text: Inspirational Living Rooms From 2012 The Most Lovely Living Rooms of 2012 by Lisette Mejia 12/23/12 32 Reactions 70 Shares Print 4 43 19 3 1 Given the choice, we would spend all of our time on the couch, eating bonbons. Living rooms are naturally inviting places, where the public part of the house meets the private, and we love every style, from modern to classic to rustic. Take a trip down memory lane and visit our favorites of 2012. Swedish Charm What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 The simple, eclectic living room inside this Swedish apartment features high ceilings and tall, deep-set windows that allow for plenty of natural light. Plus, its sleek, modern furniture in neutral shades creates a simple foundation for more colorful accents. Source: Alvhem Estate & Interior 1 / 10 Bohemian Vibe What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Amber Lewis, the founder of design firm Amber Interiors, knows how to decorate while keeping her living room toddler-friendly. "We have a white couch with washable slip covers that get thrown in the laundry at least once a week. Also, because we have such a boho vibe in our home, I often throw blankets and saris over the furniture, and it just adds to the layered look that we love!" Source: Amber Interior Design 2 / 10 Mountain Retreat What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Take a cue from this Washington state vacation home and anchor a sofa that's floating in the room by pairing it back to back with a credenza or sideboard. Source: DeForest Architects 3 / 10 Hamptons Cool What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Abstract art is a natural addition to this living room inside a vacation home in the Hamptons. The massive stone fireplace is also reflective of the style of its previous owner, architect Norman Jaffe. Source: Sotheby's 4 / 10 Art Showcase What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Raúl de Molina is a Univision host, as well as a big art collector. 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Definition of hang up in English:
hang up
1Hang from a hook, hanger, etc. his good shirt's ironed and hanging up
More example sentences
- It's only 2pm now and my standard-issue jacket is already hanging up for the day on the hook in the bedsit.
- Her favorite dress was hanging up perfectly pressed ready for her to put on.
- Your jacket is hanging up on my bedroom door by the way!
2End a telephone conversation by cutting the connection.
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- The technician asks the person to carry out a simple test using the dialling buttons on their telephone and then hang up.
- The phone rang and she answered it, holding a short conversation in Spanish before hanging up.
- She quickly excused herself from her conversation, hanging up a moment later.
2.1 (hang up on) End a telephone conversation with (someone) by abruptly cutting the connection.
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- If she hadn't already been mad at me over our phone conversation, hanging up on her had certainly done the trick.
- I studiously avoid poll takers waiting to ambush me at train stations and supermarkets, and I hang up on telephone surveys.
- That's how the conversation ends; I just hang up on him as if our conversation held no importance to me.
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Funny Face
Make a Valentine's Day date with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire in one of the most delightful Hollywood musicals of the Golden Age. A romantic comedy with songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Funny Face is a delectable satire on the then-nascent fashion industry, with a remarkable comic turn from Kay Thompson as a Diana Vreeland-type editor for Quality magazine.
Astaire plays Dick Avery, a fashion photographer based on Richard Avedon, but it's Hepburn's model - blooming in bohemian Paris - who everybody falls in love with.
The director is Stanley Donen, who made Singin in the Rain, and the tunes include Think Pink, How Long Has This Been Going On and S'Wonderful.


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By Matt Andrejczak, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Here's a rundown of some of Wednesday's biggest moving stocks in morning trade.
Cirrus Logic /quotes/zigman/69936/delayed/quotes/nls/crus CRUS +0.69% rose 5%. The chip maker's board authorized a share repurchase of up to $200 million of the company's stock.
Flower Foods /quotes/zigman/278520/delayed/quotes/nls/flo FLO -0.20% advanced 6% amid speculation the maker of Nature's Own bread and snack cakes may make a bid for the assets of bankrupt Twinkie maker Hostess. In April 2011, Flower Foods bought then-struggling Tasty Baking Co. for $165 million in cash.
Avoid these holiday online scams
The start of the holiday season is a time of cheer for cyber criminals, who attempt a variety of online scams on holiday shoppers.
Salesforce /quotes/zigman/338061/delayed/quotes/nls/crm CRM +1.60% shares gained 6% following the business-software company's latest earnings report. Excluding items, Salesforce topped quarterly profit expectations by a penny. Subscription revenue — a barometer of how Saleforce's business is doing — rose 35% to $741m during the quarter.
Skechers USA /quotes/zigman/204617/delayed/quotes/nls/skx SKX +0.92% jumped 11% after Susquehanna Financial raised the shoe stock to positive from neutral. The firm said it expects Skechers's sales momentum continues to increase and is broad based across nearly all product categories.
Shares of Scholastic Corp. /quotes/zigman/77704/delayed/quotes/nls/schl SCHL -0.47% got slammed 18% after cutting its May 2013 fiscal year outlook. The company cited reduced curriculum product sales as well as school districts delaying purchasing decisions because of funding uncertainty over the federal budget. Scholastic now expects to make $1.40 to $1.60 a share, down from $2.20 to $2.40 a share.
St. Jude Medical /quotes/zigman/242119/delayed/quotes/nls/stj STJ +0.57% dropped 7%. A U.S. government report cited serious flaws in the design oversight for its Durata line of implantable defibrillator wires, a key product for the company.
Jewelry retailer Zale Corp. slumped 26%. For the recent quarter, the company racked up a loss of 88 cents a share on sales of $357.5 million. On average, analysts were expecting a loss of 68 cents a share on revenue of $365.6 million, according to FactSet.


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Spring has arrived, and with it comes a special event for many people living on the East Coast: A brood of 17-year cicadas is scheduled to arise from the ground.
Millions of these large, noisy insects will begin to crawl out from the soil around mid-May, and with them come increased panic and anxiety, especially for those suffering from an insect phobia.
Maturing for the past 17 years, the cicadas dig their way up out of the earth, wriggle out of their shells, take flight, and look for mates when the soil temperature reaches 64 degrees Fahrenheit.
The bugs don't bite, stick, or attack, and they are mostly harmless to plants, too. But their daylong 90-decibel buzz, along with their large bodies, red eyes, and inept flying contribute to a range of reactions from wonder and amazement to disgust to all-out fear and dread.
Like other specific phobias, [1]a phobia of insects is characterized by an irrational, involuntary fear reaction that is inappropriate to the object, place, or situation. It usually leads to avoiding a particular situation that poses no real threat of danger. Heightened anxiety, even a panic attack, may result when people encounter the object of their phobias. Those with a phobia recognize that their fear is excessive and unreasonable, but they are unable to control it. They anticipate the feared object — such as a huge number of cicadas — with alarm.
Many people who have a phobia of insects in general may have learned to work around this fear. But the cicada invasion might be their ultimate nightmare because they fear they can't escape the unpredictability and intensity of these particular insects. However, one good outcome of the cicada appearance is that people who have previously avoided gardening, camping, and other outdoors activities may decide that this is the time to get treatment. It's challenging, but it may be a necessary impetus.
More than 19 million (8.7 percent) of adults in the U.S. have a specific phobia. The vast majority can be helped with professional care. Many people work through their phobias with a mental health professional to help them face their fears and develop coping strategies.
If you suffer from a phobia, you can get treatment to prevent it from affecting your everyday life. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) [2] is effective, and it usually includes weekly treatment and outside homework assignments. A therapist helps you understand incorrect assumptions and then gradually exposes you to your phobia source.
With time and assistance, your phobia can be treated. So here's to a very happy, healthy, and bright spring for all. And you can take heart because the cicadas stick around only for about a month or so, and it will be many years before we encounter them the next time.
Think you might have a phobia? Screen yourself. [4]
Here are common phobias of some creeping and crawling creatures:
[1] http://www.adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/specific-phobias
[2] http://www.adaa.org/finding-help/treatment/therapy
[3] http://www.adaa.org/finding-help/treatment
[4] http://www.adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/ask-and-learn/screenings/screening-specific-phobias
[5] http://www.adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/specific-phobias/treatment
[6] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2013/05/18/6cea6be6-bd6e-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html


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Elise Ackerman, Contributor
I write about the future of communications technologies
"To our hacker allies, our fellow occupiers, our militant comrades all over the world, the time for talk is over: it's time to hack and smash, beat and shag."
The call to arms issued last week by the international hacker group Anonymous was accompanied by a frenzy of online hacking. Attackers took down the websites of a tear-gas manufacturer in Pennsylvania, the Nasdaq and BATS stock exchanges and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. A few days later they hacked into websites owned by the Federal Trade Commission and the Bureau of Consumer Protection.
The messages they left behind—about their opposition to everything from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a controversial new treaty for enforcing intellectual property rights, to violent suppression of democracy protestors in the Middle East—had the air of giddy jubilation.
"Guess what? We're back for round two," the hackers wrote in reference to their attack on the FTC websites, their second such raid on the agency in less than a month. "With the doomsday clock ticking down on Internet freedom, Antisec has leapt into action. Again. Holy deja vu hack Batman! Expect us yet?"
Comic posturing aside, the hackers seemed amazed by their success: A barely organized ragtag "team of mayhem," as one Anonymous offshoot dubbed itself, was knocking down the Web infrastructure built by major corporations and large government agencies as if it were nothing but paper backdrops in a school play.
The hackers hadn't discovered some secret digital weapon. They weren't exploiting some zero-day vulnerability in a core application. They weren't backed by a powerful government agency. They didn't even have the advantage of surprise—the group has been around in one form or another for almost a decade.
Yet they were winning—easily—against targets as noteworthy as the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the White House and Citigroup.
The victories underscore what is perhaps both the main point of the global Anonymous movement and the secret of its success—that the people in charge, whether they be in Alexandria, Egypt or Alexandria, Virginia—are too corrupt, too complacent and too careless to be trusted. Almost nothing makes that point as effectively as Internet security: Officials have known that the networks were vulnerable for well over a decade and have chosen to do little about it.
Anonymous lays siege to websites using a method called "distributed denial of service" or DDoS. There is nothing new about a DDoS attack, which basically floods a computer that is connected to the Internet with messages, such as connection requests, until it crashes.
The threat of DDoS was raised as far back as February 2000, when successful attacks on Amazon, eBay, CNN, Buy.com and Yahoo made headlines around the world.
Since then the size and frequency of DDoS attacks has continued to increase. Akamai, whose content delivery network spans 80,000 servers in 70 countries, recently reported that DDoS attack incidents had soared 2,000 percent in the past three years. Experts describe DDoS attacks of 10 Gigabits per second and larger as "the new normal." IT analyst groups like Forrester and Gartner regularly advise their clients to invest in DDoS protection.
But the ongoing rout of large government and corporate sites by Anonymous indicates few are listening.
Please, children stopped using DDoS back in 2000. Thing have come along way since then. Only little script kiddies try to use DDoS attacks.
do it ill boycott the internet on the 31 just to show they have a following but ill go on once to see if they came through
To our hacker allies, our fellow occupiers, and for our militant comrades .
Anonymous has made unequivocal statements that OpBlackout is not them, but someone trying to use their credibility. They don't attack information infrastructure; they need it to function on every level.
Yeah this is truthfull. But Amazon are not affording this
I Agree with this recently IPv6 Internet Seeing Increase In DDoS Attacks which is done by Anonymous
We do not forgive !
Imagine this: Someone comes to your house and knocks on your side door. You answer the door and she/he says, "Follow me. Let me show you something important." They lead you to your front door. She/he then grabs the door knob of the locked door and through some series of magic twists to the left and to the right the lock unlocks and the visitor pops open your once secure locked door. Your two beautiful small children standing in the doorway as the door swings open.
Do you shoot the visitor? Or thank them?
I'm not defending Anonymous. In fact, my comment has nothing to do with Anonymous. It does however point out that Internet security is known to be weak, very weak. Weak like the bubble under the mid-2000s' housing market perhaps? Weak like a Wall Street's quant addiction to risk? Yet on we march blindly into the fire. Certainly one rouge group of hackers is not to blame for what so many more – highly paid leaders – freely choose to ignore. Anonymous is not a disease. Anonymous is a symptom. I think it would be wise of Forbes to take the lead and start reporting it as such.
This is good, the USA's physical and web infanstructure have been in dire need of modernization for a long time.
This should be a wake up call for our nation. If we cannot survive an internet attack by a bunch of teenagers, how will we be able to take China's trained and battle-hardened hackers?
We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.


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Reuters Editors
Our editors & readers talk
Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter
The follow is the text of a speech by David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief Reuters News, to the International Olympics Committee Press Commission on June 23.
On May 29th, James Coleman of Bristol smacked his skull on a tree branch while filing updates to the Twitter service (or tweeting) from his Blackberry during a run. His accident spawned a new word: a "Twinjury".
Just think about it: Jogging, Blackberrying, tweeting simultaneously – what more 21st century manifestation of the spirit of amateur sportsmanship could there be?
That same day, St. Petersburg Times sports journalist Rick Stroud tweeted on his Twitter page about US Football developments: "Hearing reports that Bucs might be interested in Marvin Harrison," he wrote to anyone following his feed.
from Mark Jones:
Davos through social media
I spent last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos producing content for reuters.com, running some experiments in new ways to cover a conference, and observing the growing integration of social media into a major mainstream event.
We had great success with giving our correspondents 'Flip cameras' with which to grab short comments from delegates on the key issues of the Forum. You can see some of these on our 'Davos debates' on the economy, financial regulation, environment, and ethics. The major learning point was that these were much, much easier to use than the mobile phones we used last year in Davos.


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NORMAN — The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada recognized Norman with the GFOA's Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for its budget.
The award represents a significant achievement by the entity. It reflects the commitment of the governing body and staff to meet the highest principles of governmental budgeting. In order to receive the budget award, the entity had to satisfy nationally recognized guidelines for effective budget presentation. These guidelines are designed to assess how well an entity's budget serves as a policy document, a financial plan, an operations guide, and a communication device.
Budget documents must be rated "proficient" in all four categories, and the fourteen mandatory criteria within those categories, to receive the award.
When a Distinguished Budget Presentation Award is granted to an entity, a certificate of Recognition for Budget Presentation is also presented to the individual or department designated as being primarily responsible for its having achieved the award. This has been presented to Suzanne Krohmer, budget manager, and Anthony Francisco, finance director.
The City of Norman has received this award for the last twenty-two years. Award recipients have pioneered efforts to improve the quality of budgeting and provide an excellent example for other governments through North America.
The Government Finance Officers Association is a nonprofit professional association serving 17,500 government finance professionals through North America. The GFOA's Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards Program is the only national awards program in governmental budgeting.
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By Jarrod Harris
Times West Virginian
Click, clack — you hear that coming?
Well, it's the cleats of North Marion's girls' track team which compiled a second-place finish in Friday's Big 10 Championship race.
The Huskies took second behind Buckhannon, which scored a 151, while North tallied 90 points. Fairmont Senior tallied a sixth spot at 38.
"We're looking forward to everything, and it's been improving," North's Keri Bland said. "We've been hitting our times during the past few meets, so hopefully, if they continue on the pattern that we've been seeing will be set for states. We are predicted fifth overall in states right now as the girls' team."
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Girls Incorporated of Alameda County
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Girls Incorporated of Alameda County's AmeriCorps members provide literacy and youth development programs serving over 400 youth in low-resource communities each year. The literacy initiative brings daily, after-school programs designed to increase school success of kindergarten through third grade children in Oakland and San Leandro. The Youth Development program increases the familial engagement, physical fitness, literacy skills, self-esteem, and academic success of fourth and fifth grade girls. Through activities in sports, health, STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), and homework assistance, members take an integrated approach that helps underserved girls and their families grow and develop to their full potential. Outcomes include: improved literacy skills, youth development assets, and school engagement and attendance; professional development of 33 full-time AmeriCorps members; and successful leveraging of over 400 community volunteers annually.


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Wednesday 29 February 2012
England produced a thrilling fightback against World Cup finalists Netherlands at Wembley only for the Dutch to win the friendly in injury time.
The visitors had taken a 2-0 lead before England pegged them back in the final six minutes, but deep into stoppage time Arjen Robben saw his shot deflected into the England net to win it.
Stuart Pearce took charge of England for the first time after Fabio Capello resigned earlier this month, the 49-year-old handing the captaincy to Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Scott Parker.
England went close twice in the first half when Manchester City's Adam Johnson had a shot deflected wide and then Chelsea's Daniel Sturridge saw his left-foot shot saved by Martin Stekelenburg.
But the 2010 World Cup runners-up went in front thanks to a moment of individual brilliance from former Chelsea winger Robben, who ran from inside his own half and fired past Hart from the edge of the box.
Less than two minutes later it was 2-0, as Liverpool's Dirk Kuyt sent over a superb cross from the right for Klaas-Jan Huntelaar to head into the England net.
England, who handed a debut to Sunderland's Fraizer Campbell, had plenty of chances of their own, with Stewart Downing volleying wide and the impressive Sturridge shooting straight at Stekelenburg.
Chelsea's Gary Cahill kept his cool to slot home in the closing stages, and then Manchester United's Ashley Young expertly chipped over the advancing Stekelenburg to equalise.
But Bert van Marwijk's Dutch side had the last laugh as Robben cut in from the right and saw his shot hit Cahill before looping over Hart and in.


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Materials:Low-pressure laminate, metal O-leg supportsMeasurements:Worksurface: 29.5" h x 60" w x 30" dMobile Pedestal Storage: 21.4" h x 15.75" w x 21.7" d
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The Voi L-Shaped Desk with Layering Shelf is part of our whimsical list, Top 10: Things with Totally Made-Up Names.
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Clusters for Nothing and Nodes for Free
At Quantum Magnetics we do contract R&D. We often need to design silicon chips, simulate electromagnetic systems and analyze masses of data from field tests. When a single set of regression tests started taking longer than a working day to perform, coauthor Alex Perry found himself wondering how to get short-term access to a cluster. We describe here the sequence of steps that enabled us to set up an OpenMosix cluster with little effort and without having to purchase anything.
Each productivity increase justified putting time into the next step of bringing up the company-wide cluster. We omit details here that are provided in the instructions and FAQs for each project (see the on-line Resources section), partly because things will have changed by the time the article goes to print and partly for brevity.
The simplest applications to run on a cluster are command-line based and run as multiple instances on one computer. Applications don't have to be written specifically for Linux, because they could use WINE or another portability layer. If multiple instances are not possible, much more time has to be put into providing a virtual machine abstraction layer. It is worth checking your specific application before putting any effort into building a cluster to see whether it is capable of benefitting from an OpenMosix-based cluster.
Most of our logic code is written in Verilog partly because, as the joke goes, we can't type fast enough to use VHDL. Mainly, though, our reason is that a broader range of tools is available in Verilog. We use several closed-source place-and-route tools under Microsoft Windows, the runtime of which is tiny, so putting these on the cluster is not worth the effort. For simulation, we have both open- and closed-source options. It is convenient to use the graphical tools (all closed-source, unfortunately) that have IDE source-level debuggers when trying to track down a bug, but these either don't like clusters or have a hefty licensing price tag when running on a cluster. We use Icarus Verilog for non-interactive simulations, as regression testing is more than 99% of the total simulation workload. We like it because multiple simulators can run in parallel; each simulator is a single Linux process; the tool has its own public regression suite; the developers are helpful and responsive; and the syntax parser is paranoid and accurate.
The paranoia of the syntax parser flags a lot of problems for us. Many parsers simply select one interpretation of ambiguously written source, leading to incorrect behaviour that is effectively a bug. In contrast, Icarus immediately complains about ambiguities, and after we've made the tiny rewrite, the synthesized chip suddenly starts working the way that it was intended.
The developers for Icarus, by responding rapidly to bug reports and patches, enhance the value of the simulator in our work. We update from CVS to benefit from those almost-immediate source changes. In addition, it is much easier to standardize one virtual machine (the cluster) than to manage the versions on the individual workstations.
We run all our proprietary simulation tests immediately before and after a new version of Icarus is retrieved from CVS. About once a year, the simulation results are different, so we submit a bug report that localizes the problem to a test case outside our proprietary work. In this way, all our proprietary work acts as an additional regression suite for the Icarus Project without us having to make it available to our competitors. It also ensures that any official release of Icarus is useful to us.
Listing 1. Extract from a chip design project Makefile showing how regression happens. The %.txt reference data is generated automatically using C and AWK.
TESTS = test1 test2 test3 test4 .PHONY:default default: $(TESTS:%=%.log) -hostname -f -cat $(TESTS:%=%.log) %: %.vl iverilog -o$* $< %.vl: %.v ./Makefile.sh $^ > $@ test1.vl: source5.v source7.v %.log: Makefile %.txt %.out ls --full-time $*.out > $@ diff -b -C2 $*.txt $*.out >> $@ echo "... PASS ..." >> $@ .PRECIOUS: %.out %.txt %.out: % time ./$* > $@ .PHONY: %.batch batch %.batch: % echo "make $*.log" | batch -m batch%: $(TESTS) echo "make -l $*.5" | batch -m
The shell script Makefile.sh ensures that Icarus and the Makefile always agree on what source files are being used to build the simulation:
#! /bin/bash echo -n "// "; date for item in $*; do echo "\`include \"$item\""; done
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Memorial services for Alan Douglas Jurney, 64, of Cairo, GA, are at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, January 26, 2013, at Midway Baptist Church, Cairo, GA. Rev. Carl Harrell and Rev. Ron McCaskill will officiate. Mr. Jurney passed away at Tallahassee Memorial Regional Medical Center, Tallahassee, FL, on Wednesday, January 23, 2013. Mr. Jurney was born on November 6, 1948, in West Palm Beach, FL, to the late Jack Arnold Jurney and Doris Perkins Jurney. On May 12, 1973, he married Leslie Worrell Jurney, who survives. He served his country in the United States Army. He was employed with the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services. He was of the Baptist faith. Alan, a husband, father, and grandfather (called Pappy) loved spending time with his family. He was proudest of his children, Amanda and Matt. He loved following the kids around to every ballgame they ever played in. He loved his boat and fishing for all the 'big" fish. He had the best and most entertaining fishing stories about all his prize catches! Survivors include: his wife, Leslie Worrell Jurney of Cairo, GA; daughter and son-in-law, Amanda and Robert Ridgley of Cairo, GA; son and daughter-in-law, Matthew and Lauren Jurney of Jacksonville, FL; grandchildren, Ava Kate Ridgley and Wyatt Ridgley, both of Cairo, GA, Easton Ridgley and Samantha Ridgley, both of Port St. Joe, FL, Emersyn Grace Jurney of Jacksonville, FL; sisters and brothers-in-law, Jacqueline L. and John Hickinbotham of Lilburn, GA, Susan M. and Jim Mahoney of Tallahassee, FL. He was preceded in death by his parents, Jack and Doris Jurney. Memorial donations can be made to Pelham Parkway Nursing Home, 608 Dogwood Drive, NE, Pelham, GA 31779. The family will receive friends at Clark Funeral Home on Friday, January 25, 2013, from 6 until 8:00 p.m. Guests may sign the online register at www.clarkfuneral.com. — Clark Funeral Home
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Billie Lynn Castor and Brett Scott Coldwater announce their engagement and plans to marry on July 9, 2010 at 6 p.m. in Maui, Hawaii.
Castor is the daughter of Frank and Charlotte Castor of Vici and granddaughter of Marilla Castor of Woodward, the late Leon Castor of Vici, the late Bill Castor of Woodward, and the late russell and Velma Adams of Blackwell. She is a 2009 graduate of Northwestern Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. She is currently the owner of a small home daycare in Alva.
Coldwater is the son of son of Sonny and Rae Bates of Alva and Gene and Nina Coldwater of Sayre. He is the grandson of Earl and Rilla Semmel of Forgan, Charles and Dorthey Jean Coldwater of Forgan, the late Roy and Opal Young of Cherokee and the late Ralph and Mamie Bates of Alva. He is a 1994 graduate of Cherokee High School. He currently owns a residential and cedar tree business in Alva.
A reception for the couple will be held on July 24, 2010 at the Moose Lodge in Alva.


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JEFFERSON — An Ashtabula County sheriff's deputy coming to the aid of a disabled pickup truck early Wednesday night discovered the vehicle was carrying supplies used to make methamphetamine, deputies report.
The driver, Joseph E. Dodick, 24, 865 State Road, Geneva, was wanted on meth-related warrants. While preparing the vehicle to be towed, deputies discovered a variety of meth-making supplies among debris in the truck's cab and bed, deputies said.
A deputy on patrol shortly before 7 p.m. noticed a vehicle stopped on State Road, just north of Cork Cold Springs Road, in Harpersfield Township. The driver, later identified as Dodick, told the deputy the clutch became stuck. The driver was eventually able to move the truck a short distance to the driveway of a State Road house, where the man said he lived.
The man denied he was Joseph Dodick and gave the deputy another name. Deputies disagreed, and — unable to confirm Dodick actually lived at the State Road house — called for a tow truck. While taking inventory of the truck's contents prior to hauling it away, deputies found items they said are used to make the drug, according to a report.
In addition to the original warrants, Dodick faces other drug charges, as well as a falsification charge for trying to provide deputies incorrect information, the report states.


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Session II, the part of the semester when students begin their elective courses, began with a group trip to the scenic hills of the Tea Plantation district and the city known as Nuwara Eliya.
Above, a snapshot of the rolling, green hills on the road to Nuwara Eliya.
ISLE student April Bethea (above) poses for a photo in front of the tea-growing hills at one of the tea factories.
The landscape is scattered with waterfalls. Above, Faculty Director Cricket Keating's son (left) and student Sam Bonnel (right) play in front of Baker's Falls.
Student Benjamin Breger (above) takes a photo of the sunset from the Tea Factory hotel garden.
The next day the students traveled to the Nuwara Eliya Botanical Gardens with Professor Savi and Professor Nimal Gunatilake, experts in Sri Lankan biodiversity. The group (above, left) posed for a photo in front of the gardens while ISLE student Dylan Fisher (above, right) takes some time to catch up on his reading.
The students went on a biodiversity hike with the Professors, which involved navigating some difficult terrain (above).
The hike brought the students to Horton Plains (above), where the Gunatilakes explained the landscape.
The day ended with some well-deserved chocolate cake made at the tea factory after a long day of hiking.
Session II also includes extracurricular activities organized through ISLE. These include, batik (a Sri Lankan art form), drumming, and Kandyan Dancing.
Above, Program Assistant Katie Seward and student, Benjamin Breger practice the hand motions they will incorporate into the dance.
Above, the students follow Kandyan Dance instructor Surasena (white shirt, center) in learning the proper technique.
The group also learned a bit of Tamil, one of the two major langugaes of Sri Lanka. Above, students practice some basic Tamil phrases and learn some of the Tamil alphabet.
Students are dilligently preparing for their Independent Study Projects which begin in Session III. Above, Noel McCann consults with ISLE liaison about his ideas for his upcoming Independent Study.
Session II continued with a planned trip to the Southern coast of Sri Lanka.
Above, Ben and Jessica explore the rocks at Kirinda Temple on the Southern coast.
The scenic beaches near Kirinda Temple offer some amazing landscapes. Above, a wave crashes to shore against a moss-covered rock.
The students then traveled to Kataragama Temple, where they participated in a traditional ritual of smashing a burning coconut. Above, Dylan holds his coconut.
Noel (above) shows his respect at the busy Kataragama temple.
Students Dylan, Jessica, and Ben (left to right, above) bring their flowers to the stupa at Kataragama Temple.
Sam Bonnel (above) prepares to eat a Sri Lankan wood apple at Kataragama Temple.
The students also visited Galle Fort (below) on the Southern Coast, a remnant from Sri Lanka's colonial history.
The students then met with a Vedda, one of Sri Lanka's indigenous peoples, to learn about the ways Veddas maintain their traditions and culture in a rapidly changing environment.
Above, students and ISLE faculty and administrators listen to the Vedda speak.
Later in Session II, the students in the Environmental Science Class took a field trip to the Knuckles Mountain Range.
Knuckles, like most of Sri Lanka, is covered in green and home to many different plants, trees, and species.
Above, Professor Gunatilake explains some of the history behind the invasive pines in the region as Faculty Director, Professor Keating (left), looks on.
The students (above) on the field trip posed for a photo, incorporating some of their newly acquired Kandyan dance moves.
A student looked out over the appropriately named "mini World's End" at the Knuckles mountain range.
Later, the students in Professor Premasiri's Buddhist Ethics course traveled to Getambe Temple for Poya Day, celebrated on each full moon.
Noel, (above, left) lit a candle to mark the Poya Day while Dylan and Jessica (above, right) light incense at the temple.
Meanwhile, Ben (above) presented an offering of flowers at a shrine for the Buddha in the temple.
As students narrow in on their Independent Study topics, a group interested in Women's issues watched a documentary at the Women's Development Center.
Students also had the opportunity to speak with a lawyer for Women in Need, a local NGO which focuses on supporting women in Sri Lanka.
Finally, the students all traveled to Manawa, a village filled with traditionally low-caste Sri Lankans who have emerged from poverty through the development of a recycling center. Above, Professor Tudor Silva introduces the students to community members and gives some background on the village's history.
The children of Manawa were all smiles as the students tried to meet as many villagers as they could during their trip.
Some of the older children (above) demonstrated their musical skills with the aid of some of the recycled materials their village collects.
Above, some of the bottles collected for recycling by the villagers of Manawa.
Standing in sharp contrast to the piles of recycled material in the village, students took in the peaceful serenity of a nearby paddy field (above).
The students then turned their attention to their upcoming Kandyan dance performance.
Students Dylan and Ben (above) practice the male part of the dance routine with their instructor.
Later, the female students took the dance floor to go over their routine.
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Above, ISLE student Chrissy Hayes gets some help with her dance outfit.
ISLE students, practice their routine in the outdoor pavilion at the ISLE Center.
Above, the ISLE students and Program Assistant smile for an after-practice picture. Their performance takes place on Friday, April 12th, 2013.
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Dallas (SMU) Scientists whose life work is finding, studying and interpreting botanical fossils will gather at Southern Methodist University this weekend to present scientific papers and exchange ideas on the formation of the modern-day plant world.
The 24th annual Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium which includes some of the nations leading paleobotanists will include findings from a recent SMU-lead expedition to Ethiopia and a keynote address by Amanda Neill, co-director of the Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program and director of the herbarium of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. The colloquium will be held March 16-19.
Among the authors of presentations are Bonnie Jacobs, Juan García Massini, Aaron D. Pan and Neil J. Tabor, all of the SMU Department of Geological Sciences. Other speakers come from a variety of institutions including the Smithsonian Institution, The Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Pennsylvania State University, Ohio University, and the Florida Museum of Natural History.
In December 2006, Jacobs lead a team of researchers studying ancient fossils in northwestern Ethiopia to better understand plant evolution and climate change. The project, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, also is training Ethiopian students in paleontology and archaeology.
The Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium, held on a different university campus each year, provides an informal forum for paleobotany researchers, students and professors to meet with others interested in fossil plants to exchange information and ideas.
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Microsoft once again is at the top of technology news, this time with the introduction of its Windows 8 Surface tablets. A glance at a photo of them and one might think they were Apple iPads—a year or two from now.
Certainly these tablets, with their innovative designs, beautiful appearance and cutting-edge operating systems, could not be from Microsoft. Certainly not. But they are.
Even some of the most jaded in the technology press are using words like awesome, bold, Hail Mary, mysterious, sick, and just plain cool to describe the Surface tablets.
Microsoft introduced two versions of the Surface: a svelte, 0.37-inch thick, 1.5-pound tablet with an ARM processor and running Windows RT, the mobile version of Windows 8; and a 0.53-inch-thick tablet with an Intel third-generation Core i5 processor running Windows 8 Pro. Both have shells made out of a specially developed form of magnesium that Microsoft is calling VaporMG, and both have 10.6-inch high-definition displays made with tough Corning Gorilla Glass 2.
And most important to their standout design, both have integrated kickstands to prop them up in the back and magnetic-latching display covers in the front that convert into keyboards when open. There will be two covers available, the Touch Cover, which is just 0.12 inches thick and has a touch-sensitive keyboard, and the Type Cover, a 0.2-inch cover with slightly raised keys.
The introduction itself was "out of the box," held at Milk, a chic media production studio in Los Angeles, away from the customary San Francisco or New York tech locations, and at a seemingly inexplicable time, late in the afternoon on the West Coast and several months before these products might hit the shelves.
Microsoft wanted to make a statement. And it wanted to make it now, to shake things up, even if the products it showed were not really ready. The introduction, along with at the opening of E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, earlier this month, stands in contrast to that had the press writing about what didn't happen.
Microsoft, for years the fat and happy, monopolistic tech giant, sees its future threatened on virtually all fronts by the mobile revolution, and instead of retreating is reinventing itself. It's not easy, trying to hold on to its historical base, particularly in the lucrative enterprise market, and at the same time seeking to be competitive in the new "computing anywhere" paradigm that threatens the Windows desktop.
So the Surface demo in a way resembled an old Looney Tunes cartoon in which Elmer Fudd has his wooden boat sliced in half lengthwise by a shark fin, and with one foot on one side and one foot on the other is trying desperately to hold the boat together. Apple and Android sharks are circling.
The coming update of Windows looks like it's all of the same piece, but in fact it's two separate operating systems: Windows 8 for the traditional Intel x86 PC platform and Windows RT for tablets that use low-power mobile chips designed by the British-based ARM Holdings plc.
The two versions of Windows have similar branding and look the same on the "surface," but underneath Windows RT is a mobile operating system that is not compatible with any current Windows programs. Microsoft will have a version of its Office productivity suite running on RT, but it will have a limited feature set and will likely be about as related to the current Windows version of Office as the several Office-app clones out there for iOS and Android.
The Surface tablets are an extension of this same dichotomy. While on the "surface" they appear similar and both can run the new, garish-blocky Windows 8 Metro interface, underneath the RT version is an iPad or Android clone with very few apps available for it, while the other is mostly a lightweight Ultrabook PC in disguise that can run legacy Windows software. In fact, it can even be plugged into a desktop display and full keyboard and run as an ordinary desktop computer with the Windows 8 "classic" user interface.
The specs and expected pricing split that way, too. The Surface RT tablet is aimed at Windows users who have held out but might otherwise cave and buy their first Apple product in an iPad. The Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet will be aimed at enterprise IT departments that want to keep employees happy by providing them with tablets, but need them to be secure and manageable and do everything their laptops used to do.
The RT tablet is expected to be available around the same time as Windows 8 launches, sometime this fall, while Microsoft says the Windows 8 Pro version will follow about three months later.
Whether Microsoft can deliver working products that resemble the tablets it showed remains to be seen. The Surface line is likely at a much earlier stage of development than Microsoft wanted to let on. The many questions left unanswered, and limited hands-on for the media (in at least one case the tablet was not even powered on) tell us that.
The biggest questions are battery life and pricing, and how Microsoft's hardware partners react to having to compete with the same company they depend on for an operating system. There may be other stumbling blocks as well that come with introducing so many innovations at once: the new operating system, the magnesium shell, the keyboards, the tight dimensions for all the circuitry. A lot of moving parts.
But whether the Surface is a spectacular success or a spectacular failure, Microsoft has to be credited with showing bold, thoughtful, gutsy innovation. At a minimum it will wake up both its partners and its rivals to push the envelope, and the digital world is better for it.


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With Ryan Millers future in Buffalo in limbo, Sabres fans were able to get a better look at the man who would be Millers likely replacement should he be moved on a grander stage.
Jhonas Enroth was given the reigns to lead team Sweden into the IIHF World Championship tournament as its number one goaltender, and didnt disappoint. With a 26 saves on 27 shots, Enroth backstopped the Swedes to gold at the 2013 World Championship with a 5-1 win over Switzerland on Sunday.


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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. -- Authorities in Huntersville have blocked a road after a sinkhole developed early Tuesday morning.
Huntersville police and fire have blocked part of Bud Henderson Road at Darblay Street after a deep sinkhole developed.
The Huntersville Fire Department tweeted a photo of the sinkhole developing early this morning. The sinkhole spans the entire width of Bud Henderson Road and is about four inches wide.
Crews are on the scene assessing the damage caused by the sinkhole.
No word yet how long Bud Henderson Road will be closed.


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DoD cancels "participation trophy" for drone pilotsApril 16, 2013 4:03 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
The DoD has finally backed down. And I applaud their decision. Following months of negative feedback, the DoD has officially scuttled the Distinguished Warfare Medal. The DWM — intended for drone operators — would've ranked ahead of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart (two combat decorations) in the order of precedence.
Star Wars on the high seas: Navy plans to deploy shipboard laser by 2014April 9, 2013 3:35 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
Some bad news for Sci-Fi fans: The Navy's new shipboard laser system, Laser Weapon System (LaWS), won't shoot spiffy beams of light of the sort used to kill stormtroopers, Cylons, and Klingons. But it will fire a focused infrared laser that can down drones, disable small boats, and — in the future — engage missiles and enemy jets.
The first high-tech warMarch 27, 2013 2:54 pm | by Tom Ligon, Technical Contributor, with contributions by the SIGMA Think Tank | Blogs | Comments
Ironclad warships. A steam-powered warship defending New York's harbor. Submarines. Rifled cannon firing elongated explosive shells. The first use of steam power for logistical support of a battle. Industrial automation. Obviously, I'm talking about the U.S. Civil War, right? Nope.
Drone pilots don't need a "participation trophy"March 12, 2013 4:31 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
Sometimes — and I stress sometimes — the government does work for the people. Case in point: The new Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, has halted production of the new Distinguished Warfare Medal — awarded to drone operators — in response to veterans' complaints that the "participation trophy" ranks above combat medals like the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
Do drone pilots deserve higher medal than combat vets?February 20, 2013 3:32 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Articles | Comments
Since when did waggling a joystick become more valorous than pulling a trigger? It hasn't, you say? The newly-minted Distinguished Warfare Medal — created to honor cyberwarriors and drone pilots — would rank above the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, and the military community is incensed.
Iranian clown car flies ... with the help of PhotoshopFebruary 14, 2013 11:06 am | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
Take that, free world! For all you naysayers out there who thought Iran's clown car, er ... stealth fighter ... smelled a bit fishy, the Islamic Republic has the ultimate retort: a badly-Photoshopped image of the Qaher-313 set against stock photo #3.
Iranian "stealth fighter" looks like a clown carFebruary 7, 2013 11:09 am | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
So it turns out that the new Iranian stealth fighter may be as genuine as the Islamic Republic's concern for human rights. The regime unveiled the jet, 'Qaher 313', on Saturday, and the blogosphere immediately went to work debunking what could be one of the laziest forgeries of all time.
Enfeebled F-35 could impede military readinessJanuary 31, 2013 3:15 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
Picture a Swiss Army Knife with a blunted knife, rusty screwdriver, and a broken can opener. That's what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has become — a jack of all trades and master of none. The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has — over the course of a highly tumultuous development period that personifies the phrase "requirements creep" — become the poster child for bloated government programs.
ECN's Veteran's Day tribute: Remembering those who've servedNovember 9, 2012 2:50 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Articles | Comments
On the cusp of Veteran's Day, I'm reminded that a disproportionate number of our friends and colleagues served in the military. And that makes me proud to work in this industry. ECN — and her parent company, Advantage Business Media — is no exception. You can't swing a dead cat (or give a resounding Hoooah!) without hitting a veteran.
Declassified documents describe real-life flying saucerOctober 23, 2012 11:32 am | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
X-Files fans, conspiracy theorists, and the tinfoil hat crowd were right all along! Sorta… In the 1950s, the US government really was building a flying saucer. But it didn't involve little green men, human-alien hybrids, or David Duchovny; this isn't what you'd call a "smoking gun."
F-35 to make Hollywood debut in Superman flickOctober 16, 2012 5:32 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
According to Wired, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — the oft-delayed, oft-maligned, "backbone of America's tactical aviation fleet" — is set to make its big-screen debut in the Superman reboot, Man of Steel. To be sure, this won't be the first time the JSF has appeared onscreen. A computer-generated F-35 battled The Hulk in this summer's blockbuster hit, The Avengers.
Not for green technology, but for countryAugust 3, 2012 3:16 pm | by Clara Ennist, Editorial Intern | Blogs | Comments
When building better weapons, a focus on green technology is untenable; rather, weapons need to be accurate, cost effective, and pose the least harm to US soldiers. How "green" a weapon is can be an unintended, positive consequence. Enter the Navy's Electromagnetic Rail Gun (EMRG) with guided munitions.
Full steam ahead for the Navy's controversial "Great Green Fleet"July 30, 2012 4:43 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Articles | Comments
The Navy has embarked on an ambitious green energy program, which could cost upwards of $2 billion per year. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus must convince a skeptical Congress, Senate, and public that investing in pricey alternative fuels — in the midst of the worst recession in decades — will reap dividends.
The first "Code of Conduct" for UAVsJuly 3, 2012 11:50 am | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
A trade group has written the first "Code of Conduct" related to unmanned aerial vehicles. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), which boasts more than 7,000 members across 60 countries, released its treatise in response to growing privacy concerns toward domestic UAV usage.
Losing the space race ex post factoApril 26, 2012 11:27 am | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
The United States is conceding the space race...43 years after winning it. The Space Shuttle's ignominious retirement closes the door on an engineering marvel and an American institution. And the public didn't bat an eyelash. How did we get to this point? How did space travel become blasé? When Neil Armstrong took one small step for (a) man, half a billion people tuned in around the world.
Congress Opens Market for Commercial Unmanned Aircraft SystemsFebruary 22, 2012 11:52 am | by Paul Dempsey, Senior Correspondent, Footwasher Media | Articles | Comments
Buried deep in this month's controversial Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) funding bill, passed by the Senate in an unusually bipartisan 75-20 vote were provisions to boost commercial potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Assuming President Obama's signature, the four-year $63B budget bill mandates the FAA to
Army developing self-aware, decision-making networkNovember 18, 2011 8:39 am | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
The U.S. Army is developing a "self-aware, decision-making network" that will ultimately reduce human decision-making requirements and increase network performance. The Cognitive Algorithm & Network Design Experiment (CANDE) was designed to enable easier network maintenance, reduce human decision-making requirements, increase network lifetime, transfer data with less delay, and reduce energy consumption.
Soldiers test network, shape future of ArmyNovember 17, 2011 5:07 am | by Lt. Col. Deanna Bague, Fort Bliss Public Affairs Office | Blogs | Comments
The Army has committed 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, to evaluate new technologies and network capabilities that are shaping the Army's evolving tactical network.
ECN's Tale of Two VeteransNovember 10, 2011 12:27 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
The military deserves our eternal gratitude, and this Veterans Day, we extend our heartfelt appreciation for their immeasurable sacrifices...for their blood, sweat, and tears shed in defense of this great nation of ours. You may not know this, but Electronic Component News has two veterans in its midst. Your humble author, formerly 2nd Lieutenant Lomberg, served three years in the Army Reserve.
In The Beginning: Sealevel Celebrates 25 YearsAugust 26, 2011 6:13 am | by Susan O'Hanlan, Sealevel Systems, Inc., www.sealevel.com | Blogs | Comments
Sealevel Systems, Inc., proudly celebrated 25 years of innovative, reliable hardware and software products to enable computer connectivity and control.
3-D Holographic Technology Provides Detailed Human IntelligenceJuly 26, 2011 9:56 am | by By T'Jae Gibson, US Army (www.army.mil) | News | Comments
Imagine going from looking at the outside of a building, to seeing the internal workings of its electrical system simply by walking around a display case. The sophistication of 3-D holographic technology allows just that.
Retirement of Shuttle leaves void in manned space programJuly 7, 2011 11:20 am | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Articles | Comments
After Atlantis' two-week mission, NASA will retire the Space Shuttle. Between the Shuttle's retirement and the completion of the International Space Station in 2020, the U.S. faces a nine-year gap during which we'll lack the ability to independently ferry astronauts into space. The Space Shuttle fit the textbook definition of government mismanagement. Envisioned as "routine and economical", the finished product was neither.
Fake parts in U.S. militaryJune 21, 2011 12:44 pm | Videos | Comments
A new study shows nearly 40% of the U.S. military's supply chain is made up of counterfeit parts.
Japan announces domestic stealth fighterMarch 8, 2011 12:18 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Blogs | Comments
Responding to regional threats and the United States' refusal to share F-22 technology, Japan is developing its own stealth fighter. The "land of the rising sun" intends to fly its first stealth fighter prototype by 2014. Japan and Israel have both expressed interest in the "air supremacy weapon", the F-22 Raptor.
Unmanned Northrop Grumman X-47B UCAS-D First FlightFebruary 7, 2011 3:23 am | Videos | Comments
A Northrop Grumman video of the Feb 4 first flight of the US Navy's X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator from Edwrads AFB, Calif.


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By BRIAN SMITH
Zonta Club of Parker County is asking for the public's help in furthering the status and education of women.
The club is hosting its 11th Annual Casino Night Saturday, March 23, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Wild Mushroom Restaurant in Weatherford.
Club President Peggy Hutton said the event is the local club's biggest fundraiser of the year and funds a number of scholarships for women. The club also benefits a number of local organizations including Center of Hope, the Senior Center, Parker County Health Foundation and more.
"We gave 14 scholarships last year," Hutton said. "It's not only just for high school students but we also give scholarships for the single mother who wants to improve her lot in life to support her family."
Hutton said more than 20 scholarship applications have been received for this year's scholarships, which will be awarded at the annual Status of Women luncheon in May. Hutton said the amount of scholarship monies given is directly and solely based on the amount raised at the annual Casino Night.
Tickets for the event, which are $50 in advance and $60 at the door, include $2,000 in play money and heavy hors d'Oeuvres. People who are not into gambling are still encouraged to take part in the event, as silent and live auctions will be taking place. Some of the auction items include dinner for 10 at the Wild Mushroom, a week stay at a vacation home in Colorado, a large grill with a donation of meat from Hamilton Meats and more, Hutton said.
"It's just a fun evening, whether or not you gamble," Hutton said. "Whether or not you come to gamble or not, you can realize that you are making a personal commitment to education and that's a wonderful thing."
To donate an item for the silent auction or raffle, contact Gail Wirtanen at 817-771-8082.
Sponsorships are also needed to defray the costs of the event and range from $250 to $1,500. To become a sponsor, contact Amy Mercer at firstname.lastname@example.com or Sharon Chisholm at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For tickets or more information, visit www.zontaparkercounty.org to purchase tickets online or contact any Zonta member for more information.


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Scalable OpenGroupware.org
This article is a follow-up to "Linux Groupware Roundup", published in Linux Journal in July 2005. As you might know, a few things have changed since 2005:
CalDAV has been adopted by the IETF as a proposed standard, and open-source projects, such as Bedework, OSAF Chandler Server (Cosmo), Zimbra and SOGo, implement the protocol.
The Sync4j Project, a PIM-data synchronization server, is now called Funambol. It also has received major enhancements in the past few releases.
In 2006, Novell retracted all full-time employees from the Hula Project. In 2007, Messaging Architects announced the acquisition of NetMail, from which Hula is derived. Thereafter, faithful contributors to Hula forked the source code in a new independent project named Bongo.
The latest version of Apple Mac OS X Server (code-named Leopard) is shipped with a CalDAV server called Calendar Server.
OpenOffice.org's groupware client named Glow is being replaced by a Mozilla-based PIM suite.
A new project named Zimbra obtained considerable attention, especially from Yahoo!, who bought the company in September 2007.
The open-source collaboration servers mentioned in the 2005 article have all survived the competition:
Both OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and Open-Xchange (OX) remain good servers for companies that want to continue using Microsoft Outlook, even though these products have not integrated any new appealing features during the past three years.
Citadel has improved its GroupDAV support, but the authors still refuse to implement CalDAV.
Bedework has forked the UW Calendar Project and quickly brought the project to maturity.
This article focuses on Scalable OpenGroupware.org (SOGo), a complete open-source groupware that integrates all requirements one would expect from a collaboration suite: accessibility, consistent interfaces, scalability and stability.
Based on OpenGroupware.org, a project with more than ten years of maturity, Scalable OpenGroupware.org provides a complete groupware solution oriented toward scalability instead of depth in functionality. SOGo offers all standard groupware features, including the following:
Personal and shared calendars with events and tasks.
Personal and shared address books with LDAP sources.
Personal and shared e-mail mailboxes.
It also stores calendar information using the iCalendar standard and contact information using the vCard format. This avoids information loss when exchanging over protocols supported by SOGo, such as CalDAV, CardDAV and GroupDAV.
In development since 2004, the project has greatly improved during the past few months. Inverse, developers on the project, contributed many improvements, such as CalDAV, CardDAV and ACL support. Furthermore, it re-created SOGo's Web interface so that it matches the look and feel of Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning (or its standalone equivalent, Sunbird). The interface now also makes use of Ajax. Although CalDAV and IMAP take care of the calendaring and e-mail integration of the Mozilla suite with SOGo, address books also needed to be synchronized. Inverse created a plugin for Thunderbird named SOGo Connector that adds this functionality among others.
These contributions allow SOGo to provide Web and native interfaces sharing the same look and feel, features and data—a considerable advantage and uncommon characteristic compared with other FOSS groupware solutions.
SOGo depends on a few core components, such as Apache, PostgreSQL, an LDAP server and an IMAP server (preferably Cyrus IMAP Server, Dovecot or Courier) that uses the LDAP server as the authentication back end. You need to install those (or reuse existing installations) and get them running properly before continuing with the SOGo installation instructions. SOGo supports other database back ends, but for this article, we assume the use of PostgreSQL and that all components, including the LDAP server, are installed on the same server. Furthermore, SOGo depends on the following components:
GNUstep make and base for compiling and installing the project and subprojects.
SOPE, for server-side Web application development.
Start with obtaining GNUstep make and base. If you're using Debian, you can install both components with apt-get:
% apt-get install gnustep-make libgnustep-base1.13 ↪libgnustep-base-dev
Then, retrieve the SOPE and SOGo's sources from the official Subversion server:
% svn co http://svn.opengroupware.org/SOPE/trunk/ SOPE-trunk % svn co http://svn.opengroupware.org/SOGo/inverse/trunk/ SOGo-trunk
SOPE needs to be patched so that it works well with SOGo. Once you have pulled SOPE from the trunk successfully, apply the SOPE patch included with SOGo:
% cd SOPE-trunk % patch -p0 < ../SOGo-trunk/SOPE/sope-patchset-*.diff
Prior to compiling SOPE and SOGo, make sure to source the GNUstep.sh script that comes with GNUstep make. This will define some environment variables used by GNUstep make when building the packages. When using the Debian packages, this script is located in /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh. Once sourced, compile and install SOPE, as follows:
% ./configure --with-gnustep --enable-strip --disable-debug % make && make install
And, finally, compile and install SOGo, its Web templates and resources:
% cd ../SOGo-trunk % ./configure --with-gnustep --enable-strip --disable-debug % make && make install % cp -a UI/WebServerResources UI/Templates $GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT/ ↪Library/SOGo-0.9/
SOGo 1.1.0 with SOPE r1660 compilation
just do apt-get install libmemcached-dev
SOGoCache.h:29:36: warning: libmemcached/memcached.h: No such fi
I am having the same issue... Running on Ubuntu 8.04 64 Bit.
SOGO's compilation
Hello there,
Francis this is great tutorial!
However, you may need to update it as the option --with-gnustep in
% cd ../SOGo-trunk % ./configure --with-gnustep --enable-strip --disable-debug
doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Then on my Debian Lenny machine, the GNUstep make is located in /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/, no more in /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/
Finally, I still have an error during the SOGo's make :
SOGoCache.h:29:36: warning: libmemcached/memcached.h: No such file or directory
Would someone knows how to resolve this issue ?
Best regards,
Good Tutorial
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Tuesday's NBA Free Pick: Memphis Grizzlies -9.5
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Tuesday's NBA Free Pick: Memphis Grizzlies -9.5
The Grizzlies appear to have gotten over the Rudy Gay trade and accepted their new roster. Memphis is coming off a couple of big home wins over the Warriors and Timberwolves and should have no trouble finishing off their homestand with a big win over the Kings. This is a huge game for the Grizzlies. This will be their final game before the All-Star break and the last thing they want to do is go into a long layoff off a loss at home to Sacramento.
Considering how well the Grizzlies have played against the Kings in recent meetings, I don't think they will have any trouble winning this game by double-digits. In the two games this season, Memphis has won 113-81 at Sacramento and 85-69 at home. They are a perfect 5-0 at home against the Kings over the last 3 seasons. Each of the last three have come by 15+ points.
The Grizzlies are a great team to back off a blowout win. They are 12-3 ATS coming off a 15+ point victory over the last 2 seasons. Memphis beat the Timberwolves 105-88 on Sunday. BET THE GRIZZLIES!
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