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Mr. Speaker, I call upon your power of selection under Standing Order 81(14)(b), which states:
When notice has been given of two or more motions by Members in opposition to the government for consideration on an allotted day, the Speaker shall have power to select which of the proposed motions shall have precedence in that sitting.
In Marleau and Montpetit, at page 725, the criteria used in the past to guide the Chair in making a decision are outlined. I will quote this paragraph from page 725:
—in making their decision, Speakers will take into consideration the following: representation of the parties in the House; the distribution of sponsorship to date; fair play towards small parties; the date of notice; the sponsor of the motion; the subject matter; whether or not the motion is votable; and what has happened, by agreement among the parties, in the immediate past Supply periods.
I believe, Mr. Speaker, that on the basis of all these criteria, you will conclude that today's opposition day should be allotted to the Bloc Québécois. Let me explain in greater detail why we feel this should be the case.
In my opinion, several of the aforementioned criteria are inextricably linked in the present situation.
Let us go over the following criteria together: the representation of the parties in the House, the distribution of sponsorship to date and what has happened, by agreement among the parties, in the immediate past Supply periods.
As far as the representation of the parties in the House is concerned, I should point out that Bloc Québécois members currently account for 28% of opposition members, while NDP members account for 17.14%.
Standing Order 81(10) clearly states that any calculations with respect to opposition days have to be based on the calendar year.
In addition, whenever the opposition parties negotiated among themselves in recent years, the number of opposition days allotted to the various parties was always determined on a yearly basis and strictly respected the representation of the parties in the House.
It is important to take that criteria into account. In a ruling dated May 31, 1984, the Speaker said:
The Chair's selection must be based on the representations of the Parties in the House and also on what happened, by agreement of the Parties concerned, in the immediate past Supply periods.
Because the House was prorogued, there will be 20 opposition days in 2007 instead of the 22 initially planned. If we divide up these days according to the opposition parties' representation, we get 11 for the Liberals, six for the Bloc Québécois and three for the NDP.
To date, the Liberals have had 10 opposition days, the Bloc has had five and the NDP has had three. Consequently, in our opinion, the final two opposition days should be assigned to the Bloc Québécois and the Liberals.
If the next opposition day were given to the NDP, then it would be entitled to 20% of the opposition days in 2007, when it accounts for only 17.14% of the opposition members, and the Bloc Québécois would be entitled to 25% of the opposition days when it accounts for 28% of the opposition members. There would be a difference of 5% between the parties in the number of opposition days, when the difference in representation is 11%.
I would like to make one final comment about mathematical conventions. As a result of the negotiations that took place at the start of the 39th Parliament, the Bloc Québécois and the Liberal Party agreed to give the NDP a fourth day, even though they were entitled to 3.51 opposition days at that time, because they accounted for 15.93% of opposition members in this House. The NDP got a fourth opposition day even though their representation was only one hundredth of 1% over the threshold to obtain that fourth day.
In this case, the Bloc Québécois is one tenth of 1% over the mathematical threshold, not one hundredth of 1%. In other words, our percentage is ten times what the NDP had during the last negotiations. Under the circumstances, we are of the view that the Bloc Québécois should benefit in the same way as the NDP did less than two years ago.
This brings us to another criterion for assigning opposition days, a criterion on which the NDP is basing its argument. Marleau and Montpetit say that the Speaker must demonstrate "fair play towards small parties".
Allow me to make an observation. I find it somewhat ironic that a party that publicly boasts about being the real opposition party is seeking some sort of protection from the Speaker because it is a small party.
That being said, Marleau and Montpetit talks about fairness toward small parties. In its arguments, the NDP is claiming that both the Bloc Québécois and the NDP have benefited from this protection given to smaller parties.
If that is the case, then the NDP is asking the Speaker to be unfair to one party, large or small, for the sake of being fair to a small party. This seems like a slippery slope and we feel the Speaker should never take that approach.
Let us look at the last set of criteria. Again, they are: the date of notice, the sponsor of the motion, the subject matter and whether or not the motion is votable. Some of these criteria will not resolve the current situation. Both motions are votable; each was introduced by a member. Notice was given on the same day, although the Bloc Québécois motion was presented earlier in the day. That leaves just one major factor: the subject matter. And I will close on that.
I want to emphasize this point, which in my opinion is of the utmost importance. The NDP motion is not time sensitive, but the Bloc Québécois motion addresses an urgent matter. Foreign competition has put the manufacturing industry in a very unstable position for some time now. We know that. The potential repercussions of the recent rise in the Canadian dollar and rising energy costs are cause for great concern to thousands of workers and companies. These workers and the companies they work for expect their elected members to be concerned about their situation and to take swift action.
The NDP motion may be of some interest to some people, but the Bloc Québécois thinks that workers affected by the crisis in the manufacturing and forestry sectors are far more worried about their livelihood than about the future of the Senate.
It is for all these reasons that the Bloc Québécois believes that the House should debate the motion by the hon. member for Trois-Rivières on this opposition day.

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Journalism 2.0
by Doc Searls
Journalism is the one solitary respectable profession which honors theft (when committed in the pecuniary interest of a journal) and admires the thief....However, these same journals combat despicable crimes quite valiantly when committed in other quarters. —Mark Twain
On page 33 of the March 5, 2001 issue of eWeek magazine is a full-page story by Grant DuBois and Roberta Holland with a rather wordy title:
Emerging Tech // Peer to PeerLooking before they leapIT taking a wait-and-see stance on Jxta and .Net.
At the center of the page, just over the headline block, a large photograph bears the caption, "Brian Moura in San Carlos, California, questions the usefulness of P2P." Here's how the piece opens:
Brian Moura needs to hear better arguments in favor of peer-to-peer networking technology before he gives it any consideration.
"Peer-to-peer is not on our radar screen", said Moura, assistant city manager in San Carlos, Calif. "If we already have application servers and file servers, what's the advantage or value-add of letting each person's PC be a server?"
The whole piece is impelled by Moura's skepticism, which would be fine if Moura legitimately exemplified all of IT—or at least a significant wedge of the profession—but he doesn't.
Type "Brian Moura" into Google and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, and you'll go straight to Moura's home page. The top link there takes you to the San Carlos home page, for which Moura is webmaster. The San Carlos site (http://www.ci.san-carlos.ca.us/) has barely changed since Magellan (long since absorbed into Excite) gave it three stars in 1996. The site brags about this distinction, along with its "Best of the Web" award, also issued, fossil records show, near the dawn of Internet time. To be fair, the site itself is useful, as municipal sites go. The update page shows that somebody's trying to keep it fresh.
It's pretty clear from both the site and the quote above that Moura's main purpose in the piece is to substantiate a negative spin about P2P, an acronym the writers peg on Napster, Microsoft's .NET and Sun's Jxta. Ironically, the most widespread P2P phenomenon—the one where most of the action is taking place—is the web log movement. At their most institutional, "blogs" include downtown hacker hangouts like Slashdot, Kuro5hin and Advogato. At their most individualistic, they include dozens of thousands of public journals, most of which are hosted by Blogger, Userland or Pitas.
As Glenn Fleischmann put it in the Seattle Times recently, "Some blogs are closer to public diaries; others, the idiosyncratic or authoritative musings of experts and cranks." Together they constitute a vast peer-to-peer network that performs a constant story-finding and fact-correcting mission for both their own readers and mainstream journalists who don't want to be caught fluffing nothing into something.
Thanks in large measure to blogs, the journalism of the future will be fed mostly by a peer-to-peerage of linked and syndicated writers and sources who endlessly report facts, stories and informed speculation. The nature of peer-review journalism is very much like the nature of peer-review software and, naturally, includes many of the same people. News, ideas, facts, jokes, interesting links and other items are constantly vetted, checked, challenged, credited, linked and spread. Underlying all of it, the main purpose is no less social than open-source code development: to share what we know and what we think. The goal is not to attract interest with bogus stories or to attract readers to advertisers—two common hidden agendas of traditional journalism, especially trade publications.
More and more journalists have blogs and use them as instruments of their professional work. This is the case with Glenn (who writes for many publications), with Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, with Deborah Branscum of Newsweek and Fortune and with a certain senior editor for Linux Journal. In some cases, we even vet nascent stories or hunches that might become stories, inviting responses that help inform those stories. That's what I did recently when Eric Schmidt ceased presiding over Novell's ongoing failure and became "part-time" president and CEO of Google. Glenn's account of what followed became part of his Seattle Times piece:
One experience I had recently illustrates how a blog works. Doc Searls recently posted musings (doc.weblogs.com/2001/03/27) about whether Google's (http://www.google.com/) hiring Eric Schmidt as chairman might result in the purchase of the search engine by Sun Microsystems, a company Schmidt helped found. I sent Searls some pithy comments and a number of others did the same. Searls posted an update the next day with our responses (doc.weblogs.com/2001/03/28). He also linked to an on-line-only column by Branscum at Fortune magazine's site about Google's success working with on-line advertisers.
This kind of mild dust-up happens all the time, with a mix of journalists, ordinary readers and subject experts responding to their colleagues with no intermediation and little compunction. These responses are incorporated into blogs, resulting in more cross-links and a richer vein of detail.
The responses are also incorporated into the writer's stories and editorials, as Glenn and I both illustrate. Today I understand a lot more about Google, thanks to responsive blog readers that include a number of company insiders who are not my usual PR sources. So when I do write something, I'll have a lot more sources to call upon and information to work with.
Note that this doesn't change the nature of mainstream journalism one bit, except to make it more resourceful. The growing difference here, as with the Open Source movement that both surrounds and populates the software industry, is in the involvement of many more people in a web of trust and respect. It also resembles, in a raucous and noisy way, the traditional marketplace we call a bazaar.
I was delivered this realization recently when I sat in a plane next to an amazing gentleman from Nigeria named Sayo Ajiboye. A deeply thoughtful religious scholar who took eight years to translate the highly annotated Thompson Bible into his native language of Yoruba, he compared what I told him about both Linux and blogs to traditional marketplaces in his country. "Markets are not just about business", he said. "They are about relationships." In fact, he went on to say, they are constituted by relationships, motivated at least as much by the desire for relationships as by the desire to sell and buy.
Old media never go away, they just obtain larger contexts. Mainstream journalism will always involve publishing. But surrounding that mainstream will be a watershed of other people—journalists in the literal sense and their readers. The whole watershed becomes a marketplace; not just for shared passions, but for trust and authority.
A case in point. In February, Dan Gillmor made the mistake of quoting something Richard Stallman was drafting and sharing with a few other folks by e-mail, including Dan. When Richard and other peers caught the mistake, they called him on it. It wasn't a big deal, but Dan quickly admitted it, removed the web copy of the offending piece, and everybody moved on. In the course of the matter, Dan's authority increased.
The growth of highly cross-sourced journalism by folks like Glenn and Dan is moving toward the norm for journalism both in print and on the Web. It makes traditional newswire-fed journalism seem increasingly anachronistic, as well as unreliable. CNET, for example, is a source of many good stories but some provocative clunkers too. That's what we had in February when CNET ran a poorly sourced and credited Bloomberg News story in which Microsoft's Jim Allchin said some unkind things about open-source development and licensing. The story stirred up a huge fuss, but it lacked both context and authority in the literal sense. Who exactly spoke to Allchin? Where? About what? None of this was clear.
It's not just a coincidence that CNET leads the way in deploying huge new reader-averse, 240 x 400 "interactive marketing units" (yet another buzz phrase for advertising). Nor is it a coincidence that a current eWeek news piece about these huge new ads fails to include a single source from the opposition. The headline in the magazine reads "Online Advertising: Bigger Is Better". But the headline on the Web in ZDnet reads "Online Advertising: Will Bigger Be Better?" Interesting difference, no? The last words in the piece are given to Beth Eason, VP and GM of DoubleClick. "Somebody needs to pay for the Internet", she says. "Advertising needs to be the economic engine that drives it."
The Internet she's talking about is what remains of a massive investment project proving to be little more than a fantasy. The Internet that existed before that project showed up persists uncorrupted. Its current conversational manifestation is P2P, which has nothing to do with advertising and is not driven by Microsoft, Sun or other large potential advertisers.
This kind of journalism will die of exposure, right along with the advertising projects its publishers continue to fund under the illusion that its constituency is an audience, rather than a bazaar filled with sources and fact checkers.
Also due for a change are stories about conflict for its own sake. Of course, conflict is what makes stories interesting. Without it you don't have a story. After all, stories never start with "Happily ever after" (if they did they'd be press releases). Conflict is what journalists naturally like to find and cover. Too often, though, it gets invented. That's what Stephen Shankland did recently in a CNET story about Maxtor dropping open-source products in favor of Windows. It's also what DuBois and Holland did in their P2P piece in eWeek and ZDnet.
The purpose of both stories was less to report than to conjure. The CNET piece conjured the illusion that there's a big fight between open source and Windows in the embedded applications market. The eWeek/ZDnet piece conjured the illusion that IT managers have some kind of problem with P2P.
The author Peter Rengel (who writes about sex and intimate relationships) once told me, "we choose the levels of truth at which we are willing to live," and "the challenge is always to go to the deeper level." He added, "there's always a deeper level."
Journalism-as-usual lived at a certain level in a world without the Web. In that world, there wasn't a peerage of highly open sources. To live in the new world, it has to work at a deeper level, or it won't survive.
Doc Searls is senior editor of Linux Journal and coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto.


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Something packed in plastic.
i think it is the X-Ray of the back bone
Umm...plastic package of some biscuits?
It's the plastic packaging from a packet of crackers.
Plastic packet
I think it is a jelly.
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I think its something like jelly... :{
I think i'ts just plastic ^^'
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I think It's part of a shirt
Ooooh nooooooo! A plastc wrapper!!
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yipee! i was totally right......but that was really tough to guess after all!
It's a plastic bag.
Wait a minute,.... I can see some gold leaf. Mystery thickens.....
I'm almost sure it's butter :)
I think it is a plastic bag including cookies
Hmmmmm.... Could be. Well, I think it's a plastic bag including a hot dog!?
Or some fried fish.
It is a paper bag, isn`t it?
it looks like glue tbh.
Jelly fish??
We need more clues...!!
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it think it might be some plastic bag or a bag with some kind of bakery in it!.................well it's really very difficult!
A part of a finger???
I think It is a paper bag for food or something like that.
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Peter Bright spent the last few weeks lamenting the fact that he couldn't show some of the nicer touches in Windows Phone 7, because most of them involved subtle animations and movement. After playing with the OS for a few hours, I started to understand why he was upset.
Here's a quick look at the process of text messaging on one of these devices. You'll see small animations here and there, the general fluidity of the phone, and some epic man hands in the following video.
We'll have a few more videos of the interface in the coming days. If there's anything in particular you'd like us to get moving pictures of, let us know.
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If you have an iPad, PocketPhonics Lite has been replaced by PocketPhonics Stories Free. If you want an app for iPhone, PocketPhonics Lite still does a great job.
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CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. – Authorities found the missing Lake County boater alive on Thursday afternoon, hours after his empty boat was found in the Gulf of Mexico earlier in the day.
The Coast Guard said Efstathios Moumouris, 51, was reported missing by his wife after he didn't return from his fishing trip out of the Fort Island boat ramp Wednesday.
Search crews located his 16-foot boat nine miles west of the boat ramp at approximately 4 a.m., without Moumouris aboard, officials said.
Later Thursday afternoon, Moumouris was found alive bobbing in the water by Todd Hoy and his family when they were out scalloping.
"There was a lot of people out there, luckily we saw him," says Hoy.
Moumouris' wife said he texted a picture of a fish he caught around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday and also texted he was heading back a short time later. No one had heard from him since.
The rescuers told WTSP-TV they had been out scalloping, but heard that a boater was missing, so were also keeping an eye out for him. When they found Moumouris, he reportedly was not wearing a life jacket, but had been able to tread water for at least 18 hours.
Moumouris' family told Local 6 it really was a miracle that he survived because they don't consider Moumouris a strong swimmer, but said he fought so hard to survive, to not give up on everyone.
Moumouris reportedly fell overboard during a storm and tried to find a life jacket, but couldn't get one in time.
He was taken to Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center in Crystal River with no injuries and is in good condition, Coast Guard officials say.
"He was swimming the whole time, trying not to pass out. Thank the good Lord those people found him," said Moumouris' wife of 28 years, Anastasia. "Its a miracle, it really is. I wouldn't expect anyone to survive."
FWC crews, a 27-foot Special Purpose Craft — Shallow Water boatcrew from Station Yankeetown, A MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and a C-130 Hercules aircraft crew from Air Station Clearwater, and Citrus County Sheriff's Office marine units assisted in the search, according to USCG.
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Today is a mixture of post-excavation, research and reporting. The first item on my 'to-do' list is to download and catalogue the records from my site visit earlier this week. This was a watching brief on restoration work at the former Stirchley Station. This is located in Telford Town Park and is part of a series of works to improve public access and interpretation. (Read about some earlier work at the Stirchley furnaces site here).
The station was on the London and North Western Railway's Coalport Branch, which opened in 1861 and closed in 1964. The railway largely followed the route of the Shropshire Canal, which was completed in 1792. All of the stations were built by the owner of the 'All Nations' Pub in Madeley. The line of the railway is now the 'Silkin Way', a footpath and cycleway that runs through Telford.
For many years the platform has been overgrown, but is now being cleared and restored (left-hand photo below). During the course of this work contractors discovered a chamber which was at first thought to be a well.
After cleaning, it turned out to be a simple drainage sump, with water from the platform and trackbed being fed into it. So, nothing very exciting, but a very tiny piece of information which somehow adds to our collective understanding. Such is the nature of most archaeology!


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NEA Encourages Teachers to Use Assessment Rating Web Site
Site posts reviews powered by teachers
WASHINGTON - April 11, 2013 -
NEA, in partnership with Teach Plus, is encouraging teachers to visit Assessment Advisor, an online site that lets teachers rate the assessments that they've used in their own classrooms. An educator's voice is crucial when it comes to the development of assessments and the site allows their voices to be heard.
Assessment Advisor (assessment-advisor.org/nea) lets real teachers in real classrooms evaluate the teaching assessments they have used with their students, share the pros and cons of each one, and evaluate whether or not a particular assessment works.
"Too often educators' voices are left out of the conversation when it comes to developing assessments. Their expertise and experience should be part of the decision-making process," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "Teachers invented tests! They are deeply committed to student success and they know that testing is a great way to measure that success. But they want well-designed, timely assessments that monitor individual student performance and progress across a range of subjects and skills. For teachers, Assessment Advisor is a tool that allows them to share which ones work."
"Assessment data has allowed us to gain a clear-eyed view of the staggering size of the achievement gaps between low-income African-American and Latino students and their more advantaged peers. Examining the data and acting to address inequity is a moral imperative," said Teach Plus CEO Celine Coggins. "But some assessments are much better than others at measuring the skills we want our children to acquire in school and giving teachers useful information to help them do their jobs well. Assessment Advisor was designed by teachers to ensure that teachers get to define what is needed to help them improve their practice."
Neither teachers nor policymakers have a clear way of figuring out which assessments can help them best identify their students' strengths and weaknesses—especially for the 69 percent of teachers who teach grades and subjects that aren't covered by state standardized tests. In the summer of 2011, a group of teachers from urban school districts across the country got together to help solve the problem and came up with the idea of the Assessment Advisor. Teachers in the classroom have a clear view about what it would take to design the ideal assessments.
"Educators and students have a lot to gain if we can find out which existing assessments paint a real picture of today's students' success," said Van Roekel. "Policymakers shouldn't have to guess—and then learn through trial and lots of errors. And teachers should have a resource for finding assessments that will help them teach right now."
Teach Plus is a national non-profit based in Boston whose mission is to improve outcomes for urban children by ensuring that a greater proportion of students have access to effective, experienced teachers. Teach Plus began with 16 founding teachers from urban district and charter schools in Greater Boston. Since its inception as a non-profit in August 2009, Teach Plus has grown to a network of more than 6,000 solutions-oriented teachers in six major cities across the country. teachplus.org
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text: The following message is a list of items to be completed for the upcoming releases of Debian GNU/Linux. If something is missing, incorrect, or you want to take responsibility for one or more items, please send email to: Brian White <firstname.lastname@example.com> This document was last modified at Time-stamp: <97/07/29 10:03:53 bcwhite> If you're replying about some of the ideas mentioned in this document, it is often wise to change the subject to reflect that idea. This helps target those people who are most likely to partake in discussions about it. For each upcoming release, the name of the task and the person who has claimed responsibility for it (or "???" if nobody) is listed. An asterisk (*) in front means the job has yet to be completed and must be done before that release can be made "stable". A dash (-) in front means it has not yet been completed, but if not completed in time will just be pushed to the next release. A space means that the task has been completed. Footnotes are indicated by "[n]" and give more information on that item. If you know of packages that do not conform to any of these tasks, please report it as a bug against those packages. If that task is marked as critical (i.e. with an asterisk "*"), then please let me know and I will mark the bug as critical. Critical bugs are those that you would seriously consider delaying the upcoming release or removing that package from the distribution because they are not fixed. Upcoming Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ July 1, 1997 Bugs older than 9 months will be marked as overdue. July 15, 1997 All uploaded libraries must depend on libc6. July 31, 1997 Bug reports against all non-libc6 packages. August 1, 1997 Bugs older than 8 months will be marked as overdue. August 31, 1997 All uploaded packages must depend on libc6. Sept. 1, 1997 Bugs older than 7 months will be marked as overdue. Sept. 30, 1997 All packages depending on libc[45] will be moved to contrib. Thoughts ~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hamm (Debian 2.0) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * All packages are in the new package format. * All packages in main distribution are compiled with libc6. * Fix packages currently depending on 'libc5-dev'. * Officially supports {i386,m68k,alpha,sparc} architectures (mips,ppc?). * No more dependencies on obsolete virtual packages (X11R6, elf-x11r6libs, ...). No a.out executables anymore. * Remove "--force-overwrite" flag from dpkg defaults * Much improved dpkg/dselect. * Use PAM within authentication programs [13] * Link shared libs against other shared libs instead of static [14] * Official Debian logo chosen. - Fix remaining "overdue" (older than 9 months) bugs (email@example.com) - Appropriate pkgs should call "install-mime" in postinst (firstname.lastname@example.com) - Convert remaining a.out packages (???) - configuring so non-ASCII characters work (???) [9] - Make all web servers apply to Web Standard (cf. Policy Manual) - Make all startup messages apply to the new standard - Use ttyS* devices instead of cua* devices (???) [10] - Packages to call "update-menu" in postinst (email@example.com) [11] - Move config information from install scripts to "cfgtool" (???) - Some sort of package-grouping mechanism for dselect - New run-level layout (???) [12] - No bug reports older than 9 months at release time ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Footnotes ~~~~~~~~~ 9 - One of the things that most people outside the US and UK have to deal with is configuring everything so that non-ASCII characters and other locale specific stuff works right. For example, bash needs a ~/.inputrc so that you write åäö on the command line, instead of getting beeps. Emacs needs some other stuff. -- Lars Wirzenius <email@example.com> 10 - /dev/ttySxx devices are fully POSIX-compliant TTY devices. If you are only going to be using one set of tty devices, you should be using /dev/ttySxx. /dev/cuaXX devices are different from /dev/ttySXX in two ways --- first of all, they will allow you to open the device even if CLOCAL is not set and the O_NONBLOCK flag was not given to the open device. This allows programs that don't use the POSIX-mondated interface for opening /dev/ttySxx devices to be able to use /dev/cuaXX to make outgoing phone calls on their modem (cu stands for "callout", and is taken from SunOS). The second way in which /dev/cuaXX differs from /dev/ttySXX is that if they are used, they will trigger a simplistic kernel-based locking scheme: If /dev/ttySXX is opened by one or more processes, then an attempt to open /dev/cuaXX will return EAGAIN. If /dev/cuaXX is opened by one or more processes, then an attempt to open /dev/ttySXX will result the open blocking until /dev/cuaXX is closed, and the carrier detect line goes high. While this will allow for simple lockouts between a user using a modem for callout and a getty listening on the line for logins, it doesn't work if you need to arbitrate between multiple programs wanting to do dialout --- for example, users wanting to do dialout and UUCP. I originally implemented the cuaXX/ttySXX lockout mechanism back before FSSTND established a standard convention for the use of tty lock files. Now that it's there, people should use the tty lock files and not try using /dev/cuaXX. The only reason why /dev/cuaXX hasn't disappeared yet is for backwards compatibility reasons. -- Theodore Ts'o <email@example.com> 11 - Apart from the update-menus call in the packages that want to register their applications with the menu-system, it would also be nice if more window managers than at present would include a /etc/menu-methods/ script (for all[1] window managers I've put example scripts in the menu package example dir), and a little bit of postinst/postrm stuff (example in the README). This would then allow the update-menus programme to actually generate the "system.fvwm*rc" files for the specific window managers. (note that those window managers should *not* depend on "menu", as wheter or not to install the package should be up to the local system admin). -- email@example.com (joost witteveen) 12 - Has "Debian" defined any specific meaning to runlevels 2, 3, 4, and 5? For example RedHat puts everything in 3, everything but NFS stuff in 2, and starts xdm at run level 5 (as well as starting everything else). Run level 4 on the other hand is left totally open for the user. As far as I can tell, Debian seems to put everything that you install in 2, 3, 4, and 5, without differentiating between them. It seems like it would be nice to have distinct meanings for run levels, including one you get to make yourself, that Debian will never touch, so you don't have to worry about it being changed when you install new programs. -- Sam Ockman <email@example.com> Putting the nfs server in runlevels 3 and higher is something of an industry standard. To be more precise, rl 2 is intended to be for network client applications and rl 3 and higher for network server apps. I think it would be appropriate for Debian to follow suite. -- Brian N. 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FRISCO, Texas – Heath Pearce admits the last week has been one of the toughest of his life. Last week, he learned he would not be among the 23 players traveling to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as part of Bob Bradley's United States squad.
Upon learning he wasn't going to South Africa, the FC Dallas defender/midfielder called head coach Schellas Hyndman. FCD had a match at Chicago the following night and Pearce wanted to see what his chances were of playing.
"He expressed a concern for where my head is at, which is completely understandable," Pearce said by phone on Monday, his first interview since he learned he wasn't heading to the World Cup. "Would I have been able to in that short of a time, been able to put in a 90-minute shift? I'd like to think so, but I can admit that I've got a bitter taste in my mouth."
The versatile FCD starter, who has started for Hyndman at three different positions so far in 2010, remembers the conversation with his club coach being very positive.
"He said, 'We're going to get you back in the game and get you back in the mix of things because that's what's best,'" Pearce recallws. "It was a positive conversation. All the fans and my teammates, they've all been really supportive during this time. Had they not, the world can become a pretty lonely place."
Pearce has played nine games this season for Dallas (eight of them starts) and is tied for second on the club with two assists. On Thursday night at Toyota Park, he was a sub for the first time in 2010, entering the game in the 70th minute for a struggling Jeff Cunningham. It was an adjustment he was glad to make.
"Obviously, it's nice to just kind of get on with life," Pearce said. "I tell myself [that] in what I feel is one of the most difficult times in my life to not make that team. The only real cure or remedy for it is to continue playing the game I love. It was a tough day. All I really wanted to do was get back out on the field with my teammates and play the game."
Pearce admits that moment when Hyndman told him to warm up before entering the game was somewhat of a wakeup call.
"It was kind of that thing that kind of jolts you and wakes you back up again," Pearce said. "When they called me over that I was going in, it was kind of like a reality check that life rolls on. Sometimes you've got to roll with the punches and keep the idea that everything happens for a reason."
And true to form, he offered an objective assessment of his performance in those final 20 minutes of what proved to be a 1-1 draw with the Men in Red.
"I did my best," Pearce said. "It was a short amount of time and I feel like I could've done better in a few situations. But it was really nice to be out there with the guys and with a team that really put me back in the national team picture in the first place."
He certainly isn't the only player hoping to make the final US roster to be disappointed with how things turned out. In fact, the FCD starter has talked with several of his colleagues who also currently play in MLS and are experiencing a similar sense of disappointment.
"I've had conversations with Sacha Klejstan and Robbie Rogers," Pearce said. "There's not a lot that any of us can say to each other. Everybody is kind of taking their distant space and using what they have around them to get through this difficult time."


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When "Law & Order," the show that would become known for plots "ripped from the headlines," premiered on Sept. 13, 1990, New York was reeling from a spate of headlines it could have done without.
About a week earlier, the New York Post's front-page boomed, "Dave, Do Something!" – exhorting then-Mayor Dinkins to contain a murder rate that was three-quarters of the way to what, with one huge exception, would end as the bloodiest year in city history.
Around the same time, Time magazine hit the stands with a cover proclaiming, "The Rotting of the Big Apple."
The headlines followed the Sept. 2, 1990 murder of Brian Watkins, a 22-year-old Utah tourist fatally stabbed in a Manhattan subway station while defending his mother from thugs. The slaying, one of 2,245 that terrible year, got the most attention, soiling New York's reputation around the world.
It was not a great time to be in the city – unless, of course, you were the producers of a TV show that found its inspiration in real life-and-death crime drama.
News that "Law & Order" is airing its final episode this month serves as reminder of how much New York has changed in the last two decades, how the show changed along with the city – and perhaps played a modest role in its renaissance.
Some early episodes were culled from crimes of the then-recent years: the tragic Happy Land social club fire, the murder of Jennifer Levin and the Bernie Goetz subway shooting. If you're old enough to recall those cases, you can remember a time when New York was a very different place to live, with a far darker image in the popular imagination.
Even as the city became ostensibly safer and even trendy, the show continued to thrive on what headline writers call a "good murder" – gallows-humor shorthand for a sordid case, usually involving prominent folks, that helps sell newspapers and draw TV news viewers.
In the middle of the show's run, of course, we come to that huge exception in the murder record, the most important headline of our time: 9/11.
As New York's primary safety fears turned from street crime to terror, "Law & Order" responded with a handful of episodes that played off our scary new world, including an 2006 show about an Arab terror cell, and plots touching on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But "Law & Order," in drawing from the headlines, also reflected our often-schizophrenic popular culture, which has become increasingly obsessed with celebrity silliness during nearly a decade of war and terror fears.
Some recent episodes have been based, loosely, on the David Letterman blackmail mess and the Eliot Spitzer scandal, and one poked fun at the drama-killing Reality TV genre with a plot focusing on a couple resembling Kate and Jon Gosselin.
It's significant, though, that with the Times Square bombing attempt still on our minds, the final "Law & Order" episode, set to air May 24, will be about a terror threat against students.
It's also worth noting that last year New York recorded its lowest number of homicides since 1963, when "The Naked City" – the TV show based on the movie that basically invented the police procedural formula for crime fare like "Law & Order" – ended its run.
Just as "The Naked City" captured the New York of its era, "Law & Order" provides a video time capsule of how much the city has changed – including physically – over the last 20 years.
Even in the bad old days, "Law & Order" was point of pride for many of us who live in New York. A favorite game was picking out locations and faces – stage actors, some pals or just folks from the neighborhood who found much-needed acting work between plays and day jobs on the "Law & Order" set.
Those bit parts accounted for some of the 4,000 jobs the show reportedly provided annually, generating an estimated $1 billion of economic activity over 20 years. "Law & Order" also helped spur a wave of programs set and/or filmed in New York. That the shows have gone from "Law & Order" to "Sex and the City" to "Gossip Girl" are just more signs of the times.
The demise of "Law & Order," not surprisingly, is making headlines. The sad news is the show will no longer be around to offer an ongoing chronicle of a dynamic city – and put a smart, streetwise spin on headlines yet to be written.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NY City News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Map shows wealthiest person in each state
PORTLAND, Ore. — How does Oregon's richest person stack up to the richest person in Washington or California? Or New York's compared to Connecticut's? Or Nebraska versus Kansas?
An interactive map created by real estate blog Movoto shows just how rich the wealthiest person in each state is, and which states have someone even richer.
In Oregon, most won't be surprised to find out that Phil Knight has the most dough. The co-founder of Nike NKE is worth an estimated $19 billion, making him one of the richest people on the planet, let alone the U.S.
But California has Knight beat, with Oracle ORCL CEO Larry Ellison's $49.9 billion, says Movoto. The author of the Movoto map, Christopher Kolmar, said he used data from Forbes and Celebrity Net Worth.
Interestingly, one family — and one company — has produced three people who are the richest in their respective states. Three heirs of Wal-Mart WMT founder Sam Walton are the richest people in Arkansas, Texas and Wyoming.
In the Northeast, hedge fund billionaires elbow each other for the top ranking. In Connecticut, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates is worth an estimated $14.4 billion. Fellow hedgie David Tepper, of Appaloosa Management, is the top-ranked resident of New Jersey, with $10 billion.
But both those stockpiles pale beside David Koch's estimated wealth of $41.1 billion, which makes him the richest New Yorker. (His brother Charles, by the way, is the richest person in Kansas.)
The "poorest" rich person in the country, Alaska's Robert Gillam, has a paltry $700 million.
And, of course, the richest of the rich Americans is Washington's Bill Gates. The Microsoft MSFT founder is sitting on around $80 billion (well, not exactly sitting -- he's donated billions to AIDS research so far). His buddy Warren Buffett, famously of Nebraska, has $63.1 billion.


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A bantamweight-tournament semifinal fight between Ed West (14-4 MMA, 1-0 BFC) and Jose Vega (9-3 MMA, 2-0 BFC) is set for this month's Bellator 30 event, officials today announced.
Bellator 30 takes place Sept. 30 at Fourth Street Live! in Louisville,
Ky. West vs. Vega is part of the night's FOX Sports
Net-televised main card.
The two 135-pounders look to advance to the tourney's finale, which crowns the organization's first-ever bantamweight champion.
The tourney's other semifinal fight, Nick Mamalis (a replacement for Ulysses Gomez, who's dealing with a staph infection) vs. Zach Makovsky, has not been announced.
West, a longtime Rage in the Cage fighter who also competed for the now-defunct IFL, made his Bellator debut and scored a unanimous-decision win over Bryan Goldsby at Bellator 27.
Vega, meanwhile, advanced to the semis with a unanimous-decision win over Danny Tims at Bellator 26. Prior to that, he scored a vicious 39-second knockout of Jarrod Card in a season-two event to earn his entry into the tournament field.
For more on Bellator 30, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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HARRISON, N.J. – The New York Red Bulls were down a man and a goal at halftime, but two exquisite goals saw them pull off an impressive rally that pushed them back into a playoff spot.
The 10-man Red Bulls came from behind and defeated the New England Revolution, 2-1, at Red Bull Arena on Saturday night through two splendid second-half strikes from Dax McCarty and Bradley Wright-Phillips. McCarty inspired the comeback with a magnificent chip in the 47th minute, and Wright-Phillips netted his latest on a sublime effort shortly after the hour mark.
New England had initially taken a 1-0 lead through a Charlie Davies strike, but could not stop a Red Bulls side that looked determined for three points that have proven quite elusive this season.
New York moved to 6-6-10 on the year with the victory and into fourth place in the Eastern Conference after sitting in sixth following Wednesday's 1-1 draw at Real Salt Lake. The fifth-placed Revolution fell to 8-12-2 with the result and have now lost nine of their last 10 games.
There was an early moment of controversy in the match, as Davies was given a yellow card in the penalty area for simulation. Ibrahim Sekagya made contact on the play in the second minute, but match official Allen Chapman did not see enough in the challenge to call it a foul and instead issued Davies a yellow card.
Davies punished the Red Bulls 18 minutes later, scoring his first Revolution goal with a headed effort from close range. Teal Bunbury beat Roy Miller on the dribble to start the scoring sequence and hit a cross that was deflected by Sekagya into the path of Davies, who celebrated his first goal since Sept. 10 2011 by doing his patented "Stanky Leg" celebration.
If the match was a physical one before the goal, it turned into a near cage match after it. Chris Duvall cleaned out Kelyn Rowe on a shoulder-to-shoulder barge inside the 18-yard box in the 33rd minute that Chapman deemed fair, and Bunbury got away with an apparent elbow to the face of Ambroise Oyongo early in the second half.
The Red Bulls were penalized just before halftime, however. Center back Matt Miazga – starting in place of suspended Jamison Olave – went in late on Lee Nguyen just past the midfield stripe and the two collided hard before Chapman issued a straight red to the young defender.
New York were further handicapped at halftime as Tim Cahill had to be replaced by Eric Alexander because of a groin injury, but the hosts did not look like a team playing with 10 men in the second half and struck immediately.
McCarty received a pass from Alexander about 20 yards away from goal, and proceeded to chip a gorgeous shot just inside the far post past a helpless Bobby Shuttleworth. It was McCarty's second goal of the season and first since March.
Continuing to play with a three-man back line even after scoring the equalizer, the Red Bulls looked good throwing numbers in the attack and found the go-ahead goal in the 63rd minute. Lloyd Sam drew two defenders and played a ball into space for Wright-Phillips, who pulled off a quick cutback on an unsuspecting A.J. Soares and proceeded to curl a sublime left-footed effort off the post and in.
The goal was Wright-Phillips' league-leading 18th of the season, his seventh in as many games, and put him one behind legendary striker Juan Pablo Angel for the Red Bulls' all-time season scoring record set in 2007.
Substitute forward Peguy Luyindula nearly iced the game in the 86th minute, but his low shot caromed off the far post after rolling by a frozen Shuttleworth.
The Revolution had one late look to tie when Kevin Alston got on the end of a corner kick from the left. Unfortunately for the Revolution, his close-range header went over the crossbar.
The Red Bulls will now send three players to the MLS All-Star Game in Portland, Oregon before visiting the Chicago Fire next Sunday. The Revolution, meanwhile, are off until a home game against the Portland Timbers on Aug. 16.
Franco Panizo covers the New York Red Bulls for MLSsoccer.com. He can be reached by email at email@example.com.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Dax McCarty
|Shielded inexperienced defense in first half, then turned on the skill in the 2nd half. All in all, a complete performance
|Bradley Wright-Phillips
|He may benefit from playing with Thierry Henry, but BWP showed why he's leading the league in scoring with well-taken goal
|Charlie Davies
|Scored his first MLS goal in nearly three years, and provided a good spark for Revs in 1st half before team fell apart after break


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Lieutenant Sounds Off
- When we went through the police academy, we all had some senior police officer tell us "Kid – this job ain't what it used to be." Well,it ain't. No matter when you came on the job, it is never the same as it used to be and it never will be. However, some things do stay the same.
My father told me that when he entered the Chicago Police Academy in September of 1938, he heard this same saying from his instructors. Now, as I enter my thirtieth year as a Chicago police officer, proudly wearing my father's Lieutenant's star number, I find myself saying exactly the same thing to the young kids working for me.
In August of 1968 after the Democratic Convention, the Chicago Police were vilified by the media across the country as thugs and the enemy. The Chicago police officers at the convention were ordered there. They did not freely choose to be there like the demonstrators who attended the battle on Michigan Avenue. The officers were there doing their duty. Politicians and officials called for federal indictments against the police. Eight Chicago police officers were charged with civil rights violations and 41 officers were disciplined after an internal police investigation. Oh, yeah and by the way, 119 police officers were injured during the convention. That part never seems to get mentioned.
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By Amir Shah, Associated Press
May 23, 2014
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Indian Consulate in western Afghanistan's Herat province Friday, an assault that injured no diplomatic staff, police said. Indian officials said there had been a threat against its diplomats in Afghanistan, but gave no other details.
At least three gunmen opened fire on the consulate from a nearby home, provincial police Chief Abdul Sami Qatra said. Qatra and local police spokesman Raouf Ahmadi said police killed two gunmen.
Gunfire continued into Friday morning. Ahmadi said officers thought there could be a fourth gunmen involved in the fighting as gunfire came from different directions. Police officers surrounding the area had orders to fire carefully due to other residential compounds nearby, Ahmadi said.
By midmorning Friday, the building was ablaze, though it wasn't clear what started the fire. Gen. Taj Mohammed Jahid of the Afghan National Army said soldiers believed the gunmen had hid in the basement. Jahid said soldiers continued to search for the gunmen.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Afghanistan is experiencing a rise in insurgent attacks as foreign troops plan to withdraw from the country by the end of the year and as the country faces a coming runoff presidential election.
Syed Akbaruddin, a spokesman for India's Ministry of External Affairs, said a deployment of the paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police at the consulate held off the assault until Afghan forces arrived. That force is typically responsible for guarding most of India's roughly 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) border with China, much of it running over snowy mountain ranges.
Akbaruddin said all Indians at the consulate were safe.
"Our consulate and our diplomatic presence in Afghanistan have been under threat," Akbaruddin told TimesNow TV, without elaborating.
Herat lies near Afghanistan's border with Iran and is considered one of the safer cities in the country, with a strong Iranian influence. In September 2013, Taliban gunmen launched a similar assault on the U.S. Consulate in the city, killing at least four Afghans but failing to enter the compound or hurt any Americans.
Foreign embassies and consulates remain a favorite target of insurgents in Afghanistan, but many are protected by high walls and multiple gates, as well as security forces.
India has invested more than $2 billion in Afghan projects, including roads and power projects. In August 2013, a botched bombing against the Indian Consulate in the Afghan city of Jalalabad near the border with Pakistan killed nine people, including six children. No Indian officials were hurt. Two attacks on the Indian Embassy in Kabul in 2008 and 2009 that killed 75 people.
Groups known for targeting Indian interests include Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was blamed for the 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people, and the Haqqani network, which is based in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.
Lashkar-e-Taiba has been active in Afghanistan in recent years, often teaming up with insurgent groups operating in the eastern part of the country near the frontier with Pakistan. In 2010, two Kabul guest houses popular among Indians were attacked, killing more than six Indians. India blamed that attack on the group.
Sameer Patil, a national security expert at the Mumbai-based think tank Indian Council on Global Relations, said it was likely that anti-India elements from Pakistan were behind the attack. India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their independence from Britain in 1947, though relations recently have thawed slightly between the two nuclear-armed countries.
"It is likely that by carrying out such violence, anti-India elements in Pakistan may be testing the resolve of India's new government, led by Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, on terrorism and how he responds to such acts of violence," Patil in a statement.
The violence comes as the Taliban has launched its annual spring offensive promising to step up attacks against Afghan security forces in a bid to undermine the Western-backed government. The Taliban also have pledged to disrupt voting as Afghans prepare for a second round of presidential elections on June 14. The first round was relatively peaceful, but no candidate won a majority forcing a runoff vote between the top two candidates — Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.
Associated Press writer Muneeza Naqvi in New Delhi contributed to this report.
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Robert Rauschenberg is typically described as a "protean" artist, and for good reason. Diversity, versatility, and inventiveness have defined his art. "Rauschenberg has created in a range of mediums, materials, and techniques probably wider and more varied than any other artist of this century."(1) This breadth is embodied in Whistle Stop (Spread), 1977, with its inclusion of fabric, painting, drawing, transfer-prints, and real objects. In its juxtaposition and fusion of various forms, Whistle Stop relates to the "Combines" that Rauschenberg developed in 1954. These works combined painting and sculpture, abstraction and representation, in order to bridge art and life so that the artist could, as he famously said, "act in the gap between the two."(2) The array of images and objects comprising a Combine often suggest, but rarely support, a sustained narrative reading. Instead, the elements in Rauschenberg's art trigger associational meanings for each viewer. Still, the will to uncover and decipher an underlying and unifying story is powerful. This is true of Whistle Stop, especially because the artist dedicated the piece to his father.
Whistle Stop contains approximately fifty reproductions of photographs and illustrations clipped from books, magazines, and newspapers. The images range from Abraham Lincoln to a lunar landscape. Arrowheads, birds, comic strips, diagrams of a house and a car, and a Neoclassical painting of a young woman drawing are among the reproductions that have been affixed to three of the five panels by a solvent transfer-printing technique. The process involves laying the images on a flat-bed press, spraying them with solvent, and pressing them onto fabric, which is then laminated to the panels.(3) The technique reverses the images and gives them a uniform smoothness and blurriness. Besides numerous images, Whistle Stop includes a blinking red light and two doors (normally, the left door remains closed, while the right one is wide open). The doors give the piece an architectural quality, although the work is installed like a painting and hung at least eight inches off the floor.(4) The images behind the doors are contained within boxes, lightly delineated in graphite, which parallel the spaces created by the slats and frame of each door. . . . Rauschenberg, however, plays with all his images not only by reversing them but also by placing some on their sides and inverting others. This leads to a dynamic slippage between representation and abstraction.
Whistle Stop was the second of two pieces the Museum commissioned from Rauschenberg in 1975–76. For the Museum's Great American Rodeo exhibition, Rauschenberg created Rodeo Palace, 1976. The multitude of images and forms that make up Rodeo Palace marked a departure from the more austere works Rauschenberg had been producing since 1970, and initiated a series called Spreads. Over the next five years, the artist produced fifty-two Spreads. The series' name carries several connotations for the artist: "'Spread" means as far as I can make it stretch, and land (like a farmer's 'spread'), and also the stuff you put on toast."(5) The range of diverse meanings Rauschenberg attached to the term is evident in Whistle Stop, an early Spread.
The very title of the work is open-ended. A "whistle-stop" (a word that, coincidentally, first appeared around 1925, the year of Rauschenberg's birth) signifies a small station at which trains only stop on signal. It can also refer to a small community, or a brief personal appearance, as by a politician on tour.(6) The artist may also be linking the word's meaning of "brief appearance" to his feelings toward his hometown, an isolated place that he could not wait to leave (and, then, not return to for forty years). "There's a lot of sadness about Port Arthur. And I had a terrible time in school. I didn't have a particularly celebrated childhood there."(7) These early years were fundamentally marked by his adverse relationship with his father, Ernest. The younger Rauschenberg felt he continually disappointed his father, who told him on his deathbed, "I never did like you, you son of a bitch."(8)
Of all the images in Whistle Stop, the most intriguing in regard to the father-son relationship is the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that appears behind the left door. A heroic and tragic figure, Lincoln was "father" to a house divided against itself. Art historically, the Lincoln portrait recalls the American painter John Peto's wistful trompe l'oeil compositions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which, with their multiple, random images and references to doors, anticipate Whistle Stop.(9) The Lincoln portrait also conjures up the biblical Abraham, who was called upon, and was prepared, to sacrifice his son.
Ernest Rauschenberg suffered a fatal heart attack in October 1963, and the artist felt that he had "died before I could make him proud of me."(10) In 1976, when he began work on Whistle Stop, Robert Rauschenberg was honored by the National Collection of American Art (now the Smithsonian Museum of American Art) as the artist of the American Bicentennial. The same year, he appeared on a self-designed cover of Time magazine as "The Most Living Artist." In dedicating Whistle Stop to his father, the artist was perhaps seeking to secure a measure of paternal approval by opening, and closing, doors to his past.
— Mark Thistlethwaite
(1) Walter Hopps, "Introduction: Rauschenberg's Art of Fusion," in Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson, Robert Rauschenberg Retrospective (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1997): 20.
(2) Quoted in Dorothy C. Miller, ed., Sixteen Americans (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1959): 58.
(3) Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg/Art and Life (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990): 214.
(4) Undated typescript, "Installation Instructions for Whistle Stop by Robert Rauschenberg," Registrar's Files, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
(5) Quoted in Thomas B. Hess, "Replenishing Rauschenberg," New York (16 May 1977): 79.
(6) Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed
(7) Quoted in "The Boy from Port Arthur," Art and Antiques (January 1986): 60. The artist suffered in school because of dyslexia, which was undiagnosed at the time.
(8) Ibid.
(9) See, for example, Rack Painting with Jack of Hearts, 1902, in the collection of the Des Moines Art Center.
(10) Quoted in Jill Johnston, "The World Outside His Window," Art in America 80 (April 1992): 118.


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Gerben, you beat me to the punch. In light of Tantek's excellent article and day 17, I'm trying to do away with hacks where possible and the * html hack it a prime candidate. So I modified the CSS a bit and used
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Welsh singer-songwriter Cate le Bon produced one of our favorite, underappreciated (well, by those who didn't hear it) albums of 2013 with Mug Museum. Blending the cool demeanor and husky voice of someone like Nico with jagged post-punk guitars and beats, Mug Museum sounds like a hard-to-place unearthed precious relic, like something whispered into your ear.
She'll perform at Amoeba Hollywood April 30 at 7 p.m. Before the show, we caught up with le Bon, who recently moved to L.A.
What spurred your move from Wales to Los Angeles?
I have always been intrigued by Los Angeles ever since coming to the city to rehearse with Neon Neon way back when. When the opportunity presented itself to record an album out here, which has always been a dream of mine, it felt like it was time to bite the bullet. Money mouth etc. ...The weather is also a definite perk.
I read that you wrote most of the album in your home country, but I do feel a bit of SoCal sunshine poking through in Mug Museum. Do you think the new locale affected the sound of the album?
It has most definitely seeped into the album, but how, I am not able to say yet. I think that will become apparent to me when I listen back in many years.
It has to be a huge change. How do you feel playing and recording music here differs from doing so in the U.K.?