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This week: The Upstairs Jam session is hosted by Jim Doxas (drums), and special guests
Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:30-7:30pm, Upstairs showcases McGill University's Schulich School of Music students.
Come and revisit the classics of Lonnie Smith, Jimmy Smith, Larry Young, Brother Jack McDuff and other essentials of the Organ Trio.
Marianne Trudel is a multi-talented pianist, composer, improvisor, and arranger. At once energetic and passionate, her music cross-cuts a wide swath of musical interests.
Their time-stamped authentic style, purist approach and incomparable energy, is inspired by the great American bluesmen who once scoured the juke joints of Chicago and the Midwest.
All hailing from different parts of the world, this group comes together to bring a modern touch to the traditional jazz quintet.
Harpdog Brown has been immersed in the Canadian blues scene for over 30 years.
Feat. Elie Haroun (vocals), André Faleiros (bass), Sacha Daoud (drums) & John Sadowy (piano).
Enjoy this overview of the music of two legends of the guitar with a unique formula: Two guitarists on stage!
5pm to 7pm - Every Wednesday, students in the jazz program at Concordia University will play at Upstairs.
Ben Winkelman is a jazz pianist and composer living in New York.
Barely 24 years old, Shawn McPherson has already established himself as an up and coming harmonica master.
Dawn Tyler Watson is a six-time consecutive winner of the Quebec Lys Blues Award for Best Female Artist.
One of Quebec's most celebrated jazz trios, Les Malcommodes is led by award-winning pianist-composer Félix Stüssi.
Featuring: Domier Gonzales (percussions), Michel Cantero (piano), Nestor Rodriguez (sax), Alex Bellegarde (bass)
Celebrating spring with thematic songs from the American songbook.
Olivia Khoury is a 22-year-old dancer and singer-songwriter born and raised in Montreal.
Fuel Junkie is a blues act that builds upon the traditional trio and adds three powerful saxophones.
Trumpeter Kevin Dean is a Professor of Music (Jazz Studies) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University
Robi Botos is one of Canada's most talented and respected young jazz pianists.
Mike Bruzzese is a jazz guitarist based in Montreal.
Montreal-based saxophonist and entertainer TOMMY D embodies the spirit of adult-contemporary jazz in fun and family-friendly performances
Ben's soulful voice is reminiscent of the greatest Rhythm and Blues vocalists of the '50s and '60s.
A huge fan of the 1950s crooner-jazz repertoire, Colin Hunter has launched a few CDs and has hit the stage many times with the ever-talented vocal singer Kim Richardson.
Fat Albert Rotunda, Herbie Hancock's obscure album that provided the soundtrack for 70s television show Fat Albert.
Originally from a small village in the south of France and raised in Connecticut, Laura is influenced by her parents' gypsy jazz and classical backgrounds.
Born in 1960 in Paris, and now an American citizen, self taught Jean-Michel Pilc has performed with numerous giants in the music field
Formed by Mexican percussionist and singer Sergio Barrenechea, Impulso Flamenco presents a mix repertoire of traditional Flamenco in fusion with Latino and Arab musics, with Jazz accents.
In this intimate setting, Donny Kennedy (sax) and Alec Schulman (piano) explore standards and original music.
Brazilian music with Carlos Jimenez, René Orea & Aquiles Melo
Tribute to Dave Turner's montrealer mentors: Charles Biddle, Michel Donato, Charles Ellison among others.
Misses Satchmo, a band led by the dazzling Lysandre Champagne on vocals and trumpet
Sam Kirmayer is joined by pianist Andres Vial and bassist Mike De Masi to celebrate the music of Charlie Parker.
Born in Istanbul, her multidisciplinary talent was nurtured in the UK before an extensive period in Argentina developing her own take on South American music.
Born and raised in Montreal, Justin Saladino gives a fresh take on the blues.
Guillaume Martineau, piano ; Nicolas Ferron Geoffroy, guitar ; Rémi-Jean Leblanc, bass ; Kevin Warren, drums
Order of Canada recipient, Dr. Dave Young, is one of Canada's most celebrated and valued bassists, composers, arrangers, and educators.
Celebrated tenor/soprano saxophonist Dan Faulk has recorded on several CDs with many of jazz's legendary masters including Barry Harris, John Hicks, Louis Hayes, and with J.J. Johnson for Verve Records.
Uniquely combining the superlative technique of a classical virtuoso with his prowess in jazz, world music and free improvisation, Matt Herskowitz has carved out a unique and personal voice in music.
Suzi Silva, of Portuguese origin, is the instigator of this project, which aims to merge Fado and Jazz.
Old Music, New Music, Borrowed Music, Blue Music
Gifted with a voice that makes any crowd swoon, Adam James is a modern pop crooner who continues to take the international music scene by storm.
Described as an "impressive talent" by All About Jazz, Ben Rosenblum is a jazz pianist, accordionist and composer based in New York
Founded in 2002, Shtreiml offers a high-octane mix of not-so-traditional Eastern-European and Turkish music.
Paulo Ramos, a versatile Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer
Remi-Jean Leblanc (bass), Paul Shrofel (piano) and Greg Ritchie (drums) play Stevie Wonder
Ft: David Ryshpan - keys, Emile Farley - electric bass, Anthony Pageot - drums
Bringing together 4 of Canada's most unique voices, the Porch Swing Quartet celebrates the possibilities of unexpected pairings.
From Monk to Coltrane, Blakey to Byrd, with the band's own compositions thrown in for good measure, these guys swing baby !
The Evan Shay Standards Band is thrilled to be bringing some swing to the stage at Upstairs!
In his latest album, ORIENTAL BLUE, Samuel Bonnet traces a singular path to the confluence of writing and improvised, color and sound, East and West.
Originally from France, the pianist Simon Denizart came to Montreal in 2011 to study jazz performance at Univerity de Montreal with Luc Beaugrand.
Alain Caron was ranked Best Bass player for 10 years in the row by magazine The Jazz Report.
A dominant figure on the Quebec blues scene, Jim Zeller has the nasty habit of getting people in a frenzy everywhere he plays his harmonica.
A fresh and fun mix of swing, blues, folk and jazz, Eleanor Young and Peter Modos take a playful approach on old favourites from the early jazz era and beyond.
Montreal group B`s Bees is a hard swinging jazz outfit that brings a high energy interpretation to the music of past masters.
The music is the magic: Tribute to Billie Holiday
Laura's style branches out from traditional jazz roots and some of her idols include Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, Etta Jones, Anita O'Day, Chet Baker and Blossom Dearie.
A scat enthusiast, Jordan is known for her vocal acrobatics.
Huntertones brings people together around the globe with fun, imaginative and fearless music.
Genre-bending icons Raul Midón and Lionel Loueke join forces to present a special night of song and guitar wizardry.
Tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi is an internationally recognized jazz performer, composer, author, and educator.
American Blues legend, the multi-instrumentalist Lucky Peterson, is one of the most riveting performers of the modern blues era.
Gilad Hekselman has earned a reputation as one of New York City's most promising guitarists.
Drummer Kendrick Scott is a technically proficient and intuitive modern jazz drummer, composer, arranger, and bandleader with a bent toward expansive post-bop.
Sweeping and cinematic, the music draws on elements of jazz, classicval, rock, blues, and hip hop to create something uniquely modern, unmistakably American.
Tribute to Bill Evans featuring Roxane Reddy (vocals) & Yannick Anctil (piano)
5 to 7 pm (free) Ô, LA BELLE VIE featuring Micheline Laporte - vocals, John Sadowy - piano and Dave Watts - bass
Her songs come straight from the heart, sung with a voice that has been described as Amy
Winehouse meets Janis Joplin.
Superbrass features some of the best up and coming trumpet players in the area. Four trumpets plus rhythm section.
Joe Sullivan, trumpet / Yannick Rieu, sax/ François Bourassa, piano / Adrian Vedady, bass / André White, drums
Jazz piano trio at it finest from one of Montreal's most recognized names.
At the vanguard of 'The New Jazz Generation' and freshly graduated from the University of Toronto's prestigious jazz studies program, JENNA MARIE PINARD possesses a signature jazz and blues voice.
Classic R&B – Soul signer Ria Reece is a two time 2014 Lys Blues award nominee for "Blues & Associated Styles Album of the Year" and "Breakout Artist".
A musical journey to New Orleans in the 20s and 40s, this is what Masson Stomp is all about: Dixieland jazz and Swing styles.
Marie-Fatima Rudolf is a much appreciated presence on the Montreal jazz scene graduating from McGill, recording and performing with various groups.
Thelonious "Sphere" Monk (1917-1982) was a major figure in jazz history and a profoundly original artist, both as a highly regarded composer and a fiercely unique pianist.
Diane Nalini composes and sings in four languages. She has recorded four critically-acclaimed albums, sung at jazz festivals around the globe
Equally proficient on both the upright and electric bass, Alex is a fearless original known for his unique artistic voice, powerful groove and instrumental virtuosity.
Revelation Radio-Canada jazz 2015-2016, Guillaume Martineau is distinguished by creativity as a pianist.
Christine Tassan will be playing with Aurélien Tomasi on saxophones and clarinet, Marie-Fatima Rudolf on piano and Blanche Baillargeon on double bass.
Valérie Lacombe Trio presents an evening of swinging standards originally written for musical theatres and Golden-Age movie musicals
Frank Lozano: Saxophone, Carlos Jimenez: guitar, Jeff Johnston: piano, Fraser Hollins: Bass, Dave Laing: drums
The music explores classic blues and R and B. Some hits and some lesser known, always fun!
Born in Santiago de Cuba, young Andy Rubal Bello has had music running through his veins ever since he was a little boy.
Valérie Lacombe pays tribute to
one of the most prolific jazz pianist and composer of all time: Cedar Walton.
Laureate of the Prix Opus for Jazz Concert of the Year ("Home: Montreal" – Beth McKenna Jazz Orchestra), Beth is quickly making her unique mark on the Canadian jazz scene.
This great pianist, songwriter, composer and arranger born in Holguin, Cuba, evolving on the at every concert
The Valérie Lacombe Trio celebrates their love for one of the most swinging trios of all time
Multi-disciplinary artist Ema Jean has charmed audiences in Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Canada and the US with her quirky, bittersweet compositions and her subtle, magnetic stage presence.
A rare occasion to hear gems drawn from the repertoire of one of the best Canadian musicians and composers
Kiwi firebrand trumpeter Lex French teams up with Montreal's 'godfather of jazz trumpet' Kevin Dean to present a tribute to Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie.
The Andrew Schinasi Quartet pays tribute to Wayne Shorter, one of the most influential figures in the history of Jazz.
Arden Arapyan was born in Montreal, Canada, into a family of Armenian descent. Throughout his life, Arden was exposed to many drastically varying styles of music.
Mike Goudreau was rocked from the cradle by the voices of Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Elvis and the Beatles.
Cynthia Tauro is a Toronto-based vocalist, pianist and songwriter whose fresh take on jazz and superb technique is introducing new life to the city's music scene.
French Composer and Bass & Kalimba player Olivier Babaz invites renowned Guitarist and Composer Michel Cusson
Spearheading the young generation in Lorraine, international icon Samson Schmitt, son of the legendary Dorado Schmitt, is one of the most eminent gypsy guitarists of today
For this tribute series, Parc X Trio will explore the music of the High Priest of Bop, Thelonious Monk.
Luca Nostro is a guitar player and composer from Rome who is very active both in jazz and contemporary classical music.
Join Argentinian pianist, composer, and Billboard Magazine Emerging Artist Gabriel Palatchi for an eclectic musical journey.
Feat: Nicolas Lanctôt - guitar and compositions, Lucas Brisson - double bass, Alex Lepanto - drums, Christopher Kerr-Barr - trumpet, Patrice Luneau - Alto sax, Philippe Brochu-Pelletie - tenor sax
Come and join us for a night where Richard Ring's friends and family celebrate his musical legacy, which continues to live on.
Jean-Marc Hébert is a guitarist, composer, and certified classical guitar teacher.
This hard-swinging and stylistically faithful ensemble blends the sounds of the late 1930s and early 1940s dance bands with their modern and quirky approach.
Andrés Vial teams up with New-Yorkers Dezron Douglas (Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane) and Eric McPherson
Amanda Martinez is a Canadian based singer/songwriter whose music exultingly blends her unique Mexican and South African roots with flamenco soul.
This collective, which spawns from Montreal, Ottawa and Krakow (Poland), was born out of a fruitful meeting that took place during Jacek Kochan's latest trip to Montreal.
Rachel Therrien invites Claire Devlin and Marika Galea
Oregon native Halie Loren is an internationally recognized artist whose rich and sensitively delivered vocals have garnered her numerous awards and fans from around the world.
Montreal bassist Levi Dover invites award-winning pianist Jonathan Cayer in an intimate piano trio setting.
Donny Kennedy invites New York Baritone Saxophonist, Paul Nedzela. Paul is a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra.
Mike has assembled a special band for an evening of original compositions and standards.
The band takes inspiration from Blues from the 1920s and 30´s including interpretations of compositions by Big Bill Broonzy, Charlie Patton and Skip James.
Eric Harding will present a mixture of post bop tunes by the likes of Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Freddie Hubbard and mulgrew Miller.
Montreal bassist Levi Dover features New York based pianist Andrew Boudreau for an evening dedicated to the composers of the vibrant Montreal jazz scene
Ranee Lee is now celebrating thirty-five years in Montreal, Canada, where she enjoys a successful, multi faceted career as one of Canada's most popular jazz singer.
El Son Sono is a way of traveling in Latin America thanks to their dancing and catchy rhythms!
Accompanied by guitarist Nicolas Ferron and drummer Mark Nelson, the trio will perform a tribute to saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter.
With some of Chamberland's personal musical influences as her canvas, this Quebec born chanteuse delivers knockout performances that are as unforgettable as the singer herself.
Sharoni fuses together classic bop influences of Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon and Steve Grossman, and flavors his music with Latin rhythms and an energetic drive.
This week: The Upstairs Jam session is hosted by Guillaume Pilote (drums), and special guests
David Rourke presents a quartet featuring Montreal masters Kevin Dean on trumpet and André White behind the drums. Joining them is young bassist Marshal Herridge.
15 years into their musical friendship, Barbara and John are embarking on a new adventure
Andrea Superstein began her budding career in musical theatre, where she was introduced to the jazz standards of the Great American Songbook.
Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne fuse their Afro-Cuban roots with jazz, folk and global rhythms in songs about immigration, courage and love.
A creative force with a luscious tone, alto saxophonist Tevet Sela brings a wealth and breadth of influences to his playing that few musicians possess.
One of Canada's most sought after musicians, Jim Doxas plays extensively both nationally and overseas.
Kim Richardson started her career at a very young age, first as an actress and a dancer in the theaters in the Toronto area.
Ron Di Lauro Sextet: Kind of Blue, tribute to Miles Davis
Feat: Dave Watts (bass), Bill Mahar (trumpet), Dave Martin (trombone), Cam Wallis (sax), Jim doxas (drums), Paul Shrofel (piano)
Collection of original music inspired by the ancient cantillations of old Morocco, the uplifting klezmer melodies of Eastern-Europe and the glorious modal improvisations of John Coltrane.
Wray Downes has indeed earned the title of Grand Man of the piano. His career has spanned one-half of a century and his accomplishments & awards are certainly too numerous to recite.
Jacob Do, recipient of the inaugural Oliver Jones Award, is an up and coming saxophone player in the Canadian jazz scene who received his formative music education in Edmonton.
Serving up the classic and seductive blues sounds of 1950s Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Los Angeles, and Baton Rouge, the Hydramatics paying hommage to the likes of Eddie Taylor, Jerry McCain....
Oh My Mingus Is a Montreal based group of Improvisers that are breathing life into Jazz.
featuring Roxane Reddy (vocals), Yannick Anctil (piano), Mathieu McConnell-Enright (basse)
Tribute to the great brasilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim
Classically trained from the age of 4, as both a Jazz and Classical pianist as well as a composer, Juno award winner, James Gelfand has received critical acclaim in both the jazz world and the film industry.
Celebrate New Year's Eve at the Upstairs with vocalist Dawn Tyler Watson and her band!
Featuring: Jean-Michel Pilc (piano), Mike de Masi (double bass) & André White (drums), André Leroux (sax)
Aesthetically rooted in jazz, folk and R&B, and infused with Mediterranean and Brazilian flavor
Pianist, composer, arranger and band leader born and raised in Montreal. Well versed in various styles, such as jazz, hip-hop, gospel, RnB
This week: The Upstairs Jam session is hosted by Jim Doxas (drums) & Adrian Vedady (bass), and special guest: Ben Charest (guitar)
Charles Colizza picked up the guitar at the age of 12 and has since started to establish his career between New York City and Montreal.
The successful 'Coming True' album came out in Israel in 2007 and offered a unique mix of Jazz, Funk and middle eastern influences.
This week: The Upstairs Jam session is hosted by Guillaume Pilote & Levi Dover, and special guest: Marie-Fatima Rudolf (piano)
Montreal pianist Kate Wyatt is one of the top tier jazz musicians of the city.
With explosive energy on stage, the band performs authentic blues, swing, rockabilly and jump blues.
Joe Sullivan comes from the Northern Ontario town of Timmins.
This week: The Upstairs Jam session is hosted by Jim Doxas (drums) & Adrian Vedady (bass), and special guest: Marie-Fatima Rudolf (piano)
Subtle blend of personal compositions and delicate arrangements of known works, the music of the Samuel Bonnet Quartet is a poetic musical journey
Versatile singer Suzi Silva accompanied by talented pianist Yannick Anctil present you, in this new year, a concert tribute to bossa-nova.
For this series of three concerts, Gentiane is inviting three Canadian saxophonists in the context of a jazz quartet.
This week: The Upstairs Jam session is hosted by Jim Doxas (drums) & Adrian Vedady (bass), and special guest: Bogdan Gumenyuk (sax)
Levi Dover's music is rooted in the jazz tradition while also reaching into a modern soundscape, creating an environment brimming with possibilities for expression.
Saxophonist and composer Dave Turner leads a quartet of some of the best performers in town playing original compositions and standard tunes in hard bop and latin jazz styles.
This week: The Upstairs Jam session is hosted by Jim Doxas (drums) & Adrian Vedady (bass), and special guest: Andrew Boudreau (piano)
With Alex Leblanc on the bass and Luc Hermann on the guitar, tribute to Nat King Cole & Cole Porter
A mid-winter ritual, singer, actress Dorothée Berryman performing ballads in the intimate setting of Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill for Valentine's Day
Jazz singer and songwriter Diane Nalini returns to Upstairs for the Montreal launch of her fifth album, "Future Perfect."
This week: The Upstairs Jam session is hosted by Jim Doxas (drums) & Adrian Vedady (bass), and special guest: Geoff Lapp (piano)
An evening of bossa nova & samba classics
Nick Di Giovanni is a Montreal based guitarist and composer.
Josh is a pianist, arranger, composer, and teacher based in Montreal, Canada. Throughout his 10 year career he has performed extensively in Japan, Europe and North America.
Double Bass player and Composer Olivier Babaz invites Frank Lozano and Pierre Tanguay. They will present a repertoire of original compositions and arrangements
Bassist Mark Godfrey is quickly becoming one of the new faces in Canadian jazz.
Nuit Blanche with the Guillaume Martineau Quartet
Guill-Whämmy, an invented name which designates chef Guillaume Dion's JazzBurger as realized with his souschefs, Hichem Khalfa, Evan Shay, Jean-Félix Mailloux and Mark Neslon.
This week: The Upstairs Jam session is hosted by Jim Doxas (drums) & Adrian Vedady (bass), and special guest: Steve Amirault (piano)
In this special meeting, Tevet Sela & John Roney will play both their original compositions.
The Ottawa-based pianist's all-star Canadian sextet plays high-energy yet lyrical original compositions from his new album
French Composer and Bass & Kalimba player Olivier Babaz invites renowned Guitarist and Composer Michel Cusson as well as stellar Drummer Kevin Warren
New musical project based on Spanish, Latin and jazz influences in certain pieces from the vast repertoire of Cuban pianist, author, composer and arranger Yoel Diaz Avila.
A tribute to Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie.
This week: The Upstairs Jam session is hosted by Jim Doxas (drums) & Adrian Vedady (bass), and special guest: Jean-Michel Pilc (piano)
The encounter of three extraordinary artists of different horizons creates this astonishing musical overlapping of jazz, romantic music and global rhythms.
They don't make them as real as David Vest anymore. The son of an Alabama sharecropper, he played with Big Joe Turner almost 60 years ago, and he can still radiate the 88s.
Adam will showcase is brand new cd « Everything Can Change » (released Feb 7th) in a solo concert at 7pm and with his trio at 9h30pm.
For the upstairs reopening, Guillaume Martineau and his trio will bring us on a journey across his versatile repertoire.
Taurey Butler is a phenomenal jazz pianist of the highest caliber. Taurey leads his trio through his own compositions, as well as standards.
Montreal guitarist François Jalbert and his trio will present a traditional jazz and swing repertoire.
The Gentiane MG Trio is led by pianist and composer Gentiane MG (Michaud-Gagnon), alongside bassist Levi Dover and drummer Louis-Vincent Hamel.
Montreal Jazz Trio (MJT) is a new group featuring Steve Amirault p. Jim Doxas d. and Adrian Vedady b.
Born In Montréal, Pat Loiselle has been part of the Blues and 'Roots' Music scene for more than 25 years.
A Jazz and Classical pianist as well as a composer, Juno award winner, James Gelfand has received critical acclaim in both the jazz world and the film industry.
Percussionist Moïse Yawo Matey returns to the Upstairs as a duo accompanied by Khalid El Idrissi at the Oud.
Backed by the Shufflers' bouncing rhythms, Mark dive into jump blues classics as well as New-Orleans ballads and funky soul numbers.
MJI Montreal organ trio is a new group to hit the Montreal jazz scene.

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The Navy's X-47B can take off, soar and land on an aircraft carrier without the aid of a human, as it demonstrated so well in July when it touched down on the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush.
But one thing the bat-winged, tailless Navy drone cannot do – and is not intended to do – is kill anyone, the program manager for the Navy's Unmanned Combat Air Systems program manager.
At least not yet. According to the Naval Air Systems Command, the UCAS program is intended to develop a carrier-suitable UAV "in support of persistent, penetrating surveillance, and penetrating strike capability."
Capt. Jaime Engdahl, program manager for Navy's UCAS program office, said on Tuesday that the Northrop-Grumman-built X-47B is not going to be armed.
"There is no plan to weaponize the aircraft … we're not planning on doing that," he said in Washington, DC, where he made a presentation about the drone at the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems.
Engdahl dismissed the X-47B as a strike system twice during the presentation.
The most famous drone hunter-killer today is the Air Force's MQ-1 Predator, which is equipped with a pair of laser-guided AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. The Air Force began using the Predator for reconnaissance in the 1990s, but early in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars began arming the system. The CIA also uses Predators, including for operations in Pakistan and Yemen.
The Navy has been test flying its drone since 2011. But in recent months it has performed successfully in first-ever catapult launches, touch-and-gos and finally a landing from the George H.W. Bush.
Engdahl said the successful flights of the X-47B mark "an historic time for naval aviation."


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Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge
Format: 2D
Season: 4
Episodes: 144 to 189
Length: 30 mins
Bakugan Interspace gets messy when Dan learns his battling directly threatens Earth. Drago's exposure to Code Eve has infused him with incredible power and as a result Dan accidentally releases Mechtogan, a new mysterious entity that wreaks havoc whenever Drago battles. While Dan attempts to regain control over Drago's new powers, an insidious enemy builds an army of Dark Bakugan engineered for total world domination!


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Seriously, their craft creativity knows no bounds!
When the cupcakes were finished, it was all about some snuggle time with the pugs. The little dogs all waited patiently at our feet as we frosted, and sparkled and sprinkled. Afterwards, there was a whole lot of pets to go around.
The girls learned a whole lot about the process of rescuing animals, and how important it is to support local rescues. That's what this blog is all about - great food, but supporting your community, that includes the furry community as well! They learned a lot, I think I learned more just by spending a few hours with them!
|All the girls, and Curly Co-Found Kristin Balch and Curly Foster Mom (and Ellie's Mom!) Andrea Tobin!


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Today, I switched over NFSv4. I guess there published it for some reason and people claim it could increase file transfert rate by 20%.
In my case, to get it working properly, I…
Modified /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server on server side to have
Modified /etc/default/nfs-common on both clients and server side to have
Modified /etc/exports on server side to have something starting by
/server 192.168.1.1/24(ro,fsid=0,no_subtree_check,async)
/server/temp 192.168.1.1/24(rw,nohide,no_subtree_check,async,all_squash,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534)
It forces you to set a root for the NFS server, in my case /server (which I had already in my NFSv3 scenario, so…), aka fsid=0.
You also need to specify nohide for any exports.
Modified /etc/fstab on clients side to set mount type to nfs4 and to remove the /server part from the paths, no longer necessary as path are relatives to fsid=0 which is /server. It gives entries like:
gate:/temp /stockage/temp nfs4 nolock 0 0
I had an export which was a symlink to somewhere in /home. NFSv4 is stricter than NFSv3 and there is no way to export something outside from fsid=0. So I made a bind, adding to /etc/fstab on server side:
/home/torrent/watch /server/torrent/watch none bind 0 0
After restarting nfs-kernel-server on the server side and nfs-common on both sides, umount NFS partitions and doing a
mount -a on the client side, everything seems fine.


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Brazil's Lula, the friend of Iran's Ahmadinejad
Adapted by Julio Severo
As any world leader knows, breaking bread with unsavory regimes is an occupational hazard. But palling around with pariahs is another matter. So when Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva slapped Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the back at the U.N. General Assembly, stoutly defended Iran's nuclear program, and invited Ahmadinejad to visit Brazil, the world took note. What is Lula's game?
In part, it's about his ambition to position Brazil as a "first-class nation." Lula has visited 45 countries in the last three years alone and opened 35 embassies since 2003, most of them in Africa and the Caribbean. This all fits his "South to South" strategy, a diplomatic blitzkrieg designed to gather political capital across the developing world. As a result, Brazil is well regarded in places many other nations ignore, and its trade relations are well balanced, spread in roughly equal measure between Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, Europe, and the U.S. This helped Brazil keep its footing during the global economic crash to become one of the first to shake off recession. It also turned its president into a global star.
But Lula's diplomacy has created some compromising alliances while his administration is touted as one of the world's most vibrant democracies by different socialists, from the United Nations and Europe to Cuba and Venezuela. Domestically, Lula has been befriending abortion and gay groups, with harsh consequences to those not embracing this radical agenda. Not much different from Lula's proud domestic "democracy", his foreign policy has remarkably been befriending Muslim and communist dictators.
Recently, Brazil abstained on U.N. resolutions condemning human-rights abuses in Congo, Sri Lanka, and communist North Korea, where thousands of Christians have been tortured and killed just because they are Christian. The Lula administration also balked on Sudan, where Muslim persecution against Christians has been overwhelming, first passing on a vote to give rights inspectors a wider brief, only to reverse course in June after prominent civic groups lashed out. Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez has no better friend than Lula, even as the former has muzzled the media, bullied rivals, and smothered trade unions. "Each country establishes the democratic regime that suits its people," Lula recently told Newsweek. "It's a sovereign decision of every nation."
But "sovereignty" is a word used only when convenient. In the crisis involving Honduras and its sovereign and constitutional right to halt a Chavez-supported president in his illegal actions to perpetuate his presidency, the Lula administration gave him the Brazilian embassy in Honduras as a refuge and a base of operations, directly intervening in the domestic affairs of the small nation to serve the interests of Chavez. Fidel Castro's friend lost no opportunity to delight his ideological mentor.
Yet, the bonhomie between Lula and Ahmadinejad has been glaring. During the bloody aftermath of Iran's elections, Lula called the street protesters "losers" and compared the government crackdown to a row between fans of rival football clubs. This friendship is so strange that Lula, whose administration grants broad rights to those that commit homosexuality, has no qualm to support Ahmadinejad, whose administration murders those that commit homosexuality. In turn, Muslim Ahmadinejad also has no qualm to be with Lula, an enthusiastic advocate for homosexuality.
It is a morally antagonistic and definitely opportunistic friendship, because Ahmadinejad exterminates homosexuals in Iran, while Lula works to exterminate opposition to homosexuality in Brazil. If Ahmadinejad were a Brazilian citizen, in no way he would be able to escape prison from Lula's socialist "democracy", and if Lula were an Iranian citizen, in no way he would be able to escape death penalty from Ahmadinejad's Muslim "democracy".
Would a nation in friendship with Iran, which funds terrorist groups, have a chance to become a first-class nation? In July 2008, Chuck Pierce, who is considered a prophet in the US, told in São Paulo, Brazil, that a immense tragedy was ahead in the future of the Brazilian society and that Brazil had only a few months of opportunity to change. If in less than 12 months Lula fell down in his corrupt socialist administration and if Brazil befriended Israel, Brazil would become a great nation, even surpassing the United States. More than one year later, Lula is enjoying enormous popularity as a president and Brazil is nearer to the worst enemies of Israel.
Yet, you do not need to be a prophet to see that Brazil is on a destructive road.
Even though Ahmadinejad declared that he wants to destroy Israel, Lula has emphatically defended Iran's right to enrich uranium on grounds that he heard "personally" that Iran didn't want to build a bomb.
Others see Lula's aggressive foreign-policy turn as the hubris of a rising power. "It's partly the idea that Brazil can do whatever it wants in international policy, including standing up to the world's powerful nations," says former foreign minister Luiz Felipe Lampreia.
Rich nations have the vice of exporting and imposing their abortion and homosexual culture on developing nations, but this is not the reason Lula condemns them. In fact, free speech, a right fully used by him to lambast petty issues of developed nations, is a right not fully guaranteed in Lula's Workers' Party itself, where Congressman Henrique Afonso, a Protestant minister, was found guilty of pro-life speech and in the Brazilian society, where Fr. Luiz Carlos "Lodi" da Cruz, a Catholic priest, was condemned by courts just for calling "pro-abortion" a pro-abortion individual. Even the Organization of the American States has recently acknowledged that Brazil is not guaranteeing free speech.
Lula has established a number of radical gay, abortion and racial policies in Brazil he imported from the developed world. So it is no wonder that he has never used his speech freedom to denounce the aggressive abortion and homosexual groups funded by the developed nations to destroy the culture and families in the developing countries. And Brazilians doing this have been prosecuted under his administration. Also, he has never condemned the massive human-rights abuses against Christians in Muslim and communist nations.
Touting the abortion and gay culture from the Western mighty and befriending Hugo Chávez, Ahmadinejad and other Muslim and communist mighty will surely draw world attention — but hardly the sort a first-class nation would want.
Adapted by Julio Severo from the article "Brazil's Lula Befriends Iran's Ahmadinejad", by Mac Margolis in Newsweek.
To see this article in Portuguese, follow this link: http://juliosevero.blogspot.com/2009/10/lula-o-amigo-de-ahmadinejad-do-ira.html
Source: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com
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Iran, hatred of Jews and the schizophrenic Lula administration
World amazed by unprecedented address by President Lula at the UN Human Rights CouncilThe cost of the high popularity of Lula


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Governor Brown's new plan to rein in public pension costs is going to earn him a lot of points with the public. Politically speaking, voters will give him a lot of credit for attempting to reduce future costs by increasing the retirement age and employee contributions, along with eliminating "spiking" that allows workers to boost their pensions by claiming overtime and other benefits.
After all, this reform is something Brown campaigned on last year, calling the system unsustainable.
But his plan, unveiled Thursday morning, faces a minefield in the legislature. Republicans will want to know if it goes far enough to achieve savings. Democrats will ask if it goes too far to be acceptable for their labor allies.
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And labor groups are not going to roll over. Union leaders know they've got a problem with the public's perception of the pension system. That's why SEIU and others have agreed to concessions in recent years that have increased employee contributions and retirement ages.
It's also why union leaders have indicated a willingness to consider some reforms, such as the "spiking" issue. But broadly speaking, labor groups will fight for the continued ability to address these issues in collective bargaining, instead of handing it over to the legislature.
And unions have shown no interest in shifting from their current defined benefit plans to a 401K-style system like private industry has. Brown would like to offer a hybrid system that contains elements of both systems to new employees.
And he wants to make it mandatory. At least one Democratic leader has said he'd be open to the idea on a voluntary basis.
Brown will also have particular difficulty winning a two-thirds vote to put his plan on the ballot.
Sen. Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Niguel), a critic of the pension system, said Thursday she thought the governor's plan was moving "in the right direction."
Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said he was keeping an "open mind" on the plan.
The governor would always have the option of gathering signatures to put an initiative on the ballot, if his plan stalls at the Capitol. He said Thursday he would focus, for now, on trying to shepherd the plan through the legislature, saying he wants lawmakers to "chew on" it for now.
In 2012, pension reform will be a signature battle in Sacramento.
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November 19, 2012
Did you know that ITS provides battery recycling? Demand for batteries in increasingly electronic world has increased steadily. As more batteries are used, they have begun to pile up in landfills. Used batteries are known to cause serious problems for the environment. Next time you're swapping out those batteries, bring the old ones in to the Student Help Desk in T-232 and we'll take care of them for you.
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Following up on my earlier post (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=155791), https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rigsofrods-hg/ still has problems, although I'm using the correct revsion of mygui:
[ 57%] Building CXX object source/main/main_sim/CMakeFiles/RoR.dir/__/gui/Console.cpp.o
/home/martin/aur/rigsofrods-hg/src/codehg/source/main/gui/Console.cpp: In Elementfunktion »void Console::eventButtonPressed(MyGUI::Widget*, MyGUI::KeyCode, MyGUI::Char)«:
/home/martin/aur/rigsofrods-hg/src/codehg/source/main/gui/Console.cpp:192:14: Error: »struct MyGUI::KeyCode« has no element called »toValue«
So if anyone knows a way to fix this, I'd be grateful.
Last edited by Morn (2013-01-07 15:46:16)
A link to the earlier post would be good so we can see the history of what has been done. Can you find the structure declaration for MyGUI::KeyCode?
Also, where is mygui from? I just found a "mygui" package on sourceforge, downloaded it and grep'ed through it - there is no "KeyCode" anywhere in it, so I'm assuming it is the wrong "mygui" project.
"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
I've found the defintion, it looks like this should be solved with
sed -i "s/.toValue/.getValue/" "$srcdir/$_hgrepo/source/main/gui"/*.cpp
in the PKGBUILD. It's still compiling though, so it's too early to declare success.
It almost works now. It fails during linking:
[ 96%] Building CXX object source/main/main_sim/CMakeFiles/RoR.dir/main.cpp.o
Linking CXX executable ../../../bin/RoR
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/RoR.dir/__/audio/SoundManager.cpp.o: undefined reference to symbol '_ZN5boost6system15system_categoryEv'
/usr/bin/ld: note: '_ZN5boost6system15system_categoryEv' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/libboost_system.so.1.50.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib/libboost_system.so.1.50.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
Some problem with boost apparently?
P.S. I really don't get why it thinks it needs boost for an OpenAL-related module. Maybe an older version of OpenAL is required? http://www.rigsofrods.com/wiki/pages/Co … _libraries
Last edited by Morn (2013-01-07 17:05:48)
As it turns out, the OGRE/boost linker issue is covered here: http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=71037
Unfortunately none of their suggested fixes seems to work for RoR. But maybe I'm using cmake wrong, I don't know that build system very well.
I've tried to add
sed -i "s/libboost_date_time-vc100-mt-1_48/libboost_date_time-vc100-mt-1_48;libboost_system-vc100-mt-1_48/"\
echo "set(OGRE_BOOST_COMPONENTS system filesystem date_time)" >> "$srcdir/$_hgrepo/CMakeLists.txt"
to the PKGBUILD. But for some reason the linker still doesn't want to link against /usr/lib/libboost_system.so.
Well, ogre-hg from AUR doesn't even compile, so I think I'm giving up on RoR for today. Perhaps it will magically work when the main repo updates ogre and boost. Looks like the current version of ogre is bad, if I understand the error messages and bug reports correctly.
ogre-hg is compiling now, although it stops earlier then normal ogre (10% instead 63%).
If that helps:
[ 10%] Building CXX object source/main/main_sim/CMakeFiles/RoR.dir/__/gameplay/CharacterFactory.cpp.o
In file included from /home/gabriel/Downloads/Linux/Arch/JogosArch/Rigs/aur-rigsofrods-hg/src/codehg/source/main/gameplay/Character.h:25:0,
make[2]: *** [source/main/main_sim/CMakeFiles/RoR.dir/__/gameplay/Savegame.cpp.o] Error 1
If any thoughts happen will be glad to help.
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Both girls and boys can get started reading and writing with these sight words worksheets, featuring a multitude of simple, short, everyday words for Kindergarteners to build their spelling and reading on. This one's all about the word 'girl': have your child trace the word first, then try writing it on her own.
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Microsoft appears to have done the improbable and pushed forward the release of its revamped server virtualization software.
Redmond is currently in the midst of reworking its virtualization wares. It will throw out the Virtual Server product it currently sells in favor of bundling a layer of virtualization software known as a hypervisor with the Longhorn Server operating system. The move will help Microsoft compete with the likes of VMware and Xen, who have already embraced the hypervisor design.
Up until now, Microsoft had been warning that it could take until 2008 or 2009 to ship the hypervisor, code-named Viridian. The software maker expected to deliver the server-slicing product as part of the first update to Longhorn Server.
Today, however, we learn that Microsoft will start beta testing Viridian by the end of this year and plans to ship a working version of the package six months after Longhorn Server arrives. The server OS is due in the second half of 2007.
So, Viridian will likely appear in early 2008, which is significantly sooner than customers have been expecting.
Some Microsoft partners had mentioned to us that the release might be pushed up, and today's official word from Microsoft backs up that speculation.
Along with the hypervisor, Microsoft has a project code-named Carmine that stands as a virtual server management package. Microsoft plans to start beta testing this code in 90 days and ship the software as Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (MSCVMM) in the second half of 2007. That's a pretty natural next play for Microsoft as it tries to broaden its management portfolio.
Topping off the virtualization news, Microsoft today announced plans to acquire Softricity. The company's "virtualization and streaming technologies provide application compatibility and accelerate corporate desktop transitions to Windows Vista," Microsoft said.
Microsoft is in serious face-saving mode with its virtualization products. The company never made much use of the rather unimpressive Virtual Server product it acquired from Connectix. Microsoft has tried to combat its market share loss to VMware by lowering the price of Virtual Server and, of course, plans to use the tried and true bundling approach when Viridian is ready.
We can't help but wonder how regulators will view the bundling of the hypervisor, but Microsoft isn't being shy about the move.
"Microsoft's virtualization strategy contrasts with current alternatives for virtual machine management, which tend to be complex, expensive and require specialized skills,"said SVP Bob Muglia. "We look at virtualization as key technology to help customers achieve self-managing dynamic systems."
Microsoft is so far behind in the virtualization game that it has been forced into some awkward positions. In April, Microsoft agreed to support Linux guest operating systems running on Virtual Server and even made Virtual Server 2005 R2 available as a free download. More than 200,000 downloads have been had over the past two months, Microsoft said.
VMware currently dominates the server virtualization market with Microsoft competing primarily for Windows customers and upstart XenSource claiming ground in the Linux space. Other folks such as SWsoft and Virtual Iron are fighting for attention as well.
While Microsoft has dangled the prospect of an on-time Viridian arrival in front of customers, wise data center operators will be cautious about planning around Microsoft's software. The company has struggled, to say the least, to get its new flagship desktop OS out the door, so you can imagine that it might have an even harder time with a product that's not key to its future. ®


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Remember Dwayne Johnson's sad adaptation of the first-person shooter game Doom? Well Hollywood isn't about to let that terrible franchise die out, like other 90s fads. In fact, Universal wants to reboot the Doom movie series — in 3D.
What's Playing is reporting that Universal is trying to push forward a $150 million 3D remake of Doom. If true, this report makes us sad for two reasons. One, because that's a lot of money to film garbage with, especially for a studio that just passed on Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness because of budgetary concerns. And two, in Hollywood years, Doom is 1,000 years old, so the idea of remaking it seems pretty dated.
Hopefully all of these speculations are just that, speculations — because it would be heartbreaking to find out that Hollywood passed up on making del Toro's Lovecraft story, just to adapt a 90s computer game for the second time.


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Quentin Dupieux's latest film Rubber, (about murderous car tire that kills people with mental powers) looks like Marmaduke after watching the trailer for his next feature Wrong. Clearly Dupieux's only motive is to just mind-fuck the audience into oblivion. Watch the trailer now.
Here's the Sundance Synopsis:
WRONG / France (Director and screenwriter: Quentin Dupieux) - Dolph searches for his lost dog, but through encounters with a nympho pizza-delivery girl, a jogging neighbor seeking the absolute, and a mysterious righter of wrongs, he may eventually lose his mind… and his identity. Cast: Jack Plotnick, Eric Judor, Alexis Dziena, Steve Little, William Fichtner.
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Microsoft is talking about its upgraded Lync unified communications platform, revealing client support for more devices, server features for better meetings and collaboration as well as integration with the peer-to-peer voice and video service Skype.
Microsoft Lync: The Pros and Cons for Enterprises
While it is clearly a good UC choice for customers with needs that align with Lync's strengths, it's not yet a platform that can jump in readily to replace traditional PBXs in environments heavily reliant on traditional desktop phones, experts say.
BACKGROUND: Microsoft Lync: What you need to know
USE CASE: Microsoft delivers missing Lync for telemed project
Still, Lync is getting closer and its new features are bringing it into closer parity with UC leaders such as Cisco and Avaya, they say.
In touting upgrades to Lync 2013 - no release date has been set - Microsoft highlights its adoption of H.264 scalable video coding (SVC), a video codec standard that makes it relatively simple to display video on a range of devices, meaning Lync can support participants on screens ranging from smartphones to room displays, says BJ Haberkorn, director of product marketing, Microsoft Lync.
In addition, video displays by Lync clients has been upgraded to show up to five participants on screen at the same time, an improvement from having just the active talker on displayed. The view of those five is optimized depending on the number of participants and what other conference tools are being used.
Lync 2013 adds voice and video over IP for all devices, meaning that a device connected to a Wi-Fi network can participate in audio and video calls despite being disconnected from a traditional phone link. So users equipped with smartphones and tablets can conference over IP networks.
This is especially important to iPad users, he says, because the devices don't support cellular phone networks. So they can join conferences, register presence and instant message other Lync participants.
The latest Lync client supports Windows 8 with a reworked interface that embraces touchscreens, which he refers to as the Windows 8 paradigm.
Peer-to-peer voice and video service Skype is federated with the upcoming Lync server. That means a corporate user working off a Lync enterprise network could provide and receive presence information with users of Skype. They could also establish audio calls with Skype users, but not video calls. Microsoft has that ranked as the next feature it will work on after the initial release of Lync 2013, Haberkorn says.
Last summer, Microsoft added Lync to Phone, a service that lets Lync users complete calls to and receive calls from the public phone network using the Lync Online Client. Such services are available only in the U.S. and U.K. through third-party public phone network providers.
Microsoft is pushing Lync to the application developers to include UC tie-ins to the applications they write. An app could include links to information about parties listed in the user's address book and enable connecting with them directly from the application.
Microsoft has already done this with many of its productivity applications in Office where communications can be tapped via what is known as a rich content card that lists contacts' name, email, phone, instant messaging and presence information. That can include information about others sharing documents via SharePoint in the SkyDrive cloud.
For example, OneNote is better integrated within Lync meetings for taking notes, and within Outlook it is simpler to send invitations to meetings.
When Lync is upgraded, it will have clients for PC desktops including Windows 8, Macs, iOS, Windows Phone and Android. That will support tablets - used mainly within organizations - as well as smartphones.
Lync's look will be streamlined, cutting out the chrome that is now regarded as visual clutter, and making the overall look in step with what has been done to Office applications.
All this adds up to an improved Lync, but one that still isn't for everybody, says Phil Edholm, president and principal at PKE Consulting.
The reason is that not all businesses have uniform communications needs. He divides workers into three groups: knowledge, information and services, Edholm says.
The knowledge workers, such as engineers or financial analysts, are the ones that need the wide array of features UC can provide such as conferencing, collaboration, instant messaging and presence to get their jobs done. They don't rely on strict business processes as much as the other two categories of workers, but they need to communicate a lot with each other.
They also need to communicate with information workers who do rely on business processes and who need sometimes to communicate with knowledge workers. An example: a contact center worker who uses set business processes to finalize sales but who occasionally needs to talk to a subject matter expert - a knowledge worker - to supply information to a customer before a sale can be closed, Edholm says.
Service workers, such as delivery truck drivers, use information to direct their tasks, but don't need a UC infrastructure to do so.
"Lync is a toolset, and you need to decide who needs the tools," Edholm says, and sometimes that means deploying it to a select group
For instance, a Scandinavian police organization client of Edholm's had 30,000 workers only 3,000 of whom were knowledge workers. Those 3,000 needed unified communications, but most of the rest didn't, leading the organization to install Lync for some but not all.
In a company with 90% knowledge workers and 10% information workers the situation would be different. It would make sense to install UC for everybody just to avoid multiple systems and their maintenance needs despite the fact that some of the workers would use just the phone capabilities.
In a typical mixed deployment such as the police organization, the legacy telephony system could tie into Lync. Those with just desktop phones could reach those with Lync and vice versa, but the desk phone users wouldn't require new gear nor would they have to learn new ways of doing things, he says.
Lync becomes a challenge when it is deployed to people who only use its telephony features. "Lync is not structured to be a telephony-only system," he says. "You can do it but it doesn't lend itself to being easy to use and easy to install if it's just telephony."
That's because while it may perform all the necessary functions, there may be different ways of carrying them out, which requires training.
For example, multiple line appearances where a phone can ring on an individual's desk but also at the receptionist's desk would be replaced functionally by presence, a different way of doing the same thing.
"The biggest resistance comes with going from traditional telephony to Lync," Edholm says. "This is changing somewhat and will change even more with [the bring-your-own-device trend]," he says.
Edholm says he did a comparison of Lync vs. Cisco's UC for collaboration, and he found that an important factor is what the UC system has to interface with.
If the organization considering UC has a Microsoft directory system, Microsoft business applications and Microsoft databases, as well as Microsoft personal productivity tools such as Office, it makes sense to use Lync. It was built with Office, SharePoint and Active Directory interoperability in mind, he says.
If an organization doesn't use Microsoft email, calendaring and productivity apps, then adopting UC from Avaya, Cisco, Nortel or Siemens might make more sense, especially if the existing PBX is made by one of these vendors, he says. "It's not the UC system alone, it's the kind of workers you have and the other systems you use," he says.
Lync itself seems to be moving away from controlling the traditional desktop phone in favor of a UC system that includes telephony run from a desktop PC and a server in the data center or the cloud, which has service providers showing interest in the platform.
BT, for example, is offering a new Lync-based cloud service called BT One Cloud Lync that provides Lync as a service with the infrastructure based in the BT network.
Similarly, West IP Communications offers a Lync service that supports Lync edge, mediation and federation servers in West IP data centers. The upside for customers, says Jeff Wellemeyer, executive vice president of West IP, is quality of service. If these components are located on customer premises for a widely distributed Lync deployment, it makes it more difficult to ensure quality of service to all branches.
Hosted Lync isn't for all customers, though, particularly those whose media traffic is intended to stay within the LAN, minimizing WAN QoS as an issue, he says.
Wellemeyer says that customers tend to progress in their use of Lync features, perhaps starting with just instant messaging, adding presence, conferencing, collaboration and connecting to the public phone network with some softphone use.
Moving to Lync as a PBX replacement is considered a move for "someday," he says. "We're not seeing a lot of customers tearing out their PBXs and putting in a Microsoft infrastructure."
They might use Lync supplemented by PBX technology. "They think Lync's not there yet," he says.
Read more about lans and routers in Network World's LANs & Routers section.
This story, "Microsoft Unified Communications Lync System Moves Closer to Proverbial PBX Replacement Option" was originally published by Network World.
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Color Run will brighten campus on Sept. 14
Color Run will brighten campus on Sept. 14
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – In its inaugural year at Penn State in 2013, The Color Run 5K drew nearly 10,000 people to run 3.1 miles and get pelted with colored powder along the way.
Planning is underway for the 2014 edition, which will now be expanded to offer entry to as many as 15,000 runners. The race begins at 9 a.m. Sept. 14. The race will again raise money for Penn State's Homecoming committee. Homecoming festivities are planned for Sept. 20 to 27.
Last year's race required multiple changes to transportation on campus. Roads were temporarily closed and bus routes were altered. Traffic changes for the 2014 race will be publicized on http://news.psu.edu in the weeks leading up to the event.
Founded in 2011 and billed as the "Happiest 5K on the Planet," The Color Run hosted more than 170 events in more than 30 countries last year. For more information, go to http://thecolorrun.com/penn-state.


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Cogeco provides services designed to enhance accessibility to broadcasting and telecommunications services. The following describes services offered to Cogeco customers with accessibility challenges.
Closed Captioning Service
What is closed-captioning?
Closed captioning is text that accompanies the program on the screen. This service is intended for people who have difficulty hearing or distinguishing sounds.
It permits the viewer to see a reduced version of the actor's dialogue and other significant sounds. For sporting events, the captions contain the commentators' descriptions.
Several companies provide closed-captioning services to television networks and production companies for their analogue and digital programs.
Accessing closed captioning on Cogeco digital cable terminals
The closed-captioning service is offered on all Cogeco digital receivers. If the channel offers the program you are watching with closed captioning, the note "CC" will appear in the description of the program in the TV listings guide of your Cogeco digital receiver.
Closed captioning can be activated using the CC controls on your TV set.
Accessing Closed Captioning on Your TV
Many TV sets support closed captioning for the hearing impaired with RF and baseband inputs. See the menu options described in the owner's manual.
Described Video Service
Described video service (DVS) provides people who are visually impaired a voice-over description of a program's key visual elements with narration that is inserted during natural pauses in program dialogue. DVS generally presents actions that are not reflected in the dialogue, such as the movement of a person in a scene.
If DVS is offered for a program, the video description can be switched on or off.
Most Canadian broadcasters offer a few hours of DVS-enhanced programming per week in their regular programming schedule. Viewers should verify broadcasters' on-screen promotional information and their websites for a timetable.
How to Activate Descriptive Video Services on Your TV?
Most TVs sold in the last 10 years have SAP/MTS (secondary audio programming/multichannel television sound) features available through the menu options, as described in the owner's manual. Turn on SAP/MTS, and if DVS is offered in the selected program then descriptive video services will be heard.
How to Access Described Video Services on your Cogeco digital receiver?
Special remotes are available free by request to visually impaired and customers with fine motor skill limitations. These remotes provide backlit buttons that are bigger and easier to see as well as simple activation and deactivation of Described video service. One button activation of Described video service is accessible by selecting the "A" button on the remote and deactivated by pressing the by pressing the "B" button. Available by mail out only. Please call 1-866-261-4447 to order.
The remote manual is available here
Described Video (DV) Guide
As our TV Guide is not fully accessible, we are pleased to offer AMI's (Accessible Media Inc.) Described Video (DV) Guide as an alternative. The DV Guide was designed in a way to be accessible on the AMI's website or by calling the DV Guide Call Centre at 1-855-855-1144.
Message Relay Services
Cogeco provides two types of message relay service, 711 and IP Relay, to hearing-impaired individuals. These services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and are included in all Cogeco home phone service packages at no extra charge. Furthermore, there is no charge for using the Cogeco IP Relay service to place local calls or long distance calls within North America using a computer. Calls placed through the Cogeco message relay services are entirely confidential. Cogeco relay agents are professionally trained and follow a strict code of ethics. No record of conversation content is retained.
Message relay service (711)
Allows hearing-impaired and speech-impaired individuals to communicate by phone with non-impaired people with a relay agent acting as an intermediary.
To use the Cogeco message relay service, dial:
- 711 to communicate from a teletypewriter to a standard phone;
- 1-800-855-1155 to communicate from a teletypewriter to another teletypewriter;
- 1-800-855-0511 for communication from a standard phone to a teletypewriter.
IP Relay service
Allows hearing-impaired and speech-impaired individuals to place and receive text-based relay calls from their personal computer. All you need to use Cogeco IP Relay is a computer with an internet connection and to register an IP Relay account with Cogeco. A Cogeco IP Relay operator will connect an IP Relay caller to a voice party. Simply type your conversation to a Cogeco IP Relay agent, who then reads your typed conversation to the other party. The Cogeco IP Relay agent then types the other party's spoken words back to the IP Relay user.
To use Cogeco's IP Relay service from your computer to a standard phone, register and log-in online at http://iprelay.cogeco.com. To communicate from a standard phone to the computer of a Cogeco IP Relay customer, dial 1-855-308-5160. Please note that IP to IP calls are not supported.
For more information about Cogeco's IP Relay service, please visit IP Relay page.
Contact us
For more information about Cogeco's services and how to reach us, please refer to the Contact us page. You will find all relevant information to contact Cogeco's customer care service by phone, e-mail or by post. Furthermore, you will find additional information to help you with any of your Cogeco products or services such as understanding your bill or solving a technical problem under the Support section of the Cogeco's website
Video Relay Service (VRS)
Video Relay Service (VRS) enables Deaf and Hard of Hearing people to connect with voice telephone users via video over the Internet. VRS calls occur with the help of Video interpreters (VIs) who interpret the conversation back and forth between callers using sign language with the VRS user, and voice with the called party. VRS is accessed from smartphones, tablets, laptops, and computers, and empowers Deaf and Hard of Hearing people to communicate with anyone they choose.
People who live in Canada who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing will need to register for their unique 10-digit phone number that they will use to access VRS from anywhere in Canada with broadband access.
For more information on VRS, please visit: https://srvcanadavrs.ca/en/vrs-faq/
Cogeco Website Accessibility
The information contained in the Residential section of Cogeco's website - Cogeco.ca - is accessible and complies with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Simple-A (WCAG 2.0 A) standards set out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) international organization which aims to make web content accessible to people with disabilities through the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Furthermore, most features of Cogeco's website comply with WCAG version 2.0 level Double-A standards (WCAG 2.0 AA).
Cogeco is committed to improving access to the customer service portions of its website in a manner that provides a reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities.


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Backyard Designs; Backyard Ideas; Bacyard Balcony Design Home Ideas
Your backyard decoration could add the beauty of your home entirely. A good backyard decoration could give you multiple advantages. While it add some freshness to your home, it will also make your home looks more beautiful. One of the ways to create a Beautiful Backyard Decoration is to place the right furniture. If you like oriental design, you can place a lampion as the replacement of outdoor lamp. Otherwise, if you like Japanese style, you can add bonsai with small rocks surrounding.
Another Swimming Pool Design For Your BackyardAnother Swimming Pool Design For Your Backyard
Swimming pool could be a Good Backyard Decorating Ideas. The swimming pool also have multiple advantages. It provide freshness and also place to have some exercise.
Small Pond Could Be A Good Backyard Decorating IdeasSmall Pond Could Be A Good Backyard Decorating Ideas
If you don't want to build a swimming pool, a small pond could be the alternative to fill your backyard decorating. Coupled with enough plants around, this backyard decor will gives natural relaxing feel to your home. Today, we will show you some interesting Backyard Decorating Ideas.Read more »


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By FCF Staff
Former UFC middleweight contender Patrick Cote is once again a free agent, following his unanimous decision win over Todd Brown at Ringside MMA 11 Saturday night. The 31 year-old-fighter confirmed his contractual status to FCF today.
"I dont know yet; have to talk to my manager," Cote said when asked about his immediate future and whether or not he's had any recent contact with the UFC. "I'm a free agent now but we have a lot of option."
Cote has now won back-to-back fights since he was let go by the UFC following a decision loss to Tom Lawlor last October. This latest win comes less than two months removed from Cote's UD win over Kalib Starnes, which took place on April 9th at Ringside MMA 10.
"I'm happy," said Cote when asked to evaluate his 15th professional win. "I gave a solid and dominant performance. I wanted to finish it for sure but I showed a lot of new skills in this fight."
Cote returned to action in 2010 after missing all of 2009 due to a series of knee injuries, one of which came in his loss to current UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva in October, 2008. The Quebec fighter has gone 2-2 since his return, with his other loss during that stretch coming against Alan Belcher at UFC 113 last May.


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Dessert Recipes
Coconut Milk Hot Cocoa
Store-bought hot chocolate "packets" contain massive amounts of sugar and even hydrogenated oils (an unexpected, undesirable ingredient). You can serve this with whipped cream made of organic heavy cream with a little bit of stevia. Sprinkle with cocoa nibs if desired.
Coconut Milk Hot Cocoa
- 1/3 c full fat coconut milk (unsweetened)
- 2/3 c boiling water
- 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 15 drops liquid stevia
- Optional
- 1-2 drops peppermint oil, whipped cream, or cocoa nibs
- Note: For a creamier hot chocolate, you can use 1/3 coconut milk and 1/3 boiling water
- Boil water on the stove.
- Add in all remaining ingredients.
- Stir well.
- Let cool a little bit, serve and enjoy!


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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Good-bye Glitter ~
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Il est vrai qu'on s'habitue à de belles décorations...ReplyDelete
Chez nous en France, nous retirons le sapin de noël à la mi-janvier seulement.
Gros bisous à vous et encore tous mes voeux pour 2013.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2012 at 7:58 AM
Well the glitter and glitz may be gone, but I'm sure there's another reason to decorate coming up soon. The 3rd of January is the Festival of Sleep Day--that could be quite fun to decorate for, or at least participate in. How about Fruitcake Toss on the 4th? Or National Hat Day on the 15th? Oh, Winnie the Pooh Day is the 18th! Fun. And don't forget Opposite Day later in the month.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year to you, it's always fun and inspiring here.
Oh my, I hate to take it all down and put it away, that is a ton of work. Happy New Year. Hugs, MartyReplyDelete
We'll be doing the same on New Years Day and it always feels so bare in the Bungalow when we take it all down. Spring won't be long and we'll be seeing the snowdrops and crocus pop up through the soil.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year Adrienne.
It does always seem so bare. Your home is always a delight to look at.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year
I dread putting it all away. I think we will ignore it awhile longer.ReplyDelete
I don't like putting it away either. For us, traditonally the season is until January 6th, so I still have a week.ReplyDelete
I just spent the entire day taking down decor and I'm still not done. :)ReplyDelete
Have a very Happy New Year!


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Both Clinton and Bush exploited bombings within first year of taking office, Obama or McCain likely to enjoy the same opportunity
Paul Joseph Watson / Prison Planet | May 27, 2008
National intelligence spooks are all but promising that history will be repeated for a third time running, and the new President of the United States – likely Barack Obama or John McCain – will be welcomed into office by a terror attack that will occur within the first year of his tenure.
"When the next president takes office in January, he or she will likely receive an intelligence brief warning that Islamic terrorists will attempt to exploit the transition in power by planning an attack on America, intelligence experts say," according to a report in the Washington Times.
"Islamic terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in February 1993, in Mr. Clinton's second month as president. Al Qaeda's Sept. 11 attacks came in the Bush presidency's first year….The pattern is clear to some national security experts. Terrorists pay particular attention to a government in transition as the most opportune window to launch an attack."
Naturally, the Washington Times article makes out as if a terror attack within the early stages of a new presidency is a bad thing, but both Clinton and Bush exploited terror in America to realize preconceived domestic and geopolitical agendas.
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was an inside job from start to finish – it did not come as a "surprise" to the U.S. government since they ran the entire operation, having cooked the bomb for the "Islamic terrorists" that they had groomed for the attack.
In 1993 the FBI planted their informant, Emad A. Salem, within a radical Arab group in New York led by Ramzi Yousef. Salem was ordered to encourage the group to carry out a bombing targeting the World Trade Center's twin towers. Under the illusion that the project was a sting operation, Salem asked the FBI for harmless dummy explosives which he would use to assemble the bomb and then pass on to the group. At this point the FBI cut Salem out of the loop and provided the group with real explosives, leading to the attack on February 26 that killed six and injured over a thousand people. The FBI's failure to prevent the bombing was reported on by the New York Times in October 1993.
The attack, coupled with the Oklahoma City bombing less than two years later, enabled Bill Clinton to whip up support for the passage of a plethora of unconstitutional legislation, including the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the Brady Bill, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, and a $100 million dollar grant to Israel for "counter-terrorism" purposes.
By the time Clinton left office, the Patriot movement – which before the OKC bombing had grown in leaps and bounds, spurred on by the atrocities committed by the federal government at Waco – was effectively dead.
Few need reminding of George W. Bush's agenda before he took office. The ideological framework that would shape his presidency – encapsulated by the goals of the Neo-Con Project For a New American Century – required a "new Pearl Harbor" to get things started, which is exactly what they received on September 11, 2001.
Furthermore, the attacks enabled Bush to pursue an invasion of Iraq that he had dreamed of achieving as early as 1999, according to the ghostwriter of Bush's autobiography Mickey Herskowitz.
"One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade—if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency," Bush told Herskowitz.
That "chance to invade" arrived on the morning of 9/11, within hours of which Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, "Was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq — even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks."
A Congressional Research Service report last month stated, "Whether an incident of national security significance occurs just before or soon after the presidential transition, the actions or inactions of the outgoing administration may have a long-lasting effect on the new president's ability to effectively safeguard U.S. interests and may affect the legacy of the outgoing president."
The government seems pretty certain that McCain or Obama will be presented with a terror attack early on in their presidency and is giving them ample time to prepare the best method of exploiting it, but only to "safeguard U.S. interests," naturally.
The pattern is clear – each time a new President takes office they have a mandate to act as a torch bearer for the same agenda – domestic repression and foreign invasion. A terror attack provides the perfect pretext to realize those goals.
Whether it be Barack Obama or John McCain, we can expect a new crisis to conveniently arrive shortly after they take office, enabling them to pursue the same tyrannical blueprint followed by their predecessors.
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Costa Rica Conservation - Scarlet Macaw Update
Conservation Manager, Richard Munday updates us on the exciting Scarlet Macaw project, which forms part of our Conservation Project in Costa Rica:
'As each month passes we are gradually increasing the rhythm of the Macaw project so that eventually, when we reach April/May we are there 24 hours a day 7 days a week. This month we have been visiting twice a week at times and have even finished coordinating for night time visits as well.
The main times that we need to be watchful for poachers is during the night, so we are hoping that our presence will be noticed from now on and will persuade people not to bother the nests this year. We have not seen other people around the area so far this year, and we are confident that the farm hands, the people living at the entrance to the farm and the farmer himself will talk about the group of volunteers who are coming into the farm each week to look after the nest which will also act as a deterrent.
It hasn't all been plain sailing this month though, we are fairly sure that nest 2 has eggs now but nest 1 is still behaving a little strangely. On a couple of occasions this month we have not seen the birds until 5pm, when they flew back from what looks like the Tempisque river area. This is a strong indication that there is nothing to protect or look after in the nests and on another day we even saw a group of wasps trying to make a nest inside the Macaw nest! Luckily we saw the Macaws return and clean the nest out quickly before the end of the day so we are fairly sure that they will lay soon.
Hopefully in the next couple of days/week we will start to work at night on the project as well and this will give us a more complete picture of what is going on and when and where the Macaws are flying during the day. This will also give us much needed practice and training on running the project for 24 hours a day.'


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I really don't know what to say.
I went to Lake Charles, Louisiana on business to clean up and survey the damage of Hurricane Rita along one of our Byways. We also had a subcommittee marketing meeting while there.
Even now, it's still overwhelming. The damage was profound. While the media focused primarily on New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina, southeast Louisiana was ravaged by hurricanes as well, shortly after. Even when the media showed shots of Lake Charles it was in fact the same 30 second clips of New Orleans that we watched over any over again. Sad.
Every house either had a brand new roof or a "blue roof" which is simple a blue tarp stapled to a house frame or no roof at all. We drove about 150 miles of roads in southeast Louisiana and I would say 75% to 85% of the houses we saw were in either in shambles or being seriously rebuilt. We drove by the gulf and there were concrete slabs where homes once stood. Nothing was left. Nothing. Only debris nearby. We would be driving in the middle of nowhere along a marsh and there would be a house in the middle of the swamp. It was like the house in the Wizard of Oz just landed there. Huge Casino boats washed up in the middle of interstates. 75% of the trees we saw were cracked in half like a broken pencil.
What really blew me away was the trash and the greyness of everything. There was no color. In the land and in the people. These people were broken. People who once were happy and vibrant had their life squashed in a matter of hours.
It was very hard hearing from the people what had happened to them. The headache of insurance. The headache of what to do when your house had been moved down the street and was now on someone else's property. The headache of what to do. The headache of what to do. The headache of what to do.
On a side note of my travels there we went to a casino one night after dinner with the Mayor of Lake Charles. It was pretty much as I had expected. I guess all casinos are the same. What was amazing were the sounds. It was a symphony of bells and chimes and whistles. All blended in to it's own sort of white noise. I wish I had my minidisc there. I will have to go back to a casino shortly to capture this sound. What really was hard for me was looking at the blank and unhappy faces of all these people throwing their money away. Maybe it was the hurricane. Maybe the just needed something in their lives. Maybe all casinos are like this.
I am still on the verge of tears. [pictures]


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Google purchased the domain YT.be for a shorter URL for its YouTube property, according to reports.
While there has been no price for the domain, Google is likely using the URL shortener to lessen the number of characters, according to The Next Web. Its previous domain Youtube has been used as a shortened link on Twitter, but the new domain cuts the number of characters by two -- not something to be scoffed at when one only has a 140-character limit.
While that's possibly the main reason for the shorter URL, another could be that with the millions of videos being posted by its 1 billion users, YouTube needs the extra characters (right now there are 11 posted after the shortened URL) to name or catalog them.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
While this won't be a huge change for users, it may mean they can add a much needed emoticon or exclamation point.


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Butternut Squash Soup with Sage Recipe
The farmer's market is stocked with beautiful squashes and pumpkins this time of year. I bought this beautiful squash and got inspired to paint my kitchen the same color. This soup is low in points and is very filling. A perfect autumn meal. Enjoy!
1 butternut squash, about 2 cups cubed
1 carrot, peeled
salt and pepper
1 small onion, chopped
1 celery rib, chopped
6 cups fat free chicken or vegetable broth
2 garlic cloves, halved
4 sage leaves
1/2 cup 1% milk
Peel the squash and remove the seeds. Cut into medium size cubes.*
In a large heavy pot, combine squash, carrots, celery, onion, garlic, sage and broth and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer on low heat for about 40 minutes, until squash is tender.
Discard the sage and using an immersion blender, puree the soup. Add milk and adjust the salt and pepper to taste and serve. Great topped with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
* The easiest way to peel butternut squash is to first cut the top and bottom off the squash. Then cut the squash length wise.
Using a large spoon scrape out the seeds and strings.
Cut the squash in large chunks and place in a pot of boiling water for 10 minutes.
Drain and let the squash cool. The skin will come off easily with a pairing knife.
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Craig A. Adams, co-leader of the Ubuntu ZA LoCoTeam, wrote an insightful piece on the Principles of Free Software a while back which I have been meaning to comment on.
It made me think that, in order to guarantee freedom, we place restrictions. It sounds ironic at first: Wikipedia defines Freedom as "the ability to act without restraint".
But the freedom in software and intellectual property isn't arbitrary and it needs to be protected. In my view, the GPL is often misunderstood as too restrictive. But what if the BSD licence was the best we had? Where would "Open Source" be today without Free Software?
A lot less Free.