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What: Third Youth Choir Anniversary
When: 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Friendship Chapel Baptist Church, Friendship Road, Shelby
Information: Nataja Boykins , 704-756-5953
What: The Inspiration Choir 11th Anniversary
When: 3 p.m. Aug. 25
Where: New Start Fellowship Church, N.C. 18 South, Shelby
Information: Pastor Evelyn Crosby 704-482-6851
What: Youngs Grove Baptist Church 127th Anniversary
When: 3 p.m. Sept. 1
Where: 222 Young Grove Road, Blacksburg S.C.
Speaker: The Rev. Randy Thurman of First Baptist Church of Earl
Information: 864-839-2668
What: Community Bible study
When: 10 a.m.-noon Tuesdays (beginning Sept. 3)
Where: Elizabeth Baptist Church, 301 N. Post Road, Shelby
Details: Studying Romans; cost, $25 for adults, $10 for children; classes available for men, women, and children (infants to 18).
Information: Millie Kittrell at 704-300-8675
What: Mustard Seed Gatherings
When: Choice of two meetings: 9:30 to noon on Saturdays, Sept. 7-Oct. 26; or 6-8:30 p.m. on Mondays, Sept. 9-Oct. 28
Where: Camp Loy White, Casar
Details: A Bible study and accountability group that will meet for eight sessions; each session starts with a gathering, check-in and community building and includes guided spiritual study to read, ask questions and discuss the scripture; also includes small groups for listening, accountability and prayer.
Information and registration: Register by email at email@example.com; leave your name, address, phone number and email address. A one-time registration fee of $20 is due at the first meeting.
What: Crossroads Rescue Mission bookbag giveaway
When: 11 a.m. Saturday (registration at 10 a.m.)
Where: Bethel Baptist Church, 606 S. Dekalb St., Shelby
Details: 1,000 bookbags full of school supplies will be given away to the first 1,000 people who register
Information: 704-484-8770
What: Upward Soccer evaluation/registration
When: 9 a.m.-noon Saturday; 5-7 p.m. Aug. 23; 9-11 a.m. Aug. 24
Where: New Hope Baptist Church, 2611 Blacksburg Road, Earl
Details: Practices begin Sept. 2; games begin Sept. 14; awards celebration Nov. 2
Information: Jason Chandler 704-299-0446; Sherri Jackson 704-477-2419
What: Family fun day
When: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug. 24
Where: Royster Avenue Church of God, 504 Royster Ave., Shelby
Details: Food, water games, inflatables, cornhole
Information: 704-487-5987
What: Youth health fair
When: 2-4 p.m. Aug. 24
Where: Shelby City Park
Details: Local organizations providing free information; motivational speaker and music
Information: Voice of Hope Seventh Day Adventist Church, 704-473-7288
What: Free haircuts
When: 9 a.m.-noon, Aug. 24
Where: Maple Springs Baptist Church, 1231 Maple Springs Church Road, Shelby
Details: Keith Rhodes will be giving free haircuts for any students enrolled in school for the upcoming year
What: Lattimore Baptist Church 5K run/walk and kids' fun run
When: 8 a.m. Saturday; registration begins at 7 a.m.
Registration: $25
Details: Proceeds go to build a playground at the church for the community.
Information: Email firstname.lastname@example.com for a registration form, or call 704-482-1695; registration also on www.active.com
What: Chicken pie supper
When: 4-6 p.m. Saturday
Where: High Shoal Baptist Church, 284 High Shoals Church Road, Henrietta
Details: $6 for adults; $3 for children ages 6-12; and free for children younger than 6; menu includes chicken pie, vegetables, tea and coffee and desserts; proceeds go to the needy family Christmas fund.
Information: 828-657-6448, www.highshoalbaptist.org
What: Yard sale
When: 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday
Where: Hoey Memorial United Methodist Church, 2300 Hoey Church Road, off U.S. 74 East, Shelby
Details: Fundraiser for the Lanier Circle special needs fund; also selling baked goods and some flowers
Information: Call 704-471-0803 on the day of the sale
What: Barbecue fundraiser for the Benevolence Fund
When: 4-7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Big Springs Baptist Church in the Hollis- Polkville community
Details: Donations only; dine in or take out; char-grilled chicken or chopped sirloin, garden salad, loaded baked potatoes, rolls, coffee, tea, desserts
What: Poor man's supper
When: 4-7 p.m. Aug. 24
Where: New Bethel Baptist Church, 112 New Bethel Church Road, Lawndale.
Details: Money will go to mission activities/to help build wells in Nicaragua. Cost is by donation.
What: Hot dog sale
When: 11 a.m.-until, Aug. 24
Where: Westover Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 114 Westover Drive, Kings Mountain
Details: Plates consist of two hot dogs (your way) chips and dessert; eat-in includes drink
What: Chicken pie supper, bake sale and silent auction
When: 6-8 p.m. Aug. 24
Where: Lafayette Street United Methodist Church, Shelby
Details: $8 adults, $5 children younger than 12; take-out available; Grateful and Friends performing
What: Kick off revival prayer breakfast/revival
When: 9 a.m. Saturday, breakfast; 7 nightly Sunday-Wednesday, revival
Where: Eskridge Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 634 Washburn Switch Road, Shelby
Speaker: Breakfast, Pastor Walter Wright; revival, Sunday, the Rev. Juan Cherry; and Monday-Wednesday, the Rev. Johnny Miller
What: Revival
When: 5 p.m. Sunday and 7 nightly Monday-Wednesday
Where: First Baptist Church of Lawndale
Details: Speaker is the Rev. Nathan Scovens of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, Greensboro; meet and greet luncheon for all pastors on Tuesday at noon; must RSVP by Friday to 704-538-9429
What: Jump start/revival
When: 3 p.m. Sunday, jump start; 7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, revival
Where: Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, 188 New Jerusalem Church Road, Harris
Speakers: Jump start, the Rev. Robert Coleman of Hoppers Chapel Baptist Church, Shelby; revival on Monday, the Rev. Howard Jamaal Edwards of Oak Grove Baptist Church, Forest City; Tuesday, the Rev. Lester Jackson of New Zion Baptist Church, Harriet
Details: Dinner will be served at 2 p.m. Sunday before the jump start service
Information: Geraldin Davis, 864-764-4464
What: Homecoming/revival
When: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday
Where: Shady Grove Baptist Church, Kings Mountain
Speakers: The Rev. Chad Woods, pastor of Great Hope Baptist Church, Conover; the Rev. David Lindsey, pastor of Fairview Baptist Church, Cherryville
Information: Eddie Ponder, 704-487-7405
What: Homecoming/revival
When: Homecoming, 3 p.m. Sunday; revival, 7 nightly Monday-Thursday
Where: Mikes Creek Missionary Baptist Church in Gaffney, S.C.
Speakers: Homecoming, the Rev. George Washington Shell Jr. of St. Luke Baptist Church in Buffalo, S.C.; and revival, the Rev. Charles Jackson Jr. of New Laurel Street Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C.
Information: 864-489-1507
What: Homecoming/revival
When: Homecoming, Sunday; revival, Monday-Thursday
Where: Fairview AME Zion Church, Earl
Speakers: Homecoming, the Rev. Jonty Leak of Shiloh AME Zion Church in Grover; and revival, the Rev. Ricky Woods of Shekinah Glory of AME Zion Church in Spartanburg, S.C.
Information: Brenda Allison, 704-487-8856
What: Homecoming service
When: 2 p.m. Sunday
Where: Harris First Baptist Church, Harris
Details: Morning worship service conducted by the Rev. George Whitmire; lunch afterward; featured singer, The Lamberts; music director, Hix Bailey
Information: 828-245-7486
What: Homecoming/revival
When: 3 p.m. Sunday, homecoming; 7 nightly Monday-Wednesday, revival
Where: Youngs Grove Baptist Church, 222 Young Grove Road, Blacksburg, S.C.
Speakers: Homecoming, Dr. Antonia D. Smith of Gowdyesville Baptist Church; revival, Monday, the Rev. Robert Dover of Maple Springs Baptist Church, Tuesday-Wednesday, Dr. Jamaal Edwards of Oak Grove Baptist Church
Information: 864-839-2668
What: Homecoming/revival
When: 2:30 p.m. Sunday, homecoming; 7 p.m. nightly Monday-Thursday, revival
Where: Zion Hill Baptist Church, 3460 Zion Hill Road, Cherryville
Speakers: Homecoming, the Rev. Robert Dover of Maple Springs Baptist Church; and revival, the Rev. Les Howard of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church
Information: 704-435-3355
What: Homecoming/revival
When: 3 p.m. Sunday, homecoming; 7:30 nightly Monday-Aug. 23, revival
Where: Jerusalem C.F. Church of God, Shelby
Speakers: Homecoming, Apostle Gene Brooks of New Providence Full Gospel Church; revival, Monday, Pastor Ray Lockhart Ellis of Chapel Church; Tuesday, Pastor Tony Giles of Zion Hill Faith Temple; Wednesday, Pastor Jonathan Boyd of Light Oak Baptist Church; Thursday, Pastor Dewitt Youngblood of Macedonia Apostle & Prophets Church; Aug. 23, Pastor Thomas Ramseur of Community Baptist Church
What: Tent revival for Jesus
When: 7:30 nightly Thursday-Aug. 29
Where: The Big Tent in Kings Mountain, 215 King St. in downtown Kings Mountain
Details: Evangelist Scott Callahan of Fort Mill, S.C.; live gospel music, singing, preaching, prayer for the sick; all are welcome
What: Homecoming/revival
When: 3:30 p.m. Aug. 25, homecoming; 7 p.m. nightly Aug. 26-29
Where: Waddell Chapel AME Zion Church
Speakers: Homecoming, the Rev. William Puryear of Torrence Grove AME Zion Church, Charlotte, accompanied by his choir and members; Aug. 26, the Rev. Luke Curry Sr. of Bynum Chapel AME Zion Church, Kings Mountain; Aug. 27, the Rev. Billy Houze of Lawndale First Baptist Church, Lawndale; Aug. 28, the Rev. Reginald Keitt of Mt. Pleasant AME Zion Church, Statesville; Aug. 29, the Rev. Robert Coleman of Hopper's Chapel Baptist Church, Shelby.
What: 107th homecoming celebration and annual fall revival
When: 3 p.m. Aug. 25, homecoming; and 7 nightly, Aug. 26-28, revival
Where: Macedonia Baptist Church, 235 A.W. Black St., Waco
Speakers: Homecoming, Pastor Billy D. Houze of First Baptist Church of Lawndale; revival, Dr. Benjamin Hinton, Pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church
Information Center: 704-435-8842
What: Senior day
When: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., third Saturday of each month (Aug. 17)
Where: Brooks Chapel United Methodist, 110 Brooks Chapel Court, Polkville
Information: 704-538-9506
What: 40th birthday celebration for Bishop Charles Hogue
When: 5 p.m. Saturday
Where: Canaan Memorial Baptist Church, 300 E. Ross Grove Road, Shelby
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Gooding of Living Waters Community Worship Center, Gastonia
What: Deacon program (Building Fund)
When: 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Bethlehem Temple Church, 115 Temple Drive, Grover
Speaker: The Rev. Ray Lockhart of Ellis Chapel Baptist Church, Patterson Springs
What: Faith Missionary Baptist Church Dance Team presents a Praise Celebration
When: 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Faith Missionary Baptist Church, 822 Churchill Drive, Shelby
Details: Dancers, step teams, choirs from surrounding area
What: Sunday lunch
When: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sunday
Where: St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 2622 New Prospect Church Road, Shelby
Details: Country-style steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, slaw, dessert, tea; everyone is invited; donations accepted
What: Men's day celebration
When: 3:30 p.m. Aug. 25
Where: Canaan Baptist Church, 300 E. Ross Grove Road, Shelby
Speaker: The Rev. Larry Roseboro of New Hope Baptist Church in Vale
What: Family and Friends Day
When: 3 p.m. Aug. 25
Where: Faith Missionary Baptist Church, 822 Churchill Drive, Shelby
Speaker: The Rev. J. Boyd of Light Oak Baptist Church in Shelby
Information: 704-600-6068
What: Gospel Summer Festival
When: 4 p.m. Saturday
Where: Robb's & Son Carwash, 308 Linberger St., Shelby
Details: Bring your own chairs; groups to include The Five Stairs, The Golden Hummerners, The True Gospel Believers, The Camp Sisters, The New Vocalairs, The Saxtons , Sister Patricia Allen Camp, and others
Information: Larry Smith 704-600-6232, or James Robbs 704-482-2910
What: Evangelist Linda Hardin and the Joy Gospel Singers
When: 4 p.m. Saturday
Where: Hospice, Wendover Heights Drive, Shelby
What: Love offering concert with Rick Strickland
When: 6 p.m. Sunday
Where: Trinity Baptist Church, 746 Trinity Church Road, Mooresboro
Information: 704-434-6012, or 704-471-0304
What: Third Sunday night singing
When: 6:30 p.m. Sunday
Where: Friendly Chapel Baptist Church, 2.5 miles east of Fallston at 735 Sugar Hill Road
Details: Featured singers will be Truly Blessed
Information: Nellie Williams, 704-300-1635, or firstname.lastname@example.com
What: Evangelist Linda Hardin and the Joy Gospel Singers
When: 3 p.m. Aug. 24
Where: Peak Resources, 1101 N. Morgan St., Shelby
What: JC & Company praise and worship concert
When: 10 a.m. Aug. 24
Where: Spring Water Festival, Williamston, S.C.
Information: Catlin Tierce, 864-608-0257
What: The Anchormen Quartet in concert
When: 6 p.m. Aug. 25
Where: Sandy Run Baptist Church, 210 E. Church St., Mooresboro
Details: Free; a love offering will be received; full time, dynamic quartet out of Asheboro
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In the prophecy of Ezekiel we have left the touching ground we were on in Jeremiah. He was within with the judgment hanging over the guilty city, and under the oppressive sense of the evil which brought on the ruin, bearing a testimony which, as to apparent result, was of no avail, though it maintained, in personal sorrow of heart according to human measure, the glory of God.
Ezekiel had been carried into captivity with the king Jehoiachin; at least, he was one of those made captive at that time, and he habitually dates his prophecies from that period — an important thing to remark that we may understand the revelations made to him. For himself there is no more question either of dates or of kings, of Judah or of Israel. The people of God are in captivity among the Gentiles. Israel is looked at as a whole; the interests of the whole nation are before the eye of the prophet. At the same time the capture of Jerusalem under Zedekiah had not yet taken place. This occasions the revelation of that king's iniquity, the measure of which was filled up by his rebellion. For Nebuchadnezzar attached value to the oath made in the name of Jehovah. He counted upon the respect due to that name, and Zedekiah had not respected it.
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This and next week, Film Independent at LACMA is hosting three nights of fascinating double bills. If you are not yet a LACMA Film Club member, now would be a great time to join. From neo-noir to political conspiracies to true classics, these interesting pairings are not to be missed.
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If the Black Keys are the current blues practioners who sound like they would roll you for your change in the alley behind the bar, Sean Hayes is the one who'd pick you up, dust you off and buy you a drink afterward.
Hayes' brand of blues, more a folk-blues hybrid, may be smoother than some of his down-and-dirtier counterparts, but it's no less effective – on "Before We Turn To Dust," modern beats carry along a world-weary rumble that conveys just the right balance of hope and desperation. It's mesmerizing.
Hayes sets the mood just right on the title track, drawing a direct line between our never-ending quest for love and the limitations of our own mortality. "Got to give it up to get iiiiiiitttt," he croaks, and when he extols the importance of "every moment, every breath," he sounds wise and wizened at the same time – he's like a bluesy Yoda.
On other tracks, like the piano-driven "Bam Bam," Hayes manages a sexy dangerousness, and he turns to a smoky falsetto on "Drop Down," a nostalgic slow-burner that draws parallels between his parents' joys and challenges – "They got it on and I'm sure glad they did," he sings – and his own current life as a new father.
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Temp download link. Http://Zack.st/Userscripts
Chrome users must open the Bob link in a new tab to install
BOB is a script that adds some functionality to this site, especially to the game-pages. Most of that functionality can be altered or turned on/off by the menu at the left of the screen.
2 of the most used added functionalities are the statistics table and the Map Inspect.
The statistics-table is created from the logs, it shows for example how many armies someone received last time they started a turn. It also calculates how many territories everyone has in a fog-game.
The map inspect-feature makes it possible to highlight some territories on the screen, for example to check which territories could give you a bonus. Highlighting is done by hovering over certain elements:
players/teams in the statistics-table or on the right: highlight all territories of this player/team.
card: highlight territory belonging to this card.
Bonus/'continent' in the statistics-table or on the right (if enabled): Highlight all territories belonging to this bonus (if you need 5 out of 9, it will highlight all 9 territories).
Territories on the map: Highlight (with a certain convention) the territories that border this territory.
6 different options atm: Border (2-way attack), attack-only, defend-only, bombard, bombarded by, mutual bombard
How to install
BOB works for both Chrome and Firefox by default, but firefox needs greasemonkey installed.
See this thread for the whole installation-guide for firefox.
If you have Greasemonkey installed already, or you're using chrome, just click the following link, it will try to install immediately: GET BOB
Http://Zack.st/Userscripts (find Bob)
If the BOB-script doesn't work properly directly after an update (I've seen it show 2 bob-menu's on the left), try to pres 'ctrl-f5' once or twice. This should reload the page without using the cache (and thereby refreshing it). If that doesn't solve it, or you have another kind of problem, please put it in this thread (and try to put some details in it, maybe a certain map, a particular action).
If you can think of any improvements that can be made, please share them by posting in this thread. I'll try to keep my TODO-list below updated.
Changes in version 5.3.0:
Fixed small bug when text map was enabled.
Changes in version 5.2.9:
Config script location was sometimes still wrong on game pages, identifying it a bit different now.
Changes in version 5.2.7/ 5.2.8:
Updated colors to be loaded in the script till 12 players + colour codes,
Poly-games are now seen as proper team games,
Flat-rate spoils estimate should be correct again now,
If a bonus is done through the collections feature, bonusses should show up correctly again.
Updated jquery to 2.0.3
Older versions : see yeti_c's old thread


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Busybox replacement
This page has information about the commands and features desired for a busybox replacement program.
See Busybox replacement project for the project proposal for this work.
- 1 Command List
- 2 Toybox currently implements
- 3 Use case: provide a self-hosting development environment
- 4 Use case: replacing Toolbox commands
- 5 Busybox commands
- 6 POSIX-2008/SUSv4
- 7 Random Notes
Command List
We have several potential use cases for a busybox replacement, and are using those to determine a consensus on which commands to target for a 1.0 release of an unencumbered busybox replacement package.
Our current candidate list combines the commands toybox already implements, the development environment command list, the toolbox standard commands, the Sony configuration of busybox, and the selected subset of the SUSv4 standard.
Thus the first release of a busybox replacement should include the following commands:
at awk basename bc bunzip2 bzcat bzip2 cal cat catv chgrp chmod chown chroot chvt cksum cmp comm count cp cpio csplit cut date dd df diff dirname dmesg dnsdomainname du echo egrep env expand expr false fgrep file find fold freeramdisk ftpd ftpget ftpput fuser getconf getty grep gunzip gzip halt hd head help hostname id ifconfig iftop init insmod install ioctl ionice join kill killall klogd less link ln logger login logname losetup ls lsmod lsof man md5sum mdev mkdir mkfifo mknod mkswap mktemp modprobe more mount mountpoint mv nc netcat netstat newgrp newfs_msdos nice nl nohup notify od oneit paste patch pathchk pgrep pidof ping ping6 pivot_root pkill poweroff printenv printf ps pwd readlink reboot renice rm rmdir rmmod route sed seq setsid sfdisk sh sha1sum sleep sort split start stat stop stty swapoff swapon switch_root sync syslogd tabs tac tail tar taskset tee telnet telnetd test time top touch tput tr true truncate tty umount uname unexpand uniq unlink unshare uptime usleep uudecode uuencode vconfig vi vmstat wc wget which who whoami xargs yes zcat
Plus additional to-be-determined shell functionality.
Toybox currently implements
Here's a link to the toybox project: http://www.landley.net/toybox/about.html which is a prime candidate for replacing busybox.
The triaged toybox (2 clause BSD license) is currently implementing usable versions of:
bzcat cal cat catv chroot chvt cksum count cp df dirname dmesg echo false help link mkswap nc netcat nice nohup oneit patch pwd rmdir seq setsid sha1sum sleep sort sync tee true truncate tty uname unlink unshare wc which yes
And contains partial implementations of:
mdev sh
See the Toybox todo list for the most up to date status.
Use case: provide a self-hosting development environment
The following commands are enough to build the Aboriginal Linux development environment, boot it to a shell prompt, and build Linux From Scratch 6.8 under it. (Aboriginal Linux currently uses BusyBox for this, thus provides a corresponding test environment for toybox.)
This use case includes running init scripts and other shell scripts, running configure, make, and install in each package, and providing basic command line facilities such as a text editor. (It does not include a compiler toolchain or C library, those are outside the scope of this project.)
Already in toybox
bzcat cat cp dirname echo patch rmdir sha1sum sleep sort sync true uname wc which yes env
Additional commands for development environment
zcat awk basename bzip2 chmod chown cmp cut date dd diff egrep expr find grep gzip head hostname id install ln ls mkdir mktemp mv od readlink rm sed sh tail tar touch tr uniq wget whoami xargs chgrp comm gunzip less logname man split tee test time bunzip2 chgrp chroot comm cpio dmesg dnsdomainname ftpd ftpget ftpput gunzip ifconfig init less logname losetup man mdev mount mountpoint nc pgrep pkill pwd route split stat switch_root tac tee test time umount vi
Note: Aboriginal Linux installs bash 2.05b as #!/bin/sh and its scripts require bash extensions not present in busybox ash.
Use case: replacing Toolbox commands
Standard commands
Toolbox in Android (what version?) implements the following standard commands:
cat chmod chown cmp date dd dmesg df hd id ifconfig iftop insmod ioctl ionice kill ls netstat ln lsmod lsof mkdir mount mv newfs_msdos notify ps printenv reboot renice rm rmdir rmmod route sleep start stop sync top umount uptime vmstat
Android-specific commands
Toolbox also provides the following nonstandard commands, which are unique to Android (or at least do not appear in Ubuntu or SUSv4):
alarm schedtop getprop log setprop watchprops notify wipe getevent sendevent nandread smd setconsole r ioctl
Busybox commands
default 1.10 build
A default build of Busybox 1.10 has the following commands:
[, [[, addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, ar, arp, arping, ash, awk, basename, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat, catv, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chown, chpasswd, chpst, chroot, chrt, chvt, cksum, clear, cmp, comm, cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cryptpw, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, df, dhcprelay, diff, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, echo, ed, egrep, eject, env, envdir, envuidgid, expand, expr, false, fbset, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgrep, find, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck, fsck.minix, fuser, getopt, getty, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname, hwclock, id, ifconfig, ifdown, ifup, inetd, init, insmod, install, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink, iproute, iprule, iptunnel, kbd_mode, kill, killall, killall5, klogd, last, length, less, linux32, linux64, linuxrc, ln, loadfont, loadkmap, logger, login, logname, logread, losetup, lpd, lpq, lpr, ls, lsattr, lsmod, lzmacat, makedevs, md5sum, mdev, mesg, microcom, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, mountpoint, mt, mv, nameif, netstat, nice, nmeter, nohup, nslookup, od, openvt, passwd, patch, pgrep, pidof, ping, pipe_progress, pivot_root, pkill, poweroff, printenv, printf, ps, pscan, pwd, raidautorun, rdate, readlink, readprofile, realpath, reboot, renice, reset, resize, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, run-parts, runlevel, runsv, runsvdir, rx, script, sed, sendmail, seq, setarch, setconsole, setkeycodes, setlogcons, setsid, setuidgid, sh, sha1sum, sleep, softlimit, sort, split, start-stop-daemon, stat, strings, stty, su, sulogin, sum, sv, svlogd, swapoff, swapon, switch_root, sync, sysctl, syslogd, tac, tail, tar, taskset, tee, telnetd, test, time, top, touch, tr, true, tty, ttysize, udhcpc, udhcpd, umount, uname, uncompress, unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unlzma, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vi, vlock, watch, watchdog, wc, wget, which, who, whoami, xargs, yes, zcat
Sony CE Linux (internal distribution) 1.13.4 build
This is from a version of busybox used in lots of Sony products: Currently defined functions:
[, [[, ash, basename, bunzip2, bzcat, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, cmp, cp, cpio, cut, date, dd, dirname, dmesg, echo, egrep, env, expr, false, fgrep, freeramdisk, ftpget, ftpput, getty, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, ifconfig, insmod, kill, killall, klogd, ln, logger, login, ls, lsmod, md5sum, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mktemp, modprobe, mount, mv, pidof, ping, ping6, pivot_root, poweroff, pwd, readlink, reboot, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, sed, sfdisk, sh, sha1sum, sleep, sort, stty, swapoff, swapon, switch_root, sync, syslogd, tail, tar, taskset, telnet, telnetd, test, touch, true, umount, uname, uniq, usleep, vconfig, wc, xargs, zcat
The best standards are the kind that describe reality, rather than attempting to impose a new one. (I.E. a good standard should document, not legislate.)
The kind of standards which describe existing reality tend to be approved by more than one standards body, such ANSI and ISO both approving C. That's why the IEEE POSIX committee's 2008 standard, the Single Unix Specification version 4, and the Open Group Base Specification edition 7 are all the same standard from three sources.
The [http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html "utilities" section] these standards is devoted to the unix command line, and are the best such standard for our purposes. (BusyBox was implemented with regard to SUSv3, an earlier version of this standard.)
Problems with the standard
Unfortunately, these standards describe a subset of reality, lacking any mention of commands such as init, login, or mount required to actually boot a system. It provides ipcrm and ipcs, but not ipcmk, so you can use System V IPC resources but not create them.
These standards also contain a large number of commands that are inappropriate for toybox to implement in its 1.0 release. (Perhaps some of these could be reintroduced in later releases, but not now.)
Starting with the full "utilities" list, we first remove generally obsolete commands (compess ed ex pr uncompress uccp uustat uux), commands for the pre-CVS "SCCS" source control system (admin delta get prs rmdel sact sccs unget val what), fortran support (asa fort77), and batch processing support (batch qalter qdel qhold qmove qmsg qrerun qrls qselect qsig qstat qsub).
Some commands are for a compiler toolchain (ar c99 cflow ctags cxref getcat iconv lex m4 make nm strings strip tsort yacc), which is outside of toybox's mandate and should be supplied externally. (Again, some of these may be revisited later, but not for toybox 1.0.)
Some commands are part of a command shell, and cannot be implemented as separate executables (alias bg cd command fc fg getopts hash jobs kill read type ulimit umask unalias wait). These may be revisited as part of a built-in toybox shell, but are not exported into $PATH via symlinks. (If you fork a child process and have it "cd" then exit, you've accomplished nothing.)
A few other commands are judgement calls, providing command-line internationalization support (iconv locale localedef), System V inter-process communication (ipcrm ipcs), and cross-tty communication from the minicomputer days (talk mesg write). The "pax" utility was supplanted by tar, "mailx" is a command line email client, and "lp" submits files for printing to... what exactly? (cups?) The standard defines crontab but not crond.
Removing all of that leaves the following commands, which toybox should implement:
at awk basename bc cal cat chgrp chmod chown cksum cmp comm cp csplit cut date dd df diff dirname du echo env expand expr false file find fold fuser getconf grep head id join kill link ln logger logname ls man mkdir mkfifo more mv newgrp nice nl nohup od paste patch pathchk printf ps pwd renice rm rmdir sed sh sleep sort split stty tabs tail tee test time touch tput tr true tty uname unexpand uniq unlink uudecode uuencode vi wc who xargs zcat
The following is Tim's prioritization of the above list, based on his own experience with embedded systems. I will divide the above list into 3 groups: must-have, nice-to-have, not-that-important.
cat chgrp chmod chown cp date df echo env expr false find grep head id kill ln ls mkdir more mv nice ps pwd rm rmdir sh sleep sort tail test touch true uname uniq wc xargs
(must have, not in the above list: chroot, dmesg, sync)
basename cut dd diff dirname du mkfifo printf sed tee time vi who zcat
at awk bc cal cksum cmp comm csplit expand file fold fuser getconf link logger logname man newgrp nl nohup od paste patch pathchk renice split stty tabs tput tr tty unexpand unlink uudecode uuencode
Must-have unimplemented: The following list has Tim's must-have commands, which are currently not implemented in toybox:
chgrp chmod chown date dd expr find grep head id kill ln ls mkdir more mv nice ps rm tail test touch uniq xargs
Prioritized top 13:
1. ls 2. mkdir 3. rm 4. ln 5. mv 6. ps 7. kill 8. chmod 9. chown 10. date 11. grep 12. find 13. xargs
Second prioritized group:
chgrp id nice expr head tail test touch uniq dd more
IMHO - ls needs to support -ladR at first
If we omit toolbox supported commands from the must-have, unimplemented list, we get:
chgrp expr false find grep head more nice tail test touch true uname xargs
This would be for a toolbox complement.
Random Notes
Can implement incrementally
Rob wrote:
One nice thing about busybox/toybox/toolbox is you can install multiple implementations side by side, and have what symlinks you create (or what comes first in the $PATH) determine who is implementing what.
This allows gradual transitions. Each release, we replace a couple more commands from the old one, until the old one finally isn't being used for anything anymore and we can uninstall it...


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Survivors of 2003 R.I. nightclub fire mark 10 years
WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — Survivors of a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people and relatives of those killed huddled together in bitter cold Sunday at the site of the disaster to mark the 10th anniversary of the fire.
Some brought flowers and paid their respects at the handmade crosses that dot the site for each person who died. Others cried and spoke of missing their loved ones and the difficulty of moving past such trauma.
"People that weren't here really don't understand why we can't let this stuff go. I was 30 seconds away from dying," said Walter Castle Jr., 39, a survivor who suffered third-degree burns in his lungs, throat and bronchial tubes. He said he lost many friends and was in counseling until 2009. Recently, as the 10th anniversary approached, he began having terrible nightmares and had to go back into counseling.
"It's just very tough," he said.
The anniversary of the blaze is Wednesday. The fire broke out when pyrotechnics for the rock band Great White ignited flammable packing foam that had been installed in The Station club as soundproofing. Last month, a fire at a nightclub in Brazil killed more than 230 people under circumstances that were eerily similar: A band's pyrotechnic display set fire to soundproofing foam.
Among those who spoke Sunday was former governor Don Carcieri, who took office the month before the fire and still gets choked up when speaking about it. He remembered the days families waited at a hotel for word that their loved ones' remains had been identified, and the anger everyone felt, asking how the tragedy could have happened. But he also remembered how people in Rhode Island, a state with a population of just 1 million, pulled together to help each other.
"At a time of our state's worst tragedy, in some sense, it was our people's finest hour," he said.
Angela Bogart, who was 19 when her mother, Jude Henault, was killed in the fire, said she has come to know and understand her mother more in the 10 years since she died, especially since she has become a mother herself.
"My mom lives in me in everything I do. I hear her voice wherever I go," she said. "When I walk hand-in-hand with my little girl, my mother is holding her other hand."
The ceremony also featured musical performances, a reading of the names of the people who died and 100 seconds of silence.
While somber, the annual gathering at the fire site took on a more hopeful tone this year than in years past because a foundation set up to build a permanent memorial secured ownership of the site in September after years of trying. On Sunday, the Station Fire Memorial Foundation released final plans for the memorial.
They call for a 30-foot-high entrance gate topped by an Aeolian harp. Wind passing through the harp will create music, a reminder that it was music that brought people together that night.
The permanent memorial will include an individual memorial for each person who died and commemorate the survivors, first responders and those who helped care for families of the dead and survivors in the weeks and months after the fire. It will also include a pavilion as a gathering place.
Families are being asked to remove the crosses and other personal mementos that have been left at the site at the makeshift memorial that has developed over the years. The items left behind will be buried in a capsule under an area that is now the parking lot. There will be no digging on the land under where the club once stood because of the fear of disturbing human remains.
While much of the materials and labor to build the memorial will be donated, foundation officials say they need to raise $1 million to $2 million to build and maintain it.
The foundation hopes to break ground in the spring. Construction of the memorial could take one to two years.
Gina Russo, who was badly burned in the fire and whose fiancé was killed, is president of the foundation and said the memorial would turn the site into something beautiful.
"It's a happy moment going forward," she said.


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Monday, December 27, 2004
The People Have Spoken http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4127203.stm
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Obama 2008 - I want my country back
About Nation-Building
Nation-Building was founded by Aziz Poonawalla in August 2002 under the name Dean Nation. Dean Nation was the very first weblog devoted to a presidential candidate, Howard Dean, and became the vanguard of the Dean netroot phenomenon, raising over $40,000 for the Dean campaign, pioneering the use of Meetup, and enjoying the attention of the campaign itself, with Joe Trippi a regular reader (and sometime commentor). Howard Dean himself even left a comment once. Dean Nation was a group weblog effort and counts among its alumni many of the progressive blogsphere's leading talent including Jerome Armstrong, Matthew Yglesias, and Ezra Klein. After the election in 2004, the blog refocused onto the theme of "purple politics", formally changing its name to Nation-Building in June 2006. The primary focus of the blog is on articulating purple-state policy at home and pragmatic liberal interventionism abroad.


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Java has its security flaws, but it isn't going away any time soon—after all, many important applications run on the technology, especially in business settings. Still, numerous users are worried enough about vulnerabilities that they restrict Java's ability to run on their machines. That's what we heard from Ars readers when we asked Friday whether they let Java run on their computers, and why.
Some users have disabled or uninstalled Java entirely. But the most common solution for those worried about security risks is to leave the Java Runtime Environment in place on the desktop while disabling the browser plugins that allow Java applets to run on websites. Those plugins are often vulnerable to attacks involving remote code execution.
"Java as a desktop framework is not a big security risk," writes commenter Stilgar. "It is the browser plugin that presents a problem. Avoiding desktop Java on purpose does not make any sense. On the other hand every browser plugin you install on any browser increases the attack surface."
Numerous critical Java flaws have been identified recently. In one case, it took Oracle months to fix a known flaw that was being exploited by attackers. Last week, Apple removed a Java plugin from all OS X Web browsers because of security concerns, but ultimately the decision of whether to run Java and its browser plugins is up to users.
Some users run Java plugins on a case-by-case basis, either by using a "click-to-play" browser feature, or by disabling Java in a primary browser while leaving it enabled in a secondary one. Others just live without the plugins entirely. "The browser plugin is quite useless," writes harold31415. "I disabled it years ago. From time to time I encounter a small physics simulator (or something like that) that for some mysterious reason is a Java applet, but that's just too bad then."
We heard from several commenters who went beyond disabling Java plugins and uninstalled Java entirely.
"At home, I uninstalled it when the last round of problems cropped up—that day I went home and just wiped it from all three home computers, and decided that if the wife and daughter complained, then I'd know we needed it. No complaints yet," says commenter T.N.Toluene.
Java in the enterprise
But Java has lots of real-world use cases, enough that uninstalling or disabling the platform isn't realistic for many users. Numerous people report keeping Java enabled in browsers because of banking, government, work, and school-related websites. "For some odd reason, enterprise environments like Java applets to transfer files," writes commenter tycheung.
Others use desktop applications—like LibreOffice, or Crashplan—that rely on the Java Runtime Environment. The Java-reliant Minecraft is a favorite among many Ars readers. In general, though, it's the enterprise settings that have the strictest Java requirements. As such, some readers report having Java disabled at home but not at work.
So what kinds of enterprise infrastructure require Java, and what are its benefits (and downsides)? Here are some of the answers we received:
• "Frankly, I'm surprised that more desktop software isn't written in Java (even with these security issues)," writes Aaron44126. "I think it's way easier to build serious apps that work consistently across different platforms in Java than it is in most other languages that people use to write desktop apps. I use Eclipse to write software on a daily basis (even though 99 percent of the time I am not working on Java code). Eclipse is written in Java, so Java has a permanent place on my machine. New developers likely run across Java as many schools teach it. It's a great first language (though I think starting a step further down at C/C++ is better)."
• "I am required to use Java every day at work," writes Jackattak. "I work in a heavily virtualized [VMware] ESX environment and all things vSphere and vCenter are all things Java." Cisco's business software is also heavily dependent on Java, Jackattak noted.
• "Some of our server applications are written in Java, and being able to run these applications cross-platform (Windows development workstation, Linux production server) is a big strength," writes Geniekid. "We also use Java because it is a fairly mature language with a huge community. This has the nice side effect of providing us with great tools for automated testing (JUnit), continuous integration (Ant), and code profiling (JVisualVM). Not saying other languages don't have equivalent features, but in general we tend to lean towards Java unless we're writing very specialized code."
• "Many mission-critical business applications still require Java Applets or Java Web Start, eg VPN and remote access clients or components for card-based electronic signatures," writes ujay68. "Here, many vendors still deploy Java solutions that not only suffer from said security issues, but are also—sadly, after 15+ years of Java in the browser, can you believe it—still hard-to-support and easily broken. (How many hotline calls do you get from users that cannot start their applets?) Many end-user apps like maps have all but vanished already."
• "I work in an enterprise environment where a lot of end users and admin tools were built in specific instances of Java," writes cdclndc. "Once in place these things are very hard to change since they 'just work'. Add to that the fact that the original programmers have long since moved on and the code possibly being not documented well, and it just becomes the 600lb gorilla in the room. If management, who tends to think of IT as a profit drain already, sees that the system works they are not going to budget the time and cost it would take completely recode entire swaths of infrastructure. In their minds the risks don't outweigh the benefits."
Several readers argued that the Java security risks have been overblown, and that the platform is no worse than Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader. But even among those who are skeptical of Java's security, there are some who still rely on it heavily.
"The risk of using Java seems huge to me," writes stabgotham. "Unfortunately, there are so many applications that require [Java] that I truly use it on a regular basis. For example, Air Video Server requires Java and that is what I use to stream movies from my PC to my iPhone and iPad. I try to mitigate it to a certain extent by disabling Java in my browsers and by completely removing it from my MacBook, but it really just appears to be a necessary evil for the time being. It's not just Java that we have to worry about though. Even Flash and Acrobat have had their fair share of issues."
Stabgotham, like several others, worried about Java's impact on users who aren't so tech-savvy, because they may not understand the importance of updating Java or realize that the browser plugins can be disabled. "Since the two of them are installed at the same time, you get to enjoy the risks of both when you install Java, even if you only intend to use desktop apps," writes Tridus. "Normal users are not going to know to disable the browser plugin. Oracle could do everyone a favor if they split the two up or made the plugin a not-default install option."
Java has many fans among developers
Many of the most compelling arguments in favor of Java came, not surprisingly, from developers. Commenter Solomonoff's Secret writes, "I use Java heavily at work because it has the killer combination of: being good enough as a programming language; being cross-platform; having a great set of libraries; running fast. No other language sufficiently meets these criteria, which is why Java is the most popular language."
"Uninstalling Java at home is not an option," writes atfp. "I use it for Android development, Serviio (DLNA server), and Web development. None of these are things I want to stop using or doing."
Some developers talked up the possibility of running Java applications without requiring a full Java desktop installation. Plusjeff, a developer, points out that Java 7 update 10, currently in a developer preview, contains this functionality. "This is all irrelevant as Java 7 update 10 will have support for packaging all apps as native applications (with a bundled runtime embedded in the app) and folks won't need Java pre-installed to run," plusjeff writes. "Oracle was pushing this functionality in the javafxpackager hard at JavaOne earlier this month."
Distributing a Java Virtual Machine along with applications could help both in preventing exploits and preventing Java updates from breaking apps, writes normen, a developer of jMonkeyEngine, a Java-based 3D game engine. Normen writes it "might sound like I want Java on all desktops but I would be fine with distributing a JVM along with my application, similar to the way the JavaFX desktop starter by Oracle already does it. This would avoid the problem of having a global install of Java that can be used for exploits. Basically like any 'normal' library one would use in an application. This also avoids issues with updates of Java breaking one's own application."
A programmer named mog0, who reports having taught Java classes, simply calls it a "piece of crap [that] can't die quick enough." But as we've seen, that's far from the prevailing sentiment. Java has its problems, but it's here to stay—and for plenty of legitimate reasons.


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My MLIS program has a strong commitment to encouraging students to use various online and computer-based presentation/communication tools in class projects. We use a number of different programs in addition to the course management system on campus (Desire2Learn, which is like Blackboard and Moodle). This immersion in the wide range of tech tools allows us to build our toolkits for future use and to familiarize us with the constant learning necessary for keeping up-to-date on technology. While sometimes suggest particular programs to use, a lot of the time, students share with each other the various tools they've found. As a result, I've been fortunate to hear about a lot of free, online programs to use for various reasons. I'd like to share these tools and encourage others to post in the comments about other cool tools they've used or heard about! I'd also love to hear how you've used more familiar tools in interesting ways for class projects or library-related tasks.
Disclaimer: Listing of sites in this post does not constitute official Hack Library School endorsement of the sites and their services.
Online collaboration and presentation tools (slides, videos, etc.)
- SlideRocket:A presentation tool that also includes interactive features like polls for the audience. (Note: free version available for students.)
- Prezi: I think many people have heard of Prezi, the zooming presentation tool that offers a dynamic variation of the slideshow. Some people experience vertigo with the more extreme zooming, though, so use with caution! The site provides more features for users who sign up with a school email account (ending in .edu).
- Storybird: For the visually-oriented, Storybird provides lots of illustrations that you can use to create a presentation or a story. This site is particularly wonderful for storytelling classes and other youth-oriented presentations.
- PBworks (wiki): This site allows you to create wiki workspaces for collaborative building of content on webpages. I used the site with a group last fall to build a site of information about the technology we used to communicate and construct our group presentation over the course of the semester: MLIS Tech Toolkit (includes some other online tools like QR code generators and faux-Facebook wall pages). All of the student groups in my program also use this site as a communication tool to post meeting minutes, draft letters, plan projects, and otherwise share information.
- Piktochart: This site offers templates for creating infographics.
- Mindomo: Mindomo is a concept mapping tool that helps you visualize connections between ideas. It is useful as a planning tool for group projects and can also double as a presentation platform. You can see the concept map my group created while putting together a presentation on technology and libraries: Technology Presentation.
- Google Drive and Google Sites: Google of course has many tools for communication and other things. I've used Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) to write papers and make slideshows collaboratively with classmates. Google Sites allows you to build simple websites quickly.
- WordPress: Though primarily a blogging platform, WordPress also has templates that make for good multipage websites.
Live communication and social media
- TodaysMeet: This site allows you to create backchannel chat rooms that you can use in various contexts to allow people to carry on a conversation during an event (like a presentation, a class lecture, a workshop, etc.).
- Poll Everywhere: This site offers real-time polling via text message, tweeting, and online web interface. You can set up a poll that updates in real time on a projected screen to show audience feedback, for example.
- Storify: There a number of these second-order types of social media sites that help repackage social media feeds.
Library-oriented sites
- Library Thing: Library Thing allows you to build collections of books, essentially creating a catalog that also has social media features (ability to connect with other users/collections and to access reviews across the site). We briefly looked at this site in a class to talk about the interface between traditional catalog metadata and social media tagging.
- Omeka: Omeka allows users to create digital collections and provides substantive metadata features for organizing digital objects and making them accessible.
- Open Library: This site aims to be a universal library catalog with a page of information for every book ever published.
Also check out previous posts in our technology category for discussions of other tech tools and social media sites.
Caution: As librarians-in-training, we should all be careful about signing up for sites, especially ones that are putatively free. Make sure to read EULAs and consider what rights you are giving to the company to use their site (and contributing your content) and think about intellectual property issues when you are curating other people's things for public circulation. As a side note, I think all librarians should be familiar with Creative Commons as one organization actively working to make knowledge available while protecting intellectual property.
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The theme of this blog comes from Randy Seaver's blog Genea-Musings. He challenges us to list our paternal grandmother's (father's mother) patrilineal line, that is her father's father's father's etc., in the hopes of identifying Y-DNA candidates for this line. Since I had already decided to try to include more personal genealogy in my blog, I will start with this one.
My grandmother was Marjorie Katherine Posson (1926-2002), daughter of Clarence Posson. She was very special to me, and I will always regret that I was out of town when she passed. I was supposed to visit with her the night before I left, but got tied up with other things, and told her I would come see her as soon as I got back. It was the last time I spoke with her. My grandma was the one who first got me into genealogy back when I was about 8 or 9 years old, and (as you may know) it has since become a passion.
I have used the Ahnentafel numbers for this line.
5. Marjorie Katherine Posson (1926-2002)
10. Clarence Posson (1898-1973)
20. Fred Posson (1871-1954)
40. William Henry Harrison Posson (1840-1906) Civil War veteran – went to Rockford, Illinois with cousin Henry Posson – enlisted in Co. G, 45th Illinois Volunteers – moved to West Berne
80. William Posson (1800-?)
160. Peter Posson (1771-?)
320. Peter Posson (1739-?)
640. Conrad Posson
As for a Y-DNA line, my grandmother does have a brother, and he is still living, so I will not put his name here, but maybe I can talk him into a Y-DNA test? Who knows?


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I am extremely pleased to have the dynamic duo behind best
selling cookbooks: artisan bread in five minutes a day, healthy bread in five
minutes a day and artisan pizza & flatbread in five minutes a day. Clearly this bread-genius duo has it down pat
when it comes to artisan breads. Artisan
breads made lighting fast I might add.
Zoe and Jeff have a bread blog too! http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/
Jeff: Yes, our backgrounds are different, but we both spent some time at home with kids when they were little—we met because our toddlers were in a music class together.
Jeff: Necessity was the mother of invention. I was a busy medical resident who loved bread, and my wife taught me the traditional method so I could make my beloved rye bread in my spare time. Since I had zero spare time, I had to economize on lengthy steps, and ultimately, what really saved time was making a large batch of dough and using it over a week or more. Otherwise there's too much prep, mixing, and cleaning bowls. It takes wet dough to do that (but not too wet), and getting it just right was the hard work of these books.
Jeff: Sure did, I went straight from college to med school, and I expected to practice adult medicine and do research, maybe in a part-time academic practice. But after a few years in practice, I got interested in computers in health care, trained in a research fellowship, and started a consulting practice in health care computing. That freed up my time for family, hobbies, and delving into other interests. Like bread-baking.
Jeff: Well, it might, but the concern is that we might throw the baking pans at each other! Seriously, I'm not sure I was destined to work that hard. Providing great food to customers is hard, hard work with long hours, and I have so much respect for people who do it. I'm just not sure it's right for me.
Jeff: It turns out that recipe-testing is a lot like the scientific method. You have a best guess about what will work, you do some experiments, and if they don't produce what you expected, you refine your guess—and change the ingredients list!
Jeff: Our agent, Jane Dystel, was sold on the concept immediately, along with our editor at Thomas Dunne Books, the late Ruth Cavin. Without Jane and Ruth—no book series for us. They were sure that if the method actually worked, people would flock to it. And for some reason, they believed us, without ever having made the bread themselves. The proof came from our readers, who propelled the book by word of mouth (we have about 500,000 copies in print for all three titles).
Jeff: Of course! We both love travel, and whatever we eat and love when we're traveling with our families, we try to recreate with our stored dough. Between us, we've spent time in France, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Britain, and Greece—all countries with great traditional bread cultures. Samples from those places are all over our books. And of course, there's more mundane research, eating all the good bread we can find in our local bakeries, and reading everything on the subject that we can get our hands on.
Zoe: Wow, thank you! Zoebakes.com is my playground for sweets, and where I go to relax. I have an insatiable sweet tooth, so baking desserts just seems to find its way into my daily routine. I like to recreate desserts I might find in a restaurant, but in a way people can easily do at home. Which means lots of step-by-step photos.
Zoe: The gluten-free breads in our books were the most challenging to develop. They use a list of ingredients I was not used to and techniques that are quite different from traditional breads. Not only did the recipes have to taste great, but they had to be fast and easy to use. I am thrilled to say we did just that.
Jeff: Provencal Roasted Red Pepper Fougasse, a folded flatbread that's visually stunning and unbelievably savory. Don't forget the salt!
Jeff: That is exactly it for me. I moved to Minneapolis in 1987 and couldn't find New York deli-style rye bread that I'd grown up with. So I had to learn to make it myself.
Photo by Mark Luinenburg
Jeff: James Beard, because of Beardon Bread. Like Julia Child in Mastering the Art…, James was saying that great homemade food doesn't need to be hard for amateurs to achieve. He fitted his bread recipes so they'd sit on two facing sheets, which influenced us greatly. James never experimented with stored dough, but I like to think he'd have been open to it.
Jeff: Travel, eat, cook, run, and bike. Bike commuting's my new thing.
It takes more than hard work and a good idea. You need a bit of luck. We had a unique idea, but if we hadn't had some luck—getting the New York Times, the Today Show, and Associated Press to cover us—the book would never have gotten wide exposure. But if you have a unique cooking idea, and you're willing to do the networking to get the idea out there, you have a shot. And self-publishing may make it easier to break into this business—don't discount that.
Thank you both for the interview.
For the giveaway:
one lucky person will win one copy of each of their books (3 books total)
please leave a comment telling us what kind of homemade bread you'd like to make or have made.
one comment per person please.
no anonymous comments please; have a valid name & email in signature line!
we'll do the drawing on Friday November 2, 2012.


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Encrypt a MariaDB database table
NOTE: We are in the process of modifying the file structure and configuration for many Bitnami stacks. On account of these changes, the file paths stated in this guide may change depending on whether your Bitnami stack uses native Linux system packages (Approach A), or if it is a self-contained installation (Approach B). To identify your Bitnami installation type and what approach to follow, run the command below:
$ test ! -f "/opt/bitnami/common/bin/openssl" && echo "Approach A: Using system packages." || echo "Approach B: Self-contained installation."
The output of the command indicates which approach (A or B) is used by the installation, and will allow you to identify the paths, configuration and commands to use in this guide. Refer to the FAQ for more information on these changes.
NOTE: We are in the process of modifying the configuration for many Bitnami stacks. On account of these changes, the file paths and commands stated in this guide may change depending on whether your Bitnami stack uses MySQL or MariaDB. To identify which database server is used in your stack, run the command below:
$ test -d /opt/bitnami/mariadb && echo "MariaDB" || echo "MySQL"
The output of the command indicates which database server (MySQL or MariaDB) is used by the installation, and will allow you to identify which guides to follow in our documentation for common database-related operations.
NOTE: Table encryption support is only available for InnoDB tables stored as individual files (the innodb_file_per_table option, enabled by default).
Follow the steps below to configure table encryption support:
Edit the configuration file, which depending on your installation type will be in one of the following locations:
- For Bitnami installations following Approach A (using Linux system packages): /opt/bitnami/mariadb/conf/my.cnf
- For Bitnami installations following Approach B (self-contained installations): /opt/bitnami/mariadb/my.cnf
Add the following lines to the configuration file, within the [mysqld] section, to activate the keyring_file plugin:
early-plugin-load=keyring_file.so keyring_file_data=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/data/keyring
NOTE: The keyring file will be automatically created in the above location when the first table is encrypted. Keep a backup of this file as the data stored in the encrypted tables cannot be recovered without it.
Restart the MariaDB server:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart mariadb
Confirm that the keyring_file plugin is active by running the query below in the client:
SELECT PLUGIN_NAME, PLUGIN_STATUS FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PLUGINS WHERE PLUGIN_NAME LIKE 'keyring%';
You should now be able to create an encrypted table by adding the ENCRYPTED='Y' clause to any CREATE TABLE command. Here is an example:
CREATE TABLE mytable (id INT, value VARCHAR(255)) ENCRYPTION='Y'
Tables which are not already encrypted can be encrypted by using an ALTER TABLE command, such as the one below:
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NTSB: Use ignition locks for all drunken drivers
WASHINGTON — Every state should require convicted drunken drivers, including first-time offenders, to use devices that prevent them from starting a car's engine if their breath tests positive for alcohol, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
The ignition interlock devices — already required for all convicted drunken drivers in 17 states — are currently the best available solution to reducing drunken driving deaths, which account for about a third of the nation's more than 32,000 traffic deaths a year, the board said.
Drivers breathe into breathalyzers mounted on the vehicle's dashboard. If their breath-alcohol concentration is greater than the device's programmed limit — usually a blood alcohol concentration of .02 percent or .04 percent — then the engine won't start.
The board also urged the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to speed up its research effort with automakers to develop systems that can determine a driver's blood alcohol concentration using infrared light when the driver presses an ignition button. The vehicle won't start if the alcohol concentration is too high.
The technology, which is sometimes breath-based rather than touch-activated, is already in use in some workplace drug-testing programs. If the technology were incorporated into all new vehicles, eventually all drivers would be alcohol-tested before driving. That could potentially prevent an estimated 7,000 drunken-driving deaths a year, the board said.
The five-member board made the unanimous recommendations after reviewing evidence that an average of 360 people a year are killed when drivers turn the wrong way into the face of oncoming traffic on high-speed highways.
The board's study analyzed data from 1,566 crashes from 2004 to 2009, as well as nine wrong-way collisions NTSB directly investigated. In 59 percent of the accidents, wrong-way drivers had blood alcohol levels more than twice the legal limit, researchers said. In another 10 percent of the crashes, drivers had alcohol levels between .08 and .14. The limit in most instances is .08.
In just the past week, 11 people were killed and 9 seriously injured in wrong-way driving accidents in eight states, the board was told.
"Wrong-way crashes shatter lives and families," said NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman, calling the report and the recommendations a "milestone" for the board. The technologies hold "great promise to be a game changer in highway safety," she said.
The board's recommendations are likely to be strongly opposed by the alcohol industry. The American Beverage Institute, which represents about 8,000 chain restaurants in the U.S., said mandatory ignition interlock devices should be reserved for "hardcore" drunken drivers and it opposes the new technology that government and industry are researching.
First-time drunk drivers with blood alcohol levels that are less than double the legal limit should be treated differently than drivers with higher alcohol levels and repeat offenders, Sarah Longwell, the institute's managing director, said.
"You don't punish somebody going five miles over the speed limit the same way you do somebody going 50 miles over the speed limit," she said.
Also, the developing technology would effectively prevent any one with relatively small amounts of alcohol in their blood from driving, Longwell said.
"This would eliminate people's ability to have a glass of wine with dinner or to have a beer at a ballgame and then drive home," she said.
Older drivers also appear to be part of the wrong-way driving problem, researchers said. Drivers over age 70 were overrepresented in the accidents reviewed in the study, accounting for 15 percent of the wrong-way drivers compared with only 3 percent of the right-way drivers they collided with, researchers said.
Wrong-way driving crashes on interstates, expressways and other high-speed highways are especially deadly because over 80 percent involve head-on collisions in which vehicles close in on each other very rapidly, they said. A study in Michigan earlier this year found that 22 percent of wrong-way collisions were fatal, compared with 0.3 percent for all highway accidents over the same period.
Often the chain of events begins with drivers entering an exit ramp in the wrong direction, making a U-turn on the mainline of a highway or using an emergency turnaround through a median, investigators said.
Most wrong-way crashes — including seven of the nine accidents directly investigated by NTSB — take place in the fast lane of the highway, investigators said. The accidents also tend to happen at night and on weekends, the study found.
Reducing drunken driving is perhaps the most obvious way to reduce wrong-way driving fatalities and injuries. The board hosted a forum earlier this year on the problem of drivers impaired by alcohol and drugs.
Alcohol-impaired crashes overall accounted for nearly 31 percent motor vehicle fatalities 2010. And, that percentage has remained stuck between 30 and 32 percent of overall highway fatalities since 1995, board members said.
Safety advocates have been lobbying states to pass more laws requiring ignition interlock devices for first-time offenders. According to the Governors Highway Safety Association, states that already have such laws on the books are: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Missouri's law does take effect until next fall. Also, four California counties — including Los Angeles — have ignition interlock laws.
"The laws may vary some, but the common thread is that they are for all first time offenders," Jonathan Adkins, deputy executive director of the association, said.


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Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld's recent slam against Grammy-nominated singer Adele lands him on the RidicuList.
Post by: Anderson Cooper
Filed under: The RidicuList
I will no longer purchase anything with his name on it. He is not a nice man.
We have Metro in Canada too. Lady Gaga was a guest editor in Toronto last year. She was great. Karl Lagerfield is rude to everybody it seems. Adele is NOT fat. What a boring world it would be if we all came in the same shape, size and colour.
Well what about Beth Ditto? If I am not wrong, she used to be his muse...Adele is beautiful and talented woman and if we compare this two ladies...well, I dont know what is in his mind
So funny your story on Karl Lagerfeld...if you knew a bit more about French culture and the Parisians, you would know that his comment about Adele's weight is not unusual. I would not say his opinion is skewed because of his profession, but that he shares simular opinions of most Parisians.
As a general rule, you can sort of expect anyone into fashion to not be entirely in touch with the real world and it's also fairly reasonable to expect a certain level of insanity. Fashion is like the rabbit's hole, the farther you stick your head in, the more likely you are to lose your grasp and fall in and the deeper you go, the weirder it gets. The top people in fashion tend to be the very farthest down the rabbit hole. It's extremely good for the art of fashion, but it can take a toll ranging from public gaffes to truly tragic mental illness. I can understand and therefore I support Lagerfeld.
This whole thing with Lagerfeld and Adele is completely blown out of proportion! Lets be honest, Adele is overweight! Lagerfeld was not mean spirited in what he said, it was just the truth! I am sure if any overweight person takes offense to being call exactly that, then they are fooling themselves. For all of us to sugar coat someone being overweight is just enabling them and contributing to the potential health risk!
This is why I love Anderson. Kudos on exposing a perfect example of how ridiculous the obsession with body weight has become and showing the kind of nitwits who perpetuates the stereotype for what they.
In your criticism of Lagerfeld for calling Adele fat, you described fashion models as freakishly tall, freakishly skinny.
Lagerfeld didn't call Adele freakishly fat.
Seems inconsistent for you to feel free to attack the body shape of models if you are crticising Lagerfeld for the same thing.
Wasn't your message suppose to be that we should be tolerant and accepting of all body shapes and focus on people's talents?
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Amazon Web Services has always been about delivering IT on demand. Spin up a virtual server, or a few thousand, anytime you'd like. Store and access as much data as you need to your heart's content.
But even in a Web-driven world, there is need for services that don't offer instant results, but will be around for eternity (or as close as possible). So today, Amazon introduced Glacier, a data archival service that will store data for one penny per gigabyte per month. As befits its name, Glacier is designed to last for a long time, but is slow: accessing data will take three to five hours. Amazon hasn't detailed exactly what technology is storing the data, but massive tape libraries are a good bet given the lengthy retrieval windows. A ZDNet article interprets one Amazon statement to mean that the company is actually using "a multitude of high-capacity, low-cost discs," but this has not been confirmed. An Amazon statement sent to Ars says only that "Glacier is built from inexpensive commodity hardware components," and is "designed to be hardware-agnostic, so that savings can be captured as Amazon continues to drive down infrastructure costs."
We also don't know exactly how Amazon measures the reliability of its storage, but the company is promising 11 nines of annual durability (99.999999999 percent) for each item, with data stored "in multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility."
While Amazon says "Glacier can sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities," there is still risk data could be lost forever. If you store 1TB, Amazon's promised durability rate suggests you can expect to lose an average of 10 bytes per year. Amazon is betting that will be an acceptable risk for the service's low price.
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels described the new service in his blog, saying, "Building and managing archive storage that needs to remain operational for decades if not centuries is a major challenge for most organizations. From selecting the right technology, to maintaining multisite facilities, to dealing with exponential and often unpredictable growth, to ensuring long-term digital integrity, digital archiving can be a major headache. It requires substantial upfront capital investments in cold data storage systems such as tape robots and tape libraries, then there's the expensive support contracts—and don't forget the ongoing operational expenditures such as rent and power."
As mentioned, pricing is one cent per gigabyte per month, although that can go up to a whopping 1.1 cents if you store in Europe rather than the US, and up to 1.2 cents for storage in Japan. There is no cost to transfer data into the service over the Internet, but some customers transferring large amounts of data may end up paying for Amazon's import/export service, which involves portable storage devices shipped from the customer to Amazon.
Retrieval of storage is free if you're only grabbing 5 percent of your data per month, an Amazon announcement notes. After that, data transfer fees start at 1 cent per gigabyte, but vary widely based upon what region you're in. For example, here are the data transfer prices from Amazon's East Coast region:
For accessing 10TB, that works out to $1,200 after you've exhausted the free allotment. Transfer prices go up significantly if you're in the Asia-Pacific region, and hit their highest point in South America:
Complicating matters, the amount customers pay also takes into account hourly retrieval rates, as detailed on a Glacier FAQ.
For data that must be retrieved quickly, Amazon has long offered its Simple Storage Service (S3). Because of how the two services are priced, Amazon said that S3 will in many cases be the more cost-effective option "for data that you'll need to retrieve in greater volume more frequently."
Glacier is really for the data you can't delete (perhaps for legal and regulatory reasons) but will hardly ever need. In that sense, Amazon is trying to displace the giant tape libraries enterprises build, or offsite archival vendors. While the service has quite a different purpose than Amazon's traditional cloud businesses, Glacier can be managed from the same console as S3 and Amazon's database services. Sometime "in the coming months" Amazon customers will be able to automatically move data between S3 and Glacier based on data life-cycle policies, much like enterprise storage systems automatically move infrequently accessed data to cheaper tiers of storage.
While Vogels' blog said Amazon will be able to meet enterprises' regulatory needs (in part with AES-256 encryption), the service also caters to small businesses without a good archiving plan, historical and research organizations, or people who work in digital media.
"Although archiving is often associated with established enterprises," because of the high upfront costs and ongoing maintenance, Vogels wrote, "many SMBs and startups have similar archival needs, but dedicated archiving solutions have been out of their reach."