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Post subject: Disgusted by the lottery of SCCC Oval Ashes Ballot
Joined: 10:58 on 27th Jul 2010
Posts: 15
|They brought in a ballot this year. Why? Publicity and to attract desperate sponsors. Upshot? A lottery that advantages chancers and disadvantages those fans who had bought tickets with SCCC before and had previously therefore gained priority. So, yes, I entered the ballot, and no, I didn't get a ticket. For these charlatans to repeatedly suggest Surrey membership as a way through this fiasco, well no thanks! I have principles!
By the way, Barmy Army, why your own lottery for the Oval? Why not give real fans a chance like every other exclusive event - ie, get online and be quick? Not happy - it all seems a bit opportunistic and quite disrespectful.
Post subject: Re: Disgusted by the lottery of SCCC Oval Ashes Ballot
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Location: Redditch/Sydney
|I've now entered the Lords ballot now, in the hope of getting something!! The only problem is, you can only apply for 2 per person and there's 4 of us now going. I'm ok as the main objective of the trip (flying back from HMP Australia) for me is to see family and friends, and I suppose the misses is being with me, but her friend and my mate from cricket have booked to watch the cricket!!!! So until January, we won't know if we have tickets for Lords or not!!! Why don't the ECB do what the Football Association do and take charge of all these ticket sales, that way you can have a really cheap membership and you could get points per day you go to (talking the less popular home series here) and then when the big ones like the ashes come along they can have a system where priority is given to those with the most points.....
At the moment with each venue doing their own ticket sales arrangements it's becoming a bit of a farce!!!
On a lighter note, after waiting for 2 hours in a queue online for Trent Bridge tickets, we got what we wanted
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Condon wants Spokane to be 'City of Choice' for Northwest
SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane Mayor David Condon delivered the annual state of the city address Friday morning, where he said that job growth and improving public safety are at the top of the agenda.
What makes Spokane great? In Condon's opinion, "it's our parks, it's our retail, it's our arts; in short we will be the city of choice for the northwest."
To reach that goal Condon wants the community's feedback.Condon state of city address
"We asked the public what is the number one reason that would bring people here, it is economic growth, it is jobs," Condon said
The mayor's state of the city address featured live social media updates from the public; he wants open dialogue from citizens.
"They use their smart phones, they use Twitter, they use Facebook, and that's how they want to communicate," Condon said, adding that it's an approach that's working.
"This year we responded to snow issues over Facebook where people said 'My street hasn't been plowed' and it really is incumbent on us to do that to make sure we're reaching out," he said. "We take those seriously, I monitor those in my office and like I said we actually deploy services, based off of some of those responses."
During the state of the city address Friday morning, Spokane Teachers Credit Union CEO Tom Johnson announced his business is expanding; they plan to move into the Hutton Building downtown later this year.
"As the mayor said this morning 'What are you doing for our town, what are you doing to make this the city of choice?' This is part of our commitment to the city of Spokane," Johnson said.
"This is an investment in our community; it's a partnership with all who are investing downtown, the great buildings that have been restored, this is another one," Johnson said. "This building has been neglected a little bit in the past decade, so we plan to make investments there to make this a flagship location for us and downtown Spokane."
"We have that quality of life in spades, we now need to be looking at how to create that economic growth so people can afford to have that quality of life," Condon said.
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Alternate name: Orange-flower Goat-chicory, Orange Mountain Dandelion
Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family
Description From a basal cluster of leaves grow several leafless stalks with milky sap, topped by coppery-orange flower heads.
Habit: native perennial herb or subshrub; thickened rootstock; no stem, only hairy flower stalks.
Height: 4-24 in (10-60 cm).
Leaf: lanceolate, egg-shaped, or grasslike, sometimes jaggedly lobed; with hairy midvein and milky sap; 2-14 in (5-35 cm) long, to 1.2 in (30 mm) wide; in basal rosette.
Flower: dandelion-like, single, 3/4-1 in (19-25 mm) wide; burnt orange (rarely yellow, pink, red, or purple), fading to pink or purple; many oblong, toothed rays of varying lengths, layered roughly by length.
Fruit: ribbed dry seed, .2-.35 in (5-9 mm) long; with beak about as long as seed; tipped with numerous white bristles.
Flower June to August.
Habitat Mountainous, wet to dry locations: alpine meadows, wet meadows, wet fields, grasslands, open woods, coniferous forests; middle to upper elevations.
Range Western North America, from Alaska south to California, east to the N.W.Territories, south to New Mexico; South Dakota; and in the Chic-Choc and Otis Mountains of Quebec.
Discussion Also known as: mountain agoseris, mountain dandelion, orange-flowered mountain dandelion, orange-flower false-dandelion . There are two recognized varieties apart from the species. This plant is easily recognized. It is the only orange-flowered Agoseris.


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Report 1981: Megaliths, Parish Closes and Cider - Part 2 Morbihan
By Eleanor from UK, Fall 2011
Page 4 of 27: Finding the Hidden Gems...
The grotto at Callac
Having read the different guide books for Brittany I was very disappointed. By the time you took out information on accommodation, traveling by public transport and eating, there wasnt much detailed information about many areas. The must sees were covered but the rest was skimmed over.
The older I get the more I have come to the conclusion that many must sees are places to be avoided. There are some like the Carnac megaliths which do justify the title of 'must see', but even then there are similar, although smaller alignments to be found close by at Le Petit Menec and the Alignments de Kerzerho at Erdeven. As these get fewer visitors, it is possible to wander freely and have the stones to yourself.
I dont want to spend all my holiday following the crowd and ticking off the 'must see'. I want to explore and get off the tourist beat.
I use a copy of Michelin 1:200,000 for planning and map reading in France. These can be bought from Michelin (see link in resources) or from Amazon.
They have icons for all kinds of historical/touristy things like châteaux, ruins, churches, abbeys, scenic view points, caves, Roman sites, megaliths. Designated scenic roads are marked in green. Some of these places do get a mention in Michelin Green Guide, but the vast majority are ignored by other guide books. Smaller places may not have a website either.
Michelin also produce 1:150,000 departmental maps which have a lot of detail. These are excellent if you are wanting to concentrate on a small area or are wanting to walk. The downside is that you will probably need several as they dont cover a very large area.
When planning routes I use the map to identify scenic drives, looking for small towns and villages with the icon for a historic church or château. Many of these places see few foreign tourists and repay exploring. Parking is rarely a problem. Churches are usually open and we have them to ourselves. Even the churches in small villages are lavishly decorated. Some like Commana and St-Herbot are the equal of the must sees of St-Thégonnec and Pleyben.
Places like Locronan and Pont-Aven are very much on the tourist route and at times it is impossible to park. There are many other unspoilt towns in Brittany which have preserved their medieval centres but get few visitors. La Vraie Croix, Pont-Croix and Malestroit are just three examples.
We found some amazing places using this method, like the Grotto at Callac near Plumelec.
There are the occasional disasters like the medieval village of Goenidou near Berrien described in report 1982, but they are few and far between.
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Shackle Flip Kits Suspension Lift - The Basics And Economy Of Shackle FlipsPosted in How To: Suspension Brakes on September 1, 2009 Comment (0)
There are almost as many types of 4x4 suspension lifts available as crawfish in the Chattahoochee River. Some are highly technical, and some are easy to install. Choosing a suspension system or lift is usually based on a number of factors, but these days we are finding that this decision is not just based on performance, but also economics.
We decided to revisit an economical, functional suspension lift that's relatively easy to install, the shackle flip. There are two types of shackles, tension and compression, and both have pros and cons. We installed a 4-inch Offroad Design shackle flip kit on an older Chevy 4x4 and, in just a couple hours, were able to bolt-on 35-inch tires for additional ground clearance, maintain a close to factory ride, and enhance the truck's off-road performance.
1. Offroad Designs' compression shackle flip kit comes with everything needed for a rear leaf spring lift. The advantages to a compression shackle system, aka shackle flip, is that it is typically less expensive than a set of leaf springs. A shackle flip can also retain the factory spring and load capacity, providing lift without a block. For taller lifts a spring can be used with less arch for any given lift height. The slight disadvantage of a compression shackle is that the shackle flip (shackle itself) has a limited drop effect, meaning the shackle doesn't drop (lower) the back of the spring like a tension shackle can. A heavy-duty shackle must also be used in extreme applications, since the rear spring eye can be a contact point for rocks and obstacles in extreme terrain.
2. Removing the factory tension shackle isn't too difficult, unless the fuel tank on certain model vehicles needs to be dropped and the rivets chiseled or torched off the frame. The advantages of a tension shackle is that when the shackle drops horizontally it gives extra droop and travel to the suspension. A drawback to tension shackles is that tall lifts require lots of spring arch, which limits the flex of the spring.
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Story 7/10 One of the strengths of this anime is the simplistic plot followed consistently through the series and fit around episodic back story and events. The central conflicts are whether or not Nicoletta will reveal her mother to her second husband, whom she left her for as a child, and potentially destroy their relationship and what will become of her crush. That she doesn't immediately out her mother is her curiosity for the world of Casetta dell'orso, a restaurant in an idealised corner of Rome. Her interest about her mother's life, a potential and surprising love interest and a revival... See full review
This would have fallen flat if it weren't for the characterisation of the central characters. A pretty basic plot rescuing a damsal in distress with a small twist and the fighting wasn't hugely compelling or particularly interesting in their animation. Only a few of the relationships interested me but some of the characters geuinely seemed to develop and impact on each other more than in a lot of series I have seen. I hated the opening and ending themes passionately and didn't notice the soundtrack at all. Murasaki Kuhoin was a great character despite seeming a bit older than 7 to me... See full review
This was completely ridiculous in every way but I still enjoyed it. The animation was pretty nice if not mind blowing the characters were nuts as was the world and I have no idea what I saw in it, if someone can enlighten me that would be lovely.See full review


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I got Breacher from TRU thanks to a stash from JT and Hailstorm from Target.
I got Breacher from TRU thanks to a stash from JT and Hailstorm from Target.
Got Hailstorm and Sidearm Sideswipe at Target last night.
Hailstorm is a mess. He's small in both modes. His missiles are marble-shooter style and don't fire for crap despite his missiles being his KEY FEATURE! His alt mode has a really odd hollow cockpit. His transformation is interesting but makes him even shorter. His bot mode is just too odd, super short and gorilla-like bulk with long arms, but not intentionally a knuckle-dragger since his shoulders foist the missile boxes. Honestly, this feels to me like an outsider's work, someone who came in off of Marvel or SW TF Crossovers (not that this has any of the major flaws those lines have, don't get me wrong, there's no ridiculously crappy joints or telescoping limbs). I'd grade him a "C" at best, maybe a little lower even.
Sidearm Sideswipe is pretty cool. All new, he's somewhat similar in alt mode, but can deploy his guns slightly upward. Transformation is fascinating, totally different from before, it feels unique. Bot mode is quite cool, but the chest is a little oversized compared to the rest of the figure (the head seems pretty small, but that's more about the chest IMO), and the lower body is restricted by design elements that hamper the knee and hip joints. There's a lot of sculpted detail and a decent deco/aesthetic going on. The guns look cool and fit specifically in these hands. I'd give Sideswipe a "B" but caution that it's not a figure every fan will dig.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
I guess I forgot to weigh in on Hailstorm despite having had it for nearly a week now. Not that I had too much compelling to say about it though!
JT, another aspect I didn't like was that in alt mode, there's no way to pin the two halves of the front together.
The feet on Hailstorm peg into their respective outer side shins, and once that's done and the thighs are lined up right, you can tab each foot into the crotch which aligns them. It's not perfect, but it works ok once you know to look for it.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Finally got a Rodimus, and there was a Darkmount on the pegs next to it. Yay!
Rodimus is... welllll... this figure after all its anticipation is just alright, and a bit half-baked. The alt mode looks like a car that's had the frame broken in the middle and is sagging. For an Animated figure, this one requires a little more panel massage than I'm used to. Also, the rear of the alt mode is a gap for no reason, there's a panel back there COULD have hid it if they had extended it. Transformation is interesting but gets wonky at the chest, and the shoulder joints pop out too easily.
Bot mode is decent with pose potential and a very Hot Rod look, but also awkward with some gaps around the torso, and I don't like the noseless face with the low mouth. I get it, it's the opposite of all the other figures in the line, no giant boots, no giant chin, but the long wide face is odd and not quite what the show art had, and the way the torso comes together doesn't feel complete. That said, it's got good articulation (if you don't mind the shoulders popping out all the time) and a trim profile, no kibble really. The bow looks decent but doesn't have storage in bot mode when he's not holding it. When his eyes lightpipe, they have bubbles in the middle for irises, just like the animation, an interesting touch.
All in all, I'd give this a "B-" while trying to ignore the price-increase to $15. The alt mode feels a bit odd but isn't terrible, the transformation is unusual if a little bothersome at spots, the bot mode is decent but has issues.
Darkmount is clearly Straxus, so we'll drop the pretense at this stage. Alt mode is a halftrack tank with a VERY beefy turret that sports a long, thin cannon and 5 of the figure's 7 different 3mm clip-system rails for its 3 clip-system accessories - a smoke/grenade launcher, a rocket launcher box with 6 tips, and a machine gun which looks best clipped into the top. The turret rotates all the way round, and the main gun elevates to about 75 degrees. The vehicle has lots of detail, although the sculpting is not exactly as sharp as I've gotten used to, it feels a little like a throwback in that respect. The scale is a little confused, the wheels, tracks, and headlights suggest a fairly standard deluxe scale; while the cockpit, tail light, and cannon bore suggest a much bigger tank, like a rolling house, and the clip-system accessories don't really seem to have a sense of scale at all. The colors are mainly blue plastic with gray accents, the front of the vehicle has a copper section to give it some flavor, and there are a few small areas with red but mainly that's meant for other modes. The vehicle is interesting, it's bulky and apparently massive, has a long cannon, interchangeable accessories, it's detailed but in a different manner from what we've gotten used to from the movie lines.
Straxus then turns into a battle station, which the instructions make hash of, but the parts actually have specific functions so I'll talk about the REAL one. When done right, the rear tread shell halves angle down and tab onto the struts holding the front shell halves which stabilizes them, the arms then rotate upside-down to show the inner tread details and kind of hang out inside those shell halves but loosely. Then the turret raises up, locks into the middle, and handles rotate out of the back. What you're left with is a gun emplacement sized to a basic figure and it's a little low for that even. It's got modern 3rd-mode-syndrome in that it looks a lot like the main altmode jury-rigged into something else, but the parts moving in the way they do and the gun handles lend it enough credibility that I can dig it, and even though Hubcap has to hunker down to use it, it's a decent pairing putting a basic with this emplacement. I am not sure the mighty Lord Straxus would really appreciate turning into a rather modest weapon emplacement though.
Transformation in the instructions to bot mode require first going through battle station mode, yet the reverse instructions (which, btw, Hasbro deserves props for now including on all the figures I've seen lately, kudos) bypass the battle station, so it goes "vehicle to battle station to robot to vehicle". Instructions also have the order of stuff wrong, so it's more frustrating the way they do it, and they have storage for the axe that doesn't work and is pretty vague. Anyway, transformation is very involved and interesting, if you get the order wrong it's gonna be frustrating since panels will hit things, stuff will ram into moving parts, etc., but when you get it right it's quite clever and not the bumpy road Hasbro thinks. The finished result is stable, a good size with bulk, and in terms of kibble, the rear halftrack shells hanging off the back isn't as offensive as it might seem. The way the forearms end up with the inner portion of the track gears is pretty clever, and helps lighten up the backpack's bulky look a little. I especially like that Straxus' ax transforms, with the barrel stem sliding down to become part of the pommel (the slide lock is a tad stiff, but worth it), the ax blades rotate around and open up. All in all, Straxus feels different from a lot of TFs lately, a little more original and somewhat classic.
Straxus' bot mode is a decent size but isn't a tubby guy the way the original character was, instead he's more of a balanced bot with a bit extra bulk in the chest and lower legs (he does have the big-boots, short thighs thing that's been going around the last decade though) - so he looks big and tough without being squat and blocky, it's easier to take him seriously as a contender for Cybertron's most-feared. The figure has lots of sculpted details, some of which are right out of the G1 character's look - the red triple-triangles are all over here, and the head is unmistakable with its swept ears and collar-fang mouth design - while others seem feel classic but aren't Straxus' original styles - the armored forearms and pointy hip panels aren't his or his planned repaint's (Skullgrin). The colors add more gray and a lot more red, so it's quite a bold look, although those colors with this blue seems more Autobot than Decepticon. The figure has a tilted-forward lower torso design, something else we've been getting more of lately. Articulation is great, lots of movement especially at the arms which can hold the ax 2-handed, but the foot connection is a sideways ball-joint which is risky in terms of long-term design, it leaves an unsightly gap, and it has limited sideways tilt range - that said, so far the feet haven't given me any trouble. The figure is a little back-heavy from the kibble and short heels that are a bit far forward in the centerline, but the articulation allows for plenty of compensation. The 3 clip-system accessories feel somewhat forgotten here, they can be plugged onto the legs, and 1 can be clipped onto each half of the kibble backpack, but they don't really add much to the guy.
Overall, Lord Straxus is well-represented in the Generations line. While not perfect, and not everybody will get behind the battle station mode, there's a lot working for this figure in bot and vehicle mode, and very little distracting from either. I'd grade Straxus/Darkmount an "A", though the figure is a complex chap and only patience will make him really rewarding to fully enjoy.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Nice to hear. I'm looking forward to that one.
Skullgrin is going to be a Straxus repaint, right? Does he at least have a new head? I skipped Banzai-Tron (truth is, I didn't look for him so I'm not sure that I've seen him), because such a poo-poo character being a Bludgeon repaint is lame. But Skullgrin I always thought was cool for whatever reason, so I might bite on this one if the head is different.
That's my jacket!
Awesome. If the figure's as good as JT says (and he's usually more critical than I am), then Hasbro has definitely suckered me in.
That's my jacket!
I found Generations Dirge and Blurr at Target this morning.
I have a friend who found Red Alert and Straxus. This means there are six whole Deluxes I haven't seen yet (counting Soundwave and Megatron). If I don't find them soon, that could be one expensive trip if more waves come out.
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So I'm developing a TPS set in the present day, in which you play a criminal. I know what will my game look like, but I have trouble creating a good story. My first concept was:
"After a heist you have been betrayed and left to die. With last bits of strenght, you manage to call your girlfriend, who helps you and takes you to the doctor. After spending several months recovering, you begin searching for person who betrayed tou, and your money."
I have a problem developing a story after this point, because I don't want to create a cliche, or just another stupid crime plot.
So I need your help and advice to make this a good story,
Thanks in advance,
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You will definitely want to eat dessert first when you spot these adorable sweets! The clever cupcakes would be great for a kids' party.
Brownies can be baked ahead, but wait to cut out the "burgers" until ready to assemble so the burgers don't dry out.
For a fun touch, serve these "sliders" in red and white checked paper food trays, like at a fast-food restaurant, accompanied by "fries" (yellow licorice twists).
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Organising BSDCon Europe. Busy.
Organising BSDCon Europe. Busy.
dmerrill: Case insensitive sorting in XSLT is relatively simple. Consider this simple XSLT fragment:
<xsl:variable name="ucletters" select="'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'"/> <xsl:variable name="lcletters" select="'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'"/>
<xsl:template match="entry"> <xsl:sort select="translate(title, $lcletters, $ucletters)"/> <-- Do stuff --> </xsl:template>
Which will process something like
<entry> <title>Foo</title> <title>Bar</title> <title>Baz</title> </entry>
In <title> order, not document order.
Stuck down in the land of XML, SOAP, XSLT, and LDAP.
I've added a project page for the DocBook Open Repository, the home of the DocBook XSL and DSSSL stylesheets. Which then spurred me on to commit some minor changes to the DSSSL stylesheets.
I haven't heard anything recently about the US sending people over to a country and just blowing up shit without a reason.
No. Your country just funds them.
Spent chunks of the last few days getting in to XSLT, after the indoctrination at the O'Reilly conference. Have now incorporated this in to the infrastucture of the FreeBSD web site.
The front page now sports an automatically generated list of most recent 20 news articles from the newsflash page. This is done by keeping the news information in news.xml, and using a stylesheet, index.xsl to do the work. Another stylesheet, news-rdf.xsl is used to generate an RDF format file, news.rdf containing the headlines which can then be syndicated to other websites, like Daily DaemonNews.
Now to start scattering XML/XSLT around the rest of the site as necessary -- this should help remove many of the Perl scripts that are littering the tree doing useful things with the content.
Work on the FreeBSD Handbook continues apace, as we prepare to get it ready for the second printed edition. Anyone that wants to help contribute to this effort is encouraged to look at the task list of outstanding items.
Open Source Conference. San Diego. Sun. Hot. People. Presentations. Presenting. DocBook. XML. XSL. XSLT. Perl. Keynote. Wall. <ding>. Orwant. Quiz show. Press ganged. Lost (we were robbed). Exhibition. O'Reilly. Meetings. Faces to Names. Cookies. Freebies. T-shirts. BoFs. BSD.
Number of messages flagged as "must respond to" in freebsd-doc: 666
Spending the day (and most of yesterday) tucked up recovering from a nasty stomach bug I think I picked up in Barcelona. Everything is fine until I eat something, at which point it all gets a bit hairy. Still, I could stand to lose a few pounds. And it gives me the opportunity to catch up one some e-mail.
Spent part of last week at the NordU2001 conference. BSDi were a sponsor, which meant that we got to do a presentation. Figuring that most people wouldn't want to sit through a standard vendor presentation, I gave an introduction to DocBook, where it fits among the sea of documentation formats already available, and what its benefits are compared to those formats. It seemed to go down well, and I'm exchanging e-mail with some of the people who attended to help them up the learning curve.
The documentation infrastructure on FreeBSD has taken another leap forward -- inline images are now supported, without requiring the end user to pull down all of ImageMagick (and its dependencies). The author can write something like this
<mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="figure1" format="EPS"> </imageobject>
<textobject> <literallayout class="monospaced">+-----+ | A | +------+</literallayout> </textobject>
<textobject> <para>A box with an 'A' in it</para> </textobject> </mediaobject>
and the Makefile's and stylesheets automatically handle converting the image from its source format (EPS or PNG) to the correct format for the output (EPS, PNG, or PDF), scaling the image correctly as necessary, and so on. It's also possible to build plain text versions of the documentation, without any images -- in this case, the first textobject, with the ASCII art, will be used. This is pretty useful.
With this done I could bring in something else that's been sat in my tree for a while. Addison Wesley have very kindly allowed us to excerpt chapter 2 of the book "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" for the FreeBSD Documentation Project. This contains a couple of images, and it's been the image support that's been holding it back.
Spent some time reordering http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html, which I'll commit later. Hopefully it makes the information clearer.
Going back and forth with Adam di Carlo in the docbook-apps mailing list. Looks like we might have the beginnings of commonality between the FreeBSD doc. infrastructure and that of (some) Linux (distributions). Which is good.
dyork: Any chance you'll publicise your DSSSL stylesheets?
An interesting week. First off, there's been all the stuff for BSDi in EMEASA that's going very nicely. Naturally, I can't talk about that, so I'll skip it.
In my CFT I've been playing with a new toy, a Sony Vaio PCG-F709. This little beast is a 750MHz PIII with 128MB of RAM and an 18GB hard disk. Somewhat overspecced for the stuff that I have to run, but it's the stuff that's interesting to run that's important.
In particular, I've decided to drag myself out of the X11 darkages and see what the current state of the art Unix desktop environment is, and whether or not all the fuss over GNOME and KDE is really warranted. Anecdotal evidence suggested that equipping myself with a powerful machine would be a good thing to do before tackling this. My main desktop is a 200MHz PII, and it's been struggling somewhat recently.
Now, my idea of a usable desktop is CTWM with a few virtual desktops (bound to F1 -> F5), a couple of copies of xbuffy, an xload, and some custom menu bindings to throw up some shells on different hosts. Oh, and a few keybindings -- to wit, ALT+Mouse 1 should raise/lower, ALT+Mouse 2 should resize, and ALT+Mouse 3 should move the window. Those have been in my window manager environment for years, and are ingrained in my fingers. If that doesn't work on any new system then I don't want to know.
Right now I'm experimenting with Gnome.
# cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome
# make install
is easy enough to do, even if it does take an age and then some to download and build. I've been playing around with this for about 48 hours now, and I'm not entirely sure I appreciate the point. Yes, the integration between all the bits and pieces is nice, but this whole concept of dropping icons and programs on to the desktop is still somewhat alien. I've been fighting it on Windows for years, and don't really want to return to it on a Unix system. When you spend 95% of your time in a CLI anyway, it's much less arduous to "cd ~/docs; xemacs" than it is to pick up the mouse, click on the foot, and point and fumble until you hit the correct icon. Which means that as soon as I work out how to get all those annoying copies of gmc gone they're going to be gone.
Also (and something I've never seen adequately discussed anywhere) when you've got umpteen different applications all running, with various windows all over the screen, it's impossible to see anything on the desktop anyway. Which makes moving windows out of the way in order to be able to doubleclick an icon incredibly tedious. "Just say no to icons on the desktop."
Sawfish seems quite nice, with the default theme being eminently usable on the laptop. I miss my list of hosts that used to pop up on the right mouse button however. A few minutes digging hasn't shown how to create user-defined menus to overide the one it insists on showing, so that will have to be a task for another day. But 10 out of 10 for making it easy for me to bring my favourite key bindings over. Lisp-ish languages aren't my preferred choice, but diddling ~/.sawfish/custom was relatively painless, and certainly no more traumatic than the same changes for .ctwmrc.
The jury's still out on the panel. I never got on with CDE when I was using Solaris, and this doesn't inspire me with confidence. I'm not sure I want to give up the bottom 48 lines of precious real estate for information that could be stratigically scattered around the screen. I can't see a way to only partially extend it either, so I can claw back some of my screen. Of course, this isn't helped by gnome-help-browser crashing at every available opportunity.
Still, responses remain snappy. Then again, at 750MHz I'd damn well expect them to. I suspect that running this little lot on the P200 is going to be an interesting exercise in patience, not least while the stuff builds. X plus the Gnome components seems to be taking the better part of 32MB of resident memory at the moment, which strikes me as being a little on the heavy side. jade(1)'s reaction when I try to run it some large documents (megabyte+) should be interesting.
Overall, nice try. As a desktop it doesn't feel egregiously bad, and I suspect some of the smaller utilities (in particular the calendar and contact information stuff, if the Palm synching works properly) will prove very useful. But the requirement to pull in all the additional libraries for Gnome is onerous, and I'm still undecided whether it's going to be worth the effort.
Meanwhile, in another window, a KDE snapshot from late July is building itself. It'll be interesting to see how the two compare -- particularly as I'm unlikely to be developing under either of them any time soon, so the vaunted C/C++ differences between them doesn't really bother me.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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This set of pages lists the all the electronics related parts that are (or were) in stock. The purpose of this stock is to provide fast access to a small assortment of commonly needed parts, so you don't have to order them if you decide you want to hack something now. We would like to make the use of this stock as easy as possible. But before you do anything, please read the whole page.
Update The Inventory Table!
As many are not that familiar with what is actually in those boxes, it is extremely comfortable to just search a wiki page for the part you need. If you add anything to or take anything from our stock, please update the corresponding counts in inventory table. If you don't want to provide a photo or are unable to do so, ask someone with a 2wiki-enabled camera (e.g. Benutzer:Marvin).
Basically, there are three levels of accuracy:
- Accurate Numbers
- Estimations (~ or >)
- Values that are not yet determined (tbd)
If you are taking parts, please do not switch to a less accurate level (for example from estimated to tbd). If you add parts, you are free to reduce accuracy.
Pay For Your Goods
The initial stock has been set up by donations of very few people. The idea behind those donations were that if you take something, the space should be compensated by something of equal or higher value to reach several goals:
- Ability to re-fill empty boxes
- Extending the diversity
- Ability to supply free parts for space-related projects


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Hey Charlie; You sir are officially to be known as a taghog or some other tag sumthin!!!!lol, that's 4 sure!! Good luck this year!! joe
For some reason I thought each tag was ~$85, for ~$15 I would have gotten another one for zone 4 time period E but of course now there are only F left. I won't make that mistake next year.
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This year our troop has decided to expand our winter camping skills by making a piece of gear that will assist in a better cold weather camping experience. We are building Pulk Sleds.
A Pulk sled is a sled that is used to haul gear, tools, wood, whatever in the snow. There are many designs out there and many price ranges. We thought we could make them a lot cheaper and get more out of it in the long run. So the search began for a sled that would work. We did not want to break the bank on the sleds. I saw a few YouTube videos of people making Pulk sleds out of ordinary kids plastic sleds. We figured.. this would work for us.
But I wanted one for me that would last longer and be sturdy enough to take my load. I purchased the Jet Sled Jr. from Shappell. It is a sled designed for ice fishing and conversion to a Pulk sled. The cost was $29.99, so that's not to bad. But for the sleds for the Troop a bit to much for our budget. Back to the kids sleds. I found a good sturdy sled at Big 5 Sports for $15. Then we took the design that would stay within our budget and meet the needs of the Pulk sled.
So here is the list of materials needed to build the sled.
1 Sled. We bought the Flexible Flyer Winter Lightning sled – $15.00
100 Feet of synthetic rope (100 feet will make about 4 sleds)- $8.00 ($2 per sled)
6 snap links -$5.88 for all 6
1 10 ft. length of 1/2 inch PVC – $1.68
Total cost of the materials – $25.00
Start by cutting the PVC pipe in half. Run a length of rope through the PVC and tie off each end with a loop. Run a snap link through each loop.
Drill holes at lengths where you want to have tie downs. Run the rope over and under, tieing a knot so the loops maintain their shape.
Tie loops at the front.. connect the PVC arms and you are finished.
A $25 Pulk sled.
The Scouts of the Troop will be making 2 per Patrol, and if they want to go out and make their own, like I am.. they are welcome to. This is a great project that is extremely simple but will add to our winter camping experience.
I will do a video on the making of my Pulk sled, and will more than likely shoot some video of the Scouts making their sleds. And of course you will see them in action in January.
Here are the pictures of the "Prototype" sled that I made to show the Scouts what we are talking about.
So there it is… A pulk sled! A fun project.. can't wait to get it in the snow.
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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Position papers: Green Local Schools Board of Education
10/10/2013 - South Side Leader
Bob Campbell (incumbent) vs. Sally Fanelly vs. Steven Foster (incumbent) vs. Rick Miller vs. Katie Stoynoff
Voters living in the Green Local School District will vote for three candidates for Green Local Schools Board of Education in the Nov. 5 General Election. The race is nonpartisan. The information provided below was submitted by the candidates, with their responses to our questions printed as submitted.
Bob Campbell (incumbent)
Why are you running for a seat on the Green Local Schools Board of Education?
"When I first ran for the Board in the fall of 2005 I felt that the school and community had grown apart and there was an obvious lack of trust. Over the past eight years I believe that the Board has begun to earn back the trust of the community through transparency, honesty and open communication. I want to build upon this foundation and continue to seek ways to strengthen the bond that we have worked so hard to mend. There will always be changes to how we do things and why we (sometimes) are forced to do them. The challenge as a Board member is keeping (or developing) open lines of communication so our taxpaying community knows what we are doing and why. Trust is something that is earned over time but can if taken for granted can be broken in an instant."
What would be your top three priorities if you were re-elected? Why?
"My top three priorities are simple; sound fiscal policy, consistent leadership and high student achievement.
"Sound fiscal policy means that we do everything possible to live within our means. Along with the superintendent and treasurer we are all obligated to our community to do what is best within the confines of what we can afford. The reality of school funding (currently) in the state of Ohio is that the state is only willing to do so much and the remainder of that burden falls upon us. This community has demonstrated the willingness to support our schools with additional money when warranted and we have a similar responsibility to spend it wisely.
"Consistent leadership is essential for long-term success. This year the community and Board developed the Strategic Plan for our district. It provides the Administration with a road map of where the community wants the schools to go. This type of long range planning is vital to the prolonged success of the district.
"High student achievement is THE underlying theme of any school district. It's all about providing our children the best educational and extra-curricular opportunities possible. We must continue to collaborate with the business community and city to create new opportunities for our students."
Sally Fanelly
Why are you running for a seat on the Green Local Schools Board of Education?
"I am running for a seat on Green Local Schools Board because I know the schools from an employee's point of view, a community member's point of view and a parent's point of view. I want to make a positive impact on school policy, educational initiatives, and the spending of taxpayer's money. I am very vested in Green Local Schools and I would love to be a School Board Member."
What would be your top three priorities if you took office? Why?
- "I am a supporter of innovation in education and how it can successfully affect our children in college and in the business world. The market place is changing so rapidly that we must meet these changes and teach our students not only to learn, but to be lifelong learners.
- "I would like to use my 18 years' experience in the schools administration office to make a direct impact on the student's education and the employees of Green Local Schools.
- "Now that I am retired, I would like to stay involved with the schools and have contact with the community to address their concerns and needs of our schools."
Steven Foster (incumbent)
Why are you running for a seat on the Green Local Schools Board of Education?
"I believe the best is yet to come for Green Local Schools. As a parent and community member I continue to believe that excellent schools are the core foundation for a solid future and a strong community. I am confident that I can continue to play a vital role, as a member of the Green Local Schools Board of Education, in making our schools even stronger.
"In this year of significant change I have demonstrated the leadership ability required to continue moving our district forward. With the recent hiring of Jeff Miller as our new Superintendent and Kevin Finefrock as our Assistant Superintendent (a reinstated position at no additional cost to the district), I believe it is imperative that they, along with our entire leadership team, have the full support and confidence of the board. More specifically, a board which consists of a majority of the members who chose them to lead our district.
"While financial responsibility and safety of students and staff remain a constant area of focus, I also look forward to working with our leadership to implement the recently endorsed strategic plan regarding: Academics, Communications, Leadership and Human Resources, Operations, Student Culture, and Technology."
What would be your top three priorities if you were re-elected? Why?
"Fiscal responsibility.
"Fiscal responsibility has been, and will remain, a priority. Promises made in the 2011 levy campaign are promises that have been kept. We fully expect to get through fiscal year 2015 without asking for a new levy, even if that means making difficult and/or unpopular decisions. We continue to reduce expenditures through shared services, renegotiating vendor contracts, job consolidation, and buying consortiums. We also continue to look for new sources of revenue such as grants, gifts and collaboration with corporate partners. I will continue to make fiscal responsibility a top priority using these strategies and will encourage the exploration of additional opportunities.
"Safety of Staff and Students.
"Safety of our staff and students has been, and will remain, a priority. We have made significant investments in building safety by installing security vestibules, additional interior and exterior cameras, and replacing keys with card readers. Procedural changes include more in-depth visitor screenings. Our partnership with the Summit County Sherriff has recently expanded to include additional law enforcement time and visibility in our buildings — at no additional cost to the district or the Sherriff. We will continue to look for opportunities to improve the safety of our district and to collaborate with both the Sherriff and the City of Green as appropriate.
"Strategic Plan/Continuous Improvement.
"Our district is excellent, but we should never stop improving. The implementation of Strategic Plan as endorsed at the June 2013 board meeting is both a district and a personal priority."
Rick Miller
Why are you running for a seat on the Green Local Schools Board of Education?
"I have a strong desire to make an impact in our School District. There was no one event or issue that prompted me to run, but more so just a persistent desire to be part of our School District in a manner that affords me the opportunity to have a voice in the decisions that will ultimately shape the future of the children of Green."
What would be your top three priorities if you took office? Why?
"I believe in the importance of leadership. Our School District needs a Board of Education made up of positive role models and people that have a desire to lead with Integrity. I am a person who will do that and I look forward to joining others with the same motivations and intentions.
"I also believe it is important that our School District not rely solely on traditional state funding but to also begin exploring partnerships with local Businesses, Colleges and Universities to bring new opportunity to our students. I would like to be part of the group that champions a new approach to Academic Funding and the possibilities that it offers to those in our School District.
"Lastly, I look forward to working with existing Board Members and District Administrators as we navigate the winding roads of an ever changing academic landscape. There are many new challenges that face our school district and I'm confident that I can be a voice of sound reason and leadership as we attempt to steer our district in the right direction to ultimately best prepare our community's children for a bright, successful and prosperous future."
Katie Stoynoff
Why are you running for a seat on the Green Local Schools Board of Education?
"I am running because there are sweeping changes coming to K-12 education over the next few years. These changes will require a school board that is able to work with district administration to make sure we are meeting requirements related to implementing the Common Core Curriculum, teacher assessments, and student assessments. These changes have broad implications for the district; many could be financial, but many are related to making sure that all students have what they need to be successful and that all teachers are being treated fairly when it comes to assessing their success in the classroom. The strength that I bring is that I am able to see how changes impact more than just the obvious, and I am able to plan ahead for unforeseen complications. This skill, along with my knowledge of the education system, will give me the ability to be a productive member of the board from my first day.
"Because I was a member of the Community Stakeholders Committee selected to interview for our new superintendent, I have looked closely at the above mentioned changes. This experience convinced me that I should seek office. I know that my knowledge of education, administration, and school funding will enable me to be of service to the school district. I want the best possible education for my son and all the children that pass through Green Local Schools."
What would be your top three priorities if you took office? Why?
- "Of foremost importance is giving the Green Local Schools administration my support. I also believe that this support must by balanced by a willingness to ask tough questions as we work to determine the best ways to make the K-12 changes work for students and faculty. Having seen several presentations at recent Board Meetings, it is clear to me that the administration has a plan for implementing the Common Core, teacher evaluations, and student assessments.
- "I will make it a priority to be a responsible steward of taxpayer funds. This includes not only spending our local tax dollars wisely, but speaking out when state funding is taken from the District's coffers. Green Local Schools will be receiving $1.3 million less over the next two years than it did in the 09-10 and 10-11 school years and is losing approximately $500,000 a year to low-performing charter schools. When cuts like this come from the state, districts are often forced to place levies on the ballot. It would be my preference to fight for the money that should be our reward for a history of high academic performance.
- "Green Schools plays an important role in the economic success of the City of Green. I will work with the administration of the City and the School District to make sure our schools continue to be an asset from an economic perspective, helping to attract new businesses, reduce the tax burden on residents, and maintain our property values."
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In Winnipeg, city planners are looking at ways to make cycling a more attractive option for commuters. Fewer stop signs for cyclists eyed While changing traffic law to allow "Idaho Stops" would have to happen at the provincial level (same as in Ontario) there has been another idea put forth. The report suggests:
"Reducing the number of unwarranted stop signs on streets identified by ATAC will improve the efficiency of these routes for cyclists as well as reduce unnecessary vehicle stops, reduce fuel consumption and emissions, reduce traffic-noise levels and may promote overall compliance at stop signs in general"
Of course, this doesn't sound like a good idea. Removing stop signs will increase traffic speeds and is likely to attract more motorists than cyclists. Streets without stop signs are highways something Winnipeg resident Dan Prowse elegantly points out:
Reducing stop signs on routes preferred by cyclists "to reduce unnecessary vehicle stops, reduce fuel consumption and emissions, reduce traffic-noise levels" (Fewer stop signs for cyclists eyed, March 5) makes sense if you are thinking about cars. If you are actually thinking about saving fuel, reducing emissions and reducing noise, or if you are actually thinking about the interests of cyclists, which was the reason for the City of Winnipeg transportation report, the decision is absurd. The proposed approach would only attract more cars to use routes favoured by cyclists making it more dangerous to cycle.
The quoted report doesn't want to treat bikes and cars differently. But that is the whole point — bikes are different. Cycling is three to 10 times more space efficient (in road use and parking space) and 100 times more energy efficient. Being energy efficient means no fuel, no emissions and essentially no noise.
I became a convert to active commuting almost 40 years ago in Toronto based on the superior mental and physical condition of my retirement-age boss who walked to work. Since then, I've mostly walked but also run, cross-country skied and biked to work. In the last year, I've become an all-season cycler, commuting to downtown Winnipeg.
With modern technology, winter cycling is no longer a miserable experience.
I've got cheap clothing that keeps my skin warm and dry, studded tires, amazing LED lights with lithium batteries that will light up signs two blocks away at -30C and hi-tech goggles. I, with two or three dozen other co-worker cyclists, would have to be the president to have a better parking spot. My route is relatively safe. My commute times are often better than a car and shorter than the bus. My commute is as scenic as a holiday. In winter rush hours, it is a delight biking under bridges on the river trail from Churchill High School down the Red River and up the Assiniboine compared to driving over those bridges.
What's not to like about biking? More frostbite risk in biking than walking. It takes the city a couple of days to plow the cycle/walking path from Osborne to the Forks. There aren't enough safe routes to keep bikes and cars apart. Most drivers are very considerate but probably only professional drivers appreciate how big a safety zone cyclists need.
About 75 per cent of regular cyclists stop for winter, not because of the cold, but because there are insufficient safe routes.
We can fix those things, but only if we treat bikes differently than cars.
It's taken me about 40 years of trying out commuting options to figure out what Apple, and before them, Sony have demonstrated so well — elegant solutions to human needs that are space and energy efficient married with good technology are winners. Let bikes work.
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Shropshire born and bred, Lisa had an idyllic childhood growing up surrounded by ponies, dogs, chickens, a pet sheep and even an orphan Canada goose, which she hand raised by hand. With all these animals and wide-open spaces to explore and fuel the imagination, Lisa was never to be found indoors playing with dolls. More often than not she would be found in a den she had built somewhere, talking to her imaginary friends or writing and illustrating stories about them.
Lisa grew into quite an angry teenager, and the whimsical world of pet animals gave way to goth music, jumble sale chic, and blue hair and lipstick and it was inevitable that art school beckoned!
Lisa then went on to study at Brighton Polytechnic & Glyndwr University, and then spent some time travelling around Canada and the USA.
She managed to combine freelancing with a career in design for 11 years, before deciding to return to education as a mature student in 2003. She graduated from Glyndwr University in 2006 with a BA (Hons) degree in Illustration for Children's Publishing, and it was whilst exhibiting at the New Designers show in London in that year, that she was spotted by the Bright Agency.
Lisa has worked with Ladybird, Parragon, Scholastic, Armadillo, Kyowon, Cowley Robinson Publishing and Autumn Publishing.
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By Shuli Ren
Morgan Stanley downgrades Yum! Brand (YUM) to Neutral, saying Yum!'s 40% profit recovery guidance is too ambitious. Yum reported year-on-year declining same-store sales in China for most part of 2013.
The debate over Yum is whether the weak China sales last year was circumstantial (avian flu, food supply issues) or structural. Morgan Stanley now thinks it is more on the structural side. Here are analysts John Glass, Jake Bartlett and Courtney O'Brien:
Sales weakness was present in China two months prior to the outbreak of the poultry supplier incident (Oct and Nov '12) and Avian Flu, and the recovery post these events has been much slower than anticipated. We agree with the view that sales will be positive in China in '14 and stronger in the 1H, though our conviction on the magnitude of the recovery is low and see the supplier issue as possibly hiding other structural issues that may have been latent prior to these 'shocks'.
The street consensus view is that Yum's margins will expand (by 1.6%) this year, but Morgan Stanley is skeptical:
Even after getting more insight into YUM's thinking behind margin drivers post its analyst day, we still think there is a leap of faith associated with the 100-300 bps of margin expansion needed to meet the '14 profits goals in China. We are making that leap, but, again, have low conviction. Improving labor productivity will be the key, as all other key items will move against margins; food will be more inflationary in '14 vs. '13, wage rates are expected to increase at a low double digit pace in '14, and rents are at least 50% variable (therefore harder to leverage) and have some continued upward pressure as older leases renew at current, higher rents.
On the valuation side, Yum is more expensive than McDonald's (MCD):
Current valuation, at nearly 22x our '14 estimates (vs. a 5yr NTM average of 18x) not only represents one of the larger premiums vs. the prior five years within QSR, but the multiple 'gap' between YUM and MCD stands at near historic levels at 5.1x vs. a 10yr average of a 2.1x multiple premium.
The broker's price target is $77, down from the previous $81. This price target implies 15x the broker's 2015 earnings estimate.


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Anthony Jones, TE, 6-6 240, Edna Karr, 2014: One could argue that Edna Karr is the most talented team in the state. One could also say that 2013 Karr TE Standish Dobard is one of the most talented prospects at his position in the country. As good as Dobard is, Anthony Jones might be better when all is said and done. The former basketball star has natural ability despite just learning the game of football. Dobard's ball skills are reminiscent of many power forwards turned tight ends. Expect Jones to get some hard looks from many programs, including LSU.
Garrett Thomas, OL, 6-4 290, Many, 2015: Thomas is considered one of the best young linemen around. While the sophomore still has plenty of time to grow and mature, he already is drawing attention from college programs. Recently, Georgia Tech reached out to the Many staff to inquire about Thomas. A few years from now Thomas should be one of the better prospects in his class.
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Covington High standout defensive tackle Gerrald McDowell is on the verge of becoming a household name.
The 6-foot-4, 250-pound lineman has been wreaking havoc all year for the Lions. McDowell, who recently was named in the NOLA.com Top 20 Prospects List for 2014, has caught the attention of LSU and Tigers defensive line coach Brick Haley, who is recruiting him.
McDowell is visiting LSU on Oct. 13 for the South Carolina game and it's expected he'll receive a scholarship offer from Haley and the Tigers.
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I'm citing this 1744 book by Leonhard Euler in my thesis chapter on the elastica, and need the following bit of Latin translated into English. Anyone out there who can handily read this, or recommend someone else who can?
ut, inter omnes curvas ojusdem longitudinus, qu\ae\ non solum per puncta A \& B transeant, sed etiam in his punctis a rectis positione datis tangantur, definatur ea in qua sit valor hujus expressionis $\int {ds \over RR}$ minimus.
I have a pretty good idea what it says, but don't trust my own ability to get all the cases and so on correct. And some of the words don't seem entirely standard to me. "ojusdem"?
I'll probably be spending the first couple of weeks of April in Venlo, the Netherlands, visiting a customer site. It might be cool to meet up with some free software hackers and font people in the area.
To follow up on either (or both) of these, my best email address is <firstname>.<lastname>@gmail.com.
I have really fallen out of the habit of blogging, but I haven't exactly been a hermit like many of my other blogging lulls. I've been meeting up with quite a few people who have come through town (tor is here now), and generally keeping quite busy. Work, in particular, is hopping right now.


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Rwanda: Exiled editor sentenced for 'insulting' president
New York, June 6, 2011--The Supreme Court sentenced the exiled online editor of Umuvugizi, Jean Bosco Gasasira, on Friday to a two year and six month term in prison. Gasasira received this sentence for allegedly insulting Rwanda's president and inciting civil disobedience, local journalists told CPJ. Gasasira believes the new sentence may stem from an online article he wrote that compared Rwanda's President Paul Kagame to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, he said. The opinion piece concluded that the Rwandan president was more tyrannical than the Zimbabwean leader.


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Major: Biology and Spanish
Year of Graduation: 2008
Current Position: Volunteer, through Amate House at a nonprofit called "Programa CIELO" - a community health and wellness outreach program in the Mexican-American Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, IL..
Please give a brief description of your volunteer position.
I worked as a Community Resource Educator and spent the majority of my time in area elementary schools teaching nutrition classes to students in K-6 grades. Programa CIELO also offered a variety of health screenings at no cost to the patient. When I wasn't at a school teaching, I spent my time in the office seeing clients who came for any number of screenings such as blood sugar, cholesterol, and/or pregnancy testing. Community health fairs are common in that area too, so we would also go to these to offer one or two health screenings. Finally, I would also help clients apply for Illinois Medicaid programs.
How did you decide to volunteer after graduation & what resources did you use?
I decided to volunteer because the program/work site, Amate House and Programa CIELO, best fit the things that I considered to be important and meaningful to my life. Before deciding to volunteer with Amate House, I in fact applied to both paying jobs and other volunteer programs. At that time, I wasn't even sure that I wanted to volunteer.
To help me decide, I used some very helpful resources. I attended a volunteer fair on campus and talked with program coordinators and current volunteers from different programs, even some CSB/SJU alumni! With a lot of help from the career assistants at Career Services, I had at least four resumes tailored to fit any possible scenario to which I might commit. In looking for volunteer programs, I also looked at the Catholic Network Volunteer Service (CNVS) directory and talked to people who I knew who had gone on Alternative Spring Break trips that appealed to me.
What are some things to consider when thinking about volunteering?
I'd suggest considering the basics: who, what, why, where, etc. They're basic, but they're very important! Consider why you want to volunteer. What you intend to put into your volunteer service and what would you like to get out of such an experience (probably not money). Consider where you want to volunteer. Nationally, internationally, etc. Consider who you want to volunteer with. Do you want to volunteer working with other volunteers or would you rather volunteer more on your own? (This might also influence your living situation.) Consider what volunteer service you what to do.
What did your volunteer experience entail on a typical day?
I lived in the neighborhood where I worked which to me made my work ever more meaningful. I'd spend about an hour at the office, check my e-mail, prepare materials for the classes we were to teach that day and maybe see a client or two. Then, depending on the schedule, a co-worker and I would go to a school(s) to teach our nutrition classes. Class time was spent learning about nutrition by talking, playing games, watching video clips, and creating food advertisements. A lot of student interaction!
My day as a volunteer didn't end there. As an Amate House volunteer, I lived in an intentional community, which meant that I ate dinner Monday - Thursday with my community, my housemates, among doing many other intentional things. There were eight of us total in our house, so in pairs we took turns preparing dinner for one another. If it was my evening to cook, I'd make the short journey back across the street to start the meal. If not, I had an hour or two to do whatever before dinner was served.
What is the most challenging part of volunteering? What is the most rewarding part of the experience?
Personally, the most challenging thing about my volunteer experience wasn't any part of my work, it was living in community. Yet, at the same time it was the most rewarding part of my experience. I lived with seven other women throughout the U.S.., who moved to Little Village in Chicago to volunteer. We were raised differently, attended different schools, and studied different things. We had different backgrounds and were expected to live together harmoniously for ten months. This presented many challenges, but, I made some wonderful friendships and learned more about relationships than ever before.
Would you recommend students consider volunteering after graduation and what advice would you give?
Yes! Each volunteer experience is unique and, to be fair, I can only speak from my own. However, my life has changed because of my year of service. To those interested, take time now to research the countless opportunities that exist. It's said, and read, time and time again, but I'll say it once more, "Go to Career Services!" They won't do it for you, but they will help a lot. Create a resume. Go to a volunteer fair. Look online. Visit places. Talk with anyone you can who has volunteer experience to find a program that fits YOU!
What are your current career goals?
My current career goals include studying to become a Registered Nurse. I graduated with majors in biology and Spanish, aware that one day I wanted to work in the health care field. I decided nursing my senior year. Even though I made this decision late in college, it gave me the opportunity to volunteer and gain experience in an area I'm now pursuing for a career goal.


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Guys, Im new to turkey hunting so bear with me. My system of scouting is so far from what I read about, I wonder if Im doing it right.What i do is. Pick out a piece of land on my map of the forrest land that has a creek running through it somewhere(they gotta drink) right? I then cross refference with google earth to find how to get close the the north side of the creek. i then pick out about a 3-4 mile walk along the north side and glass down the slope to catch them feeding in the sun. I then plan to follow them back to there roost trees. With the grace of God and a little luck,Ill get out the next day and pattern them to wherever they go first thing in the AM. I hope to find out where their strutting. Then on opener,Ill show up with a couple lovely ladies about 15-20 yrds from the edge of the tree line,how do I know where to set up me decs?.Have two people in the brush 20 ydas from the decs.Then another calling with cuts,purrs and yelps, about 15-20 yds. behind them. hopesully call in a couple merriam tom close enough to shoot.
My other plan is to get out before sun up to the same ridge and crow or owl call them. To see where there roosting. Then try to ambush them right when they come off the roost.Do they have a specific spot they are heading? Can I determin where their gonna land ,and just wait there? Any added adice would be great. thanks.


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Imagine that a Star Wars themed restaurant is going to be opened and that all the menu items are going to be named after characters, ships, places, etc, from the films and EU.
What food do you think would correspond with each character? Here's some of my ideas:
Jabba: an enormous dessert item, preferably for two or more
Chewbacca: a hot fudge sundae
Palpatine: a Long Island Iced Tea
Jar Jar: chicken fingers
Amidala: Black Forest cake
Anakin: kids' hot dog platter
Shmi: meatloaf
Luke: hamburger
Leia: chicken sandwich
Han: steak
Momaw Nadon: salad
Mara: a very unassuming, very potent alcoholic beverage
Jawas: shots
Twi'leks: margaritas (different flavors that are yellow, red, green, and blue)
Qui-Gon: baked chicken
Obi-Wan: coffee
Lando: Colt 45


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Most people that enjoy the out doors, that really appreciate what we have in the wilderness area practice some level of leave no trace. While others seemingly take for granite the wide open spaces and figure that someone else will clean up after them, or that their impact will not be that harmful.
The fact is that while we may not be at a danger level in our wilderness, the foot print we leave today may have a lasting impact on how we use it tomorrow. It is for that reason that we need to learn and practice a leave no trace philosophy while getting out there.
To get started it is a good idea just to ask a few questions.
Do we plan ahead for all circumstances and go prepared?
Do we always travel and camp on durable surfaces? Do we know what that means? Do we know what surfaces are not durable?
Do we know how to properly dispose of our human waste and wastewater?
Do we minimize site alterations and leave natural items and artifacts for others to discover?
Do we minimize our campfire impact?
Do we only observe wildlife, or do we disturb them with our actions?
Are we always considerate of other campers?
Do we understand and follow the Leave no trace principles?
I think an honest review of your answers will tell you that you may be close to actively participating in the leave no trace program, but may be falling short in certain areas. That's ok, its a starting point and a place from which to build.
It is important that Scouts know and understand, not just the verbiage, but why we need the Leave no trace program. It is always a good idea to get them out into the wilderness. Have them sit quietly and look around. Then ask about Leave no trace. Right before their eyes they will see the "WHY" we need it.
I think about it in these terms as it relates to our Troop. We camp a lot. So over the 30 plus nights we camp over the course of a year, what is the impact that we can potentially leave? OK now.. what is the impact that we actually left last year? Can we answer those questions and feel good about our answer. I know that we fall short.


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June 05, 2007
Foothill College Astronomy Instructor
Andrew Fraknoi
, of San Francisco, has been named the recipient of the 2007 Richard H. Emmons Award for Excellence in College Astronomy Teaching by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP). Fraknoi will receive the award at the ASP's 2007 annual meeting and conference in Chicago in September.
"I'm delighted that there now exists a national award for teaching astronomy to college non-science majors, and that I am fortunate enough to be the second recipient of this prize," Fraknoi said. "So often what happens behind the doors of our nation's college classrooms is left only to the public's imagination. Yet, it is behind those doors that the crucial transformation of our students from kids to adults and from passive to active learners happens. My life's missions have always been to share the excitement of astronomy with those who are not particularly science-oriented and foster in my students a lifelong interest in the wonders of the universe."
A distinguished astronomy educator with a national reputation, Fraknoi is a longtime, community college instructor, textbook author, and prolific writer and speaker. During his career in education, he co-founded
Astronomy Education Review
, an online journal; founded the Cosmos in the Classroom symposia for college faculty; and served as the executive director of the ASP for 14 years. He has been a member of the Foothill College faculty and chairman of the college's astronomy department since 1992.
Fraknoi is the lead author of
Voyages through the Universe
, one of the foremost introductory astronomy textbooks in the country, and has written or edited more than a dozen books on astronomy and astronomy education. His new children's book,
Disney's Wonderful World of Space
, will be published this summer. He is a frequent guest on local and national radio programs, interpreting astronomical developments in everyday language.
In 2005, his popular
Physics 12: Physics for Poets
course won the Innovation of the Year Award from the League for Innovation in the Community College, for finding new ways to explain Einstein's ideas without math. Fraknoi is renowned for his ability to present and explain some of the most intriguing areas of modern astronomy and physics for students who are not majoring in the sciences. Students routinely applaud him for his instructional approach, which emphasizes humor, analogies, demonstrations, and relating science to the humanities.
"For me, some of the greatest moments are when a student comes to me, after the quarter is over, and says something like: 'All through high school I was convinced that I couldn't do science. And yet I earned an A in your class and I think I really "got" it.' That's a teacher's best reward," Fraknoi said.
Eight years ago, Fraknoi founded the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, which has grown to be one of the most popular events at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. For many of these lectures, Foothill's 900-seat theater is filled to overflow capacity with crowds eager to hear current and provocative developments in astronomy from world-renowned scientists and researchers. The slate of impressive guest lecturers who have presented at Foothill College include the first woman in history to discover a planet, a U.S. astronaut, a winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, and the discoverer of the dwarf planet beyond Pluto. Professor Fraknoi secured the support for the free series from key stakeholders, including the NASA's Ames Research Center, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, the ASP and the Foothill College administration.
Fraknoi serves on the board of directors of the SETI Institute, and is a Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, specializing in debunking astrology and UFO claims. He was the first community college instructor elected as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
Among his various awards, he is perhaps proudest that the International Astronomical Union has named asteroid 4859 Asteroid Fraknoi to recognize his contributions to the public understanding of science.
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