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Linux in Italian Schools, Part 1
In many Italian high schools, general use of information technology as well as what is taught in the classroom is limited to proprietary software. Some institutes, however, are using GPL products daily, and this is the first article in a series that focuses on these schools. The reasons why these schools discovered and switched to free software are quite varied. Some simply needed basic network services, including e-mail, shared printers, Internet access control and so on. Others wanted to run their Web sites and maybe offer e-learning services through them. Finally, some teachers and other personnel turned to free software to help them produce didactic material for students or simply to manage unavoidable paperwork.
The Istituto Tecnico Commerciale De Sterlich of Chieti Scalo in Central Italy, uses free software for several of these reasons. The school, which offers specializations in accounting and information technology, serves about 700 students with 80 teachers. Linux adoption started at the school thanks to a small number of teachers and students, but today the entire teachers council as well as the principal are backing it.
The first penguins entered De Sterlich in 1998, when the school decided to build a local area network to serve the whole building. On that occasion Linux was selected over Windows NT, thanks to its price and the fact that one of the business economy teachers already had some professional experience with Linux.
After the initial enthusiasm, simply having an internal network turned out not to be as useful as some had hoped. Therefore, the school decided to set up a Web community. They knew that a system of this kind could not and should not substitute for traditional face-to-face interactions, but it was believed it could be a complement. Still, the school wanted a better and more integrated infrastructure in order to share resources and guarantee better communication among school management, students and their families.
For this reason, in September 2000, De Sterlich started to use the Harvey content management system (CMS). This product was selected by the teachers because of two things they read on its Web site. First, Harvey was created specifically to improve on-line school communities, not to make some nice HTML course brochures. Second, all registered users of Harvey, be they teachers, students or parents, can participate in and monitor closely the activity of all other members.
Harvey was installed on the school server by a recent graduate, the only skilled person available at that moment. Initially it was accessible only inside the school, because no permanent Internet connection was available. Even in this phase, however, the teachers managed to localize the user interface and part of the documentation.
In January 2002, a new permanent broadband connection made it possible to offer a whole series of independent Harvey sessions, each devoted to a separate school service or study subject. Following the launch of this official school portal came a separate space where students can learn how to use the system by being the administrator of their own sub-sections or simply fool around and greet friends.
During this same school year, Harvey also was used to run the on-line portion of a training course for new teachers. Each pupil had 25 hours of lessons from home, under remote supervision of a tutor.
In January 2001, the school found itself with about 25,000 Euros available to renovate its oldest computer lab. This facility, devoted to word processing, sported about 15 Pentium desktops, each equipped with 32MB of RAM and Windows 95 with Office97. Having been shared by many classes over the years, the machines had became unusable. Students continuously messed up the configurations; worms and trojans were usual guests; and it was impossible to track who had done what. This is what led the school to try building its first Linux-based computer lab, running Red Hat 7.0 and Star Office 5.2. The choice was simple: Red Hat already was running the school's server, and Star Office was mandatory for compatibility with MS Office file formats. This first experiment took three weeks to set up, because no school technician had ever worked with Linux before nor used a command line.
The management strategy of this new lab was as primitive as it was effective. Every student always had to work on the same machine, using a single account for the entire year. Although computers were shared across classes and students, accounts were not, and they only existed on one machine. They also were easy to track as they were named ComputerNumber_ClassName. The password for each account was known, theoretically, of course, only to the one student who would use it for the duration of that course. However, because everybody had his or her private home directory and always used the same machine, abuses practically disappeared. And when they did happen, they were much easier to track, because everything was logged.
The end result, as the teachers said, "were amazing". A course that had become practically impossible to teach came back with no problems. Everybody could see first-hand the great benefits of free software in education: more stability, efficiency, features and, above all, learning.
Encouraged by these successes, in March 2002 the school created a new computer lab to be used by students and to host courses for CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certification. The effort required to build this second lab was smaller, as this time the necessary Linux and networking know-how already was available in-house. All the computers had the same configuration, both hardware and software. The system administrators had installed the entire reference system--Red Hat 7.3 plus Java, StarOffice 5.2 Free Pascal and others--on a single machine and then mirrored that setup on all the other computers. This time the accounts were set up with NIS, so the only manual configuration left was the IP address of each host. Eventually, the total savings in software licenses amounted to several thousand Euros, which was used to buy more hardware. The school also started to offer on-line classes with excellent results through the GPLed Web-based learning management system ILIAS.
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Some links about this case study.
I link in this page some articles and document concerning the history of linux migration in ITC De Sterlich:
"Le idee degli insegnanti cambiano" di Marco Salardi
"Harvey, una bella storia di open source" di Paolo Del Romano
"Linux all'ITC De Sterlich" di Marco Salardi
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Fix the manuals!
Unfortunately, this problem is made worse by the objective fact that many school manuals "teach" word processing, databases or spreadsheets simply by listing which buttons should be pushed in their enclosed screenshots of MS Office, Access or Excel. If these manuals explicitly covered OpenOffice.org as well, probably much of the perceived difficulty would vanish.
How about making a class project to create equivalent screen shots in OpenOffice.org and adding that as an addendum to the manuals?
Linux in my school
In my school (Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "Antonio Pacinotti" in Rome), is only used SuSE Linux in one lab of electronic. In my labs there are only PC with XP or 2000 Professional :-(...but in my home I use Mandrake LE 2005.
The web site of my school (translated with Google because is only located in italian)is:
(in italian are http://www.pacinottiroma.it)
RE: Linux in my school
In our school we make a summer special. we setup and config a suse linux as a web-server for the other group. the second group designed web-sites on the windows site... good project... a lot of fun with the students... fyi, cu, ps
What, no LTSP or NX?
I'm very astonished to see that there seem to be single-PC setups in the various pools exclusively.
Especially with weak 32MB Pentium machines (are they still in use now?), going towards a server-based setup with LTSP or NoMachine access would probably make a LOT more sense than individual installations, which:
- have to be maintained separately (ok, imaging and NIS etc., so it doesn't have to be that problematic)
- have slow performance due to using the local CPU instead of the server via nicely compressed connections on a 100Mbps network
With LTSP, I imagine you just keep a number of spare machines around, if one machine goes down, then rip it out and replace it with the new one and that's it, maybe 10 minutes.
What is interesting about thi
What is interesting about this story is that the people involved were not Linux experts, and they were successful anyway. An expert team might have used LTSP and some other fancy things, but this K.I.S.S. approach seems to have been appropriate for this school.
Linux in Italian Schools
My daughter is a Math major at the University of Padova in Italy and she has been using linux exclusively in her labs and homework.
The cost savings alone must be staggering when you consider not only what the school would spend, but also each student.
I can confirm that the majori
I can confirm that the majority of University of Padova labs are equipped with Linux (RH), both in "dual boot" with WinXP and as "unique" OS.
Saving Money
I indeed liked the part of "saving money" with Linux. The problem is, that Windows is used so often, that the teachers don't need a lot of training, when it comes to that product.
When I have this kind of challenges, I buy a book - not less than 1.000 pages - and work through this book from the beginning to the end.
THAT can save a lot of money 8-))))))))))))
Familiarity with Windows
I have to disagree with your comment about teachers being familiar with Windows saving money on training. I work with teachers to help them learn about things as simple as Microsoft Word and as complex as Adobe Premiere. The majority of teachers are only familiar with what they know, such as how to send an email using their own hotmail accounts, and basic typing in Word. Beyond this a lot of teachers, not all, are not tech savvy enough to do simple things such as cutting and pasting, let alone using some of the capabilities of an OS. I really think that no matter what OS you have in the school there is going to need to be support for teachers and always some complaints about the differences between what they are use to. Hopefully this will eventually be less true as teacher training improves, but I don't see that on the horizon anytime soon. (By the way this is just my observation:)
Saving Money
For the end user I don't think the differnce between windows and linux with a good window manager (i.e. Gnome, KDE, etc.) is that great.
re:Saving Money
I agree - BUT and here comes a big BUT - People are used to Windows for a far too long time. I held trainings with common office-people in Germany. Hell - I can tell you - they are unflexible as a brick of stone 8-)
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The Lucas Christmas Variety Show has become a popular event every Christmas, which is just what we need to get in the spirit in Crossville. Ruth and Wayne Lucas and several others work hard all year to make it such a successful and fun show.
Ruth answered Wayne's ad for a singer, and a marriage was formed. You could say it was their love of music that brought them together. Ruth is from Memphis and works as an educator for the local Health Deptartment. Wayne Lucas is from Georgia and works at Cumberland Components. They will be doing "Silver Bells" together for one of their songs.
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A petition seeking to authorize a recall against the mayor of Pacific was officially filed with the King County Elections Office on Thursday.
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--admitted to destroying city records
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Despite being elected as a write-in candidate, some opinions toward the mayor have soured in recent months following several public incidents.
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The City of Pacific nearly lost its insurance in June after a building permit was illegally approved by Sun.
Multiple department heads have either been fired or quit over Sun's leadership.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (September 11, 2007) – In a battle of highly-ranked unbeaten squads, the Middlebury College field hockey team defeated Springfield College, 4-1, this evening in a game played at the newly-renamed and newly- resurfaced Stagg Field (formerly known as Benedum Field).
With the loss, Springfield, ranked #15 in the latest National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division III poll released earlier today, is now 4-1 on the young season. Middlebury, which jumped two spots in the poll to the #5 spot, is now 2-0.
Springfield wasted little time in getting on the board, as senior Brittany Veazie (Dexter, Me.) scored just 56 seconds into the contest. The goal was unassisted.
But Middlebury tied it at the 10:54 mark as senior midfielder Lacey Farrell (Greenwich, Conn.) found the back of the net. The score was tied, 1-1, at the half.
The second half belonged to the Panthers. Senior attacker Reid Berrien (Westport, Conn.) broke the deadlock with a tally with 16:19 left. Farrell assisted on that goal. Berrien scored again less than five minutes later (with 11:41 left) to up the margin to 3-1.
The last goal came with just 1:45 left as sophomore attacker Sarah Bryan (Houston, Texas) pumped one home.
Junior goalkeeper Caitlin Pentifallo (River Edge, N.J.) survived that first shaky minute to record seven saves overall for Middlebury. Springfield senior keeper Emma Kaplan (Ridgefield, Conn.) was credited with 17 saves.
Middlebury outshot the Pride, 21-8.
Up next, Springfield will play at Connecticut College on Thursday, Sept. 13 at 4:00 pm. Middlebury will play Saturday, Sept. 15 at Tufts at 1:00 pm.


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Posted 28 August 2012 - 11:46 PM
Just to let you all know that I have published the final part of the D800 review onto the front page.
The entire review is here:
Many thanks to all of you who have responded with questions and ideas for the review. I hope it (and this excellent thread) answer most of them. I have avoided reviewing the cameras video performance as yet. I think that this will merit a separate (smaller) review.
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Posted 29 August 2012 - 10:27 PM
www.scubysnaps.com >)))°>
Posted 29 August 2012 - 10:30 PM
To see the pictures larger, run them in slideshow mode with the thumbnails hidden.
p.s. Sony make many of the sensors in current and past Nikon SLRs.
Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D4 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (waiting for housing).
Posted 06 September 2012 - 01:08 PM
Posted 06 September 2012 - 10:03 PM
This was taken by a D800 in Kashmir in August, again using Tokina 10-17mm as FX lens without cropping.
Sorry the second shot is not underwater, haven't dived with my D800 as yet.
In both cases the lens set at 16mm (EXIF shows 15mm) covered FX, and used as a prime lens. There is no need for a TC.
Haven't pixel peeped yet, happy enough that it works. Did a 100% crop and the details are still quite awesome.
Edited by Diediealsomustdive, 07 September 2012 - 07:29 PM.
D800 hasn't gone diving yet.
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Nikon D4 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (waiting for housing).
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Posted 09 September 2012 - 11:43 PM
Another thing, the other day I had a chat with a topside photographer and we talked about FF, DX etc... and I told him about the DX advantage on depth of field for macro and bla, bla... and he told me it was nonsense and that DOF depended on ratio (1:1, 1:2...) and aperture (f16, 22...) and it was sensor size independent... I didn´t believe him but went to www.dofmaster.com and did an example using two real life camera and combinations with the same angle of view:
canon 7d, canon 100mm at 1:1 (30,48cm), f22: DOF= 0.54cm
canon 5dII, sigma 150mm at 1:1 (38,10cm), f22: DOF= 0.53cm
So my friend was right!
Does this mean that if I get a D800 and start using the 150mm, pictures will be more or less as easy/difficult to take as with D700 - 105mm? where is the claimed macro difficult FF DOF capacity?
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 01:13 PM
I've used both D7000 and D800 for supermacro side by side and it is much more difficult with the D800. I think in the above example, DOF is the same but FOV will be different. Holding FOV constant, the DOF will much much narrower on the D800. The more I read about the issue more confused I get by the physics behind it, but in practice I don't think there is much question.
FOV is where the trick is: we can fill the whole image in a 7D with a 23mm shrimp at 1:1, but that shrimp in FF camera at 1:1 will have a lot of surrounding area. In order to get the same image of the SAME subject we have to go 1.5:1 and that will reduce the depth of field...
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 02:07 PM
I am a big fan on the Sigma 150mm f/2.8, as is well documented. But I do think that the 105mm VR is a better lens on DX than the 150mm Sigma is on FX. Especially as the former can be used with Nikon's excellent AF-S teleconverters.
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 03:21 PM
But I do think that the 105mm VR is a better lens on DX than the 150mm Sigma is on FX. Especially as the former can be used with Nikon's excellent AF-S teleconverters.
Have you used the 105mm VR with a teleconverter on FX?
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Posted 12 September 2012 - 04:10 AM
If we"ll add the fact that we can shoot 1.2X or 1.5X, we actually have 2 cameras in the price of one - ff and crop.
I used the D300 underwater like most of us and crooped the 12.1 when I needed it - we can still print it with fine results.
Posted 12 September 2012 - 06:16 AM
Have you used the 105mm VR with a teleconverter on FX?
Yeah, Tim.
I have used the 105mm VR with the 2.0 TC III (that you also have) on the D800, D4, D700 and D7000 in the last couple of months.
Before that I used the 1.7x TC II. Which I still rate, but I have not travelled with as much recently.
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Posted 13 September 2012 - 05:47 AM
do you favour the TC or the close up lenses for macro???
Nikon D800 in Seacam D800, Nikon 16mm, 16-35mm, , 60mm, 105mm,1.4 and 2x TC, 2x Sea&Sea 110a, 2x Seacam Seaflash 150
Posted 11 October 2012 - 08:27 AM
Not a plug per se, but I bought Thom Hogan's Guide to the D800/800e. I am really impressed with the amount of information about not just the D800, but the technology that it contains in more general terms as well.
If you own the camera (or are thinking of getting one) I would suggest a getting a copy!
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Posted 12 October 2012 - 11:03 PM
I made my tests with the dome positioning and found out it works much better with my calculated Dome positioning.
Every Ikelite user with the Nikon 16-35mm and the 8" Dome should not use the #5510.28, but the #5510.22 + #5510.58. With that combination the port is further away from the camera. The angle of view is wider, the corners are much sharper and there is no vignetting anymore. Especially at f4 you can clearly see the difference.
It´s still not perfect, but much better and at least usable. On the last pic I made an exmaple with f14 and there it looks pretty good.
Here you can find all the pics at f4 and f9 and judge by yourself:
Regards René
Thanks Rene for taking the time out to look further into this, and help those Ikelite users out there. I currently have a d90 in a Ikelite housing, and whilst it's going great, I will soon be buying a FX camera to begin with for land use, however in time for UWP too.
My set up was going to be the 60mm for macro/portraits and the 16-35mm for WA.The likes of Alex M and many others seem to really like this lens. It's also gained significant reviews for it's land use too, and was looking to use this on land for WA to pair up with my Lee 77mm filter collection.
Now, having read your experiences, i'm a little worried. I have already the 8 inch dome, and was hoping the 16-35mm would work nicely underwater.
It really bugs me that the OEM's can't get this type of information correct!!
Do you have any further images out in the field?
thanks in advance.
Posted 13 October 2012 - 12:21 AM
as Ikelite ruined my annual divetrip with the wrong port recommendation I have only some pool shot examples.
The results are much better and quite acceptable with the Ike 8"dome and my calculated dome positioning. But probably with a 9" dome it might be even better.
Here are some examples:
Some more pics of this shooting you can find here:
What really pisses me of is that Ikelite is still recommending the wrong port, eventhough I provided my informations to them and they told they might update the port chart. This is ingnoring the customers and will lead to the fact that everybody with a Nikon FX + 16-35mm will be dissapointed. I really don´t get it. It costs them 5 min to update the port chart.
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The 46-year-old, who saw hopes of a first Grand Slam during his reign evaporate as the Welsh produced a dominant performance on Friday, was scathing about the team's display and said there would be changes to personnel ahead of the away trip to Scotland in a fortnight.
Saint-Andrť will hope that they can obtain their first away win since triumphing at Murrayfield in 2012, but have injury concerns over Yannick Nyanga and Wesley Fofana, two of their more impressive performers against the Welsh.
Saint-Andrť was so angry about the manner of the defeat in Cardiff that, for the first time, he took aim at the players, something he refrained from doing even in last year's Six Nations when the French ended up with the Wooden Spoon.
"I want the players to come back from this and in the next game play with fire in their bellies and turn things around," said Saint-Andrť at the French base in Newport.
Saint-Andrť, may have his plan of recalling Morgan Parra upset as the 54-times capped Clermont scrum-half was sent off during his side's Top14 game against Montpellier later on Saturday for headbutting Rene Ranger.
Friday's first choice Jean-Marc Doussain had a nightmare at scrum-half against the Welsh, although the fact he played the whole 80 minutes for his club Toulouse --who ignored Saint-Andrť's plea not to field players who had started the first two Six Nations games - the weekend before seemed to have played a role in his performance.
"For sure there will be changes," said Saint-Andrť.
"There will be those who are returning from injury," added Saint-Andrť, referring not only to Parra but also to backrow forward Bernard Le Roux, who missed the Wales game because he was concussed in the 30-10 win over Italy.
Saint-Andrť, who will unveil his 30-man squad on Monday and then have to ask the coaches of the Top14 clubs concerned not to play those players next weekend, said that several had allowed the match to completely pass them by.
"There were failures among the players," he said.
"We know that these are players of quality, but certain ones let the occasions get to them.
"There are several players who talked too much instead of doing their job on the pitch."
Saint-Andrť, who was extremely disappointed by the fashion in which his forward pack was dismantled by the Welsh, said that his pre-match message seemed to have fallen on deaf ears.
"I told them that the match could act as the key to happiness," said the former France captain and wing.
"You win and it will open up the way to something exceptional (the Grand Slam potentially).
"I'm annoyed. It is hugely disillusioning, hugely disappointing, we just weren't up to much."


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That was quite a storm we experienced! While the snow has stopped falling (for now), it is still cold outside. And what better way to warm things up than a hot meal? One of my favorite cold-weather dishes is my girlfriend Pammy Ross' Portuguese chili.
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1 red pepper
Half a yellow onion
3 stalks of celery
1 can of dark red kidney beans
1 can of baked beans
1 pound linguica
1 large can of crushed tomatoes
1 can of stewed tomatoes
1 package of chili spice (McCormick)
Cayenne pepper and Cajun seasoning to taste
Cut linguica into small rounds and add to crockpot while heating. Chop veggies, add to pot, add canned goods and spice. Add 1-2 cans of water. Set crockpot to 5-6 hours. Serve with shredded cheese.


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On the afternoon of Sept. 12, Wayland police received a call about an unruly Rolls Royce driver. A woman called to report that the male driver of gray Rolls Royce was yelling obscenities at her as he traveled westbound on Boston Post Road: http://patch.com/A-xRsj
I'm sorry, but clothing isn't optional here
On the morning of Sept. 16, Burlington police arrested a resident on a charge of open and gross lewdness, after a Beacon Village manager reported a resident walking around with no clothes on: http://patch.com/A-xTHv
The golf cart blanket just wasn't comfy
A Concord woman came into the station on Sept. 14 to report that, while caring for her daughter's dog, she was playing a round at Nashawtuc Country Club when the dog jumped out of her golf cart and ran away: http://patch.com/A-xWgd
O, and please send all that extra cash you've got to the FBI. Right.
A Rivard Road resident contacted Needham police on Sept. 17 after he received an email from the FBI asking for money. The email appeared to be a scam. Police are investigating: http://needham.patch.com/articles/police-reports-cash-box-stolen-from-fitness-club
Named after her drink?
Early the morning of Sept. 11, Brookline police saw a vehicle driving on the tracks, and getting stuck. When they interviewed the driver, they found she had glassy eyes and was slurring her speech. The name of the Brookline resident arrested and charged with Operating Under The Influence of Liquor: Kelly Beers: http://patch.com/A-xSfC
Sam Adams gave him away
A Belmont man faces OUI charges after a Watertown police officer spotted him throwing a Sam Adams beer bottle from his car while driving through Watertown Square: http://watertown.patch.com/articles/belmont-man-arrested-for-oui-after-throwing-beer-bottle-from-car
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Boise, Idaho — Scott DeSeelhorst made the choice of 2013 Idaho Winery of the Year an easy pick when his Snake River Winery earned a trio of double gold medals, a gold medal and Best in Show last fall at the 2012 Idaho Wine Competition.
One of those wines the 2009 Arena Valley Vineyard Estate Cabernet Sauvignon then went on to win a Platinum at Wine Press Northwests Platinum Competition. It was only the second time in the event's 13-year history that a red wine made with Idaho fruit achieved a Platinum.
That was really exciting, said DeSeelhorst, who not only makes the wine but also manages 70 acres of vines. I think a lot of it comes down to me knowing the vineyard, and thats actually my favorite part of all this being in the vineyard. Its such a rewarding thing and the most dynamic part.
DeSeelhorst, 47, relies the 30-year-old Arena Valley Vineyard for nearly all his wines. The 2009 Reserve and 2010 Sangiovese came off the bowl-shaped site near Parma, but the other gold medal winner was grown in Martin Family Vineyard across the Snake River in Adrian, Ore.
Yet theres a special satisfaction that comes with the Platinum because it was judged alongside other bottles of Northwest-made Cabernet Sauvignon that also won gold medals.
You dont see a lot of vineyards in Idaho that can ripen Cabernet Sauvignon, DeSeelhorst said. I like to shoot for an Old World style with it, but Im letting the Cab hang a bit more to build sugars. That 2009 got to 25 brix.
That he offers that wine for $16 makes it even more remarkable.
The Cabernet has been very consistent for us, DeSeelhorst said. Ive kept the tonnage at around 2 tons per acre for the past seven or eight years, but in 2009 I did a bit more new French oak with the dollar bouncing back against the Euro.
He purchased the vineyard in 1998, then analyzed the performance of each block. The Chardonnay was planted in 1983. Four years later came Riesling, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
We did a major replanting in 2001, he said. Hes emerged with a fascinating vineyard (2,300 feet elevation) that includes Barbera, Blauer Zweigelt, Orange Muscat, Tempranillo, Touriga Naçional and Rhône varieties Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. The passion for experimentation continues as he explores possibilities for the Austrian variety Grüner Veltliner and the Italian white Vermentino.
I really like Malbec, he said. I think it will be a great grape for Idaho. Its a middle-to-late ripener and a good, hardy plant.
And, of course, theres Riesling Idahos most abundant variety.
I ramped up production in 2012, DeSeelhorst said. Were going to be bottling that in a couple of months, and its going to be awesome. It got extra hangtime in the fall, so the grapes got nice and golden. Were doing 2,000 cases of Riesling, which is a BIG step for us, but its been selling.
The growing year was good as Ive seen straight across the board phenomenal, DeSeelhorst said. We had early bud break, a good spring and everything ripened 100 percent. Im really excited about the 2012 wines.
He and several other Treasure Valley winemakers are a bit worried about the potential of bud damage in 2013 as a result of a long stretch of single-digit temperatures in January.
Hes learned about winemaking and grape growing via UC-Davis course work and tips from Idaho winemakers, but DeSeelhorsts appreciation for food and wine developed while he graduated from the Scottsdale (Ariz.) Culinary Institute. Business acumen came as a commodities broker in Chicago, and he continues to serve as a manager in his familys Solitude Mountain Resort near Salt Lake City. Traditionally, the ski resort comes to life about the time DeSeelhorst puts his newly crushed wines to bed.
Once pruning starts, I spend quite a bit more time at the winery, he said.
Meanwhile, his wife, Susan, a Boise native, oversees the Snake River Winery tasting room in the vibrant BoDo district near the state Capitol.
My wife is a retail genius, and shes done very well with the couple of ski shops she runs in Solitude, he said.
A handful of smartly priced gold medals makes sales a bit easier, too.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. — For 30 minutes the Oklahoma women weren't the second best team on the floor at Allen Fieldhouse but a very distant second best. And being best the last 10 minutes wasn't early enough.
Ranked No. 22 but on its way out of the poll, OU fell 81-71 to Kansas Sunday afternoon.
Down more than 20 points in the second half, the Sooners rallied within seven, 60-53, with 5:44 remaining on a layup from Sharane Campbell.
After Kansas pushed the edge back to 13 points, the Sooners had it back at seven, 70-63, with 1:28 remaining. But the Jayhawks hit their free throws down the stretch and that was that.
Yet again, some of OU's best players struggled. Aaryn Ellenberg came on late to finish with 21 points, but made only 9 of 26 shots. Point guard Morgan Hook hit 3 of 10 from the field and most of her misses were layups.
The bigs were OU's strength.
Senior forward Joanna McFarland finished with 16 points and 15 rebounds for her eighth double-double against a Big 12 Conference opponent. Junior center Nicole Griffin made 8 of 12 shots, finished with 17 points and grabbed nine rebounds.
Kansas was led by Carolyn Davis' 24 points and 10 rebounds. Monica Engelman added 21 points and five rebounds.
The Sooners fell to 18-7 and 8-5 in the conference. The Jayhawks improved to 16-8 and 7-6.
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How to FTP through an iptables Firewall
I've been trying to configure iptables to work properly with
incoming SSH and FTP. For some reason, every time I want to FTP from a
remote site, I have to disable the POLICY for the INPUT chain. Can you
explain how to deal with this issue—configuring FTP and
iptables together without having to disable the policy? I'm running
Red Hat 8.0.
Ramiro Albarracin
Without having your list of rules it is difficult to find the problem, but clearly some of the rules (in the INPUT chain) are preventing the traffic. Try adding LOG rules before each actual rule (in /var/log/messages) to see which one is causing the packets to stop. For example:
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -s 0/0 -d 0/0 \ --dport ftp -j LOG --log-prefix "FTP :" iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -s 0/0 -d 0/0 \ --dport ftp -j ACCEPT
Mario Bittencourt
You should read up on firewalling and FTP. Basically, FTP is a hard protocol to filter, and actually it's two protocols in one, depending on the client. Active FTP is not too hard to filter on the server side; you simply need to allow incoming connections on port 21 (the control connection). For passive FTP, however, the server doesn't open the data connection to the client; the client opens the data connection to you on some high TCP port (>1024). With iptables, you can make use of connection tracking, which opens only the one port used for that FTP connection:
iptables -A $IF -p tcp --dport ftp -j ACCEPT iptables -A $IF -p tcp --dport 1024:65535 \ -m state --state RELATED -j ACCEPT
You also have to load the ip_conntrack_ftp module for the above
to work (modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp).
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Synchronize Your Watches
How can I manually time synchronize my computer? When I
install my distribution, Mandrake 9.0, it lets me choose an
NTP source, but I don't leave my machine powered on all the time.
How can I manually sync to be sure its happening?
Rick Shores
Simply run ntpdate timeserver.
This command synchronizes your time to the
time server and also reports how far off
your clock was. You probably should follow this by
saving the time to your hardware clock to preserve
it if you reboot: hwclock --systohc.
Chad Robinson
Dual-Boot System Skips LILO Menu
I had Red Hat 7.1 installed on my PC, with another
partition used for Microsoft Windows. I recently
re-installed Windows using mssetup.
When the system reboots I am not being asked whether
to switch to Windows or Linux. Now
the system starts up directly in Windows. Is there
some way to restore Linux?
Kunal S Doddanavar
Windows removed or disabled the Linux bootloader,
which is LILO on Red Hat 7.1. Boot with your
rescue floppy, mount your Linux root partition
with, for example, mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
and run lilo -R /mnt before rebooting. If you were
running GRUB, grub-install should do the trick.
Marc Merlin
On newer Red Hat distributions that use the
GRUB bootloader, boot from the rescue floppy and
re-install GRUB with grub-install.
If you didn't make a boot disk, boot with the
first install CD in rescue mode.
Christopher Wingert
Cleaning Up Old Kernels
I am using Red Hat Network to upgrade my software
and keep it current. I have allowed the up2date
program to include my kernel. Now my /boot
partition is getting too full. How do I remove
some of the old kernels? I really don't think I
need five different kernels in /boot.
Bob Wooden
Simply remove the undesired boot images. You could
run rpm -qa | grep kernel to find which kernel
packages you have installed, and use rpm -e to
remove the older ones. As a suggestion, keep at least two options, so that if
something goes wrong with the current one you have
a backup.
Mario Bittencourt
This is not only okay, it is a good administration habit. You should
keep only useful kernels around, and generally only two are required: the
primary kernel file and a backup in case something happens to the primary.
Saving as many versions as you have is rarely necessary
unless you have special requirements, such as if you are developing and
testing kernel drivers.
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USB Flash Drive?
How do I mount a USB flash drive? I can see my flash drive when
I check /proc/bus/usb/devices/. When I run the hardware browser, it shows up
as hda4 (fat32), but I can't mount it or access the files.
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It looks like you do not have the usb-storage driver loaded, which is
needed for this device. Take a look at the Linux USB Guide at
www.linux-usb.org for more information on how to
load the proper drivers and mount the device.
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Support for Intel Video?
My video card is a built-in Intel 82845G/GL that
fails with Linux (Red Hat 8.0). Linux probes it during
installation but fails to start up in graphic mode; startx shows a fatal
Jafar Borhan
Searching on Google, I found a page on
how to configure a system with this video card,
Upgrade the listed packages, then run
Marc Merlin
Connections Time Out
Telnet and SSH connections seem to time out and and I get
disconnected. I use tcsh for my shell, and the pty device I am logged
in on is listed in /etc/securetty. This is not an issue with autologout.
Even if I disable autologout, the connection still is dropped after about
an hour. When this happens, the user still is listed as being logged in
and the shell still is active. It has to be terminated by killing its process
Floyd Miller
This smells of a firewall-level issue. In common NAT and masquerading
setups, if there is no traffic on a link for some time the router
will forget about the connection, assuming it was closed improperly.
This is because some clients do not issue closure requests correctly,
and it would be unwise to allow these stale connections to continue to
tie up kernel resources.
Chad Robinson
You may be going through a NAT gateway that expires idle TCP connections after one hour of inactivity. Try (as root):
echo 600 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time
Then, when you use SSH, you should ask for keepalive TCP packets to keep the connection up:
ssh -o 'KeepAlive=yes' targethost
Marc Merlin
You can save typing and put:
ProtocolKeepAlives 300in ~/.ssh/config to make SSH send keepalive packets for all connections every five minutes.
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After just 6 years in operation, Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, California [2], enjoys a high level of repeat donations from parents and alumni. Making sure their audience is aware that they can give online via DonateNow [3] is an important part of PRS's communications, both online and in paper mailings. The result: Folks are giving earlier than ever and alumni donation rates have reached 80 percent!
Engage your community. Let them know that online giving is an option."
—Emma Balina, Manager of Annual Fund and Alumni Relations, Pacific Ridge School
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Any nonprofit would consider itself lucky if, after only 6 years since its founding, it already enjoyed an engaged, enthusiastic community of donors. Carlsbad California's Pacific Ridge School (PRS), founded in 1997, has done just that. Thanks to its mission of preparing students both for college and a purposeful life by fostering academic excellence, ethical responsibility, and global engagement, this independent academy's staff, parents, and alumni are always eager to step up to the donation plate. Emma Balina, the school's manager of annual fund and alumni relations, shares a few secrets of their fundraising success.
Q: What makes PRS successful at online fundraising?
PRS: We're lucky to have a very engaged community. Our volunteers connect with parents and encourage online giving. We send an e-newsletter every week that highlights things like school events and vacations. Every few weeks we highlight a fundraising campaign. We include DonateNow links in all of our email communications. The school has quite a culture of giving, primarily through grassroots efforts. We don't have specific goals for online giving. More important to us than dollars raised is achieving a participation benchmark. If we can get everyone to engage, the money will come. In 2012, 80% of alumni and 100% of parents gave—quite a feat for an organization that has been around for just six years.
Q: Why did you sign up for DonateNow?
PRS: After researching review sites and blogs, it was clear that Network for Good was the best provider. DonateNow is customizable, so we can have the background look and feel just like the school's website. It also eliminated steps for donors, which makes giving easy and allows them to give when they choose. Folks are giving earlier as a result of DonateNow.
Q: What advice would you give fellow nonprofits to help them maximize their online engagement efforts?
PRS: Engage your community. Let them know that online giving is an option. Enable giving in every communication.
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[2] http://www.pacificridge.org/
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[5] http://www1.networkforgood.org/digitalgivingindex?utm_source=npo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=casestudy
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|DCLG issues regulations on reconsidering Sustainable Community proposals
|Monday, 18 June 2012 16:49
The Government has introduced new regulations that will allow previously dismissed proposals under the Sustainable Communities Act to be reconsidered.
The Government has also launched a consultation on whether parish and town councils should be given the power to make submissions under the legislation.
The Act allows people to submit proposals – through their local authority – to the Government asking it to remove barriers, such as planning regulations or bye-laws.
Under the new regulations, a third party 'selector' will be able to ask the Government to review its decision. The Department for Communities and Local Government said this would mean the Government would have to fully justify its reasons for rejecting the original proposal.
The Government will also have to consult and try and reach an agreement with the 'selector' before a decision is made on implementation of the proposal.
The identity of the selector is to be announced in due course. The regulations will come into force on 26 July 2012.
The DCLG insisted that the regime would be "light touch".
Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark said: "Local people often have great ideas for their areas and are keen to improve their neighbourhoods yet are met with a plethora of rules and regulations that do nothing but stand in their way.
"Ensuring people can challenge these rules will make the Government much more accountable for the rules it implements. Government's role should always be to support local people, not stop them.
"These new regulations help enforce that notion and put the power where it belongs, at the local level. They will help replace the implicit 'no' to improvement in our cities, towns and villages with an explicit 'yes'."
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Three teenagers were Friday with robbing and assaulting another teen who came to sell them marijuana at Golden Gate Parkway and West Meyer Road in Wentzville Wednesday.
Charged with two counts of first-degree robbery and two counts of armed criminal action were:
- Henry Robles-LaFontaine, 17, of the first block of Belmont Drive in St. Peters
- Aaron Sutton, 17, of the 1400 block of Plaza Place in Wentzville
- Dominik J. Massey, 18, of the first block of Belmont Drive in St. Peters.
Megan Lunte, 17, of O'Fallon, was charged Friday with tampering with evidence in connection with the robbery.
said that the victim called Robles-LaFontaine and asked him if he wanted to buy marijuana. Robles-LaFontaine was with Sutton and Massey, who blamed the victim for getting them arrested in an earlier drug bust because he did not claim his drugs, police said.
Robles-LaFontaine arranged to meet the victim, and the three planned to beat and rob him when he arrived, according to the police report. The victim did not know Sutton and Massey would be with Robles-LaFontaine.
When the victim arrived with another person, Sutton instigated a fight with the man selling marijuana, police said. The second man told police that Robles-LaFontaine pointed a silver, Smith & Wesson .38 Special at his head and said, "Give me your money."
The victim told police he gave Robles-LaFontaine $5.
Robles-LaFontaine denied pointing the handgun at anyone or taking money. He said he pointed the gun at the ground and demanded the marijuana, according to the police report.
The first victim tried to run, but Robles-LaFontaine hit him with the handgun, the second victim told police. He also told police that during the assault, Sutton took $90 from the first victim's pocket.
The victims said Massey did not participate in the assault. According to the police statement, Massey said he helped plan the robbery but decided not to participate.
Police said that Robles-LaFontaine texted Lunte at one point and asked her to take a book bag with the .38 Special out of his house, according to the report. Robles-LaFontaine then told police he used a bb gun during the robbery. He later admitted telling Lunte to hide the weapon.
Lunte told police she was scared and was trying to prevent her friends from getting in more trouble.
Bond for Robles-LaFontaine, Sutton and Massey was set at $150,000 each, cash only. Bond for Lunte was set at $20,000.


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Outfielder signs one-year deal to remain in Atlanta
The Braves have avoided arbitration with Matt Diaz by signing the outfielder to a one-year deal worth $2.55 million, The Associated Press reported Friday.
Diaz is projected as one of Atlanta's starting corner outfielders in 2010 after batting .313 and posting career highs with 13 homers, 58 RBIs and 12 stolen bases in 125 games last season. Overall, the 31-year-old Diaz has hit .310 with 36 homers and 161 RBIs in 475 career games over seven seasons with the Braves, Royals and Rays.
The $2.55 million contract represents a raise of more than $1 million over the $1.237 million he earned in 2009.
With Diaz now under contract, the Braves' only remaining arbitration-eligible players are left-hander Boone Logan and right-hander Peter Moylan, who were both tendered deals prior to Saturday's 11:59 p.m. ET deadline. Second baseman Kelly Johnson was non-tendered on Saturday afternoon.
Ed Eagle is a reporter and producer for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Oklahoma opened its men's gymnastics season Saturday with its 14th consecutive Rocky Mountain Open Championship.
The third-ranked Sooners scored 423.500 to knock off No. 9 Nebraska, No. 11 Air Force and Arizona State at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
"I thought we were pretty good on four events," coach Mark Williams said. "We let things slide a little bit on high bar and floor, but given that we had to step up around Dylan Akers' injury, I was pleased with the overall performance.
"We had an event champion on every event, and Alec Robin won the all-around, so I'm pleased with that. In the end, the pommel horse team stepped up when the meet was still undecided."
Even without Akers, who was a late scratch, the Sooners posted the top team score on pommel horse (71.750), rings (71.500), parallel bars (70.500) and high bar (67.900). Oklahoma and Air Force shared the high score on vault with a 72.950.
Robin, a sophomore, took the all-around event title with a score of 80.950, extending the streak to 14 straight years that a Sooner has been all-around champion at the event.
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Camp is for kids ages 8-16 and is held at the Route 66 Boathouse on Lake Overholser. This camp allows participants to learn the basics of paddling and will have the opportunity to race kayaks, canoes, and dragon boats. The kids will also learn water safety while experiencing team building. At the end of camp participants can also join the RIVERSPORT Junior Sprint Kayak team.
Camp is March 11-15 from 8am - Noon. Cost is $150 for the week.
Second camp is March 18-22
Phone number is (405) 552-4040
Website is http://riversportokc.org/camps
Boathouse District Address
725 S. Lincoln
Oklahoma CIty, OK 73129
Route 66 at Lake Overholser
3115 E Overholser Dr
Oklahoma City, OK 73127
SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Spring Adventure Kayak Camp


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