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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father
and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all!
(1 Corinthians 13:14)
In light of recent mass Islamic terrorist killings including – but not exclusive to – the IS (Islamic "state"/caliphate) slaughter of innocent Russian civilians returning from vacation, the massacre and maiming of ordinary Parisians out for a Friday evening by militant, Islamic terrorists, and the killing and wounding of government workers in San Bernardino, California by two Islamic terrorist jihadists, we present the following information and links for True Orthodox Christian faithful. Although in our politically correct world we hesitate to call the proverbial "spade a spade," facts speak for themselves. The aforementioned radical, Islamic jihadist terrorist attacks have their orgins and basis in a radical application of Islam, NOT in Christianity or in any other faith or religion. "We are strangling ourselves with our political correctness…Some people view the current situation in the Middle East as a clash of civilizations; I think it is more than that, way more than that. I think it is an outright declaration of war from radical Islam on western culture, on the Judeo-Christian culture and we should know that it's a declaration of war." Nonie Darwish (daughter of a radical, Palestinian, Islamic martyr/ "shahid." )
To those who would call themselves "moderate Muslims," and who repeatedly claim that Islam is a "religion of peace," who would distance themselves from such terrorist acts of jihad, we say: purge your own communities of those who practice, preach or teach militant "jihad," Islamic supremacy, and violent, hate-filled extremism, speak out against those of your own circle who are commiting these horrific acts of terror in the name of "allah." If you truly DO NOT believe in the moral claim of the reanimation of a geo-political, Muslim "caliphate" and its' claim upon you as a Muslim, say so publically! If you see a fellow adherent to your beliefs dramatically changing and willfully embracing a jihadist terrorist mind-set…report them to the appropriate authorities! Avoid aligning yourselves and your beliefs with organizations in Canada and throughout the world that – under the guise of being advocacy/lobby groups – are really something contrary to what you believe and are directly or indirectly inciting terrorism and violence! "These bombings are taking place not because someone likes to see bodies and count casualties; it's part of a campaign, jihad, holy war, to bring down the west; to undermine the very foundations of Christianity and Judaism." (Khaled Abu Toameh – Muslim and Palestinian Journalist) Nonie Darwish (quoted previously), speaking to the goals of Islamists says, "It is very clear…we have heard it so many times from many Muslim leaders, that they want to Muslim-ize the world."
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November 8, 2013
The great shield in Deveselu makes terrorist threat rise Romania.
Don't you think that anti-missile shield planned in Deveselu may cause big trouble for Romania? I think it can. Strangely enough, the locals are feeling rather optimistic, taking English lessons and hoping for lots of work American military will give them after 2015. My elder brother living there has been jobless for two years already and he's got great hopes on the American military base due to open here in 2015. I can gather his motives. But I can't get it how our political leaders made such a risky decision to host that damned American anti-missile shield on this soil!
Iranian missile strike was something relating to nightmare for Romanians previously. Now, when Deveselu American military base is launched, it'll be quite real!
Now we face Muslim threat really!! These are not just mere words! Believe you me! Unlike those naïve Deveselu locals I possess some alarming data. Muslim population has been growing rapidly in Romania lately. I don't mean Muslims of Tatar and Turkish origin settled for long in Northern Dobruja. I mean new wave of Muslim immigrants coming from Iraq, Afghanistan, Caucasus region and other! Middle East immigrants (they often call themselves refugees) used to be a marginal group in this country. Now they make bulk of all the Muslims coming here! And there are so called sleeping terrorist cells among them! I know that in the city of Tulcea there was a blast in one of the houses where Muslim terrorists had piled explosives! They appear to have been planning some terrorist attacks! But authorities are keeping their lips sealed! They don't want any street protests and all that you know.... I am sure that for Muslims of this sort Deveselu base will be the first in the hit list!
They say president Basescu was well aware of the threat when he said it on his visit to Washington, "I feel betrayed.... We were not asked if we want this shield"! Frankly, I don't believe he could brave it! He's a nobody just for Americans! Romania goes third brand for them!
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The Blaze has suspended Tomi Lahren for a week after the conservative commentator made pro-choice remarks, the Daily Caller reports, citing multiple sources.
The Blaze founder, Glenn Beck, mocked the network's biggest star earlier on Monday after she mentioned having "moderate, conservative and libertarian views" on Twitter while defending recent pro-choice comments made during an appearance on "The View."
The Daily Caller reported the suspension is for "at least one week," beginning this evening. Although The Blaze did not immediately respond to TheWrap's request for comment, they did post this tweet:
Pro-lifers aren't the ones being hypocrites, Tomi. https://t.co/8mgkyrONDn pic.twitter.com/DkAf0HSXi4
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 20, 2017
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Lahren has not responded to the Daily Caller's report, but a cryptic tweet from earlier on Monday indicates there is truth to the report.
No one hunts small deer ???? this too shall pass. #mondaymotivation
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 20, 2017
Lahren, who is a rising star among conservative media, tweeted over the weekend that she "will never apologize, to anyone, for being an independent thinker," on the heels of the far right attacking her for admitting she supports women having the right to choose. Beck doesn't appear to appreciate Lahren's comments and responded on Twitter.
Wait, libertarian views? Help me out on Trumpcare, stimulus, and executive orders. Trump is anything but libertarian. #intellectualhonesty https://t.co/jlt5sFvQMP
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) March 20, 2017
Until Friday's appearance on "The View," nobody would have ever accused Lahren for not being conservative enough. She is an outspoken Trump supporter who often refers to liberals as "snowflakes" while mocking them in viral videos.
Also Read: Tomi Lahren Says She's Pro-Choice On 'The View' (Video)
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"I'm pro-choice and here is why," Lahren said on "The View. "I am someone that loves the Constitution, I am someone that is for limited government, so I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies. Stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well."
Beck addressed the situation on his radio show Monday, calling it a "dustup."
"I don't hire people who are sycophants or don't have my opinion. I try to hire people who have a different opinion because I believe in being intellectually rigorous. I don't want strawmen. I want people to have a real argument on the other side so we can learn from each other, and we can grow," he said.
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The Blaze founder continued: "So let's learn from each other and grow, shall we? What is the constitutional argument for conservatives on life? A lot of people will think that this is a new argument. That founders never — they never discussed this, you know? Abortion is a new idea. And if it's not abortion, women's rights is a new idea. Well, I want you to put women's rights into context here. Women's rights are important, however, they're not the only thing to consider when another person's life is at stake. We have to — we have to consider the other person's life when it is at stake."
Beck went on to say that he "would disagree that you're a hypocrite if you want limited government and yet you want the government to protect life of the unborn."
"It's very, very clear. But it takes intellectual honesty, and it takes a willingness to actually think these things through and to do more than just read Twitter or Facebook to get your news and your political opinions," Beck said. "Speech is not free. It comes with another cost and usually to the other people at the other end of your argument. The pen is mightier than the sword, and it can destroy people if your aim is clicks, views, and ratings… For Tomi, this seems to be a relatively recent change."


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In response to COVID-19, the Glasscock School has moved the majority of our upcoming offerings online. Learn more
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This activity guide is our attempt to work with our colleagues across the city who are just beginning to welcome preschoolers and kindergarteners back into their classrooms. None of us really know what we will find as the children return to us, but when we talk it through, we realize that our backgrounds as early childhood educators have prepared us to support them. Please share this document with your teaching team, your leadership teams and your fellow educators as we begin to help children recover from the traumatic experiences associated with Harvey.
While the central charge of School Literacy and Culture is to extrapolate current early education research into classroom practice, we do at times conduct original research as well. The nationally recognized peer-review study highlighted here found that children in storytelling classrooms made greater gains on standardized measures of early literacy than peers in control classrooms.
"One Authentic Early Literacy Practice and Three Standardized Tests: Can a Storytelling Curriculum Measure Up?"
Patricia M. Cooper (New York University), Karen Capo (Rice University Center for Education), Bernie Mathes (Rice University Center for Education), Lincoln Gray (James Madison University)
Published in Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Volume 28, Issue 3 (July 2007), pages 251 - 275
The current study was designed to assess the vocabulary and literacy skills of young children who participated in an authentic literacy practice, i.e., Vivian Paley's "storytelling curriculum," over the course of their respective prekindergarten or kindergarten years. We asked: How do prekindergarten and kindergarten age children, who participate in the storytelling curriculum over the course of the school year, perform on pre- and postmeasures of AGS/Pearson Assessments' Expressive Vocabulary Test (EVT), the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) (3rd ed.) Form IIIA, and Whitehurst's Get Ready to Read!, as compared to those young children in the same grade with similar backgrounds and in the same or similar school settings who did not participate in the storytelling curriculum? Results show that in comparison to same-age children in like settings, participants in the storytelling curriculum showed significant gains in both vocabulary knowledge and literacy skills. These findings underscore the possibility of supporting both beginning and experienced teachers in using authentic literacy activities to prepare children for literacy learning, while maintaining their service to a wide range of other developmental issues. They also call into question the prevailing trend to abandon such classroom practices in favor of a skills-centered approach to curriculum.
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Our blog serves a repository of resources for parents, teachers and anyone else interested in early childhood literacy. We regularly post stories that highlight contemporary practices, easy activities for home and classroom, scholarly articles and much more.
In light of the 2008 Revised Pre-kindergarten Guidelines, the 2012 Revised Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Kindergarten, and the increasing need to support all classroom activities with evidence of standards, School Literacy and Culture created the following documents. These documents are designed to assist teachers and school leaders in understanding the educational impact of many of SLC's widely known activities on students' learning as described in the Pre-Kindergarten Guidelines and the English Language Arts and Reading Kindergarten TEKS. For each document there is an "Activities to Standards Correlation" section which describes each SLC activity or practice and associates it with a Texas education standard. There is also the "Standards to Activities Correlation" section which lists the standards and all the related School Literacy and Culture activities or practices that can be used to meet each standard.
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I think this is the underlying problem for wives who want sex and don't get it from their husbands. They struggle with feeling undesired and undesirable. They want to be wanted.
And it's also the problem for husbands whose wives only have sex as a duty. Men want sex, but they also want that connection, that desire, that intensity of longing.
I'm so glad you shed the light on this deep emotion that makes sex much more than two bodies intertwining in physical pleasure. Thanks, Julie!


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Take an unforgettable national park train vacation through spectacular snow-capped mountains, blue glaciers, magnificent biological resources, dramatic canyons, along quiet prairies and historical monuments. From the thermal geysers of Yellowstone National Park to the deep canyons of Grand Canyon National Park, a national park train vacation offers an ideal vacation choice for the railroad and national park enthusiast.
Grand Canyon Railway
Before paved roads or the national park distinction, the historic Grand Canyon Railway was the lifeline to the Grand Canyon. Retired in 1968, the Grand Canyon Railway was revived in 1989, offering more than 20,000 travelers tours each year of the Grand Canyon. The railway offers train tour packages, including train travel and hotel or RV park accommodations. 233 N. Grand Canyon Blvd. Williams, AZ 86046 800-843-8724 thetrain.com
Denali National Park, Alaska
Explore the natural wonders of Alaska with the National Park Rail Tours. Start your Alaska Railroad trip from Seward, rolling through the mountainous region of Girdwood and onto Alaska's largest city, Anchorage. Your journey continues to Talkeetna and then on to Denali National Park for a two-night back-country adventure. Alaska Tour and Travel Box 221011 Anchorage, AK 99522 800-208-0200 alaskatravel.com
Alaska Railroad's Coastal Classic
The Coastal Classic begins in Anchorage and takes you on a four-hour trip to the Kenai Fjords National Park. This coastal tour takes you along the Cook Inlet (known as Turnagain Arm) and onto the Kenai Mountains. Through mountain tunnels you emerge to beautiful, mirror-like lakes, waterfalls and glaciers, before ending your trip in Seward. A boat cruise waits to continue your journey to the Kenai Fjords National Park. Alaska Railroad 411 West First Ave. Anchorage, AK 99501 888-252-7528 alaska.org
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Take a leisurely train vacation through panoramic vistas. The Rocky Mountaineer train tour offers a spectacular way to enjoy the Canadian Rockies; leisurely wind through majestic mountains, with 360 degree panoramic views that defy description. Meet fascinating people and enjoy world-class meals in exquisite comfort as the vast beauty of Banff and Jasper National Park unfolds. Several train packages are available offering economy to luxury accommodations. Explore Banff and Jasper National Park, the Kootenays and various landmarks along the way. Suite 101 - 369 Terminal Ave. Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6A 4C4 877-460-3200 banffnationalpark.com
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Amtrak offers many excursions across the United States that allow you to experience America, such as Glacier National Park (Empire Builder); Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (Southwest Chief); or the Juan Anza National Historic Trail (Coast Starlight). Experienced national park guides are on board to explain the cultural and natural history of the area. 800-872-7245 amtrak.com
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Really? The Arizona Diamondbacks' bullpen -- nay, their closer! -- let this one get away? Really?! Forget about Clay Zavada's losing Thursday's game, a 3-2 defeat at the hands of the Cincinnati Reds, in the 10th inning. No, the goat here is closer Chad Qualls, who couldn't make Doug Davis' 2-1 lead hold up in the bottom of the ninth, blowing his fourth save of the season. Oh, to have Jose Valverde back in a D-Backs uniform . . .
Bright spots on Thursday? Sure, there were a couple. Mark Reynolds further proved himself to be one of the top two or three slugging third-basemen in the game by hitting his 22nd home run, a solo shot. The 26-year-old leads all third-basemen in homers. His 57 runs batted in trail only the higher-profile future superstar Evan Longoria. And his 13 stolen bases trail only Chone Figgins and David Wright, neither of whom have shown any power this year. Granted, Alex Rodriguez missed the first six weeks of the season, so his numbers would be up there with Reynolds, but the point is: Reynolds is a bona fide superstar-in-the-making. If he played in New York, Boston, Chicago, or L.A., he'd be a star already.
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Dropping the Falcon from hyperspace near an Imperial base, Lando and Chewie battle TIEs. A Blockade Runner arrives and Leia says to halt the search for Han and follow her to Golrath, a volcanic world housing a Rebel base in a magma-smelting plant. In the medical wing, 2-1B treats Luke for Crimson Forever, a deadly plague that reddens the eyes and the body. He caught it while leading an X-Wing squad (including Red 3) aboard a Star Destroyer that appeared with a dead crew. Two pilots found a red jewel in a carbonite canister, which spread the plague and required isolation of the pilots, and all but Luke died. His Force-sense may have saved him, but they won't destroy the ship until they know more. Han once told her of a journey beyond the galaxy involving two red jewels; Chewie is mad, for Han promised to keep it a secret, but she coaxes him to tell, with 3PO translating, as follows. Meanwhile, Luke, sees images of Vader, Kenobi, and Yoda in his mind and feels surrounded by evil.
Ferrying spies for Leia, Han and Chewie spot Star Destroyers and escape to Terminus, a high-traffic cross-galactic shipping center. Storing the Falcon with false credentials, Han seeks a cantina where Swamp Maidens dance, but a gunman shoots them and they awaken with other mercenaries aboard an intergalactic bulk-freighter, Nova Prince . A mobile hold-tender droid claims they're headed for the Red Nebula, beyond the known galaxy. Their jailer, Klysk, appears on a viewscreen, offers rewards if they work hard, death if they don't, and punctuates by giving Han a slight ion charge. His people are exiles who plan to steal the Great Life Jewels and destroy their exilers. They hit a comet/meteor storm, but Han pilots them to a world thrown from the galaxy by cosmic upheaval; he also deactivates their ion-charged manacles. Landing on a world cratered like a class-D moon, they walk to a temple and town untouched by meteors, where Klysk says to take all they wish but find the Jewels and keep them united. As others loot the town, Han and Chewie enter the temple. A priest says the Jewels fell from space and protect the area from destruction. Han tries to take them, but Zud and two others take them instead. The Guardian, a huge beast sworn to protect the Jewels, kills the men and thinks Chewie a cub. As Han takes the Jewels to Klysk, the Guardian plays with a humiliated Chewie. Klysk leaves with the Jewels and mercenaries, abandoning Han and Chewie as punishment for deactivating the manacles. The priest takes Han to a tracking room, where Han is shocked to see Nova Prince plunge into the sun. The priest says Klysk's followers believed they should have died in the cataclysm, and returned to destroy the Jewels and end their blasphemous existence. Han admits he gave Klysk a bag of rocks, then brings the priest to a grove where he hid the Jewels, findings a dead mercenary who tried to steal them separately, unleashing the Crimson Forever. The priest restores the Jewels to the temple and gives Han and Chewie a ship to return home, grateful for their unintentional help.
As Chewie finishes his tale, a Rebel reports that Luke has succumbed to the disease. Leia, Chewie, and Lando board the Falcon for the Red Nebula but stop when they detect a ship. Chewie hopes it's Slave 1 so he can kill Fett, but it's a derelict House of Tagge Mining Explorer. Boarding, Lando and Leia find the crew dead of Crimson Forever. They search for the second Jewel, but IG-88 captures them and brings them to Domina Tagge. Seeking the destruction of Luke and Vader, she learned of the Jewels and hired IG-88, Bossk, 4-LOM, Dengar, and others to kill the Guardian and the Red Nebula inhabitants and take them. Torturing the priest revealed the Jewels' secret, and when one of Vader's Star Destroyers stopped them, she gave them one Jewel and the location of Golrath, defeating two enemies at once. Before dying, the priest unleashed the other jewel. She secured the room in time but could not leave due to damage caused by the Imperials. Intending to steal the Falcon , the hunters try to take their suits, but Lando ays he has the plague. As they react in fear, Lando and Leia run and open all doors between them and the plagued area so none can follow. Leia decides to leave without the Jewel and use droids to remove the other from Golrath, but Domina offers the Jewel and a cure if they rescue her. The Jewels, which are alive, radiate a positive aura when together and a negative one when apart; the life-slowing only resembles death and is reversible if the Jewels are reuinted. They return to Golrath, where IG-88 reunites the jewels, but only Luke revives. The shock of fighting a deadly virus killed the rest, while his dream saved him. As per agreement, Leia gives Domina and the hunters an escape ship, then programs the Star Destroyer to leave the galaxy with the Jewels. She hates letting Domina go, but Lando admits that he convinced the bounty hunters to turn her over to the Empire for a reward.
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As life passes and I become more and more married, I am coming to believe that two people ought to marry if they discover that they love the same things, carry the same burdens, and see the world in the same way. (Of course, I realize this is a simplistic vision and individual lives are far more detailed and involved than this, but I think the truth stands all the same.) And then, once marriage comes, the delight of the thing is that these loves and visions—already quite the same—become one and blossom and grow and deepen and strengthen. You also trust one another's tastes and look to the other's loves to form your own, so becoming one. I don't mean tastes in clothes or cars, but the way they love other people, their love for beautiful things, their love for literature, or the way they see God and His world.
As I am discovering Madeleine L'Engle's work, I find that she puts words to many of my thoughts. It sounds like she agrees with me—or perhaps, I learned this idea from her and from so many great writers that came before. In talking about her own marriage, she writes:
We have both, throughout the forty years of our marriage, continued to respond with excitement to the same beauty—for instance, to certain pieces of music. I remember driving up to Crosswicks one early spring day when we heard, over the car radio, the beautiful flute solo from Gluck's Orfeo, and our response of delight was such that it has always been special music for us. On a cold and dank day we walked along a beach in southern Portugal, arm in arm, gazing with awe at the great eyes painted on the prows of the fishermen's boats. One night we stood by the railing of a freighter and were dazzled by the glory of the Southern Cross against the blackness of an unpolluted sky. If this kind of simultaneous recognition of wonder diminishes, it is a sign of trouble. Thank God it has been a constant for us.
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe—these are what build a marriage. And it is never taken for granted.
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Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute (FWI), helped establish the field of work and family life at Bank Street College of Education, where she was on the faculty for twenty-five years. Her more than forty books and reports include the highly acclaimed Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, Ask The Children and the now classic The Six Stages of Parenthood. She has published over 100 articles in academic journals, books and magazines.
At the Institute, Ms. Galinsky co-directs the National Study of the Changing Workforce, the most comprehensive nationally representative study of the U.S. workforce—updated every five years and originally conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor in the 1977. She also co-directs When Work Works, a project on workplace flexibility and effectiveness funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that has produced a series of research papers, and has launched the Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility as well as conducted the National Study of Employers, a nationally representative study that has tracked trends in employment benefits, policies and practices since 1998. Information from FWI's research has been reported in the media more than 3 times a day since January 2010.
At FWI, Ms. Galinsky is also directing the national Mind in the Making learning campaign which includes her new book, Mind in the Making, and Vook (video book), learning modules for early childhood teachers, learning modules and online videos for families, a DVD of cutting-edge child development research, community mobilization efforts and major media partnerships. Mind in the Making has had more than 150 million media impressions since its publication.
Ms. Galinsky is the Program Director for The Conference Board's Work Life Leadership Council, a group of business leaders who have spearheaded work life issues in the business community since 1983.
A leading authority on work family issues, Ms. Galinsky was a presenter at the 2000 White House Conference on Teenagers and the 1997 White House Conference on Child Care. She was a planner and participant at the March 2010 White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility and will be working with the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor on the Regional Forums on flexibility, the next step to follow the White House Forum. She served as the elected President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the largest professional group of early childhood educators.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College and the 2005 Outstanding Volunteer and Professional Achievement Award from the National Cathedral School. She was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 2005. A popular keynote speaker, she appears regularly at national conferences, on television and in the media, including the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, World News Tonight and Oprah.
Ms. Galinsky is also a photographer. The latest shows of her photography were at the New York Hall of Science (September 2006), UMA Gallery in New York City (January 2007), RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon, New York (September 2008), GaGa in Rockland County, New York (October 2009) and Upstream Gallery in Dobbs Ferry, New York (February 2009 and February 2010).
She holds a Master of Science degree in Child Development/Education from Bank Street College of Education, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Child Study from Vassar College and numerous honorary degrees.
Ellen Galinsky is married to artist Norman Galinsky, and they are the parents of two grown children: Philip, an ethnomusicologist and founder-director of Samba New York—an inspiring new performance group—and Lara, Senior Vice President at Echoing Green. Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided seed funding to more than 470 social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for social change to launch groundbreaking organizations around the world.


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Dwarf NORAD: A Glimpse of Counterfactual Computing History
When most people think about the kind of super-high-performance games people build custom PCs for, they probably imagine some first-person shooter with fast action, huge explosions, and millions of polygons being rendered to the screen at real time. Few people would think of Dwarf Fortress, a game that is rendered with simple ASCII characters and in that, they would be remiss. As a recent Polygon article notes, Dwarf Fortress can bring most PCs to a grinding halt as it sucks up CPU power in order to generate hundreds of years worth of fictional history in a few minutes, and people do, indeed, build custom gaming PCs geared toward running Dwarf Fortress more smoothly. Although the game's aesthetic may draw from early ASCII games such as Rogue, ZZT, and Kroz, Dwarf Fortress is far from being a "retro" game (it doesn't, as Angela recently discussed, build on our memory of past games). In fact, like modern shooters with their coveted arsenals of polygons, Dwarf Fortress is a game that would have been technologically impossible with 1980s hardware.
As a game that is essentially a huge history simulator, there is plenty that I could say about Dwarf Fortress (and I have said a few things elsewhere). At the moment, however, I don't want to focus on the game's ability to create history, but rather on the ways in which the game as a whole defies history, or at least helps us imagine how computing history might have been different.
As I just mentioned, Dwarf Fortress is dramatically different from most modern videogames. Although it still requires plenty of processor power, that power is spent on crafting elaborate narratives, rather than complex physics simulations and graphics rendering. Why don't more games take this route? Well, for computers, explosions are much easier to create than stories. In fact, computers can create explosions faster and better than even the best human animators could. This is not the case with storytelling. Computers are inherently better at things like simulating physics than at crafting narratives.
But did they have to be?
In his book From Sun Tzu to Xbox, Ed Halter (2006) makes a very convincing argument that many of the conventions in videogames that we take for granted can be traced back to constraints that were placed by many of the early developers of computing technology. As he notes, early computers like the ENIAC , with its stored memory and its binary language of ones and zeros, were created for purposes such as calculating ballistic tables. As computers advanced, their development continued to be shaped by large Cold War military projects, such as the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), which made large contributions both to the graphical capabilities of computers, through the creation of the "display scope," and to the development of input devices, in the form of the light gun. A decade later, when Steve Russell was creating Spacewar! at MIT, the PDP-1 he was working on still looked remarkably similar to the original SAGE display scopes.
The most significant similarities between these early computers, however, was not their round display screens or their cabinet-like processors, but the way that they functioned. Since the beginning of the modern computing age, computers had been built for the purpose of tracking objects in space. The proclivity to compute and simulate real-world physics was built into their very design from the beginning. As such, it should come as no surprise that many of the first videogames like Spacewar!, Tennis for Two, and Ralph Baer's Brown Box (that would go on to inspire Pong) all revolved around the basic mechanic of tiny objects moving around a screen and colliding with one another in physically accurate (or at least believable) ways. As Halter notes:
…the fact that these three early games all followed the bouncing ball was not a mere coincidence. Early designers had to work with the capabilities of the computers at hand; that simulating a projectile appears to have come naturally to three different inventors, completely independent of one another, suggests that there is something essentially basic in this design all three tapped into.
This inherent bent toward physical simulation has gone on to influence the development of every console and every game from Pong, to the Atari VCS, to Doom, to the profusion of shooters and simulators we have today.
As with Dwarf Fortress, many of the most interesting and influential games were not those that centered around the hardware's inherent strengths, but those that worked within those constraints to create something that the system was not specifically designed for. One notable example is the Atari game Adventure, created by Warren Robinett. Adventure was inspired by older text adventure games such as Hunt the Wumpus, and Colossal Cave Adventure. Unlike the computers that these text-based games were played on, the Atari VCS was designed for action games, particularly two-player action games like Pong and Combat. The VCS could only hold two sprites in memory, designed primarily for the paddles, tanks, or other avatars of the two players (Montfort and Bogost, 2009). Although most single player games used one of the two sprites to represent the player, Robinett wanted to use them both for the items and enemies the player encountered in order to flesh out the game world. With no sprites to represent the player, he chose to represent the player with a "ball," as the VCS had a special piece of memory dedicated to representing one for games like Pong. Thus, the protagonist of the game Adventure became a tiny square.
While innovative developers have created a great diversity of videogames in spite of the limitations often placed upon them by computer hardware, it's often hard to imagine what videogames might have looked like under a different set of constraints. What would videogames have been like if the development of modern computers had been fueled by something other than the military? What if the ENIAC had been created to serve historians or artists, rather than artillery commanders?
Such counterfactual histories are hard to imagine for a number of reasons. While imagining a world where historians have millions of dollars to spend on developing a digital computer is difficult to fathom in its own right, it's hard to imagine a computer that deals with something other than numbers. Computers are naturally mathy creatures. Physics, ballistics and other mathy fields are a much easier to pair with the development of the computer than fields in the humanities. Still, it's important to note that while the ancestors of the modern computer mostly include abstract mathematical devices such as the abacus and Babbage's difference engine, they also include devices such as the Jacquard loom. While the purpose of most other computing devices was to generate precise mathematical results, the purpose of Jacquard's loom was to create detailed pieces of art. Writing a program for a Jacquard loom may have been somewhat mathy, but it certainly wasn't math. What if the history of the computer had continued down this route? What if the purpose of early computers was creative expression first and mathematical complexity second, rather than the other way around? Could we imagine a history where narrative construction was the primary focus of videogames and physics simulation took a back seat?
In the end, the important thing isn't what this hypothetical world full of digital Jacquard looms might have looked like, but realizing the often subtle ways in which the attitudes and assumptions of people a hundred years ago still influence the games we play. As developers, it's important that we understand the underlying constraints and allowances that are built into the physical artifacts we use to create games. This is important not just so that we can take advantage of them, but also so that our games can overcome them.
Ed Halter, (2006). From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and video games.
Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost, (2009). Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
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That's a cool thought… as a dude who's a programmer first and a historian second, I can see a path where symbolic processing a la lisp took over from numerical processing – that might be in line with what you're talking about at the end. At the very least, it would be *less* good at simulating balls bounding off each other, which is something. 😉
And drifting a little afield from history, but – have you looked at anything about Inform 7? It's a similarly aggressive attempt to make computers more literary, less mathy.
I don't really get into IF in this article, but it could also be put into the same category of doing novel things within the tight constraints of computer hardware. IF grew out of old text-based games that were being created at places like the People's Computing Center at the same time more physics-based games like Spacewar! were popular in university labs. Again, just like Adventure and Dwarf Fortress, people weren't making these more narrative-focused games because their computers were less mathy, but simply because their computers lacked the power of those in the universities, as well as monitors, making a game like Spacewar! impossible.
Although text games have been around for decades now, it's exciting to see people innovating in the field, especially in terms of tools like Inform and Twine.
A nice companion to other recent histories, e.g., the history of Western epistemology to be found in Daston and Galison's "Objectivity."
A colleague, folklorist Tim Tangherlini, once mused that in the era of big data linear algebra is king, but we are still focused on calculating rocket trajectories and our schools still emphasize calculus.
This was an awesome article! Thanks for the great read. One thing I've been thinking about a lot recently is how similar most games actually are. What has especially limited rpg's isn't the technology but more the games that came before it. Wargaming begat D&D which begat the first video game rpg's. We're still limited by the looting dungeons and killing monster mentality. The completely random battles, etc… D&D was great because of the people behind it creating stories, not because of the dice based combat. A lot of video games have ended up trying to copy D&D but throwing away the good stories and keeping the random combat. It'd be nice to see more game developers try and think outside the box a bit more.
Yes, it would. Of course, the Cold War Era Military-Industrial Complex is far from the only ideological force to act upon the development of computers and videogames, though it is one of the earliest. The influence of D&D on early games like Ultima and Rogue allowed videogames to move away from some of the more physics and shooting based games and toward games with more narrative structure and more varied setting. Over the years, however, this pen-and-paper game influence has often constrained design more than it has enabled it, as you mentioned.


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Star Trek: First Contact. Released Nov. 22, 1996.
For fans, this film delivered a lot: walloping action (check out the tense scene in which Picard, Worf, and a redshirt) confront the Borg on the underbelly of the Enterprise) as well as crucial reveals of Trek backstory. By 1996, the Next Gen crew had been acting together for a decade, but they weren't so old as to be implausible in their roles. That's the sweet spot that all Trek sequels strive for, and this one hit its marks perfectly. It's also a time-travel story this one written by Moore and Brannon Braga, who now writes for 24 that follows the Enterprise-E back to mid-21st-century Earth. In this movie, Patrick Stewart nails the single best scene of his entire run as Picard. Playing opposite Alfre Woodard (who stars as Lily, a 21st-century woman who ends up on the Enterprise), Stewart unveils the deep trauma that the Borg have inflicted on Picard, who cannot stop fighting. "The line must be drawn here," he shouts, becoming unhinged. "I will make them pay!" The Federation may have eliminated hunger and poverty, but vengeance, it turns out, endures.


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Michael Bailey: The hit, miss and maybe of Norwich City's midfield and when goalless means goals
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In his weekly column, Norwich City correspondent Michael Bailey talks midfielder matters with Alex Tettey, Tom Trybull and Moritz Leitner.
It's been another season of Norwich City change and evolution – but definitely not transition. That word isn't allowed any more.
The case in point was Tuesday night at Hull. Of the starting XI, three arrived in the summer (Krul, Buendia, Pukki) and for various reasons a further three hadn't earned a City start until after last Christmas (Lewis, Hernandez, Aarons).
But in terms of individual evolution, something special has happened with a certain Canaries midfielder this Championship season: Alexander Tettey.
It's not the level he joined at, given the Norwegian favourite and former international was a Premier League signing under Chris Hughton's watch more than six years ago.
But right here, right now, it's a level that Tettey is thriving in with a dynamism and organisational leadership that is a joy to watch play out.
It could be the result of such technical quality around him and the chemistry of this particular side. It is definitely with the help of his current City coaches. And likewise, City head coach Daniel Farke told me the man himself deserves huge praise for his own efforts so far this season – the first of his new two-year contract signed ahead of last summer.
"It's all down to Alex because he is an outstanding character and it's also a sign you can even improve when you are not 18 any more," said Farke of his 32-year-old. "He could be a role model for every player, and in general for all human beings – to not say I've reached a special level and now I can relax a little bit.
"It's also important you want to improve each and every moment, and we try to always speak about this topic. We wanted to improve him and his way of playing, and we still want to improve him.
"I think he is in outstanding physical condition, he works a lot additionally on that. Then I think it's important for him that he feels we trust he can still improve and that he is crucial for our game.
"But there is also a lot of competition and he knows he has to perform at his top level.
"All these points show he is not far away from being in the form of his life – I can't judge the first 10-12 years of his career but I'm pretty sure he's not far away from that and long may it continue."
Farke joked that continuous improvement could also extend to Tettey's dancing, given his injury-time goal celebration against Millwall – but to include that here would be harsh, so I won't mention it. Definitely not.
All being well, Tettey will clock his 200th Norwich City appearance come the trip to Blackburn before Christmas – a wonderful achievement for a popular man; almost as impressive as his performances this season, on which City can build something special.
• The simplistic argument following Tuesday at Hull was laid on a plate: Norwich City missed Moritz Leitner.
Now, this isn't necessarily me disagreeing with the point. No one keeps City's possession ticking, their attacks pulling and probing as if he's got the game controller to Fifa 2019, quite like Leitner.
What I would rail against however is using that as a stick with which to beat Tom Trybull.
The fellow German midfielder looked a tad rusty on a fairly competitive and conditions-wise, disgusting evening – no surprise given he has started just five games this season, and two in two months before midweek.
Sure, he wasn't the metronome. Indeed, he did give the ball away on occasions – perhaps underlining the point Leitner could slip into the same song.
But in turn, Leitner's own form was similarly scratchy in the season's early, rusty exchanges.
Likewise Trybull both missing and being denied with Norwich's best chances against the Tigers, showed a greater goal threat to what Leitner has brought.
Off the back of a run in the side, Trybull scores that second-half header. It's a hypothetical discussion naturally, but I'm happy with my view.
Tettey and Trybull looked such a secure midfield axis early in the 2017-18 season but with the former's evolution and Leitner's sublime form, it may well be the current pairing in its grove is an evidential improvement.
But don't let that write off what Trybull can – and knowing the rigours of a Championship season, will – bring to City's ambitions this season.
• Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough in October 2014, Crystal Palace at the end of January 2011, Preston in November 2003.
All goalless, instantly forgettable draws away from home for Norwich City in seasons of incredible success.
Here's to Tuesday night at Hull fitting the same bill in the Canaries' history books.
• For the latest Norwich City news and opinion follow Michael Bailey on the following channels…
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SummaryMcDonald's is looking for hands-on business people with strong leadership and management skills to join the McDonald's brand as franchisees.
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We're always looking for hands-on, ambitious people who are ready to make a long-term commitment to our business. As a franchisee, you'll need to make a significant up-front financial investment, which means having at least £110,000 in unencumbered funds. You'll also be ready to lead from the front and work within our framework to give yourself the greatest chance of success.
A franchise at McDonald's is an appealing investment, but it's also a big ask. We look for dedicated individuals who are willing to work hard, and we have a rigorous selection process to ensure we choose the right people. If you're up to the challenge, the rewards can be worth it – the majority of restaurants have cash flows of between £95,000 and £200,000 or higher.
What will the initial cost be?
- The right to run a restaurant typically requires an upfront payment of between £400,000 and £800,000
- Cashflow: £100,000-£300,000
- You'll need to provide 25% of the investment in unencumbered funds upfront – the rest can be funded through a bank loan
- You'll need to pay a one-off franchise fee of £30,000
- You'll need to pay a £5000 deposit when you start your training, which we'll refund when you buy your first franchise, less any costs we incur in relation to your training, including course fees of approximately £750 and any costs for accommodation and/or training materials.
Cherry Lewis-Taylor: I left school at 18 and joined the Army as an officer. I stayed for 21 years and was attached to various regiments and corps. I took voluntary redundancy because I didn't want to send my children away to school. And it was during my resettlement that I discovered my passion for business. Deciding what to do after such a varied career was a big decision, but McDonald's was the perfect fit for me and my skills..
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Built in 1929 by Keith Neville, a former governor of Nebraska, who joined forces with builder Alex Beck, the Fox Theater was designed by Frederick A. Henninger of Omaha. It was donated to the North Platte Community Playouse in 1980 by Neville's four daughters, and renovated through public donations and volunteer labor. The Fox sign and marquee remain.
As the Neville Center for the Performing Arts it is used for Playhouse stage productions, lectures, concerts and special events. It was added to the Nation Register of Historic Places in 1985. The design is described as "a fine example of the 'Picture Palace'", incorporating elements from various architectural styles.
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text: 1Getting Started with Akaros 2========================== 3Barret Rhoden 4 5Last thorough update: **2013-02-07** 6 7Contents 8----------- 9+ Overview 10+ Need Help? 11+ From Download to Hello World 12 - Cross compiler (and glibc) 13 - Kernel 14 - Userspace 15 - Building and Loading a Virtual Machine Image 16 - Running Qemu 17 - Running on Hardware 18 - Hello World 19 - Other Dev Workflow Stuff 20+ RISCV 21+ Other Developer's Stuff 22 23 241. Overview 25--------------------- 26In this document, I outline what steps I go through to set up my development 27environment. Some devs use other setups, and they can put sections farther 28down in this document describing their steps. 29 30Due to the nature of different workflows and different Linux distros, you'll 31need to do some configuration of your environment. Things won't magically work 32out of the box. 33 34 352. Need Help? 36--------------------- 37First off, if you get stuck, email someone. You can join our mailing list by 38sending an email to 39[firstname.lastname@example.com](mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com) 40or visit the [group](http://groups.google.com/group/akaros). Once you've 41joined, send your messages to <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>. 42 43Alternatively, you can poke your head in #akaros on `irc.freenode.net`. I'm 44usually idling in there (alone), and if I'm at my computer, I'll respond. 45 46 473. From Download to Hello World 48---------------------------- 49I'll describe how to get x86 working. RISCV is similar. 50 51To start off, make sure AKAROS_ROOT and AKAROS_TOOLCHAINS are set in your 52environment. AKAROS_ROOT is the Akaros repo directory. AKAROS_TOOLCHAINS is a 53directory of your choosing where the toolchain will be installed (more on that 54in Section 3.1 below). 55 56I also suggest running `scripts/one-time-setup.sh`, once per `git clone`. This 57performs various checks and other setup. Check it out for details. 58 59The first step is to configure the kernel. Targets like `config`, 60`menuconfig`, and some of the other KBuild targets work. Defconfig gives you a 61default configuration. For example, to config for 64-bit x86: 62 63`$ make ARCH=x86 defconfig` 64 65Alternatively, you can run menuconfig to customize what settings you want: 66 67`$ make ARCH=x86 menuconfig` 68 69For x86, you can choose between 32 and 64 bit when you `make menuconfig`. This 70selection must match your cross compiler `make` command. The default is 64 71bit. 72 73There are a lot of other settings when you `make config`, and you should browse 74through to decide what you want to enable/disable. 75 76Most everyone wants KFS turned on (Filesystems --> KFS filesystem). This is 77the in-memory filesystem that the kernel uses. The kernel build scripts will 78look at the "KFS/Initramfs paths" string and take any of those directories and 79add them to a CPIO archive that will eventually become the root filesystem when 80Akaros runs. These settings are set by default when you do a `make defconfig`. 81 82There are also settings for `ext2`. If you turn on `ext2` support, you need to 83point to an `img` file that has been formatted with `ext2` and has files in it. 84If you aren't messing with filesystems at all, feel free to ignore this. It's 85an in-memory filesystem, like KFS (linked to the end of the kernel), so you 86won't gain much by using it for now. 87 88### 3.1 Cross compiler (and glibc) 89The second step is to build the cross compiler, which lives in 90`tools/compilers/gcc-glibc` 91 92`$ cd tools/compilers/gcc-glibc` 93 94You should already have set your `AKAROS_TOOLCHAINS` to some place where you 95want the cross compiler installed. I have a directory named `akaros-gcc-glibc` 96for this. My bash environment variables are - 97 98```bash 99export AKAROS_ROOT=/home/brho/classes/akaros/akaros-kernel 100export AKAROS_TOOLCHAINS=/home/brho/classes/akaros/akaros-gcc-glibc 101``` 102 103You can also set up `MAKE_JOBS`, so you don't over or under load your system 104when building. I have a 2 core laptop, so I use `MAKE_JOBS := 3` 105 106At this point, you can build (for example): 107 108`$ make x86_64` 109 110This might take a while (10-20 minutes for me on a 2007 era laptop). 111 112Next you will need to add `bin` directories to your `PATH` where the cross 113compiler was installed. This will vary based on the architecture you built the 114toolchain for. Refer below for updating your PATH - 115 116* For riscv, add `$AKAROS_TOOLCHAINS/riscv-ucb-akaros-gcc/bin` to your PATH. 117* For x86_64, add `$AKAROS_TOOLCHAINS/x86_64-ucb-akaros-gcc/bin` to your PATH. 118* For x86_64 native, add `$AKAROS_TOOLCHAINS/x86_64-ucb-akaros-gcc-native/bin` 119to your PATH. 120 121Just to double check everything installed correctly, you should be able to run 122`x86_64-ucb-akaros-gcc` from your shell. 123 124Now, you have a cross compiler ready, and you can start to build Akaros. 125 126### 3.2 Kernel 127`cd` back into the repo root. 128 129Like the cross compiler, the kernel has its own `Makelocal`. 130 131`$ cp Makelocal.template Makelocal` 132 133This file is used to set up custom make targets that are not part of the 134default `Makefile`, but fit nicely into your personal workflow. This file is 135not under version control and can be made to contain just about anything. 136 137Now you're ready to build the kernel: 138 139`$ make` 140 141So the kernel built, but you can't do much with it, and you probably have no 142programs. 143 144Notice that we didn't have to set the `ARCH` variable this time. The make 145system knows what architecture we are set up for and will always build for that 146architecture until a new `ARCH` is selected (i.e. via `make ARCH=xxx defconfig` 147etc.) 148 149### 3.3 Userspace 150First, you'll need to build a few common applications and libraries: 151 152`$ make apps-install` 153 154Then you can build the tests and small utility programs: 155 156`$ make tests` 157 158You now have programs and libraries, and need to put them in KFS. To do this, 159we provide a `fill-kfs` make target. 160 161`$ make fill-kfs` 162 163The `fill-kfs` target copies your cross compiler's shared libraries and all 164test binaries into the first "KFS/Initramfs path" you set during configuration 165(or `kern/kfs/lib` if you just kept the default). 166 167Now that you've changed the contents of KFS's source, remake the kernel. You 168should see something like the following before the kernel links. If you don't 169see this, then you probably didn't actually fill KFS properly. 170 171``` 172 Building initramfs: 173 Adding kern/kfs to initramfs... 174``` 175 176### 3.4 Building and Loading a Virtual Machine Image 177At this point, you probably have a runnable kernel with programs in KFS. It 178should be sitting at `obj/kern/akaros-kernel`. When running in a VM, you can 179either run the kernel directly from `qemu`, or put it in a virtual machine 180image file. 181 182If you don't want to bother with the image, skip this section. I tend to run 183my images off an image file, since `qemu` acts more like hardware (as far as 184multiboot goes). The downside is the boot up is slower, especially if you have 185a large kernel (>100MB). It also takes some effort to set up the VM image. 186 187If you are still reading, you'll need an image file that looks like a hard disk 188to boot `qemu` off of. I put one similar to mine at: 189<http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/files/hdd268mb.img> 190 191It's around 268MB (256MiB, or whatever). If you want to make your own, check out 192[Documentation/howtos/make-bootable-grub-hdd.txt](Documentation/howtos/make-bootable-grub-hdd.txt). 193That's actually the original document I made back when I first figured it out 194back in 2009, which was updated again in 2013. In between, I wrote it up 195online at 196<http://www.omninerd.com/articles/Installing_GRUB_on_a_Hard_Disk_Image_File>, 197which has some other tidbits in the comments. Both methods still use `grub1`. 198 199Anyway, I put that img in `AKAROS-ROOT/mnt/`, and make a folder next to it: 200`AKAROS-ROOT/mnt/hdd`. `mnt/hdd` is the mount point where I mount `hdd.img` 201(Note I don't call it `hdd64mb.img` on my dev machine). 202 203Personally, I always have `hdd.img` mounted. Some of the other devs have make 204targets that mount and umount it. Whenever I reboot my development machine, I 205run a script (as root) that mounts the image file and sets up a few things for 206networking. I put a script I use for this in `scripts/kvm-up.sh`. You'll 207likely want to copy it to the directory **above** the akaros root directory and 208edit it accordingly. Feel free to comment out the networking stuff. That's for 209using networking in `qemu`. 210 211Now that your image file is mounted at `mnt/hdd`, you'll want to copy your 212freshly built kernel to the root of the image. I have a make target in my 213makelocal for this, so that whenever I do a `make kvm`, it builds the kernel 214and copies it to my `hdd.img`. 215 216I added edited versions of my KVM (and USB) make targets to the 217`Makelocal.template`. Uncomment the KVM one (at least). 218 219Incidentally, I also have the following in my `Makelocal`, so that `make` (and 220`make all`) also make kvm: 221 222`all: kvm` 223 224Now, `make kvm`. You should be able to see the new kernel in `mnt/hdd/` (do an 225`ls -l` and check the timestamp). 226 227### 3.5 Running Qemu 228Here is the command I use to run `qemu`/`kvm`. It's evolved over the years, 229and it will vary based on your linux distribution. Don't run it just yet: 230 231``` 232$ qemu-system-x86_64 -s -enable-kvm -cpu kvm64 -smp 8 -m 4096 -nographic -monitor /dev/pts/3 -net nic,model=e1000 -net user,hostfwd=tcp::5555-:22 -net dump,file=/tmp/vm.pcap -drive file=mnt/hdd.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw 233``` 234 235If you skipped making a virtual machine image or want to run the kernel 236directly without emulating a disk, replace the "`-drive`" parameter (all the way 237to `format=raw`) with "`-kernel obj/kern/akaros-kernel`". 238 239The `-monitor` is the qemu monitor, which is a CLI for qemu. Pick a 240tab/terminal/pty in Linux that you will only use for qemu monitoring, and enter 241'`tty`'. Whatever it tells you, put in place of `/dev/pts/3`. I've been using 242the same tab for about 4 years now. In that tab, enter '`sleep 999999999`'. 243Qemu will still access it, but you won't have to worry about bash trying to 244handle your inputs. 245 246`-nographic` allows qemu to work in the terminal you run qemu from, instead of 247spawning off a fake cpu crt/monitor. 248 249The command as written uses qemu's user networking. It's emulated and a little 250slow. The example I have alo forwards port `5555` on the host to port `22` on 251the guest. Customize it according to your needs. 252 253Another option for networking is to set up a tun/tap device. I use this on 254some machines, and the kvm-up script has some commands to set it up. It's 255tricky, and may vary for your distribution. If you do use the tun/tap 256networking, replace the "`-net user`" section with: 257 258`-net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no` 259 260The "`-net dump`" option saves a pcap trace of the network traffic. This is 261very useful for debugging, but probably not needed for most people. 262 263Feel free to pick different values for the number of cpus and RAM (8 and 4096 264in the example). 265 266Once you finally run it, you can stop the VM by entering '`q`' to the qemu 267monitor (or just killing the process).. Other help commands from the monitor 268include '`info cpus`', '`info registers`', '`x`', and '`help`'. 269 270In more recent versions of qemu, `CTRL-C` will not get sent to the guest; 271instead it will kill the VM. If this gets annoying, you can remap "interrupt" 272to something other than `CTRL-C` in the terminal where you run qemu: 273 274`$ stty intr ^]` 275 276To change it back: 277 278`$ stty intr ^c` 279 280 281### 3.6 Running on Hardware 282I have a few bootable USB sticks with grub set up to run Akaros. The make usb 283target (example in `Makelocal.template`) will copy freshly made kernels to your 284USB device. You'll need to adjust those paths according to your distro. My 285usb sticks are usually `/dev/sdc`, for instance (some odd USB device in the 286last couple of years has taken over `/dev/sdb`. Probably something to do with 287`udev` changing over the years). 288 289Anyway, you'll need to mess around a bit to get that working. Or I can `dd` one 290for you (I have 4GB disks in my office that I use). If you make your own, the 291critical part is getting grub to pick the right device (from what I remember), 292and its fairly similar to installing grub on any old hard drive (since it's 293just a bloc device). Much easier than a hard disk image file. 294 295 296### 3.7 Hello World 297So now you can run the kernel. It's time to edit a program (or make your own). 298In this, I'll go through my workflow for making changes. 299 300``` 301$ vi tests/hello.c 302(edit, save) 303 304$ make tests 305(new version in obj/tests/hello) 306 307$ make fill-kfs 308(updates kfs) 309 310$ make 311(rebuilds kernel with the new KFS) 312 313$ qemu... 314 315(following commands are in Akaros) 316Shift-G (to get to the kernel monitor) 317 318ROS(Core 0)> bb (to run busybox) 319 320/ $ hello 321(Should print your message) 322``` 323 324### 3.8 Other Dev Workflow Stuff 325One thing to note is that while we use dynamic linking for `libc`, `parlib` 326libraries are statically linked with applications. In fact, nowadays **all** 327Akaros programs need to be linked againt `parlib` (used to be that single-core 328processes (SCPs) didn't need it). 329 330The makefiles won't notice if you change a file in `parlib` and then remake a 331binary. So if you edit `user/parlib/uthread.c` for example, 332`tests/pthread_test` won't get rebuilt. Here's what I do: 333 334``` 335$ vi user/parlib/uthread.c (make awesome change) 336 337$ touch tests/pthread_test.c ; make tests 338``` 339 340This will force the rebuild of `pthread_test`. Older, untouched binaries (e.g. 341`block_test`), won't get rebuilt. I actually want this in some cases 342(different versions of `parlib` when I'm running certain tests). Anyway, just 343pay attention to what you're building. There's not much output in the console, 344so you should be able to see what's going on all the time. (unlike when 345building `glibc`...). 346 347Oh, and don't forget to: 348 349`$ make fill-kfs` 350 351to make sure you run the new `pthread_test`. 352 353Additionally, when switching between 32 and 64 bit x86, `make objclean` before 354filling KFS. This is the easiest way to make sure you get the appropriate 355libraries loaded in KFS. 356 357Early on as a dev, there are lots of times where you accidentally don't run the 358right program (or kernel) and won't understand why your change isn't happening. 359A few `printk("WTF\n")`'s later, you realize you didn't have the `hdd.img` 360mounted, or you didn't fill KFS, or you didn't relink your binaries, or you 361forgot to save all files in `vi` (and not just the current buffer). But after 362doing a couple `hello worlds`, you're set. 363 364Alternatively, you could have a make target to run qemu, which also touches all 365binaries (or otherwise enforces a rebuild), auto-fills KFS, remakes the kernel, 366and mounts/copies/unmounts your `hdd.img`. 367Personally, I like to keep track of what is going on under the hood, esp if I 368want to do something a little differently (like with testing `ext2`, having 369different versions of `parlib` with some binaries, or being picky about my 370mount/umounts). 371 372 3734. RISCV 374--------------------- 375**TODO**. 376 377For now, you need a 64 bit distro to build the RISCV stuff, so I don't do it 378very often. I'll eventually sync up with Andrew and we'll get this part sorted 379out. 380 381 3825. Other Developer's Stuff 383-------------------------- 384Nothing for now... 385


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Andrej, me and Luka went to Kyrgystan this September. we spent there around 17 days. After flying into Bishkek we immediatelly went for a warm up run on the Alamedin which is a easy class 3-4 run. Next day we continued to Chong Kemin. The river itself is a class 4 wit 1 more difficult rapid.
That day we lent the car to 2 Belgiums so they could make us a shuttle but instead they broke the fuel tank. hahah =) What can you do.
We partially fixed that and continued on Big Naryn. Instead of kayaking 3 days we paddled 1.5 days and the same day we finnished the small Naryn as well. Fast and solid run. Big Naryn is mainly class 3, only 5 km of class 4-5.
It is better to only go on small Naryn and make some laps. Afterwards we continued to the forgotten valley of Arpa.
At the start we were not sure if we should go or not since the water was spread all over the valley. We went anyway and once the valley became a canyon we realised that there is more than enough water. Again instead of 3 days we paddled 1.5 days. We finished our trip with Kekemeren. Class 4+ read and run. Super fun.


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Modern Warfare 3 sold 13.45 million units compared to Black Ops 2′s 11.22 million despite the latter being a better game overall—in my humble opinion, at least.
Does this point to a growing weariness toward the Call of Duty brand? Do two-plus million fewer units point to some encroaching fatigue over the franchise's relentless yearly release schedule? Should Activision be worried?
Probably not.
Black Ops 2 launched one week after the release of Halo 4. Modern Warfare 3 launched alongside Battlefield 3 but not quite so close, with EA's shooter landing two weeks prior. It's possible that Halo 4 cut into week one Black Ops 2 sales, with a number of people holding off on their Call of Duty fix until later in the season.
Black Ops 2 pulled down $500 million in its first 24 hours, and was the fourth all-time biggest video game release in the UK. That it did not apparently beat MW3 in first week sales may indicate that the franchise cannot break records year over year, but this level of sales is hardly indicative of fatigue.
Treyarch's latest is the best-selling game of 2012, and will likely retain that title even with the highly anticipated Far Cry 3 on the near horizon.
Fatigue is almost certainly inevitable, but we're not there yet. There's a lot of Call of Duty hate out there, and I certainly can empathize. The single-player campaign, for all its AAA glitz and gunfire, is a pretty uninspiring experience. The multiplayer is quite good, but doesn't change much one year to the next.
But the thing that Activision has done extremely well with its best-selling franchise is give fans what they want. This may be the key to the game's ongoing success—year after year, the lack of major innovation, the incremental changes and polish around the edges, the neglect of the story and single-player gameplay in favor of robust multiplayer…this is what the fans of the franchise want.
You can disagree with me about that, but it's extremely difficult to disagree with those sales figures. We're well past fluke territory.
Other video game companies (including Activision's second half) might do well to glean what they can from Activision's success. Imagine if the Mass Effect series had followed a similar approach, not changing too much from one game to the next, and focusing more on polish and incremental improvements than on more drastic changes. Or if Diablo III had carried over more of the spirit and feel of its predecessor rather than take such a radically different direction.
Innovation is important, but staying true to a series and its fans is just as vital. Player fatigue may be a problem Activision will need to cope with at some point, but out-and-out player rebellion is not in the cards. Playing it safe may not be as sexy as taking big risks, but there's something savvy about giving fans what they want year after year, game after game, and Call of Duty's ongoing sales domination is evidence enough of that.
Source Article from http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/11/24/black-ops-2-tops-11m-units-sold-in-first-week-no-signs-of-call-of-duty-fatigue-yet/


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Ecobank Nigeria seems to be the worst culprit in the area of limiting other card users on their ATMS. How do you run a cashless society when the ATM and POS are giving unfriendly signals? Should banks be allowed to set certain limit on their ATM because of card users from other banks? These are some of the questions still begging for answers.
If you want to withdraw from Ecobank ATM but you are using card of another bank such as GTBank, First Bank,Zenith Bank and so on, you need to be ready to go up to 10 transactions if you want to withdraw like N50,000.
Gistmaster watched as many people lamented the situation at the ATM located at Ecobank branch in Ogba, Lagos, recently. Same thing happened at the Omole branch. A middle age woman who said she wanted to buy some household items, said she went through hell withdrawing five times because the limit of the ATM was set to N5000 durning the holiday time. "All this frustration is too much" she lamented.
A security personnel at one Ecobank branches told Gistmaster that the limit is not a new development. According to him, the bank use that as a method to give their customer better service when using their own ATM. In most situations, an ecobank customer can withdraw N20,000 at once, while that of other card users is pegged at N5000!
Tolulope Abiona, a commenter on a post by Sola Salako on Facebook, said ECOBANK started the ATM limit. Dimeji Agbolade confirmed that it is same issue with Ecobank at Covenant University campus,Ota.
Meanwhile Mr Chales kie, Managing Director said in an interview with some select media executives in Lagos that Ecobank is introducing some key innovation that will mark the major revolution in the Nigerian banking sector. "These innovations that are key digital innovations is where the bank is going, and as a group, we yearly set ourselves a target to try and achieve not less than 100 million customers by 2020, of which all we see for Nigeria will transform into not less than 40 million customers. Also, we have designed a clear agenda to achieve that and all these postulate into ensuring that our service to our customers is efficient, and also ensure that our people are up to the task and we are working on that. I am going to give you some of the things we are doing to achieve that."


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When off sick here's our advice: don't call me I'll call you!Submitted by Eamonn Lynch on 3 June, 2019 - 21:06
An agreement from SFC dated 2005
Whilst LUL managers may deny these agreements there's no doubt they exist.
They just don't like sharing.
The SFC 2019 have, at the request of our reps, re-issued the following advice.
It's important we make them stick to agreements made with the RMT


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Selkie rowed down from the pontoon to South Cuan on Saturday 24 May, to support the launch of the Isle 0f Luing's skiff, Hinba, and re-launch of their renovated Fair Isle skiff, Virda.
A piper, BBQ, blessing of the boats, bunting and tropical blue seas all made for a great day out. We were joined by Gill of Melfort, from Kilmelford, who rowed across from North Cuan.
Monty Halls was there too, with a BBC camera crew, taking a break from making a film about diving in the Slate Islands – watch this space!
After the launch, Selkie raced the Luing ferry, Belnahua, across Cuan Sound (we won!!) and beached for the night. A very early Sunday row repositioned the skiff at Ellenabeich, ready for our regatta this coming weekend.


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This listening book is intended for use by Year 11 teachers and/or tertiary bound students in their preparation for exams or as a course across the year. They complement current textbooks and topics in use and provide teachers and students with authentic listening text for the following topics:
Volume 1
Family and Friends, Daily Life and School
Food, Healthy Lifestyle
This is the Teachers' Resource Book and USB (replacing the audio CD) for the above.
Kikou Yo! Senior Volume 1 contains listening resources suitable for senior secondary school, approximately Year 12 (NZ). The listening activities revolve around themes such as friends and family, daily life, food and drink, and healthy lifestyle.
This Teachers Book + Audio CD contains the transcripts, answers and the Audio CD.
The Student's Book BLM contains the Blackline Masters for Student's handouts, sold separately.
Continue on with Kikou Yo! Senior Vol 2 for Year 13 (NZ).


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Britney's got a busy schedule in Las Vegas this week! She and her team will walk through the PH Live venue at Planet Hollywood on Thursday, attend Cirque du Soleil's One Drop gala on Friday and stop by Shania Twain's show as her special guest on Saturday, reports Robin Leach.
One Drop raises awareness and funds to ensure everyone has access to water.
Vegas is ready for ya, Brit!


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Amazonite crystal meaning:
Pale azure blue amazonite is know as the lucky "Hope Stone".
It will be lucky for all your hopes and dreams.
Balances masculine and feminine energy as well as many aspects of the personality. It promotes kindness and practicality.
Is rejuvenating to the Heart and Throat Chakras, enhancing loving communication on all levels.
Amazonite also assists the user in seeing different sides of the same issue.
It is an excellent stone for writers and artists as it is thought to enhance self-expression and creativity.
Use Tumbled Amazonite on the Heart and Throat Chakras to enhance loving expression, or with the Third Eye Chakra to open intuition.
Peruvian Blue Opal crystal meaning:
Blue Peruvian Opal is mystically known as a stone of courage and ingenuity.
It is said to improve self-esteem and self-love.
The Peruvian blue opal has soft relaxing energies, it takes the tension out of communication and helps ideas flow freely.
It softens the impact of stress from the outside world, helping one to release the trauma of old wounds, facilitating facing the future with a tranquil self healing nature.
It is good for quieting the mind and helpful in aiding sleep.


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We are dedicated to finding better ways to diagnose and treat frontotemporal dementia, alongside working to discover the cause of the condition.
Frontier is a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary research clinic that investigates frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in collaboration with ForeFront Ageing and Neurodegeneration. FTD is Australia's second most common degenerative disease that causes dementia in younger adults. As the first ever research group to concentrate on FTD in Australia, Frontier is dedicated to identifying better ways to diagnose FTD, finding the cause and developing effective treatments for the condition.
Our multidisciplinary research examines the neurological, psychological and biological brain function in FTD, as well as how the disease impacts on the lives of patients and their families. Our team is currently investigating:
Are you a patient living with FTD? Help us find a cure – get involved in our research.
Additional resources for carers can be found here.
Help us impact the lives of people affected by frontotemporal dementia. With your support, our research can make a real difference. We welcome any gift, large or small, so make a donation today.
We have developed a range of tests to help clinicians accurately assess cognitive function and diagnose frontotemporal dementia in patients, such as the ACE-III and the Frontier Executive Screen test. Access the tests here.
Guidelines for the remote administration of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-III (ACE-III) test are now available. Version A of the Australian and UK forms have also been adapted and available here.
If you would like to know when these tests are updated or changed, please email us so we can keep you informed.


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The surf film Paradigm Lost will screen at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center on Friday, Sept. 22. The film is produced and directed by Kai Lenny, Johnny Decesare and Jace Panebianco and co-produced by Red Bull Media House. The film includes clips of surfing, windsurfing, hydro-foiling, paddling, SUP and more. It took three years to create and spans six countries. Featured athletes include Lenny, Albee Layer, Jamie O'Brien, Levi Siver, John John Florence, Kelly Slater, Airton Cozzolino, Marcilio Browne, Kalani Chapman, Ryan Hipwood, Ridge Lenny, Matt Meola, Robby Naish, Ian Walsh, Dusty Payne, Greg Long, Julian Wilson, Clyde Aikau, Victor Lopez, Dave Kalama and Laird Hamilton. $7-12. 6:30pm. Maui Arts and Cultural Center, (1 Cameron Way, Kahului); 808-242-SHOW; Mauiarts.org
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Kid's Camp – Music with James Weaver
June 11, 2018 @ 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
An event every day that begins at 10:30 am, repeating until June 15, 2018
One event on July 16, 2018 at 10:30 am
One event on July 17, 2018 at 10:30 am
One event on July 18, 2018 at 10:30 am
One event on July 19, 2018 at 10:30 am
One event on July 20, 2018 at 10:30 am
Instructor: James Weaver
5-day camp
Pricing: $75 Non-member (Members get a 10% discount)
2nd Session: Week of July 16, 2018
This is the ultimate "Summer Music Camp". Join us for a week of total immersion into the wonderful world of music. Planned activities include music instruction in both Piano/Keyboard and Guitar as well as music games, karaoke, vocal training, country line dancing, cultural music exploration featuring music from a variety of cultures around the world, live concerts given by the instructor staff and concerts presented on state of the art audio/visual equipment. The camp is provided by James Weaver Studios in association with the Gilmer Arts Center.
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