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What Do You Think of the New Publishers Weekly Cover?
This fails on so many levels I am hard-pressed to even begin.
It makes me wonder if PW
It makes me wonder if PW actually has any Black people on their staff. And if they do, why they didn't object to these shenanigans. UGH.
I love this image
I think it's a playful take on "afro picks" and that it works. Lighten up, people.
I think it's pretty cool
Could someone explain *why* they think it's a problem?
Ask Don Imus
Ask Don Imus and he can tell you about nappy headed hos.
WTF is that comment about
WTF is that comment about ?!?!?!?
Google it
Google "Don Imus" and "nappy headed" and you you will see the controversy surrounding Imus when he commented on black women's hair.
The publisher weekly picture with the hundreds of hair picks in a black womans hair is evocative of the Imus comment. That is why some people would find the Publisher's Weekly cover to be offensive.
I thought it was an odd choice at first glance, but Reid's remarks clarify a lot.
He has a more extensive statement on PW's website now but it takes a while to load : http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6711692.html
Actually, I think it's some clever wordplay.
Sign in to Complain
If you are going to complain about something, at least sign in first so your name will be known. So far, every entry on this issue has been "Anonymous".
Personally, I have no opinion on the matter. I recognize the intent, and the pun, and that it may or may not work on people. Humor and puns can often backfire.
But if you are going to complain about something or someone, you owe it to yourself and the person you are complaining about to use your real name. There is nothing worse than fighting a bunch of "Anonymous" ghosts that you can't respond to.
Over the years, I have offended a number of fellow librarians in many ways. Often that was ont intentional, and sometimes it was. I have never paid any attention to "Anonymous" responders.
On the other hand, I have been roundly, and frequently correctly, criticised by other librarians who have been brave enough to use their real names. These opinions I treasure, and I have learned from them.
I appreciate and respect people who stand by their comments. I don't appreciate people who throw stones from behind the cover of a crowd, or use a false name.
R. Lee Hadden (These are my own opinions!)
Oh please!
Not this "anonymous" thing again. Personally, I don't know who you are. I don't care to know who you are. I most likely will never met you in real life. So, your "name" means nothing to me. I look at what you say, not what your name is.
And there are people on here that use their real names that are far worse (sarcastic, lacking in actual content in their comments, etc.) than many of the anonymous commenters.
If you truly have a problem with anonymous posting, you owe it to yourself to take it up with the people in charge of this site, not those of us who choose to post anonymously. We do so because it is an option.
Options like that have been revoked before
The ability of the Anonymous Patron to even post comments has been revoked before. There have been debates upon debates about this. We've had temporary suspensions simply because we did not have the resources to deal with spammers coming through the AP account.
Choosing to post comments unsigned but yet not obfuscating how you got here is not anonymity by any conventional definition. Inviting complaints by other users to The Owner is rather self-defeating. Think about what you're doing.
Stephen Michael Kellat, MSLS
PGP KeyID: DC5A625B
I am thinking
It would be self-defeating if I truly cared. If anonymous commenting is revoked and I want to comment on something, then I would just set up a pseudonymous name or use my real name. Not a particularly big deal.
I was merely pointing out that it is useless to aim the hatred of anonymous commenting at the commenters themselves when it is an option provided by this site. You are the ones that control it, not us. Any complaints should be directed to you, not us.
Kiss my anonymous bottom
Kiss my anonymous bottom
I'd be happy to post under my own name. I really think it used to be an option here and then I did. What I'm not willing to do is set up yet another a log-on and password simply in order to do so. Many blogs have a text field to simply type in your name each time instead.
Attention Getting
Whether you approve the cover or not, when was the last time you had a debate or opinion about a PW cover?
The following tagline is not an opinion, it is an observation.
There is nothing that cannot be found offensive by someone, somewhere.
I think a wise professor of mine said that if you don't know what to do with it it might be a teaching example. In that spirit, I'm saving this for the diversity class I have to take next quarter.
I agree that it is a clever play on words...however, I do see how someone could/would be offended by the choice.
So I ask, how seriously do we take ourselves and why? Is this really worth the complaints when the intent was not to offend, not to poke fun, not to put-down?
Could be worse...
Afro Pick-a-ninnies
Cotton Picks
Just sayin'


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Why spend so much time picking on the Mormons?
You know what's really crazy about Mormons? They spend so much time and energy trying to help one another and even non-mormons as well. They learn true morals and values and unlike other Christian religions, they are expected to live these morals and values. They are taught that alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs are harmful. Who knew? The Mormon church donates millions of dollars to humanitarian projects and disasters. Practicing Mormons are generally more happy and honest than other people too. How crazy is that? Also, Mormons are taught to pray and ask God himself if the things they teach are true so the individual can know for him or herself. This is why practicing Mormons are so faithful because they gained a testimony from prayer and weren't just indoctrinated. Wow, they are crazy!!! Also, there is no paid clergy in the Mormon church so the money can be used for better things than making the religion a business venture, unlike other faiths. Mormons take church jobs because they truly believe in what they are doing and not for financial gain…again crazy! You know what's craziest of all…..this belief will never make it on this website because it's all true and every anti-mormon knows it!
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NEW YORK – Former Real Salt Lake star forward Yura Movsisyan is nearing a move to newly promoted Russian Premier League club FC Krasnodar, according to sources close to the deal.
MLSsoccer.com has learned that the general terms of the transfer between the Russian team and Movsisyan's current Danish club Randers FC have been worked out, with roughly $3.4 million changing hands. Only a few details remain, including a medical, before the official announcement is made as early as Thursday.
When contacted by MLSsoccer.com, Randers FC and Movsisyan's representative declined to comment on the news.
It was only confirmed this week that FC Krasnodar would be promoted to the Russian Premier League to replace FC Saturn, who withdrew due to financial difficulties. Movsisyan's move was contingent on Krasnodar securing passage to the top flight after a fifth-place finish in the second division.
Krasnodar are a relatively new club, born in 2008, but they have great ambitions and are led by billionaire Russian-Armenian owner Sergey Galitsky, who Forbes magazine values at $2.9 billion.
Like Galitsky, Movsisyan is also Armenian and has become a starting forward for his native country's national team. Movsisyan has a chance to quickly become a known commodity in Russia as Armenia are set to play the 2018 World Cup hosts in a highly anticipated Euro qualifier on March 26 in Armenia.
The Russian Premier League, which is moving to a fall-spring schedule next year, kicks off its 44-match 2011-2012 season in early March.


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This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
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The 'Twilight' saga may be coming to a close with the premiere of 'Breaking Dawn – Part 2' in just a few days time, but that doesn't mean Stephenie Meyer will be any less busy. One of her other non-vampire romance novels, 'The Host,' is getting the big screen treatment, and now the new poster from that film has been revealed, showing off its main star Saoirse Ronan.
Before we get to see her as the female lead opposite a star-studded cast in Wes Anderson's latest, 'The Grand Budapest Hotel,' Saoirse Ronan will be featured in the new Stephenie Meyer-adapted movie 'The Host.' Now, thanks to the folks over at Fandango, we've got a new look at the actress in her role as the alien-possessed Melanie -- no close-up shots of her eye here!
'The Host' isn't like 'Twilight.' Instead of glistening vampires, we have invading aliens, one of which is implanted into Melanie, develops a bond with her host (ah! That's the name of the movie!) and together they work to aid the other humans not infected with alien souls. Directed by Andrew Niccol, 'The Host' features Max Irons and Jake Abel, also featured in the new poster.
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Natasha necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 51 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
Looking for a professional clean logo that is clearly dog related. Logo will be used for web store and printed catalogs.
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I am looking for a logo to depict a top quality choice.
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We're a fun eCommerce Deal of the Day site that features just a select few items at a ridiculously low (aka: "yugly") price. If you're into techie gadgets, cool kitchen appliances, or other weird/wacky yet totally practical stuff - stop on by everyday to see what we've got cookin'. http://www.yugster.com
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An early-morning fight among students at Havelock High School resulted in injuries to two teachers.
An early-morning fight among students at Havelock High School resulted in injuries to two teachers.
The fight broke out shortly after 7:30 a.m. Thursday, and the two teachers were injured while attempting to break up the fight, according to Havelock Police Chief G. Wayne Cyrus.
Cyrus said both teachers, Tom Battista and Bill Styron, were treated and released.
Jennifer Wagner, spokeswoman for Craven County Schools, said the fight started in the cafeteria as students gathered before the start of classes.
Cyrus said the fight involved three students, ages 14 and 15, so their names could not be released. He said Havelock police were working with juvenile services, with petitions expected to be issued against the students for the fight.
Cyrus said he was not certain what prompted the altercation, though he said police received a call about a possible fight involving the same individuals Wednesday afternoon outside of school. He said when officers arrived, they were unable to determine what activity had been taking place.
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General questions
What is Portal?
Informe Portal is a web site with an unique 3rd level domain name. Every portal consists of one or more components such as forum, blog, wiki, gallery and portal home page. All portal components have shared authentication engine and special setup page.
Detailed information about portal features you can find here.
- What difference is between Portal-I and Portal-II?
There are two kind of portals. Portals-I are based on:
- PhpBB 2
- MediaWiki
- Wordpress (Blog)
- Pligg
Portals-II are more modern, powerful and much more stable than Portals-I. Portals-II are based on:
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- MediaWiki
- Wordpress (Blog)
- Gallery 2
Portals-I have limited support at the moment. Of course, we keep these portals workable but in comparison with Portals-II they have not evolution. Our users are not able to create new Portals-I but they can send us a request to upgrade their Portals-I to the Portals II.
- Is it possible to upgrade Portal-I to Portal-II?
Yes, it is possible. You you need to send a request for upgrade to Informe.com support team using our Contact Form. Also you can leave a message for us in our Support portal.
- Is it possible to convert Portal-II to Portal-I?
Unfortunately, we are not able to support this process.
- I did not receive confirmation e-mail message. How can I confirm my portal?You may go to special page for resending of confirmation e-mail and try to resend it by filling of the form at that page. If it will not help, please tell us via Contact Us or at Support portal .
- How to remove Portal components?Open Setup panel, choose General Setup tab, take off the marks from the components to remove and save the changers.
- How to change Portal style?Open Setup panel, Themes tab, specify the style for all the Portal components and save the changes.
- How to customize page headers?Open Setup panel, Personalization tab, there you will be able to specify title, description, favicon, logo and header background for all the Portal components and save the changes.
- How to manage your account on the Portal: How to manage the avatar?User can download avatar in case there is a Forum component on the Portal. The picture chosen will be displayed in the Forum and in the Portal (if it is used). Open User Control panel, Profile tab. Choose Edit Avatar item. The entry field will appear on the page if this option is not forbidden by administrator.
- [variant 1] Upload the file from your computer. It should have size within 90x90 pixels and 6 KB.
- [variant 2] Upload the file from URL
- [variant 3] Place the link to avatar needed from another site.
- How to manage your account on the Portal: How to change the password?
- [variant 1] Forum. Open User Control panel, Profile tab. Choose Edit Account Settings item. Enter new password and it's confirmation and press Submit button.
- [variant 2] Wiki. Open Preferences panel, User Profile tab. Enter your current password, new one and it's confirmation, press Submit button.
- [variant 3] Blog. Open Administration panel, Users tab. Choose Your Profile item. Enter new password and it's confirmation and press Update profile button.
- [variant 4] Gallery. Open Your Account panel. Choose Change Password item. Enter your current password, new one and it's confirmation. Press Change button.
- How to manage your account on the Portal: How to configure the language?
- [variant 1] Forum. Open User Control panel, Board Preferences tab. Choose Edit Global Settings item and install the language required, save the alteration. It will affect all the Portal components.
- [variant 2] Wiki. Open Preferences panel, User Profile tab. Install the language required, save the alteration. It will affect all the Portal components.
- [variant 3] Gallery. Open Your Account panel, Account Settings item. Choose the language required, save the alteration. It will affect all the Portal components.
- How to change Portal Page content?Open Setup panel, Portal Page tab. Feel free to manage the title and hello message and also define the panels outputted in the Portal on this page.
- How to moderate and to deal with spam: How to ban user?
- [Forum] Open Administration panel, Users and Groups tab. There are items Ban emails, Ban IPs, Ban usernames in the menu - all of them can ban user by different parameters. You can also define the ban period and reason, save the changers. You can also ban user via Moderate Control Panel.
- [Blog] Use Admin panel, Users tab to remove user.
- [Gallery] Use Admin panel, Users tab to block user.
- How to moderate and to deal with spam: How to cut down topics and posts adding?
- [Forum] Open Administrator pane, Forums tab, Forum permissions item to define rights within the Forum for users' groups.
- [Blog] Open Administrator pane, Manage tab, to correct comments.
- [Gallery] Use Edit Permissions item in menu to define rights for users within the album, the picture, or the whole gallery.
- How to moderate and to deal with spam: How to remove the topic or the post?
- [Forum] When being on the forum administrator has access to the Moderate Control panel to remove topics and posts (open Main tab, View Forum item).
- [Blog] Use Administrator panel, Comments tab to remove comments.
- [Gallery] Use Delete Photo item in main menu.
- How to remove Portal?
Portal FAQ
- Open Setup panel, choose Delete Portal tab and press Remove Portal button.
- The confirmation e-mail with a link will be send then. WARNING! By clicking the link you agree to remove your portal without any recovery chance.
How to edit portal Welcome text?
- Login as Admin in forum, after that
- follow button Called ''Setup'',
- tab "Portal Page",
- section "Welcome text" at the page,
- Put the Text you want to be on portal at that section (It supports BBCodes)
- How to Change Styles Themes?Login as Admin in forum, after that go to:
Forum FAQ
- "Setup" section by link "Setup",
- tab "Themes"
How to create new topic and add new tag?
- You may open the form of new topic creating using create this page link on the search page.
- Enter the text of your message on the editing page and press Save page button.
- You may also enter tag on the page of topic review under the text.
- You may use words (not shorter than 3 symbols and not reserved by the system) as tags.
- What extensions are there on the Forum?
- Store and Cash
- Calendar
- YouTube
- Chat
- Hide button
- How to activate Store?For MOD's activation you need to add at least one element to the Store.
- How to customize Store?At the moment Store is under construction and it's settings are not available.
- How to add new element to the Store?
- You need to be logged-in as administrator to add new elements to the Store.
- Open Forum Administration panel, MODS tab, choose Shop Item Management item, enter new element title into the field in the right part of the page. Fill in all the fields on the next page (elements editing page).
- Editing and removing the elements of the Store?Use the list of elements on the Shop Item Management page for elements editing and removing.
- How to customize Cash?
- You need to be logged-in as administrator to customize the Cash.
- Open Forum Administration panel, MODS tab, choose Cash MOD item, define forums and users to get cash:
- Open Administrator panel, Forums tab, choose Forum permissions item.
- Choose forum available for getting cash and users groups able to get cash.
- Choose Advanced Permissions item on the page of group's rights managing.
- Define the value Yes for the field Receive cash for posting in the table of expanded rights.
- Save new rights permissions for users groups.
- What options are available for the Cash?
- Cash can be turned off and on by Enable Cashmod option (turned off on default).
- Use Cash per post option (integer) to define the number of virtual money for post.
- Use Cash limit option to limit the maximum number of virtual money for 24 hours.
- Define the list of virtual currencies and setup the list:
- Use Add Currency panel to add currency to the list (define the name and the cost to add).
- Use the list of currencies to change the cost of each currency and the currency used on default).
- There is no opportunity to remove currency from the list.
- How to buy something in the Store?
- Go to the Store page to buy something (there will be the link to the Store in the menu if there is at least one item available in the Store).
- You can buy items in case you have enough virtual money to pay for them. Use Buy link to make a purchase.
- How to know which items are purchased already?Open User Control panel, Inventory tab to see the list of items purchased.
- What can I do with the items purchased?
- You may Sellback the item purchased - use Inventory tab, the Return for $<price> link in the items list if available for this item (is managed by administrator).
- You may Throw away the item purchased - use Inventory tab if available for this item (is managed by administrator).
- How to add video from YouTube into the message on the Forum (YouTube's MOD adaptation)?
- Use YouTube button in message editor to add video into the message.
- You need to put the template of YouTube insertion: [youtube][/youtube] in the message.
- Enter YouTube video clip URL or clip page URL or clip code into BBCode tag.
- You may also define the size of the window for clip viewing - [youtube=<width>,<height>]<clip URL>[/youtube]. Width and height should be indicated in pixels (don't add suffixes: px, em, pt and %).
- How to add event to the Calendar (Calendar MOD)?
Blog FAQ
- You need to have enough rights (defined by administrator) to add events to the Calendar.
- Open the Calendar, choose the symbol of star in the tab of a date you want to add event to, fill in the form of new event.
How to create new post in Blog and add new tag?
Gallery FAQ
- Open Administration panel, Write tab.
- Enter title and text, press Public button.
- [variant 1] You may add tags when post creating.
- [variant 2] To add tags for the category follow the category link, the list of tags and field for adding new ones.
How to upload new pictures into Gallery and add new tag?
- Choose Add Items item.
- Point the title of the file to upload and press Add Items button.
- [variant 1] You may enter tag into the field under the picture and press Save button.
- [variant 2] Chose Edit tags tab and enter the list of tags required into the page, press Save button.
- What extensions are there in the Gallery?
- Watermark module
- Tags module
- Hidden module
- Password module
- Image block module
- Album select module
- How to add Watermarks?
- [variant 1] Open the page of a picture you want to add watermarks to, choose Edit Photo item in menu, Watermark tab. Choose watermarks you want to add to the picture. If you have no watermarks to use you can create them and upload using Upload watermarks tab.
- [variant 2] You can add watermarks in the form of new picture adding using Watermark item.
- You can also define watermarks for the Album (for all the pictures in the album) using Watermark tab on the page of Album editing.
- How to add tags to the picture?
- [variant 1] You can add tags to the Album (or Gallery page if it has a picture on it) filling-in the field New Tag (tags should be separated with comma or semicolon).
- [variant 2] You may add, edit and remove tags for pictures on the page of tags editing. Use Edit tags item in drop-down menu under the icon, or follow the link Edit Tags in menu of the picture page.
- What opportunities does Hidden module have?This module helps you hide the elements (pictures and albums) from the guests to limit the access to the exact element for the exact guest (defining limited rights).
- How to hide the element from the guests?Open Edit photo tab (Edit Album) and turn on the flag in the field Hidden to hide the element from the guests.
- What opportunities does Password module have?This module helps you set up the password to limit the access to the element chosen. Only users who know the password can work with this element.
- How to establish the password to the element?Open Edit photo tab (Edit Album) and enter new password and it's confirmation into Password Protection section.
- How to cut off random picture displaying on the Sidebar?
Only administrator can manage this option! Open Gallery Administration panel, Image Block tab (random picture displaying is managed by this section) and turn off all the flags.
- What options are available for the Image Block?
- Heading flag turns on icon displaying for random picture.
- Title flag - title displaying for random picture.
- Date flag - creation date displaying for random picture (based on metadata indicated in the picture file)
- View Count flag - displaying the number of picture page reviews.
- Owner flag - picture owner displaying.
- What are the purpose of the Album Select module?This module helps you navigate within the gallery albums, it represents the tree of albums in Sidebar. You may also manage representation properties using Gallery Administration panel, Album Select module.
- What difference is between Portal-I and Portal-II?


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Donald Trump Still Has No Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud
Republican nominee Donald Trump continued to question the integrity of American elections throughout the day Tuesday, repeatedly claiming without evidence that the polling places and electoral system is "rigged."
"We have to keep the system honest. We have a very, very, we have a very, very serious situation with the whole process, and I've been talking about the rigged system for a long time," Trump said on Fox News on Tuesday afternoon, adding moments later: "It's largely a rigged system. And you see it at the polling booths, too."
You don't, actually: Voter fraud in person is extremely limited.


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there exists a very interesting Kickstarter Project called Spriter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/539087245/spriter
It allows the user to create 2d-animations based on several images with keyframes and later skeletal animations and other stuff.
I have now written a first simple importer. Its is not optimized for performance, nor are all features yet implemented, but its working.
Attached is the eclipse-project and a video of the animation. I am not an artist. I will replace it as soon as I get one of the official examples.
What do you think? Could that be interesting for others, too?
Edit: I have updated the files. The video shows now a walking knight, which looks much cooler.
Edit(11.05.12): Update the files. Mainly cleaning up the source code


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Personalized Men's Leather Toiletry Bag
Give the important man in your life a sophisticated and practical gift! This tan toiletry bag is crafted from genuine leather with a smooth finish and subtle markings, making each one unique. Customize the side with an embroidered monogram in all capital letters for a distinguished finishing touch. "I purchased this toiletry bag for my son Adam, who travels quite a bit. He loves that he can fit his essentials in the large pocket but still keep a few smaller items in the side for easy access." –Valerie G., Product Development


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Action contingent upon state permits, regulatory approval
KENNETT SQUARE, PA -- Exelon Power will delay the retirement of two aging fossil-fuel power generating units in suburban Philadelphia to provide time for the transmission owner to complete state-of-the-art upgrades to the area's transmission system.
PJM Interconnection, the regional transmission organization, today confirmed that the 2011 retirements of two of the units would not impact reliable electric service but said the other two units should remain available while transmission system upgrades are completed.
In response, Exelon Power will keep Cromby Generating Station Unit 2 in operation until May 31, 2012, and Eddystone Generating Station Unit 2 in operation until Dec. 31, 2013, to support system reliability.
The continued operation of the units is contingent on maintaining environmental permits for the units and receiving other regulatory approvals, which the company hopes to obtain this year.
"We're committed to maintaining system reliability and are willing to work with PJM and regulators to operate the units for as long as they are needed," said Doyle Beneby, senior vice president of Exelon Power. "With the necessary permits and regulatory approvals in place, these units will be ready to run when needed."
Eddystone Unit 1 and Cromby Unit 1 will retire as scheduled on May 31, 2011.


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On a Mac running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3, update to macOS Server 5.5 from the Updates pane of the Mac App Store. To prevent the interruption of services, macOS Server updates aren't automatically installed, even if you've chosen to install other updates automatically from the Mac App Store.
During installation you might see the message "Server app replacement detected." This is a normal part of the update process. All Server settings and data are preserved during the update.
After installation is complete, open the Server app to finish setting up your previously configured services.
Profile Manager
Server 5.5 improves the overall performance of Profile Manager on systems with a large number of devices enrolled, and includes the following fixes:
- An issue where tasks for some devices might not complete if the "Settings for Everyone" profile has been installed.
- An issue that caused high CPU usage and prevented tasks from completing.
- An issue that resulted in an incorrectly configured IKEV2 VPN Configuration Payload.
- An issue that prevented device enrollment tasks from completing.
- An issue preventing Active Directory users from logging in to the My Devices portal.
- An issue that prevented DEP or ASM from being re-enabled if an expired or invalid token was in use when DEP or ASM Terms and Conditions changed.
- Fixes an issue that prevented NetBoot images from being offered.


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Remastering the Install ISO
Remastering the official Arch Linux install ISO image is not necessary for most applications. However, it may be desirable in some cases.
- Basic hardware is not supported by the core install. (rare)
- Installation on a non-internet capable machine.
- Deployment of Arch Linux on many similar machines, requiring the same installation procedure.
As these ISOs are bootable, they can also be used for system rescue, testing, project demos, and more.
It is often preferable to rebuild the installation ISO with Archiso, instead of remastering an existing ISO.
How it works
The root filesystems of the live system is stored in
arch/x86_64/airootfs.sfs in the ISO. The kernel and initramfs are in
When booting, the initramfs will search for the device it was booted from via its label,
ARCH_201410 for example, and will mount the root filesystem for the architecture.
Extracting the ISO
To remaster the Arch Linux ISO, you will need a copy of the original ISO image. Download it from the download page
Now, create a new directory to mount the ISO:
# mkdir /mnt/archiso
Mount the ISO to this directory (due to the nature of ISOs, the result is read-only):
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/archISO /mnt/archiso
Copy the contents to another directory, where they can be edited:
$ cp -a /mnt/archiso ~/customiso
customiso does not exist beforehand, otherwise this will create a subdirectory called
archiso inside
Modifying the x86_64 system
Change into the directory of the x86_64 system:
$ cd ~/customiso/arch/x86_64
airootfs.sfs (to
$ unsquashfs airootfs.sfs
If you will need to run
mkinitcpio within
arch-chroot, you need to temporarily copy the kernel over:
$ cp ../boot/x86_64/vmlinuz squashfs-root/boot/vmlinuz-linux
Now you can modify the content of the system in
squashfs-root. You can also chroot into this system to install packages etc.:
# arch-chroot squashfs-root /bin/bash
arch-chrootis part of the package arch-install-scripts.
- If the
arch-chrootscript is not available in your system (e.g, when remastering from other distributions), mount the API file systems and copy over your DNS details. See Chroot#Using chroot.
To be able to install package, you have to initialise the pacman keyring:
(chroot) # pacman-key --init (chroot) # pacman-key --populate archlinux
If the kernel or initrd is updated, additional steps are required. In this case you have to install archiso inside the chroot and change the content of
(chroot) # pacman -Syu --force archiso linux (chroot) # nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
Change the line that says
HOOKS="... to:
HOOKS="base udev memdisk archiso_shutdown archiso archiso_loop_mnt archiso_pxe_common archiso_pxe_nbd archiso_pxe_http archiso_pxe_nfs archiso_kms block filesystems keyboard"
Now update the initramfs:
(chroot) # mkinitcpio -p linux
When you are done, create a list of all installed packages, clean the pacman cache and exit the chroot:
(chroot) # LANG=C pacman -Sl | awk '/\[installed\]$/ {print $1 "/" $2 "-" $3}' > /pkglist.txt (chroot) # pacman -Scc (chroot) # exit
If you updated the kernel or the initramfs, move them over to the system, and remove the fallback initramfs (the install ISO does not use this):
$ mv squashfs-root/boot/vmlinuz-linux ~/customiso/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz $ mv squashfs-root/boot/initramfs-linux.img ~/customiso/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img $ rm squashfs-root/boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
Move the list of packages:
$ mv squashfs-root/pkglist.txt ~/customiso/arch/pkglist.x86_64.txt
Now recreate
$ rm airootfs.sfs $ mksquashfs squashfs-root airootfs.sfs
-comp xz option on
mksquashfs to significantly reduce size, but it also takes longer
# rm -r squashfs-root
Now update the SHA512 checksum of
$ sha512sum airootfs.sfs > airootfs.sha512
Modifying the EFI boot image
If you have updated the kernel or the initramfs and wish to boot on EFI systems, update the EFI boot image.
You will need dosfstools as the EFI boot image is a
FAT16 filesystem.
$ mkdir mnt # mount -t vfat -o loop ~/customiso/EFI/archiso/efiboot.img mnt # cp ~/customiso/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz mnt/EFI/archiso/vmlinuz.efi # cp ~/customiso/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img mnt/EFI/archiso/archiso.img
If you see
No space left on device errors, you might need to resize
You can also create a new
efiboot.img and copy the old files (replace
50 with the required size).
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=50 of=efiboot-new.img $ mkfs.fat -n "ARCHISO_EFI" efiboot-new.img $ mkdir new # mount -t fat -o loop efiboot-new.img new $ cp -r mnt/* new/ # umount new mnt $ mv efiboot-new.img ~/customiso/EFI/archiso/efiboot.img
And use the new
efiboot.img as above.
Create a new ISO
Create a new ISO image with
genisoimage, which is part of cdrtools, as a symlink to
$ genisoimage -l -r -J -V "ARCH_201209" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -c isolinux/boot.cat -o ../arch-custom.iso ./
- The ISO label must remain the same as the original label (in this case
ARCH_201209) for the image to boot successfully.
- The
-coptions expect paths relative to the root of the ISO.
The resulting ISO image will boot only from CD, DVD or BD. For booting from USB stick or hard disk, it needs the isohybrid feature.
This can be achieved by postprocessing the ISO by program isohybrid included in syslinux.
Officially, the version of installed SYSLINUX has to be the same as the version of
/isolinux/isolinux.bin in the ISO. It is not known whether really incompatible version combinations exist.
An alternative to genisoimage plus isohybrid can be derived from the xorriso run of mkarchiso.
$ iso_label="ARCH_201209" $ xorriso -as mkisofs \ -iso-level 3 \ -full-iso9660-filenames \ -volid "${iso_label}" \ -eltorito-boot isolinux/isolinux.bin \ -eltorito-catalog isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ -isohybrid-mbr ~/customiso/isolinux/isohdpfx.bin \ -output arch-custom.iso \ ~/customiso
-isohybrid-mbr needs an MBR template file. Most probably there is already such a file
/isolinux/isohdpfx.bin in the original ISO, which matches the SYSLINUX version used in the ISO.
Only if this file is missing in the copied ISO content, it has to be cut out of the original ISO image file, before above xorriso run is performed:
$ dd if=/path/to/archISO bs=512 count=1 of=~/customiso/isolinux/isohdpfx.bin
If the original ISO supports bootability via EFI, this can be activated in the new ISO by inserting the following options between the lines
-isohybrid-mbr ... and
-output ...:
-eltorito-alt-boot \ -e EFI/archiso/efiboot.img \ -no-emul-boot -isohybrid-gpt-basdat \
The file
/EFI/archiso/efiboot.img is a FAT filesystem image file. If it is missing in the original ISO, then there was no UEFI support in that ISO.
The newly created ISO image
arch-custom.iso is found in the home directory. You can write the ISO image to a USB stick as explained in USB Installation Media. Alternatively you can burn the ISO image on a CD, DVD, or BD with your preferred software. On Arch, that is covered in the article about burning an ISO image.


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A funny thing happened when Susan McCabe bought a new book for her first-grade students at Tyng School. Page after page, face after face, "Role Models: Profiles of Successful African-American Professionals in Peoria, Illinois," is not exactly a first-choice selection for the kiddy reading corner.
A funny thing happened when Susan McCabe bought a new book for her first-grade students at Tyng School.
Unlike the lean, lushly illustrated books that usually grab children's attention, it was thick, 275 pages, with lots of words. The book had lots of pictures too, but they were just faces. Page after page, face after face, "Role Models: Profiles of Successful African-American Professionals in Peoria, Illinois," is not exactly a first-choice selection for the kiddy reading corner.
It would fit in the reference section under "Occupations: African-American, local" because of its survey of black people in a wide range of occupations, from business to health to law. It would be at home on bookshelves under the broad category of "African-American." Each entry includes a photo and a semi-biographical resume of one person in one particular job, as of 2008.
Compiled and edited by Rita Ali, director of diversity at Illinois Central College, "Role Models" might also work in the "Inspiration" section of the library or bookstore. Each entry includes career advice and a brief line or two about who or what influenced the subject most. But the book is not a first pick for the reading corner in a first-grade classroom.
Nevertheless, McCabe introduced a copy to her room last October because she thought it important for an all-black class (this year, but not always) to have books that show people who look like them.
"I expected them to pick it up once or twice, but they pick it up over and over again," McCabe says. "Oftentimes, it's their favorite book to choose."
She realized a book full of people they've seen before probably captivated her young students more than merely seeing people who looked like them. They recognized the differences in each face. They love to point out teachers they know, principals they see, others they may have seen.
"I have five copies in my room now, and they're getting rather tattered," McCabe said.
"Tattered" is good when it means young children enjoy a book. "Tattered" is not good when it describes the economy or the faces so enchanting to Susan McCabe's students who may not be enchanting enough to escape the cutbacks, freezes, layoffs and buyouts in a labor market where education, experience, self-discipline and commitment don't necessarily equal employment.
Their school, Tyng, is on the chopping block because their school district needs to slash budgets, which means laying off people they see in school everyday.
Unemployment rates have always been higher in their neighborhood. Now the whole town is spooked because its largest employer has laid off a small town's worth of workers, leaving certain plants resembling industrial ghost towns during late shifts. As the president said Tuesday night, "You don't need to hear another list of statistics to know our economy is in crisis."
Even with a president who looks like McCabe's students, the hidden question in an economy like this is what happens to the hard-won progress that makes a book like Ali's even possible?
Concerns about discrimination always increase during layoffs and cutbacks, says attorney Patricia Benassi. "Many of the people most vulnerable are older people and people with medical problems. The difficulty is, the more people laid off, the harder it is to prove that discrimination was the motivating factor."
A book like Ali's runs the risk of quickly outdated entries for all kinds of reasons. People move, get promoted, change jobs. The current climate only heightens the risk. But there may be a sliver of a silver lining for other students who look like McCabe's students.
A fair share of Caterpillar employees have retired since "Role Models" was published last year. A number of them, whether featured in the book or not, intend on putting their newfound spare time to use, volunteering with young students who look like McCabe's. Role models, indeed.
Pam Adams can be reached at email@example.com.


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Support for Small Installs
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:11 pm
I'm the entire IT department for my websites and family. I am really interested in using Zimba, but I want to make sure that I can install it. Right now I'm running Postfix with Maildirs and passing mail through procmail to Spamassassin before local delivery. On the client side I have Horde/IMP and courier-imap-ssl setup. Now I'd like to replace all this with Zimbra, however the same box also serves as my webserver and my development server. Will/Is there a way to install Zimbra without disrupting these services? (Apache/PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc) I am currently using Debian sarge, and many (all?) of these services are installed via apt-get. I have read the Debian thread, and it seems that progress towards a debian package (using existing packages) is in progress, but the format isn't clear (including packages in Zimbra or using them as dependencies). If somone could clarify what I should expect, and what kind of support the Zimbra Network will offer, I would be most appreciative.


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Friends of Kourtney Kardashian and boyfriend Scott Disick might need to hold up on buying a monogrammed gift for the couple's new son, Mason Dash Disick. Apparently, Kourtney had a fling with a young model and he is now claiming he may be the father of their child instead of Scott. Michael Girgenti is a 23-year model and aspiring rapper who goes by the stage name – Premo Stallone.
A friend of the sisters confirmed that the two were intimate, saying: "Kourtney hooked up with Michael twice while she and Scott were on the outs. He's definitely been mentioned as a possibility for being the father of her baby." Michael has also appeared on a previous episode on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. He made a brief cameo on the show while doing a photo shoot with Kourtney. A picture of the two of them is below.
When Star asked Michael if there's a possibility he is the father, he replied: "You could say that, yeah." Kourtney's rep however insists Scott is the father of their new born son.
Now on to the recap of the last episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians, which was rather interesting to say the least. Kris Jenner got ahold of some male enhancement drugs from a friend and decided to spike her husband's coffee, Bruce Jenner without telling him. Instead of taking Rob Kardashian, Kylie & Kendall Jenner to the mall, the pair were locked up in their room. So I guess the pill worked!
But it gets worse because Kris spiked the drink again, but this time Rob accidentally drank the concoction, sending him to the Emergency room for an unexplained erection. Kris, though embarrassed admitted her wrong doing in front of Khloe, Scott and Rob. A shocked Bruce told his wife, "This is about as dumb as you've gotten so far." Despite the incident, Rob later teased Kris with a cucumber.
During the episode, Khloe took an anger management class and later apologized to Scott and Kourtney for slapping Scott.
Tell us: What do you think about this episode especially Kris's error? Do you believe Star magazine's report that Scott may not be the father?


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There are plenty of users who have nbn connection and due to the fact that unlimited nbn plans that are being offered by the nbn providers have a lot of different features to offer, you can surely see that people may prefer having their preferred nbn internet plans that may help them use the internet facilities in their own way that is needed.
As a matter of fact, the internet connections in Australia that have been provided by the various levels of internet connection providers have been modified with the help of technologies that are offered and changed time to time and you can see how the services have changed so far.
Previously the data connections were connected and relied on the telecommunication system which was one of the basic ways to connect to the internet.
But today you can see nbn unlimited data connection provided by the connection providers and supported in a very flexible manner.
You can choose the limited or unlimited data connection or in case if you are looking for the unlimited option, you may also select the type of connection as per your preferences.
The WiFi limits have increased the overall usability of the internet and that surely has affected the way people have sued their data connections.
Today the connection providers have now started to provide nbn plans that includes the unlimited connection and unmatched sped as well as there is no contract internet that offers perfect way to enjoy the flexible connection for the users who could enjoy the way people need their connection without burdening them with various restrictions.
The future of the users of the internet has now been changed and people can surely get into the changed and modified system that actually provides the most reliable, easy to go with data connections with least restrictions and increased possibilities.


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The U & You project seeks to build a longitudinal collection of students' academic and social growth. The project consists of two parts:
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Britain's most popular comic and master of funny songs and witty wordplay gets about as little respect as the equally under-rated Three Stooges. Python's the "Beatles of comedy," the Bonzos get the cult cred, but mention Hill's name and watch people roll their eyes. Songs about wives, mothers-in-law, naughty double-entendres - it's all pretty unhip, music hall stuff. Hill was one of the last of the vaudevillians.
His reputation is largely based on his popular, long-running tv show, but he wasn't all about leering at and chasing after the scantily-clad ladies featured on the show, and this album's the proof - clever rhymes (hey, Snoop Dogg and Biz Markie are fans) and surprisingly strong singing serve a variety of song styles popular from the late '50s to the '70s: doo-wop, country-western, go-go beat, various pseudo-ethnicities, folk rock, and on the genuinely rockin' "Rose," garage-rock. Dylan (on several occasions), The Platters, and Sonny & Cher are winningly parodied. The latin/calypso "Bamba 3688" totally rules, funny or no. But most of these songs are funny, and some are really funny. I actually did LOL whilst listening to this. And does "Transistor Radio" from 1961 feature the world's first Elvis impersonation?
Benny Hill - The Ultimate Collection
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|2. Transistor Radio
|3. Harvest of Love
|4. Pepy's Diary
|5. Gypsy Rock
|6. The Piccolo Song
|7. Lonely Boy
|8. Moving on Again
|9. The Andalucian Gypsies
|10. The Egg Marketing Board Tango
|11. Bamba 3688
|12. What a World
|13. I'll Never Know
|14. My Garden of Love
|15. In the Papers
|16. Golden Days
|17. Flying South
|18. Wild Women
|19. Jose's Cantina
|20. Rose
|21. Those Days [Duet with Maggie Stredder]
|22. The Old Fiddler
|23. Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)


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Hall of Fame Classic tryouts scheduled
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The combine for the Connecticut High School Coaches Association's Hall of Fame Classic All-Star football game will take place on Sunday, March 24 at Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven.
Offensive tryouts will be held in the morning and defensive tryouts in the afternoon. Players are to report between 8 and 9 a.m.
The All-Star game will be played on June 29 at 4:30 p.m. at Rentschler Field in East Hartford
The draft to select players for the two Connecticut squads will be on April 3 at Rentschler Field at 6:30 p.m.
A meeting with coaches, players selected and their parents will be on April 11 at Southington High School at 6:30 p.m.
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Texas A&M senior sprinter Jessica Beard has been named the 2010-11 Big 12 Female Athlete of the year. Beard is the first Texas A&M nominee, male or female, to receive the Big 12 award.
Texas pitcher Taylor Jungmann won the male award.
A double NCAA champion in the 400 meters this year, Beard also anchored the Aggies' 1,600-meter relay championship at both the indoor and outdoor meets. A&M won its third straight NCAA team title after she ran the fastest split in NCAA history in 49.13.
"I've been fortunate in getting to know so many of the other athletes in the Big 12 and to hear that the conference chose me for this award it's a great honor and humbling experience," Beard said.
Her 400-meter victory at the indoor championship made her first Aggie female to win an individual event at NCAA indoor meet. Her time of 50.79 was the world's best for the 2011 indoor season and third fastest ever for an American.
She won the outdoor title in 51.10 and then she ran a 51.06 at the USA Championships to qualify for the relay pool at the IAAF World Championships this summer in Daegu, South Korea.


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WASHINGTON — By the numbers, this Congress is on track to make the infamous "Do-Nothing Congress" of the late 1940s look downright prolific.
WASHINGTON — By the numbers, this Congress is on track to make the infamous "Do-Nothing Congress" of the late 1940s look downright prolific.
Before the Senate adjourned Friday for an extended holiday break, the two bodies of the 113th Congress sent President Barack Obama fewer than 70 bills for his signature. That compares to 395 enacted during the first year of the 80th Congress, which Harry Truman famously campaigned against for its inaction.
The showing has put the current Congress on track to become the least productive in history, likely beating the previous record-holder, the 112th Congress, during which 231 bills became law.
Though many lawmakers insist they ended on a high note with passage of a two-year, bipartisan budget accord that offered hope for a new chapter in Washington's gridlock, the historic ideological divide in Congress gives experts few reasons to believe 2014 will be the "year of action" the president called for Friday during his end-of-the-year news conference.
"Any way you measure it, quantitatively it stands out as an unusually unproductive session of Congress," said Thomas Mann, a Brookings Institution scholar and co-author of a book on legislative dysfunction, "It's Even Worse Than It Looks."
"The problem is not the number of bills," he said, "but what Congress specifically did that ended up inflicting harm rather than creating conditions for improved performance."
Though Congress' productivity has generally declined over the past decades, it took a nose dive after the 2011 Republican House takeover, which ushered in many new small-government conservatives who tightened their grip on the party.
The 2012 election reinforced a historic anomaly — a Democratic president and Senate serving alongside a Republican House for the first time in nearly a century. Despite White House hopes that the "fever" in the GOP would break and allow compromise, the paralysis only seemed to get worse.
"There are a lot of missed opportunities," said Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., one of the leaders of an effort to bring the White House and Senate Republicans together this year. He said even once-bipartisan issues such as the annual farm bill have been drawn into the fighting. Such measures should "not be as hard as they have been to get them to the floor."
President Ronald Reagan similarly faced a divided Congress. For six of his eight years, Reagan grappled with a Democratic House and Republican Senate. But back then, the parties were more ideologically diverse, allowing for issue-based coalition-building that often crossed lines and resulted in new legislation.
Today, a Senate caucus of liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats would number in the single digits.
Two procedural hurdles have stood in the way of greater productivity this year: the Senate filibuster and the so-called Hastert Rule practiced by House Republican leaders.
Though Democrats essentially did away with the filibuster for most nominations, it continues to exist as a barrier on legislation. A major gun-safety bill stalled earlier this year when a proposal to expand background checks on commercial sales failed to advance despite earning 55 Senate votes, which was five short of the number needed to overcome a filibuster.
In the House, a different rule has increased gridlock. House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, has followed a practice set up by the previous Republican speaker, J. Dennis Hastert, to bring proposals to the House floor only if they have the support of a majority of Republican members.
The percentage of House votes that are considered party-unity votes has surpassed 70 percent each year since Republicans regained control, according to Vital Statistics on Congress, a joint project of Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute. That has happened only once before in the previous 60 years.
As a result, some of the 196 bills passed by the House were nonstarters in the Senate; they were mostly symbolic exercises to rally the base.
"The Republicans have, since taking the majority in the 2010 elections, operated like a parliamentary opposition party," Mann said. "The problem is we don't have a parliamentary system of government. Simply doing what you want to do and can do with your own party is meaningless."
Another significant factor in the legislative unproductivity is a shift in power away from committee chairs toward the House speaker and Senate majority leader, respectively. With few exceptions, agenda items debated on the floor are now almost exclusively the priorities of party leaders. That has prevented committee chairs or moderates from forging bipartisan alliances on specific issues, such as immigration or the budget, as they have in the past.
Republican leaders insist they are not to blame for the lack of new laws.
Boehner told reporters in July that the GOP majority should be judged not by the number of laws it passes, but by the number it has repealed. Some tea party conservatives view the dearth of new laws as a sign of success, since they prefer limited government.
Nevertheless, Boehner's office launched a video last week cataloging dozens of bills the Republican-controlled House had approved that the GOP says would boost the economy and make government more efficient. It also repeatedly passed measures to repeal Obama's health care law. But few of the measures stood a chance in the Senate.
"The House has passed a lot of bills," said Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y. "But those are bills that have no Democrats on them, or virtually no Democrats."
Over in the Senate, leaders insisted similarly that they had an unusually productive session — passing a proposal to change the nation's immigration system, its first budget in years, a bipartisan farm bill and student loan overhaul.
"I don't quite agree that it's been a wasteland," Schumer said, naming the farm bill, immigration reform and a renewal of the Violence Against Women Act as bipartisan successes in the Senate.
But Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader, pinned the blame for Congress' dysfunction on Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats' move last month to change long-standing Senate rules to restrict filibusters for most judicial and executive nominees.
"I hope that one of the majority leader's New Year's resolutions is going to be to operate the Senate in a quite different manner," McConnell said.
Boehner's recent comments criticizing conservative outside groups that have limited his ability to advance legislation could signal a potential shift by Republican leaders. The last-minute bipartisan budget deal crafted by Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., was seen as another positive sign.
But Mann predicted it would take another electoral rebuke before the GOP changed its approach — something he said was unlikely in the 2014 midterm races.
"This doesn't bode well legislatively for the rest of Obama's term of office," he said.


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Westbound Interstate 10 in Phoenix, already a notoriously congested freeway, was closed after a semi-trailer overturned Wednesday, Feb. 13, and spilled French vanilla coffee creamer.
One of the busiest interstates in the U.S. was closed for 12 hours Wednesday after a semi-trailer transporting French vanilla coffee creamer overturned in Phoenix, coating more than 150 feet of the highway with a white slick of delicious-smelling traffic hazard.
The trailer crashed into a guardrail and overturned on westbound Interstate 10 at about 1 a.m., NBC station KPNX reported. Authorities said the driver suffered only minor injuries.
The accident happened at a massive interchange called the Mini Stack, where I-10, a state highway and a state bypass all converge in northeastern Phoenix. It's the busiest interchange in Arizona, and a Forbes magazine study in 2007 identified it as the fourth most congested "traffic trap" in the country.
Authorities initially were more concerned that the truck spilled diesel fuel, but that turned out to be a secondary issue. The bigger problem was the white slick of coffee creamer that oozed over 150 feet of freeway, Carrick Cook, a spokesman for the state Public Safety Department, told The Arizona Republic.
The freeway reopened around 1 p.m. (3 p.m. ET). Meanwhile, a separate accident on the bypass was aggravating delays for drivers bailing out on I-10, the Republic reported.
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Last week was a busy one with some place to go every day.
Seaside Rep kicked off the fun Tuesday night with a "thank you" and membership party at Sea Sabella in Seaside. Kelly Buzzett, Maunsel and Karen White, Hank White and Didon Comer, Mike and Angela Ragsdale, Paige Schnell, Scott Bruns, Payson and Steve Howard, Melissa and Larry Davis, Buz and Susan Livingston, Dottie and Tom Hidell, Rod and Michelle Joly, Gail Judd, Jennifer Green and Nikki Nickerson, Linda Miller, Brook Stetler, Lisa Connell, and Lynn Nesmith were there and enjoyed yummy meatloaf, cookies and chocolate-dipped strawberries.
The monthly Walton County Chamber luncheon was last Wednesday at Sandestin's Linkside Center with a candidate forum as the program. Kitty Whitney, Ken Little, Denny Wenrick, and Robert McCullar attended.
Walton Chamber's Business After Hours was last Thursday night at Tops'l's Clubhouse, upstairs overlooking the tennis courts. I must say that Tops'l pulled out all the stops and served quite a spread, plus some signature martinis and Christmas punch. Karen Kolenberg, Darwin Davis and Ginny Olson, Mike McIntosh, Ann Kief, and Peter Burke enjoyed. Nice job!
I enjoyed lunch at Vue on 30A last Friday with one of the sweetest ladies I know: Peggy Lillie. I saw Chef Gio, Brenda Radtke, Redd Vizard and her sister, and Ginny Jones there. We enjoyed Gio's Oriental salad.
I sampled Wine World at Grand Boulevard's Friday night wine tasting last week. John and Debbi Morris, Mo Powers, Bailey Howard, Burt and Eileen Wise enjoyed tasting 10 different wines. John Morris was pouring and he always makes it fun and informative. I also saw Judith Christman there.
Emerald Coast Magazine held its annual Best of the Emerald Coast event last Saturday night at Grand Boulevard. Lots of folks were there, including Peter Burke, RoseAnn and Keith Knight, Bob Doty, Ampy and Fred Cox, Zandra Wolfgram, Laurie Hobbs, James Murray, Donna Burgess, Ron Green and Lisa Morris, Ginny Olson and Darwin Davis. I sampled way too much food and fell in love with Another Broken Egg's bananas foster pancakes.
Walton County's Tourist Development Council held its annual luncheon at the Hilton Sandestin on Tuesday. Stacey Brady, Scott Brannon, Cecilia Jones, M.C. and Stella Davis, Harry Millsaps, Kitty Taylor, Bill Chapman, Jamie and Sean Dietrich, Malcolm and Linda Patterson, Suzanne Harris, Didon Comer, Payson and Steve Howard, Barbara Miller, Nancy McConnell, Kitty Whitney, Lori Smith, Jami Ray, Sharon Maxwell, Tracy Louthain, Laurie Hobbs, and Mark Hodgdon were some of the dignitaries and business people who attended.
Mary Zahner hosted 27 members of the Women's Art Network at her lovely Rosemary Beach home for its monthly get together last week.
Chef Emeril Lagasse has been shooting his new TV series which will air nationally on the Cooking Channel in 2013. Segments have been filmed at Sandestin, Bud & Alley's, Fish Out of Water, and Stinky's. Gov. Rick Scott was a guest for one of them.
Jim Radtke's son Jimmy and his girlfriend, Mandy, were visiting last week. While here, Jimmy proposed Mandy on the beach at sunset. Congratulations!
Dave and Carol Rauschkolb enjoyed an anniversary trip to Black's Island.
Susan and Donal Alfieri are back from a cruise aboard the Vantage Odyssey on the Danube. Susan said it was magical approaching Budapest at night with its magnificent buildings lit up like a fairyland.
Scott Russell left last week for Egypt today and a cruise down the Nile. He met a friend there and will return this weekend.
John Stasko visited his dad in New York.
Laura Cox attended a Seminole game in Tally.
Wish a "happy birthday" today to Wine World's Michel Thibault, photographer Shelly Swanger, and football great Zeke Bratkowski.
Tomorrow to Deborah Orr.
Monday to Stephen LaDow, John Broussard, Gillian Lee, and Andrew McAlexander.
Wednesday to Charlotte Flynt.
Thursday to Hank White.
And Friday to Jamie Dietrich, and Carol Lench.
Deborah Wheeler is the arts and entertainment reporter for The Walton Sun. She may be reached at 654-8443, 687-1239, or email email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @WaltonSunDeb. Party Line appears weekly in The Sun.


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Thousand Eyes necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 121 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
At ThousandEyes we deal with the challenge of understanding problems that affect the Internet critical infrastructure, including DNS and Internet routing at a global scale. Our goal is to make Internet service delivery more reliable, safer and faster by providing actionable network analytics to our customers and improve overall end user experience.
Content providers, Infrastructure providers, financial institutions, enterprise networks.
We're gonna need the following sections in our site:
1) Home (link can be our logo)
2) Technology
3) Products
4) About
5) Jobs
6) Blog (this can be a wordpress template, so not a priority)
The Blog can be a separate wordpress page. The Home page will contain
an image with the screenshot of the product and maybe a world map in
the background like we have in our current site.
Here're some sites you can take as reference:
+ Our logo needs a white or very light background, our colors are
blue, orange and grey (and white of course)
+ we dont need 2 level menus, one level is enough
+ we like the small icons that give some color to the site (
browsermob.com is good at this)
+ we probably just need one panel in the middle w/ a worldmap
(version similar to the one we have in our homepage) and a product screenshot next to it.
We like simple and elegant designs with lots of color and small icons (e.g. browsermob).
++ Menu:
horizontal menu on the top right w/
1) Home (link can be our logo)
2) Technology
3) Products
4) About
5) Jobs
6) Blog
++ Homepage:
this is the landing page. include a div bellow the menu w/ an image. the image contains a pixelized worldmap (like the one we have in our current page) and a screenshot of our product on top. Should include a tag line and maybe some small description (see example sites). Example tagline is "Real-time network anallytics for the enterprise" or/and "Availability, Performance and Security for the cloud".
Belllow this div there should be 3 columns each describing a metric : availability, performance, security. There should be an icon for each metric, plz see browsermob.com as example.
Please include a footer with small links like jobs, etc. like in browsermob.com and the other sites
++ Technology and Products pages
This page should have a submenu (maybe on the left) and the content should describe our product and technology. We can fill the images later.
For each subpage there should be a menu on the left (see indinero.com as example). Here each link in the menu can be on of our products..
++ About
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the team page should have a picture for each member and a short bio. we like the one in http://www.pixable.com/about_us#team


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Sanya – Life's a Beach, but Which One?
Ah, the life! Sun, sea, sand, waves gently toppling over, a tube of SPF 30, a stiffening breeze, the warm, red glow on the back of your eyelids…. Here is a quickie guide to Sanya's main beaches.[...]
Seeing Stars at Sanya's Hotels
Sanya has more than a hundred hotels. Together they have more stars than an Elvis impersonator's jump suit. Here is a short introduction to some of those hotels.
(We have to say that this page is a work in progress, mainly because we're not the type of people that get to stay in beautiful hotels very often. However, we have visited most of the main hotels in Sanya over the last few months, and here are some of the ones we like the look of…(more)


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by Gwyn Kaitis
The Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) provides a chance for attendees of the 2011 Mosaic Art Summit to meet vendors face to face and offers plenty of workshops for inspiration and information. Also available is the popular two-day Mosaic Marathon, during which a mosaic will be created and donated to a local charity as a thank-you to the hosting community of Austin, Texas.
This article was originally published on page 44 of the May/June 2011 issue of Glass Art.


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by Barbara Sherf
Springfield Township residents opposed to the installation of digital billboards anywhere in their community vented their feelings at a special commissioners meeting on Sept. 8.
The meeting, called to give commissioners guidance on the issue, drew more than 100 residents to Springfield High School.
Township solicitor Sean Kilkenny told the audience that MC Outdoor advertising has been challenging zoning laws in municipalities throughout Pennsylvania that excluded billboards. Courts have ruled that off-premises signs (among which are billboards) are a constitutionally protected form of commercial speech, and townships must permit them.
Where signs can be erected, however, and other reasonable protections can be regulated by municipalities.
"That happened here on a Friday afternoon last November and by Monday the commissioners passed an ordinance allowing billboards in certain industrial zones," Kilkenny said, adding that because MC had already applied to install billboards in a non-industrial area, their application proceeded.
MC Outdoor Advertising partner Thaddeus Bartkowski made a 40-minute presentation on the history of the firm's various proposals.
He indicated that initially the company considered installing billboards along the portion of Route 309 that goes through the township, but that they couldn't find a strip that was 500-feet away from an on/off ramp or far enough away from residential areas. They then looked at an area near Paper Mill Road and Stenton Avenue, near open space owned by the Natural Lands Trust.
He noted, however, that "it was deemed inappropriate due to the amount of vehicular traffic at that intersection."
Then MC Outdoor researched Ridge Pike near Manor Road in the panhandle section of the township, but it was deemed too close to a residential area, That was when they turned to placing two signs on Bethlehem Pike, one near the Springfield Cleaners at Haws Lane and one behind and reaching above Erdenheim Auto Repair near Gordon Road, facing the historic Wheel Pump Inn.
Township commissioners rejected the Bethlehem Pike proposal. At that point, MC went back to look at Route 309 and found a stretch near La Salle College High School, on what is known as the Wood tract, to erect one 1200-square-foot digital sign that would be turned off between 11 pm and 6 am.
"We 'get it' about placing the signs on Bethlehem Pike," Bartkowski told the audience.
"I understand where everyone is coming from, and that is why I am trying to create an alternative. We went through the last 12 months doing studies and spending considerable time and resources to come up with an acceptable alternative, and we believe that is on 309."
Township Commissioner Robert E. Gillies, Jr., was skeptical of Bartkowski's motives.
"You came at us with putting two signs on Bethlehem Pike for the shock factor and to make the 309 option more palatable," Gillies told Bartkowski. "Why didn't you do your homework at first and find that stretch of 309 that would work? You didn't do your homework."
Bartkowski responded that his firm had done its homework, but that it was based on inaccurate information provided by PennDOT.
"Your comment could not be any more inaccurate," he responded to Gillies.
Commissioner Doug Heller (who has produced an extensive website about the issue at http://hellerspringfield.com/issues/billboards.htm) asked attorney Gregg Adelman, representing MC Outdoor Advertising, about the history of litigation in townships where MC Outdoor has proposed to erect billboards.
"At this time we are engaged in litigation in 10 municipalities in the Southeastern region – Montgomery County, Chester County and Delaware County," Adelman said. "In Delaware County we've had 17 to 20 meetings, and they have spent $200,000 to $250,000 in legal expenses. That challenge is now in Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. We have reached settlements in other areas within six months, with the municipality spending $10,000 to $15,000 in legal fees."
That statement outraged Wyndmoor resident and attorney Holly Kisailus, who was the first to speak during the public comment period.
"It is clear that he (Bartkowski) didn't take into account what we are so proud of in this area," she said, noting that she had moved from Wilkes-Barre in 2003 to "a sleepy community that reminded me of my hometown." "I realize that you and MC Outdoor are seeking to out-lawyer us with your legal team," Kisailus said. "I don't know why it is you would seek a sleepy township to erect your Las Vegas signs. You are sadly mistaken if you think residents of Springfield Township will be scared off with your lawyering. We have a nice feel to this community, and your Vegas style signs don't jive with it," she said while the audience erupted in applause.
Bartkowski said he drove through the township twice a day when he attended La Salle College High School and that he had a good feel for the community. Bartkowski then received a host of snickers and murmurs when he couldn't remember the name of the Black Horse Inn, a prominent structure along the Pike that the township and community saved from being demolished, and is in its final phase of fundraising.
On behalf of the Friends of Historic Bethlehem Pike, Franklin Avenue resident Rob Ryan read the mission statement and pointed out that "these billboards are not in compliance with any of those principles."
"It is out of scale and out of line with what we have worked for these past seven, eight, nine years with promoting a walk-able, historic community," he added.
On a personal note, he said he was concerned with the proposed Haws Lane billboard "flashing into my backyard."
"And we are working with the owners of the former Wheel Pump Inn to help them sell that property," he said. "That will be very difficult with a flashing sign right outside. Plus, there is no way you can drive down Bethlehem Pike and not see how such a billboard wouldn't distract a driver."
"This has to be obvious to anyone," he said, noting the extreme curve in the road in the 600 block of Bethlehem Pike.
Several residents, such as Mickey Howell, who live near the Route 309 site expressed concern about the impact on their development.
"This is an infringement on us," she told Bartkowski. "It will affect our quality of life and our property values. Anything that shines into my house and my bedroom and my window is unacceptable and something that you need to reconsider."
Jim Meyer, President of the Eagleview Condominium Association near Ridge Pike and Manor Road spoke on behalf of his community.
"My constituents are opposed to the proposal. It would be out of character for the area, and we are 100 percent opposed to the possibility of that happening," Meyers said.
Asked if he would be opposed to billboards in any residential community in Springfield, he responded, "Personally, I would be compassionate to other residents facing this as well."
The Route 309 alternative is zoned residential – not industrial – so it would need a change in zoning.
"How that happens (regarding the change in zoning) has not been determined," Bartkowski responded.
Resident Bob Cope talked about MC Outdoors' attempts to divide the community.
"We, as a community, are as united as anyone will be on an issue," he said. "As soon as we start talking about the subtleties of where to put these billboards, we start tearing the township apart. We must keep an issue like this from tearing us apart."
Commissioner James E. Dailey repeatedly asked Bartkowski why his firm's proposal was submitted with redacted documents where the monetary gain to the property owners for the space to erect the billboards was blacked out.
"I hope we see what those numbers are at the zoning hearing," he said.
Dailey also questioned the motives behind MC Outdoor for submitting a proposed settlement agreement that was emailed to board members.
"Who asked for this"? he asked. "The residents near 309 were not privy to this agreement. Where did it come from"?
Adelman responded that it was an agreement that had been used in other municipalities "Nobody asked for that agreement," he said. "We offered it."
"The Friends," Daily responded, "have entered an appearance at the zoning hearing and they are a party to this. Would they not be part of a settlement agreement? I don't know how you offered a settlement that has been used in the past when we are still in this quagmire."
It was announced that the matter would be heard at a Zoning Hearing at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, at the Springfield Township Building. According to the Springfield Township website, however, "The petition of MC Outdoor regarding the placement of billboards at 601 Bethlehem Pike and 1020 Bethlehem Pike has been continued at the applicant's request."