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National Drug Facts Week (NDFW) is a health observance week for teens. The goal of NDFW is to shatter the myths about drugs and drug abuse. NDFW encourages community based events that give teens a physical or virtual space to ask questions about drugs and get factual answers from a scientific expert. NDFW is an initiative of the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), which supports most of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction.
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Best Buddies is a nonprofice 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
Youth Art Month (YAM) is an annual observance, sponsored by The Council for Art Education, Inc. (CFAE) and The Art and Creative Materials Institute, Inc.(ACMI). Each March, YAM observances emphasize the value of art and art education for all children and encourage public support for quality school art programs. Established in 1961, YAM provides a forum to support art education because it develops self-esteem, appreciation of the work of others, self-expression, cooperation with others, and cri
NEA's Read Across America Day, NEA's national reading celebration takes place each year on or near March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries, and community centers participate by bringing together kids, teens, and books, and you can too!
Young people have joined a movement of mutual respect and human dignity called Spread the Word to End the Word. The goal: get people to stop and think about their hurtful and disparaging use of the word "retard" and pledge to stop using it.
World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe. The origins of the day we now celebrate in the UK and Ireland come from Catalonia, where roses and books were given as gifts to loved ones on St. George's Day – a tradition started over 90 years ago.
Teen Tech Week 2011 is March 6-12! Teen Tech Week is a national initiative aimed at teens, librarians, educators, parents, and other concerned adults that highlights nonprint resources at the library. The 2011 theme — Mix and Mash @ your library — focuses on encouraging teens to use library resources to express their creativity by developing their own unique online content and safely sharing it by using online collaborative tools.
International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday.
Health Impact Assessments (HIAS) in Transportation
Girl Scouts of the USA is the world's preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls—all girls—where, in an accepting and nurturing environment, girls build character and skills for success in the real world. In partnership with committed adult volunteers, girls develop qualities that will serve them all their lives, like leadership, strong values, social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth.
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day® is a national letter-writing campaign where kids receive letters of support, love and encouragement from parents and adults. It only takes a few minutes to jot a note that will be remembered and appreciated for a lifetime. The positive impact of these letters on kids is what Absolutely Incredible Kid Day® is all about.
Water is a basic requirement for all life, yet water resources are facing increasing demands from, and competition among, users. In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water.
The National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) is proud to be a founding partner, along with the Guidance Group, of the National Youth Violence Prevention Campaign. The goal of this campaign is to raise awareness and to educate students, teachers, school administrators, counselors, school resource officers, school staff, parents, and the public on effective ways to prevent or reduce youth Violence.
The mission of the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, a (501(c)(3)) non-profit charitable organization, is to maximize human potential to improve communities by preserving, promoting and applying the legacy and universal values of civil rights leader Cesar E. Chavez.
National Nutrition Month 2011The theme for March 2011 is "Eat Right with Color."National Nutrition Month® is a nutrition education and information campaign created annually in March by the American Dietetic Association. The campaign focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits .
Preventing Roadway Fatalities and Injuries
During National Public Health Week 2011, the American Public Health Association (APHA) needs your help to educate Americans that "Safety is No Accident". Together, we can help Americans live injury-free in all areas of life: at work, at home, at play, in your community and anywhere people are on the move. We all need to do our part to prevent injuries and violence in our communities. Join us as we work together to create a safer and healthier nation.
Student Leaders Saving Lives Through Service and Leadership
Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest community improvement program, takes place annually from March 1 through May 31, involving an estimated 3 million volunteers and attendees. The hardworking volunteers donated more than 5.7 million hours in 2010 to clean, beautify and improve more than 33,000 communities during more than 30,000 events in all 50 states and beyond. Activities included beautifying parks and recreation areas, cleaning seashores and waterways, handl
Timed to the graduation season, the end of school year, and the start of the deadly days of summer when the highest number of teen driving deaths typically occur, this media event will focus on the "Teens & Trucks" educational project, teen drivers staying out of a truck's "No Zone," and teens signing a "No Texting While Driving" promise. This event will culminate the successful 2011 National Youth Traffic Safety Month.Check out the Teens and Trucks toolkit at www.cvsa.org/programs/teens_and
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On November 20, 2011, let us join all nations, road safety/victims NGOs, roads safety advocates, roads/streets stakeholders in REMEMBERING ALL ROAD TRAFFIC CRASH VICTIMS,survivors and their families. WE CAN say a prayer, light a candle ...and make all efforts to be a responsible road/street user.
President Obama Names December as National Impaired Driving Prevention Month
This first webinar in the series will provide an overview of the issue and of the series. It will begin with introductions from Dr. Benjamin and SAMHSA Administrator Pamela Hyde. NIAAA Acting Director Kenneth Warren will then provide an overview of the nature and extent of the problem, and CSAP Director Frances Harding will discuss the "shape of the solution." Following their presentations, Director Harding and Acting Director Warren will engage with participants in a live question-and-answer pe
CADCA's National Leadership Forum is a 4-day conference packed with multiple opportunities to learn the latest strategies to fight substance abuse and hear from nationally-known experts and policymakers. The Forum brings together more than 2,500 participants representing community anti-drug coalitions from all regions of the country, government leaders, youth, addiction treatment professionals, researchers, educators, law enforcement professionals and faith-based leaders.
The School Safety Advocacy Council, in partnership with the Florida Association of School Resource Officers (FASRO) and SAVE (Students Against Violence Everywhere) are pleased to announce the 2nd Annual NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BULLYING to be held at the Doubletree Resort SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida February 15-17, 2012. Special rates at this SeaWorld Partner Resort apply and include FREE transportation to all Disney and Universal Parks.
The National Conference will provide information on how to begin, enhance, and/or expand your Peer Helper Program. Beginning peer program educators will have an opportunity to learn steps to set up a peer program that follows the NAPPP Programmatic Standards and Ethics; experienced peer program educators will be given an opportunity to learn strategies to enhance and expand their program through learning about different activities.
"Attentive Driving: Countermeasures for Distraction" is set for Tuesday, March 27, at the NTSB Conference Center (429 L'Enfant Plaza SW). The forum will begin at 8:30 a.m. and will be free and open to the public. If you can't make it, the meeting will also be streamed online.
2012 National Crime Victims' Rights Week Resource Guide Extending the Vision: Reaching Every Victim April 22-28, 2012
National Leadership Conference, April 25-29, 2012Reach New Heights and join us for the 2012 National Leadership Conference in Chicago, IL! 5000 members and advisors will compete, lead, vote, and experience the Windy City!
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NOYS 2012 Spring Meeting, May 6-9, 2012.
May 15-16, 2012Washington, DCThe National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will hold a two-day forum on substance-impaired driving with the objective to identify actions needed to eliminate related deaths and injuries on American roadways.
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June 14-16, 2012Lifesavers is the premier national highway safety meeting in the United States dedicated to reducing the tragic toll of deaths and injuries on our nation's roadways. Drawing nearly 2,000 participants in 2011, Lifesavers continues to be the essential conference since its start in the early 1980s. Each year, the Lifesavers Conference provides a forum that delivers relevant and timely common-sense solutions to today's critical highway safety problems.The conference addre
The conference opens Thursday, June 14, 2012 with a motivational plenary, two workshop sessions, anopening networking reception then followed by 80 interactive workshops over 2 1/2 days,and concludes Saturday at 12noon. The tentative schedule of events is available atwww.lifesaversconference.org.
We are excited to announce that the 2012 SADD National Conference will be held Sunday, June 24th – Wednesday, June 27th at the Marriott Torrance South Bay in Torrance, CA!
This training is designed to assist participants utilize the NAPPP Programmatic Standards in terms of evaluation of their programs. Time will be spent reviewing a variety of evaluation tools to be utilized with their programs. Participants are asked to bring any evaluation tools they are currently using to share with others. Actual evaluation materials will be developed during the training. A case study with several evaluation strategies will also be presented.
August 23-28, 2012Indianapolis, INThe American Legion's largest annual meeting is the national convention. Each of the Legion's 55 departments – the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, France, Mexico and Philippines – is entitled to a minimum of five voting delegates to the national convention. A department is granted one extra delegate, a member in good standing, for each 1,000 members (or major fraction thereof) 30 days before the convention. The five
Highway safety and public health go together on the road toward zero traffic fatalities. The 2012 GHSA Annual Meeting will explore highway safety from the public health perspective, focusing on how to apply successes in public health and highway safety to continue improving safety on our nation's roadways. The meeting also will examine how highway safety professionals can work more closely with the public health community to make highway safety a top public health priority.
On October 18, during National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, please join ONDCP to commemorate National "Above the Influence" (ATI) Day - an opportunity for youth and local youth-serving partners to organize ATI activities and events to demonstrate the power of staying above the negative influences that can lead to substance use. This event reinforces ATI as a central substance abuse prevention tool on the national level and among community partners, key stakeholders, and youth around the cou
National Association of Broadcasters annual conference.September 18-20, 2013Rosen Shingle Creek HotelOrlando, Florida
Radio ShowSeptember 19 - 21, 2012 • Dallas, TXThe Radio Advertising Bureau and National Association of Broadcasters have joined forces to bring an unprecedented event to the radio industry. Join us as we hear from industry leaders who are shaping radio's future and explore new technologies to drive your business forward.
Federal Highway Administration's Surface Transportation Environment and Planning Cooperative Research Program (STEP) is holding a webinar focusing on transportation and health.The webinar, scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 25, will discuss research initiatives that are planned or currently underway in relation to transportation and health, touching on case studies and best practices for taking a holistic approach to health in the transportation planning process.Officials from various
Objectives:• Gain greater understanding of the ethical dilemmas facing peer program professionals• Identify key ethical practices in addressing issues • Become more familiar with the elements of codes of ethics • Practical application of codes of ethics related to peer program dilemmas
Participants will have the opportunity to examine their own evaluation processes in light of "Best Practices" in the field. Participants in the 90-minute session will develop a more thorough understanding of the key features of evaluation planning, evaluation design and evaluation implementation. While peer and other prevention programs have long been instituted in the United States, evaluation of those programs has suffered, thus reducing the opportunity for peer leaders to be able to report
Participants will have the opportunity to examine their own evaluation processes in light of "Best Practices" in the field of prevention. All participants will develop a more thorough understanding of the key features of evaluation planning, evaluation design and evaluation implementation. While Peer and other Prevention programs have long been instituted in the United States, the evaluation of those programs has suffered, thus reducing the opportunity for peer leaders to be able to report their
Join us at our 42nd Annual conference on October 6-9, 2012 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The Annual Conference is one of the country's leading professional development gatherings for those working to improve the lives of black children and their families. Every year, professionals from around the country in early care and education; elementary and secondary education and administration; child welfare and youth development; research; and local, state, and federal policy convene at our annual confer
More than a century ago, the first "head, heart, hands, and health", or 4-H, clubs were formed to help improve farming practices and farm life. While agriculture and rural values remain a large part of 4-H, the organization has grown to include young people from all backgrounds and types of communities. Through after-school programs, bilingual projects, technology clubs, partnerships with the military, and many other innovative approaches, 4-H remains one of the best hallmarks of American life
It Came from the Library! This Teen Read Week™ (Oct. 14-20), YALSA dares you to read for the fun of it! Teen Read Week is a time to celebrate reading for fun and encourage teens to take advantage of reading in all its forms —books and magazines, e-books, audiobooks and more — and become regular library users.
Join Merry Dye, AT&T and National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) for a live online chat hosted by Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, TN to discuss the dangers of texting while driving and to learn what you can do about it in your community. The chat will be moderated by a Walker Valley High School student.Merry Dye's story of how she lost her daughter Mariah to a text related car accident the day before her high school graduation was first featured in a 10 minute AT&T No Texting
The National School Safety Center, state governors and state school superintendents sponsor America's Safe Schools Week, October 21-27, 2012. This observance is also actively supported by local, state and national public officials and professional organizations. Significant progress is being made to ensure that all of our nation's schools are safe, secure and productive. At the forefront of this movement are hundreds of exemplary school, district, state and national programs. To recogni
School-based health centers and school nurses know that healthy students learn better. Their goal is to enhance students' health, academic outcomes, and overall well-being. Their recognition that bullying is a problem that should be addressed by everyone is a win-win for every student! Join the webinar to:· Understand the role of school nurses and school-based health staff in preventing and responding to incidents of bullying.· Learn model ways of assisting bystan
Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy, affordable, and sustainable food.
85th National FFA Convention & ExpoOctober 24-27, 2012Indianapolis, INEach year, nearly 55,000 FFA members and guests gather to learn about careers in the agriculture industry, compete for scholarships, volunteer in the community and shape the future of the National FFA Organization.Questions? E-mail us: firstname.lastname@example.com
For more than 20 years, USA WEEKEND Magazine and Points of Light have joined together to sponsor Make A Difference Day, the largest national day of community service. Make A Difference Day is a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors. Millions of volunteers from around the world will unite in a common mission to improve the lives of others on Make A Difference Day, Saturday, October 27, 2012.Thousands of projects are planned each year involving corporations, communities, nonpr
Are you ready to Act Out Loud? Join us for a webinar to explore the next steps in your rally planning or to get more information on the contest. This year high school teams will plan an Act Out Loud rally to take place in May as part of Global Youth Traffic Safety Month! There are fun projects along the way to help your team earn up to $1,000 for your rally, and qualify for the grand prize of $10,000!
The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims was started by RoadPeace in 1993. Since then it has been observed and promoted worldwide by several NGOs, including the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR) and its associated organizations.On 26 October 2005, the United Nations endorsed it as a global day to be observed every third Sunday in November each year. This will be a major advocacy day for road traffic injury prevention and WHO and the United Nations Road Safe
Join us for an important webinar on the topic of teens and distracted driving. This webinar will explore ways to engage and empower youth to be peer educators on this critically important issue. Approximately 24% of all crashes (1.2 million) are estimated to be caused by cell phone use while driving (National Safety Council, 2012). Distracted driving was responsible for 18% of injury crashes in 2010. Teens and young adults are at a particularly high risk for distracted driving. A 2010 Pew Int
We have a day for giving thanks. We have two for getting deals. This year help create #GivingTuesday™ on Tuesday November 27, 2012–the giving season's opening day. Charities, families, businesses and individuals are coming together to transform the giving season. #GivingTuesday partners are supporting communities in need all around the world. From Hurricane Sandy victims right here at home, to the farthest flung village in Africa, the #GivingTuesday community is giving back today and every day.
Earlier this summer, President Obama signed into law a $118 billion highway bill known as MAP-21, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act. The legislation contains a variety of exciting and important provisions that seek to address the safety of teen drivers and decrease the number of teen traffic crashes each year. NOYS, in partnership with SADD, the National Safety Council and Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, will be offering a 60-minute webinar on Tuesday, October 30,
How to get involved with Global Youth Traffic Safety Month for Businesses and Industries.Find out more about how you can get involved in the 2013 Global Youth Traffic Safety Month campaign by registering for a webinar that fits the area of your work.
How to get involved in Global Youth Traffic Safety Month for Government Agencies.Find out more about how you can get involved in the 2013 Global Youth Traffic Safety Month campaign by registering for a webinar that fits the area of your work.
How to get involved in Global Youth Traffic Safety Month for Youth-Led Organizations.Find out more about how you can get involved in the 2013 Global Youth Traffic Safety Month campaign by registering for a webinar that fits the area of your work.
How to get involved in Global Youth Traffic Safety Month Info Webinar for Youth-Serving Organizations.Find out more about how you can get involved in the 2013 Global Youth Traffic Safety Month campaign by registering for a webinar that fits the area of your work.
90-minute live presentation1.5 CE hoursSuicide is the number three killer of youth behind auto crashes and homicide. Some new statistics indicate it is higher than three. Suicide can impact families, friends and other students for a lifetime through depression, anxiety, guilt and other mental health issues. Teens and families often don't know what to do – and often do not take threats seriously.
As a new report released today by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) reveals that the number of 16-and 17-year-old driver deaths in passenger vehicles increased dramatically for the first six months of 2012-National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) and its many members are making plans for nationwide Global Youth Traffic Safety Month (GYTSM) events in May in Washington, DC and across the globe.Please join National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) and NOYS Coalition
Leading traffic safety experts including researchers, regulators, educators, public policy makers and enforcement agencies will share their perspectives and forecasts for future in-car technology and autonomous vehicles.
The Summit will have interactive workshops that will enable youth to learn means by which they can implement a driving safety project in the school and community. Registration is required.
Washington, DC global launch for Global Youth Traffic Safety Month by the Washington Monument.
"Conquering Challenges with Injury Prevention in the Health Care Setting"At The George Washington University Hospital
Global Youth Justice's 3-day Training on Enhancing and Expanding a local Peer Court, Student Court, Youth Court or Teen Court diversion program takes place June 11-13, 2013 in Cape Cod, MA, USA at the Provincetown Oceanside Resort and Conference Center. Eligible participants include full/part-time adult staff, adult volunteers and adults involved in professional support roles in one of these programs now operational in a record 1,407+ local communities in 5 countries. Prior Global Youth Justice
July 14-19, 2013Orlando, FL
NHTSA and SafeKids are asking you to help us raise awareness about the dangers of kids and cars through aconcerted day-long social media conversation. NHTSA and SafeKids are reaching out to our State and safety partnersto tweet and post on Facebook every hour on the hour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. @NHTSA.gov will be using the hash tag#heatstroke on all its social media posts and asks you to do the same. As we approach rising summer temperatures, thedangers for kids left in hot vehicl
On September 19, the It Can Wait campaign will launch Drive 4 Pledges Day. We want everyone who is committed to ending texting while driving to spread the word in their schools on September 19 and encourage others to get involved.
October 21-25, 20134,700 people die each year as a result of underage drinking---more than all other illegal drugs combined. One in six teens binge drinks, but that means five out of six DON'T! Use YOUR power to take a stand against drinking before 21 or riding in a car with someone who has been drinking. Visit www.madd.org/underage-drinking/red-ribbon-week/ for resources to join teens across the country to take the lead on Power of You(th) Red Ribbon Week activities in your school.
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Wednesday, May 14 @ 8 p.m. ETCalling all youth leaders, parents, teachers, advocates and organizations in youth traffic safety!!!Log onto Twitter and follow @NOYSnews and at 8 p.m. on May 14th and use #GYTSM14 to join in the conversation on youth traffic safety.Continue using the hashtag all through the month of May to keep the conversation going!
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Please join us at the Health and Human Services Office of Adolescent Health's (@TeenHealthGov) #TeenSummer twitter chat on how to stay safe and healthy during the summer in the sun, at the pool and while biking and walking. Wednesday, June 25, 2014 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm.
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TUCSON, AZ— Attorney General Terry Goddard joined the Arizona Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs and The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility to bring Ask, Listen and Learn, a program to fight underage drinking to Tucson today. At the event at the Boys & Girls Club of Tucson, Attorney General Terry Goddard was joined by Catherene Morton, Boys & Girls Club of Tucson Alliance Representative and Dana Fudurich of The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility.
The event featured an innovative program developed by The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility in partnership with Nickelodeon – Ask, Listen, Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don't Mix – which recognizes that the key to stopping underage drinking is communication early and often between parents and children. Ask, Listen, Learn provides both kids and parents with information and strategies to help jumpstart the conversation about the dangers of underage drinking, in a format and language designed specifically for them.
In addition to today's event, Attorney General Goddard, The Arizona Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, and The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility partnered to distribute Ask, Listen, Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don't Mix materials to all the Boys & Girls Clubs in Arizona.
"Law enforcement alone cannot solve the problem of underage drinking. Parents must talk with their children about this dangerous behavior," Goddard said. "Ask, Listen, Learn facilitates these critical family conversations and teaches kids about the serious consequences of underage drinking as well as valuable tips for resisting common forms of peer pressure to drink."
"While alcohol consumption among our nation's youth has declined over the past 20 years, underage drinking remains unacceptably high. According to the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 10.8 million Americans between the ages of 12-20 report current alcohol consumption. Among youth the rate of current alcohol consumption increases with increasing age, however, the alarming fact is first use of alcohol typically begins around age 12. By 16, 27 percent report current alcohol consumption," said Dana Fudurich.
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Whether or not they realize it, parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol. According to the 2003 Omnibuzz survey conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, 65 percent of adolescents identify parents as the leading influence in their decision not to drink.
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- A kids' booklet, with interactive games and trivia cards explaining the facts about alcohol, addressing issues to avoid peer pressure, and providing creative ways to say "no." It also includes an Action Against Alcohol Agreement that both kids and parents can sign.
- Asklistenlearn.com, produced by Nickelodeon, is a Website for kids with information on the dangers of underage drinking including monthly polls, information interactive games and videos, and more information on how to say no.
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Recognizing the important role that teachers, counselors and administrators play as role models and purveyors of information, The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility will also begin work on a teacher-focused component to the program for distribution nationwide. In an effort to reach trusted adults and kids in the Hispanic community, The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility released Pregunte. Eschuche. Aprenda. ¡Los niños y el alcohol no mezclan! in October 2005.
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I hope a large amount of people join in, maybe documenting all the current stuff, and pointing to a bunch of tutorials could help.
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A month ago we told you that Avivo v0.1.0 (the open-source ATI R500 X1000 Linux driver) was coming soon, but still we have not seen this release. Talking with Jerome Glisse (the main Avivo developer), the v0.1.0 release is postponed until he or another willing open-source developer fixes issues with the Radeon X1200, X1300, X1400, and X1900 to allow for properly setting the TMDS on these graphics cards.
huh, i'll see if i can do anything for the x1400 in a two weeks time I guess. But there's so much to learn..
I hope a large amount of people join in, maybe documenting all the current stuff, and pointing to a bunch of tutorials could help.
http://people.freedesktop.org/~glisse/vbespy.tar.bz2 and make then ./vbetest 2> /dev/null note mode number corresponding to resoltuion 800x600 8:8:8 ... then q then
./vbetest -m <800600modenumber> 2> firegl5250-800x600
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You should see some colored picture on screen. Once you got all dumps pack them together bzip2 and send them to me or put them somewhere on the net.
PS: You need to be root under console and it's better if X is not running and that fglrx is not loaded (in fact it's better doing them after cold boot without X being loaded so flgrx can't mess up with the card).
I have a 5250 firegl on a thinkpad t60p
I think I've done what you wanted. Let me know if not.
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The real problem nowadays is teen arent protecting themselves,ok?
If you know your parents wont like you having sex,why do it?That seems a little selfish.
If you know your parents wont like you having sex,why do it?That seems a little selfish.
Why is selfish automatically bad? Furthermore, disowning a child for wanting to have sex outside of marriage sounds a little silly.
I agree but respect your mother and fathers wishes.When you 18,you can do the hell you want.If you would have kids,you would want them to abide in your wishes too.
Why is it okay not to respect your parent's wishes at 18, but not the day before your 18th birthday? Seriously, you're now down to base ageism...
because you are an adult not a child.your parents are pretty much out of the picture unless you dont want them to be.
So? Why should you respect your parents' wishes when you're 17 years and 364/365 days old? Why is it suddenly fine not to when you're 18 years old?


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NEWMARKET — Residents voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to raise $14.1 million to upgrade Newmarket's wastewater treatment facility and the Creighton Street Pumping Station.
On the school ballot, an article asking voters to authorize a new contract with the teacher's union also resulted in a close tally. The Newmarket School Board and the Newmarket Teacher's Association ratified a new three-year collective bargaining agreement on Jan. 7, after a lengthy impasse. The agreement calls for combined salary increases of 6.9 percent over three years. The contract was approved on a vote of 762 votes in favor to 549 opposed.
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command line automation support; are you sure cost doesn't matter?
By the way, i can understand the problem; have you ever considered applications like mouse click and movement simulators?
The "start benchmark" button will ever be in the same position on the screen , so this task could be automated too.
Michael, seriously, if a solution like that would make you use unigine benches more, let us know and i will do my best to write a launcher that automates the process even in the basic unigine versions.
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The issue doesn't come down to not wanting to use Unigine but often being buggy or problematic on different drivers, etc. Also would be nice if they did 64-bit builds.
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As the Romans ages ago learned. There is just no pleasing the masses.
Keep up the good work as I enjoy the benches and the insights they provide.
I think very few of the folks posting here actually understand the amount of vendor co-ordination required to get some things up and going.
Once again, thank you for your efforts.
The software is equally important as the hardware in the graphics arena.
The best analogy is that the programming interface of a GPU is like the highly parallel micro-operation layer of an x86 CPU that sits behind the instruction decoder, which isn't open either.
I don't think it's correct to say "Intel doesn't care about releasing hardware specs" -- I'm sure their open source teams had to jump through just as many internal hoops as we did in order to get information out.


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Tourism chiefs in Ireland want to attract the eyes of the world onto Dublin tonight when The Gathering is launched in some style.
The Irish capital will showcase itself as one of the world's 'must visit' locations as the country seeks to welcome its Diaspora home in 2013.
The Gathering, which gets underway on Tuesday night, is intended to draw everyone of Irish extraction back home in a major initiative by the government and tourism bodies.
Rockabilly star Imelda May and rising Dublin band BellX1 will showcase their talents at a special open-air concert to ring in the New Year on College Green.
Up to 15,000 participants are expected to attend a torchlight procession followed by a fireworks display over the city.
Tourism Minister Leo Varadkar will be on hand to launch The Gathering and he wants Dublin to prove itself as a party capital.
Varadkar said: "Our hopes is that the celebrations in the capital will showcase Dublin as one the world's go to cities for New Year's Eve celebrations.
"The events will mark the start of The Gathering 2013 and the Government particularly hopes Dublin will become one of the cities people visit for new year's celebrations."
As he prepares to greet 70 foreign journalists and introduce them to the Irish way to greet the New Year, Varadkar repeated his government's commitment to The Gathering project.
The Minister for Tourism and Transport said: "The Gathering is one of the key projects I wanted to see through."
The procession of light in Dublin will see families join with fire-breathers, stilt-walkers and street entertainers.
Organisers say the event to kick-off the Gathering will showcase Ireland and encourage tourists to visit.
Ciara Sugrue of Fáilte Ireland said: "As The Gathering starts, the New Year's Eve festival is the perfect advertisement for visiting this country.
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Failte Ireland expects an extra 10,000 visitors to Dublin for the New Year's Eve celebrations.
An open invitation has been issued across the world for thousands more to visit Ireland this year as part of The Gathering.
American networks CNN and NBC will both be represented amongst the media organisations from across the world at the Dublin party.
Down in Cork, a New Year's Day ceremonial 21-gun salute on Spike Island will mark the first day of the Gathering 2013 in the county, the first time such a salute will be fired from Cork Harbour in almost 30 years according to the Irish Times.
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I surely know that it can stand for Digital Rights Management which has more or less fixed definition. But I meant it in a broader sense of Digital Restrictions Management concept, which can easily include CD copy protection.
I am not going to buy anything, except mmorpgs, that require some authentication to a companies server. I got X2 LGP -> was OK. Then X3 boxed LGP -> bloody drm so my CD copy is actual useless.
I surely know that it can stand for Digital Rights Management which has more or less fixed definition. But I meant it in a broader sense of Digital Restrictions Management concept, which can easily include CD copy protection.
All I can say is....
EDIT: By the way, you can disconnect the Egosoft games from Steam by downloading and running an Egosoft supplied binary.
Either authentication via Steam or 3rd-party DRM - but none is actually really required to publish on Steam.
IIRC, Steel Storm provided a native Linux binary via Steam for years.
You could just run it from the folder without running Steam, which didn't even exist on Linux back then.
But the thing is among gamers Steam's DRM is well respected as it is seen as the least intrusive and often is combined with other features such as achievements and multiplayer matchmaking and the like. Steam's DRM does not limit installs or the like, nor does it require constant connection to the internet, the problem is that SOME games on Steam use other forms of more intrusive DRM either instead of or in addition to that provided by Steam. There is even a community maintained online list of all games with 3rd party DRM on them. Steam has an offline mode so that if you lose your internet connection you can still play your games, it also has a feature that allows you to back up your library of games to DVD's and the like.
About the only restriction Steam's DRM provides is the inability to play a game on multiple systems simultaneously. But you can install a game on as many systems as you like. I actively boycott any game that requires a constant online connection and/or has hardware authentication and/or limited installs/authentications and/or uses Microsoft's Games For Windows Live or EA's Origin for their DRM. But I will more than happily get a game that uses Valve's Steamworks so long as there is no 3rd party DRM.
To clarify for games using Steam's DRM, yes you do need Steam running in the background and it will be launched when running the games executable. But it is pretty lightweight and totally unobtrusive and offers a number of features such as community chat.
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I see. Still, I'd rather support distributors who don't encourage (or even strongly discourage) any DRM usage. For example GOG doesn't accept games with DRM at all. They simply only sell DRM free games. Humble Bundle also are DRM free. These are kind of distributors which I like to support. Even though GOG didn't get to shipping Linux games yet. (Feel free to vote for it).
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Winston is tempted at Ladurée, original art, 9" x 12"
At the same time it's a chance to comparison shop for Canneles...
You can never say that the French do not show you the prices...
What does 1 E 45 (pain aux amandes) mean? 1.45 euros? Or?
Just like $4 gallon gasoline, I find the notion of a $6 doughnut much easier to resist than a fifty-cent doughnut............
The delicacies are tempting indeed, but at those prices, easier to resist!
I knew the phrase translated to "window licking" but had forgotten the literal french for it. thanks for the reminder!ReplyDelete
1 Euros 45
according to Google
Not bad in my opinion for a PAIN AUX AMANDES
You won't find any French pastries in New York at that prix...
I miss your macarons and minis. Could we revisit those once and a while?ReplyDelete
I am a huge fan of your blog, Thanks. I stopped reading newspaper
comic strips years ago but someone at my job left the strip "Non Sequitur" was a single panel with a
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And, Paris is the perfect place to do lèche vitrine, isn't it?ReplyDelete
ah! cannelles! ahhh i want one now.
haha i do go crazy whenever i see the word "patisserie". i have to stop everything i am doing and enter it no matter what.
oh...i love the cannelés bordelais!
when i go to Paris, it's my 1st sweet treat at pâtisserie Stohrer, rue Montorgueil...
i tried once to make some but..hum...
ce n'était pas du tout la même chose!
Such cruel photos when you are off the carbs. However it tastes like Paris. And that is a good thing.ReplyDelete
That looks so delicious, seductive ... every day I would eat something like this. Beam me up....please. ManuelaReplyDelete


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Monday, November 19, 2012
It was 17 years ago tonight (November 19th, 1995) that The Beatles Anthology premiered on ABC-TV. The three surviving Beatles, with the full cooperation of John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono, teamed up to produce the mini-series, which featured contemporary interviews with Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, as well as archival interviews with Lennon.
The project actually began almost immediately after the group's breakup in the spring of 1970. The Beatles' late right-hand man, Neil Aspinall, began compiling raw footage for the documentary, which was originally going to be called The Long And Winding Road. The project, which was always on the group's back burner, was even mentioned by Lennon during a 1980 deposition in a lawsuit against the producers of the Broadway musical Beatlemania. Lennon went on record at the time as saying that the group would eventually reunite to cap off the documentary.
Flash forward 25 years, to when the group's story was spread out over three nights, with the first night world premiering the first all-new Beatles song in over 25 years, called "Free As A Bird." The song was originally an unfinished home demo recording by Lennon from 1977. In 1994, at McCartney's request, Yoko Ono presented the former Beatles with a total of four Lennon demos. Along with "Free As A Bird," McCartney, Harrison, and Starr recorded another Lennon song called "Real Love."
Although the trio decided to pass on embellishing on the already released Lennon demo of "Grow Old With Me" -- there is a third unfinished Lennon track laying in the Beatles' vaults, featuring their aborted attempt to flesh out the late-'70s demo of "Now And Then" -- also known as "I Don't Want To Lose You."
For their digital "reunion," the group used Lennon's piano and lead vocal as the basis for the tracks to complete two "all new" Beatles songs. "Free As A Bird" was released as a single in November 1995 and reached Number Six. "Real Love" was released in February 1996 and peaked at Number 11.
In the new documentary, Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO, producer Jeff Lynne recalled the scene on February 11th, 1994 when the surviving Beatles reconvened at McCartney's recording studio to begin working on the Anthology reunion tracks: "It was all the three of 'em, they hadn't been in the same room for years. And so I'm just sittin' there with 'em, it's just like, 'Wow! I'm in the Beatles' club and they're having a club meeting and having a reminisce!' It was just superb! It was like, Hamburg stories, all the Liverpool stories -- it was just magnificent! And I was willing to sit there forever and not do a bit of work and just listen to these stories."
Paul McCartney recalled some of the technical hurdles the group faced while turning Lennon's demos into professional records: "So when we got in the studio, we had this cassette of 'Free As A Bird' -- very bad quality. It was just a mono cassette, with John and the piano locked in on one track, which nobody would normally deal with, you'd just think, 'I can't deal with this,' but the song was so strong that we overcame those technical difficulties -- or rather Jeff Lynne did, who was producing."
As always, it was Lennon in the Anthology, through archival interviews, who was most honest and revealing regarding his emotions at the group's eventual split: "It takes a lot to live with for four people over and over for years and years, which is what we did. And we called each other every name under the sun, we got to blows, we've been through the whole damn show. We know where we're at -- we still do. We've been through the mill together for more than 10 years, y'know? We've been through our therapy together many times, y'know?"
One Beatle who was excluded from the Anthology was original drummer Pete Best. Although Best actually received a substantial payday for the 10 songs featuring him on The Beatles Anthology 1, he eventually used Anthology director and longtime McCartney filmmaker Geoff Wonfor to produce his own retrospective, the 2005 DVD Best Of The Beatles. We asked Best if he was ever approached to participate in -- even in a non-appearing role -- The Beatles Anthology: "No, at the end of the day, that was their story as they wanted to tell it. I realized somewhere along the line that, y'know, whichever way they were gonna tell it, they weren't gonna dwell too much on me because it most probably would've caused complications. And I think that's primarily why it was about them. They wanted to tell their particular story and of course that left it wide open that my story -- and the early days -- to be told from the other point of views as well, and that's what the (Best Of The Beatles) DVD does."
The same week as the Anthology TV premiere, the Beatles released the first of three double-CDs, also called The Beatles Anthology. The discs featured dozens of outtakes, rehearsals, demos and live appearances, from the group's first recording of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day" in a makeshift recording studio in the spring of 1958, to the group's last recording session on January 4th, 1970.
All three volumes, released between November 1995 and August 1996, debuted on the charts at Number One. In the history of rock n' roll, no other band has achieved that feat -- especially 25 years after their break-up.
The book version of The Beatles Anthology was released in 2000 with the tome debuting at Number Two on The New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. McCartney was very pleased with the book's success and sees it -- and the expanded program's DVD release -- as the culmination of the band's chronicles: "It's beautiful, yeah. No, I'm very proud. I think it was really good. It was nice, you know, 'cause the Anthology's a huge sort of affair, and it's nice that it's a reasonable price so it's kinda quite accessible to people. I've had a lot of good feedback off it, a lot of people who really love it."
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I can still see my dad's cardiologist (a doctor who specializes in treating the heart) pointing to an x-ray of Dad's clogged artery saying, "This is the one we call the widow maker." Lucky, for my dad his doctor tracked down the cause of his shortness of breath and unclogged his artery. There are four leading conditions that make your parents susceptible to heart attacks. Here's a nutshell explanation of each, with some tips on how your mom and dad can keep clear of these widow makers.
High Blood Pressure
Of all things that will put your parent at risk—high blood pressure is the "big one." It's also the one they can do something about. Imagine your garden hose hooked up to a fire truck. The pressure shooting through the hose would wear it thin in no time. Now imagine a small pump at the end of the hose trying to redirect the high-pressured water through other small hoses. Any bets on how long the pump can handle the pressure? In a less dramatic way, this is what high blood pressure does to your parent's heart. It's the continuous, high-pressured rush of blood flowing through blood vessel walls (hose-like arteries and veins) that wear them down to a point where they can tear or leak.
Blood pressure readings measure the force of blood coursing through your arteries. There are two numbers. Mine usually comes in at 110/80 (unless I've just read my teenage son's report card). The first number is the systolic blood pressure. It reads the force of the blood pressing up against the arteries in the arm with the blood pressure cuff on. The second or bottom number (diastolic) reads the pressure that remains in the arteries when the heart is relaxed. High numbers aren't good: consistently hitting 160 on the systolic is a sure sign to get to the doctor. Check with your doctor on what's considered high for your parent's age and weight.
Just about every drug store and even grocery stores have one of those cool machines where for a few quarters your mom can stick her arm in a tube and get a digital blood pressure reading. However, these machines may not be reliable, so if the reading is unusually high, follow it up with a reading from your family doctor. A blood pressure cuff also makes a great gift if your parent is homebound. Ask your family doctor or medical supply store if they can recommend a good, reliable brand for home use. Bottom line? There's no excuse for not knowing your blood pressure.
Reducing salt can bring down and control your high blood pressure. I'm not just talking about the table salt you sprinkle on your food. You'd be shocked at the salt (or sodium) content in many packaged or processed foods. Controlling weight, managing stress, and taking medications can also bring down the pressure levels. Diuretics are commonly prescribed because they take out salt and water from the circulatory system and send them off to the urinary system. Any medication has to be closely monitored by a physician so that other conditions your parent has aren't adversely affected. No matter what, a salty diet has to go and blood pressure checks should become routine. African-American families, especially, should be on high alert for high blood pressure because your parents are more likely than others to have high blood pressure.
Let's go back to our garden hose example for a moment. Imagine fatty, sticky stuff stuck to the inside of the hose. There you are with your Martha Stewart garden gloves trying to water your prized red geraniums. A pathetic stream of water dribbles out. Cholesterol is the fatty sticky stuff stuck to your mom's blood vessels. When this stuff reaches a level that actually clogs the vessels, it's given a name: atherosclerosis. Cholesterol readings can tell your mom how much of this stuff is in her system. Your mom is at more risk of this if she smokes, has high blood pressure or diabetes, or is obese. If that's the case, it doesn't hurt to have her cholesterol checked once a year. If your mom's vessels get too clogged, that pathetic stream will cause real havoc with her heart.
Cholesterol hides out in animal products: meat, poultry, seafood, organ meats, eggs, and dairy products such as butter and cheese. One egg yolk will just about blow one day's healthy limit of cholesterol.
To reduce the risk of artherosclerosis a low cholesterol diet is the way to go. But don't go over the top on your mom. Changing lifelong food habits is tough. She's been slowly building up the fatty sticky stuff over a lifetime. The deal is to get her to cut down on fats one step at a time. Most experts think that no more than 30 percent of our calories should come from fats. Today, your mom can easily determine how much fat she's getting by checking out the fat breakdown on the packaging of food products.
Want to practice what you preach? Reduce your own fat intake. According to the American Heart Association, there are two kinds of cholesterol:
- The "good" kind is called high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Your body makes HDL on its own for your protection. It's believed to actually carry cholesterol away from artery walls.
- "Bad" cholesterol, known as low-density lipoprotein (LDL), clogs the arteries and increases your risk for heart attacks.
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