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Scribus Team Releases 1.3.0 "La Liberté"
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce a technology preview of the next generation of Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing. The aim for this release is to bring improvements and enhancements for both professionals and beginner users alike. 1.3.0 "La Liberté" improves Scribus' abilities in areas like performance, accessibility and workflow. With this release we also commence support for Scribus running natively on Windows and Mac OS X. Download Scribus from our 1.3.0 Downloads page or view some screenshots of the various versions.
While it is very stable and usable, there are a number of under the hood changes which will continue through the 1.3.x series
For future development versions, we will be announcing competitions for icon sets and splashscreens.
The Scribus Team would also like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting and [email protected] GmbH, Hamburg for gracefully sponsoring our Scribus Documentation site, our Bug Tracker and Anonymous CVS server. Also, a note of thanks to The University of Salford's School of Media, Music and Performance for providing continued hosting of www.scribus.net and upgrading the server hardware.
Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Nah, not that again. ;)
By ac at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
It seems there is a bug in their database :
By Cyrille Berger at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
"I think scribus already uses kdeprint when available."
Another nasty thing, I find particularly annoying: Scribus uses the very simple Qt-only "FileOpen" and "SaveAs" dialogs. No comfort for me any more, if I use Scribus, no bookmarks, no KIO slaves (http://, ftp://, fish://, smb://, webdav:// or webdavs://) for opening remote documents seamlessly and transparently saving back to that place...
Probably we should just do an extended demo of KDE's file dialogs to the Scribus developers ;-) -- once they can feel its value, they will be auto-motivated to take advantage of that cool features. (I do not think that it can be too complicate and too much work to make Scribus aware of "I am no running inside a KDE session -- great, let's use the KDE print and file dialogs". Also, the actual call to these dialogs shouldn't be too complicated either. After all, even some GTK applications have been proofed to be able to use them in the past...).
By Kurt Pfeifle at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Having a Qt-only application of my own, I can say it's a pain in the butt to make a Qt-only program "aware" of KDE. You end up with ugly #ifdefs everywhere making your code unreadable, or you end up with adaptor classes for all your dialogs, adding to the "bloat".
By Brandybuck at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Yes, Scibus feels alien on KDE because it lacks all those nice integration efforts. It looks ugly.
The question is: Will scribus be able to integrate or do we have to fork.
Integration is a huge productivity boost.
By Gerd at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
I'd guess the work with making Scribus intergrate with KDE does have lower priority than some of the other things the Scribus team are working on. Making it more or less a manpower issue. So rather than forking, start sending them patches and work with the team. New contributors are always welcome in Open Source projects, and I'd guess the Scribus team are no different.
When on the issue of dual Qt and KDE interfaces, does someone know some nice examples of how this may be achieved in a nice clean manner? There are a few Qt applications where some KDE intergration should have been nice. I only know of Eric3, but it's developed in Python. And doing the Qt/KDE thing in Python looks much easier to do than C++, and it's done at run-time.
By Morty at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Yes, to an extent, it is a manpower issue. Of course, we would certainly welcome someone with good KDE foo to work with us.
Let me say also, that we are *very* appreciative of the support we have gotten from KDE community, folks like Kurt Pfieffel and Fabrice Mous to name two, as well as the wider community. It is recognized and appreciated.:)
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
If it's a manpower issue why doesn't my question (the above "Is the KDE integration effort outlined or coordinated anywhere?") get answered to easen the entry for new people able and willing working on KDE? Should they (we) rather fork it to make a proof of concept? You know, nothing is more offputting then core people answering first that investigations were made (with what results) and later that manpower is the issue, with nothing of that traceable from the outside... =/
By ac at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Not even enough time/manpower to properly outline a doc which would answer your question..No joke.
The short answer is some parts of Scribus need major refactoring, which is what 1.3.x is about. When we get those bits done, then integrating KDE is much more feasible.
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
The effort was admittedly a quite small effort which was surely not deep enough. Scribus is about pagel layout, we have concentrated 1.3.0 on layout features and major cleaning and rework. If (as I see in other posts) there are examples, or if someone is willing to make a simple one, we will look very quickly at this and implement this as soon as possible.
Once I'm back from holidays, if someone hasn't already looked at whatever is submitted or perhaps into the Rekall sources or the other URL, then I will myself. BTW, if someone is interested, we do need to be able to customise the dialog, but I'm sure the KDE file dialog has this ability too (eg adding compression and other checkboxes). Please feel free to email me directly, or submit patches to bugs.scribus.net preferably as others can look at it then too.
By Craig Bradney at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
are any of the scribus devels going to be at aKademy this year?
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Doubtful, to be honest :S
By mrdocs at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
There is no better opportunity for a whole year to get stuff done, and get it done fast.
By Kurt Pfeifle at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Would be useful to have more meetings of that kind. Usually it is good to use existing bigger events in order to meet there. KDE devel meeting at 22C3 or whatever
By Hein at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Indeed! I had looked forward to meeting Scribus developers and compare notes on color management and other topics, like better ways of calling Krita from Scribus.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Likewise.. At least all of us, save one, now live in Euroland. So, it won't be an impossibility.... It is just the timing for aKademy is not good for us :(
By mrdocs at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Fosdem? 22C3? OOocon05?
By Aranea at Wed, 2005/07/20 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Rekall (www.rekallrevealed.org) builds as a KDE application (which it started life as, contrary to the comment on another similar application's web site:), and as a QT application on Linux, Windows and Mac OS/X.
Whether this is a "nice" example I leave others to judge, but the strategy is to keep #ifdef's to an *absolute* minimum, to split functionality between pairs of files (one kde-based and one qt-based), and to use wrapper classes where needed. Before anyone shouts, wrapper classes are a pretty minimal overhead in this case; most of the time its trivial (for example, to get KComboBox in KDE and QComboBox in QT-only). Where its more complicated, say file dialogs, the computer is still a lot faster than the user!
By mikeTA at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Talking about "forking" is absolutely non-sensical.
Of course, forking is technically and legally possible at any time. But it should only be seriously considered if there is a substantial advantage to gain. And it is only an option, if the developers of the original code base are uninterested in the features the suggested "fork" wants to push, or for some other reasons are impossible to work with. Talk about a fork only after you have tried -- not once, not twice, not thrice... but at least 10 times -- to cooperate with the original developers!
I know for sure that the Scribus folks are very friendly and cooperative people.
So where is the first patch you submitted to them? Where is their rejection mail?
By Kurt Pfeifle at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
You don't need to fork! I got a patch accepted into Scribus yesterday :-). Now the new file dialog has the same tab order as the new file dialog of Qt Desiger or KOffice. See -- it's as easy as that!
By Boudewijn Rempt at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
We have already made one attempt to build Scribus with native integration. However, it requires more than just linking to some kdelibs. ;)
There is a lot of under the hood work which needs to be done in string handling and other details. Moreover, we must maintain the ability to build this optionally to support other non-*nix platforms.
"The question is: Will scribus be able to integrate or do we have to fork?"
We will eventually, but understand for a complex application like Scribus it is not trivial. You are welcome to fork, the code is GPL, but understand as of 1.3.x a huge pile of new stuff coming into the devel series. It will be a challenge to keep up.
"Integration is a huge productivity boost."
Agreed. All of us are drooling to have kio support and kde files dialogs, among other benefits.
Another posted mentioning being only Qt "It's ugly".
Well, Scribus will pickup KDE themes and fonts if your Qt is configured correctly. I'd note the screenshots in the docs use a modifed Plastik theme. This has worked since Qt2 days and mentioned in the docs. If Qt does not inherit the style plug-ins from KDE, then is a qtconfig issue or Qt is not packaged to enable this by your distro. I know it works on Suse, RH/Fedora and Gentoo among others.
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Fork'n'integration for koffice2/kde4? :-D
By Nobody at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
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> All of us are drooling to have kio support
KIO support can be achieved quite easily if you don't need your own QApplication subclass and likely not very hard if you need one.
For the first case, i.e. not needing a QApplication subclass, I have a working implementation to make Qt use KIO slaves through its own QNetworkProtocol API, which means remote and local access can be handled through QUrlOperator.
In case you are interested:
By Kevin Krammer at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
Cool! Please announce it more publically here on dotty or on planekde!
By ac at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
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I blogged about it when I first created it:
Haven't had much time to work on it since than :(
The main problem beside the KApplication thing is that most Qt-only programs don't even use Qt's own possibilities for remote file access and only operate on local files.
By Kevin Krammer at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: Usual Scribus question on dotty...
well, my 2c... I would *love* to have KDE integration but there are some areas with higher priority now. Scribus is DTP application so we're focusing to improve this area now. Future (I'm hoping so!) KDE integration will be something like cherry in the pie.
By subik at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Scribus and Quark Xpress
I'd like to present Scribus to some friends, they use Quark Xpress, I want to know what are the differences between Scribus and Quark.
By Althazur at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Scribus and Quark Xpress
Ready for a book chapter ;)
1) The PDF Export in Scribus is hands down easier to use and generates superb PDF without lots of fuss, nor the need to run it through distiller. There are vastly fewer possibilities to screw it up on Scribus, and with 1.3.0 and the pre-flight tool almost impossible, unless you willing ignore it :)
2) The basic use of frames is similar, except Scribus has more extensive right-click context menus. I *highly* recommend a two-button+wheel mouse, even on OSX.
3) The tool kit and widgets are different, which brings its own set of differences and usage habits. Qt on Mac hides much of this though.
4) At the moment, Scribus very well with Fink and excellent on OSX with the aqua build, but the core of Scribus was developed with Linux/Unix in mind and should be compared only when using it in its native environment. As progress is made with the aqua build this will no longer be an issue, but testing *right now* should keep this in mind.
5) The image handling in Scribus is much nicer IMO, TIFF handling and PDF import are much easier, plus in 1.3.0 PSD is natively supported including some really nice tricks for working with clipping paths in TIFF/PSD. More to come there..
That said, a real page layout pro with some experience beyond just X-Press, should be able to sit down and grok it pretty quickly. I am thinking of someone who also has used Pagemaker, Ventura, Framemaker or InDesign in some mix.
Lastly, support.
We win, I am sure:) We have a very friendly community both on IRC and mailing lists.. The developers *do* listen. :) When did your friend last directly talk to a Quark developer? ;-)
Every single bug report or feature request is looked at byt at least one team member usually within 24 hours. Bug reports usually even quicker :) Fixes come as quickly as possible. Easy ones sometimes in 24-48 hours. On top of that, there is commercial support for those needing it.
Re: Scribus and Quark Xpress
>We win, I am sure:) We have a very friendly community both on IRC and mailing lists.. The developers *do* listen. :) When did your friend last directly talk to a Quark developer? ;-)
And I trylly belive this is one of the strenghts of open-source. Most developers are just nice people, and we thanks them for their efforts into creating nice tools like Scribus.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Scribus and Quark Xpress
What does quark what scribus does not?
is the better question.
The main lack of Scribus is some frefab content. When I try a new program I want to play around with it.
By Martin at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: Scribus and Quark Xpress
DTP vs Typesetting
My impression (after toying) is that Scribus was built for DTP (Quark replacement) but not for typesetting (Tex, FrameMaker replacement). Though Tex is excellent in certain scenarios there is plenty of room for further Typesetting products. Are there any plans to make Scribus usable for long structured documents, novels, master thesis and the like?
By Roland Wolf at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: DTP vs Typesetting
Since DTP and Typesetting are at the different ends of the scale in the way you work when doing documents, trying to adapt one to the other way of work are rather useless. It's better to use the right tool for the job. If you are doing DTP, use Scribus or Quark(Even for longer documents, but use it like a DTP tool). If you need a Typesetting products use a tool that's made for that kind of work, like Tex/LaTEX or their flashy sister LyX, FrameMaker or KWord in frames mode. It's not a accident that two so different paradigms have evolved for making documents, it's mostly about workpattern and workflow. Trying to blend those two ways to work ends up in some kind of bastard application, not really suited for either forms of work, like MS-Word.
To sum it all up, if you need a tool for DTP use the most excellent Scribus. Or if you have need for a tool writing your novels or master thesis use the likevise superb LyX. OSS covers both bases with great tools:-)
By Morty at Mon, 2005/07/18 - 5:00am
Re: DTP vs Typesetting
sure, but for usability KDE integration is a must.
By jamie at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: DTP vs Typesetting
Why? Intergration is nice and gives you added benefits like with the fileselector and it's IO-slaves, and the familiarity of the print dialog. And folowing the KDE menu structure are also nice, but don't bring any huge usability benefit either. And both Scribus and LyX are Qt application making them use the same widget style as KDE (if you don't have a really broken install) making the visual appearance similar.
Other than for people having a work pattern making heavy use of IO-slaves, I can't see why KDE integration gives any big usability gain to those applications. Surly not enough to make it a must, but I may be mistaken so pleas enlighten me?
By Morty at Tue, 2005/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: DTP vs Typesetting
I have a problem with KDE integration. and it is simply this:
By William Schaub at Wed, 2005/12/14 - 6:00am
Re: DTP vs Typesetting
Isn't that what configure scripts are for?
It would be very nice, I think, to have full KDE integration there, but it would certainly suck hard if that were done in such a way that it couldn't be compiled without it, yes.
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England see off Wales and a deep freeze
Huw Richards
December 25, 2012
Wales' Brian Price rises above England's John Owen during their clash in Cardiff back in 1963 © Getty Images
The significance of particular months in the rugby calendar has changed over time - and few more so than January. Nowadays it is a time for the pool stages of the Heineken Cup to be tied up and international squads to go into conclave ahead of the Six Nations challenge to come.
But it is not so very long since it meant the (then) Five Nations itself and a fixed menu of matches. In particular it meant Wales v England (or vice-versa), generally on the third Saturday. Sometimes it would share the opening day with the annual clash of the French and Scots, in other years it might come the week after.
That was the order 50 years ago, when two teams featuring the crop of new caps then usual in each country's opening match - six Welshmen and seven Englishmen, including six forwards - took the field at Cardiff on Saturday, January 19, 1963 knowing the Scots had stolen a march by winning in Paris.
It is unlikely the Scots were much on their mind. Avoiding frostbite and exposure was more of a priority. This match was played in the midst of the toughest winter of recent memory, when ice and snow gripped Britain for weeks.
It was so cold that the teams were kept in the changing rooms while the anthems were played, something which Clive Rowlands, who was simultaneously making his international debut at scrum-half and captaining Wales, remembers with 'a disappointment verging on rage. We couldn't hear them in the changing rooms and the anthems are a big moment for a player winning his first cap'.
They ran on to a scene described in the Guardian by the aptly-named David Frost, with a 'motley collection of farm implements, three tractors, harrows and other agricultural paraphernalia - parked throughout the match between the River Taff and the West goal. Then too, there were high banks of snow encroaching to within a few yards of the goal-line'.
Rowlands and his half-back partner Dai Watkins, also a debutant, had been forbidden to use a ball in Newport's gym when forced indoors to practice and had to use a rolled-up tracksuit. Watkins, panicked when team-mate Dai Hayward was late with a promised lift from Blaina to Cardiff, travelled with fans and was then refused admission to the ground by a sceptical security guard until the better-known Alun Pask turned up. England, billeted by the seaside at Porthcawl, had at least managed a run on the beach.
In spite of mittens and thermals, there were cases of frostbite. Watkins was to recall team-mate Robert Morgan, who dropped a scoring pass, showing a 'wide, raw frost weal that began at his temple and disappeared under his jersey' - according to Morgan, reaching his hip. Studs, Rowlands remembered, clicked on the frozen surface 'like a herd of cattle'. It was, reported Welsh debutant Roger Michaelson, 'so cold that even Clive Rowlands stopped talking' - possibly the only occasion that this happened in more than half a century of involvement with the game.
The RFU were to write to their Welsh counterparts, congratulating them on getting the game on. Well they might have done, since England were the clear beneficiaries. If the second of their two tries was exactly what might have been expected on such a day - debutant Coventry lock John Owen, later to be RFU President, touching down after England captain outside-half Richard Sharp kicked ahead and the first two players who got there skidded past the ball, the first would have been impressive under any circumstances and seemed downright miraculous on this occasion.
England threw long on their own 25 and centre Mike Weston passed to partner Malcolm Phillips. He scissored with wing Peter Jackson, a lethal attacker whose threat sucked in a number of defenders before he returned the pass, putting Phillips into space on halfway. Phillips recalled: "Into the freezing wind it was a long haul to the Welsh line at the river end of the ground, but fortunately for me the defenders were covering as well and I was able to round off a move in which the ball must have travelled more than 100 yards".
Sharp converted both tries and added a drop goal which made the Welsh try, scored late in the second half, something of a consolation in a clear 13-6 England win. It was a match whose significance was felt rather beyond a season which ended with Wales taking their first wooden spoon since 1949 and England the championship, missing Triple Crown and Grand Slam because of a 0-0 draw in Dublin, the last to date in the Five/Six Nations.
Wales' Norman Gale holds off England's John Thorne as Denzil Williams goes for the ball © Getty Images
While winters like 1962-3 are exceptional, foul weather spoiling England v Wales matches was not. Four years earlier one observer had been reminded of a mud wrestling bout he'd seen in Germany, while conditions at the 1965 match led Lord Wakefield, England's most revered former captain, to write to The Times complaining that 'nine times out of 10 in the last 50 years, because of adverse conditions, what ought to have been one of the highlights of the season has been markedly interfered with'. Voices like his eventually generated the pressure that led a decade later to the rotation of fixtures and more recently to a later start for the tournament, with no matches before February.
It was also the last time England won in Cardiff until 1991, a sequence of defeats that means this match may have been more recalled in previews and match programmes than any other in the fixture's history. Rowlands recalls 'Every two years I was asked what it was like to have been the captain of a Welsh team that lost at home to England. Mind you, I always pointed out that I'd started the winning sequence in 1965!'.
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Courtney Williams' jumper with 33 seconds remaining gave No. 19 Texas A&M the lead and the Aggies held on to beat ninth-ranked Tennessee 66-62 in the Southeastern conference semifinals Saturday, ending the Lady Vols' bid for a fourth straight championship.
Courtney Walker had 18 points to lead four scorers in double figures for Texas A&M (23-9), which will face either Kentucky or Georgia on Sunday for the championship.
Taber Spani had a career-high 33 points for top-seeded Tennessee (24-7), the SEC's regular-season champion. The Aggies, the No. 4 seed, are playing in their first SEC tournament.
Spani's last basket tied the game at 62 before Williams gave the Aggies the lead following a Tennessee timeout with only her second basket of the game.
Kamiko Williams' driving attempt for the Lady Vols bounced off the rim and Walker made two free throws with 6 seconds remaining to pad the lead.
Following a long miss by Tennessee's Ariel Massengale, the Aggies converged at midcourt for a brief celebration.
Kelsey Bone and Adrienne Pratcher each had 15 points, and Kristi Bellock had 12 for Texas A&M.
Meighan Simmons had 10 points for the Lady Vols. No other Tennessee player scored in double figures.
Spani, a junior averaging 10.2 points, made 11 of 13 shots from the field - including five of six from 3-point range. She set her previous career high with 24 points against Vanderbilt on Jan. 24. It was her only game with 20 or more points in the regular season.
Spani became the first Tennessee player to score 30 points against a conference opponent this season.
Despite 18 first-half points from Spani, Texas A&M needed an 11-0 run late in the half to lead 35-33 at the break.
Tennessee led 22-18 when a basket by Bellock started the streak of 11 unanswered points by the Aggies. Bellock had six points and Bone had a three-point play in the run.
Spani sank a 3-pointer to end the spurt and added a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to end the half.
Spani continued her hot shooting after the break, scoring the first eight points of the second half. The junior opened the half with a jumper following a turnover by Bone and then sank two 3-pointers. Spani's personal 8-0 run gave the Lady Vols a 41-35 lead.
The Aggies were scoreless for the first 4:33 of the half before Walker made one of two free throws. Walker ended Texas A&M's field-goal drought with a jumper about 5 minutes into the half.
Tennessee led 50-40 before the Aggies answered with an 8-0 run and finally pulled even at 52-all on two free throws by Walker.


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iPhone users waiting for the day to get out of AT&T data gridlock might have to wait a bit longer.
Verizon, which began selling the iPhone this week and has long been seen as the network savior that would lead Apple fans to iPhone glory, is warning that active iPhone users will see their connections slowed down.
After making a joint announcement with Apple last month that Verizon would become the second American carrier to sell the iPhone, the cell company said it had a plan to prevent a lot of the network congestion that earned AT&T such low customer ratings.
AT&T and struggled with iPhone data hogs that took a toll on the network provider's data network. Eventually AT&T announced it would stop offering unlimited data plans for iPhone users and instead limit the amount of monthly data available to them.
Verizon refused to take a similar approach and instead is offering unlimited data for $30 a month for iPhone users.
Friday's announcement is the first glimpse into how Verizon plans to preserve its network's pristine reputation once its record-selling number of iPhones go live Feb. 10.
Verizon Strikes a Preemptive Blow Against iPhone Data Hogs
iPhone users waiting for the day to get out of AT&T data gridlock might have to wait a bit longer.


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Free agency begins March 14, a little less than four weeks from now.
But, oh, how strange it is that several players will have made the most important decision of their professional lives just minutes into the process.
Fact is, teams have already vetted the agents of several of the players they're interested in and that are due to be unrestricted, and come this time next week in Indianapolis, the sides will be engaged in all sorts of informal talks. Many of the top-tier free agents will have a decent idea where they might be headed by the time the NFL Combine wraps up at the end of this month.
Of course, the Combine is also where potential draftees are poked and prodded for essentially the first time and a clearer picture begins to develop of the young talent available.
So, in advance of the weeklong job interview/job fair/pub crawl that is the Combine, let's examine the Chargers' options in filling one of their greatest (among many) needs: left tackle.
For the second year in a row and the third time in four years, the Chargers are trying to sign a guy to protect Philip Rivers' blind side.
They thought they'd locked up Marcus McNeill – better late than never –in the middle of the 2010 season. But McNeill's neck forced him to retire after he'd played just 20 games on his five-year, $49 million deal.
Then prior to last year, they re-signed Jared Gaither with the idea/hope he'd be close to as good for the next four years as he was for five games at the end of 2011. But Gaither couldn't/wouldn't make it through training camp due to a bad back and ended up playing just four games. The new Chargers brass is saying everyone has a clean slate, but they won't be able to erase the memories of teammates who believe Gaither defrauded them. Moreover, they probably can't make Gaither's long history of slacking become a future of dedicated service.
So here the Chargers are again.
The seemingly bad news, besides the mere fact they have to use resources on a left tackle after giving McNeill $11.8 million for 2010 and '11 and Gaither $9 million in '12, is that two of the top tree draft-eligible tackles (Taylor Lewan and Jake Matthews) decided to stay in college.
With Texas A&M's Luke Joeckel and Central Michigan's Eric Fisher possibly going in the top 10, what will be available to the Chargers with the 11th overall pick could ostensibly be the fourth-best tackle.
To spend that high of a pick on a leftover would be foolish. Better to try to identify a tackle worthy of a second- or third-round pick. (Remember, McNeill was a second-rounder and started from the first game of his rookie year.)
This is especially so in that there is another feasible option, even though the Chargers have said they are loath to go big in free agency after last year's ill-fated foray.
Thing is, unlike last 2012, when Gaither was really the only starting left tackle on available, there are an abundance of excellent to serviceable left tackles available this March, which gives teams the leverage.
The Chargers knew Gaither was a risk but felt they had to take it. This year, that wouldn't be the case.
There could be as many as a half dozen starting left tackles available in free agency, a relative glut in the market.
Ryan Clady is reportedly going to receive the franchise tag from Denver. But Branden Albert is not guaranteed to remain in Kansas City, and Sam Baker could move on from Atlanta. Jake Long is considered a luxury in Miami, and the Giants have yet to follow through on their reported plan to re-sign Will Beatty.
For the same reason teams could be willing to part with decent-to-excellent left tackles – that being, the quality available in the draft – teams like the Chargers have more options.
Should those named above return to their former employers – because, even with the draft being rich, it's difficult to imagine teams allowing proven left tackles to walk away – there are more veteran options.
Not great options, but much better than what the Chargers have now.


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What do you do when you want to make Chocolate Chip Cardamom Cookies but you have no chocolate chips? You use cocoa instead. That's the only thing that's different about this recipe. You may be surprised to learn that these cookies are also delicious.
Chocolate Cardamom Cookies
(originally adapted from The Joy of Vegan Baking)
3 "eggs" (ener-G egg replacer)
¾ c earth balance, softened
½ c sugar
¾ c brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1 ¼ - 1 ½ c white flour
½ c wheat flour
½ c cocoa powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp cardamom
1. Preheat oven to 375*. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Prepare egg replacer. Cream butter and sugars. Add "eggs" and vanilla.
2. In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients (flours, cocoa, salt, baking soda, cardamom). Add dry to wet and mix.
3. Form cookies into golf-ball-sized balls and place on parchment-lined sheets at least 2 in apart. Bake for about 14 minutes, or until golden brown on the bottom. Remove from oven and allow to stand until cool before moving cookies. Makes 2-3 dozen cookies.


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Lgt525 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 171 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
We are a web ecommerce platform that hosts and designs web ecommerce sites for small businesses and ebay powersellers. We derived our name from a take on the theme "beatnik", and want a hip, casual feel to our logo.
Our logo should reflect that our primary business is ecommerce web sites, but also that we are hip and fun, it could even have a beatnik in the logo if that works out graphically.
We own a bunch of other domains, such as lovenik, tvnik, movienik, foodienik, babynik which at some point we would like to use as web properties and would like to have a single design "character" (like a beatnik for example) that would be carried across all of the themes. Right now we are only doing the logo for Storenik however.
Our target audience is small web shopping sites that are either already up and running or small stores and ebay powersellers that want to hire consultant to do their web ecommerce shopping site. A lot of our stores will be hip, young people selling things that they are passionate about. We have a lot of artists signed up for our platform as well.
We are looking for a modern, hip logo with a central character (a beatnik most likely) that we will be able to carry forward to our other domains in the future. The logo should get across that we are an ecommerce company and that we are hip and fun and easy to use.
I have some lettering that I like as a place holder on our main domain page.
that should give you an idea of the feel I want in lettering and overall style.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Austin, Texas
March 4, 2009
An overcast sky gave way to a beautiful day in Austin as hundreds of people in the moving image industries (film, video, gaming) converged on the Texas State Capitol showing support for legislation which, if passed, will help repair the severely damaged industry in our state. It was an eye-opening experience for me, a Director of Photography, as I spend most of my time working on small crew productions, with little interaction with others in my industry. So, to be on the steps of the Capitol with a nice crowd who all have similar interests helped me understand the scope of the industry and how each of us play a part in a vital economic engine of the state.
This is an important cause, which has ripple effects to a multitude of support businesses, including hotels, restaurants, rental car companies, and on and on. Statistics show that we have lost more than $500 million in revenue and more than 7000 jobs across the state in recent years. Why? Because other states, most notably Louisiana and New Mexico, instituted major tax incentives to lure big budget projects to their states, and it has worked. Many of our fellow Texans have had to move out of state or commute back and forth to these neighboring states in order to stay in business. Given our long history with film production in Texas, this is a crying shame.
See Films Shot in Texas since 1910
The Texas Motion Picture Alliance is a statewide grass roots organization that I am proud to be a part of, and it is only through their tireless efforts that this legislation exists and has a chance at reversing the trend of jobs and revenue related to moving image industries shifting to other states.
This is an effort which should concern ALL Texans, not just those of us working directly in the industry, because television, film and gaming production in the state brings more jobs in various related industries, and because we at one time were considered "the third coast" for film production, and we have seen it seep away. There are many projects where Texas would be the first choice for production, because of the great locations available, and well trained, well equipped crews, but we are losing out because of the incentives offered by our neighboring states, and others around the country. Once this business is completely gone, it will be hard to bring it back.
Please support HB 873 and SB 605. It's important to all of us.
Get involved! Join Texas Motion Picture Alliance
Read the story from Associated Press
From Don Stokes, President of Texas Motion Picture Alliance:
"Our lobbying effort is a community affair. It will take the efforts of all of us in the industry to make the enhanced incentive program a reality. Lobby Day 2009 was a phenomenal success and certainly raised industry awareness among the legislators. It is my honor as President of TXMPA to be part of this immense team.
We participated in the initial hearing on HB 873 on Wednesday, March 4 during our Lobby Day efforts. The witnesses that spoke on our behalf did so passionately and from the heart. Their testimonies spoke to the problems facing our industry in Texas and to the solutions for bring the business back. The committee members listened and I believe understood our message. I think we will make it out of committee and look forward to the placement of our bill on the House Calendar. At this juncture I feel good about our legislation passing but I know there will be challenges ahead especially on the appropriation front.
I would like to thank everyone for their efforts. Without all of you we wouldn't stand a chance.
Don Stokes
President TXMPA
From David Friedman:
"Throughout TXMPA Lobby Day 2009, it became evident that legislators from across Texas were gaining a better understanding of how the moving picture industry impacts the economy. Many legislators were already onboard; whereas, some legislators were early in their understanding. The force of everyone pulling in the same direction, starting with Governor Rick Perry and the 700+ constituents at the Capitol, was felt by all the legislators. It was hard to miss on the Senate floor, the House floor, and on the front lawn of the Capitol. It was a great day for the state of Texas and our economy will be better off for it. The bottom line; is, creating and retaining jobs in Texas. Our collective efforts on TXMPA Lobby Day 2009 contributed to the bottom line in a significant way. Many thanks to all who attended in person and to those that were there with us in spirit."
David S. Friedman, TXMPA, North Texas Regional Representative
Tracy Ready is an independent Writer / Producer / Director of Photography based in Dallas, Texas
See: www.tracetv.tv


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Musician Jason Becker refuses to let ALS silence him
Jason Becker isn't supposed to be here.
More than two decades ago, just after the Richmond resident got his big break as the guitarist for former Van Halen singer David Lee Roth's band, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, the incurable motor-neuron disease better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Doctors gave Becker three to five years to live. He was 20.
Even as he lost his ability to walk and talk, the baby-faced musical prodigy refused to accept his terminal prognosis.
"At the time, I didn't believe that I couldn't cure it," Becker, now 44, said in an e-mail interview - which he is able to use through a system of blinking his eyes. "I was too young, and I had too much to do. I was living my dream and just kept on."
Becker had to leave Roth's band as his symptoms worsened to the point where he could no longer even hold his guitar. That's when his story really began.
ALS is a rapidly progressive neurological disease that destroys the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord responsible for controlling muscles in the arms, legs, diaphragm and chest wall. It is always terminal, even for those who decide to go on life support.
"Jason's doctor at the time he got his tracheostomy and stomach tube told me he would probably not make it past six months," said Becker's mother, Pat. "That was in 1997."
The disease doesn't affect Becker's senses - the ability to see, hear, smell, taste and feel someone's touch.
Finding a way
With a ventilator and feeding tube keeping him alive and devoted friends, family members and a nursing staff providing him with around-the-clock care at his home in the Richmond hills, next door to his parents', Becker has put his remaining faculties to full use.
Using whatever technology was available over the past 20 years, he learned to compose songs note by note, read his favorite books, interact with fans, meditate and even have intimate relationships with women.
"Life isn't only about moving," he said.
Gary Becker invented a simple way for his son to communicate using a hand-painted geometrical eye chart he dubbed Vocal Eyes. Becker spells by moving his eyes to the letters in the separate sections of the board, although at home, his family has learned to "read" Becker's eye movements without the aid of the letter board.
He can smile, raise his eyebrows to gesture agreement or twitch his mouth to say no. He takes pleasure in the fact that personal communication with him generally requires direct eye contact.
"I still haven't found anything as quick and efficient as my dad's system," Becker said.
When he met Stephen Hawking, who himself has defied great odds by living to 71 with ALS, he introduced the prominent theoretical physicist to the system as well. "I don't know if it works for him, though, because we all have different weaknesses and strengths," Becker said.
It was Gary Becker, an artist and poet, who first taught his son how to play guitar at age 5, turning him on to Bob Dylan. By 12, Becker made it a personal mission to teach himself all of Eric Clapton's guitar solos. His brother Ehren recalls that he seldom saw Jason without a guitar, whether at the dinner table or even behind the wheel.
Making a splash
Inspired by the harmony, melody and counterpoint of classical composers Paganini and Bach, Becker started flying through arpeggios at local open mike nights with his uncle Ron, a blues guitar player who taught him pentatonic scales, who was almost always there with a video camera.
In high school, Becker joined future Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman in the speed-metal duo Cacophony and spent three years touring across America and Japan. By the time he was 18, Becker had released his first genre-defying solo album, "Perpetual Burn."
Becker's incredible story is told in "Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet," a heartfelt feature-length documentary by first-time director Jesse Vile. The 2011 film will be shown as part of a special benefit concert on Thursday at Bimbo's 365 Club.
The film, by turns tragic and inspirational, serves as an introduction to many for Becker's fiery, neoclassical style of guitar playing that never got the recognition it merited.
In the music world, serving as sideman to Roth in 1990 was a coveted position - a job previously held by guitar heroes Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai. Becker got the gig just three years after graduating from Kennedy High School in Richmond, appearing on Roth's gold-certified album "A Little Ain't Enough."
But for Becker, losing his dream gig just before a major tour didn't mean that he had to give up his quest to become a musical icon.
"We dealt with the initial prognosis with hysteria, crying fits, denial, anger, terror, misery and broken hearts and dreams," said Pat, who still works primarily to maintain Becker's health care coverage. "But Jason was so happy and still keeping busy, falling in love, making his music and living his life, and led us, by example, to a place where we could handle the situation."
Five years after he left Roth's band, with one hand still functioning, Becker put together the solo album "Perspectives." A few years later, with movement in just one thumb and his eyes, he recorded another album, "The Raspberry Jams: A Collection of Demos, Songs and Ideas on Guitar."
Painstaking process
By 27, he was completely paralyzed. Yet Becker remained defiantly career-minded.
In 2008, he released "Collection," which featured three new recordings.
He is currently working on a new album with producer Dan Alvarez - a painstaking process that will see him incorporate solos from several other guitarists into his own work using a digital music program called Logic. It is a change of pace for the guitar player who was best known for blazing across the fret board.
"I spend time editing and massaging each note," Becker said. "Then I start layering with different instruments, adding harmonies, counterpoint, and whatever the song calls for. Then I arrange it into a whole piece, and decide where I need to add live musicians. It takes a lot of time, but it is very satisfying once it is complete."
Last year, Becker graced the cover of Guitar Player magazine. His YouTube videos, from before and after he was stricken with ALS, draw a steady stream of viewers from around the world. Many reach out to him with letters of support.
"Jason has touched so many people, from those loving his music and picking up the guitar again themselves, to not committing suicide, to just living their own lives with more awareness, kindness and love," Pat said. "We hear that every day."
Calling from a tour stop in New Orleans last week, guitarist Joe Satriani said, "Jason as a young kid was a virtuoso guitar player. Now he is a virtuoso human being."
No time for anger
Despite his physical limitations, Becker's soft eyes emanate a world of warmth and gratitude. The walls of his home are decorated with guitars, his father's paintings and pictures of his spiritual guru, Indian hugging saint Amma. He is a devout fan of the 49ers.
He said he was angry about his situation until a near-death experience in 1997 renewed his desire to live with vigor.
"I don't remember making a conscious choice, just feeling surer about things, and content, and that made everything and everyone around me seem that way as well," Becker said. "I still have downs and get depressed, but I try not to dwell too much on being negative because it always passes and there is still so much to do."
"Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet": Film will be shown at 7 p.m. Sept. 19. $30-$75. Bimbo's 365 Club, 1025 Columbus Ave., S.F. www.bimbos365club.com.
Learn more: To see Jason Becker's eye communication system, go to http://bit.ly/bJtWu2.
Aidin Vaziri is The San Francisco Chronicle's pop music critic. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @MusicSF


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Posted by Editor on 03/12/99
Cactus Cup, Arizona
Here is a report from Canadian pro Chris Sheppard (Catera).
Hello all and welcome to the first race/life update of the season! After a tenacious training race in Redlands most riders headed for a three day battle of the dirt known as the Cactus Cup. The first stage was the time trial and many a racer were unsure of their form at the start. I had the dubious task of repeating my victory from the previous year, so my nerves were about me. Having no problems with nerves was Seamus "white rasta" McGrath who proceeded to pummel the field by 28 seconds. Following white rasta was American jibber Greg Randolph, canuck Dr. Dre Hestler was third, Italian pasta connection Dario Cioni was fourth and I ended up fifth. Seamus' victory marked the fourth Canadian win in the opening time trial over the past five years....not too bad. Saturday we compete in the road crit, and Sunday the cross country takes place. Look for another update tomorrow!
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I was keeping track of where I was at with Myth on my home wiki, but then figured I might as well share it here!
- 1 My Setup
- 1.1 Backend
- 1.1.1 Hardware
- 1.1.2 Software
- 1.1.3 Configuration
- 1.2 Frontend
- 1.2.1 Hardware
- 1.2.2 Software
- 1.2.3 Configuration
- 1.2.4 minimyth.conf
- 1.3 Upgrades
- 1.1 Backend
My Setup
MythBuntu 12.04 with separated front-end/backend
- Live TV/TV recording Free to air HD/SD (from Sydney, Australia)
- Multi-rec
- DTS/AC3 passthrough including 5,1 surround digital out
- MythMusic
- MythGallery
- MythVideo
- Frontend Suspend to RAM + Wake On USB
- Backend Suspend to RAM
- HDDs totalling 1.2Tb
- Intel S775 Core 2 Q6600 Quad-Core CPU
- Gigabyte S775 GA-G33M-S2 Motherboard
- PCI Hauppauge Nova-T-500 MCE(OEM) Dual DVBT tuner
- PCI Hauppauge Nova-TD 400 Dual DVBT tuner
- MythBuntu 12.04
- MythWeb
- Shepherd XMLTV grabber
- Channel 9, Gem, GO will not tune. The dtv_multiplex.network_id is null - set to 4114 seems to fix things.
Shepherd grabber
Standard install except cron job is disabled and allow mythtv to run mythfilldatabase. This is to allow mythtv to also be in control of suspend.
Suspend to RAM on idle
Why Suspend to RAM and not just a full shutdown that would "just work"? Partly due to boot speed and partly just because.
- mythbackend controls idle detection, supported by a custom script to check other reasons to stay up, and sudo rules to allow passwordless root activity
- suspend needs to unload dvb/usb modules which requires stopping mythbackend which means triggering suspend via upstart
- wake up for recordings triggered by /sys/class/rtc as per ACPI_Wakeup, hwlock-save update disabled via upstart override
- wake up for daily processing (anacron) triggered by cron running on my (always on) DD-WRT enabled router issuing a WOL
- wake up for serving adhoc web requests (mythweb et al) triggered by [custom router script]
Settings (set via mythweb as server is basically headless)
|Pre ShutdownWakeUp Check Command
|check if i'm logged in, or machine is in use for some other reason
|Block ShutdownWakeUp without client
|because this is a backend only machine
|Set Wakeup time command
|sudo /usr/local/sbin/set-wakeup.sh $time
|Server Halt command
|sudo /usr/local/sbin/emit-suspend.sh
|can't suspend directly because we need to shutdown mythbackend during suspend
|Wakeup time format
|as per ACPI wakeup page to use /sys/class/rtc
#!/bin/sh ACCESS_LOG="/var/log/apache2/access.log" LOG_AGE="5 minutes ago" # Anacron runs our daily, weekly, monthly housekeeping (backups etc) # anacron runs at boot, on resume from suspend, and at 2:00am via a cron job # It will actually do its thing the first time it runs after midnight on any given day # In general I expect it to run at 2:30am when we are resumed by a cron scheduled WOL event from the router pgrep 'anacron' && { echo "Anacron job is running" exit 1 } # users are logged in if [ `who | wc -l` -gt 0 ] ; then who exit 1 fi # apache request in last 5 minutes # also need to configure apache to drop its dummy internal connections from the access logs if [ -f $ACCESS_LOG -a `stat -c %Y $ACCESS_LOG` -gt `date --date "$LOG_AGE" "+%s"` ] ; then echo "Web server in use" exit 1 fi # and all the standard mythtv stuff /usr/bin/mythshutdown -v --check
#Enable mythtv to set the real time clock and emit the suspending event without a password prompt %mythtv ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/emit-suspend.sh, /usr/local/sbin/set-wakeup.sh
#!/bin/sh #$1 is the first argument to the script. It is the time in seconds since 1970 #this is defined in mythtv-setup with the time_t argument echo 0 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm #this clears your alarm. echo $1 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm #this writes your alarm
#!/bin/sh # Suspend via upstart initctl emit suspending
start on (suspending) script logger -t "suspending" "Suspending via upstart" pm-suspend end script
#!/bin/sh # The dvb modules need to be unloaded to allow suspend/resume to work # To unload the modules mythbackend needs to be stopped # # NOTE: Suspend cannot be executed in a child process of mythbackend itself (eg via server halt command) # since it will simply abort at the point we stop mythbackend below. If this is required use upstart or some # other means to decouple pm-suspend from the mythbackend process. LOG=/var/log/mythtv/mythsuspend.log MODULES="dvb_usb_dib0700" echo "Will now $1 mythtv" | tee -a $LOG case $1 in suspend|hibernate) stop mythtv-backend 2>&1 | tee -a $LOG sleep 3 modprobe -r $MODULES 2>&1 | tee -a $LOG ;; resume|thaw) modprobe $MODULES start mythtv-backend | tee -a $LOG ;; esac
- ZOTAC ionitx-d-e board, 2G memory
- Szrealan E-2011 case (tiny!)
- External DVD player
- 1Tb external e-Sata drive
- BenQ PE8700 DLP Projector
- Sony Bravia TV over HDMI
- CambridgeAudio AV receiver
- MythBuntu 12.04 64bit
- Synergy to allow laptop to be the keyboard/mouse.
Enable Wake on USB
We need to enable USB0 in /proc/acpi/wakeup
Note if USB2 is also enabled, then the board immediately wakes up regardless, unsure if this is due to another USB device
Seems to be enabled by default for Mythbuntu 12.04 but Current cheap as Chinese remote does not send the wakeup signal from the power button unfortunately
Auto-start X
- disabled lightdm in via upstart override (echo 'manual' > /etc/init/lightdm.override)
- Simple mingetty startup with a tty definition and a startx script in the console
- user .xsession linked to /usr/share/mythbuntu/session.sh so we get the same xfce startup.
# tty7 - mythtv # start on runlevel [23] stop on runlevel [!23] respawn exec /sbin/mingetty --autologin=mythtv tty7
Appended to detect if we are on tty7, in which case we start-up X with an optional layout specified in ~/.mythrc
Note that when X is stopped we automatically logout and respawn
start-frontend() { MYTHRC="$HOME/.mythrc" if [ -r $MYTHRC ] ; then . $MYTHRC fi LAYOUT_SPEC= [ ! -z "$LAYOUT" ] && LAYOUT_SPEC="-layout $LAYOUT" startx -- $LAYOUT_SPEC -logverbose 5 logout } tty | grep tty7 && start-frontend
For PE8700 Samsung LCD. See also the tips for the NVidiaProprietaryDriver
The FX5200 cards were the cause of my DVI problems on my projector. Apparently they freak out a PCB component causing the EDID data to become corrupt. (a Gigabyte card lasted from Aug 2006 to Dec 2007. Fortunately the new nvidia driver allow you to use a CustomEDID to load the data from a file.
Option ExactModeTimingsDVI is also important for the projector.
Option "UseEDIDDpi" "false" or some equivalent control of DPI is important for the Samsung television otherwise you get really small fonts (fixed in 0.21)
There are two layouts, the default uses outputs via VGA to a Samsung LCD television, the second uses DVI to the PE8700 projector.
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Main" # Output to Samsung LCD television #LCD[0] VGA, LCD[1] HDMI Screen 0 "LCD[1]" 0 0 Option "Xinerama" "off" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Projector" Screen 0 "Projector[0]" 0 0 Option "Xinerama" "off" EndSection Section "Module" Load "glx" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ION-GPU[0]" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:3:0:0" Screen 0 #This prevents the cursor being displayed on resume from suspend Option "HWCursor" "off" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "LCD[1]" Device "ION-GPU[0]" Monitor "AnyMonitor" DefaultDepth 24 Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-1" # HDMI Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-1" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "LCD[0]" Device "ION-GPU[0]" Monitor "AnyMonitor" DefaultDepth 24 Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT-1" Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE" #Computed DPI values not so good for TV display Option "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT-1" # VGA out SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1360x768" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Projector[0]" Device "ION-GPU[0]" Monitor "AnyMonitor" Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP" Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" # DVI out Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/benq-c.bin" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x720" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "AnyMonitor" Option "DPMS" Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "true" Option "RenderAccel" "true" EndSection
Start a ruby program that listens to /dev/lircd and manages -
- mythtv via updating the database + network control port
- the AV receiver via RS232 - volume/mute, power on/off, input type
- alsa via calls to amixer - volume/mute, digital/analog outputs
- suspend on lirc idle or power button
- restart specifying TV or Projector layout
#!/bin/sh #store our dbus session and display where our kill script can pick it up export | egrep "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS|DISPLAY" > ~/.xsession-export #Run unclutter to hide the cursor after resume - not required - see HWCursor in xorg.conf #unclutter -display $DISPLAY & #run our main lirc control program /home/mythtv/bin/audiomodeswitch/main.rb &
#!/bin/sh # We use dbus-send because it seems to block until resume which is what we want echo "Suspending" dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer \ org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Suspend int32:2 echo "Resumed"
Script is called by the ruby program, but also useful to restart from ssh
#!/bin/sh [ -f $HOME/.xsession-export ] && . $HOME/.xsession-export echo "killing mythfrontend" pkill mythfrontend #pkill unclutter echo "xfce logout $DISPLAY" xfce4-session-logout --logout --fast
LIRC Remote Control
Standard mythbuntu setup for MCE remote.
Onboard sound
Could probably do better 48/44kHz switching on the analog output between music and video but if that is important we just go digital passthrough and let the receiver do the work.
In myth config, you can see that default sound device is ALSA:myth-video, the passthrough device is ALSA:myth-passthru, and mythmusic uses ALSA:myth-music. the AC3PassThru and DTSPassThru settings are managed by the ruby program
#First line comment pcm.myth-music { type copy slave.pcm "default" } ctl.myth-music { type hw card 0 } pcm.myth-video { type copy slave.pcm "default" } ctl.myth-video { type hw card 0 } pcm.myth-passthru { type copy slave.pcm = "spdif" } ctl.myth-passthru { type hw card 0 }
TODO - Works nicely through the WRT310N router etc, but we have a hard drive have decided to stick with Mythbuntu for now.
Mythbuntu 12.04
Reconfigured from scratch for no particular reason
Mythbuntu 10.10
100% clean on server
front end was missing non-versioned symlink for vdpau nvidia library
ln -s /etc/alternatives/libvdpau_nvidia.so /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so
Mythbuntu 9.10
100% clean on server
front end needed /etc/events.d/tty7 moved to /etc/init/tty7.conf
Mythbuntu 8.10
upgrade smooth


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Splendid Isolation
I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows
Lying down in the dark to dream
I don't want to see their faces
I don't want to hear them scream - Warren Zevon
Symptomatic of Capgras Syndrome is the delusion of doubles: that those closest to you, or your familiar objects, have been replaced by impostors and replicas. Tony Rosato, a Toronto comic actor who put in time on SCTV and Saturday Night Live, served two years in prison for criminally harassing his wife on account of it. (Last month he was remanded to a psychiatric hospital after a conditional discharge.)
In his testimony, Rosato repeated his worries for his family, and his contention that his wife Leah had been replaced by twins or triplets and that their baby was a changeling. The judge, in ruling Rosato to be in need of psychiatric care, cited Leah's alarm at Tony's claims that her family was connected to a paedophile ring, and his fear of entities he called "astral attackers."
In Taboo: Sex, Religon and Magick, psychotherapist Christopher Hyatt tells of a patient he treated in the 1970s. One day she came to him with a troubling dream of being carried into a church by a priest and raped upon the altar. Within a week she had suffered a "complete psychotic break" and was hospitalized. Hyatt, noting that her father was a deacon in a nearby church, diagnosed that "the breaking of the taboo (even in a dream) so overpowered my patient that her mind literally broke down."
Could be. Probably. She was Hyatt's patient, and to me she's just an anecdote in Hyatt's book. But as I read it, I thought something that should have been considered, if only to rule it out, was that the dream was the manifestation of a suppressed memory of abuse, whether sexual or merely assuming a sexual expression, and his patient's psychotic break was the result of the dissociative effort of denial.
More evidently, Rosato is an ill man. But his strong delusion doesn't necessarily render crazy each of his unhealthy obsessions. There are, evidently, paedophile rings, and many individuals considered wise and well have themselves described astral attacks. Rosato isn't sick for mentioning them, but applied to his circumstance he is almost certainly wrong.
All of which makes me wonder about our own sick circumstance.
In October, 1963, a US Army private first class named Eugene Dinkin, working in Metz, France as a crypto operator with top secret clearance, picked up indications that "a conspiracy was in the making by the 'military' of the United States, perhaps combined with an 'ultra-right economic group." (The quote is from a declassified FBI report of April 3, 1964.) One of his duties as a code breaker was to decipher traffic that originated with the OAS, though he contended he first became alerted to a conspiracy by a study of subliminal "psychological sets" in Stars and Stripes and certain Hearst papers which, writes Lisa Pease, he believed "were deliberately maneuvered to set up a subconscious belief on the part of one reading these papers to the effect that President John F. Kennedy was 'soft on communism.'" He became convinced an attempt would be made on the president's life in Texas in late November, and that it would be pinned on the Left.
Alarmed, Dinkin wrote Robert Kennedy and then, realizing the warning had little chance of reaching the Attorney General, abruptly left his unit, going AWOL to try to contact ambassadors in nearby Luxembourg. On Nov 6 he showed up at the UN press office in Geneva. He couldn't find an American correspondent and so told his story to the editor of the Geneva Diplomat. On Nov 13 he was "hospitalized" by the US army in a closed psych ward and kept in virtual isolation until the assassination. On the evening of Nov 23 he was interviewed by a Secret Service agent who said that since Dinkin was in a psych ward he would be giving the government "absolutely no information."
He was transferred to Walter Reed in December and, in his words, "began receiving 'therapy' to help me understand that my warning of the assassination had been 'coincidental.'" He was told if he didn't improve he would be electro-shocked. Naturally, he feigned cooperation, "improved" and was released. His story, because it's told by a sick man, goes unmentioned by the Warren Commission.
In Illness as Metaphor Susan Sontag writes that "the most truthful way of regarding illness - and the healthiest way of being ill - is one most purified of, most resistant to, metaphoric thinking." But then ani difranco says we're 90% metaphor, which is a nicer thought than biology's animated sacks of blood and water, so perhaps it's alright after all. Though that still doesn't make us alright.
Capgras remains a rare condition in the material world usually precipitated by head trauma, but in the deep world it's a pandemic afflicting us metaphors. Many of us now know we're in a strange place that only resembles our home, and those who don't may no longer recognize us. (I know I've lost friends because of this; because they couldn't fathom where I was going or didn't want to come along. It makes me wish sometimes that when I told my wife, "You know, I've been thinking of starting a blog," that she'd replied, "You know, I don't think that's such a good idea.")
The canyon that's being carved in the West between underclass and overclass, and into which the middle class is being made to tumble, reifies the syndrome of the unrecognizable familiar. We have rulers who look like us, and appear to talk to us about what we're told are our concerns and values, yet whose experience and environment and whose own values are so alien to our own that they may as well be aliens themselves. In turn neither do they recognize themselves in us, and only grudgingly and for their own ends use the power of state with egalitarian beneficence. You could call them reptiles, but just as truthfully you can call them Morlocks. And if you do then you must know what they eat.
Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry says that "humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells." He expects the emergence of "a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass":
The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.
But in the nearer future, humans will evolve in 1,000 years into giants between 6ft and 7ft tall, he predicts, while life-spans will have extended to 120 years, Dr Curry claims. Physical appearance, driven by indicators of health, youth and fertility, will improve, he says, while men will exhibit symmetrical facial features, look athletic, and have squarer jaws, deeper voices and bigger penises.
Clearly Dr Curry has an acute case of Capgras-by-proxy. The onward-and-upward progress ideal upon which he mounts his projection bears only tangential resemblance to the future that is already squatting on our present. Decades before the worst-case scenarios it appears we've already entered a greenhouse gas feedback loop, while according to a study released this week by the Energy Watch Group world oil production peaked in 2006, and extreme near-term shortages can be expected to herald war and social breakdown.
Like Curry, HG Wells had it backwards, too. In our world, for whatever foreseeable future remains of it, it's the Molocks with their appetites and devil machines who are equipped to thrive. The ruling class won't be living a soft and pasty fantasy life for 100,000 years. They'll show, unambiguously, their goblin face.
Yet it's hard to argue with Curry's expectation of a "dim-witted underclass." Since there is a correlation between higher education and liberal and progressive values, a "dimming-down" has been long in the works by those who hold neither, but hold much else.
Mark Morford writes today of the horror in the heart of an Oakland high school teacher nearing retirement, who "says he is very seriously considering moving out of the country so as to escape what he sees will be the surefire collapse of functioning American society in the next handful of years due to the absolutely irrefutable destruction, the shocking — and nearly hopeless — dumb-ification of the American brain":
[He] simply observes his students, year to year, noting all the obvious evidence of teens' decreasing abilities when confronted with even the most basic intellectual tasks, from understanding simple history to working through moderately complex ideas to even (in a couple recent examples that particularly distressed him) being able to define the words "agriculture," or even "democracy." Not a single student could do it.
It gets worse. My friend cites the fact that, of the 6,000 high school students he estimates he's taught over the span of his career, only a small fraction now make it to his grade with a functioning understanding of written English. They do not know how to form a sentence. They cannot write an intelligible paragraph. Recently, after giving an assignment that required drawing lines, he realized that not a single student actually knew how to use a ruler.
Morford adds that their discussion then turns to "the bigger picture, the ugly and unavoidable truism about the lack of need among the government and the power elite in this nation to create a truly effective educational system, one that actually generates intelligent, thoughtful, articulate citizens." Perhaps the lack of need is, from the perspective of Morlocks, a need for lack among its overstocked herd of the tazed and confused.
In Nightside of Eden Kenneth Grant, Outer Head of the Typhonian OTO and founder of the Cult of Lam, writes that "the Mysteries, the true Gnosis, are of a predominantly psycho-sexual nature." If so, and if this is a time of mystery and revelation, perhaps we should expect more manifestations of psycho-sexual disturbance, both by way of illness and metaphor. And perhaps that's what we're seeing sometimes, when we can bear to look.


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As vigorous in his provocations as he is in his formal inventions, Nagisa Oshima is a filmmaker who has always stood apart. An omnidirectional spigot of j'accuse fervor (chiefly aimed at Japanese nationalism) with a pair of Scope-spanning kino-eyes, he deserves to have the breadth of his eclectic oeuvre more substantially recognized. Long unseen, if ever, in Los Angeles, thirteen of Oshima's films, from his 1959 debut (A Town of Love and Hope) to his 2000 swan song (Gohatto), will screen at LACMA starting tomorrow.
In anticipation of this retrospective, I exchanged emails with the film series's curator: Cinematheque Ontario senior programmer James Quandt. Quandt has been the recipient of a Special Prize for Arts and Culture from the Japan Foundation and editor of definitive volumes on Shohei Imamura and Kon Ichikawa. He's not only renowned for his erudite, prolific writing but also for curating among the most thorough film retrospectives in North America. In the Realm of Oshima is no exception.
Q: It's been two decades since a retrospective of Nagisa Oshima's films was last held in North America. In fact, you were also the curator of that preceding series, which took place in 1988 at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre. What are the major differences between that series and what you've put together now?
A: This one is more comprehensive; two or three titles were not available the last time, and, of course, Oshima has made several films in the two decades. More important, many of the new prints in this retrospective are recently struck or brand new; the Harbourfront retrospective had to rely on extant prints, many of which were not in good condition.
Q: Oshima himself attended the '88 retrospective and the two of you kept up a correspondence for some years. Can you tell us a bit more about your relations with a director often deemed "difficult" by many?
A: Indeed, I had been warned off inviting him by many colleagues, but, as often happens in such cases, he proved to be the total opposite of his reputation: sweet, funny, generous. We maintained a correspondence for some years after and because one of the producers of his next film (never made, alas), about Sessue Hayakawa, was in Toronto, he sometimes dropped by to visit.
Q: Have you had any direct contact with Oshima about this present retrospective?
A: No, Oshima suffered a debilitating stroke some years ago, and is not aware of the retrospective.
Q: Can you discuss a bit more what you call the "vexing rights issues" that long delayed this Oshima retrospective and thwarted so many others from mounting such series in the past twenty years?
A: Some of this must remain private, but suffice it to say that the rights on many of Oshima's key films, especially from the sixties and seventies, have been contentious, uncertain. I thank my colleague Marie Suzuki at the Japan Foundation, Tokyo, a true miracle worker who finessed what had long been considered intractable problems to get prints made and the necessary permissions. My psychotic persistence paid off in the end.
Q: You specifically cite Oshima's television documentaries from the sixties as "impossible" to screen. Can you tell us a bit more about them?
A: Oshima made several very political documentaries about Japan's history, criticizing the imperial system, the rise of militarism, etc. They incorporated a great deal of newsreel footage. It is truly amazing to me that these were made and shown on Japanese television. That would certainly never happen in North America. I very much wanted to show at least two or three as examples of the form; they're very important works. But my investigations showed that the rights, which are always complicated for public exhibition of television works, were impossible to secure, partly because of the nature of the works (clips from here, there, everywhere). The retrospective has been invited to this year's Torino film festival and they are keen to show some television work so perhaps they will be luckier than I. Of course, I also felt I had to concentrate on getting the rights and prints for the films, which was a daunting enough task.
Q: What are some of your favorite films in the series?
A: The pantheon is the pantheon for a reason: Boy, The Ceremony, In the Realm of the Senses. But there are many I love which are not so well known. The Sun's Burial is one of cinema's great visions of hell. And I have mighty fondness for Three Resurrected Drunkards, one of his wittiest and most deeply felt films, though it can drive an audience to distraction.


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Regional Report Triangle August 2010
Even in good times, downtown theaters and sports arenas can run in the red their first few years, and the Durham Performing Arts Center had no warm economic wind at its back. It opened in November 2008 amid the chill of a nationwide economic crisis with home foreclosures rising, the stock market plunging and the statewide unemployment rate nearing double digits.
Yet DPAC, which boasts 2,800 seats and claims to be the largest indoor theatrical venue in the state, earned $1 million in the seven months that made up its first fiscal year. Its owner, the city, received more than $400,000 of the profit — more than four times what was expected. The numbers for the latest fiscal year, which ended in June, aren't final yet, but DPAC continues to bring in tax revenue to the city and leisure dollars to nearby merchants.
In the 12 months ended May 30, the $1 city tax paid on each ticket added up to $303,770, according to the Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau. Local tax revenue generated, including sales and occupancy taxes, topped $1 million. Counting visitor spending in hotels, restaurants and other places, the bureau estimates that DPAC added $23.2 million to the local economy. In May, 85,000 people — a 96% occupancy rate — attended the 32 evening and matinee performances of the musical Wicked. "There was a need in our community for the type of programming that DPAC offers — a mixture of Broadway plays, concerts, comedies, musicals," says Reginald Johnson, senior assistant to the city manager.
Why so successful in such a bleak economy? It doesn't hurt that Durham County has the highest average weekly wage in the state and sits between the counties ranked third and fourth (page 18). Triangle residents tend to be better educated than most — the region has one of the highest concentrations of Ph.D.s in the country — and the local economy is buffered from economic shock by a hefty number of jobs in government and health care. While the unemployment rate in the finance-heavy Charlotte region rose above 13% earlier this year, the Triangle's rate has stayed below 10% since DPAC opened.
But credit the city with knowing its limitations: It farmed out theater management and bookings to a partnership of Professional Facilities Management Inc. of Providence, R.I., and the Nederlander Organization, which is based in New York and owns or operates nine Broadway theaters. "They have buying power for many, many theaters," says Shelly Green, CEO of the CVB. "A lot of the shows we're getting in Durham have played on Broadway in one of the Nederlander theaters, so we're getting them early and we're getting some of the best shows."
Talking turkey
Smithfield Foods Inc. isn't happy with its minority stake in turkey processor Butterball LLC, and the Virginia-based meat packer either wants the 51% it doesn't own or wants out of its joint venture with Goldsboro-based Maxwell Farms LLC. In June, it offered Maxwell Farms $200 million to go away and demanded an answer by mid-September. "We have been unhappy with the margins that we have achieved in that end of the business," CEO Larry Pope told analysts. He says Garner-based Butterball needs an owner that will invest more, particularly in marketing. "We believe this is a tremendous household brand that has not been adequately supported." Smithfield hasn't produced great results itself. It lost $101.4 million in the fiscal year that ended in May, mainly because of losses in its hog-production segment. Maxwell Farms released a statement saying that it, too, wants to buy Butterball. Meanwhile, a rumor circulated that a Brazilian company, JBS SA, plans to buy Smithfield. A Smithfield spokesman wouldn't comment.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — A Spanish company agreed to buy Talecris Biotherapeutics Holdings for $3.4 billion. Both make medicine from blood plasma. Talecris employs about 2,100 at its headquarters here and a plant in Clayton. Grifols, based in Barcelona, didn't say whether it will cut jobs or move Talecris' headquarters.
MORRISVILLE — Pharmaceutical Product Development, a Wilmington-based contract research organization, spun off its drug-development business and created Furiex Pharmaceuticals. PPD stockholders received a share of Furiex for every 12 they held of PPD. In its first month of trading, Furiex fell 49% to $10.16 a share.
DURHAM — The pay of Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski more than tripled in four seasons, reaching nearly $4.2 million in the 2008-09 fiscal year. Krzyzewski has led the school to four national championships. UNC Chapel Hill pays coach Roy Williams, who has led the Tar Heels to two national championships, $334,000 a year.
DURHAM — New York-based Northwood Investors bought Research Tri-Center from Grosvenor Investment Management for about $77 million — 27% less than it cost London-based Grosvenor three years ago. Northwood outbid 29 rivals for the center, which includes about 1.5 million square feet of warehouse and office space.
The N.C. Division of Water Quality says cleaning up Falls Lake could cost as much as $1.5 billion and take 25 years. Local governments will pay most of it. The 12,500-acre reservoir, which provides drinking water for nearly 500,000 people in Wake County, contains high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus.
RALEIGH — New York-based lender iStar Financial took over Hue, a downtown condominium project that closed its sales offices here in late May without selling a unit. Los Angeles-based CityView turned over the deed to avoid foreclosure. It borrowed $36 million from iStar in 2007, planning for a 208-unit project.
CARY — Deere & Co. will close its Charlotte engineering center next year and move about 90 jobs here. The Moline, Ill.-based maker of heavy equipment employs about 670 in Charlotte, Cary and Fuquay-Varina but doesn't disclose employment at each site.
DURHAM — Novella Clinical acquired rival contract research organization Prologue Research International, based in Columbus, Ohio. Prologue focuses exclusively on cancer drugs. Terms weren't disclosed. Novella will add Prologue's 60 employees to its workforce, giving it about 800 workers. About 275 are based here.
DURHAM — Gilead Sciences will close its local operation by the end of the year, laying off about 150. Most of its work here involved developing treatments for hepatitis B and C. It will move that research to its headquarters in Forest City, Calif.


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Jeff Goldblum surprises London commuters
Hollywood actor Jeff Goldblum has faced dinosaurs and aliens in his movie franchises, but on Wednesday he showed off a very different skill - playing jazz music.
The Jurassic Park and Independence Day actor surprised commuters at London's St Pancras International train station by performing music from his forthcoming jazz album on a public piano.
Crowds gathered around the 65-year-old, who recorded The Capitol Studios Sessions with his band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, and they applauded his solo performance.
The album is released in November.
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Adults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part of their public or private health care plans under a gender rights law approved Wednesday. Senators approved the Gender Identity law by a vote of 55 to zero with one abstention and more than a dozen senators declaring themselves absent — the same margin that approved a "death with dignity" law earlier in the day.
RESISTENCIA, Argentina, Oct 13, 2011 (IPS) - Rural and indigenous women in northern Argentina, hit hard by the expanding agricultural frontier, deforestation and the spraying of toxic pesticides, spoke out about their problems and set forth proposals for discussion at the next global summit on climate change. They did so at the Women's Hearing on Gender and Climate Justice 2011-Argentina, held Tuesday Oct. 11 in Resistencia, the capital of Chaco province, 950 km north of Buenos Aires, attended by representatives of organisations from the northern 10 of the country's 23 provinces.


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NAHSVILLE, Tenn. – Neither the weather or SIUE could stop Tennessee State from sending off its seniors with a, 66-61, victory on Thursday night in the Gentry Center.
In a game that was delayed for 30 minutes at halftime because of a tornado warning, senior Patrick Miller led all scorers with 23 points on 8-of-17 shooting. The contest marked the 40th straight game that the Chicago native has scored at least 10 points.
Fellow senior Chaed Wellian had a career-night, pouring in a new personal best 12 points and junior M.J. Rhett had his 14th double-double of the season, notching 16 points and 11 rebounds.
Senior Jacquan Nobles scored three points and grabbed four boards in his final home game.
Each of TSU's three seniors hit triples to start the game and Wellian's put the Tigers in front, 9-3, with only a minute-and-a-half gone.
SIUE (11-17, 7-7 OVC) responded with a 9-2 run to take the lead at 12-11, but Rhett finally got the Tigers back on track with a strong dunk off of a nice assist from Miller.
The two sides went back-and-forth for the next six minutes, but a third-straight great play from Miller --this time finding Rhett again for an easy layup—prompted SIUE head coach Lennox Forrester to call timeout with his team trailing, 25-24, with 7:53 to go in the first half.
The Cougars used the pep-talk to score six straight points and re-take the lead and head into the break up, 33-30.
The Tigers outshot SIUE in the first half (46 to 39 percent) and had more rebounds (19 versus 14), but turned the ball over seven times, leading to 10 Cougar points.
A mammoth one-handed dunk by Miller at the 15:58 mark put TSU back in control, 41-39, but the Tigers couldn't put together consecutive field goals.
Tennessee State (4-24, 2-11 OVC) eventually gained a little ground when Miller hit threes on back-to-back trips down the court to move ahead by four, 58-54, with 5:18 to go.
An assist from Miller led to another Rhett layup from in close, allowing the Tigers to take a five-point advantage with just over one minute left in the game.
Miller hit a pair of free throws down the stretch, and TSU walked away with a 66-61 victory in the last home game of the 2013-14 season.
Tennessee State had just three turnovers in the second half and forced 10.
SIUE was paced by Kris Davis's 14 points while Keaton Jackson added 12.
TSU will next travel to Morehead State on Feb. 27 for a 6:30 p.m. tip-off with the Eagles.


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Agent Spotlight: Kouri Wolf
Kouri Wolf has been a Summit County resident for the past 26 years and has been active in the real estate world since 1978. Wolf started her real estate career at Keystone Resort Real Estate. As the administrative assistant to the vice president of real estate, she immediately realized that she had a real talent and love for the industry.Where did you grow up?Wichita, Kan. What do you love most about Summit County?So many things, but most of all, summer! I love the free outdoor concerts, the great theatrical talents at our local performing arts theaters, the community of so many giving people and overall, the magical beauty this great place gives us every day. What do you enjoy when you are not working?Kayaking, hiking, skiing, biking, travel and wonderful time with family and friends. How long have you worked in real estate?I started my career in Keystone in 1978, but went very part-time for a few years to raise two sons and develop my own retail/Christmas stores in Keystone, Vail and Denver. What is your specialty?While most of my business is second-home sales, I particularly love the gratification of helping locals and first-time home buyers realize the dream of home ownership. What designations do you have and what does that mean for the people you work with?MRE, (masters of real estate) a Colorado Association of Realtors designation which focuses on all areas of advanced course work from listing, selling, finance, real estate law and a variety of other classes. This designation gives me a the confidence and general knowledge to assist my clients with the best possible guidance when considering selling or purchasing a property. I am also on the Colorado Association of Realtors roster for real estate ethics and arbitration hearings which requires ongoing education in that area. What is the most challenging/gratifying aspect of what you do?Probably the most challenging aspect to me is finding the right property for the buyer. Everyone has that dream wish list when starting the process and quickly realizes that something will have to be eliminated along the way. Of course the most gratifying is actually finding something they love and assisting in the final negotiations that leads them to the closing. What is the most unique property you've listed or closed?One of the very first properties I sold in the early 1980s was the Silverheels Lodge in Wildernest. At the time it was a true dinner lodge and buyers were purchasing it for an executive retreat. The sellers were so excited as this gave them the opportunity to take off on retirement on their sailboat to travel the world. That was a great experience. Probably what really gave me the drive to always be looking for the new challenge and creative opportunity in this business. What are the top three things that separate you from your competition?Hard work, dedication to my clients' needs and 30 years of experience here in Summit County. What is one tip you have for someone looking to buy or sell a home?Work with an experienced broker that won't rush you through the process – and it is a process. Knowing exactly what will meet your needs can take some time, make sure your broker is patient. When the timing is right and the right property is available, that broker will be there for you through the process. Even if it takes years, and sometimes it does.What do you see in the future for real estate sales/prices?This is always hard to predict. It's likely that prices will continue to level out and of course we all hope an uptick in pricing is on the horizon. With the lower inventory this year than last year, it might happen sooner than later. Why should someone choose you as their real estate broker?Because I love working with people and helping them realize their dream to own a home here in Summit County. My experience and hard work will prove beneficial when trying to make this very important decision.
Kouri Wolf was selected as this week's Agent Spotlight in Summit Homes & Properties. Wolf was asked to provide information to a standard set of questions designed to help the reader learn more about her.
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The Refinery is a company that helps in training business leaders to reach their full potential. We deal with decison makers from a variety of backgrounds all of which seek to improve thier leadership abilities. The website can serve as a great resource for helping these leaders further their skills.
We want our site to be both easy to navigate as well as incredibly informative for the users who visit. It is important to have a professional look as well as the ability to have the user leave our website with a positive impression of what we do.
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