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Linux systems (such as the Freerunner) prefer that the system clock be set to universal time (UTC). Then, you will need to configure the timezone to display the time adjusted to local time.
See Timezone for instructions on changing the time zone.
For more information on Linux timekeeping, see Linux, Clocks, and Time. (But ignore mentions of /etc/sysconfig/clock. That doesn't apply to the Openmoko environment.)
Setting the date/time using "date"
To change the date on your Freerunner, issue one of the following commands:
date -s MMDDhhmm date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss
where MM is the month, 01-12; DD is the day, 01-31; hhmm is the time, 0000-2359; YYYY is the optional year, and .ss is the optional seconds.
Setting date/time from your linux box
ssh root@openmoko "date -s `date --utc +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S`"
Setting the date/time automatically with NTP
If your Freerunner is connected to the internet, you can instead set the time automatically:
opkg install ntpclient ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org
If your Freerunner is connecting to the internet through a USB host, make sure you allow UDP traffic to pass through on port 123 (NTP) on your host machine or you may get a "no route to host" error from ntpclient.
Syncing the hardware clock
No matter which method you used above, sync the hardware clock with the system time to make your change persist over reboots:
hwclock --systohc
Note: if you run the ASU image, hwclock will not work. Instead you can use:
echo "W\n" > /var/spool/at/trigger
Future Work
Presumably it might also be possible to use gpspipe (or something else) to set the date once you have a gps fix? In addition, the phone stack should set the date, time, and timezone once connected to a network.


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WASHINGTON Online rumors about a big government munitions purchase are true, sort of.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the next four or five years. It says it needs them about the equivalent of five bullets for every person in the United States for law enforcement agents in training and on duty.
Published federal notices about the ammo buy have agitated conspiracy theorists since the fall. Thats when conservative radio host Alex Jones spoke of an arms race against the American people and said the government was gearing up for total collapse, theyre gearing up for huge wars.
The governments explanation is much less sinister.
Federal solicitations to buy the bullets are known as strategic sourcing contracts, which help the government get a low price for a big purchase, says Peggy Dixon, spokeswoman for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga. The training center and others like it run by the Homeland Security Department use as many as 15 million rounds every year, mostly on shooting ranges and in training exercises.
Dixon said one of the contracts would allow Homeland Security to buy up to 750 million rounds of ammunition during the next five years for its training facilities.
The rounds are used for basic and advanced law enforcement training for federal law enforcement agencies under the departments umbrella. The facilities also offer firearms training to tens of thousands of federal law enforcement officers. More than 90 federal agencies and 70,000 agents and officers used the departments training center last year.
The rest of the 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition would be purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal governments second largest criminal investigative agency.

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The Federal Reserve's procedures for locking up market-moving information look pretty leaky, according to a working paper by three economists at Singapore Management University.
Analyzing high frequency data from the late 1990s through June 2013, the researchers found "robust evidence of informed trading" during the period when members of the news media have access to sensitive Fed monetary policy releases but before they are made public. "In particular, we document the presence of significant abnormal price run-ups and order imbalances that are in the direction of the subsequent policy surprises, " the authors write.
Under what's known as a lock up, reporters are given early access by the Fed and other government agencies to sensitive policy statements and economic data on an embargoed basis. The reporters then have a defined period to write their reports. When the embargo lifts, reporters are allowed to publish their stories at the same time the information is released to the general public. The system aims to give reporters the time necessary to digest complex reports and, hopefully, produce more accurate stories.
Market-moving Fed statements have included announcements that the central bank's policy making Federal Open Market Committee would raise or lower interest rates, or start a bond-buying program.
The authors Gennaro Bernile, Jianfeng Hu and Yuehua Tang concluded their results "raise serious questions about the appropriateness of FOMC policy announcements' embargoes," either because information seems to be leaking directly from reporters or from other Fed insiders during the embargo period.
The paper's findings could add fuel to discussions within the White House and government agencies about whether to make significant changes to procedures for releasing market-moving information. Those conversations are being driven in part by unease about the ability of high-speed trading firms to act on sensitive data before other investors can, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
The Fed made several changes to its lockup procedures in October 2013 to tighten security amid concerns that high-frequency traders were getting faster access to Fed releases than other investors. Among them, the Fed took away reporters' telephones and cut off their Internet access while in the lockup, preventing them from communicating with outsiders.
A Fed spokesman said Tuesday, "The Federal Reserve in October 2013 enhanced its media release security procedures to incorporate additional controls in order to better protect the information against premature release. We review our processes and controls on an ongoing basis and make adjustments as necessary to address any issues."
The researchers found no abnormal trading activity occurring before reporters received the Fed statements under embargo. And no evidence of "informed trading" immediately prior to the release of market-moving data on jobs, inflation and economic growth released under embargo by the Labor Department and Commerce Department.
The paper was posted Tuesday as a working paper on the Social Science Research Network website and was first reported by Bloomberg Businessweek.
The papers' authors looked at a 30-minute period before the public release of the Fed statements, and then examined that period in three 10-minute windows. They found the suspicious activity occurred in the 20 minutes prior to the embargo being lifted -- with most of the suspect trading happening in the final 10 minutes for three of the exchange-traded funds they examined.
The Fed has used different lockup periods over time. Before the 2008 financial crisis, reporters received the Fed's policy statement five minutes before the embargo lifted. During the crisis, that window was lengthened to approximately 10 minutes. In October 2013, the Fed extended the time to 20 minutes.
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I'm just at the end of Orberg Book I in my vocab revision exercise. In Cap XXXV - taken from Donatus' grammar he (Donatus?) has:
M. Quae nomina comparantur?
D. Appellativa dumtaxat qualitatem aut quantitatem significantia.
I think I know what this means but I'm not sure what the subject and object are of the answer.
'appellative' is an adjective. 'significantia' seems to be a participle....
I understand that Donatus viwed adjectives and nouns as being of the same grammatical class 'nomina' (?)
So we have:
M. Quae nomina comparantur?
What nouns/adjectives are compared?
D. Appellativa dumtaxat qualitatem aut quantitatem significantia.
Collective such (to the extent that) they signify quality and quantity.
Why are 'qualitatem' and 'quantitatem' in accusative case? What's the subject and object of the answer?


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Tournament darlings Costa Rica needs penalties to drop Greece
He thought about God, his son and his family before sending an entire country into pandemonium.
Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas, the only reason the Ticos survived 120 minutes here at Arena Pernambuco Sunday night, made a save in penalty kicks that sent his country into the last eight.
"This is an unbelievable moment," Navas said minutes after stoning Greek striker Theofanis Gekas. "We are grateful to God. He has allowed a dream to become a reality."
After using a gifted stoppage-time penalty in their final group game against the Ivory Coast, the pesky Greeks understand full well how the penalty spot can giveth.
And, of course, how it can taketh away.
Following seven straight makes from the spot, Navas launched to his right to push away Gekas' effort.
Costa Rica's Michael Umana slammed in the next kick to put Costa Rica into the quarterfinals.
"I told my players the confidence we had in them," Costa Rica manager Jorge Luis Pinto said. "We knew before the match who would shoot the penalties.
"(All of Costa Rica) has been with us, for the people rooting for us, we felt all of that."
After going up 1-0 through Bryan Ruiz early in the second half, the Costa Ricans went down a man when Oscar Duarte picked up a second caution for a late challenge just after the hour mark.
"For 65 minutes we were able to control the result and bring it to penalties," Pinto said. "We trusted our strikers and our goalkeeper."
Emphasis on the goalkeeper.
After Sokratis Papastathopoulos pounced on a juicy rebound in stoppage time to push this thing into extra time, Greece continued to have its way with the man-advantage.
In the 113th minute Greece broke out in a 6-on-2 when off a corner, Konstantinos Mitroglou dashed 60 metres the other way only to see Lazaros Christodoulopoulos's tight-angle attempt palmed away by Navas.
The Costa Rican netminder again came to the rescue in the last seconds of stoppage time when a flicked-on header inside the box fell to Mitroglou, whose open look was deflected by Navas wide of the frame.
"He saved three or four (would-be) goals, very good ones," Greece manager Fernando Santos told reporters. "If it weren't for that the result would have been different."
If anyone else was in Costa Rica's net, things would have been different.
It's why Pinto referred to his 27-year-old 'keeper as the best in the world post-game.
A stretch? Maybe. But for one moment Sunday night, eyes around the globe were on him.
"We trusted Navas during the penalties," Pinto said, admitting Costa Rica was playing for spot kicks following the sending off. "He's an extraordinary man."
For the first 45 minutes, this match was anything but extraordinary. It more or less resembled a Simpson's parody.
It was slow, mistake-laden and as a fellow media-type sitting two desks to the left of me quipped, "this is going to be a long night."
Costa Rica and Greece, both surprises just to get to this point, were even booed at times by a Brazilian crowd that expected to see an England, Uruguay or Italy.
Let's put it this way: The beer lines were full well before halftime in Recife.
Some of those seats were still vacant when Ruiz finally brought fans to their feet, the final hour of this match being a much better show.
Receiving a low cross from Christian Bolanos in the 52nd minute, Ruiz's one-timer curled away from Greek goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis and into the side-netting to put the Central Americans up.
That forced Santos to roll away the proverbial Greek bus.
Santos dropped a midfielder for an extra forward in an attempt to find an equalizer that wouldn't arrive until stoppage time.
Just when it looked like 10-man Costa Rica would successfully hold the fort, Papastathopoulos popped up to extend the match off a Navas rebound.
"A long match indeed," I turned to my colleague and said. "But at least this has turned into a good one."
Had Costa Rica, the darlings of this tournament, not shot itself in the foot things might have ended at full-time.
But after Duarte lunged in on Jose Cholevas that certainly picked things up.
It allowed Greece to pour numbers forward without the threat of Costa Rica breaking out the other way — at the end of regulation and in the extra frames.
"We were putting a lot of pressure on Costa Rica and I think that continued in the extra time," Santos said. "But we didn't use those 30 minutes as well as we should have."
It's something that Greece has struggled with for decades.
It's a side that has never had that player to finish things off — to produce one moment in a match Greece probably should have won.
"It's a sad moment for us," Santos said. "We wanted to continue making history to make the Greek people happier."
Instead, it's the Costa Ricans that will have a chance to extend their dream run into the record books.
The Central Americans are the first CONCACAF team to make the quarterfinals since the United States ventured there in 2002.
"This is to you," Pinto said, dedicating the win to the Costa Rican people. "We will continue fighting. We're ambitious."
Unfortunately for the Central Americans, the Dutch aren't ambitious, they're expected to make the last four.
Then again, Costa Rica wasn't supposed to be here in the first place.


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Stremme to Start 11th at Martinsville Speedway
October 23, 2009
Martinsville, VA. (October, 23, 2009) – David Stremme, driver of the No. 12 Penske Dodge Charger, will start Sunday's race at the Martinsville Speedway from the 11th spot.
Stremme and the No.12 Penske Dodge Charger team had an hour and a half practice session on Friday to get their car dialed in for the Tums Fast Relief 500 at the famed Martinsville Speedway. Crew chief Roy McCauley spent most of the practice session in race trim trying to get the car comfortable for Sunday's 500-lap event. Stremme radioed in explaining the car was just a little tight in the center of both corners. The No. 12 Penske Dodge team went to work making a couple of minor adjustments to the front end geometry hoping to help the car rotate through the flat turns. By the end of practice, Stremme felt like he had a car capable of running up front on Sunday afternoon.
In the afternoon qualifying session, Stremme was the 31st car to roll off to make a qualifying attempt. He wheeled his Dodge around the famous Virginia speedway running a time of 19.745 seconds with a speed of 95.903 miles-per-hour which put him on the inside of the sixth row for the start of Sunday's short track showdown.
"I am pretty happy with that run," commented David Stremme after his two lap qualifying effort. "We didn't get to make a qualifying run during practice so I wasn't sure what we had in qualifying trim. It is so important to qualify up front here because it is so hard to pass. We feel really good about our race package and I am looking forward to Sunday's race."
The Tums Fast Relief 500 will be seen live on Sunday, October 25 on the ABC television network. Race coverage will begin at 1 p.m. ET. The event can also be heard live on MRN Radio as well as Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 128.
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The canonizations of John XXIII and John Paul II are historic on so many levels and for so many reasons. They are the first popes to be canonized since Pope Pius X in 1954 and the first time two popes have been canonized together. Also, both men are heroes of the Faith and are loved and respected for a long list of reasons.
But as the Church moved closer to Divine Mercy Sunday, I found myself feeling sorry for John XXIII. Despite being the main force — next to the Holy Spirit, of course — behind Vatican II, he was also well known and greatly respected for numerous other accomplishments, including his efforts to provide a new vision for the Church, to build Christian unity, for his outreach to the Jewish community and his loving and joyful approach to witnessing the Gospel. But somehow he seemed to be getting lost in the shadow of John Paul II.
I felt just a tad bit guilty about that because so much of my writing and speaking has been inspired by John Paul II, whose groundbreaking teachings on women and his appreciation for the important role of the media in evangelization have had a profound impact on me. Like so many Catholics today, I grew up with John Paul II. My husband and I also returned to the Church during his pontificate and learned to appreciate John Paul II even more through the papacy of Benedict XVI. And, to be honest, I didn't give much thought or put a lot of effort into learning more about John XXIII.
Well, as the old saying goes, there's no time like the present. And because I was on my way to Rome to cover the canonizations for EWTN and Ave Maria Radio, I decided it was important to take a closer look at this new saint who hailed from northern Italy: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli.
I was already familiar with many of the Vatican II documents, particularly Inter Mirifica, the Decree on Social Communications. I am still working my way through his moving autobiography "Journal of a Soul" as well as his other writings and encyclicals. Despite his extensive body of written work left to the Church concerning such crucial issues as evangelization and ecumenism, it's been some of his simple quotes that are really staying with me.
If you haven't noticed, it's getting a lot tougher on Christians these days, especially Catholic Christians. Much of it comes from the outside world, which is to be expected, but lately those trying to support and defend the teachings of the Church find themselves under sometimes greater attack from within. Sometimes it can make you want to pull the covers over your head and stay in bed and let somebody else do the work. That's why I take such comfort from the words of John XXIII. After a long day's work with the weight of the universal Church on his shoulders, the saint was said to have offered it all up to God with this prayer:
"Well Lord. It's your Church. I'm tired and going to bed."
God is God, and we are not. John XXIII had a down-to-earth way of helping us understand and appreciate that there is only so much we mere mortals can do. We have to be faithful, but the success is not up to us. Nothing drives this point home better though than the words printed on the prayer card now associated with his canonization: "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in but with what is still possible for you to do."
The more I am getting to know this saint, the more I am getting to love him. St. John XXIII pray for us.
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Biomass conference keynote highlights biomass use projections
The interconnectedness of biomass and biofuels within the energy sector is an area the U.S. DOE's Energy Information Administration has been analyzing recently, according to Richard Newell, the agency's administrator.
Newell delivered an intriguing and informative keynote address at Biomass Power & Thermal and Biorefining Magazine's International Biomass Conference & Expo, taking place May 2 to 5 at the America's Center in St. Louis. More than 1,300 people registered for the event, divided into six feedstock-specific tracks with four focus areas.
"We need to pay increased attention to biomass in the interconnectedness of energy," Newell told the crowd. Two important points he emphasized are that biofuels feedstocks can also be used to generate electricity, and the biofuel production itself can foster a biopower coproduct.
The EIA predicts consumption of biomass for liquid fuels and power will increase significantly through 2035, driven primarily by cellulosic biofuels and electricity. Even with projections of meaningful increases, fossil fuels will still provide 78 percent of U.S. energy in 2035. Predictions for renewable energy consumption in 2009 were around 8 percent and up to 14 percent in 2035, he said.
Government Policy and crude oil prices have worked in favor of biofuels, he added, specifically mentioning the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and its 36 billion gallon by 2022 mandate as just one of the policy drivers. But the future of biofuels depends on the world oil price path, which is highly uncertain. Still, projections show an increase of domestic biofuel production to displace 1.25 million barrels per day of gasoline, as well as 360,000 barrels per day of diesel by 2035. Subsequently, the import share of liquid consumption drops over the same period.
The increased use of cellulosic biomass for liquid fuels and power will come primarily in the areas of energy crops and crop residues followed by urban wood waste and forest residuals, Newell said. The EIA also predicts, however, that both liquid biofuels and biomass power will compete for the same biomass supply.
In the electricity sector, Newell said natural gas, wind and other renewables will account for the vast majority of capacity additions through 2035. In the near term, a substantial amount will come from wind, but that tax credit is set to expire, shifting new capacity to other sources. By the same projections, biomass electricity production increases fourfold by 2035 in the areas of combined heat and power (CHP), and co-firing with coal. The largest opportunity, though, he reiterated, is the cogeneration of biomass electricity with the production of advanced biofuels.
In closing, Newell told the audience that policy changes and higher oil prices are moving the U.S. toward increased use of biofuels. He cautioned, though, that uncertainties, such as those in policy and market, land use, infrastructure changes, and technology development, still lie ahead.


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Some Bank of England board members seek rate hike
The Bank of England's consensus on maintaining record-low interest rates has crumbled after more than three years, with two members of the central bank's monetary policy committee voting to increase borrowing costs this month.
While the nine-member committee kept its benchmark bank rate at 0.5 per cent, Ian McCafferty and Martin Weale voted to increase the rate by 0.25 percentage points as economic growth has picked up in pace, according to minutes of the August 6-7 meeting released on Wednesday.
Economists had been speculating in recent weeks that the unanimity on the committee had been eroding as the economy grew stronger and inflation remained tame. The push to raise rates in Europe's third largest economy comes even as other major central banks - such as the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank - are still pursuing monetary stimulus.
News of the split caused the pound to jump almost half a cent against the dollar, to $1.6645, as higher rates tend to boost a currency. British stocks fell, with the main FTSE 100 index shedding 0.5 per cent on the prospect that credit might tighten earlier than thought.
The minutes show Bank of England policymakers were divided about how much spare capacity remained in the British economy as unemployment has dropped quickly but wage growth remains weak.
McCafferty and Weale argued the Bank of England should act preventively by starting to raise rates before the rapid decrease in unemployment spurs demands for higher wages, the minutes show. Britain's unemployment rate dropped to 6.5 per cent in May from 7.2 per cent at the end of 2013 as economic growth has accelerated to its fastest pace since 2007.
According to the minutes, the two dissenters argued that "even after a rise of 25 basis points in Bank Rate, monetary policy would remain extremely supportive". Acting early would allow the Bank of England to move gradually, they said.
The other seven members of the committee said there wasn't enough evidence of rising inflation or wages to justify an immediate rate increase. In fact, inflation fell back to 1.6 per cent in July after rising to 1.9 per cent in June. The monetary policy committee forecasts that inflation will remain slightly below the central bank's 2 per cent target for the next two years, according to the minutes.
The members who sought to keep rates on hold also noted that a premature interest rate increase might threaten the economy's recovery following Britain's worst recession since the 1930s.


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TAMPA – There was Victor Hedman, again, the Tampa Bay defenseman who threw one of the two hits that eventually sidelined Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby indefinitely earlier this season with a concussion.
The second-year bulky blueliner headed toward the half-wall, where Patrice Bergeron was playing the puck with his back to the Lightning defender. The ensuing hit wasn't a hit from behind, but it was close and it made a large crack that made anyone with any feelings for Bergeron gulp.
Boston's veteran center, playing his first game since his latest concussion May 6, skated away from the hit without any sign that he'd missed any time lately with an injury. More important, he was confident that he could withstand the check and still be one of the Bruins' best forwards.
"I wasn't worried," said Bergeron after he won 64 percent of his faceoffs to help the Bruins take Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final from the Lightning, 2-0.
"Like I say, I was confident. I was ready. I was back 100 percent. And when you're like that in your mind, you know you're fine. I wasn't really worried about that first hit. I knew I was going to be all right."
Head coach Claude Julien, whose Bruins now lead the series 2-1, said after the game that if there had been any concerns about Bergeron taking contact, he wouldn't have played. The Bruins have gone down a bumpy road with star center Marc Savard, who came back too early last spring, and is out indefinitely after a second concussion in as many seasons.
Bergeron could've been excused if he had just said 'why me' and gone about his life without hockey for the rest of this year. His most-recent concussion, which was the result of a Claude Giroux hit, was his third in four seasons.
"You know what? From my experience, I tried to take it a day at a time. I didn't want to put pressure on myself," said Bergeron about working his way back this season rather than shutting himself down. "When you do that, it can make it worse. So obviously I was confident. I knew it was mild, and I felt good.
"But we didn't want to take any chances, any risk. And I felt like today was — I felt good.
I was confident that I was ready, and the doctors and trainers were in the same boat as me. So it was time for me to be out there."
The Bruins needed Bergeron at both ends of the rink. They needed him to win draws, play tight defense and lift his linemates Brad Marchand and Mark Recchi, who'd struggled in this series without their alternate captain.
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If you ask a woman to describe herself she might tell you anything from her family status to her military service to her dietary preferences. One of the very last in a long line of answers would be that she is also homeless.
Through hundreds of conversations with homeless women as part of a five-year study, Sociology Professor Susan Sered saw that few homeless women actually describe themselves as such. These women view homelessness as the situation they're in, not who they are, Sered says.
As part of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month, Sered was invited by Suffolk's Center for Community Engagement to speak on homelessness among women in Boston. In her lecture, "The Hidden Homeless Women of Boston," she presented her research findings and shared the stories of some of the homeless women she's worked with over the course of her study.
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From their life stories, Sered discovered the challenges of addressing homelessness among Boston's women. One major problem, she explains, is that these women are invisible.
Most of these homeless women do not live in shelters or on streets, so there is no real way of knowing how many there are. Many use whatever networks they have and sleep couch to couch with friends or relatives.
And while it is good that they are able to find such support, Sered says that there is a downside as well.
"If you can't count them, you can't adequately supply services for them," she says. This means they are even less protected than other homeless women who already face higher rates of assault and battery.
And while the winter months bring homelessness to the forefront, Sered, who also has served as senior research associate for Suffolk University's Center for Women's Health and Human Rights, always has been interested in women's issues.
Sered explains that her work does not solely focus on homelessness but on the disenfranchisement of women through which homelessness becomes a concern.
Health care a piece of the puzzle
But what inspired her continued interest in homelessness among women is a past study she conducted and co-authored as the book Uninsured in America.
The study examined the consequences of inaccessible and inadequate health care. Poor health care leads to poor health and unemployability, which opens the gate for addiction and mental health issues.
Sered asked herself, "What happens next? What breaks this cycle?" What she found was a harsh reality. "What's next is homelessness and incarceration," she says.
Gulf between rich and poor
With today's economy in a less than ideal state, it is easier for people to lose secure housing.
"There really has been a sharp divide between wealthy class and the poor … The traditional working class has disappeared," she says.
And homelessness is now more a matter of difficult life situations converging. From there it only grows harder to find one's footing and regain stability.
"Being homeless is not a character trait, your personality trait, your diagnosis," says Sered. "I think the way to keep it in the public consciousness is to change the public face of homelessness."


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... that it's an election? As in, the thing I said?
I heard some religious guys on some program say some other religious guys said this is going to be the last pope & he is eventually going to turn into the antipope/antichrist. Bummer. The end is near. I wish I remembered the name of those guys. Fricken migraines.
Quote from: stuffin on April 06, 2013, 08:27:12 AMThen what are the reasons god hasn't graced humankind in over 2000 years? (Why must we rely on faulty humans 2000 years displaced from the actual Christ to make such enormous decisions?)Catholics believe that God revealed Himself to us in stages, and that the final revelation came with Jesus.We do believe that God continues to be a presence in our world (most notably through the Holy Spirit), but not in the direct way seen throughout the Bible.
Then what are the reasons god hasn't graced humankind in over 2000 years? (Why must we rely on faulty humans 2000 years displaced from the actual Christ to make such enormous decisions?)
No shit, Mooby. That is my position as well - it is just an election. But we were talking about how holy spirits affect the outcome of the election, because all the elderly virgins in dresses were talking about how the holy spirits would be guiding them. I was wondering why, if the holy spirits were in fact guiding these elderly virgins, they did not come to a unanimous vote. My conclusion is the holy spirits, if real, don't do shit. I was asking your conclusion on the matter.It's as if you are trying to miss the point.
So god is done revealing himself to us and he no longer is a direct presence in the world except through the Holy Spirit. Slam dunk for Catholics there:1- God does not have to reveal himself anymore cause the final revelation was his son (who we crucified over 200 years ago).2- And God no longer affects the world directly but influences it through the Holy Spirit (Ghost). In stuffin summary; God doesn't have to show his face and uses a undetectable spirit to prove his presence. Seems quite convenient for proving, without having to prove, your god is the real god of the world.
"I'm doing science and I'm still alive."--J.C.
"The entire Church, united with us in prayer, asks for the grace of the Holy Spirit at this moment so that we elect a worthy shepherd for the entire flock of Christ," a cardinal said in Latin as the procession began.
"It is the way of ensuring that the voice speaking to the cardinals during the conclave belongs to the Holy Spirit and no one else," the Rev. John Wauck, ABC News Vatican consultant, said.
"You could just sense that this was in God's hands — even though that didn't absolve us of the responsibility and hard work that we needed to do — it was very evident."
I believe the Holy Spirit makes clear which way we should go. And we went that way very quickly."..."There are surprises. That's a sign of the Holy Spirit, I think."
"The whole church, united with us in prayer, insistently invokes the grace of the Holy Spirit so that a worthy pastor for the whole flock of Christ would be elected by us."
"I would not say so, in the sense that the Holy Spirit picks out the Pope…I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus the Spirit's role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, not that he dictates the candidate for whom one must vote. Probably the only assurance he offers is that the thing cannot be totally ruined."
I don't know too much about the inner workings because they are not publicized,
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Why might that be? What would be so bad about openness? Transparency? I'm not suggesting democracy - God hates democracy. I'm not even suggesting "Operation Enduring Freedom II" for regime change, though North Korea seems a beacon of advanced liberty compared with the Vatican - The Vatican is filled with secrets. What's the matter with the inhabitants?
So it appears the news outlets are generally agreeing with my comments in Replies #20/34, where I speculated that the Holy Spirit plays some role but doesn't directly dictate the results?
The pope came down against the nuns in the USA that wanted to focus on the poor and not social issues like gay marriage and abortion. Looks like the honeymoon might be over.


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Neil A. ArmstrongNASA Astronaut (deceased)
Born on August 5, 1930, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Married. Two sons. Died on August
25, 2012.
Armstrong was a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. He served as a member of
the National Commission on Space (1985 to 1986), as Vice-Chairman of the
Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (1986) and as
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Peace Corps (1971 to
Armstrong was decorated by 17 countries. He was the
recipient of many special honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the Congressional Gold Medal, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, the
Explorers Club Medal, the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, the NASA
Distinguished Service Medal, the Harmon International Aviation Trophy, the Royal
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Gold Space Medal, the American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award,
the Robert J. Collier Trophy, the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA) Astronautics Award, the Octave Chanute Award and the John J.
Montgomery Award.
He was Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the
University of Cincinnati between 1971 and 1979. During the years 1982 to 1992,
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Charlottesville, Virginia.
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vehicles in space.
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lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man
to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface.
Armstrong subsequently held the position of Deputy
Associate Administrator for Aeronautics, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. In
this position, he was responsible for the coordination and management of overall
NASA research and technology work related to aeronautics.
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SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. – Division Director Tim McDonald announced his retirement from the Snohomish Health District, effective March 29. The Vietnam veteran was also a long-time veteran of local public health, serving communities for 36 years in Washington state. He came to the local Health District in 2008.
As the Director of Communicable Disease Control Division, McDonald was responsible for a budget of more than $5.6 million, and approximately 53 staff supporting emergency preparedness, communicable disease surveillance and response, HIV/STD prevention, tuberculosis control, refugee screening, immunizations, and viral hepatitis outreach and prevention.
After receiving his undergraduate degree in Microbiology and Masters of Public Health at the University of Washington, McDonald served in a variety of environmental health positions, including stints with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle in its Water Quality Division. In 1987 he became Island County's Health Services Director, and subsequently their Environmental Health Director.
McDonald's memberships and professional associations include the American Public Health Association, Washington State Public Health Association, National Environmental Health Association and Washington State Environmental Association. He participates in the Opportunity Council, a private non-profit community action agency serving homeless and low-income families and individuals throughout the counties of Island, Whatcom and San Juan. He is a past president and former board member of the Washington State Association of Local Public Health Officials, served as co-chair of the Washington State Public Health Improvement Plan Finance Committee, and is past chair of the National Association of County and City Health Officials' Community Environmental Health Assessment Steering Committee.
"Tim McDonald's strong leadership helped our whole agency get through difficult times," said Dr. Gary Goldbaum, Health Officer and Director of the local public health agency. "Tim rallied his staff to meet the challenges of the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, and the more recent local epidemic of whooping cough."
McDonald and his wife Laura built their retirement home near Coupeville on Whidbey Island.
"Snohomish County's loss will be Island County's gain," said Dr. Goldbaum.
Established in 1959, the Snohomish Health District works for a safer and healthier Snohomish County through disease prevention, health promotion, and protection from environmental threats. Find more information about the Health Board and the Health District at http://www.snohd.org.
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Tree kangaroo
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Common Name
Tree kangaroo
Scientific Name
genus: Dendrolagus
Least concern to critically endangered
How many?
There are 14 different species
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Length: 41-77cm
Tail length: 40-87cm
Weight: up to 14.5kg
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Tree kangaroos have suffered from loss of habitat, and many species have suffered severe reductions in their range. The Wondiwoi tree kangaroo is critically endangered (possibly extinct) with as few as 50 individuals remaining. Similarly, the critically endangered dingiso has suffered a population decline in excess of 80% over the last 30 years.
Living in the trees, the tree kangaroo eats mostly leaves and fruit, although they will also collect fruit that has fallen to the ground. The animals will also eat other items such as grains, flowers, sap, eggs, young birds, and even bark.
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Tree kangaroos have been hunted for food by indigenous communities across their range. For a number of species, this factor alone has contributed to a sharp decline in population numbers.
Habitat loss and degradation means that many species now inhabit a restricted range. Habitat has been removed for logging and timber production, or converted to coffee, rice or wheat production. This loss of habitat can also expose tree kangaroos to predation by domestic dogs.
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The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure
by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
From the team behind The Book of General Ignorance turns conventional biography on its head and shakes out the good stuff; following their Herculean—or is it Sisyphean?—efforts to save the living from ignorance. The two wittiest Johns in the English language turn their attention to the dead.
Here, then, is a dictionary of the dead, an encyclopedia of the embalmed. Ludicrous in scope, whimsical in its arrangement, this wildly entertaining tome presents pithy and provocative biographies of the no-longer-living from the famous to the undeservedly and—until now—permanently obscure.
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Influential Conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner is known for his language-based sculpture and works pursuing inquiries into language and a radical redefinition of the artist/viewer relationship. In pieces like A Square Removal From a Rug in Use (1969) or Encased By + Reduced to Rust (1986), the value exists in the idea itself, as expressed in words. Considering language to be a sculptural material and believing that a construction in language can function as sculpture as adequately as a fabricated object, Weiner's works operate beyond the specificity and constraints of traditional presentation, inspiring artists like Barbara Kruger and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
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Several voices cracked with emotion as H.A.L.T.E.R. leaders and community sponsors gathered Saturday to dedicate a covered arena that was six years in the making.
Several voices cracked with emotion as H.A.L.T.E.R. leaders and community sponsors gathered Saturday to dedicate a covered arena that was six years in the making.
When the equine therapy program H.A.L.T.E.R. (Handicapped Athletes Learning To Enjoy Riding) moved to a 23-acre parcel on the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind's campus in 2006, it was a time of celebration and big dreams for the group, said Fern Powell, president of the board of trustees. Plans were drawn up for an indoor arena with attached stalls, offices and classroom space.
Then the economy began to crumble, and the project was postponed.
As the program grew from having classes two days a week to six, handling 85 riders weekly and more than 250 annually, the need for facility improvements was pressing. Plans were scaled back to a more manageable arena, and on Saturday afternoon, H.A.L.T.E.R. celebrated the successful construction of a debt-free, open-sided, covered arena on the group's 25th anniversary, Powell said.
"Now our horses and riders won't be enduring blazing sun, cold rain and hazardous weather," she said.
Many community donations funded the arena. Large sponsors included the Mary Black Foundation, Spartanburg Regional Foundation and the Callie and John Rainey Foundation.
Mike Hollifield, executive director of H.A.L.T.E.R., said the covered arena will enhance the consistency of the equine therapy program and increase the benefit to participants.
Horseback riding is proven to increase dexterity, strength and balance in those struggling with disabilities, H.A.L.T.E.R. leaders said. It is also said to increase self-confidence and personal outlook.
"They learn things about horses, but they learn more about themselves," Hollifield said. "They come out here and they wear those big old smiles every time."
Jamie Hodge, representing the Spartanburg Regional Foundation, said that, like many groups, the organization gets more grant requests than it can fund every year. He said the decision was made to invest in the arena because of its "long-range, far-reaching impact for the health of Spartanburg County."
Several people at Saturday's dedication ceremony credited Hollifield's leadership and perseverance for the construction of the arena, despite the setbacks. The arena was named for Hollifield in light of his dedication.
"He has never let up on this vision," said Molly Talbot-Metz, interim president of the Mary Black Foundation.
Saturday was a celebration of overcoming obstacles to reach success, but Powell and Hollifield said they aren't resting on their laurels. Phases two and three for the arena project are already being considered to add on some of the features that were cut from phase one for cost feasibility.
"I truly hope we can soon build that classroom space, stalls and indoor bathroom with hot water," Powell said.
Information for donating to H.A.L.T.E.R. is on the group's website at www.handicappedathletes.org.
The group is also always looking for volunteers, Powell said. Providing equine therapy is labor intensive and requires a lot of patient people, but it's worth it to see the smiles of the participants, she said.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents (the Panel) is accepting nominations for new scientific/clinical members with expertise in HIV medicine. The Panel is seeking candidates with expertise in HIV clinical care and research who can critically evaluate new information and help prepare guideline revisions. Candidates for Panel membership shall be recognized experts in their areas of interest, with outstanding records of publication and presentation. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, those from underrepresented geographic areas, and women are strongly encouraged to apply.
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The numbered blueprint sheets and index that make up this collection offer a detailed depiction of the Swift River Valley towns at the time the state government was seizing land for the Quabbin Reservoir. Apparently surveyed between 1932 and 1938, the maps were prepared by the Metropolitan District Commission of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a Quabbin Reservoir Real Estate Survey in 1959 and then revised in 1972.
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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 4 September 2012—OCLC and Europeana, the provider of Europe's digital library, have worked together on an approach that will enable OCLC member institutions to contribute metadata derived from OCLC's WorldCat database to the Europeana.eu portal in a manner that is consistent with OCLC's WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative.
This agreement aims to dispel concerns that OCLC's policies around metadata in its WorldCat database are an obstacle to complying with the terms of the Europeana Data Exchange Agreement (DEA), which places all metadata contributed to Europeana.eu in the public domain, using the Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication license. While OCLC makes no intellectual property claims to individual metadata records in WorldCat, it asserts a copyright claim over the WorldCat database as a whole—which created uncertainty over contributions to Europeana.eu by members of the cooperative. Nevertheless, OCLC wishes to support participation in Europeana by its member libraries given the significance of Europeana.
In response to these concerns, OCLC requested and Europeana agreed to ask subsequent users of the metadata to give attribution to both OCLC and to the contributing institution as the source, and to make them aware of the OCLC cooperative's community norms around data. This attribution and awareness are consistent with the expectations that OCLC member institutions have of one another with respect to data use. It is also consistent with Europeana's Usage Guidelines for Metadata, particularly the principle of "giving credit where credit is due."
"Many libraries and cultural heritage institutions have benefited from having their collections exposed through OCLC's services and specifically, through WorldCat. We are very pleased that with this understanding we can encourage libraries to participate in the Europeana.eu effort with confidence that the cooperative's values are being recognised," said Eric van Lubeek, Managing Director, OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa.
"Coming to this understanding is significant because it facilitates library contribution and ensures that the important heritage objects that have been digitised, and which The European Library aggregates for Europeana can be discovered and accessed," said Jill Cousins, Executive Director. "We have always thought it was important to encourage attribution to heritage institutions and we are glad to extend that same encouragement to metadata derived from WorldCat."
OCLC will continue to publicize its cooperative norms and provide advice and support to members of the cooperative who contribute metadata, while Europeana will actively encourage re-users of the metadata to uphold the aforementioned Usage Guidelines for Metadata.
"This understanding is timely," said Elisabeth Niggemann, the Director General of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, former chair of the Europeana Foundation and a current member of the OCLC Board of Trustees. "It gives clear encouragement to European libraries to participate and is evidence that OCLC is a supportive partner in the global library community."
Europeana is Europe's digital library, archive and museum. It currently gives people access to over 20 million books, paintings, films, recordings, photographs and archival records from 2,200 partner organisations, through an interface in 29 languages. Learn more about the technical projects, partners and background to Europeana: www.pro.europeana.eu. To explore Europe's cultural collections, visit: www.europeana.eu/portal/.
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The decorated pumpkins in the contest Sunday, Oct. 27, in Nipper Park have been taken to Hannibal City Hall to be on display until after Halloween.
The decorated pumpkins in the contest Sunday, Oct. 27, in Nipper Park have been taken to Hannibal City Hall to be on display until after Halloween.
Prizes - donated by SC Contact Centers - were awarded in three categories: scariest, most original and best traditional, in both the youth (age 12 and under) and adult (13 and older) divisions in this Hannibal Parks & Recreation Department event.
The pumpkins were to be decorated but not carved or hollowed out.
Among the most creative - and timely - was a pumpkin painted as a baseball, with the St. Louis Cardinals playing in the World Series later on Sunday.
Nathan Thompson, 4, had painted his pumpkin green and added colorful fangs. His 2-year-old sister, Becca Thompson, had a pretty pumpkin with a fancy net hairdo.
Andrew Clark was proud of the white ghost pumpkin and the green witch pumpkin he and his mother had decorated.
Faith Watkins, 4, brought a witch pumpkin with candy corn teeth. Her sister, 10-year-old Emma Watkins, had decorated her pumpkin with candy corn and a round candy nose.
Another pumpkin had a white ghost face made with miniature marshmallows.
Jorie Thompson, 7, displayed her "lady" pumpkin with a purple skirt and fancy pink hairdo.
The winners were chosen by a vote of the people attending the "Pumpkin Path" contest Sunday in Nipper Park.
Tom and Becky, aka Keaton Bartz and Shelbie Mays, were on hand to award the prizes.
Winners of the youth division were:
• Scariest - Luke Koenig, first place; and Andrew Clark, second.
• Most original - Andrea Altiser, first; and Zion Pratt, second.
• Best traditional - Andrew Clark, first; and Faith Watkins, second.
Adult division winners were:
• Scariest - Denise Altiser, first; and Breonna Bunch, second.
• Most original - Lisa Bunch, first; and Breonna Bunch, second.
• Best traditional - Breonna Bunch, first; and Celia Thompson, second.
After the pumpkins have been displayed in the hallway at City Hall, they will be picked up by the owners after Halloween.


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Is the kernel src modified when unloaded?
I have posted a little How-to concerning the devx and kernel src sfs's at:
. It relates to Puppy 5.2.8 in a full HD installation. In the text I mentioned that when the kernel src sfs is unloaded and later reloaded, any work done to prepare the source tree for compiling will need to be done again. My assumption was that the kernel src sfs file remains in its original state and a reload would yield exactly the same data in memory as any previous load. In the How-to I am using Shinobar's excellent SFS Load-on-the-fly utility. Is the assumption correct or is the kernel src sfs rewritten with data from the unloading operation?
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Hi Hotdog,
I don't run a full installation, and until I read your post I did not even realize that SFS-Load-on-the-fly could unload an .sfs from a full installation. (That's cool that it can do that.) So I'm certainly no expert in this department. But seeing as you've had no response to your post in three days, I'll give it a shot. But be forewarned that I'm just making my best guess.
In order to uninstall the .sfs file it would seem like SFS-Load-on-the-fly must keep a list somewhere of the files it previously installed. Looking at
sfs_load-1.9.6 on-the-fly
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shinobar wrote:
The pseudo-PET is listed on the Puppy Package Manager and can uninstall both from the sfs_load and from the PPM.
(Actually, the sfs_load calls the PPM as for uninstallation.)
So, yes, there is a list since the PPM is actually doing the uninstallation, and the PPM uses a list. (The list would be in the /root/.packages/ directory and would have a ".files" filename extension.)
So my guess is that if "any work done to prepare the source tree for compiling" creates some new files or directories, those will not be uninstalled. You could verify that by looking to see if any such files or directories remain on your filesystem after the .sfs is uninstalled.
Does this mean
"work done to prepare the source tree for compiling" will be saved? Probably not, since existing files may also have been edited, and those will be removed when the .sfs is unloaded.
Sorry that I'm only able to provide a guess here, but perhaps this will shed some light.
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Thanks for the reply. You are correct, any files created or modified outside the kernel src SFS do remain. I have tested whether the original SFS gets rewritten by 1-Loading the SFS, 2-Renaming the SFS then 3-Doing the unload. The SFS is not rewritten. However, after doing that little test there are files left in the source tree that do not usually remain after an unload. So, my understanding still is unclear.
Until some one can explain otherwise, I am going to maintain the position in the How-to that says if the kernel src SFS is unloaded and subsequently reloaded then the source tree prep work should be redone. I spent many days getting the devx and kernel src working properly and I just want to help others avoid that turmoil and possibly giving up altogether.
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You're welcome.
Good test -- it looks like you have made it clear that the .sfs doesn't get rewritten. I can't explain the mystery of the additional files that remained.
Hotdog wrote:
Until some one can explain otherwise, I am going to maintain the position in the How-to that says if the kernel src SFS is unloaded and subsequently reloaded then the source tree prep work should be redone.
Yes, I would agree that that is best. Although some work may be saved in the newly created files, it would be hard to predict what exactly is and is not saved -- best to redo from the beginning.
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Along the same lines, if I add a module to the kernel using "insmod name-of-module", how is it retained for the next boot of puppy and loading of the kernel?
Does one have to add the module every time one boots or is it added by another process on subsequent boots.
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Hello 8-bit,
Adding a kernel module via insmod persists only for the currently booted session. In Puppy 5.2.8 added modules can be included in subsequent boot-ups by doing
Menu -> System -> BootManager configure bootup
and choosing the additional modules to be included. This same method can be used to prevent modules from loading. Another way to have it added on bootup is to put the insmod command in
Also, the kernel could be compiled with the added module.
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GREENWICH, Conn. -- The YMCA of Greenwich honored Frank A. Corvino, president and CEO of Greenwich Hospital, at its "Set Sail Destination Havana 1940" gala on Saturday, March 1, at the Delamar Hotel.
At the sold-out gala, more than 300 guests traveled back in time to an era of sophistication and enjoyed a light dinner, cocktails and a silent auction, as well as dancing and entertainment. The cuisine had a distinctly Cuban flair and the décor was reminiscent of 1940s Havana.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the YMCA's scholarships for the day-care, after-school and summer camp programs, as well as ensuring that the Y can continue to provide programs and membership for the entire community.
"I am honored to receive this award from the YMCA of Greenwich," Corvino said in accepting the YMCA of Greenwich's honor.
"They are a pillar of our Greenwich Community. We believe strongly in their mission of healthy living for the body and soul. In fact, with the cost of healthcare going up we would much rather see all of you at the YMCA working out and getting healthy through exercise, then at the hospital."
Corvino was presented with a plaque in recognition of his efforts to advance healthy living in the Greenwich community and his service to the community by James Cabrera, chairman of the board of the YMCA.
"In the 26 years that Frank has been at Greenwich Hospital he has developed a first class medical facility that has earned a national reputation for outstanding patient care," Cabrera said in presenting the award.
"Nobody embodies the YMCA philosophy of excellence in healthy living better than Frank. We are proud to honor him."


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Some three years ago, when "The Social Network" director David Fincher and executive producer Kevin Spacey took a pizza break across the street from the West Hollywood lot where the picture was shooting, Spacey mentioned a BBC series about political machinations called "House of Cards." "Do you know this series from Britain?" Spacey recalls asking. "Do you think it would be interesting to maybe adapt it?"
Sitting in shorts, sneakers and a pinstriped shirt on the patio of the Beverly Hills Hotel's Polo Lounge recently, awaiting the arrival of Robin Wright, his acting partner in the resultant Netflix series about scheming Washington insiders, Spacey recalls just how long the odds were. Even boasting two Oscar wins, as Spacey has, and two nominations, as Fincher has, didn't necessarily qualify them for the intriguing hybrid of TV, film and Web content they would propose. And they also wanted full creative freedom, with no demands for a pilot.
"House of Cards": An article in the May 30 Envelope section about "House of Cards" quoted actor Kevin Spacey as saying he pitched the idea for the series to director David Fincher. In fact, Spacey was relating how Fincher pitched the idea to him.
Given that Spacey, Wright et al. are currently very much in the Emmy Awards forecast, it now seems only too simple for Netflix to have decided to buy into the idea for a series of 13 one-hour episodes — available to stream to subscribers all in one batch — as a pricey, ongoing event to build both prestige and traffic. Alone among potential buyers, Netflix met what producer-writer Beau Willimon calls "a big ask" and, in fact, offered two full seasons of big-budgeted hours.
The prestige motive was fulfilled immediately on Feb. 1 with the series premiere. Among many admirers of the opening two episodes, directed by Fincher, was Times television critic Mary McNamara, who found that the scripts' "long melodic runs of silky and sadistic political diplomacy" nicely set up Spacey and Wright's "marriage of equals, based in love — inexplicable and at times disturbing but undeniable and fascinating." (As for a gain in traffic to the site, that's far less transparent, with Netflix withholding numbers other than asserting the initial run set a new global mark for such viewings.)
The team agreed their priority in adapting the BBC series was to tee up more scenes featuring Wright as the ambitious, steely wife Claire, who runs a charity but also works behind the scenes helping Democratic Majority Whip Francis Underwood climb the greasy pole of Washington power. "We were pretty determined when we started to improve that role, so that she actually becomes a real partner," Spacey says.
Even as he speaks, Wright arrives, her dressed-down T-shirt the first signal of how different she might be from the elegant clotheshorse Claire. They've just done a photo shoot and reconvene now with fond ease, enjoying each other's company. In contrast to the nearly giddy malevolence their characters share, he's affably self-contained, she's alert and zesty.
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When Wright reveals that one improvisational take involved Claire's asserting power by actually kissing costar Kate Mara's scheming journalist character, Spacey digs for details — only to hear the kiss was chaste. But, says Wright agreeably, "I wanted to rip her top off."
The on-screen couple's agendas and emotional loyalty may at times go askew, Wright notes, "and yet they know they have each other's back."
Still, there's a lonely singularity about them. "They don't seem to have friends," says Spacey, "just colleagues and people they need for building the enterprise."
Spacey speaks glowingly of a coffee-shop scene in which Wright has just fired a colleague, then painfully watches an inept, look-alike barista. The colleague got booted, says Wright, "because in their empire, they can't afford a deficit. I may like you, but, I'm sorry, you have to go. And that's where the humanity comes out."
Spacey adds that Wright wordlessly lets us see that "she's been hugely affected by this. Even though Claire does things that are very difficult, there are consequences inside that we're allowed to see."
For his own role, a guiding hand can be found in the two pictures Spacey chose to keep in Underwood's office. "And they're both pictures of [Lyndon] Johnson in front of people [Spacey hunches forward aggressively], and people leaning back. Yes, he was ruthless. Yes, he was diabolical. Yes, he was a son of a bitch. But he was remarkably effective in a very short presidency. He got three civil rights bills passed."
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As much as the series shifted in its American version, the team chose to keep the tactic of having Underwood directly address the audience. "I try to think of the direct address as my best friend," says Spacey. "It's the person you tell things to that you wouldn't tell your wife."
The series has clicked, Spacey posits, "because we have attacked [politics] in a way that is closer to the truth than you could imagine. I think people inherently understand that. It's one of its attractions that the show is not tame."
Clearly, the Oscar winner isn't pining for the big screen just now. "Over the last couple of years, people stop me on the street and say, 'We miss you in the movies.' I would rather have people miss me in the movies than to have done 10 years of movies I shouldn't have done." And "House of Cards," he notes, does not feel like episodic television. "I have felt that I'm in a really long film."
For Wright, the work brings to mind "a beautiful Japanese proverb that there's no need to think beyond the given — your script is already written. Can we alter it, modify it? Yes. But our script is written. And I believe this was meant to happen right now, at this age. And it's a gift; I'm starting a new life, in a sense."
Spacey gives her a comradely smile, and, wordlessly once again, she tucks her head onto his shoulder for a farewell kiss.


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I am building a new house in Southwest Ohio. I am very pleased with my builder and HVAC contractor. I need to decide between a Bryant Model 340MAV (90% efficiency) and Bryant Model 355MAV-The Plus 90i (96% eff with variable speed). Humidifier and and air conditioner are the same for both models. I am trying to determine what's best for me -- reliability and comfort for the cost difference -- $2300 will buy some nice wine! I will be buying two units (one for each floor). I know the manufacturer list price difference, but I would like to know the "real deal". Thanks in advance for your help.
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I don't think this has anything to do with Pet Talk, but every few days it seems I have to sign in all over again. The site remembers my password, and I always check the "remember me" box. I then get 'invalid URL redirect'. I click on Forum and all is well. Facebook also asks me to name the place from where I am accessing it every so often.
It's happened with FaceBook - though that was after I ran Ccleaner and didn't uncheck a certain box.
Any idea why this might be happening?