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What's the best payment?
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
After predicting which of two earnings streams has the highest currrent value, students use a discounted values table to compare the two earnings streams, discovering that earlier earnings has higher value and that ...
Understanding money: Where is most of my money?
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
This activity uses an Interactive Lecture Demonstration to help students understand the definition of money in a modern economy. Starting with the common misconception that money is coins and currency, the ...
Which U.S. President generated the highest budget deficits?
Sue Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus
Students compare budget deficits and surpluses generated between 1969 and 2008 measured in nominal terms and then as a percentage of GDP.
What is the opportunity cost of attending class?
Sue Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus
Students calculate the opportunity cost of attending one class. The exercise reinforces learning about implicit, explicit and total opportunity costs.
The US economy during your lifetime
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
Students predict the best graphical representation of US real GDP/capita during the last twenty years, choosing from graphs showing: cyclical decline, cyclical change with no net change, cyclical increase, or erratic wide fluctuations. Using actual US data, students graph real GDP/capita to find out the actual pattern: a rising series with periodic dips, not a flat series, a falling series, or a highly erratic series as students often predict. Students then reflect on why this pattern is often misunderstood and why it may not fully describe the well-being of the US population.
The unemployment rate for the class
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
After predicting what the unemployment rate will be for students in the class, a confidential survey modeled on the Current Population Survey questions is used to gather data about each student's employment. Students use this data to measure the class unemployment rate and then assess its accuracy.
Monopoly gas station
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
Students predict then calculate and graph profit-maximizing the price for an isolated, desert monopoly gas station.
Price elasticity of demand survey
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
Students survey class members to estimate the price elasticity of demand for a number of goods and services.
Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
Rochelle Ruffer, Nazareth College
An ILD to help demonstrate the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns using an experiment.
Total Revenue and Price Elasticity of Demand: ILD
Rochelle Ruffer, Nazareth College
This ILD helps students to understand the relationship between total revenue and price elasticity of demand.
Shape of the demand curve
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
A classroom auction reveals reservation prices and a demand curve for an introductory economics course.


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Fort Wayne (incnow.tv)- James Blackmon Sr. isn't commenting on whether he will be leaving Bishop Luers to take the head coaching job at Marion but we do the know the search appears to be wrapped up.
The IBCA website posts job openings on it's website so coaches can go on and see what opportunities are out there. As of today, the job opening at Marion is listed as closed.
Sources continue to maintain to 21Alive that Blackmon will be the one to fill that position and that it will likely be announced at Wednesday's school board meeting.
21Alive first reported the story on Friday that Blackmon was once again going to be returning to his alma mater and would be bringing his two sons with him, James Jr. an IU recruit, and Vijay who is being recruited by IU.
Blackmon left Luers in 2011 to take the Marion job only to have second thoughts and returned as the head of the Knights program a month later.
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refress: 13 lv 4 unit cards (griffin and church paladin opens) = 11
Lawtia: 15 lv 4 unit cards (Night Wing Wyvern, Nightmare Given Form) = 13
Gowen: 16 lv 4 units (Fire Storm Wyvern, Gaia Anaconda, Heierrat Flame Magician, Mage Knight Mercenary ) = 10
Falkrow: 11 lv 4 units (Roc, Ocean Wyvern, Not adding Sea Wyvern) = 9
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A lv 3 card at agility 3 that does 20 dmg to your own unit (guardian) and does 40 max hp dmg and 20 dmg
However, he is agility 3 and thus, automatically fails to eskatia but he has a revive engage.
Remember that level 3 solar kingdom is not playable so think of his usefulness in a mid refress
a lv 3 guy with a massive 70 attack, and 2 agility. He can't kill anyone, but if he remains alive, you can kill 1 with his start skill.
60 hp is pretty useful. however, agility 2 means you'll still have a hard time.
Will be an instant lose against undeads.
Is actually quite solid. except it's a lv 3, which means it's terrible. Level 4 def support cards are rare. Might work if placed with guardian or something.
Divine impact is a 3star card made to deter shades, and deter shades only. It's the turn 2 Recovery powder replaced
A card that helps refress to start without hindrance. So all in all, a good thing. Utterly useless after turn 2 though
Final Traveler / Arius
Utterly useless. Complete and utter trash. Might have been useful if it's a lv 4 with better stats. As it is, useless.
Guardian Captain / Darias
Useless. Guardian is better. Enough said. (if you want to counter this, say when would this card be better then guardian, or even Aivault)
Folrart Tower Shield Soldier
a 4 SP tank investment. 30 def is huge. No lp loss on death. Mixed feelings on this one
Folrart Psycho Shield Soldier
useless. Would be useful if it was level 2 with no attack.
Lion Greatsword Wielder
Actually useful. 1 SP slash is great, refress finally has one. Additional damage is great to clear off support.
Forced Conversion
I have no clue. Probably is useful
Church Nun
GOD DAMN Amazing. Return two random Refess cards of level 6 or below from your Cemetery to your File for 1 SP. holy hell!
Knight of the Church
Amazing. It's like EX: 2nd Shrine Leader / Shathia, only with 1 SP and no pinpoint! 10 def means it won't die to the magic number 40 dmg. Good job on this card.
Light of the True God
Useless. Keeper of Grace / Lucia is better, though riskier, but better.
Genuinly useful: 3 (divine impact, lion greatsword wielder, church nun)
Situationally useful: 3 (Knight of the church, forced conversion, Traitor to God / Leicester + bopors)
Rendered useless due to Def stacking (So many ways to deal with def now): 1 (tower shield soldier)
Mostly useless: 1 (Verlaat)
Utterly useless: 4
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Grand Duke / Myuland
2 sp insta to cem!
50 HP on a level 2 card! (refress max is 45 hp on a level 2)
Situationally useful
General of Crest / Yug
A solid all around card, WITH A GOD DAMN MAX HP BUFFER AND HEALING WITH NO LIMIT?
Dutchy of Crest, The new Solar Kingdom. Yug, the new and improved Ex: lapierre
Holy useful
Keeper of Filth / Garyis
Lololol, undead
Lololololololollol... lv 3 hate. (ah, but I hear something? It hits your own units, you say...)
lololol [b]Vision of Horror[/b], reduce opponent sphere levels by 2, and your own to 0
lolol Stronghold of Chaos
Lolol Miricle fruit.
I'm calling it. Undead, New Meta.
+2 Holy useful
Combat Ogre / Gandar
60 hp, 60 att at price of 1 unit death
Chalking it to situationally useful.
Crest Agent
Eh....... Moderate
Horseman of Pain
Situationally useful
Neglected Soul
I honestly have no idea.. :S But I see it as a very fun anti Magic doll defective
Magic Doll -Adjutant-
Yay another cute magic doll card! And is actually useful as well!
Shambling Corpse
Toad Shaman
Shade's a better open. A new card to counter KP + Divine impact open. I'll place it in useful for the pure reason of different opens.
Dark Revelation
Very situational use. an undead counter, and a very cheap Kill OP Dilate card.
(un)Holy useful: 3
Useful: 3
Situational useful:4
Moderate: 1
Who knows?:1 (neglected soul)
Lawtia sure got a very great deal this set. I'm happy for you guys. Really.
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Kawesa Mukasa is the director of the Solar Connect Association in Kampala, Uganda. His group distributed 10,000 cookers between 1994-2003 in Albertine Rift region. Solar Connect trains trainers and gives regular demonstrations of panel and parabolic solar cookers in Kampala.
News and recent developments
- February 2007: Email report from Kawesa Mukasa: Since last July, we have made some progress in disseminating solar cookers in rural areas of western Uganda. Some three hundred CooKits have have been distributed in the villages of Kikokwa, Ruharo and Orukiga Refugee Settlement in Mbarara District found in western Uganda. Our association is partnering with the KoZon Foundation and we are to disseminate two thousand solar cookers by 30th December 2007 in the above mentioned villages. We now use cassava paste as glue on aluminium foil for Cookits. We make the glue ourselves. The idea is from the KoZon Foundation. We had the previledge to receive Mrs. Clara Thomas and Mr. Henk Crientee from Holland last December (2006) on a solar cooker field visit to our project. They were able to see a clusters of over 70 CooKits from three villages and they were only limited by time, they could have seen many more. One organisation we supported to introduce solar cookers in Eastern Congo called Projet Enviromentale de Virunga (Pevi) is now producing solar cookers independently from the Solar Connect Association but they lack materials. This is the same thing with another one in Burundi called Association Burundais pour la Protection des Oiseaux (ABO) in Bunjumbura-Burundi. They too need cheap aluminium materials and support. We shall be grateful to hear news about your projects and activities. Let us share information actively so as to contribute in our own small way to mitigattion of climate change and conservation of our beautiful forests and savannah woodlands.
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- August 2003: Audio interview with Kawesa Mukasa
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- November 2003: Solar cooking momentum in Uganda - Solar Cooker Review
- August 2003: An audio interview with Kawesa Mukasa - The Solar Cooking Archive
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May 2, 2016
BURLINGTON, N.C. (AP) -- Police in Burlington say a deaf man was stabbed several times after his sign language was mistaken for gang signs by another man.
Sgt. Mark Yancey said 45-year-old Terrance Ervin Daniels was using sign language with another deaf man. A third person saw them, thought they were flashing gang signs and stabbed Daniels several times with a kitchen knife. A neighbor saw the victim and called emergency personnel.
Daniels is in stable condition at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill after Wednesday's incident.
Police arrested 22-year Robert Jarell Neal and charged him with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and felony assault on a handicapped person. He's in the Alamance County jail on a $500,000 bond. It's not known if Neal has an attorney.
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The Smithsonian Institution is a collection of museums and research organizations, many of which are located in the city of Washington, DC on Earth. It was initially formed in 1846 in the United States of America, for the "diffusion of knowledge amongst men." Its collection includes the Phoenix, the first Human warp ship. (Star Trek: First Contact)
In an early draft of the script for TNG: "Booby Trap", the Astral V Annex was stated to be a branch of the Smithsonian. (Star Trek Encyclopedia)
- The Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum houses the original shooting model of the USS Enterprise from TV's Star Trek series in the lower level of the gift shop in the National Mall building. The model was placed in the Smithsonian as part of the Star Trek Smithsonian Exhibit which opened in 1992.
- The Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center also previously held the space shuttle Enterprise, named for the Star Trek ship, and which also appears in the opening credits of Star Trek: Enterprise. In 2012, the Enterprise was transferred to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.


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GangBang porn time! Woo-wooo... all aboard everyone, we are going to run a train on this poor girl. Big dick after big dick punishing hot girls on sex video during gangbangs. The gang bang has been around since the days of the greeks. Famous emperors like Caligula would hold massive orgies with so many women and men writhing in a mass of pleasure and orgasm. The modern day gangbang involves a group of 3 or more men absolutely railing a broad so hard it looks like her head is going to explode.
Gang Bang porn is most popular among girls that want to feel completely used and abused. They are not in control of what is being done to them, they cannot say no to a dick in their ass because the probably already have a mouth full of cock and are struggling to speak. Thats what is fun about gangbang porn, the men are in control, she is powerless against the combined forces of the gangbang.


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very neat. I like the forest texture and the clean lines. Looking forward to seeing this one develop.
Well the name Etrakien sounds nice in swedish.......but I guess that in english it would probably be called Ethracy. Anyway enough of that.
This is my project at the moment...trying to put an old world to paper. I've been working on this world for a long time. in the beginning it was meant for an roleplaying adventure but now....well I'm just mapping.
I must say that I've learnt a lot about photoshop and maping since I joined the guild. So thanks a lot for sharing all your stuff and ideas.
Well the map is in an early stage but I thought I share it with you. As you can see I'm so far only working on the southern part of the world, and it's still far from done.
Well thats all at the moment and don't be afraid to give me your thoughts :-)
very neat. I like the forest texture and the clean lines. Looking forward to seeing this one develop.
I agree! This is very exciting! Keep it coming, Clercon.
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Mountains looks very nice.
I agree with the other; this is shaping up to be a very nice map. I especially like the sinuousness of the rivers. There is a gracefulness about them as they pass through the forest.
My only real criticism is that the colors of the land and water (while excellent in their own right) tend to blend together around the rivers and the large inland sea or lake making the shorelines indistinct.
Very nice map.
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Thanx for all the nice words. The plan is to put in all the mountains/rivers/forests first. After that I'll try to figure out how the borders between the countries will turn out. I have som things clear, for example where the "city of cities" Ankh-bathor is situated, a very important and powerful place in the Etrakien world. The map is loosly based on an older handdrawn version. But I was never really satisfied with how it turned out. So I decided to do a complete remake this time (some things are still there though). I try to upload the original map later on (am at work at the moment and shouldn't really be in here reading around ;-)).
This map is looking great. I love the mountains and forests. I don't think the rivers are all that realistic in terms of layout though. Particularly how the river in the south just swings back to the east past the mountains. (that just doesn't strike me as very realistic)
anyways, I'm looking forward to seeing your progress with this one.
Etrakien sounds perfectly good in English. Ethracy, not so good... But it would fit in an English, "Shire," situated with towns like Burpwallow, Oxgut, Frogsplat and the Little Hockspit River. Actually, never mind, I think I'll be using those myself<whistles happily away>
Astrographer - My blog.
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Lawmen say a Beaufort County man turned to the internet to sell drugs, and found a buyer: An undercover investigator.
The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office says 23-year-old Miles Lemay of Chocowinity posted an ad on Craigslist offering to sell Heroin.
An undercover Investigator posed as a potential buyer and conducted a controlled purchase of heroin and Oxycodone from Lemay.
Lemay is now charged with selling and delivering heroin and selling and delivering a schedule II controlled substance.
Bond for Lemay was set at $20,000.
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Beth - Those are great pages! Thanks for the ideas. I was hoping for a few pre-made items because I am SOOO behind and wanted to have a few easy pages. Lol. And honestly, I love the stickers that look like tiny miniatures of things. They take me back to my dollhouse and miniatures days. Anyway, I will be mostly doing my own I'm afraid. Maybe if I'm brave I'll post a few photo's for you when I get back.
JenRosie - Um, no. Ha ha!
Beth - Those are great pages! Thanks for the ideas. I was hoping for a few pre-made items because I am SOOO behind and wanted to have a few easy pages. Lol. And honestly, I love the stickers that look like tiny miniatures of things. They take me back to my dollhouse and miniatures days. Anyway, I will be mostly doing my own I'm afraid. Maybe if I'm brave I'll post a few photo's for you when I get back.
JenRosie - Um, no. Ha ha!
Karen Foster Designs used to make some sticker sheets. If you can't find any to
purchase I'm sure I have some with a few stickers missing and would be happy
to put them in the mail for you!
So Julia's comments about mantras has me thinking today. I'm feeling much more mentally psyched out (terrified!) this training cycle even though the running itself is fine. I think I so badly want to PR and had such a slow and painful last marathon (undertrained- was ready to be slow but not to hurt so much) that I'm making myself unnecessarily nervous. Anyone have any good psyching-up recommendations? I'm not a motivational quote/photo kind of gal but I need something a little more that my usual mantra of "harden the f* up!" I read Scott Jurek's book and he goes on and on about embracing/being one with the pain and I just want to train well enough to avoid as much pain as possible!
I survived one year as a college athlete and our team had a sports psychologist. Every once in a while, I'll remember some nugget from the talks he would give us. And, one of the things he taught us to do is not to say you're "nervous". Tell yourself, you're "excited". And, then convince yourself of it. Aren't you excited about the prospect of running another marathon and NOT hurting this time because you trained so well? Stuff like that. I use that trick a lot... I liked Scott Jurek's book. Have you read Dara Torres' book? It's not running related but I found it very motivational. Probably because I'm over 40. Still, there's some general nuggets about working hard in there... Up until this last marathon cycle, I also rewarded myself weekly for reaching certain training goals. How else did you think I got so much running gear? The rewards were always related to running and I would try to make them proportional so I wouldn't go broke. And, I wasn't allowed to buy anything but shoes unless I earned it. So, for example, one week, my goal might be hitting my goal pace for a 20 miler and the reward might just be a new pair of running socks or a new visor. But, another week, getting a PR in a goal race might be a new running jacket or buying the official race photos for my goal race. I would be so mad at myself when I didn't win something I really, REALLY wanted. So, then, I started incorporating one week where I could claim something I previously did not win. Good luck finding something that works for you. If nothing else, just keep in mind for us hobbyjoggers, it's mostly supposed to be fun.
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My good buddy, Channel 7 weatherman Doug Hill says us Frednecks aren't getting much if anything. You city slickers will get the most of it, I reckon.
My good buddy, Channel 7 weatherman Doug Hill says us Frednecks aren't getting much if anything. You city slickers will get the most of it, I reckon.
What?! This storm caught me by surprised and I just assumed it was the usual front moving in from the mid-west. Rats! I forgot to go to the supermarket. I only have one roll of toilet paper and a pint of milk!!!
Go figure
Wow, we got busy in here! I did 5 more with the group today...more easy miles, but fun to share the run with other folks.
Julia...Those are some neat insights from your psychologist. One of my favorite sayings came from a basketball camp I used to go to as a kid, called Yes I Can. The phrase was, "Act as if..." It's basically the same as fake it until you make it, but I do tell myself to "act as if" not just in running situations, but other situations where I may feel nervous or under-prepared. Sorry you're not getting to see the tennis. Cable is ridiculously expensive, and if it weren't for having to miss out on sports I would definitely consider switching over to something like Hulu. Oh, thanks for the laugh regarding your storm preparations too ha.
Pressing...Sorry you haven't found the scrapbooking stuff you like. I was bummed around Christmas because the local store went out of business and it meant I couldn't get some of the destination ones for my mom that I wanted to buy. I like your theory that today's runs were quality - I'll go for that too.
Jack...Nothing worse than uncooperative weather! What's your normal mileage threshold? On your log it looks like all your miles are pretty fast...do you do your easy miles around 7:15/7:30?
Beth...I can see why you got published for your pages. Those are very cool, and hardly even girly! And you definitely don't seem like a lack of effort kind of gal...I'm sure you'll improve plenty. Double swimming sounds way more intense than double running for some odd reason.
Docket...How often do you get your shot? I just ask because it seems like you just had one.
Scott...Looks like this snow all skirted below OH...I'm actually a little bummed. Nice job getting the work done on the TM...glad you're feeling deservedly tired.
Jen...Sometimes I get a little psyched out when I start looking ahead in my plan too. I feel like if I can just focus on the individual workouts, I'll eventually lay the foundation needed for my goal. Sorry your last marathon was so rough! Can you split up your training some by running an indicator race or two(10k or half)? Maybe that would give you a good chance to see how your training is really coming without being too taxing physically.
Trying to find some more hay to restock the barn
I didn't get to say hello to everybody before...
Jen - My favorite psyche up video, if that is what you're looking for, is The First Gold about Joan Benoit. It's kinda corny though.
Docket - Hope you had a good time at the show!
Scott - Glad the speedwork went well. Sometimes a TM is harder because you have to mentally make yourself stay on as well as hit the pace. You can tell I'd rather be outside. Also, re: Reston Marathon, yes, I do live in Reston. I think this is the first year they are running the marathon, so there isn't a whole lot to go on other than the course. We ran some of it on Sunday. It was pretty hilly, but not more than I'm sure you've run during training. A significant part is on the trails that I run on just about every day. I don't think anyone would have a problem running on them for a training run, but there are some short, steep hills that might not be fun during a marathon. It would be a very different race than Shamrock, which is almost perfectly flat, and much larger.
NTS - Good job on the 4, and I hope the group run went well tonight too.
RVD - I guess there's only one way to mess up a rest day, and you found it, so good job . I'd have done the same thing.
Julia - You've been getting some good mileage in too, it does sound like you're in good shape. I don't have a mantra, but I think to myself something like 'keep your head in it.' I check out of races sometimes and I think I can push harder if I just keep the conscious part of my brain on top of that winy subconscious quitter part.
Just BS - Looks like a great place to run! More hills = better, even if it sucks at the time. I need to find a new route that's a little tougher on me.
Pressing - Very glad everyone's healthy again.
SIAR - Good job on the mileage! I've gotten pretty good at running after dinner. Today was salmon, broccoli, and a baked potato, so shouldn't be too bad. The tough nights are the bbq chicken or the spicy stir fry. That makes things more difficult.
Marco - You're insane. Not even going to respond to -5.
Off for my 10 in a minute!
SIAR - Good job on the mileage! I've gotten pretty good at running after dinner. Today was salmon, broccoli, and a baked potato, so shouldn't be too bad. The tough nights are the bbq chicken or the spicy stir fry. That makes things more difficult.
Taco Bell is a real bear too Nice healthy dinner for you tonight! Mine wasn't so good, especially after I ate fudge with cool whip for desert. But, after 17 miles, who cares haha.
SIAR - saw your post. I'm actually getting a little worried about my easy pace. Last year on good weather days around this time it was 6:45 - 6:50. I started thinking of anything over 6:50 as slow. Now I'm happy when I'm under 7, which hasn't been happening recently. I usually just run at whatever pace makes me comfortable, not really paying attention to heart rate or pace until afterwards. I have noticed that my heart rate is much lower than it used to be, though, so maybe I'm taking it easy but am still in good shape. I had a string of really good workouts before I got sick over Christmas, so I'm clinging to that to prove I'm still fine. That was only a few weeks ago, it can't disappear that quickly!!
Yeah, the fitness wouldn't disappear on you I'm sure. Have you pulled up your paces on the McMillan calculator? Your 16:02 5k puts your easy run pace at 6:15-7:09, so you're within that range even though you're on the back half of it. The recovery pace for you using that would be 7:14-8:00, but it doesn't sound like you do a lot of recovery runs.
I agree with going by effort and checking your pace and HR afterwards. I can't say whether I know definitively or not, but I think the most important part of training is to be able to give a full effort on quality days. With that in mind, I'm conservative with my easy runs knowing I need that to stay healthy. It may hold me back some in the long run, but better to run a little slower than to be injured given my injury history.
This issue is really why I'd love to be coached though - to help know when it's okay to run hard on an easy day and when to back off.
Hmm, I hadn't looked at that in a while. I usually take mcmillan with a grain of salt, because those seem like paces I'd hit if I were fresh rather than in the middle of training. Do you actually hit the easy pace? 6:45 sounds pretty damn hard for an easy run for me right now, but maybe its the fatigue.
I got my heart rates tested a few years ago to help determine my paces. It pegged my z2 heart rate at 160-172, and z4 at 183-188 (max was 203). A lot of my runs recently have been in the high 150's. I thought that was probably correct since I'm older now and my zones have most likely shifted down. I actually do have a coach, but I use him more as an adviser than someone who sets training plans. His take was that a zone would most likely decrease with age, on average, but would also expand and change shape with training. This was in reference to LT, though, rather than easy paces. For my next two up weeks I'll try keeping myself in at least the low 160's and see where the pace comes out.
RVD I see you are doing Wobegon this year. That's my PR course from last year. Lots of people from my running group go and I'm a little bummed I'm not going this year. Tiny race but fabulously well done.
JenRosie: My PR is also in Lake Wobegon. I've done it twice but had to miss it last year due to a strained calf muscle. I'd like to PR again this year. Too bad you can't make it. Yeah, it is very well organized. They think it is odd that I travel all the way from Atlanta to run their small local race.


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Global Tuberculosis (TB)
TB is one of the world's deadliest diseases:
- One third of the world's population are infected with TB.
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Hi, I'm sorry I've been neglecting you! Been busy, busy, busy. I will keep it short – here is a recipe you will like – and it's FAT FREE!!!
Sunshine Salad Dressing
Mix together:
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- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/4 cup Dijon mustard.
That's it!
- Add 1/4 tsp powered cumin for a Mexican dressing
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Mission Impossible?
EASY, INEXPENSIVE, ENJOYABLE – AND HEALTHY! We are bombarded daily, through emails, internet, print media and TV with theories, threats and warnings on everything from obesity, heart disease, salmonella outbreaks, cultural decline and rising food costs. What can be done?
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is simply this: Fix a low fat, fun, fantastic, flavorful – yet frugal feast for your family and friends - in a just a few minutes. Can you do it? This is America – of course you can.
In this rapidly changing world, it's important to keep traditional alive; so here's our time honored summer BBQ menu: Bar T BBQ Chicken (low fat and healthy) Picnic Potato Salad (what's a BBQ without it?) Wacky Watermelon Salad (very refreshing) This menu is not a drain on the budget, is low in fat, low in calories and a snap to make. In addition, actual cooking time is minimized to keep energy costs down, and you fresh and cool.
For a mere 367 calories and 4 grams of fat – yes, only 4 grams of fat, you can feast and not feel guilty about having seconds. In addition, you are sharing a meal that is loaded with nutrients. The watermelon alone is a treasure trove of antioxidants. You guys out there pay attention – this magnificent melon contains more lycopene than a tomato.
Lycopene is on the frontline when it comes to protecting you against prostrate cancer. (And you thought watermelon seed spitting contests were just for kids). The chicken breast will provide plenty of mean lean protein, and the carbs in the potato salad are good for brain function, and also for the building and repair of tissue, and will provide plenty of energy for fun and games.
The strategy 'Äì Up to a week or so in advance, prepare the Bar T Barbecue Sauce (15 minutes). The day before prepare the Picnic Potato Salad (30 minutes) Morning of the party, thaw the chicken and make the Wacky Watermelon Salad (10 minutes). So, there you have it 'Äì a menu not so impossible. This column will self-destruct in 5 seconds 'Äì unfortunately dirty dishes won'Äôt – so use paper plates (from recycled paper, of course).
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Spring at last!
Instant Cole Slaw, Sugar Shack Pork and Indian Corn sticks
Eating outside has always held a special fascination for me – and my biological clock is telling me we should be eating out on the patio NOW.
So far, this has been the rainiest spring in my memory. Maybe it is not my dampest spring, but certainly the wettest.
Growing up in San Francisco, where spring and summer are always enveloped in fog, the only two days nice enough to dine alfresco were the first day of school (naturally) and Christmas Day. Christmas of 1972 we actually had a picnic on the beach!
In the Mother lode, springtime provides a beautiful and very long lasting venue for ventilated vittles, or at least up until this year; I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Dining out of doors, unless we are trying to impress the neighbors or the boss, means informality. Plastic glasses are ok, and so is disposable plate ware. If you want to be a bit more "Martha-esque", put out some gaily colored paper napkins (designer, of course). Be sure and weight them down with something heavy like a Waterford crystal paperweight or a can of Spam (depending upon your guest list).
The main concern, when eating outside in springtime, is keeping the food hot. If you have some of those electric warming trays or an electric frying pan stashed in a closet somewhere, this is a goodtime to dust them off. Fondue pots are helpful, and can be used to keep sauces or even a bit of chili hot if there is no room on the grill.
The other worry, and more so in other parts of the country, is the threat of a sudden rainstorm. Caterers on the east coast always have an alternate locale for garden weddings, just in case.
We don't usually have to contend with such drastic weather changes (knock on wood), but this year, an alternate plan of action might be a good idea.
If you want to BBQ, plan on menu choices that are quickly grilled in 15 minutes or less, and could be alternately finished off inside, in case the weather turns. This is not the season for a nine-pound roast on the rotisserie!
It's been a while since I saw a bug, but before you venture forth with the frankfurters, carefully check out the dining site for bees, mosquitoes and ants. And before you plunk down your bankroll for the designer paper napkins, make sure that the garden isn't full of allergy-laden blooms, or they will turn into very expensive Kleenex.
Once you've cleaned and polished the grill, stocked up on citronella candles and located the fly swatter, you're ready for the culinary kick-off of the calendar.
One of the great things about eating outside is you don't have to dust, and it smells even better than furniture polish!
April 19, 2010
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The High-Tech Irish
Irish Pub Biscuits, Irish Oatmeal Shortbread, Potato Soup O'Brian, Waterford Wilted Cabbage Salad
James McElligott immigrated from Ireland a long, long time ago. He often spoke of his favorite pub. When his great grandson left on a business trip to the old sod, he asked him to "have a pint for Papa".
After the young man had checked into his hotel, he went straight to the pub. "What'll it be me boy?" the bartender asked. "I'll have a Guinness – for my Papa!" he said, as he reached in his pocket for his cell phone.
"Papa, I'm here at O'Malley's – and I'm having a pint for you". "Lad, look around, tell me what you see" the elderly man eagerly asked. I see a mouse on the bar, next to the Apple; and I hear there's a lot of RAM in the backroom", he replied, tongue in cheek.
'ÄúWell'Äù, said the old man with a sigh, 'Äúthings haven'Äôt changed a bit – O'ÄôMalley was always a bit of a slob'Äù.
O'Malley's notwithstanding, things have changed a bit. Ireland is now the Silicon Valley of Europe. You will find a plethora of PC's and surprisingly, there are Mac's everywhere!
A country that faced a long battle with poverty is now thriving. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, is no longer the exclusive of Leprechauns.
Restaurants with all types of cuisines abound; and now there's more on the menu than potatoes. But, when St. Patrick's Day rolls around; the Irish look to tradition.
No, you won'Äôt find a lot of corned beef and cabbage 'Äì that is an American creation, but you will be served up potatoes, cabbage, carrots, oats and apples – all hearty Irish crops.
Traditionally, bacon was the main meat (Irish bacon closely resembles ham or Canadian bacon). Next in line was lamb, poultry, fish and shellfish.
For the average Irishman, beef was scarcer than hen's teeth; Even though English lords maintained herds of beef in Ireland for grazing; those herds were shipped back to England to grace the tables of the wealthy.
Thanks to inventive Irish bakers," bit of the sweet" served up with cream, topped off the meal.
Today, an Irish feast whether on the Emerald Isle, or in the Mother lode, has limitless possibilities. But, to keep it traditional – potatoes, cabbage and a dessert are a must. To be truly authentic, a glass of something a wee bit strong, is suggested.
And, of course, an Irish toast – "As you slide down the banister of life, May the splinters never point in the wrong direction".
March 19, 2010
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Improving disk I/O performance in QEMU 2.5 with the qcow2 L2 cache
QEMU 2.5 has just been released, with a lot of new features. As with the previous release, we have also created a video changelog.
I plan to write a few blog posts explaining some of the things I have been working on. In this one I'm going to talk about how to control the size of the qcow2 L2 cache. But first, let's see why that cache is useful.
The qcow2 file format
qcow2 is the main format for disk images used by QEMU. One of the features of this format is that its size grows on demand, and the disk space is only allocated when it is actually needed by the virtual machine.
A qcow2 file is organized in units of constant size called clusters. The virtual disk seen by the guest is also divided into guest clusters of the same size. QEMU defaults to 64KB clusters, but a different value can be specified when creating a new image:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o cluster_size=128K hd.qcow2 4G
In order to map the virtual disk as seen by the guest to the qcow2 image in the host, the qcow2 image contains a set of tables organized in a two-level structure. These are called the L1 and L2 tables.
There is one single L1 table per disk image. This table is small and is always kept in memory.
There can be many L2 tables, depending on how much space has been allocated in the image. Each table is one cluster in size. In order to read or write data to the virtual disk, QEMU needs to read its corresponding L2 table to find out where that data is located. Since reading the table for each I/O operation can be expensive, QEMU keeps a cache of L2 tables in memory to speed up disk access.
The L2 cache can have a dramatic impact on performance. As an example, here's the number of I/O operations per second that I get with random read requests in a fully populated 20GB disk image:
|L2 cache size
|Average IOPS
If you're using an older version of QEMU you might have trouble getting the most out of the qcow2 cache because of this bug, so either upgrade to at least QEMU 2.3 or apply this patch.
(in addition to the L2 cache, QEMU also keeps a refcount cache. This is used for cluster allocation and internal snapshots, but I'm not covering it in this post. Please refer to the qcow2 documentation if you want to know more about refcount tables)
Understanding how to choose the right cache size
In order to choose the cache size we need to know how it relates to the amount of allocated space.
The amount of virtual disk that can be mapped by the L2 cache (in bytes) is:
disk_size = l2_cache_size * cluster_size / 8
With the default values for cluster_size (64KB) that is
disk_size = l2_cache_size * 8192
So in order to have a cache that can cover n GB of disk space with the default cluster size we need
l2_cache_size = disk_size_GB * 131072
QEMU has a default L2 cache of 1MB (1048576 bytes) so using the formulas we've just seen we have 1048576 / 131072 = 8 GB of virtual disk covered by that cache. This means that if the size of your virtual disk is larger than 8 GB you can speed up disk access by increasing the size of the L2 cache. Otherwise you'll be fine with the defaults.
How to configure the cache size
Cache sizes can be configured using the -drive option in the command-line, or the 'blockdev-add' QMP command.
There are three options available, and all of them take bytes:
- l2-cache-size: maximum size of the L2 table cache
- refcount-cache-size: maximum size of the refcount block cache
- cache-size: maximum size of both caches combined
There are two things that need to be taken into account:
- Both the L2 and refcount block caches must have a size that is a multiple of the cluster size.
- If you only set one of the options above, QEMU will automatically adjust the others so that the L2 cache is 4 times bigger than the refcount cache.
This means that these three options are equivalent:
-drive file=hd.qcow2,l2-cache-size=2097152
-drive file=hd.qcow2,refcount-cache-size=524288
-drive file=hd.qcow2,cache-size=2621440
Although I'm not covering the refcount cache here, it's worth noting that it's used much less often than the L2 cache, so it's perfectly reasonable to keep it small:
-drive file=hd.qcow2,l2-cache-size=4194304,refcount-cache-size=262144
Reducing the memory usage
The problem with a large cache size is that it obviously needs more memory. QEMU has a separate L2 cache for each qcow2 file, so if you're using many big images you might need a considerable amount of memory if you want to have a reasonably sized cache for each one. The problem gets worse if you add backing files and snapshots to the mix.
Consider this scenario:
Here, hd0 is a fully populated disk image, and hd1 a freshly created image as a result of a snapshot operation. Reading data from this virtual disk will fill up the L2 cache of hd0, because that's where the actual data is read from. However hd0 itself is read-only, and if you write data to the virtual disk it will go to the active image, hd1, filling up its L2 cache as a result. At some point you'll have in memory cache entries from hd0 that you won't need anymore because all the data from those clusters is now retrieved from hd1.
Let's now create a new live snapshot:
Now we have the same problem again. If we write data to the virtual disk it will go to hd2 and its L2 cache will start to fill up. At some point a significant amount of the data from the virtual disk will be in hd2, however the L2 caches of hd0 and hd1 will be full as a result of the previous operations, even if they're no longer needed.
Imagine now a scenario with several virtual disks and a long chain of qcow2 images for each one of them. See the problem?
I wanted to improve this a bit so I was working on a new setting that allows the user to reduce the memory usage by cleaning unused cache entries when they are not being used.
This new setting is available in QEMU 2.5, and is called 'cache-clean-interval'. It defines an interval (in seconds) after which all cache entries that haven't been accessed are removed from memory.
This example removes all unused cache entries every 15 minutes:
-drive file=hd.qcow2,cache-clean-interval=900
If unset, the default value for this parameter is 0 and it disables this feature.
Further information
In this post I only intended to give a brief summary of the qcow2 L2 cache and how to tune it in order to increase the I/O performance, but it is by no means an exhaustive description of the disk format.
If you want to know more about the qcow2 format here's a few links:
- The qcow2 file specification, from the QEMU repository.
- qcow2 L2/refcount cache configuration, the original text this post is based on. It also covers the refcount block cache.
- The reinvention of qcow2, a presentation (slides and video) by Kevin Wolf at KVM Forum 2011.
- qcow2 – why (not)?, a presentation (slides and video) by Max Reitz and Kevin Wolf at KVM Forum 2015.
My work in QEMU is sponsored by Outscale and has been made possible by Igalia and the invaluable help of the QEMU development team.
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I/O limits for disk groups in QEMU 2.4
QEMU 2.4.0 has just been released, and among many other things it comes with some of the stuff I have been working on lately. In this blog post I am going to talk about disk I/O limits and the new feature to group several disks together.
Disk I/O limits
Disk I/O limits allow us to control the amount of I/O that a guest can perform. This is useful for example if we have several VMs in the same host and we want to reduce the impact they have on each other if the disk usage is very high.
The I/O limits can be set using the QMP command block_set_io_throttle, or with the command line using the throttling.* options for the -drive parameter (in brackets in the examples below). Both the throughput and the number of I/O operations can be limited. For a more fine-grained control, the limits of each one of them can be set on read operations, write operations, or the combination of both:
- bps (throttling.bps-total): Total throughput limit (in bytes/second).
- bps_rd (throttling.bps-read): Read throughput limit.
- bps_wr (throttling.bps-write): Write throughput limit.
- iops (throttling.iops-total): Total I/O operations per second.
- iops_rd (throttling.iops-read): Read I/O operations per second.
- iops_wr (throttling.iops-write): Write I/O operations per second.
-drive if=virtio,file=hd1.qcow2,throttling.bps-write=52428800,throttling.iops-total=6000
In addition to that, it is also possible to configure the maximum burst size, which defines a pool of I/O that the guest can perform without being limited:
- bps_max (throttling.bps-total-max): Total maximum (in bytes).
- bps_rd_max (throttling.bps-read-max): Read maximum.
- bps_wr_max (throttling.bps-write-max): Write maximum.
- iops_max (throttling.iops-total-max): Total maximum of I/O operations.
- iops_rd_max (throttling.iops-read-max): Read I/O operations.
- iops_wr_max (throttling.iops-write-max): Write I/O operations.
One additional parameter named iops_size allows us to deal with the case where big I/O operations can be used to bypass the limits we have set. In this case, if a particular I/O operation is bigger than iops_size then it is counted several times when it comes to calculating the I/O limits. So a 128KB request will be counted as 4 requests if iops_size is 32KB.
- iops_size (throttling.iops-size): Size of an I/O request (in bytes).
Group throttling
All of these parameters I've just described operate on individual disk drives and have been available for a while. Since QEMU 2.4 however, it is also possible to have several drives share the same limits. This is configured using the new group parameter.
The way it works is that each disk with I/O limits is member of a throttle group, and the limits apply to the combined I/O of all group members using a round-robin algorithm. The way to put several disks together is just to use the group parameter with all of them using the same group name. Once the group is set, there's no need to pass the parameter to block_set_io_throttle anymore unless we want to move the drive to a different group. Since the I/O limits apply to all group members, it is enough to use block_set_io_throttle in just one of them.
Here's an example of how to set groups using the command line:
-drive if=virtio,file=hd1.qcow2,throttling.iops-total=6000,throttling.group=foo -drive if=virtio,file=hd2.qcow2,throttling.iops-total=6000,throttling.group=foo -drive if=virtio,file=hd3.qcow2,throttling.iops-total=3000,throttling.group=bar -drive if=virtio,file=hd4.qcow2,throttling.iops-total=6000,throttling.group=foo -drive if=virtio,file=hd5.qcow2,throttling.iops-total=3000,throttling.group=bar -drive if=virtio,file=hd6.qcow2,throttling.iops-total=5000
In this example, hd1, hd2 and hd4 are all members of a group named foo with a combined IOPS limit of 6000, and hd3 and hd5 are members of bar. hd6 is left alone (technically it is part of a 1-member group).
Next steps
I am currently working on providing more I/O statistics for disk drives, including latencies and average queue depth on a user-defined interval. The code is almost ready. Next week I will be in Seattle for the KVM Forum where I will hopefully be able to finish the remaining bits.
I will also attend LinuxCon North America. Igalia is sponsoring the event and we have a booth there. Come if you want to talk to us or see our latest demos with WebKit for Wayland.
See you in Seattle!
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Working with open hardware
Some weeks ago at LinuxCon EU in Barcelona I talked about how to use QEMU to improve the reliability of device drivers.
At Igalia we have been using this for some projects. One of them is the Linux IndustryPack driver. For this project I virtualized two boards: the TEWS TPCI200 PCI carrier and the GE IP-Octal 232 module. This work helped us find some bugs in the device driver and improve its quality.
Now, those two boards are examples of products available in the market. But fortunately we can use the same approach to develop for hardware that doesn't exist yet, or is still in a prototype phase.
Such is the case of a project we are working on: adding Linux support for this FMC Time-to-digital converter.
This piece of hardware is designed by CERN and is published under the CERN Open Hardware Licence, which, in their own words "is to hardware what the General Public Licence (GPL) is to software".
The Open Hardware repository hosts a number of projects that have been published under this license.
Why we use QEMU
So we are developing the device driver for this hardware, as my colleague Samuel explains in his blog. I'm the responsible of virtualizing it using QEMU. There are two main reasons why we want to do this:
- Limited availability of the hardware: although the specification is pretty much ready, this is still a prototype. The board is not (yet) commercially available. With virtual hardware, the whole development team can have as many "boards" as it needs.
- Testing: we can test the software against the virtual driver, force all kinds of conditions and scenarios, including the ones that would probably require us to physically damage the board.
While the first point might be the most obvious one, testing the software is actually the one we're more interested in.
My colleague Miguel wrote a detailed blog post on how we have been using QEMU to do testing.
Writing the virtual hardware
Writing a virtual version of a particular piece of hardware for this purpose is not as hard as it might look.
First, the point is not to reproduce accurately how the hardware works, but rather how it behaves from the operating system point of view: the hardware is a black box that the OS talks to.
Second, it's not necessary to have a complete emulation of the hardware, there's no need to support every single feature, particularly if your software is not going to use it. The emulation can start with the basic functionality and then grow as needed.
The FMC TDC, for example, is an FMC card which is in our case connected to a PCIe bridge called SPEC (also available in the Open Hardware repository).
We need to emulate both cards in order to have a working system, but the emulation is, at the moment, treating both as if they were just one, which makes it a bit easier to have a prototype and from the device driver point of view doesn't really make a difference. Later the emulation can be split in two as I did with with TPCI200 and IP-Octal 232. This would allow us to support more FMC hardware without having to rewrite the bridging code.
There's also code in the emulation to force different kind of scenarios that we are using to test if the driver behaves as expected and handles errors correctly. Those tests include the simulation of input in the any of the lines, simulation of noise, DMA errors, etc.
And we have written a set of test cases and a continuous integration system, so the driver is automatically tested every time the code is updated. If you want details on this I recommend you again to read Miguel's post.
Igalia at LinuxCon Europe
I came to Barcelona with a few other Igalians this week for LinuxCon, the Embedded
Linux Conference and the KVM Forum.
We are sponsoring the event and we have a couple of presentations this year, one about QEMU, device drivers and industrial hardware (which I gave today, slides here) and the other about the Grilo multimedia framework (by Juan Suárez).
We'll be around the whole week so you can come and talk to us anytime. You can find us at our booth on the ground floor, where you'll also be able to see a few demos of our latest work and get some merchandising.
IndustryPack, QEMU and LinuxCon
IndustryPack drivers for Linux
In the past months we have been working at Igalia to give Linux support to IndustryPack devices.
IndustryPack modules are small boards ("mezzanine") that are attached to a carrier board, which serves as a bridge between them and the host bus (PCI, VME, …). We wrote the drivers for the TEWS TPCI200 PCI carrier and the GE IP-OCTAL-232 module.
My mate Samuel was the lead developer of the kernel drivers. He published some details about this work in his blog some time ago.
The drivers are available in latest Linux release (3.6 as of this writing) but if you want the bleeding-edge version you can get it from here (make sure to use the staging-next branch).
IndustryPack emulation for QEMU
Along with Samuel's work on the kernel driver, I have been working to add emulation of the aformentioned IndustryPack devices to QEMU.
The work consists on three parts:
- TPCI200, the bridge between PCI and IndustryPack.
- The IndustryPack bus.
- IPOCTAL-232, an IndustryPack module with eight RS-232 serial ports.
I decided to split the emulation like this to be as close as possible to how the hardware works and to make it easier to reuse the code to implement other IndustryPack devices.
The emulation is functional and can be used with the existing Linux driver. Just make sure to enable CONFIG_IPACK_BUS, CONFIG_BOARD_TPCI200 and CONFIG_SERIAL_IPOCTAL in the kernel configuration.
I submitted the code to QEMU, but it hasn't been integrated yet, so if you want to test it you'll need to patch it yourself: get the QEMU source code and apply the TPCI200 patch and the IP-Octal 232 patch. Those patches have been tested with QEMU 1.2.0.
And here's how you run QEMU with support for these devices:
$ qemu -device tpci200 -device ipoctal
The IP-Octal board implements eight RS-232 serial ports. Each one of those can be redirected to a character device in the host using the functionality provided by QEMU. The 'serial0' to 'serial7' parameters can be used to specify each one of the redirections.
$ qemu -device tpci200 -device ipoctal,serial0=pty
With this, the first serial port of the IP-Octal board ('/dev/ipoctal.0.0.0' on the guest) will be redirected to a newly-allocated pty on the host.
LinuxCon Europe
Having virtual hardware allows us to test and debug the Linux driver more easily.
In November I'll be in Barcelona with the rest of the Igalia OS team for LinuxCon Europe and the KVM Forum. I will be talking about how to use QEMU to improve the robustness of device drivers and speed up their development..
Some other Igalians will also be there, including Juan Suárez who will be talking about the Grilo multimedia framework.
See you in Barcelona!
Third day of GUADEC already. And in Coruña!
This is a very special city for me.
I came here in 1996 to study Computer Science. Here I discovered UNIX for the first time, and spent hours learning how to use it. It's funny to see now those old UNIX servers being displayed in a small museum in the auditorium where the main track takes place.
It was also here where I learnt about free software, installed my first Debian system, helped creating the local LUG and met the awesome people that founded Igalia with me. Then we went international, but our headquarters and many of our people are still here so I guess we can still call this home.
So, needless to say, we are very happy to have GUADEC here this time.
I hope you all are enjoying the conference as much as we are. I'm quite satisfied with how it's been going so far, the local team has done a good job organising everything and taking care of lots of details to make the life of all attendees easier. I especially want to stress all the effort put into the network infrastructure, one of the best that I remember in a GUADEC conference.
At Igalia we've been very busy lately. We're putting lots of effort in making WebKit better, but our work is not limited to that. Our talks this year show some of the things we've been doing:
- A bright future for GNOME.
- WebKitGTK+: current status and roadmap.
- Web to the core.
- OCRFeeder – OCR made easy on GNOME.
- Grilo: present and future.
- GNOME 3 accessibility: State of the Union.
- Skeltrack: A Free Software library for skeleton tracking.
- Sketching interactions.
- Sandbox all the pipelines!.
- Web application stores in GNOME.
We are also coordinating 4 BOFs (a11y, GNOME OS, WebKit and Grilo) and hosted a UX hackfest in our offices before the conference.
And we have a booth next to the info desk where you can get some merchandising and see our interactivity demos.
In case you missed the conference this year, all talks are being recorded and the videos are expected to be published really soon (before the end of the conference).
So enjoy the remaining days of GUADEC, and enjoy Coruña!
And of course if you're staying after the conference and want to know more about the city or about Galicia, don't hesitate to ask me or anyone from the local team, we'll be glad to help you.
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Hello Planet Debian!
Hi all!
My name is Alberto Garcia and this is my first (well, second) post in Planet Debian. So I'll introduce myself.
I'm a free software developer and enthusiast from Galicia, Spain. I studied computer science at the Corunha University, where I first heard about GNU/Linux and Debian. After leaving university I co-founded Igalia with a group of friends. We've been working on lots of different things during all these years, but some projects we've been particularly involved in include GNOME, Maemo/MeeGo and WebKit.
Although I've been using Debian for more than a decade now (my first -and still running!- installation was in 1997) and I'm quite familiar with the distribution, it wasn't until a few years ago that I started maintaining packages officially.
Apart from software, my other main hobby is music. When I'm not using my computer you'll find me at some concert (preferably small bands: I hate long queues, crowded places and being far from the stage). It's no coincidence that my first Debian package was a Last.fm player 😉
I don't have much more to add. I'd like to thank Ana for adding me to the planet, and I'm proud to be part of the Debian community!
FileTea now available in Debian
In the past few weeks I've been preparing the Debian packages of FileTea and its companion EventDance. They're finally available.
FileTea is a free, web-based file sharing system that just works. It only requires a browser, and no user registration is needed. If you want to know more about it, you can read my previous blog post. For a more detailed description, read Nathan Willis's excellent article on LWN.net. There have been a few changes since that article (HTTPS support in particular) but it's still the best one you can find on the net.
Igalia still provides a FileTea server at http://filetea.me/, that you can use to share your files and see how it works. We plan to keep offering this service, but you don't need to trust it/depend on it anymore: now you can apt-get install filetea and have your own.
FileTea: a simple file sharing system
FileTea is a simple way to send files to other people: drag a file into your web browser, give the link to your friends and they can start downloading it right away.
This is not a substitute for DropBox and the like. FileTea is not a file hosting service: the web server is only used to route the traffic, no data is stored there.
You can see it as a web-based P2P file sharing system, or a replacement for good ol' DCC SEND. You don't need to worry about firewalls or redirections: if you can surf the web, you can send the file. The only client that you need is your browser.
FileTea is a project developed by my fellow Igalian Eduardo Lima, and you can see more details about it here. It was written on top of EventDance, a peer-to-peer inter-process communication library based on GLib and also written by him (see also The Web jumps into D-Bus).
FileTea is free software and you can download it and install it in your machine.
We have also set up a server at http://filetea.me/.
Important: this is still an alpha release and our bandwith is limited so bear with us if you find any problem 🙂
Happy sharing!


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The first ever Lewiston-Auburn film festival is being held tomorrow. The event will feature 80 movies from more than a dozen states and 15 countries. There's a strong home-grown element as well though: Twenty-six of the films being screened are made in Maine, including the latest documentary from New York-based producer Amy Brown, who was born and raised in Maine. "There is My Home" tells the story of the Bantu farmers of Somalia who came to live in Lewiston, through the eyes of two women.
Hawa Ibrahim came to live in Lewiston, Maine in 2005. She came here to farm. In her native Somalia, she farmed, and as a minority Bantu from the south of the country, found herself caught up in a bloody civil war in the 1990s.
"People were hunting each other like animals. They killed each other--that's why I left," she says in Amy Brown's new documentary, "There Is My Home."
Hawa is among the 5,000 or so Somalis now living in Lewiston, indelibly changing the character of the one-time Franco-American mill town. Brown (below left), who grew up in nearby Freeport, says her fascination with Lewiston began before any Somalis began arriving.
"I graduated from high school in 1993 and at that time Lewiston was really, my memories of it were, as a ghost town. I remember driving by the warehouses and trying to imagine what it might have been before many of the mills and factories started closing down," she says.
For many Bantus, Lewiston was not their first port of call in the U.S. They were originally sent to very urbanized, low-income neighborhoods in cities like Dallas and Atlanta, says Brown, where many of them, who were illiterate and uneducated and knew only how to farm, felt lost.
But with the help of the New American Sustainable Agriculture Project, or NASAP, they were moved to Maine, where land was given to them. Portland-based NASAP aims to help immigrant and refugee farmers build successful businesses.
For the Bantu farmers of central Maine, this gives them the opportunity to grow and sell vegetables from their homeland: In addition to the tomatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins normally seen at farmers markets in the summer, more exotic fare is also on offer, explains Amy Carrington from NASAP.
"There are a variety of other vegetables that they grow for farmers markets: They grow okra, which is an African crop and used more widely in the south, and a crop called molokhia--it's a green that's very nutritious and it's similar to okra in that it will thicken the food, which is good for the winter in Maine."
Amy Brown, who first picked up a movie camera when she was a child, says it was the work being done by NASAP, that inspired the documentary. "I saw an opportunity to enter the lives of some of the Somali Bantu farmers from the perspective of empowerment," she says.
Film Excerpt: "Just three months this field lay buried under a thick blanket of snow. Now it's summer in Maine, and despite the drowning rainfall, young carrots, arugula, and green beans poke through the wet soil."
"My film profiles two women, Hawa Ibrahim and Betula Ishmael, and they're both amazing women," Brown says. Before coming to Maine six years ago, Betula was originally resettled in Baltimore, says Brown, where she really struggled to adjust.
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As well as trying to cope with a new language and culture, the Somalis also encountered some hostility from Mainers, who felt threatened by thousands of new arrivals and the pressure they would put on the jobs market and the welfare system.
This hit the national headlines in 2002 when the mayor of Lewiston wrote an open letter to the Somali community urging them to stop growing in size because of the pressure on the town's resources. While some hostility remains towards Lewiston's Somali community--indeed Hawa Ibrahim still gets verbally harrassed by a woman in her neighborhood--Brown prefers to tell a different story. "And that story is what it means to be a new American trying to make it," she says.
It is also a story, she says, about how most Mainers have embraced the arrival of new cultures, traditions and races.
Film Excerpt: "I'm Judy Weber, I live in Auburn, I've lived there 50 years. I come over two mornings a week and tutor some of the most remarkable people I've ever met. Their enthusiasm and their hard work, their generosity, and their affection, just pulls you in."
"One of the biggest things I learned making this movie is what a rich, diverse community Maine is," Brown says. "I'm really thrilled that my film is debuting at the Lewiston-Auburn film festival, the same place where the filming took place."
Brown hopes the film will both teach the community at large more about their new neighbors from Africa, and encourage them to develop a taste for more exotic vegetables.
"There Is My Home: Somali Bantu Farmers of Lewiston, Maine" is being screened at 2:45 p.m. tomorrow at the Lewiston Public Library. For more details on the daylong festival, click here.


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NL Manager of the Year Award 2011
1.) Kirk Gibson, Arizona
No way Arizona wins the West without Gibson at the helm. Having inherited a 65-win team that used 48 different players in 2010, Gibby led a charge to unseat the defending world champs and advance to the postseason as a division winner. What more can be said?
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