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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Do you see this face?
Oh, sure he might look all sweet an innocent like he could never do any wrong. But don't trust him, folks! He's a maniac!
Luke was having some ... um... how do I put this delicately... butt licking problems... the week of our wedding. The wonderful woman who previously fostered Luke before we adopted him offered to watch our boy while we were busy getting married, so she took him to the vet for us. They ... oh boy... um... "expressed his glands" (sorry! I really didn't mean for this to be such a graphic post!) and sent him home with a strict order to eat more fiber.
Well, we picked him up after returning from the honeymoon only to find him still very irritated and uncomfortable. We took him to the vet the next morning and they tested him for a bacteria infection. The vet said he must have got into something he shouldn't have. To which I replied, "Oh, I bet it was either that dead animal I had to pull out of his mouth a few weeks ago or all that garbage he ate!"
See people? This is not the face of an angel. This is a dead-animal-garbage-eating- monster.
We also had the vet check him for a thyroid disorder, as all his shedding has me worried. Greyhounds are not supposed to shed much at all, but tell that to the tumbleweeds of fur rolling around on our wood floors. The vet was very skeptical, saying he was probably shedding due to stress. (Stress? Um, lady, Luke doesn't exactly live a stressful lifestyle. He eats, poops, and sleeps. That's really about it.)
The thyroid function test came back to reveal that our boy has hypothyroidism and has to take two little blue pills every day for the rest of his life. The low thyroid hormone levels explain his shedding, bald belly, and low energy level. The vet told us to expect a noticeable change in his energy level on the meds.
Oh boy, we notice.
We came home yesterday to find my loofah shredded into a thousand pieces and poop on the rug and (i kid you not) poop smeared on the walls. I really don't know how he managed to do that. It's almost impressive.
What? You pooped in the refrigerator? And you ate the whole... wheel of cheese? How'd you do that? Heck, I'm not even mad; that's amazing. How 'bout we get you in your p.j.'s and we hit the hay.
16 comments:
- ria said...
i think dogs have such cute faces because if they didn't we wouldn't put up with their shenanigans!
- October 22, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Did the poop smears resemble letters at all. Maybe he was trying to communicate with you?
- October 22, 2009 at 9:37 AM
HAHA! Oh, Luke, you are my little gentleman...
Poor guy. At least he is feeling better. I mean, one doesn't generally smear poop on the walls unless one is feeling better...or is angry about having to move out of a foreclosed home.
- October 22, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- Sarah said...
HAH! Anchorman was exactly what I was thinking when you said he smeared his poo on the wall.
That sucks, but I guess it's good training for kids?
On second thought, here's to hoping your poop-smeared wall days end with Luke!
- October 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM
- MsDarkstar said...
All I could think when I read about the loofah was "More fiber? Check!"
- October 22, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- Hillary said...
welcome to my life
- October 22, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- Tam said...
Oh Luke! I have to take those little blue pills too. We're twins! (except for the poop thing)
You needed a new loofa anyway right?
- October 22, 2009 at 2:21 PM
- Pretty Unfamous said...
My roommate is dog sitting this week. We put him in his crate yesterday while we all went to class, only to come back and find poop smeared ALL OVER HIS CRATE, ALL OVER HIS BODY, and stinking the WHOLE house up. Gah. I hate it!
- October 22, 2009 at 2:25 PM
I am so glad I'm not the only one with a naughty dog. Lex is so high-anxiety he is on doggy zoloft and Jake will eat anything that is made of paper.
Just be glad he hasn't resorted to the shenanigans of my friends pups who ate her drapes... off the window. Literally ate them. It was a fabulous mess that ended in an emergancy vet visit.
- October 22, 2009 at 2:41 PM
- Kim said...
Dogs require so much of our attention. Must be why they're so loveable. Otherwise we'd kill them.
- October 22, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Courtney said...
Poop on the wall!? ah!! I thought my dog was bad. I am so sorry :( The cutest ones are always trouble!
- October 22, 2009 at 5:24 PM
- alyssa said...
Can you just picture him rubbing his poop covered butt on the wall? Gross and hilarious at the same time!
Also, only laughing at this post because nearly every day our dogs find something to destroy. Today they took a magazine out of my magazine rack. RANDOM.
- October 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM
- Julienne said...
My poor puppy had to have his glands expressed last week too. Ugh, disgusting.
- October 23, 2009 at 8:56 AM
- Unknown said...
All I have to say is... wow!
- October 23, 2009 at 12:25 PM
- Melissa Maris said...
Well, I guess maybe this is good preparation for kids. Although I don't think babies eat loofahs...
- October 23, 2009 at 12:56 PM
- Erin W said...
Oh no! You can tell her gets into trouble BECAUSE of that face I think!
- October 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM


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Creating a hit sitcom is a tough business. Revamping a hit sitcom is suicidal.
Here we are, eight episodes and counting into the new improved season of "Two and Half Men." The initial ballyhoo over Ashton Kutcher is long over, all the main pieces of the revamped story have been introduced and we are now presumably well into the heart of the new situation. The time has come to see if they have dodged the numerous pitfalls involved in reviving a hit show once the star has departed … or fallen into a trap created by their own folly.
Writing great or even half decent comedy is much harder than it looks. Sitcoms, with their set running times, ongoing casts of characters and limited locations, are particularly challenging. Their success depends on an intricately linked set of elements which have to fit together just so to produce the working balance of hate (to create dramatic tension) and love (to hold things together in spite of the tension) among the cast which drives the show forward. Knock even one key element out of place and the whole structure comes undone.
So not surprisingly, revamped sitcoms rarely work.
Also read: Ashton Kutcher on 'Two and a Half Men': How Did We Get Here?
At this point, it doesn't look like "TAAHM" is going to be an exception to the rule. But with the highly successful "TAAHM" Mach 1 as a comparison, Mach 2 does make an excellent case study for what and why revamps usually go wrong.
First let's look at the new set-up. Charlie's tasteless funeral aside,the most striking thing here is that it took four whole episodes to get all the elements in place.
Four episodes — one for each tiny step from booting Alan out of the beach house to settling him in permanently … that's the better part of two hours! And a serious red flag.
"TAAHM" Mach 1 took us from suddenly single Alan landing on Charlie's doorstep all the way to Charlie agreeing to let him stay on indefinitely- all in one lousy episode. Bing, bang, boom, the stage was set and the show was ready to roll.
Also read: Ashton Kutcher on 'Two and a Half Men': I Kind of Won the Lotto
In fact, most decent sitcoms pull off this feat. Why? Because their stories grow organically out of real life experience that we all understand without a lot of explanation.
It's easy to accept that Charlie would tolerate Alan as a long term, unpaid guest because that's something brothers actually do.
It's not so easy to accept that a homeless billionaire would show up just when the beach house goes on the market. Nor that cautious Alan would pursue suicidal, dangerous (remember the car ride?) Walden as his landlord, let alone want Jake to live there, too.
And how about the late breaking news that Charlie died broke, which triggered the sale of his house in the first place? This one really came out of nowhere and that means the entire revamp hinges on a rewrite of history.
So instead of basing the set up on real world logic, the new set-up relies on dubious history, impossible coincidence and out of character behaviour.
The problem is that when you don't have logic, you have to start explaining everything. This is what slowed down the set-up to a snail's pace. And is also what's behind other weaknesses which will continue to plague this program if they aren't corrected.
Then there's the new lead, Walden Schmidt — another weak link who just keeps getting weaker. I have sympathy for the creators faced with replacing a popular starring character who was tailor-made for the show. What they were trying for, it seems, was a new star with just enough of Charlie's traits to sustain the original situation. What they got, though, is something quite different.
One thing Walden undoubtedly has is a strong physical presence. The show has taken full advantage of this along with Kutcher's reputation as a chick magnet- maybe too much advantage as Walden seems to be taking his clothes off in every other scene …
Yet at the same time, this new lead is strangely lacking in personality, so much so that you have to ask … Where's Walden?
As per the plan, Walden is successful, attractive and self-centered just like Charlie Harper. But Charlie was also a big brother and it's this factor, rather than the flashier attributes, which was the key to Mach 1's success.
Family dynamics are what gave the original show its dramatic push and pull. Though Charlie often wished Alan would just go away, he also felt the tug of obligation, love and, of course, guilt for a family member in need.
There were also the usual older — younger sibling rivalries, though when a middle aged man still takes such delight in bullying his little brother, you can bet that some of his swagger depends upon having his underling to kick around. And that without him, the older might feel surprisingly lost.
So though it looked like Charlie had all the means and Alan all the needs, the reality was more complex. At the core of this relationship sat a tangle of interconnected needs which produced plots driven as much by Charlie's needs for Alan as vice versa. And that meant Alan could play on Charlie's weaknesses, too, using his own dependence to pull the ties even tighter.
On top of all this, the sexier attributes — Charlie's success and romantic prowess — upped the power he held over Alan. Yet at the same time, they also highlighted his superficiality. This gave Alan another tiny edge, a moral superiority on which he could hang a bit of pride to counterbalance his envy.
The family dynamic that grew out of all these factors was therefore simultaneously the friction which drove these two apart and the glue which held them together.
This may seem like way too much analysis for a little half hour sitcom but these really are the kinds of underpinnings that make situationcomedy both funny and compelling enough to return week after week. And nothing makes this clearer than their absence.
At their best, these emotional underpinnings act as a largely invisible force that feeds and guides humour, character development, as well as surface plot. Punch lines are funny but also provoke a ping of truth; characters feel real, like friends we look forward to seeing each week and plots feel logical and meaningful even if we don't know why.
In their absence, though, things can go wildly off track … which brings us back to our new pal, Walden, easily one of the most undeveloped lead characters on TV now and maybe ever.
Walden began the season with no background beyond his successful career and failed marriage … and with less personality than a 6 month old: a cipher in a vacuum.
Most of what we did learn about him initially was negative: he had no friends, no opinions, no social skills, no ability to take care of himself, really no life at all. And he was also strangely passive, not even able to choose a restaurant for a date without help.
There has been a recent attempt to address this deficit by sending him to a therapist to relate his history and to a decorator (Ma Harper … really?) to list his likes and dislikes. But the total effect only highlights the missing bits.
Yes, now we know lots about the deprivations of his childhood, his interest in green issues, along with whatever has previously been revealed. But all this material is either dramatically inert — as relevant to the circumstances at hand as ground beef is to apple pie — or actively detrimental. His wealth and luck with women, for example, make all his problems too easy to solve: anything he can't buy to remedy the problem, he can coerce out of the next female who happens along. And that takes whatever minimal motivation this listless character has and effectively douses it.
Walden is also wildly inconsistent. Ready to kill himself over his failed marriage one moment, drooling over another pretty face the next; first speaking with sophistication about his work, then too stupid to understand what Alan means by "magic vagina" …the writers seem to be making him up as they go along. And given that Walden is missing the key traits which would define his actions and entirely without the emotional engine which would provide his reactions, what other choice do they have?
The new lead is a poor fit in other, less expected ways. In an essentially realistic show, Walden is a character of extremes — a 2D character set loose in a 3D world. He isn't just rich, he is impossibly wealthy. He isn't just lacking experience in daily life, he's utterly helpless. And while even lady-killer Charlie could only attract a certain kind of woman, Walden is miraculously attractive to all women- young, old; pretty, plain; married, single — except for that lesbian who looks like his wife.
The issue here is that highly exaggerated characters need stories to match, as do more realistic ones. So in this context, you either keep the stories within the established style of moderate exaggeration, which makes Walden look like a freak. Or push the stories to reflect the new lead's propensities and hang the rest of the cast out to dry. Either way, the show is only thrown further off kilter.
None of this is helped by an unexpected perceptual problem. Walden is presented as a man in his early 30s (Kutcher's actual age) but comes across through looks and behavior as much younger — more like 26 or 27. By comparison, Alan starts looking older than his 46 years; old enough to be Walden's dad. And that makes Alan not so much a roommate as what … an older, not very attractive guy being kept by a much younger, good looking guy? Fine if they were really father and son but otherwise kind of … creepy.
Strangely, the show toys with a sexual edge between these two with some regularity which only makes the spread in age, attractiveness and financial worth (the Big Three in personal power politics) creepier.
Of course, it is exactly the relationship between Walden and Alan that is suffering the most here. This relationship should be the heart of the show, the primary source of sparks which ignite the main storylines. But with so many missing or mismatched parts, it's no surprise that it is so completely unable to deliver.
Alan's misguided mission to get back to the beach house gave the first six episodes some structure and dramatic energy, though Walden's role in this was more accessory than lead. Most of that tension was resolved when Walden declared Alan the only person he trusted and invited him to stay on indefinitely.
Of course, Alan — who was spending most of his time manipulating Walden into letting him stay — was anything but trustworthy and this deception created a new source of tension that still threatened to return Alan to the street. But even that tiny story stump came to an end when Alan confessed, Walden forgave him and friendship bloomed.
This curious turn of events grows directly from the faulty foundation of the revamp. As we've seen, Walden and Alan have no natural business being together in any capacity whatsoever … unless it turns out that Walden has a daddy complex and he and Alan do ultimately hook up.
Those first episodes made that lack of inherent connection abundantly clear. But since connection is as essential to sitcoms as tension, the creators had to scramble to concoct one. The trip from strangers to bonded roommates had all the hallmarks of weak writing: too long; too convoluted and too manipulated for credulity.
Most damning, though, is that in order to cement the friendship, they had to sacrifice the tension. In other words, instead of creating an engine between these two, a credible balance of frustration and love which would drive the show forward, they resolved all the issues and christened Walden and Alan best pals for ever and ever. This isn't the beginning of a story- it's the end! In the middle of the season! Where on earth can they go from here?
They wouldn't just keep exploiting the "oops, my ex just caught me with another woman" plotline that they've already used at least three times, would they? Or decide out of nowhere that Alan is racked with grief over Charlie's death to the point of cracking up? Or just keep throwing in more random twists to paper over all the holes in the revamped situation?
And while we're at it, what is the new situation, anyway? With no family bond and Alan's long running story — a key part of Mach 1 where he was never allowed to be sure he could stay- brought to a close, all we are left with are two lonely mismatched roommates doing what? Looking for love? Fighting over who left the top off the toothpaste- or who used whose condoms? Less "Two and a Half Men," it seems, and more "The Odd Couple" or with the generational factor, "The Golden Girls." Except that even those lame shows had some interesting contrast between the characters and real reasons why they had to stick together even when things got rough.
The show's foundational deficits lead to a very limited dramatic and comedic vocabulary as well. Not only are the plots already repetitive, the jokes are, too — anyone actually want to hear another big penis joke?
In any case, aren't stories about the trials of unjustifiably rich guys- perfectly in keeping with the times eight or nine years ago when the show debuted — out of synch and perhaps even offensive to financially struggling viewers caught in this never-ending recession?
And for that matter, isn't this show about to age out of its concept? After 8.5 seasons, Jake has to be on the cusp of official manhood and just about ready to ship out … and then the show would become… "3 Men"? (Catchy!) "2 Men"? (Wow, there's a high concept!) … or maybe more accurately, "2 Half Men" …
In other words, with the natural end of the series so close at hand it might have been more gracious to have ended last year- to have made a couple of wrap up episodes to account for Charlie's disappearance and then gone out with some dignity.
I know the main reasons for keeping the show going were purely financial but some sense of responsibility to a loyal audience and some sense of self dignity for the creators might have motivated them to make, if not the best choice of a quick exit, at least an effort to raise this season to reasonable credibility.
And that would have meant taking the time before they started writing new scripts to build a real foundation for the revamp, instead of relying on factors designed mainly to produce jokes and desperately playing catch up with the rest.
Truth is audiences come for the laughs but stay for the emotional connections. They want to see the characters get in the thick of it, then find their way out week after week and be willing to hang in there in spite of it all. In the end it's quite simple … no friction, no glue, no show.
There are ways "Two and a Half Men" could still be saved, of course — even some unexpected ones. But unless the creators have the guts to look at the misshapen thing they have conceived and set it right, it may even die by Xmas, financial obligations be damned.
*Don't these guys know that when you're too angry, the funny goes away? And do they really want the world to know how much power Sheen still has over them?


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I came across a recipe a few weeks back on a relatively new (to me) blog, that instantly took me down memory lane. Memories of the countless summer vacations spent in Kerala came flooding back. Summer was the season when mangoes were aplenty everywhere and it was no different at our ancestral home.
The best part of the Kerala trip for me was undoubtedly the food, especially at my father's illam. Among other things, I remember eating mangoes, lots of it. A common preparation that was a hit with all the kids there at the time was chopped mangoes slathered with a coarse paste made of crushed shallots, roasted red chillies, coconut oil and salt. It was absolutely heavenly! That has got to be the fondest food memory from my childhood, and this recipe took me there.
The original recipe can be found here.
Tamarind (lemon sized ball) - boiled in ¾ - 1 cup water, cooled, strained and juice extracted
4 -5 red chillies, dry roasted
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 pappadums, roasted on an open flame, ideally
1 tsp brown sugar
1 Tbsp coconut oil
With clean hands crush the chopped onions, salt, red chillies and pappadams thereby mixing everything very well. Dissolve the brown sugar in the tamarind extract and add to the crushed mixture. Stir in the coconut oil.
Serve with some hot rice, or do what I did and have it with some chopped mangoes.
Thank you so much for sharing your recipe, Rajani!This goes to Sig for JFI: Tamarind.
Here's how I like to have to have puli pottichhathu- with chopped mango pieces.


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Dark-Dwelling Fish Converge on Blindness
When Mexican tetra fish moved into dark caves long ago, they evolved to deal with the dark by becoming albino…and going blind. And new research shows that the changes various cave fish populations went through occurred repeatedly—a massive, textbook example of convergent evolution. The study is in the journal BioMed Central Evolutionary Biology. [Martina Bradic et al., "Gene flow and population structure in the Mexican blind cavefish complex (Astyanax mexicanus)"]
To determine how the dark-dwelling fish evolved their sightlessness, researchers tested the DNA of 11 Mexican cave fish populations. They compared the genes with those of tetra populations that lived out in the light. Originally, researchers had believed that all of the cave populations were descended from a single group of tetra fish that went underground and then went blind. But the cave fish genes told a different story: the 11 populations had five separate evolutionary origins, with different groups independently experiencing and selecting an eyeless mutation.
Although the surface- and cave-dwelling fish frequently mix, interbreeding has not eradicated cave fish blindness. Which means that evolution is actively selecting blindness. Perhaps because investing bodily resources in sight is a waste of energy in the dark.
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How can I restart ZNC automatically (in case of a machine reboot, crash, etc.)?
Add a cron entry to execute ZNC regularly. If there is already one copy of ZNC running on a particular config file, new copies won't be spawned. Example cron entry:
*/10 * * * * /home/you/.local/bin/znc >/dev/null 2>&1
This will check if ZNC is running every 10 minutes. If you load a module (like away) that needs user input to run, you can add the input to the LoadModule line in your config file (ie.
LoadModule = away yourpassword).
If you're using Vixie's cron, you can start it on start-up like this.
@reboot /home/you/.local/bin/znc >/dev/null 2>&1
Using ZNC
How do I tell ZNC which network/server a channel belongs to?
You don't. That's not how ZNC works (because the IRC protocol isn't capable of handling multiple servers in one connection and therefore no IRC clients can support it). You need to add one ZNC user per network (Note: since 0.207 it has been changed, user can have several networks now, see Networks). Please also read the next question.
How to use multiple networks like with psybnc?
ZNC works a bit differently since version 1.0. Each user can have multiple networks, but you need to connect ZNC multiple times; once per network. In order to choose which network, you format your server password like this:
For example, to connect to network1, network2, and network 3 in mIRC, you could use this script:
on *:START:{ server my.bouncer.net:6667 user/network1:password server -m my.bouncer.net:6667 user/network2:password server -m my.bouncer.net:6667 user/network3:password }
Note: if you don't see options for multiple networks in your webadmin, it is strongly recommended you upgrade to the latest version of ZNC.
I added several different servers, but ZNC connects only to one of them!
You need to have separate user per IRC network (see previous question). (Note: since 0.207 it has been changed, user can have several networks now, see Networks) Additional servers for the same user are for fallback. If one server doesn't work, ZNC tries to connect to another server. So you can add several servers of one network to server list of one user.
I have two ips on my server and i would like to add both to ZNC
By default user can choose any bindhost:
/znc setbindhost 18.104.22.168 /znc jump
If you want to limit users to choose only from the list, or simply to show the list at webadmin at all, you can do this:
/znc addbindhost 18.104.22.168 /znc addbindhost 126.96.36.199
How do I add a new user?
There are (at least) three ways to add a new user.
The easiest way is to load and use the webadmin module.
If you want to do it from IRC, load the controlpanel module and check out /msg *controlpanel help.
It's not suggested if you are new to ZNC, but it's also possible to add a new user via the config file. To do that, edit znc.conf and add a new <User> section. After that, rehash ZNC by issuing /msg *status rehash from IRC or kill -SIGHUP `pidof znc` from the shell.
Connecting with mIRC
You can add your ZNC to the list of servers via the following command:
/server -a _IP_ -p _PORT_ -g gZNC -w _USER_/_NETWORK_:_PASSWORD_ -d ZNC
So for example:
/server -a 127.0.0.1 -p 12345 -g gZNC -w Test/freenode:123456 -d ZNC /server -m ZNC
To connect with SSL first close out of mIRC if it is opened, then download and run the OpenSSL installer available here, then you can connect by adding a + sign before the port number, like this:
/server 127.0.0.1:+12345 username/network:password
Adding it your server list is as simple as:
/server -a 127.0.0.1 -p +12345 -g gZNC -w Test/freenode:123456 -d ZNC
Connecting with Eggdrop
Add this to your eggdrop configuration:
set servers { <server>:<port>:<user>:<pass> }
I got banned from #channel and ZNC keeps trying to rejoin
Just do
/part #channel and ZNC will remove the channel.
How to use the loaded modules?
/msg *modulename command
/znc *modulename command
"*" is the StatusPrefix, which you can change in config file. You could start trying the help command which should work on all modules.
I keep getting kicked for flood when I ...
.. reattach bnc!
This happens if you use "many" channels, due to IRC clients flooding the server with commands upon reattach. A workaround is decreasing size of buffer for each channel. (You should experiment how many is enough.)
... start bnc!
There is a per-User setting to control this:
- MaxJoins - How many channels should ZNC join at once. Lower this if you get disconnected for 'Excess flood.
Every time I connect to my BNC, I see the channel buffers from the last time I connected!
If you have a large channel buffer, it may be annoying to see the channel buffer every time you reconnect. To have ZNC erase the channel buffer every time you connect, set:
KeepBuffer = false
using the webadmin module, or in the configuration file.
This will result in only the missed messages being played back to you upon reconnecting. Be careful if you use more than one client as znc will still see you as connected when one drops off and messages will not be buffered. Also, if your connection to znc dies unnaturally, znc might take a little bit to realize you're gone and thus not buffer a few of the messages that you haven't yet seen.
What are VHOSTS and why can't I make mine work?
ZNC VHOST option controls the IP address ZNC will attempt to make connections to the IRC servers from. For this to be successful the computer you're running ZNC on must have this IP address configured and usable for your user. For it to show up as a host name on IRC there must be matching forward and reverse DNS in place. You can check this with:
% host demo.znc.in demo.znc.in has address 220.127.116.11 % host 188.8.131.52 22.214.171.124.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer demo.znc.in.
As long as the response looks similar then you should be able to
/msg *status SetVHost 126.96.36.199
connect to IRC and check that it's working.
If you find you are unable to connect to IRC after attempting to set VHOST options then it is likely you have set an IP address or host name that is not available on your computer. The easiest way to resolve this and get connected to IRC is to
/msg *status ClearVHost
and try to connect again.
To get rid of several misunderstandings vhost was renamed to bindhost since version 0.096.
I get 'Could not find znc-config. Please (re)install' when using znc-buildmod
If you manually provided a --prefix option when building znc then you will need to ensure that this prefix is in PATH. For example, if you did
./configure --prefix="$HOME/.local"
you will need to ensure that
echo $PATH
includes $HOME/.local/bin (expanded to your home dir, not literally $HOME). If it doesn't then a quick, one-time fix is to type
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
and retry. You can also put the above line into your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc so it gets set when you login.
I keep getting a lot of stuff like /who replies when connected with multiple clients to one znc-user
see user-module Route_replies
How can I access webadmin with my browser?
By default webadmin runs on the same PORT as your ZNC is accessible.
If your webinterface won't come up, please ensure that you are using the correct protocol for connecting. If ZNC listens using SSL, use the HTTPS protocol (https://) instead of just HTTP (http://).
If you are using Google Chrome and keep getting an Error 312 (net::ERR_UNSAFE_PORT) then try calling Chrome with the parameter "--explicitly-allowed-ports=PORT".
My IRC-Client doesn't allow multiple connections to one server/host
Try to use different local aliases for the bnc-host.
How to reload ZNC config without restart?
The best way is NOT to change znc.conf and other files manually while ZNC is running.
Use webadmin or controlpanel instead, or use
/msg *status help
If you really need to do something in znc.conf, stop ZNC, make your changes and start it again.
If you really need to rehash config from file without restart, there're 2 ways to do that: from IRC (
/msg *status rehash)
and from shell (
pkill -SIGHUP znc). But don't complain if something is broken (because it will be broken for sure)
[10053] Software caused connection abort
Socket error 10053 can be caused by attempting to connect without SSL to a znc bouncer with SSL enabled (or vice versa). Refer to your IRC-client's documentation on how to establish a SSL-secured connection to a server.
How to store private messages even when user is attached, so other clients can see them?
Here's simple workaround.
First, you should know number of wanted clients. Let's say that you want 3 clients: 1 xchat and 2 irssi-s. Let's say that your username is johndoe.
Make following users: johndoe_ircd, johndoe_xchat, johndoe_irssi1, johndoe_irssi2. This naming scheme isn't strict - everything is up to you. Set StatusPrefix for "client users" to something else, for example ^, because otherwise you won't be able to speak to both *status-es.
Connect user johndoe_ircd to IRC server. Connect users johndoe_xchat, johndoe_irssi1 and johndoe_irssi2 to 127.0.0.1 to the same ZNC, to user johndoe_ircd.
Connect xchat to johndoe_xchat, and irssis to johndoe_irssiN.
___________________________________________________ / \ | ZNC | | via 127.0.0.1 | xchat ------> user "johndoe_xchat"------------\ | | v | irssi1 -----> user "johndoe_irssi1" ---> user "johndoe_ircd" -----> IRC server | ^ | irssi2 -----> user "johndoe_irssi2" ----------/ | | | \___________________________________________________/
This way, every private message that johndoe_ircd gets, is sent to all "client users", and they remain in those buffers until that client reads them.
What is this new network support?
It means you can add multiple IRC networks such as EFnet and freenode onto a single user. Instead of creating multiple users for each network like you did in versions before 1.0.
How do I connect to my networks?
When you supply your username to ZNC in your client, you can include the network as `username/network`. If you send your username in the server password field you can use `username/network:password`.
There needs to be one connection between the client and the ZNC if you wish to connect to multiple networks at the same time.
As every IRC client is slightly different, please consult the documentation for your IRC client on where to put the server password, or if you wish to configure autoconnect when the IRC client starts.
Examples for mIRC, irssi, and HexChat:
Note: Where 22.214.171.124 is an IP your ZNC instance is listening on, 7777 and 7778 are the port numbers the listeners are using, ZNCUser is the name of the ZNC user account, and PassWord is the password. In these examples, the second line uses SSL whereas the first one does not.
Note: The network name is arbitrarily defined when setting it up in ZNC, though many users will use the name of the actual network for clarity.
/server -m 184.108.40.206 7778 ZNCUser/EFnet:PassWord /server -m 18.104.22.168 +7777 ZNCUser/freenode:PassWord
/server 220.127.116.11 7778 ZNCUser/EFnet:PassWord /server -SSL 188.8.131.52 7777 ZNCUser/freenode:PassWord
/server 22.214.171.124 7778 ZNCUser/EFnet:PassWord /server -ssl 184.108.40.206 7777 ZNCUser/freenode:PassWord
Is it the same as in psybnc?
No, ZNC doesn't use stupid tags for networks, which mix up different channels and nick together to one big network with prefixes.
Instead, you should connect to ZNC multiple times, once for each network, see previous question on how to do that.
Also you may switch between networks on the fly via
/msg *status JumpNetwork command.
If ZNC ever supports connecting to all networks together, it will be done properly, without those prefixes, but via an IRC protocol extension instead. Also that extension should be standardized at IRCv3, to allow client developers to support it easier.
How much memory does ZNC need to run?
This question is very difficult to answer because it depends highly on how much you use it. However, personal ZNC instances, where you are the only user, are unlikely to require a great deal of memory to run.
In an effort to give a better idea of how much memory ZNC may use in different situations, a page with anecdotal reports from users has been added. It may be found here: ZNC Memory Usage
Please update the page with your reports.
My SSL certificate has expired
If your ZNC SSL certificate has expired, you can delete the old one (the filename is znc.pem) and generate a new one with the following command:
znc --makepem
My question isn't answered here
Hop on freenode or EFnet and ask! Even if nobody's around, you shouldn't have to wait long for someone to get back.
Where do I report bugs?
Create a new issue on GitHub.


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New pole in Old Massett, Robt. Davidson, Massett, Aug. 69
- 51-01-33-a035234
- Pièce
- 1969
Fait partie de Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
Image of a totem pole in Massett, Haida Gwaii. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, and is seen just after it was raised. A crowd is still gathered for the pole raising ceremony.


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Dan Deacon | 01/01/70
We are excited to announce that Dan Deacon is returning to the UK and Ireland for unmissable live dates throughout February 2013, with a show at London's Village Underground on 13th February. Anyone who has seen his live show can attest to their unique interactivity, musicality and sheer celebratory nature. But if you haven't seen him before, be guided by the words of those who have:
'Whatever else he is - one-off musical alchemist, jocund beard-wearer - Baltimore's Dan Deacon is a genius of performance art. His shows are quite unlike anything else you've ever been to.' – The Independent 4* live review
'Tonight, the colourful side of humankind shines through.' – NME live review
Those full UK and Irish dates are as follows:
- Friday 8th February: Bristol - The Fleece
- Saturday 9th February: Dublin, Ireland - Whelans
- Sunday 10th February: Belfast - The Black Box
- Monday 11th February: Glasgow - Stereo
- Tuesday 12th February: Leeds - Brudenell Social Club
- Wednesday 13th February: London - Village Underground
Dan Deacon's album, America, is out now. And here's the video for True Thrush - well worth seeing again:


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(CNN) -- The gunman showed that he was human.
Most of the others who stalked the lobby of Tripoli's Rixos Hotel were young, brash, hostile Gadhafi diehards. Yet this man in his 50s, armed with a Kalashnikov, longed to see his children.
His kids were out there somewhere in the Libyan capital, he said, gunfire and explosions erupting around them.
"I really miss my family, too," CNN producer Jomana Karadsheh told him in Arabic. "I really want to go out and see my family. They're worried about me."
Tears welled in the gunman's eyes. Rebels were taking over the Libyan capital. And this man, who had known nothing but the Gadhafi regime for 42 years, wanted to go home, too.
It was in this moment that Karadsheh knew she had a chance. If the three dozen journalists being held against their will inside the five-star hotel for five days had a shot of being freed, it was now.
At 29, Karadsheh has a lifetime of experience in hostile regions. A native of Jordan who is fluent in Arabic and English, she's a stalwart of CNN's Baghdad bureau and known for her professionalism, persistence and persuasiveness.
If you encounter trouble, you want her at your side.
She'd come to Libya weeks before, meeting up with CNN Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance. She'd built relationships with the government officials, media minders and security in the hotel, including this gunman. Now she and an Arabic-speaking cameraman from another news organization were negotiating to secure the journalists' safe release.
On her Facebook page, Karadsheh lists her favorite quote: "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, champagne in one hand ... strawberries in the other and screaming: 'Woo Hoo! What a ride!' "
In the Rixos Hotel, Karadsheh wasn't ready for life's wild ride to end.
Phoning home to say goodbye
It had become apparent days earlier that the journalists -- from an array of news organizations, including BBC, Reuters, Fox and China's CCTV -- were prisoners of a dying Gadhafi regime.
The government officials and minders who'd monitored the journalists abandoned the hotel August 21. About 15 gunmen loyal to the regime remained behind, roaming the halls with Russian assault rifles. They told the journalists they could not leave the hotel.
Most of the loyalists were irritable, young, reckless. They adorned their weapons with the green flag of Gadhafi's regime. To avoid contact with this volatile bunch, the journalists moved to an upper floor.
A hotel chef initially took care of the group. One 21-year-old gunman -- a "nice guy," Karadsheh says -- ran through the hotel with his jeans covered in the blood of his cousin, killed in the fighting outside.
By Monday, tensions between the journalists and their captors escalated. Gunfire erupted outside the hotel, and smoke could be seen coming from the direction of Gadhafi's nearby compound. The gunmen were enraged.
"NATO spies," they shouted. "There are spies amongst the journalists!"
They walked amid the journalists, their guns drawn. They were angry, bitter.
"This could really turn out terribly for us," Chance thought.
The journalists tried not to antagonize. "We all had a calm panic, if there is such a thing," he recalled.
The gunmen's belligerence sparked paranoia "about being taken hostage, about being held prisoner, about being executed."
"It dawned on us: If they'd been given orders to take us as prisoners or to execute us, there was nothing we could do."
That loss of control -- the realization that their fate rested with the men holding guns -- led to the darkest thoughts: that they wouldn't make it out alive.
Chance phoned his mother and wife to tell them what to do with his remains.
His wife put his 5-year-old daughter on the line. If this was a final goodbye, his only child needed to hear daddy's voice.
The veteran correspondent who has covered conflicts in the Balkans, Chechnya, Iraq and Afghanistan didn't tell his girl about the danger he faced. He spoke instead of the new school year.
"You're going to start school in two weeks," he said. "Promise me that you'll work really hard at school."
"Yes, Poppa, I promise you."
"Be a good girl for me and mommy."
"Poppa, I will."
His heart sank. He was 2,000 miles from his home in Moscow. He wanted nothing more than to see his girl on her first day of school.
He just wasn't sure if he'd make it.
Fighting intensified outside. Snipers fired into the hotel, shattering windows and rattling nerves. Chance and the others spent 36 hours face-down on the floor with little food or water.
With frequent power outages, it was difficult to follow the events of Tripoli outside the walls of the hotel. But work kept Chance focused. He tweeted using his smartphone, used a satellite phone or called friends and dictated his thoughts.
At one point Tuesday, he leaned over a balcony overlooking the hotel's interior courtyard, which the gunmen patrolled.
"I suppose you're happy now that Libyans are killing Libyans," one shouted.
Connecting "as a human"
The sound of artillery fire pierced the morning calm Wednesday. Journalists rustled awake. The gunmen had grown increasingly hostile the day before. The group worried about what lay in store.
About 6 a.m., all of the gunmen except the older one left the hotel. Karadsheh and the Arabic-speaking cameraman approached him.
A day earlier, she had overheard him telling the younger gunmen to remain calm and be good to the journalists: "We want them to go back to their countries and say good things about us -- how Libyans are brave people."
Now Karadsheh and the cameraman told him what they understood: Gadhafi's regime had fallen.
When a man who called himself a soldier entered the hotel, the gunman asked about the situation outside. "You were out there. Tell me, what's really going on? Is it what they are telling us?"
Yes, he was told. The rebels were indeed in control. Gadhafi's rule of Libya was over.
Karadsheh seized the moment with an emotional plea. Her family missed her, she told him, as did the families of the three dozen other journalists.
"Think about your kids," she said. "You're left here alone. Just let us go."
At first, the man defended Gadhafi, saying that he had brought democracy to Libya, that the nation thrived under his leadership.
Earlier, he'd told Karadsheh that he was protecting the journalists. That he wanted his children to know that he'd fight to the end.
Karadsheh and the cameraman reminded him that all the senior officials -- and now even his young comrades -- had abandoned him.
It was time to give up.
"Slowly, he started to change."
The cameraman slowly stripped the soldier and gunman of their weapons.
Now unarmed, the man looked at the journalists and said, "You can go now."
Karadsheh immediately began negotiating with the International Committee of the Red Cross to get cars to the hotel.
Before she left, she told the man goodbye.
"Jomana, get out of here," he said. "Go back home. Libya is over. There will be a bloodbath for years to come."
Chance watched nearby as his colleague talked with the guard. "I watched this transformation these guys made from being Gadhafi hardliners to realizing that his regime was a historically past moment. That was a remarkable transition to witness.
"I think it's the most moving part of this whole crisis."
Says Karadsheh: "In the end, we're all human. And that's what this was about, connecting with him as a human."
Stepping outside the Rixos, the journalists worried about snipers. There were none. Cars with the BBC and the International Committee of the Red Cross pulled up. They piled inside.
"Rixos crisis ends. All journalists are out!" Chance tweeted.
In the car, he called CNN. Speeding through Tripoli, he described the end of their hellish ordeal. Karadsheh sat next to him, tears streaming down her face, the weight of recent days crashing down.
"We wouldn't be here if it weren't for her," Chance said later. But Karadsheh praised the cameraman. "It was a team effort."
Chance's daughter will soon see her poppa. He plans to be home for her first day of school September 5.
But first he stopped at the newly named Martyr Square, where joyous Tripoli residents showered him with flowers.
"They're not celebrating my freedom," he said. "They're celebrating Libya's freedom."
Karadsheh was struck by the disparate scene from a week ago, when Tripoli was filled with unhappy faces. Today, she noted, everyone seemed to wear smiles.
Gadhafi's images have been torn down.
"I came out to a new Libya," she said.
On Thursday, the day after her release, she did the unthinkable. She returned to the hotel to gather her personal belongings.
"I got a bit freaked out when we got close," she said. "But the first thing I saw was a rebel flag hanging on the Rixos. I felt comfortable."
Soon, she was back in a car, crossing the border into Tunisia, headed home. As she'd told the gunman, she longs to see her loved ones.
CNN's Paul Armstrong contributed to this report.


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Monday, April 9, 2012
We Did It!
28 comments:
Congratulations!! This is great news. I am sure Dusty was a pleased and happy about it all as you were. She seems to be the kind of horse that likes to be busy, so riding is "just her style."ReplyDelete
Your patience and care have paid off big time.
The magnitude of this milestone is not to be understated.
Good for you and Dusty. It is so nice to have a horse you can get on after a year and have her behave so well.ReplyDelete
Had you ridden before this (after your knee surgery)???
That's wonderful and I'm so happy for you! It must have felt great to be back with your good friend. And I'm not surprised at all that she did well.ReplyDelete
YEAH! for Dusty! YEAH! for you. Love those uneventful first rides.ReplyDelete
Hi Lori,ReplyDelete
My knee replacement surgery was in Sept. 2008 and I've been riding since April of 2009. Both Blue and Dusty.
Thanks everyone for your support, she did really. I'm so proud of her and happy to be able to ride her again.
Awesome news!ReplyDelete
Congrats! Dusty is such a beautiful horse and so willing to do what ever to make you happy.ReplyDelete
Congrats on an in eventful but good ride. And I like your quote of the day. Nice reminder for all of us.ReplyDelete
it seems like dusty is just as happy to get back to work as you are. i think you're both going to have a great year :-)ReplyDelete
Absolutely wonderful!! So good to hear that you have your girl back and you both are feeling good.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 09, 2012
Congratulations to you both - that's quite a milestone and I'm so glad the ride went so well!ReplyDelete
Great news!!ReplyDelete
That must have made your weekend. Looking forward to hearing about many, many more happy rides. :)
Glad you had a great ride. I'm right behind you. I'll be getting on soon. Wish me luck!ReplyDelete
Good luck when you get on too!
Thanks again everyone for the support!
Wonderful to read!! So glad you and Dusty are back to your riding together. Enjoy and sending good energy for staying strong and fit to Dusty.ReplyDelete
OH wow .....go Dusty. I look forward to many riding posts of your up coming summerReplyDelete
Congratulations! Sounds like a good first ride and starting point to many more!ReplyDelete
That is such great news! It must have felt great to get in a short ride to start bringing her back into shape!ReplyDelete
Fantastic news!! Though I can't believe its been almost a year - Dusty is truly amazing :D So pleased for you, you must have felt really good!ReplyDelete
Great news! Sometimes, life is just good.ReplyDelete
Yipee!! I am smiling ear to ear reading this. Absolutely wonderful. Congrats to both of you!!ReplyDelete
OMG THAT IS SOOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!!!ReplyDelete
A horse like Dusty is worth her weight in gold. Good on you for not ever giving up on her and just allowing her the time she needed.ReplyDelete
Very happy for you and Dusty!
What a great feeling that must have been.ReplyDelete
It's so nice of you to take the time to visit. I appreciate your stopping by and commenting on what I've written. Even though I sometimes don't have the time to reply to each comment, I do enjoy reading them.


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My response to the blog article An Emacs Programming Challenge
The goal is to make the emacs lisp record below execute itself and produce XML. My lisp has gotten rusty so it took me a couple of hours to get this working, but I think I got there...
You can see it properly formatted and coloured hereIt's fairly straightforward. The only complexity is the use of lexical-let. emacs lisp is dynamically scoped, so in the function I create for each keyword, where it prints the symbol name is a free variable at runtime. So if sym-name is not defined you'll get an error, otherwise you'll get whatever it is defined as instead of the value you wanted.
By using lexical-let any variables are bound lexically, that is stored in an environment that stays with the function we create when it is executed (a closure).
(require 'cl) ;; uses lexical-let
(defun make-xml-izer(name)
"Given a symbol NAME this makes a function that outputs an xml string for that
symbol and using fset binds it to the same symbol so it becomes executable.
This pollutes the global function namespace so be careful with which names you
pass in"
(lexical-let ((sym-name name))
(fset (intern name)
(lambda(&rest input)
"returns a string representing the xml encoding of the input sexp"
(let ((res (format "<%s>" sym-name)))
(dolist (item input)
(if (listp item)
(setf res (concat res (eval item)))
(setf res (format "%s%s" res item))))
(setf res (format "%s" res sym-name))
;; executing this makes all the symbols in the list below executable
(mapcar (lambda(s)
(symbol-name s)))
'(record date millis sequence logger level class method thread emessage exception frame line))
;; the sample record
(date "2005-02-21T18:57:39")
(millis 1109041059800)
(sequence 1)
(logger nil)
(level 'SEVERE)
(class "java.util.logging.LogManager$RootLogger")
(method 'log)
(thread 10)
(emessage "A very very bad thing has happened!")
(emessage "java.lang.Exception")
(class "logtest")
(method 'main)
(line 30))))


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I had been trying to add a shortcut/entry for Zend studio in my Ubuntu 11.10. Finally I could find a way to make Zend studio entry come up in the Unity Application search or Filter. Actually its a rather straight forward procedure. Create a file zendstudio.desktop in the /usr/share/applications/ as root, add the following contents to it, using your editor of choice(I used vi editor).
[Desktop Entry] Version=9.0 Name=Zend Studio GenericName=PHP IDE Type=Application Comment=Zend's PHP IDE Exec=/opt/ZendStudio/ZendStudio Icon=/opt/ZendStudio/icon.xpm StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Programming;
(You could check out the above link to find way to add antry for any custom software using the same method).
N.B: Its my first blog post after nearly one year. Hope that I can follow it with more such useful posts.
The above method was tested by me in Unity based Ubuntu. But it should work fine in any GNOME based OS.


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Seiko Luxury Watches
Introduction to Seiko Watches
Wristwatches have been known to stand for style, elegance, class, maturity, and confidence ever since the nineteenth century. No matter the profession or gender, people have been dousing themselves and showcasing their love for fashion and style by carrying an elegantly designed timepiece on their wrists, and a new Seiko watch is the perfect piece to make a statement.
Wristwatches first came into fashion when the battle-worn soldiers came back from the First World War wearing pocket watches in a self-made cocoon on their arms. The fashion quickly spread, and people started to try and turn the odd design into a fashion statement. Eventually, the idea of wearing a watch on one's wrist was born.
People can have the most expensive of smartphones, but it is a particular kind of wristwatch that does the talking for its wearer. New Seiko watch designs are constantly being created in order to support this practice.
Long ago, in the late nineteenth century, there was a young man with a dream. Kintaro Hattori, opened a workshop to repair and design watches and clocks in Tokyo. His hard work, dedication, and love for innovation are still running through the Seiko watch company which is always looking for new, creative ways to build a fashion statement which Hattori was famous for.
Seiko is a Japanese word which literally means 'success.' Hattori was not overconfident when he named his company such. Even a hundred and thirty-seven years later, the company still holds reverence and respect among the watch suppliers. Seiko watches have been known to set the standard for fashion and style. Originally a watch repair shop, Seiko has since then worked hard and through its innovation has reached the top of the line when it comes to timepieces.
Hattori is known for a lot of 'world's first.' Under his banner, the company introduced the world's first pocket watch, the world's first quartz watch, six-digit LCD quartz watch, multi-function digital watch, diver's watch with a titanium case, TV watch, voice recording watch, and so on and so forth. New Seiko watches continue to follow tradition and take the world by storm.
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Seiko Prospex
Seiko has introduced a lot of firsts, and not only in Japan but worldwide as well. Seiko launched its first Seiko diver's watch in 1965, establishing a new ground or pinnacle for the rest of the world to follow; and it has not stopped ever since. It all started with a letter from a frustrated diver complaining that his watch stopped when he crossed a certain water level during his dives. Thus, began the journey of years of research and hard work which led to the invention of the first diver's watch.
The Seiko Prospex is the ultimate package deal for adventure seekers. Be it divers or mountain fanatics, Seiko will not give up on you, be it underwater, sky or on land – Seiko is the timepiece to choose.
Seiko has constantly been striving to be better and better with age and time. Available for, both, men and women.
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Available for men only, at this time, Astron GPS Solar is the world's first GPS solar watch. Just connect with a GPS network and align it with your time zone. Running on pure light energy, the device will never run out of battery or need a recharge.
The Astron brand also has a chronograph setting installed, which offers an extremely simple to use a six-hour long chronograph. A chronograph is a device which is used to measure time in its minute seconds, ex: a stopwatch.
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A watch is unisexual; adorned by men and women alike. The charisma that the watch exerts speaks for itself. Seiko watches cater to the needs of both men and women. While the watches for men exert more masculinity, roughness, and have a bit of an edge to the design; the ones for women are sleek, feminine, and make the owner a bit soft at the knees.
Seiko watches have an enormous collection which the buyers can browse through and select the design that suits their personality best.
Where to Buy Seiko Watches?
Seiko is an international brand. Its branches are dispersed throughout the world and are easily accessible. WatchShopping.com is a trusted retailer of fine, authentic luxury watches online with unbeatable prices and selection.


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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi's market share rose in the third quarter, while market leaders Samsung and Apple lost ground. BLOOMBERG NEWS
The erosion of Samsung Electronics Co.'s and Apple Inc. 's dominance of the global smartphone market accelerated during the third quarter, as Chinese makers of low-cost phones continued to undercut the industry leaders, according to data from three market-share trackers released Thursday.
Samsung, the world's largest smartphone maker by shipments, saw its market share fall to 24.7% from 35% during the three months ended Sept. 30, its steepest decline since it became the industry leader in the third quarter of 2011, according to data provider Strategy Analytics. Upstart Chinese phone maker Xiaomi Inc. rose to third place with a 5.6% share, up from 2.1%, as its global handset shipments more than tripled.
Apple remained No. 2, with a 12.3% share, but its market share fell from 13.4% as supply problems held back the shipment of its latest-model iPhones, which went on sale in mid-September.
Market-share data released by IDC and Counterpoint Research Thursday showed similar results.
The latest data came after Samsung posted Thursday a sharply lower third-quarter net profit as intensified competition from Chinese smartphone makers hurt the South Korean technology giant's mobile business.
Linda Sui of Strategy Analytics estimated that Xiaomi was the fourth-most profitable handset maker in the third quarter, trailing Apple, Samsung and LG Electronics Inc. Xiaomi's preference for low-cost online distribution channels instead of bricks-and-mortar shops helped its profitability, she said.
Xiaomi, which means "Little Rice" in Chinese, is known for its marketing savvy. The Beijing-based smartphone maker, founded in 2010, has been growing quickly across Asia by selling low-cost handsets that don't skimp on features, and has created a cultlike fan base among early adopters of new gadgets.
The company has also used social media in growing its popularity. Chairman Lei Jun, who has often been compared with Apple's late founder Steve Jobs for his presentation style at product launches, has more than 11 million followers on China's Twitter -like platform, Sina Weibo .
Looking to expand its business overseas, Xiaomi last year hired Hugo Barra, who was an executive at Google 's Android business. The company has expanded into Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and India.
During the second quarter, Xiaomi overtook Samsung as the top smartphone maker in China, the world's largest smartphone market by shipments, according to market research firm Canalys.
Xiaomi has been expanding into other markets outside China, including Singapore, Malaysia, India and Indonesia and has been borrowing money to fund the expansion.
But industry observers say that despite Xiaomi's popularity on its home turf, it will face challenges getting consumers familiar with its brand overseas, where it remains relatively unknown.
Lenovo Group Ltd. and Huawei Technologies Co., meanwhile, have been expanding aggressively outside China. Lenovo's smartphone sales have been growing fast in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, while Huawei has been increasing its presence in the Middle East and Africa as well as Latin America. In emerging markets, both Huawei and Lenovo are challenging Samsung's dominance by selling inexpensive models with competitive technological features.
IDC said Samsung's third-quarter market share dropped 8.7 percentage points to 23.8% as its shipments fell 8.2% from a year earlier. Apple's market share fell to 12% from 12.9%, while Xiaomi came in third with a market share of 5.3%, up from 2.1% a year earlier. Lenovo ranked fourth with a market share of 5.2%, up from 4.7%, followed by LG's 5.1%.
Lenovo's market share is expected to rise after it completes the acquisition of U.S. handset maker Motorola Mobility later this year.
Counterpoint analyst Neil Shah said Samsung has been losing market share at every price point: in the premium segment to Apple; in the middle tier to Xiaomi, and Huawei; and in the bottom tier to Lenovo and a number of local brands such as Micromax in India and Mito in Indonesia.
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When Apple (AAPL) introduced iPhone 6 models, it set off the traditional scramble by wireless carriers to poach one another's customers. Exciting new phones are one of the best ways for carriers to lure people, and this year has been especially hectic. The new iPhones were seen as a particularly big upgrade, all four carriers were planning major launches for the first time, and it is now easier than ever for customers to switch carriers without facing a financial penalty.
T-Mobile's (TMUS) latest quarterly report make it pretty clear who won. The company posted the best subscriber growth in its history, adding 1.4 million postpaid customers to the T-Mobile brand in the quarter. In October, the first full month of iPhone sales, 2.4 people left a competitor to join T-Mobile for every single T-Mobile defector. The biggest haul came from Sprint (S), the second member of the wireless industry's junior varsity tier, which sent 2.5 customers to T-Mobile for each T-Mobile convert it won. T-Mobile also lured more than 2.2 customers from AT&T(T) and Verizon (VZ) for each one it lost.
"There's a fallacy in the the industry that AT&T and Verizon are going to sit where they are, and Sprint and T-Mobile are going to beat one another over the head," said John Legere, T-Mobile's chief executive officer, during a call with investors on Tuesday. The only reason for modesty around the iPhone launch, he said, was the expectation that T-Mobile would continue to have trouble keeping the iPhone in stock through November. The larger iPhone 6 Plus will face supply constraints even longer.
Many people expected T-Mobile to come out ahead this fall. It has been outpacing its competitors ever since it launched its "Uncarrier" campaign, which seeks to overturn such fixtures of the wireless industry as two-year contracts. It stands to reason that a network with fewer iPhone subscribers has more to gain and less to lose than networks with more of them.
But the concern with T-Mobile hasn't been about its ability to add customers. The upstart carrier has made sacrifices to win the legions of converts, and Legere is fighting against the assumption that T-Mobile and Sprint are basically doing the same thing: undercutting bigger competitors on price. That has been Sprint's explicit strategy, and it's probably necessary because the company openly admits that its network lags behind those of AT&T and Verizon. T-Mobile has also sacrificed revenue in aggressive pursuit of customers, but when he talks to investors Legere insists at length that T-Mobile is charging customers more than ever. That's a slightly awkward position for a man who has tailored his public persona as the foul-mouthed voice of the common man fighting against faceless phone companies.
In fact, T-Mobile charged more than ever in the past quarter. The average monthly bill for its customers was $49.84, up slightly from a year before. Promotions related to the holiday season and the new iPhone will lower prices for the rest of the year, but T-Mobile says they will begin rising again in January.


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Unconscious man found naked along road ELMIRA, Ill. — A Wisconsin man was listed in good condition at a Peoria hospital Monday after being found naked and unconscious lying in the snow and ice in a ditch just east of Elmira early Monday morning. Stark County Sheriff Jimmie Dison responded to a report from a passing motorist at 3:51 a.m. The caller was headed to work when he saw the man near a parked 2001 Chevy Blazer. Dison said the man, Timothy Lovrien, estimated to be 22 years old, was suffering from hypothermia. The passing motorist, who had remained on scene, and Dison carried Louvrien to the sheriff's squad car and covered him with blankets while waiting for the Stark County Ambulance Service. Johanna K. Sheppard, 22, was inside the Blazer. She was conscious but was also suffering from the effects of the freezing temperatures. Sheppard, who was clothed, was in the SUV but the engine wasn't running, Dison said. Lovrien was taken by ambulance to Kewanee Hospital and from there he was life-flighted to OSF St. Francis Hospital in Peoria. Dison drove Sheppard to Kewanee Hospital, where she was treated and released. Both Lovrien and Sheppard have LaCrosse, Wis., addresses. Dison said Sheppard said the pair were traveling together and were seeking religious affirmation. Dison said the vehicle did not appear to have broken down. He also said no drugs or alcohol played a role in the incident, which remains under investigation. Officials mistakenly release employees' personal records PEORIA, Ill. -- City officials released personal information — Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account statements, checking account numbers and bank routing numbers as well as grade transcripts — for dozens of city employees, including Fire Chief Kent Tomblin, in a botched Freedom of Information request. The information was released in late December, and officials have known about the error since Jan. 11, when the woman who filed the FOIA request realized what she had and contacted the city. Yet, apparently only within the last few days did the city start to notify specific employees of the breach. The woman, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, is among those whose personal information was released. Using the state's Freedom of Information Act, she requested a list of all city employees covered under the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3464 contract who participated in the city's tuition reimbursement program from Jan. 1, 2001, to Dec. 31, 2007. She needed the information because her own tuition reimbursement was denied by the city, and she was aware of numerous other city employees whose tuition had been reimbursed. "I took out student loans that I expected I would be paying back with my tuition reimbursement (from the city.) Now, here I am, a single mom with two kids and thousands of dollars in unpaid student loans," she said Wednesday. Though she never asked for the personal information, doesn't want it and even took pains to let the city know they mistakenly released it, she hasn't returned it yet because some of it is on the same pages with the information she needs to defend her case. That case, she adds, is stalled for some reason. Once it's resolved, she said she will happily return everything. "This has been such a burden." GateHouse News Service


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LOS ANGELES -- The Sports Club/LA recently installed $2 million worth of new equipment at its clubs, according to the company. The West Los Angeles club received $1 million in new equipment and the Beverly Hills club received another $1 million in new equipment.
The equipment includes new cardio machines with personal TVs and iPod hookups, including the Cybex ArcTrainer, Life Fitness recumbent bike, Life Fitness treadmill, Precor EFX and Precor AMT. It also includes the Gsycle (a skating machine with dependent style pedals that offers a lateral motion), Woodway EcoMill (a self-powered treadmill) and VibePlate (vibration training equipment). The company also invested in some selectorized and free weight equipment.
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Saturday January 21 marked a watershed moment for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the UK, with a standing ovation for Omar Barghouti, founder of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), at the Annual General Meeting of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC).
"Today, solidarity with Palestine cannot but include support for BDS as the most popular and one of the most effective forms of peaceful, civil struggle for Palestinian rights," Barghouti told almost 300 campaigners from all over the UK, meeting in the Conway Hall in London to mark the 30th year since PSC's foundation.
"At its most basic level, BDS calls for ending partnership in crime, ending complicity in the perpetration, justification and whitewash of Israel's grave violations of Palestinian rights.
"Withdrawing support for an evil policy or system, as Martin Luther King describes the boycott, is not heroic; it is a profound moral obligation," Barghouti said.
With recent successes such as huge contract losses for French multinationals Alstom and Veolia, both complicit in Israel's illegal occupation, the University of Johannesburg's severance of ties with an Israeli university implicated in human rights violations and the spread of the cultural boycott to prominent musicians and other artists, "BDS is on the verge of its South Africa moment," said Barghouti.
Building a mass boycott movement comparable to the South African anti-apartheid campaign was placed at the heart of PSC's work for the coming year.
The AGM resolved to team up with trade unions, students, faith groups, human rights organisations and others working locally, nationally and internationally to end the siege of Gaza, to halt ethnic cleansing of Palestinians within Israel, in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; to expose major companies complicit in colonial occupation and settlement, to bring to light the repressive apparatus of the Israeli state in its treatment of Palestinian prisoners and of children living under occupation and to challenge the media bias that marginalises the Palestinian narrative.
Barghouti clarified the origins of BDS as the specific name of the call issued by the great majority of Palestinian civil society on 9 July 2005, constituting "a qualitatively new phase in the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality and in international solidarity with Palestinian rights."
The call embodies the fundamental principles of Freedom, Justice and Equality in three basic demands which are the minimum required to achieve self-determination – right of return for refugees; end of 1967 occupation and colonisation; equality for the indigenous Palestinians inside Israel.
"No part of the Palestinian people can be ignored," Barghouti said. "Anyone claiming to be in solidarity with the Palestinian people cannot be satisfied with ending the 1967 occupation alone while ignoring the basic rights of the rest of the Palestinian people."
He said Palestinians' basic rights under international law are "inalienable and non-negotiable", but "the methods through which the movement of international solidarity supports our struggle to realise them are tactical and dependent on context, political alliances, awareness, among other variables."
Israel's regime of multi-tiered oppression had to be understood as settler-colonialism, occupation and apartheid, Barghouti said.
He stressed that BDS is a universalist movement categorically opposed to all forms of racism, including Islamophobia and antisemitism. "This is not negotiable," he said.
Equating Israel with "the Jews" is unacceptable and antisemitic. "Only Zionists and Nazis do that," said Barghouti .
"Nazis say Jews are sub-human, Zionists say they are superhuman; both agree that they are not a normal part of the human species, and that is clearly racist."
Suggesting that "the Jews" and Israel are one and the same "implies that Jews are one monolithic sum who think alike and are all collectively equivalent to Israel and responsible for Israel. If this is not antisemitic, I am not sure what is!" Barghouti said.
"Jews, like any other human group, have diversity and differences. Many of the leaders of the BDS movement in the West are Jewish intellectuals, academics, feminists, students, activists. Many of them support the struggle for Palestinian rights through BDS not just out of a deep-rooted sense of international solidarity and moral obligation but also based on their insistence thatIsrael, a colonial apartheid state, does not and should not speak in their names."
The AGM endorsed these sentiments wholeheartedly, welcoming a statement posted on line by the Executive Committee last year affirming that "any expression of racism or intolerance, or attempts to deny or minimise the Holocaust, have no place in our movement."
A motion from Tony Greenstein and Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, of Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods (J-BIG), calling on the EC to integrate these principles into the work of the movement, was also passed overwhelmingly. They argued that Zionists' baseless allegations of antisemitism, and cynical abuse of the memory of the Holocaust, would harm the Palestine solidarity movement if used to justify ignoring genuine Jew-hatred when it arose.
PSC Executive Committee member Ben Jamal regretted that Zionists attacking the movement had been able to cite a few "indefensible statements" by some individuals. Trade Union Advisory Committee member Steve Bell called on the AGM to make it absolutely clear that membership was not open to people holding antisemitic views.
The AGM had earlier upheld the removal from PSC membership of Francis Clark-Lowes, whose appeal statement stunned listeners with its unapologetic racism. "Dislike of groups", he said, should not be regarded as "a cardinal sin". A Jew challenging "Jewish ideology" did not cease to be a Jew, any more than a dog that had lost a leg ceased to be a quadruped.
An edited version of Clark-Lowes speech swiftly found its natural home on websites peddling racist conspiracy theories where his words were described as "beautiful".
Such attitudes, Tony Greenstein pointed out in debate later on, were not only morally repugnant but would make it impossible to promote Palestinian rights in the trade union movement or within churches.
Joining forced with such mainstream organisations was the task of BDS campaigners from now on, according to Barghouti – to think long term, to build broad alliances and to build awareness of the struggle for Palestinian rights as part of the global struggle of the 99 percent – "for social and economic justice, for freedoms, for equal rights, against racism, for immigrant rights, for the environment, for LGBT rights."
Israel's expansionist and belligerent agenda, by contrast, "fits right at the centre of the agenda of the 1%, the 'Perpetual Wars Inc.' . . . the military industries, the homeland security businesses, the oil companies, the banks and financiers."
"The 1% of the world are already united," Barghouti said. "It is high time for us, the 99%, to unite."
Read a fuller version of Omar Barghouti's speech
See also Tony Greenstein' report of the PSC AGM and thorough pre-AGM review of the issues on the agenda.


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It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.
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J. D. Salinger was born in 1919. He grew up in New York City, and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in The New Yorker of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'. The Catcher in the Rye was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold some 65 million copies. It was followed by three other books of short stories and novellas, the most recent of which was published in 1963. He lives in Cornish, New Hampshire.