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of degrees
& programs
Fall: January 15
Applications for the Ph.D. program are all processed
together after the deadline.
APPLY ONLINE to this graduate program.
Number Required: 2
From Whom: Letters of recommendation should come from college/university
faculty members familiar with academic competence
Yes. business or tourism discipline.
The Statement of Goals should be approximately 500-1,000
words and should include the following elements:
your specific interest in Temple's program; your
research goals; your future career goals; and your
academic and research achievements.
The GMAT is required. A minimum score does not ensure
admission to the programs.
Minimum TOEFL score needed to be accepted:
600 paper-based, 250 computer-based, or 100 internet-based.
The interview requirement can be fulfilled either
in person or via telephone. Interviews will be
scheduled for those students who qualify with all
other admission standards.
A resume is required.
Number of Didactic Credits Required
Beyond the Master's: 36
Required Courses:
BA 601: Org. & Mgt. Theories
BA 602: Scientific Inquiry
ECON 603: Managerial Economics
STA 503: Stat. Methods I
STA 504: Stat. Methods II
THM 701: Research
THM 702: Seminar in Tourism Theory and Impacts: Environment, Social, and Economic
THM 703: Seminar
in Tourism Management and e-Business Strategy
Three Ph.D. level electives, preferably within the
business school.
Internship: No internship is required.
Language Examination: No language examination is required.
Summer Research Paper
Statistics Competency Examination:
An assessment of your proficiency
in statistical theory and methodology
will be made at the end of your
first year in the program. The
examination is offered in June.
Students who fail the statistics
competency examination on the
first attempt must sit for reexamination
prior to the fall semester of
their second year. A second failure
will result in dismissal from
the university. No third attempt
is allowed.
Preliminary Examination:
The purpose of the preliminary examination is to demonstrate critical and interpretive knowledge of current research. The subject areas will be determined, in advance, by the faculty of the department. The preliminary examination should be completed no more than one semester after the student completes the coursework component of the program. The members of the student's department write the questions for the preliminary examination. The Department Committee will evaluate the examination. Each member votes to pass or fail the student. In order to pass, a majority of the committee members must agree that the exam has been satisfactorily completed. The student must answer every question on the examination in order to be evaluated. The evaluators look for a breadth and depth of understanding of specific research areas, a critical application of that knowledge to specific phenomena; and an ability to write technical prose. Students who are preparing to write their preliminary examinations should confirm a time and date with their departmental advisor.
Dissertation Advising Committee
Information The Dissertation Advising Committee is formed
to oversee the student's doctoral research and
is comprised of at least three Graduate Faculty
members. Two members, including the Chair, must
be from your department. The Chair is responsible
for overseeing and guiding the student's progress,
coordinating the responses of the Committee members,
and informing the student of his or her academic
Dissertation Examining Committee
Information The Dissertation Examining Committee evaluates
the student's dissertation and oral defense.
This committee is comprised of the Doctoral Advising
Committee and at least one additional Faculty
member from outside the department.
Advisor/Committee Information If any member of the committee decides to withdraw
from the committee, you shall notify the chair
of the dissertation committee and the Director
of the PHDBA program. You are responsible to
find a replacement, in consultation with your
chair. Inability to find a replacement shall
constitute evidence that you are unable to
complete the dissertation. In such a case you
may petition the Director of the PHDBA program
for a review. Once a review of the facts and
circumstances is completed, the Director will
rule on your progress. If the Director rules
that you are not capable of completing the
dissertation, you will be dismissed from the
program. This decision may be appealed to SBM's
Senior Associate Dean. If you are dismissed,
you may appeal to the Graduate School.
Dissertation/Monograph Philosophy The Doctoral Dissertation is an original empirical
study that makes a significant contribution
to the field. It should expand the existing
knowledge and demonstrate the student's knowledge
of both research methods and a mastery of his
or her primary area of interest. Dissertations
should be rigorously investigated, uphold the
ethics and standard of the field, demonstrate
an understanding of the relationship between
the primary area of interest and the broader
field of business, and be prepared for publication
in an academic journal.
Philosophy of the Proposal The dissertation proposal demonstrates the student's
knowledge of and ability to conduct the proposed
research. The proposal should consists of the
following: (a) the context and background surrounding
a particular research problem; (b) an exhaustive
survey and review of literature related to
the problem; and (c) a detailed methodological
plan for investigating the problem. The proposal
should be completed and approved no more than
one year after completing coursework. Upon
approval, a timeline for completing the investigation
and writing process will be established.
Criterion for Passing the
Dissertation and the Defense. The Committee will evaluate the student's ability
to express verbally his or her research question,
methodological approach, primary findings, and
implications. The Committee will vote to pass
or fail the dissertation and the defense at the
conclusion of the public presentation.
Dissertation Defense Scheduling Students who are preparing to defend their dissertation
should confirm a time and date with their Dissertation
Advisory Committee and register with the Graduate
Secretary at least 15 days before the defense
is to be scheduled. The Graduate Secretary
will arrange the time, date, and room within
two working days, and forward to the student
the appropriate forms.
Announcing the Dissertation
Defense After the Graduate
Secretary has arranged the time,
date, and room, for the defense,
the student must send to the Graduate
School (501 Carnell Hall) a completed "Announcement of Dissertation
Defense" form at least 10 days before the defense.
The Department will post fliers announcing
the defense.
Fox School of Business and Management
Speakman Hall LL5
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Natale Butto
Director of Graduate
Program Coordinator:
Dr. Wesley Roehl
Graduate Chairperson:
Dr. Elizabeth Barber
The Ph.D. in Business Administration
program prepares you for advanced
research and scholarship. The primary
emphasis of our program is to prepare
future faculty members for successful
academic careers, although many
of our alumni are also employed
in government, industry, and consulting.
Time Limit for Degree Completion: 7 years
Students are able to complete the
degree program through classes offered
after 4:30 p.m.
Fox School of Business and Management
Speakman Hall LL5
Philadelphia, PA 19122
This Ph.D. program is designed to be interdisciplinary with all management tracks within the Fox School. The degree program's strength lies within the interdisciplinary focus.
The Fox School's tourism faculty are conducting research for the following agencies: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, Berks County (PA) Convention and Visitors Bureau, Travel Tourism Industry of America, and the Special Olympics of America.
The Fox School of Business
and Management is ranked 14th for
technology M.B.A. programs by Computerworld,
and holds a specialty ranking of
26th in the nation for healthcare
management programs. The Fox School
has been recognized for research
in numerous departments. Currently
we are submitting materials to several
media outlets responsible for the
general ranking of business schools;
we believe that the Fox School will
be ranked among the top 50 business
schools for our M.B.A. programs.
Not applicable.
The primary focus of the
tourism faculty is on empirical
research in information technology
and tourism destination marketing.
Tourism faculty have received significant,
sponsored research funding to perform
studies on travel and tourism patterns,
as well as travel decisions based
on website design. The faculty's
varied research interests are conducive
to multiple management disciplines
within the tourism industry.
The program is primarily
dedicated to producing well-trained
researchers who will work in academic
Non-matriculated students
are not permitted to take doctoral
Assistantships are the centerpiece
of the program's mentorship philosophy.
They require 20 hours of service
per week, which can include teaching
and supervised research. An Assistantship
provides a stipend and tuition remission.


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When you make a telephone call to a service number – beginning 08, 09 or 118 – it's not always clear how much it will cost.
That will soon change under a new system that will make the cost of calling service numbers clear for everyone.
It affects all calls from consumer mobiles and landlines to 08, 09 and 118 numbers.
How it works now
Sometimes you might see information about the cost of calls, which may look like this:
"Calls cost 20p per minute from a BT landline. Other landlines may vary and calls from mobiles may cost considerably more."
This makes it hard to know the cost, unless you are calling from a BT landline.
How it will work in future
From 1 July 2015, the cost of calling service numbers will be made up of two parts:
An access charge - This part of the call charge goes to your phone company, charged as pence per minute.
They will tell you how much the access charge will be for calls to service numbers.
It will be made clear on bills and when you take out a contract.
A service charge - This is the rest of the call charge. The organisation you are calling decides this, and will tell you how much it is.
These rules will apply to all consumer calls to 084, 087, 09 and 118 numbers across the UK, delivering clearer call rates for everyone. The changes do not affect calls made to ordinary landline numbers (01, 02), 03 numbers or mobile (07) numbers. Neither do they affect calls made from payphones, international calls, or calls to the UK when roaming overseas.
In addition, all Freephone numbers (which begin 0800 or 0808) are being made free for consumers to call from all phones, whether mobile or landline.
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What Wines Will Be at Portland Grapes and Grain?
Fine wines from Maine, France, Italy and Spain and several other countries will be served at Portland's Grapes and Grain Summer Celebration on June 21.The event will take place at the Portland Company Complex from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and tickets cost $40 in advance and $50 at the door.
Here is what $40 delivers: tastings of over 40 types of craft beers from local to foreign and everything in between, over 40 types of wine both red, white and blends from all over the world, and rounding out the event is a handful of spirits from distilleries throughout New England.
There will be music by Ben Kilcollins and the Vargas Twins throughout the evening. Food will be available for purchase should you get hungry. Come to Grapes and Grain to try it and then go to RSVP to buy it… an official sponsor of the event. #PortlandGrapesGrain.
Here are the wineries that will be represented:
Soleil, New Mexico
Cellardoor Wine, Lincolnville and Rockport, Maine
Monsieur Touton, New York
- WillM Riesling, Alsace, France
- Agua De Piedra Malbec, Mendoza, Argentina
- La Chapelle De La Bastide, Picpoul De Pinet France
- Aichenberg Guner Veltliner, Austria
- Smoke Stack Sauvignon Blanc, Marlboro, New Zealand
- Tomaiolo Pinot Grigio, Italy
- Tomaiolo Chianti Classico RSV, Tuscany, Italy
- Clos Amador Cava sparkling, Spain
- Alvarez De Toledo Mencia, Spain
- Alvarez De Toledo Godello, Spain
Coppola Winery, Geyserville, Calif.
Prospect Hill Winery, Lebanon, Maine
Aqua De Piedra, Argentina


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Dana's Low-Carb for Life (Podcast)
How Do My Dogs Look On Their Low Carb Diet?
Long-time reader and low carber Paul Abrinko asks: Re: dogs, Dana, I'm curious: how trim do your dogs look on their low-carb diet? How's their health? What about their teeth? I see so many obese dogs here in SF, and although I don't have dogs anymore, I cringe to think of all the fancy, "scientific formula" dog food I used to feed them, filled with rice meal. It made them hungry all the time and led to to very poor dental health, even though the vet told me that kibble was good for their teeth.
My dogs look wonderful, thanks! I'm too technically illiterate to know how to get photos from my phone to my blog -- I can do photos to FB, but not here -- but when TNBIM gets home I'll post photos if you like.
* Jed the Hero Dog is nearly 12, and still has a waist and shiny, clean, strong teeth. He does have some arthritis, but aspirin, cod liver oil, bromelain, curcumin, and DLPA seem to be helping with that.
* It's Dexter the Pug's birthday today. I believe he's turning 7. He is possibly the only 7 year old pug in the world with a waist, and still athletic enough to leap up on the couch and climb up to the back -- his favorite perch -- and to climb up to graze on the dining room table. (:-/)
* Gracie the Beagle was already old when she showed up in the yard a year ago. Her bad diet showed in her generally poor condition, and in particular her incredibly rotten teeth and foul breath. A year of real food has certainly given her more energy and a shinier coat, and while it hasn't fixed her teeth, her breath is now okay, indicating that her gums are good, and nothing's rotting anymore. She was actually too thin when she wandered in; she's now a healthy weight.
They get cottage cheese and raw eggs for breakfast most mornings, and this time of year they get raw venison bones for dinner. (Hard on the carpets, but very good for the dogs.) Out of deer season, I buy chicken backs in 40 lb case lots, usually three cases at a time, and freeze them in one or two day quantities. I have a helluva lot of freezer space.
Yes, we feed whole chicken backs, bones, skin, marrow and all. I know you've been told that chicken bones are dangerous, but according to veterinarian Ian Billinghurst, epicenter of the BARF movement (Bones and Raw Food), it's cooked chicken bones that are dangerous. Because chickens are slaughtered at about 3 months, the raw ones are actually pretty soft, and dogs can eat them. Certainly my dogs have had no trouble.
We do whack the chicken backs up for the two small dogs. It's not that they can't chew them up, it's that they don't want to take the time, and having done the Heimlich Maneuver on a dog -- it worked -- I don't care to have to do it again. So I use a big, scary, serial-killer meat cleaver to whack 'em up. Jed just gets a few backs, whole; never has a problem.
If I'm having a handful of nuts they often get a few, and Dexter is downright kinky for cauliflower; I can't cut it up without sharing. He also loves asparagus and canned pumpkin. But our favorite dog treat is pork rinds -- cheap, nutritious, loaded with gelatin for their joints, no additives, and they adore them. Beats the heck out of Pupperoni, Beggin' Strips, or Snausages.
Except for the cost of buying and running freezers, I believe I spend less on dog food than most people, especially people who buy "good" dog food at the pet store or the vet. The chicken backs run me something like 20-25c/pound at the poultry processor -- I do have to drive up to Indianapolis -- and I get deer bones for free at the deer processor. Since we have chickens, we get ridiculous numbers of eggs in the summer -- when we don't have to pay much to feed the birds, 'cause they're eating grass and bugs.
I know I pay less than most people in vet bills, because I pay almost nothing -- shots now and then, and that's about it. I've been adding powdered, unflavored gelatin to their food, and recently started adding brewers yeast, too. Oh, and Jed gets Cosequin every morning, again, for his joints.
As for kibble being good for the teeth, you know what dogs' teeth evolved to chew on? Bones. Raw, meaty bones.
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You should take Jed to some
You should take Jed to some vet clinic where they treat arthritis. I have a recommendation, arthritis clinic Fairfax VA where they treat using acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine.
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How much to feed a 17 lb dog
Hi we have been on a low carb diet for a couple of years and are now starting our dog on a low carb diet. I was just wondering how much we should be feeding him for instance if we did what you do and feed him cottage cheese and eggs for breakfast should we give him one egg with a spoonful of cottage cheese? And how much of the chicken backs for dinner? He is a 17lb bichon/shitzu.
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How much to feed a 17 lb dog?
Hi we are starting our 8 year old bichon/shitzu on a low carb diet and just wondering how much to feed him. For breakfast you give cottage cheese and eggs so I'm guessing one egg with a spoonful of cottage cheese would that be right for a 17 lb dog? How much of the chicken backs would we feed him? Thanks.
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Feeding little dogs
We have three dogs, one large and two small -- Dexter the Pug, who is about 20 pounds, and Gracie the Incidental Beagle, who is a few pounds lighter. Yes, the small dogs get one egg and a spoonful of cottage cheese for breakfast, along with a sprinkling of dry, unflavored gelatin. (Hey, it's good for them,too.) For supper, we feed the big dog, Jed the Hero Dog, one large chicken back, or two smaller ones, and we split one good-sized back between the two small dogs. This involves chopping up the back with a big, scary serial-killer cleaver, while humming "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd. Not because they can't chew up the backs, but because they don't want to take the time, and will try to wolf them whole. Yes, I have done the Heimlich Maneuver on a dog. (It worked.)
You could try your pup on whole backs and see if he'll chew them up properly, many dogs will. If not, I do recommend the cleaver route.
(BTW, we buy our backs from a poultry processor in 40 pound lots. Sadly, the poultry processor here in town closed, so I have to drive to Indianapolis -- so I buy 120 pounds at a time. This is one reason why we have 3 deep freezes. That, and...
In the winter, we feed raw meaty venison bones that we get free from the local deer processor. It is hilarious to see Dexter, who looks like a very expensive stuffed animal, revert to his wolf geneology, hunkered down, gnawing on a bone and growling gently. I can only imagine how cute it would be to see your little guy acting this way!
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Thank you so much for the
Thank you so much for the info it is very much appreciated! I'm new to this blog stuff and didn't see my post right away so please disregard my second one. So raw eggs aren't bad for dogs?
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Dog treats
Since putting our dog on a species appropriate raw diet, I have completely nixed grain or any starch. This left out all of the dog treats my sweetheart gave the dog multiple times per day. He really loves the dog and can't resist the puppy eyes.
He got an idea. We have an oriental market nearby that sells very inexpensive pork livers and kidneys. He buys them 10 or more pounds at a time, slices them up and puts them in his dehydrator for 24 hours. They turn into hard crunchy "chips" that the dog goes nuts for.
No bad stuff, happy dog, happy dad. Healthiest dog I've ever known!
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Liver chips
A local grass-fed beef farm sold these at the farmers market for a while, and our dogs loved 'em. Hard to think of anything more nutritious.
We also give our dogs pork rinds, which they love. Just plain pork rinds.
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Expert advice
I was reading a monthly flyer from the Cornell School of Veterinary Medicine and they warned dog owners of feeding dogs too much fat, since it might lead to pancreatitis. To treat the pancreatits, they recommended feeding the dog (I'm not making this up) rice and pasta.
Pet WebMD states that dogs with high serum lipid levels (determined by your veterinarian) should be placed on a fat-restricted diet.
In the future, I'll be sure to ignore any nutritional advice from either my or my dogs doctor.
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Healthy Dogs
That's great to hear! I thought they must be very healthy given what you feed them.
My dachshund used to sneak up on the table too, but only when he thought no one was home. One day, when only one of us left the house, he thought we both were gone and immediately jumped up on the post-dinner table for an all-you-can-eat buffet bonanza. As soon he noticed his mistake, he froze for an instant as the realization that he was being watched sunk in, and then he was off the table in a nano second! What a rascal and smarty pants he was!
Re: BARF, I've always been curious about food-borne pathogens when dogs are given raw meat. Have your dogs ever gotten sick from salmonella or E. coli?
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Badger diet
A couple of years ago, I was temp employed as a 'creative' for a market research company - and their client was effectively seeking sound-bites for dry cat food. Admittedly, part of the process is argument, but I think I took it a bit too far for their taste. My argument: meat-eating mammals have better dentition. Their argument: badgers don't.
Certainly, English badgers have terrible teeth and thus have a reduced life because their main source of food is earthworms - and earthworms eat soil. As the gut of the average earthworm is gritty soil, anything eating them is going to need superior dentition - which badgers apparently do not have.
Cats and dogs don't generally eat worms - garden soil encased in a meaty sausage!
The utterly annoying thing about this discussion was when I next had cause to take one of my cats to my vet I was told that domestic cats and dogs have better dentition compared with badgers and so live longer because of their cereal-based diet! Clearly, all meat-eating pets are now compared to badgers. I've never even seen one of my cats tormenting an earthworm, let alone attempt to eat one - or eat a slice of bread.
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Badger Diet
That is just genuinely bizarre. Wow.
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The Office of the Secretary of State files oaths for elected officials and persons appointed by the Governor, as well as issues their commissions on behalf of the Governor. Records are kept of the appointment date, the commission date, and the expiration date of board members.
The Secretary of State maintains a current list of expired terms and vacancies on state boards and commissions. The Secretary of States Office maintains databases of information regarding the current composition of these boards and commissions as received from those boards and commissions and from the authorities responsible for appointing members. Pursuant to S.C. Code §1-1-1310, each state board and commission must send written notification to the Secretary of States Office of any appointment, election, resignation, or vacancy in its membership. Information regarding current membership of a state board or commission is available here.
The Secretary of States Office is also the record-keeping agency for all Ratified Acts, Executive Orders, and Resolutions.


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September 7, 2011
Michael Sharp
- 17A: Bills and catalogues? (TYPICAL MAIL).
- 29A: Monk's unusual appendage? (THE FRIAR'S TAIL).
- 48A: Where a kid's shovel may be found? (BEYOND THE PAIL).
- 61A: Traditional December spin around the harbor? (YEAR-END SAIL).
Really like the theme answers and clues in this one. THE FRIAR'S TAIL kind of stands out because it's unrealistic (also, the clue isn't good — I'm sure Michael will be along shortly to tell us about that). But TYPICAL MAIL gave me a chuckle and the clue for BEYOND THE PAIL (48A: Where a kid's shovel may be found?) is awesome. Mix in the two long downs — TRAVELIN' MAN and HEARTBROKEN — and you've got yourself a pretty colorful grid (11D: 1961 Ricky Nelson chart-topper / 25D: Like one just jilted).
This was another smooth solve for me. Only one write-over, when I tried QUAKE where SHAKE was supposed to go (24D: Tremble). And even as I was writing it in, I thought that Q didn't look good for the cross. I noticed a little baseball in the grid, which doesn't surprise me.
- 53A: Yanks' rival (SOX). Michael's beloved SOX and my beloved Yanks right here in the same entry. Just like ebony and ivory side-by-side on my piano keyboard.
- 66A: Top pitcher (ACE).
- 6D: Oriole great Ripken (CAL). I bet this kind of clue makes Billy Ripken feel bad about himself.
- 23D: Plate appearance (AT BAT).
- 21A: Quick look (ONCE-OVER). Great colloquial phrase here. See also LOOK AT ME (55A: Show-off's shout) and I GUESS (28A: Tentative assent).
- 41A: The blahs (ENNUI). I like to say ENNUI with a super thick French accent. And a sigh.
- 30D: Rapper __ Rida (FLO). When I was a kid, I always thought it was silly how grown-ups would get all freaked out about popular music. Then one day, 10-year-old PuzzleDaughter was walking walking around the house singing Flo Rida's "Right Round," which, based on the chorus, I thought was about oral sex. Taking a closer look, I discovered it's about a stripper though, so whew! that's a relief.
- 19A: "The Simpsons" character who graduated first in his class of seven million at the Calcutta Institute of Technology (APU).
- 43A: Vietnamese holiday (TET).
- 57D: "__ go bragh!" (ERIN).
- 62D: Some MIT grads (EE'S).
Everything — 1A: Outlook (VISTA); 6A: Previewed, as a joint (CASED); 11A: Attempt (TRY); 14A: Part of a squirrel's stash (ACORN); 15A: Abundant (AMPLE); 16A: Little hopper (ROO); 17A: Bills and catalogues? (TYPICAL MAIL); 19A: "The Simpsons" character who graduated first in his class of seven million at the Calcutta Institute of Technology (APU); 20A: Advanced deg. (PH.D.); 21A: Quick look (ONCE-OVER); 23A: Remnant in a tray (ASH); 26A: Bygone (OLD); 28A: Tentative assent (I GUESS); 29A: Monk's unusual appendage? (THE FRIAR'S TAIL); 33A: Canaanite deity (BAAL); 34A: Source of light meat (BREAST); 35A: Nev. neighbor (IDA.); 38A: Ohio hometown of LeBron James (AKRON); 40A: It ended Nov. 11, 1918 (WW I); 41A: The blahs (ENNUI); 43A: Vietnamese holiday (TET); 44A: Sci-fi invaders (ALIENS); 47A: Iowa State home (AMES); 48A: Where a kid's shovel may be found? (BEYOND THE PAIL); 51A: Take in (ARREST); 53A: Yanks' rival (SOX); 54A: Binghamton-to-Utica dir. (NNE); 55A: Show-off's shout (LOOK AT ME); 58A: Lyon king (ROI); 60A: "Disgusting!" ("ICK!"); 61A: Traditional December spin around the harbor? (YEAR-END SAIL); 66A: Top pitcher (ACE); 67A: Bert's pal (ERNIE); 68A: Michelob __: light beer brand (ULTRA); 69A: Anderson Cooper, to Gloria Vanderbilt (SON); 70A: "__ Hope": '70s-'80s soap (RYAN'S); 71A: Dinner course (SALAD); 1D: Large container (VAT); 2D: Dangerous, as a winter road (ICY); 3D: Bribe (SOP); 4D: You might do it over your own feet (TRIP); 5D: News show VIP (ANCHOR); 6D: Oriole great Ripken (CAL); 7D: BBs, for example (AMMO); 8D: Cross (SPAN); 9D: Brings out (ELICITS); 10D: Convention representative (DELEGATE); 11D: 1961 Ricky Nelson chart-topper (TRAVELIN' MAN); 12D: Boxing ring borders (ROPES); 13D: Letter sign-off (YOURS); 18D: Go off-script (AD LIB); 22D: French affirmative (OUI); 23D: Plate appearance (AT BAT); 24D: Tremble (SHAKE); 25D: Like one just jilted (HEARTBROKEN); 27D: "On the Origin of Species" author (DARWIN); 30D: Rapper __ Rida (FLO); 31D: Walked down the 37-Down again (REWED); 32D: 2010 Super Bowl champs (SAINTS); 36D: Scheduled to arrive (DUE IN); 37D: Bridal path (AISLE); 39D: Pessimist (NAYSAYER); 42D: Brief sleep (NAP); 45D: Fundraising game (LOTTERY); 46D: Newly wool-less (SHORN); 49D: Rodent-induced cry (EEK); 50D: Genesis follower (EXODUS); 51D: Rap sheet name, maybe (ALIAS); 52D: Golfer Mediate (ROCCO); 56D: "Every __ Tiger": Clancy book about Operation Desert Storm (MAN A); 57D: "__ go bragh!" (ERIN); 59D: One of las Canarias (ISLA); 62D: Some MIT grads (EE'S); 63D: World's busiest airport: Abbr. (ATL); 64D: Nest egg letters (IRA); 65D: Youngster (LAD).


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The recipe from the archives today is a recipe my mom created when I was a kid. The recipe is so easy... but completely amazing.
Mint Chocolate Chips.
Dark Chocolate Chips.
Oreo Cookies.
Rice Krispies.
Combine these ingredients in the right proportions and you have a round ball of chocolaty, minty, crunchy goodness.
Let me introduce you to Mint Oreo Cookie Crunch.
It makes a huge batch, and as a result, is a great gift if you still need something for family and friends!
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Woman With Chronic Skin Disease Shares Inspirational Make-up
An inspirational 26 year old woman has proven body confidence is everything, after posing naked for a photoshoot.
Kannagi Shanbag suffers from vitiligo, which is a disorder in which white patches of skin appear on parts of the body.
Kannagi was born in India but now lives in New Zealand with her boyfriend.
Around 40 per cent of her torso and her hands and feet turned white after she contracted the disease ten years ago.
The disease started as small patches on the 26-year-old's leg and face, but quickly spread, leading Kannagi to seek treatment.
"I went to a bunch of doctors and tried a bunch of different medical things, laser treatment, UV light, homeopathy, steroids, creams, some random home made things but it just kept spreading,' she told the Daily Mail.
The skin condition led Kannagi to suffer poor self esteem and forced her to seek therapy.
All of those feelings changed when she moved to London and meet her boyfriend photographer, Parth Mehta. The 24 year old helped her accept her new body.
'He loves my spots, he hates it when I wear make up; "you don't need all that you are so beautiful", she said.
The new confidence has given Kannagi a new lease on life. Before the scared 26-year-old wouldn't leave her house without makeup. Now, she's the focus of a photo campaign created by her boyfriend, which sets out to promote body confidence in women.
Courtesy: Parth Mehta Photography
Canadian fashion model Winnie Harlow also suffers from the skin condition, but has too embraced it.
Kannagi has praised the model for bringing awareness to the condition.


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Many say Windows turned 30 this year, but it was actually 28 years ago this week that the first commercial version of Microsoft's signature operating system shipped.
The justification for calling it the 30th anniversary is that Windows was announced in 1983 but was in such dismal shape at that point that it took two more years to whip it into a product people might buy.
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Here are 10 behind-the-scenes circumstances from that critical period that Microsoft faced before Windows launched, eventually to become the most popular PC operating system, as related by the product manager who brought the project to fruition.
= Steve Ballmer had to make a tour of press and analysts in 1984 to apologize for Windows not shipping yet.
= The product manager who ultimately shipped Windows, Tandy Trower, thought that since four others had failed to finish the project, the assignment was merely a way to create an excuse so Bill Gates could fire him.
= Microsoft had to scrounge around to find applications that would run on Windows. It finally came up with Notepad, a calculator, Paint, Write and MS-DOS Executive, a program for viewing files and launching other applications.
= The only game available for Windows 1.x was Reversi
= The original system requirements for Windows were a minimum 256K byte RAM, two 5 ¼-inch floppies and a CGA display.
= Steve Ballmer was the development lead for the final push that resulted in the first shipping version of Windows.
= Apple sued Microsoft alleging the look and feel of Windows infringed Apple's visual copyrights. The suit was settled out of court.
= Microsoft resources were stretched thin because it was simultaneously helping IBM develop OS2.
= Ray Ozzie, then working on the development of Lotus Notes, consulted with Microsoft on what tools developers would need to transition from DOS to Windows
= Windows 1.0 gave rise to the best manic Steve Ballmer video ever.
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text: The annotated tag, v0.26 has been created on the packaging repository by gitolite user stuartm. at 031e58f9913770775da9086dd68e007617398468 (tag) tagging 623b95458c29e4812a8ae081fa8a667cb679a18b (commit) replaces v0.26-pre tagged by Stuart Morgan on Wed Oct 3 19:02:03 2012 +0100 - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tag the 0.26 release Andres Mejia (4): Use spaces instead of tabs. Bump to Standards-Version 3.9.3. Support parallel builds. Update changelog. Chris Petersen (7): Version bump, fix rpm vstring calculation version bump, change default enables finally compiles in f17. Updated rpm spec Fix logrotate, make compatible with latest master make compatible with choice of describe string rename i810 driver BR to intel Christian Oltenburger (1): Fix wrong dependency to one of mythtv[php] or mythtv-bindings[php]. Dave Walker (Daviey) (40): * Incremeted to new upstream version to current trunk head. debian/control: Added quilt as a build-depends, primarily * debian/control: Prevent the maintainer scripts from failing in case any questions * debian/rules: * debian/copyright: Set the debug package to Priority extra. Change *-perl Section's from libs to perl - add ${shlibs:Depends} for mythtv-common Depends field Ensure license files are not included in the binary packages, except Fixes the permissions of certain files in the packaging. Added holding debian/mythtv-frontend.config, mainly to appease lintian. debian/mythtv-frontend.menu: Changed section to Applications/Graphics. Minor spelling fix. Fixes the long description for one of the packages, ensuring the debian/mythtv-backend.postinst: Load debconf libraries. debian/source.lintian-overrides: Removes the unecessary override of the Fix perl binding installation. * debian/control: * debian/control: New snapshot (r23786), based from 0.23-fixes. - mythtv-frontend set to Conflict with mythflix, as it's dropped Updated svn snapshot to latest upstream and rm'd mythtv-backend.templates from debian/po/POTFILES.in Now, with the proper svn co number * New upstream snapshot (r23815) mythtv-backend.logrotate: Rotate mirobridgelog file debian/control: Added Build-Depends of libudev-dev. * New upstream snapshot (r23820) Comment to debian/patches/40_libudev.patch added * New upstream snapshot (r23820) Now with linux-libc-dev really in debian/control debian/changelog: Fixed old entry that had a non-valid email address * New upstream snapshot (23858) debian/mcc-mirobridge/*: New icon, UI alignment changes and description * New upstream snapshot (r23952) debian/rules: Added cxx option "-maltivec" to PowerPC specifc configure Bumping upstream revision, releasing to Lucid * New upstream snapshot (r24133) * New upstream snapshot (r24158) Released to Lucid Gerald Barker (1): Copy internetcontent to /usr/share/mythtv on backend install Jean-Yves Avenard (6): Updated README and add patches for building Qt 4.8.1 Fix loading of Sql drivers Change default compiler to clang/clang++ Remove old build script. Add libx264 dependecy Use MySQL 5.5 John (3): config.xml test Fixes missing config.xml issue Fixed simlinking config.xml issue John Baab (4): Fixed missing log folder for frontend only install (LP: #642992) Fixed missing log folder for frontend only install (LP: #642992) * Fixed issue where an existing mythweb apache config would be Added LP bug numbers. Lawrence Rust (1): Resync mythbuild.sh from source Marc Randolph (2): * New upstream snapshot (r23872) * New upstream snapshot (r23872) Mario Limonciello (877): migrate from old branch remove un-necessary patch adjust recommends for ubuntu-mythtv-frontend initial schedules direct support remove dts patch bump upstream version number remove extra tee update section change rule for grabbing tagged releases don't rm -rf $(CURDIR) releasing 0.20.2 add schedules direct patch that includes 14307, 14234, 14348. fix mythstream support make dapper backport more manageable dont make update notifier a dependency add firewire,pulseaudio,edit_display patches. Update behavior of mark joel ebel on startmythtv.sh changes minor bug fixes for upcoming release merge laga's changes bug 144701 bug 146328 release 0.20.2-0ubuntu8 recompile with --profile instead, and different tuning options too pull in translations from rosetta add patches from old commit. oops :) fix broken changelog fix still broken changelog add xinerama fix back in (where'd it go?) fix changelog, again. merge laga's fix for bug 130925 update gnome screensaver patch to add xscreensaver support back in. change gnomescreensaver or xscreensaver support clean up suggests/recommends per discussion at UDS add pvr350 ivtv patch (LP: #158562) link to bug number clean up patches and release +fixes14789 release svn 15096 add LSB support and more mysql.txt prevention release 15096-0ubuntu2 bump default starting run level add utf-8 support to upnp server upnp fixes new checkout and minor bug fixes add comments to patches fix gdm lintian warning rebuild against newer kdelibs start new trunk branch that is a proper child of -fixes drop unnecessary patches drop already included pulseaudio patch drop 29_perl_bindings and 31_pvr350_ivtv change tune/arch behvaior force new soname on libraries checkout the latest version change libmyth-perl to be arch all rather than any install libmyth-perl files to the right area and correct libmyth-0.21-0 rather than libmyth-0.21 drop 14_newlibraries depend on ttf-liberation fix 2 things causing ftbfs merge with trunk branch to form new release-0-21-fixes branch add new sql file, and drop warnings fix performance issues by retuning to i686 add faad faac to build faad or faad2 (to allow gutsy builds) drop alsa default patch, its upstream now clean up 09_perl_bindings new upstream checkout new upstream checkout, and hopefully we get our MMX back :) make sure frontend gets a log directory too fix bug 196553 change some more build options override raw1394 permissions add /var/log/mythtv to frontend postinst add myth_prime fix chmod bug #198314 add network manager script to change starting behavior mythtv-database improvments, mythtv-setup.sh improvements and network manager relaunch script release 0.21 add fix for mythtv#4897 and release add chrome support in move all build depends to their own lines turn off libfaad-bin to fix faad bugs pull upnp fixes from release-0-21-fixes add firewire tester update changelog and release new version fix bug 202708 add changelog for bzr #78 add majoridiot's latest mythprime binary in, and release update mythprime to 0.55 dont start gnome screensaver in ubuntu-mythtv-frontend okay fine, umf can live, but it can't have gnome-screensaver add bug number for shutdown FFe update the pre-shipped mythconverg db properly update sql check for session-settings before sourcing it, bug #220681 guard directories on mythtv-datbase removal fix build dependency problems breaking ppc fix pvr-350 tv out, bug #236498 update 07_glx-procaddressARB-configure release 17416 into intrepid build depend on no long obsolete packages dont' start mythfrontend too many times commit changelog from last two changes add coreavc stuff fix a few ftbfs merge michael's 25_skiploop_option update 25_skiploop patch modify debian/control from behavior from nonmaintainer who uploaded the package don't crash on init script initialization release to intrepid. we'll do more follow up fixes soon, this is just to get a5 out the door add dustin's status patch add patch to correct mythfrontend.sh launching arguments lp: #212604 add changelog entry for laga's fix add patch to correct inconsistent text, lp: #242000 merge dustin's fix for root password handling clean up mythtv-database postinst. lots of unnecessary and annoying calls. remove that hacky perl-mysql stuff. clean up changelog entry remove old checks in mythtv-common.config and move a 'question' about your current password into it clean up mythtv-common.postinst read mysql.txt from mythtv-database.config first before checking debconf re-arrange mythtv-database.postinst to move things into their own functions update changelog release to jaunty add changeset 19245 to 30_2.6.28_support.dpatch to fix a FTBFS when working against 2.6.28 drop ubuntu-mythtv-frontend drop additional files that were only referenced by ubuntu-mythtv-frontend drop another reference to umf drop old sql file drop old mythsql script drop old mythtv-backend.NEWS file drop README.Debian clean up rules a little bit clean up rules a little bit merge with -fixes improvements branch release into jaunty mythtv-common.config: be sure to show password in config not just 'value set' * debian/mythtv-database.postinst: * debian/mythtv-database.config: add changelog entries from last few commits don't store shell scripts as executable in bzr, only handle in build remove .orig file from 24_fix_h264_frame_counting.dpatch clean up files that upstream makefile keeps missing, lp: #311552 don't fail mythtv-backend postinst if we are mounted on nfs don't restart mythbackend on dist upgrades only create a user if it doesn't already exist release into jaunty unrelease version number should be lower than 0.22 drop 14_fix_video_fallback as it was marked invalid upstream bump changelog entry to prevent FTBFS enable vdpau on i386 and amd64 set pre-depends for pwgen rather than normal depends re-upload last upload due to broken merge merge -fixes changes from the last few uploads into trunk branch debian/mythtv-database.postinst: merge from mario-database fix for clearing mysql password at the end of mythtv-database.postinst merge with -fixes branch, we're not merging these changes back into -fixes until they're adjusted to not hurt backports though. merge with fixes branch merge steve langasek's patch drop x264 support and release *ubuntu6 update starting revision debian/rules: drop libx264 support update bzr ignore to ign version.sh replace any files in mythcontrols re-add in removed .bzrignore merge with Keybuk's udev branch and the jaunty branch. When this happens, we are adding in a check to debian/rules to check if we build on intrepid or hardy to make sure we don't break them don't fail if the udev check fails Check whether $USER_HOME exists in mythtv-backend init Update branch to release-0-21-fixes rev #19961. Pulls in release into jaunty merge with -fixes branch updates merge with -fixes fix changelog bump Don't display an update-notifier message about failing to reconfigure * debian/rules: merge with -fixes fix FTBFS from config.xml moving merge in last fix from -fixes regarding init script do a python 2.6 transition add lsb-release to depends make 30_python26_transition.dpatch only apply on jaunty and later release into jaunty merge with -fixes drop all references to creating v4l devices fix the exit code in the init script again release into jaunty merge with -fixes add a build-conflicts with libqt3-mt-dev fix 30_python26_transition for trunk changes add conflicts/replaces on mythcontrols add a build-depends on libpulse-dev so that the pulseaudio disabling code in myth can work incremement changelog from previous change on pulseaudio merge with -fixes drop faac support, incompatible license per janneg add yasm to build depends for better optimized h264 drop extraneous CFLAGS from debian/rules that were causing a FTBFS for i386 add runtime cpu detection (top secret option) * New upstream -fixes snapshot (21261) * debian/rules: LCDproc compatibility. (LP: #392362) * debian/mythtv-backend.init: release into karmic merge with -fixes packaging pull from the right branch when building orig.tar.gz release trunk snapshot 21328 into karmic * mythtv_0.21.0.sql: * rules: - Update SOURCE_VERSION in version.sh as it's not in version.pro actually fix the svn version rule set all perl scripts executable, not just just the backup one release into karmic * debian/control: update to new upstream checkout release into karmic fix version number and really push to karmic * debian/mythtv-database.postinst: release into karmic * debian/mythtv-database.postinst: release into karmic * New upstream checkout (21742) release into karmic * debian/control: allow a mythstream 0.22 in case we get one * debian/mythtv-backened.postinst, debian/mythtv-backend.dirs: Create Coverart, Fanart, Screenshots, and Banners directories so jamu create all the other extra directories referenced in the last commit release into karmic * debian/mythtv-backend.postinst: add changelog entry for last commit * debian/mythtv-common.postinst: New upstream checkout (r21785) release into karmic * debian/control: release into karmic * debian/mythtv.desktop: * debian/mythtv-frontend.files: update checkout number * debian/mythtv_0.22.sql: release into karmic new upstream checkout Try to guard and make sure that ~mythtv is read from /etc/passwd release into karmic new upstream checkout release into karmic * New upstream checkout (r22242) * mythtv_0.22.0.sql: release into karmic * New upstream checkout (r22287) Disables pulseaudio harder, fixing sound playback when it's installed. new upstream checkout * debian/mythtv_0.22.0.sql: * debian/patches/10_mythfilldatabase_log.dpatch: * debian/patches: release into karmic actually VCD's can't be played via Internal, set that one back to mplayer really release into karmic now found a problem with last upload, unrelease it again. oops Set default theme to Mythbuntu rather than Mythbuntu-9.10 since upstream * debian/mythtv-database.{postinst,config}: Drop broken logic for trying to detect when slow writes are needed. okay, release into karmic once more * New upstream checkout (r22323) * debian/mythtv-setup.desktop: release into karmic unrelease again. we need to fix some symlinks first Set up some symlinks for the dejavu fonts so they aren't installed several * debian/rules: merge with ~davewalker/mythtv/mythtv-trunk-022 for upstart support with a few minor changes to try to prevent breaking earlier releases Simplify upstart script a bit. add back in legacy init script so that we can have support on < karmic too drop logic for firewire from old init script remove reference to extra args in init script Drop old logic for checking that ~mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt exists, and move simplify upstart script even more move the mythbackend call and sourcing of /etc/default/mythtv-backend into the same stanza * Ship a mythbuntu crashdb for apport to catch crashes and submit against the Add hardware and mythtv directory permissions to the apport report new upstream checkout release into karmic * debian/control: Add a bug_pattern_base to the mythbuntu crashdb. Fix mythbuntu crashdb to refer to project not product. Simplify the apport hook so that we can catch on any set of non * debian/rules: move from right directory try #2 to fix rule for .default file New upstream snapshot (r22413) release into karmic Legacy init script needs different arguments. Only affects merge with trunk again * Upstream 0.22 rc1 snapshot. release into karmic * debian/mythtv-backend.upstart: * debian/dialog.sh: * debian/source_mythtv.py: * New upstream snapshot. * debian/patches/31_vdpau_profiles.dpatch: make debian/rules default to pulling 'fixes' type set the branch url to fixes too release into karmic whoops, set greater to true Install mythconverg_backup and mythconverg_restore scripts * debian/control: * Update to 0.22 release (r22772). Build depends on open source libvdpau optionally. make libvdpau-dev only used on i386 and amd64 for now Generate a -dbg package so that builds from a PPA can actually merge with -fixes Build depends on libxvidcore-dev | libxvidcore4-dev for libxvidcore merge with -fixes Update to a snapshot post 0.22 release (r22899). release into lucid * debian/control: - Replaces on mythtv-frontend - Rename libmyth-perl to libmythtv-perl per debian request. (LP: #XXXXX) Update to a new snapshot. (r22957) (LP: #493405) Set all perl and python scripts executable (LP: #482585) fix the perl/python scripts in the right place releasing version 0.22.0+fixes22957-0ubuntu1 merge with -fixes * debian/control: merge with -fixes * debian/patches/09_perl: merge with -fixes * debian/control: * debian/control: * debian/source_mythtv.py: merge with fixes * debian/mythtv-common.links: update to r23193 * debian/rules: releasing version 0.22.0+fixes23193-0ubuntu1 merge with -fixes Bump builds to start with 0.23 debian/control: Fix vcs-bzr * debian/mythtv-database.postinst: Introduces stable pulseaudio support (In Theory! :)) (LP: #311328) Print message to stdout for MythTV.pm (LP: #327406) * debian/control: * debian/control: * debian/patches: * Allow shutdowns when mythtv is running (LP: #174712) Mythbackend now supports the --user flag to drop permissions from Use the upstart script from the upstream contrib directory instead. Don't keep upstart script in debian/ since we use the one in the upstream contrib/ directory now Update 30_python26_transition for changes upstream. * mythtv-database.templates: Switch to use the upstream backup scripts. (LP: #469792) add bug number from fonts that got fixed a few revisions back Helps with HDTV stuttering. (LP: #451394) merge with trunk Drop old debian/myth-*.sh scripts since we now use dbus for shutdown * Drop old debian/mythtv-backend.default. It's just available for upgrades. Rewrite get-orig-source rules to parse the changelog for version info. Drop any of the Top Secret Options build flags put all xml files in mythtv-common rather than frontend or backend specifically replaces for earlier mythtv-frontend or backend versions for xml file changes update some references that are still referring to init scripts to use the upstart job dont run debconf-updatepo on EVERY clean remove extraneous escape of par. Changelog for previous entry Release into lucid merge with -fixes mark libmyth-0.23-0 as replacing libmyth-0.22-0 Include a custom snippet for debian/rules mythtv packages in libmyth-dev. get rid of the epoch in the version number add a new rule to query the newest revision - Drop quilt build-dep, it appears to be included w/ dh7 Drop old, unused templates from debian/templates. don't run our rules with ---with-quilt. Not needed don't replaces libmyth-0-22 anymore releasing version 0.23.0~trunk23567-0ubuntu1 * debian/mythtv-backend.preinst: * debian/mythtv-database.templates: * debian/mythtv_0.23.0.sql: Set default security pin so UPNP will work OOTB. releasing version 0.23.0~trunk23567-0ubuntu2 Rebuild for pulseaudio problems caused from an earlier libpulse-dev * debian/mythtv-setup.sh: releasing version 0.23.0~trunk23567-0ubuntu3 * debian/control: Restore Build-depends on libfftw3-dev (not really a top secret option) Merge with debian git tree forgot extra header * debian/source_mythtv.py: backport fix'ed source_mythtv.py from trunk * debian/patches/36_setgroups_too: releasing version 0.23.0~trunk23567-0ubuntu4 drop README.source, it's not really needed for v3 packages * debian/patches/36_setgroups_too: * debian/rules: * debian/control: * New checkout (r23623). releasing version 0.23.0~trunk23623-0ubuntu1 * mythtv-{common,backend}.{config,templates,postinst}: (LP: #483748) * Fix FTBFS on armel (LP: #537714) merge trunk into fixes to prepare for 0.23 release releasing version 0.23.0~fixes23789-0ubuntu1 Set version to include a "+" delimitter. Restore libfaad-dev dependency. (LP: #546552) merge with -fixes releasing version 0.23.0+fixes23789-0ubuntu1 * debian/rules: releasing version 0.23.0+fixes23789-0ubuntu2 releasing version 0.23.0+fixes23820-0ubuntu1 Drop 36_setgroups. Been merged upstream. merge with fixes * 40_libudev.path: update notes in patch Actually disable halt and reboot commands by default. * debian/patches/proper_shutdown_behavior_for_ubuntu.patch: releasing version 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2 Add upstart script into the packaging. It's been dropped upstream. Merge with -fixes Bump version to 0.24 trunk r24856 * Refresh patches due to upstream changes: drop mythtv-backend.upstart from debian/clean drop mythtv-backend.upstart from debian/clean new upstream checkout (25138) releasing version 0.23.0+fixes25138-0ubuntu1 * Bump version to 0.24 trunk r25146 Copy 'internetcontent' scripts to /usr/share/mythtv/ as part of * Bump version to 0.24 trunk r25161 drop 41_detect_dbus. it's been merged upstream Drop 40_libudev. Merged upstream. refresh patches fix qt webkit package name again since debian decided to change it * Bump version to 0.24 trunk r25535 proper shutdown behavior for ubuntu. debian/rules: cleanup deprecated configure options. Install mythpreviewgen into mythtv-frontend (LP: #616083) install in the backend package not frontend Add qt47_support.patch to fix FTBFS on Maverick. * Update checkout to r25842 Reverse build depends for libjack to fix virtual packages problems. * Moved backup and restore scripts to mythtv-common from mythtv-database Source debconf stuff in all scenarios for mythtv-common postinst. Remove faad support, no longer listed in configure, fixes FTBFS. Add configure_missing_check.patch to fix FTBFS on Maverick. Only apply qt47_support.patch and missing_check.patch on Maverick releasing version 0.23.1+fixes25842-0ubuntu1 merge with fixes remove upstart config that was lost with merge ignore locales directory bump to 25842 ignore new external directory in bzr update 10.10 only patches for trunk Rebuild without accidentally added patch update bzrignore for changes in trunk refresh python 2.6 patch refresh patches for changes in trunk Simplify the upstart script. merge with fixes * Bump version to 0.24 trunk r26032 * Reduce zealousness in files cleaned in clean rule. mark the version to replace as one higher to try to cover fallout refresh default directories patch again due to changes in moving mythvideo declarations out releasing version 0.23.1+fixes26057-0ubuntu1 * New snapshot, 26192. New snapshot, 26231. Refresh qt47_support.patch for changes in upstream. Refresh fuzzy patches. update baseline to 23238 refresh qt47_support for changes upstream bump snapshot version refresh qt47_support for changes upstream update qt47_support for some stuff that was merged upstream Drop qt47_support.patch, newer, bigger, better version upstream. Drop configure_missing_check, iz now upstream too. drop qt47_support.patch update series file Add depends on python-mysqldb update to 26437 releasing version 0.23.1+fixes26437-0ubuntu1 * Bump version to 0.24 trunk r26756 make sure that all python related items are getting installed * Add a --list-missing option to make sure that all packaged files * Bump version to 0.24 trunk r26811 Remove dummy libmyth-perl package. Modify ubuntu shutdown behavior patch to only use dbus if commands fail. add upstream URL Update shutdown patch for upstream recommendations. merge trunk branch to fixes for 0.24 preparation fix 0.23->0.24 depend on libmyth-dev move libmyth to 0.25 for trunk Add new Tieresias fonts to mythtv-common. first go at merging into a large package resync with the mythtv-fixes bzr branch merge changes from plugins packaging the last couple of weeks Conflicts/Replaces on old libmyth package (LP: #665402) merge with fixes merge with fixes again exclude tiresias gpl license from install bump to a fixes checkout modify the configure_mythplugins_without_mythtv_installed.patch to actually modify mythconfig.mak and disable the python mythnetvision check instead of hackery in debian/rules update the proper locations to install from for binary packages fix the rules to call make distclean while cleaning up fix docs install merge in the myththemes source package (from fixes branch) fold all default directories and paths patches into a single patch add additional paths to be cleaned up after calling make distclean hide quilt patches in bzrignore too hardcode in the two .pro files where to find dependencies rather than changing the entire libdir. entire libdir was causing unexpected side effects merge monsTer merge monsTer merge with -fixes merge with -trunk Add a new get-svn-source rule to use with mythbuntu-weekly-build. don't add to strings, reset them merge with -fixes fix ftbfs caused r26942 being backported to 0.24 bump build number up In the update-control-files rule, update the ABI as well. merge with fixes add an epoch, unfortunately myththemes needed one, and now that it's part of this package - it's needed here merge with fixes for autobuilds, make sure to always create an ABI file in debian/ merge with fixes Conflicts/Replaces for no longer used mythplugins-dbg package. merge with fixes if we don't yet know the abi when calling the control file update, use SVN_MAJOR_RELEASE merge with fixes Drop mythvideo readme file. Drop references to mythplugins-dbg in the apport rules. merge with fixes Fix the installation of mythmusic. (LP: #672045) merge with fixes Create a mysql.txt symlink from mythtv-setup as well. merge with fixes update to 27162 releasing version 1:0.24.0+fixes27162-0ubuntu1 Modify the upstart script to load the LANG first. (LP: #541042) merge with fixes Modify configure_mythplugins_without_mythtv_installed.patch to remove Remove unused package, mythmovies from build process. Clean up the dependencies of a few packages, and harden them to the binary merge with fixes refresh the logic that's patched in mythplugins/configure merge with fixes Disable XvMC as it's causing crashes. VDPAU is better off in these situations Remove sparc support. merge with fixes Make sure mysql is pingable before trying to start the backend (LP: #609402) merge with fixes * Fixup some linitians: merge with fixes fix missing comma merge with fixes * New 0.24 checkout (27235) merge with fixes Add a new debian/rules rule called 'update-upstream-changelog'. update-control-files fix directories showing up in changelog entries Add a debian/README.Debian for explaining how to work with the package. merge with fixes In the update-upstream-changelog rule, search for the word mythbuntu merge with fixes Get rid of the newest-revision rule in favor of one that will actually Add a new helper script debian/do-new-release.sh that will run all of merge with fixes new checkout, r27305 also run dch for the automated uploader releasing version 1:0.24.0+fixes27305-0ubuntu1 don't use ABI, but SVN_MAJOR_RELEASE instead merge with fixes mention in the changelog what upload we are diffing from merge with fixes Modify the get-orig-source rule to use launchpadlib to try to fetch the file merge with fixes Stop on runlevels [016] rather than on the start of shutdown job. (LP: #542627) merge with fixes Move packaging to git based commands. If no themes are included, don't make bad theme stubs in debian/control. Update control files. Add an epoch because of the changing fixes->fixes and trunk->master to allow merge with fixes fix up git checkout rule to use the right branch names all the time merge with fixes go a git fetch before checkout in case switching branchs merge with fixes include myththemes in the checkout update control files record the git hash and branch from dpkg-parsechangelog merge with fixes fix the date rule when dealing with master modify get-git-source to better handle being scripted when starting from a blank changelog Merge with fixes In ppa git checker helper, if no hash returned, don't error up. make the tarball building only via a separate rule (as necessary) merge with fixes If running on a master build, have the update-control-files rule recommends update bzrignore for gitignore file merge with fixes update control files for current status of upstream git Update standards version. Force pic support on as much of the build as possible. (LP: #684941) Move mythweb's set -e into the script invokation to quiet lintian. Demote libmythtv-perl depends to recommends on mythtv-backend. Add python dependency to mythtv-common. Don't run the permissions fix up on python files smaller than 1 block. Fixup the extra docs cleanup for mythweb. releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20101207.d3d2640-0ubuntu1 merge with fixes in the git building rule, make sure to include the proper phrases merge with fixes configure_mythplugins_without_mythtv_installed.patch: refresh. configure_mythplugins_without_mythtv_installed.patch: refresh. Install mythffmpeg and mythffplay in mythtv-common. reverse the rule for do-new-release.sh New upstream checkout (1405782) include a data directory to fix mythweb postinst breaking. releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20101214.1405782-0ubuntu1 merge with fixes configure_mythplugins_without_mythtv_installed.patch: refresh. backport from master the install rule for ffmplay configure_mythplugins_without_mythtv_installed.patch: refresh. Add a new php-mythtv package for the newly developed php bindings. configure_mythplugins_without_mythtv_installed: refresh try to fix php bindings again While grabbing git source, capture the details of 'git describe' merge with fixes Don't include .gitignore files in the mythweb package. Add a depends on php-mythtv for mythweb. Correct php bindings install path (LP: #696724) ignore README don't fail if gitignore fails * debian/control: drop from control.in too merge with fixes refresh patches for changes upstream add build depends on libcdio-dev for new UDF support. Install mythmessage rather than mythtvosd Add a depends on python-lxml (LP: #710709) merge with fixes releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110207.6dd5e4b-0ubuntu1 * New upstream checkout (6318d52) Automatically restart the frontend if it crashes. Also notify the user using libnotify. (LP: #692697) merge with fixes releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110208.6318d52-0ubuntu1 Drop opengl vsync support. update to newer checkout Drop proper shutdown behavior for ubuntu patch. Applied upstream. Re-enable V4L support by rebuilding against newer libc-dev (LP: #717717) releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110214.ad3c81f-0ubuntu1 merge with fixes merge with lp Drop the disable XvMC flags. No longer necessary. * debian/mythtv.make: merge with fixes Install the new hardware profile stuff in the common package. Set a GIT_BRANCH_FALLBACK in case GIT_BRANCH only exists on a particular merge with fixes Update default SQL file to the current 0.24 schema. update bzrignore merge with fixes Add a patch to allow mythbackend to run without tuners defined, fixing merge with fixes releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110302.0d3d3a4-0ubuntu2 merge with fixes * Refresh patches for changes upstream: allow_no_tuners configure_mythplugins_without_mythtv * debian/rules: merge with fixes * debian/control: merge with fixes refresh configure_mythplugins_without_mythtv_installed.patch Install new HTML configuration content with mythbackend. fix html directory * Don't restart the frontend on exit code 254 (which is representative of * New upstream checkout (c2baf1b) releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110322.c2baf1b-0ubuntu1 merge with fixes Install new backend configuration content with mythbackend. refresh patches for changes in master new upstream checkout refresh patch Add a patch to enable V4L2 on 2.6.38. Thanks mlarsen. releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110410.2a9d9f5-0ubuntu1 merge with fixes, refresh mythtv_v4l2_fix.patch against master checkout merge in jani's fix for armel merge w/ fixes * debian/mythtv.make: merge with fixes fix openglvsync debian/rules * debian/control.in: releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110410.2a9d9f5-0ubuntu3 merge with fixes Disable jamu and mirobridge bindings as they're current broke with * New upstream checkout (9ba3ece) merge with fixes Add build-deps on python-urlgrabber. drop v4l2 fix patch, no longer necessary - fixed in master * debian/mythtv.make: merge with fixes Don't destroy VERSION in between runs, make sure to restore it to what merge with fixes fixup changelog entires to be version rather than Version Install mythmediaserver into mythtv-common actually install mythmediaserver in frontend Drop mythvideo package. Fully integrated into frontend package now. Drop references to mythvideo from debian/control. fix a missing comma in control files causing FTBFS Move Jamu into backend (no longer tied to mythvideo). (LP: #797003) Fix mythvideo to be breaks/replaces. (LP: #797327) update bzr ignore refresh patches to prevent FTBS install mythmetadatalookup in mythtv-common Install the icon from http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Logo (LP: #458686) new checkout releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110706.b491236-0ubuntu1 merge with fixes allow mythtv.png in v3 source package merge with fixes refresh patches for changes upstream Remove jamu and all references to it. Now built into myth. install mythccextractor to mythtv-common refresh patches for changes upstream Convert to using a rsyslog mechanism for log files. Thanks Michael Change compile type to profile per discussion in #mythtv again. merge with fixes Add missing space to debian/rules preventing some plugin installation. releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110908.1de0431-0ubuntu1 Make /var/log/mythtv writable by the syslog user. Install rsyslog conf as 40-mythtv-rsyslog.conf instead of just install mythutil to mythtv-common Build with vaapi support. * debian/rules: merge with fixes Build with --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac enable nonfree merge updated fonts from pitti merge with fixes b-d on libx264-dev fix control file to actually b-d on libx264-dev Build with --enable-libvpx support for VP8 video. Enable crystal HD support. merge with fixes add bug number Create a new "Streaming" storage group by default on the backend. Exclude all vcs's when building a tarball. releasing version 2:0.24.0+fixes.20111207.40f3bae-0ubuntu1 merge with fixes Fix bad quote escaping on mythtv-database postinst. (LP: #829066) merge with fixes Use gnome-session-quit if gnome-session-save isn't found. (LP: #908315) typo * Don't start mythtv-backend if it wasn't already running unless the user wants merge with fixes BD & Depends on libjson-perl. (LP: #911864) merge with fixes refresh patches to remove fuzz Build depends on avahi for airtunes/airplay support. refresh default_directories patch for changes in mythmusic Build depends on libssl for crypto support in airtunes. metallurgy theme is gone from myththemes for 0.25, make sure it gets removed refresh patches for changes in master merge with master Update to pre-0.25 snapshot, post feature freeze. * Update to pre-0.25 snapshot, post upstream feature freeze. Build depends on libcdio-cdda-dev for mythmusic. add a patch to set the ABI to 0.25 until upstream sets it rename sql file to 0.25 update to 0.25 abi Update standards version. Add misc:depends for php-mythtv. Fix stronger-dependency-implies-weaker lintian error. releasing version 2:0.25.0~master.20120213.b4c909a-0ubuntu1 add a fix that was uploaded to precise outside of VCS merge with fixes * debian/control.in: Drop 0.25_abi patch, upstream now. Drop mythnetvision libmyth-python dependency. It's already a dependency releasing version 2:0.25.0~master.20120214.ab4a02f-0ubuntu1 Fix armhf FTBFS. Conflicts/Replaces on libmyth-0.24-0 for now until a better place for Let the configuration refer to the correct location for mythweb. releasing version 2:0.25.0~master.20120214.f853a5b-0ubuntu1 mythtv-common breaks/replaces on mythvideo. * Fix rsyslog logging permissions. * Create rsyslog directory only in mythtv-common package. Drop special mythtv-frontend and mythwelcome logging functionality Log mythtv-setup using local7 too. Don't include cache and tv_icons directories for mythweb. They'll be * debian/rules: fix ftbfs on amd64 releasing version 2:0.25.0~master.20120216.769dfae-0ubuntu1 Reset permissions on all logs in /var/log/mythtv to ensure Fix mythtv-setup logging to be local7 not local 7. * debian/control.in: B-d on libxml2-dev to enable libxml2 support. Enable opengl ES2 on releases that support it. Should be maverick+. B-d on libass-dev to enable libass subtitle support. B-d on libxvidcore-dev to enable external xvid codec support. missing commas are silly. clean up changelog fix xvid call out in debian/rules don't enable gles2, no QT support still releasing version 2:0.25.0~master.20120223.532cee8-0ubuntu1 * Drop mythtv-themes metapackage and childish theme. Should be installed update bzrignore file Update configure without install patch. Tweak default max_connections for mysql to be 100 per requests from releasing version 2:0.25.0~master.20120305.6519666-0ubuntu1 refresh configure mythtv without mythplugins installed patch for changes upstream merge with master Remove references to mythmessage. Fix permissions on all existing log files on upgrade. releasing version 2:0.25.0~master.20120316.53761e2-0ubuntu1 refresh default_directories patch for changes upstream. Capture all logs from /var/log/mythtv for apport reports. releasing version 2:0.25.0~master.20120329.c85fc55-0ubuntu1 * Remove extra reference to libmysqlclient-16-dev. update package names Drop dependency on ttf-freefont. releasing version 2:0.25.0~master.20120406.041ecad-0ubuntu1 merge with master for 0.25 release Add a fallback to master for non-existant fixes branches. * Update to 0.25 gold release. releasing version 2:0.25.0+fixes.20120410.1f5962a-0ubuntu1 merge w/ fixes Switch to 0.26 branch for master builds. fix get-orig-source rule's broken tarball fetch from archive. merge with fixes catch errors when no packages yet published to a PPA merge with fixes Enable libcec support (LP: #982272) Add missingok to additional mythtv-backend logs. (LP: #982162) merge with fixes * Pull an updated snapshot of Mythbuntu theme, to avoid theme merge with fixes Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into ubuntu-master move debian into the deb/ subfolder Update deb packaging to not build off bzr, but instead local debian/ directory Update deb packaging to reference right VCS location Don't fail if patches don't clean up, newer dpkg-source says ok fix description-synopsis-starts-with-article Fix lintian error maintainer-script-ignores-errors Add build dependency for uuid-dev. Add a workaround for FTBFS w/ linking when using binutils 2.21 Merge branch 'master' of code.mythtv.org:packaging Drop all non-free stuff. After master's ffmpeg sync, HLS support is sufficient with just libx264 refresh included debian/control actually leave mp3lame there for mythmusic deb: Pass INSTALL_ROOT during the build process of mythtv as well so that it gets applied to the zeromq ./configure run as well deb: mythtv-common dependencies-> move to 1 for each line (more readable) deb: Add purisa font support deb: add support for droid fonts deb: Install otf fonts too deb: install mythlogserver deb: Don't install QJson libararies or headers. deb: ignore libmythqjson.prl deb: install copy of zeromq libaries deb: update source_mythtv apport hook to python3 compatible deb: drop recommends on adept-notifier deb: add zeromq_install_paths.patch to fix FTBFS. Revert "deb: add zeromq_install_paths.patch to fix FTBFS." Revert "deb: Pass INSTALL_ROOT during the build process of mythtv as well so that it gets applied to the zeromq ./configure run as well" deb: fix wildcard matching for ignoring zmq files Revert "deb: install copy of zeromq libaries" deb: explicitly ignore libmythzmq.la as wildcards don't appear to work properly with dh_install deb: zmq/nzmq/QJson include paths were moved to usr/include/mythtv. remove override deb: install pkgconfig and static library for libmythzmq into the -dev package. the libtool library still needs an override (it probably shouldn't be installed anywhere) deb: install libmythzmq pkgconfig pc file to libmyth-dev package deb: Install MythTV specific sysctl.conf file deb: update rsyslog for 0.26. deb: missed mythfrontend, add that in logging too. deb: Remove extra dpkg-parsechangelog call that was mistakenly added. deb: let libtiff5-dev resolve build dependencies too. deb: switch libtiff5-dev and libtiff4-dev order to fix FTBFS on quantal deb: install README's for fonts in mythtv-doc deb: enable sdl so that mythffplay will work (see fb90f73) Merge branch 'master' of code.mythtv.org:packaging deb: load timezones into mysql during mythtv-database postinst (LP: #1010491) deb: mythtv-common depends on libxml-xpath-perl for config.xml parsing deb: drop support for mysql.txt, using only config.xml going forward deb: rename 0.25 stuff to 0.26 Martin Pitt (1): debian/control.in: Some ttf-* â fonts-* renames. Michael Haas (61): Add 29_xinerama_fix.dpatch Fix layout * Depend on libfftw3-dev | fftw3dev instead of just libfftw3-dev to make backporting easier try to fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/201567 * remove liba52 stuff * prepare for new upload from 0-21-fixes branch (also see debian/changelog for changes) * use rev 16838 which got some new bug fixes (eg fixes CVE-2007-6036) *update changelog * add myth-halt etc to shutdown using hAL fix files make some changes to shutdown stuff adjust changelog Prepare for trunk builds (0.22 series) * rename libmyth-0.21 to libmyth-0.22 add debian/patches/18_fix_video_profile.dpatch add debian/patches/18_fix_video_profile.dpatch adjust some package names fix build problems remove qt depencies fix coreavc merge coreavc branch remove coreavc build stamp in clean target add versioned depends for dshowserver-dev don't fail if coreavc build stamp doesn't exist dont fail if firewire rebuild is still present re-enable 07_glx-procaddressARB-configure dpatch * drop 07_ dpatch - it's upstream now really remove debian/patches/07_glx-procaddressARB-configure.dpatch add patches: debian/patches/24_fix_h264_frame_counting.dpatch debian/patches/25_skiploop_option.dpatch remove unnecessary patch which was never in the bzr branch remove 15_hue_fix.dpatch, it was fixed in http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/16896 remove 17_pvr_350_tvout_fix.dpatch, upstream fixed it: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/17450 update changelog * revert coreavc changes (revert r104-108) update changelog add 26_h264_ffmpeg_merge.dpatch, see http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5645 add LATM AAC support add email address to the latest patch bump upstream version bump date in changelog drop debian/patches/27_latm_audio.dpatch - the LATM parser is missing and that patch is more intrusive update 25_skiploop_option.dpatch - previously, it only worked if you had more than one thread enabled fix init script add patch to fix slow guide merge upstream branch. add libqt4-sql-mysql to depends for libmyth * sync against -fixes update patch. prepare new release: fix changelog update 24_fix_h264_frame_counting.dpatch with change from upstream bump rev to 18692 remove 27_disable_deinterlacing_in_guide.dpatch - it's upstream now fix changelog silly plumber forgot to add debian/mythtv-frontend.dirs back then revert part of the last commit, this wasn't supposed to be committed more fixes & changelog cleanup add 28_fix_v4l.dpatch to fix green screen for v4l cards prevent mythwelcome from quitting spuriously under session management remove 28_fix_v4l.dpatch - a similar patch is upstream now Make sure 29_fix_mythwelcome.dpatch is applied Nigel Pearson (2): Eliminate warning from long-gone arguments Trunk compile fix - external/nzmqt/src/main.cpp now needs STL. Raymond Wagner (2): Fix Gentoo ebuilds for MythWeb Big ebuild bump. Scott James Remnant (1): * debian/rules: Install udev rules into /lib/udev/rules.d Stuart Auchterlonie (1): We specifically built pkg-config, so don't go deleting it Thomas Mashos (46): Updated posters dir to /var/lib/mythtv/posters Added size restriction of 10M to log files Added bug # Updated lintian overrides for .22 libraries Added dependencies for qt3->qt4 change Removed dependency for libartsc0(libartsc0-dev) Removed patch 30 as it is now in upstream Added default storage directories to DB Removed default media directory db settings Removed default media directory db setting fixes (LP:469583) Added missingok for mirobridge log in logrotate (LP: #581283) Added missingok for mirobridge log in logrotate (LP: #581283) Updated perl bindings patch for upstream changes (LP: #586293) Backend now waits for udev to finish (LP: #556204) Added patch to properly detect dbus during compile (LP: #574877) Adding patches from previous 2 commits Added libqt4-webkit-dev dependency to satisify maverick FTBFS Added libqt4-webkit-dev dependency to satisify maverick FTBFS Bumped version number for new changes Added libqt4-webkit-dev dependency to satisify maverick FTBFS fixing changelog Added new python and perl dependencies Moved backup and restore scripts to mythtv-common from mythtv-database Moved backup and restore scripts from mythtv-database to mythtv-common Added Replaces for mythtv-common (LP: 622983) Added Replaces for mythtv-common (LP: 622983) Set backend to not respawn if it dies 2 times in 1 hour (LP: #654846) Set backend to not respawn if it dies 2 times in 1 hour (LP: #654846) Move metadata scripts and internetcontent to mythtv-common * Fixed Replaces for mythtv-common Fixes replaces in control.in for mythtv-common (LP: #676791) Added bindings as recommends to FR and BE in control.in * Added Breaks mythtv-backend to mythtv-common (LP: #677206) * Fixes replaces in control.in for mythtv-common (LP: #676791) Added script to find latest mythtv svn revision in PPA Make mythplugins replace mythmovies Make mythplugins replace mythmovies in debian/control.in Removed mythtv_v4l2_fix.patch as this issue has been fixed upstream Changed upstart to look for NOT lo instead of lo Changed backend upstart job to look at NOT lo, instead of lo Updated db schema for default plugins Updated changelog Added bug number to changelog entry Updated amejia's email Fix amejia's email again john.baab at gmail.com (3): Fixed backend init script to correctly detect a running backend Fixed problem where init script errors on install Added config.xml symlink for mythtv user ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --


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Songs that make our hearts soar can make them stronger too, researchers report. They found that when people listened to their favorite music, their blood vessels dilated in much the same way as when laughing, or taking blood medications.
"We have a pretty impressive effect," said Dr. Michael Miller, director of preventive cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
"Blood vessel diameter improved... The vessel opened up pretty significantly. You can see the vessels opening up with other activities such as exercise," Miller said. A similar effect is seen with drugs such as statins and ACE inhibitors.
The inverse was also found to be true, i.e. when the individuals listened to music they disliked, their blood vessels narrowed. I guess this means I really should:
- Keep listening to more from A. R. Rahman, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain, Mozart, Enya, Frou Frou, Sixpence, and Royksopp (this video is beautiful!).
- Skip the next Pritam Chakrobarty and Himesh Reshammiya soundtracks ;)
And here is some good music to keep us healthy and in good spirits. A cool rendition of Pehla Nasha from Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992). Hope you're having a great weekend, everyone!


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Latina Pioneer Solis Resigning As Labor Secretary
" She grappled with trying to bolster the U.S. workforce at a time of fiscal crisis and recovery from recession. "There is still much to do, but we are well on the road to recovery, and middle-class Americans know the president is on their side," she said.
Obama, in a statement, called her a "tireless champion for working families."
So far, Obama has picked white males for the three biggest Cabinet positions – Senator John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state and former Senator Chuck Hagel as defense secretary. He was due to announce Jack Lew as treasury secretary on Thursday, a source said.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a close confidante of Obama, withdrew her name last month from consideration for the secretary of state post in the face of what promised to be a contentious Senate confirmation battle. "
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- Solis resigns as labor secretary (usatoday.com)


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Journal of a Journey Over the Rocky Mountains
March 29th 1852. Started from the town of Lima Rock Co. Wis. on our long contemplated journey to seek a home on the Pacific coast, in the territory of Oregon. Passed through Janesville to the town of Plymouth where we struck our camp for the first time, & found that we had truly left all comfort behind at least as far as the weather is concerned. But all are in health & spirits seeming determined to manufacture as much comfort as possible from what material we have.
April 8th. We traveled yesterday 16 miles and camped on a vast prairie in Lafayette Co [Iowa] where nothing but land & sky were to be seen save one little log house . But to make up the absence of other interesting matter we found a wedding party assembled in the aforesaid "log house."
11th [May] Traveled near about 16 miles & camped again on a large Prarie [sic] near a beautiful spring which we consider a great treat After getting our tents pitched & supper nearly in readiness a heavy thunder shower struck us & we were nearly drenched b succeeded in keeping our beds tolerable dry.
11th [July] We have a beautiful camping ground on the bank of the s. Water [Sweetwater]. Clumps of willows thickly tangled with gooseberry & wild Rose whose perfume is sweet as "Home" are scattered along its banks.


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Hoshizaki Ice Maker
Hoshizaki has been making innovative ice equipment for more than 50 years. Their unique crescent-style ice is made on a two sided-evaporator in a one-of-a-kind process that saves energy and results in clearer, better-tasting, and slower-melting ice. They also offer nugget ice in several sizes and a variety of gourmet cubers that make either large cubes or top hat ice. Hoshizaki ice machines range from small undercounter units to those that can make and store more than 2,000 pounds a day.


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Review: Paul Banks of Interpol Headlines "Put Your Sad Down" Benefit
Photo by G.
On August 22, 2013, New York's rock and roll elite joined forces for a special concert at the Bowery Hotel. Benjamin Curtis of the band School of Seven Bells has been undergoing treatment for T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma and the event "Put Your Sad Down," (named after a song by School of Seven Bells) helped raise money for his medical costs. Albert Hammond Jr. of the Strokes and Paul Banks of Interpol performed solo sets in the swanky hotel, while Alexa Chung and actor Danny Masterson DJed in between sets. Paul Banks performed tracks from his solo albums including "Summertime Is Coming," "Games For Days" and "I'll Sue You." There were some great items that were auctioned off (including items signed by The Black Keys and Radiohead). Spotted in the crowd were members of School of Seven Bells and Joe Jonas (who, along with his brothers had donated merchandise to be auctioned off). Based on the packed crowd, I really hope the event raised a lot of money for Benjamin Curtis. I've seen him in concert and met him several times and he has been extremely personable each time. Get well soon Benjamin!!!


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Al Rogers -- 'Almost' (Self-released)
DOWNLOAD: Al Rogers, 'Almost' RATING: *** 1/2 out of 4 Seemingly out of nowhere, 23-year-old rapper Al Rogers has released the strongest album from a Baltimore artist this year. "Almost," in the making for the past 2 1/2 years, is also Rogers' first project ever, which makes the accomplishment even more impressive. Similar to ASAP Rocky's self-released mixtape, "Live. Love. ASAP," "Almost" succeeds as an introduction to a new voice because of its cohesiveness. Rogers doesn't rap like Rocky, but both MCs know the importance of a signature sound. The beats on "Almost" vary enough to keep things interesting, but overall, the woozy production -- mostly handled by local producers 713 and Millz Douglas -- sounds interconnected through warm tones, sustained synthesizers and a sense of melancholy underneath the surface. Rogers does right by the beats. With an unhinged, enthralling delivery, he could remind listeners of Kendrick Lamar, the virtuoso Compton, Calif., rapper. Rogers doesn't possess the same jaw-dropping ability as Lamar, but both rappers use their voices as expressive instruments that can sound frighteningly forceful one moment and high-pitched like a child the next. Rogers' voice alone could carry a song, although it never has to here. Rogers uses "Almost" as a disarmingly honest, 47-minute venting session. On "Inside (to Pops)," the emotions surrounding his absent father ("maybe busy pill-poppin'") drain Rogers down to a whisper. On "Baltiwar," which appropriately samples a Tupac Shakur interview, Rogers depicts his city bleakly: "We mastered the art of war / Sun Tzu coulda come through without a gun or two / or him, too, would end up dead." The best song on "Almost" is the soulful but knocking "U Must Luv Me." After mourning the loss of his cousin and lamenting the fact that his uncle is doing life in prison, Rogers snaps his purpose as an artist into focus. Tellingly, he name-drops Lamar in the process: "And Kendrick just might be the best / At 22 [his age when Rogers recorded the song], I'm second to stepping on his neck." Rogers has a long journey ahead of him before coming close to rap's heights like Lamar. But "Almost" shows we should hear him try. -- Wesley Case
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Attention-grabbing title, but it's a real question. Technical certifications are either offensive BS, or funny BS, and your answer to that question will determine whether or not you get any.
In Japan there's now an official Ruby language certification, backed by none other than Matz himself and prominent Ruby contributor Shugo Maeda. I think it's very likely that Matz' certification isn't any kind of BS at all. It's pretty safe to imagine that the Japanese certification backed by the language's creator carries more weight and operates with more honesty than American certifications, which are usually backed by some large corporate vendor with a serious vested interest.
But wait! Behold my hypocrisy. I have two certifications, both American. And I'm actually planning to get a couple more.
My existing certifications are in Java and XML. The certifications I'm planning are in Final Cut Studio Pro and Adobe After Effects. The reason I'm looking into more certifications is not out of some cynical pro-BS attitude. I'm going to look into getting side work on weekends doing editing and motion graphics. A certification's less valuable than actual work experience, but more valuable than nothing.
I got my Java cert because I needed some cash, I had just moved to a beautiful but utterly backwards part of the United States, and some idiot recruiter for an Air Force contract told me they couldn't offer me anything because I didn't have a Java certification. I thought, okay, how hard can that be? And I went and got one. It proved to be utterly useless in terms of getting a job, but I enjoyed it, so I went and got another one, this time in XML.
Certifications are lame, it's true, but if you're a big enough dork, they're also fun to get, they're an entertaining little ego boost, and they give you good perspective. I wouldn't recommend taking them seriously, but I definitely would recommend getting them if you want to understand the technologies involved. They almost always have some weird corner case you won't see in real life but you could see on the exam.
Obviously, I see no harm in certifications, but many people do. I think the real reason for hostility against certifications has absolutely nothing to do with their usefulness or non-usefulness. I think they're useful, although less authoritative than they claim to be. I think the reason people hate certifications is that an attempt to be authoritative implies an attempt to be an authority, and for a big fat corporate beauraucracy to assert authority over independent programmers is total bullshit.
The question is, is it funny bullshit, or offensive bullshit? People who think it's offensive BS hate certifications. I think it's funny BS, so I get them anyway, every once in a while.
The reason I get them is that they're educational, especially if they make you study and they ask difficult questions. If it makes you learn the language in detail, it can be good. It was over a year after getting my XML certification that I actually used XPath in a real-life work situation, but when that time came, I did it from memory with no problems at all. It was all still in there.
Also, I recently took the Pragmatic Studio's TDD with Rails training. Joe O'Brien asked, "how many people use XPath?" and a few hands went up. The next question was "how many people know XPath well?" and I think my hand might have been the only one still in the air.
Not only that, the number one reason I liked Rails when I first saw it is because I had looked into getting a J2EE/JSP certification. They make you learn all of the JSP APIs, and it's like this archaeological dig. You go down a layer, there's a terrible API that you wouldn't be able to use
in real life. You go down another layer, there's an even worse API that you wouldn't be able to use in real life for the same reasons, plus additional reasons. Then you do it all again. There's this whole sequence of terrible APIs stacked on top of each other, where Sun came up with something, it sucked, and then they came up with something completely different instead, which sucked only slightly less, but still continued supporting the earlier thing, because they couldn't admit it sucked, and they had customers on it. And the funny part is, you don't just have to learn all these crap APIs. You also have to learn Sun's excuses for them. I'm serious. Those are questions on the exam.
As long as you actually think about what you're reading, studying for the JSP cert is an incredible education in how to fuck up Web APIs really, really badly.
After a certain point, of course, I decided against getting that particular certification, but I definitely think studying for it made me a better Rails developer a year or two later. There's a lot of Rails developers who never learned Java in their lives, and never will, but who sneer at it and laugh about it when they really don't even know what it is. The problem is, Java's mistakes are history. Those who don't learn history are condemned to repeat it, and that's exactly what uninformed developers do. I've seen it happen a million times. Even programmers who know Rails internals well sometimes don't have similar knowledge of any other system.
Anyway - many developers disagree on the question of whether technical certifications are offensive bullshit or funny bullshit, but a third group doesn't think they're bullshit at all. This group is way off. The members of this group tend to be inexperienced, young, and/or originally from a country where people in positions of authority act with greater integrity than American corporations do.
Long story short, if you're taking certifications seriously and at face value, you're getting ripped off. But if you just say look, here's this cheap little test, it might be fun to take but it won't be fun to take twice, then you learn something and you enjoy it.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Technical Certifications: What Kind Of Bullshit Are They?
Posted by Giles Bowkett at 9:51 AM
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I totally agree. I have an JEE architect certification (which my company paid for, of course!), looks good but I don't give too much value to it (although I enjoyed getting it and learned in the process). I think certifications are funny BS, ( but I got comments in my blog from somebody who obviously thinks they're offensive BS ).
As I said there, I see two mains values from my certification: I'm not the only one who says I'm a software architect and now I can say any BS I can think about JEE and people would have to listen because I'm certified on it (invaluable skill if you want to be a successful global consultant :-) )
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