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Updated: 4:55 p.m. -- Representatives from both Carnival and Royal Caribbean tell us that calls on San Juan have gone smoothly this week, and weekend departures are expected to sail as scheduled.
(May 3, 2006) -- Despite earlier concerns that ongoing fiscal problems in Puerto Rico might affect cruises to and from San Juan, it's smooth sailing thus far for both turnarounds and port calls.
Two major cruise lines there -- Carnival and Royal Caribbean -- tell us that seven-day Caribbean voyages, onboard Carnival Destiny and Adventure of the Seas respectively, departed without a hitch this past Sunday (before the crisis officially began). Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas called on San Juan as scheduled yesterday, and Voyager of the Seas is in town today. Next Sunday's Adventure and Destiny itineraries are expected to sail as planned.
According to the Associated Press via the New York Times, the U.S. commonwealth ran out of money and imposed a partial public-sector shutdown Monday, putting nearly 100,000 people out of work. However, a spokesperson from Carnival says that the line has "spoken with senior officials at the Puerto Rico Ports Authority, which runs the seaports and airports in Puerto Rico, and have been provided assurances that although that organization is a government entity, it is fully funded and no disruptions to the seaport or airport operations are anticipated.
"We continue to monitor the situation but based on the information we have received we are comfortable it will be 'business as usual.'"
We'll post news updates as necessary on Cruise Critic, so check back often.
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Updated: Cruises Sail on Despite Fiscal Crisis in San Juan
May 5, 2006


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Marquette Drops 6-1 Decision At SMU Friday Afternoon
March 29, 2013
The Marquette University men's tennis team (9-11) wrapped up a two-match road swing in Texas Friday afternoon with a 6-1 non-conference setback at SMU.
The Golden Eagles opened the trip with a 5-2 win over UT-Arlington on Thursday afternoon.
Sophomore Vukasin Teofanovic was the lone MU player to claim a victory, downing SMU's Pablo Perez-Esnaola (SMU) 6-3, 5-7, 10-2 at the No. 2 position. Teofanovic is now 18-15 overall on the year and 10-8 in dual competition.
MU returns to action on April 6 when the team opens a four-match homestand with a twinbill against Cleveland State and Chicago State.

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Monday Jun 05, 2006
Wednesday Dec 07, 2005
By comand on Dec 07, 2005
It wasn't a word 5 minutes ago, but it is now. I spent all night practicing Buildery, or the act of building vast numbers of Solaris packages. Just as soon as Subversion 1.3 is released, I will unleash a raft of new packages via Blastwave. This will include Apache 2.2.0, Subversion 1.3.0, neon 0.25.4, and SVK 1.05. Most of the long night was going through the Blastwave build system and ensuring that configurations and package admin files for all of the 32 Perl modules that SVK depends on are up to date. Actually, SVK has 49 dependencies, if you count VCP and it's 16 dependencies, but I stopped counting VCP because I can't get it to work properly. VCP is an interesting module. It is used by SVK to allow the same command set to operate on Subversion, CVS, or Perforce repositories. I'm not certain how many people would actually use such a feature, but looking at the code, it appears that a great deal of effort has gone into it.
This work is part of an effort to get the build system back into shape after a long hiatus. In the beginning, I downloaded a version of GARNOME, one of the (finest) build systems for cutting edge GNOME sources. At the time, I was just trying to install a GNOME environment on my Solaris 8 desktop, as I can't really stand using CDE for any length of time. Also, as I was building GNOME, I was building a set of GNU utilities which I used for development and production support in Sun's Newark manufacturing facility. Each distribution was compiled and packaged manually, and was taking a long time, as the number of useful utilities I wanted to provide was increasing.
Eventually, I decided that it would be a great idea to put these package builds into a GARNOME style build sytem. GARNOME itself is based on the GAR ports system, which was developed by the Linux Bootable Business Card (Linux-BBC) project. GAR makes building software extremely easy -- just set a fiew fields in a template Makefile, and away you go. Over time, each time I received a request to add more Perl modules to our servers, or identified a new tool which was required for some purpose, I'd stick it in my GAR system. I then developed a GAR extension (GAR supports additional extensions as included make files) which would create Solaris packages. This system grew to approximately 300 software distributions, bundled into four packages (most of the 300 were CPAN modules).
In August 2004, I joined the Blastwave project. I had decided at that point, that it made no sense for me to maintain 100% of the packages that I used, when someone else was already doing it for me. I would contribute the packages that I build that nobody else had picked up, and reduce my workload. From day one, I used the GAR build system which I adapted for internal use. However, the Solaris packaging system, at this time based on make rules only -- phear, was error prone, and not as flexible as I'd like. For one thing, it could really only build a single package out of each build directory, and I needed it to build any number of packages from a single distribution install. In response, I split out the packaging logic into a utility called mkpackage.
The mkpackage utility reads a spec file, and performs some actions as a result. The idea is roughly like RPM, only it is far simpler, because, for better or worse, SVR4 packages are much more limited than RPM. It would solve so many problems if SVR4 packages adopted a provides/requires system, or at least supported minimum/maximum package version numbers rather than exact match. Maybe this functionality will appear once the pkg tools are eventually released to OpenSolaris. Anyway, the spec file is very simple. Here is the spec for apache2c, the core Apache 2.2.0 package:
%var bitname apache2c %var pkgname CSWapache2c %include url file://%{GARDIR}/pkglib/csw_dyndepend.gspec %var desc Apache 2.2 web server (core) %copyright url file://%{WORKSRC}/LICENSE
Simple enough. The %var directive sets a variable for use later in the same file, or any included files. In the above case the
bitname variable is used to construct the package filename. The %include directive does exactly what you think it does -- include another spec file. This directive takes two arguments: the first is a method, which in this case is
url, indicating that the final argument is a URI which mkpackage must fetch. Any URI which is supported by LWP::UserAgent can be used here, including http://, ftp://, https://, and so on. The other supported method is
exec, which will run some command and include the result.
The content of any %include is evaluated immediately. In the above case, the include resolves to this spec:
%include url file://%{GARDIR}/pkglib/csw_vars.gspec %include url file://%{GARDIR}/pkglib/csw_prototype.gspec %pkginfo url file://%{GARDIR}/pkglib/csw/pkginfo %depend url file://%{GARDIR}/pkglib/csw/depend %include url file://%{GARDIR}/pkglib/std_depend.gspec
This is mostly includes, but shows the pkginfo and standard depend file for CSW (Community SoftWare -- Blastwave). There are several directives like %pkginfo which correspond to the different package admin files that SVR4 packages support, including %prototype, %preinstall, %postinstall, %space, and so on. These are treated a bit differently than an include. They create a file in the mkpackage work directory (configurable) called %{pkgname}.<admfile>, e.g. CSWapache2c.pkginfo. As the source file is written into the work directory, any %{variables} in that file are replaced with variables from the environment, those fabricated by mkpackage, and any set in prior %var statements. For instance, the standard CSW pkginfo file is:
PKG=%{MKP_PKGNAME} NAME=%{MKP_BITNAME} - %{MKP_DESC} ARCH=%{MKP_ARCH} VERSION=%{SPKG_VERSION}%{SPKG_REVSTAMP} CATEGORY=%{SPKG_CATEGORY} VENDOR=%{SPKG_VENDOR} EMAIL=%{SPKG_EMAIL} PSTAMP=%{SPKG_PSTAMP} CLASSES=%{SPKG_CLASSES} HOTLINE=http://www.blastwave.org/bugtrack/
The MKP_ variables are supplied by mkpackage, and SPKG_ variables are exported to mkpackage by GAR. Everything is replaced when the pkginfo file is written, and any variables that cannot be replaced will cause mkpackage to complain.
As I mentioned earlier, there is a way to execute any arbitrary command and include the result. It is also possible to execute an arbitrary command to create one of the standard files. This is most often used to create depend and prototype files. Default outputs from pkgproto may be fine for most cases, but Blastwave has a set of standards for prototypes that need to be followed. That means that certain ownership needs to be assigned to files, and certain directories and filetypes need to be excluded. For this, I created a simple program called
cswproto which takes arguments similar to pkgproto, and spits out a CSW-compliant prototype file. This utility is called as follows:
%prototype exec cswproto -s %{TIMESTAMP} -v basedir=%{DESTDIR} %{DESTDIR}=/
This finds any files in the destination directory %{DESTDIR} which are newer than the timestamp file %{TIMESTAMP} (created and updated by an implicit make rule in GAR). As I don't build as root, I install software off to a temporary directory (usually /tmp/a). This means that the resultant prototype from cswproto always expects to pull the real file from /tmp/a/some/real/file. However, in the GAR system, it is possible (and useful in a number of circumstances) to change the DESTDIR at will. This makes life difficult for prototype files with a fixed DESTDIR path. The -v switch to cswproto replaces instances of %{DESTDIR} in each line of the prototype with the package build time variable $basedir. Before the transformation, a sample prototype line might be:
f none /opt/csw/lib/libfoo.so=/tmp/a/opt/csw/lib/libfoo.so 0755 root bin
After the transformation, the same line would be:
f none /opt/csw/lib/libfoo.so=$basedir/opt/csw/lib/libfoo.so 0755 root bin
The basedir variable is then supplied to pkgmk, so that it can find all files in the prototype, regardless of the current DESTDIR setting.
This system has proven to be very flexible -- I can now build any number of packages I require from a single software installation. For example, after building and installing PHP 5, I can now build 21 separate packages out of the installed files, separating out less commonly used modules that might have additional dependencies. This benefits users directly because less dependencies means less software to download for common tasks, and less disk space occupied by bits that will never be used.
Wednesday Nov 30, 2005
Subversion 1.3.0RC4
By comand on Nov 30, 2005
Tuesday Nov 29, 2005
By comand on Nov 29, 2005
Well, it's finally raining in the Bay Area. Soon, there will be enough snow in the Sierras to make my recent ski gear purchase worthwhile. I can't believe that it's taken this long for winter to finally arrive -- fire warnings and 80+ degree weather at the end of November is unnerving. Global warming at it's finest.
On the technical front, I'm anticipating the release of Subversion 1.3. I have been building and testing out the release candidates for the last month or so, and things are looking good so far. The current Blastwave Subversion packages use neon 0.24.x for WebDAV, but when I release the 1.3 packages, we'll bump to 0.25.4. One of the best improvements in neon between 0.24 and 0.25 is interruptability. If you've ever started a
svn up operation on a huge repository, and then changed your mind, you'll know what this change will bring. Right now, pressing Ctrl-C to interrupt a long running svn client operation has no effect until the server responds. With neon 0.25, pressing Ctrl-C will cancel the operation immediately, removing one of the biggest annoyances from the svn command line client, IMHO.
Even better, there was an announcement this week that Google has awarded an internship to Justin Erenkrantz (of ASF fame) to work on Subversion. His primary project will be to develop the SERF WebDAV library, and integrate it with Subversion. While neon works fine for Subversion at the moment, it's usage within Subversion implements a protocol on top of WebDAV, defeating some valuable features of WebDAV. For instance, rather than using simple HTTP GET requests for most data, the client and server speak using custom REPORT requests. One downside to this is that proxy cache servers cannot cache REPORT operations, which limits the usefulness of caching to improve the speed of repository operations (e.g. cached diffs). Current plans are to have this functionality integrated in time for SERF to be a compile (or run) time option by the 1.4 release.
Monday Nov 28, 2005
By comand on Nov 28, 2005
It has certainly been a long time since my last post. Unfortunately, most of the activities I'm associated with at Sun are covered by NDA/CDA, so I'm unable to post anything about them. To exacerbate the situation, I've also been devilishly busy. Both excuses have conspired against my blogging habits. However, I'm now in a slightly better place in terms of the amount of brain power I can devote to blogging. With any luck, I'll be able to keep the ol' blog space updated regularly for at least the next six months! :).
I keep a pretty close eye on what is happening in the Subversion community. I have recently toyed with the idea of writing a regular series with a name like "This week on svn-dev", in a similar vein to This Week on perl5-porters. If you are interested in Perl development, this is the place to look. It summarizes the goings on of the perl5 development effort, including discussions on design of features and bug fixes. There are always interesting discussions on the Subversion development alias, most of which aren't well known by anyone except those that are able to filter through ~200 emails per week to find the good stuff.
I am also looking into the possibility of writing some articles on PSH (specifically fmd) internals. I've done a good deal of work with FMA in my day job recently. In fact, I wrote an object-oriented Perl API around the fault management configuration and reporting tools provided with Solaris 10 (fmadm, fmstat, fmdump). I then implemented a number of utilities on top of that API which are used in the manufacture of most of Sun's products (Currently Sun Fire 2900/4900/6900/20K/25K and US-T1 platforms [Niagara]). The tool set is primarily used to check, count, and classify hardware faults. For instance, I wrote a tool which dumps the contents of the fmd error and fault logs (which are extended accounting files (see libexacct(3LIB)) as XML data which is stored for historical analysis of FMA performance in our manufacturing processes.
Perhaps I will be able to publish some initial articles this week -- only time will tell. Unfortunately, blogging is icing for me, not cake.
Thursday May 05, 2005
By comand on May 05, 2005
Wow. I mean... Wow. I just passed by Bill Walker's blog and found a link to this 'nerd test.' Of course, once I found it I knew I had to take it just to see how... uhh... not nerdy I am. So, here are the results:
That's right folks! Nerd God -- and I didn't even cheat on the test! Say it with me: "I, for one, welcome our Nerd overlord."
Friday Apr 29, 2005
By comand on Apr 29, 2005
My last update indicated that Subversion 1.2.0-rc2 packages might be released this week. After a bit of testing on one of my sandbox machines, it appears that a long standing bug somewhere in the system is still causing me headaches. Back in the Subversion 1.0 timeframe, when I started building Subversion for testing purposes, I'd get a message indicating that character translations for messages could not be found. The messages were usually of the form "Cannot create converter from native to UTF-8" or vice versa. This would affect commits to the repository, but not checkouts or other non-write operations. I managed to put together a patch that would cause the messages to go away with no apparent ill effects, but the fix makes me uneasy -- it requires me to override the macro
APR_LOCALE_CHARSET a couple of times in the libsvn_subr module utf.c. My patch sets this value to the string
"ASCII" instead, which appears to do the trick, at least in my locale.
The patch does not apply to svn 1.2.0-rc?, so now I need to go and find out if the problem is really with Subversion, or with APR (0.9.6). I am not able to find much on the subject by searching mailing lists, or googling for the relevant error terms. It appears that the issue is only present on Solaris, and there aren't that many Subversion users out there running on Solaris just yet. If anyone has ideas why I would be seeing this behavior, please drop me a line!
Wednesday Apr 27, 2005
Long time... no update
By comand on Apr 27, 2005
Yes, I realize it's been quite a while since my last update. Shame on me. However, things have been busy lately -- so much so that writing a blog entry was the last thing on my mind. Unfortunately, there are times when I just can't blog what I'm doing. Either that or I get lazy, take your pick. I'm not going to promise to update my blog daily this time, in hopes that the Universe won't hear me and give me even more work to do (jinx).
Now that I'm in one of the relatively few non-hectic periods in my career, in between major projects, I do have some time to update. I've updated several of the packages I maintain on Blastwave. The most significant is Apache 2.0.54, which is now split out to allow users to select either the prefork or worker multi-processing modules (MPM). This is a long standing request from the user community, who would like to run PHP, but are not quite ready to run it on the threaded worker MPM which was the default compiled-in MPM in the last Blastwave apache2 release. The default out of the box for Apache 2 is prefork, and so the default for Blastwave apache2 will revert to prefork. Those who don't rely on non-threadsafe third-party PHP libraries can continue to run their code on the worker MPM, if desired.
A new build of Subversion 1.1.4 using berkeleydb 4.3.27 will be released later this week as well, which should provide some performance and administrative benefits (e.g. automatically removing unused dblogs). XChat 2.4.3 was released today, with a bunch of improvements and bug fixes, and finally, new Subversion 1.2-RC2 and mod_perl 2.0.0-RC5 packages should be released some time this week or next for testing only.
Wednesday Dec 22, 2004
By comand on Dec 22, 2004
I am a sucker for punishment. In addition to project deadlines, holiday shopping, and holiday traffic, my wife an I decided that it was time to try the dog thing again. Our last foray into dogville was difficult -- we adopted a field stray Golden Retriever from a local shelter. She had many latent health problems, and after about a month and a half with us, she passed. That was nearly a year ago, so we figured it was time to try again. We adopted a 3 month old Golden Retriever puppy two and a half weeks ago. While the stress of having a sick dog was significant, the stress of not knowing how to get a new puppy to (a) stop barking, (b) stop trying to eat the cat, or (c) stop rolling in various items in the yard is equally significant. Compounded with the aforementioned stress enhancers, I'm about one step away from a full on aneurism. Not really. It's easy to love that face -- say hello to Oliver.
Wednesday Dec 08, 2004
Variety is the Spice of Blastwave
By comand on Dec 08, 2004
With all of the talk recently regarding the Blastwave project, I polled some of the maintainers to get an idea of the reasons these people give of their free time (and in many cases, of their pocketbook), to support open source packages for Solaris. The response was great, and therefore I've kicked off an effort to document some of these reasons. Articles are in no particular order, beyond what I feel like writing about in a given day :). And now, onward.
Life without spice, like an OS without a color capable
ls command, is bland. In the past, the variety of software available for Solaris earned it a reputation for being a bit bland. Solid as a rock, but at the end of the day, rocks alone don't get the job done. Since the very early days of Solaris, system administrators, engineers and other technically inclined Solaris users decided to take the entrepreneurial approach. They began to compile and package for Solaris the vast number of software projects in the wild which typically only target Linux. These projects made Solaris more enticing to users and admins that in the past were spoiled by the riches of open source projects readily available for Linux.
Blastwave continues in this proud tradition of from-the-people-for-the-people, providing more functionality for Solaris, improving it's usablility, and at the same time, it's reputation. There is a stunning array of software that Blastwave makes available in Solaris standard SysV packages. At the time of this writing, the most recent release of great note is Gnome 2.8. Installing or upgrading Gnome on a Blastwave system is a snap -- just run
pkg-get -i gnome, and all of the required packages, including dependencies, are installed for you.
If you're not into Gnome, you can always grab the K Desktop Environment (KDE) instead. It is packaged with end users in mind, including dtlogin integration, so after installation, it's as easy as logging out of your current environment and logging back in in KDE! And the fun doesn't stop with the desktop (although it could, if you're happy at that point). If you are an administrator, the variety of software available, including Apache (both 1.3.x and 2.0.x), MySQL 4.0.x, Subversion 1.1.1, and many, many more. In fact, at the time of this writing, Blastwave has 932 high quality open source software packages available -- just install and go!
Check out Blastwave today, and see if the software you need is available. If it isn't available, check the request form to see if someone has already requested it, and if not, add it to the list (or better yet, build a package and sign on as a maintainer).
As always, if you or your company are powered by Blastwave, please consider donating to the project, purchasing a single DVD, or even a DVD subscription -- every little bit helps to ensure the future of high-quality open source software packages for the Solaris Operating Environment.
Monday Nov 29, 2004
S.O.S -- Save Blastwave!
By comand on Nov 29, 2004
For the last several months, I've been involved with the Blastwave project. This project produces high-performance, high-quality Solaris packaged open source software. As many packages as possible are compiled using the Sun One compiler suite, and many packages include both 32- and 64-bit libraries and binaries. The packages aim to provide the best out-of-box experience to the end user, with little or no post-installation configuration required. Some of you may have heard of this project; some may be using these packages right now. It's the ideal way to get open source software like Gnome 2.6.2 and KDE 3.3.1 up and running on everything from Solaris 8 through to 10, on both SPARC and x86 processors (with AMD64 support on the way). In fact, there are currently 878 packages available from Blastwave. Packages are available via a package management utility, pkg-get, which is much like the Debian Linux
apt-get utility. This makes it easy to update existing packages, or find new packages to install. A much better alternative is to receive all of the packages on a single DVD! The single DVD is available for USD$20, with a monthly subscription service available for 20% of the single DVD cost.
So, now that I'm done with the sales pitch -- what's all this about an S.O.S?!? Well, this project has so much momentum at the moment on the community side, but next to no momentum on the financial side. The project's founder, Dennis Clarke, has footed the bill up to this point -- that includes server space for the build farm, bandwidth for synchronizing mirror sites, bandwidth for the web page, and up-front costs for production and shipping of the DVDs (not to mention the labor). At this point, the project accounts are dry, there are a scant 30 DVD subscriptions to date, and there have been no offers of corporate support or sponsorship! Some of the maintainers have managed to scrounge up servers to support update and maintenance of the build farm and supporting servers, but that's just part of the solution. For more background info, please read this thread on comp.unix.solaris started by Blastwave maintainer Mark Round.
So my plea is this -- if you use Blastwave, please buy a DVD, or better yet get a subscription. Save yourself the time spent downloading! If you are part of a company (or own a company) that is powered by Blastwave, please consider lending the project a hand through corporate sponsorship. The project has come so far, and achieved so much that it would be a disaster to lose it all. Please support Blastwave and Solaris Open Source software!
Friday Nov 12, 2004
Run, IPC::Run
By comand on Nov 12, 2004
I do a lot of work that involves automation -- both product and software test. This week, my task was to automate some testing of Perl code which drives the Solaris 10 fault management log viewer fmdump. The fmdump utility allows adminstrators to view system errors and faults with varying levels of verbosity. In order to provide our manufacturing test process with information about faults that occurred during test, tools are required which can parse the varying information output by fmdump, and provide feedback to the test supervisor. Now, once you've created a tool which relies on a system utility, how do you test it in environments where that utility may not exist? Most often, this is done through the use of program stubs -- a program which behaves like the original, but is really just faking it.
Faking it in this case means that for any set of arguments, the stub program should return the same output as the original utility would. In our program stub terminology, this involves playing back a control file, which tells the stub what to output, when to output it, and what exit status to return at the end. I wanted my stubs for fmdump to be able to call on the real program in cases where an existing stub did not exist, and create a control file. Then the next time that same argument combination was passed to the stub, the generated control file would be replayed. While thinking about this problem, I happened across an extremely interesting Perl module called
IPC::Run is a module which makes calling, managing, and collecting output from subprocesses easy. It is an extremely flexible module, which allows programmers to hook in at an API level that makes sense for their application. At it's simplest, the function
run() behaves like
system(), but inverts the result so the code makes more sense:
# Old way, using system system("diff fileA fileB") and die "Failed to run diff!"; # Newer way, using IPC::Run::run run("diff fileA fileB") or die "Failed to run diff!";
run() function is probably as far down the IPC::Run API foodchain as most people need to go, as this function allows huge flexibility (which we will see shortly). This function is flexible enough to serve most tasks. For instance, if I wanted to collect the standard output of the above process in a scalar, I'd change the code to this:
# Create a scalar to store the output my $out; # Collect that output run(['diff', 'fileA', 'fileB'], '>', \\$out) or die "Failed to collect diff output!";
Easy as that. Want the standard error too?
# Create a scalar to store the output my ($err, $out); # Collect that output run(['diff', 'fileA', 'fileB'], '>', \\$out, '2>', \\$err) or die "Failed to collect diff output!";
There are a large number of redirections that can be implemented using run, including standard input, output, error and more. Also, instead of scalars for data sources and destinations, you can specify filehandles and even subroutines. The latter is what I needed for my control file generation. I wanted to be notified each time a line of output was created on either the standard output or error, and needed to record the time a line came in, with reasonable precision. To do this, I used the following call to run:
# Get hi-res versions of sleep and time use Time::HiRes qw/sleep time/; use IPC::Run qw/run new_chunker timeout/; # Command to execute my @cmd = qw/fmdump -V/; # Array to collect 'events' my @events; # First, record the command and args push @events, [ time, 'cmdline', join(" ", @cmd) ]; # Create control events eval { run(\\@cmd, '>', new_chunker, sub { push @events, [ time, 'stdout', shift ] }, '2>', new_chunker, sub { push @events, [ time, 'stderr', shift ] }, timeout( 5 ), ); push @events, [ time, 'status', $? >> 8 ]; }; die if $@;
This snippet of code runs the 'fmdump' argument combination I requested, and records information about how the command behaves. The
new_chunker method in the filter chain of the run() command for both streams is a filter provided by IPC::Run. This filter brings in input from the process and splits it into lines (by default using the "
\\n" separator). Each line is then passed on to the anonymous sub, which records the stream source, time, and line in the event array. When the process exits, the routine then records the exit status in the event array. Note the use of the
timeout() function. This specifies to run the number of seconds to allow the task to execute before giving up and throwing an exception. That exception is the main reason for invoking run() from within an eval block. This prevents misbehaving argument combinations from hanging forever. For instance, if someone specified
fmdump -f, fmdump attempts to 'file tail' the fault log, and won't exit until it receives a signal. Using a timeout ensures that this will only last for 5 seconds, and will not generate an incomplete control file.
Now that we have the full details about what happened during the process run, it's time to do a bit of housekeeping. The first step is to go through the event list and calculate the line to line delay based on the timestamps. Times are then floor()d to a reasonable precision, rather than keeping the full Perl floating point precision. For this particular application, the precision is 4 digits (0.0001s or 100µs). The event list is then written to a control file on disk, encoded so that the same combination of program and arguments will generate the same control file name. All that is left to do now is to run the Perl module test suite, pointing it at our stubbed fmdump rather than the real one. This generates all of the control files necessary to run that suite of tests. I then can check these control files into revision control as part of the test suite. It is then possible to run the module test suite in any environment.
Tuesday Nov 02, 2004
Liquid Layout
By comand on Nov 02, 2004
Yesterday evening, I thought I would log into the ol' blog from home, and type a few words about the really creepy movie The Grudge that I saw on Sunday night. Unfortunately, when I loaded up the page, the entire sidebar was scrolled off the side of the browser screen. I had taken special care to ensure the page would scale for other view sizes, but I guess somewhere along the way, something broke the very complex table based layout I use. I vowed to fix it as soon as possible.
Long story short (how often does that happen here?), I rewrote my page templates as a two column liquid layout, using CSS for positioning. I used the excellent Floatutorial from Maxdesign to get the basic structure of the page right. Then I inserted the Roller content tags, and voila! A page which scales correctly, and now even displays properly in text-only browsers like lynx! Not to mention that now I don't have to keep a score sheet next to my keyboard for tracking down missing table cell close tags.
Wednesday Oct 20, 2004
About Everything
By comand on Oct 20, 2004
Ok -- It appears that my blogging habits are a bit 'binge and purge' like at the moment. Multiple posts per day for a whole week, then nothing but crickets for a week after that. I have a good excuse, however, as I was taking a few days of much needed vacation time. I try not to touch a computer that isn't running a game during my vacations, unless I find some good reason to work on one of my Open Source projects. But I do make a concerted effort to stay away from work activities (including blogging :)).
After a couple of days of upgrade pre-planning, including making some much needed backups, etc., I installed my new MSI Neo2 Platinum motherboard. I struggled a bit with the new bolt-through heatsink designs used on newer motherboards. The MSI board comes with a support plate on the rear of the motherboard and a clip harness on the front for mounting of the standard CPU heatsink which comes with the Athlon 64 retail package. Of course, I bought the OEM version and a different heatsink which requires a different backing plate, and a different front-side assembly. The stock backplate was glued onto the back of the motherboard, and the process of prying it off with a screwdriver was a very high anxiety activity. I even ended up in the OpenForum on Ars asking whether this was normal, and how I should go about getting the plate off without destroying my board. Before I got a decent answer from the forum, I had managed to free the plate from the board -- no damage done. nice.
The heatsink installation went well after that, but I had exhausted most of an evening getting the heatsink installed properly. The next day, I stripped the old components out of my case and did a full brain transplant. Aside from the initial heart attack I had when I touched the power supply button and heard a spark, and got no power to the board, things went well. I had not connected the second 5V power connector to my video card (really, it's easy to forget to apply extra power to an expansion card, sheesh.), and I guess the card was trying to draw too much power or something, which was keeping the system from powering on. After connecting the extra card power, everything came up fine. I ended up with some additional headaches trying to get WinXP to boot after installation, owing to the messed up partition table on my boot drive, courtesy of Fedora Core 2 (I won't go into the details... therapy has just about erased this part of my memory). A bit of BIOS tweaking, and I was up and running. Everything is better now -- colors are brighter, digital birds sing louder, and that annoying growth on my .... oh wait... work blog. AND, I get sustained ~40fps in the Counter Strike: Source video stress test on highest quality settings. And this is untweaked -- I've been able to overclock my 2.2GHz chip to just over 2.3GHz without crashing, so I might be able to squeeze a bit more performance out using the Dynamic Overclocking Technology (DOT) that is provided by the MSI Neo2 platform.
Speaking of games, I really like the new Valve Steam service. It's kinda like what other companies have been promising regarding software as a service. You download the Steam client, and can browse the catalog of games (both Valve and 3rd party) available on the service. I bought the Half-Life 2: Silver pack, which allows me to download most of Valve's game catalog for play. I don't have to worry about game updates, content packs, or external server lists (e.g. gamespy), as Steam provides all of these features. When I re-install my system, I just have to enter into my account and it will download the bits I own to my system again. No trying to find the jewel case with the right serial number anymore. Cool idea.
Tuesday Oct 05, 2004
Ahoy AMD64
By comand on Oct 05, 2004
Despite the issues newegg.com has with their website (I still can't access it with Firefox, but it works just fine with IE6 :(((( ), they do work hard to deliver. I ordered my hardware late Friday morning, and the hardware was delivered to my door at 11:30AM on Monday. Excellent. Now the fun work begins, as I figure out how to shuffle data from 3 IDE HDDs onto two, back up all of my critical data from Windows, and then reinstall the whole system once the new hardware is installed. Should be interesting.


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The Brown Mountain Trail is 6.8 miles in length and runs from the junction with High Lakes Trail #6200 on the Winema National Forest to Forest Road #3705 on the Rogue River National Forest. This guide describes only the 5.3 miles on Rogue River National Forest.
This section of the Brown Mountain Trail is a delightful hike, mountain bike, or horseback ride along the southern flanks of Brown Mountain. Passing through a shaded old growth forest, the trail offers opportunities for morel mushroom hunting in the late spring; shade loving wildflowers, such as orchids and trilliums, blanket the forest floor in early summer; good huckleberry picking in late summer; brilliant fall colors. Water sources are untested and should be considered unsafe to drink.
Beginning on Forest Road #3705, the trail follows the South Fork of Little Butte Creek. At 1.5 miles the trail crosses road #500 and continues through the forest alongside the creek, which now becomes swampy and abound with willows. At 2.5 miles road #560 is crossed and at 2.9 miles the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail is crossed. (Mountain bikes prohibited on PCNST). While the trail skirts the massive lava flows of Brown Mountain, the mountain is almost hidden by the forest. Between 3.6 and 3.9 miles the mountain and lava flows can be viewed through the trees. At 5.2 miles the trail forks: the trail to the left continues to High Lakes Trail #6200 (1.5 miles). Follow the trail to the right 0.1 miles to road #3640.
Directions: From Ashland: Access #1 (Forest Road. #3705) Take Highway 66 east half a mile past the Ashland Ranger Station to the Dead Indian Memorial Highway. Turn left on Dead Indian Memorial Highway and travel 22 miles to Forest road #37 (Big Elk Road). Turn left on to Forest road #37 and proceed 6 miles to forest road # 3705. Turn right onto road #3705 and continue 3.5 miles to the trailhead. Parking is available for 4 -5 vehicles using turnouts on the road. NOTE: If you have two vehicles leave one vehicle here and shuttle the second vehicle to Access #2. Park the second car there and hike a gentle downhill grade back to the first car. (Note that the trail description should now be read in reverse.)Access #2 (Forest Road. #3640) Follow directions to the trailhead in Access #1. From this trailhead, proceed southeast on road #3705 for 1 mile to the junction with forest road #3720 and continue for 1.5 mil
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Toshiba's storage devision has just reached a new milestone, delivering the world's first dual-platter 1.8" HDD with a whopping 240GB capacity. Being just 1.8" in size, it allows for massive amounts of storage in devices such as portable media players, camcorders and ultra-mobile PCs. Codenamed MK2431GAH, the drive measures 54 (W) x 71 (D) x 8 mm (H), features a PATA interface and spins at 4,200RPMs.
Additionally, Toshiba has also introduced two more single platter HDDs with 120 and 80GB capacities, each bearing similar specs to their big 240GB brother.
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Space Math II - Problem 14, Solar Surface Details
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Europe's Morning MoneyBeat: Shutdown
Good Morning Europe
Any European investors who went to bed last night hoping for a last-minute deal to avoid a Federal Government shutdown in the U.S. will be disappointed on rising Tuesday to find that shutdown in progress.
However, so far stock futures have refused to head south indicating that hopes of a short hiatus remain very much alive. The Nikkei managed a higher close, although thin volumes were reported.
Market focus is of course going to be on Washington DC today, although the local economic calendar is pretty full. The manufacturing versions of Purchasing Managers Index for October will see daylight across Europe, and also in the U.S., and there's unemployment data from Germany too.
By David Cottle
What you may have missed from MoneyBeat:
Too Big to Bail Appears to Take Hold: It is a view that rises from Main Street, echoes through Washington's corridors of power and ricochets off Wall Street's wood-paneled rooms: If a crisis hits tomorrow, taxpayers still would have to bail out the world's largest banks.
Hong Kong Doesn't Need Alibaba IPO: Hong Kong's stock exchange was dealt a blow last week, with news that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s prized listing may head for New York instead of coming to the Chinese city.
Don't Be Fooled by BlackBerry Stock Price: On the surface, BlackBerry, despite its obvious struggles, looks like a screaming buy, but not so, some analysts say.
Take MoneyBeat's S&P 500 Challenge: Where will stocks end the year? That isn't a rhetorical question.
Keep Calm and Buy the Dip: Washington is in gridlock and seemingly on track for a government shutdown. But Wall Street's bullish stock strategists say most investors should not change course with their portfolios.
From The Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Government Shuts Down: The deadline for budget agreement has come and gone.
Split Gives Hope to Italian Coalition: Former premier Silvio Berlusconi sought to hold his party together in opposition to Prime Minister Enrico Letta ahead of a confidence vote that could bring down the beleaguered government.
Coalition-Building Tough for Merkel: A week after Germany's national elections, awe over Chancellor Angela Merkel's triumph has given way to head-scratching over how she will put together a new majority in parliament.
J.P.Morgan Insider Helps U.S. In Probe: The Justice Department's pursuit of possible criminal charges against J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. over the sale of mortgage securities is based in large part on information from a person inside the bank who is aiding the government, according to people familiar with the matter.
Talks Stall for Rio Tinto Stake in Coal Mine: Talks stalled over the sale of Rio Tinto's majority stake in an Australian coal mine, after three bids failed to meet expectations, people familiar with the matter said.
Twitter Expected to File IPO Papers As Soon As This Week: Twitter is planning to make public its secret filing for an initial public offering as soon as this week, people familiar with the matter said.
Investment-Grade Debt Has Big Month: Buoyed by the largest corporate-bond deal ever—a $49 billion sale by Verizon—highly rated companies sold more debt in September than any other month in the 18 years records have been kept.


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Pediatric Cancer Surgery
Surgery has an integral role in treating most childhood cancers. Whether surgically removing a tumor, supporting non-surgical treatment such as chemotherapy, or performing reconstructive surgery, the pediatric surgery team at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital is involved in the comprehensive care that each child receives here.
Cancer can develop virtually anywhere in the body, from the head (brain, eyes) to the chest and abdomen, to the legs (osteosarcoma/bone cancer). Neuroblastoma (diagnosed usually in babies and young children) and leukemia are much more common among children than cancers of the brain, spine, bones or solid organs. Common or rare, pediatric surgeons and other cancer specialists at Comer Children's have the experience and expertise to address them all.
Care for Kids of All Ages and Young Adults
Childhood cancer can affect children of all ages. Our pediatric surgeons have experience working with babies all the way through older teenagers. Sometimes, the surgeons also treat young adults in their 20s who have a type of congenital cancer that typically is considered a "pediatric" cancer, such as neuroblastoma, neurofibromatosis, Ewing's sarcoma or rhabdomyosarcoma.
Complete Range of Surgical Expertise
Because cancer can affect the entire body in different ways, University of Chicago pediatric surgeons from many specialties may be called upon to address a child's needs. In all, nearly 20 surgeons contribute to the treatment of different pediatric cancers and to the child's long-term recovery. Each of these surgeons is an expert in pediatric surgery, and most are experts in using minimally invasive techniques that make the child's recovery easier.
General surgeons, neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons work frequently with children who have cancer. Depending on the child's diagnosis and specific needs, other types of surgeons may participate also, such as plastic and reconstructive surgeons, ophthalmologists, otolaryngologists (ENTs), cardiothoracic surgeons or urologists. These specialized surgeons address a variety of issues that a child may have -- before, during or after their cancer surgery.
Surgery's Role in Cancer Treatment
The surgeon's role varies in pediatric cancer care. Sometimes, the surgeons "do surgery"; and other times they don't -- yet still may be involved in the child's care. At Comer Children's, all children benefit from the teamwork of various physicians, as well as other members of the pediatric cancer care team.
Here is a look at some of the common ways that pediatric surgeons may be a part of a child's cancer care:
Minimally Invasive Surgery to Remove Tumors
The pediatric surgeons at Comer Children's are recognized worldwide as leaders in using minimally invasive surgical techniques to treat a variety of conditions in children, including some cancers. Because it uses much smaller incisions than traditional surgery, minimally invasive methods usually mean less pain, easier recovery, less scarring or disfiguring, and more normal growth after surgery. Whenever possible, surgeons here prefer minimally invasive surgery to remove solid tumors located virtually anywhere in the child's body.
Experts in Standard Surgery, Too
Just because minimally invasive is newer doesn't always mean it's the best option for every child. Our surgeons are skilled in the full spectrum of surgical options, from minimally invasive to traditional open surgery. We recommend the approach that best meets each child's needs.
Combining Surgical Treatment with Other Therapies
If surgery is recommended (minimally invasive or traditional surgery), it often is one component of a multi-dimensional approach to eliminating cancer. For example, surgery to remove a tumor in the kidney may be followed with chemotherapy to destroy remaining cancer cells. Or, the team may use radiation therapy first, to shrink a tumor in the brain or bones before surgery. It's all part of our collaborative, comprehensive approach to treating childhood cancers.
Brain and Spinal Tumors
University of Chicago pediatric neurosurgeons use minimally invasive techniques to reach tumors that may be deep within the brain or within the spine, including tumors that cannot be reached by traditional surgery. Stereotactic imaging and other very detailed imaging technologies reveal the exact location and dimensions of the tumor, so the neurosurgeon can be very precise in removing only cancerous tissue and protecting healthy tissue. We treat the full range of brain-related tumors, including neurofibromatosis, eye tumors, and other conditions. »Pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors
Bone Cancer
Surgery to remove tumors is the standard treatment for bone cancer (osteosarcoma). At many hospitals, that means amputation. At Comer Children's, we use innovative techniques to avoid amputation. More than 20 years ago, this was one of the first hospitals offering less radical limb-salvage methods as an alternative to amputation.
Today, our pediatric orthopedic surgeons are among the first in the U.S. performing articular-sparing surgery -- a refinement of the limb-salvage technique. This newest technique preserves as much of the child's own bone or joint as possible. Cadaver bone and tissue is then fitted to the child's natural bone like puzzle pieces -- resulting in a joint or limb that is even stronger and remains more stable as the child grows, and giving kids a better chance to be active after cancer surgery.
University of Chicago general and thoracic surgeons may be called in to address bone cancer that has spread to the lung (metastatic lung disease). These skilled surgeons carefully remove affected tissue while preserving the child's lung function. »Learn more about our pediatric sarcoma/bone cancer care
Leukemia and Lymphoma
Leukemia (a bone marrow- and blood-related malignancy) is the most common type of cancer among children. There are several different types of leukemia which, together, account for about one-third of all childhood cancers. Lymphomas are related, but not as common in children. Neither leukemias nor lymphomas have "solid" tumors that can be removed surgically. Nonetheless, pediatric surgeons often participate in the care of children with these conditions by placing "access lines" (venous access device) that make it more comfortable for kids to get repeated chemotherapy treatments and for doctors to take biopsies. »Learn about our childhood leukemia care services
Dedicated Care Team Supports Each Patient's Recovery
Children's cancer care is truly a team effort at Comer Children's, and pediatric surgeons are just one component of the team. There are many people focused on helping children and families challenged by pediatric cancer. These include:
- Other physicians: The surgeons work with many other pediatric physicians at Comer Children's to address childhood cancers. Pediatric medical oncologists, pediatric radiation oncologists and a pediatric neuroradiologist also are essential members of the cancer team. Other physicians who may be involved in a child's care include: neurologists specializing in neurofibromatosis, or tuberous sclerosis; nephrologists (kidney); hepatologists (liver); pathologists and neuropathologists; and many others.
Teamwork makes things work smoothly. Physicians and surgeons involved in cancer care meet formally each week for our Weekly Pediatric Tumor Board to discuss the best options for each child's treatment. These conferences provide a forum for multiple perspectives and broad insights. Nurses and other members of the care team sometimes also participate in these conferences. In addition to the weekly conferences, our team members meet informally on a daily basis to talk about how each child's care and progress.
- Nurse practitioners work with each family affected by childhood cancer. The nurse practitioner serves as a central contact person for the family, and is a bridge between the child and family and the many physicians, nurses, technicians and non-medical staff who participate in the child's care. The nurse practitioner also is a good person to go to with questions, for explanations, or when the physicians cannot be reached right away. (Parents and children also can contact their physicians directly, but sometimes it's just easier to reach the nurse practitioner.)
- Pediatric nurses work with children who are staying in the hospital, and with those who come back for checkups with the care team.
- Rehabilitation specialists, speech therapists, physical therapists and others provide ongoing support as the child recovers and regains functioning.
- Social workers address a wide array of non-medical needs related to the child's care in the hospital and after he or she returns home.
- Child life specialists focus on helping children be kids, in spite of their illness or treatment. They use play therapy, workshops with the child's school, and other activities that help pediatric patients feel better about themselves, help them understand their illness and procedures, to lessen the scariness or loneliness that kids sometimes feel in the hospital, and to ease the child's transition back to school.
- Radiation technicians, surgical technicians and other allied health professionals assist with many diagnostic tests and treatment procedures.
Research and Innovation Leads to Better Solutions for Childhood Cancers
We never stop looking for better ways to treat childhood cancers and eliminate the long-term effects of treatment -- from using less invasive methods of surgery, to investigating promising anti-cancer drugs, to exploring radiation therapy methods that target the cancer cells precisely without harming healthy tissue, to fine-tuning imaging technologies that enable doctors to view the body's interior in great detail.
Science and innovation are integral to developing better options for children. As an academic children's hospital, researchers right here can apply the newest insights directly to patient care. Making breakthroughs in cancer treatment is something we've been doing for more than half a century, since discoveries by University of Chicago researchers laid the groundwork for chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Three decades ago, researchers here were the first to identify genetic causes for certain types of leukemia -- a breakthrough that dramatically raised the cure rate for leukemia.
Today, we are on the forefront of research aimed at improving options for children with cancer. Comer Children's is a leading participant in the Children's Oncology Group (COG) of North America, which offers the newest promising therapies to kids, long before they're widely available. For example, we are among only 14 institutions nationally -- and the only hospital in the Chicago area -- that has open New Agents for Neuroblastoma Treatment (NANT) phase I clinical trials for infants and children with neuroblastoma who have been unsuccessful with standard treatments. »Neuroblastoma Program


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Welcome to the brand new Escambia County website. If you're a seasoned visitor to myescambia.com, you may have checked your URL twice when you landed on the page. Take a look around and you'll notice a whole new look and feel — updated content, a more intuitive navigation, a comprehensive calendar of events, more photos and videos, as well as integration with social media. Planning for the new site began early this year, with the new My Escambia site gradually taking shape thanks to the input of County Departments, the expertise of in-house staff in our IT and Public Information functions and an assist from the local Escambia County web design and development firm, Clever Ogre. While we're really pleased with the result (and hope you will be as well), this site will be a continual "work in progress," growing and evolving, just like the County.
As with any new website, there may be a few glitches that need adjustment over the next few weeks, so please bear with us. We'll be adding more content and have exciting plans for the continued growth of the site. We envision this becoming a "destination site" for residents and visitors alike — the first stop for anyone interested in learning more about our community.
If you were accustomed to the navigation on the old site, you'll see a significant change — and, if you've bookmarked any pages on the site, they'll be due for an update. My Escambia is a place where people can go to find out more about their community, do business and use government services, which is how the site is now structured. It is our hope you'll be able to find the information you're looking for, even without knowing what department (or even which agency) provides that service. If you still can't find what you're looking for, we now also have an A to Z Guide to services, which will take you directly to the information you seek.
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Sound like you have a winner there OP. Good on 'ya
Have I mentioned how AWESOME my gun is. It is impressive and a sheer joy to shoot.
We went shooting Saturday. My .45 shot like a DREAM. Sights are dead on. Handling is perfect, grip is very comfortable, trigger reset is sweet, and the stippiling is much better than skate tape.
I shot the Jedi Weapon as well. Interesting to shoot the 5" 1911 in 9 mm. I can see why people like the holo sights, they were pretty quick.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." -Mark Twain
Sound like you have a winner there OP. Good on 'ya
Good for you Mr Bill. It sure is great when it all comes together. Good luck with it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sure it's very nice and all, but the true test of a pistol is the ability to shoot turkey feathers. How does it do on turkey feathers?
November 2007 Turkey Shoot!
Yeah, but was it RELIABLE, Mr. Malfunction?
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Did you post the "After" Pictures???
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I love stippling. I have it on my Nighthawk.
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What new technological advances emerged in the early 1900s?
How did peoples' daily lives change as a result of new inventions and technologies?
How did the United States change in response to new mobility and improved communications?
At the turn of the 20th century, new technological advances such as electricity, flight, and the gasoline engine found expression in new modes of transportation and communication. The images in this topic reflect how these inventions changed daily life in small and large ways.
Airplanes, electric railways, and automobiles joined railways to fuel Americans' growing sense of mobility. They came to characterize the progressive spirit of the new century. As a result of these new modes of public transportation, people were able to travel faster and more easily within and between cities, changing settlement patterns. One image in this group depicts John J. Montgomery, the first American to fly a heavier-than-air machine, and his glider "Santa Clara" in 1905. An invitation to an air show in San Jose in 1910 suggests the popularity of this potential new mode of transportation.
Several cities had electric streetcars that ran on tracks, and images in this group include streetcars in San Diego, San Jose, and Los Angeles. The hand-tinted image of the Interurban Electric Rail Road running between Saratoga and Los Gatos suggests that in 1908, this was enough of a novelty to rate a postcard.
The automobile industry was also growing rapidly. Before the internal combustion engine took the lead in the 1910s, cars ran on a variety of fuels; steam, electricity, and gasoline competed for a number of years. This is clearly evident from the two ads that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post for the steam car, and several images of people enjoying both electric- and gas-powered cars.
Some inventions aimed to make life easier at home. The photograph of a storefront in 1925 shows the existence of appliances such as washing machines, ironing machines, and vacuum cleaners. In their new-found leisure time, people listened to the radio, an invention that was fairly new at this time. Two photographs taken in the mid-1920s show Charles Herrold, the "Father of Radio," operating radio equipment. The combination of new technologies, more free time, and the ability to get from one place to another relatively easily and quickly allowed people to enjoy new forms of entertainment, as indicated by the photograph of a car in front of a movie theater.
Expositions were a popular venue to showcase the latest in technology, and several images here represent expositions that took place in San Francisco and San Diego in 1915 and 1916. One photograph depicts a panel of men at the opening of the phone wire between San Francisco and New York for the first time.California Content Standards
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Add to that 5 year with 5 year extension. Also includes all oil/gas, etc, from top to
They will not budge.....
No business for them in Northern Butler county.
An article about Shell's activity in the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale, particularly along the western fringes of the Marcellus in Butler and Lawrence Counties (PA), reveals interesting insights about their strategy:
Shell plans to bring in a drill rig dedicated to the region next year. If things go well, it could add nine more. The company will spend two to four years determining how rich the land is with gas, and whether to drill here before tapping other oil and gas fields around the world, [Bill] Langin said.
Langin [a geologist] is in charge of Appalachian exploration for Royal Dutch Shell plc, which holds the mineral rights to about 100,000 acres in the two counties and more land in northern Pennsylvania.
Langin, 34, of Moon is not a wildcatter looking to drill in the sweetest spots he can find. His job is to drill in outlying areas, looking for data, zoning in on targets he cannot see. He asks: Where can Shell drill in its Appalachian holdings and profit?
Shell continues to lease land in Butler and Lawrence counties, adding about 30,000 acres to the 70,000 it bought from East last year, Langin said. Its big-picture exploration methods not only help the company gauge and manage holdings, but help its officials to decide where to lease land, said Badie Morsi, director of the University of Pittsburgh's Petroleum Engineering Program.
It's difficult to determine how much gas the Marcellus shale will produce in a given location. Pressure and natural fractures vary, Morsi said, meaning drillers can only approximate reserves.
"It's very difficult to make generalizations," Morsi said. "It depends upon your luck. You're shooting in the dark at 10,000 feet. It's not a known thing where you go in and grab it."*
So why drill along the edges first, instead of in the middle of the "fairway"?
It's common for multinational corporations such as Shell to take the time for advance work, Morsi said. If they drill edge areas first, the production there can indicate how much gas is inside the circle, he said.
That helps companies to plan efficiently for infrastructure costs, such as pipelines and compressor and processing stations, Langin said. They know the gas is there, but they must figure out how much is there and how hard it is to extract — then they can determine how high gas prices must be before drilling would be profitable.*
The article also mentions that Shell is targeting the Utica Shale layer as well
a 5 yr extension is not such a bad thing as long as the dollar amount for the extension is paid up front.
For example if you have 50 acres and lease at 3000 per acre you would receive $150k . Now if they have not held you land by production within 5 yrs they have the option for a 5 yr extension again at 3000 per acre for another $150k. Thats 300k in slightly over 5 years time. The extension is not that bad as long as they are paying the money to extend the lease up front.
This is just an example, I do agree 3k per is low.
What Shale gases are being included in the leases for Butler County?
Ground and below, Marcellus only, Marcellus and Utica!!
Just curious for what may come along.
Tomcat, your absolutely on the money! $1500 is a bargain for the gas company and they are on a run and grab mission to get this deal. The landowners who agree to these terms will most definitely be kicking themselves in 12 to 18 months when they see their neighbors sign for much more with better terms.
The other companies will create competion, just as we have seen in other areas and consequently the numbers will rise. Landowners need to be patient and join a landowner group to work together. The landmen love taking advantage of individual landowners by telling them "well you better sign now or we will just suck it our from under you" or even though they don't have a permit in the area yet, they will say "this is your last chance because we are drilling on your neighbors land".
Can you update us on the meeting Thursday. We are planning on driving out from Bradford County. Also just a thought, maybe we should open up to letting folks from some of the other townships join the group. I've read the posts here and I see some people are looking for groups. If they have no where to turn they are bound to signe eventually. I think the more acreage we hold the more bargaining power we have. Just a thought....
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Chinese and international capitalists was not deterred last December when China issued strong words and regulation on Bitcoin. Today, OKCoin announced that it is China's largest trading exchange of Bitcoin, posted CoinDesk.
Bitcoin was trading feverishly last Nov. and at the center of the trading hub in China was BTC, the largest exchange in the world. The Chinese government began regulating bitcoin with denial of bank access and third party payment process, trade left and with the free fall of trade volume, BTC was no longer the top volume exchange for bitcoin trade.
Venture capitalists infused $10 million into OKCoin. As a matter of fact, it is this infusion that has allowed it to reach current exchange daily trade volume of 50,000 bitcoins per day, according to its CEO Star Xu.
Feng Bo, founder and partner at Ceyuan and investor in many funds in China stated, 'We are delighted to invest in the pioneer of China's bitcoin exchanges; given the company's leadership under Star Xu and his team, we know there is much more good news ahead.'
Tim Draper and his son, Adam, Silicon investors and co-partners of Adam's Boost VC incubator where Tim is a mentor, also invested in OKCoin's angel round. The investment in OKCoin will be used to expand the team, fund product research and development, further security enhancements, but also to expand OKCoin's operations beyond China.
Boost VC had told CoinDesk earlier this week that its Boost VC classes and financial support plans to help 100 start-ups in Bitcoin companies during the next three years.
OkCoin's plan is to expand outside of China so it can be flexible in view of the current regulations from China. Money is being placed into development, security and regulations.
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Bitcoin is becoming welcome around the globe so a smart strategy play will be to offer exchange sites in locations with savvy business acceptance and well defined legislation.
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The action film star looks set to be the face of a marketing drive to boost Russian weapons exports as it aims to overtake the US.
14:22, UK, Tuesday 04 June 2013
Hollywood action film star Steven Seagal looks set to be the face of a new campaign to promote Russian weapons.
The 61-year-old American appears to be the unlikely choice to boost the country's arms sales as it makes a push to be the world's number one exporter.
Seagal accompanied Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin to the Degtyarev gun manufacturing plant in Kovrov earlier.
According to Russian news agencies, Mr Rogozin said the actor may head up an international marketing campaign for the factory.
He said: "You're ready to fight American (manufacturers) with your teeth and your intellect, and if Americans are prepared to promote and support you, that says we're learning new ways to work on corporate warfare markets."
Seagal first appeared on the big screen in 1988 as a CIA agent in Above The Law, and has since gone on to star in more than 40 action films.
Now he seems to be America's latest celebrity diplomat, meeting President Vladimir Putin in March and acting as facilitator for high-level meetings between a US delegation and Russian security officials last week.
Speaking at a news conference afterwards, Seagal reportedly said: "I'm friends with many presidents of many countries."
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the US was the largest supplier of major conventional weapons between 2008 and 2012, with 30% of global arms exports.
Russia sits in second, making up 26% of the market, and is keen to take the top spot.
Seagal, who is famed for his firearms and martial arts skills on screen, was recently criticised for his role in training armed school guards in Arizona in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting.
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TC TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON; 1 June 1837; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18370601-TC-RWE-01; CL 9:218-221.
5. Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, / 1st June 1837—
My dear Friend,
A word must go to Concord in answer to your last kind word.1 It reached me that word of yours on the morning of a most unspeakable day; the day when I half dead with fret agitation and exasperation was to address extempore an audience of London quality people on the subject of German Literature!2 The heart's wish of me was that I might be left in deepest oblivion, wrapt in blankets and silence, not speaking, not spoken to, for a twelvemonth to come. My Printers had only let me go, out of their Treadmill, the day before. However, all that is over now; and I am still here alive to write to you, and hope for better days.
Almost a month ago there went a copy of a Book called French Revolution with your address on it over to Red-Lion Square, and thence, as old Rich3 declared himself now emeritus, back to one Kennet4 (I think) near Covent Garden; who professes to correspond with Hilliard & Company, Boston,5 and undertook the service. The Book is not gone yet, I understand; but Kennet engages that it shall leave Liverpool infallibly on the fifth of June. I wish you a happy reading of it therefore: it is the only copy of my sending that has crossed the water. Ill printed (there are many errors, one or two gross ones); ill written, ill thought! But in fine it is off my hands; that is a fact worth all others. As to its reception here or elsewhere, I anticipate nothing or little. Gabble, gabble, the astonishment of the dull public brain is likely to be considerable, and its ejaculations unedifying. We will let it go its way. Beat this thing, I say always, under thy dull hoofs, O dull Public; trample it and tumble it into all sinks and kennels; if thou canst kill it, kill it in God's name: if thou canst not kill it, why then thou wilt not.
By the bye speaking of dull Publics, I ought to say that I have seen a Review of myself in the Christian Examiner (I think that is it, of Boston); the author of which, if you know him, I desire you to thank on my part.6 For if a dull million is good, then withal a seeing unit or two is also good. This man images back a beautiful idealized Clothes-Philosopher, very satisfactory to look upon; in whose beatified features I did verily detect more similitude to what I myself meant to be than in any or all the other criticisms I have yet seen written of me. That a man see himself reflected from the soul of his brother man in this brotherly improved way: there surely is one of the most legitimate joys of existence. Friend Ripley took the trouble to send me the Review, in which I detected an Article of his own;7 then came also some Discourses of his much to be approved of, a Newspaper passage-of-fence with a Philistine of yours;8 and a set of Essays on Progress-of-the-species and such like9 by a man whom I grieved to see confusing himself with that. Progress of the species is a thing I can get no good of at all. These Books, which Miss Martineau has borrowed from me, did not arrive till three weeks ago or less. I pray you to thank Ripley for them very kindly; which at present I still have not time to do. He seems to me a good man, with good aims; with considerable natural health of mind, wherein all goodness is likely to grow better, all clearness to grow clearer. Miss Martineau laments that he does not fling himself, or not with the due impetuosity, into the Black Controversy; a thing lamentable in the extreme when one considers what a world this is, and how perfect it would be could Mungo once get his stupid case rectified, and eat his squash as a stupid Apprentice instead of a stupid Slave!
Miss Martineau's Book on America is out,10 here and with you. I have read it for the good Authoress's sake, whom I love much. She is one of the strangest phenomena to me. A genuine little Poetess, buckramed, swathed like a mummy, into Socinian and Political-Economy formulas; and yet verily alive in the inside of that! "God has given a Prophet to every People in its own speech," say the Arabs.11 Even the English Unitarians were one day to have their Poet, and the best that could be said for them too was to be said. I admire this good lady's integrity, sincerity; her quick sharp discernment to the depth it goes: her love also is great; nay in fact it is too great[: the] host of illustrious obscure mortals whom she produces on you, of Preachers, Pamph[leteers,] Anti-slavers, Able Editors, and other Atlases bearing (unknown to us) the world on their shoulder, is absolutely more than enough. What they say to her Book here I do not well know. I fancy the general reception will be good, and even brilliant. I saw Mrs Butler12 last night, "in an ocean of blonde and broadcloth," one of those oceans common at present. Ach Gott! They are not of Persons these soirees but of Cloth Figures.13
I mean to retreat into Scotland very soon, to repose myself as I intended. My Wife continues here with her Mother; here at least till the weather grow too hot, or a journey to join me seem otherwise advisable for her. She is gathering strength, but continues still weak enough. I rest myself "on the sunny side of hedges"14 in native Annandale, one of the obscurest regions; no man shall speak to me, I will speak to no man; but have dialogues yonder with the old dumb crags, of the most unfathomable sort. Once rested, I think of returning to London for another season. Several things are beginning which I ought to see end before taking up my staff again. In this enormous Chaos the very multitude of conflicting perversions produces something more like a calm than you can elsewhere meet with. Men let you alone, which is an immense thing: they do it even because they have no time to meddle with you. London, or else the Back-woods, of America, or Craigenputtoch! We shall see.
I still beg the comfort of hearing from you. I am sick of soul and body, but not incurable; the loving word of a Waldo Emerson is as balm to me, medicinal now more than ever. My Wife earnestly joins me in love to the Concord Household. May a blessing be in it, on one and all! I do nowise give up the idea of sojourning there one time yet. On the contrary, it seems almost certain that I shall. Good be with you.
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I am trying to understand the Hilbert triple $V \subset H \subset V^*$, where $V$ and $H$ are Hilbert spaces and the star denotes the dual space. Eg: $H^1 \subset L^2 \subset H^{-1}.$
If $V \subset H$, then associating it is clear that $H^* \subset V^*$ since every functional in $H^*$ acts on elements of $H$, and since $V$ is in $H$, acts on elements in $V$. Is this understanding right?
Therefore, by assocating $H$ with $H^*$, we can write $V \subset H \equiv H^* \subset V^*$, which is the Hilbert triple.
Is this correct? I feel like I'm missing something deeper.


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Bill O'Reilly, Gay Marriage, and the Bible - Rick Phillips provides a helpful addition to the many articles related to gay marriage. O'Reilly presupposes that the Bible is not an acceptable source of authority for our culture. Conservatives must accept that liberals will not listen to Scripture and therefore craft a moral consensus on grounds other than the Bible. What he fails to realize is that apart from God and his Word, the only moral consensus possible to man is an evil pagan idolatry."
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(NBC) - At least eight people are confirmed dead after a powerful mudslide destroyed part of a northern Washington town over the weekend. It's the possible number of survivors still not found that has rescuers working around the clock.
The Saturday slide crushed at least thirty homes, pushing some across a highway and burying others, along with cars which happened to be along the road. The reported number of missing or unaccounted for people is staggering: 108.
How deep and how wide does this disaster go? Crews working to find survivors in the debris and quicksand-like mud are at a loss to describe its magnitude.
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Inside the rescue effort, a woman's dog is pulled from a wrecked home. Small Comfort the dog is alive and recovering. The woman who lives in the home.....still missing. So is Bill Welsh, whose family continues to search and hold out hope.
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DeKALB, Ill. - The Northern Illinois baseball team will close its regular season with a three game series against Ball State, beginning Thursday May 17 and concluding Saturday May 19. The Huskies will honor their eight seniors on the squad before the season finale and will also have a 40th anniversary reunion for the 1972 NCAA Regional Qualifying baseball team that same day.TALE OF THE TAPENorthern IllinoisOverall | 15-37MAC | 7-17Home | 4-12Away | 9-17Neutral | 2-8Ball StateOverall | 11-36MAC | 6-18Home | 6-10Away | 4-26Neutral | 1-0Northern Illinois Pitching RotationThursday: RHP Taylor Nawrocki (4-6) | 78.0 IP | 5.19 ERA | 50 SO | 39 BBFriday: LHP Jake Hermsen (3-7) | 82.0 IP | 5.11 ERA | 66 SO | 39 BBSaturday: RHP Tony Manville (2-8) | 76.2 IP | 5.75 ERA | 33 SO | 25 BBBall State Pitching RotationThursday: RHP TJ Weir (2-9) | 68.0 IP | 5.96 ERA | 54 SO | 22 BBFriday: RHP Chris Marangon (1-7) | 62.2 IP | 4.02 ERA | 33 SO | 25 BBSaturday: RHP Cal Bowling (3-3) | 68.0 IP | 4.10 ERA | 62 SO | 18 BBWITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS"Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song. I'll try not to sing out of key." The Huskies are still in the hunt for a Mid-American Conference Tournament berth this weekend and could do so with a sweep of Ball State, but will need help from around the conference. Here's how it plays out…- Miami (Ohio) would need to get swept by Ohio- Akron would need get swept by Kent State- The series between Bowling Green or Buffalo could not end with a sweep. One of the two teams would have to win two and lose one.Why all this? The Huskies (7-17 MAC) defeated the Redhawks (10-14 MAC) and the Zips (10-14 MAC) earlier this season and own the tiebreaker should the teams get swept. NIU did not play the Bulls (8-15 MAC) or the Falcons (8-15 MAC) this year and would tie with one of the two teams and capture the last two spots open in the tournament field. SCOUTING THE CARDINALSBall State is riding a 10-game losing streak and is 11-36 overall this season and 6-18 in conference play. The Cardinals last win occurred April 22, a 5-4 10 inning affair versus Eastern Michigan, where BSU also recorded a series victory over the Eagles. Since that win the team has been swept in series by Toledo, Western Michigan and Central Michigan. Doubling as a pitcher and an infielder, T.J. Weir is the Cardinals leader in RBI with 23, as well as doubles with nine. On the mound, Weir leads the team in innings pitched (68.0) and carries a 2-9 record, along with a 6.96 earned run average. He is Thursday's starting pitcher. He has also struck out 54 batters, while only walking 22. Billy Wellman is the power in the lineup with four home runs and 23 RBI and seven doubles. Wellmann also owns a .322 batting average and a .540 slugging percentage in 87 at-bats this season.AND NOW THE END IS NEARThe following players will be donning the Cardinal and Black in the regular season for the last time Saturday afternoon for Northern Illinois. Entering this weekend, the Huskies have played a combined for 994 games and 798 starts.Tom Barry, P, Orland Park, Ill.Alex Beckmann, OF, Batavia, Ill.Brett Frantini, C, Minooka, Ill.Kyle Glancy, P, Oak Park, Ill.Jake Hermsen, P, New London, Wis.Alex Jones, SS, Kansas City, Kan.Tony Manville, P, New Lenox, Ill.Troy White, 3B, Chicago, Ill.WELCOME BACK CLASS OF '72Celebrating their 40th anniversary of qualifying for the NCAA Baseball Regional and Midwestern Conference Championship, the 1972 baseball team will be at the game and honored for their unprecedented accomplishment. The team finished the regular season 24-6 and won the Midwestern conference with a 7-2 record, advancing to the NCAA Tournament at Bowling Green. There the Huskies fell to BGSU (2-0) and Iowa (8-1) to close the campaign 24-8. The team was inducted into the NIU Hall of Fame in 2008.For news and updates on Northern Illinois baseball, visit NIUHuskies.com, or follow on Twitter @NIUAthletics or @NIU_Baseball or on Facebook at Facebook.com/NIUHuskies.