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Community Updates/2010-03-01
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Period 2010-02-10 to 2010-03-01
|Neophysis [Armeniacum]
New Italian Distribution for Openmoko Freerunner based on oFono and FSO frameworks. More detailed article autotransled from czech to english is available here.
Application Updates
|Babiloo 2.0.9-1.0
Babiloo is a dictionary reader. Supports dictionaries in SDictionary and StarDict formats. Voice capability. This is the final release because I'm rewriting the program in C.
- Harald Welte and friends have announced OsmocomBB, which is Free Software implementation of GSM baseband software. You can't make phone calls with it yet, but it is a sign of things to come. It runs on TI Calypso chips for now but is designed to be portable to other chips.
- The busy SHR folks are pushing another batch of great stuff into the new image: new opimd, major overhaul of the contacts app, illume2 with a pre-configured profile, quick settings app (accessible by PWR button press, Ventura as default browser soon...
- SHR User Manual has been updated to the latest SHR Unstable image. Please help to improve it by proofreading. To change or add stuff, please discuss first.
- Openmobility konference in CZ is updating its already great program. Date still not set yet.
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Bloomberg: Illegals needed
to take care of golf courses
New York mayor: Fairways would suffer
if undocumented immigrants sent home
While Congress debates immigration reform, weighing proposals ranging from making it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, to building a wall along the border with Mexico, to adopting a guest worker program that leads to full citizenship, New York City's billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg has weighed in against deporting illegal aliens because they are the ones who take care of the golf courses.
Bloomberg, who co-hosts a Friday radio talk show on WABC, was discussing the controversial immigration bills in Congress that have resulted in protests across the nation when he was asked to name a typical menial job an illegal immigrant might do. The mayor, an avid duffer, immediately thought of golf.
"You and I are beneficiaries of these jobs," Bloomberg told his co-host, John Gambling. "You and I both play golf. Who takes care of the greens and the fairways in your golf course?"
"Nobody wants to deport them, in the end, because people need them to take these jobs and do the things that nobody else is doing," Bloomberg said, also claiming 25 percent of illegal aliens are farm workers and many work in home health care.
Bloomberg, who has been criticized in the past for what some see as an elitist image, came under fire for his golf comments from a spokeswoman for the New York Immigration Coalition, an alliance of 150 immigration groups that organized a march of thousands of protesters across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday.
"It would be smarter for [Bloomberg] to talk about other contributions and other aspects that immigrants contribute to make our culture so rich and vibrant," Chung-Wha Hong told the New York Daily News. "I'd encourage him to talk about more than economic reasons, or simply coming to this [issue] from a corporate viewpoint."
A year ago, the New York Times reported that a "group of power brokers" had privately warned Bloomberg to "erase his image as an elitist billionaire and show that he cares about the concerns of average New Yorkers."
"The perception of Mr. Bloomberg as one of the city's wealthiest men, governing from on high, also obscures his record in office and his true self, as a man coming from nothing to build a communications empire," the advisers said.
Robert Heaney, general manager of Deepdale Golf Club on Long Island, where Bloomberg often plays, said the club "has always been in 100 percent compliance with all immigration laws, and it is absolutely our policy to remain in compliance with all immigration laws."
A spokesman for Bloomberg insisted the mayor stood by his golf comments.
"There are a lot of people taking positions to his left or his right who frankly don't like the mayor's straight talk on immigration policy," he said. "Even when people don't agree with the mayor, they like that he calls it like it is and is free to speak his mind independently."
Bloomberg also voiced support, for the first time, for a proposal to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a measure denounced by many supporters of illegal immigration.
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Marchers say gringos, not illegals, have to go
Millions of illegals to become citizens?
Bush slammed for scant mention of border issues
Immigration emerging as next big issue
Lawmaker: Terror war spilling across border
Illegals crackdown 'too little, too late'
Highway sound barriers as border fences?
Chertoff declares: Expel all illegals
Homeland Security bill lets illegals go free
Zogby poll: Americans fed up with illegal aliens
Americans urge: Defend the border!
Revolt begins against Bush push for illegals
Petition to Bush: No amnesty for illegals
Illegals estimated to number 18-20 million
Online polls: No licenses for illegals
Voters approve new crackdown on illegals
3 million illegals to U.S. this year
Al-Qaida runs own travel agency
Study: Illegals cost U.S. $10 billion a year
Authorities won't enforce immigration laws

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Today I'm taking part in Five Minute Friday over at Lisa-Jo's place. That means five minutes of writing on a central topic, and no going back to edit. The community there is inspiring and the different ways that the theme is interpreted are fun to explore.
This week's theme is: dance
Life is frequently described as a path. Especially in Christian circles…
"This is the path God has me on."
"I'm following God's leading on this path."
"There is a bend ahead in the path and I don't know what's next."
I always liked the idea of a path. I picture it as a light freckled, dirt covered avenue lined by trees. Because the paths we picture for ourselves are always peaceful and brimming with new life, right?
The problem with the path is that there is a beginning and an end and it's all about progression. Movement implies advancement, or the opposite which means you're heading in the wrong direction.
What if life is more like a dance, especially one in a Jane Austen novel?
Where movement implies relationship, fluidity and transition. The point isn't to get somewhere, but to take part in a rhythm and pattern.
Paul's definition as the Christian life as a race always inspired me to "press on" and "win." The urgency of competition and attainment gave me a central focus. I would be first and I would be best!
This past year has been transformational for me, and one of the main things has been a quenching of this thirst for accomplishment and advancement. Not because I have attained my goals or done all I feel God has for me, but rather the striving and pursuit seems quieted in my soul.
I feel more content to contemplate the pattern, the music, the partners and surroundings. To take joy in the dance.


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In the last three decades of the 20th century, when film was still the dominant medium, there was one piece of equipment that, close to being universal, was an essential piece of kit for the smallest documentary to the grandest feature film. It was the Swiss-made Nagra audio recorder. And perhaps the most definitive of these was the Nagra IV series.
May 11, 2019, 7:13 am
Pro Tools' first new release of 2019 is here and a lot of the changes are under the hood, for example the bug fix list is pleasingly long. We have a full detailed report on the new features but you can see the most prominent changes in action in this free tutorial video.
May 11, 2019, 7:12 am
Barnstorm VFX, the company behind the visual effects on Amazon Studios' "The Man in the High Castle" (pictured above), "HBO's Silicon Valley" and CBS' "Strange Angel," has opened a new facility in Vancouver, British Columbia. The move positions the boutique digital effects, design and production shop to take advantage of expanding work north of the border as well as British Columbia's highly competitive tax incentives.
May 11, 2019, 7:12 am
The industry standard DAW has just received a substantial upgrade. Avid has announced the release of Pro Tools 2019. A faster and more intuitive creative workflow, greater accommodations for audio post, support for macOS Mojave, and increased capabilities to work with high track-counts are highlights of the new version.
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Come have a look at the motion design and VFX work of Cantina Creative on BUMBLEBEE...
May 10, 2019, 3:53 am
Unity Technologies has released Unity 2019.2 in beta. The second of this year's cycle of updates to the game engine integrates 3D sculpting tool Polybrush and adds denoising options when baking lightmaps.
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Maxon has posted a series of conferences around its Cinema 4D software recorded at the FMX a few days ago. Studios using this tool presented a series of projects and techniques...
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It's been a long time coming. Some say too long, even after our exclusive interview with François Quereuil, Audio Product Manager at Avid, which detailed the difficult road that this release has had to travel. Well, was it worth the wait? Let's take a look:
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Leading developer of visual effect tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, Pixel Film Studios announces the availability of ProPixie 5K - Professional Composites enabling film editors to incorporate professional dust, snow, fire embers and bokeh within Final Cut Pro X projects.
Gordon sits down with Evan Ahlgren and Gary Roach to discuss the editing of Paramount's Yellowstone.
Gordon Sits down with Rosanne Tan, Justin Krohn, and Franklin Peterson to discuss their editing of the show Homecoming.
Gordon and Azin Samari sit down to discuss the four-part documentary Lorena that recounts the Lorena and John Bobbit saga.
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VirtualBox Network Settings
By default, a VirtualBox guest runs with networking set to Network Address Translation (NAT) with the host. This means that the guest shares the host's network connection, status, and IP address. From the guest, you'll be able to browse the web, configure an email client, and so on. However, if you want to be able to communicate between the host and guest more freely, it's best to set the guest to use a virtual "Bridged Adapter." This way, you can assign the guest its own IP address, and then have applications communicate between the host and guest as though they were truly running on separate machines (see Figure 5).
This is useful when you're developing a distributed application, configuring a cluster of web or application servers, or configuring an application to communicate with a remote database, for example. Figure 6 shows the different IP addresses on my Mac OS X host as well as the Windows guest.
Other networking options include:
- Internal Network: a network you configure that is visible only to guests that you allow. The network is not visible to the host, or to the outside world (the rest of your network or Internet).
- Host-only Network: similar to an internal network, this configuration includes an additional virtual adapter on the host, and select guests. This allows the host and guests to communicate on an isolated private network.
Combined with NAT and Bridged networking, these options provide flexibility and security when configuring a network for your guests and host.
VirtualBox Multiprocessor Support
If you run on a multicore or multiprocessor machine, you can expose all or a subset of those processors/cores to a guest through the virtual machine settings (see Figure 7). Conversely, if you need to test parallel-processing code, and a simulated environment will work well enough, VirtualBox lets you configure more virtual CPUs in your guest's settings than you have actual processors for. Although this may not be ideal for all of your application test requirements, it helps in many situations.
You can also enable and expose your processor's Physical Address Extension (PAE), which allows 32-bit guest OS's to access more than 4GB of memory. Ubuntu Server requires PAE to be on when run in a virtual environment.
The VirtualBox API
The entire virtualization engine of VirtualBox is exposed via a programming interface, with which you can build your own applications. In fact, you can control all of VirtualBox, including the execution of guests, from the API.
The API is accessible as a web service to Java developers (and other languages such as Python and Perl), or as a set of Microsoft COM objects for C/C++ developers. Regardless of programming environment, all of VirtualBox is accessible through the APIs. You can create and control virtual disks, virtual machine settings, running guests, network settings, security, hardware and peripherals (both real and virtual), display settings, and so on.
Some practical uses include the ability to simulate your application's operating environment, complete with real-world failures and disasters; the creation of a standalone, bootable, application that launches VirtualBox and guest in the background to easily demonstrate an application that would otherwise require a complicated installation; or other specialized environments such as in-car systems or other embedded environments. You can find the VirtualBox SDK and documentation here.
VirtualBox Open Source Edition
Perhaps you're interested in incorporating VirtualBox into your own application or development project. If so, you can find the open source edition -- with full source code of course -- on the VirtualBox downloads page at virtualbox.org.
Full build instructions, whether you use Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, or Solaris, is located here. The source is the same for all environments, but the build process varies. You can also access the Subversion code repository for the latest in VirtualBox development and features.
Virtualization can give you access to development environments you wouldn't otherwise have, such as a real-time system. For instance, Figure 8 shows Solaris running in VirtualBox on Mac OS X, which gives you access to real-time Java development with Oracle's Java RTS. Although Java RTS doesn't run on Mac OS X natively, with VirtualBox I can do real-time Java development on my Mac.
I've been surprised at how many developers don't use virtualization, or who don't know that VirtualBox offers a lightweight, open source, yet full-featured virtualization platform that can help them target multiple OS environments on one computer. It's helped me tremendously, and it's turned my laptop into an even more valuable development environment.


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Show a wooden pole with 3 silks attached. Two silks are the same color and there is an odd color silk on one end.The odd color silk is the acrobat; it can jump from end to end.
You offer to prove the acrobatic silk really does jump!Pass the Pole behind your back. The odd color silk is now on the opposite side. You repeat this a 2nd time. The odd silk has jumped back to it's original position!
The kids go crazy yelling, they think you're just turning the pole around!Do it again and the odd color silk jumps to the center. Comes complete with silks.
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Increasingly, the Internet is moving to mobile devices. In fact, the speed of this migration has even taken social media platforms like Facebook by surprise.
Savvy tech companies will learn from this.
The stratospheric increase in the use of smart phones with sophisticated apps and web browsing abilities means that the platform is quickly reaching (and perhaps soon exceeding) the functional capabilities of current televisions and desktop PCs.
With their high performance processors and large data storage capabilities, smart phones are quickly becoming mini television sets and game players as well as mini computers.
The only significant bottleneck in the system is the wireless connection.
Current wireless standards simply don't have the bandwidth to handle the applications that users are now expecting – and content providers are close to providing.
As a solution, the 5GWiFi or IEEE 802.11ac standard allows wireless networks keep pace with our constantly expanding use of computers, phones, and tablets, for both work and fun.
The new IEEE 802.11ac is a worldwide standard that offers at least triple the transmission speeds of current Wi-Fi products using IEEE 802.11n.
Even the slowest IEEE 802.11ac connection will be about as fast as a today's USB 2.0 wired links, which are widely used in external storage and far better than existing wireless data rates.
This means that even on mobile devices, streaming video won't freeze or sputter and Web downloads won't slow to a crawl when multiple devices are in use, 5GWiFi provides a technology to ensure that the user experience is everything they expect.


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Sure, go to the highlight reel.
Watch Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick make that toe save on the New York Rangers' Derick Brassard. See him deny the Chicago Blackhawks' Patrick Kane with a flypaper-like grab. Admire the way he punched the Ducks' Corey Perry in the gut for violating his ice space.
All intriguing moments from a journey through the Stanley Cup playoffs that ended with the Kings winning their second title.
But to understand Quick, go to an expert. Send a thief to catch a thief; find a goalie to explain a goalie. Rogie Vachon, the gold standard for goalies with Kings fans, has seen moments that matter beyond the don't-tread-on-me attitude and kick saves.
Said Vachon: "What really impressed me was against San Jose, when we were down 3-0 [in the series], he went to the bench during a timeout. The team was on the brink and he talked to each player individually. We won four straight games."
Before Quick, there was only one player in net who mattered for Kings fans. Oh, Kelly Hrudey had some moments. The Kings squeezed a couple seasons out of Felix Potvin. Mario Lessard had one brilliant season.
But too often the Kings goaltender situation has been a black hole, identified by a red light.
Vachon was different. His retired number dangles on the wall in Staples Center and at the Kings' practice facility. There's room for another. Quick's "32" next to his "30" would be aesthetically pleasing to Vachon, as well as appropriate.
"I have never seen a guy who goes side-to-side as fast as he does and as often as he does without getting hurt," said Vachon, who played for the Kings from 1971-78. "He's probably the best athlete on the team. He may be one of the best in the NHL."
That ability was apparent early on. "The first training camp," Vachon said.
The Kings brought two rookie goaltenders to camp in 2007, Quick and Jonathan Bernier. Quick had been drafted in 2005 by Dave Taylor, the Kings' previous general manager. Bernier was the 11th player taken in the 2006 draft, and the first player selected by General Manager Dean Lombardi.
Bernier had the pedigree. Quebec does goaltenders like Tim Horton's does doughnuts. Vachon, for example, who was traded to the Kings by the Montreal Canadiens during the 1971-72 season.
"Bernier was supposed to be the next one, but along comes Jonathan, who was so impressive during camp," Vachon said. "Then he goes to the minors and puts up incredible numbers. They had no choice but to call him up. The rest is history."
Bernier was. The Kings traded him to the Toronto Maple Leafs last June.
Quick remained to make history, winning two Stanley Cups while methodically supplanting Vachon in the Kings' record book.
Vachon's single-season goals-against record (2.24) was tied by Quick in 2010-11, then replaced by his 1.95 average in 2011-12. This past season, Quick picked up his 176th career victory to break Vachon's team record.
After the game, Vachon paid a visit to the dressing room, and saw a different side of Quick.
Quick shows passion during games. There's an extrovert behind that mask. When it comes off, he makes Coach Darryl Sutter look like a chatterbox.
But when Vachon showed up, Quick became giddy.
"That was a fun night," Vachon said. "I told him that I wished I had put up better numbers so it would take him longer to break them."
The one number Quick still needs to put up is the one next to Vachon's on the Staples Center wall. That's coming, Vachon said.
"If he continues the same way, he is going to put up numbers that might take two centuries for someone to break," Vachon said.
Quick didn't have gilded numbers during the playoffs, not when you compare it to his 2012 run — 1.41 goals-against average and .946 save percentage.
This spring, Quick battled more than reigned. He had a 2.58 goals-against average and .911 save percentage. The result was the same. The Kings skated around Staples Center ice with the Stanley Cup.
"What separates the great ones from the good ones is the mental attitude," Vachon said. "You play an 82-game schedule. You can't have a bad slump, where all of a sudden you team loses seven, eight, nine games."
Quick, Vachon said, "might have a bad game. He might have two. But he doesn't have three. He regroups. Players love playing in front of guys like that."
That was never more evident than in the series clincher against the Rangers on Friday.
Quick made saves … and left rebounds on a silver platter. His defense bailed him out, clearing pucks out of harm's way.
But when the game tightened up, Quick didn't. He gave up a goal to Brian Boyle at the end of the second period, then stopped the last 18 shots the Rangers fired at him, 15 in the two overtimes.
Vachon sees his own reflection.
"He's like me," Vachon said. "You give up a bad goal, go to the dressing room and break a stick, say 'Sorry guys,' and then go out and then shut the other team down."


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Let them eat cupcakes!
June 21, 2010
So…some of my friends are obsessed with cupcakes. Thus, while I was stopped at a red light on LaVista, and looked to my right and saw Carolyn's Cupcakes, I couldn't resist swinging into the parking lot to give 'em a try. The man working behind the counter was very friendly and informed me they'd been open about three months. I picked up the Red Velvet Cupcake and the Banana Split Cupcake, which we noshed on after dinner. (Did I mention they have super-cute cupcake-smelling candles in a a cupcake-shaped dish?!? Adorable!) Let's just say, I'm glad we have these pictures to remember the cupcakes by.
Oh, and the little paper bags they come in are a sweet touch.


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APACHE PORTABLE RUNTIME (APR) LIBRARY STATUS: -*-text-*- Last modified at [$Date: 2006-08-06 18:55:41 -0400 (Sun, 06 Aug 2006) $] Releases: 1.3.0 : in development 1.2.8 : in development 1.2.7 : released April 14, 2006 1.2.6 : released March 25, 2006 1.2.5 : not released 1.2.4 : not released 1.2.3 : not released 1.2.2 : released October 11, 2005 1.2.1 : released August 18, 2005 1.2.0 : not released 1.1.2 : no such version 1.1.1 : released March 17, 2005 1.1.0 : released January 25, 2005 1.0.1 : released November 19, 2004 1.0.0 : released September 1, 2004 0.9.13 : in development 0.9.12 : released April 13, 2006 0.9.11 : released March 30, 2006 0.9.10 : tagged March 22, 2006, not released 0.9.9 : tagged January 30, 2006, not released 0.9.8 : tagged January 27, 2006, not released 0.9.7 : released October 11, 2005 0.9.6 : released February 4, 2005 0.9.5 : released November 19, 2004 0.9.4 : released September 25, 2003 0.9.3 : released April 3, 2003 0.9.2 : released March 22, 2003 0.9.1 : released September 11, 2002 0.9.0 : released August 28, 2002 Bundled with httpd: 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000 RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS: CURRENT VOTES: CURRENT test/testall -v EXCEPTIONS: Please add any platform anomilies to the following exception list. * various tests fail on Unix in VPATH builds. * 'testipsub' will tickle an Solaris 8 getaddrinfo() IPv6 bug, causing the test to hang. Configure with --disable-ipv6 if using an unpatched Solaris 8 installation. * The 'testdso' tests will not work if configured with --disable-shared since the loadable modules cannot be built. * 'testdso' fails on older versions of OpenBSD due to dlsym(NULL, ...) segfaulting. * BUG: Win32 fails test in File Info: test_stat_eq_finfo apr_stat and apr_getfileinfo differ in protection ... wrowe guesses that we are checking the handle objects' permissions rather than the filesystem objects' permissions. * Win32 Not Implemented tests Pipes: set_timeout/read_write; can't timeout blocking pipes Socket Creation: tcp6_socket and udp6_socket (at least by default) Socket Options: corkable: TCP isn't corkable Users: username: Groups from apr_uid_get not implemented RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP: * Someone needs to port testucs to Unix. Right now it only works on Windows. OtherBill asks; should we have a test/arch/xxx tree? The ucs implementation is an internal for unicode/utf-8 win32isms. * The return type of a thread function (void *) is inconsistent with the type used in apr_thread_exit()/apr_thread_join() (apr_status_t). The thread function's return type should be changed to apr_status_t so that a return from the thread main function has the same effect as apr_thread_exit(). See Message-Id: <email@example.com> for thread discussing this. +1: BrianH, Aaron, david, jerenkrantz Status: Will Rowe was working on this. * Need some architecture/OS specific versions of the atomic operations. progress: generic, solaris Sparc, FreeBSD5, linux, and OS/390 done need: AIX, AS400, HPUX * The new lock API is a full replacement for the old API, but is not yet complete on all platforms. Components that are incomplete or missing include: Netware: apr_proc_mutex_*() (Is proc_mutex unnecessary on Netware?) * proc_mutex is not necessary on NetWare since the OS does not support processes. The proc_mutex APIs actually redirect to the thread_mutex APIs. (bnicholes) OS/2: apr_thread_cond_*(), apr_proc_mutex_*() Less critical components that we may wish to add at some point: Beos: apr_thread_rwlock_try*lock() apr_proc_mutex_trylock() Unix: apr_thread_rwlock_*() for platforms w/o rwlocks in pthread Win32: apr_thread_cond_timedwait(), apr_proc_mutex_*() (Is proc_mutex unnecessary on Win32?) * Need to contemplate apr_strftime... platforms vary. OtherBill suggested this solution (but has no time to implement): Document our list of 'supported' escapes. Run some autoconf/m4 magic against the complete list we support. Move the strftime re-implementation from time/win32 to time/unix. Add some APR_HAVE_STRFTIME magic to use the system fn, or fail over to time/unix/strftime.c. Message-ID: <025e01c1a891$bf41f660$94c0b0d0@v505> * Using reentrant libraries with non-threaded APR - Anecdotal evidence exists that suggests it is bad to mix reentrant and non-reentrant libraries and therefore we should always use the reentrant versions. - Unfortunately, on some platforms (AIX 4.2.1) defining the reentrant flag (-D_THREAD_SAFE) causes builds to fail, and so one would expect --disable-threads to fix this. Although this has been fixed for that particular version of AIX, it may be useful to only enable the reentrant versions when threads are enabled. How will we deal with this issue once APR becomes a standalone library? It is perfectly legitimate to have apps needing both versions (threaded/reentrant and non-threaded/non-reentrant) on the same machine. * Pools debugging - Find a way to do check if a pool is used in multiple threads, while the creation flags say it isn't. IOW, when the pool was created with APR_POOL_FNEWALLOCATOR, but without APR_POOL_FLOCK. Currently, no matter what the creation flags say, we always create a lock. Without it integrity_check() and apr_pool_num_bytes() blow up (because they traverse pools child lists that possibly belong to another thread, in combination with the pool having no lock). However, this might actually hide problems like creating a child pool of a pool belonging to another thread. Maybe a debug function apr_pool_set_owner(apr_thread_t *) in combination with extra checks in integrity_check() will point out these problems. apr_pool_set_owner() would need to be called everytime the owner(the thread the pool is being used in) of the pool changes. - Implement apr_pool_join and apr_pool_lock. Those functions are noops at the moment. - Add stats to the pools code. We already have basic stats in debug mode. Stats that tell us about wasted memory in the production code require more thought. Status: Sander Striker is looking into this (low priority) David says this is a 1.1 issue. * Get OTHER_CHILD support into Win32 Status: Bill S. is looking into this * Win32 apr_proc_create fails to create 16 bit apps detached (a win32 bug.) The question - test in advance (slow) or recover gracefully from failure and try again? Only the test method will work on Win9x, since it will appear to work, only to encounter mangled pipes. Win2K (NT?) simply fails. * SysV semaphore support isn't usable by Apache when started as root because we don't have a way to allow the semaphore to be used by the configured User and Group. Current work-around: change the initial permissions to 0666. Needed code: See 1.3's http_main.c, SysV sem flavor of accept_mutex_init(). Status: Jim will look into this Update: Apache deals with this itself, though it might be nice if APR could do something. * Build scripts do not recognise AIX 4.2.1 pthreads Justin says: "Is this still true?" * FirstBill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended process. This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though. Status: OtherBill asks, why? What is the benefit, how is it portably implemented? Unless this creates some tangible that mirrors another platform, then I'm -1. * Replace tables with a proper opaque ADT that has pluggable implementations (including something like the existing data type, plus hash tables for speed, with options for more later). Status: fanf is working on this. * add a version number to apr_initialize() as an extra failsafe against (APR) library version skew. MsgID: <firstname.lastname@example.com> Status: Greg -1, Jeff +1, Ryan +1, Tony -0(?), david +1 * add apr_crypt() and APR_HAS_CRYPT for apps to determine whether the crypt() function is available, and a way to call it (whether it is located in libc, libcrypt, or libufc) Justin says: Should apr_crypt() be in apr-util? Status: Greg +1 (volunteers) * use os_(un)cork in network_io/unix/sendrecv.c for FreeBSD's sendfile implementation. david: The socket options stuff is now in and using it should reduce the number of syscalls that are required for os_cork and uncork, so the code should be reviewed to make use of the new calls. If no-one beats me to it I'll get around to it soonish... * toss the per-Makefile setup of INCLUDES; shift to rules.mk.in rbb: This is a bad thing IMHO. If we do this, then we can't use these makefiles for anything else. For example, apr-util * add the rest of the pool accessor declare/impl macros. Justin says: Both thread and file have the accessors now. Any others? Status: Greg volunteers * I think apr_open_stderr() and friends *should* dup() the descriptor. That would allow the new/returned file to be closed (via pool cleanup or manually) without accidentally closing stderr/out. * need to export (in code, not just build scripts) the shared library extension (e.g. ".so") for the platform. clients need to use this to construct filenames to pass to apr_dso_load() -- note on Win32 we distinguish 'apache module' names from other 'loadable module' names, so be careful with Apache's directive. * Possible gmtime_r replacement in explode_time On Solaris (and possibly others), the gmtime_r libc function obtains a mutex. We have seen 21/25 threads being blocked in this mutex on a threaded httpd MPM when requesting static pages. It may be worth it to hand optimize this since there is no real need for a mutex at the system level (straight arithmetic from what I can tell). If you have access to the Solaris source code: osnet_volume/usr/src/lib/libc/port/gen/time_comm.c. * Add a way to query APR for what features it has at runtime (i.e. threads). Justin says: I'm not completely sold on this, but it has been mentioned before and at least added to STATUS. * apr_xlate.h generates a bunch of compiler warnings. Jeff asks: which platform? Justin says: Solaris with Forte 6.1. * fcntl() oddness on Solaris. Under high loads, fcntl() decides to return error code 46 (ENOLCK). httpd (prefork MPM) error log says (predictably): (46)No record locks available: couldn't grab the accept mutex All of the children report this and subsequently exits. httpd is now hosed. AFAICT, this does not look to be an out-of-fds error. Solaris's man page says: ENOLCK The cmd argument is F_SETLK, F_SETLK64, F_SETLKW, or F_SETLKW64 and satisfying the lock or unlock request would result in the number of locked regions in the system exceeding a system-imposed limit. Justin says: What is this system-imposed limit and how do we change it? This gives me more rationale for switching the default interprocess lock mechanism to pthread (if available). Explanation (from Kristofer Spinka <firstname.lastname@example.com>): ============ The system imposed default limit of outstanding lock requests is 512. You can verify this by, in a contemporary version of Solaris: # mdb -k > tune_t_flckrec/D tune_t_flckrec: tune_t_flckrec: 512 This can be increased by adding the following to /etc/system: set tune_t_flckrec=1024 and rebooting. Of course "1024" can be any reasonable limit, although we do not know what "reasonable" should be, so be conservative, only increase this as necessary. * Generate a good bug report to send to the FreeBSD hackers that details the problems we have seen with threads and system calls (specifically sendfile data is corrupted). From our analysis so far, we don't think that this is an APR issue, but rather a FreeBSD kernel issue. Our current solution is to just disable threads across the board on FreeBSD. MsgID: <email@example.com> Status: Fixed in -CURRENT. MFC in about a week. Continuing testing with threads on FreeBSD. FreeBSD PR kern/32684: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/32684 * There are some optimizations that can be done to the new apr_proc_*() functions (on UNIX). One that may reduce pointer indirection would be to make the apr_proc_mutex_unix_lock_methods_t first-class members of the apr_proc_mutex_t structure. * Condition variables are tricky enough to use, and even trickier to implement properly. We could really use a better test case for those subtle quirks that sometimes creep into CV implementations. * Once we are fully satisfied with the new lock API, we can begin to migrate the old API to be implemented on top of the new one, or just decide to get rid of it altogether. * FreeBSD returns 45 (EOPNOTSUPP) when the lockfile is on a NFS partition when you call fcntl(F_SETLKW). It may be good if we can somehow detect this and error out when creating the lock rather than waiting for the error to occur when acquiring lock. * Fix autoconf tests for strerror_r on BeOS and remove the hack in misc/unix/errorcodes.c to get error reporting working. Committed as the solution is elusive at present. * implement APR_PROGRAM_ENV and APR_PROGRAM_PATH on BeOS, OS/2, Netware, and Win32. * stat() on a few platforms (notably Solaris and AIX) succeeds for a non-directory even if a trailing '/' was specified in the name. APR should perhaps simulate the normal -1/ENOTDIR behavior in APR routines which retrieve information about the file. Note: Win2K fails GetFileAttributesEx in this scenario. See OtherBill's comments in this message to firstname.lastname@example.com: Message-Id: <22.214.171.124.2.20020315080852.00bce168@localhost> Documentation that needs writing: * API documentation Ian Says: APR Stuff in now in Doxygen format, which is the first step. David says: are we planning on doing any more? I'm tempted to remove this item. * apr-site needs to be revamped with Anakia/XHTML. * Identify and implement those protection bits that have general usefulness, perhaps hidden, generic read-only [immutable], effective current user permissions, etc. * Maybe make the following functions return void instead of apr_status_t, as they cannot ever error: apr_md5_init() apr_md5_update() apr_md5_final() apr_md5_encode() apr_md5() /* plus make the obvious code tweak in this one */ (Volunteer: Karl Fogel <firstname.lastname@example.com>.) However, don't do this until after apr and apr-util offer library version numbers, and httpd uses those numbers to indicate which version it needs. Until the libraries are versioned, this api change is [somewhat] painful for httpd. Status: Still in discussion, current leanings appear to be Bill Stoddard -0.5 (?) Sander Striker +1 Greg Stein +1 Karl Fogel +1 david: This was rejected for 1.0 following Ben L's comment that should we ever start using any other form of md5 (e.g. openssl) then errors would become a distinct possibility. API Changes Postponed for APR 2.0: * apr_atomic_casptr() has the volatile qualifier in the wrong place: should take "pointer to volatile pointer to void", not "pointer to pointer to volatile void". * apr_socket_sendfile(): the offset parameter should not be pass-by-reference, or it should be updated to do something useful. * apr_password_get(): the bufsize parameter should not be pass-by-reference. * apr_allocator.h: apr_memnode_t's use of uint32_t's doesn't match well with allocation sizes being apr_size_t, possibly this can be improved by using apr_size_t throughout. * apr_hash_count() should take a const apr_hash_t * argument. * apr_ino_t should be an ino64_t in LFS builds. * possible type renames: apr_file_info_t from apr_finfo_t apr_file_attrs_t from apr_fileattrs_t apr_file_seek_where_t from apr_seek_where_t apr_lock_mech_e from apr_lockmech_e apr_time_interval_t from apr_interval_time_t apr_time_interval_short_t from apr_short_interval_time_t * wrowe writes: Looking at bug 32520, it occurs to me that exploding times using the apr_time_exp_* functions; it would make more sense to split ->tm_usec into ->tm_msec thousandths (milleseconds) ->tm_usec millionths (microseconds) for most display purposes. It's trivial to roll them together with the format string %03d%03d if that's what's desired, or display simply %02d.%03d if millisecond resolution is desired. It would also shrink the fields to int's so unpacking would be slightly slower, using them would be slightly faster, for what's likely to be little impact on performance. Stuff for post 1.0: * Almost every API in APR depends on pools, but pool semantics aren't a good match for a lot of applications. We need to find a way to support alternate allocators polymorphically without a significant performance penalty. * apr_global_mutex_child_init and apr_proc_mutex_child_init aren't portable. There are a variety of problems with the locking API when it is used with apr_create_proc instead of apr_fork. First, _child_init doesn't take a lockmech_e parameter so it causes a segfault after the apr_proc_create, because the proc_mutex field hasn't been initialized. When the lockmech_e parameter is added, it _still_ doesn't work, because some lock mechanisms expect to inherit from the parent process. For example, sys V semaphores don't have a file to open, so the child process can't reaquire the lock. jerenkrantz says: This is not a showstopper and I believe the above analysis is slightly confusing. The real problem here is that apr_*_mutex_child_init assumes a shared memory space - that is, the children processes have access to the parent apr_*_mutex_t pointer. The children just call child_init on the original, inherited apr_*_mutex_t. Unlike globalmutexchild in test, apr_*_mutex_create is *not* intended to be called from the child and subsequently call child_init. Instead, apr_create_proc is intended to exec separate processes with disjoint memory addresses. Currently, APR does not provide a cross-platform mechanism for joining an already existing lock. A simple 'apr_*_mutex_join' which is intended to be called from separate processes to an already-existing lock would solve this problem. child_init is not intended to be used this way. Even with SysV semaphores, using IPC_PRIVATE should still work due to the parent-child relationship. A strawman has been posted to dev@apr: Message-Id: <firstname.lastname@example.com> This was listed as a showstopper for 1.0, but while the 2 patches above exist neither was able to garner enough votes to be included in 1.0. Will Rowe commented that a combination of the 2 would probably be the right approach, a view that seems to have a lot of merit. Hopefully we can solve this post 1.0. There were also enough people who felt that it wasn't a real showstopper for it to be bumped. * Must namespace protect all include/apr_foo.h headers. Jon Travis has especially observed these including apr within Apache-1.3. Message-ID: <email@example.com> Deprecating the symbols in 0.9, eliminating them with 1.0. (Those problems have been fixed, but it is a good example of what to look for.) Some headers with issues: apr.hnw (READDIR_IS_THREAD_SAFE, ENUM_BITFIELD, _POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS (?)) * Flush out the test suite and make sure it passes on all platforms. We currently have about 450 functions in APR and 147 tests. That means we have a large number of functions that we can't verify are actually portable. This TODO includes finishing the migration to the unified test suite, and adding more tests to make the suite comprehensive. * Eliminate the TODO's and XXX's by using the doxygen @bug feature to allow us to better track the open issues, and provide historical bug lists that help porters understand what was wrong in the old versions of APR that they would be upgrading from.
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SYDNEY (MarketWatch) — Asia stocks mostly declined Friday after a sizeable increase in Chinese inflation, but Japanese shares advanced on the back of fresh losses for the yen.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average NIK, -0.43% jumped 1.4%, with the move bringing year-to-date gains for the index to 3.9%.
But elsewhere, "sentiment swiftly turned negative on the back of the China [consumer inflation] numbers," said Stan Shamu, strategist at IG Markets.
Chinese consumer prices rose by 2.5% in December, slightly exceeding consensus economist estimates and representing a seven-month high for the data series. Read: China consumer inflation quickens on food costs.
The Shanghai Composite Index 000001, -1.90% declined 1.8%, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index HSI, -1.15% reversed from premarket gains to fall 0.4% after the release of the data.
South Korea's Kospi 180721, -0.22% slipped 0.5%, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index XJO, -0.11% gave up 0.3%.
Still, Japanese exporters were outperforming in Asia as the dollar USDJPY, -0.33% reached ¥89.01 Friday following data showing Japan posted a ¥222.4 billion ($2.5 billion) current-account deficit for November — the second-largest on record — and approval of a ¥10.3 trillion stimulus plan from the Japanese government. Read more on Japan's new stimulus package.
The dollar had been trading at ¥88.59 in late North American action Thursday. Similarly, the euro EURJPY, -0.46% gained against the yen, reaching ¥118.17, up from ¥117.41 in late trading Thursday.
Following the yen moves, Panasonic Corp. 6752, +0.18% US:PC rose 4.2%, Olympus Corp. 7733, +0.33% OCPNF, +0.00% added 4.4%, and Nintendo Co. 7974, +0.00% NTDOF, -1.11% climbed 5.6%.
Sharp Corp. 6753, -0.26% SHCAF, +13.74% soared 12.6% even after the firm denied a report that it returned to an operating profit in the three months to the end of December. Read: Sharp denies report on Q3 operating profit
Uniqlo clothing-chain owner Fast Retailing Co. 9983, -0.66% FRCOF, -0.78% climbed 4.8% after hiking its full-year profit outlook.
However, the rise in Chinese consumer prices at a quicker pace than expected in December dampened investor enthusiasm in other markets.
"Although [the CPI data] shows greater demand in China, it also stokes inflationary fears, which might lead to some form of tightening," said Shamu at IG Markets.
In mainland Chinese stock action, Angang Steel Co. 000898, -0.57% declined 2.4% in Shenzhen, while property developer Gemdale Corp. 600383, -1.64% lost 4.1% in Shanghai.
Energy and mining firms were lower in Hong Kong, with Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd. 2600, -2.84% ACH, -0.33% dropping 3%, Cnooc Ltd. 883, -1.49% CEO, -0.31% lower by 1.9% and Citic Pacific Ltd. 267, -0.89% down 3.6%.
In Australian trading, mining companies extended early losses after the Chinese data, with BHP Billiton Ltd. BHP, +0.10% BHP, +1.31% dropping 2% and Rio Tinto Ltd. RIO, +0.64% RIO, +1.11% falling 1.9%.
Both firms were downgraded to neutral from outperform by Macquarie on Friday, with the broker citing recent share-price gains.
South Korean auto makers were weighing down the market in Seoul as the lower yen raised the threat from Japanese rivals. Hyundai Motor Co. 005380, -0.70% HYMTF, -10.04% lost 1.7%, with affiliate Kia Motors Corp. 000270, +0.23% KIMTF, +0.00% trading down 2.2%.
Strategists at Nomura said that, "given most other Asian currencies have appreciated against the U.S. dollar, the moves in Japanese yen/Asian crosses have been even larger" than the yen's move against the dollar since September.
Against the Korean won, for example, the yen has depreciated by almost 20%, they said, while the Japanese currency has lost almost 15% against the Chinese yuan.
Friday's moves in Asia came after the U.S. S&P 500 index SPX, -0.17% ended at its highest level in five years Thursday, as U.S. investors took their first chance to react to the Chinese trade data, with financials at the front of the advance. Read: U.S. stocks rise on improved global view.
The financial sector also saw some buying in Asia on Friday, with HSBC Holdings PLC 5, -0.39% US:HBC up 0.8% in Hong Kong, while awaiting approval for the sale of its stake in Ping An Insurance Group Co. 2318, -1.33% PNGAY, -0.50% which traded 1.3% higher.
Some reports say Chinese regulators may block the HSBC-Ping An deal over funding questions.
Over in Sydney, National Australia Bank Ltd. NAB, -0.33% NAUBF, -1.60% advanced 0.6%, while Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. 8316, -0.19% SMFG, -0.29% rose 1.4% in Tokyo.


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While Poland's first UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship title owed much to team-work and organisation, the team's 2013 success also unearthed an individual talent in the form of forward Ewa Pajor.
Pajor was the creative force behind Poland's Nyon victory – a player with a rare mix of skill, fine movement and an eye for goal that has seen her likened to Lionel Messi back in her homeland. Although only 16 and still to prove whether she can carry through her potential to senior level, like all great players she flourished on the biggest stage of her career to date.
Before the tournament Pajor had already shown her talents on the domestic front, breaking into the senior team with club side KKPK Medyk Konin and helping them to second in the Polish Women's Premier League with nine goals in 16 appearances before starring in the country's cup final. Coming on as a half-time substitute against champions RTP Unia Racibórz, she scored twice to help them to a memorable triumph.
She also played a key role in Poland's qualification for their first Women's U17 finals. After two assists in their opening 4-0 defeat of Slovakia she made the most of 39 minutes on the pitch against the Faroe Islands with two goals in a 3-0 victory. In the second qualifying round she also made a telling contribution, scoring the opening goal in a 2-1 win against the Republic of Ireland before also netting in Norway in a 3-0 victory that secured their path to Switzerland.
Pajor made sure her name would be on the scoresheet for the third U17 tie in a row in Poland's semi-final against Belgium. A constant threat as the spearhead of a 4-2-3-1 formation, she scored the third goal in a 3-1 win when she rounded Belgium goalkeeper Diede Lemey before showing composure beyond her years to calmly slide the ball into an unguarded net.
Although she failed to extend her scoring streak in the final against Sweden, Pajor would again be the star turn. Three times in the first half she shook off the attentions of defenders using her trickery before shooting narrowly wide, as Poland looked to exploit her talents by getting the ball to her as often as possible.
"Let me say that Ewa Pajor is certainly an important individual, and everybody has probably noticed that," said Poland coach Zbigniew Witkowski after the final, while scorer of the winning goal Ewelina Kamczyk added: "She is kind of a pearl in our team.
"When she's on the pitch she helps us a great deal. She helps in building the game. I think she's becoming a bit like Cristiano Ronaldo in her play, and that is her asset. She helps the other girls, she doesn't shout but she gives them hints, and she always plays until the end. She simply helps the whole team."
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
December 10-12, 1972, Winterland: Grateful Dead/High Country (10)/Sons Of Champlin (11)/Rowan Brothers (12) (opening acts)
Even at the time, it seemed surprising that the two headline acts would play Winterland together. Both the Dead and the Allmans had headlined Winterland in the past, and both bands were bigger than ever. The Allman Brothers 1971 Live At Fillmore East album was a huge hit, and their current album Eat A Peach was even more popular. The Grateful Dead had released three popular albums in a row (Workingman's Dead, American Beauty and "Skull and Roses"). Their new triple live album Europe '72 was about to be released, and Warner Brothers had high hopes that this too would be a hit. However, the three shows were booked for Sunday through Tuesday, nights when Winterland was usually dark, and when most bands didn't perform, so they were effectively "extra" paydays for both the promoter and the bands. Thus the bands would be free to indulge themselves musically without interfering with any regular activity. The Dead did not have any conflicts on the weekend of December 8-9, but Bill Graham did and the Allman Brothers did as well (see below).
It was not to be. On November 11, 1972, Allman Brothers bassist Berry Oakley died in a motorcycle accident, and all Allman Brothers activities were put on hold again. For obvious business reasons, the Grateful Dead and Bill Graham kept the booking, and the Dead headlined Winterland by themselves. The Dead had headlined Winterland by themselves before, but never for three nights, and three school nights at that. For whatever reasons, Bill Graham chose to have opening acts all three nights. These shows were the last regular, indoor Grateful Dead shows in the Bay Area for many years that had opening acts (New Year's Eve and the occasional benefit excepted). The choices of the opening acts are actually quite interesting, and its plain that the Dead--and probably mainly Jerry Garcia--chose the acts.
Winterland Background
Winterland, at the corner of Post and Steiner, just two blocks from the original Fillmore (at 1805 Geary), had been used by BGP since 1966 for acts that were too big for the Fillmore or Fillmore West. By late 1971, with the Fillmore West closed, Winterland became Bill Graham's main venue. Most Winterland shows had three acts, like the Fillmore West. However, bands that played a particularly long time, like the Dead, often had only one opening act. Part of the economics of Winterland was that BGP sold a lot of popcorn, soda and beer (in the upstairs bar), so the earlier people came and the longer people stayed, the more profitable the evening was.
The Grateful Dead had headlined a show at Winterland on October 9, 1972, a benefit of sorts for their road crew (so they could buy a house, apparently). The New Riders had apparently opened the show. The band had headlined another benefit on March 5, 1972, supported by The Sons Of Champlin. The Dead had also headlined New Year's Eve 1971/72, supported by The New Riders and Yogi Phlegm (as The Sons Of Champlin were known at the time). They had also headlined a weekend in May 1971, supported by The New Riders, James And The Good Brothers and RJ Fox (the Friday May 28 show was canceled since Garcia was ill, and the Dead ended up playing May 29-30).
Although the Grateful Dead were popular in the Bay Area, they had played so regularly that there was little urgency for tickets. When the Dead played a seated venue, like Berkeley Community Theater, there was tremendous pressure to get good seats, but for general admission venues like Winterland, the shows generally took a while to sell out. That's not to say they didn't sell out, as they mostly did, but tickets would typically be available for many days. Thus three shows on a weeknight was untested territory for both BGP and The Dead. While the three opening acts would have added little to ticket sales, they would have encouraged people to arrive early, and there may have been some concern on BGP's part that the Dead could not have sold out all three nights. As it happened, advance copies of Europe '72 was being played on FM radio stations the week before the show, and all three shows seemed to have sold out. Other than New Years Eve, no opening act ever appeared again with the Grateful Dead at Winterland.
Sunday, December 10, 1972: Grateful Dead/High Country
High Country was a bluegrass band formed in Berkeley in Fall 1968. Leader and mandolinist Butch Waller was an old friend of Garcia's. In the early 1960s Waller and banjoist Herb Pedersen had been in a group called The Westport Singers who played the same folk circuit as Garcia. Later, Waller and Pedersen were in a group called The Pine Valley Boys with David Nelson (there's even a picture).
Bay Area bluegrass was a lonely enterprise in the late 60s, and numerous people went in and out of High Country. David Nelson was at least a part-time member in late 1968 and early 1969, and remarkably enough Jerry Garcia filled in on banjo at least once. A tape from a performance at The Matrix survives, usually dated as February 19, 1969. We know for a fact that this date must be wrong, as the Grateful Dead were playing Fillmore West that night, and I believe the date to be February 24, 25 or 26 (I have discussed the dating of Jerry Garcia and High Country at The Matrix at length elsewhere).
High Country continued to perform, however, and by 1972 they had an album on Raccoon, a Warner Brothers imprint controlled by The Youngbloods. High Country was still a traditional bluegrass band, however, and playing acoustic music for a rowdy Winterland crowd must have been daunting indeed. Of the few comments online about this show, no one seems to recall High Country playing. There's no question in my mind, however, that Butch Waller's friendship with Garcia got the band this high profile gig. In any case, it doesn't seemed to have harmed them, as High Country has stayed together over the decades, playing Berkeley's Freight and Salvage almost every New Year's Eve.
December 11, 1972: Grateful Dead/Sons Of Champlin
The Sons Of Champlin had as long a history performing at the Fillmore and The Avalon as The Grateful Dead. The Sons had released three fine albums on Capitol, and they were widely regarded by fellow musicians as one of the most creative and adept bands. However, little success had come their way, and they broke up in 1970. Later in 1970. they had gotten back together under the name Yogi Phlegm, playing an advanced mixture of fusion jazz and soulful rock. By late 1972 the group had bowed to the obvious and begun calling themselves The Sons Of Champlin again.
The Sons were the Dead's Marin neighbors and peers, even though they lacked the Dead's success. When The Sons had opened for the Dead at Winterland on March 5, 1972, a few members (guitarist Terry Haggerty and bassist David Schallock) had gotten stuck in traffic, and Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh had filled in for some opening blues numbers. This unique occurrence was a clear indicator of The Sons' personal and professional status with the Dead (update: I should add that for much of the 70-72 period, Bill Vitt drummed for both Jerry Garcia and The Sons. I think by December 1972 The Sons had replaced Vitt with Jim Preston, but it was another important musical connection between the groups).
December 12, 1972: Grateful Dead/The Rowan Brothers
Chris and Lorin Rowan were singer/songwriters from Massachusetts, the younger brother of Sea Train guitarist Peter Rowan. The pair had been signed to Columbia Records by Clive Davis, and David Grisman ended up producing their debut album. Among The Rowan Brothers very few early performances had been opening for the Grateful Dead at Fillmore West on July 2, 1971. For that show, Jerry Garcia had played pedal steel guitar and David Grisman had played mandolin, in itself a unique pairing (Bill Kreuzmann had played drums and Bill Wolf had played bass that night). However, Garcia did not perform live with them again as a regular band member, although JGMF points out that Garcia played pedal steel for two numbers when the Rowan Brothers had opened for Hot Tuna and The New Riders the previous month (November 3, 1972).
By late 1972, The Rowan Brothers' debut album had finally been released on Columbia. Columbia was (rather unfortunately) pushing the LP with a qoute from Jerry Garcia where he said, essentially "these guys could be the next Beatles." The quote was taken out of context, and it assured that the Rowan Brothers could never live up to their hype. The album was produced by Bill Wolf and "David Diadem," the name Grisman used for the record (Bill Wolf would be the sound engineer for the "Last Five Nights" at Winterland in October 1974). On stage, the two Rowans wore spangly Nudie-type jackets. John Douglas played drums, while Wolf played bass. Grisman played keyboards, strangely enough, but he came out from behind his organ to play an electric mandolin solo. I suspect few people had any idea that this was the guy who had played on American Beauty.
The night of December 12, 1972 was not only my first Grateful Dead concert, but the first rock concert I had ever gone to. I can thus say with certainty that by 8:00 pm on Tuesday, December 12, The Rowan Brothers were the best rock band I had ever seen. When the Dead came on shortly afterwards, with Garcia and Weir wearing spangly Nudie suits, like C&W stars, I just assumed that all bands did that, since the Rowan Brothers had also. What did I know? Maybe all keyboard players took mandolin solos--I had nothing else to go on.
After these shows, it was clear that the Dead could not only sell out Winterland by themselves on a weeknight, but that the shows were long enough that opening acts did not add to the experience. Certainly the Dead in the 1970s were so overwhelming on stage that it was hard to even remember what had happened before they came on, and I can't say I missed having opening acts. Still, it was interesting to see a unique situation where Garcia and the Dead were apparently asked which of their friends they wanted to invite to open their shows, and to see which old friends were put on the bill.
Appendix: December 8-9 conflicts
I presume the Dead/Allmans Winterland extravaganza was scheduled for December 10-12 because of other weekend conflicts. The Allman Brothers had a whole tour scheduled, and they were booked at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, MI on Saturday, December 9. In fact, the Allman Brothers played this show, their first without Berry Oakley, replaced by new bassist Lamar Williams. However, it must have simply been too daunting to plan to fly to San Francisco afterwards, so that must be why the Allmans had to back out.
Bill Graham Presents had other shows booked for the weekend at Winterland, as he did almost every weekend. Friday December 8 featured J. Geils Band/Loggins & Messsina/Tranquility, and Saturday December 9 featured Quicksilver. Quicksilver in fact canceled, and I believe Winterland was dark that night--very rare for a Saturday--but I assume it was too late to consider adding another Dead date. Knowing how big the Dead were about to become, it seems obvious that a Saturday night should have been added, but that can hardly have been self-evident at the time.
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A slight addition - weren't the Allmans supposed to be on tour with the Dead in Texas, Nov '72? The joint Winterland shows may have been planned at the same time. If not for that accident, we could have had MULTIPLE Dead/Allmans superjams at the end of '72.ReplyDelete
From an October '73 article by Cameron Crowe:
"The original idea for these supershows started over a year ago when a full length, cross-country tour with the Allman Brothers was booked into some of America's largest stadiums. The two bands have been long time friends, going back to the days the members of the groups first met each other backstage at the Fillmore East. Both bands were set to hop on planes to begin the tour last fall when Allman bassist Berry Oakley was killed in a motorcycle accident just a few days before their opening show in Houston, Texas. The joint tour was cancelled until this past summer, when the Allmans and the Dead made an appearance at the RFK Stadium in Washington."
Anyway, it's interesting that by '72, the Dead could choose the opening acts they liked! (In fact, it's interesting they had opening acts at all.)
I'm a little surprised you make no personal comment on your first Dead show. Presumably they were better than the Rowan Brothers?
I did like the Dead better than the Rowan Brothers, but that's not a definitive statement. It was all pretty overwhelming. My favorite song that night was "Johnny B. Goode."ReplyDelete
I'm sure you are right about the Dead and the Allmans playing Texas and elsewhere, but I haven't been able to find a schedule of canceled Allmans shows from Nov 3 to Dec 9. It really is an interesting perspective on a road that couldn't be taken.ReplyDelete
"However, Garcia did not perform live with them again."ReplyDelete
That's not right. Winterland, November 3, 1972, Garcia sat in with the Rowans, as documented at the Jerry Site.
JGMF, thanks for that, I updated it. From my point of view, personally, its a shame that Garcia didn't see fit to repeat his appearance.ReplyDelete
Was Jerry's last appearance on pedal steel ('til 87) the Thanksgiving show at Armadillo World Headquarters, with Doug Sahm and Leon Russell?
I'm also wondering about the Rowan Brothers being instrumental in the formation of Old And In The Way. Garcia clearly got the Rowans signed to CBS, because Clive Davis always liked Jerry. I have to think that Garcia must have helped get Grisman the producer's gig, too, since why would CBS assign the "next Beatles" and their (supposed) $350,000 to an unknown mandolin player?
Whenever there are articles or stories about OAITW, no one ever asks Grisman about producing The Rowan Brothers, because everyone forgets it. A Google Search won't turn it up, because he used the name David Diadem--no one ever asks him about that either.
Peter Rowan and Garcia would have met through Grisman anyway, of course, but I think the Rowan Brothers project was essential in keeping Grisman in Garcia's neighborhood (literally), making it easy for the Garcia/Rowan/Grisman collaboration to happen naturally.
It also seems that if I am right about the "last" pedal steel appearance being November 72, it seems like the banjo playing picks up right around that time. That too was probably not a coincidence. Garcia had played a little banjo from 67-72, but it doesn't seem to have been sustained. Once Grisman and Peter Rowan are in his town, Garcia finds it convenient to play bluegrass, and I think the Rowan Brothers project played a large if somewhat coincidental role in that. It sounds like a worthy subject to quiz Grisman about, since no one has asked him in decades, if ever.
the Dead and the AllmansReplyDelete
Jam bands entertain me for a few minutes (more than b-grass does), and granted these be two of the best, at least when clicking, or sober enough to play. :]. I've read Jerry was sort of blown away by Dickey Betts' playing--with some reason. Betts was like the Paganinni of the country-rock (Duane, too--but he was more strictly blues). In some of those old AB jams--Jessica, Memory of E. Reed, etc--Betts created a uniquely beautiful, intense sort of country fusion sound. Gregg's not such a poor Ham.B3- player either--but there's alas some bad joss around , as with most of Rock Inc.
A parenthetical aside -ReplyDelete
It's intriguing that, as a young concertgoer, your favorite song of the show was Johnny B Goode. On tape, it wouldn't be regarded as one of the highlights of the evening; but people *at* the shows would have different reactions than people listening to the tapes years later.
There was a discussion of '70s showgoers on the Archive forum a while back - one person mentioned that at the 6-17-75 show, his favorites were Beat It On Down the Line and Me & My Uncle. (!)
Another said, "When you are a youngster, the rockers are the ones that stick with you, they get your attention... The first time I saw them (10/14/76) it was the Around that got me, not the long Dancin>Wharf Rat (my buddy fell asleep!) The next concert (2/26/77), I was impressed with the US Blues and the short Weir tunes, not the Playing>Wheel>Playing, or the Help>Slip>Frank... Didn't even know I had heard a 'Help>Slip' till I got the tape!"
And one says, "By 74, there were lots of times during jams the audience was quiet, and while looking around, it wasn't a scene of quiet reverence as I can attest. It was sheer and utter boredom. Only when it was within 3 songs of the close, and esp. energetic, would everyone be engaged...most of the 72 jams, esp. long Stars, I tend to think would be in this "yawn" category. At the time, I absolutely deplored anything more than a five min song...I really do believe few at the time cared much about long jams."
(Of course, many folks then disagreed with him!)
The Archive comments are relevant, because in the early 70s few people had access to tapes. Most people learned to like the Grateful Dead from records. The idea that every Dark Star was different wasn't really clear. Obviously people who'd been to more shows had a better idea, but most people liked the albums, went to a show or two and dug the vibe. Even by the late 70s, fully half of the concertgoers seemed completely unaware that Garcia and Weir alternated songs.ReplyDelete
So Jerry plays steel during that 11/23/72 Armadillo World thing? Interesting. If so, yes, that'd be the last public steel performance he'd do until '87. I am just checking out the 3/18/73 Felt Forum NRPS show, and Buddy Cage is indeed there. For some reason I had recalled that he couldn't make it and JG was subbing, but that's not the case.ReplyDelete
By the way, on that Nov. 3 1972 Winterland show, JG sat in with both the Rowans and the NRPS.
Your thoughts about the Rowans - Garcia - Grisman connection are interesting. Of course, Grisman and Peter Rowan knew each other from Earth Opera, among other things.
I did try to ask Grisman about the Diadem pseudonym, but didn't get anything on it.
BTW, I have the Piedmont Park thing as July 7, not July 6, 1969.ReplyDelete
I think Grisman is kind of embarrassed by the whole Rowan Brothers thing. Not the music--its not a bad 70s rock album, though nothing special. But there was maximum hype from CBS, and I don't think the project worked out at all the way he intended. Its even possible that he changed his name on the album as a kind of Alan Smithee thing (the name scriptwriters use for film credits when they reject the script that has been changed without their approval).ReplyDelete
Just as Garcia needed a break from the ever-expanding Grateful Dead, Grisman may have needed a respite from frustrations at trying to work within the confines of a giant corporation. Peter Rowan's band (Sea Train) was going down the tubes, too, so that may account for the relaxed feel of the original OAITW. Grisman has always aspired to a producer role--look at him now, after all--and he may not want to talk about The Rowan Brothers because he doesn't want to criticize people who he may still be friendly with, possibly including Jerry.
I found some of the details about the Grisman/Rowan/Garcia connection. In 1970, Grisman aspired to be a producer, and his partner was former AAPA agent Richard Loren. Grisman and Loren persuaded the Rowan Brothers to move to Marin, and they all lived in Stinson Beach down the hill from Garcia.ReplyDelete
So I was wrong about thinking Garcia hooked up Grisman with CBS--it was Richard Loren who sold the Rowans and Grisman as a package, although Garcia's endorsement had to help. Even more interesting, Grisman was the point of intersection between Garcia and Richard Loren, who managed Garcia's "non-Dead" activities.
This goes a long way to explaining the polite distance with which the other Dead members kept between themselves and Grisman. Grisman wasn't just a Jerry-quality musician (unlike, say, Tom Fogerty), but an ambitious producer who had introduced Garcia's manager to him. This meant that Grisman was an inherent threat to the other Dead members, since Garcia could always choose to spend more time with Grisman, hence lowering the Dead's earnings. I don't think anyone really felt that Garcia would leave the Dead, but dropping a tour or two from their annual schedule would have meant a significant reduction in income. I think John Kahn and Grisman were both viewed as threats to the Dead, albeit in somewhat different ways--Kahn was Garcia's comfort zone, and Grisman challenged him, but that summed up both sides of Jerry's personality.
However, since Grisman and the Rowans were quite literally down the hill from Garcia, that was how the casual jamming began, and it does seem to have been the implicit start to Old And In The Way.
Details are on p.404-5 of Dennis McNally's book, and an interview with Chris and Lorin Rowan here
The genesis of Old and In the Way seems to have been Muleskinner, which was basically a session band that cut a single album for Warner Brothers in either late 1972 or very early 1973. Muleskinner comprised Peter Rowan, Grisman, John Kahn, Richard Greene, and banjo master Ben Keith, with both drummer John Guerin and bassist John Kahn contributing to the sessions. The group's sole studio album was co-produced by Greene and famed produducer Joe Boyd, who is best known for discovering and producing acts like Fairport Convention, the Incredible String Band, and Pink Floyd during his years in London. This group might well have been a more stable configuration had White not been killed in a tragic accident, being struck by a car while loading his gear after a gig.ReplyDelete
Obviously Grisman and Kahn already had connections with Garcia, and I think Rowan was already living in Marin by this time, so it was not that hard to see how they were able to coax him to break out his five string after several years to form Old and In the Way. Although OIITW did some early gigs without a fiddler, Greene was on board for a few months until Vassar Clements joined sometime between April and June 1973 (JGMF can probably clarify).
The Muleskinner repertoire included a number of songs later played by OIITW, including "Blue Mule" "Land of the Navajo" and "Goin' to the Races." In addition to their studio album, Sierra Records released a CD in 1991 of their television performance at KCET in Hollywood on 2/13/73, just a few weeks before the initial OIITW gig.
Muleskinner was a formidable group with considerable potential. However, Clarence White chose to tour with his brother Roland as "The White Brothers" until his death in June 1973. Keith, a life long east coaster, apparently drifted away, which opened the door for Garcia, rusty chops and all, to slide into OIITW.
Crypt, the Muleskinner connection is a very interesting subject that I have a lot to say about, but I'm going to save it for another post, hopefully coming up soon.ReplyDelete
I have a lot to say, too!ReplyDelete
The first OAITW show with Vassar was June 5, 1973 in Boston.
I have contact with a woman who recorded the Armadillo 11/23/72 show on a reel to reel. It's never been transferred. She says Jerry also sat in with the opener, The Rowan Brothers.ReplyDelete
"Other than New Years Eve, no opening act ever appeared again with the Grateful Dead at Winterland."ReplyDelete
Not exactly. The Alan Fried Memorial show at Winterland- billed as Jerry Garcia and Friends- turned out to be the complete Grateful Dead, with opening acts Kingfish, Keith & Donna, and the Mirrors. I was in for Kingfish, didn't see the earlier acts.
There are few details and pesonal reminiscences about the show in the comments at archive.org. Unfortunately, the cogent observations have to be excavated from between the reams of irrelevant, pointless dreck in the thread.Replies
Thanks for pointing out that there were opening acts at the Bob Fried Memorial Boogie on June 17, 1975. Point taken.Delete
However, the June 17 show was not at all a typical Grateful Dead event. The band was on hiatus, and the show was advertised as "Jerry Garcia And Friends." There was no guarantee that the headliner wouldn't be Garcia and Saunders.
Granted, "Jerry Garcia And Friends" had been billed at SNACK, and the Dead had played. However, they did one 40-minute instrumental with two extra keyboard players, and then "Johnny B. Goode," so it was hardly a regular Dead show.
The implication was that the Dead would probably play, but that it might not at all be a "typical" show a la 74. My sister and I thought this through for a week and decided to go, but by that time the show was sold out. Of course, as we know, the Dead played almost a full show, but that was not at all a certainty beforehand.
That being said, I should have written as "other than NYE, no opening act every appeared again at a show when the Grateful Dead were the advertised headliner."
Yes, true.ReplyDelete
Also, thanks for the correction- the 6-17-75 show was in fact the advertised as the Bob Fried Memorial Boogies, not Alan Fried.
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Worklab / Presentation of TIK - Time Inventors' Kabinet
The Bratislavian organisation COL-ME is currently working on a project called TIK - Time Inventors' Kabinet. This is a collaborative project between three major organisations: Okno, ESC, Graz and COL-ME Bratislava. In the project we are exploring new forms of time and urban ecologies with the help of new media.
In the presentation on the 2nd of December in progressbar we would like to introduce the parts happening in Bratislava and see, whether people are interested to participate/contribute on certain aspects of the projects. This evening should not be a mere presentation, but also a discussion with people, interested in technologies, physicaly computing and other stuff, that we are working on within the project, or maybe come up with new aspects for the project!
* the windclocks Last month we started to construct windclocks - devices, that measure wind, with which help we will develop a new time. The mills get connected via arduino boards to the computer, which sends the raw data to a server, where it is interpreted by an application. We are in the middle of the process looking not only into the physical part, but also on the server site, we have to prepare the scripts, think of interpretation of (random) data coming in, and how to make time out of that. More info: http://timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/windclocks Together with our partner organisatoins we also think of different ways of measurements - like via webcam instead of arduino boards, as well as using beagleboards instead of arduinos.
* the radio transmitter COL-ME will deal to a big extent with alternative radio broadcasting. a movable transmitter with a wider range, than the microtransmitters, would give us the possibility to realize a moving radio station. being a low level and low tech device, we can think of building it ourselves. a portable device for bycicles, to use it for other events like the critical mass, bratislava, would be a nice feature. currently we are in contact with people, doing microtransmitter soldering workshops.
* the video database within the project we work with a special videodatabase - padma. it is programmed in python and gives the possibility for collaborative annotating videos, adding subtitles and other things. check out: http://padma.okno.be/ More info on the project generally: http://col-me.info http://timeinventorskabinet.org
supported by:
Culture Programme of the European Commission 2007-2013
With financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic