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Sheriff's deputies have released a photo of a man wanted in connection with a Sycamore Township motel robbery.
The victim told investigators he was robbed Jan. 31 by a man he met online and then arranged to meet at the Drake Motel.
Deputies said the robber pulled a knife on the victim and duct-taped him to a chair before taking his wallet, cell phone and car.
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Today we looked further into the case of the sexy lesbian teachers scandal. This story has sparked much conversation. Some love it, some hate it. But only one person both loves and hates it.
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"I have a friend who practices the love-which-dare-not-speak-its-name, and she thinks these two are despicable. Do they think they're entitled to passionate, forbidden love, to soft and tender kissing and caressing followed by unbridled sucking, and fucking? In a taxpayer-funded building, whose innocent purpose—-the education of impressionable children!—-only enhances the thrilling feeling that you're throwing caution to the wind and feeling alive for the first time in what seems like years? The answer is all too common." -Andrea Peyser
Note: This is parody, lest anyone (ahem) get their panties in a (bigger) bunch.

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New Clinical Recommendations for Genetic Testing?
This post is by Leanne Chukoskie, Ph.D. Leanne earned her Ph.D. at NYU's Center for Neural Science studying the neural mechanisms that mediate vision during eye movements. During her postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute she studied search behavior in both humans and animals. A family connection as well as the curious manner in which people with autism tend to scan a visual scene led her to work for Autism Speaks as the Assistant Director of Science Communication and Special Projects. Leanne also continues her research as a Project Scientist at UCSD.
Studies from "identical" (monzygotic) twins show that if one twin has autism, the other twin will also have autism about 90% of the time. Because identical twins share 100% of their genes, these data offer the strongest evidence that genetic risk factors are involved in autism. However, those numbers cannot help any particular family discern what the genes or genetic abnormalities that are contributing to their child's autism.
A new paper in the journal Pediatrics has instigated discussion over the best way to screen patients with autism in clinical settings for genetic mutations. Current practice guidelines recommend that a standard karyotype be performed, which looks at all of the chromosomes to see if there is something clearly amiss like specific chromosomal rearrangements or Fragile X Syndrome. This technique has been in use for some time, and one of its advantages is that this test is readily available and is considered the "standard of care". The disadvantage, however, is that many individuals with autism have no karyotype-detectable genetic abnormalities and are left uncertain about the genetic contribution to their autism.
Dr. Bai-Lin Wu and colleagues have reported on another technique, chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) that provides a more in-depth examination of genes and chromosomes. This test has been used in research settings for many years. The benefits of using CMA for clinical practice lies in its sensitivity to detect more subtle duplications or deletions in the genetic code (known as copy number variations or CNVs) that may be too small to be detected with a simple karyotype. The difficulty, however, lies in explaining to families what the "abnormal" findings mean, specifically, if they contribute to autism risk or if their occurrence is coincidental. This is important for families trying to make informed healthcare decisions, especially given the cost of the test (typically over $1000) may not be covered by insurance. Therefore, understanding the clinical implications of these potentially significant genetic findings is going to be a critical next step for clinical geneticists.
Although there is no doubt that learning more about autism susceptibility genes is critical for the field, we have to be very careful not to give parents false hope. CMA analysis may detect genetic differences that current research shows are unassociated only weakly associated with autism. This scenario would provide an inconclusive picture of the genetic contribution to one's autism risk. On the other hand, for some other genetic differences, the benefit to individuals may be considerable. For example, research has identified an area on chromosome 22, including the Shank3 gene, that has repeatedly been associated with autism. While currently there is no rescue or specific treatment for individuals with this mutation, families that have a child with this particular mutation can support and learn from each other at the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation (http://www.22q13.org/). Scientists hope that more can be learned from individuals with autism that have known genetic disorders such as Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, Fragile X and Rett Syndromes.
There will always be a lag between research level diagnostics and the translation of that information into a clinical standard of care. Studies like this push the envelope to raise the bar for establishing higher clinical standards and guidelines. We need more research to determine how best to use this information to benefit the families.
Sheng Y. et al. (2010) Clinical Genetic Testing for Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Pediatrics. Published online March 15, 2010; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-1684


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|Length Overall
|19' 6''
5.9 m
|Dry Weight
3,150 lbs.
1,429 kg
8' 0''
2.4 m
|Tested Weight
0.86 m
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
42 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
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Captain's Report by Capt. Steve
With a LOA of 19'6" (5.9 m) and a beam of 8' (2.4 m) the 196 Captiva is one of the beefiest sportboats in class at 3,150 lbs (1,429 kg), and the 200-hp Volvo Penta 4.3 L engine made her into a nice performer.
A Courteous Welcome
First impressions mean a lot, and as I stepped aboard the 196 Captiva I was glad to see that I didn't have to step on the upholstery. A starboard side flip-up section of the aft sun pad revealed a walkthrough with molded non-skid that led to a second, lower non-skid step under the seat cushion. I found the seat cushions a little awkward to remove as they had pins that fed into sockets in the seat base, but it didn't take long to get the hang of it.
The aft swim platform was 20" (50.8 cm) wide which didn't bring it out past the outdrive, and to starboard there was a 3-step reboarding ladder under a flush mounted cover that had a handhold cut into it's surface.
The sun pad has a walkthrough to starboard. Cleats are up and away from the trip zone. Notice that the outdrive is still exposed past the swim platform. The 3-step ladder is concealed under the hatch with the hand hold cut into its surface.
The engine compartment was quite roomy, and notice the trash receptacle in front of me. This is a common feature on Rinkers, but here it would help if they had put a small hatch in the sun pad for accessing it. I'd put cargo netting to the port side to hold plastic milk crates full of "stuff."
At the walkthrough, there's an oblong hatch in the decking that opens up to reveal a large storage compartment that shares an access with a hatch under the seat cushion. The two access points are clever as this compartment runs all the way back to the transom.
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The aft sun pad measures 35" (89 cm) x 6'2" (1.9 m) and lies just above and behind the bench seat. I've mentioned the boarding step under the starboard seat, and under the port seat is another storage compartment. The center seat is a bit wider than the outside seats and covers a 36qt (34L) carry-on cooler that is recessed into the deck to keep it secure in its place. The front of the cooler storage is open to the cockpit so you can see the cooler. To access the cooler, just raise the seat.
Under this cooler is an access port to the fuel lines at the top of the tank. The cooler is recessed into the deck to keep it in place. Lift the seat to access the contents of the cooler.
To both sides of the bench are lengthy stainless grab handles at a 45-degree angle. Nestled in the bulwarks is an open area for the two cockpit speakers and three drink holders per side. For safety, the wrap-around windshield runs well aft and raises the height of the bulwarks to 38" (96.5 cm), a feature that will bode well with families with small children.
Center Stage
In the center of the cockpit are dual bucket seats that wrap-around, are open in the lower backs for improved ventilation on hot days, and they both swivel and slide. Flip-up bolsters are optional and I wouldn't want to live without them on any boat. The observer gets a stainless grab handle just over a spacious glove box that measures 10" (2.4 cm) x 18" (45.7 cm) with a 4" (10.2cm) opening. Just above was a standard stereo with a 12v supply right next door to power your MP3 player that plugs into the stereo.
Dual bucket seats and a bench aft make up the layout of the 196. Look at how the windshield wraps around the whole cockpit. And as it's nice and high, I wasn't staring at windshield frame when seated, but rather, under it as it is supposed to be. This is an important feature, and one unfortunately missed by some builders.
The skipper gets a basic and functional helm with the now common Faria gauges with chrome bezels. The center gauge is a four-in-one to reduce panel clutter. Options allow for tilt steering, a depth gauge, and a stereo remote to starboard of the helm. To the right of the wheel are the circuit breakers and the Italian Isotta wheel is flattened at the bottom to facilitate swinging your legs past without having to feel squished.
I'd like to see a higher footrest molded into the deck, just abaft the consoles, as my short legs didn't quite reach the deck and I felt like a kid with my feet swinging. (My popliteal measurement is 16"/40 cm.) I also found the engine control to be mounted a tad high when seated, but up on the bolster it was more natural feeling.
The wheel is flattened at the bottom to allow you to swing your legs past. The depth gauge to the right is optional and notice the contoured space for a stereo remote at the lower right of the helm.
Forward March
The space between the consoles was about 21" (53.4 cm) which is plenty for a boat in this class. Our test boat wasn't equipped with the optional twin doors below the opening windshield, and I didn't miss it on the 70-degree day on Lake Michigan. However, with the doors and windshield closed they should do a nice job of blocking the wind on cool mornings. I'd like to see a strap and snap holding the windshield in the open position, the doors will be held open by magnets.
A magnet holds the optional walkt-hrough doors in the open position. We recommend that you get them.
The sole storage locker is huge and accessed by a hatch with an irregular geometry that is hinged from the front rather than the sides. While the compartment is certainly large enough to hold all your gear, and possibly even the next boat's as well, I'd like to see a surrounding gutter to channel water away, perhaps a rubber gasket surrounding the opening too, and the compartment should drain, at least into the bilge.
The sole storage is huge but I'd make a few changes. The snap-in carpet is optional.
The bow seats were separated from each other by roughly 20.5 " (52.1 cm) which is enough space to allow two adults to sit facing each other without knocking knees. When lounging, I couldn't quite stretch my legs out their full length but I was still comfortable. The usual storage lies beneath the seat cushions. The storage compartment is fiberglass lined which is certainly better than having carpet on the raw hull side as some low-price point boats are made. 14" (35.6 cm) of combing height keep everyone secure, and lengthy stainless grab handles are functional and comfortable to rest your arm on.
The bow seatbacks are reclined nicely and the lengthy stainless grab rails are comfortable to rest your arm on. I couldn't quite stretch my legs out when reclining.
Note the seat back on the bow as some builders put nothing there.
Performance and Handling
Driving the 196 was a joy and it had a smooth feel throughout the turns. The power steering made handling effortless as well. What most impressed me was the way the boat carved through the self-generated chop, and when catching air, it exhibited a gentle re-entry that had spray thrown well to the sides. Try as I might, I couldn't manage to soak the windshield. That has a lot to do with the way the chines continue to the bow to form spray rails.
You can see the dual lifting strakes, and how the hard chines carry forward to form spray rails. They were very effective at throwing water out to the sides.
The hull extends well past the transom, and I found that this gave us a quick time to plane, along with the 200 horses, of course.
With an empty weight of 3,150 lbs. (1,431 kgs.), two people onboard and full fuel we had a test weight of 3802 lbs. (1,728 kgs.). Powered by a 200-hp Volvo Penta 4.3 GI we reached a top speed of 41.8 miles per hour at 4800 rpm. At that speed we were burning 13.6 gallons per hour while getting 3.08 miles per gallon for a range of 117 statute miles. Best cruise came in at 3500 rpm with a speed of 29.7 miles per hour. Now we were burning only 7.9 gallons per hour while getting 3.8 miles per gallon for range of 143 statute miles. Our time to plane was 4.6 seconds we reached 20 miles per hour in 6.7 seconds and accelerated through 30 miles per hour in 9.5 seconds.
This was hull number one in a series, and that means that Rinker has a few small items to iron out, but I found the 196 to be a comfortable boat and a nice handler. The advantage of the heft of the Rinker 196 is that it gives you a solid feel and she will ride better in a chop, all things being equal.
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DOE Budget Includes Loan Guarantees for Biofuels and Renewables
February 7, 2007
President Bush's proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2008 would allow DOE to guarantee up to $9 billion in loans for innovative energy technologies, including $4 billion in loans for projects that promote biofuels and clean transportation fuels and $1 billion in loans for projects using new technologies for electric transmission facilities or renewable power generation systems. See PDF pages 27 and 28 of DOE's section of the Appendix to the White House budget plan (PDF 329 KB). Download Adobe Reader.
The Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program was established by Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and DOE issued its first solicitation for pre-applications in August 2006, with the aim of guaranteeing a total of $2 billion in loans. However, a lack of funding has held up the program, as Congress has yet to finalize appropriations for the current fiscal year. If Congress appropriates the funds for the current $2 billion in loan guarantees, they will be subtracted from the $9 billion in loan guarantees proposed for FY 2008. See the DOE Loan Guarantee Program Web site.


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In the entertainment world, paths cross in the most unexpected ways. Linda Davis recently found out that her latest CD, I Have Arrived, was a favorite of the late actor Christopher Reeve who was best known for playing the role of Superman. Reeve died last week of cardiac arrest at his home in New York. Linda was stunned to receive a letter from him commenting on the title cut and thanking her for recording such a powerful song. "You never know who your music is going to reach or who it is going to touch," said Linda. "After what Christopher had been through, it doesn't surprise me that a song like 'I Have Arrived' affected him. I am grateful he took the time to let me know and deeply saddened by his passing."
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Augusta commissioners were back on the bus June 9, this time touring District 6.
News 12's Jonathan Martin was on board.
Commissioners all voted during a retreat to participate in these tours in order to learn more about the needs across the city, and they seem to be learning a lot.
Mayor Copenhaver and six commissioners were on board, including Andy Cheek, who represents the half-residential, half-retail area. Cheek says his district doesn't have as many needs as some others, but there are still areas of concern.
"The neighborhoods need some help in enhanced crime protection, code enforcement, infrastructure," Cheek says.
And while Andy Cheek's district is a concern of city leaders, so is the city's budget--$5 million in the hole.
"We're going to have to balance the budget, so it's either going to be reductions or layoffs or reducing services," says commissioner Joe Bowles. "We cant continue on the term were headed towards."
Bowles told his fellow commissioners that to get the budget back in order, they need to take back four percent of the eight percent raises given to county employees. But not everyone seems to agree.
"Four percent would help us balance the budget, but we can find four percent somewhere else," says commissioner Don Grantham.
"The cuts have to start at the top," said interim commissioner Keith Brown. "It's certainly not my wish for anyone to be laid off. We may have to investigate the possibility of having people take a pay cut."
But one thing commissioners did agree on during the tour is that whether it's new condos, more shopping centers, or a drag strip, something has to be done soon to get money coming into the city.
"We have done a really good job of being in favor of these things without following through, and that needs to change," Cheek says. "It really needs to change if we are going to keep the city of Augusta solvent."
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PABLO, MONTANA 59855 ISSN: 0528-8592 Bio, SKY Count/?/ Chief Charlo Chief KoostatatT » f in NEWSPAPER OF THE SAUSH, PEND (TOREILLE AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION, WESTERN MONTANA VOLUME 10 NUMBER 20 FULL MOON OF THE GOOSE FLIGHT MARCH 1, 1982 Tribal sovereignty makes a few strides in circuit court The month of February proved to be a good one for court cases involving Tribal sovereignty. First, on February 8, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Shoshone and Arapahoe Tribes of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation have the authority to zone fee lands there. The memo announcing the decision to Tribal Chairman Tom Pablo, received from the legal firm of Wilkinson, Cragun and Barker (who represented the Wind River tribes), called the ruling "a significant victory for Indian tribes". The message goes on: "At issue in the Knight case was the validity of the Tribes' zoning ordinance, which by its terms applied to all lands, trust and fee, within the Reservation boundaries. The plaintiffs, the Knights, planned and began development of two subdivisions on fee lands within the Reservation without obtaining the approval of the Tribes as required by that zoning ordinance. The Tribes brought suit to enjoin the development of the subdivisions and to recover damages. On motions for summary judgment, the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming held that the Tribes have the inherent authority to zone fee lands on the Reservation, and that the tribal zoning ordinance is a valid exercise of that power. "In affirming the District Court's decision, the Tenth Circuit relied on the Supreme Court's decision in Washington v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation, and Montana v. United States, noting that under Montana tribes retain civil jurisdiction over non-Indians on their reservations, even over non-Indian fee lands, when the conduct to be regulated 'threatens or has some direct effect on the political integrity, the economic security, or the health and welfare of the tribe.' The court found that the absence of any land use control over lands within the Reservation, and the interests of the Tribes in preserving and protecting their homeland from (Continued on page 3) Have we 'moved' to Portland yet? Rumor at the last Council meeting had it that we had will fly to Portland later, on the transfer item. A report is due become part of BIA's Portland area, about a week before the the morning of February 26... too late for this issue, but stay Associated Press said the Billings Area Office had been tuned. closed. | » » | » —+- » i» ) ^ Checking with a source close to the matter, Karole INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Overberg (acting as Flathead BIA superintendent in Dr. Al council highlights...'.........................Page 2 Spang's absence), no official word has been received Letters to the Editor...........................Page 8 through 'channels' on either matter. Dr. Spang and Tribal Marcn calendar .......................Page 18 Chairman Tom Pablo, are, in fact, in Billings even as we c
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If you don't know what Port Forwarding is yet, you might want to start by reading our What is Port Forwarding guide.
You might also be interested in our huge collection of Router Screenshots where you can see every page of every router that we know of.
Now we need to know your routers IP address. You can find it a variety of ways.
It's ok if you don't know your 2wire 1070-B router's internal IP address. You can find it by doing one of the following:
Open a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. Enter the internal IP address of your router in the address bar of your browser.
In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the internal IP address of your 2wire 1070-B router. By default the IP address should be set to 192.168.1.254.
If you are having trouble with this guide, then perhaps PFConfig may be your solution. PFConfig is a software tool that will automatically forward ports for your router to save you time and hassle.
Before we can forward ports to your DVR, we need to change some settings in your DVR. Press Menu on your remote control to get in to your DVR's main menu.
In main menu, move the Active Frame to the Network icon and press ENTER.
Write down the number that is in the IP, Gateway, and Mask settings. Do not change the Gateway and Mask settings. We are going to create static ip address for your DVR and use it from now on. The IP address in the picture above is 188.8.131.52. The 64 portion of that ip address is called the last octet. Each octet of an ip address ranges from 1 to 254. If you have an ip address where the last octet is closer to 1 than 254, add 50 to the last octet and set the IP ADDR to that. If you have an ip address that is closer to 254 than 1, subtract 50 from that last octet and set the IP ADDR to that. Save the settings and get out of your DVR's setup. In this example the last octet was 64. So the new octet in this example would be 114, and the ip address in this example would be 126.96.36.199. Do not use those values they are just an example.
You will need to restart your DVR before those settings will take effect.
Remember what you set the IP ADDR to. You will need to tell your router what IP Address to forward those ports to. Since you want to forward ports to your DVR you will need your DVR's IP address.
We've already taken care of setting up the static ip address in the guide below so you don't need to worry about that part. Just enter your DVR's static ip address that we just setup in to the box requesting your computer's ip address bellow. You won't really be forwarding ports to your computer, but you will be forwarding them to your DVR. Everything else is the same, just keep in mind that the ports will end up being forwarded to your DVR and not your computer.
Now that you are logged in to your 2wire 1070-B router you should see the following:
Look for your password on the bottom of your router or in the paperwork that came with your router.
Click the Firewall button.
Click the Firewall Settings button.
Use the Select a computer box to choose a device to forward ports to. This box contains a list of device names that are visible on your network.
Click the Add a new user-defined application link.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. QSee QSC26404 requires you to forward the 80,8000 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Edit Application menu and then click Add Definition.
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Select the applications you just created in the Applications list, then click the Add button to move them to the Hosted Applications box.
When you are finished, click the Done button at the bottom of your screen.
And that is it! You are done!
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Bronze, at least chromatically, fits Orville "Shorty" Miller well. Gold would have been too glitzy and lusterous. Silver? Too shiny and pristine.
But, a bronze medal? That color blends well at Miller Equipment and Manufacturing, indistinguishable in color and luster from rusted steel, dirtied tin or aging cardboard boxes holding parts yet to be needed, or found. Bronze is an honest color for a working country fab-shop that is slowly being overrun by the glacial movement and magnetic attraction of antiquity.
Bronze is of the earth. And the metal of some of humanity's first great inventors.
Describing Miller's bronze medal from the Minnesota Inventors Congress Invention and Idea Show, is no slight to the man's personality or social rating (the parallel is not between bronze, third place and third rate). In Clarkfield, in those categories, Miller is considered first-rate and golden. The comparison is simply an observation on that which occurs as proper and the illustration that occurrence provides.
Miller earned his bronze at the 2013 Minnesota Inventors Congress Invention and Ideas Show held Friday and Saturday, April 19-20 in Redwood Falls.
At the show, Miller debuted a pair of inventions. The first, and the bronze medal winner, is a tool box kit that converts truck-box tool boxes to be able to slide on rails down the length of a truck bed for easy access. The second, slightly humorous, invention Miller took to Redwood Falls is an automatic ice-fishing rod jigger that comes with the tag line "Let Jig Rig do the work". Tongue-in-cheek as neither ice fishing, or the act of jigging, can be considered "work" by most people.
"Yeah, that tool box is a pretty simple idea. And I was pretty shocked to find out no one had really thought of it before," says Miller standing at the counter of Miller Equipment, next to the displays for his inventions he had set in Redwood Falls. "I've got a tool box like that and without crawling into the back, or jumping up on a stepside, you just couldn't reach it."
Miller, who's probably best know for constructing the Cardinal Mascot that sits in front of Clarkfield Area Charter School, says he's begun working with a lawyer to patent his rolling truck tool box while he shows the simple design of aluminum rails, rollers and locks that make the tool box easily functional.
As for the "Jig Rig", Miller seems to smile at you to see if you get the joke. "It's kind of a novelty," he says, but it does catch fish and one of them, a walleye is stuffed below the display contraption; ever turning and straining for bait that will never come in reach.
The "Jig Rig" runs on a little electric motor that spins a cam which raises and drops the rod. While you nap, a rattle reel alerts you when a fish falls for the mechanical jig. If the Jig Rig could then reel in the fish, clean it and open a beer—it'd be perfect—and Minnesota's ice fisherman might soon be extinct.
Page 2 of 2 - Miller's inventions drew people in at his booth in Redwood. And he says the experience was well worth the cost and something, if he gets another invention going, he'd like to do again.
"Oh, it was well worth it," says Miller. "There's a lot of old guys there like me and getting to talk to them and see all the other inventions and ideas people had was an experience. I learned a lot and it was just an interesting thing to do."
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I admit I'm not the cheeriest guy lately. But compared to some people, I'm perkier than Kelly Ripa with a large gift certificate to a high-end shoe store.
No, I'm not really sure where that came from, either. ...
I've pretty much had to stop reading online comments attached to my stories, because, as you know, the Internet has become a conduit of evil. Or, at least a forum for anonymous folks who like to point out how smart they are and how stupid everyone who disagrees with them is.
I don't need to hear how dumb I am. I have two preteen girls at home who have that base more than adequately covered.
But things are getting really nasty out there, and the Internet apparently isn't going away anytime soon. That we're in the middle of one of the most polarizing presidential races ever isn't helping, nor is an economy that, while seemingly in recovery, isn't coming back fast enough to please most people.
I can take a joke
Good-natured ribbing is one thing. I thrive on it. If I couldn't rib people, good-naturedly of course, I'm not sure I'd have anything to say. My wedding vows were sarcastic. I want Louis C.K. to officiate at my funeral.
No, I'm talking about all the seriously nasty discourse. Most of it is on the Internet, which has pretty much erased the need to confront someone face to face. Look at the comments following any political story, or stories about people of color, or even sports stories. People are unhappy and ready to pin their troubles on the first demographic crossing their path.
It just confirms my belief that our purpose on Earth isn't to spend hours at a time on a computer, viciously debating someone you've never met over things neither of you can control. No, our purpose on Earth is obviously to watch reality TV and enjoy the nonscripted troubles of others.
A few simple gestures
So, short of joining hands across America and singing "Don't Worry, Be Happy," we need to do something about all this negativity. This isn't a plea for world peace. Peace and harmony would really get boring after a while. But we can do a few things to take care of our own end of the world. Because, as ironic as it sounds, there really is no better way to make yourself feel better than to do something nice for someone else. So take a deep breath and try:
Playing with your kids: This is an easy one, unless you don't have kids. Then you could play with someone else's kids ... at least until their parents call the police. Never mind. Play with your own kids. Nobody ever thinks on their death bed: "I just regret spending all that time with my children."
Paying someone's bridge toll: I've had people do this for me, and I can't tell you how uplifting it is. It's only a few bucks, but if it helps restore someone's faith in humanity, it's worth it. Plus you may stop a depressed person from stopping and jumping off the bridge, causing a very inconvenient traffic jam.
Talking to a homeless person: A little compassion for someone down on their luck can go a long way. Sure, they smell bad. They also might remember you when they win the lottery with that dollar you just gave them.
Saying hello to your neighbors: It makes it less likely they'll complain to the homeowners association the next time you have a party that results in a mushroom cloud over your backyard.
Being nice to animals: Especially ones that can kill you. Besides, they're not the ones making all those nasty comments online.
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Definition of distinguish in English:
verb[with object]
1Recognize or treat (someone or something) as different: the child is perfectly capable of distinguishing reality from fantasy
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- What I have difficulty with is distinguishing different noises in loud areas.
- Pinker suggests that our love of music may have developed out of a similar evolutionary need to distinguish different sounds.
- The software is also speed-sensitive, so it can distinguish the different conditions in city driving and faster roads or motorways.
differentiate, tell apart, discriminate, discern, determine, pick out;
tell the difference between, decide between, make/draw a distinction between
1.1 [no object] Recognize or point out a difference: we must distinguish between two kinds of holiday
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- These differences are sufficient to distinguish between the two species.
- As investors, we need to be able to distinguish between interesting scientific discoveries and commercially viable projects.
- This difference is very significant because it helps you distinguish between vertical and horizontal pipes.
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- A suite of characteristics distinguishes Orconectes neglectus from other northeastern crayfishes.
separate, set apart, make distinctive, make different;
single out, mark off, demarcate, delimit, delineate;
characterize, individualize, individuate, identify, designate, categorize, classify
distinctive, differentiating, discriminating, determining;
individualistic, particular, peculiar, singular, idiosyncratic, unique, noteworthy, different, uncommon, extraordinary, original;
characteristic, typical
2Manage to discern (something barely perceptible): it was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes
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- I squinted into the darkness, barely distinguishing anything.
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attain distinction, be successful, bring fame/honour to oneself, become famous, dignify oneself, glorify oneself, excel oneself, win acclaim for oneself, ennoble oneself, become lionized, become immortalized, elevate oneself
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Arriving in the parking lot, the scene was very subdued because of the rain. We stayed in the truck and watched people arrive and one of my buddies from Knoxville joined us and we proceeded to clambake the truck with some true East Tennessee headies. Running into the venue we ended up 3 rows out right in front of Page and had ample room to jam and enjoy a different side of PHiSH jamming thru Hank Jr's rig. It was a bit different sounding because of the different PA--the first time I really thought the sound was BIGGER--foreshadowing of daze to come--which back then, it still was "mini-tour." Paul did a great job harnessing that monster rig.
What seems like on paper a typical 1994 first set, actually its chock full of great highlights in Guelah, Maze and Sparkle (which I love because if you really look at it, its a bluegrass song on steroids!) Stash, Scent of a Mule and Sample were also fun and the Barbershop Quartet Boys did well with Sweet Adeline.
Second set was like a different show however. Blowing out of the doors with Bowie was awesome--full of teases and overtones of massive energy, rocked the birthday boys completely. If I Could is a mellow choice after that rocker, but, with Allison Krause doing her vocal part from the album, and as her only time playing live with PHiSH, it was incredible. Fluffhead and DwD were awesome choices--my memory is foggy (rather groggy) but I remember that was one of the versions of DwD where I actually knew all the words and loved it from the bottom of my dancing feet--not as long and jammed out like the ones in later years, but great knowing that was their "MTV" song.
Harpua to follow is spectacular. I remember thinking Will C was gonna lose his mind as Trey did a "Mash-Up" of The Cream's "Sunshine of your Love" while singing the words from Stevie Wonder's "Sunshine of My Life"--complete mastery of music and total tomfoolery presented in the middle of the epic Harpua. Then, my second favorite Fishman tune (only topped by Getting Jiggy with it from Hampton 98) with Jungle Book song "I wanna be like You" was so over the top Henrietta campage I can't describe it here. My god that was so funny!! Slave finished off in fine form with its power and oldschool jam. The encore Bluegrass/country Nellie Cane was a great tip of the hat to Nashville and of course, Fire is almost Punk Rock PHiSH. Definitely get a copy of this show for your listening enjoyment. One of my phaves--soon to be one of yours, too. Cheers!


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ANTIOCH -- A sweep conducted in an effort to squash some of the city's recent violence netted a significant catch this week, police said.
Police arrested Emmitt Tippie, 20, of Antioch, the suspected shooter in the wounding of a woman on Sycamore Drive last month. Tippie was held on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a Wednesday night crackdown that resulted in 11 arrests in Antioch and Pittsburg, Antioch police Sgt. Tony Morefield said.
The FBI, Contra Costa District Attorney's Office and Pittsburg police also were part of the sweep by Antioch police, Morefield said.
"We consider this all part of our continued operations to suppress crime in the city," Morefield said. "We focus closely on pedestrian stops, vehicle stops, outstanding warrants. We do heavy patrolling of high-crime areas."
Police say Tippie was the shooter on July 31, when a 29-year-old Antioch woman was wounded in front of her apartment in the 1600 block of Sycamore Drive.
That shooting came hours after a 23-year-old woman was shot once in the back of the neck while sleeping in a bed in a second-floor apartment on West Fifth Street. On Aug. 1, a decorated Iraq War veteran was shot multiple times near a golf course. The Marine and the woman continue to recover; police have not announced an arrest in either shooting.
The city also endured a stretch earlier this summer during which one person was killed and eleven others -- including seven people at a house party -- were injured by gunfire in 11 days. Police arrested Gary Bryant Jr. as a suspect in the homicide. Bryant was critically wounded in the exchange of gunfire that killed 23-year-old Kenneth Wayne Cooper Jr.
City officials authorized the use of a crime suppression unit after that early-summer stretch of violence, and such police sweeps have become more routine.
"The (public) is paying closer attention," Morefield said. "We're responding to it. Obviously, we can't tell you the frequency of this enforcement or when it's going to happen, but people need to know it is happening. We are responding."
Tippie also was wanted on two outstanding felony warrants and was charged with violating his probation, Morefield said. He was being held without bail at the County Jail in Martinez.
Police said charges for the other 10 who were arrested range from possession and sales of narcotics to weapons violations.
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For many years, there has been a growing concern about the emergence of a "digital divide" between rich and poor. The idea is that people who don't meet a certain threshold income won't be able to afford the investment in computers and internet connectivity that makes further learning and development possible. They'll become trapped by their circumstances.
Under proprietary commercial operating systems, which impose a kind of plateau on the cost of computer systems, this may well be true. But GNU/Linux, continuously improving hardware, and a community commitment to bringing technology down to cost instead of just up to spec, has led to a new wave of ultra-low-cost computers, starting with the One Laptop Per Child's XO. These free-software-based computers will be the first introduction to computing for millions of new users, and that foretells a much freer future.
Myth #4
"You and whose army? There just aren't enough people into this kind of thing."
Free culture is no longer a fringe phenomenon.
One Laptop Per Child
Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations, suggested the idea a few years ago: a project to change the way that children around the world learn. Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at MIT decided to tackle the problem, and in time, after much review of the options, this turned to a constructivist learning solution: provide the children with a tool for "learning learning" (as education expert Seymour Papert would put it). The design selected is a "laptop" computer, though the term has to be used somewhat loosely, because the OLPC XO 1, being designed for a totally different mission than the typical business traveller's laptop, is not like any prior design[1].
One of its principle design criteria is that it must be very, very inexpensive. The target was US$100. The first units cost closer to US$200, though it is hoped that the cost will drop as the component prices come down and the design is further stabilized. The project has committed to lowering costs rather than increasing performance, since the whole point of the OLPC laptop is to create something that Third World countries' education ministries can afford to purchase for the children in their countries.
Every single piece of software on the machine will be free-licensed open source software—right down to the firmware BIOS, which will be OpenFirmware, written in Forth
It's not such a good idea to make a computer like this using proprietary software for several reasons. First of all, you obviously can't afford to pay the licensing fees on 100 million copies of Windows—such fees would cost more than the hardware! Second, even if subsidies were offered to make it affordable, the choice would introduce new constraints on the design and the brittleness intrinsic to any single-supplier system. Finally, since the whole point is to help kids in exploration learning, it's counterproductive to hide the mechanism—open source for the operating system is just another part of the learning experience.
So, it should be no surprise that the OLPC laptop will run Linux. In fact, the machines contain a complete free software system—right down to the firmware BIOS, which will be OpenFirmware[2], written in Forth. Because of the complexity of shipping source code for all of the software on such tiny, storage-constrained computers, the team also decided to write a huge amount of the system in Python, an interpreted programming language that greatly simplifies this requirement. With Python, the source is the working program, so there is only one thing to distribute; the source is particularly easy to read, even for grade schoolers; and no compiler or build system is required for them to modify and use the software on the computer. Changes are reflected immediately, at run time.
In fact, the OLPC laptops are designed to facilitate this kind of exploration as much as possible. Developing software is one of many "activities" which a child is invited to explore through the machine's "Sugar" user interface[3]. Every running program will be designed to allow the child to press a simple "view source" key to see the Python code behind it (you may have noticed that most web browsers have a feature like this, making HTML highly accessible even to "non-programmers" around the world).
Developing software is one of many "activities" which a child is invited to explore through the machine's "Sugar" user interface
The consequences of this design decision are staggering and inspiring. Around the world, perhaps by 2020, there may be as many as 100 million children, ages six to ten, with a complete, easy-to-use Python programming environment and an operating system full of fun programs to tinker with. It's hard to imagine any child that wouldn't be drawn into that.
For the sake of argument, though, imagine that in fact only one child in a thousand genuinely gets involved and reaches a point were we would legitimately call them an "open source developer". That's 100,000 people. Remember: Debian GNU/Linux, which we've already seen could be valued at $10 billion or more, was built by many fewer people.
Still, the OLPC project itself has also been in the press for less positive reasons. There have been some accusations of mismanagement, and personality conflicts have arisen. There was a falling out with Intel, and the organization is currently planning some management reorganizations. Some fear that it won't attain its lofty goals. But in the long run these are not very important considerations, because even if OLPC itself fails, the mission concept has already been proven, and it's the mission that matters. If not the XO, then some other ultra-low-cost machine will be deployed throughout the world to fill the same niche: several competitors have already entered the market.
A Whole New Kind of Computer Market
Enough people in the developed world have been impressed with the XO's design to make mainstream manufacturers and designers take notice. Clearly, there is demand for a $200 to $400 computer that does what the XO does. And since the production and distribution chain for the OLPC is hampered somewhat by the specifics of its mission, commercial developers are stepping in to close this market gap.
A new array of low-end laptop computers, based on flash-memory, power-miser CPUs, extremely rugged design, and GNU/Linux operating systems are being built and marketed to supply the new demand.
Fortunately, these computers will have almost the same impact in richer countries that the XO will have in poor ones: millions and millions of people will be exposed to an out-of-the-box experience driven by GNU/Linux and free software. Such users won't ask "why should I switch to free software?", but "why would I ever switch to anything else?" The stick-with-what-you-know motivation is strong, and that advantage will now apply to free software.
Millions and millions of people will be exposed to an out-of-the-box experience driven by GNU/Linux and free software
But what's more interesting is that, with so many more people (and so many more kinds of people) exposed to it, the potential for new involvement, new ideas, and new software development also increases. With ten-fold more users, comes ten-fold more potential new developers. And, of course, every itch scratched serves ten times as many people: which means there's also a larger pool from which foundation activities can draw.
The OLPC in 2009
In 2008, OLPC found itself considerably short of its goals, and much finger pointing and acrimony ensued. It was probably inevitable that something like this would come up eventually. The OLPC project operates in one of the harshest political environments imaginable: not just education and not just the developing world, but both in one package!
The OLPC project compromised ideological purity by offering laptops with a dual-boot GNU/Linux and Windows XP system to those potential buyers who insisted on being able to run Windows. This may well have been the right decision, too, though it heartily annoyed some people in the free software community.
Tensions between industrial sponsors, the OLPC organizers, and the community of free software developers produced some sparks, and the result was a substantial reorganization. Sugar left the official OLPC project, becoming an independent project operated by Walter Bender and others as "Sugar Labs"[3]. This was almost certainly the right move, since it put the community in charge of the community project, as well as increasing its visibility.
Nevertheless, the OLPC project—and now I am speaking of the whole movement surrounding the One Laptop Per Child mission, not just the organization that started the project—is getting back on track, and may do much better after this transition, though as of this writing in 2009, it's really too early to tell for sure).
Right now, the OLPC project stands at about half a million units either deployed, or in the process of being deployed worldwide. That's about 5% of the stated target for the end of 2007 (over a year ago), and only about 0.5% of the original stated objective of the OLPC project, which was closer to 100 million (about 1/60th of the population of Earth). Presumably the real target (every child on Earth) is an even higher figure. Clearly OLPC has fallen far short of its progress goals.
Nevertheless, a lot of good has been done, and it's likely that a lot more will be.
OLPC's XO is still the freest thing going: free BIOS, free operating system, free window manager, free applications. That some of them will carry Windows as well is a detail: deploying free software is a lot more important than hurting Microsoft
Sugar has broken away from the OLPC organization, taking Walter Bender and others with it, as a new entity called "Sugar Labs". It has its own independent online presence and community now. A series of more portable builds has been an outcome of this process.
Nevertheless, we now have choices. The XO was popular enough in the developed world to spawn a raft of imitators: a whole new class of computer, popularly called "netbooks".
Sugar runs on those imitators, on the XO, and on refurbished or new computers anywhere in the world. Whatever you might think of the XO as the deployment vector, Sugar is a free software tool that all free software advocates can support
Sugar is 100% free software. Even the Squeak/Etoys package has gotten over whatever licensing quibbles it was encumbered with. Today, it's even being admitted into Debian main, although the administrative hurdles will take a few months to clear.
OLPC is seeing bigger orders. Evidently, Negroponte's Windows gambit is working.
The break-up itself is somewhat enlightening for the purposes of this book. Note that the community needed to get better control of the software development effort in order to feel ownership of the project, and therefore more of a responsibility to update it. Note the tension created by the different cultures of the business and commons-based enterprised worlds. Finally, notice how the independence created by free licensing allowed the software project to migrate smoothly to community control, thus surviving what might have become a disastrous failure had the whole thing been managed as a proprietary enterprise.
Pioneers and the New Wave
What this will mean, of course, is that the present "free culture" is really just the "pilot project". The real social phenomenon is yet to come. And if the present array of free software developers, open hardware hackers, and free culture producers can shake the world as much as we have already seen that it has, then it's clear that this new wave of more than an order-of-magnitude in scale will quite simply re-make the world.
[2] OpenFirmware
[3] Sugar Labs
Free culture
Great article Terry!
There is one thing stopping free culture to "take off":
collaborative art tools (if there are such things they are largely undermarketed and I know too little of them).
For example:
versioning for graphic artists (is there a SVN/bazaar plugin for GIMP), music composers (does Audacity have a versioning plugin?), for office workers there is already http://odfsvn.sf.net;
collaborative Image labeler under a free license:
graphic artists cannot find other free artwork images they need to reuse, there is Google Image Labeler, but is is not under a free license (both the software and the results);
Note: such tools exist for music (musicbrains.org, last.fm, Jamendo.com...)
there is no marketplace for artwork under free licenses -openclipart.org is not enough.
There needs to be some gallery with ranking, tags for office templates, animations, animation scripts, music sheets,...
Image repositories and Money
WikiMedia Commons permits only free-licensed works. and everything that's licensed under a Creative Commons license should have some kind of metadata so you can find it, for example through search.creativecommons.org which is kinda ugly though.
I absolutely agree with you that there should be a subversion tool for GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, etc. files. the next step would be a market place à la jamendo where people can make donations to artists and projects.
then there is still the issue that small (micro) donations through PayPal aren't really economically as PayPal wants to make money too. some non-profit foundation should be set up to create an e-trade system that doesn't take margins on low transactions. maybe they should even create a new (community/social) currency that can be exchanged for dollars or euros, like Linden Dollars in second life.
Versioning images
Subversion actually does have support for versioning images, and in contrast to CVS, these are enabled by default.
It used to be that it was problematic to put binary data into CVS, because there was a chance that it would "munge" the data if it happened across one of the "variable" directives that it provided to insert dates, versions, and other control information into documents. You could turn this behavior off, but it required manual intervention.
Subversion defaults to treating everything as if it might be a binary, and you have to turn on such "munging" behaviors if you want them.
Of course, versioning for bitmap images is still not terribly efficient, and it doesn't really provide a meaningful "diff" -- it's just a compressed way of storing lots of different versions of a bitmap.
Naturally, if you do this, you should use XCF so as to preserve as much "source" info as possible.
A better option for free art projects, is to use vector-based graphics as much as possible, and store those in SVG format (which is text). SVG can not only be versioned, but diffs based on it can be much more meaningful.
Generating graphical reports from such data is difficult, and that's a possible direction for new development.
Hmm. Actually, this gives me an idea. I realize that what we need is a blink comparator but I don't think I've ever seen an SVN tool that had one.
Which is interesting, because it wouldn't be hard to write one and patch it onto an existing SVN browser (as I write, I've just installed PySVN Workbench and I'll have a look at how hard it would be to patch such a tool onto it).
We have most of the tools and framework
>> A better option for free art projects, is to use vector-based graphics as much as possible, and store those in SVG format (which is text). SVG can not only be versioned, but diffs based on it can be much more meaningful.
The bottom line is that as a work grows, each new contribution is a small percent of the whole. There is a diff here. For example, even without vector graphics, a change can boil down to some strokes and controlled effects. This should be scriptable in a compact way (likely is if we are referring to the gimp). In this case, the total work would be: various snapshots of a complex entity (eg, a few pictures through a digcam), plus a long list of existing scriptable actions (eg, the various strokes, individual pixel modifications, and standard parameterized effects). New modifications would likely be of the latter kind (ie, a few more scriptable actions).
These text-based scripts that substitute for the modification of a very large number of pixels are very diff friendly AND compact in themselves. [Ie, (but flipping the order) a whole snapshot takes up little space AND versioning is space efficient.]
The other major gain of scriptizing changes is that new and very distinct looking items can be created easily by changing key script commands or parameters in the chain. This is a very end user friendly quality and adds satisfaction to those collaborating since their bang-for-buck is maximized. Also, this leads to new opportunities for more contributors to join in and help.
..and the tools best suited for this sort of work currently and into the future are FOSS tools on FOSS platforms. Thus, through this FOSS environment, we should be able to reach farther using the open collaborative paradigm than groups relying on the proprietary environment would be able to reach (and while doing so, we require things like scripts for practical reasons but which necessitate the use of tools like the gimp, ie, we grow the use of our tools among the wider community that would want to participate).. all else being equal. [This last part is supposed to hint that we need more than just quality open environments, we need the hobbyist and pro artists on our side, we need the ecosystem, in order to seal the deal. We have to reach out and involve Jack and Jill on their terms (and I don't mean on Windows).]
Translate article to spanish
Great article Terry. I just translated into spanish. Please let me know if it's Ok.
Libertad para todos con el proyecto One Laptop Per Child (http://sesolibre.com/?p=661 )
Spanish translation
It looks good, although my understanding of Spanish stylistics and usage is not good enough to comment on the accuracy.
Note that there was a correction: LinuxBIOS was replaced by OpenFirmware sometime back. You'll probably want to update the translation too.
Technically, the license has been violated, both because I haven't actually released this article under a CC license yet, and because when I do, it will be Creative Commons "Attribution-ShareAlike" 3.0, not "Attribution" as your site default says.
I'm more than happy to let you use it under CC-By-SA 3.0 right now, though.
So please just add the appropriate CC-By-SA 3.0 notice to clarify this. I prefer for the attribution to say "Terry Hancock, originally published in Free Software Magazine".
Changes ready
Everything is ready now: OpenFirmware and CC-By-3.0 as required.
Not too advanced of a blink comparator
It needs not be very advanced, it just has to expose the concept to a wider community. Then each and every member of the community could get their own features in it.
Unfortunately, do not have the programming skills to do this project.
blink comparator
I'm happy to write code to blink images once they are loaded. For me, the hard part is getting the images into the program and/or launching the program when you want to use it. Ideally, they'd be loaded directly from the Subversion client.
I downloaded a copy of PySVN and its SVN Workbench GUI subversion browser, which seems like it would be a good way to launch this. I haven't managed to get it working though (it doesn't recognize my Subversion working copies, even though, AFAIK, they are configured correctly).
Freedom for all means freedom for everyone's hobbies and itches
I want to echo bogdanbiv about the value of extending the open/empowering movement beyond software.
Besides binaries, there is a lot of source code involved in a FOSS (eg) art related workflow. Effects, filters, etc, plus automation through scripts of all sorts build the sort of art and works that lend themselves to growth through incremental peer contributions. Most of the tools already exist, but most people just aren't in the right frame of mind or have access to /awareness of them.
One sort of project (among several) that I think will help move things along in this direction will be building websites as FOSS projects. These would be sites full with configuration tools, demos, etc, that any user could easily take and adapt to their own needs. What do exist in this area (I think) are (at least somewhat) proprietary or not very developed at all. A full sophisticated site (eg, resulting from the collaboration of many webmasters and designers) that anyone could load up on their PC (using FOSS OS, servers, etc, naturally) and share with others is something I think would attract attention when it reaches a certain level of quality and utility. It has the effect of uniting many artists and others in an FOSS fashion. There is room for many to make contributions, something that is key to taking FOSS into mainstream. New generalized tools will arise from such collaboration to address many of the needs for this new environment. Current underused tools will be popularized and refined.
It's very important to play our game on the playground of our target market [and no I definitely do not mean Windows.. I mean in a way where they will be engaged and see the effects of their own contributions working in synergy alongside the contributions of others to help reach the end goal that will have scratched their itch].
..another important angle we can hit on is with our "distros for everyone" capabilities (in particular a la LiveCDs). You can't carry and share improvements to a pocket Windows or design throw away marketing Windows distros for the business occassion. The reason is because unlike us, they lack free price and access to source code, modifications, and redistributions, in user friendly fashions. A full working (and portable) distro goes beyond what you can accomplish with a simple file sharing, as it can lead to as an immersive a user experience as you want. Not to mention that really no one outside Monopoly Headquarters can do or guarantee all that much when you have to depend on Monopolyware.
If we have accomplished as much as we have with .. ummm.. 0.7% of the market, imagine once we have 85%+ engaged and contributing in one way or another (and not contributing to the alternative Monopolyware platforms).
The Windows thing...
I know there's some recent brouhaha over whether OLPC XOs might run Windows. I deliberately avoided talking about those sort of issues, because I think it's a flash-in-the-pan problem and will go away. The contacts I've spoken to who are involved with OLPC don't seem to think the Windows or dual-boot options are really plausible outcomes.
OTOH, if by some chance, XOs do ship with Windows, I predict OLPC will go down in flames... but some other project will (in time) step in to replace it.
I get the impression this is another case of Negroponte sticking his foot in his mouth in front of the press. Which I can kind of relate to. It's easy to distort what people say by pulling out a few soundbites.
What I read of what Negroponte actually wrote (as opposed to what people read into it) is quite sensible: Sugar is too monolithic, needs to be modularized for better maintainability, and ought to be cross-platform, so we can run it on more than just the XOs.
In principle, it ought even to run on Windows, just like FireFox did ... and if it did it might see more popularity and hence more development. Which is how I interpreted what he wrote.
Which I thoroughly agree with -- I particularly would like to be able to install it on some of the other ultra-low-end machines (like the ones I mentioned in the article). Given the difficulty of getting an actual XO to develop on, I feel it would be beneficial to be able to test my apps on (say) an Eee PC and have some confidence that it would run on an XO.
ISTM that Sugar needs to grow beyond the XO if it is to be widely developed and supported by the community.
Otherwise, I feel that OLPC vastly underestimated the importance of getting XOs into the hands of open source developers.
So there's basically two choices: get more XOs in the hands of "developed world" developers or get Sugar running on the platforms that are available to them now.
It's this sort of poorly-thought-through community process that I would blame for the poor response on Sugar development. OLPC either has to be willing to simply pay developers, so that people will commit to it, or it has to make the platform widely-enough available so that people will be personally motivated to help.
OLPC seems to have some issues with the social rules of the open source community (maybe they need to read the rest of this series as I get it written?), and unfortunately, this has led to some highly visible thrashing and "loss of faith" as they panic in trying to find solutions to what probably seems like a fiasco from where they're sitting.
I don't think it changes the big picture though. In a few years, there will be ultra-low-end computers in the developing world, and they will run GNU/Linux.
A few questions
This is an interesting article. The fact that Python is being implemented is very interesting.
There seem to be a few issues left to be desired, I speak for myself such as ... maybe I missed it but when is the OLPC XO 1 project deadline? At what stage is the project? Is it purely theoretical, are there any plans that consider real hardware. Is there a working alpha or beta of this laptop with this version of Gnu-Linux port to Python? And finally, what specs are designed into the OLPC XO 1?
Maurice Cepeda
They're already shipping
One of the illustrations in this article is of the first XOs coming off of the assembly line. Several of the field photos are from trials, but I believe the ones from Uruguay from the initial deployment.
The laptops are running a version of Fedora, as I understand it, with a GUI system built on top of that, which is called "Sugar". Sugar is written in Python.
Naturally, though, Sugar is still under development.
If you want to know more about the project, you should visit the OLPC website.
Try Sugar yourself
I was curious about testing Sugar in my Laptop, I'm using Ubuntu Hardy and when I opened Synaptic I found some installable Sugar applications, I installed em all (including a sugar-emulator). So now I can test Sugar including Pippy the Python editor.
On the other hand Windows will fight to be there, if what Terry suggests about the natural generation of lots of "free software developers" with time, that is a real menace to MS market, so they will do something.


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BERKELEY -- Around 200 people rallied Tuesday evening at the Maudelle Shirek Building, with the nation's first postmaster, Ben Franklin, (channeled by monologuist Josh Kornbluth) in an effort to save the city's 99-year old post office from a possible sale.
Afterward, many crowded into the City Council chamber to meet with three United States Postal Service representatives, while others watched the televised proceedings.
But after the meeting where some 50 people had spoken against the sale, Save the Berkeley Post Office organizers questioned whether officials had taken their concerns seriously.
Calling the meeting "pro forma," Gray Brechin, visiting scholar in the UC Berkeley Department of Geography said people around the country have told him they came to meetings, opposed the sale of their post offices, and the USPS then "simply ignores the public input, and goes ahead and sells the building."
Brechin said that could be happening in Berkeley.
The postal service, which is looking to cut costs nationwide, is required to hold community meetings before a sale.
"We have to make (the community response) part of the public record," said USPS spokesman Augustine Ruiz. "One of the obligations we have is to be very transparent."
Ruiz kicked the meeting off with a slide presentation detailing the dismal state of post office finances, including a $15.9 billion net loss in 2012.
He explained that part of the problem is the declining volume of first-class mail, due to increased use of electronic mail.
"It's not going to come back -- it is gone," he said, pointing out, however, that online purchases have boosted postal service package deliveries.
The bigger problem is a 2006 law Ruiz called "an onerous requirement forced upon us by Congress" that the post office pay 75 years of retirement health benefits in advance over 10 years. "Without that prefunding requirement, we actually would be able to survive," Ruiz said.
Both USPS and post office activists have called on Congress to reverse that obligation and asked for the right of the postal service to engage in revenue-enhancing businesses.
As far as the Berkeley building, the public can submit written comments to USPS on the proposed sale until March 13 and after that there are 15 additional days to appeal a decision. USPS facilities manager Diana Alvarado said a price for the property has been set, but called the information "proprietary" when asked for the figure.
That response frustrated Councilwoman Linda Maio, who noted during the public comment period that USPS initially ignored the City Council's September request for information on the physical state of the buildings. The city submitted a Freedom of Information Act request at the end of October and the postal service didn't respond until February.
"We've had a difficult working relationship with the post office," Maio said. "We wound up having to file a Freedom of Information Act for basic real estate information that I'm sure that Richard Blum got very easily. Now we will be filing a Freedom of Information Act request for the appraisal that we should know about."
Blum, a UC Berkeley trustee and chairman of the giant real estate firm Caldwell Banker Richard Ellis, which has a contract to market USPS properties, was the object of heated comments by several speakers.
The postal service wants to sell the Berkeley Post Office and lease back the space it needs.
Brechin contended that Blum, who is married to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has "an exclusive contract ... to sell the public's property that it doesn't own and then to lease it back to the postal service."
Asked whether Feinstein has a conflict of interest, Brian Weiss, Feinstein's spokesman, said in an email: "Senator Feinstein is not involved with and does not discuss any of her husband's business decisions with him. Her husband's holdings are his separate personal property ... (and her) assets are held in a blind trust."
Speakers were also concerned with possible privatization of the postal service and condemned the consolidation of sorting facilities, plans to curtail mail delivery to five days a week, closures of post offices around the country and slashing of postal hours.
"Privatization also means getting rid of unions," said Ying Lee, a past city councilwoman and congressional aide. "We, the 99 percent know, how important decent jobs with a living wage are."
Postal activists said they won't stop organizing. If USPS decides to sell the post office, Bob Meola, active in Berkeley's Peace and Justice Commission, promised "nonviolent civil disobedience -- if it comes to that."


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Gilroy's Robert "Ghost" Guerrero is convinced unbeaten Floyd Mayweather will take him seriously when they square off for the WBC welterweight world championship bout on May 4 in Las Vegas.
"That's not going to make a difference because I know his body's soft," Guerrero said Wednesday during a media teleconference. "Being a whole year layoff, he's going to feel the punches different."
Mayweather hasn't fought since spending two months in jail last summer for a misdemeanor domestic violence case involving an ex-girlfriend.
Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KOs) called the bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena "the opportunity of a lifetime."
"God put him in front of me for a reason and I'm going to beat him," said the 30-year-old six-time, five-division world champion. "Floyd Mayweather having a year off and being in jail, it takes a toll on you. No matter what you do, you do have a little ring rust."
Mayweather (43-0-0, 26 KOs), making a mandatory defense of his WBC crown, said he's amused listening to Guerrero.
"He's a solid opponent," said Mayweather, 36, one of history's greatest pound-for-pound fighters. "When I'm watching him talk, he's funny to me. You get a different Robert Guerrero when he's in front of me. When we finally met up face to face, he had nothing to say."
The layoff won't pose any difficulty, said Mayweather, who has fought only four times the past four years.
"This is not my first time taking a year off, not my first time taking a couple years off. I just call it a vacation," he said. "The body needs time to recuperate, the body needs time to rest."
Mayweather, an eight-time, five-division champion, said nothing Guerrero presents, including being a left-hander, will be an issue. "Last time I looked, I was 43-0," he said.
Guerrero said preparation for the biggest fight of his career hasn't been distracted by his March 28 arrest on suspicion of gun possession at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. He faces a May 14 court date.
"Nah, I'm ready to go," he said. "There ain't nothing stopping me from winning this fight. All the focus is there. I'm ready to go. That's the bottom line."
Guerrero declined to answer any additional questions related to the incident.
But on the most recent episode of Showtime Sports' "All Access" program promoting the bout, Mayweather labeled Guerrero, who considers himself a strong Christian, as a "hypocrite" in the wake of the gun charge.
"We're all hypocrites," Guerrero answered. "If you're a perfect person, you wouldn't need Jesus Christ. Just shows how much he keeps his head in the Bible. It's laughable."
Mayweather said his complaint is that Guerrero has characterized him as having his priorities out of whack.
"He's (said) money is my god and I praise money," Mayweather said of comments he attributed to Guerrero.
In June 2012, Forbes magazine listed Mayweather as the world's highest-paid athlete, with earnings of $85 million over the previous year. And his own promotions company markets him as Floyd "Money" Mayweather.
Still, Mayweather said that's not all he's about.
"He believes in God. I believe in God. This is not about religion," Mayweather said. "This is about two fighters going out there, testing their skills against each other."
Guerrero has campaigned a couple years for this fight and Mayweather acknowledged his manager presented the matchup to him a year ago. "I didn't know who he was a year ago," Mayweather said. "I probably heard his name in passing."
No one in the sport hasn't heard of Mayweather.
"This is the guy. He's the man to beat," Guerrero said. "You beat him, you're on top. We had to really push hard, wanting the fight bad to be the best in boxing."


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Orien Docken, 97, of Montevideo, died Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, at Luther Haven. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14, at Maynard Lutheran Church with the Rev. Kathy Skoglund officiating. Burial was at Sunset Memorial Cemetery.
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The Blackberry Bushes Stringband tours behind its new three-song EP "Both Feet In," which is available for download on Bandcamp. The band will play at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at The Playwright Public House, 258 A St., Ashland.
The members, guitarist Jes Raymond, fiddler Jakob Breitbach and upright bassist Taylor Kent, a recent addition, apply their classical music educations to roots genres, creating what Raymond calls alt-folk and progressive bluegrass.
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squash 1
verb[with object]
1Crush or squeeze (something) with force so that it becomes flat, soft, or out of shape: wash and squash the cans for the recycling bin (as adjective squashed) a squashed banana
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- We now have fresh bread every breakfast, and it is not squashed flat in the shopping trolley.
- I recycle as much of my household waste as possible, kitchen waste is composted, cans are squashed flat after removing bases, drink cans, newspapers and all other clean wastepaper placed in the relevant bins.
- You are requested to wash and squash containers before putting them in the recycling bins.
1.1Squeeze or force (someone or something) into a small or restricted space: she squashed some of her clothes inside the bag
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- As you know, airline seats occur in close proximity to each other in order to squash the greatest number of passengers into a small space.
- The group appeared on GMTV together and while squashed on a sofa the girls said they were 'shocked' at the boys' antics.
- It's weird to think that at any time, somewhere in the world, there are people riding through the night in aeroplanes, squashed up together in a big metal tube hurtling across the black sky, going somewhere or coming back home.
1.2 [no object] Make one's way into a small or restricted space: I squashed into the middle of the crowd
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- Apart from the lack of jobs, we are already over-populated and do not need to provide facilities to encourage even more people to squash into our valuable space.
- Five of us squashed rapidly into a two man tent and despite the odds slept until daybreak.
- 'They would squash up in the car, so I could lie on the back seat,' he says.
1.3Suppress, stifle, or subdue (a feeling, conjecture, or action): the mournful sound did nothing to squash her high spirits
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- When she sends Guy off to war at the end of the first act, she projects so much youthful innocence and idealism that there's no way her happiness isn't going to be squashed by circumstance.
- The bubbly romantic feelings Delaney was having were quickly squashed as she pulled out her palm pilot again and stared at Tanya's name.
- Maya's excitement over their dinner guest wouldn't be squashed.
1.4Firmly reject (an idea or suggestion): the proposal was immediately squashed by the Historical Society
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- His mother had immediately squashed that idea.
- I squashed the idea as soon as it crossed my mind.
- One benefit of the committee is that since ideas become public immediately, an individual idea can't be squashed by only one manager.
reject, block, cancel, scotch, frustrate, thwart, suppress, put a stop to, nip in the bud, put the lid on
informal put the kibosh on, stymie, scuttle, deep-six
1 [in singular] A state of being squeezed or forced into a small or restricted space: it was a tight squash but he didn't seem to mind
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- Saturday morning all six of the Tate family piled into the car - it was a tight squash in the back seat.
- It was a bit of a squash because it was a small car and three of us were in the back with Gabby's Mum, Cam and Dad, Tom in the front.
- MK drove us all to Bar George (which was a bit of a squash with an extra bod in the car).
2British A sweet concentrated liquid made from or flavored with fruit juice, which is diluted to make a drink: orange squash
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- It's much kinder to their teeth than juice or squash and fizzy drinks.
- Fruit squash, even the high-fruit variety, is no substitute for fresh fruit juice.
- Stay away from fizzy drinks, alcohol, and even squash as these drinks help to dehydrate you.
3 (also squash racquets) A game in which two players use rackets to hit a small, soft rubber ball against the walls of a closed court.
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- Born and brought up in Sydney, Australia, he took up squash at the age of nine.
- Moore kept up a vigorous training programme in retirement, jogging every day and playing golf, tennis and squash regularly.
- Many of the best professional squash players living in America will be in attendance.
4 Biology A preparation of softened tissue that has been made thin for microscopic examination by gently compressing or tapping it.
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- Polytene chromosome squashes were prepared according to SILVER and ELGIN 1978.
- For immunolabeling, third instar mitotic squashes were prepared and hybridized as described.
- Pachytene chromosomes were prepared using squashes of anthers from flowers fixed in 3: 1 ethanol to galacial acetic acid.
Mid 16th century (as a verb): alteration of quash.
Words that rhyme with squashawash, Bosch, bosh, brioche, cloche, cohosh, cosh, dosh, Foch, galosh, gosh, josh, mosh, nosh, posh, quash, slosh, splosh, swash, tosh, wash
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noun (plural same or squashes)
1An edible gourd, the flesh of which may be cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
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- There's much more beta carotene in traditional crops, from leafy green vegetables to squashes, melons and mangoes.
- Peel the squash then cut the flesh into chunks.
- Many parents were unsure of how to prepare some of the fresh vegetables, such as eggplant and some squashes.
acorn squash, butternut squash, crookneck squash, Hubbard squash, scallop squash, spaghetti squash, summer squash, winter squash, zucchini, pumpkin, (vegetable) marrow
2The trailing plant of the gourd family that produces this fruit.
- Genus Cucurbita, family Cucurbitaceae: many species and varieties, including the winter squashes and summer squashes.
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- Once soil temperatures reach 60 degrees, you can plant corn, beans, squash and cucumbers.
- Both powdery mildew and downy mildew often infect squash plants as autumn nights grow cooler and dew keeps the foliage moist through the night.
- Plant sweet corn in each of the first three weeks of June for multiple crops, and plant squash and cantaloupes up to June 20.
Mid 17th century: abbreviation of Narragansett asquutasquash.
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OAKLAND -- Monday night was a whole lot of King Felix at the Coliseum, Felix Hernandez leading the Mariners to a 2-0 win over the A's in the season opener for both teams.
And it only seems as if the A's get Hernandez in Game 1 every year. Why it was just five seasons ago, 2009 to be exact, when the A's didn't face Hernandez in the opener.
It is more a tribute to Hernandez's skill than anything else that the A's have done so poorly the five times (2007 in addition to the last four seasons) they have opened against him. He has thrown 39.1 innings in a total of five opening day starts, giving up just six runs while striking out 35, good for a 1.33 ERA and a 3-0 record.
Hernandez allowed three hits and one walk while striking out eight Monday before the Seattle bullpen closed it out, albeit with some drama in the eighth inning.
Seattle center fielder Franklin Gutierrez, perhaps Hernandez's closest friend on the Mariners roster, singled up the middle with runners on second and third in the fifth inning to produce the game's only runs as Oakland lost on opening night for the ninth consecutive season.
That's the longest streak of losing openers in American League history and it matches the major league record set by the New York Giants over a century ago (1893-1901) and matched by the Atlanta Braves (1972-80).
After scuffling with two hits and no runs through seven innings, the A's finally got Hernandez out of the game when Seth Smith doubled with two out in the eighth and Eric Sogard worked a walk. Hernandez was lifted after 109 pitches and reliever Charlie Furbush loaded the bases with a walk.
With Derek Norris pinch-hitting for John Jaso, the Mariners went to the bullpen one more time for Stephen Pryor, who induced an inning-ending grounder from Norris. Oakland didn't touch closer Tom Wilhelmsen in the ninth.
Pitching the opener in front of a full house of 36,067, A's lefty Brett Anderson got ground balls to start double plays in the second, third and fourth innings.
In the fifth, however, Brendan Ryan, the Mariners' No. 9 hitter, got a pitch he could hit in the air and singled to right-center. The runner on first, Dustin Ackley, lit out for third and when right fielder Josh Reddick tried and failed to throw Ackley out, Ryan took second.
Anderson got another ground ball, but this one hit off the mound and skittered into center field as both Ackley and Ryan scored.
The first 10 Oakland batters went down to start the game, but Jaso doubled off Hernandez with one out in the fourth. He made it as far as third base, but a nice defensive play Ryan bailed Hernandez out of trouble.
The A's didn't get another base runner until the sixth, when Smith looped a single to left, but Smith wound up being stranded at first. It was Smith again with two out in the eighth. He doubled, hitting a bullet to right to become the second Oakland runner in scoring position.


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|Bollate, Italy
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|Liceo Scientifico
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|Polk State College
2011 (JUNIOR): Started 14 games in the circle for the Islanders while posting a team-best 1.61 ERA and going 8-4…tossed a complete-game shutout at UT Arlington (5/8) that clinched the regular season title…second on the team with one save…threw 91.1 innings while striking out 66 batters…threw eight complete games on the season…pitched a season-high eight innings against McNeese State (4/23) while reaching a season high of nine strikeouts at Houston Baptist (4/20).
Prior to Texas A&M – Corpus Christi: Played at Polk State College for head coach Jeff Ellis…was a two-year starter for the Vikings and holds the season and career records for pitchers in ERA, wins and strikeouts…led her team to a 2009 Suncoast Conference Championship…her 2010 team finished with a record of 40-18 and Cecchetti was named an NJCAA Second Team All-American…was named Suncoast Conference Pitcher of the Year, First Team All-State and First Team All-Suncoast following both the 2009 and 2010 seasons.
High School: Attended Liceo Scientifico in Livorno, Italy…from 2004-11 played for the Italian National Team and was part of the 2007 European Championship team…played in Italian Softball League from 2004-11…won the 2005 Italian Championship…started game against Japan in the 2009 KFC World Cup in Oklahoma.
Personal: Born Greta Cecchetti on March 24, 1989, in Bollate, Italy…parents are Franco Cecchetti and Miriam Cerri…majoring in psychology.