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BELMOPAN, Cayo District, Wed. Nov. 15, 2017–Substantive Minister in the Ministry of Immigration, Senator Godwin Hulse, appeared today to make his second appearance before the Senate Select Committee tasked with investigating widespread corruption in the Ministry of Immigration.
While in the hot seat, Minister Senator Hulse was grilled about the Guatemalan nationals who received Belizean nationality without properly denouncing their Guatemalan nationality.
Hulse explained the difficulties in the nationalization process involving Guatemalan nationals. He went a step further to claim that those who received their nationality in a flawed fashion should not be allowed to vote in the impending referendum to determine if the longstanding Belize-Guatemala border dispute should be settled at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Here is an excerpt from Hulse's testimony:
Senator Eamon Courtenay: "Are you aware of the requirement of a national of Guatemala who must renounce his or her nationality before taking Belizean nationality? What is the procedure in Belize to satisfy yourself that that has been done lawfully?"
Hulse: "I engaged that issue when I first became the Minister and through the Foreign Ministry there were a lot of back and forth communication with the Foreign Ministry of Guatemala and the process to do this — the now deceased Fred Martinez, at the time ambassador for Belize in Guatemala and CEO Alexis Rosado. There was a point at which it was advised that once the person does the renunciation form and it was lodged at the embassy and the embassy received it together with the passport that that was acceptable as the state having accepted the renunciation of the person. So we proceeded on that basis. Subsequent to that, it was made clear to me by the new ambassador in various discussions that the process was wrong and that in fact while that could be assumed it was not factual because the state of Guatemala, notwithstanding the issues with Belize etcetera, would not allow their citizens to be stateless. And as a consequence if the person renounced before they got the Belizean nationality, in that little period, that hiatus, they would be stateless and they could not accept that. That created a problem because our law says they have to renounce before. So almost chicken and egg. That having happened created a whole new issue. And as I understand it, as of this moment it is unresolved but no new nationalities to Guatemalans by registration are being issued through the Nationality Committee. That is my understanding because of that issue."
Courtenay: "Have you as minister sought officially legal advice from an expert on Guatemalan law as to how a Guatemalan can effectively and lawfully renounce his or her nationality?"
Hulse: "Yes, we have sought it through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to engage their Ministry to get a proper determination of how that process goes. I know for a fact that it can happen because a communiqué was sent to us last year which said that some 62 Guatemalans had renounced their Guatemalan nationalities so it can happen."
Courtenay: "Here we have evidence from Guatemala emanating from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs specifically saying I think that it was 62 or 68 persons had renounced their nationality. If we check how many Guatemalan nationals became Belizeans and it exceeds that number, one, that is clear evidence that something illegal may have happened. Two, you would also have to check to see that the 62 or 68 are on our books and they correspond. Has anything been done?"
Hulse: "No, not to my knowledge."
Courtenay: "Have we requested data on any other years from Guatemala?"
Hulse: "Not to my knowledge."
Courtenay: "Any reasons for this?"
Hulse: "No. It's an exercise to be done but I have not."
Courtenay: "You said that your ministry has followed up with Foreign Affairs seeking advice. Has Foreign Affairs procured, obtained?"
Hulse: "We're still waiting."
Courtenay: "You accept that any Guatemalan who did not effectively and lawfully renounce his or her nationality and became a Belizean is not a true Belizean?"
Hulse: "That would go back from Independence."
Courtenay: "I don't care when, is not a true Belizean. You agree?"
Hulse: "If that is the process and it was not accepted legally, properly contrary to what we understood, then that would be so."
Courtenay: "What is to happen to those persons?"
Hulse: "It's difficult to answer."
Courtenay: "Well. We cannot tolerate a state of illegality and unconstitutionality, stare it in the face and just say we're not going to get the legal advice as to what is to happen."
Hulse: "I agree, Senator, but then that is a discourse that we have to advance through all the legal luminaries, the Cabinet and everybody to determine what is to happen. From where I sit, those persons who would not have qualified but by some misunderstanding or misrepresentation or misinterpretation of the filing of the things were qualified. If that position is reversed then they would have to revert to a status of perhaps permanent residence, perpetually because there is nothing to prevent that, but some determination has to be made. "
Courtenay: "This is a matter that is of serious concern to me. First of a matter of principle but secondly these people, a lot of them, have registered to vote. And do vote. What is your view with respect to Guatemalan nationals or former Guatemalan nationals being allowed to vote in a referendum on the ICJ?"
Hulse: "None at all. They shouldn't."
Courtenay: "You would support a recommendation for an amendment to the law to preclude them from voting in that referendum?"
Hulse: "Absolutely."
On this matter Hulse assured the committee that he will get a legal opinion on the matter before the Senate Select Committee files its reports on the sittings.


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Inglewood, California rapper Mack 10 and Watts' Glasses Malone are putting the finishing touches up on their long-awaited collaborative release. Reportedly called Money Muzik, the January 4, 2011 album will feature the Westside Connection veteran and his onetime protege sharing the microphone.
Before ventures with Cash Money Records and Universal, 2007 DXnext artist Glasses Malone was signed to Mack's Hoo Bangin' Records, a historic label that was once home to west coast acts such as MC Eiht, CJ Mac and The Comrades. The details of Money Muzik are slim, but a release date has been announced.
Presently, Malone is on Tech N9ne's Independent Grind Tour. Last year, Mack 10 released Soft White.
HipHopDX will keep you updated.

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Gyulli Kazakbaeva, Mukharram Bikbov, Jost B Jonas, Faizrahmanov Rinat; Prevalence and associated factors of myopia in Russia. The Ufa Eye and Medical Study. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2017;58(8):2373. doi: https://doi.org/.
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To examine the prevalence of myopia in a general population in Russia.
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The Ufa Eye and Medical Study (UEMS) included inhabitants with an age of 40+ years and living in an urban region in the province capital city of Ufa/Bashkortostan and in an rural region in the vicinity of Ufa. The particpants underwent an interview and a detailed ophthalmological examination including refractometry and biometry.
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The study included 721 individuals with a mean age of 60.8 ± 9.9 years (range: 40 to 91 years) who had not undergone cataract surgery. Mean refractive error was +0.40 ± 1.90 diopters (median: 0.75 diopters; range: -11.0 to +5.50 diopters). Myopia defined as refractive error of <-0.50 diopters, <-1.00 diopters, and <-6 diopters was present in 1116 (16.1%), 99 (13.7%) and 8 (1.1%) of the study population. Longer axial length (mean: 23.1±1.27 mm;median:23.0mm;range:19.0-29.3 mm) was associated (multivariate analysis) with younger age (P=0.03; regression corefficient r= -0.09) and higher level of education (P=0.002;r=13). It was not significantly associated with gender (P=0.95), lens pseudoexfoliation (P=0.95), intraocular pressure (P=0.09), presence of diabetes mellitus (P=0.20), and presence of dry eye symptoms (P=0.31).
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Prevalence of myopia was lower in in the South Russian UEMS study population than in populations from East Asia. As in East Asia, longer axial length was correlated with higher educational level and younger age.
This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017.
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Telling The Story Of Your Business Through the Voice of Your Brand.
Written by Laura Prather on April 07, 2018
[Guest post by Karrie Pittman of KerrieBelle Designs. Creative Strategist and Graphic Designer.]
Does the voice of your brand communicate the passion that drives your business? I have asked this question to numerous small businesses and often times get a bit of a blank look. There is a reason this is the first sentence I have on my website.This is exactly what your branding needs to be doing for your business. The job of your branding, first and foremost, is to communicate. Branding is the message that your business screams proudly from the rooftops but it is so much more than just a logo. Great branding is all about developing a complete and strategic plan that tells your story of your business.
Your branding is how you make consumers feel each and every single time they think of your business. And is how you draw potential clients in to learn more and to want to learn more about your product or service. It is how you relate to and become instantly recognizable to your consumers. It is how you make them feel today, how you garner their loyalty and support tomorrow, and for years to come.
So, how do we do all of this in the first few seconds that we have a customers attention? Well, some of it takes a microsecond while other parts take a bit more time. Please don't get me wrong, developing your logo whether, for a personal brand, micro business or corporation is one of the most important steps you will take towards your branding.
Your logo will begin to communicate the voice of your brand with the public instantly. A good logo will do this through the color, shape and font choices, while a bad logo will leave your audience scratching their heads and wondering what your business is all about. There is a science to select each element, so it must be created with care and with your whole branding strategy in mind.
Once you have your logo in place, remember that consistency is key. You need to use repetition across all digital and print platforms. Use the same colors, fonts, and your logo on everything from social media posts to packaging and everything thing in between. Consumers see this as another indication of your level of professionalism. While you might get a little sick of seeing your message day in and day out, your consumers will not.
Another key factor is the actual delivery of your brand message. Consumers want to hear from you, but they want your message to be easy to understand. Don't try to oversell or over explain your business at first. Use your branding to draw them in and then create the opportunity to talk with them about it. Consumers can tell the difference between lip service and the truth. Use your honest emotions and pour that into each experience they have with your brand.
This next one is HUGE. Be truthful even when things don't go perfectly. We have all seen businesses that handle a negative customer with lies or even accusations. This will always blow up in your face and is a sure fire way to create mistrust with your business. Instead, acknowledge the issue and apologize. Make things right for your client and you can turn a negative experience into a positive one. Use real examples of how your product or service helps to fix their problems or simplify their lives. Isn't that what we as consumers are looking for? That is what we as business owners need to do. Show how you partner with each of your customers to make life just a little bit better.
Finally, make your message to be relatable to them. Consumers want to develop a relationship with the businesses they frequent, and relating to them in an earnest and genuine way will keep them coming back to you.
We have just begun to scratch the surface of branding, but this at least gets you pointed in the right direction. So, whether your business growth starts out a little slow or takes off immediately, developing your branding strategy (the voice of your brand) is another tool to help you achieve your goals.


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There can be both benefits and risks with a living trust
A living trust can be a solid addition to a testator's estate plan. But this kind of estate planning tool is not for everyone in Florida, and it's important to understand that this kind of trust offers both advantages and disadvantages. So here is a brief look at some of the benefits and risks of this type of estate planning tool.
One of the benefits of a living trust is that they offer more FDIC protection than a typical bank account. For example, a checking or savings account is only protected up to $250,000 by the FDIC. Typically, many senior citizens have saved up more than that in their account. By keeping more than the protected amount in their account, they face the potential of losing a great deal. But with a living trust, each beneficiary of the trust is insured to $250,000. Therefore, if a testator names five beneficiaries to the trust, the FDIC value of the trust is $1,250,000.
Living revocable trusts are estate planning tools that typically do not go through the probate process. This is a tremendous help for the beneficiaries of the trust, since what is in the trust will not be publically disclosed. However, there is one situation when the contents of a trust could be disclosed. That could occur if one of the heirs of an estate takes the estate to court, then all of the contents of the estate may become part of the court record, which then means that it's possible for the public to find out about the trust.
It's also important to remember that a trust is not a replacement for a will. However, any Florida resident who is considering opening up a living trust may want to speak to an estate planning attorney in order to determine if this type of financial tool can be beneficial to them.
Source: bankrate.com, "6 surprising facts about a living revocable trust", Judy Martel, Accessed June 6, 2016


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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Last year's reading
The Hope by Herman Wouk
The Last Jihad by Joel Rosenberg
Just Walk Across the Room by Bill Hybles
Simple Church by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
Developing the Leader Within You by John Maxwell
The Last Days by Joel Rosenberg
Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
The Copper Scroll by Joel Rosenberg
The Ezekiel Option by Joel Rosenberg
Epicenter by Joel Rosenberg
Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren
Night by Elie Wiesel
Be a People Person by John Maxwell
A Theological Miscellany by T.J. McTavish
Visioneering by Andy Stanley
The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges
The Fight for Jerusalem by Dore Gold
Point Man by Steve Farrar
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
The Externally Focused church by Rick Rusaw
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Breakout Churches by Thom Rainer
Clearing the Bases by Mike Schmidt
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Reveal: Where Are You? by Greg Hawkins and Cally Parkinson
Made to Stick by Chip heath and Dan Heath
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
A Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
I try to read a variety of books. Looking over the 31 titles that make up the list, I find 7 works of fiction and 24 non-fiction. Three are biographies. Eleven are either personal spiritual formation texts or somehow related to helping me "do church better." In 2007 I devoted a considerable amount of reading to books with a Middle Eastern theme. The best of these, by far, was Friedman's book, From Beirut to Jerusalem.
Without question, the best book I read in 2007 was Atkinson's follow-up to his Pulitzer winning book, An Army at Dawn (a 2006 read). His latest installment in the Liberation Trilogy has me panting for the final volume in that series. What a massive and fulfilling read.
What did you read in 2007? What are you looking forward to reading in 2008?
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Man you read a lot of books. I only read 2 in 2007....and that's 2more than usual.
I read Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace Revisited and Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.
Kokomo, IN
- Soren said...
Books read in 2007
360 Degree Leadership by Michael Quicke
360 Degree Preaching by Michael Quicke
the Big Idea by Dave Ferguson
Building Leaders by Aubrey Malphurs
Confessions of a Pastor by Craig Groeschel
Culture Shift by Wayne Cordeiro
the Emerging Church by Dan Kimball
Free Refill by Carson Pue
Just Walk Across the Room by Bill Hybels
Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches
Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
Making Sense of Church by Spencer Burke
No More Christian Nice Guy by Paul Coughlin
Radical Reformission by Mark Driscoll
Simple Church by Thom Ranier
Six Battles Every Man Must Win by Bill Perkins
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
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On the list for 2008
Jim & Casper Go to CHurch
The Way of the Wild at Heart
Eat This Book
The Jesus Way
- Soren said...
I noticed that you left "Your Best Life Now" off your last. Come on Frank! Your secret is safe with us.
- Frank Weller said...
On my list for 2008:
The Jesus Way by Peterson
Making Room for Life by Frazee
They Smell Like Sheep by Anderson
Several miscellaneous history titles
Your Best Mullet Now by Noel Roasteen


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Peg Nocciolino's illustration, "Angel in Waiting" of Morran for the book project was selected as a winner in the 2012 Applied Arts Photography and Illustration Awards in the category of Public Service/Charity Illustration! Congratulations Peg!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Morran as an angel
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That's amazing! Congratulations to Peg! What a fantastic piece :)
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Today I'm sharing Week 6, not week 7, of Project Life. Apparently, I've been too excitamated about this project and I got ahead of myself. I changed the 7 to a 6 but didn't think it was worth taking another picture so.. just think week 6!
I added some pictures from my Weekend Snapshots because why not, right? I also added a second page with some stickers by BasicGrey. Follow the link below to check it out. :)
This week I stuck with a greenish-turquoise color as the main color. I used my Silhouette Portrait for the first time in months by cutting out week "7" in white and gluing it to the flowery card. I thought it matched the main color well plus added some additional colors. Note to self: Use Silhouette mucho mas!
I added a quote from my timehop last year that really stuck with me. I also printed it out and put it on my cork board above my work station. Positive words are great when you're stuck in a rut. I'm sure you noticed the tree on my journaling.. that's cause you don't need to know allladat! LOL!
I wanted to add the photos from the event I attended but I wasn't going to have enough room. I opened up the SELPHY Photo Editor on my laptop and created a collage of pictures. Not the best collage, but it works for me!
Eventually, I did run out of room and because I didn't want to mess up the rotation.. I just added another page with pretty paper. I searched my pretty paper stash for something that would match the theme. Once I found it, I cut it to the size I wanted and added the smaller printed photos. I've been hoarding these awesome Attach Me Stickers by BasicGrey and finally got the chance to use them. For a minute there I thought I had lost them. Whew! I found red, blue and black on Amazon but I'm sure you can find clear ones somewhere.
What is Project Life? Project Life is a memory-keeping system created by Becky Higgins. You use pictures with some journaling for each week of the year for an entire year. This is my second year (does last year even count?) doing PL & I'm excited to follow through.. I organize my PL journaling cards by size, 3x4 or 6x4, not by who makes them. I do all my paper crafting goodies this way. Because of this, I won't be able to break each item down to the brand. But if I remember, I remember, haha!
For more of my PL pictures, visit my flickr page.
For more ideas on PL, visit my Pinterest board dedicated to PL.


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Iron Braydz got tagged in by Dubbledge. Find out who gets tagged in next….
All posts for the month August, 2012
"FGR (First Generation Rich)" is a cut off Skyzoo's mixtape, "Theo VS JJ (Dreams vs. Reality)," which dropped Wednesday, available for download for only $4.99 on iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/theo-vs.-j.j.-dreams-vs.-reality/id556094485
Skyzoo's "Theo VS JJ (Dreams vs. Reality)" is a prelude to Skyzoo's upcoming album "A Dream Deferred," out October 2 on The Faculty / Duck Down Music Inc.
Song produced by Jahlil Beats. Video directed by Pacool for Chancleta Films.
"Slash Gordan" is the lead single off Murs & Fashawn's upcoming album 'This Generation,' out 25th September on Duck Down Music.
Fans can pre-order the album today at iTunes: http://bit.ly/PndXB6
"Slash Gordan" single for sale at iTunes: http://bit.ly/NvCGHC
Directed by Todd Angkasuwan | Song Produced by Beatnick & K-Salaam
Man Bites Dog Records present Copywrite's "Ghost in the Machine" Official Music Video off of the album God Save the King the Proper English Version. The Song features rising UK artist Context and is produced by Jason Rose.
Directed by John Hendrickse & Sean Grevencamp DOP: Spaceship 'Despa' Robinson (UK) & Sean Grevencamp (USA)Editor: John HendrickseColourist: John Hendrickse
Buy a Digital Copy of the album here http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/god-save-king-proper-english/id543173043
Latest Baron Samedi video taken from his forthcoming EP Ghost Network 3. Track produced by Baron Samedi. Video shot by Hari Datta, and edited by Baron Samedi.
Ghost Network Vol. 1 & 2 still available on free D/L from http://baronsamedi.bandcamp.com/
Public Enemy Harder Than You Think Featuring the Paralympic Athletes. Get Harder Than You Think (UK Edit) at iTunes: http://j.mp/RscJDQ
Produced by: Gary G-Wiz
Written by: Chuck D & Gary G-Wiz
Original 'Harder Than You Think' video Directed by: David C. Snyder
Original 'Meet The Superhumans' commercial Directed by: Tom Tagholm
'Harder Than You Think UK Paralympics' Version edited by: David C. Snyder
'H.I.Y.W' is the debut solo single taken from Carasel's forthcoming album 'Progression'. Laying down the marker with a strong statement of intent and a stern message. 'Hate If You Want'.
Produced by Bristol tastemaker Blacksmith, this brand new anthem drops hard as Carasel effortlessly rides the beat breaking down the message for any doubters. This is the first track to be taken from the album and is already being championed by some of the UK's biggest deejays. With remixes to come from Ambush family member N3GUS, Hospital Records recording artist DJ Stanza and Birmingham's Gold providing an old skool 2-Step UK Garage banger this is one serious release you don't want to sleep on. Carasel has also recently received BBC1Xtra support from DJ Bailey who has championed the track 'Coming Home' which features Dynamite MC & Eksman.
ITunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/h.i.y.w-ep/id556829398
Carasel 'Progression' Album Listening Party
Thursday August 30th @ The Elbow Room, Bristol
More info: http://www.facebook.com/events/479381655408489/


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Stop political smear ads so Americans will want to vote
To the editor:
Political smear campaigns are nothing new. Candidates seek to make themselves look better by making their opponent appear worse. Many voters are unaware of the political candidates except for what they see on television. In this respect it is a goldmine for opposing parties to focus on their rivals' shortcomings and educate the voters on their character or lack thereof.
Character is an essential part to how political candidates are viewed. Without character there is nothing to recommend that a candidate fill the position of president. By degrading the character of the rival, a political candidate can possibly ruin the other's hopes for presidency.
Mudslinging, as it is commonly called, is defined as efforts to discredit one's opponent by malicious or scandalous attacks. Many choose to sit out and vote for neither candidate, tired of the unethical name-calling in campaigning. If credibility were restored overall in political campaigning, maybe these non-voters would be brought back.
While the smear-campaign style may be effective in degrading the rival contender's character, it can also, depending on the factual evidence, be harmful to the party paying for the ads. John Arbuthnot said: "All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies." If an ad is harmful in nature but does not use evidence to support the claim, it can backlash onto the sponsoring candidate's character — in effect making them swallow their own lies.
Instead of scandal and gossip being the main tool to discredit a politician, it would be beneficial if truthfulness were the order of the day. Elections would be more clearly cut and navigable for voters.
Politicians would have to spend more time doing the right things themselves rather than sleuthing out the mistakes of their opponents.
Overall, it would bring integrity to campaigning that is severely lacking at this point in time.
Character would be based upon actions, not hearsay, and voters would be able to make informed decisions of which candidate they wish to support.
Just as our legal oath says "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," — truth as a campaign tool is the severe opposite of what is presently being utilized.
A compromise solution to benefit both parties and voters would be to replace smear ads with factual information and for candidates to spend more time talking about their own character instead of their rivals.


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Damian Nenow "Paths of Hate"' Interview
Motionographer have just published a fantastic in-depth interview with Platige Images Damian Nenow about their beautifully stylised short Paths of hate.
Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch tablet CTH-670
Shiny Shiny have just posted a review of the new Wacom Bamboo CTH 670 with multi touch. Link to article
CGSociety : Mohsen Mousavi, Sucker punch interview.
CG Society have done and excellent technology focus with Mohsen Mousavi technical supervisor at Pixomondo studios Link to Article
Another world on IPhone, IPad
[youtube id="HwsgGfUtj_Q" width="600″ height="350″] The iOS version of Eric Chahi's masterpiece Another World is soon to be released on the
Fly over Earth time-lapse
[youtube id="74mhQyuyELQ" width="600″ height="350″] A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet
The Science of Fluid Sims
[youtube id="3pojNrRfJFM" width="600″ height="350″] An excellent article over on FX Guide attempting to explain the exotic art of fluid simulation
Windows 8 Slate Hands On
[youtube id="hxUuCCTH7ik" width="600″ height="350″] Gizmodo have just released a first look video of the soon to be released Windows 8
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
FX Guide interview with Iloura's creative director and visual effects supervisor Glenn Melenhorst and lead animator Avi Goodman about their
Zbrush Central Deus Ex interview
Zbrush Central have just publish an excellent interview with character artist Sébastien Legrain about his work on Eidos's long awaited
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2: David Vickery – VFX Supervisor – Double Negative
A great in-depth interview with David Vickery, VFX supervisor at Double Negative about his work on the Deathly Hallows part


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Chain News & Profiles includes news on chain restaurants, operations, profiles, trend pieces and new concepts.
Student participation jumps higher at this refurbished foodservice operation in Florida's Orange County Public Schools.
This fast-casual pioneer is updating its look and emphasizing its made-to-order menu.
When visiting Union Kitchen Ivy City in Washington, D.C., one might see 95 people using the facility's foodservice equipment and meeting spaces. Most people don't know each other since individuals working in the space represent different companies. They may be prepping menu items to move to a retail location, getting ready for a catered event, prepping for that day's food truck sales or engaging in wholesale manufacturing. They've come to use foodservice equipment and meet with Union Kitchen's support staff about branding, marketing and product distribution.
A redesigned prototype helps this fast-casual chain emphasize its authentic, scratch-made food.
The hot dog chain's new prototype helps it stand out with a look inspired by its earliest stores.
Foodservice production is much more efficient and safe thanks to the overhaul of a 70-year-old kitchen.
This emerging chain expects huge growth through cooked-to-order, fast-casual Asian food offered for dine-in, carryout and delivery.
Former Red Mango executive Barron joins the fast-growing barbecue concept.


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A trip to Redfish Lake is every wonderful thing a lake vacation should be. My little family recently spent 4 days camping in this Idaho wilderness, and it was bliss. For 4 solid days we didn't think at all about politics, highlighting-and-contouring, calories, or Pokemon. Instead, we soaked up towering mountain peaks, a sparkling lake, and the sweet sweet smell of campfire.
Redfish Lake, just outside Stanley, Idaho, is a beloved gem of a place, for both native Idahoans and long distance visitors. The kind of place families return to year after year. Nestled within the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, and cloaked in it's own special kind of magic. These aptly named jagged peaks are brimming with pine trees, creeks, waterfalls, meadows, and crystal clear lakes with sandy shores. Breathtaking views and wonders big and small around every corner.
Our little campsite sat right along the beach at Redifsh, beneath a canopy of fragrant lodgepole pines and blue blue sky. The morning sunrise beamed right across the glassy lake into our tent–a glorious way to wake up each morning. The days warmed up quickly, and the nights cooled to a lovely light chill–perfect for roaring bonfires, tinfoil dinners and s'mores. Nothing compares to the combination of a giant pearly white moon and twinkly stars peaking through the trees while the fire crackles and marshmallows roast.
We followed the little path each morning directly from our tent down to a secluded quiet beach. We splashed in the clear icy water, caught minnows in the shallows, played in the sand. Altogether a powerful magnet for my little boys. Many guests bring RVs and boats and the like, but all sorts watercraft can also be rented at the Marina. Paddle boats, canoes and kayaks, outboard motors and pontoons for big groups.
The marina even offers boat shuttles up the lake, around the point to the inlet, where there are more secluded campgrounds and some petty fantastic day hikes. Also trailheads for some pretty rock climbing or backpacking trips deep into the Sawtooths. We took the shorter Lily Pond trail beneath the grand face of Mount Heyburn. Gorgeous. We then continued further up to an impressive waterfall, cascading down into rocky turquoise pools. Well worth the boat ride and the hike. This trail was sometimes a little steep, but not too long. Our 7 year old eagerly tackled it without trouble.
Nearer the lodge and main road, the Redfish Lake Trailhead leads to several other day hikes and stunning viewpoints. We spotted all kinds of wildlife and little critters along the Fishhook Creek trail; dragonflies, chipmunks, deer, rabbits, frogs. Finally coming out upon the meadow and the saddle of the Sawtooth Mountains took my breath away. It's all just so beautiful and amazing. Even prettier than the pictures, and ever so much larger.
Redfish lake is more than just a campground in the Sawtooth National Forest. A short walk along the shoreline from most campsites is the Marina, and the Lodge with guest rooms, a bar and a restaurant serving meals all day. We took most of our meals homemade by the campfire–because tinfoil dinners are delicious on a camp trip, but did grab breakfast at the lodge our last morning. Reasonable prices, hearty portions, and very tasty. The pancakes were especially impressive–thick and fluffy. Don't be fooled by these ties to civilization–the atmosphere and vibe throughout the area is very very casual, relaxed and rugged.
Just beyond the lodge is a little General Store–a beloved hotspot for cold sodas, good looking Redfish Lake t-shirts and hats, snacks, fishing gear and the like. It's always hopping. Same goes for their outdoor snack gazebo–burgers and fries, beer, and $2.00 soft-serve ice creams. For non-campers, there are several little guest cabins nearby, accommodating a range of group sizes. So, you can enjoy the wilderness and still shave your legs every day if that's how you prefer to roll.
There are so many adventures and ways to enjoy this stunning wilderness–on water, on land, on horseback. The kind of place where the kids can just roam wild and carefree chasing chipmunks and skipping rocks. It's no surprise that cabins and campsites fill up in a matter of minutes when reservations open up, several months in advance. I'm already counting the days until we an reserve for next year. Redfish lake has stolen our hearts.
A few tips if you go: Do pack extra layers and socks for chilly evenings and mornings. Summer weekends can be crowded with day-use visitors, while weekdays are a bit more mellow. We did not encounter too many mosquitos, but do bring bug spray and itch reliever. Bring sand toys for the kids, too. The nearby Visitor Center offers evening programs and fun educational activities for kids.
For more favorite family adventures, go here, here and here.
NOTE: This post was not paid for or sponsored in any way, by any entity, other than myself, I'm simply happy to share something I love. Just don't go stealing my campsite for next year.


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When I woke up on Friday, I thought I knew my plan. I thought I knew what I would be doing but it all changed so fast that my head was spinning. I saw something that maybe in the past I would have never wanted to witness. But I've grown up, I've matured, and I have come to accept Courtney Love. You may not accept her, and that is alright. I still know plenty of people who are convinced she killed Kurt. We'll never know, but we can always have our theories.
Basically, I know that I had to see John Butler Trio. Walking towards the park I could hear "Better Than" echoing in the sky. That's when I started to rush to put my bike in safe keeping. I couldn't stand to miss another second.
Beers in hands, foot tapping, they played "Zebra". And of course…"Ocean"…my all time favourite and what actually first made me fall in love.
His dreads might be gone but the beautiful music remains.
When they finished the set, it was time to go to Wintersleep in the market, who I last saw in 2008. But then there was a fateful turn of events…and I found myself singing "Happy Birthday" to a drunken Courtney Love.
How did it happen? My friends managed to convince me and I gave into peer pressure.
"When will you EVER get to see Hole again?"
"This is an opportunity to see Courtney-Fucking-Love"
I gave in and got to witness a rather sad but awesome show.
man came out to lay towels down where the guest of honour would stand and perform. Or, more or less, stumble upon.
She was wearing a black dress, thigh high boots, and a white men's dress shirt. Her hair was messy but still perfect. Her lips were red and had clearly been injected with something to boost their size. Her skinny legs held her up in front of us, and she held a guitar up against her frail frame and smiled before slamming her hand against the strings.
She chanted 'Skinny Little Bitch' and the predominantly female crowd cheered and sang along. I felt completely and utterly out of place. But I still smiled and did a little headbangin'. It was my only option.
The white shirt came off, revealing her small but strong-looking arms. A tattoo that could not be made-out could be seen on her inner bicep of her right arm. The front row was filled with girls wearing birthday hats.
Then after a few songs she giggled and said "it's my birthday…I'm turning 29 for the last time"
She was handed a bouquet of flowers from a member of the audience, and she smiled. I wondered what was coming.
Then she threw the bouquet violently and took her hand back to her guitar. Classic Courtney?
About half way through she got a little more demanding. Maybe even mean. She demanded her guitar be brought to her. Then…she demanded a cigarette. A woman with power is a woman who is hott, no matter how much of a wreck she might truly be. And when it comes to her, she is really something else. Ever since I was a little girl this woman has fascinated me. She managed to pin down the king of grunge and carry on even after his final curtain call. How did she do it? Please don't say drugs, even though that may have been the solution…
The set changed over from rock to a little more blues. She swayed back and forth, cigarette in hand, singing into the microphone. She lifted her dress up past her thighs and placed her left leg on a speaker in front of her. She did this often, revealing her crotch, barely covered by stockings and booty shorts. She didn't seem to mind the crowd ogling her, because there was no hate. She was being spoon-fed love in her drunken state.
Basically, she's a badass blonde and even if you want to hate her, you can't deny that she's downright awesome and full of something spicy. You wouldn't want to take a bite, you might burn yourself.
I left the stage where HOLE performed somewhat dumbfounded.
I didn't know what I was in for.
Then another chick hit the main stage. Yeah, Joan Jett and the Black Hearts.
Of course we got to hear "I love Rock n' Roll". I would have left disappointed if I didn't. the performance was amazing, but the crowd on the other hand didn't impress a lot of the twenty-somethings in attendance. Joan Jett is 51. She's not old, in fact, she looks amazing in a black body suit. But most of her fans had brought their lawn chairs and created a forcefield with them in order to not allow other fans enter past a certain point. There was plenty of room in the crowd. But there were also plenty of 60 year old women who wanted to rock out quietly with their lawnchair in front of them. I even witnessed a little bit of violence as one grey-haired grandmother took a swing at a 300 pound guy who was probably 6 foot 7. Yeah, they were that intense about Joan Jett.
I couldn't get past a certain point due to the lawn chair brigade, but I still managed to get some okay-shots with my little powershot. I got my groove on but the end of the night was bittersweet. I wanted to enjoy myself but I had a lot of pent up anger towards those who felt it was their duty as a citizen to keep the young crowd out. Audience for the closing show gets a big THUMBS DOWN but Joan Jett and her smoking-hott bod get a THUMBS UP!
Either way, watching this woman perform made the night pretty amazing.
Just another Friday night, full of leather, beer, cigarettes and lawn chairs…


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World's Biggest Bookstore's Science Fiction and Fantasy Newsletter Issue 6 February 2007
Something From the Nightside
By Simon R. Green
If you are going to lose something, like say your keys, do not lose them in The Nightside. If they were the keys to your car, get another car. Keys to your apartment you say? Get another place to live. Still need to go to The Nightside? Fine. Be that way. To enter Simon R. Green's world, you will have to follow our hero, John Taylor. He is a London detective who is very good at finding things. Finding them even when these things are hidden somewhere in The Nightside. In the first story of the series, a girl is missing and John (against his better judgment) takes the girl's mother to The Nightside to solve the case. Along the way he runs into some of his, shall we say, more colourful friends. Delightful people with names like Razor Eddy and Suzie Shooter. Green has created a strange dark world with some human and some not so human characters. A great, dark and funny read!
-Sandra B
The Assassin King
By: Elizabeth Haydon
The Assassin King continues the story of Rhapsody's adventures. After she has given birth, she is saved from a vengeful dragon by Llauron. But doing so may have changed how the dragons control the way the earth and dragon lore develop. The dragons go to a far off home so they can work out what has been lost. War is on the way, the dragon that attacked Rhapsody survived and is still out for revenge, and her best friend Achmed is being hunted, what could be worse?
A living stone statue has sided with a man who wants power and control of the land and is willing to destroy all in order to get it. This could cause the sleeping child to wake and the great worm to destroy everything as we know it.
In The Assassin King, Elizabeth Haydon gives new insight to characters and how they help change the course of events in a time where hope is needed more than anything. She leaves us wanting the next book to see how Rhapsody's child will affect the timeline in this world.
Vampire Knight Volume 1
By: Matsuri Hino
Cross Academy is not your typical private school. For one thing, there are two types of classes there: the Day Class and the Night Class. For another, Day Class students are never allowed to be outside of their dorms after sunset, the time when the Night Class students emerge from their own separate dorm to go to classes.
Yuki Cross and her partner Zero Kiryu are part of Cross Academy's Disciplinary Committee. Their job: to maintain order between the two types of students, to protect the students of the Day Class and to prevent them from knowing Cross Academy's biggest secret: the Night Class is full of vampires.
Matsuri Hino is at her best in this piece. This is a brilliant series full of great plot twists and plenty of bishounen (yum). I highly recommend it. Be on the look out for the rest of this four volume series.
Poison Study
By: Maria V. Snyder
Don't be fooled by the Luna insignia on the spine, Poison Study is not a romance thinly disguised as a fantasy novel.
When Yelena, a convicted murderer, is given a stay of execution in return for becoming the Commander's new food taster, she has no idea how complicated her life is about to become.
Yelena faces death from all sides, from the General whose son she killed, the southern magicians who fear her uncontrolled hidden magic, and the poison in her body, used as a means of keeping her from escaping.
Her frantic attempts to survive, told in Snyder's entertaining first person narration, will keep you turning pages and leave you reaching for the sequel.
-Jessica Strider
Coming in March
Belladonna - Anne Bishop
War Hammer: Ravenor Rogue - Dan Abnett
The Silver Ship and the Sea - Brenda Cooper
Antagonist - Gordon Dickson & David Wixon
Into a Dark Realm - Raymond Feist
Future Weapons of War - Joe Haldeman & Martin Greenberg
For a Few Demons More - Kim Harrison
Fortune's Fool - Mercedes Lackey
Web of the Trident - Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Wolf's Blood - Jane Lindskold
The Quest for the Trilogy - Mel Odom
60 Days and Counting - Kim Stanley Robinson
Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Hell Hath No Fury - David Weber & Linda Evans
Shadowplay - Tad Williams
Sword of the Deceiver - Sarah Zettel
Trade Paperback:
To Outlive Eternity - Poul Anderson
Serpent and the Rose - Kathleen Bryan
Star Trek: Obsidian Alliances - Peter David, Keith DeCondido & Sarah Shaw
Alchemist's Apprentice - Dave Duncan
Cygnet - Patricia McKillip
Psion - Joan Vinge
Mass Market Paperback:
Ill Wind - Kevin Anderson & Doug Beason
Dragon Lance: Great White Wyrm - Peter Archer
Sebastian - Anne Bishop
Titan - Ben Bova
Ravenloft: To Sleep With Evil - Andria Cardarelle
War Hammer: Chapter War - Ben Counter
Regeneration - Julie Czerneda
Star Trek: Command and Conquer - Keith DeCandido
House of Chains - Steven Erikson
A Mankind Witch - Dave Freer
Battle Star Galactica: Cylons' Secret - Craig Gardner
Hellboy: Dragon Pool - Christopher Golden
If I Were an Evil Overlord - Martin Greenberg & Russell Davis
Judas Unchained - Peter Hamilton
Poisoned Crown - Amanda Hemingway
In the Eye of Heaven - David Keck
Diablo: Scales of the Serpent - Richard Knaak
Dark Mirror - Juliet Marillier
Crystal Soldier - Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Dark Companion - Andre Norton
Scent of Shadows - Vicki Patterson
Watch on the Rhine - John Ringo & Tom Kratman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Dragon Lance: Ebony Eye - Jeff Sampson
War Hammer: Retribution - Steve Savile
Forgotten Realms: Depths of Magic - Erik Scott de Bie
Flashfire - David Sherman
13th House - Sharon Shinn
Games of Command - Linnea Sinclair
War Hammer: Flight of the Eisenstein - James Swallow
Blood and Rust - S.A. Swiniarski
Moonshine - Rob Thurman
Alternate Generals III - Harry Turtledove
Eberron: Forge of the Mind Slayers - Tim Waggoner
The Weapon - Michael Williamson
Sunday, 29 July 2007
Sci-Fi Fan Letter Issue 6
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Experts predict tablets rise to 50% of PC market share in 2014
After watching the trends for the last several fiscal quarters, Canalys has predicted that tablets are set to rise in sales to 50% of the PC market in 2014. In addition, they say that Android will be making up 32% of mobile operating systems by the end of that year.
Tablets have been growing in popularity as their applications grow, the greater synchronization with various PC services making them a valid replacement for PC's. Companies have even been making laptop/tablet hybrids, which account for the growing trend. On the other side, phones have been integrating with tablets to create phablets.


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Access to Aquaponics: Starter Kits for $499.99
Image credit: Access to Aquaponics
Whether the discussion is about the efficiency of aquaponics, or whether aquaponics is cruel or not, this innovative method of growing vegetables and raising fish certainly seems to be good for stirring up debate. But what do you do if you actually want to put aquaponics into practice? Apart from the ready-to-use systems of Aquaponics USA, until now most practitioners seem to either be agricultural-scale operations like Will Allen's Growing Power, or backyard hobbyists adept at DIY, like Snowcamp Aquaponics. But a new design company based out of Atlanta, GA is looking to change that - launching a range of kits and instructional materials for aquaponics enthusiasts in eleven states. But what's with the weird broccoli-fish monster? OK - so the odd illustration that accompanies Sustainable Design Group/Access to Aquaponics' press materials is not to my liking, but everything else about this company I like. A lot. Their website is in its very early stages, but the company plans to be selling everything from pumps to tanks to aerators, both online and through hydroponics stores across the country. The team will also be selling fish in the Atlanta area.
Access to Aquaponics has even created an aquaponics starter kit retailing at $499.99, known as the A-Frame. The unit includes (almost) everything you'd need to get started - pretty much all you are short of is some fish, a fish tank and some gravel. It should be noted that this is very much a beginners kit for experimentation and learning, so much so that it's recommended to start with goldfish, rather than edible species like tilapia. But as Bevan Suits of the Sustainable Design Group/Access to Aquaponics tells us "The point is to start small then most anyone will have the experience with the system to hack it as big as they want. Even a developer wanting to do it on a large scale should start at this scale."
Also featured on the company's website are a series of aquaponics installations, not to mention a downloadable 50 page Aquaponics Guidebook written by Bevan, and edited by Nick Thompson and David Cline of Auburn University Aquaculture. (I'm planning on a review as soon as I get over the culture shock of being a new green parent!)


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I was thinking abut which way to jump with trying to write a toolkit. First of all what should it be based on? Should it just wrap Win32? Cocoa? Should it be entirely implemented on top of OpenGL from scratch? Should it be cross-platform in design? Just these questions could cause anyone to run away screaming.
Thinking about building it on top of OpenGL I encountered a couple of interesting GUI libraries GLUI and GLOW. In these projects the windows are completely rendered by OpenGL which is an interesting approach. I suppose Juce is built from similar roots as well where it implements its own toolkits.
I was thinking about writing a nice C++ wrapper for Win32 but then I started to think even Microsoft products don't use the standard widget rendering. Then you start to think about built in custom drawn widget rendering, then you think why are you using standard widgets...
The whole idea about implementing a simple GUI toolkit is an education about the design decisions and pitfalls that you can get into. You also need to decide which subset you decide to implement first. The problem is most toolkits go for the same 10% and that is normally as far as they get.
The main idea I want to try out for an experimental GUI toolkit is some DSL (domain specific language). What I mean is embedding a language in C++ in order to implement the user interface in a readable fashion. It is certainly possible using modern C++ idioms as demonstrated in Boost. I suppose the type of thing I want to do is (in some kid of C++ like pseudo code):
dialog(...) +
("Number", sizeX, sizeY) | widget (RESIZE_X) ||
("Name", sizeX, sizeY) | widget (RESIZE_X) ||
("Blah", sizeX, sizeY, RESIZE_XY)
toolbar() +
button("image1", ...) |
button("image2", ...) |
separator() |
button("image3", ...) |
button("image4", ...)
Complete and utter insanity? Probably, but could be fun to try out. It would certainly be something different and would create a parallel in your source in comparison to what you would see on screen. I don't think anything quit like it has been tried before, so feel free to steal the idea - it would save me implementing it(!)
Enough rambling for today I think...


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So I realize that not many people are around right now, so this is not the opportune time to post a request thread, but! \o/ I've got diamonds in my
What I want:
-a fullbody or portrait doll for an avatar that fits Glam!'s size limits ("All avatars must fit within the size restriction of 150 pixels wide and 250 pixels tall.") of this fine being (male, relatively young-looking Gaelic trickster fae, NO pointed ears, dark purple eyes, usually has a smug look on his face)
-I'm thinking for clothes something akin to a Peter Pan vibe
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-I'll be accepting multiple dolls \o/ so if someone is already working on or already submitted something, you can still make a doll if you want! I'll probably cycle through them
-I'll pay 300-500 diamonds per doll
-brownie points and extra diamonds if you make a something (anything) for a matching signature
-oh and clovers. clovers are always a nice touch. ;P


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From Yes on 3
Why Maine should vote YES to Repeal the School Consolidation Law
Repealing the law will not cost Maine any money. There was a $36 million reduction in the state budget for education. That money was cut from schools last year and it's not coming back to the classroom or going anywhere else.
55% of Maine students are in 66 school districts that are unaffected by this law. They are exempt from consolidating because of size, geography, or other special exemptions granted by the DoE.
Around 200 Maine communities in 125 school districts are adversely affected. They followed the law, created plans, voted on them, and will now be fined $5 million beginning July 2010 for voting against these plans that would cost them even more money than paying the penalty. These are primarily rural areas whose students are going to lose resources and be treated differently from students in more populated areas of Maine.
Don't believe it when you hear opponents of repeal say the majority of students in the state are in consolidated districts. They are not. Only 27% of Maine's students are in the 26 districts that consolidated. The administration is playing with the numbers to try and make them look far better than they really are.
Consolidation has cost money. Here are some examples: Windham-Raymond reported to the Legislative Education Committee that their cost of consolidation is $575,000 and Freeport-Pownal-Durham reported their cost of consolidation is $340,000. There are towns where taxes have increased largely because of consolidation. In Pownal taxes are up 25%, Durham up 19%, Alna up 33%.
Some savings have been reported from 4 of the 26 new districts but they do not present the total picture. One of these is in the Bath area and they had 5 years to plan and got considerable support from the state. This was a voluntary consolidation which was done the right way – with enough time and money to make it work.
Bigger bureaucracies cost more. After the last big push for consolidation – the Sinclair Act in 1957 – administrative costs soared. Per pupil spending on administration grew 406 percent, in 2002 dollars, from 1950 to 1980. Over that same period, the number of people working for the Maine Department of Education tripled.
Maine school districts are working together. The school consolidation law does not recognize unions, yet there are many such structures today that are saving districts money. While there are 218 districts today, there are only 136 central offices, since many districts share a superintendent and were doing so before the consolidation mandate was passed.
Repealing the law does not have to undo any consolidation that has worked. For the 26 districts that did consolidate, simple legislation will allow them to stay together as School Administrative Districts (SADs) or unions. Repeal would give cities and towns the option of getting out of a new regionalized district if it's not working for them. Right now the law prohibits any community from withdrawing.
We are asking Maine people to stand united for repealing the school consolidation law so we can get about the real task of identifying real savings in our schools.
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Scaling Software Modularization with Topkg
There is one issue that bazaars, library operating systems like MirageOS or random left-padists face: how to scale extreme software modularization. Scaling not from a software composition perspective; this could be readily solved by using the type system and the functional programming techniques everyone's heard about. But scaling from a purely bureaucratic point of view.
The bureaucracy of making sure main issues are being taken care of. The bureaucracy of making sure changes to the software are being clearly communicated to dependents. The bureaucracy of making sure the software is correctly versioned and is able to precisely self-describe as such. The bureaucracy of making sure the software is a good citizen of the eco-system and that it follows its evolution. The bureaucracy of being able to quickly push fixes and let dependents test them as if they were released. The bureaucracy of making flawless releases: publishing correct and reproducible tarballs, publishing documentation and submitting the software package to the OCaml opam repository.
All this has clearly nothing to do with the fun of programming and calls for efficient, standardized, "don't make me think" procedures and conventions. To give some perspective I myself formally publish 28 software packages, the MirageOS project directly manages 93 packages, any two minutes administrative task on each of these respectively represent one and three hours gone – dreadful hours. Any non-project specific bit that has to be committed to these repositories is maintenance burden and a curse.
This is where topkg fits in.
If you want to learn more about it, make sure to read the documentation
basics and
the tool manual (
opam install topkg-care && topkg help). To sum up,
you give
topkg enough information so that it is able to determine what
needs to be installed in the current build environment. From these bits
topkg will infer targets to invoke in your build system – rather than
try to generate one – and produce a manifest file to let the package
manager install your package.
A few additional conventions and metadata bits you specify allow to
lint the package for good practices and release your software with the
topkg tool according to a well defined script. Read all the details
topkg help release but the gist of it is:
topkg browse issues # Review remaining outstanding issues
topkg status # Review the changes since last version
topkg log edit # Write the release notes
topkg log commit # Commit the release notes
topkg tag # Tag the distribution with a version
topkg distrib # Create the distribution archive
topkg publish # Publish it on the WWW with its documentation
topkg opam pkg # Create an opam package
topkg opam submit # Submit it to OCaml's opam repository
The last four steps can be performed via a single invocation to
topkg bistro.
topkg is far from being a perfect system, it tries to compose with
the existing build infrastructure. It is a step towards what is needed
from a packaging workflow perspective to scale modularity: the act of
releasing should be an inane, swift, robust and painless process.
If you are interested in programming and sharing your results, give topkg a try. No left-pad function left behind.
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Worldwide News
United States: Practitioners Participate in Tulip Festival and Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day in Albany, New York2012-05-23May 13th is World Falun Dafa Day and is also the annual tulip festival in Albany, New York, sponsored this year by the municipal government. Falun Gong practitioners applied for a booth at the festival and introduced Falun Gong to local residents and visitors.
Taiwan: Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day in Taoyuan2012-05-21Ms. Zhong handed out flyers to passersby. She said that when a mother and son passed by, the mother took the flyer, read the contents attentively and then asked Ms. Zhong about the nearby practice site. She also said she would take a good look at the contents of the photo display.
India: World Falun Dafa Day Celebrations in Bangalore2012-05-19The practitioners had the opportunity to clarify the truth to a cycling expedition group called "Go Green Group" which happened to pass by the practise site. After talking with the practitioners, cyclists from this group said that they would help more people know about the practise of Falun Dafa.
Australia: Practitioners in South Australia Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day2012-05-17"Falun Gong practitioners are kind. I support them. Because Falun Gong is great, everyone supports. The CCP is really bad! It regards human life as worthless. The CCP makes people lie by pressuring them. As a result, the morality in China is degrading."
Taiwan: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day in Kinmen2012-05-16"I admire Falun Gong." An older man said, "Falun Gong! Mainland is afraid of it. But I feel Falun Gong helps people improve their health. The CCP should not persecute it."
United States: Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day in Chicago2012-05-15Falun Gong practitioners in Chicago held a group morning exercise at Buckingham Fountain on May 6th, 2012, to celebrate the upcoming May 13th World Falun Dafa Day and the twentieth anniversary of Falun Dafa's public introduction, and to express birthday wishes to Master Li Hongzhi.
Indonesia: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Falun Dafa's Public Introduction in Surabaya2012-05-14Practitioners put a large-screen TV set in the booth to play videos about Falun Dafa's wide spread around the world. Some practitioners demonstrated the exercises nearby, and many people stopped to watch and ask about Falun Gong.
FDI: New York City to Host Celebrations for 20th Anniversary of Falun Gong's Public Introduction2012-05-13"In Falun Gong, we have not only found a practice from the Buddha School that brings health, serenity and wisdom to our lives, but even more so, we have found a way to return to our original, true selves…to get back in touch with our kind, divine side."
United States: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Falun Dafa's Introduction to the Public2012-05-11
United States: Spreading the Fa on the Campus of MIT2012-05-10From April 20th to 22nd, the MIT campus was open to future freshmen and their parents. Many student organisations set up booths, welcoming and introducing themselves to the new students. The Falun Dafa Club at MIT also participated in the event.
Taiwan: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in the Kechia Cultural Festival in Miaoli2012-05-09The spectators were amazed by the performances and the size of the Divine Land Marching Band. Although it was raining, the band members were full of energy. Many spectators took pictures and videos of the band. Some people believe that it is the largest marching band in Taiwan.
United States: Columbia University in New York Falun Gong Poster Exhibit Touches People's Hearts2012-05-08The Falun Dafa Club at Columbia University held a week-long outdoor Falun Dafa poster exhibit on April 9th-12th, 2012 to raise awareness about the ongoing persecution of Falun Dafa in China. The exhibit was set up in a busy area at the center of campus, drawing many students, professors, tourists, and nearby residents to stop by and learn the truth about Falun Dafa.
South Korea: Practitioners Participate in Han River Ruyi Island Cherry Blossom Festival2012-05-07Following the Divine Land Marching Band was a group of practitioners demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises. Several spectators imitated the hand gestures of the exercises and many took photos. Many people accepted flyers and were surprised to learn that such a graceful practice is being persecuted in China.
United States: Practitioners Invited to Introduce Falun Gong to Employees of a Major Company in Arizona2012-05-06More than 170 employees participated in the event. They paid close attention, and some could even sit in the full lotus position for the fifth exercise the first time they tried it. Many employees said that after learning the exercises they felt a peaceful energy field and were mentally calm.
Taiwan: More Than 7,000 Practitioners Form the Image of Master Li, the Founder of Falun Gong—A Grand Spectacle2012-05-05On April 29, 2012, more than 7,000 Falun Gong practitioners assembled at Freedom Square in Taipei to form a spectacular image of Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong. The grand scene attracted the attention of tourists from around the world, who stopped to watch and take photos.


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Rosemount Minnesota disc golf course
New disc golf course
Rosemount disc course
The popularity of disc golf continues growing by leaps and bounds. This new disc golf course has recently opened in Rosemount MN. A playground and several picnic shelters have also been added. Rosemount is located North of I-90 in Southwestern Minnesota.
This is a short course with mowed fairways surrounded by knee high prairie grass. Dual tees on each hole makes the course playable by any level of player. The18 holes comes in at 4940 feet. Nicely manicured with rolling terrain and mature trees on what used to be the Brockway Glass employee golf course.
Review of Rosemount course by one of the players
Pros: A nicely laid out course on a small plot of Oak forest in a pretty quiet suburban addition. This disc golf course plays in and around the oaks using them and the smallish hills to provide the shape for the fairways. Each hole is marked and many have multiple (grass) tee pads. It plays in a sensible manner and flow is good. Holes have a wide variety of distances for such a small area. Baskets are in smart places generally, making you actually think about your lie before throwing.
I would call this a good advanced beginner course, a step above typical chip and putt courses. Fun to play and no lines.
Cons: As mentioned tee pads aren't in and signage is basic. The course favors lefties or right hand forehand throwers. This course really doesn't have many drawbacks. It plays well and is fun, isn't that what disc golf should be? Other Thoughts: It isn't always clear that there are different tee boxes for holes and we happened to play the shorts on a few holes the first time through by accident. Better signage would help that. It did, however, make for a nice 18 with the shorts.
Parking is easy to find, and hole 1 and 9 are near the parking lot.
All the reviews so far are mostly positive. If you're in the area and you get a chance, it looks like a course worth checking out.
Update on course reviews. Here is the link to Disc golf course review site that show all the reviews of the course and information about it.
From the shots in the video it looks like the course is fairly easy with mostly short holes. I have not played it yet but if I get in the Rosemount area, I will stop and give it a shot.
Directions to disc golf course
I-494; south on Hwy 3 (Robert Trail) 9 miles to a left at the light
(Connemara Trail). Go 1 block to a left on Brockway Ave. then 1 block
to left on Bronze Parkway. Go 1 block to small parking lot on left by
tees 1 & 10.
13669 Bronze Parkway
Rosemount, MN 55068
How often do you play disc golf?
What is disc golf
Disc golf is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. The reason it is so fast growing is that it's is easy enough for anyone to play, from kids in the 7 and up ages, all the way to any age that you can still walk and move your arms. Disc golf is also popular because it is simple to play and easy enough for anyone to play, yet challenging enough to interest even accomplished player. If you want a great way to exercise and have never tried disc golf, you should give it a try, no matter your age.
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he European Parliament has rejected a global anti-piracy deal aimed at fighting copyright theft amid fears it threatens internet freedom.
A total of 478 MEPs voted against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Just 39 supported it with 165 abstentions.
The proposed law will now have to be renegotiated by the European Commission, the EU's executive.
The thumbs-down from Strasbourg marks a victory for activists who say the legislation would punish people for sharing films and music on the internet.
Tens of thousands have held rallies across Europe to protest against the law, which they say would allow officials to spy on their online activities.


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It's less than a week before we're diving face-first into the most gigantic gadget show of the whole year the Consumer Electronics Show 2012: and it's time to take a look at everything that's been teased and leaked thus far. There's official previews, invites, unofficial photos and bits let loose by people whose goal in life it is to bring you in on the good stuff before its masters reveal in ernest, and a real schedule so you can see where we'll be the whole time. Our team will be spread out like the fingers of a hand, and when we bring them together we will CRUSH the news each day for you!
Check out first the LG Google TV launch tip, it telling us that CES is very well possibly the place where LG shows Google TV 2.0 for the first time. On that note, there's the massively anticipated LG 55-inch OLED HDTV everyone's been losing their mind over, along with the LG DM92 IPS display with a 1mm bexel. That'll be a thing to see for sure – but what'll they be using to show it off? That's the real question. Of course then there's Samsung's Smart TV CES preview which assures us that LG and Samsung will be bringing out the boxing gloves for this show, no doubt.
As far as mobile devices go, Sony Ericsson's been showing off some smartphones under a sheet. There's also a 13-megapixel photo set that popped up last month said to be coming from the Sony Ericsson LT28at Android AT&T device of unknown nature. Of course AT&T will have more than just a little bit of presence with the Samsung Galaxy Note, more than likely showing up at the show right at the front door.
Intel's Medfield 32nm process chip will be there in force, not least of all in such dreams as the mystery LG smartphone they say they've certainly not got. Nokia noted that they'd have some cool bits such as Windows phones like the AT&T Ace, the regular stuff they've had over the past couple of months, but also such possible gems as this this strange little nametag that, although they probably wont sell, will be on their vests. ASUS will be bringing their Transformer Prime for some sweet Ice Cream Sandwich action I'd be willing to bet, and although they've not officially said so, a 4-inch Eee Pad may well be appearing as well.
There's a report that says Microsoft is in trouble with the CES crew, but they'll certainly be showing up at this year's event, Windows-a-blazing. Sony will be having a wedding-type event. Android will be appearing on TV. And one whole heck of a lot of other completely disparate releases will be taking place at all times of the day. We'll be going to visit such fabulous brands as Audi, Lenovo, LG, Panasonic, and Qualcomm.
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"Condé Nast is officially dropping the 'Publications' from its name.
"Workers have removed the word from the wall on the 11th floor of 4 Times Square, where Chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr., CEO Charles Townsend and other executives sit."
—New York Post, Feb 5, 2010
"For the first time in the network's 29-year history, MTV has decided to give the channel's iconic logo a face-lift, dropping the words 'Music Television.'"
—Los Angeles Times, Feb. 9, 2010
"One of the most famous slogans in television history has quietly been undergoing a change. In the last couple of months, 'It's Not TV. It's HBO' has become simply 'It's HBO' in on-air references."
—Broadcasting & Cable, Feb. 15, 2010
The reality of the media spindustrial complex, circa 2010, is that nobody wants to be in the business they are in anymore, or at least they don't want to fess up to it. And why should they, when investors or ad agencies routinely turn up their noses at anything with the whiff of "old media" mustiness about it? No one wants to hear that you had a pretty good year selling DVDs or publishing newspapers that people paid money for and sometimes even read. Never mind that the so-called old media routinely accounts for the great majority of most big media company revenue.
In this environment, it's not so much that having a name that is just so can solve all your problems, or that the wrong name can be a stink bomb. This is an inexact science. There are some cases where the name-tinkering is overdue (such as with MTV, where, as at sister network VH1—formerly "video hits one"—actual music videos have been scarce for years). But some media names that bear little literal relation to their actual business at hand does not seem to matter so much—like, say, News Corp., which, if the company were more literal, might be rechristened Fox News Corp. Does anyone care that CBS originally stood for Columbia Broadcasting System or that Gentleman's Quarterly hasn't been a "quarterly" for quite a long time? NBC Universal made a big deal last year out of changing the name of its Sci-Fi Channel to SyFy (oookay), but has stuck with the jumbly name MSNBC for its cable news outlet despite the fact that Microsoft sold its half of the channel years ago.
To those who dwell outside the media bubble, all this nomenclature can be bewildering. Consider Time Warner: The name has a nice ring, but it is muddled by divestitures that have scattered the name about. To wit, last year Time Warner Cable became a wholly separate company from Time Warner, but it continues to license the name from its old HQ. Plus, subsidiary Warner Music was split off from the company years ago, as was Time Life, a company under which collectible videos and CDs are sold (and which is now in bankruptcy proceedings). Meanwhile, publishing company Time Inc., which is still part of Time Warner, is still based in midtown's Time Life building and publishes Time magazine. Got it?
Similarly vexing is the co-existence of DreamWorks Studios and DreamWorks Animation, which were conceived under the same roof of the old DreamWorks SKG. The G—David Geffen—has moved on, leaving the S—Steven Spielberg—to run DreamWorks Studios, which recently set up its own shingle and struck a deal to have its films distributed by Walt Disney. But here's a wrinkle: The DreamWorks name is owned by DreamWorks Animation, now a wholly separate entity, which the K—Jeffrey Katzenberg—runs. Mr. Katzenberg is in fact a former Disney studio head whose biggest and fiercest competitor is now Disney and its animation juggernaut, Pixar Films. What happens if Mr. Spielberg wants to make an animated film or two and the familiar Dreamworks "boy fishing off a crescent moon" logo is paired with nemesis Disney's castle? The horror!
In general, a little simplicity can go a long way. Just take a gander at the media industry's twin bogeymen: Google, after all, is just Google. And Apple officially dropped the name "Computer" from its name three years ago. Its stock is up nearly 150 percent since then, a period during which most media stocks have dropped like so many outmoded letters on the 11th floor at 4 Times Square.


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Protecting Americans From Natural Gas Air Pollution
Peter Wray has little confidence in his state government these days. The Pennsylvania resident and chair of the Allegheny Sierra Club's conservation committee has watched the natural gas industry benefit from lax pollution rules and push policymakers to establish loopholes for the industry.
"Because of the many facets of shale gas drilling, from health to economy, to forest fragmentation to air quality, to waste water disposal - a volunteer could spend all their time working on this issue," says Peter, who does spend a significant portion of his Sierra Club volunteering on natural gas concerns.At issue now is the massive air pollution caused by natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing - or "fracking." Air pollution from fracking dumps hundreds of thousands of tons of smog-forming chemicals, toxics, and climate-disrupting pollution into our air.
In Pennsylvania, fracked wells from the Marcellus Shale natural gas boom are venting unchecked pollution into formerly untouched forests. For another harrowing example, in Dallas/Fort Worth pollution from natural gas fields is worse than the exhaust of all the cars in those cities.
"This is why we are supporting air pollution safeguards from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for we see no other means of protecting our communities," says Peter.
EPA's proposed standards to limit air pollution from fracking are a big first step in protecting our health from the dangerous stew of pollution that fracked wells pour into our air. EPA is about to release those rules, but fracking lobbyists are pulling out all the stops to delay these safeguards and fill them with loopholes.
Right now, the American Petroleum Institute (API) - an industry group only interested in their bottom line when it comes to fracking - is waging an eleventh hour battle to weaken air pollution rules for natural gas drilling. Big Oil and Gas have taken this fight to the White House, as well.
These safeguards are critical to communities plagued by air pollution from fracking. The existing safeguards are more than twenty years old and don't cover most sources of air pollution in the gas industry.
EPA's rules are based on commonly used controls that would capture pollution from wells at very low costs. In fact, because companies can resell natural gas that would otherwise leak, the rules may even pay for themselves. There is no excuse for industry efforts to weaken these common sense safeguards.
We cannot allow the gas industry to benefit from more loopholes while public health and our communities suffer. EPA's safeguards are needed to begin clearing the air.
"Shale gas drilling is an immediate environmental threat to our local communities, and development of the industry across the Pennsylvania landscape has the real potential to place certain regions in the category of 'third-world extractive' economies without adequate environmental protection," Peter says.
Now we need your help to remind the President what we want - clean air and no loopholes for the fracking industry. In this year'' State of the Union, President Obama made a commitment to protect our communities from fracking pollution.
It's time to tell President Obama to stand up to gas companies and their lobbyists: Say no to loopholes, and put the health of our communities first!


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I've once commented on twitter that I'd grown comfortable with dynamic typing as long as I use unit testing:
Unit testing alleviates most of my needs for static typing.
— Joe Barnes (@josefusbarnabas) September 7, 2012
I hereby retract that statement.
First off, at the time I had not started playing with functional languages and I had no idea what a legit type system was. As Paul Callaghan put it, you need to "put aside your bad experiences from Java". I was at the peak of my Groovy enthusiasm. Now that I've spent ample time in Scala, I realize that a static type system doesn't have to suck. While I once would have agreed with Martin Fowler that dynamic typing makes programming fun, I much more enjoy the secure feeling that a solid type system gives me (BTW, I can't help but notice that he doesn't mention any languages written by academic type theory junkies).
1. Catch the bugs earlier
If it's true that the earlier you catch a bug, the cheaper the bug costs, then I can think of nothing better than compile-time checking. Many bugs enter the code the moment you type it (that is, bugs that are introduced during coding after spec/design). Now you're on the clock to find them. If you're working with a dynamically typed language, maybe you can run your unit tests in the time a compiler runs. But let's not forget that the type checker can even run in an IDE, finding bugs as soon as they are typed!
2. A good static type system is free, but unit tests are costly.
The fact is, if you want to use unit testing, you have to write the unit tests! Now I know someone has to write the type system, but my point is that YOU don't have to. Maybe static type checker doesn't cover all bugs (a debatable point), but it will have 100% coverage over your code. There's no such guarantee for unit tests. You'll have to find a coverage tool, and not to mention that 100% coverage can be achieved with useless unit tests.
3. A type checker will pinpoint exactly where you broke it
In my spare time project, I'm learning a lot. I mean a LOT. Unfamiliarity with a technology is a heavy factor for my selection process, allowing me to learn new stuff en passant to producing a product I'd like to use. This results in lots of rewrites. Just yesterday I had a class that I was modeling as an embedded document and realized it would be better off as a reference in my MongoDB. When I make a change to the API of a class/trait, I love how the compiler points at every usage of that code that is now broken. If I were to rely on unit testing, I would only know that my code is in fact broken (duh!). I would also know what functionality broken, but I would not know immediately where it is broken. So if you do a lot of refactoring (the other pillar of Test-Driven Development!), then I'd argue you'll refactor faster with a good statically-typed language.
I don't believe that static type checking catches all bugs, but neither do unit tests. Furthermore the notion that type checking can be set aside for unit testing isn't supported by data. However, a functional language with a good type system will make even the venerable Kent Beck rethink TDD. Software quality is a complex problem, and there's no sense in throwing out one tool for another when you can have both. This isn't to say that you're stupid for using dynamically typed languages, but the benefits of static type checking have won me over.
My next blog post will highlight some of the Scala language features that helped flip my position. And thanks as always for reading my blog, Mom.


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First Steps Mathematics is a series of teacher resource books that is organised around sets of mathematics outcomes for Number, Measurement, Space, and Chance and Data. The series will help teachers to diagnose, plan, implement and judge the effectiveness of the learning experiences they provide for students.
The First Steps in Mathematics Resource Books and professional development program are designed to help teachers to plan, implement and evaluate the mathematics curriculum they provide for their students.
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