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With the pre-season finale (thank God) set for Friday in Milwaukee, the Raptors received some good news on Thursday, as Kyle Lowry will be able to practice and play while recovering from a left ring finger tendon injury (though he'll be out vs. the Bucks).
Archive for the 'Jonas Valanciunas' Category
Lowry's Fine (Kind Of), Valanciunas and Ross Have Options Picked Up
Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Jonas Valanciunas, Julyan Stone, Kyle Lowry, Terrence Ross on Oct 24, 2013
Media Day Notes and Quotes
Posted by Joseph Casciaro under All-Star, Amir Johnson, D.J. Augustin, DeMar DeRozan, Drake, Dwane Casey, Dwight Buycks, Jonas Valanciunas, Kyle Lowry, Landry Fields, Masai Ujiri, Media Day, MLSE, Tim Leiweke on Sep 30, 2013
With the most hyped and eventful Media Day in franchise history now behind us, I thought I'd share some notes and quotes from various players and others from Monday.
Before we get to the players, here are a few notes from Tim Leiweke's post-presser scrum as well as Masai Ujiri's and Dwane Casey's scrums. Sorry, no Drizzy…
Jonas Valanciunas, Kung Fu Fighting
Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Jonas Valanciunas on Aug 30, 2013
Remember Jonas Valanciunas' animated, arm waving, leg sprawling defence on in-bound plays last season?
Well Valanciunas was up to his usual tricks again in another EuroBasket warm-up game on Thursday, only this time on the perimeter, and one youtube user (H/T to Lietuvos Krepsinis) decided to have some fun with it:
Valanciunas vs. Czech Republic
Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Jonas Valanciunas on Aug 24, 2013
With FIBA EuroBasket 2013 less than two weeks away, Jonas Valanciunas and Lithuania continued their warmup to the tournament with a 69-55 win over the Czech Republic to capture the Vilnius international tournament title.
Valanciunas finished with 23 points in 21 minutes (he was 7/9 from the field and 9/11 from the free throw line) to go along with eight rebounds, a block and four turnovers.
Here's the evidence…
Valanciunas Dominates Sweden In Friendly Action
Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Jonas Valanciunas on Aug 14, 2013
We tempered our excitement over Jonas Valanciunas' Summer League dominance because of the level of competition he was going up against in Vegas, so dominating Sweden in a friendly pre-tournament warmup ahead of September's FIBA Eurobasket isn't going to send us into a frenzy (though the actual tournament should prove a good test).
But don't blame JV for simply dismantling the weak opposition thrown in front of him. Any time Valanciunas posts a stat-line of 21 points on 7-of-7 shooting (7/9 from the free throw line) to go with eight rebounds (six offensive) and a block in 20 minutes, and there's footage of said performance, we're going to post it.

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I made these for someone in Canada and thought they lived in Vancouver, but changed them to where they actually live in Toronto, lol. Funny how different they look by just changing parts of them. Linda |
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They look great both ways. Someone will sure be happy with such neat signs. Glad you discovered it before you sent them!! Jan |
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I LOVE these! Very creative! |
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Geepers, lost my post! AWESOME, sew&sew...knowing I over-use that word but it perfectly describes how I feel when I see your license plates ART! 2nd set more colorful & more work! TFS! Jeanne S. |
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Your signs always amaze me. They are darling. I don't see how you cut up all those license plates, you must have really strong hands. Frou |
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Thanks for the nice comments. I cut plates with old heavy tin snips, even though modern spring action ones are far easier. Aluminum plates cut much easier than the old steel ones. A jigsaw works ok. Here are some others that I may have posted before. They pretty much all look alike. Linda |
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Absolutely I would subscribe to this. I'm in for every sub and will purchase every Classics product until they decide there will be no more. Even though people say they won't subscribe to 2014 or 2015, they will, it's like crack.
YES! I would subscribe to a line like those.
I would subscribe to MOTUC until it ends.
I'd prefer different options for future lines.
NO! MOTUC should end after 2015.
Some fans/collectors are becoming convinced that there's not much left for MOTUC after 2015 - since all the vintage MOTU and POP characters are proposed to be released by then. There are always possibilities for more after 2015 - there's Filmation, MYP/200x, Jetlag, Mini Comic, 87 Movie, NA, POG, SOHM, Concept Characters, Comic Character, Create-A-Characters, Variants, Beasts, Vehicles and more!
It's all contingent on the fans/collectors though. And of course cost. BUT would you be interested in a line like these:
Flying Fists He-Man (Exclusive)
He-Ro II (Dare) Traveling Con
Master Sebrian
Colonel Blast
Lord Masque
Delora Hawke
Garn (mini comic)
Terror Claws Skeletor
Battle Ram - Vehicle
Mantisaur - Beast
Laser Power He-Man
Starburst She-Ra
Eldor (Exclusive)
Skeletor II (Skeleteen) Traveling Con
200x Adam
Gen Sunder
200x Sorceress (Teela)
Robot Knights
Evil Seed (200x/Film combo)
Lodar (mini comic)
Laser Light Skeletor
Roton - Vehicle
Night Stalker - Beast
Celebrate 30 Years of POP
Follow Mykan Speaks All on Twitter or Facebook.
Absolutely I would subscribe to this. I'm in for every sub and will purchase every Classics product until they decide there will be no more. Even though people say they won't subscribe to 2014 or 2015, they will, it's like crack.
"Skeletor to King Randor, Skeletor to King Randor, come in you Royal Boob!"
I will sub until they stop offering the sub.
Mattel I'm still waiting for these characters!
Spinwit, The Scientists, Darius,Crita, Kayo, Stridor, Kittrina, Melaktha, Drissi, Master Sebrian, Sagitar
My Facebook, check it out!
I like that the vintage vehicles are in there. You still need that vintage fuel to keep the line going. The undone He-Man and Skeletor variants are important too.
Put Buzz Saw Hordak in there, that could help
I think there's a bunch left.
After the vintage fans are satiated, the other fans can get long-awaited characters such as Goat Man. Or non-toyline characters such as Master Sebrian. This line would truly be catered toward the hardcore MOTU fan with the casuals out of the way.
We could also start getting variants again. I've long said that the New 52, 200X, Filmation and Mini-Comic variants are all great ways to refresh old vintage characters! Mattel could also refresh POP figures in their original color schemes.
Perhaps they could find a way to put out vehicles too.
The Blonde Teela (Battleground and Alcala Teela) Thread
MegaGearMax's 200X/MYP Screen Grabs
Sagitar 200X Prince Adam 200X Sorceress Evilseed (MYP)
I think those lists are being kind - some of those will be hit on, and vehicles are unlikely since they require so much tooling and will not have a hefty line of reuse to offset the fiscal balance.
My seller/trader/buyer feedback:
MOTUC Most Wanted: 1) Stridor 2) Night Stalker 3) Roton 4) Dragstor 5) Saurod 6) Karg 7) Lodar 8) Mask of Power Demons 9) TC Skeletor 10) FF He-Man 11) Talon Fighter/Point Dread 12) Road Ripper 13) Lord Masque 14) Filmation Teela
I'm in for the long haul. They could offer a Meteorbs sub and I'd be in.
Not to sound like a creepy cheerleader for Uki, but it's nice to know there is at least one person on this forum who is extremely positive & friendly all the time. I don't think I could be that nice even if you paid me. If we ever give out awards for "forum member of the month", Uki gets my vote. -Mr. Shokoti
If you have a Queen Marlena cardback to sell, please let me know.
My feedback: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...d.php?t=212100
MOTUC for sale: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...d.php?t=212096
200x for sale: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...d.php?t=213585
I have a huge lot of Garbage Pail Kids (GPK) cards I'm also selling. PM me.
I'm here til the very end so I'm with anything they make. That's how much i enjoy this line.
'Tis the wind and nothing more.....
There are very few figures in that list that I'd be interested in. The mini-comic and variants don't appeal to me personally. I hope the line does continue for those customers that do want them. I would just pick and choose, and if it was sub only I'd do second hand market.
"Don't crowd me boys!"
I'm actually hoping a lot of those show up before then. Veena, Evil Seed, Eldor, Huntara, Lodar, Calix, Vultak, Masque, Mantisaur, Calix, Despera.....all good for 2014 or 15.
My Trader Feedback: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...mighty-He-Dad!
My Sales Thread: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...-FT-WTB-Thread
No interest in anything beyond 2015, I think it's time then to end this line...
I'll be subbing until they no longer offer a sub.
The world of MOTU will have many awesome characters left to make after 2015 and I want them all.
"Oh Lord, Bless this M&M... and the mighty cockroach I slain in battle to get it." - Al Bundy
I'll still be kicking it after 2015.
But as for MOTUC, I'm not so sure. I wouldn't subscribe for the lines proposed but then again I haven't subscribed to the line for the past 2 years.
That being said, I wouldn't want the line to end after 2015 as it wouldn't bother me if it continued so I chose option 3 for lack of a better option.
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I woulnd't be interested in that lineup. I think that would be a very, very hard sell at this point. Awesome for those interested, but a very hard sell.
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Will subscribe to MOTUC no matter what! I want 'em all! My prrrrreciousssss.
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Yes I'll sub, but I sure hope that characters already mentioned on hold until 2016 like Illumina and Crimson Fury wouldn't actually have to wait even longer like until 2018, and I also hope Eldor, Lord Masque, Evilseed, Veena, and Prahvus might all still appear before 2016 too. I want them more than Dragstor and Blast Attak anyway.
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Out of the proposed line-up in the original post, I'm afraid I'm only interested in about half of what was proposed. And even some of them (like Sebrian and Robot Knights, for example), I'm just barely into getting... meaning I wouldn't miss 'em if they didn't make it...
I would end up a cherry-picker, most likely only purchasing:
He-Ro II (Dare) Traveling Con
Master Sebrian
Lord Masque
Terror Claws Skeletor
Battle Ram - Vehicle
Mantisaur - Beast
Starburst She-Ra
Eldor (Exclusive)
Skeletor II (Skeleteen) Traveling Con
Robot Knights
Evil Seed (200x/Film combo)
Lodar (mini comic)
Roton - Vehicle
Night Stalker - Beast
No, not it the listed figures were what was being offered, not for me anyway....the only figures on the list I'd even want would be be Flying Fists He-Man, and TC Skeletor by proxy....the rest would not be worth my time and money to stick around. I don't know or don't care about the rest of them....give me Dragstor & Two Bad by 2015, and I'd be out.
Not to mention I don't want vehicles in the sub, and the only one I'd even want would be Attack Trak, and it's not on the list anyway.
Recent.... Lizard Man
Wanted.... NA She-Ra, Jitsu....
Needed.... Dragstor
Oh man, did I forget to use these [sarcasm][/sarcasm] again? Sorry....
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These characters will most likely appear prior to 2016...
Flying Fists He-Man (Exclusive)
Lord Masque
Delora Hawke
Terror Claws Skeletor
Mantisaur - Beast
Starburst She-Ra
Eldor (Exclusive)
Robot Knights
Lodar (mini comic)
Night Stalker - Beast
And I have no interest in these characters at all...
He-Ro II (Dare) Traveling Con
Colonel Blast
Skeletor II (Skeleteen) Traveling Con
200x Adam
200x Sorceress (Teela)
So, I'd probably not sub if they included these characters. There are far better choices for subscriptions after 2015, in my opinion.
Crap, I didnt read the poll, just clicked YES before I realized the second choice was more accurate.
I cant imagine not subscribing.
so if anyone cares, change my vote to Subscribe as long as there is a MOTUC.
But for what it's worth, yeah that list is mostly great.
I want everything NA, obscure, filmation, 200x even the new SOH
Skeleton-Warriors, Ra-Jar, Spinwit, Rock Golem, Evil Seed, Lord Masque, Prahvus, General Tartaran, Hawke, Slob-Boar, King Agho, Hunga the Harpy, Sh'gora, Masks of Power Demons, Nocturna, Lizzor, Horde Wraiths, Sagitar, Crimson Fury, Lodar, Vizar, Angast, Negator, Melaktha, ABC Giants, Stridor


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Finding the move that works for you
More than other components of golf technique, such as grip, alignment and backswing, the downswing reflects your personal style. Fundamentals still apply, of course, but flexibility, body type, the shot shape you desire (draw or fade, low or high) and the way your body just naturally seems to want come out of the backswing also factor in. I like to initiate the downswing with a left shoulder move, for example, but others feel more comfortable leading with the lower body. The surest way to find the downswing that suits you best is to experiment. On these pages are several great drills to help with that process, along with some insights into the fundamentals you really must pay attention to.
The Transition
My watchwords here are "slow and unwind." One of the biggest mistakes both amateurs and pros make is to start the downswing before the backswing is complete. The urge is understandable, especially under pressure, but doing so throws off your approach angle into the ball and robs you of power. The backswing is a coil. Releasing that coil prematurely, before you've wound as much resistance into it as possible, is a waste of potential.
When I ask my long-hitting brethren on Tour how they add distance to their drives, most say they try to "swing easier" by focusing on giving their backswings plenty of time to finish. This was exactly my key swing thought in winning the 1996 Masters. I like to think of the downswing as an act of gradual acceleration. Speed only matters at impact, so there's no need to rush it.
I pay a lot of attention during the transition to holding my right knee and thigh still. With them rock solid, I can concentrate on first-move visualizations. One is to imagine a big rubber band stretched between my right knee and left shoulder; I then start the downswing by pulling the shoulder-end of the imaginary band away from the knee. The right side stays still only for the time it takes the left shoulder to move a couple of inches, but that lag gives me confidence to then fire the right side through the ball with abandon. Sometimes I practice this move with the right leg well ahead of where it normally is, in an exaggerated semilunge position.
Another image to work with, again keeping the right side still, is to start down by moving the left shoulder a couple of inches away from the chin and then follow with the right side. Advanced players looking to produce a power fade can envision that first left shoulder move as a drive down toward the intended divot. To promote a draw, think of pulling the left shoulder up for those first few inches.
The Release
The key ingredient of a good release is commitment. Many amateurs fail to truly release the club because they don't trust all the hard work they've done to get in a good position at the top. Both the right-arm drill and the thumbs-up drill are great for developing the confidence you need to make a relaxed but aggressive move through the ball.
Weight shift is an integral part of a good release, and for you Yanks there's no better image to contemplate than that of a baseball pitcher. He loads all his weight onto his back leg in the windup and then shifts it forward onto his front leg as he throws. Similarly, at the top of the golf backswing you want almost all your weight on the right side. At impact your shoulders and head should still be behind the ball, but the overall movement of weight should be powerfully shifting to the left. The right knee should be moving parallel to the target line and not shooting out toward the ball (a frequent amateur mistake). Practicing with a medicine ball can help convey the proper feel. Take your normal golf stance while holding the ball with both hands out in front of your stomach, then turn back and through. To support the heaviness of the ball, you must also shift your body weight back and through; your arms, shoulders, abs and legs will have to work together.
There are two images I've found helpful regarding the attack on the ball. One is to feel, as you start the downswing, as if someone has taken hold of your left hip pocket and is pulling it sharply around and behind you. Your shoulders and hips should open to the target through impact with that kind of force. The other is to visualize the clubhead reaching top speed in the foot or so after impact. This promotes an accelerating release through the ball with the clubhead traveling low down the target line. The hands don't fully release until a couple of feet after they pass the ball.
For players who have a problem slicing or hooking, I can recommend a good release-related drill. It requires laying two clubs on the ground. The first should be at your feet, parallel to the ball-to-target line. Align yourself parallel to this club and square to the target. For slicers, the second club should lie just outside the ball and point ten to fifteen degrees right of the target. The idea is to practice releasing the clubhead along this line. At first this swing path will feel awkwardly inside to out, but stick with it. Soon you will find yourself hitting straight shots or even draws. To cure a hook, point and release along a line ten to fifteen degrees left of the target. (If your range balls have stripes, you can use them instead of laying down the second club.)


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The Financial Times is running a very good (so far) series it calls "The Future of Capitalism" this week. At times recently it's felt like there may not be such a future, but the profit motive is resilient and won't be stamped out by such things as "socialist" policies that return top income-tax rates to a bit more than half what they were less than thirty years ago.
It doesn't feel like that in banker land, though. Here's a quote:
"Our world is broken – and I honestly don't know what is going to replace it. The compass by which we steered as Americans has gone," says Bernie Sucher, head of Merrill Lynch's Moscow operations. "The last time I ever saw anything like this, in terms of the sense of disorientation and loss, was among my friends [in Russia] when the Soviet Union broke up."
That's from today's edition of the series, wherein the FT's star reporter Gillian Tett posts a very interesting analysis on the role that complexity had in causing the financial crisis. It was not insignificant, as anyone who's tried to get his head around this has found. But don't feel bad. The folks who created it didn't understand it either.
During the past two decades, a wave of innovation has reshaped the way markets work, in a manner that once seemed able to deliver huge benefits for all concerned. But this innovation became so intense that it outran the comprehension of most ordinary bankers – not to mention regulators.
As a result, not only is the financial system plagued with losses of a scale that nobody foresaw, but the pillars of faith on which this new financial capitalism were built have all but collapsed. That has left everyone from finance minister or central banker to small investor or pension holder bereft of an intellectual compass, dazed and confused.
Tett does well to dip back into history, something that too often eludes us—something I'll explain after the following:
The current crisis stems from changes that have been quietly taking root in the west for many years. Half a century ago, banking appeared to be a relatively simple craft. When commercial banks extended loans, they typically kept those on their own books – and they used rudimentary calculations (combined with knowledge of their customers) when deciding whether to lend or not.
From the 1970s onwards, however, two revolutions occurred: banks started to sell their credit risk on to third-party investors in the blossoming capital markets; and they adopted complex computer-based systems for measuring credit risk that were often imported from the hard sciences – and designed by statistical "geeks" such as Mr den Braber at RBS.
Part of the problem with the media is its institutional knowledge only goes back so far. The crusty old reporter has almost never been around more than thirty years (Carol Loomis of Fortune is a prominent exception), and the institution forgets lessons it had previously learned. So, "stocks always go up over the long term" didn't sound so bad to those of us who weren't reporting on finance before the 1980's (which is almost all of us).
The problem is particularly acute with young reporters fresh out of college. They're often only as good as their sources are, and their sources' memories rarely go back more than twenty or thirty years. A lot of financial reporters I've known just don't know much about history, and particularly financial history. That makes it easier to get caught up in the moment, to buy the "New Paradigm" nonsense that is the biggest red flag you can have that a bubble is under way.
I don't know how to fix this problem, I'm just pointing out that it's there.
But I digress.
Tett points out how banks gamed the "free market":
But as innovation grew more intense, it also became plagued with a terrible irony. In public, the financiers at the forefront of the revolution depicted the shifts as steps that would promote a superior form of free-market capitalism…
In reality, many of the new products were so specialised that they were never traded in "free" markets at all. An instrument known as "collateralised debt obligations of asset-backed securities" was a case in point. This gizmo turned up in the middle of this decade when bankers created bundles of mortgage-linked bonds, often intermingled with other credit derivatives. The alphabet soup of abbreviations this generated was often as baffling as the products that the acronyms represented. In 2006 and early 2007, no less than $450bn worth of these "CDO of ABS" securities were produced. Instead of being traded, most were sold to banks' off-balance-sheet entities such as SIVs – "structured investment vehicles" – or simply left on the books.


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One of the most important things to remember about making a custard is to temper those eggs! It's a simple procedure, but critical, and many recipes do not mention doing this.
To temper eggs, all a cook needs to do is to add about a teaspoon of the hot mixture to the eggs (which are in a separate bowl) and stir. This warms the eggs and will keep them from scrambling when they are added to the custard itself. I've never had my eggs scramble in a custard if I temper them first, and I've made a good many custards from scratch. You do need a double boiler of some description to do them right, though. Whether it's an actual double boiler, or a bowl over a pot of water, using one it really does make all the difference in how a custard turns out.
If you have doubts about the eggs, you can always strain the custard, and no one will ever know the difference. The eggy bits will be left behind.


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I understand I must be 18 years of age and will provide the information requested before I agree to adopt an animal from the LaGrange Troup County Humane Society. I understand that an adoption contract will be filled out and signed, clearly stating that the Humane Society has the right to investigate the home and will remove the animal if it is not receiving adequate care; if it is being endangered by lack of veterinary care; if there is a violation of the adoption agreement or if there has been a failure to observe the anti-cruelty laws.
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Do you have children?
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Have you ever surrendered a pet?
If yes, when and why?
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The location for this position will be the UCLA National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS). The Project Manager will be responsible for the overall coordination of the project, including providing overall daily management and coordination with NCCTS, IT, and administrative support staff on all aspects of the project delivery. Project Manager will assist with the development and delivery of training curriculum, IT system development and implementation, coordination of program developers and project support staff. The Project Manager reports directly to the Program Manager.
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Figure 2: Task lighting at the Shakopee Police Offices
This project will monitor eight to twelve lighting systems in Minnesota. The most likely building types for this study will be office, retail, and public assembly. Approximately half of the lighting systems—representing new construction projects—will already have implemented task tuning. In these buildings, the current settings and operation of the task lighting will be assessed in order to determine if additional savings can be obtained from recommissioning. The other half of the lighting systems—representing existing buildings—will be systems that have not implemented task tuning. In these systems, task lighting will be implemented to determine savings from task lighting retrofits. All lighting systems will be monitored prior to making any changes as well as afterwards so that savings from the modifications can be assessed. The Energy Center will also conduct occupant surveys in the buildings to gauge impacts on comfort and develop strategies for minimizing complaints.
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So I have been a little side tracked ever since I made the table number signs because I pulled all of my beading supplies out. (That I never really used accurately…) I hit up a couple of my favorite blogs and search for a few beading tutorials for the correct use of my beading supplies and light bulbs began to FLASH in my head. I began to craft some different ideas. It was great because they looked fabulous with my teaching ensemble the following day and my birthday outfit last Friday. I didn't take any pictures through my experimenting so I can't give you a step by step tutorial. SORRY! Here's my creations!
This is a long silver chain with various pearls in between. I tried it on and thought…"Hmmmm…it may need MORE…"
The next night I thought let's try something different….
I made a long silver chain necklace with a small silver hoop attached to the bottom. I then attached various pearl beads to individual short silver chains.
Pretty, huh?
THEN…I got a wonderful surprise!!! My birthday was Easter! Two of my Besties got me my very own SEWING MACHINE for my birthday!!! Can you believe it?!? It was such a joyous moment! My eyes were in disbelief but sure enough it was real! So… I woke up bright and early Easter morning and played! I made this cute little thing and wore it over to the Easter meal with the family and to work today.
I love the cute little bow!
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'Shame' US Trailer
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Here's the US trailer for Steve McQueen's film Shame, in which Michael Fassbender stars as a man who can't control his sex drive and Carey Mulligan appears as his sister.The film was a big hit at festivals throughout 2011, and has drawn attention for its raw and explicit depiction of sex and sex addiction.
This is essentially the same thing as the UK trailer we saw not long ago, but for the sake of enthusiasm we'll push this US version on you, too. Strangely, there is no big notice of the fact that the film earned an NC-17 rating, which is a tag that distributor Fox Searchlight reportedly plans to embrace rather than avoid. Read More »


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What is a franchise agreement?
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What is a franchise agreement?
The franchise agreement is an extremely important document when you franchise your business. There are many good franchise lawyers out there but remember what you goals are for your franchisee's and your business, not just now but in the future as a franchise is a long term commitment.
The mistake many new franchisors make is to assume a franchise lawyer will be able to have a chat, read a few emails and then interpret your long term business goals and how your business works which of course they will not.
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Serving seafood at the Beaver Creek Chophouse in Beaver Creek, Colo., is a challenge for Jay McCarthy, corporate chef at parent company Group 970. The 120-seat restaurant is known for its excellent seafood, but product has become so expensive that the profit margins are very slim.
"Snow crab legs are going through the roof," he says. "Last year we paid $10.50 per pound and this year they're priced at $28." Mahimahi, served in the lunch fish tacos, increased from $3.80 per pound to $6.80. And the company's decision to switch Norwegian or Chilean farmed salmon to Pacific farmed salmon in 2008 meant a price jump from $5 to $11 or $12 per pound.
Seafood constitutes 20 percent of the menu at the Chophouse, which features six to eight species at any one time. There's Maine lobster, Idaho ruby red farmed trout, Alaska halibut and oysters from the East, West and Gulf coasts. To make the price hikes more manageable the restaurant group priced some of its seafood at double the cost instead of triple.
"We're taking a hit because we want to enhance the dining experience, make it affordable and be known for featuring good seafood," says McCarthy.
Chophouse has two menus, one with all proteins, and a second dedicated exclusively to seafood featuring oysters, cold seafood towers, snow crab legs and crab cocktail.
"With other players coming into the valley we decided our niche should be oysters, and we figured we could differentiate ourselves in that way," McCarthy says.
At one time the Chophouse had a seafood bar at the front of the restaurant with a live lobster tank and shucked oysters. When staffing the bar became a challenge three years ago, it was dismantled and a cold station was created in the kitchen to prepare the towers.
Chophouse seafood arrives via air cargo to its two restaurants (second one is in Vail, Colo.) five days a week, using suppliers including Seattle Fish and Northeast Seafood of Denver and Shamrock Foods of Commerce City, Colo.
Crab cakes, salmon, mahimahi and oysters are customer favorites. The Chophouse goes through 800 to 1,000 oysters a week. The shells get returned to Seattle Fish, which sends them to Rappahannock River Oyster in Tappahannock, Va., which uses them to re-set oyster beds.
"The shells help to keep the oyster beds sustainable and encourage growth in other inlets that had been overharvested," he says. "By putting the oyster shells back in the water, it increases oyster production and revitalizes the ecosystems in those inlets."
The sustainable seafood movement has had an impact on the restaurant's buying practices, and its switch to Pacific farmed salmon is one example.
"It was motivated partly by us wanting to do the right thing, and partly by the fact that we get a lot of well-traveled people in our restaurant who want to know about the source of the products,"McCarthy says. "We wanted to serve wild salmon, but we also didn't want to deplete the wild stock. So we started researching where and how salmon was being raised and having discussions with our suppliers."
Because Chophouse makes 85 percent of its annual income in the winter ski season, the salmon choice came down to wild frozen salmon or fresh, farmed Pacific salmon from Oregon that are fed organic pellets.
As he looks to the future, McCarthy's biggest concern is the cost of food, proteins in particular, which he predicts will see a price increase of 4 to 8 percent.
"With costs going that way, you have to look at your menu and your portion control," he says. "It's easy to find a lesser-quality item at a lower price, but I think doing that undermines your business. So it's the juggle of maintaining high quality at a decent price."


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Cut the speed limit past Cadmore End School
Cut the speed on the road and help protect the lives of our children. The section of the B482 that passes Cadmore End Church of England School in Buckinghamshire is excessively dangerous. After the road bend travelling South, the road straightens and there is a downhill section where drivers pick-up speed as they approach the school. The road passes within 3ft of the school buildings at the front of the school and children and adults can be swept off the pavement as they cross from one side to the other. This section of road is deemed too dangerous to allow a crossing patrol to help children cross the road, yet children and adults must cross without any help, often taking excessive risk due to speeding or overtaking motorists. Given the current guidance asking Councils to consider 20mph speed restrictions outside schools, we the undersigned believe that you must reduce the speed limit further on the section passing the school to 30mph. This should be accompanied by appropriate road markings and signage. There have been fatalities on this road involving children in the past; indeed we have a memorial garden at the school dedicated to such a past event. Please help us improve the safety of this section for drivers and pedestrians alike, before it is too late to avoid another tragedy.
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The title of this post is a quotation from Randall Maggs' "Different Ways of Telling Time", which can be found in Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems.
When I ask people what games I should watch out of the past, people mostly recommend the great works of their own favorite team. Bruins and Flyers fans give me dates out of the middle 70s, Devils and Red Wings fans sing the praises of the 90s. But everyone tells me to watch the 80s. And within the 80s, everyone tells me to watch 1987. Even people who couldn't care less about the Oilers, even people who hate the Flyers, even people who, like me, were too young that year to really understand hockey- everyone, apparently, knows that this was a great series. It is one of those rare moments in NHL history for which there is a swell of nonpartisan nostalgia.
No matter how widely beloved the game, though, I'm always afraid I'll miss the hook. What older fans remember is not always apparent to me, and often the thing that catches popular memory seems small and inconsequential to my eyes. Do I really care if this goal was waved off? Or that call was bad? Why should it matter to me, ten-twenty-thirty years later, if it's not my team, if it's not my long-nursed grudge?
At some point, all old hockey just looks… old. Watching an historical game is always a process of cataloging the quirks of the era, and often it's hard to get beyond that. Ah yes, 1987, when moustaches were unironic and mom jeans were still for moms. No ads on the boards! No jerseys in the crowds! No suit on Craig MacTavish! The announcers have heavy, unrepentant East Coast American accents, not the smooth Midwestern tones of standard broadcast English, and when they say "Coffey" it comes out Caw-fee. The Northlands Coliseum has its own weird symbol at center ice, not the Oilers teardrop. The only festive gestures in the whole building seem to be a few clusters of blue and orange balloons, average size, like you might get for a child's birthday party. I can just see the event planners now: "This is the Stanley Cup Final, boys, game seven. It doesn't get any bigger than this. I think, just this once, we can spring for a helium tank."
But even through all the tiny differences, it doesn't take me long to see the big difference, the major difference, the thing that makes this hockey profoundly alien from any hockey I've ever seen live in my own time: there is no neutral zone. You know that big rectangular space in between the offensive zone and the defensive? The one with the big circle right in the middle? Yeah, you know what I'm talking about, because you're a modern hockey fan. You see the neutral zone all the time. But I don't think anyone in 1987 could. In 1987, as far as I can tell, the neutral zone was like El Dorado, it was the Mountains of Madness, a strange and mysterious land that few had ever played in and lived to tell the tale. I imagine Messier on the bench whispering horror stories to the rookies: if you stay too long in the neutral zone, spiders come out of the ice and chew off your junk.
Technically, the space is there, but it's empty and useless. It has no impact on the game at all. If a man crosses his own blue line with the puck, he or his winger will reach the other with it firmly in control. When possession comes to one team, the other tumbles easily back into their own territory, collapsing two, three guys to the circles. Messier gets the puck in the slot and there's not one other player in the frame except for Fuhr. He passes to Anderson and the two of them pick up Nilsson and skate all the way to scoring chance position, vaguely covered but never challenged. Smith gets the puck and drops it just in front of the Oilers' blue line for Gretzky, and it just sits there a long second before the Great One picks it up, the Flyers already in blithe retreat, waiting for the onslaught to come to them.
Every play is like this. The whole wide space between the blue lines is routinely covered in a few quick strides or one mile-long diagonal pass. The camera sweeps back and forth from end to end in one smooth pan, its operator confident that once the puck starts moving in one direction it will make its way all the way to the back boards unimpeded. At one point I try counting turnovers in the neutral zone, but I stop at two because three is so long coming. Somewhere in the second period, it occurs to me that if I had had a stopwatch clicking on every time the puck went out of someone's zone and off when it entered again, it would probably be showing less than three minutes out of thirty ostensibly played. An entire third of the ice surface adds up to barely a hiccup in the rhythm of the game.
At Thanksgiving I tried to speak of the importance of coaching and my uncle-in-law scoffed, saying "I could coach a team to play the trap; it's not rocket science," but if it is so simple, where was it then? Could nobody conceive of a 1-3-1? Was the left-wing lock beyond their powers of imagination? It seems so basic, so simple, to tangle up the middle of a hockey game. There is nothing more familiar to me than the cramped battles between the blue lines. But here are a swath of the greatest players in living memory and not one of them seems the slightest bit interested in tangling or battling over neutral ice.
Or any ice, for that matter, except maybe the crease and a few feet in front of it, except maybe for a few rough spots along the boards. The whole white surface looks so wide open that it's hard to believe it's the same dimensions as a modern rink- where did these yards of empty territory come from, and where have they gone now? Every player has miles of space and eons of time, to skate the puck in, to make a play, to compose three sonnets or a minor philosophical treatise, if the spirit moved them. Guys back off each other as if they were plague-carriers rather than puck carriers. Gretzky gains the zone, fakes a pass and makes his famous curl back, but although he does it best he's not the only one to make this little play. Until the puck pushes into the heart of the scoring chance zone, there is no pressure and precious little pain either. Passes are let through unimpeded. Checks are left unfinished.
It's so loose it would give Jacques Martin a seizure, so sloppy there are plays that could pass for OHL. All the offense is pure hubris and all the defense is unrecognizable as such.
It's a fucking terrible hockey strategy. It's a fucking great hockey game.
This is the hockey we who watch want to watch. Although it's not tightly played, there's enough gamesmanship and dirtiness to keep things emotional- MacTavish wrestles Hextall to the ground at one point, later Messier gives a Flyer at the boards a thoroughly modern and thoroughly nasty cross-check to the numbers. It's not all pretty passing and long, looping strides, but… it mostly is. It is perhaps 75% gorgeous and 25% grinding.
Today you're lucky to get 20% gorgeousness out of an NHL game, even from a great team in the playoffs. It's just not where the game evolved. Time passed and coaches worked their video and they learned how to take up all that space and how to take away all that time, and now every NHLer from the top lines down to the bottom knows down to the inch where he needs to be to break up a rush and stifle a chance. There is no offensive inspiration in hockey so great that it cannot be stifled by a defensive system. In the fullness of time, through the natural competition of coaches for advantages and weak teams for parity, space vanishes, time contracts. The game, when it evolves, evolves to be slower, simpler, and duller.
And how fucked up is that? This is an entertainment industry. The entire reason it exists, ostensibly, is to keep an audience amused. The whole power of the NHL rests, in theory, on it's ability to thrill spectators, and yet it doesn't. Leaving aside the whole issue of the lockout, even when the NHL does put on a show that show is often not really the kind of production its paying customers would most like to see. From an audience perspective, the evolution of hockey is as if movie studios had given up the whole idea of the action blockbuster after Die Hard and decided to make nothing but educational biopics and historical dramas for the next two decades. Here is an entertainment business that, for a brief moment, had a sleek, sexy product that was almost universally enjoyed, and left it behind in favor of something most people can only get into when their city is in contention.
As a student of the game, I understand that the evolution of tactics is a clock that cannot be turned back, that everything has happened for a reason, and that the game we have now is less glamorous but far more sophisticated. As a person in front of a TV, though, it's a gut punch, to know that hockey was this fast, this open, and this beautiful, and that it never will be again.
By the third period, I don't even care who wins. Well, I mean, I know who wins, and it's not like it's hard to tell from the rhythm of the game- I'd estimate the Flyers have the puck 30% of the time, and that's rounding up out of courtesy to Philly fans. But a quarter of a century late and loyal to another team anyway, this game means little to me in the great chronicle of wins and losses. What it means, to me, is nostalgia, for something I never knew but wish I had, a way of hockey that is lost but still lamented. All these years later and we are all still longing for the 80s. I think perhaps we always will be.
Everyone on this screen comes to me from the realm of myth and legend, players not just done but deified before my time, except for one. In this game, Scott Mellanby is 20 years old, a green sophomore in the NHL. Twenty years later, I would watch him grind out his last season as a creaking veteran, playing for a warm breath of a team team that didn't exist when he began and doesn't exist now. I can't imagine what it must have been like for him, to skate all the long way down from that era to this one, to leave all those open spaces behind for the dense modern game. I wonder if he ever, in his later years, as he methodically closed down an elite opponent between the red and the blue, he felt a brief nostalgic impulse of his own, to let them free and see what wonders they might work, if allowed to drift out there forever.


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Many guys struggle with career decisions such as what to choose in a job, when to quit, how to navigate the corporate politics, or how to even stay afloat in this economy in the first place. Very few have a "bird's eye view" on what their likely future path is going to be in career, as most of us at least some of the time, tend to "wing it." It turns out that this might be the whole point - that in discovering and executing on what it is that you were meant to do in life, it's better to have the mentality of a surfer than an accountant.
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I think I am a "king" as per MP's KWML program. - So its easier for me to act like an accountant.
I am out clubbing with a group of newly formed friends and there are good looking women in our group as well. The guys in the group including me are flirting with these women and trying to take things to the next level ;) and at the end of the night (well 5 am) I am coming back home and realizing that some of the other guys have had much better success with these women than me...
Now I am back home and going through Omega Male program and the insights I am getting are very profound.
The point I am trying to make is that had I been acting just like an accountant (playing it very safe and talking about work etc with these women) it wouldn't have made me get to the Omega Male program ASAP and understand how I can get bet better (I get more insights out of the program because of the "ACTIONS" I took). But remember to act like a surfer with observing ego and not be unconscious of what your doing.
Btw ,the Miwomen/omega male program is just awesome and I am writing all this down so that I remember to act like a surfer whenever the situation demands and hopefully this comment motivates other people as well.
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Never a dull moment, no. 98.So much going on today! At 10:00 am US Eastern time (1400 UTC), Fedora 13 Beta is released. The Beta is our last milestone before the final release of Fedora 13. We'd like to have as many people test it as possible. It's available in a "Live ISO" format you can write not only to CD DVD, but also to a USB key, and boot off the USB key. I really prefer the USB key, because you can update the key with fixes as you use it using the "persistence" feature. It also gives you nifty options we created along the way, like an encrypted user data area, very fast booting, and very fast installation to hard disk as well. Who loves ya, baby? The Beta announcement will show you where to get the pre-release, see a list of known problems, and file any new ones you might encounter. You can find instructions for Live USB creation on our wiki. Also, today starts our Graphics Test Week, beginning with the Nouveau NVidia driver. Graphics drivers affect almost everyone who uses Linux, so this is a fantastic opportunity for you to help make a difference. We're having one today for Nouveau, tomorrow for the Radeon ATI card driver, and on Thursday for Intel graphics cards. How do you do it? Very easily, it turns out — you join IRC Freenode at #fedora-test-day to participate. Just about anyone can help, because all the tests are fully documented already. You just follow a simple set of instructions, and if you encounter a problem, the QA crew will help you get a bug filed. But what if you don't run Fedora? No problem! There are Live ISO images available for the test day as well, meaning you don't have to install Fedora to participate. And why would you want to help if, heaven forfend, you don't use Fedora? Because even if you use another distribution, your time is still worthwhile — because Fedora works hard to send changes upstream to the driver developers, so the entire Linux community benefits. That's how collaboration and open source work. It's not about hoarding, it's about sharing. Adam Williamson, a Fedora QA contributor and seemingly unstoppable force in community testing and quality, wrote more about the Video Test Week here. (There's also a Phoronix article here and a LWN article here as well.) By the way, to see what kind of graphics card you have, you can open up a terminal and type or copy/paste this command: /sbin/lspci | grep -i vgaAnd be sure to download and try out the Fedora 13 Beta today. You can find the downloads here, and the announcement here. UPDATE: The ever-helpful Josh Boyer reminded me that the Fedora 13 Beta, Live Desktop edition, needs a DVD because of size reasons, although this won't be the case for the final release of Fedora 13. Seriously, use the USB, it's awesome. |
Fedora 13 Alpha!Our first major test release for this cycle, Fedora 13 Alpha, is now available! You can read all about it in the release announcement on the wiki. I'm running it here and would encourage contributors and early adopters to try it out. We could really use your help in finding remaining bugs so we can squash them before the Beta release near the end of this month. You can find a list of common bugs on the wiki as well. |
Karma made easy.Till Maas constructed a truly useful Fedora Easy Karma script in Python. There's a wiki page about it already, and it's very easy to use. I just used it to test and give karma to a handful of packages in the pre-release Fedora 13 updates-testing repository in just a few minutes. It's a great enabler for our community. You do need to have the latest fedora-packager package installed (currently in updates-testing) to use it. Nice work, Till! |
Catching breath, no. 75.5.Upgrade went smoothly, although I did run into this common bug at the very end of the process. Not only was the bug known about, it's already been fixed, so no one should see it in the next test release. Nice work Anaconda guys! The bug's been written up on our "Common F13 bugs" page as well. That page is where we record issues that we've seen in the test release, to lower the surprise factor even for people who are gearing up to test our pre-release software. As we go through the release cycle and these bugs are stomped out, we edit this page as needed. Because it's a wiki we invite our community to help us document problems there and track them throughout the release cycle — a great way to collaborate that can help innumerable other people helping to test Fedora. Other than that issue — which itself required no mitigation on my part anyway — the update was extremely boring (just the way it should be). I've already noticed a few things worth calling out:
That's just what I saw in the first few minutes. I'm really looking forward to seeing all the other excellent new features coming in Fedora 13. Our first pre-release, Fedora 13 Alpha, is due next Tuesday, March 9. If you're a savvy Linux user who wants to see the latest and greatest new technologies, you can pick up a copy and help advance the future of free software by testing the pre-release and reporting bugs. The more we squash in the pre-release, the better the final Fedora 13 will be. With 0ur recent move to a special pre-release branch, I'm expecting a very solid release — but nevertheless I am very much looking forward to exploring the nooks and crannies of Fedora 13 Alpha, especially if what I'm using now is any hint of what's to come! |
Into the future.Because we're trying to stomp out a handful of nasty bugs — some of which appear to be thoroughly smooshed, and some of which we're still attacking with the Rolled Up Newspaper of Free Code Wrangling — the Fedora 12 Beta will be pushed back one week. We expect right now to release it on Tuesday, October 20th. Of course the schedule has already been updated to reflect the latest schedule news. We're still working out what this portends for the final release. Generally the QA team's cumulative wisdom is that changes like this need to echo down the schedule, so that we don't compress periods of public testing. Many people in the community don't keep up with daily Rawhide, and depend on a DVD, CD, or Live image release to do their testing. (More on this in a moment.) We want to make sure that the Beta, which is the last release before final Fedora 12, has the chance to be tested by as many people as possible. This used to be the position and purpose of the so-called "Preview Release" that happened several weeks before GA. However, in an attempt to make our test releases less confusing, we have gone to the industry-standard practice of making Beta the release that is meant to be code-frozen, and ready for wide public testing. The only changes that are supposed to go into Fedora during this period are fixes for problems detected that would make it unsuitable for release. In which a wrinkle enters the fabric.To make that testing period as long as originally intended, we'd have to make the final Fedora 12 release a week later as well. There's a thorny problem in that plan, however. Part of the Fedora infrastructure will soon be undergoing a relocation from one physical facility to another, and that's scheduled to begin some time around the 18th of November. This is happening toward the end of a longer process that is supposed to be fully complete by no later than November 30th. Currently our final Fedora 12 release is scheduled for November 10, but if we were to echo this Beta slip down the rest of the schedule, that would mean a release on November 17. Moving infrastructure the day after a major release? Our community Infrastructure team is the very definition of awesome, but… Yikes! So, moving pieces of infrastructure around the day after release doesn't seem like a great plan. And neither does shortening the period for public testing. We're looking into whether our infrastructure relocation can be postponed, but of course the week of November 24th has a major US holiday, making rescheduling difficult. In which you, Dear Reader, play the starring role.Well, for one thing, by testing the currently available bits for what will be Fedora 12 Beta. The few changes still landing are mainly correcting problems found and noted in filed bugs, but the critical stuff in Rawhide, our development branch, is frozen. When we spin those packages into a release of DVD, CD, and Live media, it takes several days to prepare all of it and get it shipped to mirrors in time for the release date. And during the days even before that, leading up to the spinning, you can test the vast majority of what will be in the Beta. Here's how:
This method may take some additional time, depending on the speed of your connection to the mirror you're using, but the bits are the same ones that Fedora experts are using every day for installation, updates, and testing of the latest software that will go into Fedora 12. And most importantly, if you find problems, FILE A BUG! Remember, we'd rather hear about a problem twice than not at all. We have a Bugzilla primer that will tell you what you need to know to file a more clear and useful bug. It's vital that we get great testing during Beta phases so that we can make the final as good as possible. All software has bugs, but what makes free software improve faster than alternatives is that we can all help stomp them out through an open, collaborative process. You can be a part of that process! |
Moblin in Fedora 12 pre-releases.Yes, you heard it right — among the other cool features in F12 Alpha, you can now take a look at Moblin directly in Fedora proper, regardless of your hardware platform. To check it out, refer to this posting from Peter Robinson, ace maintainer from the Fedora Mini SIG (special interest group). If you're running Fedora 12 Alpha or you've been keeping up with Rawhide, our bleeding-edge development branch, you're in prime position to check it out. As you'll hear from quite a number of Fedora users (not to mention this guy) we have fairly good coverage of mini systems and netbooks in Fedora, but we're always looking to improve. With Moblin software in Fedora proper, we have the chance to offer a very interesting derivative to people on sub-laptop equipment, and show the flexibility and functionality of free software. In the future it should be pretty easy to extend those offerings through a custom spin or other provision. Nice work by Peter and the Mini SIG here. I'm off to try this out on a virtual machine right now, courtesy of our excellent virtualization support through KVM. |
Fedora 12 Alpha!Today marks the Fedora 12 Alpha release, hot off the presses! You can pick up a copy to try all the latest technologies here: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease I've been running the Alpha version for about a week or so on one of my home machines. While there are some minor foibles here and there, most of it seems to be working like gangbusters — and better than ever. The PackageKit "command-not-found" plugin is pretty cool, and I'm also enjoying some of the other sweet new features like the new Virtualization Manager upgrades. Not everything is guaranteed to work perfectly, because there are some pretty new bits in there. But we do encourage people to at least grab a Live ISO image and run it from a CD or USB stick. And of course, it's very important that you FILE A BUG if you find something that's wrong! Remember kids, Twitter and Identi.ca are not substitutes for good open source practices — they're a good way to encourage people to check your work, though, if you're looking for a second opinion. I hope everyone trying F12 Alpha will blog a little bit about the bits they find that they like — and if you don't like something, tell us about that too, and let us know how it can be made better. Then file a bug about it! You can tell I'm big on the bug filing today. That's because we seriously want your help in testing the release. Yours, and everyone you know! The more problems we can find and knock out before the Beta, the better Fedora 12 "Constantine" will shine in November! I, for one, started using the command-line bugzilla client for doing this quite often, and it's very convenient when I'm in a terminal or otherwise not using a Web browser. You just run bugzilla login and bugzilla new — the latter with a bunch of required options — and you'll get a reply with your bug number assigned. I hope you enjoy this very early sneak preview of what's coming Fedora 12! And thanks as always to our awesome Release Engineering and Infrastructure teams for their usual fantastic job at getting Fedora out the door into the hands of our millions of users. Speaking of which: Only 10 weeks into our release, our latest stable offering, Fedora 11 "Leonidas," has surpassed one million registered updating IP addresses, as noted on our statistics page. That's almost 40% higher than our uptake from the previous and very well-regarded Fedora 10 release. I also see that our number of completely unique IP addresses registered for updatesm from Fedora 7 through Rawhide is now at slightly over 15 million for the first time. There's some helpful information floating around about how that might translate to user numbers, but for my part, I just love being able to just look up these numbers in our completely open and transparent infrastructure — another reason to enjoy being part of a project dedicated to building 100% free software for you and yours. Sad daily confessional: I meant to have this out in the morning but the upcoming Red Hat Summit has me hopping more than usual. Sorry about the delay and hope to see you in Chicago next week! Update: Fixed the "sweet new features" link above, thanks Rahul! |
Try installing F12 Alpha early.According to this posting to the fedora-test-list by Liam, there's going to be some installation testing for the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha candidate next week, on Wednesday July 29. This is a chance to shake out some of the new features in the Anaconda installation application that have come in over the past couple of months. The more testing we can get on the installer early, the more bulletproof we can make it for our final release by the time code is frozen in the fall. I find that the easiest way to do installation testing is to maintain a local Rawhide mirror — a copy of the Rawhide repository on a machine on my home network, shared out via the Web. But there are complete instructions on the wiki for the many ways you can test Rawhide, specifically a section on doing a direct daily installation. You don't even have to have a local mirror. You can download a small-ish boot.iso image for either 32-bit or 64-bit architecture, and install directly from the Internet if you have a broadband connection. It's easy to get involved in testing, and there's even a matrix of results that we'll be filling out on July 29 to see what works, and what needs work. This is a great opportunity for anyone to become a contributor to Fedora by helping with Anaconda, which is used not just in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but also in CentOS, Scientific Linux, and many other derived distributions. See you on the 29th for an awesome installer validation day! |
This. Is. ALPHA![This post was supposed to be out yesterday, but somehow I managed to brush my touchpad the wrong way and… well, the dog ate my homework. Or WordPress did. Either way, sorry about the lateness of the hour, and all that. Revised now for more contemporary enjoyment. — Ed.] Yes, that 300 joke isn't getting any funnier. But it's not getting any older either! Well OK, maybe it is, but remember that "beta" works just as well there, so you may have to endure it one more time, sorry. Anyway, yesterday our Fedora 11 Alpha release hit the wires, and they are humming hotly even as we speak with flying bits. We've provided a brief set of release notes where you can see some of the major changes called out. I often get questions from people asking, what's the point of an Alpha anyway? Well, essentially it's to ensure we can effectively compose a Fedora release that can be installed by most people, and once that's done, to give our community a chance to test the current state of features from a known starting point. Testing is, in fact, our focus once an Alpha release of Fedora is out the door, and every bug you file can make a big difference in the quality of the final Fedora release. Typically people will install Fedora 11 Alpha on a test machine, and then update to the latest Rawhide packages. You see, Rawhide, our development branch of Fedora, keeps moving after we've started working on an Alpha release, so some bugs might be fixed with that update. On the other hand, you might also see totally new ones. It's very early in the development cycle, so don't expect a Fedora 11 Alpha system to necessarily be ready for your daily non-testing use (although I do know people who essentially run on the development branch almost all the time, and my hat's off to them). The point is, once you have your system running, we'd love to receive bug reports from you. That helps us eradicate problems early and provide a better release by the time the Beta, Preview, and final emerge. Interestingly, there were hardware-specific bugs in previous releases reported by numerous people that could have easilly been found, had someone taken time to test an Alpha installation or boot on their hardware. So by testing, you really can be a big help to the overall Fedora community! You can often file bug reports straight from the installer, for instance, if your network hardware is supported. You can also use our helpful wiki page to learn how to file a bug. By the way, if you find a problem on that page, you can use its discussion page to tell us what needs improvement. Basically, it's a great time to try out the beginnings of Fedora 11 with our Alpha release, and let us know how you fare. And when you do, you're part of the enormous (and still growing) Fedora community. |