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Unpaid work may provide experience, but employers would be quick to exploit any opportunity to avoid paying people what they're worth.
The Bank of Canada is sending a strong signal, as if any more were needed, that the provinces cannot count on strong economic growth to balance their budgets for them. But that's essentially the plan of the Ontario Liberals
It is a kind of tribute to the prime minister that so many of his appointees have proved so disruptive of his designs
It is not coincidental that the winners from the dollar's fall are to be found, mainly, in Ontario's manufacturing sector, where Tory electoral fortunes will be decided
It is not only the independence of the Bank of Canada, real or perceived, that is at stake. It is its policy legacy, and the resulting expectations of market participants
Whoever said economics is the dismal science didn't know the half of it. Economics is a Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock when it's already dark, sleet is falling, the bus is late and your feet are wet
Aesthetic redesigns are needlessly expensive and almost always controversial
Central banking depends crucially on credibility. But the impression, if not the reality, is of a Bank being slowly absorbed into the Finance department
Stephen Poloz understands that monetary policy will have to dovetail with a fiscal track that has already been set, if we are not to have an economic train-wreck
The long-overdue abolition of the one-cent piece proves we aren't slaves to the status quo. It's time to make a few other changes...
Mark Carney will make about $1 million a year as B of E governor, plus $400,000 in housing allowance. It's about what a mid-level Wall Street financier might expect in an indifferent year, yet strikes someas excessive for one of the world's most powerful central bankers.
British reaction to Mark Carney's appointment has been less sniffy than is usual, considering he's a colonial and they're Brits
The obvious successor to Mr. Carney is Tiff Macklem, current senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada and a man with broad experience nationally and internationally. He was apparently the second choice for the job, last time around, after Mr. Carney
There is nothing wrong per se with the 16 images used in the new passport. It's just that if you were remotely wondering what Canada is like in 2012, or even 1972, these watermarks aren't going to tell you.
When the crunch comes, borrowers won't have anyone to blame but themselves. The warnings are out there. The examples are rife: all anyone has to do is examine the experience of U.S. homeowners over the past few years. The dangers aren't a secret, they're just being ignored.
As cynical as we may be about our politicians, there is something ingrained in Canadians that honours the individual who will not 'be reasonable,' will not "go along,' will not accept that 'this is how it has always been done'
Former Bank of Canada governor James Coyne was a remarkable, strong-willed man who had an impact on the Canadian polity that endures to this day
Andrew Coyne: We are so used to official pablum that we would find frank acknowledgments of virtuosity shocking, the way a Victorian would be taken aback by a bare leg
The recent changes to mortgage rules in Canada — maximum terms of 25 years, only able to borrow up to 80% of the home's value — are designed to "cool down" Canada's hot housing market. For the average home owner, the changes will mean paying more each month to pay off the loan sooner. But […]
The things you see on the Internet! The latest item to go viral — well, not exactly viral yet, just bacterial so far — is a denunciation of Canada's financial system by 12-year-old Victoria Grant of Cambridge, Ont. "12-year-old financial pundit becomes YouTube sensation," says CTV's website. "Victoria Grant, 12, hits lecture circuit to explain […]


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The Fight Continues Over Bridgeport Aviation Pioneer Gustave Whitehead and His Place in the History Books
The cast of potential characters in a movie about Bridgeport aviation pioneer Gustave Whitehead, who was reported in an August 1901 article in a Bridgeport paper to have flown in a powered aircraft, two years before the Wright brothers flew, gets longer and longer as the years go by. In the early years of the 20th century there would have been Whitehead and the neighborhood boys who ran to his shop whenever one of his engines burst into life, some of whom assisted him and years later gave signed, sworn statements, some saying they had seen Whitehead fly; and the occasional backers who funded his work; and his brother John, who arrived, reportedly flush from the gold fields of California, to help Gustave.
In the 1930s Stella Randolph began seeking out those who had known Whitehead and taking sworn statements from them, collected in her 1937 book, Lost Flights of Gustave Whitehead. Later William O'Dwyer got involved, collecting more affidavits and, in "History by Contract," (subtitled "The beginning of motorized aviation: August 14, 1901, Gustave Whitehead, Fairfield, Conn.") written with Randolph, revealed the existence of an agreement the Smithsonian Institution made with the Wright estate never to suggest an earlier aircraft was capable of carrying a man in powered, controlled flight before the Wright brothers first flew in 1903, or risk losing the Wright's Flyer airplane, on permanent display at the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
O'Dwyer and Harvey Lippincott of the Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association, trying to win some recognition for Whitehead, battled unsuccessfully with officials at the Smithsonian. Fairfield's Andy Kosch built a replica of Whitehead's aircraft and demonstrated it could fly, albeit with a different engine.
The battle continues now with the latest person to take up the Whitehead standard and joust with the current generation of Smithsonian officials over Whitehead's place in aviation history: Australian John Brown, a longtime resident of Germany who has created a website (gustave-whitehead.com) that so impressed Paul Jackson, editor of Jane's All the World's Aircraft, that Jackson wrote in his introduction to Jane's centenary edition this year that, all in all, Whitehead really deserves to be called "first in flight," instead of the Wright brothers ("A Fight over Flight," Fairfield Weekly, April 4, 2013).
Brown has been locked in a nasty e-mail embrace with the Smithsonian's chief aviation curator, Tom Crouch, correspondence that Brown has shared with the Weekly. Brown also paid a recent visit to these parts and gave a number of well-attended presentations, including one at the tony Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield and another at Bridgeport's Discovery Museum.
The contract between the Smithsonian and the Wright estate remains, casting a shadow over the dispute over who deserves a leading role in aviation history in the U.S. In 1986, the Smithsonian's Peter L. Jakab wrote a seven-page monograph, "Analysis of the Flight Claims of Gustave Whitehead," which dismissed the claims of Whitehead supporters, and this year Crouch penned "The Flight Claims of Gustave Whitehead," in which he disposes of the Whitehead claims in only three pages. He appends a page explaining how the Smithsonian came to enter the 1948 agreement with the Wright estate, which "remains in force today, a healthy reminder of a less than exemplary moment in Smithsonian history."
Crouch concludes by saying "I can only hope that, should persuasive evidence for a prior flight be presented, my colleagues and I would have the courage and honesty to admit the new evidence and risk the loss of the Wright Flyer," yet Brown and other Whitehead supporters believe the contract makes an objective evaluation of their case by the Smithsonian impossible.
The controversy, stirred up this time by Brown and Jackson, has raged on the op-ed and letters page of the Connecticut Post. Meanwhile, at the Fairfield Museum and History Center, where O'Dwyer's papers are preserved, librarian Elizabeth Rose told the Weekly, "Unfortunately, there is no smoking gun here that no one else knows about."
Of the affidavits collected over the years, one stands out. It was made in October 1964, by Raymond Keefe of Bridgeport, who recalled seeing an airplane in Mountain Grove Cemetery, where he and his friends used to play. "One time I can remember going down to the cemetery and right in the middle of it was this aeroplane. It had two wings...There was no way it could have been towed into the property because there was a fence around the grounds and a gate. The gate wasn't wide enough to let the plane through, so I suppose it flew in and landed there... Some of the kids around there at the time said that they had seen it fly in and land there."
Definitely a scene for that movie, if it is ever made.
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AR Powerlink sends HD video over your power wiring
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 1:34pm
Getting HD video from your video sources to your TV can be problematic, and last fall we saw a bunch of wireless solutions. Now AR has introduced their HDP100 HD Powerlink system, which can transmit 1080p video over your existing in-wall power wiring.
The HDP100 is available now for $399, which frankly, is less than some of the big buck HDMI cables I've seen.


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In the popular imagination, the erotic worlds of men and women are wildly divergent. But an intellectually stimulating analysis of 15 years of research concludes that "stereotypes about gender and sexuality provide a largely inflated view of gender differences in sexual attitudes and behaviors."
Synthesizing the results of more than 700 studies, psychologists Jennifer Petersen and Janet Shibley Hyde of the University of Wisconsin-Madison report "men and women are more similar than they are different in terms of sexuality." They found only small differences between males and females in 22 of 30 common sexual behaviors and attitudes — and no differences at all for another four.
"Male participants reported more sexual activity than female participants for 13 of the 14 sexual behaviors," as well as "more permissive sexual attitudes than female participants for the majority of sexual attitudes," the researchers note in the Psychological Bulletin.
But they add that the differences were typically small, noting "there was about 85 percent overlap between male participants and female participants for age at first intercourse."
The sexual behaviors surveyed included frequency of intercourse, number of partners, extramarital sex and condom use. A separate list examined sexual attitudes, including permissiveness, anxiety and guilt, satisfaction with one's sex life and views regarding homosexuality.
The researchers found substantial gender differences in two categories: reported masturbation and pornography use. They note this "might suggest that men prefer more sexual activity than women and frequently engage in these autoerotic behaviors" due to the lack of an available partner.
On the other hand, "gender differences in masturbation and pornography use may be due to differences in self-reports," the researchers write. "Social stigma continues to surround female autoerotic behavior."
The studies represent 87 countries on six continents. The researchers found that "nations with larger gender differences in power had larger difference in sexual behaviors than more egalitarian nations."
Overall, the report provides at least qualified support for several theoretical models — including evolutionary psychology, which contends that men have evolved to desire multiple sex partners because it increases their odds of passing their genes down to the next generation. (Women, on the other hand, "have evolved to disapprove of casual sex because it may yield fathers who do not provide for them and their children.") The fact that men reported more permissive sexual attitudes and engaged in more sexual behavior is consistent with this notion.
What's more, the researchers add, "evolutionary psychology proposes that short-term mating strategies are associated with significant gender differences, but that long-term mating strategies, especially in adulthood, are associated with a shift toward gender similarities. Results from the current study support this theory."
Nevertheless, gender-based differences in sexual attitudes have sometimes been exaggerated in books and magazine articles popularizing evolutionary theory. And Petersen and Hyde argue that an overemphasis on such distinctions may be problematic for both men and women.
They conclude with the hope that "the discovery that men and women are similar in terms of most sexual behaviors and attitudes reduces the … pressure to conform to gendered norms of the sexually submissive female and dominant male."
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FISL, Day 20
Day two of my trip to FISL (Friday) started out with me waking up a bit late and scrambling to get ready on time. Rafael kindly picked several of us up at the hotel and drove us to the conference. I spent the morning talking with people both in the Fedora booth and in several of the other booths around the show. I also spent some time in a press interview with Linux Magazine. For lunch, we ate at the buffet and I got to experience the famous banana sushi first hand.
In the afternoon, I cheered Dennis Gilmore on as he gave a presentation on RPM packaging in Portuguese. He doesn't speak much Portuguese (yet!), but he was brave enough to translate his talk into Portuguese and read it as best he could. After Dennis did his talk, I ran over to the large presentation room for my presentation. I talked about how Red Hat and Fedora work together, how Fedora makes a good upstream for RHEL, and how Fedora works with upstream communities. Several hundred people attended the presentation, and I thought it was well received.
After the presentation, I ran into a Brazilian friend of mine doing VoIP work here in Brazil. We chatted for an hour or so about various topics including Fedora, VoIP, and cultural differences between Portuguese-speaking and Spanish-speaking countries in Latin American. After another stint at helping out in the booth, we all ran back to the conference hall for a great presentation on SELinux from Douglas and Marcelo from Red Hat. By the time their presentation was done, it was 9:00pm and we were all hungry. Luckily, some of the Fedora folks had organized a pizza party, so we weren't hungry for long!
FISL, Day 10
Day one of the FISL conference (at least for me, as I arrived on Thursday) was mostly spent in airplanes. My flights took me from Dulles to Orlando to São Paulo to Porto Alegre. (Nothing is better than having a flight attendant wake you up at 3:00am to feed you and airline dinner, right?) When I landed in Porto Alegre, Leo and Rafael were kind enough to pick me up and drive me to the FISL conference. I was impressed with the size of the conference and the variety of the booths.
I have to admit — I was a bit stunned when I saw the Fedora booth. It looked absolutely gorgeous! I had no idea when I walked in whether we were sharing Red Hat's booth or would have our own; little did I know that we'd have the best looking booth at the show. The location of the booth was perfect — we were right on the corner where people would pass by on their way to the big lecture hall.
After shaking hands with the Fedora ambassadors and volunteers and saying hello to the folks in the Red Hat booth, I gave a quick impromptu speech (in Spanish, by request) to the crowd that had gathered around our booth, and then sat back and watched as Toshio gave a great talk on packaging RPMs for Fedora, with a lot of additional explanation in Portuguese from Rafael and Leo. (We had several other presentations right there in the booth as well over the course of the day.) At that point, we had about fifty people gathered around the booth, so we handed out media and stickers and helped answer questions.
After the show wound down for the day, we went to dinner at a traditional Brazilian churrascaria. The food was delicious — I ate too much food, and forgot how much I like the Brazilian soft drink called Guaraná. It was the perfect way to end the day. On the way back to the hotel, I got to see a bit of the city of Porto Alegre.
FUDCon Santiago, Day 22
Day number two of FUDCon Santiago started with a quick breakfast at the hotel, and then we walked over to Universidad Central. Along the way, several folks stopped to take pictures — I think we even lost a couple of the Brazilians along the way. Some of the pictures have been posted to Flickr. Along the way, we ran into several phone booths that were advertising (the ever-nebulous concept of) cloud computing. In this case, they were simply providing some disk space if you signed up for their internet access, and we joked that maybe they should advertise it as "fog computing" instead. It was a bit of a wake up call, however, for just how quickly things are advancing in the area.
The first talk I attended was a talk by Guillermo Gómez S. (gomix) on RPM packaging. He did a great job of explaining the basics, and then getting into a few of the trickier subjects. After the talk, we talked to a couple of developers that were interested in having their software packaged for Fedora, and Guillermo invited them to attend his afternoon session where they actually packaged up some software.
I then jumped on IRC to participate in the Fedora Board Meeting. Máirín Duffy has written a very good writeup of the meeting on her blog. We experimented a bit with this meeting by making it totally open, and it went fairly well, but was a bit confusing at time when there were three or four conversations happening at once. We'll keep exploring the best way to provide openness and transparency, while maintaining order as well.
After the board meeting, I bounced around from talk to talk and spent a lot of time listening to people here. There were several good talks on virtualization and high availability. I also spent more time conversing with the attendees and answering questions.
After the show wrapped up for the day, we held an impromptu round table discussion with the FUDCon organizers and the Fedora Ambassadors that were here. It was a good chance to discuss the things that went well, that didn't go so well, and many other topics. The discussion was very animated and there were many different topics discussed, and I'm not sure I can do it all justice in this blog post, but I'm going to try to enumerate some of the topics discussed.
The first topic we discussed was communication among the ambassadors, especially between countries. It was generally agreed that the ambassadors aren't communicating well with ambassadors from other LATAM countries, and we talked about ways we can improve the discussion between the different countries. We also talked about better ways of announcing events such as FUDCon, so that we get the word out to all the different Linux-based communities in the region. The general consensus was that wikis are great for documentation, but they don't do a good job of letting people know of upcoming events, and that there needs to be more work done to reach out to users and developers in other ways.
The next topic was one of lack of organization within the LATAM open source community. We talked about the fact that this is a collaborative community, and that there needs to be more self-organization and collaboration between the disparate communities. At this point, it was suggested that ambassadors try to push technical discussions from their own local mailing lists or country-based mailing lists to regional lists that cover all the countries of Latin America, so that there are more opportunities for people to get the answers they need and also the mentorship they need to become future leaders. At this point, the conversation degraded a bit as people started to argue all the small details about whether to setup mail relays or encourage people gently to move to regional-based lists or to just shut down the smaller lists to encourage people to move to regional lists. Rodrigo Padula noted that the tools are already there to solve the problem — we just need to communicate! I shared a bit of my experience, and tried to get people back on talking about the principles and not getting bogged down in the details.
The next discussion revolved around events such as FUDCon. Guillermo noted that we're pretty good at throwing events and inviting our friends to the party, but that we need to do more than that. He emphasized the fact that events are fun (like a party!), but we really need to focus on ensuring that we're inviting people to become contributors. He said that there are several places people can get started in contributing — documentation, translation, packaging, infrastructure, marketing, design, and so on. We need to focus better on turning attendees into the folks that are going to be giving presentation in the next event. In short, events are the perfect location to invite people to work in Fedora.
The discussion then turned to ambassadors and the mentorship process, and whether or not the mentorship process is working as well as it should. Various ideas were tossed about, and I recommended that people make their suggestions to FAMSCo and the Fedora Board if they wanted to change things. (Several people suggested that we might need at least one or two more mentors here in LATAM.) From there, the conversation turned to the details of being a mentor (are you a coach or a filter?) and whether or not the 30-day probationary period for ambassadors is working or not. (Apparently it's not in Brazil.)
To wrap things up, I thanked all the ambassadors and organizers for their hard work and effort to make this FUDCon a success, and encouraged them to look for opportunities during the rest of FUDCon and over the coming months to help new users understand that they're going to have more fun if they are active participants in the community. I shared what I thought were the four most important things on my radar:
- improved communication
- making sure we start planning now for the next FUDCon in LATAM
- making sure we include ambassadors and active contributors from many different countries, and not just send the same few people to each event
- suggestion that we do a barcamp for at least a half-day in the next FUDCon in LATAM, so that people can see how it works and learn to do it better
By the time the round table wrapped up, it was late and I was exhausted, but people wanted to go out to eat, so I tagged along. To make a long story short, we found a good restaurant and spent the next several hours eating and talking. By the time we got back to the hotel, I was ready to crash, so I put off writing this blog entry until this morning.
FUDCon Santiago, Day 11
Things are well under way here in Santiago, Chile at the FUDCon conference. Yesterday morning, my flight was delayed getting into Santiago, so when I landed I made a mad dash through immigrations and customs. Antonio was kind enough to pick me up at the airport and drive me directly to the conference. There is a nice new road from the airport to downtown, so it didn't take very long to get to Universidad Central where the FUDCon conference is being held. When I arrived, the attendees were waiting for me to kick off the show. (I had secretly hoped they would start without me, but I didn't get my wish.)
My plan was to give a quick introduction in (broken) Spanish, and then give a quick presentation in English. As it turned out, I ended up giving both the introduction and presentation in rusty Spanish, and even did a short question and answer session in Spanish as well. Little by little my brain is recalling words and phrases that I haven't used in fourteen years.
After my presentation, I spent a few minutes meeting the other FUDCon organizers and staff, and then had some photos taken for the press here in Chile. (I'm not sure how well the pictures turned out, as I had just been on an airplane for almost ten hours!) I also had a telephone interview with a local journalist, which was a bit difficult because I found myself lacking in technical terms in Spanish. Luckily, I had Alexis and Loreto from the Universidad Central to help me better explain some of the more technical details in better Spanish.
After a quick lunch, I listened to a few of the other talks before being pulled out for more interviews and photos. It was very interesting to listen to the questions from the journalists, and see how they started to catch on to the "open source way". Alexis also shared with them more statistics about software piracy here in Chile (and Latin America in general), and how free and open source software is a natural way to help solve that problem.
After the conference wound down for the night, we returned to the hotel to drop off our bags and then went out for some dinner. We ended up eating at a restaurant with some great Peruvian food. After a long and exciting day, I slept like a rock.
Travel delays and broken feeds3
Due to the weather in the Atlanta area yesterday, my flight (connecting through Atlanta) to FUDCon Chile was cancelled yesterday. This means I'll be arriving at FUDCon Santiago a day later than planned — I arrive early Thursday morning instead of Wednesday Hopefully this won't cause too much disruption. Unfortunately, it will give me one less day meet people and help with arrangements for the conference.
In other news, I've hacked on the WordPress 3.0 code used to power this blog, and we'll see if it fixes the "truncated posts in RSS feeds" bug I've been having. This post should work as a test to see if my changes have worked. With any luck, this'll fix the problem and I can spend less time working on the code and more time blogging!
First day on the job10
As many of you may well know, today was my first day as a new employee of Red Hat and as the new Fedora Project Leader. I spent the day today in "new hire orientation" meetings at Raleigh, which were interesting. I was impressed by how much time Red Hat took to make sure the new recruits understood the open source way, and where Fedora fits in the mix of things. Some of the highlights for me were Max Spevack explaining open source communities and their importance, and Michael Tiemann (one of my favorite speakers to listen to) giving an excellent presentation on how open source can be a transforming tool for information technology departments. We also spent time filling out paperwork and making sure we had all our ducks in a row, and ended the day with an ice-cream social. I'll be in new hire orientation tomorrow as well, and then head directly to FUDCon Santiago tomorrow evening. Paul Frields has graciously agreed to help me get up to speed in my new role, which I especially appreciate since I'll spend the next two weeks on the road.
This evening I also was able to start getting Fedora installed on my new laptop. I opted for a Lenovo T510, mostly because it had been years since I'd used a new ThinkPad, and I wanted to try something that was likely to be a bit outside of the mainstream. (I have this weird habit of finding the oddball hardware bugs in Fedora. Some people go out of their way to make sure their hardware is going to be compatible. As for me, I throw Fedora on weird hardware and see what breaks. Call me crazy…) This laptop is a bit bigger than most people would want to carry around, but I'm happy with it.
Paul Frields was kind enough to take a first stab at getting the laptop setup while I was still in my meetings. Apparently there's an issue with the new VT-d feature (Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O) of the Intel chipsets, as Paul had to disable it in the BIOS to keep anaconda from crashing with what appeared to be memory-corruption issues. Once we got that tracked down and disabled in the BIOS, I threw Fedora on the machine and it's been running great ever since. So far, everything has worked great. I was a little worried about how well this new wirless chip would be supported, but it's working very well. I was even able to setup a quick ad-hoc wireless network for Paul to be able to connect his laptop through mine. Suspend/resume worked out of the box, as did the Nouveau driver. There's a bit of funkiness with the reporting of the second battery, but I'll do some more troubleshooting on that over the next few days and file a bug.
The day ended with an excellent sushi dinner (thanks Paul!), and now I'm back at the hotel getting more software installed on the laptop and working on presentations for FUDCon Chile and FISL. All in all, I can't complain about my first day on the job!
Tales of a Road Warrior0
I've spent a lot of time travelling in my career. In fact, I'm a bit ashamed to say that I've spent at least one week out of every month on the road for the past five or six years. To put it mildly, I've seen a few airports and slept in a few hotels.
This month is no exception to my travel routine. Next week I'll be travelling to FUDCon in beautiful Santiago, Chile. I'm very much looking forward to the opportunity to return to Santiago and take part in the FUDCon conference there. After that, I'm headed to the FISL conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil. This will be my second trip to Brazil this year, and another chance to gain weight by drinking too much guaraná soda.
If you're going to either FUDCon Santiago or FISL, be sure to stop by and say hello. I can't wait to see you there!
Sorry for the broken RSS feed — I think I may have triggered a bug in WordPress. It should be fixed now.
Wearing a new hat5
Well, it appears that the news is out about my new role in the Fedora community. (I apologize for the slow response — I was at Scout Camp with my son last week when Paul made the announcement, and have been busy tying up loose ends at my current employer.) I'm very humbled to be able to follow in the footsteps of some very fine leaders such as Greg and Max and Paul. I'm sure many of you are wondering "Who is this guy?" and "What is his vision for Fedora?"
First, let me introduce myself. My name is Jared. In short, I'm a big Linux nerd. (How does that analogy go? "Nerd is to geek as Star Trek is to Star Wars." Or did I get it backward again?) I've been very lucky to have been employed by some great companies over the past several years — companies that had the vision of how to both use and contribute to open ecosystems. Most recently, I've been working for a company called Digium, which is the benevolent corporate sponsor of the Asterisk open source telecommunications platform. I've done both community relations and training work for Digium, and I learned many valuable lessons that I hope to use in my new role. Before working full-time on Asterisk, I spent a number of years doing large-scale Linux systems administration and network operations for a large web analytics company. When I'm not on the road, I'll be working remotely from my home in Virginia. My wife and I used to joke that maybe I'd get lucky and get to work on free software when I retire; luckily for me, the opportunities came much sooner!
I've been using Fedora ever since it was announced, and was using Red Hat Linux before then. I very passionately believe in the freedom and community that Fedora represents, and want to do everything I can to further the cause. Over the past few years, I've gone from being an end user of Fedora to being a contributing member of the Fedora team. I've come to learn that our greatest asset within Fedora is our vibrant community of users and contributors. More specifically, I love the way our community can help individuals rise to their fullest potential and become leaders. I'm a firm believer that if you give someone the tools they need and a little bit of vision and then get out of their way, they'll come up with solutions you never dreamed of. I've seen it happen time and time again in different open source communities, and each time it gives me more hope for the future.
Please bear with me over the next few weeks as I wrap my head around this job and start to articulate my goals and visions for Fedora. I'm sure there are a lot of things for me to learn, and I look forward to sharing some of my knowledge along the way as well. I'll be on the road for the next few weeks (another blog post about that shortly!), but I'll be blogging more while on the road. You can also catch me via email or IRC. (My IRC nick is "jsmith".)
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Slowly scanning and uploading shots from my trip to Asia this winter. Here's a few shots from Kyoto, Japan.
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After being stuck in the hell-hole Beijing, It was like a dream come true landing in Seoul. There's so many things to love about Korea, it's really hard to list them all for me. All I know is I will be back… Again and Again (yes, 2pm reference).
We landed in Beijing for what was supposed to be a 2 hour lay-over. The region was hit with an unusually harsh snow storm–the worst they've had in over 5 decades–which trapped us in Beijing for 2 days. 3 degrees fahrenheit, and all Daniel and I had on us we're t-shirts. It was a rough…
After a one last epic night in Hong Kong, we made our way to the airport, without sleep, headed to our next destination. Little did we know that disaster awaited us.
Walked so many miles up Nathan St. from Kowloon, it's a never ending street. Monkok was so busy with people and shops, except for this little block. The only people here, were oldies resting and old men gambling.


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Always the picture of elegance and poise, Kate Middleton is widely admired for her style. Here are some of our favourite outfits and dresses worn by the Duchess of Cambridge...
This story is prompted by Pinterest suddenly being awash with pictures of Kate from a gala celebrating the countdown to the Olympic Games - Kate stole the show in a gorgeous teal green gown with a sheer lace back. That dress! The colour! The button detailing - be still, my beating heart!
The gown was designed by Jenny Packham (who is either going to dress me for my wedding, or funeral, or both) and is the perfect combination of elegant and sexy. Love it!
Jenny Packham also dressed Kate for the ARK 10th anniversary gala event in June last year, in a beautiful rose sequinned gown.
What I love best about Kate Middleton's style is that while she always looks classy and refined, she doesn't shy away from trends. Some of my favourite looks on her are the ones that aren't from big galas or black tie events, but when she's going more casual.
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Innovative Custom-Printed Artistic Acoustic Panels Make Industry Debut
SAN FRANCISCO, CA â Auralex Acoustics, the industry leader in innovative sound control solutions, is breaking new ground by launching a gallery of custom-printed acoustical panels at this yearâs AES show (Booth 301). Auralex Acoustics is exclusively the first to market SonicPrint, its custom-printed, artistic ProPanels featuring âThe Art of Soundâ? theme which blends unlimited design and style options for any room with the companyâs acoustically proven technology of its ProPanel product line.
SonicPrint custom-printed, artistic ProPanels are fabric-covered acoustic absorptive panels designed as artwork. For the recording enthusiast, this exclusive offering opens the door to numerous home and commercial recording studio décor options, as the acoustical panels are camouflaged under the design of the customerâs choice. Users are no longer limited to single color fabric choices, and can now outfit any space with paintings and drawings of any kind. Auralex is also currently negotiating several licensed properties to provide additional graphic options.
âSonicPrint was the next natural step for Auralex,â? says Tim Martin, director of sales and marketing for Auralex Acoustics. âWe recognized a void in the home theater and home recording markets, as acoustical treatments were limited to single color fabrics. Home décor and aesthetically pleasing environments are important to our customers and now, with the launch of SonicPrint, Auralex offers the best of both worlds, a high-quality acoustical panel with nearly limitless style and design options.â?
Auralex ELiTE ProPanels are designed to reduce unwanted room reflections, slap and flutter echoes and provide a more pleasing and accurate listening environment. ELiTE ProPanels have a fiberglass core with chemically-hardened edges. From stock 2′x2′x1″ and 2′x4′x1″ panels perfect for small room environments, to custom 4′x8′x2″ panels enabling full-frequency control of large spaces, ELiTE ProPanels provide professional, aesthetically-pleasing acoustic treatment in any facility. All ProPanels meet the Class A fire rating per ASTM E84, use in areas with strict fire codes. Standard wall-mounting hardware is included with all orders for easy installation.
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Boston College Eagles football team to represent Welles Crowther, former lacrosse player whom lost his life on 9/11/01. Red bandanas will be distributed to the entire student section as well.
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Welles Crowther was a former Division 1 lacrosse player working in the World Trade Center on September 11th. This ESPN piece from Outside The Lines tells the heroic story of his life, and it's simply something you have to see and hear to believe.
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Who will be the next D1 men's lacrosse team? It's a question the entire lacrosse community has asked time and time again. When a new team is added, it tends to fuel the conversation. Brian Conlon, of LaxKingsTV, is back on LAS with his argument on why one of FOUR teams will be the next […]
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Next time you go shopping, keep your family healthy by choosing whole grains over refined grains. Whole grains (such as buckwheat, brown rice, hominy and oatmeal) are more nutritious than refined grains because they contain the fiber rich outer bran layer, the nutrient packed germ and the starchy endosperm. Refined grains such as white bread and white rice contain mostly the endosperm.
In the past, whole grains were thought to provide mostly fiber to promote digestive health, but newer research has revealed that they provide additional vitamins and minerals, plus high levels of antioxidants and other healthy plant-based nutrients. No matter which whole grain you prefer, make sure to check the ingredient list for whole grains or the label for "100-percent whole-grain."
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Gluten-free amaranth is considered a complete protein because it contains all of the essential amino acids, including lysine which other grains tend to lack. Additionally, it's a good source of minerals like iron, magnesium, and zinc, plus it offers some calcium and potassium. In South America amaranth is popped like miniature popcorn. In the United States "Amaranth is most often used as a flour," says Rachel Begun, MS, RDN, CDN, a registered dietitian nutritionist and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, adding "for kids it's really good mixed in pancakes, breads and muffins."
Barley is a fiber powerhouse. Hulled barley has more fiber-rich bran than pearled barley, although both contain beta-glucan soluble fiber that "keeps blood sugar levels stable which is important for kids to give them sustained energy," says Begun. Barley also contains selenium, a powerful antioxidant. Barley is great added to soups or used to make a pilaf. Barley can even be made into a hot breakfast cereal. Hulled barley will take more time to cook than pearled barley, about 50-60 minutes.
Oats also contain beta-glucan fiber which can lower cholesterol and help strengthen the immune system. Oats boast polyphenol compounds that have antioxidant and anti-itch properties. Besides the age-old favorite oatmeal for breakfast, oats can be added as a binder to meatloaf and burgers. Oats also work well in baked goods like oatmeal cookies, as a crunchy topping to crisps and crumbles, and even in casserole dishes.
Like amaranth, quinoa is a complete protein and gluten free. Moreover, quinoa is an excellent source of magnesium and zinc, and a good source of iron and folate. Quinoa is fairly easy to prepare according to Begun, "if you can you can boil water you can make quinoa." Before cooking, use a fine mesh strainer to rinse the quinoa and remove the outer coating, called saponin, which can give the quinoa a bitter taste. Quinoa is fun for kids because it pops in the mouth and comes in several colors: beige, red, black and even purple. Mix quinoa with beans or nuts for a tasty side dish, or add to salads and stir fries.
Of these five grains, gluten-free teff is highest in calcium and protein. Teff is also a rich source of fiber, iron and thiamine. Teff grains are tiny and have a mild nutty flavor. It's an indispensable grain in Ethiopia where it's used to make the traditional flat bread, injera. It's grown in the United States in Idaho. Cook the grain into a creamy hot cereal or a tasty polenta. You can also mix teff with veggies for a side dish.
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Yates resigns as Danville boys basketball coachTuesday, August 9th, 2011
Danville boys basketball coach Matthew Yates has resigned to take the same job at Frankfort.
Yates was 51-61 in four seasons at Danville, including 19-10 last season, when the Admirals reached the All "A" Classic semifinals and won the 45th District championship.
The Frankfort job came open after Tony Wise left to become the coach at Montgomery County.


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Honda Motor Co., Ltd. unveiled its second experimental walking assist device that helps support bodyweight to reduce the load on an individual's legs while walking, going up and down stairs, and in a semi-crouching position. The device is designed for people who are capable of walking and maneuvering on their own, but who can benefit from additional leg and body support while performing tasks. Honda will now begin testing the device in real-world conditions to evaluate its effectiveness.
The new walking assist device with the bodyweight support system reduces the load on leg muscles and joints (in the hip, knees, and ankles) by supporting a portion of the person's bodyweight. The device has a simple structure consisting of seat, frame, and shoes, and the individual can put it on by simply wearing shoes and lifting the seat into position. Moreover, a mechanism that directs the assisting force toward the user's center of gravity and the ability to control the assist force in concert with the movement of the legs – both unique Honda innovations – make it possible for the device to provide natural assistance in various postures and motions.
Honda began research on a walking assist device in 1999 with the goal to provide more people with the joy of mobility. The first walking assist device, announced in April 2008, has a stride management system and was designed for people with weakened leg muscles, due to reasons such as aging. The research and development of Honda's advanced humanoid robot, ASIMO, including the study of human walking, provided Honda with the knowledge necessary to develop the walking assist device. This research has been conducted by the Fundamental Technology Research Center of Honda R&D Co., Ltd. in Wako, Saitama. To evaluate the effectiveness of the experimental model of the walking assist device with bodyweight support system, Honda will test the walking assist device at its Saitama Factory (in Sayama, Saitama).
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What a find!from BostonWino
Lovely, convenient, in the actionfrom vashonisland
Like a Good Private Club (with a Few Flaws)from tearose
Our room was one of a number of very small rooms (hotel maps showing the room sizes are posted by some of the elevators). However, notwithstanding its small size, it was very nice. It was newly decorated in a very traditional but nonetheless attractive style, and I came to appreciate the room, notwithstanding its size.
The chief strengths of this hotel, it seems to me, are (1) its location on Embassy Row (grand old mansions, and a pleasant walk either to Georgetown, to the Metro, or to the numerous restaurants around Connecticut Avenue and P Street); and (1) the exceeding friendliness of the staff. From the doorman to the concierge to the staff in the lounge, all seemed genuinely friendly and personable.
By the way, I concur with most of the other recent posts, and especially with the lengthy one dated January 2, 2009.
Since I got our room at a good price, I was pleased with the price/value ratio. If I had the financial resources of some of the guests I rubbed elbows with in the bar, I would treat this property like a private club -- not perfect in every detail, but my club nevertheless. Lacking their wherewithall, I'll probably return here only when the price/value ratio again tilts in my favor,
Great location and friendly stafffrom elliot8814
Left hungryfrom Human44
This arrangement may work well for the hotel's hygene, but it leaves guests who arrive from the West Coast (late, delayed by winter weather) with the choice of being tired or hungry. I opted to leave hungry, but one should not be faced with this choice at a 5 star establishment.
Elegant - Carming -from miamiskyboy
When you arrive at the hotel it seems luxurious and cozy from the outside. The Bellmen and valet greeted us almost immediately on the royal red carpet. All that was missing was the white gloves. They where elegantly uniformed and the entrance, while small, was elegant and reminiscent of another era. The hotel sits in a rather posh part of town close to Dupont Circle and across the street from the Indian Embassy and others.
Check in was a quick, friendly, and efficient. The again elegantly dressed agents where very polite and made you feel welcome. The lobby however was small, cramped, and disappointing. It has great potential. You can tell they have tried to make it work. But it does not. The area for check in is small and uncomfortable. There are steps and no ramps for the luggage. Its a very old building. But the hotel lobby is more 1960 Howard Johnson then 2009 Luxury Collection. Elegant wood adorns the walls and paintings abound. But its not luxury. The restaurant and lounge areas are nice and cozy. But they look tired and worn.
Elevators to rooms where ok. They are old and vintage. But they could use a little more up keep. My room (702) was small but lovely. Be sure to get one of the rooms 700 - 720 with the nice views. The rooms in the back face a generators, machines, and a dirty roof. Not very luxurious at all. They have made no effort to make that area even re motley nice. Its awfully. This are could be canvassed and landscaped to make more pleasant. I was fortunate to have an amazing view of Mass Ave and the Embassy across the street. But my friends in (726) had that awful view. The rooms in the back with the bad view have full bathtubs and are larger. The rooms upfromt with the nice view only have showers.
Room was very elegant and clean. Super clean. The room smelled good and looked luxury. New flat screen Tv, elegant British toiletry's. Frette Towels. A lot of the basics of a luxury hotel. But it was still lacking. My room did not have robes. I had to call. According to them the housekeper simpl forgot. to place them there. But I think they just don't put them in the rooms unless you ask. In a true luxury hotel. The robes are always there. They did send them right away which was nice. The room has a nice closet and ample bath. I-Pod compatible deluxe stereo for music which was very nice. A beautiful old style alarm clock was a nice touch. Hotel has free shoe service 1 pair per room daily. The Internet charge is 10 per day. Bathroom amenity's where nice. But very basic. Glycerin soap by sink, bath soap in shower, bath gel, shampoo, conditioner, and lotion. They do not provide mouthwash and other toiletry items youd expect at a luxury hotel.
If you are en Elite SPG member. This hotel does not have SPG Gold/Platinum dedicated check in lines. There is no SPG floor, no concierge lounge, no recognition except for the key card holder. No welcome amenity noting to make you feel special. They do not even provide a free bottle of water in the room or anything. But they did honor the 4PM check out for me and that's a huge benefit. But it still would of ben nice for the hotel to recognize a frequent guest in some way. But they did not see to really care if you are a preferred guest or not.
The 7th floor is unique in that it has a seating area just outside the elevators. Its a cozy seating area and we sat there a few times just to chat or wait for each other to get ready in the mornings or at night on way to dinner. Its a great meeting place and a wonderful concept. We enjoyed this area very much. The gym was small but well equipped and very clean. They had magazines, tv, and bathrooms. But there was no fruit, no bottled water, and no sauna, spa, whirlpool, swimming pool or any of the amenity's one has come to expect of a luxury hotel.
The Concierge was not always at his desk. So I had to call 3x before I got through. He was very informative and well versed on the area and where to go. But he was also somewhat obnoxious. Other hotel staff members lack the Grace and training of a St. Regis or a Ritz hotel. But you can tell they are trying.
The hotel is an a great location and a very safe neighborhood. Its 2 blocks from the Metro (Dupont Circle) station and within walking distance to many sights, a 24 Hr CVS, and restaurants.
Stay here for the neighborhood, the plush rooms, and easy in and out check out. But if you are looking for a true 4 star experience. I suggest going somewhere else. If you do stay here - take the train (Red) one station over to "Woodley Park" and eat at "Gotham City" its open 24 hours a day and its a landmark in DC.There breakfast is served all day and its divine!
Nice hotel, good location, but families bewarefrom Hobie4
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Complaint re noise, disruption, poor service at the Fairfax at Embassy Row
11 December 2008
Dear Mr. ****
I stayed stayed with my husband at the Fairfax for 2 nights 5-7 December 2008 and the night of Tuesday 9 December.
First I want to say that the individual staff we met were, without exception, courteous and helpful. Despite this we had several problems at the hotel to the extent that I regret staying there, especially on 9 December. I am very unlikely to stay there again or to recommend it to anyone.
9 December/ 10 December
We came in from New York at about 10pm that night. We immediately went out to Dupont Circle to eat and were back in the room around midnight. We had to be up at 05.45 to get to Dulles to fly to the UK. In other words we were paying $365 to have a good night's sleep before we travelled. The issue was that the boiler was unbelievably noisy and the noise could not be stopped. The noise went on and on even after we had turned off the heating (Washington was then in a cold snap so the temperature was below freezing outside). After about an hour trying to sleep we phone your house manager who could only suggest that we moved room as there was nothing he could do about the boiler noise. So at 01.30 we had to get dressed, get repacked and move to another room after one had been found. We had then (by 02.00) less than 3 and a half hours left to get some sleep. Given the serious disruption, of course we both ended up with no sleep at all. I have the following specific questions.
1. Why did you rent the room out knowing how noisy it was?
2. Your staff had on record the previous problems we had had at your hotel on 5-7 December. Why did you then put us in a room where the problems were even worse?
3. I do not think that you can be said to offer anywhere near what would be expected from even a basic bed and breakfast i.e. an uninterrupted night's sleep. I do not think we should be charged for this night. Could you please assure me that you are not going to charge – or if you have already done so, that you refund my credit card.
5-7 December/ 10 December
1. On both days we were there, we came back from a day out in the evening to find no turndown service. The room was not therefore replenished with towels and the bed not tidied up (or the room).
2. The first day I called your guest services and they told me there should be a turn down service, they apologized that it didn't take place and it said it would take place the next day. It didn't
3. There was an empty hanger left in the bathroom on the back of the door but no robes provided on either day.
4. On the first night we had to call the night manager as when we got into bed we found that the bed had been made with sheets far too small for the bed (they didn't cover the mattress); a mattress cover too small; and the duvet had been put on the bed without a duvet cover. This meant that the sheets were riding up and coming off the bed and the mattress cover was bunching up in the middle of the bed under the too small bottom sheet. The night manager had to find sheets, a mattress cover, a duvet cover and make up the bed – around midnight. We had to get dressed (after both of us had had long flights) and wait while it was all sorted out- thus causing the first of the major disruptions we had at your hotel.
5. The second night the message light was flashing on both phones in the room and yet the phone message system repeatedly informed me there were no messages. I phoned down to the desk and they told me they couldn't stop the lights flashing, even though there were no messages, short of sending up security. As we were both in bed and couldn't face getting dressed and having yet another disruption, we pulled the telephone plug out of the socket to stop the flashing lights in the room. The next day I was told by Tony (the day manager) who was very helpful that in fact there had been a message. I presume this was from a work colleague but as I never received it, I will never know.
5. Throughout the whole of the stay in this room, the boiler was very noisy but intermittently so. We just put up with it.
You will now that the manager (Tony) gave us some compensation for the problems faced on 5-7 December which was appreciated. I probably wouldn't even be writing this letter if it hadn't been for the absolutely dreadful experience we had had on 9 December which indicates to me that there are real management issues here and that our experience the first time was not merely a 'one off'. It seems to me that, despite your renovations, the structural problems (the extraordinarily noisy boiler system) and the housekeeping service (almost nonexistent) means that you should not be operating as a hotel at the moment.
I would appreciate your feedback on the above. As at present I cannot see any reason not to post the whole of the above on trip advisor, expedia, laterooms, lastminute.com, hotels.com, to warn potential visitors that they should not expect the basics at your hotel i.e. an uninterrupted night's sleep and room and bed made up properly.
[No reply two weeks later not even an acknowldgement but $364 taken from my credit card for one night] - hence the posting
Best Value for your D.C. Dollar!from brig70
The front desk check in was quick and easy. A bit quaint but welcoming lobby area. Well appointed staff with everyone being professional and courteous. Two elevator banks a hallway apart from each other. The hallway between the two elevators had nice b/w photos of various Embassies in the area and made you feel as if you were in a posh museum.
I booked a king size bed and the room was very, very impressive. Not too small, but for an overnight trip it was perfect. I felt the room to be very clean and well lit. Comfortable bed with awesome pillows. Very nice plasma T.V. and wireless internet access for a nominal charge. The bathroom was very nice and had an electronic scale, nice shower and again, very clean. You felt as if you were the only one that ever stayed in the room.
I went down to the bar for a quick drink. Nicely decorated and made you feel as if you were in a board room with a nice fireplace. Very cozy place especially for the winter.
I wish I had a longer stay as I really enjoyed this hotel. I can't find anything negative to say about my stay nor this property. I will definitely come back to this and look forward to calling this my "home" whenever I am in D.C.
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