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There are several comments on this blog that describe printing issues with Lightroom 1.3.1 on Leopard. For many these problems may not have existed before or perhaps the result is different from the current output of Photoshop CS3. Before I dive into the details lets clear up a few definitions:
- Application Managed Printing – this is when you set the printer profile in the application prior to printing. Typically the profiles provided by printer manufacturers are designated by printer type and paper type. You also have the ability to create custom profiles using a third party hardware device. The most common error in Application Managed printing is forgetting to turn off the color management options in the settings available in the print dialog box. I recommend this workflow to professional photographers.
- Printer Managed Printing – this is when you tell Lightroom or Photoshop that the colors and conversion will be managed by the printer. Adobe applications will send the printer a tagged file the printer will then convert to an internal specification.
- Tioga – Legacy printer driver technology introduced with Mac OS X 10.0
- CUPS – Leopard's current printer driver technology introduced with Mac OS X 10.2
The root of the discrepancy between Pre-Leopard and Post-Leopard printing results is the behavior of the underlying printer driver technology. Prior to Leopard, printer drivers could use either the Tioga printer driver technology or the CUPS technology. With the introduction of Leopard, CUPS is required and Tioga is no longer a valid option. There was a large ecosystem of Tioga-based printer drivers available prior to the Leopard release. Leopard has been released with some CUPS-based printer drivers included and printer manufacturers are working to provide updated drivers based on the newer technology.(Epson has posted beta print drivers for its professional line here: Epson Beta Drivers) But clearly, the support for the newer printer technology is nowhere near as widespread as the previous technology. One point of frustration is that while older or partially compliant drivers can generate a print the results are less then stellar. It may be fine for anyone printing out an invoice on their black and white laser printer but for photographers who have grown accustom to extracting the highest fidelity out of their software and printer, it's unacceptable. This is particularly true for those who use an Application Managed print workflow. Printer Managed workflows may generate 'ok' results but I don't know many photographers who are satisfied with 'ok.'
My recommendation for those dependent on Lightroom's print functionality is to seek out a fully Leopard compatible printer driver from the printer manufacturer.(Epson, Canon, HP) This can be very frustrating for those using older printers that manufacturers may not choose to update. As you can tell from Apple's marketing, Leopard is a significant operating system(OS) upgrade and with OS upgrades come compatibility issues. If you're able to share your experiences through the comments section, perhaps it will provide workarounds until compatible printer drivers are available. I will post updates on this issue as I receive new information.


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Georgia Military Records
This entry was originally written by the Johni Cerny and Robert S. Davis for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Colonial. Georgia was founded to serve as a bulwark against the Spanish and French in the lands beyond the Carolinas, and as such, its men were called into service frequently during the colonial period. Unfortunately, few informative records remain to tell who was involved in what conflict. Murtie June Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732'1774 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), lists soldiers who served prior to the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War. Georgia's total population in 1776 numbered less than 20,000 people, of whom perhaps 3,500 men were eligible for military service when the Revolution began. Many of Georgia's soldiers were recruited from the Carolinas and Virginia; many were neutral or fought for the king. With some of the original service records for the Revolutionary War having been destroyed, it is doubtful that a comprehensive list of Georgia veterans of this war exists. Georgia Revolutionary War rolls at the National Archives are published with other records in Robert S. Davis Jr., Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the Revolution (Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1979). See also Allen D. Candler, The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia, 3 vols. (Atlanta: State Printer, 1906) and Mary B. Warren, Revolutionary Memoirs and Muster Rolls (Athens, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1994). Abstracts of lost Revolutionary War pension records are included, along with some files from wars as late as 1848, in National Archives microfilm M1746 Final Revolutionary War Pension Vouchers: Georgia, and in related National Archives records.
You can find Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia Vol. I, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia Vol. II and Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia Vol. III at Ancestry.com.
Bounty-land warrants were issued to soldiers who served in the Georgia military, civilian residents of 1781 and 1782, and Georgia citizens who went to other states during the Revolution to continue the war. After the war, soldiers who served in the Continental Line and others applied for a warrant and, when approved, received a certificate to be exchanged for a warrant. The land to be issued was in Georgia. See Marion R. Hemperley, Military Certificates of Georgia, 1776'1800 (Atlanta: Georgia Surveyor General Department, 1983) and Mary B. Warren, Georgia's Revolutionary War Bounty Land Records (Athens, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1992). The original records are in the Georgia Archives.
Indian Wars (1784'1811, 1815'38); Mexican War (1845'48). Georgia supplied thousands of soldiers for various federal campaigns. The tens of thousands of genealogically significant bounty and pension files are in the National Archives (see page 11). Louise F. Hays, comp., Georgia Military Affairs, 1775'1842, 9 vols. (n.p., 1940), includes indexed, unpublished typescripts from the Georgia Archives that cover the broader period beyond the Revolution. This collection is an excellent people-finder and census substitute and supplement. Gordon B. Smith has begun the publication of an ongoing series of histories of the Georgia militia that includes biographical information on thousands of Georgians associated with the state's early military.
War of 1812. Information included in service records for the War of 1812 is similar to that in the same records of soldiers in the colonial wars and Revolutionary War. See also Judy Kratovil, An Index to War of 1812 Service Records for Volunteer Soldiers of Georgia (Atlanta: the author, 1986). The National Archives records (see page 11) from which Kratovil's book is taken represents roughly one-fifth of the males of military age in Georgia during the War of 1812.
Civil War. While the original Georgia pension records for Confederate veterans are at the Georgia Archives, microfilm copies are at the FHL. See also The Georgia Commissary General's Record of Families Supplied with Salt 1862'1864 (CD-ROM computer disk; Atlanta: Georgia Genealogical Society, 2002) and Lillian Henderson, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861'1865, 7 vols. (Hapeville, Ga.: Longino and Porter, 1960'64), which does not include Georgia's cavalry, artillery, legions, militia, state troops, and confederate non-state units. Georgians also served in the Union Army, principally in Tennessee units.
There is a database of confederate pension applications for Georgia at Ancestry.com subscribers can access at Georgia, Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960.
The Georgia Archives has extensive state records relating to the Civil War including militia rolls, salt lists, and veterans censuses, to name only a few sources. The most valuable to researchers is an 'Alphabetical Index' to Georgia Confederate records on microfilm at the Georgia Archives. See Nancy Cornell, "1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000). This book, now available online at Ancestry.com, is a statewide census of all white males between the ages of 16 and 60 who were not at the time in the service of the Confederate States of America.
FamilySearch.org has a variety of collections available for free online:
- Georgia, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Georgia, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers
Later Wars. Some military records for Georgia after the Civil War are in the Georgia Archives as original records or as microfilm copies. Included are rosters of the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Poncho Villa Campaign. The state archives also has microfilm of many county copies of service records for World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The National Archives'Southeast Region has World War I draft registration records. Service records and photographs of Georgians who died in World War I were published in Bert E. Boss, Georgia Memorial Book (Macon: Georgia Memorial Association, 1921).

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In a related civil complaint against Steinberg, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said the information allowed Steinberg to generate $6.4 million in profits and avoided losses for the hedge fund.
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Mounting concern over the insider trading probe prompted outside investors in SAC Capital to submit redemption notices last month to withdraw up to $1.68 billion from Cohen's firm. Several outside investors, including Blackstone Group, declined to comment on Steinberg's arrest.
Cohen, a multi-billionaire, has not been charged with any wrongdoing. A well-known art collector, he recently purchased Pablo Picasso's "Le Reve" from casino owner Stephen Wynn for $155 million and, according to The New York Times, bought a $60 million oceanfront home in East Hampton, N.Y.
Steinberg is one of nine current or former employees of SAC Capital who have been charged or implicated with insider trading while working at Cohen's two-decade-old hedge fund.
His arrest had been widely expected after Jon Horvath, a former SAC analyst who reported to Steinberg, pleaded guilty last year to using illegally obtained information to trade in Dell. Horvath has been cooperating with the government and had implicated Steinberg.
Steinberg was suspended last autumn from his post at SAC Capital's Sigma Capital division and remains on paid leave.
SAC Capital spokesman Jonathan Gasthalter said: "Mike has conducted himself professionally and ethically during his long tenure at the firm. We believe him to be a man of integrity."
Prosecutors have introduced emails that they said indicated Steinberg had access to inside information about potential weakness in Dell's earnings, in advance of the personal computer maker's August 2008 results announcement.
Federal authorities contend the improper trading by Steinberg largely involved short positions and derivative trades. The trades involving shares of Dell occurred in August 2008, while the trading in Nvidia took place in May 2009.
The SEC complaint said some of the trading in Dell was done by a SAC portfolio called SAC Select. People familiar with SAC Select said it used computer-driven trading strategies to mimic the trades of some of SAC Capital's top portfolio managers.
The complaint against Steinberg made no reference to Cohen, unlike the criminal and civil cases filed by against Martoma, which was the first time authorities had alluded to him as the "owner" of the hedge fund.
Steinberg had been moving among several hotels in New York City in recent weeks, according to Reuters sources, as he wanted to avoid being arrested at his Upper East Side home where he lives with his wife and two children.
Following the arraignment before U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in lower Manhattan on Friday morning, Steinberg was released after agreeing to post $3 million in bond, which was secured by $1 million in property.
During the proceeding, a federal prosecutor said no search warrant was served on the hedge fund in connection with the charges against Steinberg.
In announcing the $616 million settlement with SAC Capital, lawyers with the SEC made clear the deal did not preclude further charges against individuals or from other trading at SAC Capital that is still be investigated. As part of that settlement, SAC Capital agreed to pay $14 million to settle charges of improper trading in Dell.
On Thursday, a federal district judge reviewing the part of the settlement involving trading in shares of Elan and Wyeth, now a part of Pfizer, said he was reserving decision for now.
The cases in U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York are: United States v. Steinberg, No. 12-cr-121, and Securities and Exchange Commission v. Steinberg, No. 13-2082.
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Trial of War Crimes and Politics of Jamaat-Shibir November 17, 2012Posted by bdoza in BANGLADESH, JUDICIARY, POLITICS.
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Trail of war crimes is continuing and it is expected that judgment on a few cases may be announced by December. The country is also witnessing a sudden rise of political violence on the streets of Bangladesh from capital to district towns. The shibir activists are likely involved in this violence. They are suddenly attacking the police on duty in groups with bricks and sticks. The attacks continued for about a week injuring 200 policemen in different parts of the country. The last attack took place in the heart of the city in the last week where they even attacked the protection cars and car of APS of Law Minister. The police were mercilessly beaten. The police looked helpless. Hundreds of people observed the scene as bystanders without coming in support of the police. Shibir activists only left the scene when police forces were reinforced.
The government showed sharp reaction to the incident. Home Minister in strongest language condemned the attack and declared to punish the culprits. He asked the AL youth wing-Jubo league activists to come in support of police though Juba league president didn't accept the request saying that it is the duty of police and not of Jubo league workers. Home Minister also dismissed to have any form of dialogue with Jamaat Shibir in reply to the appeal made by US ambassador. He commented that we can't compromise with decoits and killers. Let us first suppress them , then we shall talk. PM said that time has come to think about the religion-based politics in Bangladesh. She also said that the attacks will also accelerate the war crime trial. The AL leaders also blaming BNP for indirectly support Jamaat-Shibir attacks.
BNP recently declared that it no way owns the responsibility of attacks made on police by Jamaat-Shibir.
The objectives of the attacks on police is not clear. It is stated by neither Jamaat nor Shibir. But it is assumed that the attacks are made to somehow interfere the war crime trial. Jamaat was trying to project the trail in and outside the country as biased and not of international standard. In support of their demand they tried to organize protests at different times and different parts of the country, but those attempt were foiled by police in the capital and elsewhere. That may be a reason why they attack the police in desperation. It may be an abnormal expression of suppression of their political rights.
But is the way justified or logical in the context of judicial framework and political reality? The attacks may embarrass the government but it will at the same time distant them from the people and it will jeopardize the political existence of their party.
Government also make its position complex by starting the war crime trials not in its first term but a decade after and let Jamaat-Shibir to spread its root deep in the society, jointly conducting movement with Jamaat in early 90s for caretaker government, by not making the International War Tribunal international in standard and not independent in its procedure and inviting blame on itself to use the tribunal for its political ends.
It is difficult for an ordinary citizen to clearly visualize the days ahead but he can feel that the country is going through a very difficult phase and only hope that people would survive the crisis.
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Latest Leaders – November 2012
While most baseball fans would tell you there's really no such thing as an offseason for the national pastime, the first month after the end of the season was a typically big one here at MLB.com Blogs. In addition to the season debut of the Hot Stove behemoth that predictably grabbed the top overall spot, John & Cait…Plus Nine kept going strong to claim the second slot in the Pro Blogs. Meanwhile, newcomer Baseball with Matt made its Latest Leaders premiere right out of the chute. There was a changing of the guard atop the Fan blogs, with the resurrected Rays Renegade returning to grab bragging rights, and Muskat Ramblings finished first among the Beat Writers.
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You are not so late 😉 I had posted in the October but not in November. Duhh. I don't have 20/20 vision but I was 20/20 for October and November. Sweeet
Happy Holidays to everyone and congratulations to everyone that keep coming up with topics to blog during the offseason.
My last post was doing a gallery of pictures from 2012. I think it looks preety cool with the new features there. http://crzblue.mlblogs.com/2012/12/17/2012-a-year-in-pictures-bleeding-dodger-blue/ looking back at the pictures, it was a fun year! Can't wait for 2013!
-Emma @crzblue
How did my Pinstripe Birthday Blog get switched to the "pro" blog category in November?
my blog address as follows MLB: http://mlblogspiratasblog.wordpress.com/ dfue not included among the leaders in November. I would like to know what is the problem to solve. Thanks in advance
007 BASEBALL my blog friend came not among the leaders in November. I wonder what has happened, because I have not changed the template of MLB. If you've done something wrong I wonder which was to correct it. thanks


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The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board of Directors has reelected Michael Curto as its Chairman and reelected the Honorable Thomas Davis III as Vice Chairman and Quince T. Brinkley, Jr. as Secretary for 2013.
Curto was appointed to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board in 2011. He is the Deputy Chair of the Business Department of Patton Boggs LLP, a global law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Curto also is a member of the firm's Management Committee and head of the firm's ERISA and Employee Benefits practice, representing corporate, nonprofit and government sponsors of pension and welfare benefit plans, and insurance companies in all aspects of retirement, health and compensation issues. He currently is the Chairman for the Georgetown University Alumni Admissions Committee for Montgomery County, Maryland and a member of the Annual Fund Committee for the Georgetown Preparatory School, which he previously chaired. He has served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Family Caregivers Association. He is an appointee of the Governor of Maryland.
Davis was appointed to the Board in 2010 and has served as Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority since April 2011. He is the Director of Federal Government Affairs for Deloitte LLP. Davis represented Fairfax County as an elected official for 29 years at the local and federal levels. From 1979 to 1992 he served as the supervisor for Mason Magisterial District. From 1992 to 1994 he served as chairman of the county board, after which he represented the 11th Congressional District of Virginia in the U.S. Congress until his retirement in 2008. During Davis' congressional tenure, he accumulated a number of legislative accomplishments important to the National Capital Region. These include the D.C. Control Board Act, the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, which resulted in the closure of Lorton Prison, and the National Capital Transportation Amendments Act, which authorized much needed capital reinvestment in the Washington Metro system. He is a graduate of Amherst College and the University of Virginia Law School. Davis is an appointee of the Governor of Virginia.
Brinkley was first elected Vice President and Secretary to the Airports Authority in 2008. Brinkley comes to the Airports Authority with a distinguished career in public and private service and has extensive experience in banking, airport consulting, real estate development and finance. He has worked for the City of Chicago in the Office of Management and Budget and has served as a Senior Airport Consultant with Unison Consulting Group, Inc. in Chicago, where he provided consulting services to airports across the nation. Brinkley has also worked in the real estate development and finance arena in the Washington, D.C. region, Atlanta, Ga. and Charlotte, North Carolina with the Urban Residential Development Corporation, the Freddie Mac Corporation and Wachovia Securities. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority was established in 1987 by the governments of Virginia and the District of Columbia to manage and operate Washington's Ronald Reagan National and Dulles International airports, which together serve more than 40 million passengers a year. The Airports Authority also operates and maintains the Dulles Airport Access Road and the Dulles Toll Road and manages construction of the Silver Line project, a 23-mile extension of the Washington region's Metrorail system into Loudoun County, Va. No taxpayer money is used to operate the toll road, which is funded by toll revenues, or the airports, which are funded through aircraft landing fees, rents and revenues from concessions. The Silver Line construction is funded by a combination of toll-road revenues, airport contributions and federal, state and local government appropriations. The Airports Authority is led by a 17- member board of directors appointed by the governors of Virginia, Maryland, the Mayor of Washington, D.C., and the president of the United States.


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By Nathan Petrashek
"I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions."
With those words, the Ryan Braun PED saga finally reached its conclusion on Monday, as Braun accepted an unpaid 65-game suspension from MLB and will sit out the remainder of the season.
For more than a year, Braun has steadfastly maintained his absolute innocence, denying any connection to banned substances after a failed 2011 drug test. That test was thrown out in a 2012 appeal, and Braun went on to declare himself vindicated, claiming, "If I had done this intentionally or unintentionally, I'd be the first one to step up and say, 'I did it.'" Many wanted to believe him. It was an unbelievable performance.
But as I've written previously, his spring training presser raised plenty of questions. Braun attacked the character of the sample collector, Dino Laurenzi, Jr., saying, "a lot of things we learned about the collector, the collection process … made us very concerned and very suspicious about what could have actually happened." That Braun was attempting to create an inference of tampering was undeniable. But what motive could Laurenzi have possibly had? And what about MLB's claim that the sample arrived at the testing agency sealed, intact, and undegraded? Braun only made matters worse when he declared there was a "real story" known only to his friends and family.
Braun, of course, did not offer any evidence to support those strong statements, and they so infuriated MLB that when Braun's name was linked to an alleged doping clinic in Miami, it left no stone unturned in its subsequent investigation. It made a sweetheart deal with the clinic's drug-peddling owner, Tony Bosch, and ponied up cash to get testimony and documents from employees with equally dubious backgrounds. And even though this mafia-style "investigation" looked like payback for Braun's victory, there's no doubting this: it was effective to the point that the union virtually conceded during the All-Star break that it would not put up much of a fight should MLB decide to issue suspensions.
That doesn't make it right, though. For those of us who defended Braun's procedural rights throughout his appeal and the Biogenesis saga, Braun's admission is a bit of a slap in the face. Not because we thought he was innocent, but because he, and any other player, deserved the protections built into the Joint Drug Agreement. I recognize that many knowledgeable baseball minds will disagree, but I wholeheartedly endorse strong discipline, including the possibility of a lifetime ban, for PED use. But such strong punishment – depriving a player of his livelihood – deserves equally strong procedural safeguards. Unfortunately, "effective" is now all anyone will remember about the MLB investigation.
As for Braun, he deserves what he has coming to him. To anyone with a skeptical mind, it isn't much of a surprise that he's guilty; too many connected dots, and too many incomplete explanations. I hope his acts of contrition include apologies to the teammates and front office personnel he personally deceived, and Laurenzi, whose name he publicly dragged through the mud.
And hopefully that's the way one of the longest, most-scrutinized off-field dramas in Milwaukee Brewers history will end.


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CHICAGO —Matt Holliday, Yadier Molina and Lance Berkman started a power show by the St. Louis Cardinals, who became the first team in eight years to hit a home run in each of the first five innings and went on to beat the Chicago Cubs 9-6 Friday.
Matt Carpenter and Allen Craig also connected off Travis Wood (4-6), whose five homers allowed matched the Cubs record.
Carpenter put St. Louis ahead 7-6 when he homered on the first pitch of the fourth, and Craig homered into the left-field bleachers in the fifth. The previous team to homer in each of the first five innings was Houston against Colorado on Oct. 2, 2004, according to STATS LLC.
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In the early 1970s, Ethiopia's music scene rivaled any on earth in terms of swing, inventiveness and sheer beauty. A decade later, it was nearly wiped out — a victim of the strife and famine that drove many of the nation's great artists into exile. As Ethiopia regains its footing, an unlikely ambassador has emerged to help bring the music back to a new generation and reunite the country with a bit of its golden past.
Author RACHEL SLADE
IT'S DUSK IN ADDIS ABABA, and the drivers pulling up to the 10-foot-tall corrugated metal gate outside Jazzamba beckon to the guard. He's ancient, wearing a dusty and threadbare uniform of indeterminate color a few sizes too big for him, looking like the sole survivor of some long-forgotten regiment. Moving slowly, he swings the gate wide and herds the Land Rovers, Toyotas and Hyundais into three-deep rows.
Car doors open, and Ethiopia's glitterati emerge onto the dusty lot: ladies in eveningwear, grandmas with updos, Rastas in dreadlocks, Chinese engineers, business-casual Germans, college boys in penny loafers and wayfaring Americans in torn jeans. Outside the gate, Addis Ababa, the fourth largest city in Africa, is struggling to find its feet after a decades-long civil war, a devastating famine and a 40-year conflict with the border region of Eritrea that ended with partition and an uncomfortable truce in 2000. But inside, music lovers young and old line up to shell out 50 birr (about $3) to be transported to a plush, velvet-and-chandelier approximation of the New York and Paris lounge scenes.
Onstage at Jazzamba are some of Addis' greatest contemporary musicians. Ayele Mamo, a scene veteran now near 80, picks the mandolin. Henock Temesgen, who lived in self-imposed exile in the U.S. for 25 years before returning to his native city, is manning the bass. On guitar is the incomparable Girum Mezmur. They are all members of the Addis Acoustic Project, a band devoted to the once-endangered genre known as Ethiojazz. The current scene is young — the band formed just two years ago and the club opened late last year — but it's already made these men famous.
The seeming misfit of the group stands at stage right. He's a hulking American sax player by the name of Russ Gershon. He's the only white guy up there, but if he looks slightly uncomfortable it's not because he's the odd man out — it's because he's hopelessly jet-lagged. As the other members of the band find their groove, the graying, bespectacled Gershon wets his reed a few times and sways with the music.
Ethiojazz is deceptively simple, based on uniquely un-Western scales. It goes deep. You can't just waltz in and jam. Thus, all eyes are on Gershon as he takes a breath and raises the sax to his lips. Then, out it comes: a bewitching jazz riff that blends into the song like cream into coffee. Gershon might look like an outsider, but the reality is far different. He just might be the best friend this music has.
RUSS GERSHON FELL for Ethiopian music almost two decades ago — and fell for it hard — when friend and fellow musician Mark Sandman of the band Morphine gave him the CD Ethiopian Groove: The Golden '70s. A reissue of Ethiopian popular tunes, it had been released by Francis Falceto, a globetrotting Frenchman and world-music devotee who also happened to be a fierce advocate of Ethiopian sounds.
At the time, Gershon, a Harvard grad with a degree in philosophy, was picking up recording gigs while leading his own 10-piece band in Boston. "I thought, 'Greatest album title ever,'" he recalls, sipping the thick local arabica on the veranda of Addis' Taitu Hotel the morning after the Jazzamba show. He produces a copy of the disc and slides it across the table. "When I finally sat down to listen, the music grabbed me and went into heavy rotation on my CD player. I had an intense fan reaction."
On the CD were rock and jazz numbers recorded in Ethiopia back in the '60s and '70s, yielding a satisfyingly weird hybrid of deeply traditional Abyssinian tunes grafted onto Western pop arrangements. Gershon was a typical musical omnivore — having first been an avid punk fan, then playing New Wave in the '80s, and then jazz — but Ethiopian music was a fixation to end them all. The music so haunted him that in 1997 he wrote a few charts for his band, Either/Orchestra, based on the scales and beats he'd heard on the disc. Wanting to take it further, he sought out collaborators; fortunately for him, Ethiopia's best musicians had emigrated to New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. Gershon invited them to join his band whenever they could, and picked up more music and culture as he went.
Meanwhile, Falceto, who had risked his life to sneak vintage recordings out of war-torn Addis in the '80s, was itching to bring music back into Ethiopia, to show the new generation what it was missing. Sensing an opportunity, he suggested that Gershon (whom he had signed to record on his Ethiopiques label) bring Either/Orchestra to the 2004 Ethiopian Music Festival. Although the country was by then emerging from its dark days, its music scene remained thin at best. Anyone who had the wherewithal to leave had done so, including many top musicians. By playing the festival, Gershon's group would not only help bring back the Ethiojazz sound, but also perform as the first American big band in Ethiopia since Duke Ellington came to the Hilton Addis Ababa hotel in 1973.
Thrilled at the prospect, Gershon raised funds to get his band to Addis (an effort sponsored in large part by the U.S. embassy) and stepped into the role of jazz ambassador to a country he'd long adored from afar. As for actually playing in Ethiopia, it was more than intense, he recalls: It was full-on immersion using a language in which he felt he'd only just gained fluency.
Falceto, too, felt the heat. "Right before the concert, I was extremely anxious, having no idea what the reaction of the 95-percent-Ethiopian audience would be," he says. "But after five bars of music, the whole audience rose as one and began to shout, clap, stomp. Some were even crying. Whenever I mention this moment, I have goose bumps. It was a milestone in modern Ethiopian music history." (Afterward, one fan would tell Gershon that he'd clearly been speaking Amharic, the local tongue, through his sax; the musician says it's the greatest compliment he's ever gotten.)
Gershon's next breakthrough came as he was walking off the stage after that inaugural concert and was approached by a tiny, gray-haired woman with bright brown eyes. "I am Salpi Nalbandian, the daughter of Nerses Nalbandian," she said in perfect English. She explained that her father had been the composer for the National Theatre under former Emperor Haile Selassie, making him the godfather of the music Gershon had grown to love. Gershon knew something of Nerses Nalbandian's massive influence, but he'd always figured the music was lost. No one had played it in 30 years.
Salpi saw his eyes light up. "We have all his charts," she said. "Every single one. You and your band must perform his music."
But first, she said, Gershon had to come over for dinner.
THE NALBANDIAN HOUSE sits in what was once a neighborhood along a dusty road that climbs out of Addis Ababa into the western hills. Nerses built it more than 60 years ago, and his children and grandchildren still live there. Inside the house are Oriental rugs and imported Italian crystal; outside is a tall fence patrolled by two dogs and a private guard (a common sight here). The house stands alone on a vast empty lot. The other homes were razed by the government, which plans to take back the land for development. Nerses' offspring have stubbornly refused to let this happen to their own house. They want to preserve history for future generations by turning the home into a museum. When I visited late last year, though, they were weary from fighting. "You'd better take pictures of the house before it gets demolished," Nerses' daughter Mary said. Considering Nerses Nalbandian's importance in Ethiopian history, this beggars belief.
Nerses Nalbandian, whose family had fled Turkey during the Armenian genocide and settled in Syria, followed his father to Addis in 1933, and taught music to foreigners for years before being asked by the culturally minded Emperor Selassie in the 1950s to write scores for the National Theatre. That was a major honor, as those performances were then broadcast weekly over national radio. Nalbandian was charged with translating traditional Ethiopian music to big band arrangements, which was something no one had ever done before. Nalbandian, however, was uncommonly skilled. He quickly figured out how to harmonize the local sound — which has neither harmonies nor scales that lend themselves to Western instrumentation — without destroying it.
Like a hip, East African Lawrence Welk, Nalbandian captured the ear of the nation with his music. Future stars like Mahmoud Ahmed and Mulatu Astatke (who went on to become the father of Ethiojazz) spent their youths listening to broadcasts of Nalbandian's hits. Over time, more bands formed, nightclubs opened and Ethiopian-laced rock and jazz was born — always, always, in Amharic, and always employing the eerie Ethiopian pentatonic scales and Nerses' unique harmonies.
Yet as quickly as it began, the story almost ended. A Soviet-backed military coup seized control of Ethiopia in 1974 (a year after Ellington played Addis) and set about dismantling the musical culture that Emperor Selassie had nurtured. Clubs were shut down. Musicians were harassed. Civil war flared up, sparking a diaspora. Falceto, meanwhile, got to work smuggling out the recordings that, in time, would find their way nearly 7,000 miles to Russ Gershon.
WHEN GERSHON STUDIED Nerses Nalbandian's charts, notes and photos at the family home, he felt a profound connection. "They reminded me of my own charts," he says of the handwritten scores. "I felt like I'd discovered a kindred spirit, a brother who had been working on my project a half-century before I was."
He took on the project, and spent the next seven years trying to find the time and money to return to Addis and stage the first all-Nalbandian concert in a generation. He got a grant from the U.S. embassy and supplemented it with a campaign with the fundraising group Kickstarter. He scrambled to locate former Nalbandian sidemen to join the band. Many are gone and the few who are still around are too old to play, but he did find Girma Negash, the original singer of Nalbandian's "Yene Hasab," a hit song for which Gershon had the original charts. Though Negash, now in his 70s, had been driving a bus for the past 40 years, when he showed up for practice there was no doubt as to his chops. "Hearing Girma sing made the hair on the back of my neck stand up," Gershon says.
The concert happened in May 2011 at the original National Theatre. Before the show, seniors were wondering whether it'd be as good as they remembered, and members of the younger set were eager to reclaim their heritage and groove to the golden years. Both groups would come away elated. Most people recognized a few songs and sang along. Special guests appeared, many of them younger players like crooner Michael Belayneh, 30, who recently returned to Addis after working in technology in the U.S. for a couple of years. The crowd ate it up. The music was back. "It was an odd and wonderful feeling to be a kind of musical and historical midwife," Gershon recalls. "We returned these sounds to the theater where they had been born."
Gershon had the concert professionally recorded and is now mixing what he hopes will become an all-Nalbandian album on Falceto's Ethiopiques label. Meanwhile, the recording industry in Addis has never been hotter. Members of the Addis Acoustic Project are in huge demand as artists, teachers and producers. Bassist Temesgen, who co-founded a jazz music school when he arrived in Addis in 2006, barely has time to sleep — but that sure beats all those years in New York, scraping to make rent on a cramped apartment.
Following the Jazzamba gig, Gershon visited the Nalbandians, who were downcast about the future of their home. He said goodbye and returned to Boston. Shortly after, he got an email. "Greetings to you all," it read. "The Municipality of Addis Ababa, after long deliberations, has decided not to demolish the Nalbandian house in Arat Kilo, as they have found that the house is well constructed and the work done by our father, Nerses Nalbandian, has entitled it to become a national heritage site. We hope to have the house converted into a musical center in the name of Nerses Nalbandian."
RACHEL SLADE's tween daughter is mortified by her mother's musical taste.
"The quintessential expression of Ethiopian soul through the Western band format, featuring Ethiopia's most beloved singer at a creative high-water mark."
"Francis Falceto's brilliant compilation of 45s from the '60s and '70s. Every song is a killer."
"Muluqen was a teen star — a multi-instrumentalist and singer — when the Derg dictatorship closed down the recording industry in 1976. One of the last LPs released before the blackout was a brilliant Muluqen album, which Francis is preparing for reissue this fall or next spring."
"Mulatu's pioneering early '60s and '70s instrumental B-sides put Ethiojazz on today's music map."
"This Washington, D.C.-based masinko virtuoso's album title means 'the old songs are best.' It's done in a traditional azmari style with a postmodern touch on the title track."
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I updated my server yesterday to a new version of CentoOS including a new version of DirectAdmin panel. This new installation comes with Brute Force Monitor service.
As far as I see, this BFM protects brute force tries. In just 24h of this new server, I see that my 5 sites had 10,000 brute force tries. Basically I see creatures from mud, scum, trying to use my mail server (dovecot) to send emails and also attacks to gain access through ssh. Apparently these attacks are failing.
My questions are:
- Are these attacks really failing?
- What kind of protection is given by this BFM service? I ask this because I see some entries on BFM log reporting 4265 tries of the same IP? How is this allowed, isn't reasonable for BFM to ban that IP after 3 or 5 wrong tries?
- Should I be worried?


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Obedient Pup - (V3 Released 05th November 2013)
Subject description: V3 adds more visually impaired features to webcam & voice control.
The latest version of Obedient Pup (V3) released 5th November 2013 starts here:
A brief overview of V3 can be seen here:
Fri 16 Aug 2013 (V1)
Whilst primarily intended as an accessibility Pup for the severely disabled, it is also suitable for anyone who wishes to try or use these methods of control.
It is based on MouseCam Pup V6, which itself was a re-master of Precise Puppy 5.6.1 (k 3.3.44). Existing users of MouseCam Pup for whom voice is also an option, will benefit from its features and should be able to mix the two methods of control to great effect as it eliminates the need for typing. If you have used neither before, I would recommend becoming familiar with each method separately before attempting to combine the two.
The features of MouseCam Pup are well documented in its own thread so I will not repeat them here. Minor changes from the point of view of a pure Eviacam user are:
1. Text to speech (TTS) now included by default.
2. Navigation icons removed from across top of screen.
The main voice control features include:
1. The ability to search for and play anything on YouTube.
2. Send and receive voice mail using the Vocaroo service.
3. Use the new Google voice search with some spoken replies when Google provides them.
4. To open any website.
5. To open and navigate any hyperlinks on the BBC News site. (The ability to navigate webpage hyperlinks by voice is site dependant. It works on some but not others.)
6. Desktop and webpage navigation.
7. Integration with "single switch" solutions.
8. Experimental XBMC navigation.
Background notes:
Briefly the voice control side of things is based on the "Palaver" project which is under heavy development and has not yet progressed to a release. Much has been discarded or modified to work with Puppy and there are a host of additional scripts. As it stands, that project has two basic operating methods plus a dictation mode which I disabled as dictation is already sorted and in the light of the inclusion of voice mail is pretty much redundant.
Their first operating method is to press a hotkey, speak and then press the hotkey again to stop the recording and send the resulting flac file to the Google speech API site for analysis. The second method is "continuous listening" where recording starts and stops as the ambient sound level rises and falls when someone speaks.
I have opted for an entirely different approach, more akin to Google's voice search, where a single press of the hotkey gives about 7 seconds worth of recording. This is more than enough for command or search purposes. It also means that you can use speakers or headphones.
The Google speech API is very good, often being able to work out from the context what was said. An example: If you said "close" that might be heard as "close" or "clothes". If however you said "close window" Google would likely get it correct from the context. This intelligence can however be a problem with voice commands where you do not want your words to be mistaken or interpreted. The aim is to get it to return exactly what you said so that scripts can be triggered. In tests I also noted that it can struggle with certain words such as "up", "max" and "maximise". If some of the command words that I have chosen seem a little odd it is because I have gone for words with the best recognition factor. Palaver also employs fuzzy recognition logic to improve matters further. An example:
Suppose you said "send voice mail". Google might return precisely that or "send voicemail" or even "send voice mails". Fuzzy recognition is used to allow for any of those three possibilities so that the command word or words still trigger the correct action. One last thing to mention in this section is that a command word or words can be followed by a string of non command words that will be input as say a site to go to or something to be input to a search field. Enough of the technical stuff!
Where to obtain the ISO: (345 MB)
The ISO and MD5 are to be found here:
Guest login name = maddog@puppy4
Password= maddog
And on: (When I can login and upload it-Edit 17/08/2013-Now available)
Setup Procedure:
1. Complete the normal "first-run" dialogues then reboot and create a 768 MEG Ext4 savefile.
2. If you are using an LCD display, launch Fontwizard from the JWM/desktop menu, tick all boxes & then click on apply. Restart X.
3. Launch Gmail via Chrome and setup an account if you do not already possess one. Log in and ensure that you tick the box to stay signed in. Setup a contact in Gmail named "Self" with your own Gmail address. (This will be used later for testing voice mail)
Close the browser but do not log off Gmail.
4. Click the speaker icon at the right hand end of the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and set the volume at 50%.
Hotkeys for voice search /control:
There are 3 options:
1. Left hand windows key. (Preferred method)
2. For Eviacam users, hotkey icons on both the desktop and the navigation sidebar.
(Reminder – The scroll lock key toggles webcam control on and off once launched)
3. Pause/break key for use with a single switch.
Walk-Through: (Key command words are capitalised)
Leaving the hotkey alone for the moment and just using the mouse, we will use the desktop Dictate icon to demonstrate TTS and to adjust speaker/headphone level.
We will then use it to confirm and adjust microphone operation with some dictation.
Start by clicking the desktop "Dictate" icon. After a few seconds you should hear audio. Close the window by clicking the close icon on the sidebar then repeat a few times. Between repetitions adjust your volume level.
With the dictation window open and the lines of text visible, click on the last line and edit it to something that you would like the orator to say to you. Highlight what you have typed, then from the right click menu pick "Speak Text".
Play with this for a while being as creative as you like.
Once satiated, click on the "Clear Canvas" button. Exit and re-launch Dictate to try out the dictation mode. You may need to adjust your microphone level to get decent results.
Still just using the mouse, let's explore the new Google Voice Search by clicking the red sidebar search icon. (We will launch it later by voice command)
When invited to speak try the following:
Click the side bar search icon again and try
"Weather New York"
Click again & try
"Time in Sydney"
Click again & try
"Six times twelve"
Click again & try
"How tall is the Eiffel Tower?"
Click again & try
"Who am I"
If it gets all these correct, your mike is fine for voice control and you can continue. If not, your mike needs further adjustment as voice control uses the same service.
Voice Control-Search:
With a clear desktop and nothing running:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "VOICE SEARCH"
Repeat the above test just using voice commands.
You can close the window between searches if you wish by issuing:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "CLOSE WINDOW"
Voice Control-YouTube:
With a clear desktop and nothing running:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "YOUTUBE James Taylor"
Too quiet?
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "INCREASE VOLUME"
Too loud?
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "DECREASE VOLUME"
These commands work in 12% increments and may be repeated. With one exception, the window must be closed between YouTube searches.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "CLOSE WINDOW"
Now for another search.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "YOUTUBE Queen Live Aid"
(You may need to decrease volume – if so, don't forget to press the hotkey first.)
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "CLOSE WINDOW"
Another search.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "YOUTUBE Elephant plays in pool"
Want to move to the next video?
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "GO DOWN"
Changed your mind?
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "GO UP"
Fancy a break?
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "COFFEE"
Back already?
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "RESUME"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "CLOSE WINDOW"
One last search.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "YOUTUBE Simon and Garfunkel the Sound of Silence"
I mentioned one exception to the need to close the window between YouTube searches. So with S&G playing:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "GO TO news dot sky dot com"
Use this for background music whilst you browse.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "CLOSE WINDOW"
Voice Control - BBC News:
With a clear desktop and nothing running:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "NEWS"
You should be taken to the BBC World News page upon which there will be many hyperlinks to stories and videos.
Suppose you see the following link and wish to visit it:
"Australian rivals face off in debate" There are 4 possible options here.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "THE Australian"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "THE rivals"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "THE face"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "THE debate"
If you used the first one, providing there was no hyperlink further up the page containing the word "Australian" you will be taken to that link after a short wobble!
If there were such a hyperlink further up the page you would be taken to that. If you happened to spot the fact that there were multiple links on the page containing the word "Australian" but none containing the word "debate", issue that instead.
Try to use a word in conjunction with THE (The command word) that makes sense and will not be interpreted by Google. You would not for example use "THE in" as Google might return "The Inn" and "in" would be a common word anyway.
Sometimes you will only have one option as nothing else makes sense or could be interpreted.
Suppose you wanted to visit the link "Bossa Nova' singer Eydie Gorme dies"
The only sensible option would be:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "THE singer"
This sounds complex but soon becomes second nature. To assist I have arranged to briefly display on screen the word that Google thought you said which can help if it got it wrong and you go to an unexpected link.
Please note also that all the links on the bars at the top of the page are available for navigation. So you could for example use:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "THE technology"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "THE weather"
Many of the hyperlinks lead to videos which frequently start playing automatically.
If one does not, the following command may persuade it to start. If it fails move on, nothing to see here!
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "PLAY"
Other relevant voice commands:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "PAGE DOWN"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "PAGE BACK"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "MAXIMUS" (Maximise active window)
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "RESTORE" (Restore active window to original size)
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "MINIMUS" - This is only for Eviacam users as the window cannot be raised with voice control.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "PREVIOUS" (Previous webpage if applicable)
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "NEXT" (Next webpage if applicable)
Voice Control – Send Voice Mail:
With a clear desktop and nothing running:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "SEND VOICE MAIL"
Vocaroo will launch together with a pop up message with black text on a yellow background. When that message vanishes a 30 second recording period will commence. At the end of that period a Gmail compose window will appear containing the hyperlink to the recording ready for you to address.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "SEND TO Self"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "POST"
A screen message will then confirm that it has been sent and all windows will close.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "OPEN Google Chrome"
A message should pop up confirming that you have sent yourself a voice-mail.
Want to hear your voice mail?
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "OPEN MAIL"
This triggers a procedure that searches for unread mail and opens the latest unread mail. It then gives the hyperlink within the body of the mail keyboard focus and halts.
This gives you the chance to inspect the link and to satisfy yourself that it is a link to a recording on Vocaroo.com. It would be highly dangerous to fully automate the opening of a link in what might be an unsolicited mail. Once there is no unread mail it will fall back to just displaying read mails.
If you are happy, issue the following command to listen to the message.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "COFFEE"
Once it has played.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "CLOSE WINDOW"
To send to multiple recipients repeat the "SEND TO" command before posting. If Google gets the last entered name wrong, simply remove it with the following command:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "REMOVE"
Note that you only need to say the first name but that Google can struggle with names and will input what it believes it has heard even when the name is not in your contacts.
Names such as FRED or JOHN will probably not be a problem but something like ALEXANDROS might be an issue. The quick fix for this is simply to rename the contact to something that the Google voice API does consistently return correctly. ALEX for example.
You may opt for a nick name. To test out what Google is likely to return, use voice search on it several times to see what reliability you get. (That is what I did to determine reliable command words.)
Group names such as TENNIS CLUB, containing all your relevant contacts should be easy to rename if they are problematic.
Please note also that the 30 second period was selected primarily for reliability and is also probably the average duration of a typical answer machine message. If you need to say more, just send a second message. If you are desperate for a longer period send me a PM for instructions on how to change it. It is intended that only voice mails recorded on Vocaroo be sent to Obedient Pup users. As such the body of the email will only contain a single hyperlink to the recording on Vocaroo.com. That site can be book-marked in any browser.
Voice Control – XBMC:
With a clear desktop and nothing running:
This is experimental and subject to feedback, but given that XBMC is included, it would have been a pity not to have installed a couple of add-ons and to have tried to call them up by voice command. They can be accessed manually via the desktop icon for pure Eviacam and mouse users. You will find them when you click the favourites icon at the bottom left. There are two add-ons.
The first of these gives access to hundreds of streamed Apple iTunes trailers.
The second gives access to streamed live UK BBC TV channels plus all BBC local & national radio channels. This technically requires a UK TV license. However if you are a license holder abroad on holiday you will be familiar with how to setup XBMC access via a UK proxy server. Google is your friend in this respect
and I understand that many (License holding!) ex-pats make good use of this method.
The quality is, in my view, almost on a par with my DVB-T pci tuner and better than the BBC iPlayer.
Navigation within XBMC is provided by the following commands:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "GO DOWN"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "GO UP"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "GO LEFT"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "GO RIGHT"
(i.e. the four arrow keys)- Plus
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "ESCAPE" (i.e. the Esc key)
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "PAGE DOWN"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "PAGE BACK"
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "COFFEE" (This issues the enter key)
N/B There is nothing fancy about these eight commands. They simply issue the keyboard command. They can therefore be used globally, not just in XBMC.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "XBMC"
To shut XBMC down correctly you must use the following command rather than closing the window.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "CLOSE XBMC"
This will close it cleanly and prevent problems upon re-launch.
Other Global Commands:
(Precede with hotkey and follow with words or address)
This will input any following words into just about any form, field, search or omni-box that has keyboard focus. It will then issue a hard return.
Used to visit websites.
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "GOTO cnn dot com"
Final Thoughts:
A copy of this post is attached so that you may print it out for reference and use it to step through the walk-through.
All of this requires a working microphone and internet connection.
Voice recognition is not yet perfect, so be prepared to have to repeat commands.
This post due to its format has been long which implies complexity. The voice control is however very simple to use and does not take long to get used to. Rather than have a vast number of commands, I have stuck to using the bare minimum in an attempt to make it user friendly for disabled users possibly new to computing.
Thanks go to mikeslr for his great find in the form of the Google extension DeadMouse Plus 0.0.2 which is used for hyperlink navigation and to BarryK for
Precise 5.6.1. The main accolades here go to James McClain the author of Palaver.
Please see greengeek's thread for suitable single switch solutions.
Site permissions for pepper flash and the various Google extensions used have been preset as have cookies. This should avoid being constantly asked to allow or deny Google and Vocaroo permission to use the microphone. Do not change these or clear the cookies for any of the Chrome extensions.
Signing off with one last search:
[Tap the HOTKEY and say] "YOUTUBE Sting fields of gold"
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Post subject: Obedient Pup (V1 Released 16th August 2013)
Reserved for Additional info, tips & FAQ
1. How to change the default "NEWS" site. (
All versions
2. Teaching Obedient Pup to greet you on startup. (
V1 Only
Voice hyperlink navigation needs to be enabled on a per site basis. If for example you visit news.sky.com and wish to use it and permanently enable it for that site, press ctrl+shift+k whilst on that site.
4. It may seem counter intuitive but a lower microphone volume can actually benefit voice recognition. The receiving server can boost an undistorted low volume but cannot cope with the digital distortion that too loud a recording can provoke.
5. A screen resolution in the range 1280x1024 to 1920x1080 is recommended for Obedient Pup.
6. When using Obedient to send voice mail take care not to move your mouse.
Live TV via XBMC with Palaver listening for next command.
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Is this a hybrid ISO that can be directly DD'ed to USB Flash?
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Ted Dog wrote:
Is this a hybrid ISO that can be directly DD'ed to USB Flash?
Hi Ted,
No. It is just an ordinary ISO,
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Posted: Fri 16 Aug 2013, 15:26
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Darn, only one laptop and one flash with puppy available If I mess up the install of Obedient Pup I would be off line...
I am so enjoying highspeed internet at the home I'm house sitting.. Obedient PUP downloaded quickly and checksums are good.
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I'm just in the progress of mirroring to the puppy channel on archive.org
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Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 13:42
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Hi ETP -
does it have to be an EXT4 savefile? Is that a fixed requirement? (no specific reason for asking - but I've never used EXT4 so far, mostly EXT2)
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Post subject: Savefile format
greengeek wrote:
Hi ETP -
does it have to be an EXT4 savefile? Is that a fixed requirement? (no specific reason for asking - but I've never used EXT4 so far, mostly EXT2)
Hi greengeek,
EXT2 will be fine. Ext4 is supposedly more robust in the event of a freeze or power failure, hence my recommendation.
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Just downloading now - hoping to have a try of this over the next week or so. (excellent idea to include the printable info...)
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This is a far-reaching contribution that the community will welcome. What appears here is the makings for a system that we can talk to and tell it what to do for our needs. This contribution is a significant step for all of us and for Linux in general.
@ETP ths may be what we can all be using in the not to distant future; namely a system we can vocally instruct to carry out utility needs. "Turn on the Lights", "start the stereo", "take a letter", "make a text file", "connect to the NAS and burn Obedient PUP ISO to DVD drive 2". "call my daughter", "do an internet search for ...", etc.
And, we may just get there, fully, before Android.
Klaus Knopper has been looking at Linux as a vehicle for such things where a non-sighted person can have the system function to their needs, vocally.
This is the Puppy expansion of voice operations for community users.
I hope many of us can get behind @ETP as he is doing a very good development which is equally useful to non-sighted people as well as the rest of us who are sighted. Vocal development has a lot of upside for many.
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Should a statement be made plain of which x86 platforms this distro would be easily at home with?
Can anyone of us who test, share what we did as initial tests and use of this distro?
This may be helpful for ideas of community members to ease their start-up.
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Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 22:47
Post subject:
gcmartin wrote:
Should a statement be made plain of which x86 platforms this distro would be easily at home with?
Can anyone of us who test, share what we did as initial tests and use of this distro?
This may be helpful for ideas of community members to ease their start-up.
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Working on the 64bit version, with an eye toward ARM
Was showing off some of the efforts to a speech dr. she wanted a how-to-manual, which I laughed its under heavy development still waiting for the dust to clear. Manuals, we no need stinking manuals....
Please keep notes on confusing stuff..
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Ive previously built espeak for text to speech, but I keep meaning to build pocket sphinx again for speech recognition (last time I built it, I found the interface to be too complicated to use as is - I need to simplify it for the masses) anyone know of a better option?
Check out my
github repositories
. I may eventually get around to updating my
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technosaurus wrote:
Ive previously built espeak for text to speech, but I keep meaning to build pocket sphinx again for speech recognition (last time I built it, I found the interface to be too complicated to use as is - I need to simplify it for the masses) anyone know of a better option?
I've never found a V2T program on linux that works as well as Sphinx. On the flip side the only implentation that seems to work fairly well are the ones on android which actually use the Google API for the actual conversion. Not sure if someone has coded a V2T with the Google API for the linux desktop.
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Hi All,
Just to clarify matters here whilst "Espeak" is used in Palaver it is not in this Pup having been dropped in favour of Ispeech's "Select and Speak".
Reliance is therefore placed solely on the Google APIs for both TTS and STT. The negative aspect of this is the dependency on an internet connection. The positive side is quality far exceeding Espeak, Julius, Simon & CMU Sphinx.
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Setting up your Quick Shopping Cart as a Subdomain of your domain registered with another company
To direct customers from an existing domain to your Quick Shopping Cart subdomain, you need to modify the zone records with your domain registrar.
Specifically, you must modify the "A" record, also called a host record, within your zone records. This record connects your domain name to your IP address, which allows a user to type in your domain name and access your Web files on the Internet. "A" records are the most common type of zone record.
To Modify Your Zone Records
- Log in to your account at your domain registrar's website.
- Locate the zone record set up for your domain.
Note: Not all registrars allow you to modify these records. If your registrar does not allow you to modify your zone records, contact their customer support department for help.
- If you already have a subdomain of "shop" for your domain, for example shop.best-widgets.com, edit the entry. If this subdomain is new, add a new A record to your zone File.
The entry should state the URL of your subdomain and the IP address assigned to it. To find out the IP Address assigned to your subdomain, contact customer support and request instructions for how to ping your domain to determine the IP Address.
The "A" record should look similar to this: shop.best-widgets.com – A type = IP Address (64.202.18x.xxx).