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Bruce Perens, Linux czar of Hewlett-Packard, has what he calls a "very good" chance of getting a preference for Linux-compatible hardware made into corporate policy at the new largest Linux vendor, the merged HP/Compaq.
The policy would mandate a company-wide "at design-in time, preference for devices that have publicly documented interfaces".
For HP engineers, it means that if you have a choice between two hardware products, select the one for which an open-source driver exists or for which the vendor publishes programming information. If a part comes with a nondisclosure agreement, don't use it unless there's no alternative, or the alternative would be prohibitively expensive.
How much less will NDA-shrouded hardware be worth to HP? Perens doesn't put a number on it. Or, to look at it the other way, how much of a price premium will HP be willing to pay to use a publicly documented device? The advice to designers is "use your head", he says.
"I was concerned about graphics display chips", Perens said. ATI's low-end graphics hardware is fairly clean, but at the high end, "They're all crazy", he said. The policy has already resulted in HP dropping NDA-covered modem chips for openly documented ones.
Although the documented hardware policy was approved at a "corporate policy level" within HP before the merger and was ready to become the standard within the company, Perens has to get management of the new, merged company to approve it all over again. "The merger has held off a lot of things, and I have to get [Compaq managers] to be cognizant of the reason we need it", he said.
Just because HP laptops and PDAs will be Linux-friendly doesn't mean the company will formally support Linux on them. There are no plans to offer a Linux laptop or to commercialize Jim Gettys' work on running Linux and X on the Compaq-now-HP iPAQ.
"Most of what I'm doing with Linux is servers", Perens said. The merger's overall effect on Linux at HP and Compaq? "Unless something awful happens it should make it better."
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HOTorNOT.com offers a simple and democratic answer to a common but embarrassing question: how good do I look? Voters play a kind of whack-a-mole, only they whack human beings instead of moles and use a mouse instead of a mallet, rating each candidate on scale of 1 to 10. As soon as one gets rated, another pops up next to a thumbnail of the last one, with the current rating.
The site was conceived in October 2000 by James Young and Jim Hong, a couple of 27-year-old Berkeley-trained hackers, roommates and drinking buddies. They were going to put it up on XMethods, their web site for publicly available web services.
For what instantly became obvious reasons, they made HOTorNOT.com an independent site. In just over a week, the site was getting almost two million page views per day. By May of this year, HOTorNOT had counted over 2.1 billion votes and had over one million user accounts.
But here's what's really hot: it runs on Linux. "In fact", James Hong recently told us, "we couldn't have done it without Linux." By "it", he means make money. According to Hong, HOTorNOT pulls in more than enough income to pay for itself and its staff, which still consists of the original two guys.
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Predicted average number of spam e-mails per inbox per year by 2006: 1,500
Number of spams accumulated in an idle inbox on Earthlink over the year leading up to August 2001: 1,200
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In the key battleground states that will decide control of the Senate this November, President Obama's approval numbers are lower than they are nationally — but not much lower.
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In the 12 states with competitive Senate races this fall, only 38 percent of likely voters said they approved of the way the president is handling his job. An index of all national polls shows the president's approval rating about 4 percentage points higher nationwide.
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40 Favorite Ripple Afghans - Crochet Patterns
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A ripple afghan is always a prize! This collection of 40 contest favorites was created by crocheters like you and provides a wide variety of stylish and original throws. Patterns included: Wine on the Vine, Snowman Ridge, Embossed Ripple, Romantic Melody, Hugs & Kisses, Patriotic Parade, Waves of Blue, Evergreen Forest, Lullaby, Waves of Grain, Daisy Border, Blue Skies, Impressive Plaid, Ruffles Intrigue, American Waves, Lady's Choice, Aztec Sun, Candy Stripe, Rippling Ribbons, Rosebud, Granny's Ripple, Shadow, Fresh Flowers, Americana, Azalea Lane, Sailboat Celebration, Vibrance, Navajo Bargello, Flower Show, Stained Glass, Royal Bargello, Ribbons and Lace, Baby Love, Mountain Flowers, Budding Beauty, Fantasy Garden, Refreshing Ripple, Majestic, Playful Waves, Simple Comfort.
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verbo (accredits, accrediting, accredited)[with object] (usually be accredited)
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1.1Attribute (an action, saying, or quality) to: the discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs
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2(Of an official body) give authority or sanction to (someone or something) when recognized standards have been met: institutions that do not meet the standards will not be accredited for teacher training
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- If an applicant is pursuing a master's degree in another field, such as business administration, that undergoes a national accreditation process, the appropriate body must accredit the degree program.
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3Give official authorization for (someone, typically a diplomat or journalist) to be in a particular place or to hold a particular post: an ambassador accredited to a northern European country
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- Less than half of the 4,000 international journalists accredited to attend actually turned up and, by the end of the summit, even those who did were looking elsewhere.
- In fact, they were under much tighter control than any journalist accredited to the coalition forces.
- England was due to arrive in Harare last night with only the Press Association, the Daily Mail, The Independent, the Daily Express, The Guardian and Reuters news agency accredited to cover the series.
official, appointed, recognized, authorized, approved, certified, licensed
accreditor sustantivo
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- A letter from the accreditor made public by the university spelled out the ways in which it had not complied with accreditation requirements.
- The accreditor issued the standards in response to ongoing criticism of the long hours required of many residents.
- The scope of each accreditor is distinctive, and although accreditation practices are similar in many respects, significant variations should be noted.
Early 17th century (sense 2): from French accréditer, from a- (from Latin ad 'to, at') + crédit 'credit'.
Palabras que riman con accreditcredit, edit, subedit
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WASHINGTON -- Two of America's great art museums reopened Saturday after a six-year, $283 million makeover that transformed the historic building they share, giving them more space to exhibit their collections.
Hundreds of art enthusiasts were welcomed by actors dressed as historical figures and characters from famous paintings, along with a fife and drum corps, as they toured the National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum in the Smithsonian Institution's restored Old Patent Office Building.
"There's no place like home; it's great to be back here," said Marc J. Pachter, director of the National Portrait Gallery.
Since the two museums closed in 2000, Pachter and Elizabeth Broun, director of the American Art Museum, have overseen restoration and cleaning of thousands of pieces of art for display in the brighter, larger exhibit spaces of the 170-year-old building.
The renovations also allow visitors to see some of the work that used to go on behind the scenes.
"We've taken our five conservation labs and studios and put them all behind floor-to-ceiling glass walls," said Broun.
Though the museums retain their separate names, the building is now called the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.
The building did not suffer any water damage from last week's torrential rains, unlike the National Archives and some other major federal buildings along Pennsylvania Avenue.
"The new construction has helped make the building watertight," said Bethany Bentley, a portrait gallery spokeswoman.
The added space will allow the American Art Museum to display about 5,000 of its 41,000 pieces. Among the 7,000 artists represented in its collections are many who worked as illustrators for newspapers or producers of advertising art but still steered popular art in new directions.
"We've taken 3,400 works that used to be in storage in a warehouse, and we've put them into tall glass cases in this beautiful historic setting," Broun said.
The National Portrait Gallery also has more space, enabling it to open with 14 exhibits drawn from its collection of 19,400 works, including 300 years' worth of historic portraits and photographs.
"We not only have the faces of the famous here, but we've also got thousands of works that capture the souls and spirits of ordinary Americans," Pachter said.
Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday morning, crowds of visitors were accompanied by actors dressed as George and Martha Washington, as Uncle Sam and as the couple from Grant Wood's 1930 painting "American Gothic" -- not housed at the museums -- which features an apron-clad woman beside a stoic man holding a pitchfork.
During the renovations, which were funded by Congress and private donations, many of the museums' holdings were sent on tours to cities around the nation.
While each museum had about 500,000 visitors in 2000, officials estimate that 2 million people will tour exhibits in the renovated building each year.
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Robot sales are at an all-time high and robot safety is of paramount importance in automation planning. The RIA National Robot Safety Conference will offer conference sessions and workshops that examine key issues in robot safety and provide an in-depth overview of current industry standards. Gain an essential understanding of how to effectively plan for robot safety!
- In-depth overview of the industrial robot standard ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012
- A review of other ANSI and ISO standards that pertain to robots and industrial automation
- Collaborative robot safety considerations, including information on ISO TS 15066
- How to select the proper safeguards for your robot cell
- Functional safety and safety circuit design
- Risk Assessment
- Users' perspectives on robot safety
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Across industries, automating processes through robot integration is on the rise. Robot sales are at an all-time high, growing more than 28% in the last year and totaling more than $1.6 billion in North American sales alone. Paramount to successful integration and maximizing return on investment, robot safety is at the forefront of automation planning.
- Gain valuable insight through conference sessions and workshops on robot safety, machine and robot standards
- Listen to real-world examples presented by industry leaders
- Receive an in-depth overview of the ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012 safety standard
- Network with the who's who in robot safety
Join us for a robotics industry tour on Friday, October 21st. Details coming soon.
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Conference sessions and workshops will focus on current ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012 industrial robot safety standards as well as other ANSI and ISO standards that pertain to robots and industrial automation.
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Carole Franklin
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Roberta Nelson Shea
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Todd Dickey
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User Experience - Robot system safety in a lab environment: A unique viewpoint on Risk Assessment
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Robot Risk Assessment/ Updates on other relevant standards
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A method to determine residual risks levels based upon the risk reductions measures selected
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Obstacles to refurbishing a robot
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Mary Mother of Peace-Medjugorje Charity seeks to bring emergency relief to the poor, refugees, war orphans, children and families in desperate need, without distinction of origin, race, religion, sex, and opinion. The goal is to lead these people and children in need towards a better life, improved happiness and inner peace in addition to improving their living conditions or rebuilding their lives.
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As an example, we found it very compassionate for Mary Mother of Peace to continue to help the poor people stricken by a devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010. The project is called The Path to a Better Life. Working in partnership with the Fonkoze Foundation reliably present in the field, Mary Mother of Peace-Medjugorje Charity participates in their CLM program --Chemen Lavi Mayo, i.e. "on the Path to a Better Life" by assisting with the education of children and poverty alleviation of their families, especially mothers, to make them creditworthy for a micro finance program. This will help them develop revenue-earning activities, urban or rural. Each dollar spent is going a long way in Haiti; project is progressing well and is helping now 300 CLM children enrolled in school (200 in 2010), and their mothers are getting out of poverty. A reliable monitoring system and a strong local presence allow to properly controlling the use of funds disbursed locally through a special account managed by Fonkoze CLM Youth Fund. We are now gearing up to raise additional funding for the program. Budget is US$15,000 for two-years (2012-2013) for a total of about 1,000 target beneficiaries. Thank you for your help. MMP-MC is also helping wounded US service men and women in their transition into civilian life. God bless you all.
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On Equal Pay Day, Fox News devoted less than one minute of airtime to cover President Obama's speech at the newly-designated Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument in Washington D.C., while MSNBC and CNN aired the speech nearly in its entirety.
Obama spoke at the designation of the monument seeking to "honor the movement for women's equality," which coincided with the 20th anniversary of Equal Pay Day -- the day when the average woman's pay catches up with the average man's from the previous year. According to an April 2016 report from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), working women in the United States earned "just 79 percent of what men were paid" in 2014, with disparities far worse for women of color. President Obama's speech was covered for over 10 minutes on MSNBC and CNN, nearly the entire duration of the speech. In contrast, Fox briefly noted that the speech was occurring, but never cut away to hear Obama's remarks, which lasted almost 12 minutes. The guest host of Fox News' Happening Now, Heather Childers, described the monument and Equal Pay Day but instead of cutting to the speech, simply noted, "We wanted to let you know it was going on":
HEATHER CHILDERS: We do have a Fox News alert for you, we are going to take you live to Washington D.C., that's where President Obama is delivering remarks at the newly designated Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument there in D.C. Of course, it is dedicated to women's equality. It's a house and a museum. It includes a collection of different artifacts, suffrage banners, archives, all related to voting rights for women and equality for women. And this is coming as a matter of fact on Equal Pay Day, a day meant to symbolize how much more a woman has to work on average to earn what a man earned in the previous year, so that's going on in Washington, D.C. for you, right now. We wanted to let you know it was going on.
This poor coverage of the gender pay gap is not new to the network that has continually dismissed the issue as "an absolute myth," blamed womens' choices for their lack of pay equity, and targeted celebrities and athletes who spoke out about wage disparities in their industries.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is again raising conservative media talking points in court, advancing the debunked idea that the definition of marriage has remained unchanged for a "millennia."
On April 28, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, a case that will determine whether state bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. During arguments, the conservative justices, including Scalia, expressed concern about "redefining" the institution of marriage to include gay couples. In one exchange with Mary Bonauto, the lawyer representing the same-sex plaintiffs, Scalia wondered if it was appropriate for the court to "decide it for this society" since marriage has applied only to heterosexual couples "for millennia."
The idea that the definition of marriage has had a fixed tradition or definition "for millennia" is untrue, although right-wing media have pushed that notion in varying forms for years -- and Scalia's propensity for embracing right-wing talking points is well-known. In 2012, he repeated the idea that if the Affordable Care Act was upheld, the federal government might be allowed to force Americans to buy broccoli -- an argument borrowed from Rush Limbaugh's talk show. Earlier this year, Scalia claimed that if the court struck down the availability of health care subsidies, Congress would move quickly to fix the problem -- apparently convinced by right-wing media's false claims that Senate Republicans had a viable back-up plan if the court hobbled the Affordable Care Act. When the Supreme Court struck down Arizona's notorious anti-immigrant racial profiling law in 2012, Scalia dispensed with legal arguments to instead attack the unrelated deferred action program for DREAMers and scaremonger that the "state's citizens feel themselves under siege by large numbers of illegal immigrants." Professor Jeffrey Rosen of George Washington University said Scalia's commentary in that case "sound[ed] more like a conservative blogger or Fox News pundit than a justice."
National Review Online is calling on the Supreme Court to uphold states' rights to ban same-sex marriage because, in its view, recognizing marriage equality would redefine the institution to favor lesser "emotional unions" and adopted children over married procreation.
On April 28, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, a case that could finally allow same-sex couples to marry in every state or, at minimum, require states that ban same-sex marriage to recognize the legality of same-sex marriages performed legally elsewhere. During arguments, Mary Bonauto, the lawyer representing the same-sex couples challenging state marriage bans, asserted that such bans "contravene the basic constitutional commitment to equal dignity" and that "the abiding purpose of the 14th Amendment is to preclude relegating classes of persons to second-tier status."
Several justices were receptive to Bonauto's argument, including conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is widely expected to cast the deciding vote in the case.
But NRO is less convinced. In an April 28 editorial, the editors called on the justices to "refrain from taking [the] reckless step" of recognizing that the fundamental right to marry should be extended to gay couples. The editorial also rejected the idea that gay couples who can't get married are routinely denied the same dignity that "traditional" married couples enjoy, and argued that the "older view" of marriage -- which prioritizes "the type of sexual behavior that often gives rise to children" -- is "rationally superior to the newer one":
An older view of marriage has steadily been losing ground to a newer one, and that process began long before the debate over same-sex couples. On the older understanding, society and, to a lesser extent, the government needed to shape sexual behavior -- specifically, the type of sexual behavior that often gives rise to children -- to promote the well-being of those children. On the newer understanding, marriage is primarily an emotional union of adults with an incidental connection to procreation and children.
We think the older view is not only unbigoted, but rationally superior to the newer one. Supporters of the older view have often said that it offers a sure ground for resisting polygamy while the newer one does not. But perhaps the more telling point is that the newer view does not offer any strong rationale for having a social institution of marriage in the first place, let alone a government-backed one.
Fox News' Special Report cherry-picked Justice Antonin Scalia's religious freedom concerns from the Supreme Court's oral arguments on constitutional protections for same-sex marriage to question whether clergy may "be required to conduct same-sex marriages." But this selective reporting ignores the fact that Scalia's line of questioning was immediately debunked by his fellow justices as well as the pro-marriage equality lawyer.
On April 28, the court heard landmark arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, a case that will decide whether the U.S. Constitution forbids states from banning same-sex marriages, or at least requires them to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states where it's legal.
During the April 28 edition of Fox News' Special Report, anchor Bret Baier highlighted a dubious line of questioning between Scalia and Mary Bonauto, the lawyer representing the same-sex couples, that suggested a ruling in favor of same-sex marriage would require clergy with religious objections to perform those ceremonies. Baier reiterated Scalia's question to The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes, who agreed and argued that a ruling in favor of marriage equality would leave religious liberties vulnerable:
BAIER: There's one more thing. If states license ministers to conduct marriages, would those ministers -- if it is constitutional -- then be required to conduct same-sex marriages?
HAYES: Right, and then you go to the religious liberty argument. I mean, this is one area where I think conservatives are shifting their focus now, in a sense almost conceding that the gay marriage debate for all intents and purposes in the political realm is over, but can they sort of protect those religious liberties that, you know, certainly I would argue that the founders intended.
In the lead up to next week's landmark Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of marriage equality, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly is amplifying a fringe -- and absurd -- right-wing campaign calling on Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elana Kagan to recuse themselves because they have officiated same-sex marriages. But these actions, along with Ginsburg's comments noting the American public is rapidly turning against anti-LGBT discrimination, are not grounds for legitimate recusal.
In January, the American Family Association (AFA) -- a notorious anti-gay hate group -- announced a campaign titled, "Kagan and Ginsburg: Recuse Yourselves!" In a statement, the AFA, best known for its infamous anti-gay spokesman Bryan Fischer, called on the justices to recuse themselves ahead of next week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage. The group argued that Kagan and Ginsburg "should recuse themselves from making any same-sex marriage decisions because they have both conducted same-sex marriage ceremonies."
On April 20, Fox legal correspondent Shannon Bream twice reported on "public calls, petition drives, and appeals directly to Justices Ginsburg and Kagan to recuse themselves from hearing next week's case on same-sex marriage." During Fox News' Special Report, Bream pointed to the justices' past history officiating same-sex weddings and a February 2015 interview during which Ginsburg said that it "would not take a large adjustment" for Americans to get used to nationwide marriage equality. On April 21, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly picked up the argument in his "Is It Legal" segment on The O'Reilly Factor, declaring "these ladies have to recuse themselves," because "[t]he Supreme Court is supposed to be an incorruptible institution, but reports say Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg has herself performed three gay marriages, and Justice Elena Kagan, one":
Top Female Editors React To "Fairly Depressing" Decrease In Newsroom Leadership
As the newspaper world scrambles to figure out why New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson was forced out this week, her ouster has drawn attention to another mystery: Why are there so few women running America's largest newspapers?
With Abramson's departure, only two of the top 25 circulation daily papers in the U.S. -- as listed by the Alliance for Audited Media -- have women as their top editors. Newsday's Debbie Henley and the Houston Chronicle's Nancy Barnes are the exception rather than the rule.
And with Abramson gone, replaced by Dean Baquet -- the paper's first African-American executive editor -- none of the top 10 daily papers have a woman at the helm. That's unusual since at least half of those papers have seen female newsroom leadership in recent decades.
Along with the Times, the New York Daily News, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today were led by women during the past 15 years.
Among the remaining top 25 daily papers, at least eight had women as the top newsroom bosses during the same time span. Today, only two, Barnes and Henley.
"There was this time where there were quite a few of us. It was a nice list," said Ann Marie Lipinski, who was editor of the Chicago Tribune for seven years before resigning in 2007 and being replaced by a man, Gerould Kern. "One by one, all for varying reasons, most of that group just dissipated. I can't tell you what all of that means, each story is very different. The sum of it is a fairly depressing lack of female leadership in major newsrooms."
Susan Goldberg, a former top editor at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and the San Jose Mercury News, said, "it's terrible that half of the jobs aren't filled by women. There certainly are tons of qualified women who are ready and able to lead newsrooms, whether those are print or online newsrooms."
Goldberg, who recently became the first female editor-in-chief of National Geographic magazine, said things were on the rise for women editors, but the trend has reversed. "We made progress for a while, then it seemed to plateau," she said. "Then the [financial] upheaval in the industry came and that may be part of it. There have not been the line of women to replace the ones who left. I'm sorry to see that there hasn't been a deeper bench of women who can step into these roles when they are vacated."
Melanie Sill, former editor of The Sacramento (CA.) Bee and the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., called the trend "definitely something to be concerned about."
"It is something that I have wondered about," added Sill, now executive editor of Southern California Public Radio. "It is part of a larger reverse trend in diversity in news in general. We've lost some ground in terms of ethnic and gender diversity."
Fox News Aired "Daring Police Rescue" Instead Of Historic Civil Rights Battle Before Supreme Court
Fox News chose not to air live coverage of press events immediately following the Supreme Court's consideration of a historic marriage equality case, while MSNBC and CNN both covered the event live.
The Supreme Court was hearing arguments for and against California's Proposition 8, a ban on same-sex marriage. The landmark case, Hollingsworth vs. Perry, examines whether Prop 8 "unconstitutionally discriminates against gays and lesbians." After oral arguments wrapped up, a press conference took place on the steps of the Supreme Court during which attorneys and plaintiffs in the case spoke to the media.
Here's what Fox News aired instead of the live press conference (11:45 AM):
During the same minutes, MSNBC and CNN aired the following:
Chick-fil-A is now confirming in no uncertain terms that the company maintains an anti-LGBT philosophy -- a stance supported in practical terms by the company's history of donations to anti-gay groups.
Although his company's policies seemed to indicate otherwise, Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy previously claimed that the company is not anti-gay -- "not anti-anybody." Cathy, who on Monday foreshadowed his public comments in a blog post titled "Thought For The Week: Become A Part Of The Story," cleared up any confusion by denouncing marriage equality and its advocates in interviews published in Baptist Press and on The Ken Coleman Show over the past two days. From OnTopMag.com (emphasis added):
Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy has described gay marriage supporters as "arrogant" for going against God on marriage.
In an interview on the Ken Coleman Show, Cathy defended his company's support of groups opposed to marriage equality.
"I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,'" Cathy said. "And I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about."
Richard Spencer, executive director of the National Policy Institute (NPI), was beginning his opening remarks as I settled uneasily into my seat in the back row of a small, brightly lit banquet room. From a podium at the front of the room, the brown-haired young man pointed to a projection of a color-shaded world map that he claimed depicted regional variations in the average Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of indigenous populations.
According to the map, East Asian and European peoples possess the highest IQs while African and Australian indigenous populations possess the lowest. He then switched to a NASA photograph of the world at night, depicting city lights around the globe visible from space. He compared the brightest-lit areas (China, Europe, North America) to the previous map, proclaiming that the brightest localities were also those with the highest IQ.
"You can see, Africa is literally the Dark Continent."
It was on that note that NPI's national conference, titled Towards a New Nationalism: Immigration and the Future of Western Nations, began. This was the first such event for the fledgling white nationalist organization NPI, a think tank of sorts dedicated to "promot[ing] the American majority's unique historical, cultural, and biological inheritance - and advances policies that, without prejudicing the legitimate rights of others, fearlessly defends our rights...our heritage." Dedicated, in other words, to advancing the interests of the white race.
The event was a first for me as well. I would be, for the first time, experiencing a gathering of white supremacists from such an intimate perspective. Watching, learning, interacting -- I would attempt to sort out what they believe and why and explore the relationship between the white nationalist movement and the more mainstream political spectrum. As a clean-cut white male, my presence wasn't suspicious and the other attendees assumed I shared their views. For my part, I let them assume, and I did my best to blend in.
I had no idea what to expect when I arrived at 9 a.m., but a part of me anticipated swarms of protestors, a strong police presence clashing with private security forces and a raucous racist crowd inside the hall, cheering on some podium-smacking orator bloviating about the evils of the Jewish race and the need to oppress the black community.
Instead, I was greeted jovially upon arrival to a scene that more closely resembled a modest cocktail party, with no security and a few people standing around sipping coffee and discussing literature. I picked up my name tag and glanced at the design -- a photograph of a white family smiling over a white background adjacent to the well-known political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin depicting a severed serpent and the phrase "JOIN, or DIE."
Reading over the conference program, I caught a glimpse of what I was in for from the titles of the speeches to come. They ranged from the blandly predictable - "Is Arizona the Answer?", "Prospects for a Nationalist Right in America"; to the ominously enigmatic - "Apocalypse Now," "Totalitarian Humanism and Mass Immigration," "The Masters of the Universe"; to the truly chill-inducing -- "The Idea and Ideal of the Ethno-State."


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If I start MAMP Pro, I need to type the password. If a Flash update is available, I need to type a password. If I install an application, I need to type a password.
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Has Ubuntu bitten off more than it can chew?
Canonical wants to put Ubuntu onto our TVs, tablets and smartphones, as well as our PCs. Can it succeed?
Is Ubuntu the world's most successful failure? By far the world's best-known Linux distro (if you discount the disputable case of Android), it's achieved what once looked impossible: an easy-to-install, easy-on-the-eye Linux distro that doesn't immediately alienate anyone without a PhD in computer science.
It's met a punishing biannual release schedule with almost metronomic precision for a decade, embedded an app store long before Apple popularised the concept, and resides on tens of millions of PCs and servers worldwide. And yet...
Despite arguably offering a better desktop interface than Windows 8, Ubuntu remains a resolutely niche OS. Its share of the worldwide PC operating system market has never exceeded 1 or 2%; most web analytics packages fail to even recognise it as an OS in its own right, instead lumping it into a generic "Linux" bucket.
Despite arguably offering a better desktop interface than Windows 8, Ubuntu remains a resolutely niche OS
That's hardly surprising when you consider how difficult it is to buy an Ubuntu system on the high street – the Saturday boy at Dixons thinks Ubuntu is the new striker at Chelsea. Even ordering systems online from "close" partners such as Dell is challenging.
Yet, despite failing to make a significant breakthrough in the consumer PC market, Ubuntu is accused of selling out by members of the open-source community.
The attractive Unity interface has, ironically, split the userbase, with many accusing Ubuntu of dumbing down. Linux Mint is now the most sought-after distro, according to DistroWatch.com's page-hit rankings. Meanwhile, free software zealot Richard Stallman is urging users to boycott Ubuntu, branding it "spyware" because of the way it sucks up user data to serve search results for Amazon. (Ubuntu developer, Canonical, denies the charge.)
Given that it seems to have plateaued in a declining PC market, perhaps it's no surprise that Canonical is developing versions of Ubuntu for TVs, smartphones and tablets. This is an ambitious four-screen strategy that even Canonical CEO Jane Silber admits is risky, not least because users can't easily install Ubuntu on the other three devices the way they can on a PC.
So what does the future hold for Ubuntu? Is the poster child of Linux distros overstretching itself? Or is it primed to become the next Android, an open-source alternative to the closed worlds of Apple and Microsoft?
Four-screen dream
The first glimpse of Ubuntu's attempt to break free of the PC came more than a year ago, at CES 2012. At the far end of the hangar-sized South Hall, on a stand dwarfed by those of home-entertainment giants Sony, Samsung and Sharp, stood a single television running the Ubuntu TV interface.
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With no stadium-sized screen, deafening loudspeakers or scantily clad models to attract attention, most of the 150,000 attendees in Las Vegas merely ambled past – if they even made it to the back of the hall in the first place.
More than a year later, that Las Vegas demonstration unit is probably still the only public sighting of Ubuntu TV. Canonical admits it's been tough convincing manufacturers to take a gamble. "We've had, and continue to have, good conversations with TV manufacturers," Canonical's Silber told us. "Unfortunately, we're not in a position to announce a product launch date; it's down to the TV manufacturers."
What's the hold-up? Major manufacturers such as Sony, Samsung and Philips have their own firmware installed and commercial content deals to go with it. Those Netflix and YouTube icons aren't placed on smart TVs out of charity, in much the same way bloatware vendors buy their way onto your PC desktop. Canonical doesn't have the financial muscle to buy its way onto TV sets, and so must rely on consumer pull to convince manufacturers to take a chance.


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Gabrielle Giffords Walking, Talking, Singing
The good news, with caveats.
Last week, Gabrielle Giffords made headlines by asking for toast for breakfast. The congresswoman, who was shot in the head on January 8 by a deranged killer, seemed to be continuing her miraculous recovery. After a thrilling (but also frustrating) initial round of breathless press coverage about her many rapid improvements, Giffords slipped from the public eye for a couple of weeks as she began the difficult and long rehabilitation process. This morning, the Times has a detailed account of how far she's come, and an honest reckoning of how far she has to go.
Giffords has been walking, with the help of a shopping cart, for some time now. And she can mouth words and speak, to some effect. She spoke briefly with her brother-in-law in space (he, like her husband, Mark Kelly, is an astronaut). Using a technique known to help rebuild the brain's speech center, doctors have been encouraging her to sing. The part of the brain that controls singing, you may remember from The King's Speech, is close to — but not the same as — the one that controls speech. She can do "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and sang "Happy Birthday" to her husband. She sits up with good posture and is doing exercises like squats to maintain her strength. The portion of her skull that was removed to relieve swelling is scheduled to be replaced a month earlier than expected. And she seems to understand at least the basics of what people say to her.
The Times soberly fills its story with informative caveats. For example:
The human brain has what amounts to redundant circuits for some simple tasks, like walking, and it is possible for patients to make rapid progress on those skills and still have trouble with mental work and speaking, doctors said. "There are backup systems in the brain for the more basic functions that have been around longer in human beings," said Dr. Jonathan Fellus, the director of the Brain Injury Program at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey. "Conversely, for things such as language, which are uniquely human, it's a highly specialized and delicate network that doesn't get reconstructed so easily."
It's unclear so far the extent to which the functions of Giffords's mind have been affected. It's common for patients with injuries like hers to live with communication difficulties or a markedly changed personality. So far, it seems like her family and loved ones are optimistic but understand these realities. The same can't be said for Democrats in Washington, though. The very day Arizona senator Jon Kyl announced he wouldn't run for reelection in 2012, Senate Democrats were discussing the possibility that Giffords could run to
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Huddled in a bunker and surrounded by enemy troops, Ivory Coast's recalcitrant leader refused to surrender last night, insisting that he was the country's rightful president.
Dismissing reports that he had agreed to give himself up to United Nations peacekeepers, Mr Gbagbo told a French television channel that he was only prepared to discuss a ceasefire, though he hinted that he would not fight to the bitter end.
"I'm not a kamikaze. I love my life," Mr Gbabgo said while troops of the internationally recognised President, Alassane Outtara, laid siege to his residence in Abidjan, the country's commercial capital. "I'm


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Hard as I try, I am unable to find the complete category listings for the plugins available for wordpress. Can someone please point me to the link for the complete category listing of wordpress plugins. Without this link, it is quite impossible to find the right plugin for the right job.
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myPh3.preview 2.0 has been released. It now supports [album] tags which include not only one photo with pop-up-function, but full albums. Use like '[album]Holidays/Spain 2007[/album]' and your post includes all image from your last holiday, just like in myPh3 itself.
Get it at the download page - installation instructions included.
Another new update! Includes a FreeBSD bugfix and added support fdor the great clearbox javascript library (as replacement for the slimbox popup).
New versions are released of the myPh3 and myPh3.random scripts. The new myPh3 1.0.3 now includes updates mootools 1.1 and slimbox 1.4 libraries. The myPh3.random Wordpress plugin includes a bug fix not showing the random image at all.
The Wordpress/myPh3 plugin to show previews of album pictures, myPh3.preview, has been updated. Changes made: bug fixes and easier url [preview] setting. See myPh3 downloads.
Already last week, version 1.0.2 of the myPh3 script was released, including a bug fix in sorting the photos.
More importantly, I have released the second WordPress plug-in concerning myPh3. Apart from the already existing myPh3.random plug-in (which shows a random image from all of your albums) the myPh3.preview plug-in is now available. It allows you to very easily include myPh3 album images (thumbnail and a full image pop-up) in your WordPress posts and pages. It's as easy as copy/pasting an URL! See http://myph.sourceforge.net/plugins.php for more information.
Just uploaded: an uploaded myPh3 with some small additions like directory exclude filter and a Hewbrew translation.
Thanks to a lot of contributors, today we have launched myPh3 version 1.0.0. The first non-beta release. Also includes 10 new translations and 1 new visual style. See the file releases and release notes.
Just released! myPh3 0.3.0 beta. Included multi-lingual support (l10n) as well as several bugfixes. Many thanks to Pador Reszo and others for testing!
myPh3 is looking for people who want to test run the image gallery software. It's easy and fun! You just need a php installation with GD enabled.
If you would be willing to give myPh3 a try, please report me what cofiguration you are running on, if you experience any difficulties and if you have any (feature) requests. Send me a mail or leave a message in the forums. Thanks in advance!
The new myPh3 0.2.0 version has just been released. Several updates and additions, like visual styles, are included. Check the new demo at the website.
Please test this version and give us feedback!
Hurry to http://myph.sf.net ! The website is now online. Also avaiable is the very first beta version. Just for testing!
Welcome to myPh3! This new image gallery software is make to be easy to install and use, nice to look at, interactive and standards-compatible.
Our first beta release will soon be downloadable. This will be mainly for testing. Please check in a couple of days!


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Learn to create simple objects with logos for 3D printing using Tinkercad, an easy-to-learn and browser-based 3D modelling software.
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Join us for mindfulness meditation sessions on Wednesday afternoons! Short 25-minute meditation sessions are led by experienced practitioners from the Community Mindfulness Project.
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