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FreeBSD Multimedia Resources List
Links on this page refer to multimedia resources (podcast, vodcast, audio recordings, video recordings, photos) related to FreeBSD or of interest for FreeBSD users.
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Tag: eurobsdcon
Sam Smith
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 28 March 2010
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2009, ukuug, sam smith
Ogg version (25 minutes), MP3 version (12 Mb, 25 minutes)
Interview with Sam Smith, EuroBSDcon 2009 co-organizer and a UKUUG event organizer.
Richard Clayton - Evil on the Internet - EuroBSDCon
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 31 October 2009
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2009, richard clayton
Ogg version (69 minutes), MP3 version (33 Mb, 69 minutes)
A recording from EuroBSDCon 2009: Richard Clayton - Evil on the Internet. A perfect topic for Halloween. This talk covers phishing, mule recruitment, fake escrow, fake pharmacies, fake banks, ponzi schemes, link spammers, etc. Scary stuff.
Joerg Sonnenberger
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 18 November 2007
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, michael dexter, joerg sonnenberger
Ogg version (17 minutes), MP3 version (8 Mb, 17 minutes)
Michael Dexter sent me an interview he recorded on behalf of BSDTalk with Joerg Sonnenberger at EuroBSDCon 2007.
Sidsel Jensen from EuroBSDCon
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 25 June 2007
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, sidsel jensen
Ogg version (9 minutes), MP3 version (5 Mb, 9 minutes)
Interview with Sidsel Jensen from www.eurobsdcon.org.
EuroBSDCon Organizer Massimiliano Stucchi
Source: bsdtalk
Added: 03 November 2006
Tags: bsdtalk, interview, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2006, massimiliano stucchi
Ogg version (8 minutes), MP3 version (4 Mb, 8 minutes)
Interview with EuroBSDCon organizer Massimiliano Stucchi.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paeps Philip - How-to embed FreeBSD
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, embed, freebsd, philip paeps
MP3 (1 byte, 43 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 43 minutes), PDF (1 byte, 17 pages)
This paper provides a how-to embed FreeBSD. A console server built form an AT91RM9200 based ARM system will be explored. This paper will talk about the selection of hardware. It will explore creating images for the target system, as well as concentrate on different alternatives for deploying the system. A number of different options exist today, and no comprehensive guide for navigating through the choices exists today. This paper will explore the different alternatives that exist today for producing images targeted at different size requirements. The differing choices for storage in an embedded environment are explored. The techniques used to access rich debugging environments are discussed.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Multicast Performance in FreeBSD
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, multicast, freebsd, george neville-neil
MP3 (1 byte, 39 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 39 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
In the past ten years most of the research in network protocols has gone into TCP, leaving UDP to languish as a local configuration protocol. While the majority of Internet traffic is TCP, UDP remains the only IP protocol that works over multicast and as such has some specific, and interesting uses in some areas of computing. In 2008 we undertook a study of the performance of UDP multicast on both 1Gbps and 10Gbps Ethernet networks in order to see if changing the physical layer of the network would give a linear decrease in packet latency. To measure the possible gains we developed a new network protocol test program, mctest, which is capable of recording packet round trip times from many hosts simultaneously and which we believe accurately represents how many environments use multicast. The mctest program has been integrated into FreeBSD and is now being used to verify the proper operation of multicast on various pieces of 10Gbps hardware.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Pedro Giffuni - Working with Engineering Applications in FreeBSD
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, engineering applications, pedro giffuni
MP3 (1 byte, 51 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 51 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
In recent years, traditional branches of engineering like Civil, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical and Industrial Engineering are requiring extensive computing facilities for their needs. Several well known labs (Sandia, Lawrence Livermore) rely on huge clusters to do all types of complex analysis that were unthinkable a couple of decades ago. While the free BSD variants share the environment with traditional UNIX systems, frequently used for such computations, it was not common to find adequate free software packages to carry complex calculations. Eventually commercial versions of important math related packages started to appear for the Linux platform. Even when the big packages were distant, the BSDs learned and adapted in resourceful ways: Matlab and Mathematica, running under Linux emulation, demanded functionality from the BSDs and NetBSD implemented a signal trampoline to be able to run AutoCAD with IRIX binary compatibility. A notable project that was always available under a free license was Berkeley's Spice circuit analysis program, however it was an exception rather than the rule. Even when the scientific community pressed for a while to get other important tools like NASA's FEA package Nastran under a free license, the objective of being able to access and enhance open scientific tools was elusive. About a decade ago the situation started to improve: FreeBSD's ports system started growing exponentially, first with a high content in the math category, afterwards with a CAD section and after sustained growth in those categories a science section was created. This growth was mostly pushed by Universities and their research projects and in general are not well known with respect to the commercial counterparts. I started porting math/engineering code for FreeBSD around 1996. Back then it was absolutely unthinkable for a Mechanical Engineer to depend only on FreeBSD for it's daily work. The situation nowadays is different: there are some very high quality engineering analysis packages like EDF's Code Aster, with more than 12 years of professional development, that just can't be ignored. A Finite Element package, like Code Aster, can easily cost 5000 US$, is priced according to the maximum problem size it can solve, can require yearly licenses, and is rarely available with source code. In NASTRAN's case the source code is only available for US citizens under a yearly fee. Free software does have serious limitations though; just like in office applications there are proprietary CAD formats or sometimes the package simply doesn't have the required functionality. Having the sources, of course, always has the advantage of being able to implement (or pay for) some specific functionality you might need. Many commercial packages have been recently ported to Linux, but even when they gain some of the advantages of an open environment they still have yet another limitation: they have been very slow to make use of the multicored features of the new processors in the market, a huge limitation now that the speed war between processors has been limited by the overheating problem. The objective of the talk is to give an overview of several CAD/CAE packages that have been made available recently as part of FreeBSD's ports system and the decisions that were made to port them. BRLCAD and Varkon are two CAD utilities that made a transition from closed source to an open environment and in the process in the process of getting ported to BSD have gained greater portability and general "bug" fixes critical for their consolidation as usable and maintainable projects. There are also some tricks that have not been well documented: it is possible to enable threads and some extra optimizations on some packages, and it is also possible to replace the standard BLAS library with the faster GOTO BLAS without rebuilding the package. It is also possible to build the packages optimized for a clustered environment, but perhaps what is most interesting of all is how all the packages interrelate with each other and can turn FreeBSD into a complete enginering environment. No OS distribution so far is offering all the engineering specific utilities offered through FreeBSD's ports system: from design to visualization, passing through analysis FreeBSD is becoming an option that can't be ignored, and best of all, it is an effort that will benefit not only FreeBSD but the wider audience.
Pedro F. Giffuni M. Sc. Industrial Engineering - University of Pittsburgh Mechanical Engineer - Universidad Nacional de Colombia I was born in Bogota, Colombia but I am an Italian citizen. My experience with computers started when I was about 12 years old With the TRS-80 Color Computer first using Basic and the OS-9. I studied electronics for 3 years but became tired of worrying about "whatever happened to electrons in there" and moved to Mechanical Engineering. For a while I rested from the computer world until the Internet came stepping along. I started using FreeBSD around 1995 and soon fell in love with the idea of being able to install a complete version of UNIX from the net with just one floppy. After submitting a the 999th port to the FreeBSD project Walnut Creek was kind enough to give me a subscription for several years to FreeBSD's CD-ROM. Since then I've been on and off porting software packages or fixing the bugs I have caused while porting them. Of course there has always been great respect for the other BSDs and their wonderful license and while I've given up on the idea of one day seeing a "UnifiedBSD" I am glad to see different approaches sharing ideas in a healthful environment.
Keywords: BSD, engineering, CAE, CAD, math, mechanical, FreeBSD ports
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Constantine Murenin - OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, openbsd, hardware sensors, constantine murenin
MP3 (1 byte, 47 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 47 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
In this talk, we will discuss the past and present history and the design principles of the OpenBSD hardware sensors framework. Sensors framework provides a unified interface for storing, registering and accessing information about hardware monitoring sensors. Sensor types include, but are not limited to, temperature, voltage, fan RPM, time offset and logical drive status. The framework spans sensor_attach(9), sysctl(3), sysctl(8), sensorsd(8), ntpd(8), snmpd(8) and more than 67 drivers, ranging from I2C temperature sensors and Super I/O hardware monitors to IPMI, RAID and SCSI enclosures. Several third-party tools are also available, for example, a plug-in for Nagios and ports/sysutils/symon. Originally based on some ideas from NetBSD, the framework has sustained many improvements in OpenBSD, and was ported and committed to FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD.
Constantine A. Murenin is an MMath graduate student at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (CA). Prior to his graduate appointment, Constantine attended and subsequently graduated from East Carolina University (US) and De Montfort University (UK), receiving two bachelor degrees in computer science, with honors and honours respectively. A FreeBSD Google Summer of Code 2007 Student, OpenBSD Committer and Mozilla Contributor, Constantine's interests range from standards compliance and usability at all levels, to quiet computing and hardware monitoring.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Ion-Mihai Tetcu - Improving FreeBSD ports/packages quality
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, ports, packages, ion-mihai tetcu
MP3 (1 byte, 56 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 56 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
This talk is focused on ways to improve the quality of FreeBSD's ports and packages and it's partially based on the 5 months experience of writing and running the consecutive versions of "QA Tindy".
Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu is a 28 years old FreeBSD ports committer and maintains about 40 ports scattered in the Ports Tree. He lives in Bucharest, Romania where he runs and co-owns an IT& company and he's a member of Romanian FreeBSD and FreeUnix User Group (RoFUG). His non-IT interests include history, philosophy and mountain climbing.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Yvan Vanhullebus - IPSec tools: past, present and future
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, ipsec, yvan vanhullebus
MP3 (1 byte, 46 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 46 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
The first part will explain what have been major changes since Manu's presentation at Bale's EuroBSDCon, including more detailed informations on changes which have a significant impact on administrator's bad habits (why the common way of doing it is bad, why it was sometimes needed in the past, how to do it the good way now, why this is far better), on both the UserLand (ipsec-tools project) and maybe in [Free|Net]BSD kernels/ IPSec stacks.
The second part will talk about the future of the project. News of the next major version (which may be out or about to be out when we'll be ate EuroBSDCon), news works which are planned or which are done but not yet public, but also news about the team: it's new members, new tools, what we would like to do in tue future, a
Yvan VANHULLEBUS works as an R&D security engineer for NETASQ since 2000, where he works on FreeBSD OS. He started to work on KAME's IPSec stack in 2001, provided many patches for various parts of the stack, then became one of the maintainers of ipsec-tools project, a fork of KAME's userland daemon. He became a NetBSD developper when ipsec-tools was migrated to NetBSD's CVS.
EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, george neville-neil
MP3 (1 byte, 37 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 37 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Network Stack Performance Optimizations for Modern Hardware
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, network stack, hardware, robert watson
MP3 (1 byte, 53 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 53 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
The arrival of high CPU core density, with commodity quad-core notebooks and 32-core servers, combined with 10gbps networking have transformed network design principles for operating systems. This talk will describe changes in the FreeBSD 6.x, 7.x, and forthcoming 8.x network stacks required to exploit multiple cores and serve 10gbps networks. The goal of the session will be to introduce the audience to general strategies used to improve performance, their rationales, and their impact on applications and users:
- Introduction to the SMPng Project and the follow-on Netperf Project
- Workloads and performance measurement
- Efficient primitives to support modern network stacks
- Multi-core and cache-aware network memory allocator
- Fine-grained network stack locking
- Load-balancing and contention-avoidance across multiple CPUs
- CPU affinity for network stack data structures
- TCP performance enhancements including TSO, LRO, and TOE
- Zero-copy Berkely Packet Filter (BPF) buffers
- Direct network stack dispatch from interrupt handlers
- Multiple input and output queues
Robert Watson is a researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory investinging operating system and network security. Prior to joining the Computer Laboratory to work on a PhD, he was Senior Principal Scientist at McAfee Research, now SPARTA ISSO, a leading security research and development organization, directing government and commercial research contracts for customers that include DARPA, the US Navy, and Apple Computer. His research interests include operating system security, network stack structure and performance, and windowing system structure. He is also a member of the FreeBSD Core Team and president of the FreeBSD Foundation.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Martin Schuette - Improved NetBSD Syslogd
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, netbsd, syslogd, martin schuette
MP3 (1 byte, 42 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 42 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
Martin Schuette has three main goals, defined by three internet drafts to implement:
- TLS transport is the most obvious improvement: it provides a reliable network transport with data encryption and peer authentication. To make full use of this a buffering mechanism to bridge temporary network errors is implemented as well.
- Syslog-protocol extends the message format to use a complete timestamp, include a fully qualified domain name, and allow UTF-8 messages. It also offers a structured data field to unambiguously encode application dependent information.
- Syslog-sign will allow any syslog sender to digitally sign its messages, so their integrity can be verified later. This enable the detection of loss, deletion or other manipulation syslog data after network transfer or archiving on storage media.
Martin Schuette is a student of computer science in Potsdam, Germany, and has been working as a part-time system administrator for BSD servers since 2004.
In 2007 Martin Schuette already gave a talk on Syslog at the Chemnitze Linux-Tage (http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/vortraege/detail.html?idx=547 in german; for a newer english version see these slides for a seminar talk: http://fara.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~mschuett/uni/syslog-protocols-080522.pdf).
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Aggelos Economopoulos - An MP-capable network stack for DragonFlyBSD with minimal use of locks
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, dragonflybsd, mp, network stack, aggelos economopoulos
MP3 (1 byte, 42 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 42 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
Given the modern trend towards multi-core shared memory multiprocessors, it is inconceivable for production OS kernels not to be reentrant. The typical approach for allowing multiple execution contexts to simultaneously execute in kernel mode has been to use fine-grained locking for synchronising access to shared resources. While this technique has been proven efficient, empirical evidence suggests that the resulting locking rules tend to be cumbersome even for the experienced kernel programmer, leading to bugs that are hard to diagnose. Moreover, scaling to more processors requires extensive use of locks, which may impose unnecessary locking overhead for small scale multiprocessor systems. This talk will describe the typical approach and then discuss the alternative approach taken in the DragonFlyBSD network stack. We will give an overview of the various protocol threads employed for network I/O processing and the common-case code paths for packet reception and transmission. Additionally, we'll need to make a passing reference to DragonFlyBSD's message passing model. This should establish a baseline, allowing us to focus on the recent work by the author to eliminate use of the Big Giant Lock in the performance-critical paths for the TCP and UDP protocols. The decision to constrain this work on the two by far most widely-used transport protocols was made in order to (a) limit the amount of work necessary and (b) explore the effectiveness of the approach on the cases that matter at this point in time.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Edd Barret - Modern Typesetting on BSD
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, typesetting, bsd, edd barrett
MP3 (1 byte, 33 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 33 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
Edd Barrett will speak about using the BSD Platform as a means of typesetting from a practical standpoint at EuroBSDcon 2008. Edd Barrett does not wish to go into the technicalities of each typesetter, but rather state which are good for certain types of document, and which tools (ports and packages), integrate well with the available typesetters.
Edd Barrett os a student from the UK, currently on "placement year" as a systems administrator for Bournemouth University. Open Source *NIX has been his platform of choice for many years and he has been using OpenBSD for about 3 years now, simply because it is small, clean, correct and secure. Just recently he has started developing things I want or need for OpenBSD.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Michael Dexter - Zen and the Art of Multiplicity Maintenance: An applied survey of BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies from chroot to mult
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, bsd, michael dexter
MP3 (1 byte, 38 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 38 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
Many BSD-licensed strategies of various levels of maturity exist to implement multiplicity, herein defined as the introduction of plurality to traditionally singular computing environments via isolation, virtualization, or other method. For example, the chroot utility introduces an additional isolated root execution environment within that of the host; or an emulator provides highly-isolated virtual systems that can run complete native or foreign operating systems. Motivations for multiplicity vary, but a demonstrable desire exists for users to obtain root or run a foreign binary or operating system. We propose a hands-on survey of portable and integrated BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies applicable to the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and NetBSD operating systems on the i386 architecture. We will also address three oft-coupled disciplines: software storage devices, the installation of operating system and userlands in multiplicity environments plus the management of select multiplicity environments. Finally we will comment on each strategies potential limits of isolation, compatibility, independence and potential overhead in comparison to traditional systems. Keywords: multiplicity, virtualization, chroot, jail, hypervisor, xen, compat.
Michael Dexter has used Unix systems since 1991 and BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies for over five years. He is the Program Manager at the BSD Fund and Project Manager of the BSD.lv Project.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Nick Barkas - Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, ufs2, nick barkas
MP3 (1 byte, 32 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 32 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
Hello My name is Nick Barkas. I'm a master's student studying scientific computing at Kungliga Tekniska hgskolan (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. I have just begun work on a Google Summer of Code project with FreeBSD: Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 . I would like to present my results from this project at EuroBSDCon this year. This project is very much a work in progress now so it is a bit difficult to summarize what I would ultimately present. I will try to describe an outline, though. First I will give background information on dirhash: an explanation of the directory data structure in UFS2, how directory lookups in this structure necessitate a linear search, and how dirhash speeds these lookups up without having to change anything about the directory data structure. Next I will explain the current limitation that dirhash's maximum memory use must be manually specified by administrators, or left at a small conservative default of 2MB. I will explain some different methods I will have explored to try and make this maximum memory limit dynamically increase and decrease as the system has more or less free memory, and which method I will have ultimately settled on and implemented. Then I'll present some test results of performance of operations on very large directories with and without dynamic memory allocation enabled for dirhash. Next I will talk about how speed gains from dirhash are limited by the fact that the hash tables exist only in memory and must be recreated after each system boot, as big directories are scanned for the first time, or even have to be recreated for a directory that has not been scanned in some time if its dirhash has been discarded to free memory. These problems can be eliminated by using an on-disk index for directory entries. I will talk about some of the challenges of implementing on-disk indexing, such as remaining backwards compatible with older versions of UFS2 and interoperating properly with softupdates. Then, if my SoC project has permitted me time to work on this aspect of it, I will explain some possible methods for adding directory indexing to UFS2 that meets these challenges, and which of those ideas I will have implemented. Finally I will present results of some benchmarks on this filesystem with indices, and compare to performance with dirhash, and with no indices or dirhashes.
Keywords: dirhash, ufs2, filesystems, performance tuning
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paul Richards - eXtreme Programming: FreeBSD a case study
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, extreme programming, paul richards
MP3 (1 byte, 54 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 54 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
Traditional project management methodologies are typically based on the waterfall model where there are distinct phases: requirements capture, design, implementation, testing, delivery. Once a project has moved on to the next phase there is no going back. The end result is often a late project that no-one wants anymore because the requirements have fundamentally changed by the time the project is delivered.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Hauke Fath - Managing BSD desktop clients - Fencing in the herd
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, bsd, desktop, hauke fath
MP3 (1 byte, 50 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 50 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
The members of the BSD family have traditionally prospered off the desktop, as operating systems on servers and embedded systems. The advent of MacOS X has marked a change, and moved the desktop more into focus. Modern desktop systems create a richer software landscape, with more diverse requirements, than their server counterparts. User demands, software package interdependencies and frequent security issues result in a change rate that can put a considerable load on the admin staff. Without central management tools, previously identical installations diverge quickly. This paper looks at concepts and strategies for managing tens to hundreds of modern, Unix-like desktop clients. The available management tools range from simple, image-based software distribution, mainly used for setting up uniform clients, to "intelligent" rule-based engines capable of search-and-replace operations on configuration files. We will briefly compare their properties and limitations, then take a closer look at Radmind, a suite for file level administration of Unix clients. Radmind has been in use in the Institute of Telecommunication at Technische Universitt Darmstadt for over three years, managing NetBSD and Debian Linux clients in the labs as well as faculty members' machines. We will explore the Radmind suite's underlying concepts and functionality. In order to see how the concept holds up, we will discuss real-world scenarios from the system life-cycle of Installation, configuration changes, security updates, component updates, and system upgrades.
Hauke Fath works as a systems administrator for the Institut fr Nachrichtentechnik (telecommunication) at Technische Universitt Darmstadt. He has been using NetBSD since 1994, when he first booted a NetBSD 1.0A kernel on a Macintosh SE/30. NetBSD helped shaping his career by causing a slow drift from application programmer's work towards systems and network administration. Hauke Fath holds a MS in Physics and became a NetBSD developer in late 2006.
Keywords: Managing Unix desktop clients, software distribution, tripwire
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Joerg Sonnenberger - Sleeping beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, netbsd, laptops, joerg sonnenberger
MP3 (1 byte, 54 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 54 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
This paper discusses the NetBSD Power Management Framework (PMF) and related changes to the kernel. The outlined changes allow NetBSD to support essential functions like suspend-to-RAM on most post-Y2K X86 machines. They are also the fundation for intelligent handling of device activity by enabling devices on-demand. This work is still progressing. Many of the features will be available in the up-coming NetBSD 5.0 release The NetBSD kernel is widely regarded to be one of the cleanest and most portable Operating System kernels available. For various reasons it is also assumed that NetBSD only runs well on older hardware. In the summer of 2006 Charles Hannum, one of the founders of NetBSD, left with a long mail mentioning as important issues the lack of proper power management and suspendto- RAM support. One year later, Jared D. McNeill posted a plan for attacking this issue based on ideas derived from the Windows Driver Model. This plan would evolve into the new NetBSD Power Management Framework (PMF for short).
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, cluster, brooks davis
MP3 (1 byte, 51 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 51 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
The Aerospace Corporation operates a federally funded research and development center in support of national-security, civil and commercial space programs. Many of our 2400+ engineers use a variety of computing technologies to support their work. Applications range from small models which are easily handled by desktops to parameter studies involving thousands of cpu hours and traditional, large scale parallel codes such as computational fluid dynamics and molecular modeling applications. Our primary resources used to support these large applications are computing clusters. Our current primary cluster, the Fellowship cluster consists of 352 dual-processor nodes with a total of 14xx cores. Two additional clusters, beginning at 150 dual-processor nodes each are being constructed to augment Fellowship. As in In any multiuser computing environment with limited resources, user competition for resources is a significant burden. Users want everything they need to do their job, right now. Unfortunately, other users may need those resources at the same time. Thus, systems to arbitrate this resource contention are necessary. On Fellowship we have deployed the Sun Grid Engine scheduler which scheduled batch jobs across the nodes. In the next section we discuss the performance problems that can occur when sharing resources in a high performance computing cluster. We then discuss range of possibilities to address these problems. We then explain the solutions we are investigating and describe our experiments with them. We then conclude with a discussion of future work.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Russel Sutherland - UTORvpn: A BSD based VPN service for the masses
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, vpn, russel sutherland
MP3 (1 byte, 52 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 52 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
The University of Toronto is a large educational institutional with over 70,000 students and 10,000 staff and faculty. For the past three years, we have developed and implemented a ubiquitous VPN service, based up on OpenVPN and FreeBSD. The service has over 3000 active customers, with up to 35 simultaneous users. The system supports, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista/2000 clients. Tools have been developed to create a central CA which enables users to log in to a secure server and get their customized client, certificates and configuration. The NSIS installer is used to generate the customized windows installers. Similar packages are generated for the various Unix based clients. Additional WWW/PHP based tools, have been developed to monitor and log usage of the service, using standard graphs, alarms for excessive use and a certificate revocation mechanism. The system has been integrated into the local identity management system (Kerberos/LDAP) in order to authorize and authenticate users upon initiation and per session usage. All code is Open Source and freely available.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Four years of summer of code
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, google soc, george neville-neil
MP3 (1 byte, 27 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 27 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
The Google Summer of Code is a program designed to provide students with real world experience contributing to open source projects during the summer break in university studies. Each year Google selects a number of open source projects to act as mentoring organizations. Students are invited to submit project proposals for the open source projects that are most interesting to them. FreeBSD was one of the projects selected to participate in the inaugural Summer of Code in 2005 and we have participated each year since then. Over the past 4 years a total of 79 students have participated in the program and it has become a very significant source of new committers to FreeBSD. This talk will examine in detail the selection criteria for projects, the impact that successful projects have had, and some suggestions for how we can better leverage this program in the future.
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Anttii Kantee - Converting kernel file systems to services
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, anttii kantee
MP3 (1 byte, 55 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 55 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
ABSD/UNIX operating system is traditionally split into two pieces: the kernel and userspace. Historically the reasons for this were clear: the UNIX kernel was a simple entity. However, over time the kernel has grown more and more complex. Currently, most of the same functionality is available both in userspace and the kernel, but under different names. Examples include synchronization routines and threading support. For instance, to lock a mutex in the NetBSD kernel, the call is mutex_enter(), while in userspace the routine which does exactly the same thing is known as pthread_mutex_enter(). Taking another classic example, a BSD style OS has malloc()/free() available both in userspace and the kernel, but with different linkage (the kernel malloc interface is currently being widely deprecated, though). This imposes a completely arbitrary division between the kernel and userspace. Most functionality provided by an opearating system should be treated as a service instead of explicitly pinning it down as a userspace daemon or a kernel driver. Currently, due to the arbitrarily difference in programming interface names, functionality must be explicitly ported between the kernel and userspace if it is to run in one or the other environment. By unifying the environments where possible, the arbitrary division is weakened and porting between these environments becomes simpler.
Antti Kantee has been a NetBSD developer for many many moons. He has managed to work on quite a few bits and pieces of a BSD system: userland utilities, the pkgsrc packaging system, networking, virtual memory, device drivers, hardware support and file systems.
See also http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/rump.htm
EuroBSDCon 2008 - Matthieu Herrb - Input handling in wscons and X.Org
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 22 October 2008
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, wscons, x.org, matthieu herrb
MP3 (1 byte, 57 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 57 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
This talk will present the different layers that handle input, from the key that gets pressed or the mouse motion to the applications, all the way through the kernel drivers, X drivers and libraries, in the case of the OpenBSD/NetBSD wscons driver and the current and future X.Org server. It will cover stuff like keyboard mappings, touch-screen calibration, multi-pointer X or input coordinates transformations. It will show some problems of current implementations and try to show how current evolutions can solve them.
Matthieu Herrb is maintaing X on OpenBSD. I've been using X on various systems (SunOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X,...) since 1989. He has been a member of the XFree86 Core Team for a short period in 2003 and is now a member of the X.Org Foundation BoD. Matthieu Herrb works at LAAS a research laborarory of the French National Research Agency (CNRS) both on robotics and network security.
EuroBSDCon 2007 Videos
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 10 October 2007
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, videos
Soren Straarup - An ARM from shoulder to hand (141 Mb), Pawel Jakub - FreeBSD/ZFS - last word in operating/file systems (203 Mb), Yvan VanHullebus - NETASQ and BSD: a success story (382 Mb), Claudio Jeker - Routing on OpenBSD (394 Mb), Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods (92 Mb), Gregers Petersen - Open Source - is it something new? (285 Mb), Antti Kantee - ReFUSE: Userspace FUSE Reimplementation Using puffs (197 Mb), Steven Murdoch - Hot or Not: Fingerprinting hosts through clock skew (235 Mb), Sam Smith - Fighting "Technical fires" (147 Mb), Kirk Mckusick - A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem (251 Mb), George Neville-Neil - Network Protocol Testing in FreeBSD and in General (271 Kb), Robert Watson - FreeBSD Advanced Security Features (200 Mb), Sam Leffler - Long Distance Wireless (for Emerging Regions) (248 Mb), Simon L Nielsen - The FreeBSD Security Officer function (195 Kb), Stephen Borrill - Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients (364 Mb), Pierre Yves Ritschard - Load Balancing (219 Mb), Isaac Levy - FreeBSD jail(8) Overview, the Secure Virtual Server (350 Mb), Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer (376 Mb), John P Hartmann - Real Men's Pipes - When UNIX meets the mainframe mindset (315 Mb)
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 05 October 2007
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, papers
Pawel Jakub - FreeBSD/ZFS - last word in operating/file systems (337 Kb), Stephen Borrill - Building products with NetBSD - thin-clients (407 Kb), John P Hartmann - CMS Pipelines Explained (118 Kb), Soren Straarup - An ARM from shoulder to hand (307 Kb), Brooks Davis - Building clusters with FreeBSD (2.2 Mb), Steven Murdoch - Hot or Not: Fingerprinting hosts through clock skew (6.1 Mb), Brooks Davis - Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods (989 Kb), Sam Leffler - Long Distance Wireless (for Emerging Regions) (19 Mb), Antti Kantee - ReFUSE: Userspace FUSE Reimplementation Using puffs (102 Kb), Yvan VanHullebus - NETASQ and BSD: a success story (2.4 Mb), Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer (692 Kb), Pierre Yves Ritschard - Load Balancing (23 Kb), John P Hartmann - Real Men's Pipes - When UNIX meets the mainframe mindset (382 Kb), Claudio Jeker - Routing on OpenBSD (1.3 Mb), Marc Balmer - Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD (304 Kb), Peter Hansteen - Firewalling with OpenBSD's PF packet filter (531 Kb), Simon L Nielsen - The FreeBSD Security Officer function (251 Kb), Robert Watson - FreeBSD Advanced Security Features (152 Kb), Ryan Bickhart - Transparent TCP-to-SCTP Translation Shim Layer (491 Kb), Kirk Mckusick - A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem (145 Kb), George Neville-Neil - Network Protocol Testing in FreeBSD and in General (251 Kb), Sam Smith - Fighting "Technical fires" (1.4 Mb), Marko Zec - Network stack virtualization for FreeBSD 7.0 (401 Kb), Isaac Levy - FreeBSD jail(8) Overview, the Secure Virtual Server (120 Mb)
EuroBSDCon 2007 Papers
EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 26 September 2007
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2007, photos, flickr
Eystein.aarseth - Photos from EuroBSDCon in Copenhagen, Denmark, september 2007, Tom (Snow) - Foto's taken bij Tom and Robert of www.snow.nl, Peternmhansteen, Ed Kikkert - EuroBSDCon 2007 taken place in Copenhagen, Denmark 14-15 September 2007 at the Symbion Science Park, Rick van der Zwet
EuroBSDCon 2007 Photos by various people
Andre Opperman - The papers I write for EuroBSDCon 05
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 14 January 2007
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2005, paper, freebsd, networking, andre opperman
Optimizing the FreeBSD IP and TCP Stack (1 Mb), New Networking Features in FreeBSD 6 (92 Kb)
The papers I write for EuroBSDCon 05 on New Networking Feature in FreeBSD 6.0 and Optimizing FreeBSD IP and TCP in 7-CURRENT
Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2004
Source: Robert Watson
Added: 14 January 2007
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2004, slides, trustedbsd, freebsd, mac, robert watson
TrustedBSD MAC Framework on FreeBSD and Darwin (270 Kb)
Robert Watson will describe the design and application of the TrustedBSD MAC Framework, a flexible kernel security framework developed on FreeBSD, and recently experimentally ported to Apple's Darwin operating system. The MAC Framework permits loadable access control kernel modules to be loaded, modifying the security behavior of the operating system, including SEBSD, a port of the SELinux FLASK/TE security model to FreeBSD.
Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2006 and FreeBSD Developer Summit
Source: Robert Watson
Added: 14 January 2007
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2006, robert watson
How the FreeBSD Project Works (EuroBSDCon 2006 Full Conference) (4.4 Mb), TrustedBSD presentation on Audit and priv(9) (Developer Summit) (166 Kb)
EuroBSDCon 2006 took place in Milan, Italy, and not only offered excellent food on a flexible schedule, but also an interesting array of talks on work spanning the BSD's. On this page, you can find my slides from the FreeBSD developer summit and full conference.
Status report on the TrustedBSD Project: introduction and status regarding Audit, plus a TODO list; introduction to the priv(9) work recently merged to 7.x.
The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most successful open source operating system projects, seeing wide deployment across the IT industry. From the root name servers, to top tier ISPs, to core router operating systems, to firewalls, to embedded appliances, you can't use a networked computer for ten minutes without using FreeBSD dozens of times. Part of FreeBSD's reputation for quality and reliability comes from the nature of its development organization--driven by a hundreds of highly skilled volunteers, from high school students to university professors. And unlike most open source projects, the FreeBSD Project has developers who have been working on the same source base for over twenty years. But how does this organization work? Who pays the bandwidth bills, runs the web servers, writes the documentation, writes the code, and calls the shots? And how can developers in a dozen time zones reach agreement on the time of day, let alone a kernel architecture? This presentation will attempt to provide, in 45 minutes, a brief if entertaining snapshot into what makes FreeBSD run.
Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2005
Source: Robert Watson
Added: 14 January 2007
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2005, slides, freebsd, smp, robert watson, poul-henning kamp, ed maste
Introduction to Multithreading and Multiprocessing in the FreeBSD SMPng Network Stack (370 Kb)
EuroBSDCon 2005 took place in Basel, Switzerland in November, 2005. Due to an injury, I was unable to attend the conference itself, and my talks were presented in absentia by Poul-Henning Kamp and Ed Maste, who have my greatest appreciation!
The FreeBSD SMPng Project has spent the past five years redesigning and reimplementing SMP support for the FreeBSD operating system, moving from a Giant-locked kernel to a fine-grained locking implementation with greater kernel threading and parallelism. This paper introduces the FreeBSD SMPng Project, its architectural goals and implementation approach. It then explores the impact of SMPng on the FreeBSD network stack, including strategies for integrating SMP support into the network stack, locking approaches, optimizations, and challenges.
EuroBSDCon 2006 pictures
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 14 November 2006
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2006, photos, christian laursen
EuroBSDCon 2006 pictures by Christian Laursen
EuroBSDCon 2006 pictures
Source: EuroBSDCon
Added: 14 November 2006
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2006, photos, erwin lansing
EuroBSDCon 2006 pictures by Erwin Lansing (erwin@)


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May 15, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - On Friday afternoon the ECAC Championships opened with the first four events of the heptathlon and three distance events: the 3,000-meter steeplechase, the 5,000-meter run and the 10,000-meter run. Senior Bevin Peters, who ran the steeplechase, was the only Yale competitor for the afternoon.
Peters finished 22nd in the event in a time of 11:04.29. Her personal best is 10:50.48, which she achieved with her win at the Harvard-Yale vs. Oxford-Cambridge meet in April. That time is only .23 seconds above the NCAA regional qualifying standard, a mark Peters was hoping to reach before the season's end. This was the last race for Peters, who has been a consistently strong distance runner and steeplechaser all four of her years at Yale.
On Saturday Bulldogs will compete in the trials for the 400-meter dash, the 800-meter run and the 400-meter hurdles, as well as in all three relays (4x100 meter, 4x400 meter, 4x800 meter). Finals for all of these events will be held Sunday.
Results will continue to be posted live at LancerTiming.com and at YaleBulldogs.com at the end of the day.
Report by Kyle Eichner '12, Yale Sports Publicity


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ISO and IEC approve Office Open XML document format standard
Geneva, 1 April 2008
The International Standards Organization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have approved ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Office Open XML File Formats as an International Standard. Approval requires at least 2/3 (i.e. 66.66 %) of the votes cast by national bodies participating in ISO/IEC JTC 1 to be positive; and no more than 1/4 (i.e. 25 %) of the total number of national body votes cast negative. Both of these criteria were achieved, with 75 % of votes cast by national bodies participating in ISO/IEC JTC 1 being positive and only 14 % of all national votes cast being negative.
Open XML is a platform-independent open standard for word-processing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. The standard has been widely adopted by hundreds of organizations throughout the industry, and serves to ensure the long-term preservation of documents by maintaining compatibility and fostering continuing advances in the field of documents and information technology.
Independent software vendors, including Apple, Corel, Microsoft and Novell have already shipped implementations of the Open XML standard within popular applications such as iWork, iPhone, WordPerfect, Open Office and Microsoft Office 2007.
"ISO/IEC approval of this global standard represents an important milestone in our goal to support access to billions of existing binary documents, as well as to enable interoperability across office productivity applications and with line-of-business systems , " said Dr. Istvan Sebestyen, Secretary General of Ecma International. "The constructive input provided by ISO/IEC National Bodies around the world to improve and clarify the DIS text has resulted in an enhanced open standard that meets extensive requirements to support continued implementation across the industry. I would like to take this opportunity to thank ISO, IEC, JTC 1, the National Bodies and Ecma TC45 for their hard work and for their valuable contributions in this project. The process was very effective, the specification is much-improved, and we are pleased with the impressive support for its ratification."
IS 29500 marks the culmination of joint development efforts over the past two years by the members of Ecma Technical Committee 45 (TC45) and through its subsequent submission of the Ecma International specification to the ISO/IEC process for additional input from the global standards community.
"ISO/IEC approval maximizes the ability of independent software vendors such as NextPage to deliver solutions to customers who have existing binary documents," said Tom Ngo, CTO of NextPage and member of Ecma TC45. "As the sole representative of ISVs on TC45, we worked hard to foster interoperability and conformance conditions that help to level the competitive playing field. This approval puts control of Open XML in the hands of the international community."
"Just as we have worked to establish and steward our print collections, the British Library is committed to preserving and providing access to the U.K.'s digital heritage," said Adam Farquhar, head of Digital Library Technology at the British Library, and vice-chair of Ecma TC45. "Establishing Office Open XML as an open standard substantially enhances our ability to achieve this. It's an important step forward for digital preservation and will help us fulfill the British Library's core responsibility of making our digital collections accessible for generations to come."
"The U.S. Library of Congress believes that the preservation of digital content for future generations will be much easier if widely used software applications use formats with full public specifications that will be maintained by the global community going forward," said Martha Anderson, Director of Program Management, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. "The approval of Office Open XML as an international standard has important benefits for libraries and other archival institutions for generations to come."
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Associate Professor of the Practice of Thompson Writing Program
Denise Comer's research interests include composition, nineteenth-century British literature, travel writing, and women's studies. Her current scholarship focuses on issues of the profession in composition and rhetoric, as well as Romantic and Victorian British women's travel writing in India.
Selected Grants
Ronald McDonald House/Duke University Family Story Project awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2013
Comer, DK. Writing in Transit. A WID Reader. Fountainhead Press, 2015.
Comer, DK, and Garrett, BG. It's Just a Dissertation. Transforming Your Dissertation From Daunting to Doable to Done. Fountainhead Press, 2014.
Writing in Transit with Readings (In preparation). Ed. DK Comer. Dallas, TX: Fountainhead Press.
Comer, DK. Writing for Success in College and Beyond: A Webtext. Dallas, TX: Fountainhead Press.
Baker, RS, Wang, Y, Paquette, L, Aleven, V, Popescu, O, Sewall, J, Rosé, C, Tomar, GS, Ferschke, O, Zhang, J, Cennamo, MJ, Ogden, S, Condit, T, Diaz, J, Crossley, S, McNamara, DS, Comer, DK, Lynch, CF, Brown, R, Barnes, T, and Bergner, Y. "Educational data mining: A MOOC experience." Data Mining And Learning Analytics: Applications in Educational Research. October 14, 2016. 55-66. Full Text
Comer, DK. "Learning How to Teach … Differently: Extracts from a MOOC Instructor's Journal." The MOOC Invasion. Ed. S Krause and C Lowe. Parlor Press, 2014.
Comer, DK. "MOOCs Offer Students Opportunity to Grow as Writers." Proceedings of the 7th International Mult-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2013. July 9-12, 2013. Orlando, Florida. 2013.
Comer, DK, and Hammer, B. ""Surveying the Efficacy of Digital Response: Pedagogical Imperatives, Faculty Approaches, and Student Feedback." Teaching Writing with Technology. Fountainhead Press, 2008.
Comer, DK. ""Negotiating Privilege in the Teaching of Travel Literature"." Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing. Exploring the World and Self. Ed. E Groom. Peter Lang, 2005.
Comer, DK. "Helen Lady Dufferin, Countess of Gifford." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. WB Thesing. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999. 127-135. (Chapter)
Comer, DK. "The Impact of E-Reading on Writing Programs." Writing Program Administrators Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 15-18 July 2010..
Comer, DK. "Fostering Multidisciplinary Pedagogies." International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain, 15-17 November 2010..
Comer, DK, and White, EM. "Adventuring into MOOC Writing Assessment: Challenges, Results, and Possibilities." COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION 67.3 (February 2016): 318-359.
Comer, DK, Clark, CR, and Canelas, DA. "Writing to learn and learning to write across the disciplines: Peer-to-peer writing in introductory-level MOOCs." International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 15.5 (January 1, 2014): 26-82. Open Access Copy
Ahern-Dodson, J, and Comer, DK. "The iPad and Writing in the Disciplines." Writing Across the Curriculum (January 2014). (Academic Article)
Comer, DK. ""This Erstwhile Unreadable Text": Multidisciplinarity and First-Year Writing Faculty Teaching Mentoring and Support." Teaching/Writing (January 2014). (Academic Article)
Comer, DK. "Translation and Transfer: Interdisciplinary Writing and Communication." Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics 11 (2013): 106-112. (Academic Article)
Ahern-Dodson, J, and Comer, DK. "Multidisciplinarity and the Tablet: A Study of Writing Practices." Writing Across the Curriculum 24 (2013): 63-82.
Comer, DK. "Bending the Gaze: Transparency, Reciprocity and Supervisory Classroom Visits." Pedagogy 11 (2011).
Benz, B, Comer, DK, Lowry, M, and Juergensmeyer, E. "WPAs, Writing Programs and the Common Reading Experience." Writing Program Administrators 37 (2011): 11-32.
Comer, DK. "Changing Tables and Changing Culture: Pregnancy, Parenting, and First-Year Writing." Composition Studies 37.2 (October 2009): 91-113. (Academic Article)
Comer, DK. ""white child is good, black child his [or her] slave": Women, children, and empire in early nineteenth-century India." European Romantic Review 16.1 (January 1, 2005): 39-58. Full Text
Comer, DK. "Review of "First Books and Second Books: SWR Authors Talk about Developing Book-Length Projects"." Kairos (2012). (Review)
Comer, DK. "Review of "Patient Genres as Rhetorical Sites of Agency, Resistance, and Expertise"." (2012). (Review)
Composition MOOCs and Pedagogy by the Thousands: Reflections on Four Open Education Innovations. March 20, 2014
Writing to Learn and Learning to Write across the Disciplines: Peer-to-Peer Writing in Introductory-Level MOOCs. December 6, 2013
Reframing, Managing, and Learning to Embrace MOOC Negativity (Submitted Proposal, Under Considerration). April 1, 2013
Composition MOOCs and Pedagogy by the Thousands: Reflections on Four Open Education Innovations. January 3, 2013


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Say hello to my little friends
I blame Walt Disney for this. If he hadn't given inanimate objects anthropomorphic attributes and personalities, then I wouldn't feel sorry for all the old pages of animation paper never getting the chance to be used.
I'm so weird.
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Man, I feel the same way. There's something really cool about rolling the paper, too, an intimacy that is impossible to replicate in any other medium.ReplyDelete
And now it's back to work. On the blasted computer, too. Yikes.
no! i totally think the same thing. too funny!ReplyDelete
HaHa...I do that too! I wouldn't want any of my things to feel bad.ReplyDelete
Wow....that is weird. And I am exactly the same way.ReplyDelete
Neurotic Freak!ReplyDelete
I do that too, but not just with paper. Eggs, bread, shoes, pencils- I always want to give the ones next in line thier chance to shine. Or maybe I just don't want the food to go bad. Either way- I think we're all pretty odd.ReplyDelete
No Ward, You're just creative! (insert high pitched Minnesota accent)ReplyDelete
Creative neurotic freak.
you are delightfully odd.ReplyDelete
that was funny. it's the cushion of the papers underneath that i like - even though i'm not an animator.ReplyDelete
If I were an animator, I would do that too. I blame my history as a concession stand worker in a movie theatre, where we had to stock all the new candy behind the old candy, so as to not sell anything stale...ReplyDelete


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Without You I'm Nothing
Grim North
The Girl Who Destroyed The World
The Girl Who Destroyed The World
/ Digital Print 420 x 297 mm
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Pure Morning
Shudder & Twitch
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Life Is Peachy
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Mourning Star
Don't Trust The Krypt Keeper
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I Saw Dysfunction In Your Rhythm
Artwork as part of The Graff Spiral, an exposition celebrating the dynamic street art of Sheffield. It is a substantial painted, sculptural installation, the structure designed by students from the department of Structural Engineering at the University of Sheffield, under the guidance of Professor Rachel Horn, local sculptor Anthony Bennett, structural engineers ARUP, who have been providing support to the teams, advising on practical forms of construction and fundamental design principles, and Street artist Mila K. Five groups of 6 students competed to design a structure which could be manufactured easily by volunteers, to a tight budget, which would be structurally sound, and which would optimise surface area to facilitate graffiti art. Curated by Mila K, nine of the most exciting up and coming Sheffield street artists; Jim McElvaney, Eugene Booms, Marcus Method, Trik09, Nazusk, Mila K, Rob Lee, Mikk Murray, and Aliss Curtis will create a symbolic collaborative artwork evoking the spirit of resurgence, vitality, creativity and optimism for the community of Hillsborough.
From My Cold Dead Paws
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From My Cold Dead Paws pt3
A Place Between Life and Utopia
Mosquito Tweeter
Atomik Swamp
Hello, Hello. When It Rings Will You Answer?
Trips & Drips
Don't Trust The Krypt Keeper pt2
Bunny Boiler
Ace Arts Tattoo Studio, Rawmarsh
Photography by Andrew Mclean
Massive thanks to City Of Colours for inviting me up to paint City of Colours festival; bringing together over 100 artists, who will transform Digbeth into one of the UKs largest outdoor art galleries.
Paint supplied by Bench504 and Spaceman Sheffield


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It was a good quarter for sales and net income at Foot Locker Inc., led by e-commerce.
For the first quarter ended May 4, Foot Locker, No. 51 in Internet Retailer's 2013 Top 500 Guide, reported:
The web accounted for 43.3% of total sales growth and 10.2% of overall sales. E-commerce represented 8.9% of total sales in the same period last year.
Among the shoe merchant's e-commerce sites, sales at Eastbay.com, which sells outdoor apparel, shoes and gear, increased in the "low double digits," Lauren Peters, chief financial officer, told analysts on the company's quarterly earnings call, according to a transcript of the call from Seeking Alpha. "Our 'store banner.com' businesses continued their very strong performance with sales up almost 50%, while CCS.com was down high single digits," Peters said. The banner store web sites include FootLocker.com, LadyFootLocker.com, FootAction.com and ChampsSports.com. CCS.com carries skate and snowboard apparel and gear. In March, Foot Locker closed 22 CCS stores, making CCS.com a web-only operation.
Foot Locker continues to expand its online offerings by extending access to inventory online, in-store or via mobile devices, CEO Kenneth Hicks told analysts. This year, he said, "our web sites will show a product as long as it exists anywhere in our company, in a warehouse or in a store. Customers can then buy online and, if they choose, reserve in-store."
Store customers and sales associates will be able to check on the availability of an item, wherever it may be, Hicks said, "and we'll be able to ship it to their home or to the store of their choice."
During the first quarter, Foot Locker opened 25 new stores, remodeled or relocated 64 and closed 39. As of May 4, the company operated 3,321 stores in 23 countries in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. An additional 45 franchised stores were operating in the Middle East and South Korea.


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- Fernando Torres fires a hat-trick to keep Chelsea in the hunt for a fourth-place finish in English Premier League
- Spanish striker caps a memorable week after scoring winning goal in aggregate win against Barcelona in midweek
- Tottenham Hotspur move up to fourth place after a 2-0 win over Blackburn Rovers at White Hart Lane
A rejuvenated Fernando Torres scored a hat-trick on Sunday in the English Premier League as Chelsea thrashed Queens Park Rangers 6-1 at Stamford Bridge.
The performance capped a remarkable return to form for the Spanish striker who has struggled to make an impact since his £50 million ($81 million) move to West London from Liverpool in January last year.
Chelsea were 2-0 up before Torres was on the score sheet with Daniel Sturridge blasting home inside the first minute and John Terry heading a second 12 minutes later.
Torres entered the fray in the 19th minute, receiving a inch-perfect pass from Saloman Kalou before rounding QPR keeper Paddy Kenny to score.
The 28-year-old, who sealed Chelsea's famous 3-2 aggregate win in midweek against Barcelona, added his second five minutes later driving home after a mix up between Kenny and defender Nedum Onuoha.
The Spaniard was on target again in the 64th minute side-footing past Kenny with ease to complete his first hat-trick since 2009 when Liverpool beat Hull 6-1.
Florent Malouda added a sixth 10 minutes from the end before Djibril Cisse scored a consolation goal for QPR in the 84th minute.
The result capped a wonderful week for Chelsea whose heroics at the Nou Camp on Tuesday earned them a place in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich on May 19.
Chelsea stay in sixth place with 61 points, just one point behind Newcastle and Tottenham Hotspur with three games remaining. QPR stay one place above the relegation zone but only on goal difference.
"Reaching the Champions League final was important, but we also want to finish in the top four and we showed we were focused today from the first minute after Daniel Sturridge's goal," Torres said.
Torres' return to form also adds spice to next weekend's English FA Cup final where Chelsea take on his old club Liverpool at Wembley Stadium.
Tottenham moved back into fourth place on Sunday with a 2-0 win over Blackburn Rovers at White Hart Lane.
Goals from Rafael Van der Vaart, who bundled home from close range in the 22nd minute, and a stunning Kyle Walker free-kick 15 minutes from the end all but condemn Blackburn Rovers to Championship football next season.
With two games left, Steve Kean's team will need to beat both Wigan and Chelsea in their final match to keep their slim chances alive.
Manchester United travel to the Etihad Stadium on Monday night for a title showdown with Manchester City.


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CHI Health Center Omaha recognizes the needs of those with disabilities and has met or exceeded the requirements of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). CHI Health Center Omaha provides a full range of accommodations for guests with disabilities to ensure their safety, comfort and enjoyment of all our events. Please see ADA Information for more information.
Accessible parking is available in the connecting parking garage and surrounding CHI Health Center Omaha surface lots. These spaces, including van-accessible spaces, are designated for vehicles displaying a current state-issued hangtag or license plate. Drop-off and pick-up locations for guests are located along 10th Street on the West side of the facility by the Arena and Convention Center entrances. Additionally, guests parking in Lot A on the southeast side of the Arena may drop off and pick up guests in the curb cut of this parking lot. Accessible spaces are filled on a first-come, first-served basis so please plan accordingly. Please refer to the Directions/Parking section for a parking map, directions and more information.
CHI Health Center Omaha is located at 455 N. 10th Street Omaha, NE 68102. See Directions/Parking for more information.
For most events and shows, children 2 years of age and younger will be admitted into CHI Health Center Omaha without a ticket provided that they sit on an adult's lap and do not occupy a seat. Any child 3 years of age and older will require a ticket to enter the Arena. Please note that some shows (especially those intended for children and exhibit shows) will have different age policies. If you are uncertain about the policy, feel free to contact us via email at email@example.com or by calling CHI Health Center Omaha at 402.341.1500.
For safety, and as a courtesy to other guests, aisles must be clear at all times. Please refrain from standing in the aisles during events and follow the directions of staff in your area.
There are four automated teller machines (ATMs) for your convenience, located throughout CHI Health Center Omaha.
Convention Center
Grand Hall outside Hall B
Next to Guest Services behind Section 116
Behind Section 126 near the Bud Light Zone
Behind Section 108 near the Lexus Club
For your convenience, most CHI Health Center Omaha stands and merchandise kiosks accept all major credit cards.
No alcohol may be brought into CHI Health Center Omaha. All persons must be age 21 or older and provide legal identification to purchase alcoholic beverages. Alcohol purchases are limited to two (2) beverages per guest. Management has the right to refuse service at any time. Alcohol sales can be terminated at any time at the discretion of CHI Health Center Omaha management. Typically, alcoholic beverage sales will end:
Creighton Basketball
With 10 minutes left in the second half
Varies per event (typically one hour before show ends)
Bags permitted under the policy include clear plastic, vinyl or PVC totes. Additionally, small clutch-sized bags will also be allowed inside the arena after a proper security inspection. However, oversized bags or purses will no longer be allowed inside the premises.
• Clear plastic bags, measuring 12 inches tall, 12 inches long, and 6 inches wide
• Small or clutch-sized purses or wallets, not exceeding 4.5 inches tall by 6.5 inches long
• One-gallon, clear plastic freezer bags are permitted (Ziploc bag or similar)
• No large purses, bags, backpacks or fanny-packs will be allowed inside
• MECA staff-members are not allowed to hold bags during an event
• Exceptions will be made for bags with medical necessity after appropriate inspection
Hand-held, poster board/paper signs are allowed. Banners and signs may not be hung or fastened anywhere in CHI Health Center Omaha. Banners and signs must not be commercial in nature or obscene or cause any disturbance with other fans. Signs cannot interfere or block other guests viewing events. CHI Health Center Omaha reserves the right to remove any banner or sign without exception.
Guests are welcome to bring their personal binoculars to events. Binocular rental is not typically available.
The CHI Health Center Omaha Box Office is located inside the west entrance of the Arena along 10th Street.
Professional cameras and/or cameras with exchangeable lenses are prohibited unless accompanied by appropriate media credentials. Cameras without a flash may be allowed for some events. Video cameras and audio recorders are prohibited in CHI Health Center Omaha unless specifically approved. Selfie sticks are prohibited. Some sporting events, including Creighton basketball, allow still photography but not video recording devices. Please check the event details page for specific policies for what is allowed for each event, or check in advance by calling CHI Health Center Omaha at 402.341.1500.
Be aware that if you bring a camera to a show that does not permit cameras, you will be asked by Security to return the camera to your vehicle before you enter the facility.
The ticket holder grants permission to the facility and its agents to use the image and/or likeness in connection with any still photograph, live or recorded video display, or other transmission or reproduction, in whole or in part of any event.
To be considered for ticket donations, please send an e-mail with your charity information and contact information to firstname.lastname@example.com. Requests must be received in writing and will be considered on a first come, first served basis. Charities must submit a Federal Tax Identification Number to be considered. Ticket requests for Creighton Basketball must be submitted directly to the team.
CHI Health Center Omaha offers a wide variety of food and beverage items for guests to enjoy. Please refer to Concessions for more information.
CHI Health Center Omaha welcomes all feedback, questions and concerns from our guests. Feel free to contact us via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling CHI Health Center Omaha at 402.341.1500. Please visit our Contact page for more information.
Please visit our Parking/Directions page.
All guests must maintain reasonable and appropriate behavior at all times. Guests using offensive language or engaging in disorderly conduct may be ejected from the facility and may be subject to arrest. Ejected guests will not receive a refund for their tickets or be compensated in any way for their loss.
Disturbances include, but are not limited to, the following:
The time the doors to CHI Health Center Omaha open will vary according to the event. The typical times are noted below. Please also see the specific event page for more information by clicking Event Calendar.
Doors open an hour and a half prior to game time
Suites/Club Seats
Doors open an hour and a half prior to event
Doors open one hour prior to the event unless otherwise specifically noted
Please contact the MECA Administrative Offices at 402.341.1500 for more information.
All guests are required to wear a shirt and shoes at all times for their own safety. CHI Health Center Omaha reserves the right to deny entry to guests wearing clothing items displaying offensive language or text.
CHI Health Center Omaha offers a convenient drop-off and pick-up area for guests. This area is located on the West side of the building on 10th Street and the South side on Capitol St. Limousines, buses and cars will be allowed to drop-off and pick-up in this area. However, vehicles are not permitted to park in this area.
CHI Health Center Omaha is equipped with elevators/escalators that access all public areas of the Arena and the Convention Center.
CHI Health Center Omaha is committed to providing the highest standard of safety for our guests and Team Members. In the case of an emergency, please proceed to the nearest stairwell; head down to the street level and out of the building. CHI Health Center Omaha Team Members have been trained to assist in emergency situations.
All guests entering the Arena during an event are subject to a metal-detector screening, visual inspection, and a bag inspection conducted by CHI Health Center Omaha security staff.
CHI Health Center Omaha has six family/unisex restrooms available in the Arena and two family/unisex restrooms available in the Convention Center.
Event medical professionals are available at First Aid stations during public events to assist guests with medical needs. Guests in need of emergency first aid should contact the nearest CHI Health Center Omaha Team Members for assistance. First Aid stations are located:
Convention Center
Grand Hall just outside Hall C
Arena-Event Level
Outside Section 116
Arena-Main Level
Outside Section 101 next to the Bud Zone
Outside Section 205
Outside Section 221
CHI Health Center Omaha offers a full range of menu choices from the traditional hot dogs and nachos to the palette pleasing gourmet pizza and Omaha Steak sandwiches. Look for a myriad of local favorites offered by many of Omaha's finest. Please note that food or beverages may not be brought into CHI Health Center Omaha and alcoholic beverages may not be taken out of CHI Health Center Omaha. Water fountains are located throughout the facility. Please see our Concession page for more information.
The Good Sport Program is designed to ensure guests a safe trip home from CHI Health Center Omaha Arena events. Guests who pledge not to drink alcoholic beverages during the event may sign up at the Bud Zone and may be eligible for promotional giveaway items. Please see the Good Sport page for more information.
CHI Health Center Omaha is committed to providing an enjoyable experience for our guests. In order to maintain an enjoyable and safe environment, we request that all guests be courteous to those around them and abide by all building policies and regulations. Guests using foul language or appearing intoxicated will be ejected from the building. Guests wearing obscene or indecent clothing will be denied entry. Shirts must be worn at all times. Noisemakers of any type are prohibited. Guests who engage in inappropriate behavior will be removed from the building.
Our Guest Services Representatives are trained to provide assistance and have an understanding of how to accommodate guest's needs. CHI Health Center Omaha offers such services as: wheelchair assistance, lost and found, and stroller and wheelchair check-in.
Please note during Convention Center events, wheelchair assistance may not be offered. These services can be obtained by contacting the Guest Services Hotline at 402.599.6869 or by emailing email@example.com.
Guest Services locations:
Convention Center
Grand Hall just outside Hall B
Arena-Main Concourse
Outside Section 116
The Guest Services Hotline is for guests to report incidents or violations (impaired guests, altercations, abusive language, etc.) that they witness during events. Please be prepared to state the location and nature of the problem. To report an incident, please call 402.599.6787 or text OMAHA <space> YOUR ISSUE AND LOCATION TO 69050.
he text-in keyword may change depending on the event or services requested. Please watch for instructions at the beginning of every event, or see the concourse monitors which continuously display this information on a rotating basis.
Please see ADA Information for more information.
CHI Health Center Omaha reserves the right to deny entry to intoxicated guests. Any intoxicated guests causing a disturbance during an event will be asked to leave the facility. Refunds will not be given.
CHI Health Center Omaha is equipped with Assistive Listening System. Receivers are available for Arena events. Guests who are interested in this service should see a Guest Services Representative at Guest Services outside of Section 116 on the Main Concourse. Guests will be required to leave valid identification such as a driver's license as collateral. This is a complimentary service.
During events, lost and found items are turned in and stored at our Security department. Found items will be stored for 15 days following an event. To learn if an item has been recovered, please call the Lost and Found Hotline at 402.599.6849, send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or fill out our Lost and Found online form.
Please leave your name, telephone number twice, name and date of the event that you attended and a detailed description of the item. It will be helpful to include features of the item such as color, size and a brand name. A MECA staff member will respond to your inquiry within two business days.
Please note, CHI Health Center Omaha is not responsible for lost, stolen or misplaced items.
Lost children/parents should be escorted to the Guest Services or any Team Member in the event of a lost child or parent.
Hand held wand metal detectors are used on an event by event basis. The event producer determines this policy. They will cause no harm to people with medical conditions.
To inquire about singing the National Anthem at any event at CHI Health Center Omaha, please contact the individual teams via their websites. Each team makes all arrangements for National Anthem singers for their home games at CHI Health Center Omaha.
CHI Health Center Omaha has a "no re-entry" policy during all Arena events. Guests who wish to return a prohibited item to their vehicle or need to exit and re-enter due to personal emergencies, must first go to Guest Services or an Event Supervisor to make necessary arrangements.
The distribution of promotional items, handbills, flyers, pamphlets, printed material as well as solicitation of signatures without written CHI Health Center Omaha authorization is strictly prohibited.
The selling or sampling of merchandise, food, beverages, tickets or other items on the property without written CHI Health Center Omaha authorization is strictly prohibited.
Parking is available in Parking Lots A, B, C and D surrounding CHI Health Center Omaha. A parking garage is connected to CHI Health Center Omaha.
Please note: Parking accessibility varies based on the event.
Accessible parking is available in all CHI Health Center Omaha parking lots. Stalls are available on a first come, first serve basis to those with a valid & registered ADA hang tag.
In accordance with CHI Health Center Omaha rules, no liquid containers, bottles or cans will be permitted inside the facility. In accordance with the City of Omaha Ordinance Section 15-13, 15-14, no alcohol may be consumed within the CHI Health Center Omaha Parking Premises. All vehicles and persons entering CHI Health Center Omaha are subject to inspection.
Prohibited Items/Actions within the Parking Premises are, but not limited to:
Parking lots will close 90 minutes after the event's conclusion. Those vehicles left 90 minutes after the event's conclusion may be towed at owner's expense. No overnight parking is allowed.
The following items are not permitted into CHI Health Center Omaha:
If your conduct endangers or disrupts guests or others involved in the event, CHI Health Center Omaha reserves the right to remove you from the premises.
Restrooms are located throughout CHI Health Center Omaha for your convenience. All restrooms meet or exceed ADA specifications. Men's, Women's and Family restrooms are located throughout the building. For guests with children, family restrooms are located next to all public restrooms throughout the Convention Center and Arena. Baby changing stations are located in each restroom.
Seating capacity varies for every CHI Health Center Omaha event.
Basketball 18,320 Concert - Center Stage 18,975 Concert - End Stage 18,100
Service animals are welcome in CHI Health Center Omaha and will rest in the seating area of the guest, rather than in the aisle. We suggest that the individual have proof of certification or a license for the service animal. Please notify your ticket seller at the time of purchase so that an aisle seat may be selected for you to accommodate your service animal.
CHI Health Center Omaha is pleased to provide signed performances for our hearing-impaired guests for select Arena events. Interpretation services are not guaranteed for every event; however, we will make every effort to accommodate each request with appropriate advance notice, at least two (2) weeks prior to the event. Please contact CHI Health Center Omaha at 402.341.1500 and ask for the Box Office or by emailing email@example.com.
In compliance with local and state laws, CHI Health Center Omaha is a smoke free facility. Outside smoking areas are provided near the Arena outside Sections 110 and 204. In the Convention Center, the outside smoking area is located on the east side of the meeting level on the AS-SAR-BEN Terrace and along the sidewalk areas on the west side of the Convention Center. Electronic cigarettes are also prohibited.
Strollers can be checked in at Guest Services in the Convention Center and Arena. CHI Health Center Omaha does not rent out strollers for guests.
For guest convenience, courtesy telephones are located throughout the facility. Local calls are free. Courtesy phones can be found behind Arena Section 109 on the Main Level, behind Arena Section 224 on the Upper Level and in the Box Office Lobby.
CHI Health Center Omaha 402.341.1500 CHI Health Center Omaha Group Sales 402.599.6818 CHI Heath Center Omaha Guest Services Hotline 402.599.6869 CHI Health Center Omaha Information Line 402.997.9378 CHI Health Center Omaha Lost and Found 402.599.6849
Tickets are available at the CHI Health Center Omaha Box Office, all Ticketmaster Outlets or online at Ticketmaster.com. Please note that everyone must have a ticket for most events at CHI Health Center Omaha. In general, children 2 and under are admitted free of charge for most events. They are not guaranteed a seat and may be required to sit on a parent's lap. Children 3 and over must have a ticket. For shows intended for a family audience, please check the event details page for specific ticket requirements for children.
If 12 or more guests are at the CHI Health Center Omaha Box Office waiting to purchase tickets at the time of the initial Box Office On-Sale, a lottery will be held to form the line.
The lottery system has been in place since CHI Health Center Omaha first opened to provide the fairest ticket sales process possible to all guests. By removing the incentive for guests to arrive early, the lottery saves guests time and significantly decreases the chance for scalpers to be the first in line. Scalpers have historically paid people to arrive hours before a sale in order to ensure a space at the front of the line.
Thirty minutes before tickets go on sale, each person in line over the age of sixteen will be assigned a number. That number will also be put into a box. A CHI Health Center Omaha team member will then randomly draw a number from the box.
The person holding that number becomes the first person in line. The remaining guests will fall in line behind according to their number. For example, if number 5 is drawn, the person assigned number 5 becomes the first in line, followed by the persons assigned 6, 7, 8 and so forth. This continues until the highest number originally handed out is reached. After that, the person assigned number 1 will join the line, followed by the remaining people in the order of the numbers they are holding with the person having 4 becoming the last in line.
Anyone who arrives after the lottery numbers are handed out would join the line behind the last person holding a lottery number.
CHI Health Center Omaha strictly prohibits ticket scalping and the resale of tickets on the premises. According to the City of Omaha Municipal Code Sec. 20-162 states: "It shall be unlawful for any person to resell or attempt to resell a ticket to an event to be held at the Orpheum Theater, or the CHI Health Center Omaha for an amount greater than the face value printed on such ticket on the grounds of such facilities or within a one-half-mile radius of each such facility."
Ticketmaster is the only authorized ticketing agent of CHI Health Center Omaha. If you purchase tickets from an unauthorized agent in the secondary market (Scalper, Ticket Broker, etc) you risk purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets.
Public Tours of CHI Health Center Omaha are available for a fee during non-event days. Tours must be booked at least 3 weeks in advance. Please contact MECA at 402.341.1500 or email email@example.com to arrange a tour. Visit Tour Information for more details.
All guests, including those with disabilities, are welcome and encouraged to contact our Guest Services department via e-mail at email@example.com. Guests may also call the Nebraska Relay Center at 711. The Relay Center will then place the call to us and we will be happy to communicate through the relay service. In the Arena, a TTY phone is located at Guest Services behind Section 116 on the Main Concourse. In the Convention Center, a TTY phone is located at Guest Services outside of Hall B in the Grand Hallway.
Guests, including law enforcement personnel not present in an official capacity, are prohibited from bringing weapons into the arena. CHI Health Center Omaha does not provide weapon lockers. Weapons may not be checked in at Guest Services. Weapons include, but are not limited to, the following: firearms, explosives, stun guns, handcuffs, brass knuckles, sticks, clubs, batons, martial arts instruments, pepper spray, tear gas, knives, etc. Guests found in possession of the above-mentioned items will be asked to remove the item from the facility or dispose of it. Guests who refuse to comply will be ejected from the arena and may be subject to arrest.
Complimentary wheelchair escorts are available on a first come, first served basis for those needing assistance during CHI Health Center Omaha Arena events. Please note during Convention Center events, wheelchair assistance may not be offered. A guest will be met at the entrance by a wheelchair attendant and escorted to their seat. At the end of the performance or meeting, the escort will return with the wheelchair and assist the guest back to the door. To request a wheelchair escort for an event, please contact 402.599.6869 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Will Call tickets can be picked up at the CHI Health Center Omaha Box Office Will Call window at any point between the time of purchase and the performance, unless the ticket is purchased through an artist's fan club. Then the ticket may be picked up approximately two hours before the show.
Please feel free to contact our Guest Services department by calling our Guest Services Hotline at 402.599.6869 or by emailing email@example.com.
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Nearly eight years ago, the transition from "Gen 2" to "Gen 3" in console video gaming began with the launch of the Microsoft Xbox 360 on November 22nd, 2005. There for the launch of the new console was EA SPORTS Madden NFL 06, the first game under the company's new exclusive license with the National Football League and also a game which has lived in infamy ever since due to the sheer volume of features which were lost in the move from the previous console generation.
As we await the launch of the Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One in just over 2 and 3 weeks respectively, EA SPORTS has taken a different approach this time around. Join us today as we take a closer look at the things you need to know about Madden NFL 25 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One!
I don't get why Coachglass wasn't added to the PS4 version considering that we will have our own, if not more, external devices to display such a thing on. Not only will we have the Vita, we will have iPads and android devices also.
I would've liked to been able to call plays with my iPad. Other than that, the game looks like it's going to be incredible. Looks like a lot of work went into the next-generation versions.
Can't decide if I want this, 2K14, or FIFA 14. They all look good.


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Cedar Wood Coasters with Motif (set of 4)
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These cedar wood serving boards are a one-of-a-kind. Hand-selected cedar wood planks reclaimed from 70-year old Chinese houses, now upcycled for your home.
This 8" x 18" plank is the largest board among our cedar wood serving boards. Sized well for larger spreads of cheese, charcuterie and appetizers. Also works great for tiered food presentation on a buffet table. The design is inspired by the hexagon, a reference to our 'give back' program that supports honey bees.
The uniqueness of each board is derived from the color, grain, lines and knots that differ each serving board from one another.
Check out our full collection of reclaimed cedar wood - Serving Trays, Serving Boards and Coasters. (Cedar Wood Collection designed by bambu)
The Story of our Reclaimed Cedar Collection
On one of our many trips to our workshop in China, we stopped in a small town and discovered what looked to be an interesting salvage yard that stocked timber and other used building materials.
We asked about the cedar wood and learned a few things. Before western building materials were introduced in China in the mid-century, people used the local wood, naturally. Chinese Cedar wood was a common material for the building of homes and other wooden structures. The wood has been salvaged, and used most often by local people for small projects.
We tested the material and learned that it was free of chemicals. This makes sense considering the Cedar wood is naturally resistant to staining, bugs and mold. That was the 'ah ha' moment and our new line of serving boards, trays and coasters was born shortly there after.
Our Customer Care office and warehouse will be closed on Monday, May 27th in observance of Memorial Day. Please allow 1-2 additional business days for processing and shipping during the holiday.
We ship Monday through Friday from Stockton, California. We do our very best to ship within 2 business days. The rate charged for the shipping of your order is based on the weight of your products, and your location.
At this time, we ship to US addresses only.
bambu is pleased to offer Free Standard Ground Shipping* on orders over $75.00. Standard Ground Shipping will be either USPS Parcel Select or UPS Ground. Orders shipped via Free Standard Ground Shipping will deliver within 7-10 business days. If your order is time sensitive, please call us at 855-630-3149 to discuss your options.
*Please note that orders shipping to Hawaii or Alaska are excluded from our Free Ground Shipping offer. Shipping via USPS Standard Post to Alaska or Hawaii may take several weeks- we suggest you use Priority Mail for a more timely arrival. Offer also not valid for orders shipping beyond the contiguous United States.
If you have an urgent need to receive items for an event, we offer two methods of expedited shipping. We highly recommend you call us, prior to placing your order, to inquire about expedited shipping. We'd be happy to check shipping times to ensure your order is received in time for your event. Customer Care can be reached at 855.630.3149, and we are available from 8 am to 4 pm (Pacific time) Monday through Friday.
UPS 2 Day: Your order will be delivered by UPS 2 business days after it is shipped. This does not include processing time. Please allow 1-2 business days for processing.
UPS 3 Day: Your order will be delivered by UPS 3 business days after it is shipped. This does not include processing time. Please allow 1-2 business days for processing.
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Mental Health
How Counselling Can Help Me
This article shares different ways that counselling can be helpful - not just in times of distress, but also to learn more about yourself and grow as an individual. Read on to learn more!
Reaching In: Being There for Someone Who's Dealing with Suicidal Ideation
Whenever we read news about suicide, we often see comments about 'reaching out for help' alongside. However, as we move towards more community-centric models of care in society, we have to begin talking instead, about 'reaching in'.
Building Self-Immunity Through Self-Awareness
Building immunity for your mental health makes a world of difference. Find out how.
Social Physique Anxiety - Signs & Challenges
Social Physique Anxiety, also known as SPA, is a feeling of distress and discomfort associated with the perceived evaluation of one's physical self. It is helpful to understand the signs of SPA and how it affects our routine. To overcome a hurdle, we need to see it clearly and then set goals so that we overcome the hurdle.
Social Physique Anxiety
Ever felt ashamed of the way you look, your height, weight, the colour of your skin? Some amount of self-criticism is normal, however, for some people, feeling dissatisfied with the way they look is a constant struggle. Find out how you can manage this anxiety.
Mindfulness to Overcome Anxiety
Worrying comes naturally to us. How do we stop the constant stream of negative thought? Mindfulness is a useful practice that can help us refocus to the present and reduce anxiety.
How Do I Know If I'm Depressed?
We hear the word depression quite frequently these days. Sometimes we may wonder if we ourselves are suffering from depression. Read on to find out how to tell whether you might be clinically depressed or just feeling down.
Possibility of Normalcy After Depression
From Deepika Padukone to Dwayne Johnson, celebrities have come into the open about their fight with depression. It was not an easy battle they would probably say. However, they did not allow the depression to get the better of them! Find out what it takes to fight depression.
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Understanding mental health disorders - Somatic Symptom Disorder
World Mental Health Day - An Expert Column
Every year since 1992, the World Health Organization observes October 10th as World Mental Health Day – a day to recognize the effects of mental health issues on people's lives and spread awareness of the help available. Themes from the last few years include schizophrenia, dignity in mental health and mental health in older adults. This year's theme - "Psychological First Aid" (PFA) - intends to challenge the popular notion that psychological health is less important than physical health.


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Looking into the distribution of a Fabius random variable: $$ X := \sum_{k=1}^\infty 2^{-k} u_k $$ where $u_k$ are i.i.d. uniform variables on a unit interval, I encountered the following expression for its probability density: $$ f_X(x) = \frac{1}{\pi} \int_0^\infty \left( \prod_{k=1}^\infty \operatorname{\rm sinc}\left( \frac{t}{2^{k+1}} \right) \right) \cos \left( t \left( x- \frac{1}{2} \right) \right) \mathrm{d} t $$ It seems, numerically, that $f\left(\frac{1}{2} \right) = 2$, but my several attempts to prove this were not successful.
Any ideas how to approach this are much appreciated.


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