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I'm new to Sirius after being an XM subscriber for a number of years. Since they're different brands of the same company with similar programming, I decided to take advantage of the receiver built into my new vehicle (2009 Mazda CX-7).
However, I'm greatly disappointed with the sound quality. The sound is very flat. It reminds me of mediocre Internet streaming audio. I find that the built in quality from the Sirius receiver is much worse than the FM transmitter quality from my XM SkyFi2. I find that the quality is worse than FM radio (I'm in central NJ getting channels out of NYC - crowded airwaves, decent distance away).
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Google is reportedly putting the finishing touches on an iOS app that might replace the Chocolate Factory code that Apple so unceremoniously dropped with its iOS 6 operating system.
According to the Wall Street Journal sources with direct knowledge of the code say that the first builds of the completed application have been pushed out to beta testers. Earlier reports suggest the Chocolate Factory could be preparing a Christmas app gift for Cupertino, but it's the software equivalent of coal in the stocking.
"We believe Google Maps are the most comprehensive, accurate and easy-to-use maps in the world. Our goal is to make Google Maps available to everyone who wants to use it, regardless of device, browser, or operating system," is all Google is willing to say at the moment.
Apple's decision to drop Google's mapping app and YouTube player hasn't proved to be an unqualified success. The poor quality of Apple's own-brand mapping app left many users frustrated, and may have cost iOS software chief Scott Forstall his job when CEO Tim Cook was forced to apologize after the Apple crap Map app flap.
Cupertino has cleared apps that use Google's data in the mapping section of the iTunes store, but it's by no means clear that it would allow the current arch-rival to compete directly. It's not outside the realm of possibility that it would call a halt to the app on some technical or compliance grounds.
On the other hand, it could be that Apple will take the high ground and let Google back in. Its own mapping system isn't ready yet and there's strong competition from Nokia on the horizon. Blocking the app would look bad to the regulators, and Apple doesn't need an investigation into its mobile business at this point in time.
As is traditional, and in this case perfectly reasonable, Apple refuses to comment on apps that may or may not be submitted.
El Reg would suggest that Cupertino take the more open route. Letting Google in now would fix a major customer complaint, allow breathing space to fix its own mapping software, and head off any more accusations that Apple is becoming the bully of the mobile apps market. ®


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2006 has been a year that's lived up to and exceeded all expectations. With enough fantastic albums to treble the length of my Albums of the Year list and a gig list long enough to frighten even the hardiest tour manager, I've seen plenty of goodness this year.
However, at this time of year it's difficult to remember exactly what happened. Or maybe, if you can remember what happened, you can't remember when it happened. Luckily we're on hand to jog those memories and help you reminisce about the good times and the couple of sad moments which brought us all back down to Earth with a big bump. This is 2006.
We began the year with a landmark for DiS as January saw the launch of the award-winning DiS Radio podcast. There was even a special podcast celebrating our 6 Tips For 2006 show at the London Barfly, which was not just sold-out: it was a heaving sweatpit that also had some people and bands in it. Other news saw the sixth ultra-glossy edition of the marvellous Loose Lips Sink Ships magazine hit newsstands across the country and Regina Spektor's wonderful new album hitting delicate eardrums just as delicately. Broken Social Scene's self-titled album also received an official UK release through City Slang, and Cat Power returned with The Greatest, even if DiS didn't think it was. Her greatest album, that is. Oh, and some Sheffield band or other released their debut album.
I'd like to suggest that February was a quiet month but this was when DiS editor Colin Roberts' (other) favourite new band volcano! released their debut album. Needless to say it got a hallowed 10/10 rating and Colin went and hung out with them when they played London's Luminaire. The Kilburn venue was voted London's best venue in February. What a linkup. Other news saw the best grunge band ever, Alice In Chains, announcing their return with a new singer. I love them. Belle And Sebastian also returned with a bang, and DiS awarded their The Life Pursuit album 9/10; the same score found its way to Liars' excellently weird Drum's Not Dead, too. One of the success stories of the year, Panic! At The Disco, also released their debut album in February.
There actually was a bit less happening in March as half the DiS crew tottered off to Texas for South By Southwest and gorged themselves on pancakes and free beer for a week. Some of us sorry bastards were left behind in the UK, licking our wounds after almost dying in the Will Haven moshpit. The Sacramento noiseniks had returned after splitting and it was like nothing had changed. Apart from their hair. Other news saw iLiKETRAiNS lead singer David Martin involved in a painful shoulder incident. The Knife released one of our albums of the year: their Silent Shout attracted a rare 10/10 from DiS. Mystery Jets, too, received the DiS stamp of approval for their Making Dens debut.
Iceland was fun.
April was an awesome month as Reading… sorry, Carling Weekend tickets sold out in minutes, outstanding albums from Mono, Satyricon and Todd (which was reviewed even more outstandingly), and the DiS Radio podcast hosting a Rock Show that was downloaded by loads of people who were promptly scared off by Gojira's merciless metal tones. The month's festival coverage was of Rite Of Spring: held in Reykjavik, the wild experiences prompted the triumphant return of the Raz on The Raz article. It was clear that DiS would be back in Iceland before long.
Sticking on the festival theme, the first proper British festival of the year was being held in Brighton in May, and DiS had a stage at The Great Escape with Metric and The Cooper Temple Clause playing. I was probably watching Disco Ensemble and Gojira, but there have been more than enough jokes about that this year. More jokes were had when I received death threats from Angels & Airwaves fans about an album review and guitarist Dave Baksh left Sum 41 to form Brown Brigade. Oh dear. Kaiser Chiefs' singer Ricky Wilson also got hit by a car, but he wasn't run over. Luckily. In more album news, Howling Bells got us all hot abour our collars with their self-titled debut.
The first summer heat wave gave us all sunstroke at Download in June, but the joy and sickness found at the Midlands metalfest was soon tempered with the news that Billy Bell of Les Incompetents was almost fatally injured in an incident with a drunken tree hugger. You couldn't have made that shit up. DiS editor Colin Roberts wrote a piece on Muse that has proven to be remarkably prophetic. Things like this that make you realise that the success of DiS thus far may not be a whimsical fluke. Some albums were also released – most notably by bands with funny names (iLiKETRAiNS, 36 Crazyfists, Final Fantasy and SikTh). June was also the first time we heard Beirut, whose Gulag Orkestar album made its way to DiS on import - it's now out officially through 4AD.
July was a controversial month. That Muse album was released and, true to form, sparked massive debate about whether they were actually good or actually the worst band EVER or whether Bellamy is just Thom Yorke but better (get over it, kids). The self-titled Razorlight album got fewer people flustered but was one of the most comprehensive and massively long reviews ever seen on DiS, and the latest Winnebago Deal album split opinion just like Muse did. But not as many people cared. Or else they'd be playing Wembley Stadium next summer. Oh, and Top of the Pops faded away to less than four million people. It was a shame, but clearly nobody really gave a shit. Guillemots released their debut album, too; we might just have liked it. That, and TV On The Radio's quite, quite magnificent Return To Cookie Mountain.
Lifesblood of DiS, content editor Mike Diver, risked life, limb and reputation by interviewing My Chemical Romance in August. Unsurprisingly he came out looking even better than before. Ale in hand and pie in mouth, he thrust a copy of The Daily Mail in their face and before they could even be bewildered he cackled and pointed at their sorry emo arses. They spoke about that emo article Mail onstage at Reading. Nice one, Mike. Talking of the Carling Weekend, we got our coverage up on DiS even before the weekly magazines. Respect to the sad fool who coordinated that. Right? There were also wicked albums by Cursive and Comets On Fire.
September mainly saw us recovering. From Reading, from hearing the new Gallows, Bat For Lashes and Mastodon records, from toiling over the design of the DiScover subsite that was launched that month (after approximately 17 hours we decided on the brightest pink available), and then we brainstormed and thought up the Some Questions feature. It was something a bit different and only the usual suspects moaned about it, so we weren't that arsed.
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Birthdays are always to be celebrated. I don't care if you're 18 or 81, it's the one day of the year when you should demand attention from everyone that reckons they're your friend. If they don't turn up then they're not worthy. Probably. Luckily, when DiS was Six in October we had a whole month of celebrating so nobody could miss out. Not even Icelandic people. There was a tour with Fields and GoodBooks and a countdown of our favourite 66 albums of the last six years, imaginatively called Our 66. We finished it off with a gig at Iceland Airwaves (told you we'd be back), and then we went to see Panic! At The Disco at Brixton. It was great. October also saw an amazing fourth album from Lamb Of God, a blissful second from Subtle, a fantastic fifth from Deftones, and a stunning debut EP from Rolo Tomassi. October was amazing. Sing 'Happy Birthday' again.
When unsigned Hertfordshire trancecore merchants Enter Shikari announced they were to headline the Astoria in November there was uproar. Opinion was wildly divided just as it is/was with Muse. Are Enter Shikari to headline Wembley in future? Time will tell. It was a month for great gigs as we saw DiS faves Les Incompetents play their long overdue final show with Billy Bell back in action, looking as pissed off as ever with Fred's wacky antics. We also got stupidly drunk and saw Slayer. Twice. In terms of records, Joanna Newsom released a rather spiffing album as did Killswitch Engage, The Long Blondes and Blood Brothers but, like I said, November was all about going to lots of gigs. Lots and lots.
Now it's December and you have read this article. You're now able to remember some snippets of the last year with the assistance of my memory, and you may have even been to the DiS Christmas parties we've hosted with Guillemots, GoodBooks, Jeremy Warmsley, Tiger Force and Sky Larkin this week. Who knows. Maybe you've voted for our Album Of The Year? (If not, do so quick.) You may have even bought tickets to see the most important British band of our generation. Or maybe, even, tickets to the DiS-sponsored Blood Brothers tour in January...
Who knows. Who cares? Roll on 2007, I say, because if 2006 was anything to go by, the next twelve months are going to be absolutely brilliant.


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Vid NASA's twin lunar-orbiting GRAIL spacecraft are preparing to smash into the surface of the Moon as a final send-off.
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) ships, Ebb and Flow, will be intentionally crash-landed on the Moon now that their low orbit and fuel levels have ended their mission abilities.
The crash and burn, scheduled for 22.28 GMT on Monday, will hit a mountain located near the Goldschmidt crater, finishing a mission that start on 1 January this year.
"It is going to be difficult to say goodbye," said GRAIL principal investigator Maria Zuber of MIT. "Our little robotic twins have been exemplary members of the GRAIL family, and planetary science has advanced in a major way because of their contributions."
The two craft have generated the highest-resolution gravity field map of any celestial body, which will help boffins understand more about how Earth and other rocky planets in the Solar System formed and evolved.
Just before they impact on the Moon, Ebb and Flow will do one final experiment, firing their main engines until their propellant tanks are empty to show NASA scientists exactly how much fuel they have left. This will help engineers to improve predictions about how much fuel missions need.
"Our lunar twins may be in the twilight of their operational lives, but one thing is for sure, they are going down swinging," said GRAIL project manager David Lehman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. "Even during the last half of their last orbit, we are going to do an engineering experiment that could help future missions operate more efficiently."
Both spacecraft will hit the surface at 3,760mph, with Ebb going down first, followed 20 seconds later by Flow. NASA won't be able to get images of the crash because the mountain will be in shadow at the time of impact.
"Such a unique end-of-mission scenario requires extensive and detailed mission planning and navigation," said Lehman.
"We've had our share of challenges during this mission and always come through in flying colours, but nobody I know around here has ever flown into a moon mountain before. It'll be a first for us, that's for sure." ®


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Should the town adopt the local meals tax as a permanent revenue stream for special projects or other use?
Jam session is an opinion forum offering comments on issues from a group of Plymouth residents. It appears on the Forum pages in the Weekend edition of the OCM.
The newspaper poses a question to the group each week, and participants choose whether to comment. This column is designed to bring the voices of well-informed residents into the Forum page to address issues, one at a time.
Participants cross the local political spectrum and live throughout the town. Some are current or past Town Meeting representatives, and all are active in the community. We hope their diverse points of view will encourage discussion of the issues Plymouth faces.
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It appears that projections by town Finance Director Lynne Barrett will come true, that the few-year-old .75 percent local meals tax will likely completely fund construction of the new town hall. When that project is paid for, a sunset clause will repeal that meals tax. Should the town adopt it as a permanent revenue stream for special projects or other use?
Pat Adelmann
Yes, the town should permanently adopt the 0.75 percent meals tax to fund specified projects only. It is a painless revenue. Great caution should be taken to never depend on this convenient revenue stream for the general operating budget.
Pat Adelmann has been a Plymouth resident for 39 years and is a mother of five Plymouth Public School graduates, a proud grandmother of 12, a former School Committee member and a former Town Meeting representative.
Ed Angley
Yes, the town should adopt the local meals tax as a permanent revenue stream. But, it should only be used for capital outlays. If it goes into the general revenue, the town meeting, which is undisciplined, will spend it.
Ed Angley is an attorney specializing in zoning and land use. He is a former Scout leader and coach.
Jay Beauregard
Just goes to show that the conservatives are right. Once a tax gets implemented it "ain't gonna go nowhere." Of course it should be stopped, but I bet it won't be.
To those of you who like to always say "it's only a cup of coffee," well how about allowing the people to have the option of buying just one more cup of coffee instead of taking that cup away.
Which reminds me. The Mass Pike tolls. Weren't those supposed to go away once the bonds were paid off? That's what we were told, but the politicians keep issuing new bonds over and over. That tax will never go away. But it will get bigger and bigger.
Jay Beauregard, born and raised in Plymouth, served four years in the Marine Corps and has worked for 36 years at a local company. He is a Libertarian who served three terms as a Town Meeting rep from Precinct 6.
Jeff Berger
The minuscule meals tax is unnoticeable to diners, is paid for largely by tourists, and is a huge win-win for the town. Sadly, some day we will have a major hurricane here again ... a blizzard worse than '78 ... or a forest fire that devastates South Plymouth. Lord only knows what might happen if by some terrible twist of fate Pilgrim is sold to another operator, and they elect to keep it operating with the stupid NRC's complete blessing. Anything can happen and we need a large rainy day fund to make sure we're ready, whatever it is. On a positive note it could be used to finance deed research on the mammoth South Plymouth parcel where "Hollywood East" was to go; develop it as a major new industrial park, which the town badly needs; and market it heavily – not to mention infused 2020 marketing. Keep it – it would be crazy to do otherwise.
A Plymouth resident for more than 35 years, Jeff Berger is founder and owner of JMB Communications / websitesthatworkusa.com and everythingsxm.com, and is a former member of Plymouth's Nuclear Matters Committee and chairs the Cable Advisory Committee.
Rick Caproni
The meals tax is a simple and effective way to raise funds for any number of projects. I supported this tax at Town Meeting and am happy to pay when I go out to eat.
What I hate to pay is $2,000/quarter or $8,000/year in real estate taxes.
Lynne Barrett original estimates were much too low. I don't know if her conservative estimates serve us well. Accurate and spot-on estimates would be more useful.
Town Meeting should and probably will repeal the sunset clause as they typically approve more and more taxes year after year. Special projects are plentiful. Help pay the huge sewer bill of $42+ million with the meals tax rather than the 50,000 citizens outside the sewer district who will be required to pay for somebody else's garbage. Infrastructure such as roads and bridges could use this money. Additionally, maybe we could eliminate the CPA tax and fund those projects through the meals tax. Of course adding the revenue to normal town finances would always be a good idea.
Repealing a tax will never happen in 21st century Plymouth.
Rick Caproni is a Town Meeting representative from Precinct 15, a retired equipment leasing executive and a self described political activist.
Mike Landers
Town Meeting was wise to accept Lynne Barrett's brilliant plan to pay for the Town Hall project in such a creative way. Town meeting was brilliant to vote it in with a sunset clause.
It had a beginning, an end and a specified purpose. Taxpayers will not see a bump in their taxes. The reason it was voted through with a wide majority was because of the sunset clause.
The reason for the sunset clause was to protect taxpayers from a tax increase masquerading as something other than a tax increase.
Do I think that Town Meeting will vote a similar override in the future? Probably. Given the success of this one, it shows that creative thinking, out of the box, can move the town forward, while not fleecing taxpayers. It will be up to the town to bring another needed project forward that Town Meeting can believe in. I'm sure that it will have to pass our litmus test, with lengthy debate and certainly have a sunset clause. We are not trying to feed the General Fund.
Bravo to all who made this a success. Our biggest concern at Fall Town Meeting could very well be over hours of operation at Town Hall, not how to fund a building project of monumental need and astronomical costs. Job well done on this one. Hopefully it will silence some of the naysayers on social media who swore that the town was lying and predicted that the taxpayer would ultimately pay.
Mike Landers is a Town Meeting representative and is the founder and producer of Project Arts of Plymouth. He is also the owner of Nightlife Music Company and is a performing musician.
Doug O'Roak
When the county offered the courthouse for sale a decade ago, the debate was harsh. Folks were of the mind the town would never find a purpose for the building, it would be a money pit, taxes would increase, and only a private developer could handle the property.
It took three tries to pass the meals tax.
The town was able to repurpose it as a magnificent Town Hall just shy of our 400th anniversary, and the funding is provided mainly by tourists and won't affect property taxes. Amazing.
Hats off to everyone involved. It took years, a lot of fight, many hands, but it's getting done and will be a crown jewel for our town.
Should we rescind the meals tax after the sunset? I don't think so. I haven't noticed the few cents when I buy a meal. I think of the meals tax as a sort of roundup that invests in our town.
This debate has gone on so long, I remember an early anti meals tax argument that folks would stop buying rotisserie chicken from Skippy's because the tax affected prepared foods, and Dunkin' Donuts would close because folks wouldn't pay extra for coffee. It seems to me all of our restaurants and shops are doing just fine.
Doug O'Roak is creative director at C/F Data Systems, a member of the Open Space and Charter Review committees and a Town Meeting rep. He has served on several boards and committees and is past master of Plymouth's Masonic Lodge.
David Peck
Way too soon to consider this question. For one, while it is great that we are ahead of projections right now, there will be economic cycles that depress the meals tax annual income, bringing us back to the long term projection. And secondly, the projections cover decades, assuming payoff of all borrowed money far into the future. In other words, let's get this project paid off first before we consider other, future uses for the revenue. We should know well before final payoff of New Town Hall borrowing whether it's time to let the sun set, or keep it shining on other uses.
David Peck is the retired director of Facility Planning at Boston Children's Hospital. He serves as the chairman of the Plymouth Building Committee and vice-chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals. He is a Town Meeting representative from Precinct 4.
Ed Russell
I voted for that meals tax for two reasons. One, it was mostly paid for by tourists eating meals in Plymouth and thus paying for most of our new town hall – pretty nice. The second reason is that it was time limited to one project and one project only. I do not support making this a permanent revenue stream because annual spending would automatically increase to match. I'd rather support its use for big, necessary one-time projects that would otherwise be painful. Mostly I want every subsequent meals tax proposal to have full and lengthy discussion with a vote at town meeting. Yes, it might well be that we'd see an unending series of such projects, but at least each one would require extensive discussion, wrangling and compromise.
Speaking of future projects, I wonder if it could be used to cover the sewer costs that will soon be upon us, though I don't know how we'd then handle accounting for the eventual proceeds from the town's lawsuit against Veolia, and secondly, would the town hall project end soon enough to enable another meals tax project so soon?
Ed Russell is an attorney and a Precinct 12 Town Meeting representative, and he serves on a number of town committees.
Richard Serkey
I see no good reason why not to adopt it as a permanent revenue stream for special projects or other use.
Richard M. Serkey has been a Plymouth resident and a Plymouth attorney since 1974. He is a former zoning board chairman and is the current Precinct 2 town meeting chairman. He serves as counsel to the Plymouth Public Library Corporation.
Roger Silva
First it should go away! If it is just continued without public input and a vote, what other nice to do projects will they come up with? If they want to keep it, maybe it should become a rainy day fund and when they want to use it, they have it go to Town Meeting for a vote and debate. If they vote yes, it should automatically go on the ballot!
Roger Silva is a former five-term Plymouth selectman who began public service as an elected Town Meeting member. He has served on the Advisory and Finance Committee and two charter commissions.


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Behind the Scenes in Prints and Drawings: Auditing the collection
The Courtauld Gallery's collection of prints numbers over 26,000 individual works. While that doesn't make it the largest such collection in the UK – to put this in perspective, the British Museum has over two million prints – it's still an impressive number and a challenge to keep track of.
So how do we do it?
Everyone who works with the print collection on a regular basis – curators, conservators, registrars and our team of postgraduate Print Room assistants – endeavours to be as careful as possible about returning prints to their correct locations when they're taken out for study, conservation or loan. But every couple of years, we set aside a few weeks and undertake a survey of the whole, or a large portion of, the collection – an audit.
We recently completed an audit of our 11,000-strong collection of British prints. This was actually the first time we were able to survey our entire holdings in this area, as cataloguing was only completed two years ago. As usual in such a tight-knit team, many people pitched in to work through the boxes in pairs, checking their contents against what's recorded on our collection database.
It might not be glamorous work, and reading off endless strings of numbers can swiftly lead to a condition we jokingly referred to as 'print audit brain', but not only is it necessary for the proper management of the collection, it can turn up unexpected delights – for example, some lovely hand-coloured prints by Scottish illustrator Jessie Marion King (1875-1949), a contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It's always good to be reminded of exactly how many treasures we have in store.
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DENVER (AP) – A proposal to allow Colorado firefighters to have collective bargaining even when local governments oppose it has been approved by the Democratic Senate.
The measure now heads to the state House after the Senate voted 19-15 in favor of the change on Tuesday.
The labor measure would affect only a few hundred professional firefighters who don't currently have collective bargaining rights. But the bill is controversial because local governments say it takes away from their control over employment decisions.
A similar bill in 2009 was vetoed by then-Gov. Bill Ritter. The current governor is in talks with lawmakers, but Gov. John Hickenlooper hasn't said whether he's veto the measure, too.
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Derek Boshier: From Doris to Chemical Coyboys
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The reason for the sheer enjoyment I find in artists' talks is that they take you away from your books and remind you about the reality of artwork in the context of the person who made it. Derek Boshier has delved into a huge variety of both ideas and working practises during his career and the presentation he gave to the Research Forum was a whirlwind whistle-stop tour of his life and work. He unfortunately had to begin by apologising for having to squeeze what was usually an hour and a half talk into a mere 45 minutes, certainly not long enough for me who thoroughly enjoyed all of his stories 'From Doris to Chemical Cowboys'.
Speaking to the audience mainly using anecdotes, he highlighted some of the key themes of a career begun at a crucial point of transition for British art. Coming out of the Royal College in the 1960s (alongside Peter Blake and David Hockney), he insisted that impetus for their Pop Art was that they just wanted to paint the things they knew around them, the things that interested them. As he put it, not wine bottles and fruit, but films, music and sex. This freedom expanded into his subsequent multidisciplinary practise, which took as many forms imaginable, each with a very unique style.
It was his more atypical work that interested me the most. Of his image-based work, one of the projects Boshier discussed that particularly appealed to me is his 16 Situations (1971). This was an intervention into a series of photographs with a pair of repeated sculptural forms, playing with locations and scales from the micro to the macro (figs. 1 & 2).[1] They appear as a departure from the immediacy of his brightly coloured Pop painting style, yet I think they still communicate the continually present playfulness of his work. This was reinforced for me by his lively delivery style, which excited a sense of immediacy on each topic, regardless of which era he was discussing.
His description of a 1968 collaborative happening with Joe Tilson The Smith/Novak Event (fig. 3) had a sort of timelessness, and certainly would not seem out of place if enacted again today.[2] This took the form of a gesture of friendship between the two most common names in the London and Prague phonebooks, put into place through a workshop involving as many members of the public with those names who would take part. His comment on this work being that in the autumn of that year Soviets moved into Prague and as far as he knows most correspondence was halted.
Each slide is an artwork with a strong personal memory attached, meaning that each projected a strong personal perspective on social and cultural conditions, from what was showing at the cinema, to the state of feminism at the time. I would argue this was one of the most compelling artists' talks I have attended and urge anyone to see him speak if you find an opportunity.
I would also like to encourage you to attend the series of artists' talks and workshops organised by the East Wing X committee to compliment the Material Mattersexhibition, 'Material Insights'. We are inviting artists to engage and discuss with us the materials in which they work. The first event is a talk delivered by Tom Hunter, whose Anchor and Hope is on display in Seminar Room 3. This will take place in SR3 on Monday 6th February at 6pm.


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At TED2013, Leyla Acaroglu pondered the question: Paper or plastic? Below, play her sustainability card game. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Leyla Acaroglu aims to make people think about how the choices they make on a daily basis affect the environment. And she aims to make thinking about this fun. In today's TED Talk, Acaroglu turns her attention to four bits of "environmental folklore," like the idea that it's more environmentally sound to opt for the paper bag over the plastic one. [ted_talkteaser id=1926]By engaging people's sense of play, Acaroglu and her team at the design consultancy Eco Innovators aim to get individuals and companies looking at the full life cycle of the products in order to make the kind of savvy decisions that can actually effect change.
This week, Eco Innovators held an "E-Waste Autopsy" at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia, where passerbys dissected keyboards and computer mice…
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Page under construction: this page will be developed as the mingw-get package specification evolves, and as time permits.
mingw‑get, (a.k.a. the MinGW Installer or the MinGW Installation Manager), is a tool to facilitate the download of MinGW software packages from the MinGW.org Project's software repository, on SourceForge, and the installation of these packages on the end user's computer. Controlled by a collection of package lists and package specifications, each of which is distributed in the form of an XML document, and cognizant of inter-package dependencies, it provides a convenient method for users to install a MinGW system, configured to meet each individual user's requirements, and subsequently, to keep the installation up-to-date, as new releases of the installed packages become available.
This document describes the structure of the XML documents, which constitute the package lists and package specifications, and offers guidance to package maintainers, to assist them in the creation and distribution of these specification documents, and the packages to which they refer.
The Anatomy of a Package Specification
From a technical perspective, mingw‑get uses a non-validating XML parser, built on the TinyXML code base, to read package list and package specification documents. In principle, this means that mingw‑get should be capable of loading any well formed XML document, irrespective of its content. In practice, this capability is of limited value: it does allow the parser to accommodate an evolving specification language, by simply — and silently — ignoring any element which it is not yet equipped to handle, (although a validating parser should be able to handle this, through association with an evolving document type definition or XML schema); more usefully, perhaps, it avoids the overhead of repeated validation of specification documents which remain, mostly, static throughout their lifetimes. Conversely, it does mean that mingw‑get could expend overhead, while loading specification documents which are effectively meaningless to it.
Although mingw-get can informally parse any
Readers who are conversant with XSDL — XML Schema Definition Language — may observe that this one XML schema definition is applicable to both package lists, and to package specifications, with both sharing a common root element type: the software‑distribution element. Thus, regardless of whether we are defining a package list, or a package specification — or indeed, a hybrid package list/specification, which is perfectly legitimate, and may be appropriate for a small project distributing relatively few packages — we always begin by defining the software‑distribution document root element, as specified below; within this, we then define, strictly in the following order, at most one optional package‑group‑hierarchy specification, followed by an arbitrary number (i.e. zero or more) package‑list reference specifications, and finally, by an arbitrary number (again, zero or more) package‑collection specifications.
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As noted in the general description of the anatomy of a package specification document, the document root element is always a software‑distribution element; the definition of this should be preceded by an appropriate XML document type declaration:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>Thus, you may then define the software‑distribution document root element, which takes the form:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <software-distribution project="FooProject" home="http://foo.project.org" issue="2014051100"> <package-group-hierarchy> ... </package-group-hierarchy> <package-list ... /> : <package-collection subsystem="collection_name"> ... </package-collection> : </software-distribution>
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You may use this attribute to identify the project which provides the software distribution, to which this package specification relates. The intent is documentary, and its use is recommended; however, the information provided is not used by mingw‑get.
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You may use this attribute to identify the URL for the home page of the associated project's web site, (if appropriate). Once again, the intent is documentary; mingw‑get does not refer to this URL.
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Notionally, the XML schema defines the associated serial‑number data type as a ten character string, with its content restricted to any combination of the ten decimal digits, 0..9, and the twenty six upper case roman letters, A..Z; alternatively, it may be specified as the explicit template, "@YYYYMMDDNN@". mingw‑get uses the assigned value to determine when a local copy of your package specification document should be updated, to match a more recent online master copy.
If you are maintaining package specifications for mingw‑dist, or if you are using a framework derived from mingw‑dist to manage your own package specifications, you should use the template form of assignment for this attribute; otherwise, you are advised to assign a ten digit numeric value, based on publication date in the form "YYYYMMDDNN", (where "NN" represents a two digit serialization suffix) — it is important to ensure that the assigned value is increased (lexically), for each successive publication; use of a date based serialization is a convenient mechanism for ensuring this.
The content of the software‑distribution element should comprise child elements, as illustrated in the example above, and as further prescribed below. Any one such child element alone is sufficient to produce a valid package specification document; at least one must be included.
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- Maserati unveils the 2013 GranTurismo Sport in Geneva
- Powered by a 4.7-liter V8 producing 460 horsepower
- Slated for release in the US as a 2013 model
Maseratis aren't simply about high-performance and horsepower. Every Maserati must also incorporate elegance and passenger comfort. The GranTurismo Sport handily meets both marks.
The updated 4.7-liter V8 engine now produces 460 horsepower and 384 pound feet of torque. Although it's a high-power engine, Maserati claims it doesn't suffer from high fuel consumption and emissions output but didn't release any emissions of fuel consumption numbers. Maserati has mated the powerful V8 with an updated six-speed automatic transmission for the US market. Together, the V8 and its high-tech transmission carry the GranTurismo Sport from 0 to 60 MPH in 4.8 seconds and will hit a top speed of 185 MPH.
The GranTurismo Sport benefits from Maserati's updated Sport Skyhook suspension system that not only has an awesome name but also provides continuous dampening. The re-designed system yields ultimate passenger comfort and increased driving enjoyment. With both normal and SPORT modes, the suspension can be tuned to match driver's needs for performance or comfort and ride quality.
Updates for the GranTurismo Sport aren't limited to the engine and suspension. The front bumper, too, has been redesigned to not only look more striking but also improve airflow and cooling of the front brakes. The headlights retain the same shape but the Daytime Running Lights (DRL) have been updated to an LED system. Between to two sets of new LED headlamps is Maserati's chromed trident with red accents, which is a detail saved for only the most powerful Maseratis. In the rear of the GranTurismo Sport, Maserati has been made even sleeker thanks to new, darkened taillights.
On the interior, the front and rear seats have been made not only better looking but also more ergonomic for improved passenger comfort. New, too, is the steering wheel, which is more ergonomic and designed for sporty driving with a flatter rim and a grip with accentuated profile.
In 2011, the United States was number the one world Maserati market. In spite of this, not all performance features of the 2013 GranTurismo Sport will be available in the US including Maserati's new electro actuated six-speed transmission capable of gearshifts in less than 100 milliseconds.
What it means to you: Maserati's surprisingly large GranTurismo Sport gets even faster and sportier for the 2013 model year.


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The reports of Russell Crowe's death are greatly exaggerated.
Crowe's rep issued a two-word statement Thursday, following Internet and radio reports that claimed the "Robin Hood" actor had fallen to his death from an Austrian mountaintop.
"Not true," the rep said when contacted by Us Magazine.
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New York City radio station Z100 reportedly sparked the Internet firestorm Thursday morning by announcing Crowe's death. As the macabre news spread online, Crowe was himself tweeting furious on soccer, E! News reported.
Crowe joins a growing list of not-dead-yet celebrities that includes Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George Clooney, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford, Zach Braff, Johnny Depp and Kanye West.


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Amy Winehouse Performance At Glastonbury 2008! (Amy Gets Furious & Elbows Some Fan)
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Ever since it was announced that April (Sarah Drew) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) would be leaving Grey's Anatomy after this season, fans have wondered how the series would bid farewell to the beloved characters. After all, they had been part of the show's core cast since Seasons 5 and 6, respectively, so it's going to be pretty weird not seeing them around Grey Sloan next season.
With their departures looming, Thursday's packed finale stuck to that time-old tradition of ending even-numbered seasons on a positive note. For April, whose potential death was teased just a few weeks ago, she finally received her happy ending after years of emotional turmoil.
It all went down following Alex (Justin Chambers) and Jo's (Camilla Luddington) disastrous wedding ceremony which didn't result in the couple exchanging vows. (They did so later on the ferry in a makeshift ceremony officiated by Meredith [Ellen Pompeo]. Aww!) Instead, April and Matthew (Justin Bruening) -- the guy she left at the altar five years ago -- were the ones to tie the knot after Matthew dropped a surprise proposal with Arizona, Sofia (Eva Ariel Binder) and Jackson (Jesse Williams) looking on.
Grey's Anatomy's Sarah Drew Begs Fans to Stop Bashing Co-Star Kelly McCreary
"I know that this is fast and crazy but I don't care. Because I loved who you were five years ago and I love you even more today. I don't ever wanna be without you again. I don't want to waste any more time," he told her. And with that, it was time for them to enjoy a (hopefully) blissful future together. April will start her new life away from Grey Sloan "doing God's work" by providing health care to homeless communities around Seattle.
Meanwhile, Arizona had already set the wheels in motion for her exit when she resigned from the hospital in order to get into teaching with her mentor Herman in New York. The major step also means Sofia gets to be closer to her other mom Callie (Sara Ramirez) who moved to the Big Apple with her girlfriend back in Season 12. And judging from Callie's friendly text to Arizona, she's just as excited as Arizona is about the big move.
"I can't wait to see you!" she wrote.
This marks a full-circle moment for the couple who did not part ways on good terms. When Callie tried to take Sofia with her to New York, Arizona fought and won a dragged-out custody battle in court. The exes have since made up and now that Arizona is headed her way, we're hoping they might also rekindle things romantically as well. Who knows.
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Mr. Edward Snowden is traveling by commercial air while the USA want him grounded and delivered to them. Can't a Giant get his wish?June 23.
The USA have their reasons while Mr. Snowden his reasons for what he did. Alas there isn't an earthly court where they can establish truth.
Till such time truth can be revealed and understood by all, suffering of each is not for own self but also for sins of others.
Prisons, till Truth is enshrined in the land as real, are for the dispossessed, weak, poor and needy. The biggest rogues are let free. Because they know how to manipulate the system to their advantage.
When society made prisons it made its burden of guilt also more harsh.
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What an humbling exercise to find you have practically none when you need help? President Obama is in a fix.You may judge how effective has been the US foreign policy from this.
Pres.Obama has been reaching out but his long arm, both Secretaries of State, seem to have drawn blank. It is not for want of trying but the perception others have of real intentions of the US. Is it trying to create conditions for peace and International understanding? Each nation will have its own opinion.
Diplomacy is not in not simply picking chestnuts from fire but controlling the fire till chestnuts are got out.In post-Cold War the US policy was all along to take opposite view of Russia (the war in Syria) Why should Russia oblige USA over Snowden? Now Russia takes this opportunity to deny cooperating with the US.Those who need friends must show themselves friendly that applies both in personal and national relationships. No exception to it.
June 25.
Snowden affair seems to get murkier with each day. He is now like Jonah swallowed by an ideological whale. Where it will spit him out?
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Snowden still at airport, Ecuador asylum decision could take months. Reason is simple. Ecuador has to think of trade with the US.
Ecuador has to think of its flowers, vegetables and the Yankee dollah funds its economy. So Snowden has to cool his heels longer.
Idealism is fine but cost prohibitive; Ecuador knows by now Marxism may be polished by rhetoric but it is money that fills their belly.
June 27.
If Politics of nations runs on hard realities of dollars and cents individuals are not. So much is obvious.
Whoever first got nation concept accepted as '
politics of the future' is the one who sold himself. He might have called himself a realist.Time judges how real he was.
No nation has learned to tame an individual simply because nation is a creature of all individuals where no democracy in its ideal state can exist.Nations at best try to cater to the good of majority which is not good enough for those who happen to be left out.
In the post WWII Karl
Fuchs was among a small group of intellectuals who objected the role of USA having total control of nuclear arms. He turned a spy. Compare the fate Rosenberg couple in the 50s and AQ Khan who cut an pasted nuclear secrets and sold through internet.


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Figure 4 (from Plan, New Tree)
Beginning a new Family File. Known is the Name: Hiram Deats, and where he was Born: Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He is a noted historian in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Opening Family Tree Maker, the Plan Screen opens, with the option to work on an existing file, or to create a new file. For this example, the file will be created by hand.
1 - The word PLAN is hi-lighted when you open the program. To Create a New File, select New Tree. This one will be entered from this screen.
2 - The default is Import a tree from an existing file.
3 - Enter what you know is selected in this post. What is known is the Name, Sex, and Birth Place.
The name of the New File is normally the Surname of the individual in the Name field. In this example, the filename will be BLOG. You will see the filename filled in, when you enter the name. Clicking on the Continue Button will take you to the next screen.
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Here is the completed screen. based on the information known. Please note the Birth Place field. Hunderton, New Jersey, USA was entered. More about this entry below. Also note the New Tree Name that was changed, and Continue is hi-lighted.
Clicking on that button will take you HERE.
Figure 6
- The Filename followed by the Version number is listed at the top of the screen [ Blog - Family Tree Maker 2009 ].
- The People Button and Family Tab are hi-lighted.
- The Name of the individual is in dark blue. In this example, you will note the "shakey leaf" ICON. This is an indication that there is information on Ancestry.Com on this individual. How to use that will be in a future post.
- There is a ICON with a Question Mark [?] next to Hunderdon County. This is an indication that there is something wrong with this entry. OR more accurately, the way that entry is at this point is Not in the Place Name Authority part of Family Tree Maker 2009.
Our Home person is in the file with basic information, but a hint that there is information about this person at Ancestry.com and there is a problem with the Birth Location.
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THAI's Public Information Centre was established on 16 November 1998. The centre provide information to the public which reflects the transparency in all areas of operations as well as management of the organization. The Public Information Centre offers an easy channel for the public to access any information about the organization most of which are readily available upon request. The Management of Thai Airways International has placed a strong emphasis on the importance of information process especially in today's world where Information Technology has increasingly become part of our lives. The main goals of the Public Information Centre are to utilize information and communication networks for the benefit of important decision-making process while ensuring that THAI remains actively competitive in the aviation industry and globalization era.
The Public Information Centre is a supportive unit where the target group consist of the management, the public, students, media, investors, analysts, THAI's employee, and those from related to aviation industry. The centre provides fast and up-to-date news and information of THAI, other airlines, business and tourism in order to help develop a better understanding of air transport and its related operations among the target groups.
Following the cabinet request made to all the governmental departments to select official unit which operated in compliance with the Information Act B.E. 2540. THAI's Public Information Centre was selected by the Ministry of Transport and Communications as the most efficient information providing centre. With a highly systematic indexing technique and professional application of up-to-date management technique in handling of diverse information.
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Norman Wirzba, professor of theology and ecology at Duke Divinity School, has been awarded a $40,000 Sabbatical Grant for Researchers from the Louisville Institute.
The Lilly Endowment-funded grant program enables academics engaged in study of the church and scholarly religious leaders to conduct a major study that can contribute to the vitality of Christianity in North America. The program is based at Louisville Seminary in Kentucky.
This grant will enable Wirzba to devote the 2014-2015 academic year to work on two book projects, both of which fall under the broad heading of "The Human Place in the World."
The first book, which will be published in Baker Academic Press's series "Postmodernism and the Church," will describe Christian life in a post-natural world. In particular, this project will help Christians understand today's environmental crises in fresh and provocative ways.
The second book, to be published by Cambridge University Press, will examine the relationships between creation, living beings, and creativity. It will develop a picture of human beings as creatures called to share in God's love of the world.


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From dairying around the world to safety around the farm, the 2013 PDPW Business Conference will bring timely and useful information to today's dairy producers and other industry professionals, March 12-13 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis.
The conference theme "Recharge!" is fitting for this annual educational event, as it has become a place for dairy producers to reconnect with industry friends, rethink ways to handle on-farm tasks and business challenges, and plug in to industry issues that require dairy producer leadership.
"'Recharge' is our way of saying, 'Never tire of doing what is right – for the land, our animals, our employees and our customers,'" says Mark Diederichs, president of the PDPW board of directors. "When dairy producers come together for this conference each year, we draw strength from each other, build our professional networks, and recommit to PDPW's vision of leading the success of the dairy industry."
This year's keynote speaker line-up includes headliners that will broaden horizons beyond the farm gate.
• "Dairying Around the World" features an international panel of dairy producers who will talk about milk pricing, cost of production, feed availability and other factors affecting their bottom line. Panelists include Andrew MacFarlane, New Zealand; Jane Dyson, England; and Jaime Suarez, Mexico.
• In "No Place But Up!" Wisconsin veterinarian Lance Fox shares amazing photos and video of the fulfillment of his dream to climb Mount Everest. Fewer than 4,000 people in the world have accomplished this feat, and Fox will share what he learned from the challenge.
• In "Generations, Start Your Engines!" Seth Mattison will offer practical insights that help people from different generations rev up productivity without causing sparks to fly. Especially applicable for today's dairy operations, this session is a "must hear" for seasoned veterans, skilled Gen X'ers and new Millennials alike.
• Former professional baseball player Jim Morris, inspiration for the Hollywood movie, The Rookie, tells his real-life story in a way that can ignite passion for overcoming odds. Morris fulfilled his dreams late in life, all the while helping others fulfill their dreams.
• Frank Miles died in a hang gliding accident and lived to tell about it, thanks to emergency room doctors who revived him. He provides the comic relief at Tuesday evening's dinner in his high-energy presentation, "Laugh at Fear." The entire conference is emceed by the knowledgeable and vivacious Dennis Frame, co-director of the University of Wisconsin Discovery Farms program. Fourteen morning and afternoon specialty sessions take place on both March 12 and 13, offering broad coverage of topics of greatest concern to today's dairy farm operations.
• Recommit to Safety: Conducting Farm Safety Orientations and Meetings with High-Return Results will be led by executive coach Jorge Estrada, and will teach practical and highest return methods to raise the safety consciousness of farm employees.
•In Decision Making Processes for Your Feed Program, Dr. Brian Perkins will teach producers how to make profitable decisions about what goes into a ration.
•Increasing and Maintaining Profitability During Volatile Times will be moderated by Cornell University's Jason Karszes, helping dairies fine tune the numbers and increase margins. New York dairy producers John Dickinson and Don Jenson will join Karszes and provide insight into how their dairies remain financially fit.
•Make Mom Proud: Understand the Early Life Factors that Impact Long-term Productivity of Calves. Dr. Michael Van Amburgh will share the latest research about the powerful signals a dam sends to the calf through colostrum, and offer practical information that can lead to positive profitable results for dairy animals.
•Beyond Margin Management, A New Frontier Awaits will be presented by Scott Stewart, CEO of Stewart-Peterson Inc. Stewart will present the tools and strategies necessary for dairy producers to use so that volatile commodity markets no longer confuse or paralyze dairy producers selling milk or buying feed.
•The Engaged Employee – How to Increase Productivity Through Five Specific Behaviors will offer the executive coaching of Jorge Estrada combined with producer panelists Robert Hennen of Minnesota and Juan Quezada, director of safety, recruiting and training for Milk Source LLC in Kaukauna, Wis.
•Avoiding Heat-Stressed Cows with Cool Management will be taught by Dr. Jim Spain of the University of Missouri. From dietary management strategies to environmental cooling strategies, this session addresses the profit-robber on many dairies.
•Dairy Stocksmanship: Reconnecting People to Cows will be taught by industry-leading educator Dr. Don Hoglund. A new generation of dairy workers needs to learn animal behaviors that improve the interactions between people and cows. Many "I didn't know that" moments will come to light in this session, for experienced cow people and those who need to understand cow behavior better.
•Stepping Up Calf Immunity and Controlling Bovine Respiratory Disease will share new research that helps you manage vaccinations to optimize calf health, led by Dr. Amelia Woolums from the University of Georgia.
•New Technologies to Improve Cattle Reproduction will be led by Dr. Paul Fricke, who will offer an overview of research assessing the value of new technologies that promise to improve reproduction in dairy cattle.
•Dairy Globalization: What Lies Ahead? This session will shed light on demand, the all-important balance to the supply dairy producers create. Robert Chesler, head of FCStone LLC's Food Service Division will moderate a panel that includes Marc Beck, U.S. Dairy Export Council; Chris Herlache, Schreiber Foods; and Mark Piper, president and COO of Fonterra USA.
•No Residues Left Behind is an important update from Dr. Mike Apley on the residue challenges in cull dairy cows and high-risk behaviors on the farm that contribute to this major reputational challenge ahead for the dairy industry.
•The charismatic and forward-looking Dr. Lowell Catlett will lead Food for a Smart Planet, providing a look at the new world of agriculture ahead, where opportunities have never been greater to serve a smart consumer.
•For those who need an upbeat perspective on the U.S. economy and how agriculture can thrive in a borderless world, Dr. Lowell Catlett will explain how creativity, technology and wealth are driving new industries and business development like never before in his session, How the World's biggest Economy Keeps Getting Bigger.
New this year, dairy science and veterinary professionals attending select sessions of the 2013 Business Conference can receive continuing education credits through the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, as well as through ARPAS, the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists. In addition, some sessions are approved for Certified Crop Adviser (CCA) continuing education units.
The Hall of Ideas Trade Show is a prime feature of the PDPW Business Conference, bringing together one of the largest gatherings of innovative products, processes and technologies from industry-leading companies that serve the dairy industry.
Details and registration information for the 2013 PDPW Business Conference can be found at www.pdpw.org, or by calling PDPW at 800-947-7379.
Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin is a dairy-producer founded organization that provides educational programs and services to fellow dairy producers. PDPW's mission is "to share ideas, solutions, resources, and experiences that help dairy producers succeed."
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Hongli Lai
Co-founder and CTO, Phusion
Hongli Lai is the co-founder and CTO of Phusion, a company that specializes in offering top of the line IT products and services to high profile clients.
Prior to founding Phusion, he has had the pleasure of working on a myriad of open source products such as Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Autopackage, where it's perhaps worth mentioning that the latter is being used by the Dutch Tax Department.
From his computer science study and work, Hongli has also become well versed in a variety of computer languages and paradigms and also possesses an (almost) uncontrollable hunger for knowledge. In particular, his current interests lie in the domain of Software Engineering, where the emphasis is put on software architecture.
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Los Altos Youth Theatre is slated to present "Gretel & Hansel" Friday through July 28 at Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave.
Written in the style of a British pantomime by Kate Hawley for Shakespeare Santa Cruz, this version of "Gretel & Hansel" is riddled with puns and includes a lot of audience participation.
The music, composed by Craig Bohmler, features a number of styles, from ragtime to hip-hop.
Two rotating casts will perform the play, including Paige Decena as Gretel, Timmy Smith and Alex Sanchez as Hansel, Shaina Hammer and Dor Gvirtsman as the witch, Emily Goto as the stepmother, Sarah Hammer as Tom Cat and Renee Remsberg as Kitten Caboodle.
The production team includes ej Taylor (director), Gay Richard (choreography), Michelle Markwart-Deveaux (vocal direction) and Madeleine Graham (music direction).
"This show was an enormous hit with audience and cast whenwe did it nine years ago, and we look forward to sharing it with a new generation," said Trish Files, LAYT's artistic director.
Shows are set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday, July 19, 20, 26 and 27, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 21, 27 and 28. Tickets are $15-$17.
For advance tickets and more information, call 941-0551 or visit losaltosrecreation.org/layt-youth-theatre.html.


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I'd like to tap into the collective wisdom of this community to get some car camping meals ideas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I have a group of 4 adults headed out for a week of car camping and are looking for meals that are nutritious and easy to prepare with a basic kitchen set. Something beyond the typical hot dogs and PB&J.
Here's the criteria for the group:
We're traveling by plane to our destination, so won't be able to prep food to bring ahead of time.
Most lunches will be on-the-go, so we're looking for lunches that can be pre-made or are self-contained.
We'll have a basic car camping kitchen set, but nothing elaborate. Basically a pot, skillet, camp stove and camp fire with some utensils.
We'll have access to a cooler and a small grocery store in town that we can stop at through the week to purchase and store some perishable foods.


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Yup, hate to say it as it goes counter to all that is non-dual, but being present made my anxiety and depression worse in most cases and sent my mind into a tailspin. There's some good literature on meditation and the potential for an increase in anxiety symptoms for some people with presence, mindfulness, presence techniques. You might argue that I wasn't doing it right (I certainly did and felt there was something wrong with me, thereby increasing anxiety) but after years, decades, of trying everything under the sun to gain presence I think I would have stumbled on something. I don't think it should be that hard or that much work. And it turns out it's not. My mind is no longer an endless hamster wheel (although it was most of my life), but a curious, calm, functioning entity, totally human, mostly sane.dijmart wrote:Really? Uh? This isn't my experience at all. My capacity for suffering is huge, potentially, without bringing "presence" into my daily life. Otherwise the mind is just on an endless hamster wheel.Onceler wrote: I also don't think presence dissolves any negative thing. It can make things worse, at least it did for me.
I'm glad it works for you and others, but obviously (from the narratives of many posters here and elsewhere) it doesn't work for everyone and it certainly didn't work for me. It made things worse.


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Bureau of Consular Affairs
Office of Children's Issues
August 19, 2008
Documentation related to intercountry adoption of children born at Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City is unreliable, according to recent field investigations by U.S. officials. Specifically, U.S. officials conducting verification reviews see a pattern of false information in documentation pertaining to the birth mothers of children born at Tu Du Hospital. Field investigations indicate that one particular facility possesses the correct information. U.S. officials have been told that they do not have permission to review hospital records or interview hospital staff regarding any individual case; therefore verifying the orphan status of these children is extremely difficult. U.S. officials have also recently been informed that it is Tu Du Hospital's policy to document all children as desertion cases regardless of the actual circumstances leading to their being made available for intercountry adoption.
In light of these discoveries, the Department of State and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recommend that U.S. adoption service providers refer children born at Tu Du Hospital only when the child is a special need child or when all parties can ensure that the information pertaining to the birth parent can be verified, where a birth parent can be identified and/or when a birth parent can be interviewed to confirm that the child qualifies as an orphan in accordance with U.S. law. State and USCIS will continue to process cases already filed for children born at Tu Du Hospital; however, prospective adoptive parents should be aware that the circumstances discussed above have resulted in significant delays in the verification process of their cases. State and USCIS understand the severe impact of these delays, and commit to working expeditiously on these complex cases. To the extent possible, State and USCIS will process cases on a first in, first out basis.
USCIS and the Department of State are committed to seeking an ethical and prioritized resolution to these cases. The U.S. Government continues to reach out to local authorities who oversee the hospital's actions in order to achieve greater cooperation in conducting field verifications. Prospective adoptive parents may contact USCIS through email@example.com to address specific questions they may have regarding their case.
Ethics, Transparency, Support
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I am having a problem that I hope someone can help me with because I can't seem to find anything online about it. I am using a MaskFormatter to format a JFormattedTextField and for some reason if I restrict the field to just numbers then whenever any JButton is clicked the field gets cleared even if the JButton doesn't have an actionlistener. It doesn't do this if I allow any character but still use the MaskFormatter to restrict the number of characters. Below is my code.
MaskFormatter cellNumberFormat = null; //Create a variable to format cell phone numbers
try {
cellNumberFormat = new MaskFormatter("(***) ***-****");
} catch (ParseException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(UserContacts.class.getName()).log (Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
cellNumberFormat.setValidCharacters("1234567890"); //Limit what characters can be entered in the cell number field
cellNumberFie = new JFormattedTextField(cellNumberFormat); //Create a text field for cell numbers that limits how the number can be entered
So with the way it is written above whenever I click any JButton, even with no actionlistener added to it, then the field gets cleared. But if I comment out the line with the setValidCharacters it doesn't do that. Anyone seen this before?


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Manchester Semi Truck Accident Attorney
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration 2002 report reveals that 13,000 people were injured and 4,897 died resulting from truck accidents. The main reasons truck accidents take place include negligence, incompetence and drunk driving. If you have been involved in an accident involving a truck, you should hire a Semi-Truck Accident Attorney in Manchester, NH to help you with your case.
The main legal concept applied in semi-truck accidents is negligence. If you are injured in a semi-truck accident, it is important for you to prove that:
If you have been involved in a semi-truck accident where the driver of the truck is liable for the accident, you are entitled to the following damages - medical expenses, financial compensation for losses brought about by the accident, pain and suffering and loss of employment.
For you to get damages for the injuries you have suffered from a semi truck accident, you should identify as many potential defendants as possible. In many truck accident cases, contractors, trucking companies, insurance companies and employers may be liable for compensating you for injuries.
If your Manchester Semi-Truck Accident Attorney can establish a relationship between the trucking company and truck driver, then the trucking company may be found liable for the truck driver's negligence. Your attorney should show that the trucking company had control over the truck driver.
If the driver of the truck is a contractor of a larger organization, then your lawyer should prove that this organization exercises control over the driver.
The liability of employers, contractors and trucking companies is another factor that is considered when you are seeking compensation through insurance companies since all of these parties will bear different policies.


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Student or Learner
Which of the above is right good or well? or both? when talking about names for instance.
Thank you.
Well can be used as an adjective when it means not sick.
Tom sounds good today. (His voice has a high quality sound.)
Tom sounds well today. (He no longer sounds sick.)
The violin sounds well or good?
The violin (noun) sounds (linking verb) good (adjective) if it is played (verb [participle]) well (adverb).