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David Foster Wallace (21 February 1962 – 12 September 2008) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His works include The Broom of the System (novel), Infinite Jest (novel), The Girl With Curious Hair (short story collection), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (short story collection), A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (essay collection), and the posthumously-published The Pale King (novel) and Both Flesh and Not (essay collection).
Born: February 21st, 1962
Died: September 12th, 2008
Categories: 2000s deaths, People from New York, Short story writers, American novelists, Essayists, Absurdists
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That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.
That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about. How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out.
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war. The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body.
There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free
...a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful—what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives?—and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...
An ad that pretends to be art is — at absolute best — like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don't really mean what I'm saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it's impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it's too bad it's impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today's irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean."
'You know what your problem is, Hallie?' 'I have just one problem?'
Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.
Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?
After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.
Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave
That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse.
Then Thursday Coyle had his left wrist tied to his right ankle and was still beating this new kid Stockhausen until Schtitt sent Tex Watson down to tell him to knock it off.
There is something inescapably bovine about an American tourist in motion as part of a group. A certain greedy placidity about them. Us, rather. In port we automatically become Peregrinator americanusy Die Lumpenamerikaner. The Ugly Ones.
'Tax Law is like the world's biggest chess game with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and consent of the governed built in. For me, it's a bit like math. I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting.'
What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light—the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.
And I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
A Democratic Spirit is one that combines rigor and humility, i.e., passionate conviction plus sedulous respect for the convicitons of others. As any American knows, this is a very difficult spirit to cultivate and maintain, particularly when it comes to issues you feel strongly about. Equally tough is a D.S.'s criterion of 100 percent intellectual integrity--you have to be willing to look honestly at yourself and your motives for believing what you believe, and do it more or less continually.
Past the flannel plains and the blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the a.m. heat: shattercane, lamb's-quarter, cutgrass, sawbrier, nutgrass, jimsonweed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtail, muscatine, spinecabbage, goldenrod, creeping charlie, butter-print, nightshade, ragweed, wild oat, vetch, butcher grass, invaginate volunteer beans, all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother's soft hand on your cheek.
How long has it been since you did Absolutely Nothing? I know exactly how long it's been for me. I know how long it's been since I had every need met choicelessly from someplace outside me, without my having to ask or even acknowledge that I needed. And that time I was floating, too, and the fluid was salty, and warm but not too-, and if I was conscious at all I'm sure I felt dreadless, and was having a really good time, and would have sent postcards to everyone wishing they were here.
[W]e prefer not to countenance the kinds of sacrifices the professional-grade athlete has made to get so good at one particular thing. . . . We prefer not to consider the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in postcontest interviews, or to imagine what impoverishments in one's mental life would allow people actually to think in the simplistic way great athletes seem to think. Note the way "up-close and personal profiles" of professional athletes strain so hard to find evidence of rounded human life—outside interests and activities, charities, values beyond the sport. We ignore what's obvious, that most of this straining is farce. It's farce because the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one pursuit. An almost ascetic focus. A subsumption of almost all other features of human life to their one chosen talent and pursuit. A consent to life in a world that, like a child's world, is very serious and very small.
So then how have irony, irreverence, and rebellion come to be not liberating but enfeebling in the culture today's avant-garde tried to write about? One clue's to be found in the fact that irony is still around, bigger than ever after 30 long years as the dominant mode of hip expression. It's not a rhetorical mode that wears well. As [Lewis] Hyde. . .puts it, "Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy the cage." This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It's critical and destructive, a ground-clearing. Surely this is the way our postmodern fathers saw it. But irony's singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks. This is why Hyde seems right about persistent irony being tiresome. It is unmeaty. Even gifted ironists work best in sound bites. I find gifted ironists sort of wickedly funny to listen to at parties, but I always walk away feeling like I've had several radical surgical procedures. And as for actually driving cross-country with a gifted ironist, or sitting through a 300-page novel full of nothing by trendy sardonic exhaustion, one ends up feeling not only empty but somehow. . .oppressed.
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I felt despair. The word's overused and banalified now, despair, but it's a serious word, and I'm using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It's maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it's not these things, quite. It's more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I'm small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It's wanting to jump overboard.
The idea was to have the accident and whatever explosion and fire was involved occur someplace isolated enough that no one else would see it, so that there would be as little an aspect of performance to the thing as I could manage and no temptation to spend my last few seconds trying to imagine what impressions the sight and sound of the impact might make on someone watching. I was partly concerned that it might be spectacular and dramatic and might look as if the driver was trying to go out in as dramatic a way as possible. This is the sort of shit we waste our lives thinking about.
If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
'So then at forty-six years of age I came here to learn to live by cliches,' is what Day says to Charlotte Treat right after Randy Lenz asked what time it was, again, at 0825. 'To turn my will and life over to the care of cliches. One day at a time. Easy does it. First things first. Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Ask for help. Thy will not mine be done. It works if you work it. Grow or go. Keep coming back.' [...] I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary. Could that be one? Could that be added to the cliche-pool? "No inflection necessary"? Too many syllables, probably.'
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Notkin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic conviction that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer or something, so that whenever he tumifies he'll suffer the same order of guilt that your less eccentrically tortured Ph.D.-type person will suffer at the idea of, say, wearing baby-seal fur. Molly still takes the high-speed rail down to visit him every couple of weeks, to be there for him in case by some selfish mischance he happens to harden, prompting black waves of self-disgust and an extreme neediness for understanding and nonjudgmental love.
At the base of the plane, Styles freelance photographer is down on one knee, going handheld, still in the same Hawaiian shirt. The famously reclusive R. Vaughn Corliss is nowhere in view. Doug Llewellyn's wardrobe furnished by Hugo Boss. The Malina blanket for the artist's lap and thighs, however, is the last minute fix of a production oversight, retrieved from the car of an apprentice gaffer whose child is still nursing, and is not what anyone would call an appropriate color or design, and appears unbilled. There's also some eleventh hour complication involving the ground level camera and the problem of keeping the commode's special monitor out of its upward shot, since video capture of a camera's own monitor causes what is known in the industry as feedback glare — the artist in such a case would see, not his own emergent Victory, but a searing and amorphous light.
We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we take casualness terribly seriously; that only we fashion supplication into courtesy; that only we hear the whiny pathos in a dog's yawn, the timeless sigh in the opening of the hermetically-sealed jar, the splattered laugh in the frying egg, the minor-D lament in the vacuum's scream; that only we feel the panic at sunset the rookie kindergartner feels at his mother's retreat. That only we love the only-we. That only we need the only-we. Solipsism binds us together, J.D. knows. That we feel lonely in a crowd; stop not to dwell on what's brought the crowd into being. That we are, always, faces in a crowd.
The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. Yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
The emergence of something called Metafiction in the American '60s was hailed by academic critics as a radical aesthetic, a whole new literary form, literature unshackled from the cultural cinctures of mimetic narrative and free to plunge into reflexivity and self-conscious meditations on aboutness. Radical it may have been, but thinking that postmodern Metafiction evolved unconscious of prior changes in readerly taste is about as innocent as thinking that all those college students we saw on television protesting the Vietnam war were protesting only because they hated the Vietnam war (They may have hated the war, but they also wanted to be seen protesting on television. TV was where they'd seen the war, after all. Why wouldn't they go about hating it on the very medium that made their hate possible?) Metafictionists may have had aesthetic theories out the bazoo, but they were also sentient citizens of a community that was exchanging an old idea of itself as a nation of do-ers and be-ers for a new vision of the U.S.A. as an atomized mass of self-conscious watchers and appearers. For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own theoritcal nemesis, Realism: if Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing it. This high-cultural postmodern genre, in other words, was deeply informed by the emergence of television and the metastasis of self-conscious watching.
It's hard to get good answers to why Young Voters are so uninterested in politics. This is probably because it's next to impossible to get someone to think hard about why he's not interested in something. The boredom itself preempts inquiry; the fact of the feeling's enough. Surely one reason, though, is politics is not cool. Or say rather that cool, interesting, alive people do not seem to be the ones who are drawn to the Political Process. Think back to the sort of kids in high school or college who were into running for student office: dweeby, overgroomed, obsequious to authority, ambitious in a sad way. Eager to play the Game. The kind of kids other kids would want to beat up if it didn't seem so pointless and dull. And now consider some of 2000's adult versions of these very same kids . . . Men who aren't enough like human beings even to dislike—what one feels when they loom into view is just an overwhelming lack of interest, the sort of deep disengagement that is so often a defense against pain. Against sadness. In fact the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians make us sad, hurt us in ways that are hard even to name, much less to talk about. It's way easier to roll your eyes and not give a shit. You probably don't want to hear about all this, even.
"Maybe it's not metaphysics. Maybe it's existential. I'm talking about the individual US citizen's deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly, that we are tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we've lost one more day that will never come back and our childhoods are over and our adolescence and the vigor of youth and soon our adulthood, that everything we see around us all the time is decaying and passing, it's all passing away, and so are we, so am I, and given how fast the first forty-two years have shot by it's not going to be long before I too pass away, whoever imagined that there was a more truthful way to put it than "die," "pass away," the very sound of it makes me feel the way I feel at dusk on a wintry Sunday--... And not only that, but everybody who knows me or even knows I exist will die, and then everybody who knows those people and might even conceivably have even heard of me will die, and so on, and the gravestones and monuments we spend money to have pour in to make sure we're remembered, these'll last what-- a hundred years? two hundred?-- and they'll crumble, and the grass and insects my decomposition will go to feed will die, and their offspring, or if I'm cremated the trees that are nourished by my windblown ash will die or get cut down and decay, and my urn will decay, and that before maybe three of four generations it will be like I never existed, not only will I have passed away but it will be like I was never here, and people in 2104 or whatever will no more think of Stuart A. Nichols Jr. than you or I think of John T. Smith, 1790 to 1864, of Livingston, Virginia, or some such. That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine, in fact, probably that's why the manic US obsession with production, produce, produce, impact the world, contribute, shape things, to help distract us from how little and totally insignificant and temporary we are... The post-production capitalist has something to do with the death of civics. But so does fear of smallness and death and everything being on fire."
"If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA's state-funded Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic new facts…That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do. That sleeping can be a form of emotional escape and can with sustained effort be abused. That purposeful sleep-deprivation can also be an abusable escape. That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it. That loneliness is not a function of solitude. That logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. That it takes effort to pay attention to any one stimulus for more than a few seconds. That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them. That if enough people in a silent room are drinking coffee it is possible to make out the sound of steam coming off the coffee. That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating intently on anything is very hard work. That 99% of compulsive thinkers' thinking is about themselves; that 99% of this self-directed thinking consists of imagining and then getting ready for things that are going to happen to them; and then, weirdly, that if they stop to think about it, that 100% of the things they spend 99% of their time and energy imagining and trying to prepare for all the contingencies and consequences of are never good. In short that 99% of the head's thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself. That it is possible to make rather tasty poached eggs in a microwave oven. That some people's moms never taught them to cover up or turn away when they sneeze. That the people to be the most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened. That it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak. That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. That other people can often see things about you that you yourself cannot see, even if those people are stupid. That having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear. That trying to dance sober is a whole different kettle of fish. That different people have radically different ideas of basic personal hygiene. That, perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it. That if you do something nice for somebody in secret, anonymously, without letting the person you did it for know it was you or anybody else know what it was you did or in any way or form trying to get credit for it, it's almost its own form of intoxicating buzz. That anonymous generosity, too, can be abused. That it is permissible to want. That everybody is identical in their unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse. That there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels."


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Golden Gate Park's aging trees to fall
GOLDEN GATE PARK Many hazardous old trees will be taken down in move to safeguard roads, paths
The hulking trees were planted nearly 100 years ago, before Alexander Graham Bell called San Francisco for the first time from his New York office. Before City Hall was opened a second time. Before blueprints for the Golden Gate Bridge were even drawn up.
But over the next few months, city park workers will fell almost 150 Monterey pine, cypress and eucalyptus trees in Golden Gate Park. The trees, most of which are 80 to 100 years old, are unhealthy, dead or a risk to the 13 million people who visit the 1,017-acre park each year, parks officials said.
"The focus is trees that would possibly go over the road or a main pathway" if they toppled over, said Larry Costello, a tree consultant hired by the city's Recreation and Park Department. "Wherever trees and people are in close proximity, there's a reason to be concerned."
Falling trees or tree limbs on city park property have damaged 61 cars since 2008. Three people were injured in 2012 when a tree branch fell on them. A fourth person was knocked in the head in 2009, and a woman died in 2008 when a Stern Grove tree branch fell on her car, crushing her as she was loading her dog into her Subaru.
Bond OKd for tree care
Voters approved a bond in 2008 that included $4 million to care for the roughly 130,000 trees spread across city parks. A large focus of the program has been Golden Gate Park's 25,000 trees.
Since 2011, city contractors have examined 3,000 of the park's trees and found that almost 360 must be cut down. More than 200 already have been sent to the chipper, and all of them will be replaced, said Melinda Stockmann, a park department project manager. The entire process for analyzing and removing the park's trees is about $1.7 million.
Some of the trees are clearly dead or dying. They bear naked, brown branches and lean far to one side.
"They're going to say, the light is better over here, so I am going to grow over here," Costello said, pointing to a crooked Monterey pine tagged for removal. "But once they lean too far over, they aren't stable."
But other trees look healthy, until Costello examines them.
"You see this crack here?" Costello said, pointing at the 40-inch trunk of a towering 80-foot pine tree near 34th Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive. "That shows me that there is stress on the tree, that it is not stable. That's an indicator that this thing is starting to fail."
Sometime over the next month, a contract tree crew will come out and, piece by piece, cut down that tree and dozens of others. Eventually, replacement saplings will be planted in another part of the park, Costello said.
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But before the tree is torn down, wildlife biologists will search the branches for any nesting birds. If a bird is spotted, the tree will stand until the nesting season is over, Costello said.
"When we're out there and we spot a nest, it's 'OK, let's not work here now, let's do that work later on,' " Costello said.
Nearby residents, who hate to see any tree torn down, often tell the workers they're upset to see the tree go, said Dennis Kern, the park department's director of operations.
"People love their trees and we love them, but we love them and want them to be healthy. We never capriciously take out a tree because we feel like it," he said.
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MissM. necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
We're redesigning our website and I'd like to kick it off with a new logo. New colors, new brand, new US!
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Phenomenal Women Forums has been online since 2005, providing a private, comfortable, cozy place to land for adult women of all ages, backgrounds, stages in life. We're poised for massive growth and are in the process of redesigning our forums/designing a women centric website with resources and information crucial to today's woman. We're a site of strong mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, wives, aunts, employees. We need something that makes a strong statement about us that doesn't take away the fact that we're women.
We're looking to redesign our site and I'm starting with a new logo so that I can start rebuilding the rest of the site, and so I can have letterhead and business cards and merchandise created ahead of the new site launch.
- Design: We're looking for trendy and classy but still feminine. NO flowers, no bows. Swirls and swoops are fine, bendy lines, snappy images, nothing generic.
- Color Scheme: We're IN LOVE with brown/blue with cream/white/light pink accent, maybe even a little green? It says feminine sophistication without being girly. Other color combinations are open for suggestion, though.
- Must include the name Phenomenal Women. I may have a secondary logo designed that says "P-Dubs", as this is what we call our fellow members.
- As stated before, I don't want girly. Nothing all pink. No bows, no flowers, no gender sign. Nothing manly or squarish.
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I've often struggled to find the ideal destination for the rather eclectic travelling group in which I often find myself – second world war buffs, ancient Roman history enthusiasts, voracious pescatarians, and the odd dedicated tanner or two. Should you find yourself in a similar situation when in Rome, there is really only one place to go – Anzio.
Founded by the Volsci way back in the ancient times, Anzio is just 35 miles south of Rome on the coast (if you hit Nettuno, you've gone too far!). Not content to leave such a pretty piece of real estate in the hands of these longtime rivals, the Romans eventually conquered the strategic harbour, and the Emperor Nero chose to build one of his beach shacks down there, presumably to have a quiet place to read, think, and be completely normal. By the Middle Ages, the place was pretty much deserted, although some sources claim that during some Renaissance excavations, the Apollo Belvedere – long considered one of the greatest classical statues from antiquity – was discovered among the ruins.
Not much of note happened in Anzio for the following 600 years or so, until 1944 when the Allied forces mounted an amphibious landing at Anzio and Nettuno, leading to several months of rather bloody battle until they finally broke through and marched on Rome, liberating it on 4 June, 1944.
Awesomely, many remains from every element of this rather intense and extended history are still visible in Anzio. Walls and caves that made up Nero's villa line the cliffs that rise up along the beach – the very same beach where the Allies landed, and where you can now lay out and catch some rays. Wade into the water and swim by some giant chains left over from docking the Allied ships, and then breaststroke your way over to a series of tunnels and caves that formed the nefarious underworld of Nero's party house.
Oh, and for those pescatarians I mentioned? A number of restaurants line the road above the beach, offering fresh seafood, cold wine, and air-conditioned views of all that cool stuff you just read about. Baia di Ponente on Riviera Vittorio Mallozzi is a favourite, offering perfectly crisp fried fish, an excellent crudo plate, and reasonable prices.
How to get there: Trains run from Termini to Anzio every hour on the :07, return on the :37 (until 8:37pm) and costs €7.20 for the round trip. To get to the beach, it's about a 15-minute walk from the train station, or you could probably catch a bus. To walk, exit the station onto Viale Claudio Paolini, and just keep heading downhill until you see water.


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I am a xubuntu user. I upgraded from 4.4 whose logout prompt gave me, among other things, the possibility to hibernate or suspend. Yesterday, I installed xfce4-4.4.1 thru its nice graphic installer. All dependencies were met, everything went OK, but one thing ....
The new logout prompt, which is triggered by /usr/bin/xfce4-session-logout does not offer me the possibility to hibernate or suspend.
I know that the hibernate script on my computer is /etc/acpi/hibernatebtn.sh
and that the suspend script is /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh. I made a small launcher out of them but this is not satisfactory.
I am a little disappointed and does know what to do. Is there a way to correct this. Thanks for any tip.
IIRC ubuntu patched xfce4-session.
Oh thanks.
So it's not a regression but I am missing something though..
Well, I will try to find this patch because I do not want to wait feisty + 1 to get it (that is october).
Will try my luck on a xubuntu forum. If by chance somebody knows the name of the logout file patched in Xubuntu let me know because I could maybe salvage it from a recovery file.
By the way, what means IIRC? Is this: if I recall correctly?
You can find the patch in the Ubuntu Pool: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m … 4-session/
and yes, IIRC is If I {Recall,Remember} Correctly
Thanks for your help.
I got back this patched file, installed it and I have my hibernate and suspend again.
Very convenient. Suspiciously too easy, but this is the Xfce philosophy, afaik ^-^
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LONDON, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- A British judge has warned those conducting weekly protests against a radical Islamic cleric to stay back after his family said they feared for their lives.
Abu Qatada, once called Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, has been ordered to remain in a taxpayer-funded house while lawyers sort out whether he can stand trial on terrorism-related charges or be deported from England back to his native Jordan. At issue is whether evidence against Qatada was obtained after informants were tortured, The Guardian said Monday.
As the case drags on, protesters shouting threats weekly have swarmed the house where Qatada lives with his wife and five children, the youngest age 11.
"There was powerful evidence from the claimants of weekly demonstrations with much shouting of abuse such as 'Abu Qatada off our streets,' 'All Muslims are terrorists,' 'Murdering scumbag,' 'Go back to Jordan,' 'Just murder him' and 'Forget all this just kill him,'" the judge said in his ruling which ordered protesters to remain at least 1,600 feet (about 500 meters) away from the house.
He said some of the chanting and shouting had lasted up to six hours.


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SOCORRO, N.M., – October 10, 2003 - New Mexico Tech has entered into an agreement with Well Control School (WCS) of Harvey, La., to better provide certification and training courses to thousands of oil industry engineers and field technicians throughout the nation via the research university's distance-education capabilities and technologies.
|Pictured (from left to right) are: Carl Foster, New Mexico Tech Research& Economic Development Office; Lonnie Marquez, acting vice president of administration and finance at New Mexico Tech; Richard DeBuys, former president of WCS; Steve Vorenkamp, director of marketing at WCS; and Peter Anselmo, chair of the New Mexico Tech Department of Management.
Representatives from New Mexico Tech and WCS recently met on the university campus in Socorro to formally sign a contract that will allow New Mexico Tech students to begin working on a pilot project to determine whether electronic dissemination of interactive technical training modules developed by WCS is an effective and efficient means of providing the company's services to a larger audience.
WCS currently offers its oil-industry training and certification services through either conventional instructor-led classroom instruction or complex computer-based systems, which require specialized computers to run the associated software programs.
"Well Control School utilizes some fairly complex software in its training and certification programs, particularly its System 21 Well Control system, which employs different processes and tasks all running at the same time," says Peter Anselmo, chair of New Mexico Tech's Department of Management and member of the faculty ad hoc committee overseeing the new pilot project. "It's as close to real life as you can get."
The System 21 Well Control training program, which is fully accredited by the International Association of Drilling Contractors, covers more than 2,000 topics and skills and uses high-end computer graphics and virtual reality scenarios to educate students in well control concepts, procedures, and teamwork strategies.
"If distance education methods and technologies being used at New Mexico Tech are shown to work as well as computer-based systems, then Well Control School can get out of the PC inventory business and concentrate more on what they're really set up to do, which is the oil well training business," Anselmo relates.
WCS Director of Marketing Steve Vorenkamp pointed out at the recent signing ceremony that anywhere between 14,000 and 15,000 people employed by the worldwide oil industry are certified each year in specialized areas such as drilling, well completion, well servicing, and offshore operations, with most of them requiring re-certification every two years afterwards.


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Oneida Common Council prepares changes to city charter
ONEIDA >> There will likely be at least three waves of local laws to push through changes to the city's charter.
The first will be considered by the council at its next meeting, July 2. In a local law introduced at its meeting Tuesday, the first round of changes are considered minor, administrative alterations that will not amount to any significant changes to the charter. Those items include language modifications like replacing "councilman" with "councilor," the word "may" with "shall" in instances where the council has deemed it appropriate and erasing outdated and unused terms.
The public will have an opportunity to voice its opinions on those changes at the July 2 meeting.
The next step will be changes that qualify for a permissive referendum. Changes that hold a more weighted impact allow for the filling of permissive referendums. Those referendums are not mandatory unless a qualifying number of residents sign petitions requesting that the changes being considered be put up to public referendum. If no one puts forth any petitions to do so, or are unsuccessful in doing so, the adjustments to the city's charter will be approved simply by the council.
Things that could warrant a permissive referendum include changes to the city's practice of bidding services, awarding contracts, bonding and assessing property. It also applies to changes in the city's purchasing policy. The council already has plans to change that policy to allow the use of a credit card in the event of an emergency and to allow purchases to be made online if the price is more competitive than other retailers - a capability the city currently does not have.
Larger-scale issues will require a mandatory referendum that could be put to the public's vote in the next election, or during a special election. Those items could include things like changes to the city's ward boundaries, the administration's term limits or altering the city's form of government.
The council is scheduled to continue to make progress on its efforts to revise the charter and are expected to introduce a second local law with items that would qualify for permissive referendum at its next meeting.
The council decided to nix a property sale transaction after failing to hear from the buyers. The council approved in May the private sale of city-owned property on Lexington Avenue to Christopher and Nicole Baker, who live on Lexington Avenue. Since then the city has not heard from them in order to complete the sale and two written attempts, and one attempt by phone, have been unsuccessful. As a result, the property will remain on the city's roll and be eligible for sale again.
In other business, the council approved:
The appointment of Danielle Kroll, of Main Street, to the Recreation Commission.
A $1,609 budget amendment to reimburse the U.S. Marshal's Office and Investigative Agency for half of the proceeds from criminal seizures of property.
The reaffirmation of various city policies.
Councilors discussed several unrelated items at the end of the meeting. Fire Chief Gregg Myers reported to the council that a home near Glenwood Plaza will soon be demolished. Its owner has agreed to start the process, allowing the city to avoid any costs related to its demolishment. Acting Mayor Max Smith said the administration will continue to make efforts to ensure the city's dwellings are safe and habitable.
Homeowners have a responsibility to their neighbors and the community to keep their property in working order, he said. It's imperative that residents take pride in their community. While the council has allocated money in its budget to address concerns over failing structures, Smith said the city must maintain its housing stock.
Addressing the potential settlement with the state and Oneida Indian Nation, Ward 1 Councilman Brahim Zogby forewarned that the deal may mean the city's property taxes may increase significantly next year. If the city's compact with the Nation is invalidated as a result of the settlement and the city loses revenue from properties the Nation owns within the city, property taxes could be spiked by at least 5 percent next year, he warned.
The city's administration has received no guidance from any of the parties involved in negotiating the agreement. Zogby urged the council to consider planning to not receive any money from the county, as a worst case scenario.
Smith was also skeptical but hopeful that the county would remember that the city was an ally in its litigation against the Nation and take that into consideration when deciding how to dole out the proceeds of the deal.
Ward 2 Councilman David Cimpi also pointedly warned the city's department heads that, depending on how the deal plays out, they may be under even tighter constraints to limit spending next year, possibly even at the cost of personnel.
The council will hold a special meeting June 25 at 6:30 p.m. with the Oneida Rail Trail Committee to talk about the group's intentions and goals.
The council's next regular meeting is scheduled for July 2 at 6:30 p.m.


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If you need a disturbing example of the world's screwed up attitudes toward rape and reproductive rights, look no further than the story of a 10-year-old Mexican girl who gave birth to a 3.3 pound baby boy after 31 weeks of pregnancy. Officials in the city of Puebla say they're investigating whether the girl could have been raped, though one might argue that a child can't give consent. She came to the hospital with life-threatening complications last month, but under state law abortion would have only been an option if she was able to prove that she'd been sexually assaulted.
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Hope College students will present a vocal jazz concert on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Students will be performing tunes by Ray Charles, Cole Porter, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Bobby Troup, to name a few.
Vocal jazz is coached by Edye Hyde, and the students will be accompanied by the Faculty Jazz Trio: Steve Talaga, piano; Charlie Hoats, bass; and Mike VanLente, drums.
Students performing include: freshman Amy Banas of Fort Wayne, Ind.; freshman Elisabeth Brewington of Cape Elizabeth, Maine; senior Emily Brower of Hudsonville; senior Carrie Cushman of Portland, Ore.; junior Joel Garner of La Jara, Colo.; sophomore Ryan Martinez of Holland; junior Brooke McBride of Rockford; junior Kyle McLellan of Fort Wayne, Ind.; sophomore Gabriela Olaguibel of Encinitas, Calif.; senior Mark Waterstone of Holland; and sophomore Vida Wilson of Grand Rapids.
Edye Evans Hyde, an instructor of vocal jazz at Hope, has been teaching and performing jazz, blues and pop music for more than 20 years in West Michigan, Los Angeles and Asia. She holds a bachelor's degree in music education, has taught K-12 vocal music and has served as the assistant director of admissions at Grand RapidsCommunity College. Edye has shared the stage with world-renowned blues singer Linda Hopkins, pop singer Michael Bolton, actress Connie Stevens, the late Ray Charles and Cuban trumpet player Arturo Sandoval. She has also appeared with The Grand Rapids Symphony and The West Shore Symphony performing songs from her acclaimed CDs, "Girl Talk" and "Lady with A Song." Her stage performances have included principal roles in "Dream Girls," "Ain't Misbehavin'" and more, and she plays Ms. Lucy in the West Michigan-produced children's television show "Come On Over!"
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th St. between College and Columbia avenues.


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DDJ: Jason, the Eclipse Ganymede release is coming up and from what I understand, it includes more than 20 projects. Could you take a minute and give us a quick overview of the simultaneous release?
JVZ: The Ganymede simultaneous release represents the commitment of the Eclipse Foundation to the stability and viability of the Eclipse Platform. There's a sizable ecosystem of vendors and end users who rely daily on Eclipse-based tools to do their work, and releases like Ganymede galvanize many of Eclipse projects into a cohesive basis upon which to build solutions. The rigor needed to organize 23 diverse projects at Eclipse into a unified, stable platform is pretty amazing, but the result is that the pieces you most need as part of your solution have already been integrated and tested together. This means you can focus on adding value to your solution like we have with m2eclipse, a plugin that tightens the integration of Maven-based technologies into the Eclipse platform.
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JVZ: The Maven central repository continues to grow in value to Java community. We are now up to 55,579 artifacts from over 2000 projects, which means that anyone using Maven has convenient access to most of the libraries and components they need, and there are about 100 million hits to the repository per month. All artifacts in the Maven central repository are metadata-rich: for each artifact there is information on the originating project including the developers, the contributors, where you can find the source for the project, plus information on whether that artifact is related to other open source projects. There really is a vast store of untapped project information that is just starting to be utilized by tools like Nexus, Sonatype's Maven repository manager, which allows you to fully control the use of your own internal Maven repositories within your organization.
DDJ: Speaking of Maven, you've launched a new company that focuses on Maven. What's up?
JVZ: The company is called Sonatype, which to us means an optimally healthy model. In fact, "sona" means gold in Hindi, and "type" means model in Latin, so Sonatype can be thought of as the gold standard in build and release engineering. We are currently focusing our energy on bolstering the Maven community with an infusion of great tools, and providing comprehensive Maven training for organizations looking to get up to speed quickly on Maven best practices, and Maven technologies like Nexus and m2eclipse, which had over 50,000 downloads last month. We also spend a lot of time on Maven itself, adding new features, fixing bugs, and doing all the major releases. We're proud of the fact that we've found a viable path with a business model that is beneficial to the Maven community and still provides the resources we need to create new cutting edge Maven-based technologies.
DDJ: You're also releasing a plug-in that hooks up Maven and Eclipse. Can you tell us about this?
JVZ: The project is called m2eclipse or m2e for short, and consists of two major parts: IDE integration, and a build automation framework for OSGi called Tycho. The goal of the two parts is to bring complete parity to developers and release engineers. Developers typically live inside their IDEs, while release engineers crave total automation and spend much of their time honing build servers to deliver, in consumable form, what developers have created. m2eclipse provides massive gains in developer productivity and eases release engineer pain by providing visualization techniques, direct access to Maven repositories via our integration with Nexus, our Maven repository manager, and advanced editors to simplify the use of Maven inside Eclipse. Sonatype is committed to the Eclipse platform and feels that m2e is a significant step in joining the Maven and Eclipse communities.
DDJ: If readers want to find out more about these topics, can you point them to a web site?
JVZ: Sure. There's a ton of information to be found at www.sonatype.com including details on our products and our training and education for Maven. There's also excellent documentation on Maven with the first seven chapters of our O'Reilly book Maven: The Definitive Guide available for free.


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The Borough of Poole consulted on about proposed changes to the Beach Hut Lettings Policy. The aim of the proposed changes was to reduce the waiting list for people wanting a beach hut and make huts more accessible to a higher number of residents.
The consultation closed on 30 April 2012 and the results are now available after being presented to Cabinet on 16 October. The appendices provide details of the comments provided to explain answers to the consultation questions.
The Cabinet Minutes will be available on-line. The Consultation
Information and a feedback form was sent to beach hut tenants, those on the waiting list and those people who hired a short-term beach hut during 2011 who had given an address. We also invited residents, anyone who would like to become a beach hut tenant, has hired a beach hut, or who has an interest to give their views. Background to the situation
Poole has 1,061 beach huts along its main beaches at Sandbanks, Shore Road, Flaghead, Canford Cliffs, Branksome Chine and Branksome Dene. 962* huts are let to Poole residents using an ongoing annual licence agreement. Each licence is renewed on an annual basis until terminated (usually by the tenant) with no maximum term. Between 40 and 60 huts become available each year and are offered to those on the waiting list. The Council also has 94* short-term lets for people wanting huts for shorter periods, such as a week. An additional 5 huts are let to groups. What was the issue? There are 339* people on the waiting list for a hut along Poole's main beaches. The list was closed in 2007 due to approximate waiting times of up to 10 years. The length of time often depends on the hut requested, as some are more popular than others, so the wait may be longer or shorter. What has been done? Given the long waiting list for beach huts, in July 2011, Councillors formed a cross-party working group to consider ways to reduce the wait for people wanting a beach hut. The main aims were to:
make beach huts more readily available and accessible by developing a higher rate of turnover
reduce the waiting time for a hut
generate more income from beach huts overall, whilst continuing to ensure affordable access as much as possible
What was considered? The Beach Hut Working Party considered a range of factors when developing the proposals, including:
impact of any changes on existing tenants patterns of tenancy and use
current 3 year pricing strategy (2011-13 inclusive) effects on administration and maintenance
number and availability of short-term rental huts - the limited options for provision of additional beach huts
The Working Party considered the following options:
No change – this was not supported as it would not meet the aims above.
Introduce a maximum lease term – terms from 1 year to 15 years were considered.
Remove the waiting list system and make all huts short-term lets. This option was not supported due to patterns of customer demand and additional administrative costs.
The Working Party concluded that, to reduce the current waiting list and enable access to a higher number of residents, the Council would have to consider changing it's current Lettings Policy and limit the length of time a hut could be rented for. The proposals were presented to Cabinet on 13 December 2011. The Cabinet minutes and reports are available. There are 114 sites in Hamworthy Park and 4 sites at Branksome Chine Beach where tenants own and maintain wooden huts and are granted a licence for the site only. These 118 sites currently fall outside the scope of the proposals.
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Despite a report expressing interest by the Minnesota Vikings in free agent linebacker Brian Urlacher, the Vikings don't appear to be pursuing the 34-year old, eight-time Pro Bowl selection.
According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, the Vikings aren't currently interested in bringing Urlacher to Minnesota. Instead, they plan on relying on players already on the roster to fill their void at middle linebacker.
The most likely move for the Vikings will be to move Erin Henderson inside to middle linebacker. Minnesota is also expected to look at Audie Cole and Tyrone McKenzie as well as seventh-round draft pick Michael Mauti. If none of those options step up an take hold of the position, the Vikings could theoretically circle back to Urlacher if he's still available. For now, the Vikings appear to feel comfortable with what they already have.


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Facts & Figures
President: Tabaré Vázquez (2015)
Land area: 67,035 sq mi (173,621 sq km); total area: 68,039 sq mi (176,220 sq km)
Population (2014 est.): 3,332,972 (growth rate: 0.26%); birth rate: 13.18/1000; infant mortality rate: 8.97/1000; life expectancy: 76.81; density per sq mi: 48.86
Capital and largest city (2011 est.): Montevideo, 1,947,604 (metro. area), 1,305,082 (city proper)
Monetary unit: Uruguay peso
- Uruguay Main Page
- A Civilian Gonvernment Improves Outlook
- Mujica Pushes for Legalization of Marijuana in 2012
- Uruguay Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
- First Active General Convicted for Human Rights Violations
Uruguay, on the east coast of South America south of Brazil and east of Argentina, is comparable in size to Oklahoma. The country consists of a low, rolling plain in the south and a low plateau in the north. It has a 120-mile (193 km) Atlantic shoreline, a 235-mile (378 km) frontage on the Rio de la Plata, and 270 mi (435 km) on the Uruguay River, its western boundary.
Constitutional republic.
Prior to European settlement, Uruguay was inhabited by indigenous people, the Charrúas. Juan Díaz de Solis, a Spaniard, visited Uruguay in 1516, but the Portuguese were first to settle it when they founded the town of Colonia del Sacramento in 1680. After a long struggle, Spain wrested the country from Portugal in 1778, by which time almost all of the indigenous people had been exterminated. Uruguay revolted against Spain in 1811, only to be conquered in 1817 by the Portuguese from Brazil. Independence was reasserted with Argentine help in 1825, and the republic was set up in 1828.
A revolt in 1836 touched off nearly 50 years of factional strife, including an inconclusive civil war (1839–1851) and a war with Paraguay (1865–1870), accompanied by occasional armed intervention by Argentina and Brazil. Uruguay, made prosperous by meat and wool exports, founded a welfare state early in the 20th century under President José Batlle y Ordóñez, who ruled from 1903 to 1929. A decline began in the 1950s as successive governments struggled to maintain a large bureaucracy and costly social benefits. Economic stagnation and left-wing terrorist activity followed.
A Civilian Gonvernment Improves Outlook
A military coup ousted the civilian government in 1973. The military dictatorship that followed used fear and terror to demoralize the population, taking thousands of political prisoners. After ruling for 12 years, the brutal military regime permitted election of a civilian government in Nov. 1984 and relinquished rule in March 1985; full political and civil rights were then restored.
Subsequent leaders contended with high inflation and a mammoth national debt. Presidential and legislative elections in Nov. 1994 resulted in a narrow victory for the center-right Colorado Party and its presidential candidate, Julio Sanguinetti Cairolo, who had been president in 1985–1990. He pushed for constitutional and economic reforms aimed at reducing inflation and the size of the public sector, including tax increases and privatization. In Nov. 1999 Jorge Batlle, of the Colorado Party, won the presidency.
In 2002, Uruguay entered its fourth year of recession. Economic troubles in neighboring Argentina caused a staggering 90% drop in tourism. Batlle also faced a sizable budget deficit, a growing public debt, and a weakening of the peso on international markets. The country's economic outlook began improving in 2003. In a Dec. 2003 referendum, 60% of the electorate voted against opening up the state oil monopoly to foreign investment. In Oct. 2004, Tabaré Vázquez of the Socialist Broad Front won 50.7% of the vote; he took office in March 2005. It was the left's first national victory in Uruguay.
The Supreme Court ruled in October 2009 that amnesty laws protecting members of the military dictatorship from prosecution for human rights violations under the junta, which ruled from 1973 to 1985, are unconstitutional. Days later, former military ruler Gregorio Alvarez was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of 37 people and human rights violations, and in February 2010 former president Juan Maria Bordaberry was also sentenced to 30 years for murder and his role in the 1973 military coup.
In November 2009's runoff presidential election, José Mujica, a former leftist guerrilla and a member the center-left governing Broad Front, defeated the conservative National Party candidate, Luis Alberto Lacalle, 53% to 43%. Mujica said he would pursue the moderate policies implemented by Vazquez, the outgoing president.
Mujica Pushes for Legalization of Marijuana in 2012
In June 2012, President Mujica called for the legalization and regulation of marijuana in Uruguay. The announcement came with the explanation that it was a move to end drug trafficking in the country. One of the lawmakers working on the proposal, Sebastián Sabini said, "We want to separate the market, users from traffickers, marijuana from other drugs."
If Uruguay passed the bill, it would make them the first legalized marijuana republic in the world. The Netherlands passed a bill to ignore marijuana use and sales in 1976. In 2001, Portugal ended all criminal offenses for drug use, but, if the bill passed, Uruguay would take it one step further, a state-run marijuana industry.
The bill was met with opposition from political opponents, doctors, and even marijuana users who were concerned with how marijuana would be managed. Crime and addiction, already on the rise in the country, was another concern. The bill would call for the government to require users to sign up for registration cards. The cards would track and limit purchases to an amount like 40 joints a month, officials explained.
In October 2012, Uruguay's Senate approved a bill allowing women to have abortions during first trimester pregnancies. The house approved it the previous month and President Mujica supported it. Mujica planned to sign the bill into law by November 2012. The bill was set to become the most progressive abortion rights law in Latin America.
Uruguay Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
On April 10, 2013, lawmakers in Uruguay voted to legalize same-sex marriage, becoming the 12th country in the world to do so. The new law made Uruguay the second country in Latin America to pass legislation in support of gay marriage. Uruguay's neighbor, Argentina legalized same-sex marriage in 2010. President Mujica and his coalition of political parties, Broad Front, backed the law. Mujica was expected to sign the new legislation within ten days.
Uruguay's marriage equality bill first passed through the senate with a vote of 23-8. Then it passed in the lower house by a vote of 71-21. The legislation was another step toward same-sex equality in the country. In 2009, Uruguay became the first Latin American country to allow adoption for same-sex couples. It was also the first country in Latin America to have civil union legislation for same-sex couples. That national civil union law was passed in 2008.
First Active General Convicted for Human Rights Violations
On May 9, 2013, General Miguel Dalmao became the first active general convicted for human rights violations during Uruguay's 1970s dictatorship. Dalmao was convicted and sentenced to serve 28 years in prison over the death of a communist professor. The professor was killed in 1974. Dalmao was a 23-year-old lieutenant at the time of the professor's death.
In Nov. 2014, Tabaré Vázquez won a runoff presidential election. Vázquez took 56.6% of the vote. Luis Lacalle Pou came in second with 43.4%. Vázquez would take office on March 1, 2015. It would be his second term as president. He previously served from 2005 - 2010.
Uruguay accepted six inmates released from the Guantánamo Bay prison in December 2014. The suspects—four Syrians, a Tunisian, and a Palestinia—were held for 12 years and never charged.
See also Encyclopedia: Uruguay .
U.S. State Dept. Country Notes: Uruguay
Statistical Department (In Spanish only) www.ine.gub.uy/ .


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It is my intention to start a small series that describes both my travails of getting to the Ubuntu desktop and customizing the same. These include my additions, tweaks and all but certain screwups that I by nature commit. It is my hope that showing the good, bad and indifferent I can at least give some fair warning on how to avoid the mini disasters I routinely encounter. To the other more exalted types at least they can enjoy a good snicker or two at someone else's expense.
More Than a Few Words About What was I using previously and what impelled me to change:
In essence I was quite happily ensconced with a Debian desktop based upon Sarge 3.0, Testing and just a bit of Unstable. In addition, dumped into this pot were just about everything Gnome (my preferred desktop), gobs of KDE applications, and KDE itself held in reserve (all my son's doings). His propensity for rapid key board hits and rapid experimentation left me in doubt that I could have installed Debian on my own, hence, a sense of foreboding insecurity grew. Later to this mix my son introduced me to KDE's Kaffeine. Moreover, Kaffeine could be relied upon to begin playing nearly every video media, however, it also led many times to system lockups. I began taking control by removing many excess KDE applications: mainly games. Nonetheless, many of the KDE applications were superior to those offered by Gnome, e.g. CD burning, screen shots that one could edit and other utilities. Despite this, the frequent lockups became unacceptable. Kafeine be gone, and it was done. At very least it was better.
As mentioned I began to take charge of the machine by adding new applications. I began with a video player, now I had: mplayer, xine and Totem. At least one of the three with all the codecs I had could play nearly anything acceptably. Moreover, the lockup incidents decreased with the absence of Kaffeine. Life was good with Debian.
It seems all good things have to end, sometimes very badly. In this case, it was fear engendered by my upgrades holding a larger and larger set of packages on hold (in the hundreds), which stunned my son who feared I may have missed important system security fixes. Had I known then what was about to happen, I would have taken my chances missing some of the security fixes. Attempting a dist-upgrade to Sarge 3.1 Testing and Unstable yielded an unworkable mess, even X refused to run. From there it went down hill rapidly where attempted fresh installations were as bad all due to the original Debian Sarge CD being corrupted. A new Sarge 3.1 was only slightly better and by that time my son was gone. I now learned, yes I could install Debian, which I did repeatedly to get a marginally working version on a desktop. "Working" is relative term, as in the "mind of the beholder" and compared to some earlier versions this might have been a partial pass. However, Debian had spoiled me into thinking it could be much better. Nonetheless, I was trapped with no sound (video worked), no printer and other flaws once I had a sort-of operation desktop again. I limped along this way thinking it was my failing, and only paid slight heed to mention on LXer that Debian Testing was badly flawed. I was quite confident that if there was a way to make software misbehave, I could do it.
Earlier when I had installed a second disc drive I installed Ubuntu 05.04 and was not overly impressed. Moreover, more recently I did a upgrade to version 05.10, however, at that time my Debian was more to my liking. Hence, I was not tempted to move to Ubuntu. Now with the disaster I thought I created it was becoming less and less tenable to continue using the Debian Testing desktop.
Reading several rants with people, abandoning Debian to non-apt-get and dpkg package management distributions finally convinced me that this time I was not quite the royal screw up I had assumed. My destination was set, it was the course that was the problem.
Problems Moving to Ubuntu:
Well it's there, but doing a (really many) fresh installs on the first hard drive made Grub forget about the second disc on the system. While I accessed part routinely by either a manual mounting or auto mounting in the /etc/fstab of the Debian system I could not boot into Ubuntu. Thus, my fruitless efforts to create a boot disc for Ubuntu Breezy added to the tension. Even resorted to a Windows machine without success. So I was confronted with my only option (I am lying - offered a disc, but I am stubborn) to delve into the mysteries of grub. This was contemplated with excess fear, trepidation and doubt: EFTD. My son long ago refused to help me with a problem I was having with grub. Moreover, I could not understand why with such design deficiencies Linux distributions persisted in using this dubious tool. Stubborn I guess. Well put that way, I could understand that.
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So when I come back again, come with me as we grub around looking for Ubuntu. It begins with the standard rant: RTFM! Ok, so that's what we will do. See you soon.
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HANOVER, N.H. -- Brandeis senior Grayce Selig (Narberth, Pa./Springside School) qualified for her fourth career NCAA championship at the 2011 Dartmouth Relays.
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One of the big words of the week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is "Smart." As in Smart home, smart TV, smart connectivity. Smart. Smart, smart. And that's a very good thing, because the term is often being associated with home connectivity and saving energy.
Even for smart TVs.Panasonic is showing"Viera Smart" TVs, for example, that don't just focus on Internet content apps, design and picture quality and easy operation, but also energy savings with auto sensors.
And it seems that almost everyone has an energy management system of some kind—or can show a concept for one. There is, indeed, a wide range of energy management options being shown at CES.
One of the coolest ones is from Echo Labs. The software comes with Mi Case Verde's well-regarded Vera Z-Wave-based controller. (It will work with Vera 3 or the Vera 2, the latter with a firmware upgrade.) It can measure whole-house electricity use with energy monitors from TED or Blue Line Innovations. A basic interface showing total power consumed, proportional demand. A free web-based Ergy Lite interface is also available, and paid version ($40 for two years service) delivers high, low and average energy use of each connected Z-Wave device.
Allure's neat EverSense thermostat has a proximity sensor that detect when you are a preset distance from your house and turns down the thermostat, so no more trying to remember. It's in NRG's showcase of energy efficiency systems, including NRG's own Reliant brand of energy manager, dubbed e-Sense, which the company has rolled out to its utility customers in Texas. It provides energy management, a weekly summary email, usage comparison to your neighbors, and other functions, and it's just available to utility customers … for now. Lutron is also showing its wireless RadioRA lighting system C-L CFL and LED dimmers and its motorized cellular shade there.
Hardware giant Lowe's is showing its Iris system to become available in the second quarter branded from AlertMe in the U.K. Iris will be a Z-Wave and ZigBee-based system with a hub and connected Z-Wave devices and prices affordably. According to AlertMe CEO Mary Turner, smartphones, cloud services and connected devices have opened the market for home energy management services that take advantage of these platforms. "This means that home automation is ready to take off," she says. "But it also has to be affordable. It's no longer just for the affluent."
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University Of Toronto's Lawyer In Access Copyright Deal Also Advised Access Copyright On Related Legislation
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In a recent post about the bad deal that Canadian universities are being asked to sign with the copyright collection society Access Copyright, I asked whether it was wise for the University of Toronto and the AUCC (which represents universities across the country) to work with lawyers who have a long history of arguing to limit fair dealing, when what the schools need most is a strong fair dealing argument. I noted at the time that even though both lawyers—Glen Bloom, who represented the AUCC in the negotiations, and Casey Chisick, who advised U of T—were presumably giving the schools the best advice they could, it seems virtually impossible for someone to effectively argue both sides of a contentious copyright issue like fair dealing. Besides, even assuming good faith and full disclosure, it simply doesn't look good: both Bloom and Chisick have established relationships with clients that have a direct financial interest in limiting the scope of fair dealing, meanwhile critics of the deals they helped the schools strike with Access Copyright say the schools didn't assert their fair dealing rights nearly as much as they could have.
It's already hard to understand why U of T and the AUCC would go along with this—but it gets even more concerning with the addition of a previously unnoticed detail. According to an email I've been provided with, and a disclosure made at a conference, U of T's advisor Casey Chisick was retained at the end of 2010 to advise Access Copyright on copyright reform legislation. It's unclear if and when this ended, and when I contacted Chisick to find out, he replied declining to comment or even to confirm or deny whether the relationship existed. But what's obvious is that Access Copyright's interest in the legislation (bill C-32 in 2010, bill C-11 now), and their submissions to Parliament, revolves around eliminating the new explicit fair dealing provisions for education that are being considered, since that would cripple their entire business model.
One big question here is, will the students accept all of this? Ultimately, they are the ones paying—directly in schools that pass the cost on to them, and indirectly in those that absorb it and have to find the money somewhere else in the budget. On one side they've got law professors inside their own schools loudly and publicly criticizing the deal, saying the universities agreed to ridiculously high rates (which should in fact have gone down from the previous deal) and unfair limitations based on rights that don't even exist; on the other they've got the U of T and the AUCC insisting it's a good deal, while working with lawyers who have histories of representing, advising and lobbying for organizations with a direct interest in stronger copyright and higher licensing fees. Now they learn that U of T's advisor also apparently advised Access Copyright themselves on a related legislative issue that bears heavily on the negotiations (he's also actively registered as a lobbyist for a music collection society, the CMRRA). How exactly are students supposed to react?
Quebec (which has its own copyright clearance system for universities and is not a part of this otherwise country-wide deal) is in its third month of widespread and intense student protests over tuition hikes, which have grown into a serious movement. It's a time of unrest for Canadian education, and not a time to ask students to swallow a bad deal negotiated under so many questionable circumstances. Appearances matter, and nothing about this looks good.
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Hate breeds violence.
Anyone who listens to the relentless liberal-bashing on rightwing radio and other conservative outlets will quickly realize that the level of vitriol and derision directed at the left will inevitably provoke a few individuals to act out. And they do. Often with deadly consequences.
Digby explains:
It is clear to me that most people in journalism and (non-right wing) blogging do not listen to right wing talk radio very often and simply cannot believe it when critics report what they are saying. … I realize that it's hard to believe that Americans are this obnoxious. It's probably even harder to believe they are paid hundreds of millions of dollars to promote this bigotry on the radio to millions of other Americans, but they are — they are speaking the language of eliminationism and hate day after day after day. If it soothes you to believe that those who are alarmed by that are the intemperate ones so be it, but it doesn't change what they are doing or the effect it's had on our politics.
For context, read The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset:
An abortion provider who had been a frequent target of Fox News' bloviator Bill O'Reilly was gunned down during a church service in Kansas; a mentally disturbed man who believed the "tea-bagging" movement's contention that the Obama administration is destroying the American economy — and who reportedly owned a number of firearms — withdrew $85,000 from his bank account, said he was part of a plot to assassinate the president and disappeared (he was later captured in Las Vegas); and this week, a white supremacist who was deeply steeped in far-right conspiracism entered the U.S. Holocaust Museum and opened fire, killing a guard before being shot and wounded by security personnel.
The three incidents share a common feature: All of these men thought they were serving a higher moral purpose, that is, defending their country from an insidious "enemy within" as defined by the far right — a "baby-killer," the Jews who secretly control the world and a president who's been accused of being a Manchurian Candidate-style foreign agent bent on nothing less than the destruction of the American Way.
David Neiwert, a veteran journalist who has covered violent right-wing groups for years, calls the worldview that informs this twisted sense of moral purpose "eliminationism." It's the belief that one's political opponents are not just wrongheaded, misinformed or even acting in bad faith. Eliminationism holds that they are a cancer on the body politic that must be excised — either by separation from the public at large, through censorship or by outright extermination — in order to protect the purity of the nation.
As eliminationist rhetoric becomes increasingly mainstream within the American right — fueled in large part by the wildly overheated discourse found on conservative blogs and talk radio — Neiwert's new book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, could not have come at a more important time. In it, Neiwert painstakingly details how the rise in eliminationism is a very real threat and points to the dangers of dismissing extreme rhetoric as merely a form of "entertainment."
Here's an exceptionally detailed post from Media Matters on another example of rightwing hate breeding violence:
"I would have never started watching Fox News if it wasn't for the fact that Beck was on there. And it was the things that he did, it was the things he exposed that blew my mind." – Byron Williams
Byron Williams, a 45-year-old ex-felon, exploded onto the national stage in the early morning hours of July 18.
According to a police investigation, Williams opened fire on California Highway Patrol officers who had stopped him on an Oakland freeway for driving erratically. For 12 frantic minutes, Williams traded shots with the police, employing three firearms and a small arsenal of ammunition, including armor-piercing rounds fired from a .308-caliber rifle.
When the smoke cleared, Williams surrendered; the ballistic body armor he was wearing had saved his life. Miraculously, only two of the 10 CHP officers involved in the shootout were injured.
In an affidavit, an Oakland police investigator reported that during an interview at the hospital, Williams "stated that his intention was to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU." Read the rest…