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Families Dedicate Endowed Scholarship Plaques
PLAINVIEW – Two area families gathered for the dedication of newly established endowed scholarship plaques at Wayland Baptist University during Saturday's Alumni Luncheon in conjunction with weekend homecoming festivities.
The Black family of Hereford dedicated the Greg Black Memorial Endowed Scholarship, while the Hutcherson and Redin families of Plainview dedicated the Mike Hutcherson Family Endowed Scholarship.
Greg Black was born in Groom and moved to Hereford with his family in 1964. After graduating from high school, he attended West Texas State University, graduating in 1976. He returned to Hereford and was area development manager for Deaf Smith Rural Electric at the time of his death at age 30.
He was active in his community and civic activities and the First Baptist Church. He was survived by wife Debbie, son Eric and daughter, Erin, as well as a brother Carey Black and a sister, Tonja Horrell. His family noted his sense of humor and dedication to achievement as he contributed to the lives of others. The scholarship was endowed in his honor to provide funds for students in need.
The Mike Hutcherson Family scholarship was established to honor Mike and Suzy Hutcherson, longtime friends and supporters of the Wayland Flying Queens. Mike's longtime relationship with WBU began at age seven through his parents' association with the Queens, and he later attended Wayland, graduating in 1966. He shared his family's commitment to the university by continuing to provide air transportation for the Queens after his father's death in 1977. The entire Hutcherson family leaves a legacy of sponsorship and support for the Queens program and the university.
Endowed scholarships are created with donations of any amount and are invested through the Baptist Foundation of Texas. Upon reaching $25,000, the fund is then fully endowed and the interest is drawn each year to provide scholarships for students. The corpus of the account is never drawn and remains intact into perpetuity, creating a lasting legacy for donors and recipients well into the future.
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You have released a derivative based on a Puppy version made from the latest Woof2, that means non-English speakers will be able to use your derivative thanks to the official language packs available for Puppy, which at the moment are: French, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
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Post subject: update to v5.4.3
See main post - bug fixes since SP 18.104.22.168
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See main post - bug fixes since SP 22.214.171.124
Thank you, grey,
This must be one of the slickest upgrades yet. I simply upgraded my current precisesave file. A quick first look seems to indicate most everything works as before.
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This Precise NOP 543 is simply wonderful !!!!
Everything is running fine.
Just 2 problems. The first one is already solved :
With Opera, I've problems with youtube.
Well, this isn't important. I've dowloaded firefox, and add a add on I like.
It should be better the to remove opera, but may be it isn't possible...
But with the second problem, I can't find how to do to solve it :
On toutou linux (french puppy version) or on Lucid Puppy, I can install amsn (an old version, but which works fine, is on a toutou linux repository).
But amsn cannot be found in the Precise NOP 542 repositories
And for some reasons, they are some usefuls things just like amsn or skype which are not on the ubuntu repositories, but they are on the "medibuntu" repository and it's very easy, with ubuntu, to add the "medibuntu" repository, opening a shell terminal.
But with Precise NOP 542, sudo apt-get don't work and I don't know what to write.
Somebody can help me ?
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Post subject: Python?
Subject description: Calibre Ebook Manager Install
Having problems with my installation of calibre not finding python. Pfind shows python 2.7 in /usr/lib but calibre which usually installs in /opt can't find it. Do I have to install a link?
Really like the minimalist approach.
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Post subject: The future for Nop
Subject description: Following Precise 5.5?
Precise NOP 5.4.3 is the best, and gray has so far successfully kept up with the best of Precise Puppy.
I guess he will keep an eye on 5.5 developments, avoiding bloat and keeping the essential benefits of Xfce.
BTW I tried Precise-5.5 (actually 5.4.9 alpha) on my regular PreciseNop save file and it upgraded easily, with everything (I think), including LibreOffice working, except that the menus and desktop were all different and it wouldn't shut down. I wouldn't go through that again without a very good reason. But in future some improvements might be gleaned from it.
At present I see nothing with PreciseNop-5.4.3.
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Post subject: ACPI at least lid close?
I got an acpi package from somewhere. If I run the /etc/acpi/suspend.sh the machine (asus eeepc-1201T) suspends and wakes; however, acpi is not "running."
sh-3.00# /etc/init.d/rc.acpi start
ACPI seems to be supported but not enabled in kernel,
try using acpi=force on next reboot.
and that line is added to my grub now and I still do not see it starting so "events" are not happening.
Ideas? Lid close to suspend on a laptop is kind of nice:-)
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Post subject: panel transparency
Henry wrote:
Thank you, grey,
This must be one of the slickest upgrades yet. I simply upgraded my current precisesave file. A quick first look seems to indicate most everything works as before.
Thanks here also, grey,
Smooth as butter frugal install to my rather ancient athlon box with a stinky nvidia video card. Gave away my only PAE laptop so I can't test on my laptops for suspend etc. The ONLY thing I haven't got working is transparency of the panel. Compositor on and working but setting alpha for full transparency for the panel gives a black background, not the wallpaper. Lina with xfce4.10 on this machine gives correct transparency for the panel. Should be pretty much apples to apples. If you have the compositor on, can you get a transparent panel? It's great to have a current precise wrapped lovingly in Xfce/thunar/opera!
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Post subject: Minor package manager problem SOLVED
Subject description: "More info" doesn't work. No, it was a missing file.
EDIT - SOLVED: The package manager uses
to fetch the "More Info." This file had somehow got deleted. I ran
and copied it back. Kind of embarrassing.
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Post subject: panel transparency
#v2.10 MU: rox crashes with DRI modules. solution:
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error, removed
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Post subject: Reflections on the NOPS
Subject description: My longtime user experience
I have used a series of Nops from the beginning, and have tried all the Nops to make sure I was using the best at any given time. In more recent years I have used serially QuirkyNop, RacyNop, and PreciseNop in my mission-critical business computing. See
These of course have all been heavily reconfigured for my own use.
Of these QuirkyNop was very good. RacyNop 5.2.2 had bugs (from the Racy component, described previously) and mostly eventually fixed in ozsouth's excellent hybrid, RacyNop-5.3.2. PreciseNop-5.4.3 finally emerged as the best, the leader of the pack. Interesting is cthisbear's video on the parent
where nearly every word is "best" or "amazing."
Barry is now onto Precise-5.5, and we can hope that gray will eventually adopt improvements from that. I can hardly imagine what they might be - except perhaps in the package manager.
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I'm really liking this release, thanks.
I'm trying to get a drive to automount at boot but as soon as an entry is put into fstab, the drive disappears from thunar. I'm not sure if this is a precise issue or an xfce one. Any help is much appreciated.
And just so you know, a few packages such as opera and pudd don't have an entry in root/.packages/builtin_files so they have to be manually removed.
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Fixed problem with the panel having a black background when using transparency.
bummer I should have read the previous posts, oh well you get that..
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I'm trying to get a drive to automount at boot but as soon as an entry is put into fstab, the drive disappears from thunar. I'm not sure if this is a precise issue or an xfce one. Any help is much appreciated.
Fixed with a startup script, mount -a worked and put the entry in mstab.
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And just so you know, a few packages such as opera and pudd don't have an entry in root/.packages/builtin_files so they have to be manually removed.
I did a remaster and none of the user installed package entries were put into builtin_files. Also, all of the removed packages were added back to builtin_files. Had to sort it out manually, sounds like a dodgy remaster script.
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Most of the islands are been surveyed in two different depths, shallow and deep survey in order to analyse possible differences between them. The different directions have also been analysed, this is to provide us with data not just based on depth but also to understand the abundance species of marine life all the way around the coral reef.
Artificial Reef Survey
A new project in cooperation with the local government is been implemented in order to study 3 artificial reefs. The studies have not been concluded as of yet, we will be visiting each site 4 times a year, so far we have noticed that the location of these artificial reefs are the best options for artificial reefs due to the high sedimentation, the poor visibility conditions and the material construction of the Artificial Reef. Otherwise we should remark that taking notes of no life is also important for the scientific purpose. The experience for the volunteers was very exciting, following a roper underwater to find the structures and practicing a kind of "technical diving".
Dive Against Debris and Beach Clean Up Surveys
For the month of December and January our volunteers cleaned up underwater debris in an area of over 94163.26 square meters involving 107 volunteers and 784 minutes. This resulted in just over 69.3kg of loose debris. Like the previous month, most of the debris consisted of fishing nets.
On the mainland the most popular beaches were cleaned in an area of 87000 square meters and collecting 777kg of garbage involving 154 volunteers and 1080 minutes. The conversation with the Thailand population and the tourist who liked the project was very interesting and empowers them to make the beaches cleaned.
Projects Abroad has started to cooperate with an important scientific and citizens group who are running an interesting project of sea watchers (www.seawatchers.org) that involves the general population to make observations on nature.
Sightings of endangered species
Every survey the research divers' conduct is complemented with the sightings of endangered species like dolphins, turtles and sharks. In these 2 months Projects Abroad Thailand started working together with E-Sharks Thailand and continued working with Phuket Marine Biological Centre in relation the studies of the endangered species. Projects Abroad also started the Global Shark Campaign, aimed at raising awareness and providing research and data to contribute to the conservancy of all shark species involving 18 countries across 4 continents.
For the month of December and January our volunteers conducted 64 surveys with an area analysed of 185398.9 meters square having checked 2 hawksbill turtles.
Turtle Rehabilitation Work
In December and January we visited the Turtle Rehabilitation Centre in PMBC. Over there our volunteers were split into two groups, some were introduced to some tanks that needed to be cleaned. While some went and worked in the larger tanks where the Olive Ridley turtles lived. Volunteers helped scrub the tanks and also the turtle shells.
After the work in the area we took our volunteers through to the Aquarium where they had the opportunity to view the all the marine life that were on display.
Community Outreach
On Friday 13 December 2013, we had our Outreach activity at Nong Thale School where we held an educational workshop presenting our Global Shark Campaign. We organised games and activities that we felt encouraged the children to be more interested in shark conservation. Normally children are drawn to sharks as they are mysterious and known as wild and dangerous whilst in reality they are more afraid of humans than we are from them. It was a great opportunity for us to take effective action by raising awareness and educating children so they realise the importance of saving the shark population.
The community volunteers put together a skit about Sheldon the shark, the children seemed to enjoy this very much. The Conservation volunteers also did a presentation about the mangroves and explained the importance of mangroves to the children.
There were also other game stations set up to entertain and educate the children. We had puzzle station, word search, diving station and also an arts and crafts station. All of which focused on sharks. It was a great day and our volunteers as well as the school children seem to have a very good time.
As for January, we did our second campaign Global Shark Campaign. We are so proud that we have increased the number of our audiences from 120 to 700 students from the past month. We really hope that we have successfully created the good understanding that children have about sharks and that they will help us protect sharks in their local oceans.
The day began with our volunteers playing "Sheldon the Misunderstood Shark", then we set up 8 game stations that all 700 students rotated to play at each station. We told them facts about sharks and we also asked them questions and in the end if they answered it correctly we gave prizes.
Children have learnt about how important it is to have sharks in the ocean and how they maintain a perfect balance. Without sharks, our ocean will have no predator and our beautiful beach will turn into a massive space full of jellyfish. This doesn't mean that jellyfish are bad, but an ocean full of jelly fish doesn't make life easy for other fish. At the end of the day, the children have learnt a lot and they have built a strong and positive relationship with Projects Abroad volunteers that they came and asked our volunteers not to leave. It was such a productive day, entertaining as well, and of course educating to the children.
Vishal Pawa
Conservation Project Manager, Thailand


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Gophers collapse in overtime, lose to Spartans
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Minnesota missed out on a chance to make school history.
Keith Appling scored 24 points to help No. 5 Michigan State beat the Golden Gophers 87-75 in overtime Saturday after overcoming a double-digit deficit in the second half and blowing a lead late in regulation.
The Spartans scored the first nine points of OT, ending Minnesota's chance to beat a top-five team on its home court for the first time.
"Anytime you go on the road in a great environment and you step up for 40 minutes and you don't win the game, it is a bit of a missed opportunity," coach Richard Pitino said. "But there will be plenty more."
Minnesota's next two home games are against Ohio State and Wisconsin, teams currently ranked No. 3 and No. 4 in The Associated Press poll, after going on the road and almost pulling off an upset.
"We did a lot of good things and some silly things," Pitino said. "It shows the potential that we have and hopefully we showed we can compete with anybody."
The Spartans (15-1, 4-0 Big Ten) scored 15 straight points while holding the Golden Gophers (13-4, 2-2) scoreless for nearly 8 minutes after trailing 53-43 with 15:57 left.
Michigan State missed an opportunity to win in regulation for the second straight game, losing a five-point lead in the last 13 seconds.
Minnesota's Malik Smith made his fifth 3-pointer, Gary Harris missed two free throws with 11.3 seconds left for the Spartans and DeAndre Mathieu's layup with 1.7 seconds left tied the game and sent it to overtime.
Pitino was glad Mathieu made the shot, but it wasn't the one he wanted.
"I was running a play and trying to shoot a 3 to be honest with you," Pitino said.
The Spartans were without Adreian Payne because of a sprained right foot.
"He's probably a top-five pick," Pitino said. "So when I heard that he wasn't playing, I didn't want him to be hurt, but that was a nice, pleasant surprise."
The Spartans missed the standout senior as they barely did enough to keep winning.
Minnesota guard Austin Hollins turned the ball over with 42 seconds left and teammate Andre Hollins had an ill-advised 3-pointer blocked with 23 seconds left, trailing by three on each possession.
"We just made some bonehead plays," Andre Hollins said.
The Gophers struggled to take care of the basketball in OT and couldn't stop the Spartans, who haven't lost on their home court in the series since 1997.
Andre Hollins, who scored 24 points, wasn't satisfied by his team's strong showing.
"We came in confident," Andre Hollins said. "We expected to win this game. It's not a moral victory. We have to give them a lot of credit for making their free throws."
Michigan State made 32 of 40 free throws — with Appling missing only one of his 16 attempts — and Minnesota was 19 of 24 at the line.
The Gophers needed more than 4 minutes to score in the extra period and those points pulled it within seven.
Smith scored 11 of his points, nine on 3-pointers, in the first 12 minutes of the game to help the Gophers lead 41-36 at halftime after making 7 of 12 shots beyond the arc. They made just 3 of 14 3-pointers in the second half and overtime.
"I am certainly disappointed in the loss," Pitino said. "It thought it came down to them getting to the foul line and we did not toward the end of the game. It is very difficult to beat a team when they make 32 free throws to your 19. That is not to say I am complaining about the officiating."


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Normally July is a very festive month. You have the 4th of July, I have multiple friend's birthdays, and it's the middle of summer, what more could you ask for? In my case, it's been a bit of a stressful month.
I took 2 extensive trips with my 10 month old, sans my Husband who could not come because of work. I went North for 10 days to see my family and then south (9 hours each way in the car) to see my husband's family, all within 3 weeks. During this time, my son cut 2 teeth...MISERABLE. As you all know, it's not a fun process. He was such a trooper through it all. We just had many whiny days and sleepless nights during the trips, which are hard to deal with when it's just one person taking care of everything.
Between these trips I had an unfortunate experience where I was assaulted in the grocery store parking lot while I was strapping my baby into his car seat. The perv just grabbed me, but it was still very invasive and scary, especially since I had my baby with me. The A-hole proceeded to attack a woman at knife-point in a park two days later...thankfully he was caught and is now in jail. I am lucky they found him, most of these things go unresolved. I was left rattled, but certainly more aware.
ok, so I got it out, the whining is over and it's time to move on...We have August to look forward to! August brings great things; my husband's 30th Birthday (he reads the blog, so I can't divulge my plans yet), Rachel Zoe, Project Runway and Mad Men all return this month! We can't forget that fall clothes will be in stores...I can't WAIT to get some cozy sweaters and boots for my new SAHM wardrobe.
So, let's raise a pretend toast (mine would be a St.Germaine Cocktail) to no-teething, good reality t.v. and a new, fabulous month!


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Projects Abroad Receives a Flurry of Media Activity
Projects Abroad has recently appeared in major US media outlets. Most notably, founder and Director Dr. Peter Slowe was featured in the August 24th edition of The New York Times as the subject of their "Frequent Flier" column. Read the full article.
On the same day the September edition of Budget Travel was released, in which Projects Abroad makes a number of appearances in the "Ask Trip Coach" section, including a quote from former Projects Abroad volunteer Emily Dennis.
Also, be sure to pick up the September 13 issue of TIME Magazine, which features information on the Global Gap program in the Education section.
See our More Info section for a complete list of Project Abroad's media coverage.


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Temple-Cake Stand by Chris Woodward
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Chris Woodward, the creator of the awarded work Cake stand by Chris Woodward illustrates, From the growing popularity in home baking we could see a need for a modern looking contemporary cake stand, which could be easily stored in a cupboard or draw. Easy to clean and dishwasher safe. Temple is easy to assemble and intuitive by sliding the plates over the central tapered spine. Disassembly is just as easy by simply sliding them back off. All 4 main elements are held together by the Stacker. The Stacker helps keep all the elements together for multi angled compact storage. You can use different plate configurations for different occasions..
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Here's a question for the new week: As we close in on the quarter-pole of the 2009-10 National Hockey League campaign, what Western Conference team scares you? And by scare, we mean what outfit creates genuine spine-chilling, blood-curdling, bowel-evacuating fear?
For the better part of two decades, Detroit has been an automatic answer to that query but these are not your father's Red Wings, unless your pa happens to be a tracer of lost persons (where have you gone Jiri Hudler?) or an orthopedic surgeon. While there's still that horror movie element to the Wings where the smart viewer is still wary about the seemingly dead monster coming back to life in the final act, the combination of defections, injuries and aging have gone a long way in declawing the beast.
Besides the Wings, Colorado, Dallas, Anaheim and San Jose have all filled the role of neighbourhood bully in the West in the past decade and change, although the Sharks almost always contained their intimidation tactics to the October-to-March period.
Their springtime failures notwithstanding, the Men of Teal at this moment are probably the conference's best combination of recent reputation and early-season performance.
The reigning Presidents' Trophy winners (although, as acerbic columnist Ray Ratto once pointed out, the only way that banner would be worth anything is if it was made out of ShamWow! material and there was spilled Diet Coke to be sopped up) lead the Pacific Division, are getting good mileage out of newcomer Dany Heatley and reaping the benefits of a nice bounce-back season by Evgeni Nabokov, a netminder who was thought to be nearing his expiry date. But can a Sharks team that counts Manny Malhotra, Jason Demers, Benn Ferriero, Scott Nichol, Kent Huskins and Jed Ortmeyer among its regulars really be considered fearsome?
After that, you've got a Northwest Division leader (Colorado) that still hasn't convinced all the skeptics, a defending Northwest champ (Vancouver) that is managing to keep afloat despite wearing matching anchor cuff-links, a Central Division leader (Columbus) that's last in the West in offence and has a negative goal differential and a Chicago squad that hasn't lived up to its pre-season hype and perhaps never will as long as long as Cristobal Huet is the gardien du jour.
Meanwhile, the Avs, Kings and Coyotes turned heads early but a combined 6-7-2 mark over the past 10 days or so is perhaps a sign those clubs (who started a cumulative 26-9-2) are ready to find their own level.
Now there's an awful lot of hockey to go and maybe by Christmas, the Olympic break or certainly early April we'll have a clear delineation of the haves and have-nots, the cream will have risen to the top and insert any other appropriate cliche here. But as of right now, it looks for all the world that the West is as wide open as it's ever been and any club with a reasonable number of attributes — and yes, that includes the beat-up Canucks, the beat-up Oilers and the lead-the-West-in-offence-but-10th-in-defence Flames — can dare to dream.
Just for chuckles, here's one shmuck's pre-season prediction for the Western Conference standings. Only a coward asks for a do-over less than a quarter of the way in but is it OK to ask for a recount at the Missouri polling stations?
1. Chicago
2. Vancouver
3. San Jose
4. Detroit
5. St. Louis
6. Calgary
7. Columbus
8. Anaheim
9. Minnesota
10. Dallas
11. Los Angeles
12. Edmonton
13. Nashville
14. Phoenix
15. Colorado


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/* dso.h -*- mode:C; c-file-style: "eay" -*- */ /* Written by Geoff Thorpe (firstname.lastname@example.com) for the OpenSSL * project 2000. */ /* ==================================================================== * Copyright (c) 2000 The OpenSSL Project. All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in * the documentation and/or other materials provided with the * distribution. * * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this * software must display the following acknowledgment: * "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project * for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.OpenSSL.org/)" * * 4. The names "OpenSSL Toolkit" and "OpenSSL Project" must not be used to * endorse or promote products derived from this software without * prior written permission. For written permission, please contact * firstname.lastname@example.com. * * 5. Products derived from this software may not be called "OpenSSL" * nor may "OpenSSL" appear in their names without prior written * permission of the OpenSSL Project. * * 6. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OpenSSL PROJECT OR * ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, * SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT * NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; * LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, * STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) * ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED * OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. * ==================================================================== * * This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young * (firstname.lastname@example.com). This product includes software written by Tim * Hudson (firstname.lastname@example.com). * */ #ifndef HEADER_DSO_H #define HEADER_DSO_H #include <openssl/crypto.h> #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /* These values are used as commands to DSO_ctrl() */ #define DSO_CTRL_GET_FLAGS 1 #define DSO_CTRL_SET_FLAGS 2 #define DSO_CTRL_OR_FLAGS 3 /* By default, DSO_load() will translate the provided filename into a form * typical for the platform (more specifically the DSO_METHOD) using the * dso_name_converter function of the method. Eg. win32 will transform "blah" * into "blah.dll", and dlfcn will transform it into "libblah.so". The * behaviour can be overriden by setting the name_converter callback in the DSO * object (using DSO_set_name_converter()). This callback could even utilise * the DSO_METHOD's converter too if it only wants to override behaviour for * one or two possible DSO methods. However, the following flag can be set in a * DSO to prevent *any* native name-translation at all - eg. if the caller has * prompted the user for a path to a driver library so the filename should be * interpreted as-is. */ #define DSO_FLAG_NO_NAME_TRANSLATION 0x01 /* An extra flag to give if only the extension should be added as * translation. This is obviously only of importance on Unix and * other operating systems where the translation also may prefix * the name with something, like 'lib', and ignored everywhere else. * This flag is also ignored if DSO_FLAG_NO_NAME_TRANSLATION is used * at the same time. */ #define DSO_FLAG_NAME_TRANSLATION_EXT_ONLY 0x02 /* The following flag controls the translation of symbol names to upper * case. This is currently only being implemented for OpenVMS. */ #define DSO_FLAG_UPCASE_SYMBOL 0x10 /* This flag loads the library with public symbols. * Meaning: The exported symbols of this library are public * to all libraries loaded after this library. * At the moment only implemented in unix. */ #define DSO_FLAG_GLOBAL_SYMBOLS 0x20 typedef void (*DSO_FUNC_TYPE)(void); typedef struct dso_st DSO; /* The function prototype used for method functions (or caller-provided * callbacks) that transform filenames. They are passed a DSO structure pointer * (or NULL if they are to be used independantly of a DSO object) and a * filename to transform. They should either return NULL (if there is an error * condition) or a newly allocated string containing the transformed form that * the caller will need to free with OPENSSL_free() when done. */ typedef char* (*DSO_NAME_CONVERTER_FUNC)(DSO *, const char *); /* The function prototype used for method functions (or caller-provided * callbacks) that merge two file specifications. They are passed a * DSO structure pointer (or NULL if they are to be used independantly of * a DSO object) and two file specifications to merge. They should * either return NULL (if there is an error condition) or a newly allocated * string containing the result of merging that the caller will need * to free with OPENSSL_free() when done. * Here, merging means that bits and pieces are taken from each of the * file specifications and added together in whatever fashion that is * sensible for the DSO method in question. The only rule that really * applies is that if the two specification contain pieces of the same * type, the copy from the first string takes priority. One could see * it as the first specification is the one given by the user and the * second being a bunch of defaults to add on if they're missing in the * first. */ typedef char* (*DSO_MERGER_FUNC)(DSO *, const char *, const char *); typedef struct dso_meth_st { const char *name; /* Loads a shared library, NB: new DSO_METHODs must ensure that a * successful load populates the loaded_filename field, and likewise a * successful unload OPENSSL_frees and NULLs it out. */ int (*dso_load)(DSO *dso); /* Unloads a shared library */ int (*dso_unload)(DSO *dso); /* Binds a variable */ void *(*dso_bind_var)(DSO *dso, const char *symname); /* Binds a function - assumes a return type of DSO_FUNC_TYPE. * This should be cast to the real function prototype by the * caller. Platforms that don't have compatible representations * for different prototypes (this is possible within ANSI C) * are highly unlikely to have shared libraries at all, let * alone a DSO_METHOD implemented for them. */ DSO_FUNC_TYPE (*dso_bind_func)(DSO *dso, const char *symname); /* I don't think this would actually be used in any circumstances. */ #if 0 /* Unbinds a variable */ int (*dso_unbind_var)(DSO *dso, char *symname, void *symptr); /* Unbinds a function */ int (*dso_unbind_func)(DSO *dso, char *symname, DSO_FUNC_TYPE symptr); #endif /* The generic (yuck) "ctrl()" function. NB: Negative return * values (rather than zero) indicate errors. */ long (*dso_ctrl)(DSO *dso, int cmd, long larg, void *parg); /* The default DSO_METHOD-specific function for converting filenames to * a canonical native form. */ DSO_NAME_CONVERTER_FUNC dso_name_converter; /* The default DSO_METHOD-specific function for converting filenames to * a canonical native form. */ DSO_MERGER_FUNC dso_merger; /* [De]Initialisation handlers. */ int (*init)(DSO *dso); int (*finish)(DSO *dso); /* Return pathname of the module containing location */ int (*pathbyaddr)(void *addr,char *path,int sz); /* Perform global symbol lookup, i.e. among *all* modules */ void *(*globallookup)(const char *symname); } DSO_METHOD; /**********************************************************************/ /* The low-level handle type used to refer to a loaded shared library */ struct dso_st { DSO_METHOD *meth; /* Standard dlopen uses a (void *). Win32 uses a HANDLE. VMS * doesn't use anything but will need to cache the filename * for use in the dso_bind handler. All in all, let each * method control its own destiny. "Handles" and such go in * a STACK. */ STACK_OF(void) *meth_data; int references; int flags; /* For use by applications etc ... use this for your bits'n'pieces, * don't touch meth_data! */ CRYPTO_EX_DATA ex_data; /* If this callback function pointer is set to non-NULL, then it will * be used in DSO_load() in place of meth->dso_name_converter. NB: This * should normally set using DSO_set_name_converter(). */ DSO_NAME_CONVERTER_FUNC name_converter; /* If this callback function pointer is set to non-NULL, then it will * be used in DSO_load() in place of meth->dso_merger. NB: This * should normally set using DSO_set_merger(). */ DSO_MERGER_FUNC merger; /* This is populated with (a copy of) the platform-independant * filename used for this DSO. */ char *filename; /* This is populated with (a copy of) the translated filename by which * the DSO was actually loaded. It is NULL iff the DSO is not currently * loaded. NB: This is here because the filename translation process * may involve a callback being invoked more than once not only to * convert to a platform-specific form, but also to try different * filenames in the process of trying to perform a load. As such, this * variable can be used to indicate (a) whether this DSO structure * corresponds to a loaded library or not, and (b) the filename with * which it was actually loaded. */ char *loaded_filename; }; DSO * DSO_new(void); DSO * DSO_new_method(DSO_METHOD *method); int DSO_free(DSO *dso); int DSO_flags(DSO *dso); int DSO_up_ref(DSO *dso); long DSO_ctrl(DSO *dso, int cmd, long larg, void *parg); /* This function sets the DSO's name_converter callback. If it is non-NULL, * then it will be used instead of the associated DSO_METHOD's function. If * oldcb is non-NULL then it is set to the function pointer value being * replaced. Return value is non-zero for success. */ int DSO_set_name_converter(DSO *dso, DSO_NAME_CONVERTER_FUNC cb, DSO_NAME_CONVERTER_FUNC *oldcb); /* These functions can be used to get/set the platform-independant filename * used for a DSO. NB: set will fail if the DSO is already loaded. */ const char *DSO_get_filename(DSO *dso); int DSO_set_filename(DSO *dso, const char *filename); /* This function will invoke the DSO's name_converter callback to translate a * filename, or if the callback isn't set it will instead use the DSO_METHOD's * converter. If "filename" is NULL, the "filename" in the DSO itself will be * used. If the DSO_FLAG_NO_NAME_TRANSLATION flag is set, then the filename is * simply duplicated. NB: This function is usually called from within a * DSO_METHOD during the processing of a DSO_load() call, and is exposed so that * caller-created DSO_METHODs can do the same thing. A non-NULL return value * will need to be OPENSSL_free()'d. */ char *DSO_convert_filename(DSO *dso, const char *filename); /* This function will invoke the DSO's merger callback to merge two file * specifications, or if the callback isn't set it will instead use the * DSO_METHOD's merger. A non-NULL return value will need to be * OPENSSL_free()'d. */ char *DSO_merge(DSO *dso, const char *filespec1, const char *filespec2); /* If the DSO is currently loaded, this returns the filename that it was loaded * under, otherwise it returns NULL. So it is also useful as a test as to * whether the DSO is currently loaded. NB: This will not necessarily return * the same value as DSO_convert_filename(dso, dso->filename), because the * DSO_METHOD's load function may have tried a variety of filenames (with * and/or without the aid of the converters) before settling on the one it * actually loaded. */ const char *DSO_get_loaded_filename(DSO *dso); void DSO_set_default_method(DSO_METHOD *meth); DSO_METHOD *DSO_get_default_method(void); DSO_METHOD *DSO_get_method(DSO *dso); DSO_METHOD *DSO_set_method(DSO *dso, DSO_METHOD *meth); /* The all-singing all-dancing load function, you normally pass NULL * for the first and third parameters. Use DSO_up and DSO_free for * subsequent reference count handling. Any flags passed in will be set * in the constructed DSO after its init() function but before the * load operation. If 'dso' is non-NULL, 'flags' is ignored. */ DSO *DSO_load(DSO *dso, const char *filename, DSO_METHOD *meth, int flags); /* This function binds to a variable inside a shared library. */ void *DSO_bind_var(DSO *dso, const char *symname); /* This function binds to a function inside a shared library. */ DSO_FUNC_TYPE DSO_bind_func(DSO *dso, const char *symname); /* This method is the default, but will beg, borrow, or steal whatever * method should be the default on any particular platform (including * DSO_METH_null() if necessary). */ DSO_METHOD *DSO_METHOD_openssl(void); /* This method is defined for all platforms - if a platform has no * DSO support then this will be the only method! */ DSO_METHOD *DSO_METHOD_null(void); /* If DSO_DLFCN is defined, the standard dlfcn.h-style functions * (dlopen, dlclose, dlsym, etc) will be used and incorporated into * this method. If not, this method will return NULL. */ DSO_METHOD *DSO_METHOD_dlfcn(void); /* If DSO_DL is defined, the standard dl.h-style functions (shl_load, * shl_unload, shl_findsym, etc) will be used and incorporated into * this method. If not, this method will return NULL. */ DSO_METHOD *DSO_METHOD_dl(void); /* If WIN32 is defined, use DLLs. If not, return NULL. */ DSO_METHOD *DSO_METHOD_win32(void); /* If VMS is defined, use shared images. If not, return NULL. */ DSO_METHOD *DSO_METHOD_vms(void); /* This function writes null-terminated pathname of DSO module * containing 'addr' into 'sz' large caller-provided 'path' and * returns the number of characters [including trailing zero] * written to it. If 'sz' is 0 or negative, 'path' is ignored and * required amount of charachers [including trailing zero] to * accomodate pathname is returned. If 'addr' is NULL, then * pathname of cryptolib itself is returned. Negative or zero * return value denotes error. */ int DSO_pathbyaddr(void *addr,char *path,int sz); /* This function should be used with caution! It looks up symbols in * *all* loaded modules and if module gets unloaded by somebody else * attempt to dereference the pointer is doomed to have fatal * consequences. Primary usage for this function is to probe *core* * system functionality, e.g. check if getnameinfo(3) is available * at run-time without bothering about OS-specific details such as * libc.so.versioning or where does it actually reside: in libc * itself or libsocket. */ void *DSO_global_lookup(const char *name); /* If BeOS is defined, use shared images. If not, return NULL. */ DSO_METHOD *DSO_METHOD_beos(void); /* BEGIN ERROR CODES */ /* The following lines are auto generated by the script mkerr.pl. 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Piet de Jong
- Title: Professor
- Position: Professor - Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies
- Qualifications: BEc Syd., PhD Melb.
Contact Details
- Ph: (+61-2) 9850 8552
- Email: email@example.com
- Fax: (+61-2) 9850 9481
- Room: 751, building: E4A
Areas of Expertise
- financial risk
- statistics
- insurance mathematics
- time series and forecasting
- econometrics
- mathematical psychology
- quantitative ecology.
Piet de Jong has been Professor of Actuarial Studies since 2003. Prior to coming to Macquarie, Professor de Jong spent many years as Professor of Statistics at the University of British Columbia and Reader in Actuarial Science at the London School of Economics. He has more than 30 publications in refereed journals in diverse quantitative areas such as actuarial statistics, insurance mathematics, time series and forecasting, econometrics, mathematical psychology, and quantitative ecology. Professor de Jong has consulted widely on actuarial and statistical problems both in Australia and overseas and both in the private and public sector. He is a past associate editor of the American Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. His current research interests are forecasting in both general and life insurance, genetic testing and data mining of insurance and other data bases.
Research areas
Prof Jong's research focuses on financial risk where liabilities arise from more than one source. These risk calculations are critical to financial regulators and diversified financial companies. Dependencies between risks (in particular extreme risks) require quantitative techniques which answer such questions as adequacy.
- De Jong P. and Heller, G.Z. (2008) "Generalized linear modelling for insurance data." Cambridge University Press
- De Jong, P. (2005) "Smoothing and interpolation with the state space model." in Readings in unobserved component models (A. Harvey and T Proietti) Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, pp 68-75. (This work was previously published in 1989) (ISBN 0-19-927865-2)
- De Jong P. and Shephard N. (2005) "The simulation smoother for time series models" in Readings in unobserved component models (A. Harvey and T Proietti) Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 354-366. (This work was previously published in 1995). (ISBN 0-19-927865-2)
Conferences and Presentations
- De Jong, P. (2007) "Mortality forecasting using the Wang Transform" NBER-NSF Time Series Conference September 14-15, 2007 Iowa City, Iowa. Invited presentation
- De Jong, P. (2007) "Joint modeling of mortality using the Wang Transform" Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA. Invited presentation.
- De Jong, P. (2007) "Evaluating the benefit of bicycle helmet legislation" Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. Invited presentation
- De Jong, P. (2005) "State space models in actuarial science." Proceedings of Second Brazilian Conference on Statistical Modelling in Insurance and Finance.Sao Paulo.
- De Jong, P (2000) "Likelihood maximization for non linear time series using simulated annealing." Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers of Time Series Modelling The Institute of Statistical Mathematics. Tokyo.
- P.P. Boyle, J. Butterworth and De Jong, P. (1984) . "Models of moral hazard in insurance and finance." Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Actuaries Vol 1. pp 195-207.
- De Jong, P. (1984). "The mean square error of a randomly discounted sequence of uncertain payments." Premium Calculation in Insurance, F.E.C. De Vylder et al. (eds) , pp.449-459. Reidell, Dordrecht.
- De Jong, P. and P.P. Boyle (1984). "Monitoring mortality: a state-space approach." ARCH 2:81-96.
PhD Student Supervision
- Associate Supervisor of Genyuan Fu - PhD-Actuarial Studies Research - Full Time
- Associate Supervisor of Liang Wang - PhD-Actuarial Studies Research - Part Time
- Principal Supervisor of Tandy (Jianhui ) Xu - PhD-Actuarial Studies Research - Full Time
- ACST357/ACST862: General Insurance Pricing and Reserving
Publications and Research
Research Publications
- Choo, Weihao and De Jong, P. (2009), " Determining and Allocating Diversification Benefits for a Portfolio of Risks" Astin Bulletin. To Appear.
- Choo, Weihao and De Jong, P. (2009), "Loss Reserving Using Loss Aversion Functions" Insurance, Mathematics & Economics, Vol 45, Iss 2 pp 271-277.
- De Jong. P. and Marshall, C. (2007) "Forecasting mortality using the Wang transform" Astin Bulletin 37(1): 149-162
- Heller G. Z., Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby, R. A., De Jong, P. (2007) "Mean and dispersion modelling for policy claims costs" Scandinavian Actuarial Journal 4: pp 281-292
- De Jong, P. (2006) "Forecasting runoff triangles." North American Actuarial Journal 10:28-38. ISSN: 1092-02773..
- De Jong, P. and Tickle, L (2006) "Extending the Lee-Carter model of mortality projection." Mathematical Population Studies 13:1-18. ISSN 0889-84802.
- De Jong, P. and Ferris, S (2006) "Adverse selection spirals" Astin Bulletin 36: 589-628. ISSN 0515-0361
- De Jong, P. (2005) "State space models in Actuarial Science." Proceedings of the Second Brazilian Conference on Statistical Modelling in Insurance and P. Morettin, editors), Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo (2005).
- De Jong, P. and Ferris, S. (2005) "Assessing the costs of adverse selection." The ICFAI Journal of Risk and Insurance, II, p64-82.
- De Jong, P. and Penzer, J (2004).
- De Jong, P. and S. Chu-Chun-Lin (1994). "Stationary and nonstationary state space models." Journal of Time Series Analysis 15:151-166.
- De Jong, P. (1991). "The diffuse Kalman filter." Annals of Statistics 2:1073-1083.
- De Jong, P. (1991). "Stable algorithms for the state space model" Journal of Time Series Analysis 12:143-157.
- De Jong, P. and R. Thompson (1990). "Testing linear hypotheses in the SUR framework with identical explanatory variables." Research in Finance 8:59-76
- De Jong, P. (1989). "Smoothing and interpolation with the state space model." Journal of the American Statistical Association 84:1085-1088.
- De Jong, P. (1988). "A cross validation filter for time series models." Biometrika 75:594-600.
- De Jong, P. and Murray J. Mackinnon (1988). "Covariances for smoothed estimates in state space models." Biometrika 75:601-2.
- De Jong, P. (1988). "The likelihood for a state space model." Biometrika 75:165-9.
- De Jong, P. (1987). "Rational economic data revisions." Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 5:539-548.
- De Jong, P. (1986). "State transition specification in state-space models" Journal of Time Series Analysis 7:213-216.
- L.R. Webb and De Jong, P. (1986). "Competitive bidding and the price mechanism." In Firms and Markets. K.A. Tucker & C. Baden Fuller (eds) 109-129.
- De Jong, P. (1985). "An asymptotically efficient regression estimator for variance component time series models." Methods of Operations Research 50:2
- De Jong, P. and M. Greig (1985). "Models and methods for pairing data." Canadian Journal of Statistics 13:233-241.
- R. Turkington, J.L. Harper, P. De Jong, and L. Aarssen (1985). "A reanalysis of interspecific association in an old pasture." Journal of Ecology 73
- De Jong, P. (1984). "A statistical approach to Saaty's scaling method for priorities." Journal of Mathematical Psychology 28:467-478.
- De Jong, P. (1984). "Gauss - a matrix calculator program." The American Statistician 38:154.
- De Jong, P. and M. Greig. "First order Markov chains with a zero diagonal transition matrix." Biometrics (1984) 40:101-108.
- De Jong, P. (1984). "The mean square error of a randomly discounted sequence of uncertain payments." Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 3:173-178.
- De Jong, P. and P.P. Boyle (1983). "Monitoring mortality: a state-space approach." Journal of Econometrics 23:131-146.
- De Jong, P. and B. Zehnwirth (1983). "Credibility theory and the Kalman filter." Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 2:281-286.
- De Jong, P., L.W. Aarssen and R. Turkington (1983). "The use of contact sampling in studies of association in vegetation." Journal of Ecology 71:54
- De Jong, P. and B. Zehnwirth (1983). "Claims reserving, state-space models and the Kalman filter." Journal of the Institute of Actuaries 110:157-18
- De Jong, P., M. Greig and D.B. Madan (1983). "Testing for random pairing." Journal of the American Statistical Association 78:332-336.
- De Jong, P. (1981). "Insurance premiums under demand constraints." Scandinavian Actuarial Journal 123-126.
- De Jong, P., L.W. Aarssen and R. Turkington (1980). "The analysis of contact sampling data."Oecologia 45:322-324.
- De Jong, P. (1978). "Determining the final form of a linear dynamic econometric model." Journal of Econometrics 8:181-192.
- De Jong, P. (1977). "The fast Fourier transform spectral estimator." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 39:327-330.
- De Jong, P. (1976). "The recursive fitting of autoregressions." Biometrika 525-530.


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Fabio Rojas has a post up titled Theory Death in Political Science. It links to a post by Stephen Saideman, "Leaving Grand Theorists Behind," which was published as Saideman's Semi-Spew. (A companion piece was also published at Duck of Minerva and discussed by me earlier.)
Here's the beginning of the post:
A definition: theory death is when some intellectual group tires of theory based on armchair speculation. Of course, that doesn't mean that people stop producing theory. Rather, it means that "theory†no longer means endless books based on the author's insights. Instead, people produce theory that responds to, or integrates, or otherwise incorporates a wealth of normal science research. In sociology, theory death seems to have happened sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. For example, recent theory books like Levi-Martin's Social Structures or McAdam and Fligstein's A Theory of Fields are extended discussions of empirical research that culminate in broader statements. The days of endlessly quoting and reinterpreting Weber are over. 🙁
Now, it seems, theory death is hitting some areas of political science.
What Fabio Rojas calls "theory death" is the "normalization of science." That is, the establishment of methods that allow for progress in the prediction, control, and improvement of behavior of some object of study (molecule, person, State, etc.) over time.
The next line is particularly important:
Science becomes normalized when the power the Old Boys network achieves through limiting competition is overtaken by the money available for creating progress.
There have been two great flowerings of science in American history. Both emerged from the establishment of the great American University System in the late 19th century, but they accelerated at different times. As I wrote previously:
Following the Second World War science boom, the federal government accelerated the rise of the American research universities. From the Second World War to the Vietnam War, physics was a favorite area for funding. From this we received many new physical inventions, such as a transistor. After the Vietnam War, medicine is a favorite area for funding. Now we have great medical breakthroughs.
While social science research funding is only a fraction of medical research, the federal academic complex ensures that there is bleed through from health sciences to the social sciences as well. The bureaucratic momentum for peer-reviewed scientific research funding. Such funding requires that researchers seek to achieve progress in some areas, which of course privileges normal science (which is capable of achieving progress) relative to non-paradigmatic science (Which is not).
The reason that Political Science is late to normalization — why it is experiencing "theory death" later than other fields — come from the obvious exception to this general rule for how academia works:
Professors, like most people, respond to the incentives of power, influence, and money.
The institution of tenure reduces uncertainty regarding money, and focuses the incentives on power and influence.
Power in academia comes from the number of bodies a professor has under him. These bodies might be apprentices (graduate students he advises), journeymen (post-docs who have a PhD and work at the lab, or staff researchers), or simple workers (lab technicians, etc).
Influence in academia comes from the extent to which one is successful in influencing one's peers. This is typically measured in terms of influence scores, which are a product of how often the academic is cited, weighted by how important of a publication he is cited in.
Unlike other places in academia, professors hope to influence national policy makers, and so are relatively immune to academic discipline. This actually hurts scholarship. For instance, Victor Cha's otherwise great book on North Korea, The Impossible State, is pretty much ruined by his analysis of Kim Jung Il, which was basically a job application. Likewise, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer (who began this discussion by defending the Old Boys network) basically produce political propaganda for the Old Right (pessimistic, Army-focused, and anti-Zionist). The lack of academic discipline has allowed political science to get away with graduating students into the "humanities ghetto" — because skills don't matter in political science as much as connections, those without connections are left with high unemployment and bitter job prospects:
The way forward is probably for grant-funding organizations to support normal science in political science research, and for political agitators to coalesce within agenda-driven "think tanks." Educational sciences have already experienced this split. It's time for Political Science to normalize, too.


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Amazon has finally confirmed what was Hollywood's worst kept secret: that its Amazon Prime customers will be able to get some online video for free, just like the DVD rental customers of Netflix can get online video for free.
To us this looks like an early experiment, and Amazon is thought to have about two million Prime members worldwide, bringing in around $79 a year – so the programme has around $158m in total. This is a low number compared to the 20 million that are signed up to one service or other at Netflix, each paying at least $7.99 a month (around $96 a year), making that around a $2bn wad of cash. It's hard to compare the two or see how one can become something like the other.
The Netflix deals lets consumers watch a certain number of minutes a month, depending upon their level of investment, but ALL its online content is far greater in depth of selection: around 5,000 for Amazon, out of its total library of 90,000, but something like 12,000 and rising from Netflix online out of a DVD library of over 100,000 titles.
The numbers are comparable but slanted in favour of Netflix. Of course the precise list of video available, how up-to-date it is and how stable it is (Netflix has been accused of swapping assets on and off the online list) is perhaps more important. Eventually Netflix will make all of its titles available online, but Amazon, which offers both pay-per-view rental and purchase for these assets, is unlikely to be able to shift too aggressively in that direction – partly due to limited content rights.
However with the purchase of LoveFiLM – and if we're right the possibility that Amazon will bid for the French and German equivalents – it immediately has a similar free offer to LoveFiLM's 1.6 million customers, effectively almost doubling its reach overnight, and for this its video mix can be determined by the rights which LoveFiLM has, rather than renegotiated rights from the US to Europe.
Amazon Prime was designed to offer two-day free shipping regardless of minimum purchases, as well as discounted priority shipping rates. Amazon launched the programme in the US back in 2005; in Japan, the UK, and Germany in 2007; and in France as Amazon Premium in 2008. That gives a perfect footprint for its content acquisition strategy.
Clearly there is a big calculation that Amazon has made to work out how much money it will lose on delivery if it delivers every purchase for free, against that $158m of income. It can certainly go back to the drawing board if it needs to re-calculate in order to cover the cost of paying for content which is delivered for free.
However one interesting statistic is that anyone who joins Amazon Prime spends roughly double in the following year, and that some 92 per cent of them reckon they get value out of the service and plan to renew – so there is money to be had there to pay for Amazon content out of extra sales profits.
That's a good basis for extending it, and surely "Join Amazon Prime, get free online video" is as good a proposition as any for increasing its membership, as are recommendations that read, "You have chosen to buy XYZ DVD, if you join Amazon Prime now you can view this for free online any time".
So with billions of transactions a year, we can expect that raising Amazon Prime membership slowly and carefully from around 2 million today (a number calculated by Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster, who says right now it's growing at 24 per cent per annum) to something close to 20 million, sounds possible, as long as Netflix doesn't become too aggressive, too quickly, internationally.
Already Amazon has a similar device profile to Netflix for viewing movies including Macs, PCs and some 200 models of internet-connected TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes, because it did all that work with what was once called Unbox video and is now called Amazon Instant Video.
Amazon says that the 5,000 new movies include The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Amadeus, Syriana, and Chariots of Fire; documentaries such as March of the Penguins; and TV shows including Doctor Who and Fawlty Towers. These appear to be older classics for the most part and the result of recent separate negotiations from the content filling its Instant Video offering.
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If you can only volunteer your time for a couple of hours then let Ryan know.
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Offense Monday, February 27th, 2012
WikiLeaks and Anonymous collaborate in releasing The Global Intelligence Files of the global intelligence company Stratfor. This is huge, like another Cablegate dump, Stratfor is known as the private CIA. From the WikiLeaks site:
On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.
torrent dumps are available at http://wlstorage.net/torrent/gifiles/, pick newest one available
According to Democracy Now, one of the leaked emails suggests a secret U.S. indictment of Julian Assange.
Defense Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
INTERPOL leads arrests of 25 alleged Anonymous cadre in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain as part of what the are calling "Operation Unmask." (get it?) From the Interpol PR:
Hackers reportedly linked to Anonymous group targeted in global operation supported by INTERPOL
LYON, France ? An international operation supported by INTERPOL against suspected hackers believed to be linked to the so-called Anonymous hacking group has seen the arrest of some 25 individuals across four countries in Latin America and Europe.
Operation Unmask was launched in mid-February following a series of coordinated cyber-attacks originating from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain against the Colombian Ministry of Defence and presidential websites, as well as Chiles Endesa electricity company and its National Library, among others.
The international operation was carried out by national law enforcement officers in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain, under the aegis of INTERPOLs Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology (IT) Crime, which facilitated the sharing of intelligence following operational meetings in the four participating countries.
Some 250 items of IT equipment and mobile phones were also seized during searches of 40 premises across 15 cities during the operation, as well as payment cards and cash, as part of a continuing investigation into the funding of illegal activities carried out by the suspected hackers who are aged 17 to 40.
Redirect Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
http://interpol.int TANGO DOWN >> FREE INTERNATIONAL ANONS! #AnonymousThis tweet went out on Twitter last night as Anonymous brought down the Interpol website with DOS attacks. It is back up as I write this.
Here are some more links on this news:
Hackers reportedly linked to Anonymous group targeted in global operation supported by INTERPOL
25 Alleged Anons Arrested in International Crackdown
Interpol #TangoDown, Suspected 25 Anonymous arrested
Anonymous brings down Interpol website in retaliation for 25 arrests
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The Stratfor password was the company name. These people are such idiots that I propose that their name be promoted to that rare category of word, where like quisling, the owner of the name has distinguished themselves as to define a whole category of behaviour and that henceforth, whenever someone hides their money under the mattress, puts their key above the door, or uses their name as their password, we will say they have pulled a stratfor.


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I don't know if anyone still checks this forum (it's been years since I visited it myself), but I remember that this used to be a great place to get advice and instruction on comics.
I've been working on this comic "Quest for the Cloud Castle" off an on for over a year now. But now I'm almost done with it. I'm planning on coloring the whole thing and putting it into a book with a few other comics I've drawn. But I would like your advice. Because it took me so long to do and I kept getting interrupted by my day job and other responsibilities, there are some sequences that don't work as well as they should. I would love to know what you think of the comic and what flaws you find in it.
You can read the rest of the comic at this link: http://crazycal.com/?p=833
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PROVO, UT — A poor diet and lack of physical activity can lead to adult-onset diabetes, but diabetics can reverse their illness through lifestyle changes, according to a Brigham Young University (BYU) study.
Steve Aldana, a BYU professor of health and human performance, conducted the study to determine the effect of fitness and nutrition on reversing diabetes. He designed a corporate wellness program in which employees who were at risk of developing diabetes were invited to participate in the year-long health program. The program consisted of 16 weeks of healthy lifestyle classes and 30 minutes of daily exercise. BYU screened the participants' blood insulin levels and glucose intolerance at the start of the program, at the six-month mark and a year after the program began. The researchers found improvements after six months and one year. By the end, more than half of the participants were no longer diabetic or at risk.
"Ideally, it's best to prevent diabetes from ever happening in the first place, but in many cases where it appeared to be too late, we were able to stop or reverse it," Aldana said.
Bill Haskell, a professor of medicine at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, said he and other researchers have reached similar conclusions.
"Physical activity combined with weight loss can result in a reversal of diagnoses," he said. "Fasting blood sugars have dropped below what was used to classify someone as diabetic, and they no longer needed to use medications."


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