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Brian Orakpo Expecting Emotional Return On Monday
It will have been over 20 months since the outside linebacker played a regular-season game at FedEx Field when he does so Monday in his return from a torn pectoral.
ASHBURN – If it weren't for quarterback Robert Griffin III, Ryan Kerrigan thinks Brian Orakpo would have had the most dramatic return from injury.
"His recovery has kind of flown under the radar, but he's been every bit as impressive in his ability to come back," Kerrigan said.
Orakpo missed practically all of last season because of a torn left pectoral, but will make his return Monday when the Redskins host the Eagles in the season opener.
With the way the schedule played out, it will be the first time the outside linebacker has played in a regular season home game at FedEx Field in over 20 months.
"I couldn't ask for a better picture than what we have in store so far, so it's going to be exciting for myself," Orakpo said Wednesday. "All the work I put in the offseason to get back to the top-notch level – I'm going to be excited to be back out there."
Orakpo first tore his left pectoral in the final game in 2011, spent the summer rehabilitating it and returned in time to for the season opener last year. His return didn't last long; he again tore the muscle, albeit in a different place, in a Week 2 road loss to the St. Louis Rams while sacking quarterback Sam Bradford.
And while he was a presence in the facility all season, joining his teammates in meetings and livening up the locker room with his jovially deep voice, his absence was noticeable on the field. Rob Jackson, a seventh-round pick in 2008 who had never before started a game, was thrust into that role. A natural pass rusher, Jackson was so timid early in the season that the Redskins substituted reserve inside linebacker Lorenzo Alexander into the game in pass-rushing situations.
That's part of the reason why the Redskins' secondary was so uninspired last season. Without any pressure, opposing quarterbacks were able to sit back in the pocket and pick away at the defense, one big gain to another.
Each time, Orakpo cringed.
"Obviously, there was some good times where I probably could have helped the team here and there – you know, not really having to blitz as much as we probably did," Orakpo said. "That's why I'm back. I knew I was gonna be coming back very strong, and I think we're gonna do a great job this year getting after it."
The Redskins sacked the quarterback 32 times last season, which ranked 23rd in the league. The lukewarm pass rush was responsible for 23.5 of those sacks, including a team-high 8.5 from Kerrigan, the left outside linebacker, and only one of the five defensive ends got to the quarterback – Stephen Bowen, who twice split a sack with a linebacker.
That should change. Orakpo, cleared to return to practice at the start of offseason workouts in April, averaged 9.5 sacks over his first three seasons. His return changes the dynamic for the offense, which will have to account for another top-level pass rusher: Kerrigan should face fewer double blocks, either in a man scheme or slide protection, and the defensive linemen should have an easier path to the backfield.
"He's a guy you have to account for every snap, so when the offensive lineman is looking at Rak, he's not looking at me, and that's a good thing," nose tackle Barry Cofield said. "When they're planning to slide to Kerrigan and Rak, that gives Bowen and I some opportunities. Having a Pro Bowl, all-Pro type player makes the whole defense better. We play better up front. The secondary's life is easier. We get off the field."
With Orakpo back, defensive coordinator Jim Haslett finds limitless possibilities for getting to the quarterback. During training camp, he tinkered with the swift package, a six-linebacker look designed to disguise pressure and create mismatches in passing situations that was rolled out for the first time in the preseason game against the Buffalo Bills.
Exactly how Orakpo is used doesn't particularly matter to him. That he's finally available to be used is what's important.
"I can't wait to step back out there, man," Orakpo said. "It's been a long time and I'm ready to get back out there in front of the home fans and do a good job out there."
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By Carolyn Kellams, ACB
Do you want to make a difference? You can do so by using the skills you've learned at Toastmasters to help teenagers become the leaders of tomorrow.
I know, because last summer I participated in the Toastmasters Youth Leadership Program. Rich Aubin and I – who are both members of Tamalpais Toastmasters in San Rafael, California – led the program for Kaiser Permanente. The health care organization includes the Toastmasters project annually as part of its two-month summer internship program for underserved high school students in Northern California.
The Youth Leadership program is one where Toastmasters like you and me can help young people with their public speaking and communication skills. And the impact can be enormous. Becoming a speaker can be a life-changing event for teenagers. For the last 14 years, I have trained more than 400 young people who are teenage parents. I helped them to speak out on the importance of preventing teen pregnancy.
These young moms and dads have shared their stories about the challenges of being a teen parent with 500,000 middle school and high school students. Many of the teen-parent speakers gained the confidence to turn their lives around.
That rewarding experience was repeated when I participated in the Toastmasters program last summer. The students in the Kaiser Permanente program – called KP L.A.U.N.C.H. – had been placed in internships to get them acquainted with various careers in the health care field. The Toastmasters sessions lasted one hour each week – for eight weeks.
The Kaiser Permanente coordinators and Toastmasters leaders were amazed by how much the teens' confidence and communication skills had been boosted with just those eight sessions.
Here are some reasons for the dramatic improvement:
Teens Felt Heard
Teens are often talked to, talked about and marketed to, but how often are they listened to? By being speakers, it gave them an audience. All the adults were surprised at the personal, and often scary stories the teenagers shared. In my group, one teen talked about suicide, another told of witnessing a drug deal gone wrong – with gun shots fired – and yet another discussed being pressured into having sex in eighth grade.
Being a speaker gave these teens a voice, an ability to share their opinions and capture their emotions. The Toastmasters leaders – and the Youth Leadership program participants – realized that the teens were solving problems for themselves as they spoke. By sharing their lives and challenges, the teens were able to move forward instead of remaining the victim they were describing in their stories.
To be able to give a speech in front of an audience is a tremendous accomplishment. All of the KP L.A.U.N.C H organizers reported that the teens groaned when first told they would be participating in a Toastmasters program. In the end, however, they loved speaking and were excited about their new ability to express themselves in front of a group.
"Being a speaker gave these teens a voice, an ability to
share their opinions and capture their emotions."
The supportive atmosphere and positive feedback provided the nurturing each participant needed in order to take the "speaking in front of an audience" risk. Their self-confidence was visible to all. They were validated and empowered – and they trusted themselves.
One teen told of "arriving from the rice fields in Southeast Asia to a new life in San Jose"; another talked of "how to kill a shark"; and yet another reflected on "how my sister's suicide changed my life."
To be a leader, a person needs self-confidence, a plan, organized thoughts, and the ability to speak so others will trust and follow. From the various Toastmasters activities, the teens learned such skills:
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As an advocate for teens, I have seen how easy it is to turn them around in a positive way. But they need caring adults to listen to them and to teach them skills they can use now and in the future.
If your company offers a summer internship program for high school students, please consider conducting the Toastmasters Youth Leadership Program.
You'll earn the kinds of evaluations we did:
Carolyn Kellams, ACB, is past president of Tamalpais Toastmasters in San Rafael, California.
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- Investing in Volunteerism: The Impact of Service Initiatives in Selected Texas State Agencies
- Preventing a Disaster within the Disaster: The Effective Use and Management of Unaffiliated Volunteers - free PDF booklet by Points of Light, UPS and FEMA.
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Bush ("I'm a uniter, not a divider") used his prime time 9/11 speech last night to try to justify the war with Iraq. Even though he admits Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Except when he claims that it does. In related news, Americans report increased incidence of whiplash.
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[...] UPDATE: Kathy was the first person who seems to have confirmed my prediction. It's not hard. "I bet Bush uses 9/11 to justify his war in Iraq." It works every time. [...]
Wow my neck hurts…..
If I wasn't bulimic before, watching the president right after I ate dinner certainly headed me in that direction. My stomach actually hurt. I am a writer, but I cannot come up with words to describe the depths of my anger and despair about Bush and his cadre.
Ditto with Lisa in Hoover.
He made me sick, too.
Lisa, Anna and Songbird,
I apologize for your maladies….but you have my respect. At least you had the courage to watch him. I can't even do that anymore. I'm afraid I'll go postal and hurt someone if I listen to him for more than 7.3 seconds…….
My husband made me watch. I did inoculate myself by watching Keith Olberman on Countdown first. But hubby says I can't comment on a speech if I don't listen to it. Kind of like if you don't vote you can't complain. But… the stupid…. it hurts!
I couldn't watch. I get angry and throw things at the TV. We've replaced three so far this year (lol). No, really, I just get too angry and holler at the TV. Watching him just brings back my partner's time in Iraq all over again. PTSD, night terrors…the whole shebang. Just can't do it. I hear rumors that an entire administration can be impeached. If so, why are the dems so emasculated?
I didn't watch in real time. Just the clips on the news.
I never listen to him speak. He sounds like a dumb @%# and is a liar. I try not to listen to liars.
PS…. Kathy, your mentioning Olberman got me curious and I watched last night. What a funny guy! I laughed out loud several times.
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- April 22nd, 2013
This is an early and less than complete edition of the linkfest. We will catch up tomorrow.
Quote of the day
Jeff Miller, "The news flow is a trap for the average investor, who is tempted to buy high and sell low." (A Dash of Insight)
Chart of the day
EEM Total Return Price data by YCharts
Eight reasons why the emerging markets have lagged. (Buttonwood)
Video of the day
A discussion with Ben Inker of GMO on asset allocation. (Wealthtrack)
What the Treasury bond market is telling us. (All Star Charts)
John Authers, "When the top-down world ends, the opportunity for stockpickers will be immense, and "quality" stocks could correct quickly." (FT)
European indices are looking saggy. (chessNwine)
What can an investor do if 10-year forecast returns are low? (Humble Student of the Markets)
Is it time to shift to fundamental indices? (Globe and Mail)
Can you still become a quant in your 30s? (Climateer Investing)
Why investing in gold is tough. (Rick Ferri)
Why investors end up with portfolios with too much gold and Apple. (Chuck Jaffe)
How Apple's ($AAPL) weakness is affecting its suppliers. (Reuters)
What Caterpillar ($CAT) and GE ($GE) earnings say about the global industrial economy. (RiskReversal)
Would wider tick sizes revive the small cap research market? (Traders Magazine)
Money is coming out of money market mutual funds. Where is it going? (Sober Look)
The financial services industry is struggling to get its hands around social media. (WSJ)
Seemingly everybody wants to be a REIT these days. (NYTimes)
How hedge funds need to adapt. (All About Alpha)
Why the BRICs have lagged so badly of late. (beyondbrics)
Phosphate is the new potash. (Globe and Mail)
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index slowed in March. (Capital Spectator)
Inflation expectations, via TIPS breakevens, are falling again. (research puzzle pix. The Short Side of Long)
Investors are pushing around the single family home market. (Calculated Risk, Washington Post, Bloomberg)
The downside of the Fed's dual mandate. (Tim Duy)
On the growth of the "off the books" economy. (New Yorker)
Mixed media
Why social media shouldn't push the MSM around. (Felix Salmon)
Twitter is putting on a comedy festival. (NYTimes)
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Kazaa tech chief joins BBC future technology team
The shakeup of the BBC's iPlayer team we revealed last week was officially announced yesterday with the appointment of Kazaa CTO Anthony Rose as head of digital media technology. Rose will be in charge of the next generation iPlayer group, which will include ex-Microsoft man Jon Billings. Rose in turn will report to the …
Multi-platform player?
"Rose will be in charge of the next generation iPlayer group, which will include ex-Microsoft man Jon Billings. Rose in turn will report to the Corporation's digital media controller Erik Huggers, who joined the Beeb from Microsoft in May."
The BBC, Pro-Microsoft?...... Noooo, not at all.....
Some consultant
Not surprised he/she is anonymous, having been involved in boo.com and the iPlayer. No reflection on their skills I'm sure. I wonder if they ever worked for EDS, the MoD or the Inland Revenue...
Damn BBC, corrupted by MS with their evil... oh hang on a sec.
Ahh well, queue the FOSSers, anti-licence fee and pro-give it all away free types bringing forth their bile anyway...
so they have some technology over there
will they be able to provide some decent reporting on technology related issues.
Or will we be stuck with the same "the CPU is the brain of the computer" stories for the next 15 years too.
They love their P2P
The Kazaa CTO? Wow, the BBC must really love their P2P technology.
They use P2P to cut distribution costs, in other words passing bandwidth costs on to the consumer. At least they won't be able to use spiraling bandwidth costs as an excuse to raise the license fee, again
Just ship the media
Why are they reinventing the wheel? They could ask their studio suppliers, and internal departments which of their tv products can be freely distributed, and put those on a server with a torrent tracker.
No need for DRM on those products if they can be freely distributed. It takes a day to setup the server, no fuss no mess, it gets them into the distribution business straight away.
Next they can determine which media can be distributed, but only with adverts if outside the UK, and run 2 trackers, one with content with adverts, one without, and direct people to the appropriate tracker based on their IP address.
The problem with having a Microsoft man at the helm is he's likely to have a pension still with them, and shares in them, and options and MS friends and business links to them, so he'll always be trying to tie in MS DRM into quite a simple problem.
Even for content that needs no restrictions on it's distribution, even for content that simply needs a ad-no ad choice to be made.
Re: Just ship the media
You're entirely on the money with that.
Although they say "we don't all the content", we know perfectly well that there's plenty of content they DO own the rights for. Existing technologies (torrent tracker with authentication, geolocation as part of the sign-up, and so on) would work wonderfully and mean they could release the video as H.264 (which is both standard and scaleable and playable on virtually everything, including most mobile phones and portable video players) instead of some Microsoft-proprietary format.
Their podcasts didn't have any DRM, and were released as H.264, and contained big chunks of recently-broadcasted programming. Guess what? Nobody complained, except that maybe the resolution was a bit rubbish for desktop playback.
iPlayer is not File Sharing
last time I checked Kontiki did not allow me to share it just took...
Just ship WHAT media?
Sod all, if it's just "those products (that) can be freely distributed". There aren't any.
Oh no, not kontiki!
"The kontiki client (kservice.exe) continues to run when a user closes the iplayer and uses the user's broadband service to provide other users with content. This can be particularly troublesome for users with Broadband connections that include a capped monthly download limit." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontiki
Also, kontiki likes to use up plenty of CPU while sitting around in the background as a service...
goddam it
It seems here they are focusing their attention in the wrong direction. Instead of creating a player so we can watch TV via the website, which is something we can already do using various media players, why not give us on demand TV through a TV?
All they need is a TV interface for us to scroll through the programs we can watch and click play and hey presto we can watch it. Probably need a settop box to save the program but most of us have these anyway for freeview.
Seems they are just wasting loads of cash on something we can already do, albeit without a pretty interface.
Please to be havink no TURDs!
The BBC are in an ideal position to realise that DRM does not, and cannot ever work.
The reason for this is simple - in encryption terms, the attacker and intended recipient are the same individual.
Ergo, the attacker knows everything about the message and can ALWAYS break the encryption in a very short period of time.
Which leads to the conclusion that DRM is worse than useless - it acheives two things:
1) Costs the supplier money.
2) Irritates legitimate users as they are forced into a particular player and/or decryption system.
There are only two viable models for this kind of distribution:
1) Watermarking with unique identifier (eg TV licence number)
This means that you will always know where a given copy came from.
There are several watermarking techniques which are extremely difficult to remove and even persist in printed copy.
By *not* restricting the legal use of the copy, the legal user doesn't have any reason to bother trying to remove it.
The downside is that peer-to-peer become impossible as every user needs a personalised copy.
2) Rely on the honour system. This works surprisingly well.
I am interested by your watermarking idea:
If someone gets a non-drmed, but watermarked copy of a BBC transmitted program, then allows it to be copied or has it stolen from them, what should the Beeb do?
As far as I can see they can:
1) Do nothing. This wouldn't be acceptable to the owners of the media.
2) Sue the person who allowed the copying of the media. This would cause an outcry in many places, the Reg and Slashdot would be right up there, I'd guess.
3) Cease the TV licence for the licence number that has been copied. The trouble here is that the licence covers a property, rather than a person, so you'd be punnishing people who are innocent of any wrongdoing. (I'd imagine there would also be hell to pay about this too!)
Or you could make an attempt to DRM the media that everyone is not as unhappy with as they would be with a watermarking solution or just allowing it to be given away totally unprotected in any way.
I don't think that there is any ideal solution here, I don't have any solution, but I have to say that I can see why DRM is the favoured solution withe the media companies - Most people won't be able to hack it, just us geeks. It's a bit like locking an OS or application from insatllation, the geeks will be able to crack it, but the vast majority of law abiding people won't bother. Probably.
Re: Just ship the media
"Why are they reinventing the wheel? They could ask their studio suppliers, and internal departments which of their tv products can be freely distributed, and put those on a server with a torrent tracker."
They already have – it's on the BBC Backstage podcast. The answer is none (for a start, how many programmes don't feature any commercial music? That's none to all intents and purpsoses)
"Their podcasts didn't have any DRM, and were released as H.264, and contained big chunks of recently-broadcasted programming."
Specifically chunks. And programmes very specifically selected because they're rights light. Pretty much everything the BBC could distribute this way is ALREADY podcasted.
P2P Kontiki Hell
Perhaps the MS involvement isn't the worst bit?
Sky, BBC and others appear to be using a P2P app from a company called Kontiki. Not in itself bad but...
If you uninstall the player app then the P2P app and service keep running, chewing up bandwidth and resources.
No uninstaller options and lordy help ya if you just go and stop the services.
Now, you'd think mayhap an obvious link on the Channels websites to a cleanup tool? Nope, you'll need to strongarm them or just follow http://static.sky.com/kclean/KClean_51102.0.exe
BBC/Sky etc... if you're listening, take a long hard look at what you're doing. This is pretty damn close to malware
Where is the future technology?
Internet P2P video BBC. Did I miss something?
Lack of facts
Everytime I see iPlayer mentioned in El Reg, being pretty close to the project, I take a look at the comments posted, and in the past I have weighed in with the odd response myself.
Increasingly, though, it's becoming obvious that there is a common species of Reg poster who likes to write either sneering put-downs or ill-informed diatribes without so much as a shred of factual knowledge, or anything approaching sensible analysis with which to back up their rant.
Which makes continuing to weigh in with responses myself look like a waste of time.
This thread is a perfect example.
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A building off State Route 3 in Spotsylvania County that formerly housed a StellarOne Bank branch will become a dental practice.
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In a technology-centered world handwritten letters and notes are becoming less and less common as people grow accustomed to typing on laptops or text messaging on cell phones.
But, both print and cursive handwriting is still the primary way students are assessed in how much they know in the classroom. Now teachers are showing creative techniques to teach their students how to improve their writing.
According to Patty Bunce, a class presenter, "The sad thing is, sometimes kids don't have the ability to express what they really know from a level of education or intelligence because they're handicapped by poor writing or poor habits." Bunce says that the emphasis on note-taking in kindergarten through 5th grade is greater now than ever before.
Even as kids move up the educational ladder, studies show that students who took handwritten notes versus typed notes had better comprehension of the material. Furthermore, as Bunce notes, handwriting is a life-long skill. It is a skill that comes into play outside the classroom as well, filling out job applications, taking standardized tests, and filling out paperwork.
"People are still judged by the quality of their writing. SAT and ACT scores... exact same answer, one is easy to read, one is sloppy... which one do you think gets a better score?" said Bunce.
Teachers say that if handwriting is small, choppy, or illegible, the first thing that a person will think is that they are unorganized. Teacher Rose Hardwick says she hand writes notes to parents instead of e-mailing them.
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It's tough to dig up positives from a 40-32 loss, but Sierra High's girls basketball team gave coach Steve Unterholzner reason to remain upbeat Thursday following a thrilling start to the Valley Oak League season.
SONORA - The East Union Lancers traveled to Sonora and made the trip worthwhile with a 53-45 win over the Wildcats Thursday in Valley Oak League action.
Trailing by nearly double digits midway through the fourth, Sierra High's sophomore girls basketball team fired back to steal a 38-35 victory over visiting Ceres. It marked the first win of the season for the Timberwolves (1-1 Valley Oak League overall).
Everything appeared to be in place for the East Union Lancers as they traded shots with the visiting Sonora Wildcats Wednesday night at Dalben Center.
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CERES – Sierra High knows they are flying under the radar, but that doesn't mean the Timberwolves are not flying high after their 67-52 win over the Ceres Bulldogs keeps Sierra atop of the Valley Oak League standings after Wednesday's contests.
OAKDALE – The Sierra Timberwolves knew they were fighting an uphill battle, but they had no idea their Valley Oak League opener would end with a 51-21 and a 64-9 loss to Ceres and Oakdale highs Wednesday.
CERES – Sierra High trailed the Ceres Bulldogs by four heading into the intermission, but a blistering hot third quarter provided the Timberwolves with all the separation they would need in their 59-53 win over the host Bulldogs.
Manteca High's defending Valley Oak League champion boys basketball team began its title defense against visiting Oakdale Tuesday and had little trouble in dispatching the overmatched Mustangs, 55-42.
If there was a perfect way for the three-time defending Valley Oak League champions to tip off their regular season, the Ceres Bulldogs would likely say they witnessed that performance in the East Union Lancers' 52-29 win.
RIPON - Despite holding a five-point lead at halftime, Ripon High watched its lead over Linden dwindle down to a single point midway through the third quarter.
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OAKDALE - The Manteca Buffaloes held a slim 24-17 halftime lead and never relinquished it during a 45-34 Valley Oak League opening win over the Oakdale Mustangs Tuesday.
Joseph Berry led three scorers in double figures with 14 points, and the Sierra High sophomore boys basketball team repelled the relentless Sonora Wildcats for a 48-47 home win to open the Valley Oak League season.
Manteca High junior Kiwi Gardner could miss a handful of games or forfeit the rest of his athletic eligibility depending on Sac-Joaquin Section sanctions. He will likely not play in tonight's Valley Oak League opener with visiting Oakdale.
Ripon gets its wish: Another crack at Trans-Valley League rival Hilmar.
ROCKLIN – The morning commute couldn't have gone much worse for the Ripon High boys water polo team.
Kyle Alexander and Mason Merilles competed in the largest powerlifting meet they've ever been a part of and returned to Manteca with new world records and shiny first-place medals this past weekend.
Elisabeth Alexander was all smiles Thursday when she made her commitment official to the CSU Stanislaus women's basketball team.
The Ripon Christian boys soccer program has waited nearly 20 years for an opportunity to win another Sac-Joaquin Section championship.
STOCKTON - Weston Ranch put up two first-half goals and outshot visiting Natomas 17-8 on the way to a 2-0 win for the Cougars in semifinal action of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV soccer playoffs Wednesday.
RIPON - Kyle Colyn's cheek twitched with nervous excitement and it was all he could do to suppress a smile.
Ripon and Ripon Christian are heading to Gold Country tonight for their Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV playoff matches.
Cherish Burks verbally committed to Oregon as a sophomore, but her decision was made long before that.
Joshua Patton can rest comfortably now.
Sierra High's Haley Silva is staying close to home for college.
RIPON - Thirteen days after giving birth to her first child, head coach Adrienne Beltrami returned to the sidelines Tuesday to lead Ripon in its first-round match against No. 13 seed Central Catholic in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV playoffs.
RIPON - Ripon Christian and West Campus squared off as two evenly matched teams in the first round Sac-Joaquin Division IV volleyball playoffs.
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Jackson Hole's Salvation Army bell ringers this year raised $17,350 to help those in need in the community. While that is more than $2000 below last year's collections, kettle drive coordinator Steve Kallin says the daily collections were significantly higher than they were last year. He says all the fundraising took place basically during four weekends as opposed to the six weekends of the drive last year. Consequently, he says this year the contributions received during each of the weekends exceeded each of the weekends last year by about $1100. Kallin had high praise for those who volunteered to ring the bells during the four collection weekends, putting in over 350 hours of their time. Kallin says, "Certainly, if you recall that second weekend [of the drive] they braved some very frigid temperatures; so we really have to thank the bell-ringers, they did a great job this year." Kallin says the community's needs still exceed last year's collections, and he says donations may still be made at counter kettles that will remain in area stores through January second, or by mailing a check to the Salvation Army Jackson Unit at PO Box 257, Jackson 83001.


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Things look quiet here. But I've been doing a lot of blogging at
dan.langille.org because I prefer WordPress now.
Not all my posts there are FreeBSD related.
I am in the midst of migrating The FreeBSD Diary over to WordPress
(and you can read about that here).
Once the migration is completed, I'll move the FreeBSD posts into the
new FreeBSD Diary website.
Every decent system generates logs. They are useful both from a forensic
and from a debug point point of view. Some systems generate huge volumes
of logs. Scanning those logs manually is both tedious and error-prone.
This calls for an automated solution. Enter logcheck.
Logcheck will scan your log files and report any entries which do not match a
list previously flagged as OK to ignore. The pattern matching is flexible and
easily extended.
logcheck has been around at least 10 years. I starting
using logcheck in 1999, just about 10 years ago. Since then, logcheck
underwent quite a transformation. It once had just a handful of matching files.
Now it has over 180 files.
logcheck works by ignoring known benign patterns and reports any log file
entries that do not match those patterns. You can add to these patterns
Logcheck can scan a number of files. The list is kept in
/usr/local/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles. I choose to scan these files:
# these files will be checked by logcheck
# This has been tuned towards a default syslog install
NOTE: the comments are not mine.
For logcheck to scan all the files on a default FreeBSD system, you will need
to make some changes to file permissions, /etc/newsyslog.conf, and /etc/group.
See the next section for details.
logcheck runs as the logcheck user:
# grep logcheck /etc/passwd
logcheck:*:915:915:Logcheck system account:/var/db/logcheck:/usr/local/bin/bash
cd /usr/ports/security/logcheck
make install clean
If the cd fails, you need to do this first because you probably don't have a
ports tree checked out:
portsnap fetch && portsnap extract
If you do not alter the permission and update some configuration files, you'll
soon get one of these emails:
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Logcheck: ngaio.example.org 2009-11-20 12:02 exiting due to errors
Message-Id: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:02:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: email@example.com (Logcheck system account)
Warning: If you are seeing this message, your log files may not have been
Could not run logtail or save output
Check temporary directory: /tmp/logcheck.ZOjfJO
Also verify that the logcheck user can read all files referenced in
declare -x HOME="/var/db/logcheck"
declare -x LOGNAME="logcheck"
declare -x MAILTO="root"
declare -x OLDPWD
declare -x PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
declare -x PWD="/var/db/logcheck"
declare -x SHELL="/bin/sh"
declare -x SHLVL="1"
declare -x USER="logcheck"
The email contains the wrong location for the file. It is assuming an
installation location which has been changed at configuration/install time
and /usr/local/sbin/logcheck has not been refreshed accordingly.
I have submitted a patch for that.
Check the permissions for the files listed in
# ls -l /var/log/messages /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
-rw------- 1 root wheel 6564 Nov 28 21:13 /var/log/auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 60 Nov 28 00:00 /var/log/maillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 83127 Nov 28 22:00 /var/log/messages
As you can see, the logcheck user will be unable to read auth.log and maillog.
We can change that.
# chgrp logcheck /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
# chmod g+r /var/log/auth.log
# ls -l /var/log/messages /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
-rw-r----- 1 root logcheck 6564 Nov 28 21:13 /var/log/auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root logcheck 60 Nov 28 00:00 /var/log/maillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 83277 Nov 28 22:05 /var/log/messages
logcheck will now be able to read the files, but as you know, these files are
rotated by newsyslog.conf. So let's see the entries for them:
# egrep "/var/log/auth.log|/var/log/maillog" /etc/newsyslog.conf
/var/log/auth.log 600 7 100 * JC
/var/log/maillog 640 7 * @T00 JC
The above is before my changes, the following is after:
# egrep "/var/log/auth.log|/var/log/maillog" /etc/newsyslog.conf
/var/log/auth.log root:logcheck 640 7 100 * JC
/var/log/maillog root:logcheck 640 7 * @T00 JC
Note that you have to add the root:logcheck to both *and* change the mode
for auth.log to 640.
Recent versions of logcheck default the outgoing email to the logcheck user.
To get these emails sent to myself, I added this entry to /etc/mail/aliases:
logcheck: dan
logcheck will initally produce notices about things you do not care to see
again. They are normal for your system and they do not need to be brought
to your attention again. You can train logcheck to ignore these items.
You will see both System Events and Security Events emails.
For example:
Security Events
Nov 28 16:37:55 dbclone postgres[93778]: [2-1] ERROR: table "mac" does not exist
System Events
Nov 28 16:28:22 dbclone bacula-dir: Shutting down Bacula service: localhost-dir ...
These items are normal for this system. It is used for
Bacula regression testing. For the Security Events,
I created /usr/local/etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/local-postgres with the following
# grep mac /usr/local/etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/local-postgres
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ postgres\[[0-9]+\]: \[[0-9]+\-[0-9]+\] ERROR: table "mac" does not exist
That preamble seems like a lot. But I grabbed it from logcheck-postgres. The logcheck
project recommends that you put your own customizations into files prefixed with local-
so they are easily identified. logcheck itself does not care.
For the System Event, I added this entry to /usr/local/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/local-postgres
bacula-fd: Shutting down Bacula service: localhost-fd
Notice that my System Event exceptions are specified in the ignore.d.server directory.
This is because I selected the following option in /usr/local/etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf:
If you are using "workstation", you would add your file to the ignore.d.workstation
There you go. That should get you started with logcheck. I've been using it for
10 years. It's a great idea. I hope and trust it will save you a great deal
of ready. Best wishes.


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There's no better judge of a go-to beauty saviour than a model. So, when we spotted model of the moment, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley backstage at the Amanda Wakeley show it wasn't long before we were swapping beauty tips. Just how does the face of Burberry keep her skin and hair from backstage melt-down? 'I never leave home without an oil based make-up remover like Lancome Bi-Facial. Then I re-hydrate my skin with organic products from MV Skincare (mvskincare.com.au), which I have shipped over from Australia before the shows,' says Rosie. Her must-have product? ' The Rose Soothing & Protective Moisturiser, because it's so calming which is perfect for show season when my skin is more sensitive.' Our girl also loves Jo Wood Organics body oils and does weekly Kerastase hair treatments at home. As for keeping energy levels up, there wasn't a cup of coffee in eyeshot, only a virtuous bowl of fruit salad and juice. 'I'm big on looking after myself. I take psyllium husks, evening primrose oil and vitamin HTP5 every day during show season.' After checking out Ms Huntington-Whiteley's skin at close-range, we'd say whatever she's doing it's working.
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Imago story and cast
Creative, Production and Music staff
Composer Orlando Gough
Librettist Stephen Plaice
Director Susannah Waters
Designer Es Devlin & Bronia Housman
Conductor Nicholas Collon
Lighting Designer Paul Pyant
Video Designer Finn Ross
Movement Director Chris Tudor
Assistant Director Fiona Dunn
Chorus Master Lee Reynolds
Music Preparation Nick Bosworth
Elizabeth Jean Rigby
Andy Daniel Norman
Stella Thomasin Trezise
Lisette Joanna Songi
The Story
Act 1
Elizabeth is bed-bound in the geriatric ward of a care-home. Her fellow patients lie around her, each in their own world. But rather than being lost in the past, Elizabeth's imagination is still active and exploratory.
Andy, the hospital's occupational therapist, wheels in his latest therapeutic tool – Imago. With this system, Elizabeth can create an imago of herself, then launch it into a virtual world, where it will simulate everything she still wants to experience. Andy helps her to programme the computer. He places the Imago glasses on Elizabeth's head, and the imago she has created – Lisette – appears, a stunning younger version of herself. Andy leaves Elizabeth alone with the system to experiment with it. With Lisette's help, Elizabeth modifies her imago until it is ready to be launched.
Lisette disappears, only to reappear in the virtual world. She finds herself on a teleport platform where other imagos are departing for their virtual destinations. A Moderator explains the cardinal rule of Imago – Don't ever reveal your identity. Lisette makes friends with another girl on the platform, Annie. Together, they meet Gulliver – an arrogant young man. He's heading for the Big Gig in Xanadu tonight where he's fronting The Headshots, a virtual pop band. Zak, the bass-player, invites Lisette to come and watch. The band flies out. Lisette isn't keen, but Annie persuades her to go along.
In Xanadu, Lisette and Annie watch Gulliver perform with The Headshots. Annie begins to probe Lisette's host identity and suggests that they meet up in the real world. Lisette realizes that the host behind Annie is predatory, so she loses herself in the crowd. On stage Gulliver suddenly comes to a complete standstill. We hear his host voices off. They take us into…
… fifteen-year-old Rufus's bedroom. He is scolding his younger old brother Rory for using his dad's Imago system. Their mother, Stella, comes in to settle the argument. She thinks computer games just make people unhappy. But their dad, Andy, intervenes. He explains the system is meant for his elderly patients to enhance the end of their lives. Finally Rufus is left alone to play with Imago, and we go back into Imago and Xanadu – only this time Gulliver is not such a brash adolescent, and his music is acoustic and emo. Suddenly he begins to lose power. Lisette is concerned for him. Zak tells her she needs to take Gulliver to the Recharge Cafe.
It's a Mediterranean quayside café, almost deserted. As Gulliver recovers strength, it begins to feel like a date. They are just about to enjoy their first kiss when Elizabeth intervenes. Lisette is being too forward. Lisette explains to Gulliver that her host is holding her back. When her younger self rebels against her, Elizabeth pulls the plug.
Back in the care home, the patients are having their machines removed for the night. But Elizabeth doesn't want hers taken away. Her protest is gradually taken up by the other patients. One by one, the beautiful imagos the old people have created disappear as their machines are switched off
Act 2
The last chance casino. Lisette is playing roulette, gambling on the red. She has gathered a circle of admirers around her. Finally she stakes everything on the red and loses. One of the admirers offers her more stake-money. But she must bet her hotel room key against it. She plays and loses, and is forced to take the admirer back to her room, only now recognizing that he is the same cyber stalker behind Annie. But Lisette has the last laugh. The admirer returns alone, complaining that she has stolen his wallet.
Elizabeth doesn't approve of the way Lisette is behaving, playing fast and loose. Andy explains that the Imagos can gradually act with increasing independence from their hosts. It is built into the system. The doctor is concerned the game is exacerbating Elizabeth's high blood pressure. Andy asks her if she wants the machine taken away. But she is addicted to it now, and she wants Lisette to find Gulliver again.
Lisette finds him at a pro-democracy demonstration, making an inspired speech to the crowd, urging them to take back the wealth that the older generation has robbed them of. At the height of the speech, he is picked off by a sniper and dies in Lisette's arms. She is devastated. Elizabeth now recalls the loss of her own first love, killed in a motorbike smash when she was only eighteen. To Lisette's amazement, Gulliver miraculously recovers. He reminds Lisette this was only a virtual demonstration, for keyboard warriors. Lisette feels the pull of her host again. Elizabeth wants security for the young lovers. She wants them to get married.
Gulliver and Lisette duly celebrate their marriage, but they put their own twist on it. It is an acapella wedding, presided over by an extremely hip vicar.
Rufus's mother shares her concerns with Andy. Their son seems to relate better to his Imago than to reality. They confront Rufus. He argues that if his father uses system at work, it must be safe. Andy decides the whole family should go into work with their father and see what the game is really used for.
Gulliver and Lisette are honeymooning on a tropical beach. Lisette is becoming increasingly unsettled. All the possibilities of the life Elizabeth could have led now crowd in on her simultaneously. Meanwhile, back in the care-home, Elizabeth is repeating the saying: see Naples and die. Naples is the one place Lisette doesn't want to go.
Andy and his family are at the care home. Elizabeth is dying. The doctor wants to administer a euthanasic dose of drugs. Andy sees that, at the point of death, Elizabeth is merging with her imago. It is a kind of blissful transcendence - his system is going to be a success. Elizabeth calls out for Gulliver – Rufus now realizes that she is Lisette's host. He has been besotted with the personality of the old woman, and yet their hopes and desires were held in common. Naples rises. As Elizabeth breathes her last, Lisette dies in Gulliver's arms.
Stephen Plaice
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Organic/nature baby boy names that go with...Momma to:
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Thanks for the great suggestions. I am kicking around Lennox, nn "Knox", I like how it sounds and that it means 'elm grove' as well.
We are also considering River, I just wonder if it's too trendy or popular, but I love the organic yet masculine feel it has. Xander is another one I gravitate towards, yet I think it too is a little on the popular side for me and doesn't exactly have an organic feel to it. I wish Vail was two syllables or if I could come up with a full name and use it as the nn, but can't come up with anything. I liked Rocco for about a day until I remembered our last name rhymes with it, so that's out. DH also likes Canyon, wdyt? A kid that goes to daycare is named Cannon, so I dismissed it but I know we will be moving in 3 years, thus they will not be in that daycare, so I shouldn't rule something out for that reason, should I?
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A consortium has been formed between the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (Prof. Dr. Pater Hans Zollner SJ), the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (Monsignore Klaus Peter Franzl) and the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Clinic of Ulm (Medical Director: Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Fegert). This union serves to establish a Centre for Child Protection within the next three years (January 1st, 2012 through December 31st, 2014) by the Institute of Psychology at the Pontifical Gregorian University under the sponsorship of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and in cooperation with the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Clinic of Ulm based in Munich.
The goal is to develop and implement an E-Learning programme totalling 30 hours in four languages (English, German, Italian and Spanish). This programme will draw on a related public-sponsored programme for educational and health care professionals in Germany (Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)), but will incorporate an emphasis on the cultural, linguistic and theological diversity of the Catholic Church. The project is directed by a Steering Committee while the content development is supported by a Scientific Advisory Board.
An interdisciplinary team of international experts is involved in developing web-based, certified education and training modules on sexual abuse for pastoral professions. This resource can be used at any time, in any place in the world, adjusted to meet regional needs. The overall aim is the implementation of a prevention and intervention programme in the interest of child protection.
The main goal of the Centre for Child Protection lies in developing scientifically evaluated education and training tools with a worldwide availability. Unfortunately, we are unable to advise helpers on current cases of child sexual abuse.


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This collection of sixteen men's and women's designs is a contemporary mix of aran and cable knits celebrating the ultimate British heritage style.
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The first ever Rowan Mini Collection contains six designs by Marie Wallin selected from the Rowan archive and re-knitted using our fabulous Kidsilk Haze Stripe. Photographed simply against a white backdrop, these simple yet classic styles allow the unique colour blends to show through.
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Mondo Urbano Archives - Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
A review a day: Mondo Urbano volume 1
by Greg Burgas | September 17, 2010 | 6 Comments |
Sigh. I wish these creators wouldn't be so confident that they'll get to a volume 2. Not everyone can be Bryan Lee O'Malley, you know!
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What I bought – 21 and 28 July 2010
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Society had tamed the erratic fellow by co-opting him into the mainstream. For its largest threats, society reserves success. (Richard Powers, from Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance)


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Election Day 2012Walker County, Ga., voter's Wade Little, left, Elizabeth Dunwoody and Steve Miller casts their votes at the Mountain precinct in Mount Pleasant atop Lookout Mountain on Tuesday.
With the vast majority of precincts reporting, Tennessee's incumbents posted wide leads over their challengers.
The mostly male, mostly Republican field saw only a single competitive race. But the tight contest initially projected for U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais and Democrat Eric Stewart did not come to pass, as DesJarlais easily triumphed despite revelations that the doctor once had an affair with a patient and urged her to get an abortion.
The congressman has claimed to be pro-life. Democrats later identified the district as a possible pickup, and began to pour money into the race.
With 67 percent of precincts reporting, the Jasper physician had 77,095 votes, or 59 percent, compared with Democrat Eric Stewart's 54,405, or 41 percent.
DesJarlais was the only one of the nine-member Tennessee delegation in Congress to face a serious challenge.
Incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Corker secured an early victory this evening, as the Tennessee Senator faced off against more than half a dozen challengers.
Corker led Democrat Mark Clayton by a wide margin with 70 percent of the votes, as the Associated Press called the race in Corker's favor early in the evening.
The race was not expected to be close, as Clayton has been disavowed by his own party for what some have called extreme views and ties to hate groups.
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann pulled ahead of challengers Matthew Deniston and Mary Headrick in Tennessee's third district, with 92 percent of precincts reporting. Fleischmann, a republican, was up by 61 percent, to Headrick's 36 percent, according to the Associated Press.
Fleischmann led 150,780 votes to 87,152 votes just before 11 p.m.
Fleischmann was never expected to lose the seat, which was contested during the primary by former dairy magnate Scottie Mayfield and Weston Wamp, son of former U.S. Rep Zach Wamp.
state races
In the state legislature, house speaker Gerald McCormick, incumbent Republican, won easily over independent challenger Rodger Cooksey, with 91 percent of districts reporting.
McCormick did not face a Democratic challenger in the state's 26th District. The race was not expected to be close.
He led 75 percent to 25 percent, or 19,858 votes to 6,689 votes, according to unofficial Tennessee Department of State results.
Republican Todd Gardenhire's lead continued to grow in the State Senate District 10 race, according to the TN Secretary of State.
Gardenhire, a 64-year-old financial advisor, held 54.11 percent of the vote, with Andraè McGary, the Democrat city councilman from Chattanooga, trailing with with 45.89 percent of the vote, according to unofficial state figures.
Approximately five thousand votes separate the two men — Gardenhire's 35,795 votes to McGary's 27,854 — in this race to represent portions of Bradley and Hamilton counties.
The GOP's State Rep. Richard Floyd, incumbent, bested Democrat Frank Eaton in Tennessee's 27th District with more than a 85 percent of districts reporting.
Floyd, a retired Coca-Cola executive, represents Hamilton County in the state legislature. Floyd led by 68 percent to 32 percent, or 17,703 votes to 8,213 votes, according to the Associated Press.
State Rep. Joanne Favors, the delegation's only Democrat, won by a landslide over Republican rival Johnny Horne in Tennessee's 28th District tonight.
Favors led the race this evening 83 percent to 17 percent, with 19,477 votes to just 3,948 for Horne.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Boynton Beach — The high-profile developers behind The Arches have walked away from the $104 million project hailed as a major catalyst for downtown redevelopment.
Former West Palm Beach Mayor Nancy Graham and her husband, J. Kevin Lawler, sold their interest in Boynton Ventures 1 to partner Ryan Weisfisch last month, Lawler said Thursday. Planned for two city blocks southwest of Ocean Avenue and Federal Highway, The Arches hit a legal snag earlier this year and the partners disagreed on how to proceed, he said.


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Photo Gallery: Jewels of Titanic
Over the weekend, Titanic: The Experience debuted a sparking new addition to their International Drive collection of artifacts from the ill-fated oceanliner. Jewels of Titanic is a temporary touring display featuring gems and fine jewelry recovered from the shipwreck site 2.5 miles beneath the Atlantic's surface.
As the exhibit's creative director Mark Lach explained, the fifteen items on display were found together inside a leather "Gladstone" bag, as used by the ship's purser for safe keeping, during a 1987 dive. This tour, which began last November in Atlanta, is the first time they have all been publicly displayed together.
The exhibit occupies a wall of an existing gallery about half-way through the Titanic tour, and is included in regular admission. The rings, necklaces, and other elegant jewels will be on view in Orlando until March 12, when they continue on to Las Vegas.