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Running steady: Editor of New England Runner says focus on niche market distances magazine from industry turbulence
Bob Fitzgerald may keep busy editing and co-publishing New England Runner magazine, but he says he still finds the time to run 25 miles per week.
The 53-year-old Weymouth resident purchased the bi-monthly magazine in 1998 with his wife, co-publisher Michelle LeBrun. But despite its combination of his biggest passions - running and writing - Fitzgerald said he was a latecomer to sports journalism.
Fitzgerald began running around the time he began taking a few journalism classes as an English major at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. However, upon graduation, Fitzgerald said he was not interested in entering the competitive journalism field.
After trying his hand at a number of careers, including construction and sales, Fitzgerald started covering running races on a freelance basis. The job stuck and he found his way to New England Runner, where he worked for six years before purchasing the magazine.
Fitzgerald and LeBrun have overseen an upgrade in the magazine, which typically ranges in size from 80 to 96 pages, to use glossy paper and more color pages. They have grown the magazine's circulation from 9,000 to about 11,000, employing promotional techniques such as direct mail and an annual calendar.
Previously based in Cleveland Circle in Brighton - fittingly next to the 22.3 mile mark of the Boston Marathon - Fitzgerald and LeBrun recently moved the publication to an office in South Weymouth to reduce their commute.
What's the history of New England Runner?
It started in April 1983 as Boston Running News. John McGrath owned an events management company at the time that put on the Boston Milk Run (and other races). This was in the early, mid-'70s that he had this event management company. And the running boom hit kind of hit in 1972 when Frank Shorter won the Olympic gold medal and continued into the '80s. And what John found happening was this little pamphlet he was putting out basically to publicize his upcoming events that he threw editorial (copy) in, all of a sudden people were clamoring to read about running because everybody was getting into it. It became a lot easier to put out the magazine, and more profitable than to do the events, and so he started doing that full time.
Declining circulation is a serious concern for magazines and newspapers these days. Has your niche market helped alleviate those concerns?
It's helped us hold our own. You know, we haven't seen any steep drop, we haven't seen any steep gain. There are certain things we can do that will guarantee more subscribers like doing a direct mail. ... But we're grassroots-based so we have all sorts of relationships with race directors. We've started putting banners up on the marathon Web sites and we're getting some subscribers through that.
And we're a niche magazine that's been around 25 years, so we have a very loyal clientele that ranges from young people up through their 70s. And we're kind of blessed in that this area has more running clubs than any other area of the country. It's essentially where road running started in New England and New York. But it's a tough market, especially with the Internet. We have our own Web site so we're trying to marry that more to the magazine.
Where does the Internet fit into the future for your industry?
Well, it hits a lot of the areas that aren't going to make it into the magazine. It's different content, more topical content. If we were a daily newspaper this is the stuff we'd be hitting but we're even beyond a weekly newspaper, we're a bi-monthly newspaper. So things pop up all the time, there's no shortage of information out there. Our problem is there's two of us and we do the magazine, which consumes a lot of our time. ... There's all sorts of different things you can do and we're just starting to explore. I think the Internet, as much as it's cutting into mainstream media, could be a real boost for niche media.
What do runners look for in a running magazine?
You know, you can get a calendar on the Web, but this is a very inclusive calendar, and it's portable, you don't have to boot up to grab it. Also, race results are huge in his area and we know a lot of the runners, we know a lot of the races, we've been to them so we can always put something insightful about the course or what's going on. ... I think a lot of people are looking for something a little offbea.t ... We get a lot of magazines from around the country, and a lot of it is so black and white. You know, so and so ran and won, so and so came in second. We try to get beyond that, we try to personalize it.
Do you think running is more popular now that it has been in the past?
It's funny, the first running boom which was through the '70s and early '80s was pretty much sports-oriented. The people who got into it got into it to see what they could possibly produce out of it. Now, I would say from the late '80s on, it's been event-driven. It's a much more recreational approach.
So the good thing about that is it's allowed a lot more people who were formerly intimidated about getting out there to get out there. And I think overall that's a good thing, because you talk about obesity in children in this country. You know, kids learn by example and if their parents are out running and it's fun and they go to different events that are fun and there are kids activities, which most of them have these days, they're going to learn from that.
So do you find time for a run every day?
I ran four (miles) before I came in (to work). I'm like on my 10,000th comeback. This one's pretty serious though, I've managed to get a little consistency without getting injured. But I used to run 60 to 90 (miles) a week.
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April 17, 2009
Spell checkers are ubiquitous. Word processors have spell checkers, as do browser-based e-mail clients. They all work the same way: a dictionary is stored in some data structure, then each word of input is submitted to a search in the data structure, and those that fail are flagged as spelling errors. There is a certain art to building the word list on which a spell checker is based; Exxon isn't a word in anybody's dictionary, but it is likely included in the word list, but cwm (a geological structure), which is certainly a word, is most likely omitted from the word list, on the grounds it is more likely an error than a legitimate spelling (unless you are a geologist).
There are many appropriate data structures to store the word list, including a sorted array accessed via binary search, a hash table, or a bloom filter. In this exercise you are challenged to store the word list character-by-character in a trie. Consider this sample trie that stores the words CAR, CART, CAT and DOG:
To see that CAT is a valid spelling, follow the C branch, then the A branch, then the T branch, where you find a filled circle, indicating a word. To see that CAB is not a valid spelling, follow the C branch, then the A branch, and fail when there is no B branch.
Tries can be very fast; for instance, to see that QARTER (a misspelling of QUARTER) is not a word, follow the Q branch, then fail when there is no A branch. This is even faster than hashing, which must read all six letters of QARTER just to compute the hash value. And tries can also be space-efficient, since space is shared between common prefixes.
Your task is to build a spell checker based on tries. When you are finished, you can read or run a suggested solution, or post your solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.

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Yreka Miners baseball preview: Miners hopeful for another strong season
After earning a Northern Athletic League title and making it to the Northern Section Division 2 championship game last season, Yreka Miner head coach Jason Freitas believes this year's team has the potential to achieve similar results.
The Miners open the 2013 campaign today at a two-day tournament at Fothill High School in Padro Cedro. Yreka will face St. Helena at 11 a.m.
During practice on Wednesday, Freitas said he and the coaching staff have worked closely with the 16 members of the varsity team to "try to get all the little things down," and were working on the fundamentals before the season begins.
"The guys are ready to compete," Freitas said.
In 2012, Yreka went 22-10 overall and 10-2 in the NAL.
Back this year for the Miners is senior Christan Charles, who was named NAL MVP last season. He finished 2012 with a .407 batting average and had four home runs, 27 runs, 29 RBI's and 16 stolen bases. As a pitcher he finished the season 6-2 overall with a 1.60 ERA and 84 strikeouts. This year it is a good news, bad news situation with Charles.
The bad news is that at the end of last season, he injured his throwing shoulder and found out in January he tore his labrum and can not pitch this year. He elected to wait on surgery until after the season. The good new is his hitting has not been compromised and he will DH and on occasion play first base, Freitas said.
Although Charles is certainly disappointed he can't pitch this season, Freitas said he is a consummate team player and is focused on helping the team any way he can. Freitas said that Charles, who he considers one of the best hitters he has had in his time as coach at YHS will be a key to the Miner offensive attack this year. "He wants to do what he can to help us," Freitas said,
While the Miners lost some key players, including pitcher Russell Sweet, who now pitches for the College of Idaho, Freitas said the team has retained several key players and are bringing up a number of talented players that were on the junior varsity squad last season. And, speaking of Sweet, he and his team are facing Simpson College in Redding on Saturday and Sunday. The Saturday doubleheader begins at 4 p.m., and Sunday's doubleheader starts at noon.
Returning for Yreka are two all-league selections last season in Cody Hoff and Michael Schuler.
Hoff, a senior, is expected to be the No.1 pitcher for the Miners after pitching well last season. Freitas said that he believes Hoff has what it takes to be a strong No.1 this year,
Schuler, known as an excellent hitter in the leadoff spot, hits well for average and is an elite base stealer.
Other pitchers Freitas expects to be key contributors include junior Gabe Durney, junior Kurt Bennett and senior Michel Elfgen. Freitas said it helps to have a deep roster of pitchers and said nine team members have the ability to pitch this season, which is nice luxury to possess.
Andy Andreas will start for the first time on the varsity level as catcher. Freitas said Andreas is solid behind the plate and has the potential to be an explosive hitter and should be a spark with his bat,
Freitas said while the Miners may not be as top heavy as they have been in previous years they are certainly deep.
"I think we have the potential for everyone on the team to contribute," he said.
A highlight for Yreka this year will be in April when they take part in a tournament in Anaheim. Freitas said they will face elite teams in the tourney and said it's important for the Miners to face new opponents and elite competition, which will help them in league and the playoffs.
Next week the Miners host three Siskiyou County teams for scrimmages. On Wednesday, Weed comes to Yreka while Etna comes over from Scott Valley to face the Miners on Thursday. On Friday, Mount Shasta is scheduled to face Yreka. All three scrimmages begin at 3:30 p.m.
The Miner junior varsity team began the season on Thursday. The Miners earned a 7-6 come-from-behind win against Shasta of Redding.


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Tu B'Shvat is mentioned in Mishnayos Rosh Hashana as one of four New Years in the Jewish calendar. the ARIZa"L (Rabbi Yitzchak Luria) and his disciples, in the 16th century, used to celebrate this day by conducting a seder where ten fruits specific to Israel were consumed with cups of wine. The idea was that eating those fruits in a specific order while reciting the appropriate blessings would bring the world closer to spiritual pertfection.
In our everlasting quest to bring you the best recipes, I found a whole delectable batch on Gil Marks ( author of the Encyclopedia of Jewish Food) own blog:
Popular Tu b'Shevat dishes include: Hungarian wine soup (borleves), Moroccan orange salad (salata latsheen), Middle Eastern bulgur-stuffed cabbage (malfoof mahshee), Bukharan vegetable and fruit stew (dimlama), Bukharan baked rice and fruit (savo), Persian sweet rice (shirin polo), Ashkenazic barley with mushrooms (gersht un shveml), Persian carrot omelets (havij edjeh), Middle Eastern wheat berry pudding (ashure), and German fried dumplings with fruit (schnitzelkloese). Dried fruit strudels and kugels are a popular Ashkenazic treat. Turkish Jews enjoy prehito/moostrahana, a dish of sweetened cracked wheat, or kofyas, a dish of sweetened wheat berries, called assurei or koliva by the Greeks. Syrians serve fruit and nut pastries such as ma'amoul (nut pastries) and ras ib adjweh (date pastries).
As always his encyclopedic knowledge shows right through. On the same page he also gives us some of the recipes he mentions and I felt this one was the most à propos, as it reminds us of the ARIZa"L's custom:
Israeli Wine and Fruit Soup
(6 to 8 servings)
If you prefer whole fruit, add the oranges to cooled soup.
- 4 cups dry red or rose wine (or 2½ cups fruity dry white or rose wine and 1½ cups dry red wine)
- 2 pints fresh or 40 ounces frozen raspberries or cherries
- 44 ounces canned mandarin oranges
- 1½ cups orange juice or water
- ½ cup lemon juice
- 6 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca
- 2 (3-inch) sticks cinnamon (optional)
Bring all ingredients to a gentle boil, stirring occasionally. Lower heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Serve warm or chilled.
To Thicken Soup with Cornstarch: Omit tapioca. Dissolve 2 tablespoons cornstarch in ½ cup water; stir into boiling soup; and cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until clear.
For the rest of Gil's superb recipes you'll just have to his blog.
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It's winter and we need something hearty as we come in from a cold day. Soups have that marvelous quality of warming us up and make us feel good again.
From Sarah Lasry's The At Home Gourmet (page 66):
Roasted Tomato Soup with Israeli Couscous
There is nothing like a great tomato soup when I'm feeling blue and tired after a hard day's work to perk me up. I usually take a big bowl of this soup, put on my pj's, cuddle up in a bed and call it an early night. It makes a great, easy, quick supper when you are in a rush and want to serve something hearty.
NOTE: DO NOT REFRIGERATE your tomatoes! Cold temperatures ruin tomatoes. hurting their flavor and their texture. You can cut the acidity of your tomato soup by adding just a tablespoon of granulated sugar at the end of cooking.
For the Roasted Tomatoes:
- 8 large tomatoes, halved and seeded
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
For the Soup:
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp curry powder
- 3 tsp minced garlic
- pinch kosher salt
- pinch black pepper
- 1 tsp cilantro (optional)
- 1 carrot, sliced
- 1 1/2 cups tomato sauce (or juice)
- 5 cups vegetable stock 9or water)
- 1 cup Israeli couscous
Preheat oven to 375-400 degrees
On a large baking sheet that has been sprayed with non-stick spray, lay your halved tomatoes face down. Drizzle olive oil lightly over the tomatoes and sprinkle a little kosher salt and pepper over them. Place in the oven for about 15-20 minutes.
Remove from oven and set aside to cool. when the cooked, chop up up the tomatoes into small chunks.
In a large soup pot heat the olive oil and saute the onions for a few minutes. Add all the spices to the onions and mix them well, making sure the onions are well cooked. Saute for another minute or two. Add the carrots to the onions and mix wel,; cook gently for 5 minutes and then add the chopped tomatoes and tomato juice. Bring the soup to a simmer and then add the vegetable stock and the couscous. Bring the soup to a full boil and cook until the couscous is soft and tender (about 20 minutes). Add salt and pepper to taste before serving.
NOTE: If you are short on time, substitute the roasted tomatoes with 3 cups of canned diced tomatoes (about 28 oz.)
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I have a love/hate relationship with gravity. From an astromechanical point of view, I love being in its pull, zooming earthward, only to pull up/bounceback/splash through at the end.
The feeling of wind whipping past your head at terminal velocity while your brains try and pick which ear to crawl out of is one of those experiences that make life worth living.
Then there's interpersonal gravity. The only person who's gravity well I've fallen into is my wife's (The Most Wonderful Girl In The Universe. That means that I keep myself attuned to where she is, what her mood is, and whether she needs a hug or caress or joke from me. (To be fair, she's also pretty good at knowing when I need one of those, or when I need to give her one.
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Three very different uses of the word gravity, all sort of tied together by different facets of the same definition.
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The proposed law means HFT companies would come under the Kreditwesengesetz, or KWG, banking legislation, forcing them to open a regulated office in Germany if they want to trade in the nation, according to a draft bill passed by the parliamentary finance committee today. The lower house of parliament is due to vote on the plans tomorrow.
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"We have passed important legislation on high-frequency trading, closing a gap in a previously unregulated area of the financial market," Ralph Brinkhaus, a lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and a member of the committee that drafted the legislation, wrote in an e-mail. "This brings us another step closer to fulfilling our goal from the coalition agreement to leave no financial product, no financial actor, and no financial market unregulated."
Merkel faces pressure from the opposition Social Democratic Party to impose stricter rules on the finance industry in the run-up to federal elections slated for September.
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Obtaining authorization under the KWG may increase costs for start-up trading firms, according to Artur Fischer, chief executive officer of Boerse Berlin.
"HFTs are not banks with other people's money, so why impose regulation which only costs money and serves no purpose?" Fischer wrote in e-mailed comments. "If you put only your own capital at risk you currently don't need any kind of license. The proposed law wants to change that in such a way that, even if it's only your own capital, as soon as you use computer algorithms you have to be regulated."
Requiring HFT companies to obtain KWG authorization and have a physical presence in Germany may make global trading firms participating in German markets liable to pay the European Union's proposed financial-transaction tax, or FTT, according to Axel Troost, a member of the Left party who sits on the financial committee.
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"We want the FTT to wipe out HFT," Troost said today in e-mailed comments. "The KWG registration is an important requirement to achieve this objective."
The European Commission has tabled a plan for a transaction tax that would set a rate of 0.1 percent for stock and bond trades and 0.01 percent on derivatives deals. The EU is trying to curb what it sees as a patchwork of local levies with a tax that it believes could raise 30 billion euros ($40 billion) to 35 billion euros a year.
London or Luxembourg could be the beneficiaries of an FTT in Germany, as trading migrates to centers which are opposed to introducing the levy, according to Dirk Klee, country head of Germany, Austria and eastern Europe at BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG in Munich.
"Financial markets are global," Klee said in an interview in Frankfurt today. "An FTT scenario that would only go ahead with a few countries would mean that assets would shift into countries which don't have FTT. Germany could be disadvantaged."
HFT accounts for 40 percent of trading volumes on Deutsche Boerse AG's cash-market segment, Xetra, and 30 percent of transactions on Eurex, Europe's largest derivatives exchange, according to the Frankfurt-based company.
Deutsche Boerse shares slipped 0.4 percent to 47.80 euros at the close of trading in Frankfurt today, trimming the 2013 advance to 3.4 percent.


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Thanks to Andy Whitman for passing along this press release for the new album from Joe Henry:
Here's the press release.
Renaissance Man Eschews Decorum to Reveal More Vital, Raw and Dark 11th Album
Joe Henry's new record Blood From Stars begins with a poignant and haunting piano prelude before launching into "The Man I Keep Hid," a raw, bluesy track undercut with a ghostly voice of a man rambling on before Henry comes in with the first line "nobody knows the man that I keep hid." An apt beginning for Henry's eleventh full-length record, for Blood From Stars reveals a side of Henry rarely glimpsed in his recent work, which has been notable in its suave urbanity, poetic lyricism and literary sensibility. Rather, the new work is a passionate and direct breakthrough from one of today's most acclaimed singer songwriters.
"It's more emotionally available, certainly less mannered," says Henry, speaking of the difference between Blood From Stars and his 2007 release Civilians. "It's much more electric, in the literal and also the emotional sense of the word. It is raw, with many loose threads hanging."
Backed by a handpicked collection of players, including Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) who worked with Henry on his 2001 release Scar and acclaimed jazz pianist Jason Moran, Henry crafted Blood From Stars with a clear idea of structure, but also with a refreshingly open and fluid approach to the outcome of the songs, creating a loose, swinging, vital sound.
"Partly, I just loved what happened when this particular group of musicians heard a song and had to respond to it in a very immediate way," Henry explained. "I can always go back to what I thought [the song should sound like], but if you limit them to your own imagination, then you're just cutting yourself off from the richest resource you have."
Henry has spent the better part of the last decade in a recording studio, lending his considerable talents and tastes to producing records from the likes of Solomon Burke (who's Henry-produced Don't Give Up on Me won a Grammy for the Best Contemporary Blues album of 2002), Bettye LaVette, and many others.
"When I find the production work to be satisfying, it really does fuel more work. I tell my wife, 'the more I work, the more I work.' It keeps the engine idling all the time. I used to see producing and my work as an artist to be separate enterprises but the more I've continued, I start to see less and less distinction between what I do for myself and what I do for other people. In both cases my job is to make something meaningful come out of a pair of speakers."
Two recent releases Henry produced, Allen Toussaint's the Bright Mississippi and Ramblin' Jack Elliott's A Stranger Here, find the venerable artists exploring classic blues songs. With his work as a producer and a songwriter overlapping and informing one another, it is only natural that the blues found their way onto Henry's Blood From Stars.
"I was playing with a writing form…a blues structure, in the same way that you might sit down and try to write a sonnet or a haiku. I was intrigued by how structured and how simple those ideas of, say, a pair of repeating lines answered by a refrain can be," Henry says and continues, "I've been reading a lot of poets lately, and lot of diverse poetry very consciously references a blues tonality, whether its Langston Hughes or Allen Ginsberg or e.e. cummings. Poets are very aware of the power of that structure."
Ultimately, Blood From Stars is a departure from the expected sound of a Joe Henry record, and its author seems perfectly at ease with his new persona. "If it's standing up, declaring itself as living thing, I'm completely enthralled by it. My ego has no problem with not controlling the process," he paused, then continued with a laugh, "as long as it makes me look good in the end."
Track listing for Blood From Stars:
* 1. Prelude: Light No Lamp When The Sun Comes Down
* 2. The Man I Keep Hid
* 3. Channel
* 4. This Is My Favorite Cage
* 5. Death To The Storm
* 6. All Blues Hail Mary
* 7. Bellwether
* 8. Progress of Love (Dark Ground)
* 9. Over Her Shoulder
* 10. Suit On A Frame
* 11. Truce
* 12. Stars
* 13. Coda: Light No Lamp When The Sun Comes Down


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Our internet radio show this evening (at 8:00pm Eastern Time) will feature Naomi Sugar from 365scoops.com. There is a bit of background noise because we pre-taped it, yesterday lunchtime, at Tiberias Restaurant (45 East 34th Street; NY, NY 10016; Tel: 212.481.4222).
Naomi Sugar blogs at 365scoops.com, a blog dedicated to making and sharing her ice cream creations. 365scoops believes in good, old fashioned ice cream free of preservatives (and ingredients that you cannot pronounce!) Ms. Sugar uses only the best organic milks, creams, sugar and eggs, with a variety of flavors to create artisanal, custom-made flavors. When not blogging or developing new ice cream ideas, Naomi works for Project Sunshine and holds an MA in public health from Columbia University.
In her own words:
My last name is Sugar, and I am addicted to sugar.
That's right.
I. Love. Sweets.
All things sweet, ice cream and cupcakes especially, but I do not discriminate against cookies, popsicles, brownies and cake.
Armed with a new found sense of free time (I recently completed my Master's in Public Health) and an "old found" love of cooking all things sweet, I decided I should chronicle this exciting business venture. So, I took matters into my own hands and bought a three Cuisinart Ice Cream Makers (this one), began testing recipes, and soon enough, started selling these delicious creations!
About 365 Scoops
After returning from Argentina, one of the ice cream capitals of the world, I decided that we needed more deliciously creamy, silky and high quality ice cream here in NYC. This site is dedicated to sharing those recipes, and to ultimately achieving the goal of universal access to gourmet ice creams!
Here at 365scoops we believe in good, old fashioned ice cream free of preservatives (and ingredients that you cannot pronounce!) We mix only the best organic milks, creams, sugar and eggs, with a variety of unique flavors to create artesanal, custom-made ice cream. You want it? We'll make it. Just ask.
**In addition, here is a link to an ice cream making workshop that I hosted in DC last month at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue http://www.ticketfly.com/event/117535/
In case you missed it why don't you listen to our show with Hirsh Eidlitz, for a fascinating look into the world of ancient Jewish books and manuscripts?
Meanwhile do not forget to tune us in, this evening at 8:00pm (Eastern Time) at BlogTalkRadio.com/Kosherscene, for an interesting, informative, entertaining conversation with Naomi Sugar from 365scoops.com. We'll be wait'n for ya!


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Kathleen Parker: Advice columnist to GOP
Ms. Know-It-All, the anonymous political advice columnist whose identity remains a popular Georgetown cocktail party guessing game, is also known to live up to her title now and then. Herewith a correspondence worth sharing.
Dear Ms. Know-It-All:
It appears that the witch Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to run for president. It makes my skin crawl to think of her and that husband of hers back in our White House, not to mention that they are Marxists like Obama and want to turn us into Sweden, for God's sake. It's not too soon for Republicans to marshal our forces for a little shock and awe when the Hildebeast finally announces. How can we stop her?
Signed, A proud, God-fearing, right-wing wacko-bird.
Dear Wacko:
Thank you for what seems to be your sincere interest in participating in our country's health and welfare. And thanks, too, for contacting me because you need to hear what I have to say. You might want to sit down for this. If you're on anti-anxiety medication, all the better.
You are, how shall I put this? Idiot seems too strong, so I'll go with foolish little man. "The witch Hillary"? Yes, I saw the little photo on Drudge with Hillary wearing a witch's hat. Clever! And on Halloween, too. The headline suggested that someone somewhere should be upset that she earned close to $500,000 for two speeches for Goldman Sachs.
I do believe I detect the scent of envy. Is that the best you've got? I don't think I heard you folks express outrage when Sarah Palin was paid $100,000 a clip, and she was just a short-term governor and a failed vice-presidential candidate. Ronald Reagan once was paid $2 million for two 20-minute speeches by a Japanese manufacturing company.
You get my drift. Speakers are commodities and they earn what they're worth to an audience. A former U.S. senator and secretary of state who also was once first lady is not a coupon item.
To the larger point, you must stop witchifying this woman. She has one of the best resumes in the country, certainly compared to anyone who might challenge her. This doesn't speak to her personality, which seems to aggravate a certain kind of male, or to her involvement with issues that have inspired legitimate criticism. But in hurling personal insults, you are hurting only yourself. The bully always looks worse than the bullied. In so doing, you not only seem juvenile but look petty and bereft of substantive arguments. While you consider this assessment, imagine how much Hillary must welcome such schoolboy taunts.
Pivot now to your less-than-sterling record with women voters. Does the "war on women" ring a bell? I understand that this was mainly a fiction created by the Obama campaign (brilliant, I must say), but you had some help from a couple of star witnesses regarding "legitimate rape" and God's will when a rape victim becomes pregnant. Why, do tell, would you be surprised that women who value their autonomy in making the most personal decisions might view such statements as "war"?
My point: Don't attack a woman as a woman. No allusions to awful female characters or anything to do with her appearance. If you have to resort to commentary about someone's personal attributes, assuming they're not wearing ridiculous headgear, you are signaling that you have no arrows in your quiver.
This is especially relevant to women candidates for two reasons. One, men beating up a woman summons a number of associations that only make women recoil in revulsion. Two, while you were hunkering in your duck blind, women the world over were getting busy organizing and helping each other. There's a global movement afoot in which Hillary Clinton has played a crucial part. If you attack her, all but the most rigidly ideological women will circle the wagons and you will lose. On the bright side, you won't have to worry anymore about birth control. Your own, that is.
At the moment, though Hillary's ratings have slipped a bit, the GOP holds the distinction of being the first party in polling history to have a negative rating over 50 percent (53), according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey. Thus, my advice: Marshal your sharpest thinkers and create a product that people want. If you can't win with the strength of your arguments and the clarity of your vision, you can at least lose with your dignity intact -- a decent start to a much-needed Republican Reformation. Good luck.
Kathleen Parker's email address is email@example.com.
Washington Post Writers Group


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Today, while browsing my Twitter timeline, a post come through from Sally Shine who tweets as @CanIFindThem. Sally mentioned she had found a person she was looking for on the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries website. Of course, why had I not gone there in my search, albeit brief , of Gwen Mortimer's death.
Across to the site I went, entered the surname Bos, with the exact name search box ticked, and bingo, there she was. Gwen died on February 9, 1989 and there was also an Anthonius Franciscus Bos. This may be my Mr A. Bos.
I had looked on the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust website earlier this week, and I did find an A. Bos at Fawkner Park, but no Gwen. It has now reminded make better use of the Delicious "Cemetery" tag I have. If I am unsuccessful on one cemetery link, it is quick and easy to click on another, as they are all listed in one spot and I won't overlook any that are relevant.
I really like the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries site because not only does it cover several cemeteries, there are also different search options: by surname, first name, date of birth, date of death, location of grave. I have also searched for June and John Taggart and found both their cremation records.
Later on I noticed a tweet telling me Sally Shine is the current GeniMate, so I was glad to read about the person behind the enjoyable and useful @CanIFindThem tweets (and she has a cute profile pic).


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Trailer destroyed in Thursday night blaze
A single-wide house trailer was destroyed by fire Thursday night in the 600 block of West Grand River Avenue in Berlin Township.
Ionia County Central Dispatch received a call reporting the fire at 8:57 p.m. Berlin-Orange Fire Department responded, and Ionia Department of Public Safety was called to provide mutual aid with a tanker and manpower, said IDPS Deputy Dir. John Odette.
The trailer was engulfed in heavy flames and smoke upon arrival of IDPS, Odette said.
According to Matt Bennett, chief of the Berlin-Orange Fire Department, the trailer was a total loss. No one was injured, and the family was not at home at the time of the incident.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, said Bennett.
Life EMS and Central Dispatch also assisted with the incident.


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Alt-MSA participation criteria. Students with disabilities in grades 3-8 and 10 must participate in either MSA or Alt-MSA. The decision for which assessment is appropriate for an individual student is made by each student's IEP Team. A student with a significant cognitive disability will participate in Alt-MSA if he or she meets each of the following criteria:
Students not meeting the criteria above will participate in the MSA, with or without accommodations, as appropriate, based on their IEP.


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We have previously devoted several posts to the powerful effect of self-schemas personal narratives and, more specifically, to the remarkable research by Carol Dweck regarding the importance of how people think about intelligence and learning. In February of this year, Po Bronson wrote a terrific article in New York Magazine, in which he provided a delightful and accessible summary of research by Dweck and her colleagues illustrating the "inverse power of praise." We excerpt portions of Bronson's article below.
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What do we make of a boy like Thomas?
Thomas (his middle name) is a fifth-grader at the highly competitive P.S. 334, the Anderson School on West 84th. . . . Thomas hangs out with five friends from the Anderson School. They are "the smart kids." Thomas's one of them, and he likes belonging.
Since Thomas could walk, he has heard constantly that he's smart. Not just from his parents but from any adult who has come in contact with this precocious child. When he applied to Anderson for kindergarten, his intelligence was statistically confirmed. The school is reserved for the top one percent of all applicants, and an IQ test is required. Thomas didn't just score in the top one percent. He scored in the top one percent of the top one percent.
But as Thomas has progressed through school, this self-awareness that he's smart hasn't always translated into fearless confidence when attacking his schoolwork. In fact, Thomas's father noticed just the opposite. "Thomas didn't want to try things he wouldn't be successful at," his father says. "Some things came very quickly to him, but when they didn't, he gave up almost immediately, concluding, 'I'm not good at this.' " With no more than a glance, Thomas was dividing the world into two—things he was naturally good at and things he wasn't.
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Why does this child, who is measurably at the very top of the charts, lack confidence about his ability to tackle routine school challenges?
Thomas is not alone. For a few decades, it's been noted that a large percentage of all gifted students (those who score in the top 10 percent on aptitude tests) severely underestimate their own abilities. Those afflicted with this lack of perceived competence adopt lower standards for success and expect less of themselves. They underrate the importance of effort, and they overrate how much help they need from a parent.
When parents praise their children's intelligence, they believe they are providing the solution to this problem. According to a survey conducted by Columbia University, 85 percent of American parents think it's important to tell their kids that they're smart. . . . The constant praise is meant to be an angel on the shoulder, ensuring that children do not sell their talents short.
But a growing body of research—and a new study from the trenches of the New York public-school system—strongly suggests it might be the other way around. Giving kids the label of "smart" does not prevent them from underperforming. It might actually be causing it.
For the past ten years, psychologist Carol Dweck and her team at Columbia (she's now at Stanford) studied the effect of praise on students in a dozen New York schools. Her seminal work—a series of experiments on 400 fifth-graders—paints the picture most clearly.
Dweck sent four female research assistants into New York fifth-grade classrooms. The researchers would take a single child out of the classroom for a nonverbal IQ test consisting of a series of puzzles—puzzles easy enough that all the children would do fairly well. Once the child finished the test, the researchers told each student his score, then gave him a single line of praise. Randomly divided into groups, some were praised for their intelligence. They were told, "You must be smart at this." Other students were praised for their effort: "You must have worked really hard."
Why just a single line of praise? "We wanted to see how sensitive children were," Dweck explained. "We had a hunch that one line might be enough to see an effect."
Then the students were given a choice of test for the second round. One choice was a test that would be more difficult than the first, but the researchers told the kids that they'd learn a lot from attempting the puzzles. The other choice, Dweck's team explained, was an easy test, just like the first. Of those praised for their effort, 90 percent chose the harder set of puzzles. Of those praised for their intelligence, a majority chose the easy test. The "smart" kids took the cop-out.
Why did this happen? "When we praise children for their intelligence," Dweck wrote in her study summary, "we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart, don't risk making mistakes." And that's what the fifth-graders had done: They'd chosen to look smart and avoid the risk of being embarrassed.
In a subsequent round, none of the fifth-graders had a choice. The test was difficult, designed for kids two years ahead of their grade level. Predictably, everyone failed. But again, the two groups of children, divided at random at the study's start, responded differently. Those praised for their effort on the first test assumed they simply hadn't focused hard enough on this test. "They got very involved, willing to try every solution to the puzzles," Dweck recalled. "Many of them remarked, unprovoked, 'This is my favorite test.' " Not so for those praised for their smarts. They assumed their failure was evidence that they weren't really smart at all. "Just watching them, you could see the strain. They were sweating and miserable."
Having artificially induced a round of failure, Dweck's researchers then gave all the fifth-graders a final round of tests that were engineered to be as easy as the first round. Those who had been praised for their effort significantly improved on their first score—by about 30 percent. Those who'd been told they were smart did worse than they had at the very beginning—by about 20 percent.
Dweck had suspected that praise could backfire, but even she was surprised by the magnitude of the effect. "Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control," she explains. "They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure."
In follow-up interviews, Dweck discovered that those who think that innate intelligence is the key to success begin to discount the importance of effort. I am smart, the kids' reasoning goes; I don't need to put out effort. Expending effort becomes stigmatized—it's public proof that you can't cut it on your natural gifts.
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. . . [T]eachers at the Life Sciences Secondary School in East Harlem . . . [have] seen Dweck's theories applied to their junior-high students. Last week, Dweck and her protégée, Lisa Blackwell, published a report in the academic journal Child Development about the effect of a semester-long intervention conducted to improve students' math scores.
Life Sciences is a health-science magnet school with high aspirations but 700 students whose main attributes are being predominantly minority and low achieving. Blackwell split her kids into two groups for an eight-session workshop. The control group was taught study skills, and the others got study skills and a special module on how intelligence is not innate. These students took turns reading aloud an essay on how the brain grows new neurons when challenged. They saw slides of the brain and acted out skits. . . . After the module was concluded, Blackwell tracked her students' grades to see if it had any effect.
It didn't take long. The teachers—who hadn't known which students had been assigned to which workshop—could pick out the students who had been taught that intelligence can be developed. They improved their study habits and grades. In a single semester, Blackwell reversed the students' longtime trend of decreasing math grades.
The only difference between the control group and the test group were two lessons, a total of 50 minutes spent teaching not math but a single idea: that the brain is a muscle. Giving it a harder workout makes you smarter. That alone improved their math scores.
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Scholars from Reed College and Stanford reviewed over 150 praise studies. Their meta-analysis determined that praised students become risk-averse and lack perceived autonomy. The scholars found consistent correlations between a liberal use of praise and students' "shorter task persistence, more eye-checking with the teacher, and inflected speech such that answers have the intonation of questions."
Dweck's research on overpraised kids strongly suggests that image maintenance becomes their primary concern—they are more competitive and more interested in tearing others down. A raft of very alarming studies illustrate this.
In one, students are given two puzzle tests. Between the first and the second, they are offered a choice between learning a new puzzle strategy for the second test or finding out how they did compared with other students on the first test: They have only enough time to do one or the other. Students praised for intelligence choose to find out their class rank, rather than use the time to prepare.
In another, students get a do-it-yourself report card and are told these forms will be mailed to students at another school—they'll never meet these students and don't know their names. Of the kids praised for their intelligence, 40 percent lie, inflating their scores. Of the kids praised for effort, few lie.
When students transition into junior high, some who'd done well in elementary school inevitably struggle in the larger and more demanding environment. Those who equated their earlier success with their innate ability surmise they've been dumb all along. Their grades never recover because the likely key to their recovery—increasing effort—they view as just further proof of their failure. In interviews many confess they would "seriously consider cheating."
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. . . sounds awfully clichéd: Try, try again.
But it turns out that the ability to repeatedly respond to failure by exerting more effort—instead of simply giving up—is a trait well studied in psychology. People with this trait, persistence, rebound well and can sustain their motivation through long periods of delayed gratification. Delving into this research, I learned that persistence turns out to be more than a conscious act of will; it's also an unconscious response, governed by a circuit in the brain. Dr. Robert Cloninger at Washington University in St. Louis located the circuit in a part of the brain called the orbital and medial prefrontal cortex. It monitors the reward center of the brain, and like a switch, it intervenes when there's a lack of immediate reward. When it switches on, it's telling the rest of the brain, "Don't stop trying. There's dopa [the brain's chemical reward for success] on the horizon." While putting people through MRI scans, Cloninger could see this switch lighting up regularly in some. In others, barely at all.
What makes some people wired to have an active circuit?
Cloninger has trained rats and mice in mazes to have persistence by carefully not rewarding them when they get to the finish. "The key is intermittent reinforcement," says Cloninger. The brain has to learn that frustrating spells can be worked through. "A person who grows up getting too frequent rewards will not have persistence, because they'll quit when the rewards disappear."
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Offering praise has become a sort of panacea for the anxieties of modern parenting. Out of our children's lives from breakfast to dinner, we turn it up a notch when we get home. In those few hours together, we want them to hear the things we can't say during the day—We are in your corner, we are here for you, we believe in you.
In a similar way, we put our children in high-pressure environments, seeking out the best schools we can find, then we use the constant praise to soften the intensity of those environments. We expect so much of them, but we hide our expectations behind constant glowing praise.
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Towards the end of his article, Bronson quotes Situationist contributor Mazharin Banaji as saying, "Carol Dweck is a flat-out genius. I hope the work is taken seriously." We agree, but hasten to add that by "genius," we don't mean "smart." Professor Dweck's genius is measured in terms of perseverance and hard work!
To read Po Bronson's fascinating article in its entirety, click here. To read about Po Bronson's current writing projects, go to his website, pobronson.com.
For previous, related Situationist posts, go to "How Situational Self-Schemas Influence Disposition" (which includes a video of Carol Dweck), "The Perils of Being Smart," "Jock or Nerd," and "First Person or Third."


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Caution necessary on early ice
Early ice typically provides some hot fishing action and is favorite time to be on the ice for area anglers, but it doesn't come with out risk.
"Ice conditions vary so much from lake to lake, even on a single lake, especially the big ones," said Sgt. Greg Drogowski, Department of Natural Resources officer who handles law enforcement in Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties. "Guys are always in a rush to get out there, especially with vehicles. Springs and currents really have an affect on ice thickness. People go through every year and sometimes its fatal. Those are tragedies."
Ice fishing and snowmobiling account for the vast majority of the ice breakthroughs each winter. Anglers anxious to get to a favorite fishing hole and snowmobiles willing to try a shortcut across a lake too often find themselves on dangerous ice and in a potentially deadly situation.
"We don't put out anything on how many inches of ice is enough," Drogowski added. "When it comes to ice, you always have to be overly cautious, even when there seems like there's plenty of ice."
Caution on the ice is especially important early in the season.
"Even if you know where the springs are, just wait until there's plenty of ice for it to be safe," Drogowski added. "Those fish are still going to be there in a week or however long it takes."
Despite words of caution, many anglers and snowmobilers will test their luck in the coming weeks. Even if the initial accident is escaped without injury, the danger doesn't end until the vehicle is removed from the ice.
In many instances, people gather friends to help extract their vehicle and escape removal costs. Add several people, thin ice, and a large hole and you get an equation for disaster.
"People usually call us when something like this happens," said Drogowski. "It's required that they contact a law enforcement agency. What you don't want is a bunch of people out trying to get it out. On unsafe ice, that's just asking for trouble."
One of the reasons people try to remove their vehicle without reporting it is the common belief that the DNR will levy a large fine to the vehicle owner.
"Something that gets talked about a lot, but isn't true is the big fine for going through the ice," said Drogowski. "A lot of people think there is this huge fine for their vehicle going through the ice. That's not true. If they leave it in there, they will be prosecuted, but there's not a daily fine or anything."
Though the DNR won't charge for a vehicle breaking through the ice, the ordeal can be very expensive.
In many instances, auto insurance does not cover the damage and the price of having a towing service retrieve a vehicle can be costly.
"It can be really expensive I know that," Drogowski said. "It depends on a lot of things. The depth of the water is the biggest."
In deep water, a dive team has to be sent down to assess the situation and prepare the vehicle to be lifted.
Ice removal specialists at Conway Towing said the price varies greatly from one retrieval to the next, making it too difficult to estimate an average price.
As the temperatures warm this weekend, the odds of the early ice giving out under an ATV or snowmobile will gradually increase.
"People just need to be careful," Drogowski said. "If its not safe don't risk it."


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LDAP and Claws Mail
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LDAP and Claws Mail HOWTO based on Kubuntu (7.10)
Exaple describes installation and configuration on Ubuntu 7.10 but should be valid for other distributions also. It covers:
- openldap installation and configuration
- claws-mail configuration to use with LDAP
- In case slapd is already installed, either go to point 4 or reinstall it with commands:
sudo apt-get purge slapd
sudo rm -rf /etc/ldap
- (in case your LDAP configuration is not yet in use)
sudo rm -rf /var/run/slapd
- (in case your LDAP database is not yet filled)
- Install slapd:
sudo apt-get install slapd
- during installation ubuntu usually asks you for ldap admin password - use any - even empty - later we can change it anyway
- make sure to shut down LDAP server after installation:
sudo /etc/init.d/slapd stop
- folder for storing data:
- make directory where you LDAP will store data - by default it is /var/run/slapd bud I don't recommend it for backup purposes (in case your root partition is to be reinstalled - OS crashed or whatever - then LDAP db is also vanished - my proposal is to use i.e. directory /home/ldap
sudo mkdir /home/ldap
- Because Ubuntu by default runs slapd daemon as user openldap (created automatically during slapd installation), then we must change the ownership of this directory:
sudo chown -R openldap:openldap /home/ldap
- as an alternative is to change default behaviour of slapd in file /etc/default/slapd the line:
- should be changed to:
- and in this case slapd runs as root and changing ownership is not needed - in this HOWTO we change the ownership to avoid the mismatch with Ubuntu default settings
- main config file creation: /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
- copy current config file:
sudo cp /etc/ldap/slapd.conf /etc/ldap/slapd.conf-org
- create main password for ldap:
slappasswd -s "your_password"
- where "your_password" is any string without quotes of course
- as an output you get for example:
- this is your password encrypted to be used later in config file
- modify configuration file
sudo gedit (or kedit) /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
- and put there (instead of everything what you find there):
include /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema
include /etc/ldap/schema/cosine.schema
include /etc/ldap/schema/nis.schema
include /etc/ldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
schemacheck on
pidfile /var/run/slapd/slapd.pid
argsfile /var/run/slapd/slapd.args
loglevel 0
modulepath /usr/lib/ldap
moduleload back_bdb
backend bdb
checkpoint 512 30
database bdb
suffix "dc=nodomain"
rootdn "cn=admin,dc=nodomain"
rootpw here_output_of_your_password i.e. {SSHA}QqvOMErMXSJXRfLdmoIjMHEey129M5Qt
directory "/home/ldap"
index objectClass eq
lastmod on
- create database config file:
sudo gedit (or kedit) /home/ldap/DB_CONFIG
set_cachesize 0 2097152 0
set_lg_bsize 524288
set_lk_max_objects 5000
set_lk_max_locks 5000
set_lk_max_lockers 5000
- these are default settings, not needed to be changed at this point
- if you changde /home/ldap to be owned by openldap user then it must be repeated at this point at least for this created file:
sudo chown openldap:openldap /home/ldap/DB_CONFIG
- start ldap to see if it is working:
sudo /etc/init.d/slapd start
- and check if working:
ps -ef | grep slapd | grep -v grep
- if you see something like this:
openldap 8662 1 0 10:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/slapd -g openldap -u openldap
- then this means it works (ldap server)
- if not just start command:
sudo slapd -d 256
- and see any errors which may occure and ... try to find out problem by yourself (use google, or contact me)
- now, ldap is working but empty, lets configure top of it:
gedit (or kedit) /tmp/1.ldif
- and put there:
dn: dc=nodomain
objectclass: dcObject
objectclass: organization
o: My Computer LDAP
dc: nodomain
dn: cn=admin,dc=nodomain
objectclass: organizationalRole
cn: admin
- now import it to ldap:
ldapadd -x -D "cn=admin,dc=nodomain" -W -f /tmp/1.ldif
- it will ask you for your LDAP password
- proper output should be:
Enter LDAP Password:
adding new entry "dc=nodomain"
adding new entry "cn=admin,dc=nodomain"
- in case of password mistake it will be:
ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)
- don't repeat this command if sucessfully imported as it will fail second time saying:
adding new entry "dc=nodomain"
ldap_add: Already exists (68)
- now we can see if imported:
sudo slapcat
- proper output should be:
dn: dc=nodomain
objectClass: dcObject
objectClass: organization
o: My Computer LDAP
dc: nodomain
structuralObjectClass: organization
entryUUID: 35b05380-52e0-102c-8f25-0fc5f46797d9
creatorsName: cn=admin,dc=nodomain
createTimestamp: 20080109092257Z
entryCSN: 20080109092257Z#000000#00#000000
modifiersName: cn=admin,dc=nodomain
modifyTimestamp: 20080109092257Z
dn: cn=admin,dc=nodomain
objectClass: organizationalRole
cn: admin
structuralObjectClass: organizationalRole
entryUUID: 35b335f0-52e0-102c-8f26-0fc5f46797d9
creatorsName: cn=admin,dc=nodomain
createTimestamp: 20080109092257Z
entryCSN: 20080109092257Z#000001#00#000000
modifiersName: cn=admin,dc=nodomain
modifyTimestamp: 20080109092257Z
- you should see 2 records (regardless if ldap is up or not - slapcat prints data from db - not using server deamon)
- adding real data:
- create file /tmp/2.ldif and put in there:
gedit (or kedit) /tmp/1.ldif
- and put there:
dn: cn=Zygfryd Homonto ,dc=nodomain
cn: Zygfryd Homonto
sn: Zygfryd
mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
- now import it to ldap:
ldapadd -x -D "cn=admin,dc=nodomain" -W -f /tmp/2.ldif
- proper output should be:
Enter LDAP Password:
adding new entry "cn=Zygfryd Homonto ,dc=nodomain"
- check if imported:
sudo slapcat
- now it should show 3 records
CONFIGURING Claws-Mail
- start claws-mail
- go to Addressbook->Menu: Book->New LDAP Server and there:
Name: any name, i.e. Myserver hostname: localhost Port: 389 TLS: not CHECKED SSL: not CHECKED
- then press button "Check server"
- claws should fill the field: "Search Base" by: "dc=nodomain" by itself and in the bottom should say: "Connected successfully to server"
- now go to tab "Extended" and there"
Bind DN: cn=admin,dc=nodomain Bind Password: password
- Then tab "Search"
Search Attributes: mail, cn, givenName, sn, displayName Max Query Age: 600 Include server in dynamic search: CHECKED Match names containign... CHECKED
ok, claws should be ready to cooperate with LDAP in addressbook you should see now "Myserver" under LDAP Servers go to field "Lookup name" and type i.e. homonto and press Find you should see my name there


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|Feb 28, 2013
Tiny bluetooth stickers let you find things by smartphone
|(Nanowerk News) Jimmy Buchheim is behaving oddly.
|On the floor of the world's largest cellphone trade show in Barcelona, Spain, he's looking at the screen of his iPod Touch, taking a few steps, and then looking again. Now and then he backtracks or turns, and looks again. Slowly, he confines his movements to a smaller and smaller area. Then he drops to his knees, and checks the screen again. He scrabbles forward.
|"There we are!" he says.
|Buchheim has found his keys, which had been hidden behind a wastebasket by a skeptical reporter. On the key ring is a small disc, slightly bigger than a quarter. That's what Buchheim was homing in on, with his iPod. It allowed him to find his keys, hidden out of sight in an apartment-sized booth.
|Only 0.16 Inches (4.1mm) thin . That means you can stick it anywhere.
|Buchheim's Davie, Fla.-based company, Stick-N-Find Technologies, wants to give people a way to find things, whether it's keys, wallets, TV remotes, or cat collars.
|There's no real trick to sending out a radio signal and having a phone pick it up. That's been done before. What makes the Stick-N-Find practical is a new radio technology known as Bluetooth Low Energy, which drastically reduces the battery power needed to send out a signal. That means the disc can be small, light enough for its sticky back to adhere to a lot of surfaces, and be powered by a watch-type battery that lasts up to two years without recharging. The signal can be picked as far as 300 feet away, but that's under ideal circumstances. On the floor of the wireless show, with a multitude of Wi-Fi transmitters jamming the airwaves, the range was roughly 20 feet.
|The Radar Screen displays all your devices within range.
|One downside to Bluetooth Low Energy: It doesn't come cheap. Stick-N-Find charges $50 for two "stickers" from its first production run, which starts shipping next week. It gave early backers a better deal — 4 discs for $65 — on crowdfunding site Indiegogo, where it had sought to raise $70,000 from donors and ended up getting $931,970 by the time the campaign ended last month.
|Another downside is that few devices can pick up the signals. The latest two iPhones can do it, as can the latest iPod Touches and iPads. The latest high-end Samsung smartphones work, too. Bluetooth Low Energy is expected to become a standard feature in phones, but it's not yet.
|Whatever device you use, it won't tell you exactly where your sticker is located. All it can tell is how far away it is. That means finding something is a process of walking around and checking whether you're getting "hotter" or "colder." Of course, often you don't really need to know where your wallet is: knowing that it's within 8 feet and therefore somewhere in the car with you is assurance enough. Buchheim says the company has plans to add direction-finding features.
|Users can also set up a virtual "leash" between a sticker and a Bluetooth device. Depending on the settings, when the two devices move a certain distance away from each other, the sticker starts beeping or the device's screen shows an alert. That way, you could use sticker in your wallet, linked to your phone, to let you know if you're leaving either one behind.
|Buchheim sees this as just the start for what Bluetooth Low Energy can do. Stick-N-Find is working with a museum that's interested in putting stickers on its exhibits, so they can issue tablets or other devices to visitors that can sense the proximity of exhibits, and say "Hello, this is the statue of so-and-so," Buchheim says.
|It could even end up as a technology for the blind — one that tells them where their belongings are, he says.
|Source: via AFP, Stick-N-Find
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County leaders mull green waste management
YREKA – If there is one thing Siskiyou County has plenty of, it is yard waste, although the county does not have a composting facility or a long-term plan to turn this waste into a renewable resource.
In an effort to develop a plan, representatives from the Siskiyou County Economic Development Council (EDC) and Yreka Community Gardens held a planning meeting at the EDC building on March 20 to brainstorm.
While all those in attendance presented different ideas, nearly all agreed on one thing: The state has strict regulations for the establishment and operation of large-scale composting facilities; if one was created locally, it would likely be a costly venture with little hope of ever yielding a profit. Ultimately, attendees narrowed their focus on starting the yard waste reduction effort at the grassroots level, and educating the public about composting leaves, brush, grass clippings and kitchen waste in their own backyards.
Among the seasoned gardeners who attended the meeting to share their insights were CalRecycle (state agency) representative Jeff Watson, EDC staffer Matt Chesler, Yreka City Mayor David Simmen, Siskiyou County General Services Recycling/Grant Coordinator Garrett Johnson, Yreka Transfer co-owner Neil Eller, Yreka Community Gardens member Ayn Perry and Siskiyou Golden Fair Chief Executive Officer Cliff Munson.
Johnson explained that the state of California's standard is for counties to divert 50 percent of all waste from landfills. Presently, Siskiyou County diverts between 15 and 20 percent of its waste.
Johnson stated that currently, when customers drop off yard waste at transfer stations, the waste is transported to the brush piles in Yreka and Black Butte. Then, it is chipped and either transported to Oregon for fuel or layered over the county's 11 former landfills.
Large-scale composting challenges
Meeting attendees asked Johnson if it is feasible to implement a compost program at one of the transfer stations in the county.
He responded that this would be difficult due to state regulations that prohibit composting organic materials in close proximity to transfer stations.
Attendees asked Munson if a composting facility could be established at the fairgrounds.
Munson responded that the fair is struggling financially as it is. He recalled last year's fair when manure, wood chips and straw were piled up on the grounds, and the California Water Quality Control Board contacted him to warn that run-off could contaminate creek water.
Furthermore, he said when his staff attempted to burn the waste, within two hours state air quality control representatives warned him of excessive emissions and described the air quality in Yreka as "atrocious" at that time.
Watson commented that state air quality representatives even monitor emissions from steaming compost piles.
Simmen shared that the city of Yreka has several undeveloped parcels that could be used to establish a compost facility, but again, the regulations are daunting.
"Groups like this disappear because we cannot get anything done," he said.
Attendees questioned whether a compost facility could be profitable, and whether navigating through the red tape could eventually pay off.
Given the cost of equipment and manpower, if a composting facility were established locally, "You are talking about an investment that will take years to pay off," said Eller.
He added that the city of San Francisco established a composting facility to reduce landfill costs and was unable to make a profit.
"If the city of San Francisco cannot make a profit on it, I don't think Yreka can," he commented.
A grassroots effort
"Maybe the simplest thing to do is teach people to compost in their own backyards," stated Perry. She added that a component of this would be to work with the county school districts.
In addition, Perry said neighbors should be encouraged to work together to establish communal, small-scale composting sites on vacant lots in their respective neighborhoods to turn waste into reusable soil.
Watson stated that in his experience, when individuals begin to make the effort to compost, re-use and recycle at home, it does not take long for waste reduction to become apparent on a larger scale.
"The benefits of people getting even a tiny bit more connected to the land are amazing. We have to get people more connected."
Simmen added that perhaps the city could qualify for grants to purchase compost tumblers for citizens to use in their backyards.
How to compost
According to the CalRecycle website, there are numerous composting techniques. One can create a gourmet compost pile for expeditious breakdown of materials or a casual compost pile that will take longer to break down, but requires minimal effort. One may also use a compost bin, which can be purchased or made at home.
Kitchen scraps such as vegetable matter, egg shells, paper towels, coffee grounds, and left-over rice, pasta and bread can be composted, stated the website. Oils, dairy and meat should never be composted.
According to the website, the easiest compost recipe calls for blending equal parts of nitrogen-rich green or wet material (kitchen waste, grass clippings, landscape trimmings) with carbon-rich brown material such as dry leaves, twigs, hay or shredded paper. Chop or shred brown materials to 12 inches or shorter before adding them to the pile. Kitchen scraps should be buried within the brown material to deter rodents and flies.
"Simply layer or mix these materials in a pile or enclosure," stated the website. Compost needs periodic watering and turning to add air. "Then leave it to the microorganisms, which will break up the material over time."
The optimal size of a compost pile is three feet wide by three feet deep by three feet tall. This size provides enough food and insulation for the organisms to live.
According to the website, those who wish to maintain a "gourmet compost pile" – that has the right blend of nitrogen (greens) and carbon (browns) – can expect for the pile to heat up to temperatures of 120 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. The high temperature will kill most weed seeds and speed up the decomposition process, and the compost will be ready in two or three months or less.
Those who wish to maintain a "casual compost pile" need only to pile yard and kitchen waste, water sporadically and wait. Since these piles do not get too hot, often worms will migrate into them and they will break down the material. Casual composting can take several months for the waste to transform into reusable soil.
Compost is finished when the original material has been transformed into a uniform, dark brown, crumbly product with a pleasant, earthy aroma. Large woody chunks should be screened out and put back into a new pile.
For those who maintain lawns but do not wish to compost, the website recommends "grasscycling." This is defined as the simple act of leaving grass clippings on the lawn for decomposition after mowing.
To learn more about backyard composting, troubleshooting and the use of compost bins, visit calrecycle.ca.gov/.


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All Things Rad: It's what's inside the Bible that counts
"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" is a cliché that some want to apply to journalism. I've heard all too often that we never report good news.
Commonly the ones who claim all we print is negative are guilty of overlooking the positive news we do print. Their eyes naturally gravitate toward "6 killed in crash" rather than "Volunteer raises $ for orphans."
Then, after reading the story on the crash, they curse the newspaper.
"Why don't they print any good news?" they say. "Isn't anyone going to do something for the orphans?"
Of course, there is evidence that people want to read good news. Gospel literally translates to "good news," and the Bible is the No. 1 selling book in history, especially impressive for something not part of Oprah's Book Club.
On the negative side, it is also the world's most shoplifted book. Probably because the Bible, unlike other best-selling books, doesn't have a synopsis printed on the back that might warn people the book will tell them not to steal.
Potential Bible synopsis: "'Love thy neighbor, no false idols, don't steal — this book has it all,' the New York Times says," or, "'The most influential book ever,' says The Washington Post," or, "'A laugh riot,' say scientists."
But perhaps it's not the positive news that makes the Bible fly off the shelf. After all, it is a book that concludes with the END OF THE WORLD.
Staff writer Kevin Haas can be reached at email@example.com. If you're going to say something to him, say something nice or nothing at all.


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Seacoast Winter Brew Fest is coming
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My buddies over at the 2 Beer Guys and the Seacoast Beverage Lab have announced the second annual Seacoast Winter Brew Fest.
The festival will be on Feb. 23 at the Portsmouth Gaslight Co.
The festival will feature two sessions and a VIP session.
The VIP session costs $60, and includes an hour (beginning at 11 a.m.) of VIP-only beers before session one begins at noon and ends at 3 p.m.
The second session goes from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Session one and Session two costs $40.
There are expected to be more than 20 breweries bringing more than 50 beers participating.
The brewery/beer list has not been announced, but to keep track of information about the festival, or to buy tickets, click here.