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bin/backup script: sensible defaults around bin/repozo
Project description
Easy zope backup/restore recipe for buildout
- Easy zope backup/restore recipe for buildout
- Contributors
- Change history
- 2.1 (2011-09-01)
- 2.0 (2011-08-26)
- 1.7 (2010-12-10)
- 1.6 (2010-09-21)
- 1.5 (2010-09-08)
- 1.4 (2010-08-06)
- 1.3 (2009-12-08)
- 1.2 (2009-10-26)
- 1.1 (2009-08-21)
- 1.0 (2009-02-06)
- 0.9 (2008-12-05)
- 0.8 (2008-09-23)
- 0.7 (2008-09-19)
- 0.6 (2008-09-19)
- 0.5 (2008-09-18)
- 0.4 (2008-08-19)
- 0.3.1 (2008-07-04)
- 0.2 (2008-07-03)
- 0.1 (2008-07-03)
This recipe is mostly a wrapper around the bin/repozo script in your zope buildout. It requires that this script is already made available. If this is not the case, you will get an error like this when you run one of the scripts: bin/repozo: No such file or directory. You should be fine when you are on Plone 3 or when you are on Plone 4 and are using plone.recipe.zeoserver. If this is not the case, the easiest way of getting a bin/repozo script is to add a new section in your buildout.cfg (do not forget to add it in the parts directive):
[repozo] recipe = zc.recipe.egg eggs = ZODB3 scripts = repozo
bin/repozo is a zope script to make backups of your Data.fs. Looking up the settings can be a chore. And you have to pick a directory where to put the backups. This recipe provides sensible defaults for your common backup tasks. Making backups a piece of cake is important!
- bin/backup makes an incremental backup.
- bin/restore restores the latest backup.
- bin/snapshotbackup makes a full backup, separate from the regular backups. Handy for copying the current production database to your laptop or right before a big change in the site.
- Code repository: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/buildout/collective.recipe.backup
- Small fixes are fine on trunk, for larger change or if you are unsure, please create a branch.
- The code comes with a buildout.cfg. Please bootstrap the buildout and run the created bin/test to see if the tests still pass. Please to try add tests if you add code.
- The long description of this package (as shown on PyPI), used to contain a big file with lots of test code that showed how to use the recipe. This grew too large, so we left it out. It is probably still good reading if you are wondering about the effect some options have. See src/collective/recipe/backup/README.txt.
- Questions and comments to the Plone product-developers list or to mailto:email@example.com and mailto:email@example.com.
Example usage
The simplest way to use this recipe is to add a part in buildout.cfg like this:
[buildout] parts = backup [backup] recipe = collective.recipe.backup
You can set lots of extra options, but the recipe authors like to think they have created sane defaults, so this single line stating the recipe name should be enough in most cases.
Running the buildout adds a backup, snapshotbackup, restore and snapshotrestore script to the bin/ directory of the buildout and, by default, it creates the var/backups and var/snapshotbackups directories in that same buildout.
Backed up data
Which data does this recipe backup?
- The Zope Object DataBase (ZODB) filestorage, by default located at var/filestorage/Data.fs.
- Possibly additional filestorages, see the additional_filestorages command.
- The blobstorage (since version 2.0) if your buildout uses it, by default located at var/blobstorage.
Data that is not backed up
Which data does this recipe not backup? Everything else of course, but specifically:
Data stored in RelStorage will not be backed up. (You could still use this recipe to back up the filesystem blobstorage, possibly with the only_blobs option.)
Other data stored in SQL, perhaps via SQLAlchemy, will not be backed up.
It does not create a backup of your entire buildout directory.
Currently, blobstorages that are in use by additional filestorages are not backed up. You should be able to set this up though with an extra buildout part that creates a second set of backup scripts and locations; something like this:
[specialblobbackup] recipe = collective.recipe.backup blob_storage = ${buildout:directory}/var/someblobstorage only_blobs = true
Is your backup backed up?
Note that the backups are by default created in the var directory of the buildout, so if you accidentally remove the entire buildout, you also lose your backups. It should be standard practice to use the location option to specify a backup location in for example the home directory of the user. You should also arrange to copy that backup to a different machine/country/continent/planet.
Calling bin/backup results in a normal incremental repozo backup that creates a backup of the Data.fs in var/backups. When you have a blob storage it is by default backed up to var/blobstoragebackups.
You should normally do a bin/zeopack regularly, say once a week, to remove unused objects from your Zope Data.fs. The next time bin/backup is called, a complete fresh backup is made, because an incremental backup is not possible anymore. This is standard bin/repozo behaviour.
For quickly grabbing the current state of a production database so you can download it to your development laptop, you want a full backup. But you shouldn't interfere with the regular backup regime. Likewise, a quick backup just before updating the production server is a good idea. For that, the bin/snapshotbackup is great. It places a full backup in, by default, var/snapshotbackups.
Calling bin/restore restores the very latest normal incremental repozo backup and restores the blobstorage if you have that.
You can restore the very latest snapshotbackup with bin/snapshotrestore.
You can also restore the backup as of a certain date. Just pass a date argument. According to repozo: specify UTC (not local) time. The format is yyyy-mm-dd[-hh[-mm[-ss]]]. So as a simple example:
bin/restore 1972-12-25
Note that restoring to a specific date does not currently work for blobstorage, but it should not really matter there, as for new or changed blobfiles a new file is created, so you would just have a few extra unused files. So here simply the most recent blobstorage backup will be restored.
Since version 2.0, the restore scripts ask for confirmation before starting the restore, as this is a potentially dangerous command. ("Oops, I have restored the live site but I meant to restore the test site.") You need to explicitly type 'yes':
This will replace the filestorage (Data.fs). This will replace the blobstorage. Are you sure? (yes/No)?
Names of created scripts
A backup part will normally be called [backup], leading to a bin/backup and bin/snapshotbackup. Should you name your part something else, the script names will also be different as will the created var/ directories (since version 1.2):
[buildout] parts = plonebackup [plonebackup] recipe = collective.recipe.backup
That buildout snippet will create these directories:
var/plonebackups var/plonebackup-snapshots
and these scripts:
bin/plonebackup bin/plonebackup-snapshot bin/plonebackup-restore bin/plonebackup-snapshotrestore
Supported options
The recipe supports the following options, none of which are needed by default. The most common one to change is location, as that allows you to place your backups in some system-wide directory like /var/zopebackups/instancename/.
- location
- Location where backups are stored. Defaults to var/backups inside the buildout directory.
- keep
- Number of full backups to keep. Defaults to 2, which means that the current and the previous full backup are kept. Older backups are removed, including their incremental backups. Set it to 0 to keep all backups.
- datafs
- In case the Data.fs isn't in the default var/filestorage/Data.fs location, this option can overwrite it.
- full
- By default, incremental backups are made. If this option is set to 'true', bin/backup will always make a full backup.
- debug
- In rare cases when you want to know exactly what's going on, set debug to 'true' to get debug level logging of the recipe itself. Repozo is also run with --verbose if this option is enabled.
- snapshotlocation
- Location where snapshot defaults are stored. Defaults to var/snapshotbackups inside the buildout directory.
- gzip
- Use repozo's zipping functionality. 'true' by default. Set it to 'false' and repozo will not gzip its files. Note that gzipped databases are called *.fsz, not *.fs.gz. Changed in 0.8: the default used to be false, but it so totally makes sense to gzip your backups that we changed the default.
- additional_filestorages
- Advanced option, only needed when you have split for instance a catalog.fs out of the regular Data.fs. Use it to specify the extra filestorages. (See explanation further on).
- enable_snapshotrestore
- Having a snapshotrestore script is very useful in development environments, but can be harmful in a production buildout. The script restores the latest snapshot directly to your filestorage and it used to do this without asking any questions whatsoever (this has been changed to require an explicit yes as answer). If you don't want a snapshotrestore, set this option to false.
- blob_storage
- Location of the directory where the blobs (binary large objects) are stored. This is used in Plone 4 and higher, or on Plone 3 if you use plone.app.blob. This option is ignored if backup_blobs is false. The location is not set by default. When there is a part using plone.recipe.zeoserver, plone.recipe.zope2instance or plone.recipe.zope2zeoserver, we check if that has a blob-storage option and use that as default. Note that we pick the first one that has this option and we do not care about shared-blob settings, so there are probably corner cases where we do not make the best decision here. Use this option to override it in that case.
- blob-storage
- Alternative spelling for the preferred blob_storage, as plone.recipe.zope2instance spells it as blob-storage and we are using underscores in all the other options. Pick one.
- backup_blobs
- Backup the blob storage. This requires the blob_storage location to be set. If no blob_storage location has been set and we cannot find one by looking in the other buildout parts, we default to False, otherwise to True.
- blobbackuplocation
- Directory where the blob storage will be backed up to. Defaults to var/blobstoragebackups inside the buildout directory.
- blobsnapshotlocation
- Directory where the blob storage snapshots will be created. Defaults to var/blobstoragesnapshots inside the buildout directory.
- only_blobs
- Only backup the blobstorage, not the Data.fs filestorage. False by default. May be a useful option if for example you want to create one bin/filestoragebackup script and one bin/blobstoragebackup script, using only_blobs in one and backup_blobs in the other.
- use_rsync
- Use rsync with hard links for backing up the blobs. Default is true. rsync is probably not available on all machines though, and I guess hard links will not work on Windows. When you set this to false, we fall back to a simple copy (shutil.copytree from python in fact).
An example buildout snippet using most options, except the blob options would look like this:
[backup] recipe = collective.recipe.backup location = ${buildout:directory}/myproject keep = 2 datafs = subfolder/myproject.fs full = true debug = true snapshotlocation = snap/my gzip = false enable_snapshotrestore = true
Paths in directories or files can use relative (../) paths, and ~ (home dir) and $BACKUP-style environment variables are expanded.
Cron job integration
bin/backup is of course ideal to put in your cronjob instead of a whole bin/repozo .... line. But you don't want the "INFO" level logging that you get, as you'll get that in your mailbox. In your cronjob, just add -q or --quiet and bin/backup will shut up unless there's a problem.
Speaking of cron jobs? Take a look at zc.recipe.usercrontab if you want to handle cronjobs from within your buildout. For example:
[backupcronjob] recipe = z3c.recipe.usercrontab times = 0 12 * * * command = ${buildout:directory}/bin/backup
Advanced usage: multiple Data.fs files
Sometimes, a Data.fs is split into several files. Most common reason is to have a regular Data.fs and a catalog.fs which contains the portal_catalog. This is supported with the additional_filestorages option:
[backup] recipe = collective.recipe.backup additional_filestorages = catalog another
This means that including the standard Data.fs the bin/backup script will now backup three filestorages:
var/filestorage/Data.fs var/filestorage/catalog.fs var/filestorage/another.fs
The additional backups have to be stored separate from the Data.fs backup. That's done by appending the file's name and creating extra backup directories named that way:
var/backups_catalog var/snapshotbackups_catalog var/backups_another var/snapshotbackups_another
The various backups are done one after the other. They cannot be done at the same time with repozo. So they are not completely in sync. The "other" databases are backed up first as a small difference in the catalog is just mildly irritating, but the other way around users can get real errors.
Note that collective.recipe.filestorage creates additional filestorages in a slightly different location and we cannot handle that yet. Work is on the way to improve this.
Blob storage
New in this recipe (since version 2.0) is that we backup the blob storage. Plone 4 uses a blob storage to store files (Binary Large OBjects) on the file system. In Plone 3 this is optional. When this is used, it should be backed up of course. You must specify the source blob_storage directory where Plone (or Zope) stores its blobs. As indicated earlier, when we do not set it specifically, we try to get the location from other parts, for example the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe:
[buildout] parts = instance backup [instance] recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance user = admin:admin blob-storage = ${buildout:directory}/var/somewhere [backup] recipe = collective.recipe.backup
If needed, we can tell buildout that we only want to backup blobs or specifically do not want to backup the blobs. Specifying this using the backup_blobs and only_blobs options might be useful in case you want to separate this into several scripts:
[buildout] newest = false parts = filebackup blobbackup [filebackup] recipe = collective.recipe.backup backup_blobs = false [blobbackup] recipe = collective.recipe.backup blob_storage = ${buildout:directory}/var/blobstorage only_blobs = true
With this setup bin/filebackup now only backs up the filestorage and bin/blobbackup only backs up the blobstorage.
By default we use rsync to create backups. We create hard links with this tool, to save disk space and still have incremental backups. This probably requires a unixy (Linux, Mac OS X) operating system. It is based on this article by Mike Rubel: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
We have not tried this on Windows. Reports are welcome, but best is probably to set the use_rsync = false option in the backup part. Then we simply copy the blobstorage directory.
collective.recipe.backup is basically a port of ye olde instancemanager's backup functionality. That backup functionality was coded mostly by Reinout van Rees and Maurits van Rees, both from Zest software
Creating the buildout recipe was done by Reinout with some fixes by Maurits.
The snapshotrestore script was added by Nejc Zupan (niteoweb).
Change history
2.1 (2011-09-01)
- Raise an error when the four backup location options (blobbackuplocation, blobsnapshotlocation, location and snapshotlocation) are not four distinct locations (or empty strings). [maurits]
- Fixed possible TypeError: 'Option values must be strings'. Found by Alex Clark, thanks. [maurits]
2.0 (2011-08-26)
- Backup and restore blobs, using rsync. [maurits]
- Ask if the user is sure before doing a restore. [maurits]
1.7 (2010-12-10)
- Fix generated repozo commands to work also when recipe is configured to have a non Data.fs main db plus additional filestorages. e.g.: datafs= var/filestorage/main.fs additional = catalog [hplocher]
1.6 (2010-09-21)
- Added the option enable_snapshotrestore so that the creation of the script can be removed. Backwards compatible, if you don't specify it the script will still be created. Rationale: you may not want this script in a production buildout where mistakenly using snapshotrestore instead of snapshotbackup could hurt. [fredvd]
1.5 (2010-09-08)
- Fix: when running buildout with a config in a separate directory (like bin/buildout -c conf/prod.cfg) the default backup directories are no longer created inside that separate directory. If you previously manually specified one of the location, snapshotlocation, or datafs parameters to work around this, you can probably remove those lines. So: slightly saner defaults. [maurits]
1.4 (2010-08-06)
- Added documentation about how to get the required bin/repozo script in your buildout if for some reason you do not have it yet (like on Plone 4 when you do not have a zeo setup). Thanks to Vincent Fretin for the extra buildout lines. [maurits]
1.3 (2009-12-08)
- Added snapshotrestore script. [Nejc Zupan]
1.2 (2009-10-26)
- The part name is now reflected in the created scripts and var/ directories. Originally bin/backup, bin/snapshotbackup, bin/restore and var/backups plus var/snapshotbackups were hardcoded. Those are still there when you name your part [backup]. With a part named [NAME], you get bin/NAME, bin/NAME-snapshot, bin/NAME-restore and var/NAMEs plus var/NAME-snapshots. Request by aclark for plone.org. [reinout]
1.1 (2009-08-21)
- Run the cleanup script (removing too old backups that we no longer want to keep) for additional file storages as well. Fixes https://bugs.launchpad.net/collective.buildout/+bug/408224 [maurits]
- Moved everything into a src/ subdirectory to ease testing on buildbot (which would grab all egss in the eggs/ dir that buildbot's mechanism creates. [reinout]
1.0 (2009-02-06)
- Quote all paths and arguments so that it works on paths that contain spaces (specially on Windows). [sidnei]
0.9 (2008-12-05)
- Windows path compatibility fix. [Juan A. Diaz]
0.8 (2008-09-23)
- Changed the default for gzipping to True. Adding gzip = true to all our server deployment configs gets tired pretty quickly, so doing it by default is the best default. Stuff like this needs to be changed before a 1.0 release :-) [reinout]
- Backup of additional databases (if you have configured them) now takes place before the backup of the main database (same with restore). [reinout]
0.7 (2008-09-19)
- Added $BACKUP-style enviroment variable subsitution in addition to the tilde expansion offered by 0.6. [reinout, idea by Fred van Dijk]
0.6 (2008-09-19)
- Fixed the test setup so both bin/test and python setup.py test work. [reinout+maurits]
- Added support for ~ in path names. And fixed a bug at the same time that would occur if you call the backup script from a different location than your buildout directory in combination with a non-absolute backup location. [reinout]
0.5 (2008-09-18)
- Added support for additional_filestorages option, needed for for instance a split-out catalog.fs. [reinout]
- Test setup fixes. [reinout+maurits]
0.4 (2008-08-19)
- Allowed the user to make the script more quiet (say in a cronjob) by using 'bin/backup -q' (or –quiet). [maurits]
- Refactored initialization template so it is easier to change. [maurits]
0.3.1 (2008-07-04)
- Added 'gzip' option, including changes to the cleanup functionality that treats .fsz also as a full backup like .fs. [reinout]
- Fixed typo: repoze is now repozo everywhere… [reinout]
0.2 (2008-07-03)
- Extra tests and documentation change for 'keep': the default is to keep 2 backups instead of all backups. [reinout]
- If debug=true, then repozo is also run in –verbose mode. [reinout]
0.1 (2008-07-03)
- Added bin/restore. [reinout]
- Added snapshot backups. [reinout]
- Enabled cleaning up of older backups. [reinout]
- First working version that runs repozo and that creates a backup dir if needed. [reinout]
- Started project based on zopeskel template. [reinout]
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¶ Malia must learn to do laundry before she leaves for college.
¶ The girls have to eat their vegetables, and if they say that they are not hungry, they cannot ask for cookies or chips later. "If you're full, you're full," Mrs. Obama said in an interview with Ladies' Home Journal. "I don't want to see you in the kitchen after that."
After three years, friends and aides say, the Obama girls have fully settled into the White House and have made peace with the quirks of life there. But if their father wins a second term, they will be teenagers in the White House. Four years ago, Mr. Obama liked to say that he was running for president when his girls were young so that the experience would pass over their heads. As they mature, less will be lost on them — good and bad — and they will have to figure out the presidential versions of first dates and college tours.
Meanwhile, one small measure of their popularity is visible on the streets of Charlotte. Near the convention arena, vendors hawk Obama T-shirts, calendars and buttons that feature not just images of the president and the first lady, but of their two daughters as well.Continue reading the main story


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BOSTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Saturday charged President Obama has thrown in the towel on the U.S. economy.
In his weekly podcast, Romney cited economic data showing a decline in household income and rising unemployment in 44 states.
"Last month, more families were shattered, more hearts ached, and more children wondered if they'd ever see their parents smile again ... because the hope of a recovery that should have been ours grew dimmer in 44 states," he said.
"Anxiety has never been higher. Another new report out of Washington warns that higher unemployment and a double-dip recession will be a reality next year unless immediate steps are taken to avert what they're calling a 'fiscal cliff.'"
He faulted Obama for declaring a stalemate in Washington and going out to campaign for re-election "instead of united our nation in this time of crisis."
"In all 50 states, Americans are looking to the White House for leadership. But all they're getting from their president is fear, frustration, and blame," Romney said.
"With millions of Americans hurting like never before, the [resident has admitted defeat. With five months to go before his term his up, he's saying he won't even try anymore.
"Isn't this a devastating verdict on his own failure to lead?"


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Some C# and VB Syntactic Sugar
In Visual Studio 2008, C# and Visual Basic offer a few time-saving features that basically give the compiler the burden of creating some required code. In the end, these features are just syntactic sugar that make C# and VB programming easier and more pleasant.
"Automatic properties" is a feature that instructs the compiler to automatically add a default implementation for the getter/setter methods of a class property. This code is now perfectly legal in a class compiled with the newest C# compiler:
public string ContactName { get; set;}
The compiler automatically expands this code like this:
private string contactName; public string ContactName { get { return contactName; } set { contactName = value; } }
Automatically generated get/set properties are not equivalent to public fields. From a metadata perspective, properties and fields are quite different entities. The idea here is that you just delegate to the compiler the creation of some plumbing code, in the most common and simple scenario. At a later time, you can always come back and provide your own getter/setter methods.
Object initializers are another piece of syntactic sugar to speed up the creation of the code that initializes an object. Instead of going through a potentially long list of assignment instructions, you can code it like this:
Person person = new Person { FirstName="Dino", LastName="Esposito", Age=24 };
The idea is extended to collections, as in this code:
List<Person> friends = new List<Person> { new Person { FirstName="Nancy", LastName="Davolio", Age=28 }, new Person { FirstName="Andrew", LastName="Fuller", Age=35 }, : };
Compared to the syntax required in Visual Studio 2005, the savings is pretty clear and can easily sum up to tens of lines of code for large procedures.


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Monday 14 May
The team flies to Kisangani on a Monusco flight provided free by UNESCO
We took care to follow the detailed instructions for using the on-board facilities…
Stocking up two weeks' worth of provisions in Kisangani – mainly sardines and corned beef –
..and eventually able to locate a source of reasonable quality ethanol (for insect preservation, of course).
Heading out of Kisangani by road and river to Yangambi
The first of many ferry crossings – this one was pretty straightforward for our two 4-wheel drive vehicles
The next was a little more complicated....
as the video below shows....
Always lots of interesting people to meet
Including well-brought-up children helping with the washing-up
and down the road towards Yangambi
After a couple of hours we arrive at the WWF Yangambi Forest Reserve Station which is to be our base for the next couple of weeks.
We meet our cook Michel, who makes such a major difference to our quality of life during our stay at Yangambi with his excellent cooking, especially the local chicken.
That night Geoff sets out the light sheet with the mercury vapour lamp, and we collect a bumper harvest of all kinds of night-flying insects.
Tuesday 15 May
Among the harvest of the previous night's collecting at light is a remarkable-looking female fig wasp – Agaon sp. (thanks to Simon van Noort, Iziko Museum, Cape Town South Africa for the Identification). Figs (Ficus spp.) live in an obligatory symbiosis with these wasps without which they can't be fertilised. The intricate biology and interrelationships between the fig species, their pollinating wasps and many obligatory associated species is fascinating and still needs to be unravelled for many species associations.
Wednesday 16 May
Geoff and Lorna sort through the wealth of the material already collected, revealing a spectacular mosquito reared by Lorna from larvae collected in a hollow tree trunk. The filthy black water, which Lorna inadvertently managed to swallow while collecting larvae by siphoning up the water, yielded several specimens of this voracious predatory mosquito – a species of Toxorhynchites – also known as the "elephant mosquito". In order to rear these specimens to adulthood Lorna had to keep them supplied with food in the form of smaller mosquito larvae.
The colourful irridescent scales of Toxorhynchites bring to mind butterfly wing scales – far removed from our usual perception of mosquitoes and their unpleasant associations.
Thursday 17 May
Andy rides pillion to the main area of pristine primary forest in the Yangambi Forest Reserve……
…to set up the Malaise Trap – an interception trap for (mainly) flying insects, ands a series of Yellow Pan Traps – simple water-filled bowls with a little detergent to break the surface tension – attractive to many insects due to the colour resembling young vegetation. Both trapping systems are extremely efficient, low maintenance collecting methods.
Sorting through the first results of the Malaise Trap and Yellow Pan Traps placed in the forest
The Yellow Pans yielded the rare ponerine ant Phrynoponera sveni – described from the Congo in 1916 – nearly 100 years ago. These are the first Congolese specimens for the NHM collection
and the ubiquitous "African stink ant" Pachycondyla tarsata which lived up to its common name.
When Andy sorted the first Malaise Trap sample he found something that he wasn't even certain was a beetle, which was identified later by Max Barclay as an aleocharine staphylinid, probably a myrmecophilous species. Any suggestions as to its identity gratefully received (note the unusual reduced tarsi)
– also for the following prionine cerambycid collected at light, which is absent from the NHM collection and has so far defeated more than one international specialist....
Friday 18 May
Friday was market day in Yangambi - we saw a lot of interesting things on sale – Lorna successfully bargained for a bag of chilli peppers – "piment" –
which spiced up our regular lunch menu of imported corned beef and local avocado – a perfect combination (at least according to Geoff).
Saturday 19 – Friday 25 May
Getting towards the end of the trip. The last week has been incredibly productive with night-light trapping, yellow pans and Malaise trapping, and screen-sweeping of (mainly) microhymenoptera. We have collected tens of thousands of specimens, many of which will undoubtedly be new to Science, and the majority will be new records for the D.R. Congo, with so many new acquisitions for the NHM. Thanks to our colleagues at UNESCO, WWF and Tervuren Museum, this has been a very successful expedition.
Many thanks to the team ……
…..and au revoir le Congo


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UPDATE: I've added more explanation and examples at the bottom.
I missed out on the buzz a couple days ago surrounding the latest attempt at sleazy Hollywood poster boob-enhancement, which this time purportedly boosted Emma Watson's chestage to more mammoth propertions. The article I linked to has nearly 2,000 "diggs," so you know it's a big deal.
Here's the image shamelessly stolen from posterwire.com:
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Never one to miss an opportunity to ogle Emma Watson's chest with impunity, I decided to do a little "forensic investigating" to see if there is any explanation that's a bit less sleazy. After many cries of "enhance!" were heard inside my office, I suddenly realized what happened.
See, I was having trouble getting the purportedly "before and after" images to line up properly. Things seemed skewed, shadows didn't seem to fall properly. Then I noticed the young bloke on the right's tie, and how it seemed to be at a completely different angle in the two shots.
"It's almost as if this shot was taken with two cameras at the same time," I said to myself. "Why on earth would they do that??" Then I noticed the overlayed text on the "after" image, and how it proclaimed that some of the movie would in fact be projected in 3-D iin the IMAX theaters.
Eureka! Knowing that 3-D movies are made by filming them with two cameras strategically placed a small distance apart, everything suddenly made sense.
What they're calling the "after" image is actually the shot captured by the camera that was closest to Emma, giving it a view to more of the "profile" of Emma's boob. The "before" image is the camera further away with a more "head-on" shot, making it look flatter.
Here it is as a 3-D anaglyph (that I just generated in The Gimp):
Hopefully you have some 3-D glasses around (mine say Spy-Kids 3D on them) to view this with, but I assure you that I've gotten to the bottom of it. There's no conspiracy here. No one is trying to enhance Emma (nor would the be able to if they tried; she is already a textbook example of perfection as-is), the poster designers just didn't realize that when they 2-D-ified the 3-D promotional poster (I haven't seen said poster, but I am deducing its existence based on my research), the old one used the "left" frame, and the new one used the "right" frame.
I'm sure that no one even thought of this, not realizing that two frames captured mere inches apart would cause any problems. Sadly, with thousands of internet fanboys nitpicking, it can make a huge difference.
Anyway, spread the word. No one is trying to pull anything, it's just an oversight.
Oh, and if you've seen the 3-D poster I'm postulating the existence of, I'd sure like to hear about it.
UPDATE: Some people don't quite understand, so I quickly drew up this top-view approximation of what's going on. It is not to scale.
Does that make more sense?
UPDATE: Apparently not... I thought the 3-D anaglyph would be self-explanatory, but sadly nobody actually owns the glasses required to see it. So I tried to draw a simple drawing explaining it, but that didn't do it either. See, in the drawing, the red/blue lines are meant to show what your eyes are doing when looking at a 3-D scene -- not the cameras. 3-D is all just trickery designed to fool our brains into seeing flat images the way we see objects in the real world. In the real world, each eye sees things from a slightly different perspective, and our brains calculate differences in those perspectives to tell us how far apart things are, how round, etc.
With a 3-D anaglyph, an entire scene is presented encoded in colors so that the special glasses can "filter" the view such that each eye is seeing a completely different view. But the magic really happens when the eyes start to focus at different parts of the picture. The brain is usually fairly convinced that what it's seeing is an actual scene, so your eyes begin to move about the image as they would in a normal everyday view of the world. If a 3-D image is made properly, you can focus your eyes on one element of the composition, then move to one "deeper" into the image, or "farther away" from the camera, never breaking your brain's sense of 3-D.
The 3-D anaglyph above is simply just the "before" image set as the left eye's view, and the "after" image set as the right. Nothing else was done to them, yet the 3-D encoding is perfectly realized when you put on the glasses. This doesn't happen on accident folks. My drawing above was demonstrating what your eyes would do if you'd look over at Emma's side of the composition in such a 3-D scene, to show that the closer eye would see her breast with more of a profile, and the further away one would be more head-on, thus explaining the difference in the curve of her breast and stomach. And if your eyes would behave that way, so would the two cameras.
I decided that perhaps a better explanation would be to try to take 2 similar shots myself. Now, I didn't take these at the same time, and I had to just sort of estimate the exact amount to shift the camera, so it isn't perfect -- but I think you'll get the idea. The subject of the photo was not altered in any way, the only differece between the two shots is shifting the camera about 2" laterally between taking them.
Obviously the effect is more pronounced due to the much smaller scale and the inaccurate camera movement, but I think this really concretes what I'm saying. If I had more scale action figures to play with -- and a lot more time -- I could set up the entire shot, but that's way more work than I'm prepared to put in.
How am I doing here? Any more takers?
Among other inanities, he strives to use investigative techniques to work young starlet breasts into every aspect of rational discourse -- focusing on the discourse, thus making it not perverted. Also, has recently begun a career as "Internet hairstylist."
He can be contacted via email and Jabber IM at 'email@example.com'. He likes to be contacted.
(All press inquiries, however, ought be directed towards the author's agent, Alistair Hoel, via email to email@example.com.)
Winner* of Sean Gleeson's Researcher of the Century Award.
*: I've technically only earned 5/6ths of the award, but maintain that I deserve the whole thing.


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Authentic Vietnamese noodle house Bowl of Pho (9902 Old Baymeadows Road, 646-4455) is immaculate and cozy, and there's always a good crowd, especially during the lunch hour. The portions are as large as the menu is long. Try the mi hoanh than, or BBQ pork and wonton egg noodle soup; add in a fistful of items served alongside it, like raw jalapeno slices, saw-leaf herb (flavor similar to cilantro but stronger), fragrant Thai basil, crunchy bean sprouts, chopped green onion and cilantro. Pronounced "fuh," not "foe," pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup that traditionally contains beef broth and rice noodles along with varieties of meat including rare beef, beef flank, brisket, tendon (connective tissue that's cooked for a long time at a slow temperature, which becomes pliable and gelatinous like beef fat), tripe (stomach of a domesticated animal) and meatballs. If you've never had Vietnamese cuisine, try a boba milk smoothie, which has chewy black tapioca pearls in the bottom, to be slurped up in a thick, colorful straw. Taro, avocado and honeydew are popular flavors.
Less than a mile apart, Thai spots Pattaya Thai (9551 Baymeadows Road, Ste. 1, 646-9506), Lemongrass (9846 Old Baymeadows Road, 645-9911) and Tuptim Thai (9866 Baymeadows Road, Ste. 8, 329-4999) will put a little — or a lot — of spice in your day. Pattaya Thai has been in Jacksonville for more than 20 years, with its high ceilings and an open kitchen surrounded by a bar. Chunks of potato and onions are the perfect complement to the slightly sweet and spicy yellow curry with chicken or shrimp over rice. Lemongrass's open, window-lined dining room features modern, bright green hues. Start with the crab rangoon — crisp handheld fried wontons stuffed with silky cream cheese. Then, try The Amazing: a creamy peanut curry sauce served atop a perfect mound of white rice, with spinach and fresh broccoli. Select how spicy you want your meal on a scale from one to five. Nearby Tuptim offers a similar menu, but its atmosphere is more traditional, with carved statues, wood interior and floral decorations. First time for Thai? Order the Pad Thai — rice noodles, fish sauce, tamarind, bean sprouts and crushed peanuts are the signature items — and a bright orange Thai iced tea.
For a unique treat, Three F(x) Ice Cream & Waffles (9802 Baymeadows Road, Ste. 6, 928-9559) offers three sweet "effects": homemade ice cream, waffles and coffee. The iced coffee stays true to form and flavor with coffee ice cubes. Try a taiyaki, or a Japanese fish-shaped waffle, that's generously plumped with your choice of filling — think creamy Nutella, pumpkin, Bavarian cream, apple cinnamon, or red bean and walnut. The texture of the taiyaki is a bit more dense and chewy than pancake batter, but still pliable and fluffy. Ice creams are made-to-order in minutes using your choice of milk or non-dairy milk, on a thick icy metal slab. Traditional Japanese flavors include green tea, red bean and taro, but there's also coconut, espresso, mint, mango and kiwi. My go-to combo is green tea with chewy mochi bits mixed in.


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CONNECT: Re-Examining Conventional Wisdom for NoC Design in the Context of FPGAs
An FPGA is a peculiar hardware realization substrate in terms of the relative speed and cost of logic vs. wires vs. memory. In this talk I will present CONNECT, a flexible NoC architecture and RTL generation engine for FPGA-tuned Networks-on-Chip (NoCs). CONNECT embodies a set of design guidelines and disciplines that uniquely influence key NoC design decisions, such as topology, link width, router pipeline depth, network buffer sizing, and flow control and in many cases go against ASIC-driven conventional wisdom in NoC design.
Our evaluation shows a significant gain in specializing NoC design decisions to FPGAs' unique mapping and operating characteristics. When compared against a state-of-the-art ASIC-oriented NoC, we obtain similar performance at half the logic resource cost, or alternatively, 3-4x better performance for approximately the same logic resource usage. Our latest results also show great potential for further optimization and fine-tuning of the NoC within an FPGA application by leveraging high-level application knowledge. Finally, in an effort to create a useful research tool for the community, we recently publicly released CONNECT in the form of a flexible user-friendly web-based NoC generator (http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~mpapamic/connect/), which I will demonstrate at the end of the talk.
Michael Papamichael received his MSc from the University of Crete and is currently a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University supported by an Intel Fellowship. His research interests are in the area of computer architecture, with emphasis on FPGA-based computing, uncore modeling and Networks-on-Chip.


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LifeScope™ Genomic Analysis Software is the optimal application for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data from 5500 Series Genetic Analysis Systems. LifeScope™ Software integrates two key functionalities in one application: the computational power to map billions of reads to reference sequences, with the sensitivity and accuracy to detect a wide variety of genomic variation. This unique combination of power and accuracy is presented in an easy-to-use graphical interface (Figure 1), which puts the latest computational tools for genome analysis right in your hands, whether you are a biologist or a bioinformatician
- Built for your needs—unique "dual-mode use" for biologists and bioinformaticians
- Fastest and most accurate analysis—performance-tuned algorithms developed for 5500 Series SOLiD™ Systems
- Unmatched breadth of functionality—detect a huge range of genomic variation with one software
- Flexibility and choice—base space (from the Exact Call Chemistry (ECC) module) as well as color space analysis
- Optimized and integrated solutions—seamlessly integrated software, hardware and cloud-based choices
The analysis of high-throughput sequence data has previously required expert-level bioinformatics knowledge, which constitutes a major barrier to the wider adoption of next-generation technologies in the life sciences. LifeScope™ Genomic Analysis Software removes that barrier through its innovative "dual-mode use" approach: biologists can execute complex analyses simply—using the newly-designed and intuitive graphical user interface, and bioinformaticians can exploit all the advanced features through the vastly-expanded and scriptable command line interface. Best of all, both modes of use are completely integrated with each other. For example, a bioinformatician can configure and run an analysis, and set the workflow up so that the graphical results (Figures 2 and 3) of that analysis are available to a biologist as soon as she logs into the system. With wizard-driven workflows, real-time analysis monitoring (Figure 4), personal spaces for project and data management, and bioinformatics workflow improvements, next-generation sequence data analysis is now easier than ever. Finally, one application that combines the best of both worlds.
LifeScope™ Software includes performance-tuned algorithms and applications for the optimal analysis of 5500 Series Genetic Analysis Systems data. These algorithms include a scalable mapping engine for aligning and pairing billions of short reads to a reference sequence, then seamlessly detecting a huge range of genomic variation and other key characteristics of the mapped data. For instance, the speed of mapping and pairing reads has been increased several-fold over our widely-used BioScopeTM Software, while at the same time providing more accurate results. Integration with application-specific pipelines enables you to leverage the on-demand capabilities of the 5500 Series Genetic Analysis Systems while facilitating the translation into biologically meaningful results.
Lifescope™ Software features an extensive breadth of applications in genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenetics. See below for a full list of functionality.
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- SNP Finding: sensitive and specific SNP detection even at moderate to low coverage
- Low Frequency Variant Detection: This workflow uses the high accuracy data generated on the 5500 Series Genetic Analyzers (with or with the ECC Module) to detect low frequency variants present in a targeted or whole genome resequencing experiments. It is ideal for mixed samples common in cancer-related research projects.
- Human Copy Number Variation (CNV) Detection: find variations as small as 5KB and as large as the whole chromosome in humans, from single sample sequences even at coverage as low as 1X
- Small Indel Variation Detection: using a novel split-read technique, alongside a powerful insertion and deletion (Indel) caller on pileups, LifeScope™ Software detects deletions up to 500bp and insertions up to 20bp
- Large Indel Variation Detection: identify large indels from 100bp to 100Kb with high confidence. LifeScope™ Software is also able to accept multiple mate-pair libraries to increase coverage
- Inversion Detection: take advantage of the long insert size of the SOLiD™ Mate Pair technology to generate a list of inversions at high confidence
Transcriptomics Applications
- Exon Counting: LifeScope™ software has a "counting known exons" step which identifies the number of reads that align within genomic features
- Junction Finding: junctions are inferred from the exon, gene, and transcript definitions in the genome annotation, and are produced for all splices between pairs of exons within a gene
- Fusion Transcript Detection: gene fusion detection applications use paired-end input, and the sequence reads are mapped with LifeScope™ Software
- Small RNA Analysis: mapping of small RNA generates several analyses, including known small RNA, novel small RNA, and abundance
Epigenetic Applications
- ChIP-Seq Support: perform ChIP-Seq resequencing through the LifeScope™ Software client
- Methylation Support: map and analyze MethylMiner™ methylated DNA-enriched and unenriched fractions, as well as bisulfite-converted and unconverted reads sequenced on the 5500 Series Genetic Analysis Systems
Flexibility and Choice
LifeScope™ Software supports data analysis in both color space—the most accurate data and analysis available on the market—and in base space when generated by the 5500 Series ECC module. Utilizing the many new features of the 5500 Series XSQ file format, LifeScope™ Software also supports the use of molecularly-barcoded samples, providing a unique flexibility to data analysis matching that of the 5500 Series FlowChips themselves. Whether you are working in color space or base space, with barcoded data or not, LifeScope™ Software provides all the informatics tools you need to get the job done.
Optimized and Integrated Solutions for Every Need and Budget
Accelerate your analysis by running LifeScope™ Software on one of our optimized, high-performance computing Workstations or Clusters. Both configurations come with LifeScope™ Software pre-loaded, performance tested, and ready to be licensed. Learn more about the LifeScope™ Cluster and the LifeScope™ Workstation.
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With more than 2,000 field personnel, Life Technologies has the most extensive network of dedicated Bioinformatics Scientists, Application Specialists, and Service Engineers to work with you, so that you can feel confident that we will be there when and where you need us most.
Learn More
For more information on all the above LifeScope™ Genomic Analysis Solutions, and to learn how to get your initial copy of the software for free, please contact your local Life Technologies field Bioinformatics Scientist.
Please note: you will need to accept the LifeScope™ Genomic Analysis Software End-User License Agreement and provide your License Key in order to download and use the software.
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When Bristol Planning Commission Vice-Chair Chico Martin refused to accept public comments from John "Slim" Pickens — the only citizen in attendance at the commission's Nov. 15, meeting — Martin may have violated state law, according to Secretary of State Jim Condos and his deputy Brian Leven.
Condos pointed to a section of Vermont's Open Meeting Law, which states: "At an open meeting, the public shall be given a reasonable opportunity to express its opinion on matters considered by the public body during the meeting, as long as order is maintained. Public comment shall be subject to reasonable rules established by the chairperson."
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BUDESONIDE (bue DES oh nide) is a corticosteroid. It is used in the treatment of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis which are types of inflammatory bowel disease.
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Hearing Postponed on Uranium Mine Water Permits
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A state board has postponed a hearing on two water rights permits sought by a proposed uranium mine in southwestern South Dakota.
Powertech Uranium Corp. plans to pump groundwater into the underground ore deposits near Edgemont to dissolve the uranium. The water would be pumped to the surface, where the uranium would be extracted. The company estimates the mine would produce 1 million pounds of uranium oxide a year for 20 years.
The state Water Management Board had set a hearing on the water rights permits for Dec. 5. But that hearing has been delayed at the request of some people involved in the case.
Powertech also has applied for a state mining permit.
In addition, the company is seeking an operating license from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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The Search for America's Growth Engine: Stephen S. Roach
America has typically relied on its domestic market for economic growth, with consumer spending accounting for some 70 percent of annual GDP growth. Given the strong likelihood that US consumers will remain weak for years to come, America's growth agenda needs to focus on getting more out of the other 30 percent. But can this be done?Read more


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Exhibits and more...
AB-EX/RE-CON: Abstract Expressionism Reconsidered
AB-EX/RE-CON explores both the best known and less familiar practitioners of abstract and gestural painting who dominated the American art, criticism and commentary during the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. Artists on display include Diebenkorn, J. Ernst, Frankenthaler, Hofmann, Kline, and Motherwell. Through June 16. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. 484-9337 or www.nassaumuseum.org.
Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent Collection
This rotating exhibition highlights a broad range of works by 19th and 20th century American and European artists from the Heckscher Museum's Permanent Collection. Of particular interest is Étienne Berne-Bellecour's monumental Embarkation Maneuver, 1882, which factually depicts the departure of a regiment of cuirassiers following the Franco-Prussian War. Heckscher Museum of Art, Main St. and Prime Ave., Huntington. (631) 351-3250 or www.heckscher.org.
Drawings, Proposals, Plans, Diagrams
A selection of sculptor Dewitt Godfrey's works on paper in a range of media – charcoal, pigment, ink, pencil, photography and collage – that showcases his evolving engagement with drawing,Through April 7. Hofstra University's Rosenberg Gallery, Calkins Hall, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5474
Faith Ringgold
The acclaimed African-American artist Faith Ringgold – perhaps best known for her painted story quilts – is the subject of an in-depth study. Through March 28. Molloy College's Frank and Gertrude Kaiser Art Gallery, Public Square, 2nd Floor, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. 678-5000 ext. 6549.
The Lyon, the Which and the Warhol
An exhibit of photographs by photojournalist Danny Lyon and visionary pop artist Andy Warhol, culled from the Hofstra University Museum's extensive photography collection. The exhibit connects their works to those in other media by Chuck Close, Jim Dine, and Lisbeth Firmin (the "Which"). Through May 19. Hofstra University's David Filderman Gallery, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5672.
Using the Lessons of the Holocaust to Teach Tolerance
A contextualized history that explains the 1920s' increase of intolerance, reduction of human rights, and lack of intervention that enabled the persecution and mass murder of millions of Jews and others. Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, 100 Crescent Beach Rd., Glen Cove. 571-8040 ext. 100 or www.holocaust-nassau.org.
Afternoon Movie
See the latest James Bond thriller "Skyfall," Friday, March 22, 2:30 p.m.; also the Neil Simon comedy "Brighton Beach Memoirs," Tuesday, March 26, 2 p.m. Elmont Memorial Library Theatre, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
Movie Time
See "A Late Quartet," the drama about the crises among members of an esteemed Manhattan-based string quartet, Friday, March 22, 1 p.m. Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave., Baldwin. 223-6228.
Film Screening
Watch the French comedy-drama "Intouchables," about a quadriplegic aristocrat and the young man from the projects hired to be his caretaker, Wednesday, March 27, 7 p.m. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett. 374-1967.
Movie Showing
See "Snow White and the Huntsman," the fantasy based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, with Charlize Theron, Thursday, March 28, 2 p.m. Franklin Square Public Library, 19 Lincoln Rd., Franklin Square. 488-3444.


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Guest rooms and suites infuse sophisticated luxury with contemporary design and feature high-speed internet access and premier amenities, including iHome docking stations and mini-bars. The Conrad Dublin is ideally suited to the business traveler, with a Business Center and 13 spacious and flexible meeting spaces ranging from two executive boardrooms for up to eight guests, to the air-conditioned Ballroom which accommodates up to 350 guests. Work out in the hotel's fitness center, equipped with cardio machines and weights, or enjoy the local jogging routes around scenic St. Stephen's Green. The hotel is located just 30 minutes from the K Club, an 18-hole golf course and club. Explore Dublin's history in the Dublin Writers Museum, or discover the unique shops and pubs of Grafton Street and Temple Bar respectively, both within short walks of the Conrad Dublin hotel. The hotel also offers its own range of superb dining options, from the contemporary seasonal menus of Alex Restaurant to simple, straightforward casual dining in Alfie's Bar and Grill.
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MIDDLEBURY POLICE OFFICER Scott Fisher, left, listens as Vermont State Police Sgt. Lee Hodsden presents the results of his investigation into the Dec. 28 vandalism at the former Robert Frost summer home in Ripton. More than two dozen youths, most with ties to Middlebury Union High School, have been cited in connection with the case.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
January 21, 2008
By JOHN FLOWERS
RIPTON — Vermont State Police on Friday said they are citing into court 28 youths — the vast majority of them Middlebury Union High School students — in connection with an underage drinking party that caused an estimated $10,600 in damage to the former summer home of Robert Frost in Ripton.
The suspects are scheduled to be arraigned in Addison County District Court on Feb. 11 on various misdemeanor charges, including unlawful trespass; unlawful mischief; furnishing alcohol to minors; enabling the consumption of alcohol by minors; contributing to the delinquency of a minor; and underage drinking.
Police said as many as 50 people attended the party at the Homer Noble Farm on Dec. 28. Some partygoers destroyed antique tables, chairs, pictures, dishes, glasses, windows and lighting fixtures; sprayed the contents of two fire extinguishers around the first floor and vomited and urinated inside the building and on the damaged property.
Authorities, who announced the citations during a Friday morning press conference, singled out two individuals in particular: Andrew Ford, 17, of Ripton, a former seasonal kitchen staffer at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf campus, whom they allege planned the party, picked the site and put up money for alcohol consumed there; and Patrick Deering, 22, of Middlebury, who allegedly bought a large quantity of beer for the young partiers.
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
BRISTOL — Fuel prices have risen precipitously in the last year and a half, pinching the budgets of many Vermonters. But a few residents of the Bristol area, if they look very carefully at their bills in the coming months, may find the math a little confusing. They might not see a record of a delivery even though they distinctly remember one in recent days, or a fuel tank might last the usual amount of time even though the bill shows it was only filled halfway.
Customers of Jackman's Inc., though, needn't waste too much time trying to figure it out. The Bristol fuel dealer recently began its "Share Care" program to help its customers in need get through the winter. Jackman's Inc. is quietly paying parts of the bills of its customers who need the help the most.
"We were concerned if people could afford the fuel this year," said Jackman's bookkeeper Sharon Bushey.
Share Care began around the end of November when the company started a fund with $800 and solicited contributions from local individuals and businesses. Donations from individuals and businesses in the area have raised that sum to $2,120 so far, according to Bushey, most of which came during the holiday season. Jackman's Inc., which is unrelated to Jackman Fuels, is still seeking more donations.
"We're going to continue right through the winter," said Peter Jackman, co-owner of Jackman's Inc.
Fuel prices have been rising continually, and are now at $3.79 a gallon for kerosene and $3.37 a gallon for fuel oil, according to Bushey. In November of 2006 a gallon of fuel oil was going for $2.56.
By MEGAN JAMES
MIDDLEBURY — John Melanson thought for sure business was on the upswing at Carol's Hungry Mind Café on Tuesday. The staff member scheduled to work with him was out sick, and people had been streaming nonstop into the Merchants Row shop all day.
"It was so strange," said Melanson, who owns the two-year-old coffee shop. "At the end of the day before I looked at the till, I thought, 'Oh, here's a great day. I don't have labor, it's been busy all day.' I like to make $800 a day, but (on Tuesday) it came up to $600."
This was bad news for Melanson, who after cutting back on staff and hours, is struggling to keep the coffee shop afloat. Unless he can find someone, or some way, to support Carol's by the end of February, he will likely have to sell it, he said.
"Right now, I would need $70,000 more than I make per year (to keep the operation running)," he said. "That would include how much I put into it each year and a bit of a salary, and I would like that to be a little more than minimum wage."
Over the last few months, Carol's fans have come out of the woodwork to offer support and suggestions, but none yet have found a solution.
One woman offered Melanson a $5,000 loan, interest free, for a year. But that would only keep the coffee shop going for a month, and it would add $5,000 to his debt, Melanson said. So he declined.
Other community members have suggested operating the coffee house as a co-op, using membership fees to cover some of the costs. Melanson has even talked to the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op about becoming an annex to that operation, but the Co-op already has its hands full, he said.
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NutscrapeMay 13, 2003
Okay, who's the smartass? And how did you do that?
It made me laugh anyway, whoever you are.
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Anyone can do that with the slightest bit of trouble:
telnet www.mezzoblue.com 80
Host: www.mezzoblue.com
User-Agent: Nutscrape/6.1
It wasn't me, for the record. :-)
In Mozilla or Firebird, enter in your address bar 'about:config'. Then right click and select 'New > String'. Then enter in the feild 'general.useragent.override' click 'OK' and then enter your new UA string.
For example my Mozilla defualt (which is at the top of the page of the about: page)) is 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030310 Mozilla 1.3' which you could change to 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030310 mezzoblue'.
You can change other elements too under the subtitle 'User Agent:'.
ahhhh. That clears up one mystery. Thanks guys.
Now if only there was a way to re-identify my copy of NN4.7 as 'Your Worst Nightmare'…
A lot of these apparent old browsers are nothing of the sort, but robots and spiders pretending to be something they're not.
At the risk of tooting my own horn, the following articles may help clarify things:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
I've seen the craziest browser tags in MacEdition's logs. My favorite was an iCab user who had edited the user agent string to read "foofly-tailed red panda". Obviously a person of impeccable taste and discernment.
The other mystery is why is anyone using Netscape 3? I mean, really?
It's funny how the very, very bottom end is cluttered with oddities like that. Netscape 1.x? Who in the…? It makes me wonder if perhaps there are some developers out there just sitting and waiting for sites like the Garden so that they can run them through the most obsolete browser possible.
Funny thing is, the Garden works great in Netscapes 2 through 4, Lynx, and so forth. Sure, some of the older browsers don't get the design - but the page loads and they get a well marked-up document regardless.
I keep looking at some stats for some sites that the company I work for hosts, and I keep seeing damn NN4.7 show up at somewhere around 1-3%. Then I started think…"Jason, how much of the surfing would you imagine are web designers/developers/testers/etc./etc.? I would guess…mabye 1-3%?? Makes you wonder if all those people out there still coding for NN4.x is doing so just for the benefit of dumb@$$ developers screwing with people's stats!!
I've had to use Netscape 4.77 until very recently, as Citibank online in Spain would not allow me to connect using Mozilla, and I refuse to fiddle with my user agent, and I don't run windows here.
Now I no longer need it: I just switched banks. This is an example of reasons why you can still be seeing Netscape 4.77: crapy browser detection logics in sites.


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I'm loathe to dig someone out when they are not around, however I wouldn't be so confident of that.
A re-hash of what is in the papers and online to hide behind a veil of ITK to satisfy one's self-importance is certainly not appreciated by me.
I have never once claimed to be ITK, however like many on here, we get snippets of information and pass it on. And I know (for a fact) that two of his more famous ITK statements were complete and utter b***ocks.
Paolo mate he will never say where he gets his info from but I'm sure if UJT and the mods thought he was taking the piss they'd boot him off here.
I tend to take what is said by him with a pinch of salt and I happen to like him I've spoken to him a few times and stuff he has told me I haven't mentioned, some of it never happened or even appeared anywhere so it could be made up but I have no reason to believe he was telling porkies!


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Simon Painter is a photographic artist based in Surrey with a fascination for light, texture and movement. Moving the camera whilst shooting can change the focus of an image from the objects in the scene, to the light between those objects. It's also possible to manipulate and distort objects to create atmosphere and beauty. "My work is not a representation of reality but uses the world around me as a brush with which to create new images.""I try to create a sense of movement in all my images. My urban landscapes reflect hectic city life but the ethereal soft nature of the pictures also represents more of the non physical side to our lives such as thoughts, emotions and dreams."


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Syngenta announces it received EPA registration for a triple-stack corn hybrid. The Agrisure CB/LL/RW corn trait stack should be available for planting this crop year. It includes corn borer protection, Liberty herbicide tolerance and the corn rootworm control of Agrisure RW.
As a result of the EPA action, Syngenta also will be able to offer its quad corn trait stack called Agrisure GT/CB/LL/RW in 2008. The quad stack combines both Liberty and glyphosate herbicide tolerance and corn borer and corn rootworm control. For more information, visit www.agrisuretraits.com.


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Reporting live from in Pittsford, New York, NFL Media's Albert Breer stated on NFL Total Access on Monday evening that rookie wide receiver Sammy Watkins has run exclusively with the first-team offense since training camp opened two days ago.
General manager Doug Whaley also revealed to Breer that the Buffalo Bills had Watkins as the No. 1 player -- ahead of Jadeveon Clowney -- on their draft board in May.
A day after quarterback EJ Manuel labeled the No. 4 overall draft pick as "special," the Sammy Watkins hype train is picking up steam.
The MMQB's Peter King noted that Watkins "owned" Monday's practice session with his combination of explosive speed, power and leaping ability.
Breer and USA Today's Jarrett Bell corroborated King's account.
It's way, way too early to draw conclusions ... But Sammy Watkins was dominant at today's practice. First padded workout for him tomorrow.â Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer)
July 21, 2014
One major takeaway from Bills practice: I can see why they traded up to get Sammy Watkins. He's looked awesome.â Jarrett Bell (@JarrettBell)
July 21, 2014
Watkins has been so impressive that Whaley even quipped to FOX Sports' Mike Garafolo that Canton-bound legend Andre Reed is passing the torch to a future Hall of Famer.
"You just saw him go up and catch one like he's 6-5," Whaley told Garafolo. "We firmly believe he plays bigger than his size. We're comfortable with that and we think he'll steadily improve and by Day 1 will be 'The Guy.'"
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A TOUR de France-inspired Hollywood-style sign in Oxenhope is being deployed again, this time to mark 100 years since Britain's entry into the First World War.
The project, which originally set up the huge, unmissable sign in an Oxenhope field, has teamed up with Worth Valley Publishing and the Men of Worth military history group to create a poignant visual reminder of the trauma of 1914 to 1918.
The latest venture has been dubbed the Centenary Project.
Russell Brown, the man behind the creation of the giant sign, was approached by Andy Wade from Men of Worth, who suggested that a sign could be erected to commemorate the Great War.
He said: "It seemed a fitting way to create a legacy project that continued our educational aims.
"We will continue to work collaboratively and engage local people. Oldfield Primary School is the first school to participate in this project. Prior to breaking up for summer holiday a number of pupils from the school helped to paint a giant poppy that we've now revealed as part of the sign to commemorate the First World War."
A gathering next to the sign was staged on centenary day on Monday, which was attended by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Mike Gibbons.