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I like Wordpress but not as much as I like BlogEngine.NET. I have to move to Wordpress because of a very serious issue in BlogEngine.NET. I am on a shared hosting and they are very peculiar about the memory/CPU usage of a site. So, The problem I faced was that if I use SQL Server CE as your data store than it will increase the disk usage time which in turn shuts down my site application pool and cause 503 service unavailable error. This was very annoying and to keep up my blog up and running I have to suddenly switch to Wordpress before I can figure out the exact cause of this problem.
I still have no issue with Wordpress, but I can't enhance it the way I can do it with BlogEngine.NET because it's in PHP. I decided to switch to BlogEngine once but then I thought it would be good to write a simple blog engine from scratch. So I fired up Visual Studio and start a new MVC web project. I worked on previous versions of MVC and I was aware of things which can be done more quickly than the traditional way. Writing a blog engine from scratch was a great way of learning a new technology. I am very much familiar with MVC so I opted to try some new stuff this time.
There is a lot of work pending but user facing part of my blog is completely ready by the end of this week or may be earlier than that. I want to thank K. Scott Allen for his valuable tips for creating a custom blog engine.
If you are using Google chat on your browser you can see a notification pop-up when a new chat message arrives. I don't use Google chat or GTalk a lot for communication so I am not very well versed about its over all functionality and coolness. But one thing that always got my attention in the past was the notification that I get on my desktop from Google. This is a very cool feature and my colleagues find it a very important feature of chat as it get their attention immediately.
HTML5 now gives us the ability to the developers to show Google like desktop notifications with a very little effort. Here is how you can accomplish this for one of your web applications. I am going to use Notifications API to show desktop notifications.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<title>HTML5 Notifications</title>
<input type="text" id="txt" />
<input type="button" value="Show as Notification"/>
<input type="button" value="Show Random Notification"/>
<input type="button" value="Show Random Notification (with icons)"/>
This is the plain HTML with controls in place. I have a text box and three buttons which will call a JavaScript function to show the notification on the desktop. The first button will show the text entered by the user as a notification. The second button will show a random message as a notification and a third button will show the same random message but this time with an icon. To see it in action lets add the JavaScript code.
function ShowTextAsNotification() {
ShowNotification("Custom Notification", document.getElementById("txt").value);
function GetRandomText(ico) {
var Quotes = ["Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.",
"Copy and paste is a design error.",
"I had a life once. Now I have a computer.",
"Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.",
"Software sucks because users demand it to."];
if (ico == false) {
ShowNotification("Famous Quotes", Quotes[Math.floor(Math.random() * (1 - 5 + 1) + 5)]);
else {
ShowNotificationsWithIcons("Famous Quotes", Quotes[Math.floor(Math.random() * (1 - 5 + 1) + 5)]);
function ShowNotification(title, body) {
Notification.requestPermission(function (perm) {
if (perm == "granted") {
var notification = new Notification(title, { body: body });
//Un-comment the below line if you want to close the notification after a certain period
//It not working on Chrome...I don't know why!!
//notification.onshow = function () {
// setTimeout(notification.close, 5000)
function ShowNotificationsWithIcons(title, body) {
Notification.requestPermission(function (perm) {
if (perm == "granted") {
var notification = new Notification(title, { icon: "Bomber.ico", body: body });
The is pretty self-explanatory. The Notification API uses the Notification.requestPermission function to get the user consent before showing the notification on the desktop. The API documentation states that there are 3 permissions:
On line 22 in the above code, you can see that the API checks for the request permission from the user. When it does that the user is prompted to either allow or deny the access of the API. You will be only asked once for this permission.
The perm object is then checked for the permission, if "granted" then show the desktop notification to the user else there will be no notifications for the user. After the permission is granted from the user, initializes an instance of a Notification with title and body. You can say that title is the heading of the desktop notification and body is the text of the notification. You can also have an icon for the notification by setting the icon property.
Run the sample and enter a text in the text box and click on the button labeled "Show as Notification". As soon as you click the button, if you are running it for the very first time then you will be prompted by the browser to allow or deny the access or it will show the notification at the bottom right corner of your desktop.
In the above notification, Custom Notification is the title and "This is a desktop notification" is the body.
Click the second button labeled "Show Random Notification". Clicking this button will generate the same desktop notification but every time you click it it will generate a random message from an array and show it as a notification.
If you click the second button multiple times you will 3 notification at a time. The new notifications will be shown at the top of the current notification like this.
In case you click the button more than 3 times, you still be able to see these notifications until you close the one which are already visible. Once you close any of the notification the one in the queue will become visible.
The icon can be displayed in the left portion of these notifications. Click the third button to see it in action. It will display the same random quotes but this time with an icon.
The only problem I am facing implementing the Notifications API is that I cannot close these notifications automatically after the set time. You can try using it on your browser by un-commenting the lines in the ShowNotification() function.
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There are many syntax highlighting plugins available on the web right now. Majority of the sites are using javascript based Syntax Highlighter from Alex Gorbatchev. I am using it for my current blog and BlogEngine.NET has it as a default syntax highlighter. It is good because it has a lot of themes to offer and you can also customize according to the look and feel of your blog or site. Moreover it has support for multiple languages which makes it acceptable among most of the bloggers and developers.
I also like the way MSDN and Codeplex style their code. Although it has some flaws like moving the code to the next line if it exceeds the length of the pre or div tags. The library MSDN and Codeplex are using for syntax highlighting is ColorCode. ColorCode is open-source and supports every language specific to Microsoft. The way ColorCode works is totally different than that of any other syntax highlighting library. Javascript based syntax highlighter use CSS for different styles whereas ColorCode uses in-line CSS to set styling for the code.
To install ColorCode you can use NuGet command or add ColorCode reference as a library downloadable from Codeplex. NuGet command:
PM> Install-Package ColorCode
Only Microsoft stack languages are supported by ColorCode. Here is the complete list:
As I mentioned earlier that this library uses in-line CSS and therefore you cannot use it in the windows forms application. You can use the webbrowser control in windows forms application if you want code to render correctly.
This is a sample basic usage of ColorCode.
string code = File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath("~/Test.txt"));
string finalCode = new CodeColorizer().Colorize(code, Languages.CSharp);
codediv.InnerHtml = finalCode;
First line of the code will read all the text from a file. The second line will initialize a new CodeColorizer class Colorize method which will take 2 parameters, first is the code for which we want the syntax highlighting for and the second parameter is language. I now have the finalCode string which has the code with syntax highlighting. This is the output I have in my browser window.
It looks pretty good from the front but behind the scenes it's not that pretty.
ColorCode is an open-source library and is hosted on Codeplex.
When I heard about Glimpse, I thought it like to be another MiniProfiler like stuff or a combination of MiniProfiler and this. But it seems to be more robust diagnostic tool for developers. Here is my experience with this awesome diagnostic tool.
What is Glimpse?
Glimpse is a diagnostic tool for ASP.NET applications which let you see detailed diagnostic information of your web application. Glimpse knows everything your server is doing and displays it straight away to you in your browser. Currently Glimpse is supported for ASP.NET – Web Forms and MVC and PHP and other languages are in queue as well. If you want to contribute to the project as it is open-source, you can contact the project developers here. The Glimpse project is still under development and there are more that 70 bugs reported at Github.
Getting Glimpse & Getting Started
I have used MiniProfile in the past and the major difference between the two tools I noticed is that in MiniProfile you have to make changes in the code to profile or view the diagnostic information. On the other hand Glimpse is just simply plug and play library. If you are going to give Glimpse a try make sure that you use NuGet to get the library. Glimpse comes with lots of configurations and setting them out manually in the application will be a pain just like ELMAH. As we are now living in post-NuGet era, we must use the power of NuGet to do all the hard work and configuration for us. You can get Glimpse depending on the type of project you have. To add Glimpse in MVC application fire the below NuGet command.
PM> Install-Package Glimpse.MVC
For Web Forms
PM> Install-Package Glimpse.ASP
After the command gets completed, take a look at the web.config file where you can see all the configurations. Without paying more attention to the configs, run the application to see Glimpse in action. Unlike MiniProfiler, there were no changes in the code. Before you can actually see Glimpse in action you have to turn it on, and to turn Glimpse on navigate to the URL http://localhost:XXXX/glimpse.axd
A cookie is set when Glimpse is turned on. This cookie tells the server to send the diagnostic data to the application. Here is how it looks on my home page.
The above screenshot gives you a summarized information of what your application and server is doing. The summary part is distributed in three parts i.e. HTTP, HOST and AJAX. The HTTP segment shows the summary of the diagnostic information that flows over HTTP. In the HOST segment you can also see the name of the controller and action name. AJAX segment shows zero count as there are no AJAX call yet in my application which communicates with the server. This is just a summary which is visible at the bottom right hand corner of the web page. To view more detailed diagnostic information hover the mouse over any of these segments and you get one level more information.
If this is not enough for you then click on the big g icon at the bottom right corner.
The screenshot above just covering one tab out of 12 tabs which have complete diagnostic information about the application.
What else it can do?
Glimpse has extensions that will let you get information about EF, nHibernate, Ninject and many more. You can view the complete list of extensions here which you can use to see what these libraries are doing behind the scenes. Check out the complete list of extensions here.
Moving to production
Glimpse is a diagnostic tool and is very powerful from a developer's perspective. When moving the website or web application to the production servers, no developer would want to leave Glimpse working on the landing page of your site. So before you move to production you have to turn Glimpse off. To turn off Glimpse you can navigate to the same URL which you have used earlier to turn it on. This is the easy option available, but anyone with the Glimpse handler URL can easily turn it on!? The best approach is to change the setting in the web.config file, so even if the third person has the URL of the Glimpse handler he will never be able to turn it on. To turn off Glimpse permanently set defaultRuntimePolicy to Off. The line in your web.config after the change will look like this.
<glimpse defaultRuntimePolicy="Off" endpointBaseUri="~/Glimpse.axd">
Once this property is set to Off, there is no way a user can turn Glimpse on without changing its value back to On. Glimpse has a lot more options to explore which I can't cover in single blog post. I am looking forward on using some extensions now for Ninject and Entity Framework.
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I want to briefly share my journey with this once hated but now loved exercise.
When I first started my challenge, I was doing prone leg curls as my main exercise for my hamstrings and that was a pretty good workout but I wanted more because my legs are my skinniest/and weakest part of my body.
I decided to take up the straight leg dead lift. During the first 5 or 6 times I did this, it was awkward, it made my lower back scream, and my form was let's just say a work in progress.
It was about the 7th workout with this exercise that everything came together. My form was correct, my lower back was no longer screaming, and the next day and the following three days, my hamstrings were sore like they have never been. I do his exercise everytime I work my lower and it never fails me - I am always sore.
The straight leg deadlift may be one of the most difficult exercises to learn but make no mistake, it is the best exercise, bar none, for your hamstrings.
Accomplishing this was one of the many smaller goals durings the challenge that I achieved.
Congrats!! These are my favorite ham exercise!
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I agree! I am still working on my form as I still have some lower back muscle soreness. My Hamstrings give me feedback that they are involved in the process though.
This is definitely a "it's gonna make you sweat" exercise. It has been my primary hamstring exercise for the past four weeks with leg curls coming after. I am reversing that for the next four weeks for variety.
My favorite hams exercise too! It DOES make them super sore! lol!
I'm still in the stage where I can feel it in my lower back too so maybe I'm not holding my back straight enough? How did you tweak your form where it didn't effect your lower back? Or do you think it was just that your low back became stronger?
I think my lower back became stronger mostly because of this excercise as there were other exercises that made it sore but don't anymore .
I believe by focusing on using your heels to do the lift, you will eliminate (or lesson) back soreness.
I LOVE the dead lifts. I had gotten away from them. Started back up on Monday. Still feeling the burn. I am not pushing super heavy on these. I am much more focused on form. The last thing I want to do is tweak my back. I concentrate super hard when doing these. I do have a slight bend to my knee when I do these. If I lose focus during dead lifts, inevitably my back will hurt the next day.
Keep the faith!
Faithful Renee :0)
Yeah. there's a real fluidity to the movements. You have to slightly lean back as you go down so that your glutes are slightly angled compared to your ankles and then when you come back up, your posture is straight. Bend the knees only very, very slightly to a point that it's barely noticeable.
But, it does strengthen lower back, glutes, hamstrings, and calves.
Great post Armster! I've got LBWO today and will be doing Stiff-leg deadlifts in my routine!
A trainer told me we need to sort of stick our back ends out, bend the knees slightly and then do them. A chiropractor that I know said she can't watch people do deadlifts. I LOVE doing them and how they make me feel and my muscles grow!
Yep, that's what I meant when I said your glutes have to be slighly angled relative to your ankles. It's why you generally put most of the pressure on your heels when you bend down in your reps.
They really shred the hamstrings and the increase in flexibility is remarkable also.
I love these!! They make my hamstrings sore for days every time!
This, too, is my favorite ham exercise b/c squats really mess up my back. They are more easy for me than any other leg exercise, but they are the most sore the next day! Congrats Armster
"The joy of life is the fruit of discipline" -S. Randall
Love, Love, Love dead lifts. However, I need/want something new. I am going over to the meathead section on Friday to use the smith machine for squats. Ask Champster...I have had a fear of that big'ol contraption since I started BFL. I am totally stoked. Two of my favorite meatheads are going to stick with me for my first few reps to make sure I get it right.
Katiebug ~ Here is why I'm REALLY excited. My meathead friend, Glen, tells me that if you do the squats on the smith machine it takes away the concern of back and knee injury because it is stabilizing and you can lean back into it. That has always been my biggest fear with squats. I'll keep ya posted!
Yay for the smith machine! I will conquer this fear finally!
Renee, I used the Smith Machine for my past 2 LBWO's. In reference to your knees, I don't know if I agree with his comment because I DID feel a strain in my right knee the first time I used it. I started with 10 lbs on each side for my 12's, then 20 on each side, then 30 and then 35.
This most recent time, my highest was 40 per side (hence I squatted 80 lbs). I was careful with my knees and all was ok but the previous time alarmed me a bit. Perhaps it was because it was my first time but I did want to caution you to be alert to any twinges.
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By Judy Buchenot For The Beacon-News November 7, 2012 2:52PM
Elaine Dyer adds walnuts to her fruitcake batter made from a recipe that came from an old friend. | Judy Buchenot~For The Beacon-News
Barbara's Fruitcake
3 cups flour
1-1/3 cups sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup orange juice
1 cup salad oil
4 large eggs
1/2 cup dark corn syrup
2 cups walnuts
1 cup cut up dates
2 cups cut up mixed candied fruit
2 cups raisins
Line two loaf pans with aluminum foil and then butter the foil.
Measure the first 10 ingredients into a large bowl. Beat for 30 seconds on low and then beat for 3 minutes on high, scraping bowl often. Stir in fruits and nuts. Divide between two pans and spread evenly.
Bake at 275 degrees for 2-1/2 to 3 hours until a cake tester inserted into the fruitcake comes out clean. If cake is browning too fast, cover with foil during the last hour of baking. Allow to cool in pan. When cool, wrap in clean foil and store at room temperature for two weeks. It can be served sooner, but flavors are better after aging.
If desired, make a hard sauce to serve with fruitcake. Bring 4 tablespoons of light corn syrup and four tablespoons of water to a rolling boil. Then cool to lukewarm. Pour lukewarm hard sauce over cake before serving.
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Montgomery resident Elaine Dyer says fruitcakes have been unfairly treated.
They are often the subject of jokes around the holidays because of their long shelf life. Comedian Johnny Carson reportedly once commented that there is really only one fruitcake that people just keep sending back and forth.
However, 67-year-old Dyer knows that a well-made fruitcake is a holiday treat. Many years ago when she lived on the East Coast, Dyer tasted a fruitcake made by a friend. She repeatedly asked for the recipe, and she finally got it — with the instructions to never share the recipe with anyone.
For many years, Dyer honored the request to keep the recipe secret. She made the fruitcake every Christmas, and it quickly became a family favorite. After she moved to the Midwest, her sisters and their families in the East still requested an annual fruitcake. Even though she had lost touch with her friend, she kept her promise to keep the recipe a secret. Instead of sending the recipe to her relatives, Dyer made the fruitcakes and shipped them out to the East Coast.
"It was getting expensive, though," Dyer says.
Then about two years ago, one of Dyer's sisters met her long-ago friend at a community event. The two then reconnected over email.
"I wrote back to Barbara and told her that, even though we hadn't talked in years, I thought of her every time I made the fruitcake," Dyer says. "She wrote back right away and asked if I still had the recipe. Somehow over the years, she had lost the recipe. She was so happy to find out that I still had it."
Dyer sent her the recipe, and her friend was able to make her fruitcakes once again.
Dyer says the fruitcake improves in flavor after being stored for at least two weeks tightly wrapped in foil. Dyer's husband, Allan, and her brother-in-law Stuart are believers in adding a little extra flavor to their fruitcakes.
"They would each have a fruitcake that they would doctor up," she says.
"Each week, they would pour about a third of a cup of liquor on the fruitcake and allow it to soak in. They would then wrap it back up. Allan liked to use rum, and Stuart liked bourbon on his."
After a few weeks of "doctoring," the fruitcakes were very moist and rich with flavor.
"You can use any type of liquor you want," Dyer says.
Dyer says people often tell her they don't care for fruitcake.
"I serve it anyway, and the next thing I know, it is all gone," she claims. "This fruitcake changes people's minds about fruitcakes."
The walnuts that go into the fruitcake can be chopped first, but Dyer prefers to keep them whole. The walnuts soften enough in the aging process so they slice easily.
Dyer is sharing her fruitcake recipe, since keeping it a secret could mean losing it forever — as her friend Barbara almost learned.
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Error code 12 is a flame sensor error. Buffing it clean with a fiber-tex or similar (soft-pot-scrubbers, not steel wool, not sandpaper) usually does the trick. It's an annual maintenance thing for some installations, goes for years in others. Some modulating-condensing boiler flame sensors have similar issues.
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You can figure out how to find the flame sensor from the exploded diagram on P.24. (Be sure to turn off the power and the gas before opening the sucker up, eh? ) While you have shut down and open, clean the filter too (an annual maintenance thing in most installations.) Walk yourself through as much of the maintenance protocol on p.16 as you're competent to do before buttoning it all back up.


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"Why Can't I Connect?" makes it easier to resolve TCP/IP connection errors. Use it to diagnose connections to common server types and create generic clients and/or servers.
Release Notes: This release changes the Home Directory and Knowledge Base internal links to point to the author's website (www.WhyCantIConnect.com).
WavePacket (C++ version) is a rewrite of the WavePacket program in C++, with the aim of adding a lot of flexibility in the process.
Release Notes: This is the first Freecode announcement.
etm is an acronym for Event and Task Manager. It provides a simple, intuitive format for using plain text files to store event, task, and other data items, a command line interface for viewing stored information in a variety of convenient ways, and a cross-platform, PyQt-based GUI for creating and modifying items as well as viewing them. Displayed items can be grouped by date, context, keyword, or project and can be filtered in various ways. A display of busy and free times is also supported, as is a ledger view of time spent that is suitable for client billing. Alarms are supported for events and repetition for both events and tasks in a powerful and flexible manner.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug in "c" reports by which the second column was not correctly formatted. When creating an action, it uses the stopping datetime as the default for @s.
LiVES is a simple to use yet powerful video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system aimed at the digital video artist and VJ. It runs under Linux, BSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, IRIX, and openMosix. It is frame and sample accurate, can handle almost all types of video, and is fully extendable through plugins and the included plugin builder tool. It can also be controlled remotely using OSC.
Release Notes: Data processing plugins are now in both video and audio threads. A crash when loading the device map was fixed. A bug that prevented audio changes from being recorded when audio analyzers are running was fixed. Updates were made for GTK+ >= 3.8. HAVE_AVFORMAT_FIND_STREAM_INFO is now defined in decplugin/Makefile.am. A workaround for missing av_set_pts_info() in libav was implemented. A fix was made to handle changed option order in ffmpeg. Updated translations to Russian, Piemontese, Uk English, Spanish, and Ukranian are also included.
SportsTracker is an application for recording sporting activities. It is not bound to a specific kind of sport, as categories can be created for all sport types, such as cycling, running, or tennis. The main advantages are the good overview of your exercises and the easy creation of exercise statistics for specific time ranges and sport types. Users of heart rate monitors (Polar and CicloSport) can import, display (including diagrams), and organize the recorded exercise data.
Release Notes: SportsTracker is now based on Java 8 (must be installed first), and uses all the new features (e.g. Lambdas and the new Date and Time API). The included libraries have been updated to their recent versions; EasyMock for unit tests has been replaced by Mockito. Some translations (French and German) were updated.
PeaZip is a cross-platform file archiver utility that provides a unified portable GUI for many open source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX, etc. Creates 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, and ZIP files. It extracts more than 150 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, ZIPX, and more. Features of PeaZip include extracting, creating, and converting multiple archives at once, creating self-extracting archives, split/join files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, an encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, and export job definitions as scripts.
Release Notes: Introduces pre-set compression profiles, improved inclusion/exclusion filters, and a new synthetic archive information function. Compiled with Lazarus 1.2.0. Qt bindings were updated, and now support Qt libraries 4.5 through 4.8.
Text2GUI generates Java GUIs from natural language using a custom algorithm in development.
Release Notes: This release uses Janino as the Java interpreter, which allows full access to almost all Java features (e.g. generics).
Geany is a small C editor using GTK2 with basic features of an integrated development environment. It features syntax highlighting, code completion, call tips, many supported filetypes (including C, Java, PHP, HTML, DocBook, Perl, LateX, and Bash), and symbol lists.
Release Notes: This is a major release with important bugfixes including Windows spawning and printing fixes, better PHP and Fortran support, experimental GTK3 support, new filetypes (Clojure, CUDA, Batch, Graphviz, PowerShell and Rust), updated translations, and various new features.
checkit is a file integrity tool that adds basic data assurance capabilities to file systems which support extended attributes. It allows you to detect any data integrity issues or file changes to any file. By storing a checksum as an extended attribute, checkit provides an efficient way to detect silent data corruption, bit rot, or other modification errors. It was inspired by the checksumming performed by filesystems like BTRFS and ZFS. Checkit allows similar functionality, the ability to compare stored files and entire directory trees against a checksum at a glance.
Release Notes: Bugfixes. Should now compile and run with SuSE. Can now take a list of files to process from stdin.
Super Grub2 Disk is a bootable floppy, CDROM, or USB system which lets you boot into your system. It is simply a Grub2 disk with a lot of useful menus. It can try to autodetect all of your operating systems, load your grub.cfg configuration file, and load grub2's core.img, even if the mbr is damaged. It has multi-language support.
Release Notes: The Mac OS X boot entry was fixed so that it boots again. Some extra boot parameters were added to the aforementioned Mac OS X boot entry. Finally, some menu entry boot parameters were double quoted to avoid problems in the future with variables with spaces on them.
4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (by using it as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for example, for playing video DVDs), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (meaning console games).
Release Notes: The main features in this release are antivirus protection (Clam AntiVirus 0.98.1 with ClamWin), system backup (4MLinux Backup Scripts 8.2), data recovery (GNU ddrescue 1.17, TestDisk 6.14 with QPhotoRec), disk partitioning (cfdisk 2.24.1, cgdisk 0.8.8, GNU Parted 3.1), and partition imaging (Partimage 0.6.9, Partclone 0.2.69). Many archive formats can be managed via 7-Zip 9.20, FreeArc 0.666, and PeaZip 5.2.2. File managers (Midnight Commander 4.8.11, X File Explorer 1.37), CD/DVD burners (cdw 0.7.1, InfraRecorder 0.53), and UNetbootin 585 are also included.
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Release Notes: An attempt to rename a database without changing the name resulted in the deletion of this database; this has been fixed.
Cego implements a relational and transactional database system with support for the SQL query language. The current release contains the most common database features for basic table manipulation and data retrieval. Indexes, foreign keys, views, and stored procedures are also implemented. Future releases (2.0 and above) will support a multi-node database concept with log file shipping for an automatic database application failover.
Release Notes: Fixes in btree recovery.
BASH history suggest box is a command line utility which brings improved BASH command completion from the history. It aims to make completion easier to use and more efficient than Ctrl-r.
Release Notes: This is a major release that brings favorites: favorite commands can be bookmarked for later use and managed in a brand new view.
webon is a Web content management system. It provides an access log to check who has visited your site. It has a counter that lets anybody know the number of people who have visited your site.
Release Notes: This release adds a regex function of jQuery for username, email, zip code, and phone number.
mhvtl is a Linux-based virtual tape library. Supported tape emulations are IBM and HP LTO1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Sony AIT4, STK T10000A, B, and C, and STK 9x40. It supports WORM, data, and cleaning media. Most applications work using STK L180/L700 library emulation. It has been successfully used with NetBackup, BackupExec, NetWorker, TSM, Oracle Secure Backup, and many other programs.
Release Notes: Support for tape library personality modules. Support for multiple library emulations.
A tool for editing version-control repository history, reposurgeon enables risky operations that version-control systems don't want to let you do, such as editing past comments and metadata and removing commits. It works with any version control system that can export and import git fast-import streams, including git, hg, bzr, CVS, and RCS. It can also read Subversion dump files directly, and can thus be used to script production of very high-quality conversions from Subversion to any supported DVCS.
Release Notes: The attribution-parsing code handles odd characters in names better now. The filter command can operate on email addresses as well as names. There is a new 'stamp' command to report action stamps of commits. A new 'count' command reports selection-set counts. A new branchify_mapping option for renaming Subversion branches on analysis.
pyAggr3g470r is a news aggregator with a Web interface based on Flask. It can be deployed on Heroku or on a traditional server.
Release Notes: Feeds are now retrieved in a separated process with the Gevent library. This offers the best performance on Heroku.
SQLObject is an object-relational mapper, i.e., a library that will wrap your database tables in Python classes and your rows in Python instances. It currently supports MySQL through the 'MySQLdb' package, PostgreSQL through the 'psycopg' package, SQLite, Firebird, MaxDB (SAP DB), MS SQL, and Sybase. It should support Python versions back to 2.4.
Release Notes: Duplicate error message strings were adapted for SQLite 3.8.
The j661 project provides a generic CDS (or ARINC 661 Server) in order to facilitate the understanding of the ARINC 661 standard, prototype ARINC 661 concepts and architectures, and facilitate the reuse of ARINC 661 specifications and artefacts between projects. The CDS architecture is designed to allow defining the Server behavior to be easily modified or extended. This is achieved by a modular plug-in architecture, allowing customization at runtime without changing anything in the Server core itself.
Release Notes: This release is a repackaging of 1.2 Beta 3 as 1.2. It works on Java versions greater than 8.
Meson aims to be the most usable and fast build system. It provides a simple yet powerful mostly declarative language for describing your build. It has native support for modern tools and frameworks, such as Qt5, code coverage, unit tests, precompiled headers, and others. It utilizes a host of optimization techniques to compile your code faster on both full and incremental builds.
Release Notes: This release adds experimental support for generating XCode project files. There has been extensive work on scalability, and Meson can now compile almost all of Qt Creator. This project of several thousand source files is configured in less than two seconds, and a no-op build takes less than 0.1 seconds.
Mutt Folder List is a mutt patch that adds a sidebar showing all mail folders and the total and number of new messages each contains. It allows users to hide or display the sidebar with a single keystroke, and optionally highlights folders with new messages. Users can scroll up and down the list of folders and open the selected folder, and configure the sidebar width, colors, and key bindings.
Release Notes: The sidebar patch was updated for mutt 1.5.23.
cryptmount is a utility for creating and managing secure filing systems on GNU/Linux systems. After initial setup, it allows any user to mount or unmount filesystems on demand, solely by providing the decryption password, with any system devices needed to access the filing system being configured automatically. A wide variety of encryption schemes (provided by the kernel dm-crypt system and the libgcrypt library) can be used to protect both the filesystem and the access key. The protected filing systems can reside in either ordinary files or disk partitions. The package also supports encrypted swap partitions, and automatic configuration on system boot-up.
Release Notes: This release ports all LUKS functionality to use libcryptsetup, adds a commandline option to query the encrypted filesystem status, and improves Doxygen documentation of the source code.
cdist is a usable configuration management system. It adheres to the KISS principle and is being used in both small and enterprise-grade environments. It is an alternative to other configuration management systems like cfengine, bcfg2, chef, and puppet.
Release Notes: This release documents missing environment variables, adds a type to manage Sheepdog images (__dog_vdi), includes a rewrite of the __key_value type, and enhances the __qemu_img type.
filterunit allows unit tests to be devised for command line programs that use files as input and output. Classic Unix filters are a typical example. filterunit runs the program under test with the specified input files and compares the actual results with the expected results.
Release Notes: The configuration option `pathDirectory` prepends executions paths to PATH.
A modern C++ FIX framework featuring complete schema customisation, high performance, and fast development.
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Former NFL safety Darren Sharper was arrested Friday on felony charges in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
TMZ reported that Sharper was arrested on suspicion of rape. He was connected to sexual assaults in October 2013 and earlier this month.
Sharper, 38, was booked into Los Angeles County jail and later released on a $200,000 bond.
He is an analyst for NFL Network, which suspended him without pay Saturday.
Sharper played 14 seasons in the NFL. He played for the Green Bay Packers (1997-2004), Minnesota Vikings (2005-08) and New Orleans Saints (2009-10).
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Corsicana — George P. Bush, nephew of former President George W. Bush, spoke Thursday at a Navarro County Republican Party fundraiser at the I.O.O.F. Event Center in Corsicana. George P. Bush is running for Texas Land Commissioner. See a full account of the evening's activities in Saturday's Corsicana Daily Sun.
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Aggie Muster taking place Monday at Cook Center
Former students of Texas A&M University will assemble in Corsicana on Monday, April 21, for the annual Texas Aggie Muster to honor all Texas Aggies who have passed away within the last year.
CISD Trustees to meet Monday
The Corsicana Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet in a regular session at 6 p.m. Monday at the administration building, 601 N. 13th St.
Relay for Life fundraiser hits home as O'Neills offer drawing for weekend at guesthouse in Kemah
Ten bucks. What will it get you these days? Maybe lunch. An eighth of a tank of gas. A pound of bacon. What about a beautiful weekend trip near the Texas coast? While helping an incredible local cause? You bet.
Friday morning fire damages home
A home in the 1700 block of West Ninth Avenue in Corsicana was damaged by an early morning fire Friday.
West honors 15 killed in year-ago explosion
Rev. Terry McElrath heard the deafening boom. The pastor spun around and saw a column of smoke billowing into the sky above his small Texas town. He immediately thought, "Somebody has died tonight."
Campbell named 'Texas Aviator of the Year'
It was quite an honor for Corsicana's "Dr. Dave." The longtime Corsicana physician, and namesake of C. David Campbell Field at the Corsicana airport was named 2014 Texas Aviator of the Year by the Texas Department of Transportation.
Kids at Hop Downtown offer insights into holiday
The Hop Downtown, sponsored by the Main Street Office and local businesses, was colorful, loud and joyous, with Easter Bunny photos, free eggs, cookies, a bounce house and face painting Thursday afternoon in downtown Corsicana.
Two churches set to close
Two local United Methodist churches are going through the early stages of closing their doors.
Barry United Methodist Church and Wesley United Methodist Church in north Corsicana are both ending their ministries, according to their respective pastors.
Baker named hospital 'Employee of Year'
Navarro Regional Hospital has named Sandy Baker as 2013 Employee of the Year. This award is the highest honor bestowed on a hospital employee each year. Baker was chosen from among 327 fellow employees for the honor.
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NEW YORK, NY (Ivanhoe Newswire) - More than three-quarters of a million people will have a hip replaced this year. But some may be a little gun shy after a large FDA recall of metal-on-metal devices, as they caused inflammation, tissue death, and heart and nervous system problems. Now, a new implant is replacing the metal with something safer.
Doctor Steven Harwin, Chief of Adult Reconstructive Surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center, has been replacing 15 hips a week for 30 years. His patient Gilbert Ramirez talked to us a few minutes before he was going to meet up with Dr. Harwin in the operating room. As a New York City tour guide, he rides transportation all day long.
"You figure there are 20 stops, you're constantly going up and down the stairs. That's when I noticed my hip started to give me a lot of pressure," Ramirez told Ivanhoe. His right hip was wearing bone on bone. "It stops you dead in your tracks."
Gilbert is getting a new type of hip replacement called Modular Dual Mobility hip, or MDM.
"This is what a contemporary hip replacement looks like," Dr. Harwin told Ivanhoe.
It has a metal shell, plastic insert and the implant attaches it to the thigh bone.
"The plastic can wear out," Dr. Harwin said. The new MDM replacement uses a porous titanium socket that allows bone to grow into it. "The range of motion is quite large, and the bearings move in conjunction with each other."
Tony Renteria had the MDM replacement a month ago. Getting around on foot in this city was a must, but he was at a disadvantage. "I could not walk at all," Renteria told Ivanhoe. Now, 30 days after surgery, he's walking without a cane.
"From the next day, I felt absolutely fine. It was like I had no pain whatsoever!" Renteria exclaimed. Tony's path to recovery continues, and he's practically pain free-each step of the way.
While it's relatively new in the United States, the MDM has been used in Europe for decades. Dr. Harwin is one of 30 surgeons worldwide who helped improve the design and update it with more modern, longer lasting materials. He says about 90 percent of traditional hip replacements last 15 years or longer. He hopes the MDM will give patients even better outcomes by helping to reduce dislocation of the implant.
BACKGROUND: The hip is one of the body's largest joints. It is a ball-and-socket joint. The socket is formed by the acetabulum, which is part of the large pelvis bone. The ball is the femoral head, which is the upper end of the femur (thighbone). The bone surfaces of the ball and socket are covered with articular cartilage, a smooth tissue that cushions the ends of the bones and enables them to move easily. A thin tissue called synovial membrane surrounds the hip joint. In a healthy hip, this membrane makes a small amount of fluid that lubricates the cartilage and eliminates almost all friction during hip movement. Bands of tissue called ligaments (the hip capsule) connect the ball to the socket and provide stability to the joint.
COMMON CAUSES: The five most common causes for hip pain are:
WIPING OUT PAIN: The Modular Dual Mobility (MDM) hip replacement uses a small metal or ceramic head that fits into a larger high- tech plastic head. The large plastic head then fits inside a smooth metal cup. Because of the large plastic head, the MDM renders the joint extremely stable so that active patients can engage in recreational and sports activities. The large head also allows a greater, more normal range of motion than standard implants. The small head moves within the plastic large head, and it in turn moves in the socket. This design is called a "dual mobility" cup.
Steven F. Harwin, MD, FACS, Chief of Adult Reconstructive Surgery and Total Hip and Knee Replacement at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, talks about a new improved hip replacement that is helping people to get their lives back.
How many replacements do you do a day, a week?
Dr. Harwin: I do about 15 joint replacements a week. I operate 3 days a week.
How many years have you been doing hip replacements?
Dr. Harwin: Over 30 years.
How does the hip joint work?
Dr. Harwin: The hip joint is a ball and a socket. The socket is called the acetabulum. The head of the femur is the ball, articulating with the socket giving a very large range of motion with excellent stability. it is quite a large ball in a large socket and that is the natural anatomy. All joints of the body are covered with cartilage which is the white, shiny stuff that you see when you break open a chicken joint. That is a shock absorber and it keeps the bones from having friction. When that cartilage starts to wear out or is damaged, it leads to arthritis. What happens is that friction builds up and it is painful for the patient. The hip can catch and give way and give a feeling of instability and of course pain. This is something that limits patient's lifestyles. It ruins the quality of life. Patients, especially the baby boomers, are entering the time when their hips may start to wear out and they want to be as active as possible. Not only for their general health but also for their cardiovascular system, so that they need to be able to do exercise of some sort, even fast walking, to get the heart rate up. With arthritis they cannot do that. People get heavier since they cannot exercise because of the pain. People will turn to alternative, nonoperative treatments including anti-inflammatory and pain medications, physical therapy, injections, and alter their lifestyle. People just do not want to change their lifestyle and activities if they do not have to. They will turn to hip replacement to relieve their pain and restore their mobility.
Are you seeing younger patients than ever before?
Dr. Harwin: Young and younger. If you spoke to me 15 years ago, my average patient would be about 65 years of age. Now, my average patient is about 62 and coming down. The patient that we are going to operate today is 50 years old and significantly disabled. He is a tour bus operator here in New York. He makes about 20 or more stops every day where he lets passengers off, so he must go from the top deck to the bottom deck to the street 20 times and he just could not do it anymore. His hip was painful. He could not mount the stairs. He tried all kinds of remedies and it just would not take away his pain or restore his mobility and so he came to see me and we talked about the options. We decided together on total hip replacement.
How much has hip replacement changed throughout the years?
Dr. Harwin: The way we relieve pain is by removing those joint surfaces that are rubbing together. Once you do that, the body does not perceive pain. Conventional total hip replacements are very successful. If you look at long-term results in our medical literature, the survivorship of a contemporary hip replacement is about 90% or more at 15 years. Now, many people will think, oh…so it needs to be redone in 15 years, but that is not the case. With a 90% survivorship, only 10 out of 100 may need to be re-operated for one reason or another. One of the common reasons is that the hip may wear out. The plastic that cushions the new hip can wear out and cause problems. The hip can also dislocate, coming out of place, requiring further surgery. Contemporary hip replacements are successful, but they do have limitations.
What does a contemporary replacement look like?
Dr. Harwin:. The natural hip consists of a ball and socket. The socket in the pelvis is replaced with a metal shell that has a plastic insert fixed within it. That is coupled with an implant which is what we call the femoral component. We remove the head of the femur, the ball, and then we slip an implant inside the thigh bone. Then, once that is placed inside the thigh bone, that is the articulation and it restores pain and motion. The problem with contemporary hip replacements is that the plastic can wear out and the hip itself either early on after the operation or late can dislocate. It can come out of the joint because sometimes one can exceed the range of motion or put the hip throughout a very large range of motion which can cause impingement and the hip comes out of place. That has been a problem that we have worked for years to try to solve. One alternative was an operation which used larger heads and the only way to do that was to use a metal articulation for the socket and a very large metal head. But what happens in some cases is that the metal-on-metal articulation causes particles to break off and float in the joint and in the blood stream. They can cause allergic reactions and other problems in patients who have had metal-on-metal implants. We set out to avoid the problem by gaining the benefits of a large head with good stability and range of motion coupled with a longer lasting thicker plastic ball that is mobile in the socket, and articulates with the smaller femoral head component. The mobile bearing hip uses a "dual mobility" concept, where the large plastic ball is free to move in the socket and the smaller femoral head ball is free to move inside the plastic.
Did you help develop it?
Dr. Harwin: Mobile bearing hips were first developed in the 1970s and has undergone evolutionary refinement. These days, there is not one person who will design an implant. I work with a group of over 25 surgeons from around the world. We do this in conjunction with specialized bioengineers who are specialists in not only what we call kinematics, that is how the joint moves and works, but also in the biology and materials of the bearing surfaces. They have helped us to develop these new bearing surfaces and these new designs. A mobile bearing hip uses a socket made of a very high tech titanium with a surface that allows one's own bone to grow into it. This is called Tritanium.
Is the surface porous?
Dr. Harwin: It is porous and it is rough; kind of like Swiss cheese with a sandpaper finish. It reproduces the normal marrow bone or cancellous bone, as we call it. Once this is placed inside the new socket we create, the body grows right into it. The fixation is quite firm with a very low rate of loosening of the implant. Once this is placed, a highly polished metal liner is fixed to the inside. This surface articulates with a large plastic ball that itself articulates with a smaller ball within it. In turn, that head is part of the femoral component that is placed in the thigh bone. . The plastic is made of X3-polyethylene, which is a highly cross-linked plastic, with very good wear characteristics. We are kind of going back to the future with what we would call a low friction arthroplasty, with less wear. Arthroplasty is the technical term for joint replacement. The nice thing about the mobile bearing hip is that not only do we have a large plastic head that articulates, but inside that large plastic head, we have a smaller head that also articulates, so that the range of motion is greater and the bearings move in conjunction with each other with more stability. This has benefits for patients. It allows patients to do fairly normal and recreational activities with a stable, very mobile joint. Another potential benefit is better durability because this has a very large, thick, plastic head which will resist wear. It is not as thin as the fixed bearing implants and therefore has the potential for being very long lasting.
Are there any risks that there are more moving parts now?
Dr. Harwin: Any joint replacement carries with it certain risks, but for hip replacements the benefits greatly outweigh the risks. Patients should discuss their own specific risks and benefits with their surgeon.
Vera Ricciardi, Practice AdministratorDenise M. Mazza, Office Manager (212) (861) 9800 www.drharwin.com


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The Chiefs go with the best offensive tackle in the draft, as Fisher is a little bigger and more athletic than Luke Joeckel. Alex Smith's blind side will be immediately well protected.View Analysis
The Jaguars jump on Joeckel, the second-best tackle and a hair behind Fisher. The Jags opt for the best player available instead of filling a bigger need for a pass rusher with a player such as Dion Jordan. Nothing wrong with that on a young team with multiple holes.View Analysis
(from Oakland) The Dolphins move up and make a surprise pick to take the best pure pass rusher in the draft. They could have used a left tackle, but Jordan will bring great energy off the edge in their new 4-3.View Analysis
The Eagles could have gone in many directions for Chip Kelly, but they end up giving him a super-athletic lineman to shore up the left side. Johnson, joining Fisher and Joeckel, rounds out the elite tackle trio in this class.View Analysis
With the offensive tackles and Jordan off the board, it was a slam dunk for the Lions to take Ansah, who addresses their need for an explosive pass-rushing end after the loss of Cliff Avril as a free agent. Ansah will complement their talented defensive tackles well.View Analysis
The Browns needed a dynamic pass rusher to execute the attack 3-4 defense of coordinator Ray Horton. Mingo has the athleticism to be a huge contributor in the scheme.View Analysis
The Cardinals' offensive line was in a sorry state last season, both inside and on the edges. They go with Cooper, who was neck-and-neck with Alabama's Chance Warmack for top guard in the draft class.View Analysis
(from Buffalo) The Rams move up aggressively to land this undersized but special speedster, whose ability to stretch the field is tailor-made for the fast track of their dome.View Analysis
The Jets traded Darrelle Revis to Tampa Bay for the 13th overall pick, but they use their higher pick to get his rookie replacement. Milliner is the best all-around corner in the draft, and the Jets hope he can quickly develop Revis-like shutdown skills.View Analysis
The Titans have been linked to Warmack for a long time, as they need interior run blocking to help Chris Johnson. He fills a need and was the best available for sure after Jonathan Cooper was taken.View Analysis
The Chargers needed offensive line help and went for the fourth-best tackle with the two top guards gone. Fluker is better suited for the right side, but he'll be a big help wherever he plays.View Analysis
(from Miami) Once his health checked out, Hayden shot up the boards late as the No. 2 corner behind Milliner. For their trade down, this is a great value to boost the Raiders' secondary, adding to their earlier signing of Mike Jenkins.View Analysis
(from Tampa Bay) Richardson seems a little better suited to play tackle in a 4-3, but his quickness gives him good tackle/end versatility for Rex Ryan's 3-4. The Jets were smart to pass on Geno Smith.View Analysis
The Panthers go the Utah Ute route again (Steve Smith, Jordan Gross), this time to get defensive help. Lotulelei is a strong tackle who can help eat blockers in front of rookie of the year middle linebacker Luke Kuechly. Carolina fills a need with a player whose talent matches the pick.View Analysis
After last season's mess in coverage, the Saints needed to clean up their secondary—especially to better back up their new 3-4 front. Coordinator Rob Ryan also will like what Vaccaro brings as a blitzer.View Analysis
(from St. Louis) The first quarterback off the board comes later than expected, but it's the type expected—an athletic passer who fits the league trend. The big surprise is it's Manuel over Geno Smith. The Bills hope they can mold Manuel into a Colin Kaepernick clone.View Analysis
The Steelers needed to restock their 3-4 edge pass rush, and they have the defensive staff to maximize Jones' explosive potential. Dick LeBeau will love the energy Jones brings to get after the quarterback.View Analysis
(from Dallas) The 49ers had a hole to fill at safety after losing Dashon Goldson as a free agent. Reid can deliver big hits and also make big plays in coverage, much like Goldson did for them. The Niners needed to move up to get that talent.View Analysis
The Giants go upstate to get this versatile offensive lineman, a college tackle whose footwork and arms may make him better suited to play inside. Pugh catches on the dominant guard/tackle wave of Round 1.View Analysis
The Bears stick with the first-round theme of athletic offensive linemen by going with Long and his exciting potential. He played in a good offense at Oregon and has a fine pedigree as the son of Hall of Famer Howie and brother of Rams defensive end Chris.View Analysis
Great pick by the Bengals to add more pop to their passing game for Andy Dalton. A.J. Green is an ace at stretching the field vertically, and now opponents must worry about both Eifert and Jermaine Gresham causing mismatches on intermediate routes.View Analysis
(from Washington through St. Louis) After moving on from Dunta Robinson and Brent Grimes this offseason, the Falcons needed corner help behind Asante Samuel. Trufant has a strong brotherly bloodline and offers them a promising fluid option in coverage.View Analysis
The Vikings were looking to upgrade the 4-3 interior with their two first-round picks, but they probably didn't expect Floyd to be available. He can be molded well into Leslie Frazier's scheme, but Minnesota's coaching staff will need to be a bit patient.View Analysis
The Colts jump on a talented edge pass rusher who had slipped in the first round. Werner seemed to be an ideal fit as a 4-3 end, but he has the athleticism and energy to turn into a 3-4 impact player for Chuck Pagano's attack defense.View Analysis
(from Seattle) The Vikings went with a faller from Florida to help their defensive front, and now they go to FSU for secondary help. Rhodes brings good size and is well suited to play in the team's Tampa 2 zone scheme.View Analysis
The Packers have been looking for a versatile 3-4 lineman to fill the role once held by Cullen Jenkins, who was lost two years ago. Jones is a similar albeit smaller player with a little better pass-rush pop entering the league.View Analysis
The Texans were able to overlook the off-field mess Hopkins allegedly left at the Scouting Combine to look at his dynamic skill set on the field. He can be that much-needed big playmaker to complement Andre Johnson.View Analysis
The Broncos get a strong, quick and versatile lineman who's a perfect fit up front in John Fox's scheme. Williams isn't a big drop from Floyd and Richardson and will work well with 2012 draft standout Derek Wolfe, who has settled in at end.View Analysis
(from New England) The Vikings, who had already double-dipped on defense, aggressively trade up for the wideout they needed. They hope the big-play potential of Patterson will work well opposite the smooth, savvy route-running of Greg Jennings to provide a significant passing-game boost for Christian Ponder.View Analysis
(from Atlanta) Jeff Fisher knows the value of a versatile outside linebacker with great range, going back to his days with the Titans (see Keith Bulluck). Ogletree can be penciled in as an immediate starter because of his speed, quickness, coverage skills and playmaking flair.View Analysis
(from San Francisco) The Cowboys aren't completely sold on any of their interior offensive linemen as starters, including center Phil Costa. Frederick continues the Badgers' tradition of strong, mean, technically sound run blockers.View Analysis
The Ravens lost Ed Reed as a free agent to Houston and also released Bernard Pollard. While Elam develops his coverage skills, he can be strong and tough in run support. He made sense for Baltimore after Vaccaro and Reid were already gone.View Analysis


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Negotiations based on report recommendations, however, likely will await action in Nevada's Legislature. General Assembly bill 49 would help fund public indigent legal defense.
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Mark Barlow Jr, Headmaster of St. Mark's School from 1979-1988, died on Saturday, June 23, after a short battle with cancer. He was 87.
A native of upstate New York, Mr. Barlow graduated from Wesleyan University in 1947, before going on to a career in higher education. He taught mathematics and served as Assistant to the Dean at Colgate University, before returning to Wesleyan in 1957, serving there as both Dean of Students and Dean of the College. Barlow earned his doctorate in Education from Cornell in 1962. In 1965, he became Vice President for Student Affairs at Cornell, and later held the offices of Assistant to the President and Vice Provost there.
It was while serving Cornell's Vice Provost that Mark Barlow was appointed the twelfth Headmaster of St. Mark's School, by unanimous vote of the School's Board of Trustees. Mr. Barlow moved in to the Headmaster's study in time for the opening of school in the autumn of 1979, and he served as Headmaster for nine years.
During his time in Southborough, Mr. Barlow led a major capital fund drive—the Campaign for St. Mark's—raising $14 million for the School. Under his tenure, St. Mark's tripled its endowment. Just as importantly, as Headmaster he brought to St. Mark's a number of outstanding faculty, including Ms. Putnam, Mr. and Mrs. Wells, Mr. Norris, Dr. Lynch, Mr. Berryman, Sra Sanchez, and Mr. Suitor: all still at the School in 2011-12.
Most significant, however, was the impact he and his wife Jane had on the lives of so many students. St. Mark's objective, he once wrote, "is to have a caring school, one in which all participants share a trust in each other. Compassion, friendship, and honesty are all values which are sought in the life of the school." As Headmaster, Mark Barlow lived that philosophy, guiding St. Mark's through the challenges of early coeducation and the pressures inherent in changing school communities as the 70s turned in to the 1980s. His leadership style balanced the duties of an effective administrator and steward with the larger obligations of a surrogate parent and educator.
"Mark had a wonderful ability to advance the School's strategic priorities while, at the same time, making a significant difference to the lives of a number of students," said current Head of School John C. Warren '74. "He and Jane were a great team, and they left the school in a stronger position than when they arrived."
Mark Barlow retired from St. Mark's after Prize Day in 1988, but the Barlows still remained part of the St. Mark's family and the St. Mark's scene. Shortly after the Barlows left Southborough, the Barlow Endowment was established at St. Mark's "to honor Mark and Jane Barlow, providing income for moral and ethical education at St. Mark's." The Mark & Jane Barlow Chair was also endowed in their honor. The Barlows were last on campus this past January, when the Rev. Barbara Talcott, current St. Mark's Chaplain, was installed as the latest holder of the Barlow Chair. "I am so grateful to be a teacher," said Talcott in her acceptance remarks, "and so grateful, in particular, to be a teacher at a school as honest and demanding, as warm, and as forgiving as St. Mark's." Her words describe the St. Mark's School as Mark Barlow saw it and as he always supported it.
John Warren agrees. "Mark's enthusiasm for St. Mark's was infectious," said the current Head of School upon learning of his predecessor's passing. "I particularly appreciated the steadfast support and encouragement he provided to me."
Mark Barlow is survived by Jane, his wife of 57 years, and by their three children: Andrew, Sarah, and Elizabeth. They were all with him at the time of his passing.
A memorial service for Mr. Barlow will be held at 2 PM on Saturday, August 25 at Kendal Retirement Community, in Hanover,NH.


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