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Romantic comedies spread misconceptions, according to a new study. Here's what your girlfriend may have mislearned, and how you can write a happier ending.
Bad Behavior Has No Long-Term Consequences
In My Best Friend's Girl, Dane Cook and Kate Hudson split after he intentionally pukes at a wedding and propositions her mom. But they're soon back together.
In real life: Here's when to build forgiveness: long before you screw up. Compliment her often. Show her you're trustworthy. She'll be quicker to forgive you if she has high self-esteem and trusts that you mean well, according to a study in the journal Personal Relationships. And you can affect those things.
More From Men's Health
Gratuitous Public Displays of Affection are Proof of a Strong Relationship
In Must Love Dogs, John Cusack and Diane Lane suddenly kiss in the middle of a chat with a supermarket employee. Passionately. It's love!
In real life: According to a poll we took of 500 women, 67 percent said PDA is important—and over half said that if you were to shy away from them in public, they'd take it personally. Sound like high expectations? It isn't. Just hold her hand and give quick, public kisses. That's all 98 percent of women said they want.
Arguing is Destructive and Almost Always Leads to a Breakup
In Knocked Up, Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl argue in a car. She kicks him out. They argue again a few minutes later, and then break up. Cue the crying.
In real life: Expressing negative emotions can heighten intimacy, according to a study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. But if you're mad at her, hit the Xbox first. An Iowa State University study found that people who distract themselves before an argument end up less angry.
Early Love is True, Lasting Love
In The Holiday, Jude Law professes his love for Cameron Diaz 2 weeks after they meet. She almost leaves him, but abandons her future plans for herself in order to stay with him. Cue audience crying. Or groaning.
In real life: Wrap your head around this: 42 percent of the women we surveyed believe a couple can be in love after 2 weeks, but almost none of them want a guy to say, "I love you" that soon. They prefer you to say it at around 6 months—about when they said their sex drives return to normal. Coincidence? Perhaps.
Grand Gestures Spark Great Romances
In 10 Things I Hate About You, Heath Ledger tries to woo Julia Stiles by crooning "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" from the top of the bleachers in a football field. In an inspired move, he enlists the help of the high school marching band to accompany him, for everyone to see.
In real life: Not all gestures to win—or keep—the girl have to be so elaborate. According to a recent study of 65 couples at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, all it takes are a few small appreciative acts a day, like complimenting her on her new hairstyle (who says you never notice?) or cooking her dinner when she lands a much-anticipated promotion. The researchers found that such expressions of affection and esteem not only improve the health of a relationship, but also keep the romance (and passion) alive.


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Notices to Mariners
Correction of charts and publication of the BSH
Mariners are requested to use the current editions of the nautical charts and publications, correct them continuously and keep them up to date. All changes that have occurred after the publication of a nautical chart or publication can be found in the Notices to Mariners (NfS). They contain corrections and reports on measures and events of major or supra-regional importance.
The NfS correct only the latest editions of the official German nautical charts and publications listed in the catalogue of nautical charts and publications (german). They also contain communications and regulations from authorities insofar as they are of importance for the navigation of ships or are prescribed by law.
The annual supplement of the "Nachrichten für Seefahrer" contains an overview of the nautical information service. In addition, this supplement contains important information and communications, which are updated annually.
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The NfS are published weekly in both printed and digital form. The news for seafarers in digital form have the same price as the printed edition: 3.50 € for the single issue/12.00 € for one month.
Mariners are requested to carry the current and NfS volumes of the two previous years on board (in accordance with the equipment guidelines - SchSV). For this reason, the 2018 and 2017 annual edition can be obtained as a service separately on CD at the price of € 170.00 per annual edition.
Please order printed NfS booklets from our sales offices.
You can obtain the digital edition of NfS via this access for subscribers (german).
Free excerpts or summaries from the NfS issues
- Überblick zum nautischen Informationsdienst in Deutschland (PDF, 7MB, Not barrier-free file.)
(appears at the beginning of each year)
This overview is enclosed with the first NfS issue of each year. It contains information on the Navigational Warning System, nautical publications, the Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME) and Maritime Emergency Reporting and Assessment Centre (MERAC) and further information.
- Gültige P- und T-Berichtigungen (PDF, 12KB, Not barrier-free file.)
(published weekly)
The list contains all valid P and T messages sorted by chart number and NfS issue; these P and T messages are not included in New Issues of the BSH charts.
- Liste der Benachrichtigungen und Mitteilungen
(published semi-annually)
The list contains all corrections and messages (including P and T messages) sorted by year; they are recommended for retrospective corrections over a longer period of time.
- Liste der Seegebiete und Seekarten (PDF, 20KB, Not barrier-free file.)
(published semi-annually)
The list contains a summary of chart numbers related to a specific sea area, such as North Sea, Baltic Sea and Polar Sea.
Zusammenstellung der Karten und Bücher, die im aktuellen NfS-Heft korrigiert werden (PDF, 186KB, Not barrier-free file.)
Having continuously corrected the nautical charts and publications, this list simplifies the correction by providing a compilation of all charts and publications corrected in the current NfS edition.
- Zusammenstellung aller Berichtigungen für die Klein- und Sportschifffahrt seit der letzten neuen Ausgabe (PDF, 182KB, Not barrier-free file.)
The compilation contains all corrections from the last New Edition to the current NfS Edition, sorted by NfS editions and chart numbers.

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Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
Genres & themes: Adult, urban fantasy, witches, vampires, fairies, magic, friendship, trust, mystery.
Received: borrowed
My rating: 3.5 of 5 shadowed stars
All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party … and to feed.
Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining — and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized.
A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead … or undead.
My head tells me 3 stars, but my heart says 4. Which makes an average of 3.5 (but you knew that already.)
Yes, that is the reaction I had after starting Dead Witch Walking (great title by the way.) I was so surprised while discovering every 'creature' this book contains. There are witches, vampires, trolls (apparently,) fairies, PIXIES… PIXIES guys. There are PIXIES. Plus, one of them is an important character of the story! I'm talking about this one:
(On the left, we have Ivy (vampire) and on the right…wait for it…RACHEL (witch!)! And, in between, cute little pixie Jenks.)
So, the world building was an A, for me, in the UF genre. The Fever series used to be in the lead, on the very very top, for the world building but The Hollows definitely took its position. (Sorry dear.)
Rachel wasn't the best female lead ever. I prefer MacKayla Lane way better than her, but she sure has her charm. I just thought she was really acting stupidly and recklessly at some times. Like when she transformed herself in a mink and didn't plan a way of turning back immediately if being caught. Maybe she just couldn't but it annoyed me still. That brings another small issue I had with this book…
It's slow. It was actually my first time, as I remember, reading an UF book that slow. The ones I usually read are fast-paced or have lots of action, events happening or mysteries to be solved. Yeah, I did lose interest when she was a mink. BUT, it's the only time I did lose interest, because I just couldn't before with the world building being so amazing. I don't really like shape shifters. I don't find anything interesting in reading a book with a person transforming herself into an animal. Although, that's very personal so maybe it won't be a bother for you as much as it was for me.
I know I criticize this book more than I should, but I did like it a lot and I will read the sequels very soon for sure. It had few SMALL flaws though. Another one of them is it not having many IMPORTANT sexy, hot, charming and irresistible male characters. There are some random ones but they don't really last. I heard though that this book is actually not the best in the series so I look very forward to seeing how it'll go and especially some development (please) in Rachel's character.
The writing was fabulous and just utterly perfect and surprisingly better than I expected. I read every book in Kim Harrison's trilogy for YA (Madison Avery) and it didn't quite work for me. I mean, it was interesting (the main subject) but the characters weren't as much developed and 'alive' as I hoped. Also, in the Madison Avery series, slowness was very (too much) present and this time frustratingly slow. I don't recommend that series if you have a big TBR pile. Was just OK. I do, however, recommend Death Witch Walking with sparkly eyes (and a big smile.)
View all my reviews on Goodreads.
Image source: http://valliantcreations.deviantart.com/art/Rachel-Morgan-Fan-Art-99707031


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Holiday season has only just begun, and the last thing taxpayers are probably thinking about is tax season. But anyone hoping to position themselves well for an interesting tax year should probably give it a little brainpower.
?For the last several years, Congress has given the taxpayers and the tax community these little jolts. They are at the point where they are making up tax laws for the year that has passed,? said Merry Brodie, an enrolled agent with Atlanta-based Brodie Accounting Services, which helps individuals and small businesses with tax planning and filing.
With taxes as a moving target, preparation is all about planning. Here are some things Brodie says taxpayers can do right now to get ready for what?s ahead and possibly save money.
?Get organized. Start gathering receipts and other items needed to support your 2013 returns, Brodie said. Day care receipts, health expenses and pay stubs all act as supporting documents for your returns.
?Review the past. Sit with your old tax returns and current pay stubs and do an estimated tax return for 2013. If you can?t do it yourself, spend about $50 to have a professional do it for you, Brodie said. The objective is to get an early idea of your tax liability so you can make proper adjustments.
?Spend money to save money. ?Everybody wants to save money on taxes and it takes money to save money,? Brodie said. Actions such as increasing your 401(k) payments in these next few months or allocating money next year to medical reimbursement or dependent care accounts require you to pay pre-tax money, but they also lower your adjusted gross income, or AGI. The lower your AGI, the less you owe the government. You may even be able to do something as simple as adjust the withholding on your last few paychecks of the year to help bring your tax payments in line with your tax liability.
?Be generous. Charitable donations can help you reduce taxes owed as long as you itemize your return. But be warned: A few $25 donations and a couple of Goodwill receipts are probably not going to help you much, Brodie said.
?Know the law and act accordingly. It helps to be aware of tax law changes in any given year, Brodie said. In 2013, for example, higher-income individuals ? singles with income of $200,000 or more or couples filing jointly with income of $250,000 or more ? will pay more taxes.
The minimum for medical expense deductions for anyone under 65 increases from 7.5 percent to 10 percent of income, which means fewer people will qualify. In addition, the forgiveness debt on home foreclosures, sales tax deduction, private mortgage insurance deduction, teacher?s classroom supplies deduction, tuition and fees deduction, and residential energy tax credit are only good for 2013. Taking action in these areas before the end of the year will put you in a position to take those deductions.
?Consider the power of three. There is nothing wrong with doing your own taxes, Brodie said, but every three years it?s a good idea to have an enrolled agent ? a professional qualified to represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service ? complete or review your work. That way, if you missed something, you will still have time to file an amended return.
Source: MCT Information Services


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Posts in this category
- Current State of Exceptions in Rakudo and Perl 6
- Meet DBIish, a Perl 6 Database Interface
- doc.perl6.org and p6doc
- Exceptions Grant Report for May 2012
- Exceptions Grant Report -- Final update
- Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo: Be Prepared!
- Localization for Exception Messages
- News in the Rakudo 2012.05 release
- News in the Rakudo 2012.06 release
- Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo: Report From The First Day
- Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo: Report From The Second Day
- Quo Vadis Perl?
- Rakudo Hack: Dynamic Export Lists
- SQLite support for DBIish
- Stop The Rewrites!
- Upcoming Perl 6 Hackathon in Oslo, Norway
- A small regex optimization for NQP and Rakudo
- Pattern Matching and Unpacking
- Rakudo's Abstract Syntax Tree
- The REPL trick
- First day at YAPC::Europe 2013 in Kiev
- YAPC Europe 2013 Day 2
- YAPC Europe 2013 Day 3
- A new Perl 6 community server - call for funding
- New Perl 6 community server now live, accepting signups
- A new Perl 6 community server - update
- All Perl 6 modules in a box
- doc.perl6.org: some stats, future directions
- Profiling Perl 6 code on IRC
- Why is it hard to write a compiler for Perl 6?
- Writing docs helps you take the user's perspective
- Perl 6 Advent Calendar 2016 -- Call for Authors
- Perl 6 By Example: Running Rakudo
- Perl 6 By Example: Formatting a Sudoku Puzzle
- Perl 6 By Example: Testing the Say Function
- Perl 6 By Example: Testing the Timestamp Converter
- Perl 6 By Example: Datetime Conversion for the Command Line
- What is Perl 6?
- Perl 6 By Example, Another Perl 6 Book
- Perl 6 By Example: Silent Cron, a Cron Wrapper
- Perl 6 By Example: Testing Silent Cron
- Perl 6 By Example: Stateful Silent Cron
- Perl 6 By Example: Perl 6 Review
- Perl 6 By Example: Parsing INI files
- Perl 6 By Example: Improved INI Parsing with Grammars
- Perl 6 By Example: Generating Good Parse Errors from a Parser
- Perl 6 By Example: A File and Directory Usage Graph
- Perl 6 By Example: Functional Refactorings for Directory Visualization Code
- Perl 6 By Example: A Unicode Search Tool
- What's a Variable, Exactly?
- Perl 6 By Example: Plotting using Matplotlib and Inline::Python
- Perl 6 By Example: Stacked Plots with Matplotlib
- Perl 6 By Example: Idiomatic Use of Inline::Python
- Perl 6 By Example: Now "Perl 6 Fundamentals"
- Perl 6 Books Landscape in June 2017
- Living on the (b)leading edge
- The Loss of Name and Orientation
- Perl 6 Fundamentals Now Available for Purchase
- My Ten Years of Perl 6
- Perl 6 Coding Contest 2019: Seeking Task Makers
- A shiny perl6.org site
- Creating an entry point for newcomers
- An offer for software developers: free IRC logging
- Sprixel, a 6 compiler powered by JavaScript
- Announcing try.rakudo.org, an interactive Perl 6 shell in your browser
- Another perl6.org iteration
- Blackjack and Perl 6
- Why I commit Crud to the Perl 6 Test Suite
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 5: Implement Str.trans
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 8: Implement $*ARGFILES for Rakudo
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 6: Improve Book markup
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 2: Fix up a test
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 9: Implement Hash.pick for Rakudo
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 11: Improve an error message for Hyper Operators
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 - Lottery Intermission
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 3: Write supporting code for the MAIN sub
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 1: A website for proto
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 4: Implement :samecase for .subst
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 10: Implement samespace for Rakudo
- This Week's Contribution to Perl 6 Week 7: Implement try.rakudo.org
- What is the "Cool" class in Perl 6?
- Report from the Perl 6 Hackathon in Copenhagen
- Custom operators in Rakudo
- A Perl 6 Date Module
- Defined Behaviour with Undefined Values
- Dissecting the "Starry obfu"
- The case for distributed version control systems
- Perl 6: Failing Softly with Unthrown Exceptions
- Perl 6 Compiler Feature Matrix
- The first Perl 6 module on CPAN
- A Foray into Perl 5 land
- Gabor: Keep going
- First Grant Report: Structured Error Messages
- Second Grant Report: Structured Error Messages
- Third Grant Report: Structured Error Messages
- Fourth Grant Report: Structured Error Messages
- Google Summer of Code Mentor Recap
- How core is core?
- How fast is Rakudo's "nom" branch?
- Building a Huffman Tree With Rakudo
- Immutable Sigils and Context
- Is Perl 6 really Perl?
- Mini-Challenge: Write Your Prisoner's Dilemma Strategy
- List.classify
- Longest Palindrome by Regex
- Perl 6: Lost in Wonderland
- Lots of momentum in the Perl 6 community
- Monetize Perl 6?
- Musings on Rakudo's spectest chart
- My first executable from Perl 6
- My first YAPC - YAPC::EU 2010 in Pisa
- Trying to implement new operators - failed
- Programming Languages Are Not Zero Sum
- Perl 6 notes from February 2011
- Notes from the YAPC::EU 2010 Rakudo hackathon
- Let's build an object
- Perl 6 is optimized for fun
- How to get a parse tree for a Perl 6 Program
- Pascal's Triangle in Perl 6
- Perl 6 in 2009
- Perl 6 in 2010
- Perl 6 in 2011 - A Retrospection
- Perl 6 ticket life cycle
- The Perl Survey and Perl 6
- The Perl 6 Advent Calendar
- Perl 6 Questions on Perlmonks
- Physical modeling with Math::Model and Perl 6
- How to Plot a Segment of a Circle with SVG
- Results from the Prisoner's Dilemma Challenge
- Protected Attributes Make No Sense
- Publicity for Perl 6
- PVC - Perl 6 Vocabulary Coach
- Fixing Rakudo Memory Leaks
- Rakudo architectural overview
- Rakudo Rocks
- Rakudo "star" announced
- My personal "I want a PONIE" wish list for Rakudo Star
- Rakudo's rough edges
- Rats and other pets
- The Real World Strikes Back - or why you shouldn't forbid stuff just because you think it's wrong
- Releasing Rakudo made easy
- Set Phasers to Stun!
- Starry Perl 6 obfu
- Recent Perl 6 Developments August 2008
- The State of Regex Modifiers in Rakudo
- Strings and Buffers
- Subroutines vs. Methods - Differences and Commonalities
- A SVG plotting adventure
- A Syntax Highlighter for Perl 6
- Test Suite Reorganization: How to move tests
- The Happiness of Design Convergence
- Thoughts on masak's Perl 6 Coding Contest
- The Three-Fold Function of the Smart Match Operator
- Perl 6 Tidings from September and October 2008
- Perl 6 Tidings for November 2008
- Perl 6 Tidings from December 2008
- Perl 6 Tidings from January 2009
- Perl 6 Tidings from February 2009
- Perl 6 Tidings from March 2009
- Perl 6 Tidings from April 2009
- Perl 6 Tidings from May 2009
- Perl 6 Tidings from May 2009 (second iteration)
- Perl 6 Tidings from June 2009
- Perl 6 Tidings from August 2009
- Perl 6 Tidings from October 2009
- Timeline for a syntax change in Perl 6
- Visualizing match trees
- Want to write shiny SVG graphics with Perl 6? Port Scruffy!
- We write a Perl 6 book for you
- When we reach 100% we did something wrong
- Where Rakudo Lives Now
- Why Rakudo needs NQP
- Why was the Perl 6 Advent Calendar such a Success?
- What you can write in Perl 6 today
- Why you don't need the Y combinator in Perl 6
- You are good enough!
Sun, 19 Oct 2008
Perl 6 Tidings from September and October 2008
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Perl 6 has got two new operators.
Series, again and again
The series operator
... (yes, literally three dots) lazily constructs infinite series
of objects. It takes a list on the left and a closure on the right, and calls
the closure to determine the next values. It is best introduced by a few
my @even = 0, 2, 4 ... { $_ + 2 }; my @fib = 1, 1, 2 ... { $^a + $^b }; my @powers = 1, 2, 4 ... { $_ * 2 };
These examples use a few items on the left for clarity, but it's only necessary to supply as many values as the closure expects.
The second new operator is
infix:<also>, which
all-junctions like
but guarantees order of execution.
Its primary purpose is to allow tests with follow-up tests that might otherwise throw exceptions.
ok('abc' ~~ m/<identifier>/ also $<identifier>.chars == 3);
New regex feature for matching delimited constructs
While trying to generate a syntax tree from his Perl 6 parser STD.pm, Larry noticed one construct that was repeated all over the grammar, and introduced unnecessary submatches. It looks like this:
rule argument_list { '(' <semilist> [ ')' || <panic: "Can't find closing ')'"> ] }
This can now be replaced with this short construct:
rule postcircumfix:sym<( )> { '(' ~ ')' <semilist> }
~ meta character is a parser combinator inspired by
Haskell's parsec. It basically sets up a parsing goal (in this
example the closing paren) and then executes the following subrule. If the
goal can't be found, a nice error message is given.
To produce even nicer error messages on parse failures, the new
:dba (stands for "do business as") adverb can give rules
a human-understandable name (human = not a compiler implementer, but a mere
mortal Perl 6 hacker).
If the example rule above failed to match, it would say Error while
parsing postcircumfix:sym<( )>: can't find closing ')'. Adding a
:dba<argument list> would replace the unfriendly
postcircumfix blah with... well, you get the picture.
Tests part of the language?
There's also (sic) ongoing
talk about moving the testing
capabilities that are now in
Test.pm into the language
core. A likely scenario is that there will be a
:ok adverb on
comparison operators that has roughly the same semantics the the
ok() sub, but enables better diagnosis messages in case of
# Warning: hypothetical syntax ahead 'abc' ~~ m/a(.)b/ :ok<basic regex match works>; 'abc' ~~ String :ok<type check>; 2.rand <= 2 :ok<Int.rand stays in limit>;
To achieve this, all comparison operators would need to get a new multi
that accepts the named (mandatory) argument
:ok. That seems like
a big change, but most (or even all) could be generated automatically, and the
candidate lists for the multis could be pre-computed mostly at compile time,
so no (runtime) performance hit is expected.
Enhance the Match object by token list
Currently the Match object (the thing that's returned from a regex match) gives you no easy access to the sub-matches in the order in which they occured in the string, which means it's quite hard to extract information from it that the writer of the original regex didn't think about making available.
In particular I tried to (ab)use the match tree from STD.pm to write a syntax hilighter, and found it to be a rather daunting task. So I suggested to add such sequential information to the Match object. Larry liked the idea, because he knows what pain the Perl 5 parser causes because it forgets information too quickly (actually it never builds a full parse tree, it generates the optree on the fly. That's efficient, but makes introspection very hard).
However it's not entirely clear if it will be added, and if yes, in which form. Unclear are (a) performance impact, (b) access syntax and (c) symmetry.
(b) and (c) need more explanation: The match object already has list
semantics for accessing positional captures, so you can't make the sequential
chunks available through an array index. The most simple solution is
composition, ie a method< code>$/.splits or
that returns such a list.
But that
breaks a
fundamental symmetry that now exists between match
objects and captures (ie argument lists). Both can have a scalar component
(the object that
make returned/the method invocant), list
components (positional captures/positional arguments) and hash components
(named captures/named arguments). Introducing a way of accessing the
components of a match object in a completely different order breaks that
symmetry. We're not yet entirely clear on what that means for the language.
Jerry "particle" Gay implemented the
is export on subroutines,
taking a large leap towards making modules usable in Rakudo. To facilitate
testing of this new feature he also implemented the
=:= infix
operator (tests whether two variables are aliases).
Allison Randal merged a branch which reworked Parrot's multi sub and multi method dispatch system. That broke some complex math in Rakudo, leaving us with "only" about 4380 passing spec tests. Otherwise we might have hit the 4500 mark by now. Still it's good work, and is expected to solve some fundamental problems in the mid or long term.
Mitchell Charity worked furiously on the new Lisp backend for elf, bringing it (almost?) to bootstrap. That demonstrated the flexibility of elf, and allows to get rid of some quirks that can creep into a compiler if it has only one backend.
It also opens up an opportunity for hackers that want to help with a Perl 6 compiler by writing code in Perl 6. Or Lisp.
STD.pm and viv
STD.pm is the Perl 6 grammar written in Perl 6. It now parses all Perl 6 code that we know of, so it's time to find out if it actually parses it in a useful way, and to check if it loses information while parsing.
Finding that out is one of the goals of viv (Read that as
VI → V and
think of Roman numbers). The other goal is to replace
which currently does the ugly, hacky job of translating STD.pm to Perl 5
It's a script that uses reduce actions at the end of each grammar rulle to build some kind of parse tree or abstract syntax tree, and it's planned to produce either Perl 6 or Perl 5 output. We'll see what the future (and $larry) brings.
Pugs and the test suite
Pugs is still hibernating, and waiting for the release of GHC 6.10.1.
If pugs hibernates, the test suite has a light slumber, and is occasionally disturbed in its peace by a few more tests now and then.
Daniel Ruoso and Paweł Murias are both hacking actively on smop. Currently on the agenda is multi dispatch, which is more complicated than it sounds at first. Remember that slurpy argument lists are lazy, which makes things more complicated.
For me it's rather hard to judge how much progress they are making, or how close they are to run basic, real-world code.
Update: Paweł contributed another small explanation:
SMOP now has a new compiler named mildew which uses viv/STD as its parser. Right now it supports only a handful of operations, the most advanced of it is creating an object with a simplified meta model.
It lives in the Pugs repository under
v6/mildew/. Anyone who
wants to hack on it (in Perl 5) is welcome, instructions can be found on


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Jalopnik sources tell us pricing on the 2009 Corvette Competition Sport's now official. The Z51-equipped 1LT will run $55,655 and the Z06 model will cost you $77,500 including charges.
Keep in mind a regular 2009 Corvette Coupe 1LT with the Z51 performance package and NPP performance exhaust is $52,305 and a Z06 1LZ is $74,775. What do you think — is it a good value? Here again is what we've been told to expect:
2009 Competition Sport Corvette (RPO CSC)
Chevrolet introduces a new Corvette package available for a limited time
The Competition Sport package is for the Corvette purist and driving enthusiast
Perfect Corvette for the enthusiast who attends driving schools and track events
Focus on lightweight and performance driving
Serious track influenced design features
Excellent value pricing - Limited build scheduled for Spring '09 only
Included in the package:
Competition Gray Exterior Stripes, Wheels, and Headlamps
Corvette Racing 'Jake' and CSR logos on b-pillar, headrest, and center armrest
-Ebony Interior with titanium embroidery
-Corvette Racing Pedals from GCA
-Special engine cover
-Racing style numbers with number based on build sequence to be installed by customer
Available in either Coupe 1LT with 436 hp or Z06 1LZ with 505 hp versions
-Z06 version available in 17U Blade Silver or 41U Black
Coupe version available in 17U Blade Silver or 10U Arctic White
Coupe version also includes in package:
Z51 Performance Package, NPP Performance Exhaust, Differential Cooler
Head Up Display
Red Painted Brake Calipers
Z06 tall spoiler


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Is Egypt Becoming a Family Republic?
Egypt has scheduled parliamentary elections for 2010 and a presidential election for 2011. With this in mind, there have been increasing speculations on who will govern the country in future, should the now 81-year-old President Hosni Mubarak be unable to do so for health reasons. The most likely successor is Gamal Mubarak, the president's 47-year-old son, who has been placed in key positions in the governing National Democratic Party (NDP) over the past few years by his father.
It is more than doubtful, meanwhile, that such a "dynastic solution" would gain majority support from the electorate. The leadership circle around the president has therefore chosen a dual strategy to secure the Mubarak regime. Firstly, it has restricted the actions of the opposition through repression and changes to the constitution. And secondly, it has attempted to reinforce the loyalty of the military and the business elite towards the presidential family.
Constitutional modifications
The opposition boycotted the 2007 constitutional referendum in protest at the government's despotic approach. The voting papers had been rushed through parliament with the votes of the NDP, for example, and the date of the referendum was brought forward at short notice. Official calculations put participation in the referendum at a low 27 percent, with observers considering even this figure too high.
The constitution was modified in three decisive points in relation to parliamentary elections: Firstly, any political activity related to a religious frame of reference was banned, secondly a foundation was laid for the introduction of a list system, and thirdly monitoring was transferred to an election commission, away from the partly independent judiciary.
Particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, officially banned but generally tolerated and Egypt's most important opposition group, was put at a disadvantage by these changes. The Muslim Brothers have renounced violence and are working towards political participation within the existing system. The constitution now makes it impossible for them to found their own political party, and if a list system were introduced for the next elections Muslim Brothers would no longer be able to gain seats as "independent" candidates as in the past.
In relation to the presidential elections, the complicated form of article 76 of the constitution sets extremely difficult conditions for candidates. As Hosni Mubarak has signalised his willingness to run for office again in 2011, by which time he will be 83, we can assume that Gamal Mubarak will only apply for the presidency when his father's health no longer allows him to carry out his duties. In this case, the constitution states that elections must take place within 60 days – leaving the opposition no time to nominate a candidate of their own with a chance of success.
Support from the military and business elite
A handover of the presidency from father to son is inconceivable without the support of the military leadership. Even though there appear to be reservations within the officers' corps, open resistance is highly unlikely. Secret Service chief Omar Suleiman is evidently expected to secure the support of the military leadership for Gamal Mubarak. Suleiman is highly respected within the military and in parts of the general public, and is regarded as loyal towards the presidential family.
The officers' corps will presumably follow Suleiman's lead, particularly as it is unclear whether it sees any attractive alternative to the father-son power transfer. The military has a vested interest in maintaining its many material privileges, due above all to years of US military aid. This position would not appear to be threatened by Gamal Mubarak's possible presidency, as he has maintained good contacts to the US administration for several years.
Nor will the emerging Egyptian business elite have significant difficulties with the planned handover at the top. Gamal Mubarak's express support within the NDP for the economic reforms of the past years meant this elite has profited abundantly, supporting Gamal Mubarak's climb up the political ladder in return.
A handful of families now dominate key areas of the private sector, influencing the political sphere for the most part in favour of the president: directly by taking on offices in the government or the NDP; indirectly through relations to political decision-makers or by running print media and TV stations.
Toothless opposition
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Fractured and lamed by quarrels within the various parties and movements: Egypt's opposition. Pictured: demonstration of the "Kefaya!" movement in 2005 | The opposition has little up its sleeve to counter the regime's strategy. Not only is it under constant threat of repression, particularly in the form of random arrests; it is also fractured and lamed by quarrels within the various parties and movements. An anti-succession alliance of mainly secular opposition members has tried – so far in vain – to pick up the thread of public attention achieved by the opposition movement "Kefaya!" (Enough!) between 2004 and 2006.
Opposition circles have also recently been calling for an independent presidential candidate, naming two prominent names: Mohammed al-Baradei, the former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Amr Moussa, the Secretary General of the Arab League and former Egyptian foreign minister. Yet the restrictive rulings of article 76 mean neither of the two have a chance of being accepted as candidates.
The Muslim Brotherhood, meanwhile, has been going through internal debates on its political direction, with the conservative, more apolitical wing gaining the upper hand. The organisation's newly elected leader (murshid), Mohamed Badie, belongs to this group. The mainly younger representatives of the more liberal urban wing, who are demanding a stronger political emphasis and more collaboration with other opposition groups and parties, will now have an even harder time being heard within the Brotherhood.
Stagnation, not change
The continuation of the Mubarak regime would not only lengthen an authoritarian system. Egypt's socio-economic development, less than satisfactory over Hosni Mubarak's almost thirty years in office, would presumably continue to stagnate. The 1991 economic reforms systematically ignored the major obstacles to development such as corruption and inadequate competition regulations.
Worse still: broad swathes of the population were excluded from the already slow-moving economic progress, intensifying the country's social tensions. These tensions will continue to intensify, particularly in the face of strong population growth and progressive environmental damage.
Germany and the EU have an interest in political stability in Egypt, the southern Mediterranean country with the largest population. Long-term stability, however, requires sustainable economic development and distributive justice. Neither are conceivable in Egypt without separation and monitoring of political powers. The international community should therefore press for an opening of the political system. For the elections, this means calling for maximum transparency and election observers – and not only directly before the respective vote itself.
Above all, however, Europe must demand a relaxation of the restrictive election regulations. This includes expressly calling for a possibility for the Muslim Brotherhood to take part in the political process. Without it, political participation will never be extended in Egypt.
Stephan Roll
Stephan Roll is a research fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, working mainly on Egypt.
© Qantara.de 2010
Translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire


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In HIV Prevention, Protect the Mothers: A Message to the World Health Assembly 2012
It is critical that the barriers facing women in relation to accessing supportive peri-natal services are fully understood and addressed including structural drivers such as poverty, gender-based violence from partners, in-laws and neighbours, and property and inheritance rights loss. If we do not address these issues, we can not "save the babies."
This article is co-authored with Susan Paxton, Violeta Ross, and Sophie Dilmitis.
In the wake of a new "cupcake" campaign to "believe it, do it" from UNAIDS and in this week of the World Health Assembly meeting of all the world's ministers of health in Geneva, Switzerland, we who are women living with HIV working professionally on gender, HIV and rights issues — all of which have also profoundly affected us personally — have some reflections. Medication is now available that can ensure all babies are born HIV-free. Women with HIV — more than anyone — want to ensure their babies are born free of HIV. However, we are concerned that talking about "saving babies," as this campaign does, without putting equal emphasis on upholding women's rights to safety and good health care is a short-term, unsustainable approach to the issue.
We know from longitudinal studies that the best way of keeping babies and children healthy during their first ten years is to ensure that their mothers are healthy along with them[1]. Happy healthy and safe women with HIV result in happy, healthy, and safe children.
Most women with HIV are now diagnosed in ante-natal clinics, often without pre-test counselling, a violation of their rights.[2] In many centers, women experience coerced testing as a pre-condition for ante-natal care, are separated from other women if their test result is HIV-positive, are blamed for getting pregnant, and may be coerced into abortion, hormonal contraception, or sterilization simply because they are HIV-positive and pregnant. A growing body of research indicates the high levels of gender-based violence experienced by women living with HIV upon diagnosis,[3] a a reality that is not being effectively addressed.
Arecent study of over 750 pregnant HIV-positive women in six Asian countries[4] found that woman known to be HIV-positive are often mistreated by health care staff. Many faced abuse and delayed treatment when attending ante-natal clinics, coerced abortion and sterilisation, and neglect and abandonment during delivery.
"When I went to the obstetrics department the staff were afraid of me and said, 'How dare you have a baby'… The doctor gave me many reasons why I should not continue with the pregnancy." (Kieu, Viet Nam)
"During the delivery the doctor wanted to put on two sets of gloves. He had put up on one set of gloves but the baby was already coming out and the doctor tried to push it back in so he could put on another set of gloves." (Saru, Nepal)
Because of the fear of how they will be treated by health staff many pregnant HIV-positive women avoid ante-natal clinics and are then blamed as being irresponsible and jeopardizing their baby's health. In many countries women are thrown out of their homes and lose their older children when it is found they have HIV; some women risk criminalization for HIV transmission to their child.
It is critical that the barriers facing women in relation to accessing supportive peri-natal services are fully understood and addressed including structural drivers such as poverty, gender-based violence from partners, in-laws and neighbours, and property and inheritance rights loss.
Abuse of women's rights has a deeply damaging effect on women's lives and a long-term negative impact on their children. How women with HIV are treated is critical to them and to their children's health and well-being and long-term capacity to remain HIV-free.
Many programmes that are geared towards meeting targets of numbers of children born HIV-free do not address these major long term global challenges which women with HIV who are having babies face. Programs need to be holistic and sensitive. Simply testing women for HIV and then providing them with appropriate medication presents a "sticking plaster" approach and perpetuates existing attitudes that result in women with HIV continuing to experience abuse of their right to optimal health care.
The focus of publicity campaigns connected to mothers' day in the US and elsewhere on keeping babies HIV-free is the "safe" option, the simple end of the messy real world that HIV inhabits, the saving the "innocent babes" approach, the importance of which no-one will dispute. However in the process it must not be forgotten that those who are potentially best placed to keep babies and children HIV-free are also those who most dearly wish to do so — their mothers — women with HIV.
As we look ahead to Rio and the Sustainable Development Goals, upholding women's rights is at the core of sustainable long-term change. How do we create sustainable lasting rights-based change – for women and children? We trust that the Ministers of Health from around the world meeting in Geneva this week at the World Health Assembly will understand that your support for our advocacy work is essential, in order to move more effectively towards the world we all seek—a world which is safe for women with HIV and free of HIV for the next generation.
An army marches on its stomach. A nation makes advances through the fabric and health of its communities. It is women who weave and hold the fabric of all our communities together around the world. If we are ill, our nations are ill. If we are supported, our nations will be healthy. We also need support if and when we choose to have children and access to comprehensive health services. Support includes the full range of information about and access to all forms of contraception that are under women's control; access to legal, safe abortion; full knowledge that if we wish to have a baby, we will feel safe to accept the voluntary and confidential offer of an HIV test – ideally before conception, and with a supportive partner being tested and counseled also, secure in the knowledge that if we learn that we have HIV it will make no difference to the care, respect and support we receive from all around us.
Dear Ministers, with your support, we can make a difference and create the HIV-free generation we all crave.
Hale F, Vazquez M, 2011, Violence Against Women living with HIV: A background paper UNWomen, DCN, ICW http://ww.salamandertrust.net/resources/VAPositiveWomenBkgrdPaperMarch2011.pdf
Salamander Trust, 2008, HIV, Women and Motherhood Audio Project http://www.salamandertrust.net/index.php/Projects/The_HIV,_Women_and_Motherhood_Audio_Project/
[4] APN+, 2012, "Positive and pregnant: How Dare You" www.salamandertrust.net/resources/APN+ReproductiveandMaternalHealthReportApril2012.pdf


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Let's be honest: you spend more time with your laptop than you do with most of your family and friends, so it's understandable that you'd want your ever-present digital hub to be as sleek and stylish as it is powerful. It doesn't matter if you're in your breakfast nook or at a sports bar; you've got to look at it all day, after all.
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Inside, the S1 packs a 2.1GHz Core i7 processor and 8GB of RAM, meaning it's got the power to back up its looks and flexibility. The battery-saving design of the Haswell processor also means that your ThinkPad will keep going just as long as you do.
And there you have it, the undeniable essentials for those of us fortunate enough to make a living from our humble abodes. Now you've got the computer, accessories, storage, and mobile gear. All you've got to do is keep your productivity up—whether you're at the desk or sprawled out on the chaise longue.


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First Solar Is Having An Amazing Week (FSLR)
A bunch of "hot" tech stocks, especially in biotech, are getting clobbered today.
But Tempe, Ariz.-based solar device developer First Solar is up nearly 4%, and it's actually poised to end the week up at least 30%.
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In addition, the company announced a new, ramped-up efficiency schedule for its solar modules. They are now targeting 16.2% in Q4 2015 and 17.2% by Q4 2017. In other words, their panels would convert 17% of the sunlight directed at them into electricity. The worldwide average is currently around 15%.
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During their pre-pageant questioning, each of the potential Miss USAs were asked a simple question: "Should evolution be taught in schools?" Here are their trimmed-down, wishy washy answers.
This year's winner, Miss Califorina's Alyssa Campanella, believes in evolution (she also said she was a big history geek). But sadly, the vast majority of the girls don't believe in evolution at all, and many don't think it should be taught in schools. Others refused to give a real answer to the question, and while others still took the opportunity to talk about how they think religion should be taught in school — we're looking at you, Miss Maine, Miss North Carolina, Miss Alaska, Miss Georgia... oh fuck it, we lost count.


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We are honored to have Michele Simonetty from Dover Middle School in Dover Plains, NY guest post with us today!
My school, Dover Middle School (Dover Union Free School District), has had a partnership with the Hudson Valley Writing Project (HVWP) for a few years now. I had received some Professional Development, but I had been a part-time participant until this year. This year, I had the opportunity to work with my 8th grade Team, and with Bonnie Kaplan from HVWP, to develop and improve writing practices for the students and ourselves.
I am a Special Education teacher, co-teaching ELA and Social Studies, and I have little writing training in my background. I often have a lot to say about things which, for me, makes writing an easy task. However, I had little understanding of writing as a craft, until now. Under Bonnie's direction, being challenged to write and practice the activities we wanted students to participate in has given me a better understanding of the purpose and meaning of writing.
Our Team was asked to write a piece that would be made into a digital story. The writing prompt revolved around a turning point in our lives or a specific event that changed our lives. When I first began, I just wanted to write and write, using imagery and big words to impress the readers! I enjoyed telling my story, and I enjoyed fishing through old photographs to find the ones that would help make my story clear. I thought it would be easy to turn my story into digital story. Text and pictures, right?
Once I began playing around with the Photostory program I realized I had written way too much. I told my friend and co-teacher Jack Zangerle (8th grade ELA teacher) that "I was really trying to impress by using imagery in my writing but it made it too long. Now that I have added the photos…" Jack finished my sentence, "…you don't need all those words right, because people can SEE what you mean."
OK, so he had a really good point. He's probably crossed out millions of words in revising and editing his own work…but darn it, I worked hard to write my original piece, did I really want to begin crossing it out?
Lesson learned. I was a writer! Learning that editing is OK and that the finished piece doesn't always look like what you intended. THAT'S writing! So, I have the first draft of my very own digital story complete. Bonnie will watch it and will tell me it's still too long. But, that's OK…I can edit it….I am a writer. That's what writers do!


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Safety Culture, Emergency Preparedness, and Nuclear Explosive Operations at Pantex
Matters To Be Considered: In Session I of this public meeting and
hearing, the Board will receive testimony from the National Nuclear
Security Administration (NNSA) and its contractor concerning the safety
culture at the Pantex Plant. Areas of inquiry will include
identification of shortfalls in the Pantex safety culture, potential
impacts that a flawed safety culture may have on nuclear explosives
operations, and management approaches to improving safety culture. The
Board will also examine the status of emergency preparedness at the
Pantex Plant. The Board will focus on plans and capabilities to respond
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such as the event that occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.
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Hassam, Childe
Hassam, Childe (Frederick Childe Hassam)chīld hăs´əm [key], 1859–1935, American painter and printmaker, b. Boston, studied in Paris. With their flickering light and airy palette, Hassam's sprightly landscapes, cityscapes, and interiors show the strong influence of late 19th-century French painting, and he is probably the best known of America's impressionists. Examples of his work include many scenes on the Isles of Shoals and July 14th, Rue Daunou, 1910 (1910), The New York Window (1912), The Church at Gloucester (1918), and Fifth Avenue (1919). He also illustrated Celia Thaxter's An Island Garden (1894). An extremely prolific and popular artist, he is represented in virtually every major American museum.
See his lithographs with text by F. Griffith (1962); biography by D. F. Hoopes (1988); I. S. Fort, The Flag Paintings of Childe Hassam (1988); H. B. Weinberg et al., Childe Hassam, American Impressionist (2004).
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One of my ducks started another nest of eggs, near the busy MLK street side of my garden. She pulled out a bunch of soft downy feathers and settled in right next to the chain link fence. I thought: good luck with that. Periodically eggs would roll from the nest under the fence to the sidewalk. I watched a few passersby pause, look at this greenish egg rolling around with the ubiquitous Dorito bags, and then gently push the egg back into the nest.
So it's through a community effort that these ducklings finally hatched.
They are certainly adorable. But then they grow up. What's a girl to do that has a pending permit from the City of Oakland that says: "No slaughtering or butchering of animals allowed?"
With previous hatches, I had been lucky and bartered with people–they got ducklings, I got some produce. But a few duckies did stick around and they grew up, and I had some big ducks on my hands. I figured it would be pretty easy to find a slaughterhouse. Nope. One place I called said they don't process ducks, just chickens. Another said they had a 100 duck minimum. Finally I found a place in Manteca that would process my measly 8 ducks. Manteca is an hour's drive away. To process 8 ducks, it would cost $80 ($10/duck). The paradox that I could buy a cooked duck from Chinatown for less than $10 was not lost on me. Still, I went. I didn't have many other options.
The trip to Manteca was actually kind of fun because my friend D came along, and of course so did Billy and baby Francis. The slaughterhouse was a real mom and pop affair, not the nightmare PETA video places that I imagine when I think slaughterhouse. They did an outstanding, quick, clean job with the ducks. Much faster than I would, and less painful–my fingers really get weary trying to get all those pin feathers. Although $10/duck seemed high, I realized that if someone had walked up to me and said, "i'll do that for $10," I do believe I would have gladly handed them the duck.
The money's spent, the fuel burned, I'm not mad about it. But I do wonder how this Oakland no slaughter law will work for someone with no car and no cash.
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Maine wedding planners embracing gay community
Networking event held in Portland
With same-sex marriage and gay rights a hot topic across the country, some of Maine's wedding professionals are embracing same-sex couples.
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Business owners gathered at a networking event hosted by Gayweddingsinmaine.com in Portland. The website serves as a directory for same-sex friendly vendors.
Dan Kennedy, a florist, is one of those vendors. "We're finding that they aren't as big as a traditional wedding. They're more intimate," Kennedy said of same-sex ceremonies.
"The first year is sort of the hardest year and I think it's going to get easier as more people start coming to get married in Maine," Sid Tripp, Gayweddingsinmaine.com, said. Maine legalized same-sex marriage in 2012.
According to Tripp, around 1,600 same-sex couples have wed since the law passed. Those ceremonies have generated an additional $5 million in revenue for Maine's wedding industry.
"We actually have several booked already for this coming year," Kennedy said.
Margaret Kennedy, a wedding planner, said her business has seen a 25 percent increase since same-sex marriage went into effect. However, Kennedy said she knows some vendors who are hesitant to take advantage of this new market.
"I've seen a few who have been a little hesitant and I don't think that it's that they don't approve of it or support it; I think it's just new. And sometimes when something is new, it's scary," she said.
Tripp remains optimistic, "We were the first state to have gay marriage by popular vote. We also have a gay gubernatorial candidate so now people are really looking at Maine and saying, 'Wow, Maine is a very progressive place,' I just think that the whole country is going to follow suit."
According to the industry tracking website The Wedding Report, Maine's wedding industry is worth $230 million.


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NAMEtwfiles - overview of files used by Tripwire and file backup process
DESCRIPTION.SS Configuration File default: /etc/tripwire/tw.cfg
The configuration file stores system-specific information, such as the location of Tripwire data files. The configuration settings are generated during the installation process, but can be changed by the system administrator at any time. See the twconfig(4) man page for a more complete discussion. .SS Policy File default: /etc/tripwire/tw.pol
The policy file consists of a series of rules specifying the system objects that Tripwire should monitor, and the data for each object that should be collected and stored in the database file. Should unexpected changes occur, the policy file can describe the person to be notified and the severity of the violation. See the policyguide.txt file in the policy directory and the twpolicy(4) man page for a more complete discussion. .SS Database File default: /var/lib/$(HOSTNAME).twd
The database file serves as the baseline for integrity checking. After installation, Tripwire creates the initial database file, a "snapshot" of the filesystem in a known secure state. Later, when an integrity check is run, Tripwire compares each system object described in the policy file against its corresponding entry in the database. A report is created, and if an object has changed outside of constraints defined in the policy file, a violation is reported. See the tripwire(8) and twprint(8) man pages for more information on creating and maintaining database files. .SS Report Files default: /var/lib/tripwire/report/$(HOSTNAME)-$(DATE).twr
Once the above three files have been created, Tripwire can run an integrity check and search for any differences between the current system and the data stored in the "baseline" Tripwire database. This information is archived into report files, a collection of rule violations discovered during an integrity check. With the appropriate settings, a report can also be emailed to one or more recipients. See the tripwire(8) and twprint(8) man pages for information on creating and printing report files. .SS Key Files defaults: /etc/tripwire/site.key and /etc/tripwire/$(HOSTNAME)-local.key
It is critical that Tripwire files be protected from unauthorized access--an attacker who is able to modify these files can subvert Tripwire operation. For this reason, all of the above files are signed using public key cryptography to prevent unauthorized modification. Two separate sets of keys protect critical Tripwire data files. One or both of these key sets is necessary for performing almost every Tripwire task.
The site key is used to protect files that could be used across several
systems. This includes the policy and configuration files. The local
key is used to protect files specific to the local machine, such as the
Tripwire database. The local key may also be used for signing
integrity check reports. See the twadmin(8) man page for more
information on keys.
File BackupTo prevent the accidental deletion of important data, Tripwire automatically creates backup files whenever any Tripwire file is overwritten. The existing file will be renamed with a .bak extension, and the new version of the file will take its place. Only one backup copy for each filename can exist at any time. If a backup copy of a file already exists, the older backup file will be deleted and replaced with the newer one.
File backup is an integral part of Tripwire, and cannot be removed or changed.
VERSION INFORMATIONThis man page describes Tripwire 2.4.
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1. Aia i Honolulu kuu pohaku
Kapanookalani's thoughts:—This land Honolulu, it is close to Nanawale, Puna, by the sea. It is a ku, a small land in between large lands.
The stone [pohaku] is Lord [Haku] of the chiefess and in this word, the important idea is chiefess ['lii wahine].
Kahapula's thoughts:—Honolulu is on Oahu, where King Kamehameha V dwelt and those who opposed him is the Honolulu in this first line of the mele. It was here his enemies schemed and carried out all their defiant acts against him. While they knew the wish of the King to marry the chiefess Pauahi, her teacher, Amos Cooke secretly agreed to Bishop for him to meet with Pauahi without the knowledge of her parents. That is how Pauahi became Bishop's, and this is how Bishop and his relative Lee [? William Little Lee] became dignitaries of the land.
Kupihea's thoughts:—Honolulu is a fish stone called a Kuula, and was brought here to this Honolulu [on Oahu] from the Honolulu of Puna [on Hawaii]. This Kuula was placed in the tiny land of Honolulu where an Alii called Honolulu lived, who was related to the chiefess Peleula, whose younger sister was the beautiful Waikiki. This place is mauka of the old Rawlin's Estate. There is a bank of coral where Honolulu is; the fishing altar [Kuula] for the fish ponds [loko i'a] is on the Waikiki side of Liliha Street and between Vineyard and King Streets.
The stone is related to chiefs from times immemorial [mai ka po mai]. It is a manifestation made by God.
Iokepa's thoughts:—Honolulu is a small land and a canoe landing makai of Nanawale, Puna, between two sand dunes, one on the Hilo side and one on the Puna side, called Puu Waawaa. From this Honolulu is called the Honolulu here [on Oahu] which used to be called Kou before, and after it was called Honolulu until this day.
This is the meaning for the word Honolulu:—The wind is very calm [lulu] an the sea is serene; it is very fine and peaceful. Bay [? Hono] of calm sea; Hono that is peaceful.
Kuluwaimaka's thoughts:—The stone is related to Kamehameha V. Honolulu in Puna is a lowland next to the sea. Its width is perhaps half a mile long between Na Puu o Pele and Waiakahiula on the Hilo side. Honolulu is a place where you pick opihi [ku'i opihi] and pick limu [hana limu]. There is a fine spring [punawai] there and there is a foot path there.
[And to think that this is but the very beginning of Kelsey's detailed account of the explanation of the six loea of the mele "Aia i Honolulu kuu pohaku." This is just the first line! It continues in the following issues!!
One more (huge) reason that Hawaiian-Language Newspapers are priceless!!!]
(Alakai o Hawaii, 12/5/1929, p. 2)


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Rochester police seek car in hit and run
ROCHESTER — Police are searching for a car involved in a hit-and-run accident Saturday night
At approximately 8:42 p.m., Rochester Police, Rochester Fire and Frisbie EMS responded to Columbus Avenue at the intersection of Summer Street for a motor-vehicle collision involving two vehicles, one of which had fled the scene.
Preliminary investigation revealed that a 1995 Honda Civic, driven by Robert Bregy, 50, of Somersworth, was traveling north on Columbus Avenue near the intersection of Summer Street when it was struck by a southbound vehicle described by witnesses as a blue Buick.
The Buick crossed into the northbound lane of travel striking the Honda in a head-on orientation. The Honda sustained substantial damage to the front end of the vehicle and its air bags were deployed.
Bregy suffered injuries that were not life threatening and was transported to Frisbie Memorial Hospital to be treated. Columbus Avenue was open throughout the investigation and the Honda was eventually towed from the scene.
The Buick fled north on Milton Road and possibly into Farmington on Chestnut Hill Road. It had substantial front end damage, was leaking fluid from the engine compartment and had one headlight damaged. The collision is still under investigation and the Rochester Police are seeking the driver and vehicle that fled from the accident.
Police are asking anyone who may have information that could assist with this investigation to call Officer Pendlebury at the Rochester Police Department at 330-7128. You can also provide information and remain anonymous by calling the Rochester Crime Line at 335-6500 or Text to: CRIMES (274637) Body of Text: TEXT4CASH + your tip. Cash rewards are offered for information that leads to an arrest.


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Like anything else you own, your car will perform better when it's properly cared for. An essential part of taking care of your Hyundai: routine maintenance. Keeping up with the service schedule in your owner's manual ensures your Hyundai Elantra, Sonata, Santa Fe, Tucson or Accent will run efficiently and safely.
Because so much work goes into caring for your car, Temecula Hyundai maintains an onsite auto service and repair department, staffed with mechanics that are trained to know Hyundai models, specifically. They're also equipped with the same Hyundai parts that are used to assemble your car, meaning you can count on like-new performance when you drive your car home.
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Whether at the crack of dawn or at the end of a long day, no one really ever has the energy to bathe. So like a bidet, the Loop shower uses numerous jets of water to clean your entire body automatically, even where the sun don't shine.
Since it's lacking any kind of enclosure, you can really only use the Loop shower outdoors, like by a pool, or inside a bathroom you don't mind getting completely drenched every time someone uses it. And in addition to six high-pressure jets and a waterfall overhead, the Loop also looks like it offers some chroma-therapy benefits too with a lighting system that casts a tinted glow inside it.
It was created by a fancy Italian design company, which, not surprisingly, posts little in the ways of pricing or availability info on its website. So it's safe to assume this isn't going to show up in the aisles of your local Home Depot. But if you've got the money, I'm sure you can find someone who will sell it to you. [Idiha Design via Born Rich via Dvice]


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Need A CF App for Tracking Errors From Multiple Applications? Check Out BugLogHQ
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Last month, during a brief lull in my work projects, I decided to tackle an issue I'd been putting off for awhile: finding a better way of managing errors caught and reported by my ColdFusion applications. All of my apps are designed to email me a full report of any errors that reach the global error handler, and while that means I'm immediately notified if there's a problem I need to address, the error message folder in my email account ends up serving as a de-facto error archive. And now that we're (slowly) moving towards building applications as a team, it makes sense to have the errors stored in a centralized location.
After doing a bit of research, I ended up at the home page for the open-source bug logger BugLogHQ, created by Oscar Arevalo. Based on the project changelog list, it sounded like it might have the features I wanted, but there wasn't a lot of explanatory documentation on the site and the screenshot images were thumbnails that couldn't be enlarged. And it didn't support Oracle, which is our primary database engine at work (and a perusal of the Google Groups forum for BugLogHQ confirmed that).
Despite those factors, I decided it was worth trying to add Oracle support to the codebase so I could run it and try it out. I'm glad I did: BugLogHQ is a well-designed, robust application for managing errors in a way that will still let me keep track of what's happening with my apps. Now that I've seen how it operates and what it can do, I'm kind of surprised that I had to do research to come across it: either it completely slipped under my radar or it needs more publicity/exposure in the community.
Several things I like about BugLogHQ:
I like the fact that it's easy to get up and running. Download the files, put them in a "buglog" directory under the webroot (or use a mapping), run the SQL install script for your database of choice (mySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL 2000/2005, MS Access, and now Oracle) update the config file with your datasource name and database engine, and simply point your web browser to that "buglog" directory. After logging in (which forces you to change the default password for the built-in admin user account), you can verify everything's working by going into the settings area of the app and running the tests, which all mimic the methods your other applications (referred to in BugLog parlance as "client" apps) can use to transmit errors to BugLogHQ. Simple and straightforward.
Just like most email clients have rules for filtering and acting on incoming email messages, BugLogHQ provides some rules for managing the errors that come in. You can set up multiple "mailAlert" rules that will forward on particular errors (filtered by error type/severity, the source app's hostname or application name, or keywords in the configured error message text) to an email address of your choosing, or you can create a mailRelay rule that relays every error received to an email address. And the emails sent out by BugLogHQ aren't just notifications about the errors: they provide the full error details so you don't have to log into BugLogHQ to get more information. There are also rules for discarding certain errors or for monitoring "heartbeat" transmissions from an app, so if the app is offline for a certain length of time BugLogHQ can report the problem.
The methodology BugLog uses to report errors is very well-designed. If your client app is also a CFML app, you simply instantiate a single CFC (with settings for interacting with the BugLogHQ web service you want to utilize) in either the application scope or a bean factory, then call it with its notification function whenever you want to send information to the BugLogHQ app. If the client app is reporting an error, you can send BugLogHQ a line of message text, the error struct (the raw "cfcatch" struct), the type/severity of the error, and a struct of any additional information you want as part of the report (like the affected user's ID or name). Here's how I called it from the main.error() controller function in the FW/1 application I used during my testing (where I've instantiated the CFC as a service object)
public void function error(rc) { var extraInfo= {username= session.user.getUsername()}; variables.bugLogService.notifyService("Error report from TestApp1",request.exception,extraInfo,"INFO"); }
All of those parameters are optional, so you don't need an error struct if you're reporting something that's a status or informational message rather than an error. If there's a problem with sending the report to BugLogHQ, it'll fallback to sending an email containing all that information to whatever address you specify so the error doesn't get lost.
I also appreciate how BugLogHQ "eats its own dogfood". If an error occurs in BugLogHQ itself, it'll record the error just like it would for any client app, and if the error occurs during the recording process it'll report the error via email.
BugLogHQ utilizes a scheduled task (with a default interval of 2 minutes) referred to in the app as the "BugLog Listener Service" to denote and process incoming error messages. When the task fires, the error messages that have been received since the last run of the task are processed and then written to the error database. If there's a problem with writing to the database (which I understandably encountered as I was tweaking the code to support Oracle), it'll maintain the errors in the queue until the next iteration (and you can view the contents of the queue within the BugLogHQ dashboard). Sometimes you need to restart that service in order for certain changes to take effect. If you somehow forget to reactivate the service, it'll be restarted when it receives a new error report from a client app.
If one or more of your clients apps are NOT CFML-based web applications, there are library files provided that let you submit errors from PHP or Python apps, or straight from Javascript. I haven't tried out those files yet, but we do have a few PHP apps in our shop now that could make use of the PHP option.
- There are configuration options for tying BugLogHQ to a JIRA instance, providing error summaries via RSS or a digest email, and setting an API key to ensure that only your apps can submit data to BugLogHQ.
Bottom line: if you don't yet have an error-logging application or other mechanism for storing and managing errors from your application(s), you should take a look at BugLogHQ. Oscar and his contributors have done a great job with this application.
Published at DZone with permission of Brian Swartzfager, DZone MVB. See the original article here.
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text: Back The Metabolic Syndrome: A Risk for Depression Everyone feels a little down now and then. When you have the metabolic syndrome, it's also common to feel blue about your health concerns once in a while. But when the mood lingers, it could be a sign of depression. If left untreated, depression can make it hard to function at home, work, or school. Fortunately, treatment is available. The link between the metabolic syndrome and depression goes both ways. Managing various health problems can cause stress, and stress can trigger depression in certain people. Being depressed can sap your energy and motivation, making it harder for you to take good care of yourself. In turn, this may cause your physical condition to get worse. Research has shown that people with more visceral fat or an apple-shaped body—two factors associated with the metabolic syndrome—are more likely to have depression. Know the warning signs According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), you should talk with your health care provider if you have several of these signs of depression and they last for more than a couple of weeks: Ongoing feelings of sadness, emptiness, or anxiety Loss of interest or pleasure in the activities you once enjoyed Feelings of hopelessness or worthlessness Tiredness or lack of energy Restlessness or irritability Eating more or less than usual Sleeping too much or too little Trouble thinking clearly or making decisions Unexplained aches, pains, or digestive problems Thoughts of death or suicide Understand your options If you recognize any of these signs in yourself, it's important to take action. Depression is a real illness that affects not only your brain, but also your whole body. You can seek treatment that helps you feel better. The main treatment options are medications and psychotherapy. They may be used alone or in combination. According to the NIMH, here's how they can help: Medications to treat depression (also called antidepressants). These may be prescribed to correct imbalances in brain chemicals that play a role in moods. There are several types of antidepressants that can help improve mood, sleep, appetite, and concentration. Although antidepressants may start helping within a week or two, you might not feel the full effects for two to three months. Some antidepressants may lead to weight gain—but a healthy lifestyle can help control it. Psychotherapy. This is the formal name for talk therapy. It helps change patterns in thoughts, behaviors, and relationships that may contribute to depression. Homework is sometimes assigned so that you can keep working on problems between therapy sessions. As with medication, getting better takes time. Many people with depression see significant improvement after just 10 to 15 sessions. Reach out for help If you have a case of the blues that you just can't seem to shake, discuss it with your health care provider. Symptoms of depression can sometimes be the result of a medical condition, such as a thyroid disorder. They can also be a side effect of certain medications. A medical checkup can help pinpoint what's causing your symptoms. If depression is the cause, your health care provider can help you find the right treatment. If you're having trouble getting help on your own, confide in a trusted family member or friend. Chances are good that they already know something is wrong and want to help. Don't try to tough it out alone. Left untreated, depression can hang around for weeks, months, or even years. But with treatment, you can begin to gradually feel better. The sooner you seek treatment, the sooner you'll feel better.


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Report: Alan Farajian killed his mother 'because she had poisoned him'
Man describes bloody scene to deputies
A man is accused of stabbing his mother to death during an argument about a television show.
Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies were called to 10913 North Military Trail in Palm Beach Gardens late Tuesday night.
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That's where Alan Farajian, 23, had called 911 to confess to killing his mother at his house at 1871 Len Drive in Juno Beach.
According to the arrest report, Farajian admitted stabbing his 62-year-old mother, Gloria Farajian, in the chest and throat and "described in detail" the bloody scene. He also said he knew that killing his mother was wrong, but added that he'd do it again, the report said.
Farajian "showed no remorse and spoke of acts of the devil," telling deputies he and his mother argued over a TV show, adding that "she was God-fearing and that he was the devil," according to the report.
Neighbors said they had watched Farajian unravel for years.
"He would just come in the middle of the street and scream and sometimes he would scream nice things, like,' I love you, Mom,' which was really sad, and sometimes he would pretend to shoot a gun down the street," said Heather Hughes.
Hughes said Farajian's father, Greg, lived in the home with his son, but had died three days ago. Before that, she said, the father had often tried to have his son committed to a treatment facility, but that he "was always released after 72 hours."
Farajian also told deputies he's been treated for numerous psychological issues and that he had not been taking his medications. After the confrontation with his mother, he hid the knife, cleaned himself up and chose not to call for help, the report said.
According to Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office records, authorities had been called to the Len Drive residence 15 times over the past four years. Farajian has been arrested at least five times, once for aggravated assault.
At his first court appearance Wednesday morning, a judge ordered Farajian to be held without bond. His mother Gloria was a teacher at Parkway Elementary School in Port St. Lucie.


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Steven D. Rosen, a sales manager for a Cockeysville furniture company, died Saturday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center after being injured in a fall. He was 61.
"He was on a ladder pulling down an old sign from a building near the old Mark Downs furniture store when he fell. He was taken to Greater Baltimore Medical Center where he later died," said his daughter, Rebecca Mercado of Hampden.
Steven David Rosen, whose parents owned and operated the Towson Economy Store on York Road in Towson, was born in Baltimore and attended Pikesville High School. He later moved to Miramar, Fla., where he graduated from Miramar High School in 1970.
After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the Army and served at Fort Hood, Texas, with the 1st Cavalry Division, where he was in charge of armored maintenance.
While serving in the Army, where he attained the rank of captain, Mr. Rosen earned a bachelor's degree in Soviet studies in 1974 from the University of Florida in Gainesville.
After leaving the service, he and his wife, the former Wendy Workman, whom he married in 1972, returned to Baltimore.
In 1980, he joined his father and stepbrother at Mark Downs office furniture — formerly the Towson Economy Store — that moved to the 11000 block of York Road in Cockeysville.
Mr. Rosen was president of the business, which closed late last year but had reopened under new management this year and in a new location in the 10900 block of York Road in Cockeysville. At his death, the Cockeysville resident had been working as Mark Downs' sales manager.
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In addition to his work with the furniture store, Mr. Rosen was a founding partner of the Mill Centre in Hampden.
An avid reader and filmgoer, Mr. Rosen was a photographer and a collector of science fiction. He was also a trivia expert, family members said.
"Though he often spoke brashly, those who knew him will remember his sharp wit and fierce desire to help nearly everyone he met," said Ms. Mercado. "He was among the most fun, generous and resourceful people one could know."
He was a member of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Sol Levinson & Bros., 8900 Reisterstown Road, Pikesville.
In addition to his wife and daughter, Mr. Rosen is survived by a son, Jeffrey Rosen of Washington; his father, Herbert Rosen of Lutherville; a stepbrother, Marc Rosen of Phoenix, Baltimore County; and a granddaughter.


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Border collie wins Westminster agility trial
NEW YORK -- A border collie named Kelso navigated a maze of obstacles Saturday, besting about 225 other dogs to win the Westminster Kennel Club show's first agility competition.
Owned by Delaney Ratner, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Kelso, jumped, darted and clambered better than the competition to break new ground at Westminster. The winner was one of 35 border collies entered in the competition.
A husky mix called Roo!, owned by trainer Stacey Campbell, of San Francisco, got a special award for the best mixed-breed dog at the event.
The agility trial added a dynamic, fast-growing sport to the nation's best-known dog show and marked the first time mixed-breed dogs have appeared there in 130 or more years. Dogs are judged on accuracy and speed as they navigate jumps, tunnels, ramps and other objects off-leash, with handlers guiding them via calls and signals.
Established decades ago, agility is an increasingly popular canine pursuit. The number of dogs competing in agility trials sanctioned by the American Kennel Club, the governing body for many canine events, has grown by nearly 50 percent over the last five years.
But at Westminster, the sport is playing on dogdom's biggest stage. The final rounds night were televised on Fox Sports 1.
"It's very special being here because of Westminster's prestige," said Westbury-based dog trainer and breeder Andrea Samuels, who had five papillons in Saturday's contest.
Agility aficionados say the sport is a canine confidence-builder that creates rapport between dogs and owners and provides a healthy outlet for high-energy dogs that need something to occupy them.
Saturday's competitors spanned 63 different breeds, from the diminutive papillions to such big dogs as Doberman pinschers.
Many represented breeds known for their agility chops. But their rivals included breeds with physiques that don't necessarily scream "nimble."
About 16 of the competitors didn't represent any one breed at all, in a substantial shift for a dog show that has long been purely purebred turf. Westminster featured some mixed breeds early on but not since at least 1884, organizers say.
Mixed-breeds -- or what the show calls "all-American dogs"-- still can't compete for the sought-after Best in Show trophy. But their inclusion in the agility contest has brought cheers from owners eager to show that everyday dogs can go nose-to-nose with their purebred peers. Animals-rights advocates who have criticized Westminster, and dog breeding in general, call the development a good step, though they still plan to protest the traditional part of the show next week.
Westminster officials say adding mixed-breed contestants helps the show make good on its aim to honor all dogs and their roles in people's lives.


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The Shins Kick Off Jimmy Fallon's Pink Floyd Week With "Breathe"
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It's five nights of Pink Floyd covers over at the ever musically-minded Fallon program this week, which began last night with the Shins honest-to-Dark-ness take on "Breathe." If you think James Mercer handles this cover well, it is because he has practice. Although, it is also because his voice is generally custom built for this particular brand of pensive throwback melancholy. True Moon heads will miss the subsequent three-and-a-half minute instrumental acid freakout "On The Run," but it's a little early in the morning for such shenanigans anyway. This is also a nice chance to check out the Shins new lineup in action, so consider that and check it below, along with a listing of the rest of the week's schedule (MGMT, Pearl Jam, etc.):
Tonight it's Foo Fighters and the man himself Roger Waters on "In The Flesh," Wednesday it's MGMT going in on "Lucifer Sam," Thursday it's country dude Dierks Bentley's turn with "Wish You Were Here," and the coup de grâce on this whole thing is Pearl Jam's week-closing take on "Mother." We will post exactly three of those four.