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The irregular Radeon-Development companion
Issue for 2007-04-01
This page is an accumulation of the events happening in Radeon development, mainly on IRC or on dri-devel. The concept has been shamelessly copied from nouveau and will hopefully be kept up. At least this is the second issue. So didn't immediately stop.
The TiRDC gained a lot of responses lately. So we try to keep our readers up to date with this issue. This issue will be a bit shorter because the author lacks time. But the most important events will be noted.
After Nicolai Haehnle (nh) started working on piglit, he detected some bugs and some regressions. Luckyly after he found them he started fixing them. Source
Mesa got the GLSL-1 branch merged. That means you can use mesa with GLSL shading programs. Thanks Brian Paul for doing the work of merging and thanks to anyone for writing that code. Source
As a sidenote the X.org ATI driver xf86-video-ati got a release candidate. It contains a major re-write of the output mappings from what was known as "Alex's superpatch". Please log all regressions into bugzilla so they can be fixed before the 6.7 release of the driver.
Thomas Hellström came up with a patch to allow single-device-mutli-screen DRI. Neat idea. Source
Dave Airlie came up with the idea that TTM (the new and way better memory manager in mesa) should be used in wide areas. With his knownlege of TTM (aquried from Thomas Hellström, one of the guys behind TTM) and his great knowledge of the Radeon-Drivers, he ported the work from i915 over to R300. Note: The TTM support is not complete or offical yet. It only supports fencing and buffer management, which is the absolute basic of TTM. Source
Jakob Bornecrantz (Wallbraker) and Jesse Barnes (jbarnes) continue working on DRM modesetting. They don't have a public git repository or something yet, but that start a big discussion. Former developers of KGI (the kernel graphics interface) joined #dri-devel and disscussed about the modesetting in DRM. Dave Airlie took part in the discussion and added information about framebuffer drivers. All in all the idea of having a central entity for managing modesetting for framebuffer and X.org drivers was agreed to be a good idea, even if some though it might not be placed right in the DRM. Source
Help wanted and needed
We could really need help in finding regressions that might come from the GLSL-1 branch merge. It would be great if you could run piglit against * latest fglrx * dri drivers from before the GLSL-1 merge (maybe mesa 6.5.2 or better git from about 2 weeks ago) * latest dri drivers from git
It would also be great if you could test Dave Airlie's TTM branch of R300 against latest git of mesa.

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One of my favorite parts of Christmas is getting cards in the mail from my friends and family. I love the photos, which are promptly hung up on the refrigerator, and the letters are always fun to read. It's amazing how fast a year goes by and how much news there is to catch up on with my loved ones.
One of my favorite Christmas cards this year had a poem on it that I thought I would share on this Christmas morning.
There's more to Christmas...
There's more, much more to Christmas
Than candlelight and cheer;
It's the spirit of sweet friendship
That brightens all the year;
It's thoughtfulness and kindness,
It's hope reborn again,
For peace, for understanding
And for goodwill to men!
This poem is a good reminder that we should keep the Christmas spirit around more than just one day in the year. Just like those Christmas cards will hang on my fridge until next year rolls around, the Christmas cheer, generosity, kindness and warmth is something we need to remember each and every day.
No matter what the challenge we face, if we sprinkle a little Christmas magic on the situation, our outlook is bound to be better -- no matter what time of the year.
Just for fun, check out this "Santa's Little Ranch Helpers" video. If that doesn't make you smile today, I don't know what will!
Merry Christmas from my ranch to yours!


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07/26/2021 Chasing the cold
Refrigeration technology is everywhere: in the home, in supermarkets, in the office, in manufacturing, in museums or in operating theatres,. It provides the latest in precision control; from ambient comfort and fresh food through to cold storage and super-freezing for sensitive, life-saving medical products and vaccines.
When it comes to cold, man has always been inventive. Because cold is volatile, it's hard to keep it in. Back in the day, the infamous Emperor Nero sent teams of runners up into the Alps to carry glacier ice to cool his drinks. At some point, cellars were built to protect the ice from the summer heat. It was a long way to the refrigerator in every household and air-conditioned trains, in which Liebherr also played a major role. We tell the story.


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Ever since the invention of Formica in the 1920s, kitchen countertops in America have been simply covered in laminates. During the past decade, though, natural stone surfaces have landed in ever more kitchens: granite, marble, soapstone and even concrete. But now there's a new countertop contender on the design scene: engineered quartz.
Boasting the best qualities of laminate and stone (along with its own special features), quartz began appearing in U.S. homes just a few years ago after gaining popularity in Europe for the past decade. Today, quartz countertops are exploding in popularity, with U.S. sales increasing 60 percent in 2004.
Although some quartz countertops are actually made of quarried slabs of the natural stone, the new engineered material is actually created through a manufacturing process that mixes approximately 95 percent ground natural quartz with 5 percent polymer resins. The result is a super-hard, low-maintenance, natural stone-look countertop available in a dazzling array of colors. And for many of the homeowners choosing quartz, those virtually unlimited color options are what sold them.
"Color was most definitely a huge factor," says Gay Lyons, a college professor in Knoxville, Tenn., who replaced the white laminate countertops in the kitchen of her 1970s rancher with blue quartz. "Our kitchen is part of a large area that includes dining and seating areas, as well as an adjacent sunroom. The countertops needed to coordinate with not only what was in the kitchen, but what was in those other areas as well. The color I chose coordinates perfectly."
Joe Everitt, an independent contractor who has spent the last decade remodeling New York City brownstones and lofts, says that homeowners love the fact that quartz allows color choices never before available in stone. But he says the best features of quartz are actually invisible.
"These countertops are close to indestructible," Joe explains. "They're so durable that most manufacturers offer a warranty, something you won't find with, say, granite. And quartz isn't porous like other stone surfaces, so these countertops are much more sanitary in a home kitchen. You can keep them 99.9 percent bacteria-free."
This durability also means that, unlike other types of stone countertops, quartz resists staining or corrosion from cooking oils, liquids and most household cleaning products — so there's no need for periodic resealing of the surface. Quartz can be damaged by excessive heat, however, so homeowners should use trivets or heating pads.
Quartz countertops allow for a variety of edging options, just like natural stone. Unlike stone, however, engineered quartz also offers other design possibilities. Because it's more flexible to work with and is held in place using glue and epoxy instead of screws, quartz can be used on larger vertical surfaces like backsplashes and even shower enclosures, without the fissures and seams often all too visible with natural stone.
Despite its many advantages, installation of engineered quartz countertops isn't a job for the average do-it-yourselfer; the companies that make and sell engineered quartz certify their own installation experts.
"Installation is a bit of a pain," says Gay. "You have to obtain it from a (certified) distributor. They send people to measure and then they send installers. There's a bit of a wait involved between each of these steps."
Also, because engineered quartz is significantly heavier than other stone surfaces, there are some special installation considerations.
"It's important to make sure that you look at structural issues before installing quartz countertops, especially on upper floors" says Joe. "The installer also needs to be sure that the cabinets are sound."
The cost of engineered quartz countertops appears to be dropping as they grow in popularity and as more manufacturers make them available. In general, however, they are more expensive than laminate and comparable in price to granite, ranging from $100 to $200 per square foot.
Common brand names include Cambria, Silestone and Zodiaq, and engineered quartz countertops are now available through most kitchen design firms, as well as the major home and garden centers like Lowe's and Home Depot.
Gay Lyons says she and her husband couldn't be happier with their decision to go with quartz.
"We know lots of people with granite, but we don't know anyone else who has quartz. We love the countertops. They are beautiful and indestructible."


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Everything You Know About Education Is Wrong
A groundbreaking study of New York schools by a MacArthur "genius" challenges the typical understanding of what makes a good school
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Think of the ingredients that make for a good school. Small classes. Well-educated teachers. Plenty of funding. Combine, mix well, then bake.
Turns out, your recipe would be horribly wrong, at least according to a new working paper out of Harvard. Its take away: Schools shouldn't focus on resources. They should focus on culture.
The study comes courtesy of economist Roland Fryer, an academic heavyweight who was handed a MacArthur Foundation "genius award" earlier this year for his research into the driving forces behind student achievement. Fryer gathered extensive data from 35 New York City charter schools, which generally cater to underprivileged and minority communities. He interviewed students, principals, and teachers, reviewing lesson plans and watching classroom video, to try and pinpoint factors that correlated with higher test scores.
His findings could add some new fire to the debate about what makes a good school. Fryer found that class size, per-pupil spending, and the number of teachers with certifications or advanced degrees had nothing to do with student test scores in language and math.
In fact, schools that poured in more resources actually got worse results.
What did make a difference? The study measures correlation, not causation, so there are no clear answers. But there is a clear pattern. Schools that focused on teacher development, data-driven instruction, creating a culture focused on student achievement, and setting high academic expectations consistently fared better. The results were consistent whether the charter's program was geared towards the creative arts or hard-core behavioral discipline.
If small classes, credentialed teachers, and plush budgets aren't adding up to successful students, then what is? Fryer measured school culture in a way no academic before him had. He looked at the number of times teachers got feedback. The number of days students got tutored in small groups. The number of assessments for students. The number of hours students actually spent at their desks. Each correlated with higher student scores.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, schools that claimed a "relentless focus on academic goals" also tended to produce better test scores. Schools that focused on self esteem and emotional health? Not as much. (Sorry Gen Y.)
The findings all get summed up in a group of handy tables. First, here are the ingredients you think of as being important to a school -- what Fryer calls "traditional" resource-based inputs. Most of those factors don't have a statistically significant relationship to school performance. Some actually have a negative effect.
Then Fryer compared less traditional cultural factors to student performance. Teacher feedback and instruction time had the strongest connection. In sum, these six factors explained about 50% of the variations between charter school outcomes.
There's an obvious caveat to all this. It's easier for schools to offer intensive tutoring, extra classroom time, and teacher coaching when there's enough money to go around. Otherwise, you're schooling model becomes: "do more with less." But Fryer's findings show that money alone isn't enough. Neither are sterling teaching credentials. It's what you do with them that makes a difference for students.


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In recent months of sizzling summer-extreme heat and drought, here near the Confluence- I've watched innumerable videos of 2011 Aachen, The European Dressage Championships, and several other European Dressage shows, and have been inspired by such good riders, more as a matter of 'who knows, rather than who's news.'
While the US Young and Developing Dressage Horse Championships and US National Grand Prix and Intermediare Championships were in process the last few weeks, at Wayne and Gladstone, I resorted frequently to usefnetwork.com live stream and a variety of news sources to glean new insight into progress by US competitors toward the ideals of Dressage. For the tests themselves, internet videos provide excellent vantage points, typically better than being there. And when I see one test performance clipped, I seek, and often find, more videos of the same performance, recorded from other vantage points.
What I miss by not actually being there, is that I don't see the warm-ups preceding the tests, as one can, if situated cleverly at contest venues.
So over time I have surfed avidly for film clips of warm-ups by riders I admire, and who moments thereafter received high marks from FEI Judges. I have found few, alas, very few. My current favorites of warm up clips, is Steffen Peters (US) and Ravel at 2009 Aachen, where they won the Grand Prix, Grand Prix Special, and Grand Prix FreeStyle. warming-up for the Grand Prix Special which is, you may know is THE TEST of shortest duration, requiring the highest degree of collection for sustained for the longest duration of any of the FEI TESTS.
(A new GPS test, written by the FEI, at the behest of the IOC, and much to the chagrin of the International Dressage Riders Club, for the purpose of entertaining network television viewers of London 2012, will be used from October 1, 2011 through December 31, 2012. I just read the new test. Containing all the same movements as the 'normal' GPS test, it is even shorter- more compact, and requires more muscular stamina. I think it an unnecessarily difficult means of testing against the ideal. Causing me to wonder, for our horses' sakes, how to get television production under control. )
A view of Steffen Peters preparing Ravel for their 2009 Aachen Grand Prix Special triumph: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
And here's what I see…from zero to 1:26 Steffen is loosening and promoting Ravel's engagement by posting vigorously, emphatically rising as vertically as possible, canting forward only by the inclination of his head and the visor or his cap. When he touches the saddle, he barely pats it. But he does pat it, to which the horse reacts by opening his thoracic spines upward. Steffen opens the inside of Ravel by counter flexing and eliciting one stride of counter shoulder fore before riding each corner as a quarter volte. In this posture, for this horse's degree of development, a quarter volte is three or four strides, rather than two, as in collection. Again counter flexing a stride before beginning a circle, he then 'drives on,' forward and down, asking for increased engagement into even contact, including, for the purpose of this exercise, the contact of the rider's passively tense calf with horse's latissimus dorsi, through saddle.
Contact with the rider's hands, held wide apart as the rider's hips, well below the horse's withers, and therefore sensed by the horse from the rider's hips, rather than from the rider's elbows as when the riders hands but a hand's width apart and just above the horse's withers, is through the snaffle rein to the corner of the horse's mouth and through the curb rein only by the weight of the curb rein and bit felt by the horse at its poll. The "drive on" is effected by the rider's posting momentum including the projection of his center forward and the flexion of the rider's calf each time rider rises with the horse's inside leg. The rider's hand senses to coming of throughness from behind and gives to permit forward energy flow, effecting repeated 'half-forwards' The horse's posture is horizontal, weight distributed evenly fore and aft. Tail swinging indicates lack of spinal tension. Neck long, open and low, to poll below withers, flopping ears! Facial profile inside the vertical and moving toward the vertical as the exercise proceeds. Corner of horses mouth between point of horse's shoulder and horse's elbow.
Steffen executes the exercise as I find it is written in classical literature. This is how it is done. The first 86 seconds of this tape is the answer not only to "what is long and low?" but the current probe "How long and low is TOO long and low?" This tape exemplifies the limits.
In the very next seconds, and onward, Steffen administers exercises he has programmed to ready for the soon to be performed test. And there is vastly more to be learned, not the least of which is the relationship between half-pass and passage, by and for those who have moved closer to this level of development. About the rest of the tape I may write later, if only for the crystallization of my own thoughts. I chose to not edit, to not curtail, the tape because I did not want to remove any available context.
But back to long and low, everyday long and low:
What we don't see in this clip is what preceded the administration of the exercise. Reasonable surmise is that he enjoyed a 10 minute walk 'trail ride,' mounted, from stable to the group warm up ring, where among other contestants, he continued to loosen with longitudinal and lateral exercises at trot and canter, awaiting his ten minutes of exclusive use of the private warm-up court penultimate to entrance to the test arena. And may have entered the private court at collected canter, just before the video starts. Such sequential build-up to performance is rarely, if ever afforded at lesser than International Championships venues. Nonetheless, the first 1:26 of this clip is relevant to the work of all of our horses, at every stage of their progressions. Large circles, with the best possible contact, long and low, emphasizing maintenance of rhythm and tempo and promoting engagement, is, early on, the lesson itself, for a horse in field school. It is valuable therapy for a horse coming out of rehabilitation. And it is essential preparation for a day's lesson, or for test performance.
For advancing medium level horses, and further developing advanced horses, this exercise is included not only in warm-up, but also warm-down. As such horses tend to become too strong, it is best to leave the day on a soft, light note, making it easier to resume the next ride with softness and lightness.
Oh, almost forgot! I couldn't find a clip of Ravel's 2009 Aachen GPS, but here's one of his triumph in the Freestyle, preceded, I imagine by a similar, if not identical warm-up.


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How To Give Negative Feedback Without Offending Employees
Effective leaders know how to give direct, negative feedback without offending their employees.
This was the key leadership lesson that Val DiFebo, the chief executive of advertising agency Deutsch NY, learned from her mentor Donny Deutsch.
"He might say, 'This doesn't make any sense at all,' but it was never a judgment on your skills or your intellect," DiFebo tells Adam Bryant at The New York Times. "It's just a reaction to the work you put in front of him."
DiFebo says that Deutsch would often come by later to seek advice from the same employees he had disagreed with earlier. This was mainly to reinforce that he believed in their abilities.
"[At Deutsch NY] people say: 'We're front-stabbers, not back-stabbers.' That works really well for us, because when you have a problem with someone you just say: 'Look, this is the issue I have. I can get past it, but what are you going to do to get past it?' " says DiFebo, adding that being direct and straightforward saves everyone time in the end.
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EPA water task force to work with universities
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A task force established by the Environmental Protection Agency to curtail farmland pollution that flows into the Mississippi River has reached an agreement with 12 universities.
The EPA says states already collaborate with universities on local water quality research and agricultural programs but to date there hasn't been a formal process for sharing university research and ideas across the 12 task force states.
The Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Task Force will work with Purdue University, University of Illinois, University of Arkansas, University of Kentucky, Mississippi State University and Ohio State University. Others include University of Tennessee, University of Missouri, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University and Louisiana State University.
The EPA says the agreement announced Wednesday brings additional expertise to develop farm runoff reduction strategies.


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2022 ChevernyDomaine du Salvard
France | Loire
Shop All WinesProducer France Italy Wine Type Price Range Farming Type Vintage
Charly Thévenet and his father, Jean Paul, now bottle a range of five different wines in their cellars in Villié-Morgon, although this old-vine Morgon bottling —for many years the only wine the family produced—still rules the roost. If Beaujolais were Burgundy (thank goodness it isn't!), we might consider Morgon to be Vosne-Romanée, with its haunting perfume and silky texture, the proverbial iron fist in a velvet glove.
—Dixon Brooke
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|Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet
|Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet
|70 years, 4.85 ha
|Decomposed Granite, Sand
|Wines aged on fine lees in 5-7 year-old oak Burgundian barrels for 6-8 months
|Biodynamic (practicing)
Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet France | Beaujolais | Régnié
Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet France | Beaujolais | Régnié
Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet France | Beaujolais | Morgon
Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet France | Beaujolais | Morgon
Château Thivin France | Beaujolais | Côte de Brouilly
Guy Breton France | Beaujolais | Chiroubles
After years of the region's reputation being co-opted by mass-produced Beaujolais Nouveau and the prevalence of industrial farming, the fortunes of vignerons from the Beaujolais have been on the rise in the past couple of decades. Much of this change is due to Jules Chauvet, a prominent Beaujolais producer who Kermit worked with in the 1980s and arguably the father of the natural wine movement, who advocated not using herbicides or pesticides in vineyards, not chaptalizing, fermenting with ambient yeasts, and vinifying without SO2. Chief among Chauvet's followers was Marcel Lapierre and his three friends, Jean Foillard, Guy Breton, and Jean-Paul Thévenet—a group of Morgon producers who Kermit dubbed "the Gang of Four." The espousal of Chauvet's methods led to a dramatic change in quality of wines from Beaujolais and with that an increased interest and appreciation for the AOC crus, Villages, and regular Beaujolais bottlings.
The crus of Beaujolais are interpreted through the Gamay grape and each illuminate the variety of great terroirs available in the region. Distinguishing itself from the clay and limestone of Burgundy, Beaujolais soils are predominantly decomposed granite, with pockets of blue volcanic rock. The primary vinification method is carbonic maceration, where grapes are not crushed, but instead whole clusters are placed in a tank, thus allowing fermentation to take place inside each grape berry.
Much like the easy-going and friendly nature of many Beaujolais vignerons, the wines too have a lively and easy-drinking spirit. They are versatile at table but make particularly good matches with the local pork sausages and charcuterie. Though often considered a wine that must be drunk young, many of the top crus offer great aging potential.
Quentin Harel France | Beaujolais | Morgon
Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet France | Beaujolais | Morgon
Domaine Dupeuble France | Beaujolais | Beaujolais
Château Thivin France | Beaujolais | Brouilly
Château Thivin France | Beaujolais | Côte de Brouilly
Domaine Dupeuble France | Beaujolais | Beaujolais
Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet France | Beaujolais | Morgon
Nicole Chanrion France | Beaujolais
Guy Breton France | Beaujolais | Côte de Brouilly
Domaine Chignard France | Beaujolais | Fleurie
When buying red Burgundy, I think we should remember:
1. Big wines do not age better than light wine.
2. A so-called great vintage at the outset does not guarantee a great vintage for the duration.
3. A so-called off vintage at the outset does not mean the wines do not have a brilliant future ahead of them.
4. Red Burgundy should not taste like Guigal Côte-Rôtie, even if most wine writers wish it would.
5. Don't follow leaders; watch yer parking meters.
Inspiring Thirst, page 174
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Time is ripe for picking your own blueberries
Blueberries are the perfect fruit for a lazy summer day. Pop them in your mouth by the handful or savor each one. They require no slicing, pitting, coring or peeling.
What's more, they're as flavorful in winter as in summer, since they're easy to freeze. Some people stock their freezer so they can eat the berries plain year-round or in scones, pancakes, pies, cakes, crisps, muffins and jams.
"I have customers who pick 40 or 50 pounds a summer," said John Kopacz, owner of Webster Cranberry in Norwell, which has 5 acres of pick-your-own blueberries that ripen at different times.
In recent years, growers have seen an increase in people coming to pick because of the berries' health benefits and cost savings, said farm owners.
"Blueberries have one of the highest antioxidant levels of all fruits and people are aware of that," said Patricia Concree, who owns The Blueberry Farm in Hanson with her husband, Jack. "More people are stocking up so they can have berries in the winter."
In addition to their antioxidants and high fiber content, blueberries have no fat or cholesterol and only 84 calories per cup.
Despite a wet and cool summer, the blueberries are thriving, although they are about a week later than last summer.
"The crop is excellent, even though it's slower," said Jack Concree, who has five high bush varieties on 51/2 acres.
At The Blueberry Farm, pickers receive a blue tin can with a cushioned rope, which allows them to hang the can around their neck and pick with two hands. The can holds about 31/2 quarts. They also get instructions on proper refrigeration and freezing.
In the refrigerator, the berries should be stored in a plastic container so they stay dry. To freeze berries, lay them in a single layer on a cookie sheet, place in freezer for half an hour until they're hard and then package them in plastic bags.
"You want them dry because a wet berry will mush up and get moldy," Jack Concree said.
Pat Concree tries out recipes recommended by family, friends and pickers and chooses the best six for the recipe flier she passes out.
"I pick recipes that are easy and inexpensive to make that I think the public will like," said Concree, who sometimes eats blueberries at every meal: in pancakes and scones for breakfast, with yogurt for lunch, and cake after dinner.
Berries are easy to pick. When ripe, they fall off the branch with a light finger twist. Look for berries that are fully blue, unless you want a tarter berry for baking. These will have some red coloring.
"The blue ones will fall right into your hand if you twirl your fingers around them," Jack Concree said.
With a variety of ripening times, the picking season typically lasts from mid-July through August or into early September.
"Some customers say the early varieties taste better than the later ones, but I find there isn't much difference," said Carlton Smith, who owns C.N. Smith Farm in East Bridgewater with his siblings.
Pick-your-own berries are less expensive than retail ones, although prices vary. At Webster Cranberry, pickers pay $4 a container, which can hold up to 2 pounds. At The Blueberry Farm, berries are $2.25 a pound. C.N. Smith Farm charges $3.20 a pound, with a 3-pound minimum.
And if you want free berries, you can find native ones on hilltops in the Blue Hills Reservation, particularly Great Blue, Buck and Hancock Hills, said park ranger Maggi Brown.
"Low bush berries are fairly common and grow along the trail edge," Brown said. "Native berries are smaller, but ounce-for-ounce I think they have more flavor."
However, pick only if you're absolutely sure it's a blueberry, since similar looking berries can make you sick.
"Identifying berries can be tricky," she cautioned. "The most important thing is that people know what they're eating."
Pick-your-own farms
The Blueberry Farm, 698 West Washington St., Hanson, 781-447-1584
The Blueberry Patch, 155 Glen Charlie Road, East Wareham, 508- 295-9289
C.N. Smith Farm, 325 South St., E. Bridgewater, 508- 378-2270
Tree-Berry Farm, Route 123, Scituate, 781-545-7750
Ward's Berry Farm, 614 South Main St., Sharon, 781-784-3600
Webster Cranberry, 292 Cross St., Norwell, 781-659-1599.
Always call to make sure the fields are open. For more information, go to www.pickyourown.org or www.mass.gov/agr/massgrown/blueberries.
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In the Bharat that is India, it is only those who play by the book, who stick to the code, who do not stray from the straight and narrow, who get the 21-gun salute. The game-changers, the pathbreakers, the non-conformists, the iconoclasts barely get a look-see from even the most modern of media.
Artists, yes. Graphic artists, no.
Classical musicians, yes. Rock stars, no.
Last Thursday, Amit Saigal, one of the titans of the Indian rock music scene, the founder of India's first pureplay rock music magazine, Rock Street Journal, met a watery end in Goa to almost deafening silence from the media which otherwise thinks it reflects and celebrates India's youth.
Here, a childhood friend pays tribute to a true rockstar.
By BISHWADEEP MOITRA
I was on my way to Dabolim airport from Anjuna on Thursday when my phone rang twice around 1.30 pm flashing "Amit Saigal". I had called Amit two days earlier when I was at Ashwem beach; I knew he was staying there.
My call had gone unanswered – so typically Amit, I told myself.
So, when I saw his name flash on my mobile phone screen I thought he was returning my call. But I could not take it immediately as I was checking in at the airport.
Once I had done so, I called Amit back on his number. It was not Amit on the other side; it was Gavin, Amit's friend from Australia, with whom I was vaguely familiar. Thanks to the noise of the airport announcements and Gavin's accent, I could barely make out what he was saying.
And then Gavin said: "Amit is dead."
Amit and I had known each other since we were five years old. We had gone to the same school, St. Joseph's in Allahabad. Amit stood out due to his unusual looks among us, Allahabadis. His complexion was western white; his hair was light in colour, almost blond.
He was built stoutly; he looked handsome.
Teachers at our school pinched his cheeks often. He was never the one who scored high grades but had a flair for writing English. Due to his appearance many of us thought he was a foreigner or an Anglo-Indian and kept some distance from him.
In school, Amit remained a bit of a mystery for us even though he would try his best to make us laugh with his fake 'angrez' accent, which mostly went beyond our comprehension. He could mimick very well at school functions; he was good at holding an audience's attention.
Despite his well-heeled background (a bahadur used to bring hot food every afternoon at the lunch recess for him) anyone of us who broke ice with him found him to be just like us.
Amit Saigal came from an aristocratic family of Allahabad engaged in the business of printing UP government's school books and stationery. His grand uncle was an Independence revolutionary of sorts and ran a publishing company by the name of Chand Press in the 1930s and '40s.
The Saigals lived in a sprawling bungalow in the Civil Lines area and owned furniture and cutlery that would rival the Nehrus of Anand Bhawan. The Shankaracharya had stayed at the Saigal household at a time when Maharshi Mahesh Yogi was his mere sevak.
After we had finished our school, Amit's father sent him to England to attend a printing technology fair. The experience could come in handy in running the family press, or so Saigal senior thought. But when Amit returned from ol' Blighty, his suitcase only contained literature on his future port of calling: rock music.
Rock music in Allahabad of the 1980s might sound like Teejanbai performing for the Pope, but the truth was slightly different. Due to a sizeable Anglo-Indian community, there were a small yet die-hard rock music loving gentry.
With the help of the gear he got from his England trip Amit started a rock band on the Prayag.
Amit and I lost touch with each other after school, after my family moved to Delhi. In 1993, with his now ex-wife Shena, Amit started India's first rock magazine from Allahabad, Rock Street Journal, a sort of cut-paste job from foreign music magazines peppered with profiles of a few Indian rock bands.
Initially RSJ was a sheaf of stapled sheets put together by Amit and Shena and personally handed out by them at IIT festivals. But soon the magazine became hugely popular among the student communities of the metros. Over a period of time, Amit became a cult-like figure among the youth of India's north eastern states.
He once received a fan's mail, which the letter writer claimed to have written with his own blood.
When we met again around 1996, our professions were a bit similar. Amit asked me to design the glossy format RSJ. The cute little boy from school had grown his hair. It was turning silver now, flowing below his shoulders like a rock star.
He looked even more incongruous than in Allahabad.
"Don't you get cat-calls in Allahabad for your women-length hair?" I asked.
Amit turned around and said: 'Ham phorener hain na.'
The fact was Amit couldn't care less.
That was Amit. He conformed only to the extent where he would not make his peers too unhappy with what he did. His rock star spirit was genuine; he did not work at it, he was born with it. He liked himself to be a bit on the edge, but one foot was always firmly planted on the ground.
Indian independent musicians will remain ever indebted to Amit Saigal for the possibilities he opened up for them in his lifetime. In the mid-90s RSJ started an annual three-day independent rock music festival, The Great Indian Rock, at Delhi's Hamsadhwani theatre to a capacity crowd of 10,000.
For the first time Indian rock bands from across the country found a professionally managed platform to perform for a large audience. GIR over the years discovered many amateur rock bands which have graduated to professional bands now.
Fondly called "Papa Rock" by the army of musicians he unearthed and honed, Amit started club gigs called Rocktober-fest in many cities of India. The surge of live-bands we see now playing at different bars and restaurants all over the places in emerging India were triggered by RSJ a good decade back.
In 2004, RSJ took the rock band Orange Street for a 4-country rock tour of Sweden, Norway, Estonia and England. This again was the first time an Indian band was touring Europe on this scale. I followed the band on this tour as a writer and a photographer for my magazine Outlook*.
In 2009, Amit's RSJ banner was up for more than 200 nights at different gigs all across India.
This November Amit kickstarted a weeklong international music festival in Delhi, The India Music Week.
We met a few times during the festival and he told me how physically exhausted he was putting together a festival of this size. He wanted to take a break from work, to re-energize himself in Goa for a few weeks, like he always did at the end of the year.
I told him I would join him towards New Year Eve.
Around 10 in the morning on January 5, Amit sailed out with Gavin and a few others on Gavin's boat from Panaji dockyard to sail to Palolim. About 100 metres before Palolim beach the boys jumped into the calm waters of the Arabian sea for a swim. They were a having a lot of fun swimming.
Amit said to Gavin that next year he would bring his daughter Aditi over.
Amit floated on his back gazing the blue skies above, his favourite position when he used to be in the water. After a while, his mates noticed he was floating face down. They sensed something was amiss. They pulled Amit on to the boat, gave him the oxygen mask to breathe. But it was too late.
"Papa Rock" had already left to organise another gig, in another world.
(Bishwadeep Moitra is executive editor of Outlook* magazine)
File photograph: Amit Saigal takes the mike at the author's wedding at Amber in Jaipur in November 2009
* Disclosures apply
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Legendary singer Aretha Franklin and Motown founder Berry Gordy will be honored at the 2014 BET Honors.
The network announced Thursday that rapper-actor Ice Cube, American Express CEO Ken Chenault and photographer and video artist Carrie Mae Weems will also receive tributes at the event. The show will take place at the Warner Theatre in Washington on Feb. 8.
The special will air Feb. 24.
BET Honors highlights African Americans performing at top levels in the areas of music, literature, entertainment, education and more.
Halle Berry and Chaka Khan were among the honorees at last year's BET Honors.
Actor and comedian Wayne Brady will host the special. Performers will be announced at a later date.


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Heather was a woman of faith, and her generosity and compassion was a testament to that. She was not one to express anything unkind, but instead offered words of encouragement. There wasn't a person who met her that didn't see her love for the Lord, and for family and friends alike. This is an unbearable loss, and we miss her more than words can express.
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An anonymous picture of a 24-piece Baroque chamber orchestra has
been sold at auction in Brussels. Dating from around 1770, the
large-scale pen-and-ink drawing is said to include an early
depiction of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Measuring 46 x 59cm, the drawing is notable for reproducing the sheet music so precisely that the key and time signatures can be identified. It also gives an idea of the number of musicians each sharing a music stand, the double bassist's performing style, and how the groups of instruments were arranged. The figure assumed to be Mozart is standing to the left of the harpsichord, on which is inscribed the Latin motto Audi vide et tace si vis vivere in pace ('Listen, see, and be silent if you wish to live in peace').
Formerly part of a private collection, the work was bought by the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation. It can be seen until the end of October at part of an exhibition of pictures of the composer at the Mozart-Wohnhaus in Salzburg.
The full picture, along with further details, can be found
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Abrahamic Reunion Community Service Gilroy 2012
GILROY, California — On Sunday, August 26, 2012, forty-three Jews, Christians and Muslims united to build peace by serving 180 meals to the hungry and homeless at St. Joseph's Family Center. Volunteer orientation was led Mr. Michael Heil of Congregation Emeth, Mr. Aziz Baameur of South Valley Islamic Center, and Pastor Larry Albright of Lincoln Glen Church. Jewish, Christian and Muslim volunteers were teamed up during orientation in small buddy groups to get to know each other while discussing fun questions about fond childhood memories, favorite holidays, and faith heroes. Buddy groups then collaborated to make a halal meal with BBQ chicken, baked beans, garlic bread, fruit salad, green salad, and fresh-squeezed lemonade. Before serving dinner, Pastor Albright thanked God for the the food, guests and volunteers uniting to love our neighbors together. After the meal service volunteers relaxed and dined together in buddy groups. Rabbi Debbie Israel of Congregation Emeth closed our service together by thanking God in prayer for so many volunteers uniting to feed the hungry and homeless, and for building bridges of peace and understanding between our three faith communities.Read More
Photos courtesy of Richard Coencas and Ray Hiebert.
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Just tried the pattern with nylon, on an Ed Speers hammock with the fitted underquilt. definitely too small. When I get the size right I will repost. Until then I plan to use this excellent set of skins on another tarp I have.
Just tried the pattern with nylon, on an Ed Speers hammock with the fitted underquilt. definitely too small. When I get the size right I will repost. Until then I plan to use this excellent set of skins on another tarp I have.
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I put a finger loop on the little end to tie to the strap and hold it in place when I skin the rest of it.
They are both very handy! Thanks for the ideas!
This was my first DIY attempt. I liked your design with the pockets at the ends, so I figured I would give it a try. I went over to my mother-in-laws house and she let me use her "Gear Making Machine". I have never used a "Gear Making Machine" before, but she said it's just like driving a car. I hit the gas and off I went!! I had no idea it would be so much fun, but I am very happy with the finished product and I figured I would post a couple of pictures. I made my skins out of 1.1oz ripstop nylon. Sewn with polyester thread at about 65mph. I made my skins a little over sized to fit my soon to be delivered MacCat Deluxe.
Another convert to the DIY support group.. It's contagious.
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This was my first DIY project and I made two sets one for my BB hammock and one for the SWT tarp. The instructions are great, the only thing is that the pocket is too small for the BB straps. Thank you.
Going DIY is the only way to go! Why pay retail for an inferior product?
It's such an encouragement to me and, no doubt others to hear folks making their own gear. Cheaper, better quality, and you've got the joy of saying,"Yeah, I made that myself!"
Keep at it ya'll and "Hang" in there!!!
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This is great, I am always struggling with the tie outs and cords on the tarp. Now its back to the store for more no see um. I'll have a set of these by the end of the weekend.
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I used your plans, but did not have that much mesh. I subed some camo nylon that I thought was going to be waterproof and wasn't.
I did use mesh for the pockets and lined with gg and even put a little pull tab on the larger opening.


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Stepfather Dirk Caber Gets TRIPLE Penetrated By His Stepsons
Men.com has been running this totally hot new series over the past several weeks called Stepfather's Secret. All of the episodes have been really hot — older guys fucking younger guys and vice versa. The latest episode, the 8th in the series features Stepdaddy Dirk Caber and his stepsons Asher Hawk, Johnny Rapid and Trevor Spade. What these four guys do is fucking incredible. Daddy Dirk Caber gets triple penetrated in his ass. Sure, we've all seen some hot double penetration scenes, but I guarantee you've never seen anything like this. The three stepsons are sitting on the couch with hairy muscle daddy Dirk Caber. Dirk takes off his pants and the three boys are amazed with his big hairy cock. Asher, Johnny and Trevor all take turns touching and stroking it. The three stepsons take their shirts off and they all take turns sucking on that big daddy cock. Dirk takes his shirt off and is now totally naked with the stepsons. Dirk gets very horny and very hard after getting his cock sucked, so the stepsons stand up and feed Dirk their big twink cocks. Dirk takes two cocks in his mouth while getting his own sucked. Next, the three stepsons kneel on the couch and stick their hairy asses up in the air. Muscle daddy Dirk inspects each of their hairy twink asses. One by one, he inserts his big hairy daddy cock up the twinks asses and gives them each a brief hard fucking. After he fucks all the twinks, Dirk sticks his hairy daddy ass up in the air and Johnny Rapid starts fucking the older guy. The other stepsons want their turn on that daddy ass as well. Asher Hawk comes over and inserts his cock up Dirk's ass at the same time Johnny is already fucking him for a hot double penetration scene. Trevor feels left out of the action so they tell him to come over and get some of that daddy ass with the rest of them. Trevor sticks his cock up Dirk's ass while Johnny and Asher are already deep inside of him. Dirk Caber takes three cocks up his ass at the same time. He screams out in pain and pleasure with his ass being fully stuffed to the limit. The three stepsons all fuck the stepdaddy at the same time until all of them shoot their big loads of hot cum all over their stepdad. Wow! Fucking hot! Make sure to check this one out – you can even get a $1 membership and download this and hundreds of other vidoes. Don't you wish you had a stepdad you could do stuff like this with?
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Cretul, Cannon are lobbyists; former speakers start new firm
Former Florida House speakers apparently don't just fade away.
Ocalan Larry Cretul, a Republican who capped off his eight-year tenure in the Legislature by leading the state House of Representatives, recently partnered with Dean Cannon, Cretul's successor as speaker, in a new lobbying venture.
Cannon, a Republican from Winter Park, recently announced that he was starting Capitol Insight, an all-purpose consulting and lobbying group in Tallahassee.
Joining Cannon and Cretul so far is Cynthia Lorenzo, formerly a high-ranking officer in the Department of Economic Opportunity.
In an interview Tuesday, Cretul said the arrangement was recently brokered over dinner as both lawmakers discussed their future plans.
Cretul said he had entertained the idea of "doing something all by myself" since the legal prohibition against him lobbying members of the Legislature expired on Election Day.
But, he added of the meeting with Cannon, "It just kind of came together. We have been friends and colleagues, but now (we) will be doing something together professionally."
Cretul pointed out that he and Cannon have been intertwined since the late 1990s.
The men first met in 1998, Cretul said, when the Orlando law firm Cannon worked at helped the Marion County Commission on utility issues. Cretul served on the commission at the time.
In 2002, when Cretul ran for the Legislature, Cannon was one of the lawyers the Republican Party of Florida sent to Ocala to monitor the recount in his close race with Democrat Perry McGriff. Cretul won by 35 votes.
The two became reacquainted after Cannon won his own House seat in 2004, Cretul said, and they worked together on several issues.
Cretul then passed the speaker's gavel to Cannon as he left the Legislature after the 2010 session.
Shortly after leaving the House in November 2010, Cretul became the director of the Board of Governors for the Florida Chamber of Commerce. The panel is an advisory group comprised of people from the chamber's different committees, councils and its Board of Directors.
More recently, however, Cretul delved back into politics.
He said he spent most of 2012 as part of a team that vetted 180 legislative candidates from both parties for the Chamber of Commerce. The information gleaned by Cretul and the others was passed along to the chamber's board to form the basis of the organization's endorsements for the recent state elections.
Cretul said Friday is his last day with the Chamber of Commerce. Working with Cannon will require him to spend most of his time in Tallahassee, Cretul said, but he will keep his home in Ocala.
At Capitol Insight, he said, he will try to whip up support for his clients' legislative proposals. Cannon, by law, is banned from lobbying the Legislature and will stick to working with the Scott administration.
"We're still in the organizational part," Cretul said. "We have no specific area. Just whatever the clients need."
Cretul, whose mild-mannered demeanor and self-deprecating humor often countered the stereotype of the slick wheeler-dealers in the capital, understands that his new role might make some recoil, given the connotation associated with the term lobbyist.
Yet lobbyists are an integral part of the legislative process, he said.
"The word certainly has an impact on some people, but it won't have the same impact on me," he said.
"In my eight years, I came to rely on them for educational purposes, and I found that some of the best lobbying of me personally explained the whole problem, offered a solution if there was one and told who was for it and who was against it, and the reasons for that.
"I want to bring the things I appreciated — honesty, integrity, truthfulness and providing information. I'm actually kind of excited about it and looking forward to it."
According to the Florida Current, at least a half-dozen former House speakers now practice as lobbyists in Tallahassee.
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Rabbit, Foursquare, Skype, TomTom, Cut the Rope, Borderlands Legends, deals, more
Rabbit: Launching today in closed beta, Rabbit is a new video chat and content sharing app– initially available exclusively for Mac– that has been getting a lot of attention. The app lets you chat with an unlimited number of people, create and customize chats, as well as watch movies, listen to music, and share content in chats in real-time. If you are a pre-teen who hasn't heard of Google Hangouts, you might want to check this out.
Rabbit is kind of like a virtual living room. It runs in the background on your computer just like Skype, so you can always find your friends online and invite them to watch a movie or listen to music at any time. You can share this content directly from your computer, or you can use the Rabbit "SharePad" of integrated content sites to instantly launch TV shows, videos and music you want to watch and listen to with your friends.
Foursquare version 5.4.3: Foursquare gets an update today that brings improvements to check-in notification settings including an "Always" option to get notifications for all check-ins, as well as new "Nearby" and "Off" settings to apply to specific users.
✓ Choose "ALWAYS" for close friends and family you always want to keep up with. You'll get notifications for all their check-ins, no matter where they are in the world.
✓ Choose "NEARBY" for friends you'd like to hear about from time to time. We'll only notify you when they're close by.
✓ Choose "OFF" for those acquaintances you don't really want updates from. And that bike messenger friend who checks in at every spot on his route.
TomTom version 1.13: TomTom updated the majority of its iOS navigation apps today. On top of the most up to date map data, users can also now backup and restore settings and stored destinations from iCloud. With today's update TomTom is also providing a free 30 day trial to its HD traffic subscription. In addition, the app now includes compatibility for iPad mini.
Borderlands Legends version 1.1.0: 2K's Borderlands Legends (and the HD iPad version) is updated today with new features including a new sniper mode, new enemy and mini boss types, night versions of the Wasteland map, iPhone 5 & Game Center support, new Eridian Weapons, and more. Expand


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If you have not heard the news yet, then where the heck have you been?
America's sweetheart, Sandra Bullock, won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy in "The Blind Side" at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
"The Blind Side" depicts the story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle. (IMDB, 2010)
The question is… did she deserve it?


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If you like streaming music and discovering radio stations from around the world, you'll enjoy this week's TuneIn Radio update. The developers have made a small change to the app that may turn out to be a big help when it comes to discovering new stations. We've also caught word of a nifty app that showcases PhotoSpheres, the 360-degree panoramic photos that can be taken with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean devices like the Nexus 4, as well as an app that lets you send a text message from your tablet device via your phone number. Also on the roster for this week is a new game from the makers of Tiny Tower that features a wonderful old-school gaming aesthetic coupled with the game mechanics of classics like Snake.
TuneIn Radio, Free
If you like radio stations, TuneIn Radio pushed a new update this week that helps you discover music a bit more easily. The feature is dubbed "TuneIn Live" and it's available via a tab on the main page of the app. From here, you can look through what's currently playing on various stations and get a feel for what you might be interested in checking out at a moment's notice. You can also customize this page so that you only see genres you're interested in. Mine? Well, education and electronic and dance, of course.
TuneIn also made a few tweaks to its UI to make it more scroll-friendly and easier to navigate through. There's also a pro version that costs $4.99.
SphereShare.net, Free
Props to AndroidPolice for scoping out this one: If you've got a Nexus 4 in hand, you no longer have to limit yourself to Google+ to check out panoramas taken by your friends. Instead, you can use SphereShare.net and check out PhotoSpheres taken by other Android users. You don't actually need a Nexus 4 to use the app—just to make the PhotoSpheres yourself. If you're rocking Android 4.0 or higher, you can install the app and check out the massive public archive of 360-degree panoramas and pan around them. Unfortunately, there's not a search function yet, so you can't go in and look for photos of your favorite places on Earth.
Dinamotxt, Free
Say you need to send a text message but you've only got your tablet nearby. Dinamotxt solves this issue by enabling you to send an SMS from an Android tablet via yout phone number. You'll need both devices to set up the process through Bluetooth, but you won't have to leave Bluetooth on to make it work—just a mobile connection. Once you send a text message from your tablet, you'll see it pop up almost immediately on your phone. Dinamotxt also allows you to back up text messages and select different themes for the application.
Nimble Quest, Free(mium)
Looking for a new game to get wrapped up in this weekend? The creators of Tiny Tower have released a title called Nimble Quest. Your job is to lead a conga line of tiny protagonists around the screen to defeat enemies. The game takes its mechanics from classic cellphone games like Snake, and you steer by swiping to go around enemies and attack them. As you move through the levels, you'll be able to select who walks at the front of the pack to lead the line and add on "buffs" to help protect your heroes.
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This is the urban century. Today, more than half of the world's population lives in cities. By the middle of the century more than two thirds of us will. But such growth comes with corresponding challenges. Municipal governments are facing challenges of increasing complexity, including climate change and the need for sustainable, resilient and low carbon development.
Dealing with these challenges requires two important shifts within city governments:
It is now well understood that cities must become 'smarter' in using information and communication technology (ICT) as both an enabler and provider of city services.
They must also seek to become more 'agile' – faster and more flexible in identifying challenges, and sourcing and implementing new solutions.
Smart technology and city agility are interlinked trends with each enabling the other to progress effectively, and both are clear prerequisites for the development of lower carbon, more liveable cities.
This report presents the findings from a survey and case study analysis of 50 diverse cities from around world who are engaged in efforts to improve their performance through greater agility.
The aim of this report is to better understand how these cities are moving towards greater agility in their formal processes for addressing challenges, and it concludes with key recommendations that will help deliver the smarter, lower carbon cities of the future.


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The amount of money students have borrowed for higher education in the US now exceeds $1 trillion, and a new report suggests that debt is causing a massive drain on Wisconsin's economy.
The study by the Institute for One Wisconsin shows students who took some college but never finished face average monthly loan payments of $268, those with a bachelors degree pay about $350 a month, and students with a graduate level degree pay an average of $448. That leaves students facing an average loan payment of $388 a month after leaving campus.
Institute Executive Director Scot Ross says paying that money off can take well over a decade for most students. According to the study, bachelors degree recipients take an average of 18 years to repay what they borrow, while students with a graduate degree face an average of 22 years.
With the debt hanging around for so long, Ross says those former students are left unable to exercise any purchasing power they may receive from entering the workforce. He says they avoid buying new cars and continue to rent, diverting the money out of Wisconsin and sending it to Wall Street banks instead.
Ross says reforms during the 1990s have essentially turned students into "indentured servants" for a higher education. He says the federal government needs to restore consumer protections for borrowers and the state should rethink how it funds colleges so students no longer need to borrow as much money to pay increasing tuition costs.
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China: Ethnic minority music finds an advocate
Laurent Jeanneau roams the ethnic minority villages of China recording the 'unofficial' music.
| Dali, China
For the past decade, Laurent Jeanneau has roamed the villages of Southwest China and Southeast Asia, microphones in hand, waiting for chances to record the songs of ethnic minority singers and musicians.
If you visit the French expatriate in Dali, the touristy city in China's Yunnan Province where he lives, he will sell you one of the 80-odd albums he has recorded in ethnic minority villages and self-produced on Kink Gong, his home-grown record label.
Government officials in China and Southeast Asia have "bastardized" traditional folk arts under the banner of promoting ethnic diversity, Mr. Jeanneau charges, and the albums he sells to tourists are "acts of resistance" to state-directed cultural paradigms.
"When I look for music, my rule is, 'Look for the less obvious,' " Jeanneau said in English on a recent afternoon in Dali. "The cliché is the tip of the iceberg. I want to go underwater."
Jeanneau's grass-roots recording project, though unknown to most music fans in China and beyond, illustrates some of the nuances that accompany and impede attempts to document folk arts in a region where millions of ethnic minority vil-lagers still sing and play ancient – or at least ancient-sounding – melodies.
The project is a race against time, Jeanneau says, because it is increasingly difficult to find older singers and musicians who know and perform the traditional songs they learned as children.
In China, scholars say, the ruling Communist Party promotes hyperstylized – you might say kitschy – versions of the folk arts traditionally practiced by the country's 55 designated ethnic minority groups, or "nationalities," as they are called in Chinese.
The groups, which account for more than 8 percent of China's 1.3 billion people, include Tibetans and Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim group. Both Tibetans and Uighurs have staged recent protests in China, challenging the central government's authority.
China's Communist Party – which turned 90 on July 1 – cultivates ethnic performing arts as a way to "spread state propaganda" and make amends for "damage" inflicted on minority cultures during Mao Zedong's infamous Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s, writes Helen Rees, an ethnomusicologist.
Dr. Rees, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who conducted fieldwork in Yunnan Province for her 2000 book, "Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China," writes that state-sanctioned folk music in China smacks of what a foreign observer might call "domestic orientalism." China, she says, promotes ethnic minority artists as an "exotic alternative" to the Han, the ethnic group accounting for more than 90 percent of China's population.
Jeanneau says he is wary of government influences on traditional music in China and Southeast Asia. When he travels to villages in China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, he asks people to sing and play the tunes they would perform for each other, rather than for tourists.
Jeanneau "records real folk music," attests Stevan Harrell, an anthropologist at the University of Washington.
Since the 1950s, China's Communist Party has promoted music that, while technically "ethnic," emerges from ethnic minority musicians' perception of what the party thinks folk music "ought to be like," says Dr. Harrell, who has conducted fieldwork in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces and corresponded with Jeanneau by e-mail.
But Jeanneau's recordings, Harrell says, feature singers and musicians who, refreshingly, are not as influenced by party propaganda. Contemporary Chinese ethnomusicologists are attempting to record more authentically folksy music, Harrell says, but they "are not recording with as much breadth and dedication as Laurent."
Zhang Xing Rong, an ethnomusicology professor at the Yunnan Art Institute in Kunming, says that Jeanneau's recordings of ethnic minority musicians in southwest China are "superior" to the recordings that Mr. Zhang and his colleagues produce.
Jeanneau invests time living among ethnic minority villagers, Zhang says in an interview at his Kunming apartment. As a result, the Frenchman – who speaks fluent Chinese and Khmer – is present to record impromptu performances.
Chinese ethnomusicologists don't have as much time for fieldwork, "so we usually approach local officials and say, 'Hey, can you ask some of the better singers from around this area to come over and perform?' " recalls Zhang, who has documented ethnic minority music in Yunnan Province since 1984.
"What ends up happening is that we hear the local 'greatest hits,' " he says. "We're supposed to observe things objectively, but a lot of the music we record is removed from its context."
Jeanneau's recordings may challenge government-approved notions of folk music in China and Southeast Asia. But is the act of recording that music in its natural setting really, as Jeanneau contends, an "act of resistance" to the status quo?
Not exactly, says anthropologist Harrell. China's Soviet-influenced campaign to identify ethnic minorities, Harrell wrote in his 2001 book, "Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China," "is not a one-way thing, imposed top-down on passive local peoples," but rather a "two-way process of co-optation."
Many of the government officials who promote ethnic minority music in China are themselves members of ethnic minority communities, Harrell explains, and they celebrate their ethnic identity partly as a way of promoting "ethnic tourism."
Culturally diverse Yunnan, one of the provinces where Jeanneau has recorded performers, is an epicenter of China's ethnic-tourism industry.
Jeanneau acknowledges that his "resistance" to government-sanctioned performing arts is fraught with cultural nuances. He is not an "authority" on ethnic minority culture, he says, but rather a guy who likes to record talented musicians who naturally express their emotions in song.
"Singers who are trying to impress you too much are missing the point," he says. Jeanneau, whose scraggly ponytail conveys a bohemian vibe, is quick to distance himself from the Western scholars who also conduct fieldwork here.
"I'm not part of the university world," he insists, a little combatively. "I'm a totally independent person."
Western scholars are typically concerned with the ethical implications of their fieldwork. Asked whether he is similarly concerned, Jeanneau demurs: Being a foreigner in ethnic minority villages presents challenges and misunderstandings, he says, but his recordings benefit the communities he visits.
If he made more money selling his self-produced albums, Jeanneau says, he could afford to pay the performers more than five to 10 euros per session – a rate he says is comparable to that paid by university-funded scholars. Jeanneau himself lives modestly with his wife and son in a no-frills concrete home. He edits his recordings on a battered laptop computer.
Although he lives a hand-to-mouth existence, he vows he will never compromise the integrity of his albums by altering them to suit popular tastes.
"You might have a few crying children, and chickens, and bugs from the jungle in there," he says. "But that's the way I capture sounds."


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Kickin' Kajun, a new Louisiana crawfish and seafood boil restaurant
Above: Combo #2 with crawfish, shrimp, clams and lobster. Don't do what we did and dump all the shellfish out of the bag and onto the table. Sauce and juices will go everywhere (even more than usual).
There is carnage. We have torn through four pounds of crawfish, clams, shrimp and lobster. There are shellfish juices on our hands, on our plastic bibs, and for one us, in her hair. We have not been allowed to be this messy in a restaurant since we were two. We are happy.
I love Kickin' Kajun, but it's not because of the food itself.
Kickin' Kajun approximates a Louisiana crawfish and seafood boil. Tables are wrapped in butcher paper and you're given a plastic bib, which will not protect you any more than a cocktail umbrella will keep you dry in a deluge. Were there utensils? I don't remember, because I didn't use any.
You order a "creature" (choices include crawfish, clams, shrimp, Maine lobster, Dungeness crab) and a seasoning (Louisiana style and the House Special garlic butter were favorites), and your shellfish comes to you in bags with potatoes, corn and sausage. And then you have at it—pinch the tail and suck the heads of the crawfish, peel shrimp, crack the lobster, and dredge all the meat in the flavorful juices in the bag.
You have to work for your food here.
It's not the best seafood in the world—it's all slightly overcooked and the restaurant gets the crawfish pre-cooked (rather than deal with the hassle of shipping live crawfish) so it doesn't really soak up enough of the seasoning in the boil.
But it is fun.
$12 to "market price" per pound of shellfish, combo dinners include four types of seafood, from $40 to $60.
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There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive. Aside from a handy text editor or WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, you can find plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development speed, reduce debugging and testing time, and improve quality of the output. The tools described below are a variety of utilities, optimizers, testing, and debugging tools aimed towards helping developers create websites more efficiently.
1. CSS Grid Builder
CSS Grid Builder is an online GUI for customizing the YUI Grids CSS – a lightweight CSS framework developed by Yahoo! that comes with over 1000 page layout combinations. The CSS Grid Builder allows you to rapidly generate a CSS-based, web-standards compliant page layout in a matter of minutes (or even seconds).
Once you've got the page layout the way you want it, all you have to do is press "Show Code" and it generates the HTML for you. You don't even have to host the CSS file on your web server (saving you some bandwidth and maintenance hassles), the generated code links to the appropriate stylesheet found on Yahoo!'s Developer Network API.
2. CSS Sprite Generator
Using CSS sprites is an excellent way to improve web page performance by reducing the number of HTTP requests needed for rendering images, but it can take a lot of planning, measuring, and coding if done manually. CSS Sprite Generator allows you to upload all of your images (you have to place them in a .zip file first) and it will combine the uploaded images into a single sprite and also generate the CSS for you.
3. Blueprint: A CSS Framework
Blueprint reduces the amount of CSS code you have to write by including common styles that developers typically use such CSS reset and page layouts. A demonstration of a web page that uses Blueprint can be found here.
4. CSSTidy
CSSTidy is an open source application that parses, fixes, and optimizes CSS code to reduce file size and also to standardize CSS code formatting automatically. It also finds and removes redundant styles and properties. You can adjust CSSTidy's settings to your preferred compression level but even the default setting can often give you 30% compression according to the creators of CSSTidy.
Check out the "before and after" examples to get a feel for how CSSTidy works.
5. logicss: CSS Framework
logicss is a collection of CSS files and PHP utilities aimed at reducing web development time. It allows developers to create customizable fixed, elastic, or fluid (liquid) layout grids. Check out the preview of their CSS code generation tool.
6. ___layouts
___layouts is a very simple CSS framework that can be used to create web-standards compliant page layouts. ___layouts was inspired by Yahoo!'s Grids CSS and offers 5 preset widths that supports fluid-width or fixed-width layouts. Much like Yahoo!'s Grid.css, ___layouts also has a web-based Layout Builder that was developed for the Firefox browser.
Caution: the Layout Builder is still in its early stages of development, so things may be buggy at times.
7. Clean AJAX
Clean AJAX speeds up Ajax development by cutting down the amount of code you have to write (and rewrite), giving you access to common and proven design patterns used in Ajax applications. Clean AJAX can be used with any server-side technology such as PHP, RoR, and .NET because it's JavaScript-based. Check out the demo page so you can see Clean AJAX in action.
8. Sajax
Sajax (which stands for "Simple Ajax Toolkit") is an open source framework developed to speed up the creation of Ajax applications. It supports major sever-side technologies such as ASP, Cold Fusion, PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby. Sajax has a fairly large community of over 39,000 registered users on their forums – so if you run into any troubles while developing a Sajax-based application or if you want to showcase your work, you'll be sure to have an audience.
9. DOMTool
DOMTool was created to cut down the time it takes to code DOM structures. Creating DOM statements is as simple as copying your HTML code into the DOMTool and then clicking a button. It's not meant to be used as a simple copy-and-paste solution and you should verify and optimize the output, but it gives you a great starting point.
10. JavaScript Code Improver
JavaScript Code Improver is a simple, no-frills application that allows you to quickly tidy up and format your JavaScript. It's a great way for a team of developers to standardize JavaScript code format for easier readability and collaboration.
11. JSUnit
12. Test plugin for JavaScriptMVC
The Test plugin for JavaScriptMVC is another excellent JavaScript testing framework to help make development speedier. It was created with the concept of "JavaScript testing sucks… so we want to make it easier" in mind.
The Test plugin is a comprehensive set of utilities allowing you to do unit tests as well as simulate user interaction that can occur in a web page.
13. Venkman: JavaScript Debugger
Venkman is a JavaScript debugging environment for Firefox 2, Netscape, and Seamonkey. It gives you a GUI for stepping through JavaScript code and setting break points. It also comes with a command-line interface built in.
Venkman is an extension that you can easily install and download through the Firefox Add-ons section of Mozilla.org.
14. Firebug
Firebug is a Mozilla Firefox extension that gives you plenty of web development tools and features. Firebug has a built-in JavaScript debugger that lets you step through your script as well as allowing you to perform benchmarks to see why your script is slow/sluggish. You can quickly hunt down CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and XML errors through Firebug, and it even allows you to filter and search for specific errors.
Another handy feature is the DOM inspector pane which outlines a web page's structure; very handy if you're working on a big website or an open-source application that you've recently gotten involved with. It's an awesome tool though I find that disabling Firebug when I'm not using it is helpful in speeding up normal browsing (such accessing Gmail, for example).
15. Web Developer extension for Firefox
Web Developer extension is a very handy and time-saving extension for Firefox. I've written and recommended it plenty of times and is an extension that I use daily. You can rapidly validate your XHTML, find JavaScript/CSS errors, visualize a web page's structure, quickly fill out web forms for testing purposes, clear your cache with a shortcut key, change XHTML on-the-fly (great for working remotely on a web design), inspect HTTP headers information, and much more.
16. Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Even if you prefer Firefox (or Safari) to develop and test your web pages, you have to test your stuff in the Internet Explorer browser for cross-compatibility. Whenever I test in IE, there are plenty of times when I wish certain features in Firebug and the Web Developer extension are accessible through IE, such as the DOM inspector option or the CSS Information option. IE Developer Toolbar is the IE add-on that provides me the features I like in my Firefox extensions.
17. Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
The Yahoo!
Design Pattern Library is a large collection of proven optimal web design patterns to save you time in creating highly-sophisticated design solutions. Some things that you can find in the Design Pattern Library are: breadcrumb navigation, auto-complete for web forms, and drag-and-drop solutions. It speeds up development by offering solutions to common design needs so that you don't have to re-invent the wheel.
18. Test Everything
Test Everything is a web-based application for multi-purpose testing, reducing the time it takes you to use online services and validators. Test Everything is an aggregate of over 100 tools reduced to just one web page. You can validate your XHTML for web standards and accessibility, test your design in several browsers (using the Browsershots service), check page rank, and more – all in one location.
19. Pingdom Tools
Pingdom Tools is web-based application that you can use for easily testing the performance of your web pages. It can give you information on the total loading time of a web page and the total number of objects required to render the page to give you insights on things you can leave out or combine. It gives you a visualization of how page objects are loaded and you can sort the results by load order, load time (helpful in seeing what's taking so long to load), file size, file type, and URL.
20. Aptana Studio Community Edition
Aptana Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed for Ajax-based applications. It has JavaScript debugging, an Ajax and JavaScript library that includes some popular frameworks (such as the Dojo Toolkit) syntax colorizing, HTML/CSS/JavaScript code assistance (auto-complete and tool tips) and much more. It makes Ajax development simpler and gives the developer time-saving ways of organizing and managing multiple projects.
Some more tools
- Google Web Toolkit: write high-performance Ajax applications quickly using Java and the compiled output is highly-optimized JavaScript files.
- Cuzillion: quickly construct web pages to see how page objects interact so that you may explore techniques on how to improve web page performance.
- CSSFly: edit web pages on-the-fly through a web browser. Helpful in debugging and testing a web page.
- AppJet: a web-based solution that allows you to create a functional web application or widget through a GUI.
- Google Sitemap Generator: Quickly generate a sitemap file based on the Sitemap XML protocol without you having to write it yourself.
Some related articles
- Awesome Things That Firefox's Web Developer Extension Can Do
- Top 6 Internet Explorer Extensions for Web Developers
- 16 Free JavaScript Solutions for Displaying Your Images
I hope you've enjoyed this collection of tools and that you've found one or two that you'd like to try out. Got a tool that's saved you a lot of time that wasn't listed here? Share it with us in the comments.
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"Do Not Change Channel. Taping Dallas."
This month we once again celebrated the anniversary of the day in 1977 that VHS tapes (R.I.P.) were introduced to America. This leads me to fondly recall my childhood - where many excited trips into the living to watch television were ended by a sternly worded note taped over the television screen warning others not to change the channel on a recording in progress.
My parents must have really saved up. Check out the price of the first VCR unit:
The system was called Vidstar. The VCR would cost $1,280. That's about $4,600 in inflation-adjusted dollars. Blank tapes were priced at $20 ($72 these days).
I know DVDs are far superior when it comes to audio, picture quality, durability, special features and the simple act of jumping around from one scene to another - but who doesn't in some strange way miss adjusting the tracking on a VHS tape? Who's with me?
(Via Wired)


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We are all unique. God created each of us with different giftings and talents. The Word of God tells us so. We are all needed to perform the complete function of the body of Christ through the beautiful working of the Holy Spirit through us. I have noticed, and I am sure I am not alone in this, that one of the ways I am able to tell I am not abiding in Christ is by my words. Every once in a while I find myself responding to someone or some situation with a careless response. A response that hasn't been thought out. Just a plain old flesh answer or response. Sadly this kind of response can sometimes be hurtful to the one on the receiving end and it can also cause harm to the causes of the Kingdom of God. Many relationships, marriages and friendships have been destroyed by careless words! So has the reputation of the family of God!
Our words are so important. We are Christ's ambassadors here on earth. We are called to live and walk as He did. Our natural sinful nature does not excuse us from not walking in the Spirit. It gives us even more reason to abide in Him and allow His Spirit to guide us in our actions and reactions. I have come to realize that when I take my eyes of my beautiful King for even a day, my actions begin to reflect my heart. I begin to respond without the wisdom, sensitivity and love of the Spirit of God.
This is not a message intended to shame. It is a reminder to myself and others that when we do not abide in Christ, we are acting out of the flesh and can undo some of the wonderful things God has already started in another life with our fleshly responses. So if you, like myself, take your eyes off of Christ from time to time, remember that what's done and said in the flesh bears no fruit for the Kingdom. So it is imperative that we ask forgiveness of Him and perhaps to anyone we may have hurt, turn our eyes back on Christ, ask Him to guide our steps each day and keep us close to Him! Doing so ensures fruit!
Let's take a look at just a few verses from the Bible on the importance of our words!
Proverbs 12:18 NKJV 18 There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health.
Matthew 12:36 NKJV 36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Psalm 19:14 NKJV 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
James 1:26 NKJV 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless.
Proverbs 18:21 NKJV Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
And finally…. Ephesians 4:29 NKJV 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue! If that doesn't hit us hard, I don't know what will. Every word we speak as followers of Christ is important. Not because of who we are but because of who we represent to the world we live in! We are His hands and feet and are called to live a life that will not cause others to stumble and fall. Let each of us repent of any careless words and keep our hearts close to the ONE who we deem Savior and Lord!
"Those who are really converted show it practically. That conversion which does not convert or turn the life is no conversion at all." ~ Charles Spurgeon


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