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In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security gobbled up the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the 30-year-old bureaucracy that coordinates responses to natural disasters. The change left FEMA gutted and impotent, and when Hurricane Katrina struck two years later, the results were devastating.
What's troubling, though, is that post-Katrina congressional reforms haven't fully addressed the agency's woes, argues North Carolina State University political science professor Thomas Birkland in a recent paper.
Birkland, author of books such as Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change after Catastrophic Events, has long studied the way governments respond to disastrous events. The sweeping governmental changes after the 9/11 attacks, and more modest alterations after Katrina, provided excellent real-world case studies to test his theories.
Miller-McCune.com spoke with Birkland about why FEMA still lacks the power to help the nation prepare for and mitigate natural disasters. Here's an edited transcript.
Miller-McCune.com: You argue that FEMA's performance on 9/11 didn't justify any sort of changes. Why not?
Thomas Birkland: 9/11 was a disaster. Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophe. A catastrophe completely overwhelms the ability of authorities to manage an event. 9/11 didn't completely overwhelm New York City's authorities — they were able to move their command center twice. The physical extent of the damage was only 15 to 20 acres.
The extent of damage nationally, and on the stock market, was substantial. But nothing about the response overall to the event suggested that anything was wrong with FEMA or that it needed to be swept into some big agency. FEMA did play a role, but it didn't have to do much other than activities like mobile search and rescue. FEMA doesn't put a lot of people on the ground in any disaster. They provide funding, and NYC had the capacity to right away make applications to FEMA for funding.
The Bush administration and the agency argued that nothing about this event required the creation of DHS. Then they got caught up in the politics. At some level, it was sensible. It's an agency that coordinates with other homeland security functions. It would've been fine — had they not gutted it.
M-M: How did that restructuring affect the way FEMA responded to Hurricane Katrina?
TB: A lot of people at the top of DHS didn't have the slightest idea what was going on in natural disasters. Most of the people making plans for disasters either did not or would not consult with the people studying how to deal with these things for over 50 years. The extent to which DHS's higher administration ignored social research on these matters was breathtaking. If they had, they would have found that a top-down, command-and-control model for dealing with the consequences of a disaster isn't very helpful.
The 2004 hurricane season in Florida gave them undue confidence in their ability to handle a catastrophic natural disaster. But those were four in a series; they weren't "the big one." Inside DHS, they weren't mentally prepared for a catastrophic disaster. When they were getting reports about the extent to which the city of New Orleans was flooded, they refused to believe them.
M-M: After Katrina, Congress restored some of FEMA's budget and staffing to deal with natural disasters. But you seem to think the agency, because it's inside DHS, remains excessively focused on terrorism.
TB: The broader thing that hasn't changed at DHS is the war on terrorism metaphor. War brings a sense of military action, even if we still use traditional law enforcement tools like prosecutions. There may be a reversal of that now, but in [Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet] Napolitano's speeches, she's focused on issues like immigration. I don't hear anything from DHS senior leadership on natural disasters. Maybe they don't perceive their job that way. Maybe they now believe FEMA is separate, like the Coast Guard.
M-M: Have you seen encouraging signs from the Obama-era FEMA?
TB: They've put in a solid FEMA administrator in Craig Fugate [who led Florida's disaster response]. Now, they were required to put in a good FEMA administrator by the post-Katrina reform act. It would've been hard for them to appoint folks like those that preceded him, who really weren't that experienced in emergency management. But the fact that they went and got one of the best people in the country, a guy who is widely respected, I think that is a positive sign.
M-M: You criticize FEMA's overemphasis on disaster response, as opposed to mitigating hazards before they occur. How much power does Fugate have to reorient that mission?
TB: The problem with mitigation is that it requires a lot of local effort. You have to adopt land-use practices that would be very unpopular, reduce taxable property and taxes, and constrain the ability of communities to grow.
For example, we social scientists say they should discourage building on beaches to lower hurricane and flooding risk. If local politicians tried to make that happen, they'd run up against howls of anger from real estate developers and condominium buyers.
The federal government is very wary of injecting itself into local land-use decision-making because it raises major federalism and constitutional problems. The best the federal government can do is provide technical assistance and hints that they should undertake various land use planning or building code changes to mitigate the hazards. The federal government can also provide funding. Some will go to buying out property in dangerous areas. Some will go to really small things, like building bigger culverts under roads so more storm water can get through.
What Fugate can do is make rhetorical appeals to communities to plan for disasters. He could promote programs at FEMA to provide technical assistance with local communities, to think long and hard about their risks.
M-M: Your paper lays out three scenarios: In one, FEMA would continue as a civil defense agency, as it did through the Reagan years, with terrorism the chief priority. In another, the agency would be carved out of DHS and go back what it was like under Clinton, except with greater attention to terrorist attacks. But your idealistic hope is for an enlightened, independent FEMA that looks at all hazards equally, and makes mitigation a primary goal. Which path are Napolitano and Fugate taking?
TB: I haven't heard signals from the top of DHS saying one of the things they're going to fix is FEMA. I don't see any particular movement toward making it a separate agency, though Obama might make that move after the health care debate plays itself out.
What we've got now is a beefed-up FEMA that looks more like it did under Clinton FEMA director James Lee Witt, but without being a separate agency. And hazard mitigation has not returned to the level it enjoyed under Witt. That's not entirely bad. Some FEMA functions were taken away in 2003, but now they're put back together. Essentially they got their agency back.
M-M: So you think the organization is in reasonable shape, at least in responding to disasters?
TB: The real test will be if there's a disaster and we find that FEMA is once again buried under several levels of DHS inexpert management. We won't know until we have that test.
If a disaster requires significant executive leadership, I want the FEMA director to talk to the president. I want the president to make calls to the FEMA director. If he talks to the DHS secretary first, goes through the protocol, it'll slow down and distort information. If the FEMA director can invoke the name of the president in demanding certain supplies, certain things can get done. He can't invoke the name of the president unless he has a line of communication with the president. There's no way that FEMA director Michael Brown had that during Katrina. I think this administration is open to not following the chain of command if it makes things work better.
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John - I assume you did the research, or perhaps someone at Tesla told you, that when you go for an extended trip you you do a max charge - that would have given you 265+ miles of rated range. When you go on a road trip in your gas car do you put 12 gallons in a 14 gallon tank?
If I go somewhere in my gas car, spend $8 to get 2 gallons and 60 miles of range, but needed 3 gallons to go 90 miles and get there, and run out of gas, shame on me. Plug in overnight, always. It's EASY.
Here's the equivalent - you get gas when you need to. You plug in every night when you get to your destination. There are more outlets in America than gas pumps - probably at least 1 million times more. Every outlet in America is a refilling station. Come on!
Why didn't you point out the basics that you failed on? If you ran out of gas would you blame Ford for not telling you the car's MPG, or Exxon for not having a station when you needed it?
Driving an electric car is NOT less convenient, it just asks you to think differently. Takes effort, just like a gas car requires effort. If you start simple-mindedly with the gas paradigm as the baseline, you have made a basic mistake. Would get on a bike and write a negative article because you couldn't make it go 65 MPH? Please make the effort next time and acknowledge when you don't.
The point I'm trying to make is that there was no official place for him to get the right information about real mileage based on various driving conditions including driving (and parking) in cold weather.
You can only be proactive if you understand what to expect.
I think he had a reasonable expectation of being able to drive 46 miles with the rated 90 miles that his car was showing.
Being off by 10% is a lot, but probably tolerable.
Being off by over 50% is inexcusable.
I find the current rated mileage numbers misleading.
Whenever people ask me about the car range, I always tell them it can do up to 200 miles on a standard charge in warm CA weather with the 85kwh battery pack.
This is the number I'm comfortable sharing since it's based on my own experience on close to 4,000 miles of driving.
I never mention EPA range or the 300 mi range originally advertised by Tesla.
One way or another Tesla has to correct it.
Sort of off topic, but really on topic if we are making comparisons of EV to ICE. A young lady I know with not a lot of money was given a Ford Explorer by her father 10 years ago. Driving to work and back to her $11 per hour job she has now racked up 205,000 miles. Her mpg is atrocious at 15. Gas here is about $4, plus or minus, over the last 10 years. She has spent near $60,000 on gas alone! She could have bought a Tesla, or 3 Leafs.
What about gas when it hits $6 a gallon in the likely future?
@Docrob : The Hawthorne supercharger is at Tesla's Design Center. Google Map
While that is partially true, Tesla has been making strides in having some of these details here http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric#range
While it's far from done, it is missing the ranges that many of us would like to see on both temperature and speed, it is a start. I would also say that it needs more options on weather, winds, type of pavement, etc. I had hoped to pull together lots of data from my own trip in the S, but I simply found that the combination of effects of these get too complicated to be able to give someone a solid model to predict an exact range.
I truly believe that Mr. Broder would have been able to drive directly to the Superchargers that cold morning, (Though if asked, I would never had recommended it to him). Instead he ended up combining two iffy idea's and one terrible one, that when combined led to a tow truck. (The rest of my thoughts on what went wrong are here http://electricroadtrips.com/a-response-to-stalled-on-the-e-v-highway/ )
I two have traded emails with Mr. Broder, and I don't get the impression that he feels that he should be expected to do more than follow simple directions from a Tesla employee. I also think he feels that it is not possible to take the drive between superchargers comfortably today after his experience. Perhaps he will take me up on my offer to try the trip again with me and I can show him he is wrong.
Another great article on road trips and charging strategies can be found at http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/13678-How-to-plan-a-road-t...
Chad Schwitters recommends that we plan charging stops no more than 177 miles apart, figure that rated range will drop by 150% of the actual distance traveled, and at each charging stop, add enough rated miles so that we leave the stop with 150% of the distance to the next
stop plus 25 miles.
His advice is conservative, but it is much better than the advice we are getting from TM.
yeah, there's an implicit non sequitur there, which makes me doubt his bona fides. ;)
a demo unit at a corporate office != urban promo site.
Not sure why you feel the huge hassle and complication of servicing intra-city traffic with an inter-city station is necessary. It certainly is not TM's responsibility to release and untangle NYC's gridlock and long commutes. After the inter-city system is built out their may be enough spare Solar City capacity to support a promo gesture like that, but it is not likely to make any business sense from their POV. This is a symbiotic system between TM and SC which must make sense for both to work.
Virtually all of these posts will be of little importance when battery technology evolves to the point where 1000 miles on a single charge becomes the norm. We are not far from that.
Also, it is not strange that a smart man would make a stupid mistake and then write an article that is published in arguably the most important newspaper in the land one day before the 4th quarter results are to be announced?
I smell a short-seller funded hatchet job.
Notice the picture of the Tesla loaded on the flat-bed truck. Isn't it obvious what is at work here?
Guys, can we just admit that TSLA didn't plan the super charger installations properly on North East Corridor??
Really, why would put these super charger at limit of possibilities especially considering winter temperatures and conditions. It's a mistake and they'll fix it.
Bottom line: plug in your damn car before you go to bed! We all know what happens when we don't plug in our cell phones, no different here. Got to handle your electric car different then your gas car. This is commen sense stuff and the nyt writer knows it.
He got great publicity (future employment ops and higher rates) from the write up and is loving it as does anyone who writes an article that gets people excited... Well done
Orthophonist - timing often does reveal intent. Given how much is on the line for short sellers, your observation is plausible and likely. To drag down something so stellar, FUD is a textbook attack.
That said, TM can't prevent dishonest acts. What they can do is strengthen their defenses. As others already pointed out, their marketing language should be revised to better manage expectations, and they should have more actively managed the reporter's borrowing of their vehicle.
The reporter would have written about the hassles of charging an EV on a road trip, but that would accurately report the facts. That would have a been fair critique, and informed readers of the realistic limitations. But the images of being literally stuck out in the cold would not have occurred.
The flatbed photo was the prize the shorts needed, and given the multiple simple choices the reporter waived off, it appears he was looking for some drama.
Notwithstanding the inequity of this, TM must clearly refine their marketing media to better set expectations, and be more on top of such high profile reviewers.
There are always cynical forces more interested in money than good, and no industry will endure disruption without resistance.
The sober view is to accept this reality, and win through honest good work.
TM has done a lot of that, and must keep doing it.
While I have no doubt that the writer of the article was hoping for a negative result with a tow truck and camera operator on speed dial.... What was TM thinking when they arranged this? Did they drive the route first? How could they have been so short-sighted.. media and pr is paramount to a start-up.. and managing results should be expected in a test like this.
STUPID ARTICLE. Why didn't he plug it in that night? No 110v outlet available? ANYWHERE? Highly doubtful. This is not a reasonable article. Hatchet job is a correct description.
In very cold weather, people often plug ICE cars in to keep the engine block warm.
I fault the author for not blaiming himself for failing to plug the car in on a 10 degree (!!!) night.
FYI: Tweet from Elon Musk
@elonmusk: NYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake. Vehicle logs tell true story that he didn't actually charge to max & took a long detour.
The reporter essentially took the Tesla on a test drive in extreme conditions with little to no preparatation or training. Long range trips in varied weather conditions in any type of vehicle that a person is not accustomed to require preparations. Pilots and sailors know this well.
As far as Tesla is concerned, a "bug" has been demonstrated in the range calculation software. An urgent modification is needed to provide accurate, temperature adjusted range. A warning, similar to ice warnings, may also be helpful.
Elon's tweet is right. This was not even a professional reporter, much less an automotive reporter. A total put-up job. The NYT descends to even lower lows than usual. A moribund, money-losing dead paper walking.
Check Mr. Musk's twitter account. The NYT is about ready to learn all about technology. Couldn't happen to a more worthy organization.
Looking forward to Tesla's blog about this nonsense. Those of us who drive the Model S know the truth. But this BS kind of article is hard to tolerate. And why was this guy motivated to put Tesla in a bad light? This car is amazing!!
I don't know, I'm having quite a bit of trouble with cold weather. You have to call Tesla Roadside support to get answers and even that is uneven.
I don't know why the Tesla apologists assume every owner should have read every post about the technology and then have a working knowledge of chemical and mechanical engineering just to be able to do the calculations necessary to drive this car.
The "miles left" display is incredibly misleading. When you notice that you've lost 24 miles of charge in less than one hour (like I did) why wouldn't you be alarmed? When you notice that you've traveled 10 miles and used 20 miles of charge (like I did) why wouldn't it concern you?
We all understand that many factors contribute to range. But this isn't an ICE car and the penalty for failure to predict range is much more severe than running low on gas.
Wow! Look at the exorcist neck breaking reversal of the stock after the tweet... Nyt got some splaining to do...
Once again, evidence that journalism is dead in America!
If logs can prove he has blatantly lied about what occurred this will be major scandal, its one thing for Top Gear to stage and preplan a bit on their show which everyone knows is 9 parts entertainment to 1 part fact. But for the NYT to run an article with outright falsification would be highly embarrassing to their integrity.
DanD, no one expects you to have read every post about the technology, just the manual which clearly and in large font states that the car should never be left for a prolonged period without being plugged in or you risk permanent damage. Your posting your own error on every thread is now rapidly approaching spam.
Mr. Musk is on CNBC right now dealing with the NYT article...
Portable supercharger? Wouldn't that help stranded folks? As many have pointed out we ARE going to run out of juice (whatever juice we use;). So AAA can put 2 gal in my tank or jump my dead battery why can't TTT dump 20kw for me. Still have to wait an hour for it to get there but it beats dragging the poor MS onto a ICE sled just because I didn't plan. I do NOT want to hear what that sounded like brings tears to my eyes.
There are always a group of very bias people who would hope that Tesla cannot succeed. In my opinion, these people would take every opportunities to try to approve that they were correct in judging Tesla Model S sometimes even with such stupid and lack-common sense act exemplified by this NYT writer. How shame it is that Mr. Broder does not blame to his own stupidity but to blame Model S. It sounds like that a person who runs out of propane gas in an outdoor BBQ and blames propane tank maker not to help him how to BBQ. If Mr. Broder had the intelligence like our so many proud MS owners knowing and learning MS, in my opinion, either he would have a very happy experience with MS like we MS owners have experienced or he would have to dig something else to satisfy his bias against Model S.
What error?
I parked my car at the Philly Airport while on a 5 day trip.
That seems like a reasonable thing to do. Nowhere does the manual say not to do that.
So ignore me Docrob. It's apologists like you that perpetuate the Tesla fantasy world that everything is perfect. It's not perfect.
The more people like you try to shout down those of us who are communicating the issues, the longer it will take to get perfect.
From the owners manual;
"The most important way to preserve the Battery is to
LEAVE YOUR MODEL S PLUGGED IN when you're not using it"
"On average, the Battery discharges at a
rate of 1% per day. Situations can arise in which you must leave Model S unplugged for an extended period of time (for example, at an airport when travelling). In these situations, keep the 1% in mind to ensure that you leave the Battery with a sufficient charge level"
"Discharging the Battery to 0% may permanently damage the Battery. To protect against a complete discharge, Model S enters a low-power consumption mode when the charge level drops to 5%. In this mode, the Battery stops supporting the onboard electronics to slow the discharge rate to approximately 4% per month."
You have chosen to ignore their bolded recommendation to never leave the car for a prolonged period without plugging it in. Nobody is claiming perfection I am merely pointing out that if you choose to ignore the clear caution notes from your owners manual then your problem is not all at Tesla's end.
Docrob - I like your reasoned, logical and fact based posts. Thumbs up.
I think you are ignoring DanD's situation and talking past him by quoting the owner's manual. Does the manual say never go to the airport unless you can plug it in? No, it says in that situation plan for a 1% loss per day.
Does it even hint at the fact that you might lose more than 1% a day in cold weather, sometimes more than 10% in one day as many of us have experience in the recent cold? Why are you criticizing Dan?
Here is Elon's response phone call to the Money Honey a few minutes ago on CNBC: http://goo.gl/2fXZ5
I wish he didn't sound so defensive and the conspiracy stuff (NYT blogger is out to get us) just doesn't sound like a big boy company. Should be a short answer and put in terms most people should understand - hammer the ICE comparison... if you have a 1/4 of tank of gas, you shouldn't be expected to go the same distance as a full tank....isn't that the basis of his argument? Stick to that.
Before the flames start, I'm a res holder of both S and X and a stockholder of TSLA, so I'm on board, but IMHO Elon's delivery needs some work...it's not a bad thing to accept that.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK __________________________________________ ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) APPLE, INC., ) Civil Action No. 1:12-CV-2826 HACHETTE BOOK GROUP, INC., ) HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS L.L.C., ) VERLAGSGRUPPE GEORG VON ) HOLTZBRINCK GMBH, ) HOLTZBRINCK PUBLISHERS, LLC ) d/b/a MACMILLAN, ) THE PENGUIN GROUP, ) A DIVISION OF PEARSON PLC ) PENGUIN GROUP (USA), INC., and ) SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC., ) ) Defendants. ) __________________________________________) PLAINTIFF UNITED STATES' EXPLANATION OF CONSENT DECREE PROCEDURES Plaintiff United States of America ("United States") submits this memorandum summarizing the procedures for entry of the proposed Final Judgment as set forth by the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 16(b)-(h) (the "APPA"), which applies in civil antitrust cases brought and settled by the United States. As described below, the APPA provides that certain events must occur prior to the Court signing and entering the proposed Final Judgment to resolve this case. 1. Today, Plaintiff has filed a Complaint, proposed Final Judgment, Competitive Impact Statement, and Stipulation and Order between Plaintiff and Defendants Hachette Book Group, Inc. ("Hachette"), HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. ("HarperCollins"), and Simon & Schuster, Inc. ("Simon & Schuster"). 1 2. Only Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have reached a settlement with the United States. Defendants Apple, Inc., Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC d/b/a Macmillan, The Penguin Publishing Co. Ltd. d/b/a Penguin Group, and Penguin Group (USA), Inc. are not parties to the proposed Final Judgment and therefore the United States will proceed to litigate its case against those Defendants. 3. The Stipulation contains the parties' agreement that, after compliance with the APPA, the Court may enter the proposed Final Judgment. The APPA requires that Plaintiff publish the proposed Final Judgment and the Competitive Impact Statement in the Federal Register and in certain newspapers at least sixty (60) days prior to entry of the proposed Final Judgment. The notice will inform members of the public that they may submit comments about the proposed Final Judgment to the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (see 15 U.S.C. §§ 16(b)-(c)). 4. During the sixty-day period, Plaintiff will consider, and at the close of that period respond to, any comments that it has received, and it will publish the comments and Plaintiff's responses in the Federal Register. 5. After the expiration of the sixty-day period, Plaintiff will file with the Court the comments and Plaintiff's responses, and Plaintiff either will ask the Court to enter the Final Judgment (subject to any proposed revisions) or will withdraw its consent to entry of the Final Judgment, as provided in Section 2 of the Stipulation and Order (see 15 U.S.C. § 16(d)). 6. If Plaintiff requests that the Court enter the Final Judgment after compliance with the APPA, 15 U.S.C. §§ 16(e)-(f), then the Court may enter the Final Judgment without a hearing, provided that the Court concludes that the Final Judgment is in the public interest. 2 Respectfully submitted, FOR PLAINTIFF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA s/ Daniel McCuaig_______________ Daniel McCuaig Nathan P. Sutton Mary Beth McGee Owen M. Kendler William H. Jones Stephen T. Fairchild Attorneys for the United States United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division Litigation III Section 450 Fifth Street, NW, Suite 4000 Washington, DC 20530 Telephone: (202) 307-0520 firstname.lastname@example.com Dated: April 11, 2012 3 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Stephen T. Fairchild, hereby certify that on April 11, 2012, I caused a true and correct copy of the foregoing Stipulation and attached Proposed Final Judgment to be served via electronic mail on: For Defendant Apple, Inc.: Richard Parker O'Melveny & Myers LLP 1625 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 email@example.com For Defendant Hachette Book Group, Inc.: Paul Yde Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20004-2692 email@example.com For Defendant HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C.: Clifford H. 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Gross: A blow up Justin Bieber sex doll exists (for now)
If seeing photos of Justin Bieber (who is 18 but looks 13) shirtless or kissing his girlfriend Selena Gomez makes you feel like you are doing something illegal, then this will seriously creep you out.
But if you've been waiting to get the pop star in the sack — which is a physically and morally painful phrase to type out — why not purchase a sex doll that looks just like him? Now you can, thanks to some sick minds that created the "Just-iN Beaver" blow up sex doll.
The product description reads, "Finally 18 and ready to rock your world" and "I wanna be your boy toy." There's also something about taking off his skinny jeans, plus more disgusting phrases that The Daily Caller won't even print.
Pipedream Products in California created the doll to accommodate both male and female, um, fans, Canada's Sun News Network reports.
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Controversy over Tank Purchases
By Harold Hutchison
Controversy has arisen over a decision by Congress to continue procuring M1A2SEP Abrams tanks, even as there are reports that the Department of Defense doesn't want them. This production comes even as major defense cuts could be in the offing due to the sequester.
According to a report by the Associated Press, Army officials do not wish to spend the money on more tanks, stating that they have enough. These statements have come even though the combined total of 586 top-of-the-line M1A2 and 588 M1A2SEP comprise less than 30% of the total tank force in the United States inventory combined.
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Need To Know: Brandi Carlile
By Chris Azzopardi
Well, talk about this then, because I don't think a lot of people know that you actually did background vocals for Melissa Etheridge's Lucky album.
Yeah, I did -- you're right! I'm not even sure she knows it! [Laughs.]
[Laughs.] I'm actually not sure she knows it, because I was working out in a studio doing background vocals for people -- like an ambiguous voice, basically -- and her CD came through, and it was just something to sing onto. So I'm not even sure she knows I'm singing onto it.
You've met a couple of your idols -- the Indigo Girls and Elton John. But I understand you want to meet Ellen DeGeneres and perform on her show.
Oh yeah, I would love to meet Ellen. She's very special to me. I've always been a fan of Ellen, since she was doing stand-up -- before I knew she was gay. My parents knew I was a huge fan of Ellen back in the day, when I was a teenager. I think that's when they started to worry. [Laughs.] I remember I taped her coming out episode and I had it on VHS hidden with all my other tapes with a fake label on it that said 'David's Softball Game.'
When did you actually tell them?
When I was 15. I've been out for a long time.
When I first saw you in 2005, you performed for an obnoxious group of drunks. How does it feel to be able to play at venues for people who actually appreciate your music?
I'll tell you, not a show goes by where I don't think about it. It always feels completely overwhelming. I can't even let it all in, it's such a big deal to me.
Is the 'drunken screams' reference on the song 'Dying Day' a little dig at all those trashed people you used to play for?
I bet it is. Tim [one of the Hanseroth twins, Carlile's bandmates] wrote that song, so I think he's probably definitely taking a little shot at them.
What was it like meeting and working with Elton John on 'Caroline'?
It was amazing, and I was so nervous about it and so full of things to say that were going to be really profound and really exciting because Elton influenced me in so many ways, personally and musically. And when I came around the corner and he was sitting there in that room and I saw him, I couldn't think of a single one of them. But I was very pleased that he was wearing hot pink sunglasses. All I ever wanted was to sit in a room with Elton John when he's wearing hot pink sunglasses.
You had a bit of an obsession on him growing up, didn't you?
Yeah. That's putting it mildly.
When I saw you on this past tour, you admitted to having a hard time writing happy songs ' and even when you do there's this slight cynicism or pessimism. Why don't happy songs come easy to you?
I don't know. I guess I'm a happy person, but that's not really the place I create art from. But, of course, being a control freak, I can't stand that I can't create from a content place, so I forced myself to do that on this record with a couple of songs, particularly 'If There Was No You.'
That one and 'Caroline.'
And 'Caroline,' right. That was easy actually, because the truth is I wrote that song in a state of absolutely missing (my niece) Caroline so badly that I couldn't think straight.
You recently did a video for Borders where you went around the store and picked out your favorite albums and books. What else interests you?
I spend a lot of time fishing. I'm a fisherman -- a fisherwoman. I watch the Food Network and I try to cook all the things on there. I'm a food enthusiast.
I bet the twins like having you around.
Yeah, on tour we will stop on certain days off and get a hotel room with a kitchen in it, and we cook for our whole band and crew. That's part of our thank you to everybody for being on the road with us. And by we I mean me. [Laughs.]
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Limbe Botanic Garden, Cameroon
Volume 2 Number 3 - May 1994
History and Development
The Limbe Botanic Garden was founded by a group of Germans under the Directorship of Paul Preus in 1892. It served as a trials and acclimatisation centre for the introduction of exotic crop species such as coffee, cocoa, rubber, oil palm, banana, teak and sugar-cane for distribution within "Kamerun" and other German colonies. In its heyday the Limbe Botanic Garden was said to be one of the most important tropical botanic gardens in the world. To complement the work in Limbe, experimental plots for high elevation species such as tea (Camellia sinensis) were established in Buea. The Garden possessed a herbarium, laboratories, classrooms, a museum, a library and staff accommodation.
The British took over the responsibility for the Garden in 1920, advised by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and it was managed by a Kew-trained Superintendent. The British departed in 1932 and the garden was directly managed by Cameroonian personnel until 1958. With the independence of West Cameroon in 1961, the curation of the Garden was taken over by the Government. Despite the efforts of many people, the Garden declined during this period.
In 1988, a British-Cameroonian partnership was initiated through a Memorandum of Understanding which led to the renovation and development of the Garden. With redefined boundaries the Garden now covers an area of about 48 hectares. The role of the Limbe Botanic Garden has changed from an agricultural one to one of conservation, education, science, tourism and recreation, to meet the needs of today.
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Marion Elizabeth Maxwell Francis, 61
CAPE ELIZABETH-- Marion Elizabeth Maxwell Francis, 61, of Cape Elizabeth died unexpectedly Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at Maine Medical Center.
A talented artist, loving mother, grandmother and friend, Marion will be forever remembered for her kindness, caring spirit and devotion to family.
Marion was born in Portland on June 30, 1950, to Leroy Irvin Maxwell and Arlene Longfellow Maxwell Jordan. She and her three siblings were raised on a working farm on Two Lights Road in Cape Elizabeth. As a child, Marion enjoyed outdoor activities such as ice skating and horseback riding. Her love of animals also began at an early age.
In 1968, Marion graduated from Cape Elizabeth High School and she went on to earn a degree in childhood education from the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham. She worked for Head Start and as a fifth grade teacher in the town of Phippsburg.
Marion married Chadwick Tarling and they had three children: Sarah in 1976, Liana in 1979 and Dorian in 1981. Marion stayed at home to care for her daughters. She loved taking them to the beach and to the Maxwell homestead on Two Lights Road, where family gathered on most Sundays for meals, conversation and games. Marion's cooking was appreciated by all.
In the early 1990s, Marion remarried after finding the love of her life, Danford Thomas Francis. They were married on August 10, 1991, and they shared a home in Cape Elizabeth. They celebrated their 20th anniversary last summer.
Marion expressed herself through her beautiful artwork. She enjoyed many types of art, from painting to glass etching. Her drawings and paintings of relatives, the family homestead and the beloved oak tree will be cherished for generations.
For many years, Marion worked as a secretary and sang in the choir at Thornton Heights United Methodist Church in South Portland. She later worked at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke in Portland. Marion was active in Faith at Work. She also taught painting classes and worked as a massage therapist. At the time of her death she was employed by the Iris Network in Portland.
Favorite times in recent years included rides with Dan in his 1966 Ford Galaxy convertible. She loved riding with him each summer to the Antique and Classic Car Show in Stowe, Vt. The couple also loved ocean cruises. They traveled to most of the islands between Florida and the Equator. Last June they enjoyed a weeklong trip to Bermuda.
Marion loved visits from her children, grandchildren and extended family. She loved the holidays and each year she spent hours crafting ornaments for family members.
Marion is survived by her husband, Dan. She is also survived by daughter Sarah Tarling Matzke and son-in-law Christian Matzke of Brunswick, daughter Liana Tarling of Scarborough and daughter Dorian Tarling of Scarborough, step-son Bill Francis and daughter-in-law Becca Francis of Brunswick, step-son Arthur Francis and step-daughter Debbie Francis, both of New Hampshire; grandsons Keller Matzke and Stellan Matzke, Liam Sweeney, Dominick Francis and Tyler Francis; her brother, Peter Maxwell and sister-in-law Lura Maxwell of Greene, brother William Maxwell and sister-in-law Janie Downey Maxwell of Cumberland and sister Shirley Maxwell Royall and brother-in-law William Royall of Cape Elizabeth.
A celebration of life will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 6, at Cape Elizabeth Methodist Church, 280 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth. Arrangements are under the guidance of Hobbs Funeral Home, 230 Cottage Road, South Portland.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Marion's memory may be sent to:
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Published in Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram on Mar. 4, 2012
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External Affiliations: Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP), New York. Advising: 2013-14.
Select Publications:
Monograph on Fluxus artist George Brecht (forthcoming).
"Lucien" (Interview with Joao Simões) in Metamatic Reloaded (Basel: Museum Tinguely, 2013), Andres Pardy ed.
"Prime Media" in ± I96I: Founding the Expanded Arts (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, 2013), Julia Robinson & Christian Xatrec, eds.
CAA book review: Branden W. Joseph, Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage, (New York: Zone Books, 2008/2012). http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1899
"Maciunas producteur: Le 'design' performatif dans l'art des années 1960" in Initiales no.1- George Maciunas, ENSBA Lyon: Nov., 2012: 16-24.
"The Readymade's Virtual Field: Notes on Duchampian Shadow-boxing" in Mousse, Issue 36, Dec., 2012-Jan. 2013, Milan, 78-85.
"Multiple Manifestations: Nouveau Réalisme & Fluxus" in The Small Utopia/Ars Multiplicata, Germano Celant ed., (Venice: Fondazione Prada: 2012).
"Pollock's Concreteness: Painterly Performance or Performative Painting?" in exh. catalogue Explosion! Action-Painting-Action, (Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2012). Curator: Magnus af Petersens
"Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties" Preview, Artforum, Jan., 2012
"Fetish or Foil: The Caprices of Claes Oldenburg" in Claes Oldenburg, edited by Nadja Rottner, October Files 13, (Cambridge: MIT Press: 2012).
Edited John Cage, October Files 12 (Cambridge: MIT Press: 2012).
"The Object of Modernism: Catalyst & Critique" in Is the War Over? Art in the Divided World 1945-1968 (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofìa, 2011).
"To Draw Out a Story: Robert Whitman - Time Between Medium & Media" in Robert Whitman, exhibition catalogue, (Paris: Galerie 1900-2000: 2011).
16 Postwar-Contemporary Art Entries, The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art (GEAA), Joan Marter, ed. (London, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
"Before Attitudes Became Form," in New Realisms: 1957-62: Object Strategies from Readymade to Spectacle, Julia Robinson, ed., (Madrid/Cambridge, Mass.: MNCARS/MIT Press: 2010).
"The Sculpture of Indeterminacy: Alison Knowles' Beans and Variations" in Chance, edited by Margaret Iversen, Documents of Contemporary Art Series, (London:
Editor, contributor, and curator, The Anarchy of Silence: John Cage & Experimental Art (Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona [MACBA], 2009); catalogue essay: "John Cage and Investiture: Unmanning the System."
"From Abstraction to Model: George Brecht's Events and the Conceptual Turn in the Art of the 1960s," October 127, Winter 2008/9.
"Maciunas as Producer: Performative Design in the Art of the 1960s," Grey Room, No. 33, Fall 2008.
"Oldenburg: Monumental Contingency," in Pop Art at Princeton (Princeton University Art Museum, March 2007).
"In the Event of George Brecht" in George Brecht Events: A Heterospective (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005), Julia Robinson and Alfred Fischer eds. (and exhibition curators).
Upcoming Public Presentations:
"Re-View: Onnasch Collection" (with Marianne Barcellona, Sid Sachs, & Jay Sanders)
April 12: "Whose Terms? Perspectives on Social Practice," at the New Museum of Contemporary Art – organized by Johanna Burton and Alicia Ritson
April 16: Conversation with Robert Morris and Jeffrey Weiss at the NYPL


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Nice though a robin is, the doh is for the long-tailed tits that were frequenting the garden when I returned from a short trip out.
They always do this to me. They only ever stay in the garden for a few moments at a time and never when the camera is set up. Still they will be a challenge for tomorrow.
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Beautiful - background really sets of colour in the Robin
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Counted five Robins this morning, around the feeding station.
The L-t.t's usually turn up around noon, The main reason I stuck it out in the freezing cold. Sure enough they did.
Trouble was. there was a gang of about 14.
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Adams hauled in 12 passes for 110 yards and the one touchdown in last week's win over Boise State. It was his fifth career game where he recorded 10 or more catches, which is the most in school history. Larry Willis did so three times in his career from 1983-84 and Rodney Wright also did it three times from 1998-01. In just 16 career games, Adams ranks 11th in school history with 133 receptions and his 31 catches this season are tied for the fourth-most in the nation, doing so while playing in only three games thus far. Adams has caught 18 touchdown passes total in his 16 career games.
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Last week against Boise State, Burse was especially clutch for the Bulldogs and quarterback Derek Carr. Averaging 14.8 yards per catch, he had four receptions of over 20 yards with a long of 41 in the game and also had the 20-yard run. All 10 of his receptions last week came in the final three quarters and six of his catches went for first downs. Burse is tied for sixth nationally this season with 9.0 receptions per game. He now has five 100-yard receiving games in his career and two this season.
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1. The Prophet Zachariah, upon him be peace, recited the prayer mentioned in these verses as he could not perceive of anyone among his kinsmen being able to succeed him in his duty of preaching God's Message, and safeguarding the future of Mary, whose guardianship he had undertaken.
While quoting a person's speech, God does not quote it word-by-word and in its literal sense; He is not narrating an event simply as an historian or observer. Rather, He considers the intentions and feelings of the speaker and the parts of the speech that a person may not utter. In narrating an event, He considers it with its meaning, causes, and the lessons it provides, as well as with the circumstances under which it took place and the intentions, status, and positions of the principal actors in it. For this reason, we can find the same event or speech narrated in different words and from different perspectives in the Qur'an, according to the subject that is being dealt with and the context in which it is found.
The Prophet Zachariah's prayer is mentioned in 3: 38 as: My Lord, bestow upon me out of Your grace a good, upright offspring, from which we understand that he asked for a successor from his own family and, therefore, asked for a son, as he had no children yet. One may wonder why Zachariah, upon him be peace, requested a successor from his own family; the answer is that God knows best upon whom to place His Message (6: 124), and God made pure Adam and Noah and the House of Abraham and the House of 'Imrān, choosing them above all humankind, as descendants of one another (3: 33–34). It is impossible that the Prophet Zachariah, upon him be peace, was not aware of this, so he knew that the successor among his progeny would be one who would descend from Jacob's house. (See also 3: 34, note 7.)
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Ask for help, report bugs, discuss features
Alternatively, if you prefer to send questions through email, you can subscribe and post to our castle-engine-main mailing list.
You can also submit bugs and feature requests to our "tickets" tracker.
If you really want to contact the author directly, send email to Michalis Kamburelis.
Helping in the engine development
If you'd like to help in the development of our engine, here are some proposed tasks:
1. For everyone
- Brag about our engine on blogs and social platforms :)
- Donate.
- Create a page on Wikipedia about our Castle Game Engine and/or view3dscene. Maybe only a page about view3dscene for starters?
2. For 3D worlds creators
If you use our tools to create or browse your 3D worlds, you can:
Show off your works on our forum, in any way you like (screenshot, link to model, youtube video etc.). If you use some of our engine special VRML/X3D extensions or rendering features, you are strongly encouraged to do so (Michalis loves to see how his work is useful for others :) ! But also post about "normal" 3D models that simply look nice in our view3dscene or such.
Contribute models to our demo models.
Look into improving our documentation. Our VRML / X3D documentation is large, and always wants to be larger. Contributions describing how something works, or how to do something practical, are welcome.
You can add your contributions directly to our wiki. (Once we'll get some user content in our wiki, we'll think how to make it more visible.)
Test the nightly builds of our binaries. These are build automatically every night using current SVN code. You can test them and catch eventual bugs before the release. This way you can also preview new features before they are released.
Bugs can be reported on the forum or in the tickets tracker.
3. For ObjectPascal developers
For ObjectPascal (FPC, Lazarus) developers:
Use our engine to make your next game, of course! :) And make it great :)
Contribute to our wiki useful tips or tutorials about using our engine.
3.1. Proposed (larger) development tasks
Many areas of the engine could use the help of an interested developer. If you'd like to join, or just send some patches improving something, please contact us, for example through forum.
Below are some ideas for development. Some of them are not trivial, although they may be easy if you have an expertise in a particular area (or you're willing to gain such expertise :) This list isn't exhaustive of course, there are many things we want to achieve, and you most likely have even more ideas of your own. If you don't have time to work on them, but you badly need them, consider also donating to a particular goal.
Scripting in JavaScript
Allow to use JavaScript (ECMAScript) directly inside VRML/X3D files (in Script nodes). This will follow VRML/X3D specification. Implementation will be through besen (preferably, if it will work well enough), SpiderMonkey, or maybe some other JS library.
Physics integration
Integrate our engine with a physics engine. Most probably Bullet, which will require proper translation of Bullet API to C and then to FPC (as Buller is in C++, it's not readily usable from anything other than C++). Eventually ODE. Allow to easily use it in new games for programmers. Allow to use it in VRML/X3D models by following the X3D "Rigid body physics" component.
WWW browser plugin
Most probably using NPAPI, the cross-browser API for plugins. Our CastleWindow code will become handy for this, as it can deal with WinAPI / XWindows window handle (this is what we get from plugin to initialize our plugin viewport).
Use Cocoa under Mac OS X
We already have a native look and feel, and easy installation, under Mac OS X, see relevant news and docs for Mac OS X situation in SVN. Our programs no longer have to use X11 and GTK under Mac OS X. Still, current solution is not optimal: we use LCL with Carbon under the hood. Carbon is deprecated and only 32-bit (Cocoa should be used instead), and depending on LCL has it's own problems (mouse look is not smooth with LCL message loop).
The proposed task is to implement nice Cocoa backend in CastleWindow unit. Contributions are welcome. This is an easy and rewarding task for a developer interested in Mac OS X.
Support Material.mirror field for OpenGL rendering
An easy way to make planar (on flat surfaces) mirrors. Just set Material.mirror field to something > 0 (setting it to 1.0 means it's a perfect mirror, setting it to 0.5 means that half of the visible color is coming from the mirrored image, and half from normal material color).
Disadvantages: This will require an additional rendering pass for such shape (so expect some slowdown for really large scenes). Also your shape will have to be mostly planar (we will derive a single plane equation by looking at your vertexes).
Advantages: The resulting mirror image looks perfect (there's no texture pixelation or anything), as the mirror is actually just a specially rendered view of a scene. The mirror always shows the current scene (there are no problems with dynamic scenes, as mirror is rendered each time).
This will be some counterpart to current way of making mirrors by RenderedTexture (on flat surfaces) or GeneratedCubeMap (on curvy surfaces).
Advanced networking support
Basic networiking support is done already, we use FpHttpClient unit distributed with FPC, see relevant news entry. Things working: almost everything handles URLs, we support file and data and http URLs.
Things missing are listed below (some of them may done by adding integration with LNet or Synapse, see also nice intro to Synapse on FPC wiki).
Support for https. By sending patches to add it to FpHttpClient. Or by using LNet or Synapse (they both include https support).
Support for ftp. By using LNet or Synapse, unless something ready in FPC appears in the meantime. Both LNet (through LFtp unit) and Synapse (FtpGetFile) support ftp.
Support for HTTP basic authentication. This can be done in our CastleDownload unit. Although it would be cleaner to implement it at FpHttpClient level, see this proposal. Or maybe just use LNet or Synapse, I'm sure they have some support for it.
Ability to cancel the ongoing download. Add a "cancel" button to CastleWindowProgress for this. See the task below (background downloading) for ideas how to do it.
Ability to download resources in the background, while the game is running. Technically this is connected to the previous point: being able to reliably cancel the download.
There is a question how to do it. We can use TThread for downloads, maybe even a couple of threads each for a separate download. We can use API that doesn't block (like LNet or Sockets, with Timeout > 0). We can do both.
Using separate thread(s) for download seems like a good idea, the synchronization is not difficult as the thread needs only to report when it finished work.
The difficult part is reliably breaking the download. Using something like TThread.Terminate will not do anything good while the thread is hanging waiting for socket data (TThread.Terminate is a graceful way to close the thread, it only works as often as the thread explicitly checks TThread.Terminated). Hacks like Windows.TerminateThread are 1. OS-specific 2. very dirty, as TThread.Execute has no change to release allocated memory and such. The bottom line: merely using TThread does not give you a reliable and clean way to break the thread execution at any time.
This suggests that you have to use non-blocking API (so LNet or Sockets is the way to go, FpHttpClient and Synapse are useless for this) if you want to reliably break the download. Using it inside a separate thread may still be a good idea, to not hang the main event loop to process downloaded data. So the correct answer seems use LNet/Sockets (not FpHttpClient/Synapse), with non-blocking API, within a TThread; thanks to non-blocking API you can guarantee checking TThread.Terminated at regular intervals.
I'm no expert in threads and networking, so if anyone has any comments about this (including just comfirming my analysis) please let me (Michalis) know :)
Support X3D LoadSensor node.
Caching on disk of downloaded data. Just like WWW browsers, we should be able to cache resources downloaded from the Internet.
- Store each resource under a filename in cache directory.
- Add a function like ApplicationCache, similar existing ApplicationData and ApplicationConfig, to detect cache directory. For starters, it can be ApplicationConfig (it cannot be ApplicationData, as ApplicationData may be read-only). Long-term, it should be something else (using the same directory as for config files may not be adviced, e.g. to allow users to backup config without backuping cache). See standards suitable for each OS (for Linux, and generally Unix (but not Mac OS X) see basedir-spec; specific Microsoft, Apple specs may be available for Windows and Mac OS X).
- Probably it's best to store a resource under a filename calculated by MD5 hash on the URL.
- For starters, you can just make the max cache life a configurable variable for user. Long-term: Like WWW browsers, we should honor various HTTP headers that say when/how long cache can be considered valid, when we should at least check with server if something changed, when we should just reload the file every time.
- Regardless of above, a way to reload file forcibly disregarding the cache should be available (like Ctrl+Shift+R in WWW browsers).
- A setting to control max cache size on disk, with some reasonable default (look at WWW browsers default settings) should be available.
Note: don't worry about caching in memory, we have this already, for all URLs (local files, data URIs, network resources).
I'm sure you can find other ideas for development. Is there something you miss from our game engine? Is there a particular feature you miss from 3D formats (X3D, Collada etc.) support? Some useful tool, or maybe a useful example?
4. For Blender experts
I think that success of our engine is tightly coupled with the quality of Blender X3D exporter. Of course, you can use anything to generate VRML/X3D for use with our engine. But if you make FOSS game, you have probably already chosen Blender as your main 3D modeller.
Blender is really fantastic. But the current exporter from Blender to X3D lacks some important features. For starters, there isn't any way to export animation to X3D. At least exporting animation of transformations (translation, rotation, scale of objects) would already be very useful. Exporting mesh deformation (from shape keys, or derived from bone animation) would be great. There are also various other small lacks. Many features of VRML/X3D and our engine are not used intensively enough, because there isn't any way to express them and export from Blender.
We have our own customized Blender X3D exporter, so you can start from this. Preferably, changes should be reported and applied to the Blender sources. Only stuff really specific to our engine (cooperation between Blender and some specific features of our engine) should be left inside our custom exporter.
5. For Linux distros package maintainers
Please package view3dscene for your favourite Linux distribution :) It's a great and stable VRML/X3D browser (and viewer for other 3D models, like Collada and 3DS). Some facts in favor of view3dscene, important for package maintainers:
- Stable program, with long development history and regular releases.
- Desktop integration files (SVG icon, .desktop file, MIME xml) are already included in our archive.
- The dependencies of view3dscene are documented. There's nothing weird there (ffmpeg and ImageMagick are only light suggestions; OpenAL may also be a suggestion instead of a recommendation; the rest is standard for any GTK program using OpenGL).
- Build-dependencies of view3dscene include Free Pascal Compiler, but this should not be a problem — all major distros already have fpc packaged.
- Sources of view3dscene are here, get both view3dscene and engine sources, and follow instructions on that page to compile.
- The whole thing is GPL >= 2 (most of the engine may also be used under more permissive "LGPL with static-linking exception" >= 2, but this probably doesn't matter for you).
Michalis uses Debian, and sometimes Ubuntu, and would love to see his software available in your repositories :)


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