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Protodeacon Peter DanilchickAncient Faith Radio (AFR) has released an interview titled "Correcting a Canonical Anomaly." AFR's Website explains that "One Bishop per city or region is what the canons call for. Yet, here in North America we have multiple bishops in one location. The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops is working to correct that, and today we speak with Protodeacon Peter Danilchick (Orthodox Church in America) who is the liaison for the Canonical Regional Planning Committee. Learn about the importance of this task and how long it will take to get it done."
For more information on this issue, visit AFR's documentary section and the page, "Unravelling Chambesy."
On Saturday in the Fourth Week after the Octave of Easter on June 8, 2013, His Grace Bishop John ordained Subdeacon James Tochihara to the office of Deacon at St. Mark's Orthodox Church in Denver, CO, . Deacon Patrick is assigned to St. Mark in Denver. Three young men were also ordained Readers. Father John Connely celebrated Mass following the ordinations. Axios! Ad multos annos! Many Years!
On the Feast of Pentecost on June 23, at St. Peter's Orthodox Church in Ft. Worth, TX, His Grace ordained Deacon Robert Weber to the Holy Priesthood. Father Robert is the non-stipendiary curate at St. Peter, and Fr. Daniel Keller sponsored Father Robert for ordination. Axios! Ad multos annos! Many Years!
On Ember Saturday in Pentecost, June 29 at the Parish Life Conference (PLC) for the Diocese of Worcester and New England, His Grace Bishop John ordained Subdeacon Benjamin Kjendal to the Holy Diaconate. Then on Trinity Sunday, June 30, His Grace ordained Deacon Benjamin Kjendal to the office of Priest in the Orthodox Church. Father Benjamin is assigned to St. Stephen Orthodox Church in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Richard Ajalat, Assistant Youth Director, Basilica of St. Mary, reports:
The Antiochian Orthodox Basilica of Saint Mary in Livonia, MI, praises God for all His blessings, as the Lord provides us with multiple opportunities to serve our beloved children—God's inheritance. They are our greatest gift from the Lord.
Every summer, the Basilica of St. Mary hosts both a weekly "Camp St. Mary" ministry program for our children 13-17 years of age, and a one- week Vacation Bible School ministry program for children 3-12 years of age. The goal of the summer programs is to teach the children the meaning of Christ's two greatest commandments: to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. All the activities are designed to instill these spiritual truths into the lives of our children by teaching them how to be strong in their faith, and how to represent Christ to the world.
In July of 2013, the Orthodox Christian Network (OCN) is featuring the evangelistic theme titled "Faith and Nations," an exploration of "...the richness of the diversity within the Orthodox World," notes OCN's website. On the podcast "Journey to Orthodoxy," convert to Orthodox Christianity Christa Belyaev shares how she fell in love with Russian culture, went to Russia to win converts to Protestantism, and instead found the Orthodox faith.
Continuing this monthly theme, Fr. Bill Mills shares excerpts from his book Baptize All Nations on the podcast "Theologically Thinking. The book refers to the Gospel of Matthew readings which the Church proclaims throughout the summer months.
View OCN's video newsletter for a further explanation of July's theme.
(photo: U.S. Forest Service)July 2, 2013As the communities of Prescott and Yarnell, Arizona, mourn the loss of 19 firefighters and the destruction of 200 buildings by the wildfires that have already scorched 8,400 acres and are still raging out of control in the area northwest of Phoenix, please join IOCC in praying for the impacted families and lost loved ones.
IOCC has been in contact with the Orthodox community in the affected area as well as its ecumenical partners, and at the request of the local Orthodox priest, has sent a team of its Frontline trauma counselors to assist in spiritual and emotional care as well as further assess the emerging needs for any appropriate future responses that IOCC might offer.
For more information or to find out how you can help, visit the IOCC's Website.
Calling all parents, Sunday School teachers, youth workers, parish priests, and Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) alumni!
OCF is in the midst of collecting names for its First Forty Days program and it needs the help of each parish, to help high school graduates seamlessly join the OCF network. First Forty Days aims to integrate new collegians into the life of an OCF chapter during the first forty days of college. Please submit student information on OCF's website by June 30th to ensure that each students will be directly contacted by the OCF North American Office and greeted on his or her college campus by an OCF family and local parish at the beginning of the fall semester.
Questions? Please contact North American Chapter Relations Coordinator Christina Andresen at firstname.lastname@example.com.
June 28, 2013
The Fellowship of Orthodox Christians United to Serve (FOCUS) writes:
Imagine if you or your children could not attend school or stay healthy because you did not have a sturdy pair of shoes. Children should be able to have the freedom to run and play with durable soles and their feet protected. Throughout the country, children who are experiencing homelessness and poverty have inadequate or no shoes at all, which leads to being unable to go to school, participate in sports, play on the playground, and pose numerous health risks.
In response, FOCUS is launching Operation: Lace Up, a national shoe distribution program that will begin in the summer of 2013. Hundreds of thousands of children affected by homelessness and poverty will receive two new pairs of high-quality shoes each year. The goal of the program is to ensure that all school-age children have comfortable, properly-fitting shoes and are able to attend school. Operation: Lace Up will work with public school districts in 28 metropolitan areas across the United States to reach kids in need.
The first shoe distributions will begin in August 2013, in preparation for the new school year. Details are available on the FOCUS website.
Antiochian Village announces that "Session One of camp is underway and the campers are loving it...all thanks to God. This year we are using a new website for our photography and we are excited to provide the campers and parents, per request, with many more photos from every day this summer! At present we have our 2013 Family Camp album and our Staff Training Week album full uploaded. The Session One Album is up and running and we are keeping it updated with hundreds of pictues every day!"
View the Family Camp Album
View the Staff Training Week Album
View the Session One Album
The Archdiocese has received the following authoritative information:
"Executive Order 13528, signed by President Barack Obama on 17 August 2011, includes an exemption under General License No. 6 authorizing U.S. registered financial institutions the ability to transfer funds to individuals in Syria. Attached is a copy of General License No. 6 signed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). As parishioners encounter challenges in transferring funds, they may provide this documentation to their financial institution or call OFAC's hotline (202) 622-2480. It is important to have all relevant information on the intended transaction, including the names of the financial institutions in the U.S. and Syria."
June 26, 2013
Beloved in Christ,
May God grant you many years!
I wanted to remind you about some excellent Orthodox educational opportunities that are presently available to you and the beloved of your dioceses. Next week there will be a Parish Life Conference in Eastern Pennsylvania. I strongly recommend that you pass this on to the faithful. If they have the opportunity to participate, they will never regret it.
Information about the conferenceInformation about the speakers
Secondly, there are a number of Orthodox parochial schools and camping programs that are available to your young people in the United States. The number is surprising. If you're interested in looking into this in the future, a list can be secured from Fr. Joseph Purpura (firstname.lastname@example.com) or through the Department of Camping.
By Dr. Doreen D'Angelo
Dorothy Elizabeth Rothman Fluty passed away on June 16, 2013 at the age of 96. She was a member of St. Mary's Orthodox Church in West Palm Beach, FL. Dorothy was pre-deceased by her loving husband, Nicholas Michael Fluty (Flutie), who was born in Lebanon and passed away in 1984.
She was born in the Bronx, New York in 1916, where she lived with her parents, Nathan & Carrie-Ethel Rothman. Most people didn't know that our mother Dorothy was of Jewish background (both parents). One day she and I sat down and had a serious discussion. She wanted what I had, and I said, "Momma, what do I have that you want."? She said she noticed that I could handle situations that were coming my way with a godly attitude, something she never experienced in her life up till that point. I told my momma, that we can talk with Dad and see about her taking lessons and being baptized into the Orthodox Church Dad belonged to. I was Catholic, and my Dad was Orthodox, so it only seemed fitting to choose my Dad's church.
Mother, for the first time in her life, belonged, and she soon volunteered for everything she could possibly do for the church. Momma gained many friends who are still remembering her and the wonderful selflessness she put forth in all she did. Dorothy (Momma) has two children: her loving daughter Dr. Doreen D'Angelo, and Fred, her younger child. Both have been married for many years to their loving spouses: Doreen's husband is Joseph D'Angelo, and Fred's wife is Ann Fluty. Doreen and Joseph have four children. Fred and Ann have no children. She also had two Grandchildren, Stephanie, and Stephen. Two Great Grandchildren, Joey and Nina (from Canada). A Great-Great Grandchild named Talia (from Canada). Dorothy also has two step-Grandchildren named, Darlene & Francene D'Angelo (son, Chris).
Fr. Anthony MillerHis Grace Bishop Basil writes:
MEMORY ETERNAL! Our beloved and highly esteemed brother and concelebrant in the sacred mysteries Fr. Anthony Miller, proistamenos at St. Peter Church in Fort Worth, Texas, fell asleep in Christ around midnight after a long and heroic battle with cancer at the age of 54. Fr. Anthony is survived by his wife Khouriya Kim and their three children Carla, Luke and Matthew. Fr. Anthony was also the spiritual advisor for the Order of St. Ignatius in the Diocese of Wichita.
Faruk and baby daughter Mona, named after her late mother. Mona's mother lost her life four days after giving birth. Photo: Jennifer Romanos/IOCCInternational Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) marks World Refugee Day in remembrance of the sacrifices made by refugee families all over the world.
June 19, 2013
Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — When violent clashes suddenly erupted in his Aleppo neighborhood, Faruk, 33, his pregnant wife, Mona, and their three children left their home in Syria and the only life they had ever known to make the exhausting, 160-mile trek to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Arriving safe but penniless and alone in a foreign land, the former construction worker fashioned a small shelter out of scavenged scrap metal for his family. The long and difficult journey made Mona seriously ill. Faruk took her to several hospitals in search of help, only to be turned away from each one because he couldn't pay for her care.
With his wife's life at stake, he pleaded with strangers for any help they could give and eventually scraped together enough money to cover the hospital fees. Mona gave birth to a little girl, but the long journey and harsh living conditions in their makeshift home took their toll on her weakened body and she passed away four days later. A devastated Faruk, who left Syria out of fear for the safety of his family, was now a widower filled with a new fear – how to care for a newborn and three more children with no means to support them.
Letter sent to President Obama
June 11, 2013
President Barack ObamaThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Ave.Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
We write you as leaders of Christian Churches Together in the USA, an organization comprised of 43 denominations and organizations representing the full spectrum of Christian faith - Catholic, historic Protestant, Evangelical/Pentecostal, Orthodox, and Historic Black churches. We wish to share with you our deepest concern over the kidnapping of two prominent archbishops in Syria, Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi of Aleppo and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim of Aleppo. As you know, they have been missing since April 22, and the driver of their car, a deacon in the Syriac Orthodox Church, was killed.
The members of our churches and organizations deeply lament the ongoing and horrible tragedy in Syria, with the deaths of tens of thousands, the displacement of millions, and the bitter sectarian hostility which seems to grow daily. Our prayers for comfort are with all who suffer, and our prayers for wisdom and courage are with all who are working for peace.
But we are addressing you in particular about the fate of these two courageous and well-loved Archbishops in Syria because of what they mean to the Christian community in that country and around the world. While we understand that there may be limitations on what the U.S. government can do directly to secure their release, we also know that the U. S. and its allies have considerable influence with a number of governments and factions on the ground who could make a difference in the fate of these two kidnapped church leaders. The fact that they were traveling on a humanitarian mission makes this matter all the more tragic and horrific.
Presentations addressed relationship between liturgical music and iconography
Joensuu, Finland – The Fifth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music was held 3-9 June 2013 here, at the School of Theology, University of Eastern Finland. The conference, hosted by the International Society for Orthodox Church Music (ISOCM), featured participants from fifteen different countries presenting papers on a variety of topics related to the conference's overall theme of "Church Music and Icons: Windows to Heaven."
"This year's conference built on the four previous, and also expanded our range, in linking the discussion of church music with iconography," said the Rev. Ivan Moody, board chairman of ISOCM, "Not only were musicians discussing their work and its relationship to icons, but we also had a number of joint sessions in which musicologists and iconologists presented their work together."
The week-long gathering affirms the mission of ISOCM as a place in which like-minded people can come together and share their vision, and learn from others. Conference participants included musicologists, singers, directors, graduate students, composers, researchers, iconographers, iconologists, and those who have an appreciation of the liturgical arts. "One of the highlights of conferences hosted by ISOCM is the gathering of participants from around the world," said Deacon Petri Nykänen, vice-chair of the ISOCM board. He added, "The presentations were of the highest caliber, and coupled with the divine services provided each of us with the opportunity to worship, learn, and sing together."
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese reports:
The Communications Department of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA) have launched www.faithandsafety.org, a resource for adults to help children safely navigate online. The website and complementary social media channels (Twitter and Facebook) address safe use of the Internet, mobile devices and other technology, emphasizing the positive use of technology to support children's faith.
Doreen Essey + June 8, 2013Doreen E. Essey, of Monessen PA, died June 8, 2013, at the age of 77. She was the daughter of the late George and Eva Nyrhinen Stofka. Doreen is survived by her husband of 58 years, George Essey, the choir director and cantor at St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Church: a son, George (Marian) : daughters Lori and Susan: eight grandchildren: eleven great-grandchildren: sister Donna Dudas (Richard): brother-in law Samuel Essey (Elmunda). Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her in-laws, Esper and Rashida Essey: brothers-in-law Norman and Gerald Essey: niece, Linda Essey.
After graduation from Monessen High School with the Class of 1953, Doreen worked in the Darling Shoppe and then became a full time homemaker. She loved and adored her children, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and excelled in the art of Syrian cooking until her stroke in 2005. Mrs. Essey was very active in her church, St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Church of Monessen, PA, serving as secretary and treasurer of the Ladies Society, and a member of the Parish Council during the purchase of the present church on Patton Ave. Friends were received at the Robert Billick Funeral Home, Monessen, on Tuesday, June 11. Trisagion services were held at 7:30, with The Rev. Fred Pfeil officiating. Funeral services were held at St Michael AOC. 1201 Patton Ave., Monessen, Wednesday, June 12, at 10:30 AM.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggest that memorial donations be made to St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Church, c/o 189 Pacific Blvd, Monessen, PA 15062.
One of the early pioneers of Antiochian Village, Eddie Joseph, or "Cuz" as he was affectionately known, fell asleep in the Lord on June 12, 2013. Eddie was the athletic director (now known as the Afternoon Program Coordinator) for many years in the early years of the camp. A lifelong member of St. Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Johnstown, PA, Eddie sang in the choir and was a member of Order of St. Ignatius
Service information is as follows: Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, June 14, at the Frank Duca Funeral Home, Westmont Chapel, 1622 Menoher Blvd., Johnstown, where Trisagion prayers will be sung at 7 p.m. Trisagion prayers will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home with the funeral service following at St. Mary's Antiochian Orthodox Church with The Very Rev. Father Donald E. Shadid officiating. The Joseph family has requested that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Antiochian Village Camp as part of the Edward Joseph Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Read the full obituary here.
On the most recent Ancient Faith Radio (AFR) podcast "In the Valley of the Shadow of Death," Fr. David Alexander, a chaplain with the United States Marine Corps, gives his listeners a window into his life with the Marines of his battalion, where in the midst of the stresses of military life in Afghanistan, he struggles to be a shepherd. A priest of the Antiochian Archdiocese, Fr. David has been a military chaplain for five years. His wife, Heather Maria, and his daughter, Eve Marie, reside in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
In the most recent three episodes, Fr. David movingly recalls for his listeners the Paschas he has spent in Afghanistan, describing the services he celebrated on the American base in Kandahar at a very unique Romanian chapel.
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FOCUS North America, a national, Orthodox non-profit organization that provides sustainable services to the homeless and working poor of America, is looking for a National Program Intern. The Program Internship will provide practical, hands-on project management training and skills development in the context of a multi-million dollar community engagement and distribution program implemented in more than 20 cities across the United States.
This is a high-level internship that requires a high-performance and driven individual who is seeking to gain a deep understanding of community and volunteer engagement, and the federally-mandated social services framework. Qualified candidates who are interested in domestic or international social services, social entrepreneurship, or community development programs is encouraged to apply.
The intern will be stationed in FOCUS' office in Orange County, California, with some national travel required to speak on behalf of FOCUS/promote FOCUS activities. FOCUS will pay for all program-related travel expenses and will, in addition, provide a fixed monthly stipend to the successful candidate. To apply, please send cover letter and resume to: firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information, view the job description.
May 29, 2013
A World Council of Churches (WCC) conference, "Christian Presence and Witness in the Middle East," has issued a joint statement calling churches and ecumenical actors to commit themselves to support one another in prayers and actions to support the Christian presence and witness in the Middle East. The statement was an outcome of discussions engaging representatives of the ecumenical organizations in the Arab world. Held at the Notre-Dame du Mont Monastery, the conference included patriarchs, heads of churches, and representatives of every Christian church in the Middle East, along with Christian churches and organizations from 34 countries.
In this context, the statement called the churches to "continue to be involved in the building of democratic civil societies, based on the rule of law, social justice and respect for human rights, including religious freedom....this is a time for action, for a new vision of Christian cooperation in the region, for recommitment to Christian Muslim engagement, for engagement with Jewish partners also working for peace and justice, expressing our Christian vocations by working together to express mutual support and solidarity." The full text is available here.
This week on Come Receive The Light, the flagship program for the Orthodox Christian Network (OCN), Executive Director The Very Rev. Chris Metropulos speaks with Khouria Maggie Hock, director of Marriage and Parish Family Ministries for the Antiochian Archdiocese. The June 2013 theme, "Being Heard," deals with the art of listening, and learning to listen to the right voices.
With that as the emphasis, Kh. Maggie Hock offers her thoughts in the first podcast in the series, "Talking without Gossiping," about how to discuss difficult situations without gossiping. "St. Theophan writes about curiosity as a sin—having to know everything without it being useful," notes Kh. Maggie. "Gossip is a form of inappropriate curiosity....This happens so often on the telephone, in emails, in social media—very much!—and just in general in social situations. Wherever a person is tempted to do this, or feels drawn into this passion, it's important that they recognize that, and they find a way to practically stop it."
Listen to the podcast on OCN
Project Mexico and St. Innocent Orphanage of Tijuana, Mexico, have announced a celebratory anniversary gala to be held in Southern California later this summer. "As we conclude our 25th year building hope in Mexico, we find ourselves with much cause to celebrate! Our 25th Anniversary Gala will be hosted on Saturday, August 24, 2013, at the beautiful Grand Tradition Estate in Fallbrook, California. Please join us for an elegant evening of celebration and giving thanks to God for keeping us under His loving arm, allowing us to continue serving those in need."
Since 1988, Project Mexico has ministered in three primary ways:
An internship program began in 1993 as a way for young people to give a few months to one year in service. Interns have helped with everything from work trips to projects at the orphanage to administrative tasks. Additionally, over 10,000 volunteers from forty-three of fifty states and eleven foreign countries, including many teams from Antiochian parishes, have come to give of themselves and have been blessed in return.
The clock is ticking—register for the 51st Antiochian Archdiocese Convention!
Space is Limited, Don't miss out!
St. George Orthodox Church of Houston, with Fr. James Shadid, are the 2013 hosts for the 51st Biennial Antiochian Archdiocese Convention. Themed "The End of History...The Last Judgment," the convention will take place at the Hilton Americas Hotel, Houston's largest with over one thousand guest rooms.
Khouria Soad K. Estefan, January 29, 1925 - May 26, 2013
Khouria Soad K. Estefan, widow of Archpriest John (Juan) Estefan, passed away peacefully in the comfort of her daughter's home with her family at her side. Now she rests in the everlasting arms of her faithful Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Soad Estefan is survived by sons, Salam J. (Sue) and Elias; daughters, Salwa Crosby (Jim), Sanaa Wells (Rick) and Soad Clark (Steve); 14 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren and many loving nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends Thursday, May 30 from 7-9 p.m. and a Trisagion service will be held at 8:00 p.m. at the Ofield Funeral Home, 4500 Kalamazoo SE, . Services will be held at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, 334 LaGrave Ave. SE, on Friday, May 31st at 11am. Interment Kent Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions can be made to St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in memory of Soad K. Estefan. A special thank you is offered to Spectrum Hospice, Fr. John Winfrey of Grand Rapids and Fr. George Shalhoub of Livonia, MI. An online registry book is available at the Ofield Funeral Home's website.
Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press on May 28, 2013


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There is currently no system-quick suite, but if you propose a suite with what tests to include and such, I would be happy to make it. Or if you run: phoronix-test-suite build-suite you can create the suite and I would be glad to push it upstream.
I am getting a new computer soon, and of course I am drooling about overclocking and stuff ;-)
Long story short, I installed PTS in my old machine to start playing. I think the easy access to global and how you can make comparisons with online results is incredibly cool and useful.
What I found lacking is in usability for someone who wants a quick test. Anyone used geekbench? It is a pleasure. Click, download, run, and you get a score for your machine. And you get in a minute or two in a slow machine. Granted, it is lacking disk and graphics performance, but I think we could use something like this. I have some ideas, and I am planning to post in the sticky thread for this forum (PTS). But I wonder if such a quick and to the point suite already exists? I saw a bunch of "sys performance" suites, but they involve 100Mb or more of downloads, and many dozen minutes of runtime. Am I missing something?
Thanks so much Michael and all for the great work!
There is currently no system-quick suite, but if you propose a suite with what tests to include and such, I would be happy to make it. Or if you run: phoronix-test-suite build-suite you can create the suite and I would be glad to push it upstream.
Great, Michael. What I had in mind was a bit more involved. I think we could aggregate results with some sort of an average, maybe geometric mean:
What we would average is the score of each component:
- CPU_S = Single Core CPU, indirectly measures memory speed/bandwidth
- CPU_M = Multiple Core CPU, also measures memory
- DISK = hard drive read/write performance.
- GRAPH_2D = 2D Performance
- GRAPH_3D = 3D Perfomance
Is something like this doable in this framework?
In this mixture you get contributions from the speed of each processor per se (useful when you run single threaded apps), multithreaded speed, and so for. I though memory is already included in the two CPU tests, so adding a memory test separately would give memory itself too much weight.
For tests measured as "lower is better", we would output as a score the inverse of this number. For instance, if the output is execution time, we would output 1 divided by that time (a "frequency").
Also, for the numbers to make sense, scores would need to be normalized to some benchmark machine. In that machine, the score is 1. Maybe a single core older machine you have hanging around ;-)
A natural byproduct would be to have a system-quick-cli with the first three contributions and a system-quick-gui with the other two.
Ah, okay.
Yes, it can be done (well, it needs to be implemented within pts-core, but I should be able to fit it into PTS 2.0). Should all of them be weighted the same then? If we can start a discussion and get others involved in this thread to provide their thoughts and feedback, it would be great so we can settle for a fair, standard composite scoring system.
If you want to start by proposing some tests, that would be good, etc. Well, for CPU_M the best multicore CPU test in my opinion is graphics-magick. For DISK, IOzone is probably the best but that takes a while to run. So perhaps one of the compression suites.
As soon as it's settled for how the scoring should be, etc. I can then work on the needed support within the framework to offer this.
Thanks a lot Michael!
Yes, getting more people involved is important. Maybe you can make this thread sticky until this is settled?
Scoring: correct, we don't need in principle to change the weights. If we wanted, the natural way is to use exponents. For instance, if we want to make the disk twice as important, we would add the disk score to the quare, and then raise the whole thing to the power 1/6 instead of 1/5.
Composition: we can change the number of tests, what components are tested, etc.
The goal: something that runs in a couple minuter in a 2 Ghz single processor, and perhaps a couple more minutes for download and installation of packages (assuming broadband connection). Again, this is flexible, but the idea is to allow people to quickly get a number. For detail analysis we have lots of tests already, and people will keep adding good stuff.
Test candidates:
* For CPU_S I would say Super-Pi, it is the most popular test, fast and single threaded.
* For CPU_M: I tried graphics-magick. Just downloading and installing the test took about 15 minutes in my Sempron 2400+. Way too long for this, we'll need something else.
* Disk: what happen to bonnie? Was it any good? (I never tried it and it's not in PTS 1.8). I agree about IOZone, unless we can call it with arguments to make it faster. And just one iteration, even if we loose some accuracy. People can run the whole test a few times if they want an average, but most people won't care for a quick number.
The Graphics I still couldn't find good candidates. Except perhaps 2D performance: would one of the gtkperf be good for that? I think they measure 2D performance mostly, no?
If things start shaping up I'll keep a clean first post in this thread summarizing the progress.
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One thing that would be nice is for the selected tests to work on Linux, Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, and ideally BSD too.
- Super-Pi. I am not too fond of super-pi. Additionally, the license of super-pi is not clear and it's binary-only. Maybe scimark2 or something similar? Check out the computational suite.
- bonnie disappeared due to a parsing bug I haven't gotten around to fixing. IOzone really isn't accurate though unless the tested size is greater than the system memory size, which ends up needing options or to use some very large size default. As a result, maybe a compression test might end up working better.
gtkperf is good. Or maybe qgears2.
Good point. Also, open source if at all possible. Maybe these core tests could be distributed (the sources) with the PTS, so there is no risk of some of the servers holding the tests being down or slow. Not sure about this, just a thought.
I'll look at the tests you suggested and other tests, and see if other people bring ideas/insight over the next few days. I'll also clean up the original post.
Yeah, you are right, it's much better to keep the test small and download stuff on demand.
I am looking into this.
* For 2D maybe the Circles test in gtk perf seems good, PixBufs seems good and fast too. Of course these are not "real world" test, But I doubt we can get real world tests in graphics. Qgears2 didn'd run here!
* For 3D I am looking at the GL suites, because real wrold tests demand downloading large games, GLMark Cored here. I'll keep looking.
* For disk all I've seen take a long time so far, Including fio. Maybe we can test disk and multicore cpu with a compile (it exercises lots of disj reads and writes). The issue is the time. Compiling Apache (the fastest compile test i've seen) takes 1 minute. Can we fdo just one compilation instead of 4?
* Single processor: scimark2 depends on Java, That;s a biggie, and it also can have issues if your system doesn't have a JIT compiler for Java. But I think we'll find a good single-threaded test which mosly exercises. This way, CPU_S would be mostly 1CPU + MEM, and CPU_M would be MultiCPU + Disk, Seems reasonable. Maybe single threaded music/video encoding would be good for this.
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Hm, why not SLiM?
I think that's a good idea. I can't find any reason to have a DM that fits your desktop suite.
The only thing you may want to have something that matches the appearance of your desktop. That doesn't even need to use the same toolkit (you can do it with styling, I think I can do any appearance with css styling, and there are even things like oxygen-gtk).
Of course, if you change your desktop theme, you may have to update the DM theme also.
The point is : when you're on your DM, you don't yet have your desktop session available, so your theme config is not there (multiuser ).
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This was so much needed. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything that can be shared, should be shared between the different variants.
Thank you!
I hope there will be multiseat support in it as they promised. (1 PC, but with multiple keyboard, mouse, vga, and screen attached to it)
It would be cool for schools, libraries, netcafés, etc...
The last time I could get multiseat X working was in Debian Sarge. GDM became such a pain in the ass in the last years.
A typo here: must be log-in theme.designing a long-in theme in HTML
It has a webkit frontend? Wow, that will be most useful to create awesome log-in themes . I'm going to have a go at it as soon as I can.
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Wow...that is a good question that has been asked from the beginning of time. I'm not sure I could do it justice...but can sure tell you how to mess it up.
If we go by the Biblical definition of it, it would be: "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres." - 1 Cor. 13:4-7 (NIV)
No matter how hard I try, I sure couldn't hit it 100%...I am not patient at times at all and there are days I am easily angered, especially when I'm into a project like painting and I have just splattered paint on my favorite relaxing shoes and the phone rings....which happened today. I had to stop, regroup and then see who was calling on the telephone.
Many years ago I used to think my definition of love was how I wanted someone to treat me and then go through a whole list of things they would or wouldn't do. I had some waking up to do.
Someone else said it here in an earlier post, I had to learn how to love myself first...other wise I was counting on another individual to "make me happy." Happiness is an inside job. When I came to the program and my whole life change, I started learning to love myself, take care of myself, nurture myself and protect myself - even against some of my own faulty thinking, my ideals of what I wanted or "expected" changed.
I started seeing that love is expressed in many different ways...but that's not what the question was here... it was what IS love.
To me love is caring about others. I would say that it is caring about someone else more than I care for myself - but that is the level of love I feel for someone, and may not be a healthy kind of love if I care more for someone who is abusive more than I care about myself.
There are a list of things I can say that are things I could do if I love (care about) someone, such as - respect, am compassionate with, am patient with, spend time with, treat kindly, practice forgiveness, or it could be that I practice tough love, back away from, stop enabling, give space, retreat, and allow them to hit thier bottom.
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Congratulations on finishing your degree. The fact that you have extensive employment experience with a recognized financial firm is a plus. Often, individuals graduate with no full-time paid experience so they are challenged in developing a resume that will distinguish them from the many other new grads who also have not worked. Career Management 101 on ache.org has a module that considers how to develop and use cover letters and resumes. I urge you to give it some attention. What should work to your advantage will be the accomplishments you can list that demonstrate how you have contributed to your employer's success and, hopefully, how you advanced in your time working there. Any internships or practicum or case studies that placed you in live, operating healthcare organizations during your studies deserve mention also as they demonstrate that you are not a stranger to the environment where you seek to work.
Equally important will be creating a grammatically perfect document that looks and reads as professionally prepared as would a document from a recognized investment firm. You may have dashed off your message board posting, but you cannot afford to be so casual in any correspondence or with any document that represents you in your job search.
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The GC changes the code as it is. The difference between a GC and a non GC code is mostly: GC do guarantee that the references are to an either: allocated memory block or to null. In this way simply removing the references in a natural way (like not using the variable anymore) or by explicitly setting it up to null, will make references to be removed.
GC proved to have some good parts and drawbacks. The biggest drawbacks I think are that GC process can be slow, unpredictable, and is memory bandwidth dependent. The biggest features are in code that you don't know what it does, like for example big web frameworks. When you have to do a desktop application, sometimes the code can become messy, (I don't talk about me and you) because are multiple programming styles, broken paradigms, multiple contributors. For this kind of applications, C++ can be painful to be maintained. And for this reason people try to use another paradigms that will remove the small leak from here, the buffer overflow form there. Some may use an SqlLite database, or maybe a shell script to do a specific task, so if that shell script will leak memory, will basically not matter as the process will stop, the process will give back the used memory.
At the end not all GCs are equal. Most GCs are optimized for enterprise, meaning throughput. This means: if the pauses can be overcomed (it is done in most cases with a balancer) what matters is to remove most objects in the shortest time.
Another class of collectors are the D one, or in general the Boehm's ones, meaning they are C based collectors where they scan the stack and are conservative ones. They are the slowest in their class, but they do achieve a safe running program.
But the latest class of collectors are named "cycle collectors" which are mostly used by some JavaScript engines and ActionScript. So by default it is used a reference counting algorithm, and at the end if the GC is triggered, the GC will simply look for dangling cycles. As reference counting algorithms are mostly predictable, will make that the pauses to occur not that often, if ever and the pauses to be smaller. Yet this gives a performance hit over iterating in collections and need to be a tight coupling with compiler.
Is hard to achieve perfect GC and there is a lot of tuning to make it smooth. Is for a server bad when a GC happen in a cluster for a minute? In some way it does, but not to such of a great extend. On the other way is better to have a node be blocked for some time just doing GC if the task is migrated to another node. Is it bad if the GC will happen in a Mono application, like Pinta? Mostly you will not notice it, because the extra big allocations will be made in a non moving collector, so even a picture is referenced (or not referenced) the GC will let it as it was placed in memory. And about the small pauses that may appear at Undo/Redo, most users will not notice that was an extra 0.1 seconds as GC triggered.
What about JavaScript/ActionScript games? There are JavaScript, even Java games that do work just fine (look for Tanki). If you will compare the throughput, will be smaller compared with either C or Java allocators.
At the end the question I think is: if someone can make a well behaving application that works under our expectations, can it use std::strings, or it must use char* because is faster? It have to use direct arrays or STL? I think the answer is in developers' hands, not in complaining users. The same should be done on GCs: use them but when you should. Focus to make all of us (mostly happy), and don't take any rumor is around!


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To be honest I would've rathered something more grounded in the politics of the Empire or the Republic depending on its timeline. But I'll take anything Star Wars, even their version of Sopranos Star Wars Style
With all the news about a new Star Wars film coming out in 2015, the rumbles of a TV Show had all but disappeared. ABC entertainment president Paul Lee told Entertainment Weekly that he is going to look into the possibility of bringing the long talked about series to TV.
"We'd love to do something with Lucasfilm, we're not sure what yet," Lee exclusively told EW. "We haven't even sat down with them. We're going to look at [the live-action series], we're going to look at all of them, and see what's right. We weren't able to discuss this with them until [the acquisition] closed and it just closed. It's definitely going to be part of the conversation."
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To be honest I would've rathered something more grounded in the politics of the Empire or the Republic depending on its timeline. But I'll take anything Star Wars, even their version of Sopranos Star Wars Style
GL selling Lucasfilm is probably the best thing for this franchise.
Since he was the supreme decision maker, a lot of stuff got held back. I'm looking forward for a different take on the Star Wars that doesn't involve GL. What held this show back was Lucas' stupid reluctance to keep using CG technology. I remember McCallum saying "we're still far ahead because it's too costly to produce this for TV". Uh yeah...creating CG characters for TV or an entire world takes a lot of manpower and of course...time.
Some sci-fi shows proved they don't have to rely on CG. See Farscape for creature effects and see Firefly for the "used Star Wars" look. It can be done on a moderate budget if the right people are working on it.
Glad there are no more Lucas yes men.
Since Disney owns ABC, I could see this happening. The article was taken from Bleeding Cool and one thing mentioned is the ABC SHIELD show. Again, Disney/Marvel is experimenting with a TV show/movie direct tie in. If this works...I could see them going the Star Wars TV route and tie it in with the new movies.
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2 expensive. Even with Disney owning distribution, license etc. $5 million an ep is too much. Budget got 2 come down.
I don't think so Hanso. I would rather see 5 million per episode but a shortened season. Not the standard 22 episodes TV shows have. I find the shortened seasons are usually the best shows out there because there is no filler episode crap.
HBO and Starz. Walking Dead. All small seasons and top quality shows. Even when Lost shotened their seasons, the show got better because they had less filler.
15 episodes at 5 million would be 75 million per season. Sure, it would be the most expensive prime time network TV show ever, but it is Star Wars and would have no shortage of viewers. Not only that but Disney/Lucasfilm would win with other tie-ins to the show (videogames, toys, theme park, etc...)
But the vieweres wouldn't be guaranteed cause its set within the Star Wars universe but its not really Star Wars, ie lightsabers and what not, which is what people associate with the franchise. It'd be a sci fi show and those usually don't pull a lot of viewers. You need 10-15 million viewers per ep, and would that be enough to justify the cost of the show? I don't know cause I don't run a TV network.
I do agree that the tie ins to show and the fact that they wouldn't have to pay anyone cause they own the franchise might offset the price tag of the series. But I don't know if that's enough to make them pull the trigger. Guess we'll see.
5 mill an episode wouldn't make it exactly the most expensive ever, especially if you adjust the dollar a minute average or inflation
The last season of Friends I recall reading cost about 10mil an episode. And there are more than a few recent series although mostly shortlived that cost close to 5 mil. I believe LOST was around 4 mil an episode
The bottom line like hanso said is the ratings since it isn't cable
The series won't see the light of day until after the next film. Star Wars has fallen out of vogue, even in geek circles, after those atrocious prequels. And in the interval, we've had Lord of the Rings and dozens of comic book>film series start up with varying levels of geek adoration. Even Star Trek got an amazingly good reboot. So Lucasfilm really needs to come out of the gate strong to reclaim their fan base and show the world that its galaxy far far away is back in good hands with great stories and characters (not to mention some decent dialogue).
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Local bank donates school supplies to neighborhood schools and organizations
Orland Park, IL (September 24, 2012) –– Marquette Bank, a locally-owned neighborhood bank, wrapped up its Neighborhood School Supplies Drive, which is held annually to benefit local students and neighborhood schools and organizations in need of supplies for the upcoming school year. Supplies were donated by employees, customers and neighbors throughout July and August and were given to nine local schools and organizations in time for the new school year. In addition, 60 backpacks filled with a variety of school supplies were given to local students with specific needs. "Not all families can afford to buy their children all of the required supplies for school. As a neighborhood bank that supports education, we feel that it is important for local students to be prepared for the upcoming school year," Betty Kosky-Harn, Executive Vice President, said. "We would like to thank all of the customers, employees and neighbors that helped make this year's School Supplies Drive a success." Donated school materials were accepted at all 23 Marquette Bank locations throughout the Chicagoland area. Additional supplies were purchased with money raised through Marquette Bank employee fundraising activities.
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International Studies is a unique blend between history, government and culture. Our courses literally cover the globe. We look at countries, their various people groups and their governments. We also view the interactions between the nations through history and in our own day. The concentration provides the interested student with knowledge and preparation for a career in the international arena.
Areas of study include anthropology, world history, sociology, Western humanities and international relations.
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13 Tango Passions for Mandolin and Guitar by Ely Karasik. Arranged by Ronald Grosswiler. For Mandolin. Duets. Dance. Intermediate. Book. 104 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.99379).
ISBN 9780786638123. Dance. 11.75x8.75 inches.
The thirteen compositions contained in this collection were originally self-published by composer/mandolin virtuoso Ely Karasik in three separate volumes: Tango Passions, Tango Moods, and Tango Memories. They were composed specifically to provide repertoire for the guitar/mandolin duo in which the guitar serves as an equal partner and not just accompaniment. Each of these original tangos has a Spanish title suggesting a particular feeling. This publication includes separate parts for the mandolin and guitar as well as a combined score. All of the parts are written in notation only.
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After weeks of Jeff taunting me with carbohydrates … I'm happy to report that it's been 5 weeks on the diet plan I've been following and I haven't cheated a bit! It hasn't been easy, especially because of my LOVE of pizza, but it's been doable and I feel great. Many of you have emailed me for the title of the book I read and the plan – it's the Metabolism Miracle and it was actually written by a woman originally from Taylor, PA! A friend of mine followed the program and had great success … and as a self-proclaimed Carb-aholic, I knew I needed to cut back on the processed foods and carbs. While I miss PIZZA and the convenience of throwing pierogies in the oven with a salad for dinner, I feel so much better laying off of the carbs ... even if it's temporarily to follow this program which limits you to 5 net carbs every 5 hours. If you want more info. on that - check out http://www.themetabolismmiracle.com/ Hope you have a great weekend! John and I are going away to Niagara Falls, Canada to celebrate our first wedding anniversary! Can you believe it's already been a year?! Nuts. I also beat Jeff's guess that we'd be expecting a baby within the first year ... he refuses to believe we're waiting a little bit! ;) XO
Hi! Hope you had a great 4th of July weekend! I tweeted a photo of my famous Jell-O shots and had so many people ask how I made them, so that's what you'll find in this blog. I've been making these red, white, and blue Jell-O shots for a few years and EVERYONE loves them. If you prepare a few days in advance they are REALLY easy to make.
All of the little cups and lids are found at Party City ... it's the Jell-O that's the problem. Finding WHITE Jell-O is a chore, but if you're willing spend a little extra, I found Pina Colada Jell-O on Amazon and that's what I used! (It takes awesome too!) The trick to these jello shots is to let each layer color set in the fridge for an entire day before adding the next layer on top! For first timers - make jello like you normally would, but replace the COLD cup of water, with a cup of vodka or rum! I used a different flavor vodka for each color Jell-O! In all, it takes 3 days to make these ... but trust me, it's totally worth it. They are a total CROWD PLEASER on the 4th of July! Save for next year! :) XO
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to SUMMER and after this LONG freaking WINTER, I'm bringing in the SUMMER FUN ASAP! John and I were talking about having nothing to do Memorial Day weekend and VOILA, his parents texted us that they are going to have a BBQ. Perfect! I was assigned drinks! My favorite! His family has come to expect over-the-topness from me, so I can't disappoint. I quickly did a PINTEREST search for festive beverages for the party. If you're doing it up this weekend - check out these drinks ... perhaps be the party starter and bring them to the party you're attending! For the grown ups (I still think it's weird that I'm considered one of those) a sangria ... and for the kiddos (I'm totally trying one of these too) a red, white, and blue drink!
For the kids: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/202662051956591429/ For the adults: http://welcometomontalvocountry.blogspot.com/2012/06/red-white-and-blue-sangria-white-wine.html


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How to play the film with subtitles in VLC
With Software Freedom Day approaching, we've put together this little guide on how to play the film, Happy Birthday to GNU (starring Mr Stephen Fry), with subtitles for your local language.
It's pretty easy, so let's get started! This guide assumes you're using VLC, if you're using Totem, Xine, Mplayer or Kaffeine, we have help for you as well.
All these instructions are for GNU/Linux systems only, so if you're using Windows or Mac OS X, they may work for you too, but we don't know.
Three steps to subtitled Stephen
- Download the video (get the highest quality version, it's about 127 MB)
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Rename the files for automatic subtitling
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use x86_64 already
Except it isn't the same. The whole point of using the better compression algorithm, is... well... the better compression algorithm. Less downloading, hopefully faster installs, etc. Suddenly i lose out on those benefits just because 1 person in a million has to have it run on a 32MB machine from 1998? That's stupid.
It's the same idea behind the distros mostly require 586 support for thier x86 distros. Some even require 686, while others are at 386. If you argue that they have to stick with something compatible with the 8086 just because you happen to have a machine that old, well, I'm going to tell you to go with LFS or another distro that better fits your needs.
use x86_64 already
There's also the lrzip (Long Range ZIP) tool (interestingly, by Con Kolivas) which has some truly amazing compression ratios. I think it's even being included in libarchive. It's very slow at compressing, but decompressing in quite OK.
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Here's how it works in real life:
Distro1 supports 64MB machines
Distro2 needs 512MB or more for all the "cool features" > runs sluggish > gets derided for sluggishness
Distro2 users think about switching to distro1; find some features missing >complain about distro1 supporting obsolete hardware
If you don't see that, reread this thread! :P
Debian has chosen to support 64 MB machines. Live with it. There are other distros for you to use if you can't.
One might download download all this to help the distribution via bit torrent.. I know Debian has torrent update support for at least one of the repos. Not sure how that works or if any of this would be available past the ISO torrent.
I understood you the first time Great question. Thanks for the post.
At least the decompression could be done as soon as it's downloaded. I think this reflects a general lack of enthusiasm from the developers. I'd like to see a contribution share ratio set up to help improve non-developer contributions where hopefully we could pay developers a market compensation which would give them more time to do stuff like that.
One reason to not install stuff during download is that you could end up with a dead system if something happened. Probably 5% of the systems out there are capable of crashing under load, at least during the summer months, and maybe more for laptops with their $60 dollar cooling fan assembles that are harder to service then the fan belt on a car. I still say it could be done, with a little thought, but I think right now we have devs who are overworked and underpaid, "Captain! She can't take much of this!", and we might have leadership issues same as we do everywhere else -the cream is definitely not rising to the top in our alcohol loving cultures of denial.
The Xbox console game manufacturers PC OS also does it that way too, in serial, all of it. They should have waited until IBM developed it further before running off with it.
I'll have to try Gentoo and see if that actually does anything different. I'm skeptical
Thanks all.
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Yeah it seams more a implementation/time issue then a technical issue. As the current implementation works well going the extra mile for a bit of speed but more complexity might be a strain for the developers working on it.
Enabling completely unrelated operations to proceed in parallel should be much easier than conflicting operations (the mentioned install gnome and uninstall gtk at the same time). One should be able to install ncurses and supertux in parallel if they have nothing in common, or if they would both install the same dep.