Both players were two-time picks, with Hollingsworth named first team in 2010 and second team in 2012. Bartolotta was a second team pick in 2008, getting first team accolades in 2009.


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Laurel Ann Elements needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 115 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Laurel Ann Elements
I am:
Recycled textile and paper materials
Nature photographer
Modern design
Natural dyes and inks for screenprinting
I create designs in photoshop from my extensive nature photography collection, and screenprint the simple designs onto recycled bags, notecards, t-shirts, and anything else that strikes my fancy. The designs are customizable as far as color, style, and quantity. I am placing emphasis on only using recycled, recyclable, and biodegradable materials.
Target audience will mainly be women, but I would like the logo to appeal to men as well, to encourage them to shop the site and possibly purchase a gift for a loved one. Someone who would purchase something from http://www.redenvelope.com or http://www.potterybarn.com would also look at my website; however, I would like to appeal to the IKEA crowd as well. My products will be priced so as to be reasonable to the person of average income, and the sustainable message will be appealing to Baby Boomers and Generation Z alike!
Logo requirements:
no more than 3-color
need to have a b&w logo as well as color
font should be readable if printed small (bus card) or large (banner) format
Logo suggestions:
"Organic" coloring
would be nice to incorporate a Laurel flower, although not necessary
"homemade artistic" feel, but should still be professional
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In Amy Waldman's celebrated recent novel The Submission (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), controversy ensues when a Muslim-American named Mohammad Khan is selected to design a memorial at ground zero to victims of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
One of Khan's opponents is Sean Gallagher, whose brother, Patrick, was a firefighter killed that awful day.
Sean has found meaning in his crusade against Kahn—a non-observant architect who goes by the American-ized name "Mo"—and a not-so-subtle Islamophobia extends to Sean's Irish-American family in Brooklyn. "It's not enough to kill us," one of Sean's relatives says bitterly, "they have to humiliate us, too."
Waldman deserves immense credit for the overall sensitivity of her portrait. But a simple fact cannot be ignored: such unsophisticated, even reactionary, Irish-American characters are remarkably prominent in American history and literature.
There are the violent mobs of the New York City draft riots and the violent mobs of the South Boston bussing riots; there's Father Coughlin and Joe McCarthy; there's Studs Lonigan and the "ferocious Irishmen" who assault Augie March's pal in Saul Bellow's classic and the oppressive Dunn family from the book (and film) Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
But wait: Aren't the Irish also the freedom-fighting folks so closely associated with labor unions and the Democratic Party and anticolonialism?
And didn't Irish Catholics endure severe privation and bigotry from the era of the Great Hunger all the way up to the 1910s and 20s, when the U.S. government spied on and imprisoned Irish nationalists and Al Smith faced burning crosses on the campaign trail?
Ken Burns's latest documentary, "Prohibition," as well as two recent books—One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s by Thomas R. Pegram and The Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 by Kelly J. Baker—attest to the pervasive anti-Irish, anti-Catholicism of the early 20th century.
So, were the Irish part of a dominant or of a disempowered culture? Were they the oppressors or the oppressed?
These and other thorny contradictions are tackled by James R. Barrett in his important new bookThe Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multi-Ethnic City (Penguin Press). Barrett argues that "nativist hostility toward the Irish created a defensiveness in their relations with later waves of migrant peoples." He adds, "Excluded from much of the city's public life, the Irish immigrants fell back upon their own communities and institutions," including the church and the Democratic Party.
This (along with the ability to speak at least some English) helped a desperate people obtain some power in a hostile land, power that subsequent newcomers to urban centers—Jews, Italians, blacks, Poles—would find difficult to wrest from the Irish.
"Their most common impulse was to exclude," Barrett writes, "to bar more recent immigrants, women, and people of color from jobs and unions, to discriminate against women and minorities, and to fight more radical groups in the labor movement."
No less a radical than Daniel O'Connell, known as the Liberator, proclaimed that the Irish were a people naturally inclined to sympathize with the downtrodden—until they came to the United States, where they "learned to hate and despise the colored people," as O'Connell put it.
They also, as Barrett adds, "often embraced a hyperbolic brand of American patriotism, as if wrapping themselves in the flag might bring them acceptance."
Which, to a great degree, it did.
And yet, Barrett—who teaches history and African-American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—well knows that this is only half of the Irish-American story. For there are many instances of Irish American radicals and anticolonialists and labor leaders who embraced blacks and women and more recent immigrants.
Such tensions, in fact, have long been present within the Irish- American community and are evident in numerous other books released just in time for St. Patrick's Day this year. In Peter Troy's Famine-era novel May the Road Rise to Meet You (Doubleday), Sean McOwen is a Tammany Hall loyalist. Tammany—and most Irish—were not merely loyal Democrats. They viewed Lincoln and the Republicans as elitist, anti-Catholic scoundrels. And yet Sean's ambitious, free-thinking brother Ethan is star-struck when he sees Honest Abe after his famous Cooper Union speech in 1860.
"You have my full support," Ethan tells the future president, words that literally could have gotten him thumped in the nearby Five Points.
Meanwhile, in Kevin Fox's thriller Until the Next Time (Algonquin), an F.B.I. agent flees the racial strife of 1970s America for Ireland after a shootout with a member of the Black Panthers. Hoping to find solace among family, the agent instead is dismissed as a bigot no better than Nixon or the Brits by some I.R.A. men he falls in with.
Finally, Gerard O'Neill's Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston (Crown) vividly recalls when Irish Americans like Judge Arthur Garrity and Ted Kennedy had to be physically protected from angry, anti-bussing forces in traditionally Irish enclaves.
Is there any way to resolve these seeming contradictions? Professor Barrett's The Irish Way attempts to do just that. The book is broken up into six chapters, with titles like "The Street," "The Parish" and "The Machine." Having argued that the Irish exhibited great "tension between inclusiveness and exclusiveness, between cosmopolitanism and parochialism," Barrett sets out to focus roughly on the years 1880 to 1920, when the children of the Famine were assimilating, when more Irish were still pouring into the United States and when immigrants from other nations began settling in heavily Irish cities.
"By carving the city into distinct ethnic turfs and relentlessly defending their own, Irish gangs developed a strong sense of territoriality that they transmitted to later immigrants," Barrett writes, a process he terms "coercive Americanization."
To use language popularized by David Roediger, a scholar Barrett quotes and with whom he has collaborated, once the Irish "became white," they encouraged later immigrants to do the same—at the expense of more marginalized newcomers to the city.
Barrett takes a particularly interesting look at tensions among different 19th-century Catholic ethnic groups. (One Polish-American dubbed Protestants and the Irish as "two prongs of the same nativist fork.")
But Barrett stresses that Catholi-cism also "taught social justice and especially racial and ethnic tolerance."
The political machine, vaudeville stage and union hall could be similarly schizophrenic. Which raises the question: If you look at any group of people, wouldn't you find both progressive and conservative elements? Is it merely the fact that the Irish came in such great numbers that explains their intellectual and political inconsistency? And is this even inconsistency? Or merely diversity?
Barrett's observations about Irish interaction with other immigrants are keen, and his focus on the tenuously assimilated second generation is valuable. But one group that is generally absent from Barrett's analysis is what, these days, we call "the one percent," the power elite, who were all too happy to look on as America's ethnics went at each other's throats in the wards and alleyways, battling over small slivers of the social pie.
It should be added that Barrett is hardly the first to express understandable frustration with the ways Irish America flexed its hard-earned muscle. Consider Daniel Patrick Moynihan's famous assessment from Beyond the Melting Pot: "The very parochialism and bureaucracy that enabled [the Irish] to succeed in local politics prevented them from doing much else.... In a sense, the Irish didn't know what to do with power once they got it.… They never thought of politics as an instrument of social change."
The trouble is, when you've faced starvation, disease and death, survival very much counts as a kind of social change.
Whether they did it as reactionaries or progressives, no one can deny that the Irish survived. Perhaps they could have done more or done it differently. But given their starting point, survival is an understandable aspiration.
St. Patrick's Day 2012 finds a Kenyan-American president in the White House, whose maternal roots just happen to go back to Moneygall, County Offally, to which the president made a triumphant visit last summer. Two of the leading figures in New York City's 2013 mayoral race are named Kelly and Quinn, and if they win they will have to do battle with union leaders named Lynch, Cassidy and Mulgrew, in a diocese that just sent its 10th consecutive Irish American archbishop since 1842 to Rome as a cardinal.
On the other hand, the virulently anti-Irish, anti-Catholic cartoonist Thomas Nast was recently honored as a candidate for The New Jersey State Hall of Fame. And there was no public outcry whatsoever when a witness discussed the problem of "Irishmen who are drunks and…get into bar fights" during recent hearings aimed at (wait for it!) diversity in the New York City Fire Department.
And so it goes....
In the end, the Irish survived by any means necessary. It was not always pretty. But the Irish did not only complicate things for those below them. Their very presence also compelled those higher up the social ladder to accept some social change, albeit grudgingly. Otherwise, things might actually have been much worse for later immigrants and others.
Imagine if more children of Erin followed the bitter, fatherly dictate offered in the ballad "Paddy's Lament": "Here's to you boys, now take my advice./ To America I'll have ye's not be going." Whatever else they did, the Irish—to paraphrase Langston Hughes—forced "America to be America." Or at least to try.


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Congratulations to two fine people that I meet at an event not too long ago. Find #100 on BenandTina Tribute.
July 9 by <A style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" name=76614309>benandtina (105 found)
YAY!!! Our 100th cache!!! We wanted to enjoy the fabulous weather but I refused to let us get any caches near home until getting this one because I wanted it to be our 100th. We were quite pleased with the moose that felt the need to give us a 100th cache gift, lol.
We didn't leave home until 6PM so we couldn't do the run... we'll have to save that for a weekend ) TFTC! Ben left a bunch of wheat cents in it because he's crazy that way. I accidentally signed the log 7/10 even though it was the 9th... oops! Oh, and we may or may not have spent the drive home calling each other Beans and Tuna. ;o)


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being a macosx 10.5.8 user i tried to work with \"Audio To MIDI VST (MAC) 1.10\" and audacity sticking closely to the \"help\" file\'s instruction. there ought to be something i misunderstood since changing the slider\'s settings (max at start - as recommended - then varying ... etc) & testing did not have any impact on my files.*\"widi-music recognition system\" would definitely be my weapon of choice ... if my small, private project (converting just a couple of soundfiles to midi) would allow for a (muchmuch ... extreme...!) high budget**.**but: creating a software for conversion from mere soundwaves into \"music notationesque\" midi ...
Feedback Hi there, I have home studio where I run Macs, (no Microsoft rubbish allowed), unfortunately I use Cubase LE 4 , Garage Band , and Tracktion with a presonis I/O. The plugin VST failed to function with all of these apps. (OSX 10.5.5)Sorry about that.
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Our Favorite Creative Spaces
What inspires you? This year we took you into hundreds of stylish homes all over the globe, where people live, sleep, eat, work, and create. From an artist's home studio to an at-home indoor/outdoor gardening room, here are some of our favorite creative spaces of 2012.
1. Artist Sarah Hazel's home studio
2. From From Aya & Trevor's Sophisticated Contemporary Condo
3. Jules & Henry's 'Modern Menagerie' Loft
4. A workspace from Shannon's Soothing Mix of Styles
5. A drafting table used as a desk in Faith's Magical Bohemian Treehouse
6. Amy's One Smart Pop Tart Writing Space
7. Joe & Brad's Small Space with Big Style
8. The at-home studio of designer Marjorie Skouras, from her house tour
9. A bright workspace from Rohde's "Opportunistic" Design Laboratory
10. Stephen's Warm Modern Loft
11. A room for gardening from Anna & Joe's Living History in Georgetown
12. Inside the Lovely Studio of Adore Vintage
13. From Nathan & Heather's Cozy Vintage Ballad Home
14. A little writing nook in Jamie & Bryon's Elegant Art Canvas
15. Woodworker Mark Maček's drafting desk, as seen in his house tour
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About the classes
- There is no need to book and you can attend at any time
- Classes are for all levels and everyone is welcome
- Classes are self-contained and no previous experience is required
- The methods taught are beneficial to everyone, whether Buddhist or not
- At these drop-in classes people generally meditate sitting on chairs
- There is no physical exercise involved or any special clothing needed
Benefits of the classes
"The benefits of the teachings given in this course are, through sincerely practising these teachings you can solve your daily problems such as the problems of anger, attachment, jealousy and ignorance. You can maintain a peaceful mind all the time so that you will be happy all the time. You can maintain harmony and good relationships with your family, friends and others so that you can make others happy too. Especially you can make your human life very meaningful.
The benefits of training in meditation are, through sincerely training in meditation on the teachings given in this course you will attain spiritual realisations, which lead you to permanent liberation from all the sufferings of this life and countless future lives. There is no greater meaning than this. Even temporarily, whenever you experience problems, unpleasant feelings, depression or unhappiness you can solve these problems immediately by transforming your mind into peace through your meditation practice. The benefits of meditation are immeasurable"
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the Founder of Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre – the main Kadampa Buddhist Centre in North London.


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I oppose! @_@
Hihi guys..even though i joined like a month ago or something I only started posting now because I lost the link to the Forums like 2 hours after I joined @_@;
but i found the link again on Google, so yeh! hi!
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The Doctor
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: London
Age: 28
New Member
Hello, Doc here, after a long time of browsing this site, I decided to join.
I really like anime and wish to soon start my own Fansub group, and I am moveing to Japan in a about a years time with my friend.
The kind of anime I like is romantic, yuri, ecchy, and action packed.
Some of my favourites include,[LIST]
Why I like anime is because its just beutifull, the drawings, the visualisation, the stories, anime has something that live-action just can't give.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Hi Sensei.. and welcome.. :)
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better get this on and over with* nah! just kidding! hahahah! its great to be a member and thnx for putting this site together .
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|2006-11-17, 13:59
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hello there, I am Nightfly, but you can call me Zephy (main nickname, though it was already taken)
I'm an 19 year old boy from Rotterdam, Holland.
I'm a big fan of anime and manga, currently watching Utawatererumono (which brought me here, when I was browsing google for images) and after that, I'm planning to watch Mahou Nanoha (did i spell this correctly?)
my other hobby is music, I DJ and produce hardhouse (hardstyle/jump) music, and I listen to it alot.
This is my first international Anime & Manga board I've been on, hope to have a nice time on it
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Hinata and Naruto
Join Date: Nov 2006
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I'm new!(ish) I absolutly love Naruto. I like gaara, hinata, sasuke, sakura, and neji. Yay! I love making friends. Come by my page anytime! This picture is awsome but sad! I'm not peppy just bored.
|2006-11-18, 18:47
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Polarbears in sweden?
Hello my irl name is Joel and im from sweden, my hobbies are Anime and Webdesign .
Supposed its a good thing to show my self here, so people dont get wtf who is he? dont realy know what to write about my self at this time ^^.
Kinda wannted a steady anime-forum to browse and chat some in and i realy think I found it.
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Sid wakes up and can't stop sneezing. He makes his way into the kitchen where he finds his Dad in the middle of a similar sneeze attack. Sid soon discovers that just like his Dad, he might be allergic to pollen! This leads Sid on a mission to learn more about allergies. D
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German bike makers Focus have unveiled their 2010 range, which includes no fewer than 15 new frames including revamped
Focus turn out to be surprisingly huge. If you think of them as a small niche operation doing good-quality value-for-money bikes, then a visit to their factory in
They are part of Derby Cycle, who also own Kalkhoff, Rixe, Univega amd Diamondback, as well as making the German versions of
With the resources of a company this large behind Focus, it's no surprise that the bikes have developed rapidly in the past few years.
Izalco reflects pro feedback
Some changes are not surprising – the top model uses high modulus carbon now and is claimed to be lighter and stiffer as a result – but others are slightly less obvious.
Focus have revised their top-end Izalco road bike for 2010 with the help of the Milram squad
Among other changes, the
With input from Milram, the internal cable routing has been carefully designed to guide the cables in smooth curves and – importantly from a pro mechanic's perspective – the cables are easy to replace because they run in tubes moulded into the carbon fibre. Anyone who has battled to replace an internal cable on some older frames will breathe a sigh of relief.
The 2010 Focus Izalco comes with a tapered head tube and reinforced top tube
You might wonder why a race frame needs a reinforced top tube, but Arenz explained that these bikes get a hard life, and that Focus had seen crash failures caused by handlebar impacts on the top tube. A few extra grams of carbon in this area makes an expensive frame more likely to survive a crash.
The 2010
The 2010 Izalco comes with a 27.2mm seatpost for added comfort on long rides
Also driven by comfort is the extra tyre clearance on the 2010
There will be two grades of
The Extreme model gets the same high modulus frame as the team edition
Below the
The frame weighs in at 1,280g, according to Focus, and it's a classic example of yesterday's top-end technology trickling down to bikes most of us can afford.
The Cayo gets an all-new carbon frame with trickle-down technology from the Izalco
Who's on FIRST?
Focus have been busy off road too. For starters, the third generation of the FIRST suspension bike with the shock mounted in the top tube has shed 500g from the frame while going to a 1 1/8-to-1 1/2 in head tube, 120mm of travel and carbon fibre rear subframe. With a CrankBrothers Joplin adjustable seatpost, the FIRST Extreme weighs just 11.6kg (25.5lb), according to Focus.
The 120mm-travel FIRST Extreme weighs just 11.6kg, including adjustable seatpost
The bike that's chasing the
The Raven Extreme carbon hardtail features tidy internal cable/hose routing
Moving the brake has allowed Focus to thin down the seatstays in a move that's reminiscent of the design of many top road frames, and – again like the
The 2010 Raven's standout feature is the disc brake post mount on the chainstay
With SRAM's new XX group, the Raven Extreme is claimed to weigh 8.4kg (18.5lb). Arenz says they could have gone lighter by throwing featherweight components at this bike, but "we wanted to leave room to tinker".
The Raven comes with SRAM's new XX 10-speed groupset and weighs in at 8.4kg
Focus's other suspension bikes also get new bones. The 100mm-travel Super Bud has a new hydroformed aluminium frame with 1 1/8in-to-1 1/2in tapered head tube and what Focus call 'east Access bearing System'. This makes the main pivot bearings accessible from the non-drive side even if there's a crank fitted for easy adjustment and maintenance. The Super Bud also gets new tube shapes with flares at the head tube to stiffen this area.
The 100mm-travel Focus Super Bud has a new hydroformed aluminium frame
At 140mm rear travel, the Thunder line is Focus's all-mountain entry. It shares the unusual Knuckle Box rocker design with Diamondback, which is why – unlike other Focus suspension bikes – it's a single-pivot design instead of a four-bar with a Horst link.
That feature is shared with the 150mm rear travel Project bikes, and both Project and Thunder models get 1 1/8in-to-1 1/2in tapered head tubes.
The Thunder and Project models share the same 'Knuckle Box' rocker design
Focus gets electrified
Derby Cycle are also making a big investment in electric bikes and the Focus range includes a couple of battery-assisted models. They're not necessarily of interest to your average hardcore road cyclist or mountain biker, but a quick spin on the new Kalkhoff Pro Connect S – which shares the same 300W motor as the new Focus Jarifa Speed – revealed it to be startlingly fun, and startlingly quick.
Focus say these 300W bikes are capable of 40km/h (25 mph) in the unrestricted form in which they're sold in
For older riders, and for folks who want to ride to work in office clothes, get there fairly quickly and not arrive in a puddle of sweat, electric bikes really look like a viable option.


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Hello! I'm Marova, though you can call me Maro. I have been off-and-on bentoing for a few years and I have the gross pics to prove it! Seriously...you wouldn't believe some of the crap I made Dx
I joined this site because I wanted to learn how to cook and prepare better foods for my lunches and even my breakfasts, dinners, snacks, brunches...you get the point. I eat a lot, but it's usually crap. I just eat whatever's around, and that means it's usually pretty starchy and carby and fatty. Oh noes. I'd like to eat healthier, tastier food (is that possible?) that doesn't sit in the fridge! No more big pots of nasty fried rice I can't even finish the first bowl of. I want to eat some real food. xD
I'm gonna start college soon, and I'll be living at home since I can't afford to live on campus (not that I really wanted to). So, whatever I take for lunch would need to be able to last for a few hours until I could get to it. And my earliest classes aren't till almost 11AM, so I would have time to cook/prepare whatever I need to.
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Under Mr. Ayers' leadership, the AOC has implemented several programs to actively award contracts to companies that reflect the diversity of our country above and beyond the standard requirements of Federal regulations.
Specifically, the AOC is a Legislative Branch agency, and therefore, is not required to utilize small business programs under the Small Business Act, 15 USC §631 et seq., which is under the authority of the Small Business Administration (SBA). The MOU, while preserving the separation of powers between the Legislative and Executive branches, establishes the support activities, roles, and responsibilities necessary for the AOC to fully utilize small businesses, identified under the Act and the SBA's regulations, to the maximum extent practicable when awarding small purchase contracts.
In addition, the SBA's subject matter expertise will be used to further strengthen, expand, and foster contracting opportunities for small businesses.
Mr. Ayers, upon signing the agreement document said, "The AOC is leading the way in the Legislative Branch in encouraging small disadvantaged and women-owned businesses to effectively compete for AOC contracts. This increased competition ensures we receive the best value for taxpayers' dollars while supporting employment opportunities and businesses in our community."
"It is appropriate that America's small businesses are part of the lifeblood of the Capitol. After all, small businesses have built this country, and they will continue to provide the products and services that America needs in the 21st Century. We look forward to working with the AOC to maximize the opportunities available to small businesses through the terms of this agreement," said Ms. Mills.
The MOU is effective for three years and is just one of the AOC's efforts to encourage small business participation in its procurement process. Other AOC initiatives include: a Small Business Subcontracting Program for construction contracts greater than $1 million; a Small Business Outreach Program, and a Small Business set-aside for procurements between $5,000 and $100,000.
"I want to thank Administrator Mills and the SBA team for their expertise and cooperation in establishing this Memorandum of Understanding," noted Ayers. "We all agree that we have a vested interest in supporting small businesses in order to help facilitate competition and to support local communities."


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Two women in Limerick were arrested following a brutal brawl outside of an elementary school last week.
The Irish Examiner reports that one witness, who didn't wish to be named, said "It was surreal, completely unbelievable. They just went at each other. Biting, scratching, pulling hair, kicking, everything — you name it."
"It was in the middle of the street," said the witness. The incident took place on Monastery Rd in the otherwise quiet small town of Doon, Co Limerick.
"They were down on the ground on top of each other, beating the heads off each other. The next thing the tops were pulled off each other and then a bra went flying through the air."
"You would think that this would have stopped them — but not a bit of it, they kept at it. It wasn't a few slaps either, this was vicious stuff. There was blood on the ground."
"Remember now, this was at 9:15 in the morning at a time when mums and dads are bringing their little ones to school and child minders. It is hard to get your head around it. The incident lasted for a good few minutes, too."
The Irish Examiner goes on to report that is believed the two women, who are both in their 30s, used to be friends until a recent falling-out. It is also believed that the row between the two women stemmed from an earlier altercation between two males connected to the women.
"There were men there watching them among the crowd," added the witness. "I don't know who they were but they were shouting and roaring. One guy was egging one on, shouting 'Kill her! Kill her!'"
Gardai later confirmed that an altercation between the two men took place following the womens' brawl.
"A male was seriously assaulted during the altercation and taken by ambulance to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital," said a Gardai spokesperson. "He was later discharged from hospital. Another male was arrested on Saturday morning and detained in Bruff Garda Station for questioning."
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Located in Southwestern Oregon, Josephine County is bordered on the south by California and the Pacific coast is just two hours away. Josephine County was created by the Territorial Legislature on January 22, 1856, from the western half of Jackson County. And was named for Josephine Rollins, the first white woman to settle in southern Oregon. Learn more about the history of Josephine County here.
Josephine County is mountainous, but also has two major valleys and three rivers; the Rogue, the Applegate and the Illinois. These scenic rivers are world renowned for whitewater rafting and fishing. Many Josephine County Parks are situated on the Rogue River; these parks offer camping and great activities such as disc golf, hiking, volleyball, softball and fishing.
One point of interest in Josephine County is the Grave Creek Covered Bridge; this is one of the few functional covered bridges that remain in southern Oregon. This historic bridge is the only covered bridge visible from the Oregon I-5 freeway.
Other attractions include the Applegate Trail Interpretive Center, Hellgate Canyon-Rogue River, Kalmiopsis Wilderness, Kerbyville Museum, Oregon Caves National Monument, Rogue Community College, Lake Selmac, WildLife Images and the Wolf Creek Inn, a State Historic Park.


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Chinese Company Sues American Retailers For Selling 'Knockoffs'
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Now, there are a bunch of points worth discussing here. First, apparently this is the first such case of a Chinese company (based in China) suing in the US over a patent infringement claim (a claim that really surprises me). Considering the long history of China copying (blatantly) American products and then reselling them, it's really quite fascinating to see a Chinese company now complain about the "reverse." Of course, as we've been highlighting recently, there's been a big push in China to build up a belief in patents. It seems this firm has already learned the basics of the American patent system: it's suing in Texas, of course!
The other odd thing about this case is filing the lawsuit against the retailers. The company is also suing the manufacturer (another Chinese company) which makes sense, but I've never understood why going after the retailer makes sense. Best Buy, Wal-Mart and others shouldn't need to investigate every product they sell to determine whether it violates someone else's patents. Let that be handled between vendors. Dragging the retailers into the lawsuit is just a waste of resources.


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Holaday outsmarts White Sox for a Tigers victory
CHICAGO -- Tigers ace Justin Verlander and White Sox left-hander Jose Quintana essentially battled to a draw Tuesday night. Their matchup came down to a battle of late-inning bunts.
The White Sox didn't get theirs down against Verlander in the seventh. Tigers backup catcher Bryan Holaday did in the ninth off Ronald Belisario.View Full Game Coverage
CHICAGO -- Tigers ace Justin Verlander and White Sox left-hander Jose Quintana essentially battled to a draw Tuesday night. Their matchup came down to a battle of late-inning bunts.
The White Sox didn't get theirs down against Verlander in the seventh. Tigers backup catcher Bryan Holaday did in the ninth off Ronald Belisario.View Full Game Coverage
"I knew that it was going to be decent," Holaday said of his go-ahead bunt single with two outs in the ninth inning, scoring Austin Jackson with the deciding run in a 4-3 Detroit win. "I was just trying to run as fast as I could."
Holaday didn't know he was going to be playing Tuesday night until just before batting practice, when Alex Avila came down with back spasms. He didn't know he'd be laying down a bunt in the ninth inning of a tie game until he saw White Sox third baseman Marcus Semien moving back on him.
He didn't know until later that manager Brad Ausmus, bench coach Gene Lamont and third-base coach Dave Clark were all trying to get his attention to bunt.
"I don't know if he got it," Ausmus said afterward. "I gave it to Dave Clark and I think Clarky tried to give him a sign, and Gene Lamont and I were kind of yelling at him at the bench in code to look at him, but I don't know if he heard us or saw Clarky or just saw it on his own and took advantage."
He didn't see their signs, but he saw the third baseman.
"I didn't hear him," Holaday said. "I was just focusing on the third baseman, seeing what he was doing. I noticed he was starting in and then backed up. That's when I thought I had a good chance to lay it down."
It was the same read he made 10 days earlier for an eighth-inning single against the Angels. In that case, though, there was nobody on base, and the Tigers already had a lead.
"I'm really confident in my bunting ability. At [Texas Christian University], we did it a lot," Holaday said. "I'm confident that I'm able to get it down, so that's not a problem."
In that case, too, he had talked with Ausmus about it beforehand.
"Part of his ability to be successful as a bunter is the sneak attack tactic with the third baseman playing him back," Ausmus said. "If you don't know a player at this level and they're a catcher, you often assume that they won't bunt or they can't run well. And Doc's not a speed merchant, but he's not slow. So if they give him some grass and he can put it in that area, he's got the ability to beat it out."
The days of the sneak attack might now be done, but they got the most out of it.
Jackson reached base with one out in the ninth when his drive to right-center field fell in and out of Dayan Viciedo's glove for a three-base error. Ronald Belisario, who had retired the previous seven batters, struck out Nick Castellanos to take away the sacrifice fly opportunity and bring up Holaday.
After taking a first-pitch ball and fouling off another sinker, Holaday turned and laid down a roller to the third-base side of the mound. Belisario scrambled to retrieve the ball as Jackson scrambled home, but the throw to first was both late and high, pulling Jose Abreu off the bag.
"I mean, it was a perfect bunt," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "Just a smart play, you know, wet conditions. It would have been tough to get him on a night that was dry, let alone the way it was. So it was just a smart play."
Said Verlander: "As soon as he laid it down, I thought it was a great play, especially the way he'd been throwing the ball. Belisario had been obviously making some really good hitters look silly up there, and I think Holly understood the situation and knew it was going to be an extremely tough at-bat. I think it was a really heads-up play.
"If I was pitching, I'd have been [ticked], but that was heads-up and smart and won us a ballgame. I couldn't be happier for him. He did a heckuva job."
Verlander very nearly was that pitcher. The third baseman, Semien, was the batter who tried to lay down a bunt in a similar situation against Verlander with one out in the seventh.
The count was the same. But unlike the sinkerballing Belsario, Semien had to try it against Verlander, who elevated his 1-1 pitch as Semien tried to push it down the first-base line. The ball went foul.
"I actually thought that was a really good idea, because it was first-and-third," Holaday said. "It looked like it was a safety squeeze, like a bunt to first base. It was a good idea. Luckily, it was a tough pitch to lay down a bunt."
Thus came the difference on a night when Verlander and Quintana essentially matched each other, their damage mainly concentrated on one inning. For Verlander, it was a four-hit, three-run third after holding the White Sox hitless through the first two innings. For Quintana, the damage came down to four consecutive two-out singles in the sixth to plate two runs and tie the game.
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Jan 30, 2013
The Central Connecticut women's golf team was tabbed to finish second in the Northeast Conference preseason poll by GolfWeek.com, an article released on Sunday. Only Saint Francis U was picked to finish ahead of Central.
Fairleigh Dickinson and Monmouth were slated behind the Blue Devils while regining NEC Champion LIU-Brooklyn rounded out the poll's top-five. Robert Morris fell behind LIU-Brooklyn ranked sixth followed by Sacred Heart seventh, Wagner eighth, Mount St. Mary's ninth, and Saint Francis Brooklyn 10th.
Central finished seventh at the conference tournament last spring with a team score of 971. The score marked the lowest that the Blue Devils have scored at the NEC Tournament since a third round was added to the event in 2007.


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Field Notes: Studying Unformed Objects
Reflections on How Ethnographies of Science and Process Take Shape
"…it is not enough for us to open our eyes, to pay attention, to be aware, for new objects suddenly to light up and emerge out of the ground."
– Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, 1969/1971, pp 44-45
In July's Field Notes, four writers reflect on their experiences carrying out ethnographies of not-quite-formed objects, or in other words, on the joint 'taking-shape' of their subjects and projects.
As a prompt, we put two questions in conversation:
(1) How does an ethnographic project's focus take shape? (be it in contemplative stages, pilot work, during grant-writing, in the midst of fieldwork, or in reflection and writing)?
(2) What does it look like to conduct ethnographies of people's efforts (successful or not) to pull together certain issues or problems as a cohesive topic for scientific investigation and public action?
In short, what does it look and feel like to study the "coming-into-being" [1] of objects, be they scientific, medical, or other, or to study the failures to quite do so?
As a graduate student attempting to undertake a project that specifically took into account competing efforts of residents, activists, and government scientists to negotiate and define what it was they were trying to study, measure, and address through environmental risk assessment, it struck me that defining my own question and object of study needed a certain unfinished openness and fluidity to be attentive to this unfinished work itself that I was tracking.
I am happy to have the opportunity to host this conversation through SCA's Field Notes, with several experienced scholars, to reflect together, and in contrast, on the different ways our projects, whether ethnographic, historical, or otherwise, take shape.
Please log in and join us this month in posting comments and reflecting: How have your own projects – and their foci - grown over time, become clearer, less clear, come together, pulled apart?
We look forward to playing with these ideas with you all!
Go to the Discussion:
Post one, Provocation: Kathleen Stewart
Post two, Translation: Britt Dahlberg
Post three, Deviation: Michelle Murphy
Post four, Integration: Amy Moran-Thomas
Writers for this round of discussion are:
Provocation: Kathleen Stewart is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. She writes on place, the senses, affect, the ordinary, worlding and ethnographic writing as a form of theory. Her experiments in ethnographic creative nonfiction attempt to find ways to capture, or help compose, modes of living as they come into being. A Space on the Side of the Road (Princeton) approached the shared lived impacts of class as an intense plane of expressivity. Ordinary Affects (Duke) theorized the affects of everyday life as public-private events. Her current book, Worlding, is written as a prism of shards or angles on the phenomena of worlds throwing together as moods, refrains, rhythms, tactile compositions, sensory labors, atmospheric attunements and the arc of a life.
Translation: Britt Dahlberg is a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, funded by NSF, Wenner Gren, and the American Philosophical Society, explores the interplay of "blight" and "risk" in shaping how risks emerge, crystallize, and fade during a community-government environmental risk assessment process at a U.S. EPA Superfund site. She is interested in how different modes of attending to, seeing, sensing, and experiencing place, self, and community, relate to practices of diagnosis and risk assessment. Her previous work has explored the interplay of self-making and diagnosis of depression among older Americans. Her work can be seen at: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthro/people/dahlberg
Deviation: Michelle Murphy is a feminist technoscience studies scholar and historian of the recent past who works as an Associate Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience (Duke UP 2013) and Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers (Duke UP 2006). She is also co-organizer of the Technoscience Salon: technosalon.wordpress.com. For more on her work visit: technopolitics.wordpress.com.
Integration: Amy Moran-Thomas is a Cogut Center International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University in Anthropology and Population Studies. Her work, appearing in publications such as Annual Review of Anthropology (with João Biehl) and When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health (Princeton UP 2013), examines metabolic and parasitic disorders as windows into health politics, environmental change, and the ethics of care more broadly. Her current book project focuses on the global diabetes epidemic.
*Special thanks also go to photographer Paul Indigo for kindly sharing his work as a visual element of our discussion this month! For more of his works, visit: http://www.indigo2photography.co.uk/
[1] Daston, L. (2000). Introduction: The coming into being of scientific objects. Biographies of Scientific Objects. L. Daston. Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1-14.


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This page is targeted to collect all the information about creating a way of automatically installing the UBoot-bootloader on the supported boxes. It will be a 2-stage installer and by design it should minimize the risk of bricking a box as good as possible.
The complete concept is in its initial stages.
Currently the LS1 & HG were both tested with UBoot, nobody tested it on a HS but as it is seems to be the same hardware as the HG it is expected to work.
How it should work
TODO: we need to port the concept outlined in the forum to here
The NAS-Central Community Forum / General Development / Automatic UBoot Installer
We need to write some scripts for the firmimg.bin which includes the UBoot binary. This scripts need to check if the enviroment is sane before flashing and if everything was done correctly after flashing.
If you want to help then modify the scripts at the talk-page
and report back at the forum:
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PAWNOGRAFFITI wrote:Mate just another dick riding Niners fan plain and simple...
And what would you consider your senseless claims that Blanda is one of the best QBs (if not the best) of all time? Dick riding Raider Fan? The fact remains that if you took a poll across the entire country Montana would hands down be considered the best, I'm not being biased and you can't argue this.
Hey who knows, maybe Joe and Steve would have never been HOF QBs without Rice and that is your opinion. But Joe didn't have Jerry around in 81 or 84, so much for that arguement.PAWNOGRAFFITI wrote:You guys had medicore QB's in Joe Montana and Steve Young... it was your awesome Wide Reciever in Jerry Rice who booked there tickets to Canton Ohio.... just like Jerry Rice and Tim Brown booked Rich Gannon a ticket to Canton.
And as far as Gannon being a HOFer? You have to be kidding I'll bet you $100 right now that never happens, in fact he'll never even get the slightest bit of consideration. That statement proves how biased and uninformed you are - his stats don't even stack up against Blanda's, and one SB lost isn't enough either, you are a fool. LOL.
Yes, I read your post, and I knew you'd reply with something to this effect (you are so transparent), but stats matter as much as SB/championship victories. If that wasn't the case than Marino likely wouldn't have been elected. And make up your contradictory-mind, is Montana "medicore" (it's spelled mediocre by the way ) or a great clutch QB?PAWNOGRAFFITI wrote:Anyhow if you read my post i said put the stats and QB rating aside cause Blanda will never stack up to Marino or Montana... But take solace that in when selecting the Great QB's you need to look at the Clutch Factor and guys who can win you Games when you need too (something Montana and Marino could both do too)
Surprise! You completely missed my point, which was that even if Favre's skills drastically diminished but he still maintained reasonable health and if you gave him another 8-9 seasons he'd likely set career marks thought to be inhuman in Blanda's day - Hell his numbers now are good enough to do that.PAWNOGRAFFITI wrote:I also disagree with your comment about Brett Favre and giving him 26 seasons. That guy started breaking down 5 years ago..
Wow! Great point Pawno, it's amazing how clever you are at sprinkling on those little cheap shots here and there - which are completely irrelevant. I mean seriously what was the point of that statement? Is it supposed to make me mad, sad or frustrated? Man, I work at a sports apparel store where I have better **** talked to me about my 9ers by 12 year olds. I know they suck and I know Alex had a bad season, but that has nothing to do with what we are talking about.PAWNOGRAFFITI wrote:He had his cindarella send off this year winning his division and almost winning his conference but i think after season 18 thru to his 26th season, you'd see 8 years of Alex Smith type performances.
See, I don't get defensive about sports like someone as childish as you. I get defensive when people like you personally attack me and my opinions. You aren't as smart, rational, nor mature as me plain and simple. You can continue to talk **** to me, if you wish, but realize you will never gain the satisfaction you seek because deep down you know I make more sense than you. I'm simply better at this than you.
You can end this petty rivalry now, while it's still young (two threads), no apologies necessary, no need for you to admit you're wrong (in any instance). Just stop replying to my posts in which the manner you have. But if you wish to continue than proceed, because I wont be the one to concede.


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The race at Vaughn's Gap in Percy Warner Park was won by host Vanderbilt University. Lipscomb finished ahead of Tennessee and UT-Chattanooga, who are ranked No. 6 and No. 14 respectively in the South Region. Vanderbilt is ranked No. 3 in the South Region and No. 39 in the nation.
It was the second week in a row that the Lipscomb women beat regionally -ranked teams.
Freshman Alex Newby (Knoxville, Tenn.) led the way for Lipscomb, finishing the challenging Vaughn's Gap 5000-m course in a time of 18:30 for an eighth place finish overall. This is the second meet in a row in which Newby has led the Lady Bisons, and is also her second PR in a row, dropping her personal best time from 18:56 a week ago.
Newby was followed closely by a pack of Lipscomb women in 10th through 13th places. Tessa Hoefle (FR – Winnebago, Ill.) finished 10th in 18:34, Ashley Lehman (JR – Harrisonburg, Va.) was 11th in 18:37, Dani Walker (FR – Wichita, Kan.) was 12th in 18:48 and Shelby Marvel (SO – Ashland City, Tenn.) rounded out the top five in 13th in 18:55.
The sixth and seventh finishers for Lipscomb were Jenny Randolph (SR – Knoxville, Tenn.) in 19th in 19:00 and Louisa Van Batavia (JR – Burns, Ore.) in 20th in 19:01.
Cortney Thomas (FR – Lacey, Wash.) finished eighth for Lipscomb, 27th overall, in 19:21 and Ali Keith (FR – Mililani, Hawaii) was ninth for the Lady Bisons, and 31st overall, in a time of 19:29.
The top nine women for Lipscomb all ran either their all-time 5-K PR, or their all-time XC 5-K PR.
The Lipscomb women also dropped their all time best team time on this course by more than four minutes. The team average dropped 51 seconds. The Lady Bisons also broke course records for 1-5 gap and 1-7 gap.
The top four women broke the Lipscomb school record for best time on the Vaughn's Gap course. Newby set a new Lipscomb freshman record for the course. Shelby Marvel set a new Lipscomb sophomore record for the course. Ashley Lehman posted a new record for Lipscomb juniors on this course.
Nine Lipscomb women posted a faster time this year than the top Lipscomb finisher last year. Seventeen women ran faster times that the fifth Lipscomb finisher last year.
"We are really good," Lady Bisons coach Bill Taylor said. "I think the women have kind of felt that over the first part of the season, but today really opened their eyes to what is possible. We beat two ranked teams. And although I was told Tennessee did not run their top two women, it doesn't look like it would have made a difference in the team results today.
"Vandy is ranked 39th in the nation and No. 3 in our region, and I think it surprised our women how close we really were. This is a young and motivated team that is having so much fun and is discovering how good we can be."
Taylor stressed that the team records set in the race need to be put in perspective.
"This is our home course," Taylor said. "Lipscomb has always trained out here and usually has two to three meets out here each year. And to drop a team time best by one minute is huge, to drop it more than four minutes is gigantic!
"I've been working to build this type of team…this type of program since I arrived at Lipscomb three years ago. I had a plan when I was hired and the experience back at Northwest to understand how it is done. It's so exciting to see it coming together this year. And it's not going to stop. This is the type of program we are now and we are just going to get better and better. We will be a national force here for years to come."
Other finishers for the Lipscomb women:
Catherine Beals 19:46, Caitlin Anderson 19:53, Amanda Twigg 19:57, Lacey Printz 19:58, Miranda Klein 19:59, Katie Bunker 20:02, Missy Dowd 20:05, Anna Belner 20:06, Priya Pappu 20:18, Jaimie McFarland 20:44, Alyssa Miller 20:51, Laura Stewart 21:05, Reba Francisco 21:49, Emily Wilson 22:42.
"I'm really happy with how all the women ran," Taylor said. "They ran tough from first to twenty-third. That's all you can ask. They put it on the line on a tough course and fought hard."


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GREENSBORO � Several more Triad area legislators emerged as recipients of campaign money from Oklahoma video-sweepstakes executive Chase Burns, who was arrested last week in a gambling investigation that nabbed suspects in six states.
A recent report by nonprofit Democracy North Carolina named state Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, R-Eden, and two Democrats from Greensboro � state Sen. Gladys Robinson and state Rep. Alma Adams � as beneficiaries of Burns campaign contributions.
Berger received a total $8,000 from Burns in the 2012 election cycle. Adams and Robinson each got $1,000, according to the report by Democracy North Carolina, an election-reform group based in Durham.
Earlier documents from the State Board of Elections indicated that two GOP state senators from the area, Jerry Tillman of Archdale and Rick Gunn of Burlington, each received $4,000 from Burns.
The officeholders were among 68 candidates for state office receiving a total of $180,500 in contributions last year from Burns, owner of International Internet Technologies, which supplied software to many North Carolina Internet sweepstakes parlors.
Adams said that she does not know Burns and that his contribution just came in the mail without explanation or further contact.
�If it had been a bigger check or if it had the company�s name on it, I probably would have taken more notice,� she said.
�I don�t approve of what I�ve heard about what Mr. Burns was indicted for.�
Efforts to reach Berger for comment Tuesday were unsuccessful.
His press aide referred questions to an official of the state Senate Republican Caucus, who did not respond.
Burns and his wife, Kristin, were among 57 people arrested for an alleged fraud centered in Florida and linked to what authorities say was a fake charity, Allied Veterans.
Those charged allegedly played various roles in running gambling parlors across the Florida masquerading as charitable operations but, in fact, spinning out hefty profits for affiliated business people � including $75 million to Burns.
So far, North Carolina has not figured in the continuing investigation.
Adams and other Democrat members of the state House resolved last week to redirect any money Burns gave them to charity, particularly groups that aid veterans.
Adams said Tuesday that she was giving her $1,000 to the Disabled American Veterans organization in Guilford County.
Burns and his wife made at least $235,000 in contributions to North Carolina candidates and the state Republican Party, the Democracy North Carolina report showed.
Their political giving slanted Republican, including $55,000 to the state GOP apparatus and another $137,000 to 44 of its individual candidates, including Gov. Pat McCrory.
Burns� company hired the Charlotte law firm that employed McCrory last year to lobby for changes in state law favoring the sweepstakes industry.
After Burns� arrest last week, McCrory donated the $8,000 his gubernatorial campaign received to a Durham charity that works with veterans.


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Caylin Crawford found herself out of work after a snowboarding accident and went to U.S. Bank for some help with her mortgage.
The 24-year-old homeowner said she was up-to-date on her monthly payments in January 2011 when she called to ask about loan-modification options.
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"They said, 'We can't do anything to help you unless you are behind on your mortgage," she recalled. "'So stop paying, and then we can modify your loan.'"
Ms. Crawford said she took the bank's advice. But the bank didn't modify her loan. Instead, it foreclosed on her home.
Ms. Crawford has sued the bank as well as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., or Freddie Mac (FMCC), in a federal district court in Minneapolis, alleging wrongful foreclosure. U.S. Bank services the loan, and Freddie Mac holds the note. She said she is now in settlement discussions with Freddie Mac.
"I only owed $28,000 on my house when they foreclosed," Ms. Crawford said in a telephone interview. "They've probably spent $60,000 defending their foreclosure instead of just working with me."
Thomas Joyce, a spokesman for U.S. Bank, said the company has no record of its representatives telling Ms. Crawford not to pay her mortgage. "We've long been committed to sound loan modification and foreclosure practices," he said. "And we've always regarded foreclosures as a last resort."
Mark Goldman, a California mortgage broker and a lecturer at the Corky McMillin Real Estate Center at San Diego State University, said Ms. Crawford's claim is common.
He says companies that service loans sometimes can make more money when the loans are in default. "When a loan goes into special services, the servicers get huge increases in servicing fees," he said.
Mr. Joyce, at U.S. Bank, said this simply doesn't happen. Defaulted loans "are not economically advantaged in any way," he said. "We don't collect any fees or income at foreclosure. We spend millions of dollars to help keep people in their homes, because that is what's best for all concerned."
Federal housing authorities, however, have wrestled with perverse economic incentives at mortgage-servicing companies.
"It is clear that the mortgage servicing compensation model is broken and should be fixed," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan wrote in January 2011 letter to Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Freddie Mac.
And earlier this week, 10 major banks that service mortgages agreed to pay $8.5 billion to settle charges they wrongfully foreclosed on people. The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which exacted the settlement, more politely called it "deficient practices in mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure processing."
U.S. Bank was part of the settlement, as were Aurora Loan Services, Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), MetLife (NYSE:MET), PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE:PNC), Sovereign Bank, SunTrust Banks Inc. (NYSE:STI) and Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC).
The settlement covers more than 3.8 million borrowers whose homes went in foreclosure in 2009 and 2010. It doesn't cover Ms. Crawford, whose home went into foreclosure in 2011.
"The banks are paying this money to people they wrongfully foreclosed on two or three years ago, but they're still going through with wrongful foreclosures," Ms. Crawford said.
She said the loan-modification process and her ensuing foreclosure and lawsuit has worn her thin. She'd fill out documents, send them to the bank, only to hear they never got them, or lost them. They also sent her promises they wouldn't foreclose, and then they foreclosed anyway, she said.
Her experience led her to become an organizer with Occupy Homes Minneapolis, where she helps other foreclosure victims with remarkably similar stories.
"These people lost their homes. They were kicked out of their communities. Their neighborhoods suffered because tax values went down. Children were bounced around from home to home with parents in unstable living conditions. ...And nine times out of 10, it was because the bank told them not to pay so they can qualify for a loan modification," she said.
Mr. Goldman, who has observed this problem from a busy vantage point in California, argues that it goes far beyond bad corporate bureaucracy.
"They're bad people," he said. "If they want to implement a strategy to sell a bunch of credit cards or sell a bunch of loans, they get the resources and the people in place to make those things happen.
"If they wanted to solve homeowners' problems, they would have gotten people in place to solve those problems. Instead, they hired people away from Dairy Queen and Home Depot who had no capacity to do anything and no technical knowledge.
"Then they change policies, constantly," Mr. Goldman continued. "How many times have you heard from people like this lady that every time they called the bank they got a different story?"
The settlement, Mr. Goldman estimates, doesn't begin to match the damage banks have done to millions of people.
Ms. Crawford has regained employment as a research technician at the University of Minnesota. She is still living in her home, but it has been foreclosed, a black mark she'll carry on her credit report for years to come.
"I wanted to buy Christmas decorations. But I didn't know if I would be here for Christmas," she said.
The best deal she says she can hope for now is for the bank and Freddie Mac to sell the home to her mother for cash, so she can keep living in it.
"If I had children to take care of, I would have put resources into keeping a roof over their heads instead of fighting," she said. "And the banks would have gotten away with this."
(Al's Emporium, written by Dow Jones Newswires columnist Al Lewis, offers commentary and analysis on a wide range of business subjects through an unconventional perspective. Contact Al at firstname.lastname@example.com or tellittoal.com).


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Gojira To Release Photo Book With Live CD/DVD
Gojira's critically acclaimed album 'L'Enfant Sauvage' dropped in 2012, and the French metal band toured the world to support it. On March 11, a limited edition hardcover photo book will be released that chronicles the more than 150 shows on three continents during the album's tour cycle. The photos were selected by Gojira's Joe and Mario Duplantier.
The package also includes the live CD and DVD 'Les Enfants Sauvages,' of their 2013 performance at Brixton Academy in London. Check out a video of the song 'Flying Whales' from the CD/DVD above via Noisey.
In addition to the CD/DVD/book, a bundle that includes an exclusive T-shirt is available. Pre-orders are available now at this location.
What are Gojira's plans for 2014? Frontman Joe Duplantier talked to Loudwire about it: "We have a lot in our minds. There's a lot of stuff we'd like to do – some stuff I can't talk about because it's too early but definitely a new album."
Duplantier continues, "We at least want to work on a new album, that's going to be really important for us. There's a platform now for our band to release a record without thinking about anything else because the deal with Roadrunner took a lot of energy and time."
1. 'Intro'
2. 'Explosia'
3. 'Flying Whales'
4. 'Backbone'
5. 'The Heaviest Matter of the Universe'
6. 'L'Enfant Sauvage'
7. 'Toxic Garbage Island'
8. 'Wisdom Comes'
9. 'Jam'
10. 'Oroborus'
11. Drum Solo
12. 'The Axe'
13. 'The Gift of Guilt'


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BNI is the largest business networking system in the world, and we at BNI Riverside are a group of Business & Sales people who are all looking to grow our individual businesses and/or get more sales.
We do this by way of Business Referrals.
When: Tuesday 7:00am Sharp to 8:30am
Cost: Admission is $35.00pp which includes breakfast
We only allow one member from each business category into the group and this allows us to 'lock out' our competitors. In other words, when you join BNI Riverside then no other person or business from your industry can join us. Therefore all referrals that people come across through their clients, colleagues, associates, friends and family will all come to you.
Once you confirm that you are attending we will reserve a seat and breakfast for you. If you have any queries at all then please contact our President David White on 0423 219 772 or firstname.lastname@example.com
We look forward to having you along.