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I love old sports cars. Performance cars are very different, model to model – some have flat-out speed, some corner like slot cars, some have lively steering, etc. Few cars have "everything desired" – each model has strengths and compromises.
Autocross racing intrigues me – it's track racing made accessible to enthusiasts like me. Early on, a peer coach helped me understand how to get the best performance and most satisfying experiences while racing.
He said, "It's not about pure speed. It's about feeling the car 'in the moment,' every moment." The best drivers are very attuned to the subtle weight shifts that signal where and how a car is poised on the track. Driving straight is easy. When you're passing cars or turning to find the most efficient line through a corner, the car's subtle weight shifts give you clues about how it's handling.
Feeling the nuances of weight transfer, and leveraging that weight transfer for efficiency and speed, is much more art than science.
Proactive Culture Management Requires "Feel"
Managing your team or organization's culture is also more art than science. Vital culture elements – clear performance expectations, clear values standards, and accountability for both – don't make a team's culture perfect. Just like a track car's weight shifts in the race, your team's culture shifts, moment to moment. To ensure your culture is serving your organization, customers, and employees equally well, you must learn to "feel" the subtle shifts that provide clues about how your culture is operating. Where you see clues of aligned behavior, celebrate and praise. Where you see clues of "less aligned" behavior, redirect the culture back "on track."
Here are the top three "culture shifts" I coach leaders to pay attention to:
- Values Demonstration – Are valued behaviors modeled daily, no matter the temptations to short cut a process or gain an unfair advantage? Stay attuned to values by observing leaders working with team members and team members interacting with each other and with customers. Promptly praise raise aligned behavior and redirect mis-aligned behavior.
- Promises Kept – Are commitments made by the team and by team members diligently honored? Any promise not kept is an unhealthy action that can lead to further eroding of your team's integrity, as well as the integrity of individual team members. Every day, observe and inquire about team members doing what they say they will do.
- Celebrate Progress & Accomplishment – Do team members praise and encourage each other, day to day, or are they more interested in catching others doing things wrong than in doing things right? A validating culture looks for and celebrates things done well and going well.
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On July 1, SEC filings presented a gift to business tweeters everywhere: a prospectus for the first-ever Bitcoin ETF, to be launched by none other than Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss of Facebook fame.
In midmonth, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before a congressional committee that the Fed planned to be flexible on tapering off its bond purchases. And by the end of the month, the Twitteratti were speculating on Bernanke's replacement.
Meanwhile, PIMCO's Bill Gross talked Twinkies, and a few of ThinkAdvisor's top influencers got into an exchange about how a Google Images copyright case went terribly wrong.
Here are the 10 best finance tweets of the month:
On the economy, practice management and investing:
Gross: #Twinkies are back on Monday & bonds are too – with a longer shelf life than last April. Stock 5-10 yr. maturities in your pantry.
— PIMCO (@PIMCO) July 14, 2013
"Just as too much junk food can lead to obesity, too much information can lead to stupidity." http://t.co/RwsozyCAmn
— Shane Parrish (@farnamstreet) July 9, 2013
How using Google Images can cost you $8,000 http://t.co/sLNHG5zawm via @PRDaily @michaelkitces
— Susan Weiner, CFA (@susanweiner) July 29, 2013
"if you don't know what is going to happen, don't structure your portfolio as though you do!"—James Montier http://t.co/8RdKrM2lhD
— Matthew B (@boes_) July 22, 2013
If you do exit the euro, make sure to get your hand stamped for re-entry. Learned this at EPCOT.
— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) July 2, 2013
On the Winklevoss brothers' filing of a Bitcoin trust:
"Winklevii and Bitcoin! Of course!" -Satan http://t.co/kQD4ZreRVF
— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) July 1, 2013
Three stupid words that sound even stupider when strung together: Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust. http://t.co/qI0ZzGOYyY
— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers) July 1, 2013
On Bernanke's Fed tapering testimony and Bernanke replacement talk:
#Bernanke claiming that the U.S. economy needs highly accommodative monetary policy is like a bartender saying a drunk needs more alcohol.
— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) July 10, 2013
#Bernanke as #DirtyHarry: "Investors are asking if I'll taper. Ask yourself, do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?" http://t.co/zpjq6qeYdh
— Jim Rickards (@JamesGRickards) July 17, 2013
#Bernanke as #DirtyHarry: "Investors are asking if I'll taper. Ask yourself, do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?" http://t.co/zpjq6qeYdh
— Jim Rickards (@JamesGRickards) July 17, 2013
Why is the lack of policy differences between Summers and Yellen part of the case for Summers? This is how we get back to sexism.
— Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 31, 2013
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If you know someone who has a new puppy, you've probably heard the term "dog crate" bandied about, but what is it, exactly? Owners have probably been trying new ways of dog training since dogs were domesticated. Some of the methods have been more successful than others. The dog crate method is a recent materialization that some tout as incredibly helpful in dog training.
What is a dog crate? A dog crate is, according to the Humane Society of the United States, a room with a view. Dog crates look like large cages. They're made of polished or coated metal, and some come with fancy details like furniture grade wood. You can pay just about as much or as little as you'll like in purchasing a dog crate, as so many variations exist.
What is the purpose of a dog crate? The purpose of a dog crate is for training, refuge, safe transportation and a spot for a nap. The theory is that a dog is still wild at heart and all dogs appreciate the den-like crate. It is part of their natural instincts. The main function of a crate is for house-training. Dogs don't like to sleep or sit in waste, so if they're confined to the crate for short periods of time and given access to the proper place to go, they'll learn to become house-trained fairly easily. Crates are also useful for other training. Limiting access to household areas or items like furniture or rugs can help the dog understand what rules you're trying to teach him.
Crate caveats. Crates should be used judiciously. Simply shutting the dog in the crate for long periods of time defeats the purpose of a comfy and cozy den in which the dog can feel safe. Crates are not magic. It takes work to train a dog to behave like the loving family pet you desire. Don't leave your dog in the crate too long. Dogs need exercise and freedom. Puppies should only be crated for a net of three to four hours in total during the day. Your dog should only be crated until the lessons and rules of the house are learned. At that point, your dog should be allowed to move about freely with the crate accessible for naps and rest.


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Miranda conformTo
From Erights
__conformTo/1 is a Miranda message.
A guard which does not immediately accept the recipient may call
__conformTo(the guard) on it, and check and return the result thereof instead.
Implementations of
__conformTo/1 should return the recipient if they have no better answer.
Miranda behavior
Returns the recipient.
? def obj {} > obj.__conformTo(any) # value: <obj> ? obj.__conformTo(List) # value: <obj> ? obj.__conformTo(def bobj {}) # value: <obj> ? obj.__conformTo(null) # value: <obj>
Original Javadoc
XXX merge
When a guard doesn't succeed by itself at coercing an object, the guard may enlists the object's aid in bring about a coercion it would find acceptable.
A guard enlists the object's aid at the price of being Gozarian. A Gozarian guard wants to enlists the object's aid because it is ignorant of the kind of object it's dealing with, so a generic protocol is needed. That's why __conformTo/1 is provided as a MirandaMethod.
The guard asks the object to conform to some guard that the object may know about. Often this will be the guard that's attempting the coercion. An object should attempt to return a representation of itself that the argument guard would succeed in coercing. A requesting guard should then try again on the result, but if this doesn't coerce, it should fail there rather than making further __conformTo/1 requests. This implies that it's the responsibility of the object's __conformTo/1 implementation to do any iteration needed for multi-step conversions.
The default (Miranda) implementation of __conformTo/1 just returns self.


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Updated 3:05 p.m.
• Google reveals the Google Nexus Q: a $299 social media streamer powered by Android – Stream video and music from the Internet to you TV and stereo system with this orb-like device unveiled at Google I/O. And Nexus Q Teardown: Dissecting Google's New Streaming Media Orb
• Google makes the Nexus 7 tablet official: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and a $199 price (video) – The $199 model only has 8 GB of storage and no memory card slow; the 16-GB model is $249.
• Google I/O: Google Demos Glasses in Amazing Skydiving Stunt Over San Francisco – Skydivers wearing Google Glasses jump out of a blimp and land on the Moscone Center, streaming live video as they fall.
• Android 4.1 Jelly Bean coming in mid-July with Project Butter UI, Google Now, richer notifications – A faster, smoother interface is promised, and Google Now promises to learn your habits and try to predict the information you want.
• Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App – The current iOS app for Facebook is horribly slow. The new, faster version is coming later this summer.
• T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm Suddenly Resigns
Updated 11:40 a.m.
• The Google I/O 2012 developer conference – The event has begun. Watch the keynote live below.
Original post
• Internet Providers Testing Metered Plans for Broadband – Metered plans hated by wireless customers are slowly finding their way to the residential broadband market.
• Super Wi-Fi goes to college with new government effort – The project could result in better Internet access in rural areas.
• Apple Wins Injunction Against Samsung's Galaxy Tab – A judge blocks sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States, saying the device infringes on Apple's patents. The followup device, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, is not affected. And How Apple won a ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1
• Apple Gives Podcasts Their Own App – It's free for iOS users in the App Store. The app will find podcasts now in the Music app and import them.
• Future versions of iOS could place user interface shadows based on real-world lights – An Apple employee reportedly says that iOS will soon detect the direction of ambient light and show shadows under onscreen objects to match, creating a realistic 3D effect.
• Apple Wins Patents for Inductive Charging & iOS Scrolling, Rotating & Resizing on Displays – The patent on scrolling lists could be a powerful weapon against competitors.
• App Retention Increasing; iPhone Crushes Android – Smartphone and tablet users are holding on acquired apps for longer, particularly iOS users.
• Google Said To Unveil Tablet At I/O, Taking Aim At IPad – The 7-inch tablet reportedly will be made by Asustek and will sell for $199. And This Is the New Android Jelly Bean Mascot—Just Installed at Google's Headquarters
• Google's +1 button will now deliver suggested content to readers of your site when hovered over – But only for sites that are part of Google's Platform Preview program, for now.
• Sirius XM Radio, Howard Stern coming to Google TV – Sirius will make all its programming available on Google TV.
• EU rejects Microsoft antitrust appeal, but reduces fine to $1.1 billion
• Introducing the Photos app for Windows 8 – Interesting details on how the Metro UI Photos app will work in Windows 8.
• Zynga Unveils Network to Lessen Dependence on Facebook While Luring Users – Online game developer Zynga launches its own network and an API for third-party developers. But Wall Street Winces At Zynga Event As Shares Tumble Nearly 5%
• 'Girls Who Code' Seeks to Train Women for Tech Fields – It's an attempt to get more women into the tech sector.
• U.S. charges 24 people in massive hacking sting – The 24 are charged with stealing credit card and bank information across four continents.


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Reduced environmental impact
Achieve it with SKF
Container ports are close to populated areas where air quality is a concern, use a lot of energy and must comply with stringent water pollution regulations. No surprise then, that the industry needs safer, more environmentally friendly technologies. SKF can help, with solutions that:
- Reduce noise
- Cut emissions
- Prevent water pollution
- Reduce the need for hydraulics


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According to this manual I tried:
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"g\xC6isQ\xFFJ\xEC)\xCD\xBA\xAB\xF2\xFB\xE3F|\xC2T\xF8\x1B\xE8\xE7\x8DvZ.c3\x9F\xC9\x9A"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
$ sudo ifconfig eth1 up
Then I used wicd from this manual. It will find my wireless router, but when I click
connect, the phase
obtaining IP address is endless.
I tried:
$ sudo iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: C8:3A:35:1F:60:78
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=97/100 Signal level=-27 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 172ms ago
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Here is the content of
Could you advise me how can I connect and how to correctly set


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WHAT: The University of Missouri System Presidential Search Committee will host a forum to hear public comment regarding the qualities desired in the 23rd president of the University of Missouri System. Members of the presidential search committee, presidential advisory committee and university representatives will be on hand to hear public comment. The forum is free and open to the public and will be live tweeted by following @UMprezsearch.
WHEN: 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 15
WHERE: St. Pat's Ballroom A, Havener Center, Missouri University of Science and Technology
More information on the University of Missouri presidential search, including a list of other forums held throughout the state, can be found at www.umsystem.edu.
Reviewed 2011-08-24


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MyMusicTaste Case Study Adspy Report of Best Ads - BigSpy
Facebook is the world's largest social media platform, with 60% of brands marketing on Facebook.Facebook is a platform full of business opportunities. Whether it is individual users, small and medium enterprises, or large enterprises, they have established brand pages on Facebook for advertising and promotion. "MyMusicTaste" chose to advertise on Facebook and achieved success. Now we analyze its successful advertising experience through BigSpy.
BigSpy is an adspy tool. BigSpy can capture ads from multiple social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. It can spy ad information in 40 countries and store 160 million ad data. It is the world's largest ad database.
BigSpy tracks "MyMusicTaste" ads and analyzes advertising data to help "MyMusicTaste" find the best conversion creatives and ad copy.BigSpy makes the advertising world transparent, allowing more businesses to increase sales conversions through advertising spies. Now BigSpy generates an advertisement report for "MyMusicTaste", and the link is "advertiser report". In this report, we analyze in detail the best advertising cases of "MyMusicTaste".
MyMusicTaste Facebook adspy
"MyMusicTaste" introduction:MyMusicTaste allows you to MAKE your favorite artists perform live in your city! MAKE today at www.mymusictaste.com
"MyMusicTaste" Facebook ads last run:2020-02-17 05:04:33
Top3 Advertising Case Study:
|Ad title
|Eric Nam in Santiago
|Dream Theater In Manila
|Dream Theater In Manila
|Ad text
|¡No te pierdas a la estrella más carismática del K-Pop, Eric Nam, el 22 de marzo en el Club Blond...
|Get 20% off on concert tickets! by simply clicking "Make" on Dream Theater at MyMusicTaste!
|Get 20% off on concert tickets! By simply clicking "Make" on Dream Theater at MyMusicTaste!
|CTA type
|Ad format
|3 days
|4 days
|1 days
MyMusicTaste facebook ad case analytics and study
1.Advertising format and material analysis:
The advertising formats used by "MyMusicTaste" top 3 ads are Image,Image, and Image.
Ad Format Optimization Suggestions:
The Facebook algorithm indicates that Facebook will give priority to displaying videos to user news sources. So, to get more advertising reach, consider video advertising.
In summary: Facebook's creatives determine the user's first sense of advertising. A / B testing of different creatives is required, and different creatives are used for different audiences. In addition, you can also use BigSpy to spy the industry's latest ads and competitors' ads. BigSpy provides the material download function to help you solve your creative troubles.
2. Advertising copy analysis and study:
|Ad title
|Eric Nam in Santiago
|Dream Theater In Manila
|Dream Theater In Manila
|Ad text
|¡No te pierdas a la estrella más carismática del K-Pop, Eric Nam, el 22 de marzo en el Club Blond...
|Get 20% off on concert tickets! by simply clicking "Make" on Dream Theater at MyMusicTaste!
|Get 20% off on concert tickets! By simply clicking "Make" on Dream Theater at MyMusicTaste!
|Ad type
|Ad word count
Ad copy optimization suggestions:
Although copywriting accounts for a small part of advertising, copywriting can directly affect the click-through rate of ads. Among all the ads of "MyMusicTaste", the text type used is other to obtain the best advertising results. "MyMusicTaste" can use this copy style more. On the other hand, Advertising copy requires A / B testing, because the length of copy, spacing, and size of fonts, white space, etc. are all different.
Summary: Different copywriting effects are different. The core of designing copywriting is to capture the user's psychology and the selling point of the product and retain the user with clever language. In addition, BigSpy monitors user responses for different copywriting. Before designing ad copy, advertisers can learn how to design good ad copy.
3. Type of CTA analytics and study:
The types of CTA used by "MyMusicTaste" are:BOOK_TRAVEL,LEARN_MORE,LEARN_MORE.
CTA optimization recommendations:
Without the CTA button, the conversion cost per ad will increase by almost 2.5 times. Selecting the CTA button is better than not selecting it. Adding a call to action to your Facebook ad lets users know what to expect from the other side of the ad.
In the 1st advertising case, the use of "BOOK_TRAVEL" help "MyMusicTaste" gets a higher conversion.
In summary: Facebook ads must be tested in the final round of CTA when performing A / B testing. This detail may help you save a lot of budgets. In addition, BigSpy can filter competitors' CTA types of Facebook ads through filtering, which can be used as a reference for your test.
4. Advertising schedule:
"MyMusicTaste" When Facebook ads are placed on Facebook, the ad schedules are 3 days,4 days, and 1 days.
Ad scheduling optimization suggestions:
Your ads are not valuable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Check your Facebook advertising report, which day and time will you get the results. With this, you can set the schedule for your ads so that they only run during valuable time periods.
Finally, the above is the analysis and optimization suggestions for the Facebook ads of "MyMusicTaste". The analysis and optimization of Facebook ads is a long-term accumulation process. In this report, the basic design of ads was learned through Bigspy. In real advertising marketing, marketers also need to have in-depth analysis of products through BigSpy, grasp the audience's psychology, learn about marketing, and make precise calculations of data.


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Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939) is an American film director best known for directing The Godfather trilogy, and winner of one Academy Award for best director (The Godfather II) and sharing two for best screenplay (The Godfather and Patton). His other films include Apocalypse Now, Tucker: the Man and His Dream, and Michael Jackson's Captain Eo (produced by George Lucas; co-starring Anjelica Huston and the late Dick Shawn).
Coppola was interviewed in the documentary The World of Jim Henson. He also served as executive producer of the Creature Shop film Buddy and TV movie The Odyssey, and had intended to produce the unrealized film version of Into the Woods.
Miss Piggy jokingly refers to Kermit as "Francis Ford Froggola," when he directs The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show.


text: Monday, June 13, 2011 PT 2011 Coverage: Daily News Recaps and Guest Blogger at Moving Forward Read summaries on the 42nd annual Mary McMillan Lecture, delivered by Gail M. Jensen, PT, PhD, FAPTA; the Rothstein Debate; and sessions that focused on new models of care, advances in knee replacement, and manual therapy for pediatric patients in the June 11 issue of Daily News. At Moving Forward, guest blogger Mickie Hucke, PT, JD, writes about her experiences at Thursday's rally on Capitol Hill and with her senators' legislative staff. "We are at a pivotal point for physical therapy…, says Hucke."By participating in our national legislative efforts I feel that I am joining in historical times."


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Nov.19, 1991: "The whole season, it just seemed like I couldn't do anything wrong," Cal Ripken Jr. says in winning his second American League Most Valuable Player Award. Ripken (34 home runs, 114 RBIs, .323 batting average) edges slugger Cecil Fielder of the second-place Detroit Tigers. Says Fielder: "I've lost to somebody who played on a sixth-place team. It's a joke, as far as I'm concerned."
Nov. 24, 1973: The first Maryland Marathon is won by Vic Nelson, 24, a Naval officer at Bainbridge, who leads all the way to defeat Martins Ande of Nigeria by 500 yards. Nelson, one of 434 starters, completes the course in 2 hours, 22 minutes, 56.6 seconds. The first female finisher is Kathy Switzer, 26, of New York, whose time of 3:10:37 is 21 seconds faster than that of Marilyn Bevans, 24, a teacher at Herring Run Junior High.
Nov. 22, 1964: The Colts defense has 11 sacks in a 24-7 victory over the host Los Angeles Rams. It's the 10th win in 11 games for Baltimore, which clinches the NFL West Division title. When jubilant players throw Carroll Rosenbloom into the shower, the Colts owner emerges saying, "Now I feel like I really belong."
Nov. 18, 1954: The Orioles and New York Yankees complete a 17-player trade that brings catcher Gus Triandos, shortstop Willy Miranda and outfielder Gene Woodling to Baltimore. New York gets pitchers Don Larsen, who'll throw a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, and "Bullet" Bob Turley, a favorite of Orioles fans who'll win a Cy Young Award with the Yanks.
Nov. 22, 1946: The Bullets, off to a 5-0 start in the American Basketball League, drop a 48-46 exhibition to the Harlem Globetrotters before nearly 5,000 at the Coliseum on Monroe Street. The winners' Goose Tatum leads all scorers with 14 points. It's the Globetrotters' first Baltimore appearance in 19 years of barnstorming.
Nov. 18, 1937: Johns Hopkins defeats Maryland, 3-0, in soccer at Homewood Field as halfback Bill Briggs scores every goal.
Nov. 23, 1929: An announced 15,000, including Baltimore Mayor William Frederick Broening, braves a bitter snowstorm at the Stadium to see Poly defeat City, 7-0 in the 41st meeting of their football rivalry. Billy McClean's 1-yard plunge wins it for the Engineers, who at halftime roll a guillotine onto the field and decapitate a City player in effigy.
Nov, 21, 1944: Earl Monroe, the flashy Hall of Fame guard who starred for the NBA Bullets from 1967 to 1971.


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What's inside the box ?
Zenwalk is a 64 bits "pure" Slackware system with added post-install configurations, optimizations and tunings already done out of the box, with a ready to use polished desktop environment, with added graphical system tools, added office and multimedia applications, and striped to keep just "one application per task"!
Zenwalk Core is a minimal system, built with customization in mind to allow a skilled user to build a secure server in minutes. It provides the latest Slackware base system with no X Window System binaries, no X applications. Out of the box you get a full featured server system (Apache, Samba, Sendmail, Bind, ...) driven by the WEBMIN Web interface and Zenwalk system tools. After a 10 minutes install, you can then customize it by removing unneeded daemons, activate the firewall service, and configure your server.
If you need the plethora of Slackware network servers and applications from the start : please note that you can download an original Slackware (or support the Slackware project at store.slackware.com ), then install the latest set of Zenwalk packages ("z" serie of packages) on it, then reboot : you will get a genuine Zenwalk system, of course : without the "one application per task" cleanup.
How to keep it up to date ?
You need the standard Netpkg or any other package manager supporting several sources, and then load at least 2 packages sources to keep Zenwalk up to date :
- A x64 Slackware current package source (will provide Slackware base packages categories - a ap l n d x xap...) for example http://slack1.zenwalk.org/slackware/slackware64-current
- A x64 Zenwalk current package source (will provide the "z" packages category) for example http://download.zenwalk.org/x86_64/current/zenwalk
Current ISOs
Current ISOs are usually made available every 3 months, allowing you to reinstall the complete system, which is sometimes faster than upgrading hundreds packages.
Here : http://download.zenwalk.org/x86_64/current/
Here : http://download.zenwalk.org/x86_64/current/


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We recognize that, unless you're Curt Schilling, it can be pretty difficult for a Major League Baseball player to keep up with this Internet usage on the road. And when someone has a site of their own to manage, it can be doubly difficult.
Just ask Bernie Williams, whose Web site was apparently hacked last evening. The pictured message is from what appears to be a group of Turkish hackers, going after Bernie Williams' site because ... uh ... because he stands for American imperialism? Or, Puerto Rican imperialism, anyway?
We haven't been able to translate what the message says, but we do continue to find the selection of Bernie as a target most curious. Maybe the hackers just don't like jazz guitar.
Bernie Williams Forum (Hacked) [BernieWilliams.com]
Poor Bernie [High And Tight]


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Bill Harte necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Creating Possibilities
I'm a new startup, offering Sales & Marketing consultancy, specifically around New Product Development and Customer Marketing and I'm looking for a logo, a business card and a PowerPoint background.
I believe in making things happen, focussing on simple, elegant solutions to complex problems.
Creating Possibilities is born out of problem solving for clients, offering creative solutions but also focussing on the art of the possible, not on theoritical abstractions. It's about standing in the future and then working out how to get there as quickly as possible.
I love it because every project & client is different (so it's difficult to describe exactly what it is I do!) and receive most of my work through recommendation and networking. People usually contact me saying... "we've got this problem, I wonder if you could help us come up with some ideas..."
I've worked with some of the world's biggest brands (Guinness, Foster's, Johnnie Walker, Beck's, Smirnoff...) and I've picked up some tools and techniques along the way, which I share with my clients.
I pride myself in being creative, pragmatic, authentic and energetic. And when I've asked others about me, I'm reknowned for being passionate, clear thinker, and determined.
I want the personality to be professional, creative, elegant and happy.
Sales or Marketing Directors from small companies through to multinationals, so it needs to have a degree of professionalism and seriousness in tone, alongside the creativity, energy and support I offer.
I might only meet them for a few minutes at a conference or be introduced through a mutual contact, and they see lots of "consultants" so I need to stand out instantly. I need something that triggers me in their minds when they see the card at a later date. That's where you come in...
They're busy people and need help in making sense of a fragmented world, quickly putting plans into action.
I'm looking for three things:
Business Card
PowerPoint background
I want a logo that I'll use on my business card, on my invoices and as a PowerPoint background.
I'd love it to be professional and unforgettable and not quirky or naff. I'm thinking elegant and creative with positivity and action.
The font is as important as any device or artwork. If you choose a device, I'd love a device that is thought provoking and help people recall "Create Possibilities". I prefer images to illustrations and am happy with either abstract or concrete depictions.
Both sides of the business card can be used, though it's not mandatory to use both sides. It needs to be no bigger than a standard business card size, so it fits in wallets etc. Feel free to consider different materials or colours of paper, but white paper is perfectly acceptable.
I need to have my name, the company name, my email address & my mobile number on the card
Bill Harte
+44 7544264023
I'd love a title slide background and a "title & content" slide background.


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Jin Ryoun Kim is performing research in the creation of novel proteins for complex functionality such as the design of a protein sensor for detection of toxic molecules in neurodegenerative diseases and the development of a highly-stable enzyme that can be used in industry. His work has been recognized as significant by prestigious scientific societies and magazines.
He joined the faculty of Polytechnic Institute of NYU in 2006 in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
He earned a Bachelor of Science (with honors) and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1997 and 1999, respectively and a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004.
Kim has authored manyl journal articles and patents and is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, the American Chemical Society, the Protein Society, and the New York Academy of Sciences.
He is the recipient of the New Investigator Award from the Alzheimer's Association (2009-2011), the Wechsler Award for Excellence (2009) and the Jacobs Excellence in Education Award (2013). He currently serves as an associate editor of the Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering.
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Doctor of Philosophy, Chemical and Biological Engineering
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How Media Makes Or Breaks
(Columnist Samuel Vance).
Do you know who Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were? Do you recognize pictures of Whitney Young and Malcolm X? Chances are that you recognize Ralph Abernathy and Bobby Seale because you saw their pictures in the Mass Media.
Of course you may have seen them in other places, but these people have been mentioned many times in the media. The Mass Media told us about the killing of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. They were leaders in the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. In later years their families sued in Civil Court and won.Â
The Mass Media told us about the evolution of Malcolm. We watched as he went from calling white people "blue eyed devilsâ€? to worshipping side by side with white people in Mecca. It was through the Mass Media that I learned about the papers that Malcolm gave Alex Haley for the future financial power of Black America. The Mass Media told us about Whitney Young's courageous leadership of the Urban League as he helped to lead efforts to expand the black middle-class (there were times that I had the privilege of witnessing his struggle in person).Â
The Mass Media gave us endless images of Dr. King and Ralph Abernathy as they led marches where people battled dogs and fire hoses. Apparently the people that opposed the agenda of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference weren't always so Christian themselves. The Mass Media reported on Bobby Seale and the trial of the Chicago Seven. They made sure that we knew that the Black Panther leader had been bound and gagged in an American courtroom.Â
During the 1960s and 1970s the Mass Media made sure that the American people were well informed. They told us about the Watergate break-in, the Pentagon papers, the Meilai massacre, and other major events. In the early 1980s President Ronald Wilson Reagan sent troops into Grenada to overthrow the government of Maurice Bishop. This was done supposedly, to protect American medical students from the communist government. The government hadn't threatened students at any time, but our troops were sent in anyway. It was at this point that things began to change dramatically.
The Reagan administration seriously curtailed the Media coverage and basically forced the American Media to accept the official version of events or have no story at all. The American Media complained but for the most part this was accepted. Later, the Bush administration did a similar Media clampdown with the invasion of Panama. At the same time that these events were happening the Media began to go more and more into sensationalized stories. The Media became fascinated with child-abuse stories like the McMartin witch hunt and the talk shows began to spring up like weeds as each one tried to outdo the other in shock appeal while they gave National Forums to an ever-growing number of publicity seeking neo-racists, fifteen minute stars and assorted weirdoes.
Since I had observed all of this while sitting in front of the tube I decided to talk to someone that had lived this from inside of the tube. I spoke to Jeff Cohen, the founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (F.A.I.R.). When Jeff told me that he had worked for Fox from 1997 to 2002 I said "that's the belly of the beastâ€? and he said "that's what I tell peopleâ€? – we clicked instantly. He said that the news now functions off of salaciousness, celebrity sex and crime. He said modern media loves fear because the public responds to it. He told me something very disturbing that had been discovered by the late Professor George Gerbner of the University of Pennsylvania. His studies found that the more television people saw the more likely they were to fear racial minorities.Â
After Jeff Cohen left Fox he went to M.S.N.B.C. and as he walked into the M.S.N.B.C. corridor he saw a series of wall posters that read like a 'Who's Who' in Fear Journalism. He saw posters that said "Death of J.F.K. Junior,â€? "Columbine Shootings,â€? "Funeral Of Princess Diana,â€? "Concorde Crash.â€? Jeff Cohen said if he had been doing the posters they would have said things like "War In Lebanon,â€? "Senator Trent Lott Praises Strom Thurman,â€? "Wages Of Workers Stagnate As Wages Of CEOs Skyrocket.â€?Â
He said originally he and people like Jim Hightower (liberal talk-show commentator) had such high hopes for the news and possibilities of Cable T.V. The coverage of O.J. changed everything, he said. Now people in Cable News constantly say things like this story could be as big as O.J. It's Michael Jackson or Jon Benet Ramsey or the runaway bride or Warren Jeff's polygamy trial. He pointed out that all of the sensationalized Cable T.V. female murder or disappearing cases has involved blond haired white females.
The final part of his talk with me touched on his time, at M.S.N.B.C., on the Donahue show. It turns out that the people at M.S.N.B.C. had the nerve to tell him that each show, they had to book three right-winged guests for two liberal guests. When they brought on Michael Moore producer of Fahrenheit 911 they wanted Jeff Cohen to bring three conservatives against him for "balance�. The Donahue show was eventually cancelled by M.S.N.B.C. even though it was one of their most popular shows. It seems that he didn't fit the picture that they were painting about the new war in Iraq. Maybe the letters M.S.N.B.C. should start standing for more serious news by citizens.
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Feb 23, 2008
Not So Happy
Two of our favorite local businesses - Happy Cleaners and AJ's Pizzaria of West Boylston, burnt to a crisp this past week.
My mother-in-law called me bright and early to let us know about the fire warning us to "Save Your Receipts." Spencer did have some shirts and a pair of pants at the dry cleaner's to pick-up, but that won't be happening anytime soon.
Of course I'm more upset about the pizza place. AJ's was a great local pizza stop and we've enjoyed many an extra-cheese, onion and pepperoni pizzas from them.
I actually received a call from Happy Cleaners thanking me for my patience and letting me know that their insurance company would be calling us soon with details. I feel bad for this woman. Imagine all the phone calls she's had to field from customer's wondering what happened to their stuff. I'm sure women had clothing stored there during the winter or perhaps wedding gowns being dry cleaned that might have sustained smoke damage or worse.
But still...all I can think about is that missing pizza.
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Did West Boylston Street smell like a big ol' pizza? YUM! The whole place turned into a pizza oven! Yowza!
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Are you one of the Coney Island Anonymouses? Did we go to Generic High School together?
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Say what you will about the gimmickry that was Kimbo Slice's foray into MMA and boxing, but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the pornographer/backyard brawler, and let me tell you why.
A review of his curriculum vitae makes one thing very clear: If he were to do a MILF Weed video with Snoop, Bishop Don "Magic" Juan and Mary-Louise Parker, he'd be the vice world's Holy Trinity.
As for why he's noteworthy today, Mr. Slice notched a one-punch KO over some mope named Tay Bledsoe last night in Nebraska and, in doing so, restored order to the Force.
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Sony Move Creator Richard Marks on the Future of Motion Control (But He Doesn't Call it That)
The Microsoft Kinect, which gives users the ability to play hands-free on their Xbox, was a runaway hit of the holiday season, selling eight million units.
Meanwhile, Sony released a similar accessory for the PlayStation 3 called the Move, which sold 4.1 million during the first two months.
The two devices signal a wave of new gaming techniques by moving your body and arms — and brings what the Nintendo Wii started to the next level.
All three motion-controlled platforms help introduce gaming to a new demographic, who would have never envisioned themselves being comfortable picking up a controller that has a dozen or so differently colored buttons.
For Sony and Microsoft, it also breathes new life into their aging gaming systems, by creating new reasons to buy games, or even the console.
Sony charges about $100 for one controller and one game; and Microsoft charges about $140 for the Kinect plus one game.
So, is it a fad?
Richard Marks, who created the Sony Move, said no we've just gotten started.
"I don't call it motion-control, even though Sony does. We are adding a level of finesse to gaming that hasn't been there before. By calling it motion-control, it's selling it short," he said.
While most of the popular titles for the platforms so far are centralized around dancing or sports, Marks said the technology has the ablity to add a lot more to the gaming experience.
In fact, that's one big difference between the Move and the Kinect.
"The traditional controller is intimidating, so this is addressing that audience, but it is also addressing the same core gaming audience."
With the addition of a gun attachment, players can then use it to participate in hard core games, such as Kill Zone 3, where users pull a trigger to shoot someone and physically duck behind obstacles, so they don't get shot.
At first, he said they didn't know how traditional gamers would react to adding Move to these games, but as it turns out, it makes the game feel much closer to reality. "People don't want to die as much, so they end up playing the game slower. It personalizes it more," he said.
But adding Move to both casual and hard core game titles is just the beginning.
He says the technology has the ability to be so precise, you can imagine reaching your hand into a 3D world and picking up an object to inspect it. Or, in an intense fight scene, you could create a shield to defend yourself, by grabbing two sides of a imaginary fabric and stretching it to block a shot — using both hands.
He argues that's a much more better experience than pushing a button. "It's not a fad and it won't replace the controller, but is good for when you want a special input."
Where he thinks the technology will stop short is when it comes to bringing it to other devices.
The images in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise is moving around objects in thin air is not the best use case. "Doing that for eight hours a day is not practical. It's being oversold because it's cool. There's more natural interfaces for that…The Move is a game controller, it was never desinged to be for the desktop."
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Funeral Card Friday - A Mysterious Card
I visited my sister in Iowa last weekend and had a great time. Before I left she passed on to me 4 Funeral/Memorial Cards that were in a Bible that had been given to her. Two were for my 2nd great aunts, Catherine and Mary Quirk; one was a memorial card for President Kennedy (different than the one I'd previously posted); and then there was a card for Joseph J. Skernolis.
I have no ideas who this young man was. It's not a name I recognize from my family tree and as the card was from 1963 and my family still (to the best of my knowledge and research to date) hadn't begun marrying outside their Irish ethnicity yet, I doubt he is in my family tree. He was 19 when he died, but that's all I know. Was he a student they knew? A friend of the family's? More likely than not he fits into one of those 2 categories.
I can't find anything online about him (just on Find A Grave) and since I'm now farther away from Pennsylvania than I have been in awhile, there is no visit home in my immediate future. There are some things that I could do from a distance to find him, but since I've narrowed it down to him not being a member of the family I don't think I'll be wasting resources looking. I'll wait until next summer and if I get back home, I'll pull his obituary and visit his grave. Perhaps I'll get lucky and come across someone that knew young Joseph before then and will be able to fill in the blanks and let me know his story.
UPDATE: Amazing how that happens isn't it? I Google-searched Joseph last night before posting this and Find A Grave was the only thing that popped up. After posting, I decided to Google again and a post on an Ancestry message board came up (didn't come up when I searched Ancestry...hmmmm). Joseph was not a member of my family's church, but the information posted on his death (not a full obituary) said that he was a pianist. I wonder if my grandmother Mary Quirk may have known him. She was a music teacher. Come to think of it, my mother may have known him. He was around her age.
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CES 2010 Casio has brushed up its artwork to design a digital photo frame that transforms your holiday snaps into "works of art" – literally.
The Digital Art Frame looks just like any ten-a-penny digital photo frame, except it can automatically convert still images into one of eight types of painting, including watercolour, oil, pastel, airbrush and pointillism.
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In what the British media is calling a "guerrilla ad campaign," Nissan recently stickered a handful of its fleet cars with "kill" graphics signifying motorsport wins. The targets? Porsche, BMW, and Audi. Guess which one couldn't take a joke.
The campaign, which extends across the United Kingdom, features billboards with Nürburgring race-win counts and taglines like "Kaisers Chiefed" and "The Winner Hans Down." Porsche claims to have no issue with the larger campaign, but the firm's ire was raised at last month's Goodwood Festival of Speed when Nissan displayed several cars with hash-mark "kill" graphics. The cars sported the corporate logos of BMW, Audi, and Porsche.
According to the Guardian, Porsche has approached Nissan requesting that the company's trademarked crest logo be removed from the campaign. Company spokesperson Andrea Baker said, "[The graphics] are our property and we do not give permission to any company to use our crests without our permission. This applies to any company."
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The FBI is denying accusations that it edited videos of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing before handing the tapes over to a lawyer who is independently investigating the attack.
Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue had obtained more than two dozen security camera tapes from a Freedom of Information Act request. The tapes were blank in the moments before the Alfred P Murrah Federal building exploded, only showing the aftermath from the attack, The Associated Press reported.
"They have been edited," Trentadue said Wednesday, a charge the feds deny. "[The FBI] don't do anything by accident."
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Trentadue has investigated the bombing ever since his brother, Kenneth, a convicted bank robber, died violently in a federal prison. The official cause of Kenneth's death was listed as suicide, but his body had 41 wounds on it when found. Trentadue's family won $1.1 million in court for extreme emotional distress after arguing that guards beat Kenneth during his interrogation for suspected involvement in the attack.
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The art of sharing little dishes
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Interior is indeed quirky...! And the egg dish really does look like a biology presentation :)
I keep having to remind myself that the new casual, share thing is not quite like Asian (esp. Chinese) in their much more generous proportions. A mouthful each!
I love the look and feel of the place. All the dishes look quite interesting, but I do see what you mean by some are a little difficult to share.
Egg, Seasonal Mushrooms, Almonds
omg i want to try this!!
I love quirky unusual decor; looks like everyone who eats here orders the chicken wings! LOL
What a great spread, especially the mushrooms and egg. Another one for the wishlist!
looks really good. I love aesop hand stuff in bathrooms. They have them in innocent bystander in the yarra valley. I loved washing my hands!
hi tina, the sharing concept is certainly going around town this season but the portions are not particularly generous like chinese or even italian with their massive platters they sometimes do for large groups.
hi sara, i think dining for couples might be the go so you don't mind sharing cutlery too etc
hi dolly, hope you get to check it out. would love to know what you think.
hi joey, i reckon we all love our crispy fried chicken no matter what the place is hehe :-)
hi john, looking forward to hearing what you think once you try it.
hi susan, they must be getting great deals on aesop because it's not cheap.
The Burrata looks amazing. And the chandelier is also quite interesting! I'll add this one to my list to try out. Looks great. I'll make sure that I have an empty stomach when I try it out.
hi miss feather, make sure you're cashed up and hope you enjoy the food :-)
That burrata and the egg look so appealing! Who would have thought that they'd be dying to try a lump of cheese and to order an egg for dinner? A 'must have' for me!


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Ash's Sceptile was the second Pokémon Ash caught in the Hoenn Region. [1]Added by Agoffe[2]Added by AgoffeBiography Edit
Sceptile was caught while he was a Treeko and was the second Pokémon Ash caught during his journey in the Hoenn Region. Treeko was a very stubborn fighter who never gave up in battle. With the help of another trainer's Grovyle, Treeko learned Bullet Seed, having previously known no Grass type moves despite being a Grass type Pokemon. Treeko evolved into Grovyle whilst battling a powerful Loudred who also evolved into Exploud.
After evolving, Grovyle was used often in the Hoenn region, notably being able to defeat Norman's Slaking and Winona's Altaria despite having type disadvantage against the latter. In the Hoenn league tournament, Grovyle defeated Katie's extremely powerful Walrien as well as Morrison's high level Steelix and held his own against Tyson's Metagross.
Grovyle stayed with Ash when he travelled to the Battle Frontier. When Ash went up against a wild Onix who was also the Rock Pokemon King whose subjects had Brock, May, Max, Pikachu and the other Pokemon in cages, Ash chose Grovyle to battle Onix and in addition to the type-advantage, Grovyle's agility and speed gave it an edge in the battle and a single Leaf Blade was strong enough to cause the battle to go in Ash's favor.
Grovyle was used during his battle with Greta but was defeated by Hariyama.
When Sceptile evolved in the episode "Odd Pokémon Out", it was unable to use any of its attacks since its heart was broken when Meganium fell for a wild Tropius instead of Grovyle. After seeing Meganium in danger, Ash's Grovyle evolved to try and protect it to no avail.
[1]Ash's Sceptile with its Ability, Overgrow activated
Two episodes later, in "Cutting the Ties That Bind", Sceptile finally regained all of it's moves as well as the new and powerful SolarBeam attack. Sceptile used Solarbeam to defeat Spencer's Claydol. Sceptile is an expert at the move Leaf Blade, its signature move. It was even able to defeat Tobias' Darkrai, who was considered to be virtually unbeatable, with a powerful Leaf Blade, becoming the only known Pokemon to have defeated the legendary Pokemon. However Tobias' Latios easily defeated Sceptile with Giga Impact.
It will reappear along with all of Ash's Pokemon in an upcoming episode of Best Wishes Season 2.
Known moves EditEditEdit
|Tree's a Crowd
|Quick Attack +
|A Tail with a Twist
|Bullet Seed +
|What you Seed is What you Get
|Leaf Blade +
|Exploud and Clear
|Ka Boom with a View
|Curbing the Crimson Tide
|Leaf Storm +
|The Semi-Final Frontier
|+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*
- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.
Trivia EditEditEdit
[3]Sceptile as a Treecko using Quick Attack*Ash's Sceptile is the only known Pokémon to have defeated Tobias' Darkrai.
- Some say Sceptile is more powerful than Ash's Charizard because of the fact that Sceptile defeated a Mythical Pokemon.
- Sceptile is one of Ash's Pokémon who developed feelings for another Pokémon as he developed feelings for a female Meganium. The others who developed feelings are Bulbasaur, Charizard, Totodile, Butterfree, Corphish and Oshawott:
- Bulbasaur and May's Bulbasaur developed a 'budding love' for one another.
- Charizard and Charla became an item after he became bigger and stronger.
- Totodile developed a crush on a female Azumarill and a Quagsire.
- Corphish had a crush on Samantha's Mawile.
- Butterfree fell in love with a female Butterfree and they eventually become mates.
- Oshawott develops a crush on Iris' Emolga and later falls in love with Meloetta. He eventually begins to develop a crush on Dawn's Buneary as well.
- He is Ash's third Pokémon to battle and defeat a legendary Pokémon, the first 2 being Charizard and Pikachu.
- He is the first and only Grass starter in the entire series to unleash the ability Overgrow, first as a Grovyle and once again as Sceptile.
- Sceptile is the only Hoenn starter Pokémon Ash catches. Torchic and Mudkip were caught by May and Brock, respectively.
- Like May's Blaziken, Ash's Sceptile was also voiced by Darren Dunstan and Bill Rogers in both it's evolved forms.


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Trouble in Paradise
You've heard this story before: Sam and Dinah have a troubled relationship. He's too involved in his work and doesn't spend enough time at home. She's frustrated by the fact that they're leading separate lives and that she no longer feels like she's in love. So, it's off to the analyst for an examination of how things can go so wrong between two formerly loving people.
What's different in this telling of the drony old tale is that it's a musical, Trouble in Tahiti, by Leonard Bernstein (of West Side Story fame). And Sam and Dinah are accompanied by a jazz vocal trio who sets the stage for the story. "It's interesting," says John Carden, artistic director of the production, "that this is the 50th anniversary year for this show and what was going on in the 1950s is still going on today."
Carden has teamed up with ACT I for this production, which has never been performed in Charlottesville. He's secured Linda Blondel as his musical director; the cast includes Chris Van Cleave, Sarah Wells, Priya Chalam, Doug Chapman, and Steve Mendenhall. Trouble in Tahiti plays with another show that explores a disruptive change in paradise, Bock and Harnick's The Diary of Adam and Eve, directed by Kay Bethea and featuring Bill Brown, Colleen Calvey, and Darren White. "Both plays address in a comic way the difficulties couples face in their relationships," Carden says.
To accommodate both plays, Bill Hurd has designed the set pieces to move in and out on wagons. "It's simplistic and highly effective," Carden says. "This is the first time I've worked with moveable sets on this stage." And Carden knows this stage well. He's appeared on it as a leading player with the New Lyric Theater's Gilbert and Sullivan productions in each of their popular shows.
ACT I has teamed up with Piedmont Virginia Community College to offer these two one-act musicals to Charlottesville theatergoers April 18-21. Nab your tickets now. The shows close this weekend. Earl V. Dickinson Building, PVCC. 7:30pm with a 2:30pm matinee on Sunday. $6-10. 961-5376.


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A romantic autumn wedding in Waterford, CT
Victoria and Kyle's October wedding at the Eolia Mansion was a beautifully elegant affair with an autumn pink palette and vintage flair! The venue was once the summer mansion of the Harkness family, set on more than 200 acres of sweeping lawns with views of the Long Island Sound. Clarence Chan Photography captured their day!
When Kyle and I started planning our wedding, we had grand ideas for a destination wedding: a ceremony on a mountain top in northern Italy or on a beach in Hawaii. While these ideas would have been wonderful, we realized that as much as our wedding day was for us, it was also about sharing our love and joy with those we hold dear in our hearts. The greater the distance from our home in Connecticut, the more likely that people we care about would not be able to share our special day with us.
Along came the Eolia Mansion at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Conn., which enabled us to have the local wedding we wanted without compromising on elegance, romance or style. As soon as we visited, we knew the mansion was perfect. Its stunning tall ceilings and beautiful gardens were surrounded by a sprawling lawn leading to panoramic ocean views of the Connecticut coast.
Our wedding was in the fall and inspired an autumnal pink color palette ranging from mulberry to blush pink and champagne. Our florist, Barbara Brewer of Pots and Posies, used this color palette for the flowers in the gorgeous centerpieces along with mercury glass vases and votives that I collected for months before the wedding. We did not want to take away from the venue's beautiful simplicity and opted to use mercury glass votives throughout the venue to create a warm ambience with a touch of vintage flair.
We wanted our guests to know that we were honored by their presence and poured our hearts into creating a beautiful event filled with handmade touches. We designed and made our wedding programs, which included Kleenexes for happy tears. We have also been fortunate enough to travel the world together and used vintage postcards as our table numbers to highlight our love of travel and recent destinations. We also had flip flops organized by size and color for our female guests to join us on the dance floor. The evening ended with a late-night snack of sliders and fries and a candy bar, filled with our favorite sweets and home-printed candy bags. I expected to see only children gathered around the candy bar but the adults quickly joined in on the fun!
One of my favorite memories from the wedding was the father-daughter dance. My dad and I practiced for weeks before the wedding and started out with a slow song so that he could show off the box-step I taught him. Partway through the song, we surprised our guests with a fast-paced choreographed dance to Pink's Raise Your Glass. Even to this day, the song brings a smile to my face.
In the end, our wedding turned out to be truly the most wonderful day of our lives, so far. -Victoria
- Photographer: Clarence Chan Photography
- Cake Designer: A Little Something Bakery
- Caterer: A Thyme to Cook
- Dress Store: Casablanca Bridal
- Reception Venue: Eolia Mansion at Harkness State Park
- Hair & Makeup: Naomi's Studio & Salon
- Shoes: Kate Spade
- Floral Designer: Pots and Posies
- DJ: Spin Enterprise
- Jewelry: Stephanie Browne Australia
- Tuxedo and Mens Attire: Tommy Hilfiger
- Dress Designer: Vera Wang


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* Reboot.
* Reboot.
* After logging in, you will see QjackCtl in your system tray. Left-click on it.
* After logging in, you will see QjackCtl in your system tray. Left-click on it.
* Tweak settings in the QjackCtl GUI to lower latency. The
* Tweak settings in the QjackCtl GUI to lower latency. The Frame Size, Frame Buffer, and Bitrate settings all affect latency. Larger frame sizes lower latency, lower frame buffers lower latency, and higher bitrate settings lower latency, but all increase load on the sound card and your CPU. A Latency of about ~5ms is desirable for direct monitoring of instruments or microphones, as the latency begins to become perceptible at higher latencies.
===Playing nice with ALSA===
===Playing nice with ALSA===
Revision as of 05:56, 28 May 2017
- 1 Installation
- 2 Basic Configuration
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 See also
In order for JACK to work properly, your user needs to be added to the
audio group for access to higher ulimits defined in
/etc/security/limits.d/99-audio.conf, which is needed for realtime audio processing.
audio group even if you're using logind, since logind just handles access to direct hardware.
There are two JACK implementations, see this comparison for the difference between the two. In short, Jack 1 and Jack 2 are equivalent implementations of the same protocol. Programs compiled against Jack 1 will work with Jack 2 without recompile (and vice versa).
JACK2 is a C++ implementation with SMP support. Install it with the jack2 package. If you are on a 64-bit installation and need to run 32-bit applications that require JACK, also install the lib32-jack2 package from the multilib repository.
JACK2 D-Bus
JACK2 with D-Bus can be installed via jack2-dbus. It is the same as the jack2 package but does not provide the legacy "jackd" server.
It is controlled by the
jack_control utility. The jack_control utility requires you to also install the python2-dbus package as well.
The important commands are listed below: jack_control start - starts the jack server jack_control stop - stops the jack server jack_control ds alsa - selects alsa as the driver (backend) jack_control eps realtime True - set engine parameters, such as realtime jack_control dps period 256 - set the driver parameter period to 256
JACK uses a C API and supports more than one soundcard on Linux (plus MIDI). Install it with the jack package. If you are on a 64-bit installation and need to run 32-bit applications that require JACK, also install the lib32-jack package from the multilib repository.
If you want a GUI control application, the most widely used one is qjackctl.
Also, cadence offers a set of applications and eases some advanced jack configurations. It can be installed with the cadenceAUR package.
Basic Configuration
This Linux Magazine article is a very good general overview, although do not worry about manual compilations, quite a few JACK tools work right off the wire now, after JACK is configured correctly.
Most tutorials are advising a realtime kernel, which is quite helpful for live synthesis and FX; but for purposes of recording and editing it is not necessary, as long as you set up for non-realtime latencies -- 10-40+ ms (100-500+ ms for older hardware).
The right configuration for your hardware and application needs, depends on several factors.
A shell-based example setup
The D-Bus edition of JACK2 can make startup much easier. Formerly, we had to have QjackCtl start it for us, or use a daemonizer, or some other method. But using jack2-dbus, we can easily start and configure it via a shell script.
Create a shell script that can be executed at X login:
#!/bin/bash jack_control start sudo schedtool -R -p 20 `pidof jackdbus` jack_control eps realtime true jack_control ds alsa jack_control dps device hw:HD2 jack_control dps rate 48000 jack_control dps nperiods 2 jack_control dps period 64 sleep 10 a2jmidid -e & sleep 10 qjackctl & sleep 10 qmidiroute ~/All2MIDI1.qmr & sleep 10 yoshimi -S & sleep 10
The above will start a complete realtime JACK live-synthesis setup, integrating several tools. Details of each line follow. When discovering your own best configuration, it is helpful to do trial and error using QjackCtl's GUI with a non-D-Bus JACK2 version.
Details of the shell-based example setup
jack_control start
Starts JACK if it is not already started.
sudo schedtool -R -p 20 `pidof jackdbus`
Set JACK to realtime mode in the Linux kernel, priority 20 (options range 1-99).
jack_control eps realtime true
Sets JACK to realtime mode in its own internal setup.
jack_control ds alsa
Sets JACK to use the ALSA driver set.
jack_control dps device hw:HD2
Sets JACK to use ALSA-compatible sound card named HD2. One can find the names with
cat /proc/asound/cards. Most ALSA tutorials and default configurations use card numbers, but this can get confusing when external MIDI devices are in use; names make it easier.
jack_control dps rate 48000
Sets JACK to use 48000 khz sampling. Happens to work very well with this card. Some cards only do 44100, many will go much higher. The higher you go, the lower your latency, but the better your card and your CPU has to be, and software has to support this as well.
jack_control dps nperiods 2
Sets JACK to use 2 periods. 2 is right for motherboard, PCI, PCI-X, etc.; 3 for USB.
jack_control dps period 64
Sets JACK to use 64 periods per frame. Lower is less latency, but the setting in this script gives 2.67 ms latency, which is nicely low without putting too much stress on the particular hardware this example was built for. If a USB sound system were in use it might be good to try 32. Anything less than 3-4 ms should be fine for realtime synthesis and/or FX, 5 ms is the smallest a human being can detect. There are many cases of perfect-storm-gorgeous hardware which can handle 1 ms latency without stressing the CPU, but definitely this is not always the case! QjackCtl will tell you how you are doing; at no-load, which means no clients attached, you will want a max of 3-5% CPU usage, and if you cannot get that without xruns (the red numbers which mean the system cannot keep up with the demands), you will have to improve your hardware. There are many inexpensive USB sound systems which produce very good quality at very low latency if the USB is good on the motherboard, but not all.
sleep 10
Wait for the above to settle.
a2jmidid -e &
Start the ALSA-to-JACK MIDI bridge. Good for mixing in applications which take MIDI input through ALSA but not JACK.
sleep 10
Wait for the above to settle.
qjackctl &
Load QjackCtl. GUI configuration tells it to run in the system tray. It will pick up the JACK session started by D-Bus just fine, and very smoothly too. It maintains the patchbay, the connections between these applications and any other JACK-enabled apps to be started manually. The patchbay is set up using manual GUI, but connections pre-configured in the patchbay are automatically created by QjackCtl itself when apps are started.
sleep 10
Wait for the above to settle.
qmidiroute ~/All2MIDI1.qmr &
Load qmidiroute, loading a custom-created configuration file which will rewrite all MIDI events on all channels to channel 1. This is useful when plugging the PC into any keyboard anywhere -- no matter what the keyboard's channel defaults to, qmidiroute will send the signal to the synth on channel 1, where it needs it. qmidiroute is capable of very complex and useful configurations of many sorts, including multiple simultaneous translations, transpositions, signal type rewrites, etcetera.
sleep 10
Wait for the above to settle.
yoshimi -S &
Load the Yoshimi synthesizer, using the pre-saved default state.
sleep 10
Wait for the above to settle.
With all of the above in a script run at logon, and with the QjackCtl patchbay set correctly, all we have to do is plug the PC/laptop into a MIDI keyboard using a USB-to-MIDI adapter, or simply the USB-in MIDI capability of many modern keyboards, and you are ready to play!
The essence of QJackCtl is described fairly well in this article.
A GUI-based example setup
This example setup utilizes a more GUI focused configuration and management of JACK
- Install jack2-dbus.
- Install qjackctl, and tell your GUI window/desktop system to run it at startup.
- Make sure QjackCtl is told to:
- use the D-Bus interface,
- run at startup,
- save its configuration to the default location,
- start the JACK audio server on application startup,
- enable the system tray icon, and
- start minimized to sytem tray.
- Reboot.
- After logging in, you will see QjackCtl in your system tray. Left-click on it.
- Tweak settings in the QjackCtl GUI to lower latency. The Frame Size, Frame Buffer, and Bitrate settings all affect latency. Larger frame sizes lower latency, lower frame buffers lower latency, and higher bitrate settings lower latency, but all increase load on the sound card and your CPU. A Latency of about ~5ms is desirable for direct monitoring of instruments or microphones, as the latency begins to become perceptible at higher latencies.
Playing nice with ALSA
To allow Alsa programs to play while jack is running you must install the jack plugin for alsa with alsa-plugins.
And enable it by editing (or creating) /etc/asound.conf (system wide settings) to have these lines:
# convert alsa API over jack API # use it with # % aplay foo.wav # use this as default pcm.!default { type plug slave { pcm "jack" } } ctl.mixer0 { type hw card 1 } # pcm type jack pcm.jack { type jack playback_ports { 0 system:playback_1 1 system:playback_2 } capture_ports { 0 system:capture_1 1 system:capture_2 } }
You need not restart your computer or anything. Just edit the alsa config files, start up jack, and there you go...
Remember to start it as a user. If you start it with
jackd -d alsa" as user X, it will not work for user Y.
Another approach, using ALSA loopback device (more complex but probably more robust), is described in this article.
Example: watching a live stream without gconf
gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri=http://streamer.stackingdwarves.net/bewerungeroom.ogv audio-sink="jackaudiosink"
Setting gstreamer to use jack using gconftool-2
gconftool-2 --type string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/audiosink "jackaudiosink buffer-time=2000000" gconftool-2 --type string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/musicaudiosink "jackaudiosink buffer-time=2000000" gconftool-2 --type string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/chataudiosink "jackaudiosink buffer-time=2000000"
Further information: http://jackaudio.org/gstreamer_via_jack
If you need to keep pulseaudio installed (in the event it is required by other packages, like gnome-settings-daemon), you may want to prevent it from spawning automatically with X and taking over from JACK.
/etc/pulse/client.conf, uncomment "autospawn" and set it to "no":
;autospawn = yes autospawn = no
If you want both to play along, see: PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio through JACK
In order to prevent ALSA from messing around with your firewire devices you have to blacklist all firewire related kernel modules. This also prevents PulseAudio from using firewire. Create the following file:
blacklist snd-fireworks blacklist snd-bebob blacklist snd-oxfw blacklist snd-dice blacklist snd-firewire-digi00x blacklist snd-firewire-tascam blacklist snd-firewire-lib blacklist snd-firewire-transceiver blacklist snd-fireface blacklist snd-firewire-motu
The list of modules is the most recent available at the time of writing at Alsa Firewire Improve Repository.
Now you can unload your loaded firewire modules or reboot.
JACK can handle one soundcard very well, and an arbitrary number of MIDI devices (connected e.g. via USB). If you start JACK and want to use a MIDI keyboard or a synthesizer or some other pure MIDI device, you have to start JACK with a proper soundcard (one that actually outputs or inputs PCM sound). As soon you have done that, you can connect the MIDI device. E.g. with QjackCtl (qjackctl), you click on the connect button and you will find your device listed under JACK-MIDI or ALSA-MIDI, depending on the driver.
For JACK-MIDI, you may want to set the MIDI Driver to seq or raw in QjackCtl Setup > Settings. This should make your MIDI device appear under the MIDI tab. You can also change the name of the client (from a generic "midi_capture_1" to something more descriptive), if you enable Setup > Display > Enable client/port aliases and then Enable client/port aliases editing (rename).
For ALSA-MIDI, make sure to turn on Enable ALSA Sequencer support in QjackCtl Setup > Misc. This will add the ALSA tab in QjackCtl Connect window where your MIDI controller will show up.
For bridging ALSA-MIDI to JACK-MIDI, you may consider using a2jmidid (a2jmidid). The following command will export all available ALSA MIDI ports to JACK MIDI ports:
$ a2jmidid -e
They will be visible in QjackCtl under the MIDI tab labelled "a2j" client.
You can automate starting of a2jmidid by adding to QjackCtl Setup > Options > Execute script after Startup:
/usr/bin/a2jmidid -e &
- Q: What is the difference between JACK-MIDI and ALSA-MIDI?
- A: The former has improved timing and sample accurate MIDI event alignment. It extends or may even replace the latter but at this point they both co-exist.
To install some M-Audio MIDI keyboards, you will need the firmware package midisport-firmwareAUR in the AUR. Also, the snd_usb_audio module has to be available. For more information about specific USB MIDI devices, see http://alsa.opensrc.org/USBMidiDevices.
"Cannot lock down memory area (Cannot allocate memory)" message on startup
See Realtime process management#Configuring PAM and ensure that the user is in the
audio group.
jack2-dbus and qjackctl errors
Still having the "Cannot allocate memory" and/or "Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory" error(s) when pressing qjackctl's start button (assuming that you have package jack2-dbus installed) ?
Please delete
~/.config/rncbc.org/QjackCtl.conf. Kill jackdbus and restart from scratch :)
(Thanks to nedko)
Also try running
$ fuser /dev/snd/*
and check the resulting PID's with
$ ps ax | grep [PID here]
This will hopefully show the conflicting programs.
"ALSA: cannot set channel count to 1 for capture" error in logs
Change ALSA input and output channels from 1 to 2
Problems with specific applications
VLC - no audio after starting JACK
Run VLC and change the following menu options:
- Tools > Preferences
- Show settings: All
- Audio > Output modules > Audio output module: JACK audio output
- Audio > Output modules > JACK: Automatically connect to writable clients (enable)