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For instance Unity 3D uses the Compiz OpenGL compositing manager, Gnome 3 uses "Mutter" and with the plasma KDE desktop introduction, it also requires you to have a powerful hardware features nonetheless.
But unlike with MS Windows in GNU/Linux, almost all of these desktops actually come with a fall-back mode which basically gives you a lower-end version of their original OpenGL rendering desktops (with a window manager that doesn't use a lot of your GPU), thus no one is left behind ;-) (I'm serious!).
But if have a slower or an older hardware in your PC or Laptop then I think most of the time you'll always be better off with a dedicated, lower hardware "aimed" lightweight desktops rather than those above mentioned "fall-back modes", because even in the fall-back mode (Unity 2D or Gnome 3 classic for instance) the only difference is in the Window manager rather than the individual applications thus if you have a lower-end hardware then it'll still "hurt", obviously.
In that sense if you're looking for such dedicated "lightweight" desktops, I'm pretty sure there are many but both Xfce and LXDE without a doubt are the most prominent ones.
The reason is simple, these are not "just desktops" but once installed you'll get a complete desktop suite with apps such as text editors, media player, control panel, file manager, Terminal emulator, even office suits, etc thus you don't have have to install any separate applications afterward!.
(please be aware that it's pretty hard to say "everything" using a just pictures and stuff, so I'll try my best).
LXDE vs Xfce
Let's have a look at the desktops...
|Xfce desktop...
|LXDE desktop...
Anyhow both these desktops actually come with a rich desktop right click which are totally better than in the Gnome classic desktop (the version 3 doesn't even have one!). But in comparison Xfce has a better (not necessarily since these are highly relative terms) right click than the LXDE version.
In the past all they had for a right click was nothing but big application menu if you remember, but it's quite extraordinary how they've evolved within such short period. So basically you can create a folder, new launcher, a text file and access other desktop related settings such as change background, etc.
So the desktop is well implemented, may not be perfect, but it's certainly more than enough for most of us.
|Xfce desktop configuration...
|LXDE: as you can see with the above screenshot, Xfce has a better desktop configuration window, but it's really not a game changer, so to speak ;-)...
|This means too much features and getting in the way of the users, from"Gnome's point of view", really is this too much to ask?...
Other apps...
*. File Managers:
Xfce comes with a file manager called Thunar and LXDE's one is PCMan which is actually one of the founding applications of the LXDE desktop itself. As you can see they both a again look a lot similar in both GUI and functions.
From managing your folders/files (deleting, creating, editing, etc) they also have the ability to display mounted (both local and networked) partitions, zooming, sort files and folders + let you customize few settings such as enabling/disabling thumbnails, changing toolbar icon sizes, switch between views via the "preference" windows.
|Thunar of Xfce...
|PCMan in LXDE...
*. Text editors:
This is another important thing. As said both Xfce and LXDE come with text editors of their own called Leafpad in Lxde and Mouspad in Xfce. But Mousepad is actually based on the Leafpad!, thus they both look a lot a-like.
You can do basic text editing such as changing font, colors, underline, bold, etc with them but for serious writers you'll have to either install LibreOffice or the more lightweight Abi-Word suit, etc which enables more advanced features (spell checking, etc) + a lot of file type support as well.
*. Window managers:
If you don't know what this is, then a window manager is one of the most basic and prominent apps that underlies on any graphical user interface (GUI). It's the one that "draws" and manage all those windows/titlesbars/buttons, message boxes, etc.
This is also one of the main applications that has the ability to speed-up things a bit unlike many others. By having a lightweight window manager means better performance and low on system resources but it'll also mean that you'd have to bear not having those fancy effects such as 3D cube, transparency or other whatnots we geeks are up to these days ;-).
LXDE uses a one called OpenBox which is old, quite robust and it's a separate application (not an original LXDE "project"). But most importantly it's known for its speed!. It's simple yet quite powerful + lets you configure a lot of its options by using a back-end called Obconf. Below is a screenshot of Obconf manager in LXDE desktop.
As you can see in comparison it lets you configure a scary amount of options for the good or the worse ;-). Although while I was using the LXDE in my Ubuntu 11.04 the responsive times were excellent but there were few occasions which it was a bit sluggish/clumsy (you know less responsive, etc) and the close/minimize buttons weren't that responsive either. But in general it's a hell lot faster than Gnome and KDE!.
Xfce desktop on the other hand uses a window manager of its own called Xfwm, 4.0 is the current version. As you can see with the below screenshot, it also is pretty rich in features (maybe slightly lesser than Openbox but) and is second to no one (although in the screenshot I've chose a tab with few options but once you choose other tabs there are reasonable amount of features).
Furthermore although I'm not entirely sure whether you can do this in LXDE but in Xfce it you want more control over your desktop just like with Gconf-editor in Gnome, but better in Xfce, you can access a lot of other desktop and applications (file manager, text editor, etc) related settings via a front-end called "Xfce-Settings-Editor/Xconf".
But if you're a bit new to GNU/Linux then most of these settings may not be necessary anyway.
*. Archive managers:
To manage archives of almost every kind you'll get an app called Xarchiver in LXDE and a more simpler one called Squeeze in Xfce. Although they both basically do the same thing but I prefer the Xarchiver since it's a bit rich in features and gives you better control.
|My personal favorite, the Xarchiver! in LXDE...
*. Music/Video players:
LXDE has a music player which called LXmusic that has a simple GUI and based on XMMS. It loads fast and does it jobs just fine. Although not as advanced as Rhythmbox , Banshee or nowhere near Amarok! (you KDE geek).
Yet for simpling listening to audio files I find it to be more than enough. And since it's job is to remain simple we can't ask for a lot of features either.
|LXDE music player (audio only)...
Xfce has both an audio player + a separate media player called Parole (based on Gstreamer) which has a very similar GUI as the Totem in Gnome. So when it comes to multimedia support by default I think Xfce do it a little bit better.
|Parole media player...
Well, Xfce has an excellent one called Xfburn. It comes with reasonable amount of features + loads fast and does its job really well while I used it. LXDE does not have a CD/DVD burner of its own at the moment. So you'll have to install one separately.
*. Web Browsers:
Xfce's version is called Midori which is again quite fast and simple + uses lesser amount of system resources than other major browser such as Firefox, Google Chrome and Chromium.
LXDE does not have a one of its own, yet. So again, you'll have to install one separately.
*. Image Viewers:
Xfce has a pretty simple one called Ristretto and LXDE has one of its own called GPicView. They're both excellent, simple and low on your system resources.
Although both these desktop do come with a lot of other apps such as terminal emulators, etc and lets you configure a lot of settings such as panels, file manages, window managers, etc but in comparison Xfce at the moment feels more likely a completed desktop but that's because it has been there for some time now in comparison with the relatively new LXDE.
And Xfce has some additional features and apps and it's certainly faster than a lot of other desktops but if you want a desktop that closely resembles Xfce still slightly faster (just a little bit :D) Xfce, then LXDE is an excellent choice!.
But that being said, LXDE, I think has to do some interface cleaning. I mean, just right click on your panel in LXDE and in my experience it takes me few seconds to find the option that I was looking for.
|It's a bit "cluttered" don't you think?, perhaps it's those icons... (or maybe I'm just nuts!)...
But that's doesn't mean Xfce is bad or anything. It may be slightly slower (very little!), but then again that's because it has some additional features than LXDE and once installed it has the ability to act as a "full" desktop thanks to a separate dedicated window manager and applications of their own, etc (other than not having an office suite at the moment). So I certainly don't know which is better when considering LXDE vs Xfce, I'll let you do the "deciding" ;-).
Get More From: LXDE Home page | Xfce Home page.
What do you think ?


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A Berlino, dal 7 al 9 Settembre, ci sarà la prima (un)conference di ALE – Agile Lean Europe. ALE è un network nato nella primavera del 2011, partendo da un'idea lanciata da Jurgen Appelo (http://www.noop.nl/2011/03/how-to-move-europe.html), consolidatasi attraverso una serie di incontri e scambi di idee e visioni (il più significativo, in occasione dell'edizione 2011 degli XP days, a Madrid). Tutte le info su ALE si trovano nel sito ufficiale – http://alenetwork.eu/ – da cui sono linkati anche il gruppo su LinkedIn e le altre risorse disponibili online.
A livello italiano, esiste un gruppo di riferimento (ALE Italy) su LinkedIn, c'è stato un primo scambio di esperienze / impressioni / idee in real life in Maggio, in occasione dell'Agile Coach Camp (http://accitaly.wordpress.com/), e poi ci sono stati alcuni rappresentanti a Madrid. La discussione continua online, e anche la preparazione per l'evento di Berlino.
E' possibile segnalare sin d'ora la propria intenzione di andare a Berlino (http://ale2011.eu/), compilando il form di pre-registrazione. L'idea è di avere al massimo 10 persone per stato, inizialmente (con la possibilità di recuperare quelle/i in "lista di attesa", se alcuni stati mandano comunque meno di 10 persone).
Il form è abbastanza ricco, come domande. Io mi sono pre-iscritto qualche giorno fa, e mi fa piacere condividere qui (= pubblicamente) le mie intenzioni, motivazioni, aspirazioni. Anche perchè non sono certo (non oggi, almeno!), un "nome", nella comunità agile e lean italiana. E quindi è legittimo che qualcuno possa chiedersi: "Chi è costui?" e "Perchè va (anche) lui a Berlino?". (Nel frattempo, a tanti altri, ovviamente, che io vada o meno a Berlino non interessa minimamente. Giusto e ragionevole.)
Why should you be a participant?
I'm an agile enthusiast … and a lean advocate! I really love this approach, applied to software development / IT projects management. I do all I can to be agile / lean, both in my work and in my life. I try, fail, learn, try again … I study a lot as well. I do a lot of sharing of my findings and limited knowledge (always trying not to preach).
I don't have that much visibility in the agile community at an international level, but I'm used to such a scenario in other contexts (opensource world, online activism, …)
I'm ready to bring … all I have, in terms of expertise, case studies, determination, passion … and I'm ready to full my bag and mind and notebooks too … with what I'll get!
Which are your expectations for the conference?
I expect to meet a lot of great people – see some friends once more, meet in real life some women and men I met only via internet so far, have the pleasure to know and talk with people who are currently out of my network of relationships.
I'm sure it will be a safe, creative, energized place, where I'll have the chance to learn a lot … while having fun!
My main interests right now are:
– agile (and lean) methods in IT contexts / organizations, but beyond software development (I've been doing web development and sysadmin for the last 10 years, but in the last few I've moved to a team leadership profile – and I tend to enjoy more deal with people than with code )
– what can I give to the agile community, given my eclectic background ( graduated in communication, some years ago … semiotics and sociology were not relevant during my "pure IT" years – now I see, talking with fellow agile coaches, that cross-disciplinary pollination is potentially hot – ie the semiotic perspective on storytelling, or on the usage of metaphors …)
How are you connected to your local agile or lean communities?
I'm an outstanding member of a local community (almost town based) of developers and web enthusiasts (WebDeBS), with a discrete focus on agile and lean methods.
I've been attending Italian Agile Days for the last 2 years – and I'm trying to see if I can be of any help organizing this year edition.
I've been at the Italian Agile Coach Camp last May (that was a WOW weekend! – I made an informal retrospective of that for the webdebs guys in Brescia)
I've recently spoken of lean methodologies at the Italian Wordcamp of Milan.
I'm part of the Italian ALE Network LinkedIn group (for that group, I've just designed a partial map of Italian agile and lean communities http://maptini.com/maps/49640060-691a-012e-6f7e-12313d1a65d3).
I'm part of the Italian GrUSP (php users and developers), where agile and lean are also part of the conversation, both on lists and in events (phpday – I attended the last 3).
I'm interested in the Lean Startup Movement too (a few weeks ago we simulcasted in Brescia the Startup Lessons Learned conference from SF) and willing to network with others in Italy sharing the same vision / interests.
I've just formed a small group of organizers to make a local day of the Agile Tour 2011 in Brescia, next October.
What will you contribute to the conference (from your local community)?
From Italy, we'll see, together with fellow participants, what we can bring, as a whole, and at individual level. At Agile Coach Camp, one great suggestion, imho, from Alberto (@ziobrando) was to bring the experience of "agile adoption in an hostile environment".
My personal experience is rooted in freelance consulting and SMB contexts, so I'm more aware of the challenges, and pitfalls, in this type of scenarios (also: when I talk of agile adoption this is currently my usual audience, and I'm more aware of their issues / doubts than other profiles' ones)
How do you want to support the ALE network in the future and in what way will your attendance of the ALE2011 help your local community in the European network?
I've taken part in the 1st ALE bathtub conference. I'm now helping to organize the 2nd one. This is something that I can commit doing on a regular basis.
I've also given my availability to help out with the community sofa for ALE (not sure how much I can help on that, but we'll have a skype conf next week, I'll find out more :-))
One thing I'd really love to contribute to ALE is my experience with consensus based decision making for internet based large communities / networks (I've gone quite deep on this in my past, both on field and on theoretical level – IMC movement and master degree thesis).
Another main thing I'd like to contribute (or at least explore!) is the possible relations and overlaps of agile communities and networks with opensource / free software ones (and of course what we can learn from each oher, and share).
Topic for your lightning talk. (All participants of ALE2011 have to prepare a lightning talk of 3 to 5 minutes).
I'll be happy to share my experience with niko niko (aka smiley calendar), a lean tool to … "measure team happiness" 😉

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Hy everybody :D...I`m glad to tell you about my last collaboration with 2 great people! Raluca Martinescu launched her new
September line (which will be on posted on the site soon) and I was invited to be the image for it and it was such a pleasure to accept it! The pictures were taken by
Mihai Constantineanu and those from today`s post are just a part of the pictures!
I will show you more pictures and outfits but after i will receive them all!
Those are just wonderful in my opinion and i couldn`t resist the temptation to upload the on the blog!
Don`t forget to check my blog tomorrow for my first GIVEAWAY :D
Kisses,Manuella ♥


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An ex-convict suffering from leukemia and once eager to return to jail in order to get treatment was sentenced to 100 days in federal prison Wednesday but should be out in about a week.
Frank J. Morrocco's sentence by U.S. District Judge John T. Curtin followed his guilty plea to violating his probation. His sentence includes time already served as part of his probation violation.
Morrocco, 56, was released from prison in late 2011 after spending 20 years there for cocaine trafficking.
He claims he intentionally got himself arrested last November because he could not afford health insurance. Morrocco also said a return to federal prison would provide him with the kind of medical care he could not afford as a free man.


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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
I've been spending my days outside in the Autumn drinking in the time with my sons that has been gifted to me. I don't feel time slipping away and I am thankful for that. Oliver (Liv) is one and half yet it seems like I have known him for many years. Ben feels ten to me but he's not even four. I'll be forty next year but I feel like I have lived a hundred years. Then I hold my hand next to my son's and he has no wrinkles and that lets me know that time is moving as it should. I see flashes of memories of myself as a boy and then I look in to my son's eyes and I see myself then and now and I feel all of the years that have passed. It's profoundly happy and sad...
In 1995 I rode out hurricane Marylin in a small bathroom with two friends, two fifths of whiskey, several bottles of wine and a 1/2 pound of Puerto Rican 'creepy'. I do think that the Red Cross lists this as THE definitive hurricane survival kit...When we stepped out after the storm had passed the song on the radio was Van Morrison's 'Days Like This' (which is on my playlist to the right). That song puts me back on the island.
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- Dave said...
Dude with stories like that I can understand why you feel like you've lived a hundred years!:) I turn 30 in a few months and I've had similar "flashbacks" of things I've done and different choices I've made. It's amazing to think how many events happen in such a short time and what impact they all have on who you are. I used to think my parents were crazy "partiers" when they'd tell me stories of Woodstock and what the sixties was all about when I was young. Safe to say I've out-done them by a long shot:).
Cheers and cool to see you're not pushing the running!
Enjoy the autum days!
- October 21, 2010
- Deron said...
Jammin out to the tunes in my windowless office. Thanks!
- October 21, 2010
- Matt said...
Good prose poem morning, Tim.
Outstanding river (of) running through that head of yours.
I have been saying that about my son for YEARS. People say, "the time just flies by." I look at them like they're stupid or something. He's been around for YEARS. I wonder if it's because I have been so involved or I'm weird.
However, I think this sense that they grow-up so fast (still, I think bullshit) comes from that time when they start to hit 1st, 2nd grade, age 6-7 and then (I think) before you know it they're 9-10, etc. Maybe that's how that works.
But I'm not there yet and I still think Jack has been around for a loooong time. I can't even imagine him 16 or say 20. Ha! You're kidding. He'll be my little old soul monkey forever. . . or not.
Have a killer day, killer.
- October 21, 2010
- Rick said...
Time with our kids does seem to go by so fast and anything to make it seem to slow down I'm all for. I think the more memories you have is the only suitable replacement for the illusion that time goes by faster as we get older. I'm reminded every morning that time is moving as it should be when my daughter pulls a chair up to the stove to help me cook breakfast.
Any plans of doing a fun run at race effort this weekend?
- October 21, 2010
- Brett said...
Beautiful writing.
Kids are such emotional roller coasters aren't they? I want my kids to see the world, but I want to put them in a box. I want them to grow up faster, and I want them to never grow up.
I seem to recall you've been through these emotional running waves before. I don't remember you back then realizing that these waves happen and you went a lot more emotional back then. Your trails and mountains aren't going anywhere, so its good you seem to be learning more and more about yourself and how to keep it between the guardrails.
- October 21, 2010
- Lucho said...
Dave- I took down some of the post... maybe a little too gnarly and I might have the South African police calling me! True story though. 30... you're just a kid man.
Deron- Which songs? The playlist is split in half. The Aretha Franklin song has been a favorite of mine for years.
Thanks as always Matt! I appreciate your thoughts.
Rick- I think the hill climb was canceled but I wouldn't have run it anyway. I used to race for fun but these days I just have no interest unless I have a shot at winning. Maybe that snooty...
Ben is just now pulling the chair up too. Love it.
Brett- I hear you completely on feeling the need to shelter our kids. My mom was amazing and allowed me to do my thing. Of course I was very lucky on many occasions. When I was 19 I bought a one-way ticket to South America (Guyana no less). I've called her at 3:00am with the simple question "do I have insurance for the emergency room?". I will absolutely be sharing these stories with my boys in hopes of teaching them. NOT teaching them to not do these things... but teaching them how to survive. I dropped out of college to travel and never really stopped until Ben was born.. I have a PhD in street smarts.
I have learned not to try to push through times of low motivation. But just as it ebbs... it also flows with equal depth. When I'm set on something I can become extremely focused and I think that's partly due to the fact that I don't run myself in to the ground. I am lifting a ton right now though (I built a squat rack in my shed out back) and it feels awesome to feel strong again. I keep moving my 200 pound logs around simple because I can :)
- October 21, 2010
- Dave said...
I want to say this is all awesome. But the most awesome thing might be that you went to Guyana. I know a bit about the situation there back then, so I kinda understand how insane that is.
Also, if you wrote that hurricane saga into a short story, I bet you'd give Hemingway a run for his money (and your writing has always reminded me a bit of him).
- October 21, 2010
- Lucho said...
Dave- I cropped the hurricane story by quite a bit. And I was in the islands for 4 years so there are hundreds of awesome stories.
Jonestown was a pretty crazy 'event'. Over 900 people killed themselves and a Congressman was murdered. The old site is still there but it's all overgrown. People tried to restore some of it to preserve the history but they couldn't keep the place from being burned. Ugly, ugly thing.
- October 22, 2010
- Deron said...
Hey Tim.... are there guidlines for how you choose the athletes you train? Do you set up programs for the average dude who wants to become an endurance NIGHTMARE!
- October 22, 2010
- Lucho said...
Deron- I talk to the athlete on the phone first and usually can feel if they are someone I want to work with. I am at a point now where I have choices so I want to work with motivated and open athletes. I would say that a majority of the athletes I have coached are somewhat new to structured training. I also have plenty of experience working with true beginners.
An 'endurance nightmare' is who I am! So that's my specialty :)
- October 22, 2010
our son officially became a teenager today and i can tell you that the sands of time never slow, never stop... but when i look into the eyes of our 3 kids, my mind is unclouded---i can clearly see my husband and i falling in love all over again…the moment our kids were born…every birthday celebration…their first days of school…truly, it is our children who make us immortal. d
- October 22, 2010
- GZ said...
Love that the playlist is back.
I often wonder about these cross roads in our lives, like the one you wrote about. Seems to me that often I look back and see that I was lucky or a choice or two away from livin under a bridge ... or worse. I am pretty lucky. This entire thought process drives me a bit crazy because while it means I need to come to terms with my kids being pretty lucky too at some level.
See you Saturday.
- October 22, 2010
- Deron said...
Just One Fix - Ministry
I remember this one driving to the local mountain in NH to go snowboarding... during the college days.... long ago.
- October 22, 2010
- Lucho said...
Very nicely stated Donna! Happy birthday to your son... a teenager. Wow!
GZ- I'm psyched you'll be able to make it tomorrow!
Deron- Ministry is awesome still! Great hard training background noise.
- October 22, 2010
- Trigirlpink said...
Enjoy your man cave. Running will always be there. Love the bench and your new ink! My time and Boulder came and went but I did get to sneak in a coffee with Kerrie and Lucie!
Happy Fall! :-)
- October 26, 2010
- Lucho said...
Thanks TGp! Nice that you got to hang with the Wlads!
- October 26, 2010


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Earlier this week, I posted information about the family of Robert W. Ragland, a brother to my paternal third great-grandmother, Winiford Ragland Branch. In that post, I wrote that Robert's wife, Sarah Jane Porter, who he married in Hinds County, Mississippi, had died, and Robert, age 32, and his four daughters and one son named Turner were living in rural Attala County. Robert's occupation was shown as "farmer." Since the Ragland household, as it was enumerated on the U. S. Census of 1860, did not include a wife or an older female, it appeared that Robert had not remarried. Based on this information, I decided to locate Robert on the 1870 U. S. Census to see if he eventually remarried and had additional children.
Before I can go on, I must preface the rest of this post with a statement about the U. S. Census of 1870. Each U. S. census has had specific objectives for capturing certain information about the citizens of this country, and the U.S. Census of 1870 was no different. Since that census was the first U. S. Census recorded since the abolition of slavery, one in which all citizens, including those who had been former slaves, would be enumerated together, one of its objectives was to identify the race of the individuals enumerated. The census form included a column for recording one of five codes listed on the form itself, including "W" for White, "B" for Black, "M" for Mulatto, "I" for Indian, and "C" for Chinese. No one knows for certain exactly how the determination of race was made, whether it was a "self-identification" process prompted by the census taker's question, or whether the census taker simply made a visual determination based on skin color and/or certain physical characteristics. And without a doubt, census takers may have recorded racial identity information without input from those who were enumerated.
An examination of the U. S. Census recorded in 1870 for Attala County, Mississippi, found R. W. "Raglin" a 45 year old white male as the head of a household living in Beat 4 of Attala County. Interestingly, Robert Ragland and his family lived just three residences away from the household of his sister, Winiford, and her husband Edward Tillman Branch, as well as a household where Joseph Arthur Branch and Edward T. Branch, both still unmarried, lived.
In 1870, Elizabeth (enumerated on this census as "Bettie"), Turner, and Sarah, now 19, 15, and 14, no doubt children born to Sarah Porter Ragland, resided as they had in 1860 with their father. However, Robert's household included three additional children, Louvega (9), Adam (6), and Lucy (4), all born since the U. S. Census of 1860 was recorded. Since "Louvega" is such an unusual name, it is possible the name was an incorrect transcription of "Louisa," the name of Robert's late wife's mother and the grandmother of his older children. (This is supposition, however, since Sarah Porter Ragland's relationship to Louisa Lawson Porter, has yet to be verified by the writer of this blog.)
While Bettie, Turner, and Sarah, like their father, were identified on the census as "White," the racial identity of each of the younger children, Louvega, Adam, and Lucy, was recorded as "M," the abbreviation for "Mulatto." Although relationships were not identified on the 1870 census, all six children were listed under Robert's surname, incorrectly shown on this census as "Raglin." Again, like the 1860 U. S. Census, no wife, older female relative, or an older unrelated female, was enumerated in Robert's household.
The composition of Robert W. Ragland's household on the U. S. Census Record of 1870 raises two important questions: Who was the mother of Louvega, Adam, and Lucy? And were they biological children of Robert W. Ragland?
Watch for a future post in which I hope to answer these questions.
Census Year: 1870; Census Place: Beat 4, Attala, Mississippi; Roll: M593_722; Page: 122B; Image: 248; Family History Library Film: 552221. Ancestry.com. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Descendants of Robert W. Ragland, A Study of the U. S. Census of 1870
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I attended GenCon on Sunday, and one of the first things I noticed were the promotions for Rift.
No, not Rifts, the pencil and paper RPG, but Rift. You know, the MMO from Trion.
The swag bag contained a copy of the game --the same copy that you find in the stores right now-- and the cloth necklace your badge hangs on had "Rift" printed all over it.
Methinks that Trion knows their audience, and if you can understand GURPS or Pathfinder, you can figure out Rift.
Of course, there were a few people pissed off at Rift because it was close enough in name to Rifts that they got some haters just because of that. It's not like the concept of a 'rift' in time and space is anything new or unique to Rifts, so I shrugged it off.
Oh, and for the curious, there was a huge area for WoW TCG called Darkmoon Faire --which I laughed about, telling my brother-in-law that there were more people in this Darkmoon Faire than the one in-game-- and it was well populated.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Under the Heading of "That was interesting...."
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It's at those events you can trade your crafting materials cards for other cards! I don't think there will be any near me, though. It sounds fun though, I'm glad you had a good time. :DReplyDelete
@Vid-- Yeah, it was a blast, and to think I saw only about maybe 1/3 of the entire con is pretty amazing. I could have spent the entire day wandering around the exhibit hall --stretching that to two days if I tried some of the games out-- and that's not counting all of the regular gaming that goes on. Or the other stuff, like panels.ReplyDelete
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MIDNIGHT FLYER – Midnight Flyer
It's an album of well-played and crafted blues rock with a touch of soul, mainly due to the wonderfully earthy tones of Maggie Bell (nearest comparison would be Tina Turner in her classic 70's guise)…
There are plenty of rockers like 'Hey Boy' and 'French Kisses', but Bell comes alive on the slower, soul tinged tracks like 'In My Eyes'. There are two bonus tracks on this remastered re-release including the good time feel of 'Rock 'N' Roll Party' plus very informative and interesting sleeve notes…
Certainly one for Maggie Bell fans and those who enjoy classic blues rock.
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The songs, mostly written by drummer Dowle, are generic would-be stadium rockers…
Classic Rock, May 2005
This is one of those that really seems to have slipped through the net for some reason as this is a great album that powers along with the band playing strong songs and Mick Ralphs doing a fine job on the production…loads of great melodies…
…a strong polished rock album with great vocals which definitely deserves to be heard by a wider audience and this reissue does it plenty of justice with copious sleeve notes and photos in the 24 poage booklet, and two extra songs not originally featured on the album
Feedback, May 2005
Bell possessed a granite, soulful voice but her looks were never going to bother the glossy magazine pages, and shamefully the group disbanded after this one-off release. It ranks as a true long-lost classic with enough extras, in two bonuses and extensive packaging, to warrant a replacement of the original vinyl.
Record Collector (June 2005)
…this is a fine soul-based blues-rock release that can be easily regarded as a feminine version of Whitesnake.
www.maelstrom.nu (June 2005)
…hard riffing rock…well packaged with informative liner notes…
Blues In Britain (July 2005)
…keep turning up the volume, and when the roof starts shaking you can finally hear the power intrinsic to the original vinyl.
Jo-Ann Greene, Goldmine (July 2005)
It's an excellent piece of work which has certainly never achieved the recognition that it deserved…
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BANGKOK The price of oil hovered near $108 a barrel on Wednesday after President Barack Obama secured the support of key U.S. politicians for a retaliatory strike against Syria.
Benchmark oil for October delivery was down 60 cents to $107.94 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Oil rose above $108 a barrel Tuesday after Obama won the support of key Republicans in Congress for military action against Syria. The contract gained 89 cents, or 0.8 percent, to close at $108.54 on the Nymex.
The U.S. says it has proof that the regime of President Bashar Assad was behind attacks that Washington claims killed at least 1,429 people, including more than 400 children. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which collects information from a network of anti-regime activists, says it has so far only been able to confirm 502 dead.
Obama said Tuesday that he's confident Congress will authorize a military strike. Congress could vote as early as next week, after it returns from summer break. Obama won the support of two key U.S. lawmakers, although Congress remains divided about giving the U.S. president authorization to use force.
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Prehistoric Europe was home to hunter-gatherers until migrating farmers muscled them out. Genetic information teased from ancient skeletons is helping scientists reconstruct this saga, as Tina Hesman Saey reported in "Written in bone" (SN: 5/17/14, p. 26).
Sometimes, untangling genetic history can be a little one-sided. Researchers often rely on mitochondrial DNA, passed on only from the mother. As Debra Baker noted, this presents a problem: "Couldn't the lack of similarity of mitochondrial DNA among the different groups arise because they all were matrilineal?" she asked in an e-mail. "Instead of group isolation as suggested by the article, there could have been interbreeding, but the child would have remained in the mother's group."
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Crystal Hyslop, 55, of Madison, helped rally Fair Wisconsin volunteers for a final late-afternoon push of canvassing... [She] said she's been with her female partner for 26 years. Before Tuesday's results were known, she said she would "just be devastated" if the measure passed. "The first thing I'll think is, 'Why do they hate me?'"
[Julaine Appling, president of the Vote Yes campaign,] said supporters of the ban don't hate gay people.
"For us, this amendment was not personal," she said. "This was about protecting the institution of marriage that we will collectively hand down to the next generation. We didn't see Fair Wisconsin or the individuals comprising it as our enemy, and we do not see them as second-class citizens."
She said she was proud that her side "never fell prey to bashing" people.
ADDED: But it looks as though the gay marriage ban may fail in Arizona. Imagine that! Arizona getting out in front of Wisconsin. So much for the progressive tradition. I just noticed that news via Instapundit, where I'm also seeing that Michigan has voted down affirmative action. After all that litigation defending affirmative action, the people say no.


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James Van Der Beek, best known for his starring roles on Dawson's Creek and in Varsity Blues and who currently can be seen on ABC's Don't Trust the B-in Apartment 23, appears in the American premiere production of Joanna Murray-Smith's The Gift at the Geffen Playhouse. Joining Van Der Beek is Golden Globe and Emmy award winner Kathy Baker (Picket Fences, Edward Scissorshands, All the King's Men) as well as acclaimed stage and screen actors Chris Mulkey (First Blood, Southland, Twin Peaks) and Jaime Ray Newman (Eastwick, Catch Me If You Can). Helmed by international powerhouse director/actor Maria Aitken, The Gift is currently in previews in the Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse, and officially opens on Wednesday, February 6, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below!
The Gift follows the great success of the 2010 Geffen Playhouse production of Murray-Smith's play, The Female of the Species, which ran to sell-out houses in Los Angeles and was also produced on the West End where it was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. Much like the provocative subject matter of The Female of the Species, Murray-Smith's The Gift has already sparked debate and discussion overseas in its premiere production in Melbourne.
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When two couples meet while vacationing at a ritzy resort, they instantly transition from strangers to the best of friends. Despite their almost comical differences - Ed (Chris Mulkey) and Sadie (Kathy Baker) are middle-aged, rich and traditional, while Martin (James Van Der Beek) and Chloe (Jaime Ray Newman) are young artists glowing with their potential to change the world - they find themselves spending the rest of their week together. When one seemingly inconsequential event throws both their lives into a tailspin, the couples find themselves wrestling with a moral dilemma: while it's human nature to want what you don't have, is it unnatural to abandon something that you do? This provocative new work draws audiences in with a beguiling hilarity that gives way to an unsettling twist, posing searing questions rather than providing comfortable answers.
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The Pagan Agenda of the Code
As I lecture around the world on the Da Vinci Code, a typical response is to tell me to relax, enjoy the book as a fun read of fiction, and move on. Let me say that it is indeed a …Read More
Historical Propaganda
Dan Brown's blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code, represents an undeniable publishing phenomenon. Sadly, it also represents a direct attack upon the central truths of the Christian faith — and a misrepresentation of historical fact. Indeed, the novel is really …Read More
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The many biblical errors of the The Da Vinci Code are clustered in two vitally important portions of the story of Dan Brown's blockbuster fictional work. First, the vast majority of statements concerning the Bible appear in the narration of …Read More
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Yes, Virginia, there really is a lunatic fringe on the ideological spectrum. We commonly hear perspectives described as left-wing or right-wing. Beyond that, the descriptions become more precise in terms of radical right and radical left. If we cross the …Read More
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It should be no surprise to know that in 2005 the Louvre museum in Paris attracted more visitors, 7.3 million to be exact, than in any previous year since the Louvre was established as a museum in 1793. The …Read More


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Wall Street Journal Hides Industry Ties Of Op-Ed Writer Attacking Fossil Fuel Divestment Effort
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The Wall Street Journal failed to disclose the fossil fuel ties of an op-ed writer who criticized an effort to encourage colleges to divest from fossil fuel-producing companies.
On Sunday, the Journal published an op-ed by Robert Bryce, which attacked environmental activists who are seeking to have colleges and universities shed their investments in fossil fuel producing companies. Bryce alluded to the supposed "absurdity of the activists' calls for a 'fossil free' future." The diverstiture effort, Fossil Free, is a campaign managed by 350.org, an organization committed to "building a global grass roots movement to solve the climate crisis."
But the Journal did not disclose that Bryce's organization, the Manhattan Institute, has received over $600,000 from Exxon Mobile since 1998, including $95,000 in 2011. The Manhattan Institute has also received funding from the David H. Koch Foundation and the Olin Foundation, foundations started by energy titans David Koch and John Olin.
The Journal has an ongoing problem with disclosing the affiliations of its op-ed contributors, including 12 advisers to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign leading up to November's election and Karl Rove. This disclosure problem has permeated several issue areas, including a number of climate change-denying op-eds from Bryce.
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A "big ideas" State of the Union speech — but which ideas?
January 11, 2016 | He can't pass a substantive bill in an election year with a Republican Congress, the thinking goes. So President Obama wants to talk above politics in his final State of the Union address Tuesday night. Obama introduced the "big things" theme for his speech last week: "That's what I want to focus on in this…
Organizing for Action: Who's Giving to Obama-Linked Nonprofit?
June 17, 2014 | Since the beginning of the 2014 campaign cycle last year, 14 donors — running the gamut from a hedge fund manager to a gay rights activist to a little-known Salt Lake City venture capitalist — have given $100,000 or more to President Barack Obama's avowedly un-campaign committee, Organizing for Action. Another 26 have ponied up…
LGBT Interests, Celebrating Court Rulings, Also Increasingly Active as Donors
June 26, 2013 | LGBT groups and those affiliated with them, celebrating their Supreme Court victories today, have been active political donors, and Democrats are almost always the beneficiaries.
Capital Eye Opener, Nov. 13: Gay Rights Groups Back History, Prolific Paul Ryan and More
November 13, 2012 | The freshly declared victory of the woman who will be the first openly bisexual member of Congress shows the strength of gay rights and women's groups. Also, the evolution of Paul Ryan as a national figure, as seen through campaign finance data.
Will Gay Marriage Endorsement Mean Campaign Dollars for Obama?
May 9, 2012 | Obama endorses same-sex marriage. Will that boost his funding from the LGBT community and reverse the downward trend line in overall contributions from those connected to gay rights interest groups?
Financial Sector Helps Barack Obama Score Big Money for Re-election Fight
July 22, 2011 | One-third of the money President Barack Obama's elite fund-raising corps has raised on behalf of his re-election has come from the financial sector, according to a new Center for Responsive Politics analysis. Individuals who work in the finance, insurance and real estate sector are responsible for raising at least $11.3 million for Obama's campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to the Center's research.
Lobbyists Push Congress, Administration on No Child Left Behind
July 20, 2011 | Given the on-going debt-ceiling battle and fights over what deserves government funding, tackling the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind seems like less and less of a reality. However, that's not stopping lobbyists from pushing for what they believe in when it comes to childhood education.
Obama Disappoints Gay Donors, Pawlenty Can't Afford to Pay Aides and More in Capital Eye Opener: June 24
June 24, 2011 | Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics.
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Lobbying Surges As Repeal Fight Nears Climax
December 3, 2010 | From January through September, 29 unique groups have lobbied on the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on openly gay service members, according to a Center for Responsive Politics review of federal lobbying reports explicitly mentioning the measure.
Gay Rights Political Donations Plummet Amid Contentious Congressional Session
November 30, 2010 | The years leading up to the 2010 midterm election have been an important stretch for gay rights advocates, but you wouldn't necessarily know it by gauging the amount of money invested this cycle by gay and lesbian rights groups and their donors.
Decreasing Gay Rights Donations, Crist Keeps GOP Cash and More in Capital Eye Opener: September 23
September 23, 2010 | Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics: GAY RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS DOWN IN CONTENTIOUS YEAR: Gay and lesbian advocacy groups have had a chaotic week. Gay rights advocates won big Wednesday with Florida overturning a ban on gay adoption for infringement of Constitutional rights. But on Tuesday, despite Lady Gaga's best efforts, a Republican filibuster blocked the Senate from repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gay military members serving openly.
Gay-Friendly Companies: Is GOP Senate Candidate Sharron Angle Trying to Have it Both Ways With Their Money?
August 9, 2010 | Angle, to date, hasn't raised a dime from any corporate PAC, but according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis, she has taken at least $8,900 from leaders of companies known to offer employee benefits to same-sex spouses or that operate in jurisdictions that recognize marriage between same-sex couples.
Ex-Soldier, Gay Rights Activist Dan Choi Subdued With Political Donations Despite Flashy Lobbying Antics
July 30, 2010 | The nation's highest-profile advocate against the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is using a full arsenal of tactics in his bid to lobby it to death. Yet despite all the attention and flashy antics, Army Lt. Dan Choi has been coy about utilizing a traditional tool of Washington influence: campaign contributions.
Gay Rights Lobby Sees Victories and Room for More Action after Votes on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy
May 28, 2010 | During the first quarter of 2010, only a handful of organizations reported lobbying on the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding gays in the military, according to a Center for Responsive Politics review of lobbying reports that explicitly mentioned this measure. Most of the groups identified by the Center supported a repeal of the policy.
Formaldehyde, Guns and More in Capital Eye Opener: April 19
April 19, 2010 | Who knew the Formaldehyde Council was a K street regular? For the past 10 years, the Environmental Protection Agency has been trying to change the classification of formaldehyde from a "probable" to a "known" carcinogen. However, the agency has encountered relentless opposition throughout the process.
Democrats and Lobbyists Party in Miami, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Gets Bombed and More in Capital Eye Opener: February 4
February 4, 2010 | MONEY IN MIAMI: Democratic senators and K Street lobbyists hit the beach over the weekend at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee retreat at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach Resort, an event with the purpose of raising money for Democratic Senate candidates in the 2010 election.
OpenSecrets.org Offers 2010 Legislative Preview Ahead of Barack Obama's State of the Union Address
January 27, 2010 | The past year proved to be a legislative whirlwind in Washington, with a new administration, and expanded Democratic majorities in Congress, tackling an ambitious legislative agenda against the backdrop of two wars and an economic meltdown. Twelve months later, the story is much the same.
Gay Democratic Fund-raiser Says Money Should Only Support Candidates Who Back Equality
November 6, 2009 | A well-heeled Democratic fund-raiser is calling on donors to stop the "gay ATM" to politicians who don't fully support equality for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. Once named the most powerful gay man in America by Newsweek, David Mixner is angered by the hands-off approach of President Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee concerning a failed ballot measure in Maine that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry. He says he's also troubled by Obama not quickly fulfilling his campaign promises regarding rights for gays and lesbians.
Barack Obama Nominates Politically Connected Ambassadors for Hungary, New Zealand
October 15, 2009 | Politically connected ambassadors will soon represent the United States in Hungary and New Zealand. President Barack Obama has nominated philanthropist and real estate developer Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis to be ambassador to Hungary, while he nominated lawyer David Huebner to serve as the nation's top diplomat in New Zealand and Samoa. The Center for Responsive Politics has found that both Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis and Huebner have been active donors to federal politicians over the past 20 years.
Capital Eye Opener: Tuesday, October 13
October 13, 2009 | HEALTH INSURERS RELEASE NEW REPORT: On Sunday, a new study commissioned the health insurance industry group America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) claimed that the health reform legislation authored by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) "will increase premiums above what they would increase under the current system." The Senate Finance Committee, which is chaired by Baucus, is set to vote today on its version of health insurance reform legislation.
Bill to Grant Federal Marriage Benefits to Gay & Lesbian Couples Faces Uphill Battle
September 15, 2009 | Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York introduced a bill today to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Groups advocating for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and rights, however, face an uphill battle on K Street and Capitol Hill to pass it.
Power Players: Despite Industry Funds, Frank Cracks Down on Bailout Recipients
January 22, 2009 | Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., continues his role as chair of the House Financial Services Committee this year in the midst of an economic recession. But the money he's received from the finance sector hasn't won his unconditional support of doling out bailout cash to floundering companies.
Investors Push Companies to Explain Their Politics
July 10, 2006 | Shareholder initiatives requiring greater disclosure of corporate campaign contributions and lobbying have fared better in 2006 but still mostly fail. By Neil Tambe July 10, 2006 | Shareholders who are concerned that corporations' political activities could devalue their stocks are increasingly prodding public companies to make their political contributions and lobbying activities more transparent. So…
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Last year we'd have to say that Mattel's Matchbox Rocky pretty much ran over Hasbro's Tonka's Talkin' Chuck. Rocky just did so much more. (Watch the video of these two head to head.) This year we'll have to see how the new Tonka Rumblin' Chuck– who promises to do many more tricks (including moving side to side as if he's ready to line dance)…will compare to the farting Stinky Garbage Truck from Mattel. We'll be interested to test both of these interactive trucks when they arrive..for now you can check out their prototypes from Toy Fair. Click here to watch Rumblin' Chuck.
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DALLAS, March 13 (UPI) -- Pekka Rinne notched his fifth shutout of the season Tuesday in Nashville's 4-0 blanking of the Dallas Stars.
Rinne survived four Dallas power plays and made 32 saves to get a welcome victory for the Predators, who had lost four of five before taking the ice in Dallas.
Shea Weber, Nick Spaling, Gabriel Bourque and Rich Clune all scored for Nashville. David Legwand and Craig Smith added two assists each.
Kari Lehtonen gave up four goals on 21 shots for the Stars, who lost their second game in a row.
Spaling's wrist shot opened the scoring at 7:44 of the first period and Clune gave the Predators a 3-0 lead on a penalty shot awarded when he was hooked on a breakaway by Jordie Benn.


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European scientists recently used a telescope instrument called the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), to measure the chemical content of 500 stars similar to the Sun, some with known planetary systems and others without. They discovered that all the stars that host planets have a curious characteristic in common with our Sun: low levels of the element lithium.
While much more remains to learned about why stars with planets share this trait, researchers are heartened that they could use HARPS and similar instruments to quickly find other planets beyond our Solar System.


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This presentation uses coins, medals, and tokens depicting Albert Einstein to explore the methods and joys of creating a topical collection. Unlike collecting a series defined by someone else, e.g. the maker of an album or the writer of a guide book, topical collecting puts you in charge, motivates you to learn about the topic and opens the door to accumulating other items that relate to the topic.
Al Raddi is a retired social worker who enjoys collecting and writing about coins, medals and tokens as well as stamps, postcards, magazines, railroad timetables and comic book art. He is a member of the Michigan State Numismatic Society and is active in the Combined Organizations of Numismatic Error Collectors of America as well as his local coin club, the Huron Valley Numismatic Society. Al lives in Milford, MI with his wife Julie and their golden retriever Gracie.
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In his latest video and mp3 "Nine Miles of Blu," Tony Adamo runs the voodoo down with legendary drummer Mike Clark (yes the drummer who played with Herbie Hancock back in 1974 on Thrust), and references to being in the middle of a happening jazz scene, tipping his verse to Miles' and Coltrane's "Giant Steps". Guitarist Steve Holman lays down a solid comping on this jazz trio's post-bop, with Clark sparking the track with great rhythmic ideas.
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IBM and Violin have announced a great big GPFS numbers record: the software scanned 10 billion files in a flash – well, 43 minutes – using four Violin flash memory arrays.
This was 37 times faster than a previous GPFS record of scanning one billion files in three hours, but that was with the file system metadata stored, like the file data, on disk drives.
Why does this matter? IBM says it is because GPFS needs to scan files its filesystem so that they can be moved between storage tiers, migrated, archived, etc. This is non-production work and has to be done in the background. When done with metadata on disk, the process becomes slower and slower as the number of files in a GPFS system rises and rises. So much so that, conceivably, eventually there aren't enough hours in the day to do it.
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Back in February, IBM announced a wondrous SONAS SPECsfs 2008 benchmark result of 403,326 SPECsfs ops/sec from a single GPFS system using 1,975 hard disk drives.
EMC bounded past this with a flash-heavy VNX system doing 497,623 ops/sec, using 436 x 200GB, SAS SSDs and 8 file systems.
SONAS is based on GPFS. From where El Reg sits, a re-run of the IBM SONAS SPECsfs2008 benchmark looks feasible, but this time using a few Violin Memory Arrays to hold the SONAS data and so get to the 500,000 SPECsfs2008 ops/sec area and beyond. We have asked both IBM and Violin about this but didn't expect to get anything looking like a "Yes, we're doing this" reply.
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The Leadership Shelby class visited local industrial centers as part of the comprehensive community education program. The group visited five businesses throughout the day and entertained a presentation by Ron Crouch from the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training.
The group began the day with presentations by the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce and the Shelby County Industrial & Development Foundation. Class member Stacy Tipton expressed her amazement at the breadth of the Industrial Foundation's interaction with the community.
As the executive director of the Shelby County Public Library, I must clarify some of the statements made concerning the library in the What We Think editorial ("Foundation needs to tweak program," Nov. 27).
According to Laffer and Associates, the fastest-growing areas in the U.S. are Raleigh, N.C., Austin, Texas, Las Vegas, Nev., Orlando, Fla., Charlotte, N.C., Phoenix, Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas. All are low-tax, business friendly states. Areas such as Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, N.Y., Providence, R.I., and Rochester, N.Y., are among the highest population losers.
Well as you know the end of 2013 is upon us, which means an end of another tax year. So who needs a tax deduction or would just like to give out of the goodness of their heart? Well, I have a great idea for you.
How about a gift to the Shelby County Parks Foundation! A non-profit 501c3 local foundation that supports your parks and nothing else?
The Sentinel-News featured two articles from Jonna Priester, both on the front page and opposite editorial page, that seem to show she is disappointed and doesn't understand the reluctance of Pleasureville or any other city to embrace the "Fairness Ordinance" ("Fairness bid failes to get a 2nd," Nov. 6).
In the future columns, if I test the limits of the First Amendment and the latitude of this newspaper, I expect someone to slap my hand. I have, however, promised the publisher that I will not mention political parties, elected officials still in office or candidates for office.
Last week we discussed some things that shaped my conservatism. Probably events during the Great Depression are most vivid.
Several weeks ago, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made a statement at the Plymouth Community Renewal Center in Louisville regarding his support for the restoration of civil rights to felons who have completed their sentences, including the right to vote. In a political climate rife with ugly partisanship and disagreement, this call for common-sense legislation aimed at removing unjust and immoral limitations on participatory self-government resonates with people across the ideological spectrum for several obvious reasons.
This fall, Congress has an important opportunity to create jobs and grow the economy by passing a long-term, comprehensive Food, Farm and Jobs Bill. The Farm Bill impacts every American, every day by providing a wide range of programs that strengthen our nation.
Opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of this publication or any organization to which I have belonged. I hold a degree in economics from Duke. I do not profess to be an expert. An economist, to me, is someone who spends years, maybe a lifetime, studying some arcane numbers and comes up with a theory no one else understands.
Oh, Pleasureville.
I can't say after Monday night's meeting that I'm surprised, really. Disappointed, but not surprised. And that, in itself, is a fairly sad commentary on what happened.
You see, you had a chance to do something good. You had a chance to do something that really matters. You had a chance to lead the way in Henry County – and a corner of Shelby County.
But you sat on your hands, looking quietly and somewhat awkwardly at the table while the motion to approve a Fairness Ordinance died for lack of a second.
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De La Soul give away catalog _ for 25 hours
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — De La Soul is making it feel like 1989 all over again — for 25 hours.
The influential hip-hop group released seven albums worth of material for free on its website for 25 hours starting Friday morning to celebrate the impending 25th anniversary of its classic debut album, "3 Feet High and Rising." The group's music, available through 11 a.m. EST Saturday, had become frustratingly hard to purchase through legal means. Demand appeared to be heavy enough midday Friday to overwhelm the group's chosen download provider temporarily.
And it wasn't just listeners excited about the move. Folks in the music business were watching with fascination as well.
FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2012 file photo, Posdnuos, left, and Dave of the hip hop group De La Soul, perform at the Sunset Strip Music Festival in West Hollywood, Calif. De La Soul is giving fans quite the Valentine's Day gift _ a free download of the group's entire catalog. The band released its catalog for free on its website for 25 hours starting Friday, giving fans a chance to download music that had become frustratingly hard to find through legal means through 11 a.m. EST Saturday. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
"From a creative standpoint and a marketing standpoint, I think it's terrific," said Sophia Chang, a manager for GZA, Q-Tip and A Tribe Called Quest and former record label executive. "I think everybody's talking about them. I think they're all over social media. I think they remind people of how incredibly, incredibly influential and innovative that album was."
The group and its management did not respond to messages from The Associated Press. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Posdnuos said it's been a "trying journey" to get the music cleared for release on iTunes and other similar services.
"It's been too long where our fans haven't had access to everything," he told the magazine. "This is our way of showing them how much we love them."
It's also a way to gather information on those fans: People who signed up for the free download had to provide an email address and subscribe to their email list.
The group, consisting of Long Island, N.Y., high school friends Posdnuos, Trugoy the Dove and Pasemaster Mase, made their debut with "3 Feet High and Rising" with the help of producer Prince Paul in 1989. Known for hits like "Me, Myself and I," ''Buddy" and "Potholes in My Lawn," they were heralded for their eclecticism.
Unlike many of their contemporaries, not all their music was available for digital download or on streaming services. Al Branch, the general manager of The Blueprint Group, which oversees the careers of Lil Wayne and Drake among others, says he saw a day when a major act might attempt to reach a fan base in such a way out of frustration. Last year, Jay-Z debuted his album "Holy Grail" via Samsung after the electronics company purchased 1 million units and made them available to certain phone customers for free for a limited time.
"I always knew as the world becomes more and more digital and smartphones come into play that this day was coming. It makes you think from the perspective, if you're an artist, what's more important?" he said. "Is it more important for you to sell albums or is it more important for you to keep your brand afloat and tour and keep going hard?"
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