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Incorporating LEED thinking into a project can begin as early as site selection. Developers can consider recycling existing buildings, making sites accessible to public transportation, and opting for native grasses and drought-tolerant, bug-resistant plants to minimize watering and fertilizing. "It all helps to reduce the impact on greenhouse gases and the environment," Casey says.
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"We can ask the architect to write into the specs that materials arrive at the site packaged in cardboard, which we can recycle, and get paid for, rather than paying a surcharge to dump it into a landfill," Finn continues. "Rather than paying, we get paid. It's a no-brainer. With sustainability, you move away from the linear process — take material, make a building and throw away resources — and close the loop by recycling."
For a project under construction in Atlanta, Finn has investigated using gypsum as an additive for the landscaping topsoil. The soils in the metro area are deficient in certain nutrients that can be provided by raw gypsum. "Rather than tracking our leftover gypsum off site and having the landscaper truck his own gypsum in, our waste becomes his raw material," he says. Finn views sustainability as providing a triple bottom line — doing the right thing with regard to civic, environmental and financial responsibility.
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People often associate green design with a higher cost. Although some systems carry higher initial costs, long-term savings often make such investments worthwhile. "If I were a retail owner, the energy section would really grab my attention because it saves money over the entire life of the building," Casey says. "In an energy crisis, if owners had another source, like solar power, they might be able to divert to it and potentially avoid a price gouge."
Other more intangible benefits of using LEED are points scored for being a good neighbor. The development and construction industries aren't always regarded as the good guys, but LEED allows the building team to fuse environmental responsibility with commercial profit. Casey points out that the general public would likely be more receptive to new retail projects if developers communicate that they're going to maintain native plantings and generate their own power rather than being energy hogs when they move in.
"I would be a lot more excited about having a sustainable building come into my community," she says. "The other great thing about LEED is that the approach is not, 'You should do this because it's altruistic.' It's just smart business," Casey adds.
The approach can also work as a business and marketing tool. "There are only finite resources the mother ship provides us," Finn says. "If the market starts to demand these types of certifications and you're already familiar with how to put these buildings together, you're good to go when the market shifts."
Elyse Umlauf-Garneau is a Chicago-based writer.
Scoring green
The LEED Green Building Rating System uses a point system to assess a building's greenness. Certification levels are: Certified (26-31 points); Silver (32-37); Gold (38-44); and Platinum (45-64). Here's a sampling — by no means comprehensive — of greening suggestions within the five LEED categories from which building teams may pick to score points.
Sustainable sites — Channel development to urban areas with existing infrastructure; protect greenfields; reduce pollution and land development impacts from auto use.
Water efficiency — Limit or eliminate potable water use for landscape irrigation; specify high-efficiency equipment; reduce burdens on municipal water supply and wastewater systems.
Energy and atmosphere — Reduce ozone depletion; encourage increasing levels of self-supply through renewable technologies to reduce environmental impacts associated with fossil fuel energy use.
Materials and resources — Reduce waste generated by building occupants that is hauled to and disposed of in landfills; divert construction, demolition and land clearing debris from landfill disposal; reduce the use of finite raw and long-cycle renewable materials.
Indoor environmental quality — Establish minimum indoor air quality performance; consider operable windows for natural ventilation; reduce the quantity of indoor air contaminants; provide individual control of thermal, ventilation and lighting systems; provide occupants access to daylight and views outdoors.
For more information about LEED, visit the U.S. Green Building Council's Website, www.usgbc.org.

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Patch 2.1.3 Change Log
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:26
Version 2.1.3
Master of Arms
- Fixed some minor icon stuff
- Fixed swapping between weapons giving charges to Mana Battery/Power Supply
- Fixed some minor tooltip and icon discrepancies
- Fixed some minor missing icons and tooltips
- Fixed a bug where you could tab to the dance floor
- Fixed aura effects
- Fixed aura not affecting SuperiorMagic
- Fixed Attack Projectile
Version 2.1.2
- The current Free Heroes have changed. The current available list is:
* Wildsoul
* Emerald Warden
* Aluna
* Nomad
* Pandamonium
* Electrican
* Moraxus
* Tempest
* Myrmidon
* Dampeer
* Torturer
* Succubus
* Accursed
* Flux
* Hellbringer
- Hero picking screen expanded
- UI fixes to the HoN Store and game lobby
- Fixed some spec UI cornercase bugs
- New option that lets you switch between OpenGL and DirectX in options
== Items ==
- Abyssal Skull, Nome's Wisdom, and Refreshing Ornament can now be toggled between all and only heroes
== Heroes ==
- New Intelligence Hero: Rhapsody
- New Early Access Agility Hero: Master of Arms
- Added a new Premium Alt Avatar: Overseer Hellbringer
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Commander of Arms
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Jade Warrior
Drunken Master
- Fixed him playing animations while dead
- Can now cast Hand in Hand on Magic Immune units
Monkey King
- Fixes to him hitting people who are Physical Immune
- Tweak to Infest so it checks better for when he dies
- Fixed Infest giving gold and exp from allied units in cornercase situations
- Tweaked Elemental visuals
Version 2.1.1
- The current Free Heroes have changed. The current available list is:
Corrupted Disciple
Flint Beastwood
Night hound
Witch Slayer
Demented Shaman
Voodoo Jester
- A few UI fixes for weird behavior in the HoN Store
- Shader fix for macs
- Parasite no longer gets gold or exp from killing an allied creep with Infest
Monkey King
- Illusive Dash: accomodated for Slam cancelling correctly
- Various Vault fixes and optimizations
* Fixed teleporting units back to their original position
* Fixed AoE impact effect to play properly at the point of damage instead of the Monkey King's position
* Fixed AoE impact sound playing multiple times
Version 220.127.116.11
- Tweaked selection coloring
- Fixed Basic members in a group hosted by a Verified player never being able to ready up
Version 2.1.0
- Heroes of Newerth VIP membership readjusted!
* Please refer to our forums for an FAQ that will answer most questions about what this means to you
== Account Type Explanation ==
- Basic: The standard, free account new players will receive upon sign up.
* Access to the weekly 20 free heroes
* Matchmaking restricted to All Pick
* Can purchase access to additional Heroes through the in-game store
- Verified: Basic accounts that have been upgraded through a show of commitment to their account, by either purchasing Goblin Coins or surpassing a certain threshold of play time
* Access to everything a basic player has, plus the ability to participate in Verified Only Matchmaking, to guarantee separation from Basic players if desired
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- Legacy: anyone with existing VIP membership has automatically been upgraded to a "Legacy" account
* Access to Verified Only matchmaking
* Can continue to play all game modes without the need for Tokens or Passes
* Will continue to enjoy free access to the general hero pool
== HoN Store ==
- NEW ANNOUNCER: British Gentleman Announcer
- Alt Avatars are now in a big list and can be sorted by Hero Name, Price Low to High, Price High to Low, or Avatar Name
- Previews for Alt Avatars changed to be much larger and more detailed
- Alt Avatars are no longer in the vault, if you own them there is a checkbox next to them in the list
- Early Access
* New heroes may be released as part of the Early Access Program
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== General HoN Changes ==
- Matchmaking
* Improved matchmaking algorithms to result in slightly faster match times, with potentially more well-balanced teams
* Significantly improved matchmaking algorithms for how they pertain to 3v3 solo matching. Queue times for Grimm's Crossing should be significantly faster for solo players.
- Social Bonus for Matchmaking added
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* If you play with 1-2 friends (total of 2-3 people in the party), you get 1 additional coin
* If you play with 3-4 friends (total of 4-5 people in the party), you get 2 additional coins
- Compendium removed, replaced with the Herodex
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- General Interface Changes
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- Tutorial Fixes
* Fixed music warning spam in console (slightly improves performance)
* Fixed an issue that was preventing the confirmation button on the "you have died" message from allowing the player to continue
- Randoming in All Pick no longer gives bonus Gold
- A few small updates for stat submissions
- Group chat channels will no longer show the "Auto-Connect" checkbox and accompanying tooltip next to it
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- Fixed a few typos in the Matchmaking window
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- Added new tooltips for when players hover over the voice chat button in the game lobby.
- If a player is ignored then the player who has ignored them will no longer receive messages about them when the ignored player silences them from a channel or bans/unbans them from a channel
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- Editor now has the Water Tool added!
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- Removed a rock in the west Legion large neutral camp that blocked movement
- Removed the statue on top of the hill to the west of the Legion Ancient Camp
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- Fix to Homecoming Stone and Steamboots causing a visual Max HP/MP desync
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- You can no longer swap an item in your stash with an item on the courier if you do not own the second item
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* By Default, your hero is NOT highlighted. This option can be enabled in the options menu by selecting "Self Hero Outline"
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- Hero Guides Fixes
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* Should recheck the hero every time the guide is opened, in case the ui hasnt loaded when the hero spawn trigger fires (fixes wrong hero bug)
- Spectator Interface reworked
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* Spectator Options menu is accessable in the bottom right of the Information Panel (Gear)
* Pushbars at the top now easily show which team has more Gold and Experience
* A hero taking damage sets off the Gank Alert at the top of the screen
* Any item bought that is more expensive than 700 gold pops up next to a hero portrait and plays a gold noise so you know they bought something and what it is easily. The value that triggers this event is adjustable in the Spectator Options.
* Keybindings for the spectator interface can now be shared with ingame ones, so Q W E R are abilities ingame but can be completely different in the spec UI! Some defaulted keybinds/functionality:
* TAB, when held, shows the Expanded Hero Panes, the current selected Information Tab, and Expanded Pushbars at the same time
* CAPS LOCK, when held, hides all elements (Hero Panes, Info Screen, Pushbars, Replay Controls) at the same time. This is the inverse of TAB functionality
* Left click a hero portrait, it selects the hero. Double left click, it centers on the hero. Right click, it locks the camera on the hero. Right click again to undo the lock.
* Left click any ability icon to turn on numbered cooldowns on top of the icon. Left click again to undo.
* Left click any Health bar to turn on Health bar numbers. Left click again to undo.
* Left click any Mana bar to turn on Mana bar numbers. Left click again to undo.
* Left click the colored large dot to the right of the hero abilities to cycle hero panes between hidden and shown. Right click to expand all hero portraits.
* Left click the shield of a team at the top to see the towers and barracks remaining. Right click to see Gold and Exp differences between teams. Left click on the numbers to cycle between different ways of seeing this
* 1 through 5 change which Tab at the bottom you are using. In order: Players, Stats, Gold per Minute, Experience per Minute, and Player Damage
* F1 cycles the visibility of the Hero Panes (None, Default, Expanded)
* F2 shows or hides the Information Panel
* F3 shows or hides the Pushbars
* F4 shows or hides the Replay Controls
* Q toggles between all elements Hidden and Shown. This is the same as hitting F1 through F4, except it only cycles the Hero Panes between None and Default
* E locks or unlocks the Camera on the selected unit
* X, C, and V snap the camera to the corresponding Gank Alert
- Replay Controls
* Based off the Small Replay mod by Duker
* Can now free look with the \ key
* All buttons are now bindable
* Now features a hold to fast forward key (Default F)
* Jump to PoV (R) temporarily changes your perspective to that of the unit you have selected until you release the key
- Friend / Foe Health Coloring
* Optional feature to aid newer players, available in the Mods option tab.
* Your team is always green, enemies are always red
== Neutral Creeps ==
- Wild Hunter (The Magic Immune ones)
* Now have the ability to stealth for 15 seconds with 50 bonus attack damage on attack out of stealth and 20% movement speed
- Ice Ogre armor
* Increase cooldown from 5 to 10 seconds
* Remove Melee Slow part
* Duration from 45 to 30 seconds
== Items ==
- Removed the Winged Courier recipe!
* The Upgrade ability on a Ground Courier will now take 200 gold from whoever uses the ability and upgrade the courier
* Can be done anywhere on the map
- Basic Ground Courier cooldown increased to 10 seconds
- Fixed Stormspirit to work with new channeling state for Homcoming Stones
- Nullfire Blade moved to Combative shop from Morph Attack
- Energizer manacost lowered by 50 and movespeed buff increased to 75
== Heroes ==
- New hero: Drunken Master
* Drunken Master Spotlight
* Drunken Master Sound Creation Blog
- New Early Access hero: Monkey King
* Monkey King Spotlight
* Monkey King Sound Creation Blog
- Added an Alt Avatar for Zephyr: Snow Zephyr
- Added an Alt Avatar for Drunken Master: Hillbilly Brawler
- Intelligence from 10+1.0 to 15+1.5
- Path of Destruction self damage reduced from 20% to 15%
- Charges gained from enemy spellcasts up from 60% to 75% of the enemy Manacosts
Corrupted Disciple
- Overload duration lowered from 20/25/30 to 20 seconds at all levels
- Keg cooldown from 14 seconds to 12 seconds
- Already placed Spider Mines now level up with ability level up, cooldown on recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds
- Energy Field damage per second from 28/58/88 to 50/75/100
- Attack action time from 500 to 450, Damage from 37-50 to 40-47
- Sacrificial Lamb now heals nearby allies for (40/60/80/100) + (20/30/40/50)% of health sacrificed
- Retribution now slows 15% base, +1% per 1% of health missing, still up to 50%
- Weed Field manacost from 90/100/110/120 to 105/110/115/120
- Magic Carp manacost from 85/95/105/115 to 100/105/110/115
- Leech damage from 80/130/180/230 to 80/140/200/260
- Draining Venom now also benefits creeps that Parasite inhabits
- Draining Venom now also applies from ability casts
- Shudder auto-levels with ability level up
- Terrorport no longer costs mana
- Mounds now level properly (previously would give correct aura but incorrect gadget level)
Soul Reaper
- Attack action time from 530 to 450
== Bug Fixes ==
- Fixed Power Throw's projectile hitting a bit behind her
- Removed noninterrupting="true" from her Webbed Shot
* Fixes the fact she could attack while channeling LOL
- Fixed Decay dealing damage to enemies while stealthed; it no longer does so.
- Optimized Electric Shield & Energy Absorption
Emerald Warden
- Fixed illusions bugging Gawain when you level them up on the illusions
- Lowered her Overgrowth's trap impact interval from 500ms to 350ms
- Fixed Dryad Warden's projectile attack impact sound
- Fixed As One cooldown to the correct values
- Hid the Magnetic Surge and Discharge states
- Fixed it so the correct state icon is displayed for the proper Release state applied (purple for push, light-blue for pull)
- Fixed it so the correct colour of rings is displayed on the target for the proper Release state applied (purple for push, light-blue for pull)
- Fixed the vision from Pitfall; now it grants vision of the target area 1 frame before the enemies gets launched into the air.
- Set cast time of Galvanize to 1
- Fixed another super long Barrel Roll return bug.
- Fixed Stalk mod exploit
- Steam Bath state changed from StatusBuff to StatusStealth
* Makes this consistent with all other stealth in the game
- Fixed Eruption's SotM-boosted as it was dealing one too few damage pulses
- Fixed Nymphora's Zeal's projectile hitting a bit behind her
- Fixed couriers suddenly stopping when Parasite infests a creep
- Fixed an issue with him not leaping at people the whole way in long leaps
- Fixed enemies seeing Mortification affector visuals in fog/invisibility when you cast it on them with level 2 or 3 of Manifestation
- Fixed a movement bug from hindering Revenant's spells when the targets are out of range
Sand Wraith
- Allowed Mirage to spawn illusions even if the target is invulnerable
* Prevents invulnerability skills from "canceling" Sand Wraith's ultimate
- Fixed the Mirage illusions so that they will properly stay to the target even if their target becomes invulnerable
- Fixed the Mirage illusions so that they die if their target dies
- Optimized his Vanish
- Fixed his Disarm so it works properly on non-heroes now
- Fixed Shudder's Terrorport mana cost; it is now 0 as well.
- Fixed Vigilante Vindicator's Master's Incantation projectile; it has an impact sound now
- Removed noninterrupting="true" from his Master's Incantation
* Fixes the fact he could attack while channeling LOL
Monkey Courier
- Fixed a minor preview issue with Rat Courier - the preview scaling is now correct & consistent with the others
Sol's Bulwark
- Won't apply the armor or negative armor to invulnerable units anymore
Vulture Lord
- Fixed the slow from the Tornado lasting infinite time when Parasite swaps it onto someone


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As a reminder, at Rio+20 last June, the United Nations obtained pledges worth $513 billion from governments and companies for projects aimed at reducing the strain on the earth's resources. There were 692 individual commitments from governments for projects that cut fossil fuel use, boost renewable energy, conserve water, and alleviate poverty.
Separately, more than $33 billion was invested in the solar industry in the second quarter of 2012 alone. Of this massive investment, $21.5 billion was invested in distributed solar—projects each less than 1 megawatt (1MW = 1,000kW). Scale increasingly means dozens of distributed installations aggregated into billions of dollars of deployment. Small is big.
Now this big opportunity is set to become an engine of growth in emerging markets where diesel costs are soaring and solar resources are rich. The only questions are: Who will be the first to bring distributed solar at scale to the emerging markets, and how will the Rio+20 pledges from governments and international financial institutions de-risk and catalyze this sector?
Let's start with one of the biggest markets that remain un-tapped: India. The recent blackout exposed the weakness of the nation's grid. It also revealed that citizens in India have spent billions of dollars each year on diesel generators, fuel, and batteries for back-up power to protect themselves from these types of outages.
Further, recent protests over water shortages have highlighted that building more coal power in India is expensive, uncompetitive, and risky. In fact, India's bearish growth forecasts are now hovering in the 4 percent range almost entirely because of the inability of government officials to navigate the coal industry in the wake of "Coalgate" and the Tata Mundra debacle before that.
Solar, on the other hand, is an increasingly accepted diversification strategy for Indian policy makers to distance themselves from this scandal, create a robust system, and make power development more democratic (and therefore less corrupt). The best part is that not only will it be cheaper than coal by 2017, but—if the Indian government is really serious—it can be deployed quickly. A good model for India to emulate is Germany, one of the world's top photovoltaics (PV) installers. Germany added 7.500 MW in 2011 for example.
More importantly, solar is ideally suited to meet India's real needs for peak power in urban areas. The peak deficit that caused this most recent blackout was likely driven by irrigation needs, which are actually an ideal use of distributed solar, because you don't need battery storage—the water is stored in tanks when the sun shines. But even typical urban peak loads are ideally suited for solar generation; solar is generated when you need it and can be deployed in areas where peak demand is highest. More importantly, millions of Indian households could offer their batteries to their local grid operator to help stabilize the grid.
In India alone, the opportunity is absolutely enormous. Simply targeting diesel replacement strategies for the telecom industry—for which the Indian government already provides $2 billion per year in diesel subsidies—can yield 1,500 MW of opportunity. Replacing diesel generator sets, at other businesses can multiply this opportunity by 10 times to eliminate diesel in urban areas and, in the process, create a more diversified and robust grid. A diesel generator set packages together a diesel engine, a generator, and various ancillary devices.
The other huge market is Sub-Saharan Africa where diesel generator sets are estimated to be a 10 gigawatt (GW) market in 2011 alone. (To put this in perspective, the Hoover Dam is a 2 GW facility. In 1984, when the water level at Lake Mead was at its highest point ever, Hoover Dam was providing electricity to more than 700,000 homes.)
That's 10 GW of uncompetitive, high-priced diesel that requires a private army to protect. It is bankrupting the governments that subsidize it at oil prices around $100 per barrel. From Nigeria to Tanzania, the opportunity is huge.
Clearly the market is there; ready access to finance is not. What these markets need is to educate the banks on third-party financing —similar to what is now driving a robust and growing US and European solar market—to unleash a multibillion-dollar investment opportunity. Crowdfunding, where small and otherwise unaccredited individual investors provide money for early stage companies, has already generated more than $500 million. With the new leverage provided by the American JOBS Act, crowdfunding could break this market wide open.
But the big institution seemingly most ready to pounce on the opportunity is the IFC, which recently supported a rooftop solar policy in Gujarat that suggests it is wisely positioning itself to tap the market. OPIC and the US Export Import Bank are also big solar financiers, but have yet to unleash this potential. Ultimately, one of these players will win the third-party financed solar race in emerging markets. The only question is which one.
Back to Rio+20: Which of those $513 billion in commitments have been deployed—and to what?


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Tuesday November 6, 2012:
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I joined the atheist nexus using my real name and have to admit see sawing back and forth on whether that was a smart thing to do. If I do a Google search on my name, the things that come up are my work, the user group I serve on the board of directors for - and now the atheist nexus.
I understand the reasons a lot of you have not. In certain families, geographies or jobs the free exchange of ideas in this forum can have repercussions when you are identified by the wrong people. I remember reading one of you joined with a real name and then after seeing the exposure deleted it and rejoined with an avatar name.
In this online world it is possible to say something stupid in Facebook and lose a job. I guess representing yourself to the world as something like "Blowhard" allows you to say controversial things as well as dumb things without as much blow back.
I checked a yahoo news site and noticed the comments have many partial names, a few full names and some funny names. So it is possible the nexus may have a greater percentage of people feeling confident enough in their circumstances to use a real name than a news site.
Anyway, here are some questions:
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I am a private person. But I also feel isolated in my ideas, worldview, what I enjoy. In addition, my work involves dealing with hundreds of people. For a while, I was on facebook. I kept it pretty basic, but honest. I had many comments at work regarding my facebook profile. Ultimately, with facebook, being so invasive, and becoming more and more so, I quit. People also google on me - I know that already.
In addition, while being a consummate professional, courteous, productive, and meeting or exceeding in the requirements in my work, I was discriminated against, isolated, and ultimately had to leave my last position. I've recovered from that, but I learned some hard lessons. No one will tell you "I'm harassing you because my religion says you are unworthy" or "I hate atheists" or "die, evil gay person" or "I hate men". All of those might have been factors, and I wondered about them all. Or none of them may have been issues. There is no way to know what happened.
I am more discrete since then, and keep more to myself. I think the atheist part could be more of a problem than the gay part, but both can be sources of discrimination. I can't afford to be without my work, and my work gives meaning to my life. We can't always be the perfect example of the virtuous "perfect boy scout homo" or the "perfect ethical atheist" 100% of the time. So I compartmentalize.
Without compartmentalization, I could not be myself here, and I would be very isolated indeed. AN allows me to be so much more myself. I can have real conversations, and learn from real people who share my experiences and values. Even if my surname is not here, the name I chose for myself is as real to me as the name my parents gave to me. I think it's the 3rd name I've had here, but ultimately chosen with a lot of thought, and I like it.
I know we live in a world where we should all be "out" and be shining examples and show everyone that we are not satan's spawn, but it's hard to do that without a career.
In the end the choice is yours. No one will blame you if you use a nom de plume. People will respect you for standing up with your real name.
Hey Sentient, your reply is one reason why I have been more active lately with Atheist Nexus. So many interesting perspectives from so many good communicators.
There are a lot of interesting avatars on this site. Your choice is definitely one of the best.
Woohoo, you're talking about me.....
Some of us have uncommon real names and a search on google brings me up first. Problem was that it was AN stuff that showed up.
I am an out atheist to family, friends (the few I have) and work but it isn't a coincidence I haven't been successful at any job competitions/applications since I am out. (unfortunately, google doesn't forget)
Plus, being in Canada, we are not as free with free speech as they are in the USA because of the Charter of Rights.
It is also nice to be the one true gawd on here assuming the Babylon 5 universe. LOL
First off, the Mighty Thor is freaking awesome! But just your first name is a great choice.... *references my own first name*
1 - I really think it depends on the person and the group as to whether people use their real names or not. It depends on if they want to sound cool or they don't want their actual identity to be known. *references my picture*
2 - I feel like your first name is fine. Last name is pushing it if you want to be private. The picture is where I find my privacy... but I think I'll add a picture one of these days.
3 - Just first name... Problems solved! :D
1. don't think so
2. both
3. I eventually use my actual name in PMs with people I feel I've reached a certain level of knowledge and trust about.
I have oft stated here that I am a completely open and in-your-face atheist, but that statement is valid in the real world of face-to-face encounters only, where telling others about private conversations is still considered rumour-mongering and tattle-tailing, whereas on the internet, any behaviour goes. Of course, work and government/police/big-brother oversight are constantly on my mind.
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Who Had the Nicest Ice in This Year's Readers' Choice Awards?
Readers Pick the Gems Among Automation Products and Suppliers
By the Editors of Control
This is the 21st Readers Choice Awards. In the 21 years we have been conducting this survey, technology has changed, the process industry has changed, our ways of working and our demographics have changed. Most of the ways we do our jobs are considerably different now than in 1991.
Twenty-one years ago, there were no smartphones, no tablet computers, no widely used Internet, no Wi-Fi or many other tools we take for granted as we do our jobs, such as OPC and virtualization. Twenty-one years ago, Microsoft Windows was still in its infancy, and many control systems were designed to run on Unix, or other, proprietary operating systems. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components and products were nearly unheard of, while today they are the norm. Systems were isolated, and networks were rare. Manufacturing and maintenance data were transcribed manually, and recordkeeping was done on paper. Now only industry laggards work that way.
Twenty-one years ago, we were not working in a completely globalized process industry. Twenty-one years ago, a majority of process automation workers were not soon headed to retirement, with the average age falling into the 50s. Twenty-one years ago, it was unheard of to work remotely via computer. Now all of those things are true and commonplace.
Twenty-one years ago, our plants were run for years at a time to produce the products they were designed to produce. It wasn't necessary for plants to be agile, to be able to be reconfigured to produce new and different products during a single turnaround. Today that is also commonplace.
Some of the winners of the Readers' Choice Awards have also changed. Sometimes the names have changed, as acquisitions have taken their toll, but also companies have dropped off or been added to the list of award winners. In the past few years, as the pace of acquisition slowed, the names on the list began to be like the "usual suspects" in the police captain's raid order in the movie "Casablanca."
We have made changes in the survey, too. We've added categories, removed a few and changed how we present the data. We've also changed how we actually do the survey. When we started this survey, we did it by mail. Today, we do it by email, surveying our readers and asking them to state their brand preferences in over 100 categories of process automation equipment and software. We are proud of the progress of this survey, and we know how important it is.
Trust us, we get the phone calls from unhappy vendors.
We have surveyed our readers, and this year's results reflect the collective wisdom of hundreds of process automation professionals. The survey does have a North American bias, but as we have noted for several years now, the number of responses from outside North America continues to grow, and the survey results reflect some of those demographic changes, just as our industry itself does. We poll from the print magazine's readers, subscribers to our digital media and social media outlets, and we select for end users and integrators and engineers.
Why Is This Survey Important?
The survey we do annually and the Readers' Choice Awards that result from it are the only completely unaided brand preference survey in the process industries. As we have done for many years now, we pulled a random sample of end users from our databases, and we asked them to answer a series of unaided (that means they have to write in the answer, without "help" from a pre-selected series of names in a drop down box) to each of the questions in the survey.
This means that Control's staff has to make sure that we correctly count all the choices. This is a significant chore, because, thanks to acquisitions and name changes, it is harder than you'd think to figure out which company the end user really means. For example, there are over 21 ways to name an ABB product, without the use of the name ABB. Similar issues arise for nearly all the Top 50 (see our December cover story), or so it seems every year.
As we pointed out last year, this is an extremely important datum. Sure, it signals that the Control staff has the experience in the industry to be able to make those choices, but much more important, it says clearly that the persistence of original brands, such as Rosemount or Allen-Bradley, is maintained in the minds of end users even after two decades of name changes, acquisitions and the passage of time.
This is a private survey. That is, we select the participants, and we take great care to control the respondents to make the survey as accurate and unbiased as is possible.
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VALLEY COTTAGE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A former Marine is hoping to be reunited with her partner so he could live out his final days in the comfort of her Valley Cottage home.
Since being discharged in December 2007, former Marine Cpl. Megan Leavey has been fighting to adopt Sgt. Rex, a 10-year-old German Shepherd.
"I've spent every waking moment with that dog," she told CBS 2's Emily Smith.
A traumatic brain injury knocked Leavey unconscious in Iraq in 2006. Insurgents watching from a rooftop detonated an explosive, nearly killing her as well as injuring Rex's shoulder. Together they made it out alive.
"I've taken care of him. He's taken care of me. It's just a bond you can't break," she said.
After the injury, Rex went through rehabilitation with Leavey until her military commitment ended in 2008. At that point Leavey tried to adopt him, but the military still had need of his abilities.
"He's actually the oldest dog working at Camp Pendleton in California," Leavey said.
Recently, Rex developed facial palsy, preventing him from performing his tasks.
"He's pretty much just sitting in a kennel not doing any good," Leavey told 1010 WINS. "If he is not approved to be adopted he could be put to sleep that same day because they pretty much don't need him anymore."
"What would be the point of keeping a dog that is unable to work around in the kennels? My plan is to not let that happen," she added.
Leavey and Rex spent two six-month tours together in Iraq, completing more than 100 missions.
Leavey said while in Iraq, they depended on each other.
"Rex slept next to me, I fed him, I walked him, I groomed him," Leavey said. "He depended on me to take care of him completely and I did, as he took care of me."
Sen. Charles Schumer has sent a letter in Leavey's behalf to the man in charge of the military service dog program.
Now, all Leavey can do is wait.
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Leaf pickup at curb Nov. 8 – Dec. 17
Some Hillers may be wondering what to do with their leaves this fall season.
According to City Councilman Frank Rizzo's office, city residents should bag their leaves in biodegradable bags and put them out on regular trash collection days.
From the Streets Department:
Follow these steps to recycle your leaves:
- From November 8 to December 17, set leaf bags next to trash and recyclables on your regular trash day
- Use only brown paper leaf bags*
- They get recycled along with the leaves, saving time and labor costs
- Leaves in plastic trash bags will be collected as trash, not recycling
- Do not mix trash or other recyclables with leaves
- Set out as many bags as you need, maximum 40 lbs. per bag
- Set out no later than 7:00 AM on your collection day
- Mechanical leaf collection will not be available
- You can also drop your bagged leaves off at one of our Sanitation Convenience Centers
During this six-week program, we will collect and compost them to fertilize gardens and nourish trees. So throw yourself into it. The more leaves you bag, the more compost to spread around. And that's good for everyone.
Fallen leaves shouldn't go to waste. Let's work together to make this Bagged Leaf Drive another victory for recycling and our UnLitter Us Campaign!
*Recyclable paper leaf bags are available at most home improvement and hardware stores, and at many grocery stores.


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adrianv necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 85 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
CallSpark! is the "call experience company" that ignites all your personal and business conversations with rich information and interactivity. We enhance every mobile call with additional information on the caller, from Facebook status to Twitter to Salesforce.com (yes, we cover business and personal users equally). And all this happens automatically and transparently for every call you make.
We are appealing to both young, hip, highly social network focused users (using Facebook and Twitter) as well as business users relying on Salesforce.com and LinkedIn for information on the people they call.
We want a simple logo in two parts
- our company name in an interesting font "CallSpark!", that we can use with our without the associated logo
- a simple logo to accompany our name, that we can use in reduced size as a phone or application icon, and larger on our stationary, website etc.
The obvious icon is some variation on a lightning bolt, and we've played with the idea of Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire, and what we could do with that. But feel free to be creative!
Designs at either end of our audience (something fun and out there, or something serious and corporate) would be great to see, so we can focus on the elements that work in both scenarios, and find a perfect balance.
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Two charged in fatal bonfire fight | News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has made two arrests in the bonfire fight that claimed the life of 19-year-old Ryan Scott Ford of St. Augustine.
Christopher Hoffman, 25, of Jacksonville was arrested Saturday and charged with manslaughter.
Robert Lloyd Cline II, 22, of Jacksonville was also arrested Saturday and charged with battery.
A JSO report says after several fights started at the bonfire in the woods at the 14500 block of Old St. Augustine Road, a witness observed Cline punching the victim.
The report also says witnesses saw Hoffman punching Ford several times until he fell to the ground.
Police say Cline admitted to punching the victim.
First Coast News tried to speak to him Sunday afternoon, but family members said they had no comment.
Ford was unconscious and taken to a nearby hospital, but later died from his injuries.
Police say he was not involved in the fights, but was caught in the middle.
The report says alcohol was a factor in the incident. Police are still trying to identify people who were at the bonfire but left before officers arrived.
Anyone with information should call First Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.


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Study English is a series of Australia Network English language programs for intermediate to advanced learners, especially those using English for study purposes and those preparing for IELTS. This episode is titled, "IELTS Assessment Criteria." Click here for details including transcript, study notes, additional activities, and a comprehension quiz.
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Today's post is something I thought I would share as there is an awful lot of incorrect commands I have seen (and some even tried) in the past around rebuilding system databases. Now first off let me explain that rebuilding system databases is no straight forward task. I would avoid it at all costs if the server is currently in use, but if you absolutely have to refer to this Microsoft article for additional help.
The Server in question was built by someone other than a Database Administrator who from the config clearly didn't have much knowledge of SQL Server. To help them out I made a whole host of recommendations but the biggest of which was to change the collation. I hate collations, it isn't their fault they do a mighty fine job but can cause me and most of the other DBA's I know so many problems especially when referencing objects across databases, instances and servers.
The version of SQL Server was SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard edition and was installed with a named instance, the command I used is below;
Setup /QUIET /ACTION=REBUILDDATABASE /INSTANCENAME=InstanceNameHere /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="domain\user" /SAPWD="strongsapassword" /SQLCOLLATION=LATIN1_GENERAL_CI_AS
Open command prompt as an administrator and browse to the directory below (on the volume on which SQL Server is installed);
Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\SQLServer2008R2
Execute the above command obviously replacing;
• InstanceNameHere
• domain
• user
• strongsapassword
When Setup has completed rebuilding the system databases, it returns to the command prompt with no messages. Examine the Summary.txt log file to verify that the process completed successfully. This file is located on the volume on which SQL Server is installed in the below directory;
Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log
There should be a Summary.txt and a folder named in the format of yyyymmdd_hhmmss which will correspond to the date and time you ran setup. This contains much more detail information about the setup process, if you run into any issues this is the first place I would start to look.


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[Intro: La the Darkman]
Word life, Tyreef, know what I'm saying?
I'm tired of all this east coast, west coast, down south, shit
You know what I'm saying, word up, it's already hard enough to survive
Doing what I'm doing, knowhatimsaying, word up
And all ya'll cats is popping off the mouth, you know
That's all, that's all
[La the Darkman]
I grew up quick, now I know life's a bitch
Then you die, niggas with guns, multiply
Hot lead, touching your skin, definetly gonna fry
Like a knife, kid, slicing a pie
My man Bogo caught a two-five, shell to his eye
Son said he saw his life fly, in the sky
Questioned why, motherfuckas wanna act deranged
Do a nickel, come home, ain't a damn thing changed
Aches and pains, seem to corrupt my brain
I can die today, the whole world is insane
But fuck that, I'm try'nna live phat, die like a mobster
Bricks in the safe, filled a plate, fish and lobster
But now, I do the best I know how
Cuz my life as a man is from my life as a child
I survived... word...
[Chorus 2.5X: sample w/ ad-libs]
Cuz it's so hard nowadays, just say it now...
Everybody's trying their best to survive
[La the Darkman]
I'm grinding self, since I made it through this drug game
Seen my brother in a casket, now my memory's stained
I remember, we had a hot plate to cook
No stove and no food, how the fuck that look?
Pops was shook, nowhere to be found on this peninsula
Shit was getting realer, starting smoking six mill' up
Glorification, rolling up L's is automatic
Growing up around thugs, smoking cess became a habit
A bad one, a bad seed, put here to bleed
In a world of temptation, lust, envy and greed
For the root of all the cops, civil wars, the sequel
I'm keep this real, and send a message to my people
You know, it's about respect and revenge
Let's meet all seeds, and stand up and be men
Get knowledge, and education, so you slip incarceration
And all this mental frustration
Behind black bars, is the place for no man
Big up to Big E., locked down, doing ten
Survive, baby...
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When a sibling, or parent of an eligible child, is ineligible due to missing nonfinancial verifications, only the sibling or parent is ineligible. The rest of the TANF Filing Unit is eligible for cash benefits as long as the caretaker relative has not refused to cooperate in determining eligibility.
The ineligible sibling remains part of the filing unit. If the ineligible sibling has income, use the income when determining financial eligibility and benefit amount.
Exception: If the nonfinancial verification that is missing is proof of an SSN or proof of SSN application for an adult parent of a child in the case, and the adult parent is a U.S. citizen or eligible noncitizen, the entire Filing Unit is ineligible.
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The San Francisco 49ers will be without Kendall Hunter for the rest of the season, a source told USA Today. The 49ers said the running back suffered a left ankle injury in a win over the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, but Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee reported Hunter suffered a torn ACL.
Hunter provided a quality backup and change of pace for Frank Gore. He had 371 yards and two touchdowns on 72 carries this season.
Hunter's absence will provide an opportunity for a back that has been pining for a chance. Rookie LaMichael James and Brandon Jacobs have been eager for more opportunities. Jacobs, the two-time Super Bowl winner with the New York Giants, has been the vocal one of the two. James hasn't been active for a single game.
The 49ers are a run-first offense and the combination of Gore and Hunter was no joke. Hunter rushed for 473 yards as a rookie last year. The 49ers enjoyed the luxury of being able to spell Gore, who is currently No. 6 on the active career rushers list. One of those backs needs to step up.
Jacobs has been begging for a chance. Now he has to prove worthy of one.UPDATE: The 49ers announced Tuesday that Hunter and wide receiver Kyle Williams have been placed on injured reserve.
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Hello to you all!
I hope you had a wonderful Fourth of July holiday. It is always such a great opportunity to spend time with family and friends.
As I do every summer, I have asked two of our newly ordained priests to share their experiences with you.
This week we have a post by Father Huy Nguyen who came to Boston from Vietnam as a young boy and found his calling early on. Since his ordination Father Nguyen is serving at Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Holy Family and St. Peter Parishes in Dorchester.
Next week, we will hear from Father Frank Campo who serves at St. Mary Parish in Franklin. Father Campo's journey to the priesthood began with his wife's death nearly 20 years ago.
Let us pray for these men, all our newly ordained and all priests, particularly as we begin this Year for Priests. May God inspire more men to listen to the call of the Lord and, perhaps more importantly, have the courage to follow it.
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"How can I repay the Lord for his goodness to me? The cup of salvation I will raise; I will call on the Lord's name" (Psalm 116: 11-12).
"Father, can you please pray for my family?"
"Father, can you please offer a Mass for my parents?"
"Father, can you please hear my confession?"
Hearing these questions from the faithful Catholic Christians in just little over a month of being a priest is a great joy to me.
When I was studying to become a priest in the past six years, I was trained in celebrating these sacred sacraments piously. I was taught by many great priests and professors how to celebrate and explain these sacred sacraments to the faithful Christians in both theological and philosophical ways. I always thought that God was going to use me as an instrument to expedite His grace and blessing to His flock. However, I never imagined I would be on the other end as the priest celebrating the sacred sacraments. Being a recipient of God's love and grace when I am celebrating the Holy Mass, hearing confessions, anointing the sick, and performing other sacred sacraments opened my eyes to my faith.
When I was a small boy, I immigrated to America with my whole family. With God's grace, we settled in Massachusetts and lived right in front of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Dorchester.
With the Cardinal and my parents
At age ten, I became an altar boy, serving daily Mass at St. Peter Church in Dorchester. Being close to the Eucharist when I was serving Mass and experiencing the feeling of being an immigrant, God truly showed and shaped my faith and life into a way that I could not think of or predict. It took many prayers and quiet times to realize what God wanted me to do in my life.
With family and friends after my ordination
I started to discern to become a priest when I was in high school. During these times, I was afraid and nervous. I wanted to become a priest, but the thought of becoming a priest and the big commitment made me feel unsure and not worthy. How could a little man like me, literally, with many weaknesses become a Priest of Jesus Christ forever? How could a poor sinner like me have the privilege to touch the Lord's True Body and Blood?
The First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians declares: "God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no human being might boast before God." Reading many Sacred Scriptures passages like this gave me comfort and hope to join the priesthood. Moreover, talking to priests, hanging out with good and devout friends, and increasing my daily prayers had strongly and deeply nourished my vocation to priesthood.
My six years studying to become a priest at St. John's Seminary was truly one of the greatest blessings from God I received. I had the chance to pray more, to study the teaching of the Catholic Church, and make many good friends sharing a common goal with me. I also had the opportunity to witness and greet many faithful Catholic Christians during my pastoral assignment. The elderly, the young, the homebound, the sick, and others showed me that God's love for his people is boundless.
With all the studying, training, and preparations for my priesthood, I still cannot describe how powerful and overwhelming God's grace and blessing are. When Cardinal Seán O'Malley, laid his hands on me on May 23, 2009, my life ontologically changed.
I have the faculty to celebrate Mass. I can hear confessions and celebrate other sacred sacraments. Seeing many faithful parishioners going to Mass daily and endlessly reaching out to help the Church makes me strive to become a more holy priest. Hearing Catholic Christians confessing their sins with true sorrow makes me realize that my own call to holiness is still a long way to perfection. More amazingly, assigned by the Cardinal to come back home to serve two of the three parishes where I first grew up over 20 years ago really strikes my heart and is a dream come true.
Celebrating my first Mass
"How can I repay the Lord for his goodness to me?"
If God has overwhelmingly shown His grace, goodness, and love for me right now and in the past month of my priesthood, I certainly cannot imagine what He will have for me if I stay faithful, raise the cup of Salvation, and call on the Lord's name in all the days of my life.


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Piece of Cake
by DURGA CHEW-BOSE
Rachel McAdams has Olympic caliber poise. Somewhat jelled, her smile is red-lettered, her jaw, prominent, and her body, sprightly. It's as if she just landed a double axel or performed a clean dismount from the balance beam, no sweat. In romantic roles her male co-stars regularly lift her, carry her, or nimbly swing her, but I suspect it's McAdams who supplies any, if not all, cantilevered grace.
What lends most to screen is her strikingly nostalgic features. Owing perhaps to the alien twinkle in her eyes, her dimples, or her downy skin, McAdams appears especially saturated on celluloid; especially Sirk. Like Jane Wyman she is puckish and beautiful, and at times lost in thought. Both women look buffed — a near satin sheen. Both women have incredibly expressive foreheads.
In The Vow she plays Paige, a woman who after emerging from a car accident induced coma, suffers from amnesia. She cannot remember the last four years of her life which include an artsy, permissive turn — sculpting, air-dried hair, loft living — and more importantly includes her marriage to Leo played by Channing Tatum. As a result she wakes confused and returns to her old life: estranged parents, law school, quotidian suburban customs, blueberry mojitos, a sister's wedding, sweater sets, and Scott Speedman. Unfortunately, not much happens. Despite the potential for something far creepier, sadder, syrupy and even peculiar, the film bops from scene to scene as if dispirited and mooney, much like Tatum-speak and Tatum-mien.
Ironically, it's McAdams' performance as a character whose life has been erased, that provides the most vitality. She has filmic gumption and a bounty of grins and laughs that rescue stale moments. (Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock pioneered that particular bail out; McAdams and Anne Hathaway have revived it). Moreover, Paige has whims. She resists but ultimately surrenders to tickling, she feeds a stray cat, she buries herself in an oversized sweatshirt, and offers plump strawberries to Leo's friends at breakfast. Her wedding dress was pink and her vows were written on a coffee shop menu.
Regardless of these parts, Leo and Paige's love story plays out like a music video. Or the music video for a song on The Vow's original soundtrack. Or something Josh Hartnett may have done in 2004. In many ways, its finest function is as a catalog of required proportions: McAdams' hands are the size of Tatum's neck and when he scoops her up, she screeches. He is shirtless for nearly forty percent of the film. She wears a classic rotation of outfits: pajamas (his), pajamas (hers), formal wedding attire, messy studio clothes, lace underwear. She has a six-to-one, charismatic to gross, ratio of habits. Even so, they are never that gross.
The camera loves McAdams. It is her moon. Tina Fey admits learning from her throughout Mean Girls. "That was the first movie that I had ever been on. And I would watch – I would stand with the director sometimes and watch her scenes. And I would say to the director: Like, that's really small. Is she doing it? And then watching her on film, watching the dailies, I'm like: Oh, yes, she's amazing. She's a film actor. She's not pushing. And so I kind of learned that lesson from watching her…"
What Fey recalls, those "small", minor mannerisms are McAdams' register of finely controlled facial muscles. She can call upon each one as if summoning an invisible series of nylon strings secured to her cheekbones, chin, temples, ears. The slightest twitch or eye roll, easy! The faintest pout or cartoonish gaze, done! A toothy hee-haw, no problem! A single, bulging vein, why not! She is a natural. She knows when to elongate her neck, how to scurry in heels, how far to dip back when laughing, how to kiss passionately and dispassionately, and how to eat cake as if it were more satisfying than the man sharing the slice with her.
McAdams' performances are truly athletic. And unlike Keira Knightley or Scarlett Johansson, whose acting we often watch as curious spectators, (anthropological!), too far removed from their traits to relate, wondering perhaps how they will pull it off, McAdams, we simply cheer.
There's a moment near the end of The Family Stone, where McAdams — who plays Amy, the cranky and defensive, but ultimately very loving "mean sister" — is sitting in an ambulance on Christmas day with the guy who "popped her cherry" years ago. His name is Brad Stevenson (Paul Schneider). He is shy, mumbles and has a slight swallow. He's an EMT who wrapped her present in a clock radio box. "Don't worry, it's not a clock radio." She's gruff and impatient but appreciates the gesture, and perhaps even him, once more. Inside the box is a snow globe that McAdams cups in her hands as if it were hidden treasure. As if she was a child. As if she might, in that moment, be living inside the stillness of a snow globe. She smiles and quietly exclaims, "Wow, Brad." The scene is interrupted by yet another madcap Stone family moment, but the peaceful way Amy appreciates Brad, the way McAdams says "Wow" as if it were her first word, chimes until the end of the film
As Diane Keaton, who starred with McAdams in both The Family Stone and Morning Glory, remarked, "She's like a violin. She can do anything, and she can play anything. She's a dynamo, but she's also soft. She can be bitchy but also light. She can do serious drama; she can do comedy. She has a lot of things going on, which makes her absolutely captivating."
At the 2005 MTV Movie Awards, McAdams and Gosling won the award for Best Kiss. She in a bustier and jeans and he chewing gum and wearing a white Darfur t-shirt, the then couple reenacted their Notebook kiss as Maroon 5's "She Will be Loved" played. The crowd went crazy, Lindsay Lohan screamed "Oh my God!" and Hillary Duff giggled with her sister. The entire two minutes are a pop culture capsule and emphasize McAdams' irrefutable appeal. As she walks off the stage with Gosling, who picks up her blazer and coolly throws it over his shoulder, McAdams looks flush, a little embarrassed, but triumphant with her Golden Popcorn, silly sure, nevertheless, a medal.
Durga Chew-Bose is the senior editor of This Recording. She is a writer living in Brooklyn. She last wrote in these pages about Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret She tumbls here and twitters here. You can find an archive of her writing on This Recording here.
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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Thursday, April 6, 2006
I'm still pretty buzzed and catching up on emails, etc.. I will write my impressions tomorrow. Just wanted to check in and say that it was wonderful! I didn't take many pictures, but have a promise from a friend that she will send me the ones she took! So, I'll post more pics in the near future.
The dessert at the banquet: Horchada sorbet and mango puree in a chocolate cup with sugar "ribbons" and fruit salsa: ("Horchada" is a sweet rice-based Mexican beverage. The "flower" is a crispy dried pineapple slice-- delish! The other decoration is a sliver of crispy cookie, and the red is a berry coulis of some kind.)
Posted by Bryanna Clark Grogan at 5:36 PM
Labels: Vegetarian Awakening
3 comments:
- Dori said...
Wow, to be an ice sculpture "chef"! I was once told if you want to impress people make the dessert spectacular. Wow! I am impressed! Hey is that mango salsa, I made that for the first time a week ago. MMMMMM!
- Thu Apr 06, 07:37:00 PM PDT
- sailu said...
Lovely pics!look forward to more pics Bryanna!
- Fri Apr 07, 09:32:00 AM PDT
- Spice Island Vegan said...
Hi Bryanna,
Welcome back! We missed you! What a lovely ice sculpture and vegan dessert. How elegant everything is! I want to go to the 2nd annual event. I am looking forward for more pictures!
- Fri Apr 07, 03:31:00 PM PDT
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Hey, check this out. I heard from a guy who knows an Apple employee that heard a rumor from Steve Jobs's cleaning woman, that Apple is planning to rollout a big ass iPhone update (version 1.1) as soon as later today or tomorrow. What's in this update, you ask? Don't know. All I do know is that it has something to do with bringing iPod Touch features like iTunes WiFi Store and that Starbucks thingy to iPhone. But word is that bugfixes galore are also in store.
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Regular readers of my blog, or those who know me in person through the business network circuit in and around South Yorkshire, won't be surprised to learn I found myself at another opportunity to meet some new professional contacts earlier this month.
What might be an eye-opener though, is that this all-female group not only announced a new name change, but also ended up being lined up for a completely impromptu photo shoot!
Say hello to the Women Inspiring Women group, in the photograph above by Jackie Clitheroe [Yours truly is 8th from the left].
During the meet Carol Denton, fundraiser for South Yorkshire Heart Appeal, also gave an enlightening presentation about her work and the challenges of raising awareness about heart disease in our region, especially amongst women.
Women Inspiring Women [WIW], organised by Jan Roebuck and Kay Jepson, meet the second Thursday of every month, 10am-12.30pm, at Tankersley Manor Hotel.


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Install from existing Linux
zh-CN:Install from Existing Linux zh-TW:Install from Existing Linux
This document describes the bootstrapping process required to install Arch Linux from a running Linux host system. After bootstrapping, the installation proceeds as described in the Installation Guide.
Installing Arch Linux from a running Linux is useful for:
- remotely installing Arch Linux, e.g. a (virtual) root server
- replacing an existing Linux without a LiveCD (see #Replacing the Existing System without a LiveCD)
- creating a new Linux distribution or LiveCD based on Arch Linux
- creating an Arch Linux chroot environment, e.g. for a Docker base container
- rootfs-over-NFS for diskless machines
The goal of the bootstrapping procedure is to setup an environment from which arch-install-scripts (such as
pacstrap and
arch-root) run.
This goal is achieved by installing arch-install-scripts natively on the host system, or setting up an Arch Linux-based chroot.
If the host system runs Arch Linux, installing arch-install-scripts is straightforward.
On other distributions, the process is more complicated (described in #Alternative: Install arch-install-scripts natively on non Arch distro). For these distributions, it is recommended to set up a chroot instead.
- 1 Arch Linux-based chroot
- 2 Alternative: Install arch-install-scripts natively on non Arch distro
- 3 Replacing the Existing System without a LiveCD
Arch Linux-based chroot
The idea is to run an Arch system inside the host system. The actual installation is then executed from this Arch system. This nested system is contained inside a chroot. Three methods to setup this chroot are presented below, from the easiest to the most complicated.
Method 1: Using the Bootstrap Image
Download the bootstrap image from a mirror:
curl -O http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/archlinux/iso/2013.10.01/archlinux-bootstrap-2013.10.01-x86_64.tar.gz
Extract the tarball:
# cd /tmp # tar xzf <path-to-bootstrap-image>/archlinux-bootstrap-2013.10.01-x86_64.tar.gz
Select a repository server:
# nano /tmp/root.x86_64/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Enter the chroot
- If you have bash 4 or later installed:
# /tmp/root.x86_64/bin/arch-chroot /tmp/root.x86_64/
- Else run the following commands:
# cp /etc/resolv.conf /tmp/root.x86_64/etc # mount --rbind /proc /tmp/root.x86_64/proc # mount --rbind /sys /tmp/root.x86_64/sys # mount --rbind /dev /tmp/root.x86_64/dev # mount --rbind /run /tmp/root.x86_64/run (assuming /run exists on your system) # chroot /tmp/root.x86_64/
Method 2: Using the LiveCD Image
It is possible to mount the root image of the latest Arch Linux installation media and then chroot into it. This method has the advantage of providing you with a working Arch Linux installation right within your host system without the need to prepare it by installing specific packages.
FATAL ERROR aborting: uncompress_inode_table: failed to read block.
- The root image can be found on one of the mirrors under either arch/x86_64/ or arch/i686/ depending on the desired architecture. The squashfs format is not editable so we unsquash the root image and then mount it.
- To unsquash the root image, run
# unsquashfs -d /squashfs-root root-image.fs.sfs
- Now you can loop mount the root image
# mkdir /arch # mount -o loop /squashfs-root/root-image.fs /arch
- Before chrooting to it, we need to set up some mount points and copy the resolv.conf for networking.
# mount -t proc none /arch/proc # mount -t sysfs none /arch/sys # mount -o bind /dev /arch/dev # mount -o bind /dev/pts /arch/dev/pts # important for pacman (for signature check) # cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /arch/etc #this is needed to use networking within the chroot
- Now everything is prepared to chroot into your newly installed Arch environment
# chroot /arch bash
Method 3: Assembling the chroot Manually (with a script)
The script creates a directory called
archinstall-pkg and downloads the required packages in it. It then extracts them in the
archinstall-chroot directory. Finally, it prepares mount points, configures pacman and enters a chroot.
#!/bin/bash # This script is inspired on the archbootstrap script. PACKAGES=(acl attr bzip2 curl expat glibc gpgme gnupg libarchive libassuan libgcrypt libgpg-error libssh2 lzo2 openssl pacman xz zlib pacman-mirrorlist coreutils bash grep gawk file filesystem tar ncurses readline libcap util-linux pcre arch-install-scripts) # Change the mirror as necessary MIRROR='http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux' # You can set the ARCH variable to i686 or x86_64 ARCH=`uname -m` LIST=`mktemp` CHROOT_DIR=archinstall-chroot DIR=archinstall-pkg mkdir -p "$DIR" mkdir -p "$CHROOT_DIR" # Create a list with urls for the arch packages for REPO in core community extra; do wget -q -O- "$MIRROR/$REPO/os/$ARCH/" |sed -n "s|.*href=\"\\([^\"]*\\).*|$MIRROR\\/$REPO\\/os\\/$ARCH\\/\\1|p"|grep -v 'sig$'|uniq >> $LIST done # Download and extract each package. for PACKAGE in ${PACKAGES[*]}; do URL=`grep "$PACKAGE-[0-9]" $LIST|head -n1` FILE=`echo $URL|sed 's/.*\/\([^\/][^\/]*\)$/\1/'` wget "$URL" -c -O "$DIR/$FILE" xz -dc "$DIR/$FILE" | tar x -k -C "$CHROOT_DIR" done # Create mount points mkdir -p "$CHROOT_DIR/dev" "$CHROOT_DIR/proc" "$CHROOT_DIR/sys" "$CHROOT_DIR/mnt" mount -t proc proc "$CHROOT_DIR/proc/" mount -t sysfs sys "$CHROOT_DIR/sys/" mount -o bind /dev "$CHROOT_DIR/dev/" mkdir -p "$CHROOT_DIR/dev/pts" mount -t devpts pts "$CHROOT_DIR/dev/pts/" # Hash for empty password Created by doing: openssl passwd -1 -salt ihlrowCo and entering an empty password (just press enter) echo 'root:$1$ihlrowCo$sF0HjA9E8up9DYs258uDQ0:10063:0:99999:7:::' > "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/shadow" echo "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash" > "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/passwd" touch "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/group" echo "myhost" > "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/hostname" test -e "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/mtab" || echo "rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0" > "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/mtab" [ -f "/etc/resolv.conf" ] && cp "/etc/resolv.conf" "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/" sed -ni '/^[ \t]*CheckSpace/ !p' "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/pacman.conf" sed -i "s/^[ \t]*SigLevel[ \t].*/SigLevel = Never/" "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/pacman.conf" echo "Server = $MIRROR/\$repo/os/$ARCH" >> "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" chroot $CHROOT_DIR /usr/bin/pacman -Sy chroot $CHROOT_DIR /bin/bash
Using the chroot Environment
Once you are inside the chroot environment
This chroot is able to execute the arch install scripts. The destination partitions should be mounted under the
/mnt directory from this chroot
- Initializing pacman keyring
To continue, pacman keys need to be setup according to pacman-key#Initializing the keyring. In particular some entropy need to be collected. The following two commands must be run.
# pacman-key --init # pacman-key --populate archlinux
- Mount
Remember to mount the destination partition under the
/mnt of the chroot.
- pacstrap
# pacstrap /mnt base
On Debian based host systems this script produces the following error:
# pacstrap /mnt base # ==> Creating install root at /mnt # mount: mount point /mnt/dev/shm is a symbolic link to nowhere # ==> ERROR: failed to setup API filesystems in new root
On the host system, /dev/shm points to /run/shm. However, in the Arch-based chroot, /run/shm does not exist and the link is broken. To correct this error, create a directory /run/shm inside the chroot environment.
- Edit the fstab file
If the
genfstab script does not work, edit the
/mnt/etc/fstab file by hand.
You can use the content of
/etc/mtab as reference.
Alternative: Install arch-install-scripts natively on non Arch distro
Download pacman source code and pacman packages
Visit the pacman homepage: https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/#_releases and download the latest release.
Now, download the following packages:
- pacman-mirrorlist: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/pacman-mirrorlist/download/
- arch-install-scripts: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/arch-install-scripts/download/
- pacman (necessary for the config files): https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/pacman/download/ (change x86_64 as necessary)
Install dependencies
Using your distribution mechanisms, install the required packages for pacman and the arch install scripts. libcurl, libarchive, fakeroot, xz, asciidoc, wget, and sed are among them. Of course, gcc, make and maybe some other "devel" packages are necessary too.
Compile pacman
- Decompress the pacman source code and cd inside.
- Execute configure, adapting the paths as necessary:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-doc
If you get errors here, chances are you are missing dependencies, or your current libcurl, libarchive or others, are too old. Install the dependencies missing using your distro options, or if they are too old, compile them from source.
- Compile
- If there were no errors, install the files
make install
- You may need to manually call
ldconfigto make your distro detect libalpm.
Prepare configuration files
Now is time to extract the configuration files. Change the x86_64 as necessary.
- Extract the pacman.conf and makepkg.conf files from the pacman package, and disable signature checking:
tar xJvf pacman-*-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz etc -C / ; sed -i 's/SigLevel.*/SigLevel = Never/g' /etc/pacman.conf
- Extract the mirror list:
tar xJvf pacman-mirrorlist-*-any.pkg.tar.xz -C /
- Enable some mirrors on
- Extract the arch-install-scripts
tar xJvf arch-install-scripts-*-any.pkg.tar.xz -C /
Another option is using the
alien tool to convert the
pacman-mirrorlist and
arch-install-scripts (but no
pacman) to native packages of your distro.
Replacing the Existing System without a LiveCD
Find ~500MB of free space somewhere on the disk, e.g. by partitioning a swap partition. Install the new Arch Linux system there, reboot into the newly created system, and rsync the entire system to the primary partition. Fix the bootloader configuration before rebooting.