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DELTA, PA - Operators at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station removed Unit 2 from service at 8:00 p.m. yesterday to begin a planned refueling outage. During the outage, Exelon employees and supplemental workers will perform maintenance activities and replace nearly one-third of the reactor's fuel to keep the unit running safely and efficiently for another two-year cycle.
To support this work, the station will utilize the talents and expertise of more than 2,200 additional workers, many of whom travel to Peach Bottom from outside the area. For several months preceding and following the outage, the influx of workers provides a significant boost to the local economy.
"This is the largest number of supplemental workers we've had supporting an outage in recent years," said Site Vice President Garey Stathes. "We are proud of our history of safe and efficient refueling outages, and it wouldn't be possible without support from our neighbors in York, Lancaster and Harford County."
During the outage, technicians will also replace Peach Bottom's Unit 2 low pressure turbines with new, high-efficiency components. When this project is complete, Unit 2 is expected to generate an additional 30 megawatts. The turbines on Unit 3 were replaced during last year's outage.
Peach Bottom is home to two boiling water reactors that went online in 1974 and jointly produce over 2,200 megawatts of electricity, powering approximately two million homes.


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Why are Presbyterians divided? Why don't the Presbyterian, Reformed, Congregationalist, Uniting and United church and other Calvinistic churches come together as one church and called it the Calvinist Church? Just like the Lutherans named themselves after their founder Martin Luther.
Thank you for your question. There are several parts to it, so let me try to go through some of them.
First of all we can be thankful that the Lord Jesus Christ prayed for the unity of the church, otherwise, given man's sinfulness, there would never be any hope for us! But in John 17 Christ, interceding for the church, prayed that all his people may be one. Has the Father heard and answered Christ's prayer?
We have to say that the Father has both answered and will answer his Son's prayer. There will be a great, final display of unity before the throne of God which the book of Revelation anticipates in chapter 7:9. No divisions of any kind will remain in that because all sin will be removed and every Christian will know even as he is known as the truth of Christ's glory and of heaven itself will be completely clear. So Christ's prayer for the church will be fully answered in eternity.
Here below, however, it is true that we see many divisions. There are certainly divisions between those who believe the Scriptures to be God's inspired Word and those who don't. There can't be unity when there is such basic disagreement about who God is, who Christ is, what is sin, how we are saved, and so on. Lies and truth cannot co-exist. That explains some divisions.
There are other divisions that are the result of different interpretations of Scripture. Some Christians practice credo-baptism, the baptism of only those who can make a credible profession of faith. Reformed Baptists would say that. Others, like the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, believe the Bible teaches that God is at work in the covenant to call families to himself and to work through the normal means of parental training to bring children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, so that children do rightfully belong in the church as baptized members because they are part of the covenant. There are also divisions over the kind of church government which is biblical and proper. Congregationalist churches believe that each congregation exists separately unto itself while Presbyterians believe that Scripture teaches that churches are connected to one another.
There are divisions because of history and circumstance. Some Reformed churches developed in Germany or in the Netherlands, others developed in Scotland and Ireland or France. Often there is an easy going back and forth between those churches because they each have very similar and their view of the church is very similar. Here is what the Westminster Confession of Faith (chapter 25) says about the church:
Chapter 25, Of the Church
1. The catholic or universal church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the Head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.
2. The visible church, which is also catholic or universal under the gospel (not confined to one nation, as before under the law), consists of all those throughout the world that profess the true religion; and of their children: and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, the house and family of God, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation.
3. Unto this catholic visible church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering and perfecting of the saints, in this life, to the end of the world: and doth, by his own presence and Spirit, according to his promise, make them effectual thereunto.
4. This catholic church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them.
5. The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated, as to become no churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan. Nevertheless, there shall be always a church on earth, to worship God according to his will.
6. There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor can the pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof."
There is real and active unity around the truth. Untruth can never bring unity, but truth always should. Whether or not we see organic, actual, visible unity among the churches, even among Reformed churches, Christ's prayer is being answered when I receive another brother or sister because they confess the same Lord and Savior I do. I have fellowship with them even as we might disagree about baptism or church government or even whether they believe that Jesus Christ died for those whom the Father gave him alone. If they have their hope in Christ to save them from their sins, we have a place to start in building our unity of the faith in the bond of peace (Eph. 4:1ff). I encourage you to start with the truth of the gospel and begin to work out from there, not letting disagreements with other believers over doctrine (unless their beliefs are against what the Bible teaches!) keep you are seeing the unity that the truth of God's Word can and does bring.
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Back in 1991, your esteemed Grierson & Leitch, then both 16 years old, sat down with this issue of Entertainment Weekly and planned out our holidays. We did not have Box Office Mojo's release calendar, and the Mattoon, Illinois local newspaper wouldn't tell you what movies were playing at the Cinema 1-2-3 until the day before they opened. Entertainment Weekly knew movies that were coming out months from now, movies we had never heard of before. It was our Bible and our roadmap and our Sputnik to the outside world.
Out of outdated, misguided deference to those halcyon, sexless days, we still pick up our Summer Movie Preview edition of EW every year. It's the one issue that feels vital, the one we can spread out in front of us and see, with vivid, depressing clarity, what the next four months of our lives entail.
In the wake of last week's open salivating over The Dark Knight Rises, we thought we'd have both of us list the 10 summer movies we are most anticipating and the ones we're most dreading. Summer movies are more about anticipation than payoff, so this seems almost more true to the spirit of the season than actually writing about the films. Though we'll be doing that too.
We used the Entertainment Weekly Summer Movie Preview release calendar, of course.
Most anticipated:
1. The Dark Knight Rises. I think I made this pretty clear here, but let's not forget that Alfred almost cries in the trailer. I still think it's kind of amazing that Michael freaking Caine plays Alfred.
2. To Rome With Love. I wouldn't be much of a Woody Allen fan if I didn't pick this No. 2. I'm also extremely curious to see if he'll continue to go for a wider audience — like he obviously did with Midnight In Paris, his protests aside — or if he'll crawl back into the Upper West Side Whatever Works attic. Plus, he's acting in this film, for the first time in six years.
3. Prometheus. All right, all right, I give, I give: The relentless (and relentlessly terrific) marketing campaign has won me over. I still don't care if it's an Alien prequel or not.
4. Compliance. This was the truly creepy breakout from the Sundance Film Festival, and its premise grabs you immediately: A disembodied voice/prank caller pretending to be a cop forces a restaurant employee to debase and torture a fellow employee. What will we do if we believe an authority figure wants us to do it? This was also Grierson's favorite film from Sundance.
5. The Avengers. I'll never quite be convinced that they needed four different movies to set this up—the dullest parts of Iron Man 2 are all the scenes with S.H.I.E.L.D.- and I'm not enough of a comic book guy to geek out in the appropriate, expected fashion...but this is made by smart people who know what they're doing. Plus, I can't wait to see Mark Ruffalo as the world's most shrugging, mumbling Hulk.
6. Brave. It's Pixar. I even liked Cars 2, so I'd be accurately described as "in the tank," by this point.
7. Safety Not Guaranteed. Another Sundance hit with an intriguing premise—magazine staffers profile an eccentric who claims to be able to travel back in time—and a beguiling main couple played by Mark Duplass and Parks & Recreation's Aubrey Plaza. This is your Brooklyn date movie, I suspect.
8. The Amazing Spider-Man. Pretty sure—certain, actually—that we don't need another Spider-Man movie, and I'm a (500) Days of Summer non-believer. But Andrew Garfield might be the most exciting young actor working right now, so we're more than willing to give him, and it, a chance. No emo dance scenes, though, please.
9. Savages. I'm probably remembering high school too fondly, but I'm desperate for Oliver Stone to remember he's Oliver Stone and start fucking shit up again. This twisted drug romance—with a crazy cast that includes Blake Lively, Uma Thurman, John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro, Taylor Kitsch and Salma Hayek and is about someone producing The Greatest Marijuana Ever Created—might be his last chance, ever.
10. Total Recall. It appears to be appropriately different from Arnold Country, but I'm less atwitter about the sci-fi reinvention and more amped for Bryan Cranston as the bad guy.
Least anticipated:
1. The Dictator. Wait, we're not gonna be embarrassed about Sacha Baron Cohen in five years the way we are about Roberto Benigni now, are we? Are we?
2. Men In Black 3 That Will Smith took four years off from movies, and this was the first movie he did when he came back, tells you all you need to know about Will Smith anymore. And good Lord, those "viral" ads.
3. That's My Boy. Adam Sandler going R-rated. I bet he still doesn't change his shirt when he walks on set.
4. Ted. That the Family Guy guy is making a movie about a "foul-mouthed" teddy bear is not encouraging. That Mark Wahlberg — who has the comedic self-awareness of a cantaloupe—is his lead has me wondering if I can watch this with headphones on.
5. Premium Rush. I like Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon, but a whole movie about a bike messenger? I repeat: Bicyclists are ruining this city.
A quick note: I'm not including movies I've already seen at festivals that are really great and that you should definitely see, like Safety Not Guaranteed, Take This Waltz, Your Sister's Sister and Compliance. I'm also leaving off The Avengers, which I saw early and can't yet say anything about. So, these are the 10 movies I'm most excited about that I have yet to catch.
Most anticipated:
1. The Dark Knight Rises. I agree with everything Will said about The Dark Knight. That movie made my Top 10 of the last decade, so, yes, my expectations are pretty high for this new film. Between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale have delivered one of the most exciting and compelling franchises in recent years. (Yes, I prefer these films to the Lord of the Rings movies.) I am scared they will somehow screw it up, but they haven't stepped wrong yet.
2. Moonrise Kingdom. I'm one of those weirdos who thinks Wes Anderson's movies have actually gotten better as he's moved along in his career. The Darjeeling Limited features one of Adrien Brody's best performances—Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman are pretty great in it, too—and The Fantastic Mr. Fox is the best kids movie in recent memory, because it's not really for kids. Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's return to live action, and he's got some familiar faces alongside first-timers Bruce Willis and Edward Norton. Those who hate Anderson will roll their eyes. I can't wait.
3. Magic Mike. Of late, Steven Soderbergh has made one head-scratching decision after another. He makes a film about prostitution starring a porn actress (The Girlfriend Experience), he does a goofy true-story comedy about a perpetual liar (The Informant!), and then he decides to make a hand-to-hand combat action movie with an MMA star (Haywire). But I loved all three of those films. So now he thinks the world needs a male-stripper comedy starring Channing Tatum. Where do I put my two bucks?
4. Brave. I've been sour on Pixar recently. Wall-E was amazing, but Up and Toy Story 3 were only OK. And the less said about Cars 2 the better. That's why I'm oddly optimistic about Brave, which at least seems like the beloved animation studio is swinging for the fences again, as opposed to making sure they sell a ton of toys, which they'll probably do anyway. Yes, Brave is also their first film to feature a central female protagonist, but I'm more intrigued by the storybook quality to the animation.
5. The Amazing Spider-Man. Don't tell anyone, but I never really loved the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films. Kinda fun, sorta silly and dopey. That's why, even though it's a familiar strategy now, I'm glad that The Amazing Spider-Man is going in a darker direction. And it may be stupid to admit this, but I'm really rooting for Andrew Garfield. He's been terrific in everything from Boy A to Never Let Me Go to The Social Network.
6. The Campaign. Or: C'mon, Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, Make This One Good. I remain Team Ferrell, but I'd like the guy to deliver a really great comedy. It's been too far long since I've truly and unconditionally loved one of his movies. As for Galifianakis, he sure looked bored in The Hangover Part II and Due Date, huh? Still, The Campaign seems like an ideal fit for both of them. Now they just need to be funny in it.
7. Prometheus. OK, fine, you're excited by the trailer. And the movie has lots of great people in it. But have we forgotten than Ridley Scott hasn't made a great film since Black Hawk Down? That was 11 years ago. My hopes are high for Prometheus, but I just wanted to throw that out there. The man has broken our hearts before.
8. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. You ever get the feeling Jim Carrey looks at Steve Carell's career and its mixture of comedy and drama and thinks, "That should have been me?" Seeking a Friend may drown in its own quirkiness, but this could be the summer's one smart romantic comedy for grownups. (I'm a little worried about Carell's other summer movie, Hope Springs.) Extra points if the world actually does end in the film.
9. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. My hunch is AL:VH will either be really fun in a dumb way, or it'll be just plain dumb. But unlike a lot of this summer's action movies, this one seems defiantly funky and weird. I genuinely don't know what to expect, which is why I'm so curious about it.
10. The Bourne Legacy. Hollywood has decided Jeremy Renner is going to be an action star. He's in The Avengers. He was in the newest Mission: Impossible, if unimpressively. And now he's expected to take over the Bourne series from Matt Damon (albeit playing a different character). Now we'll get to see how much of the greatness of the Bourne films had to do with Damon and Paul Greengrass, the director of the last two installments, and how much was the work of Tony Gilroy, who moves up from co-writing the previous movies to directing this one.
Least anticipated:
1. That's My Boy. At least it's not Grown Ups 2, which will come our way next summer.
2. The Dictator. I love Borat. I was mildly amused by Bruno. I'm already sick of The Dictator, and it hasn't even opened yet.
3. Men In Black 3 You know about all the problems this film has had, right? Now ask yourself: Did I really like Men in Black II? And even if I did, was I dying for a sequel 10 years later? Someone should tell Will Smith that we really don't need him anymore—that's what Jay Pharoah is for.
4. What to Expect When You're Expecting. What's more hilarious than a pregnancy-advice book?
5. Ice Age: Continental Drift. These movies keep coming, and yet Men of a Certain Age got cancelled. Ray Romano's life is very strange.
Grierson & Leitch is a regular column about the movies. Follow us on Twitter, @griersonleitch. Top image by Jim Cooke.


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The Long View on Linux, Part 1
I met Phil in 1990, not long after I met my wife, Joyce. It was kind of a package deal. Joyce collected interesting friends, and Phil was near the top of her list. She had met him earlier in Seattle while she was dating another UNIX geek. Both shared the curse of knowing they were smarter than pretty much everybody else (although Joyce is a bit more modest about it), along with a raft of common interests including travel, business, food and constant repartee spiced with affectionate insults.
Joyce always stayed at Phil's house when she visited Seattle (we live in the Bay Area). And, the fact that he can say "I've been sleeping with your wife longer than you have" and I'll buy him a beer, explains a lot about the man. Remarks like this are pure Phil. He knows where the line is, so he crosses it. Just one thing that makes him a great geek.
Phil is also a polymath. He's not just good at a lot of stuff - he's downright brilliant.
Take auto mechanics. The guy personally keeps a three-decade-old Mercedes diesel on the road, plus an electric car he made himself out of an old Volkswagen Rabbit.
He's an electronics wizard who knows a frightening amount about broadcast electronics. Being a former obsessive radio freak, I thought I knew a thing or two about radio engineering. That was until Phil and I got to talking about his transmitter-hunting days as a teenage geek in Los Angeles. As a kid growing up in New Jersey, I used to go down to the Meadowlands with a transistor radio to solve the mystery of which sets of giant towers belonged to which monster AM radio stations. Meanwhile, Phil and his buddies played go-find-it games with little home-brew transmitters they'd hide around the LA basin, sometimes playing tricks like rigging the things up to railroad tracks, so the locus of radiation would be twenty miles long. Advantage: Phil.
Last summer at our house, Phil fixed an FM transmitter kit that had been vexing me for a year. It took him about three minutes, during which he explained what was wrong with not only my tools, but with the transmitter design, starting with the chip that did most of the work. His own home-brew transmitter (of his own design, I am sure) was better. How could I argue? Why bother?
It's worse with computers, because that's Phil's business. He's been around computing longer than most humans have been on earth. He also knows a significant trend when he sees one, which is why he turned his attention to Linux before most of the world even noticed the Net.
In '93 and '94, he flattered me by including my e-mail address in a list that explored the idea of doing a free-software magazine. I followed as best I could (for a geek who was definitely not in the same caste as the other listees). But we were all surprised when Phil suddenly decided to do a magazine on Linux. What the hell was Linux? Phil knew.
In '94, when the 1.0 kernel came out, so did Linux Journal. I was amazed to see how steadily it grew, and how (as usual) Phil seemed to be right about Linux's inevitable triumph in the marketplace. Even though it was free, business would find it more useful than most of the costly stuff it competed with, he said, just like it did with the Net. And, as with the Net, commercial development was inevitable.
In early '99, Phil showed me Star Office running on a Linux laptop with KDE. It looked like such a Windows-killer that the possibilities blew my mind. Then he asked me to join Linux Journal to expand coverage of business issues, so I did. (This was right around the same time as I started co-writing The Cluetrain Manifesto, which was kind of a double-whammy career move for me.)
Last August, Red Hat went public. Cobalt, VA Linux and Andover followed. Billions of dollars in new Linux wealth was created in less than two seasons. And then, it melted like snow at the end of winter. The mainstream press, especially the old PC rags, have been tarring Linux as last year's fad. But, as Phil is quick to point out, the sum of Linux companies together have a lot more value than they did a year ago. Again, the long view. Since we're both 52, it's one I understand.
I interview a lot of CEOs who are hot for some newsy reason. But interviewing Phil makes sense for other reasons. One, he's a major Linux figure whose modesty has kept him out of his own pages. Another is that he has a perspective that comes from something more than transient good fortune. He was smart to begin with, but he's learned from experience, and he's had more than just about everybody else.
Doc Searls: You were an old hand at UNIX when Linus was still a kid messing around with a Commodore VIC-20. What can you tell us about UNIX that seems to be getting forgotten as the Linux industry moves into enterprises where the most familiar computing worlds are Microsoft NT and Windows?
Phil Hughes: My first UNIX exposure was in 1980, when I convinced the company I worked for that a UNIX system and the C language would solve all our problems. This was with an engineering-based company that manufactured semiconductor test equipment.
What we needed was a software development environment where a handful of engineers and programmers were writing code to control the equipment we were designing. The reason UNIX was the right answer is that we needed a cooperative environment where multiple users could share files; we needed compilers and assemblers; and we needed the building blocks to put together some support tools, such as programs that could reformat and download code into the machines we were building.
Someone, possibly Dennis Ritchie, described UNIX as a toolbox full of tools. When you were presented with a problem, you would divide it up into a set of smaller problems and then see if there were tools available to solve each smaller problem. It wasn't uncommon to write a little C code, maybe an awk or sed script, and a few calls to utilities such as sort and uniq and glue the whole thing together with a shell script.
This is much different from today's GUI approach, where you find one huge monolithic program and try to coax it into doing what you want. Maybe you can -- but, if you can't, you are at a dead end.
Doc: This is the stuff I learned (which might be an exaggeration, but let's pretend) in the excellent "Intro to Linux" class I took at SGI a few weeks ago. What amazed me was that the toolbox nature of UNIX made both creating tools and solving problems extremely easy. Yeah, it was certainly a brainer to learn shell commands, but it was a revelation to learn how easy it is to make and move directories, to view and change permissions, to rename and move a file at the same time. Same thing with searching through grep and regular expressions. Sure, you can do sophisticated searches with the GUI Find command in KDE, Gnome and the PC operating systems, but the speed, flexibility and innate sophistication just aren't there. And they're slow.
Phil: This is always an issue when we hire new people. They can be productive faster if we hand them Star Office, but investing in them and teaching them shell commands, vi, troff and such, makes them much more productive in the long run. The best example is in editorial, where everyone uses vi to prepare articles for layout. It would take so much longer if they used a word processor instead of vi. People like Darcy who have been with us a long time are proof of this.
Doc: I'm wondering about two things: 1) how long it takes people to learn Linux basics such as the ones you just listed, and 2) how much people who are not geeks feel empowered to solve their own problems. Some context: I've noticed in most businesses that people tend to learn five things each about Microsoft Office: how to format a document, how to do sums in a spreadsheet, how to build a slide, how to write and send e-mail and how to call a tech for help when the system fails.
Phil: Some of the people we have hired were UNIX people, so they had all the background they needed. The majority, however, didn't. Those who were most successful at learning Linux started out in jobs where they could be fairly productive with a minimum of Linux knowledge. Darcy is an example. She started here five years ago as a shipping person. She needed to learn only our proprietary database system and e-mail, as far as computers was concerned. As she learned more, she got to do more.
We see few geeks who decide they can solve their own problems on a serious level. Some have shown an interest in learning a lot more. This is why we virtually gave some systems to a few employees.
Doc: So GUI computing is secondary at Linux Journal. For the most part, the company runs in command-line mode.
Phil: Yes, but I'm not saying that GUI computing is bad, just that it isn't always the solution. My big concern is that it is changing the way people think. Rather than looking at a problem and logically addressing it, I see people deciding that a spreadsheet is the solution to every problem because all they understand is spreadsheets.
Or, to go back to a common analogy, everything looks like a nail if the only tool you have is a hammer. You can keep adding features to your hammer, but you still have a hammer.
Doc: I see it as something like auto mechanics. You can do so much more if you know how the computer really works. And too few people do, just as too few people know how a car works.
Case in point. A few days ago, a friend dropped us off at the airport in my old Subaru wagon. On the way home, she panicked as it gradually lost power and finally seemed to blow up, with big bad noises and white smoke billowing out from under the hood. It was a harrowing story as she told it, shaded by her certainty that the motor had exploded. I've never been a professional mechanic, but for years I drove nothing but cars that required a toolbox in the trunk, and I've done a lot of problem-solving work on a lot of cars. When I listened carefully to her report, it was clear that we were dealing with a cooling issue here. Sure enough, I found a broken plastic part in the middle of a hose line between the heater and the rest of the cooling system. So, I took the short tube that survived from the broken plastic part, shoved it into the ends of the two hoses, clamped them down and had the mother back on the road again in about 20 minutes. The difference is that my friend didn't understand how cars worked, or even how to fix simple problems. She never even looked at the water temperature gauge on the dashboard.
I think a UNIX jock looks at the OS in the same way a mechanically inclined driver looks at a car. If problems develop, chances are they're exposed and fixable.
Phil: It's exactly the same thing. You can even continue down this same line with the car. You don't have to understand physics to drive a car, but if you do, you will be better prepared to deal with situations such as when you are driving on slick pavement.
Doc: I think you also understand when something is a major failure, or a problem you can keep an eye on or even overlook. Something that blew my mind, as a GUI guy, about Linux (and UNIX) was that it was capable of sustaining all kinds of program and other failures, and carrying on anyway. Failures are rocks in a wide stream of processes that just keep flowing. To follow the automotive metaphor, in a sealed-hood system such as Windows or Macintosh, minor failures bring the whole thing down. The fact that Windows finally evolved enough to handle multitasking did nothing to reduce the number of what NASA calls Crit-One failures: fatal problems there's no way around. I'm told Windows 2000, the latest NT actually, is better at this, but there is no way logically (it seems to me) that it can compete with Linux for reliability, simply because too much of it is off-limits to mechanics. It's in the secret bits, sealed in concrete.
Yet the PC press doesn't ever talk about this, simply (I think) because they're used to driving fancy cars with automatic transmissions and sealed hoods. The UNIX world -- including the whole Net, and the way it works -- is a whole that cannot be understood in terms of a few personal parts, no matter how fancy they are.
Phil: NT was a new system written from the ground up. Thus, it has some advantages in that it could be written to address problems with older MS products. But, there are two problems. The first is compatibility. NT has a lot of stuff in it to make it almost compatible with Windows9x. That means it has to support some of the shortcomings of Windows9x. Second, it has an amazing number of new lines of code. That guarantees a certain number of bugs.
Doc: One of the virtues of a Linux box running a GUI such as KDE or GNOME is that you can go into terminal mode and work in the command line. You can't do that with Windows. And you can't do that with a Macintosh, although the next version of the Mac GUI will sit on open-source BSD with a Mac kernel and command-line access. If you want, you can open a shell, get in there and do real computing stuff. I'll be interested in seeing if that makes any difference in the marketplace. Apple is already quietly running most of its heavy servers on the new OS. This may be the result of Steve Jobs spending ten years in the UNIX world at NeXT.
Phil: You can get a shell on a Windows box, but there are many fewer capabilities and a lot less sophistication than with Linux. I seldom use Windows, but every time I do, the first thing I do is bring up a shell in case I want to do anything real, which I define as removing a file, moving a file, copying a file ... you get the idea. Note that the most common thing I end up doing is copying files to floppy disks so I can take them to a Linux system and use tools such as sed and awk to work on them. vi isn't a problem; I always put vi on Windows boxes.
Doc: I remember Linux Journal growing out of an email conversation -- which I was improbably part of -- about starting a free-software magazine. A couple questions here: 1) who else was in that original group? and 2) what exactly happened?
Phil: In 1993, I had an idea to do a free-software magazine. While SSC was doing pocket references for UNIX and UNIX-related programs, I decided I wanted to do this magazine independent of SSC. There were six or seven of us involved in talking about the original idea. Early players included Arnold Robbins, author of some of SSC's products; Laurie Tucker, a friend in Atlanta; Gerry Hammons, a longtime friend and co-worker from years before; David Keppel, a UW computer science grad student; and Melinda McBride, another co-worker from a previous job.
I had set up a mailing list so we could all keep in touch. One day, I realized that to do a good free-software magazine, you would have to be like Consumer Reports and have no advertising. I did a little arithmetic, and realized that we were about $9,999,900 short of the $10 million I estimated it would take to start the magazine. I posted to our list what I initially thought was a joke: why don't we just cover Linux?
Everyone thought it was a great idea. So, I decided to think seriously about it, and agreed. It had balance: it wouldn't cost much to do, but there wasn't much market either. Not sure if that was good balance, but it was balance.
I posted some questions on comp.os.linux, the only Linux Usenet newsgroup at the time, and received very favorable responses. Thus, it looked like we had an audience, so I set the wheels in motion.
Things looked pretty good, and we were almost ready to dive in full-force when some disasters struck. The most significant was that my friend Gerry died. He was doing some programming for the infrastructure we needed, plus he was going to invest. It was obvious that we needed to put the project on hold, and I made another Usenet post to let people know there was a very large bump in the road.
At the time, Bob Young had started a publication called New York Unix. Someone saw the post about our problems, and gave it to Bob. Bob contacted me, and suggested that he could be publisher if I could take on the task of editor. We decided to go for it.
After two issues, it was clear to both Bob and me that this wasn't the right relationship. We split the responsibilities, with him assuming the debt for printing already done, and I took the subscription obligation -- the 926 readers who had paid for 10 to 12 more issues of the magazine. I rolled Linux Journal into SSC, and we ran with it.
Doc: So it's true you gave Bob Young his start with Linux?
Phil: Yes.
Doc: That checks out. When I talked to Bob a couple weeks ago, he gave you all kinds of credit for getting his Linux career started. When I told him "Phil says he taught you how to spell Linux," he said, "It's true! I owe a lot to Phil. He even gave me one of my favorite metaphors: that closed source is like a car with the hood welded shut." (Note: I have this conversation on tape, so I can use the original verbiage, which is close to this. He also offered to help promote your next book, whatever it might be.)
Phil: While he gives me credit for the hood metaphor, I really don't remember using it. But, I do like it.
Doc: That's like the line that produced the name for The Cluetrain Manifesto: "the clue train stopped there four times a day for ten years and they never took delivery." The guy who told me that has no memory of saying it.
Anyway, who's still involved?
Phil: Laurie Tucker is on the SSC staff, with the title Special Projects. She edits articles, writes code and is currently responsible for the LJ Buyer's Guide. Arnold Robbins wrote for us for a while, but we couldn't afford to pay what he was worth at the time so he went on to other things. David Keppel got his Ph.D. and now works for Transmeta.
Doc: One of the most interesting things to me about Linux Journal is how it seems to be written, to a large extent, like Linux itself. Many of the features and columns come from readers -- members of the Linux community. And most of these are people solving real problems. I get a sense with both Linux and Linux Journal that we're all working together to raise a barn.
Phil: It has exactly that feeling. In the early days, many authors were surprised that we actually paid them to write for us. Some just donated the money to the Free Software Foundation or other projects.
Doc: Y'know, the e-world is full of all these new acronyms around commerce: B2B for business-to-business, B2C for business-to-consumer, B2E for business-to-enterprise. None have dialogue to them. All are just new names for the old conveyor-belt model of business we've had ever since our ancestors with craft surnames like Smith, Miller, Farmer and Baker got pulled out of their shops and given a job with an industrial supplier in a mine or a factory. Business has been out of touch with real markets and real customers for a good two centuries. And most of what I read in the business press, which is itself a huge new industry, is about leveraging that model: taking what we know about industry -- this conveyor belt, a "value chain" from the few to the many -- and installing it in the technology world which, frankly, geeks built ... and not for corporate purposes.
So I have an acronym for Linux Journal: G2G for geek-to-geek. Because that's the model that is making the new world, and the great irony is that the New Economy folks haven't got a clue about it. Which makes it that much more subversive.
Phil: This isn't new. Remember, UNIX was born because 30 years ago, a couple of geeks wanted to play a computer game. I wonder if 30 years from now, most people will not even know that Linux was a student project. Actually, I wonder how many don't know that now.
Doc: How do you see the free/open movement today? How has it changed? Is it for the better?
Phil: There are two things here: open and free. We had open and free software on mainframes in the '60s and '70s. If you bought a mainframe, it came with an operating system complete with source code. When you were shelling out millions of dollars for the computer, or more commonly, leasing a multi-million-dollar computer system, why not give you the code? It wasn't like you would go to Radio Shack, buy another computer and copy the OS.
A combination of the price drop in hardware, generic hardware and Amdahl Corporation forced a change. First, Gene Amdahl, who had designed IBM's mainframes, started his own company to make machines like the IBM mainframes. By "like", I mean they had the same instruction set and could, therefore, run the same operating system. IBM now had to unbundle and charge for copies of the OS so they could make money off the sales to Amdahl users.
Doc: I've never heard this analysis before. It's really fascinating. What you're saying is that, historically at least, software really did want to be free. And Bill Gates invented an industry that didn't need to be there. This is what Neal Stephenson suggests in his great little book, In the Beginning was the Command Line.
Phil: Yes. The OS was something the computer manufacturer had to include with their hardware. Without it, they couldn't sell the hardware.
Doc: You think IBM is going back in that direction with Linux? They're communicating rather clearly that they don't much give a shit any more about selling OSes, maybe because that was never the idea in the first place. They sell iron. Why not sell iron that's easier to deploy because it runs a universal OS?
Phil: Yes, I do. IBM abandoned their web server in favor of Apache. I think they know people don't want to buy an OS -- they want to buy a solution. Actually, I think they knew this when the PC came out. I feel that Microsoft managed to confuse the issue and IBM fell for it for a while.
The first cheap and generic computer was the IBM PC. Other manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon to make inexpensive clones. That meant the OS cost again could not be bundled with the hardware cost. Besides the end of "free" in terms of price, the openness of the past was gone because there was direct competition.
The GPL is an attempt to force freedom back into the mix. It is only one example, with the BSD license being another. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, but my point is that we used to have this freedom, but because hardware changed, we now had to do something different in order to get free -- both in terms of price and freedom -- back into computing.
Explaining the BSD license to a businessperson is fairly easy. They will remain skeptical, but it is easy to tell them you can get something for free, do whatever you want with it and then sell it.
Doc: Because you have to credit only the originator, no?
Phil: Exactly. You can build a proprietary product, and don't have to pass along your additions or improvements.
The GPL is a lot harder. They don't understand why it makes sense to make the changes and then give them away.
Or that they are expected to give away whatever changes they make. In other words, not to act like they own it exclusively.
In a business sense and out of context, it doesn't. But, that context is the issue. It's the same as IBM giving you the OS with the hardware; you need to show that businessperson how giving away the OS will sell something else. Sorta like giving away a keychain at the car dealer, and then hoping you buy a car to go with it.
As each new vendor enters the Linux space, you need to educate them. You need to show them success stories. Eventually, they will get it.
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The American Association of University Women, Manatee Branch, awarded academic scholarships totaling $16,500 to 14 Manatee County students.
During an awards ceremony May 11 at the Bradenton Country Club, winners honored were:
- Taylor Myers won the Early Risers Bridge Scholarship and will attend Princeton University to study mathematics.
- Taylor Zebracki won the Eleanor Harger Burgess Scholarship and will attend Western Kentucky University to major in education.
- Erin Tribble won the Marjorie G. Kinnan Education Scholarship and will major in education at State College of Florida.
- Daisy Delatorre will use the John I. Gearhart Scholarship to study criminology at Florida State University.
- Alicia Frudaki won the Manatee Fish and Game Association Scholarship and will study biology, ecology and environmental science at the University of Florida.
- Margarida Phelan won the Rotary Club of Anna Maria Island Scholarship to pursue a degree in engineering at Florida State University.
- Danielle Johnson was awarded The June Inman Scholarship and will begin pre-law studies at Stetson University.
- Elizabeth Cornwell received a Sylvia A. Price Nursing Scholarship and will attend the University of Georgia.
- Allison Cosgrove also won a Sylvia A. Price Nursing Scholarship and will study at the University of Florida.
The Manatee Branch of AAUW Scholarships were awarded to five students:
- Jennifer Caba will study accounting at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.
- Orinda Hobson will major in neuromedicine at the University of Florida.
- Undine Shorey will major in writing at the University of Tampa.
- Janet Luong will begin pre-med studies at the University of Florida.
- Jessica Remirez will begin pre-dentistry studies at Florida State University.
The ceremony also included the presentation of a trophy to the winners of the Math Superstar competition on May 2 that was sponsored by AAUW. The winners were Madigan Wilford and Grant Trautweiler of Willis Elementary School.
Cellphones collected at concerts go to soldiers
People who attend Memorial Day and Fourth of July concerts can help out people serving in the military by participating in the Cell Phones for Soldiers program.
The first concert, "Embracing Freedom," will be presented by the Jacobites Pipe and Drum Band at 3 p.m. Sunday at Church of the Palms, 3224 Bee Road, Sarasota.
The show will feature the Jacobites, First Brass and vocalist Sharon Scott. Tickets are $20 for adults and $18 for those younger than 18 and are available at www.jacobites.eventbrite.com.
Since 2004, Cell Phones for Soldiers has recycled 8.3 million cellphones, collected $7 million in donations and provided troops overseas with more than 114 million minutes of free talk time.
This year, the program is being backed locally by a partnership that includes the Jacobites, the First Brass of Sarasota and the Patterson Foundation's "Legacy of Valor."
Cellphones also will be collected during the First Brass of Sarasota concert July 4 at Selby Botanical Gardens, 811 S. Palm Ave., Sarasota, in connection with the fireworks show at the bayfront.
In addition to the concerts, phones can be dropped off any time at 4565 Northlake Drive, Sarasota. Cell phone collection boxes are in several churches, retirement centers and businesses in Bradenton, Sarasota and Venice.
For more information about the program or to find out the nearest drop-off center, call Nance Guth at 928-0296 or Gary Reinstrom at 350-0271.
Golf tournament benefits Keep Manatee Beautiful
For the 19th year, the primary fundraiser for Keep Manatee Beautiful will be a golf tournament.
The four-person scramble will begin with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. Friday at Tara Golf & Country Club, 6602 Drewry's Bluff, Bradenton.
Contests will include low gross, low net, closest to the pin, longest drive for men and women, a putting contest and dice roll.
The cost of entry includes greens fee, cart, range balls, team photo, goody bag, lunch buffet and awards presentation.
Registration costs vary with sponsorships, but a foursome without sponsor signage costs $320.
The tax-deductible donations will help the nonprofit Keep Manatee Beautiful continue its environmental programs of promoting community awareness and involvement in litter prevention, recycling and beautification.
For more information about the tournament, or to register to play, visit www.manateebeautiful.com.
Manatee AAUW awards scholarships
The American Association of University Women, Manatee Branch, awarded academic scholarships totaling $16,500 to 14 Manatee County students.


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Ramnaresh Sarwan, the West Indies batsman who has not played for his country since June 2011, has turned on the national team's coaching set up for his continued non-selection.
Sarwan, 31, has scored 5,842 Test runs at 40.01 and captained West Indies in two Tests in England in 2007 but was overlooked for this tour and instead signed for Leicestershire where he has been in form with two centuries and two half-centuries and has captained the side while Matthew Hoggard has been injured.
"The coach said some negative stuff that hurt me mentally and emotionally," Sarwan told BBC Sport. "Mentally I was broken down, not from the stress of playing, it's just certain individuals have drained me mentally. It took a toll on my confidence and the way I play. Everything went away."
Sarwan lost his central contract in 2010 with an "extremely indifferent attitude and sporadic approach towards fitness" cited as the reason. He played four more Tests, scoring 83 runs before being dropped. He is now pleased to be out of the West Indies set-up. "I'm away from all those problems, my mind is at ease and I have had nothing to worry about, no coach to say any negative things," he said. "At one point I didn't know which was my back foot and which was my front foot. Now I'm much better, more precise with my movements, everything crystal clear in my head."
"I never spoke about this because I was caught up in a shell and I used to not come out of my house for up to three days. My dad was the one to inspire me to start back playing. I was going to stop because they were getting the better of me but when I saw him break down emotionally that inspired me."
Sarwan returned to county cricket with Leicestershire, after scoring 442 runs at 31.57 for Gloucestershire in 2005. His comeback has been a success, with a century in his second match against Derbyshire and scores of 117 and 98 against Essex - form that has prompted many to call for his return to international cricket.
But even if he was offered the chance of a recall, Sarwan said he wouldn't walk out on Leicestershire. "I owe them because they've invested in me," he said. "I'm big on principle and when I was in the dust being kicked by my own people I was given an opportunity by this club and I will not forsake that or betray anyone. I don't want to find myself in a situation where I was two years ago, where I couldn't have fun. My happiness is utmost and the most important thing to me. I want to stay focused and forget about what has gone before."


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the decepticons are ****. the only one that looks even remotely decent is blackout, and honestly....who the hell is blackout???
I kind of think the Autobots look better so far too. At least some of them are recognizable (compared to the cartoon versions), such as Prime, Jazz, and to a lesser extent Bumblebee.
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It seems that in the Land Down Under the Trev has quite a bit of work ahead of itself. The Hyundai i30 was recently crowned the greenest mobile in all the land, in addition to the overall 2007 Car of the Year in Oz by carsguide. Wait a second! The greenest car in Australia isn't a hybrid?
Negative. But who needs a hybrid when you have an i30 with a 1.6-liter turbo diesel that is reportedly capable going 62 miles on 1.23 gallons of fuel? Another big factor in the selection process that eliminated all of the hybrids was simple economics. The judges smacked them down for having high initial cost premiums, especially compared to the $21,490 i30 price tag, which is $16,000 cheaper than the Prius. [TH]


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Analog Addiction Writes:"The concept of having Monster Hunter on Vita shouldn't seem foreign to handheld users. Hell, by all accounts Vita-owners should be treated to the news that an actual Monster Hunter title is in development. However, with Monster Hunter 4 being developed for the 3DS and only the 3DS, the cash-cow game of the east seems more and more unlikely to find its way to Sony's newest handheld, at least not soon. Perhaps then, we can find solace in Korea's own attempt to cash-in on the well-known action-RPG formula that Mon-Hun has made so popular? Ragnarok Odyssey is the latest spin-off from the Ragnarok Online MMO; it is a game that attempts to replicate an addicting formula, but falls short in several keys areas that make other action-RPGs so addicting. That being said, it did show a few positives hidden below its many layers of banality."
Its well thought out...But I think the game deserves a bit more than a 6.1... Maybe that just me though


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French in a Flash: Creamy Saffron Mussel and Spinach Pasta Recipe
This pasta is based on a creamy saffron mussel soup I learned to prepare at cooking school in Paris. It was salty from the briny liqueur the mussels leach out into the pot, luscious and sweet from the cream, and heady and intoxicating from the scent of the saffron, which always reminds me of a genie jumping from a perfume bottle. It tasted like a million dollars.
What I love about doing this as a pasta dish is how rich it feels while actually being a bit on the cheap. The pasta cost me $2, the mussels $6, organic spinach about $2, and, pro-rated, the saffron about $3. Everything else I had in my fridge, so it comes to around $3.25 a person for a seafood pasta with saffron—a small fortune at most restaurants, if they are enterprising enough to sell it in the first place. And if you have to buy the wine, so be it: something to wash this down with!
I write a lot of recipes—I just did the math and just my columns require 156 a year—so when I find one that I really, truly, madly love, I want to tell you that I really, truly, madly love it. I am making this as a side dish on Christmas day, to serve with herb- and citrus-stuffed grilled whole fish. This caters to the many pescatarians in my family, but I don't think I will miss the roast.
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- Yield:4
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:15 minutes, plus 1 hour for soaking mussels
- 2 pounds mussels
- Kosher salt
- 1 pound casarecce pasta (fusilli is a good substitute)
- 4 ounces baby spinach, roughly chopped
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 very large shallots, sliced (or 3 small shallots, about 1/4 cup total)
- 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- Freshly cracked black pepper
- 1/4 cup dry white wine
- 1/2 cup low-sodium chicken stock, preferably organic
- 3/4 teaspoon saffron
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
Place the mussels in large bowl full of water and ice. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, and let mussels sit for 1 hour to purge. Rinse mussels in cold running water, pull off any beards and discard, and set mussels aside.
Bring large pot of water to a boil, and salt it well. Add pasta, and cook until al dente. Add spinach to hot water with pasta at last second, stir once to submerge, then drain.
Meanwhile, in wide braising pan, heat oil and butter over medium heat until melted. Add shallots and garlic, and season with salt and pepper. Sweat, stirring often with wooden spoon, until shallots are soft and translucent, about 4 minutes. Add white wine, and simmer for 1 minute. Add chicken stock and saffron, cover and increase heat to high, and bring liquid to a boil.
Add mussels to pot, and lower heat to medium. Cover and simmer until all mussels have opened, 6 to 8 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in cream. Add drained pasta and spinach, and return to low heat, stirring for 1 minute, until pasta has absorbed some of the sauce and color of the saffron. Remove mussels from shells and stir back into pasta if desired. Serve immediately.
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There are a lot of terrible movie titles out there, and everyone has their list, but most of these titles are attached to terrible films! It's when bad titles are attached to good movies that there starts to be a problem. For instance, this week, The Men Who Stare at Goats hits theaters, and we thought it was a lot of fun, but that title is a real snoozer. Who's going to go see this movie with that title? Yes, they stare at goats, but they stare at them to make their hearts stop beating! Why not call the movie Goat Killers? Or Heartstoppers? Or The Men Who Kill Goats With Their Minds? We looked at the last decade and found a bunch of film titles we think misrepresent or detract from the films they're attached to, for various reasons.
Quantum of Solace (2008)
We don't mind all of the James Bond movies with puns for titles, and when they're particularly unforgivable or banal (Octopussy and Tomorrow Never Dies, respectively), it's usually a sub-par entry in the series, so no harm, no foul. But Quantum of Solace continues the relentless revenge mission begun by new Bond Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, and yet it has a title that should have been reserved for a movie about a physicist whose grandmother has died. Yes, we realize it's an original Ian Fleming title, but it was used for an unrelated story in which Bond attends a dinner party. We shall say no more.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
We get it, Quentin Tarantino. We get that you really like the 1978 movie Inglorious Bastards, or at least the title. But since you're not remaking it, do you really need to appropriate the name for your own ragtag group of World War II soldiers? And spell it wrong to differentiate between the two?
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Cloverfield (2008)
As much as we love J.J. Abrams for creating a great American monster movie, and for getting us so excited about it that he ultimately decided to go with the original, placeholder title for it, we have to be disappointed that that title is so ridiculous. Cloverfield? The name of the highway exit you take to get to your office in Santa Monica? It doesn't lend itself to people in the street screaming, "Run! It's Cloverfield!" That's not a monster name, it's a My Little Pony name.
Michael Clayton (2007)
Most movie titles that are simply people's names are about celebrities like Muhammad Ali or Amelia Earhart or Harvey Milk or Ray Charles. Or, if they're not famous, they have an entertaining name like Erin Brockovich. Not only is "Michael Clayton" not famous and an incredibly boring name, this title tells us nothing about the film's gripping story about an attorney working for a major law firm as a "fixer," who gets clients out of difficult situations.
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
We realize that the title is meant to refer to Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney, who play intellectual parents whose relationship is deteriorating. Locked in a constant struggle with each other for the undivided love and attention of their children, they are certainly very much like the model of the squid fighting the whale at the Museum of Natural History. However, taken out of context, the title sounds like one of Aesop's Fables, or possibly a sequel to Disney's The Fox and the Hound, about a baby squid and a baby whale who are best friends. Squid vs. Whale, while still abstruse, would have at least implied conflict, a formula used to great (if literal) effect in Eagle vs. Shark and Monsters vs. Aliens.
Minority Report (2002)
If you've got a balls-to-the-wall action film in which Tom Cruise takes on a high-tech police force with jet-packs who can tell what crime you're going to commit before you even commit it, don't use the name of the Philip K. Dick story it's taken from. There's a reason "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" became Blade Runner, and "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale" became Total Recall. Yes, "The Minority Report" is a lot shorter title than those others, but it's still a hard-to-understand bit of technobabble describing a vision of the future that probably won't happen, because only one psychic sees it, and not two.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Another re-used book title, this is the rare case where a good movie with a long name would benefit by that name being shortened considerably. The movie is not an action film by any means, but that doesn't mean we want to fall asleep before we get done reading the title.
Hot Fuzz (2007)
An attempt to lend excitement to a cutesy nickname for the police, it's the most ridiculous title one could come up with for a movie about small-town police officers. They're "the fuzz," but they're hot fuzz! We certainly appreciate the sentiment, but we can't bring ourselves to recommend the movie to people without feeling a little silly. It also sounds slightly pornographic.
eXistenZ (1999)
Another mind-trip from David Cronenberg, this movie about a video game designer who jacks herself and a PR agent into the only copy of the titular bio-organic virtual-reality game, has some annoying capitalization and spelling going on. Apparently, "isten" is the Hungarian word for God, which is why it's set off by capitals, but writing it down is like Sarah Jessica Parker's character in L.A. Story telling us how to spell "SanDeE*. ("Big 'S', little 'a', little 'n', big 'D', little 'e', big 'E' and a star at the end.")
What do you think are the worst movie titles? Don't get that confused with the worst films; sometimes a bad film can stink up a good title.
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text: Since 1982 there have been at least 2,000 massacres in Colombia committed by different illegal groups and by members of the Colombian army and police. The development of the conflict in Colombia has a direct relation with the causes and consequences of these crimes, perpetrated in most cases by paramilitary armies, associated to varying degrees with the cocaine trade. Paramilitary groups were a counterinsurgency force organized by the State, or independent, and supported economically by drug cartels and some landowners and businessmen. Although guerrilla armies, insurgency, and communist groups created mostly in the 1960s perpetrated several massacres, these crimes were systematically used primarily by paramilitary groups to terrorize people in places where they had a particular interest, such as drug trafficking or vying for political power. In its book ¡Basta ya!, the Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica has documented that 59% of the massacres were committed by paramilitary groups and 17% by guerrillas. Rutas del Conflicto is a project created by journalists that marks the evolution of these groups through more than 30 years of war. Using mapping and timeline tools developed especially for the project, it has documented more than 700 of these crimes, displaying the degree to which the tragedy has affected the lives of millions of people in Colombia.


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I'm game William. Would you care to elaborate on which products you are referring to?
As for self promoting. This venue (ADM) has the ability to rocket posted comments to front page Google... I can't think of too many other ways (without paying) to get a message out there that fast. (Self) Promotion is what most members do here by sharing their (mostly positive) experience(s).
Seems like a win / win to me...
For the sake of not starting a verbal war, I would gladly share with you personally the products that I have personal experience with not working as advertised. Havent found one and I mean not one CRM that actually integrates and functions properly with any DMS with reports that work. I am currently on them all and I push every button and shift every gear in them.
The win / win doesnt tell the truth about the product, so the dealers dont win. Isnt that what this forum represents to do?
No verbal war here. Just sharing. Real life. I'll keep it positive. Do you see a problem with:
Reynolds & Reynolds Contact Management. It integrates (as is should, R&R is the DMS provider). It is basic vs. others I have experienced... (Higher Gear, Vin Solutions, IMagicLab) And allows for custom setup and reporting. Custom set up requires a learning curve and a number of calls to their very attainable, helpful and knowledgeable support staff.
(Hostile, Third Party) Integration is a tough proposition. If the DMS provider shifts a field or two with an update... the errors are off to the races. The reason I have been exposed to so many CRM systems in just a couple of years is because of "integration" promises that did not work out. How much of that was the vendors fault and how much was the dealers is up for grabs.
Win/Win seems like a reasonable goal in any transaction that is going to last after the sale. I have an idea of what your referring to.
As a matter of Fact Contact Management is the exact product I am dealing with in Minn where the DMS records are duplicating in the CRM to an astounding degree and not allowing service records to be accessed by the desk management staff nor the service department to see if the vehicle was actually purchased up front. We can not get 25% of the reports to function and make sense. I have 15 years experience on CRM tools and I have been consulting this longer than their tools have been in existence, so I know how to use them. Direct language to Reynolds with unsolvable solutions. And they own both sides of the deal. Guess what they are in the middle of a complete redesign. Wonder why??? I currently work on every system you mentioned above and EVERY one of them is extremely flawed in their execution and their training is poor. No matter how helpful you think they are, their stuff doesnt work as advertised and often cant be made to or is in some future release with an undetermined date.
There is a setting in the Contact Management Admin and Setup section that controls the rules by which new CM customer records are matched and attached to existing Reynolds ERA DMS customer numbers... If you are getting excessive creation of duplicate customer accounts as a result of leads and data entry within CM, it is usually because the settings are too restrictive on the matching of new CM customer profiles with existing ERA customer profiles... This is, quite simply "User Error" and does not reflect a flaw in the software, it (again) simply reflects the ignorance of the people deploying a CRM system without bothering to take the time to learn how it works... Ignorance, plain and simple.
You know when it is NOT ignorance? When certain managers change the settings to prevent the annoying issue around "new" customers/leads being matched up to records which show another salesperson was either already working with that customer, or the customer previously did business with a different salesperson in the dealership. In many cases, the desire to prevent the splitting of deals outweighs the proper use of a system to connect new customer activity with previous, or historical transactions and activity... I have personally seen this far too many times. Again, this is not a software issue, it is a management issue.
William, there has never been any censorship within ADM for those who choose to speak out about products that do not work... You may be thinking about one of the other sites. I know for a fact that some very large companies have used heavy handed tactics to try and intimidate people posting their opinions on ADM, but those tactics are always outside of this site itself, WE DO NOT CENSOR RELEVANT OPINIONS!
Now, with that said, i blew out a spammer's article on Coach Luggage this morning, and Canadian Pharmaceuticals have been worse than a bad case of Athlete's Foot... But, please do share your opinions! We value what you have to say and if somebody's product doesn't work, please share your experience with it.
Please do not put ADM in the same category as other sites which i have seen squash criticism of products being sold to car dealers... There are plenty who may challenge your opinion, but other than personal insults, cuss words, pornography and spam, we do not censor.
Glad to hear this Ralph and glad to see the post on there. I sent you my vendor info, have you posted it? :)
You've been listed in the consultant directory ever since you sent me the message.... The consultant directory shows up with its own listing on Google SERP and is accessed from the drop-down menu below the "Member Directory" tab on the ADM menu bar:
The following Automotive Consultants are available for providing a variety of services to New and Used Vehicle Dealerships throughout North America, and they have been vetted through the ADM Professional Community based on their articles and guidance as knowledgeable and skilled at their respective areas of specialization... Plus, unless I (Ralph Paglia) have personal first-hand knowledge of a consultant's skills and capabilities that are adequate to merit calling yourself an "Automotive Consultant, you do not get listed here!
Each consultant's name is linked to their ADM Professional Community Profile where their references, blog article listings, photos, videos, links and contact information are available to prospective and current clients. The list is in no particular order, except a few of my personal favorites closer to the top:
PLEASE NOTE: If you have experience working with any of the Automotive Consultants listed in this ADM Professional Consulting Services Directory, please post a comment about your experience with them, pro or con!
I guess I didn't make the list Ralph!
Ooops... My BAD!
As they say in the movie "Avatar"; "I see you..."
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The English Brothers have created a memorable show featuring the best hand clappin', knee slappin' music and comedy in the Lone Star State. All native Texans, The English Brothers will engage you as they perform classic western tunes such as Cool Water and Ghost Riders in the Sky. Their unique genetic vocal blend accompanied by pure acoustic instrumentation will take you back to the sounds of the great singing cowboys like the Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry. All will be amused by the brothers' bunkhouse comedy that is sure to make for an entertaining show you won't soon forget.
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Another hurdle was cleared last week in Fayette's effort to move forward with the next phase of sewer system upgrades.
Final approval for a $120,537 grant from the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund has hinged on an environmental review of the project by the Ohio EPA. Approval for the project was announced last week.
The village qualifies for a zero interest loan due to its median household income. A statement by the Ohio EPA said the village should save an estimated $78,880 with the no-interest loan, compared to a 5.45 percent market rate loan.
The loan will be combined with a CDBG grant of $40,000 and an Ohio Public Works Commission grant of $111,463 to complete the $272,000 project.
The project marks the first step in the village's long term control plan to prevent combined sewer overflows (CSO). Overflows occur when storm water mixes with wastewater from the septic system and enters Spring Creek during heavy rainfalls.
The CSO project creates separate sewer systems for storm water and septic waste to prevent overloading the treatment system.
The project includes work at the sewage lagoons and at the pumping station. Gates and valves will be repaired or replaced at the lagoons, among other improvements. Several modifications, replacements and repairs are planned at the pumping station.
Work is expected to begin later this year. Repayment of the loan is scheduled to begin in January 2010.


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I look huge. Am I carrying twins?You could be (March of Dimes 2009). However, the most common reason for a bigger than expected bump is that your conception date was earlier than you first thought.
Also, your bump will get bigger earlier on in your pregnancy if you've had a baby before, as your uterus (womb) and tummy muscles will have been stretched by your first pregnancy.
Your first ultrasound scan (dating scan) will determine whether your due date is correct and if you really are carrying twins (NCCWCH 2011: 36).
How early can I find out if I'm pregnant with twins?You may suspect that you are having twins early on in your pregnancy. Perhaps you've gained a lot of weight, have a bump earlier than expected, or are suffering badly with nausea and vomiting (pregnancy sickness) (March of Dimes 2009).
But these signs and symptoms can be misleading, and none of them means for certain that you're expecting twins.
An ultrasound scan is the only way to confirm twins, so it's usual not to know you're having twins until you have your first ultrasound scan (dating scan), which you'll have between 10 weeks and 13 weeks plus six days of pregnancy. Ultrasound is almost foolproof at diagnosing twins, but the greater the number of babies, the less accurate it is at detecting how many babies there are.
If you're pregnant as a result of a fertility treatment, or have experienced complications such as bleeding, you may have a scan early in your pregnancy. This will be at about six weeks, and will confirm the pregnancy (NCCWCH 2011: 76).
It's possible to see twins at this six-week stage, though one baby may be missed. It is also fairly common for twins to be conceived, but for only one to develop (vanishing twin syndrome) (Anderson-Berry 2010, Tamba 2009).
Anderson-Berry AL, 2010. Vanishing twin syndrome. eMedicine. emedicine.medscape.com [Accessed May 2012]
Davies, M. 2009. Multiple Pregnancy In: Fraser DM, Cooper MA. eds. Myles Textbook for Midwives. 15th ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. 189-225
March of Dimes. 2009. Quick reference fact sheet for researchers and professionals. Multiples: Twins, triplets and beyond. www.marchofdimes.com [Accessed May 2012]
NCCWCH. 2011. Multiple pregnancy: the management of twin and triplet pregnancies in the antenatal period. National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health, NICE Clinical Guideline. www.nice.org.uk [pdf file, accessed May 2012]
Tamba. 2009. The healthy multiple pregnancy guide. Guildford: Tamba


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Frank Brunner was hatched in Brooklyn, NY in 1949. He turned pro in 1969, writing and drawing for Web of Horror magazine. For over 40 years, Frank's work has been continuously printed and reprinted worldwide in comics, magazines, and books; on trading cards, T-shirts, games, and album covers; in animation, TV, and movies; and in two art books, Eyes of Light and MYTHOS. He has popularized such characters as Dr. Strange, Man-Thing, Red Sonja, Conan, Elric, and Howard the Duck, and he designed all the character models for the first X-Men animated series. Recently Frank Illustrated new stories for Marvel's Mystic Hands of Doctor Strange, and a satire of Doc and Howard in Simpson's Super Spectacular #15 for Bongo Comics.


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On Tuesday, at INTERACTIVE CONNECTIONS, we were welcomed by Bishop John Noonan to the Diocese of Orlando, with these wonderful welcoming words:
Welcome to the Third Interactive Connections Conference! I am grateful for the presence of pilgrims such as yourselves in our Diocese of Orlando, especially when you graciously visit to become more skilled and enlightened ministers of the Gospel. I understand some of you hail from throughout the United States, including our neighbors in the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida. Some of you are visiting from Japan, and my own native Ireland. I pray you find the Spirit of the Lord upon you throughout your learning and sharing experiences during the Conference.
Pope Benedict XVI said in his homily for the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, "I would like to underline the fact that, in the face of the shadows that obscure the horizon of today's world, to assume responsibility for educating young people in knowledge of the truth, in fundamental values and virtues, is to look to the future with hope. And in this commitment to a holistic education, formation in justice and peace has a place."
Today, you have an extraordinary opportunity to explore the tools of technology as wondrous gifts of the Lord to form our young people with a message of justice and peace. Our young people are growing up in a world that has become smaller, where contacts between each other and different cultures and traditions are constant. As Pope Benedict also said, "For them, now more than ever, it is indispensable to learn the importance and the art of peaceful coexistence, mutual respect, dialogue and understanding."
In a young person's world where technology is ever present, I encourage you to spread the Good News through its use. Bring them a message of justice and peace. Show them how this message can be communicated and how these tools, which are God-given, can also be sacred vehicles to bring about joy and good will and alleviate pain and suffering. Integrate grace and culture, technology and media.
Technology cannot replace the presence of each other with each other. It cannot offer the feel of a person's hand upon yours; nor strength of arms to hold you; nor the widening of our faces into a smile as you reach out to greet another. When we use technology to glorify the Lord, it blossoms relationship and draws us closer still to our God.
My Sisters and Brothers in Christ, may we at all times bless the Lord God, and ask Him to make all our paths straight and to grant success to all our endeavors and plans.
Thank you Bishop Noonan for welcoming us to your diocese! We are becoming Digital Disciples!