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If I had $15, I'd buy Boys #70 (only two issues until the big finale) and Classic Popeye #2, IDW Publishing's ongoing series of reprints devoted to Bud Sagendorf comics from the 1940s, as the first issue was much more fun than I expected it to be.
If I had $30, I'd put those comics back, but would be stuck between a couple of books. The first would be Aya: Life in Yop City, which collects the three previous Aya books by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie in one volume. These are great, funny comics, full of life and observation regarding a culture — in this case African culture — most Westerners know nothing about.
There's also A Chinese Life, a massive doorstop of a memoir by Chinese artist Li Kunwu (with help from writer Philippe Otie) chronicling his life and times. Kunwu lives through some of modern China's most tumultuous periods, including the Cultural Revolution, and hopefully his book will, like Aya, humanize a time and culture that for many is just a few lines in their history book.
Finally, there's Message to Adolph, Vol. 1, one of Tezuka's final works, set during World War II, about three people named Adolph, one a Jew, the other a German boy living in Japan, and the third the fuhrer himself. Originally published by Viz about two decades ago, Vertical has taken it upon themselves to put out a newly translated version which is great news for those that missed this great manga the first time around.
Is there a greater splurge purchase this week that Dal Tokyo, the collected version of Gary Panter's off-kilter comic strip? I plugged this book last week, but it deserves another one. I've been waiting for this book for awhile.
For the scholarly comics type, the splurge of the week might be Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss, a look at the creator of Barnaby and Harold and the Purple Crayon and his wife, a children's author with whom he frequently collaborated.


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County standouts earn MAC all-star honors
A quartet of basketball standouts will represent New Albany and Union County in this year's Mississippi Association of Coaches all-star games.
Making the cut this year are Myrtle's Aspriona Gilbert and Robert Montgomery, along with New Albany's Moses Kingsley and Jazmine Spears. Gilbert will play in the Mississippi/Alabama All-Star game next week.
The senior led the Lady Hawks in scoring (23.2 ppg), blocks (2.5 bpg) and rebounds (10.8 rpg), earning the Austin Peay signee her second consecutive selection in the MAC all-star games. Gilbert also played in last year's junior all-star game.
"Very deserving," coach Chris Greer said. "She's a great kid and definitely one of the best in the state, so I'm proud of her selection."
Hickory Flat's Anthony Tucker will join Gilbert, playing in the boys game. Both senior contests are slated for next Friday, March 16, at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Ala.
Selected to the Mississippi North/South junior all-star game this year are a trio of standouts, who highlight a talented class for 2013.
Kingsley and Spears, along with Montgomery, will showcase their talents during the July 10 contest.
Kingsley helped lead the Bulldogs to a 7-0 division record, earning a third consecutive region championship. The 6'9 junior led the 'Dawgs in scoring (12.4 ppg) rebounds (10.5 rpg) and blocks (7 bpg), guiding New Albany to an 18-10 finish this season.
"I'm very proud of him," coach Brad Gray said. "He is very well deserving of this honor, as he continuously works hard in the weight room and on the court. Couldn't happen to a better kid."
Also representing NAHS is Spears, whose season was cut short due to illness, but led the Lady 'Dawgs in every statistic category.
"This is a great honor for Jazmine, and I'm excited for her and how she continues to represent our team," coach John Stroud said. "I'm excited to have the opportunity to watch her play in it."
Montgomery guided the Hawks in another playoff run, leading Myrtle in all statistic categories and is consistently among the best players on Coach Jonathan Ashley's squad.
"This is an honor he is very well deserving of," Ashley said. "He's been a vital part of our program as a four-year starter and helping us win north half for the three years prior to this one. Any time players receive an honor like this, it's great, and he's done an awful lot to earn this."
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What's the best way to test my maximum (maintained) wifi speed between my PC and PS3?
Still trying to trouble shoot why PMS works great one day and then stuttering the next (or great 1 hour and then stuttering the next). Still not sure if it's the router, PMS or PS3. Even when playing the same movie it will work great once and then the next time might not play. I paused an avi today for 30secs (after watching without issue for 45mins) and then I could never get it to play again without stuttering right after unpausing even tried to close and reopen, and then force transcode etc.
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It's a tough question. But Catherine Keener laughs at the tough questions. So here goes.
In her new film, "A Late Quartet," Keener, Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mark Ivanir portray members of a famous string quartet. They're shown in several scenes, rehearsing together or performing Beethoven in concert -- four nonmusician actors, sawing away at violins, a viola (the instrument of Keener's character) and cello.
An accomplished quartet -- the Brentano String Quartet -- does the playing we hear on the film's soundtrack. But what did the actors playing onstage actually sound like? Cats being tortured? Broken glass dragged across a blackboard?
Keener cackles. "Oh, you could recognize the pieces were supposed to be playing. We actually had to learn what we were being shown playing. We were given sheet music and we could follow along, playing along to a recording.
"But we weren't playing to speed, so to speak."
On a simple technical level, pretending to play an instrument on film is still a pretty tricky proposition. The old studio tricks of hiding the hands or substituting the hands of a great musician don't fool modern audiences. Keener's 13-year-old son plays the cello, and she knew from watching him that this wasn't going to be easy.
"We studied for a couple of months, all of us, before attempting it," says Keener, who has no musical background. "The hardest thing was just learning how to hold the bow. But when I cracked that code, it was a fantastic moment. That gives you the confidence, and with confidence you start to learn to play. You don't want to just be a dilettante about it, even if that's what you are. I wanted to be able to walk the walk a little bit."
That's what drew her to the film, the idea that she'd have a skill, a behavior that she'd actually "have to work at. You want to find things out that you don't know already, try something new. The preparation makes it appealing."
"A Late Quartet" is earning good reviews -- with Keener playing one-fourth of a quartet that is disintegrating. She is winning praise for serving as "the mournful passion" (Rex Reed, The New York Observer) of the piece. The "mournful" part comes from one particular scene, in which her violist discovers that her husband and quartet colleague (Hoffman) is cheating on her. Keener, famous for comedies ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Being John Malkovich") and dramas ("The Soloist," "Please Give") doesn't have to say a word. We see her character deflate on camera.
"I remember feeling that way," the 53-year-old actress says. "That's what you call on for a scene like that. You remember how gutted you feel when you have that moment of realization, that somebody's cheating on you. You don't want to lay a trap for them, but you kind of do. You need to know. It's your biggest fear. It's a terrible position to be in, for both of you. You just have that 'What do I do now?' feeling. You find yourself having to figure out what the future holds, because that future just changed. And you're lost in the moment. You're lost."
But we're not crying for Keener today. She has movies by Paul Greengrass ("United 93"), her pal Nicole Holofcener ("Lovely & Amazing") and Charlie Kaufman (he wrote "Being John Malkovich") in the can. And even if she didn't master the viola for "A Late Quartet," she picked up life skills that she can apply every day.
"My son was practicing his cello last night when all of a sudden he was trilling," she enthuses. "And I went, 'Wow.' I was thrilled that he could do it, and thrilled that this movie taught me what that was!"


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In the late 1980´s, Volvo planned the truck range for the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. The result would be 'The Global Family of Trucks', where the FH-series (with a high cab floor level) would be supplemented with the FM (with a medium-height cab floor level) and the VN and NH Conventional trucks.
The FM9 and FM12
The FM-series was introduced in 1998, and at that time consisted of the FM7 (with a 7-litre engine), the FM10 (with a 10-litre engine) and the FM12 (with the same 12-litre engine as the engine used in the FH12). Since the major revision in 2001, the FM-series consists of the FM9 and the FM12.
In almost all respects, the FM family of trucks is similar to the FH-range, apart from the available engine (and transmission) options and the cab position, which is lower than that of the cab of the FH12/FH16.
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The lower cab position is, of course, also an advantage in transport operations where a low cab roof is of importance, e g when transporting numerous automobiles.
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In 2001, the FM-series was revised in a number of very important areas. The FM7 and the FM10 was succeeded by the FM9, featuring a completely new 9-litre engine with unit fuel injection, overhead camshaft and four valves per cylinder. The 12-litre engine was preserved for the FM12, but in the revised D12D-execution with improved performance and superior environmental characteristics.
Like the FH12, the FM9 and the FM12 is available with a number of transmission options (all designed and manufactured by Volvo) including manual range-change gearboxes, the I-shift with automatic gear shifting and the power-shift Powertronic gearbox.
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I'm trying to install PMS on My Mac PRO running Mac OSX 1.6.8 (Snow Leopard). My goal was to stream .mkv files.
I first download a previous version of PMS (1.7.2), but the program don't see my PS3.
So I've found a new version 1.90.1 (release 3a4304c72. This version connect well on my PS3. I thought it was OK, but when I try to select a file, all the files in the folder appeard to be greyed and so impossible to select. I thought it was due to the mkv extension, but it's the same with all my .avi files.
Could you help me ?
I think I've read that That it could due to my Mac OS X release, is that true ?


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Yankees GM Cashman breaks leg skydiving
Published: Monday, March 4, 2013 at 6:05 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 4, 2013 at 6:05 p.m.
TAMPA - Yankees general manager Brian Cashman broke his right leg and dislocated the ankle while skydiving in Florida.
Cashman jumped with the U.S. Army Golden Knights in a plane from Homestead Air Reserve Base outside Miami, a fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project. He was hurt on his second jump Monday.
The Yankees said X-rays at Homestead Hospital revealed a broken fibula and dislocated ankle. Cashman was scheduled for surgery later in the day with Dr. Dominic Carreira at Broward Health Medical Center.
"I'm in great spirits, and it was an awesome experience," Cashman said in a statement. "The Golden Knights are first class. While I certainly didn't intend to raise awareness in exactly this fashion, I'm extremely happy that the Wounded Warrior Project is getting the well-deserved additional attention."
The 45-year-old, who has been the team's GM since February 1998, also has rappelled down a 350-foot, 22-story building in Stamford, Conn., in an elf's costume the past two Decembers as part of the town's "Heights and Lights" celebration.
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A ghost with ears and a tail? Hmmm...something's fishy. Why, it's Bubble Puppy, all dressed up to celebrate Halloween with your little Guppy! Kids will be sure to get a giggle out of this fetching cupcake.
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Spread a small dot of frosting on top of the thin spice cookies. Place a cupcake on top with the bottom of the cupcake facing up. Spread another dot of frosting on top of the cupcake and attach a doughnut hole. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes. Place the cupcakes in the freezer to set, about 15 minutes.
Spread some of the remaining frosting over the cupcake assembly to coat lightly. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes.
Meanwhile roll out the prepared fondant in batches, using cornstarch to prevent sticking, to a 1/16-inch thickness. Cut out as many 4-inch circles as possible. (Using a small plate can be helpful here.) Repeat with the remaining fondant and cornstarch to make 12 circles.
Arrange the fondant circle on top of the lightly frosted cupcake. Make some ruffles around the base of the cupcake, leaving the top smooth. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes and fondant.
Cut twenty-four 3/4-inch triangles from the marshmallows as the ears. Cut twelve 1 1/2-inch strips from the marshmallows as the tails. Attach a tail marshmallow to the cookie under the fondant cover with a dot of frosting. Add two triangles on either side at the top of the cupcake as the ears with a dot of frosting. Roll out the soft caramels on a clean work surface. Cut the rolled caramels into the end of the tail pieces, ears, and dots. Attach with a dot of water to secure.
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Alabama to host Stanford Saturday
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Published: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 2:57 p.m.
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TUSCALOOSA | The University of Alabama men's basketball team will host defending National Invitation Tournament champion Stanford on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Coleman Coliseum in a second-round NIT game.
Alabama, a No. 1 seed in the tournament, defeated Northeastern, 62-43, in Tuesday's second round. Stanford, a fourth seed, edged Stephen F. Austin by a 58-57 margin later Tuesday evening to advance.
The Alabama-Stanford game will be televised on ESPN.
General admission tickets went on sale Wednesday morning. Ticket prices are $10 for courtside seats (front court and back court) and baseline reserved seats (available only to regular-season courtside and baseline ticket holders); $9 for adult general admission; $4 for general admission for youths 18 and under; and $4 for UA students who present a valid I.D. All seats for the NIT are general admission, except courtside (front court and back court) and baseline seating areas.
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It was Friday night at Lakeview High School in Cottonwood, though with the smell of belgian waffles in the air, the sight of casual men in formal attire and stories of divine intervention––it sure felt like it could have been Sunday morning.
This past Friday, members of the nine grain elevator consortium known as the Farmer's Co-op Elevator (FCE) held their annual meeting at the Lakeview High School Auditorium. A few hundred turned out for the affair that featured the election of a new FCE board, the distribution of grant scholarships to area students and a fan-favorite guest in author/speaker, Scott Gottschalk.
FCE Management and board members began by recapping a centennial year that by most accounts couldn't have been better.
FCE General Manager Scott Dubbelde gave credit to the co-op's membership and staff for making 2012 record breaking. The elevator consortium was named amongst the top 100 cooperatives in the country by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the first time in the co-op's history for 2011 sales of roughy $354 million. This year FCE is bound to have another shot at the list having topped $371 million in sales for 2012.
According to Dubbelde, the success saw FCE generate local profits of over $2.8 million that allowed for over $2 million in cash dividend payouts to member shareholders––and this while also reducing the age in which its Patron Equity is retired from 70 to 69.
Dubbelde also commented on the construction of new soybean house equipment and a new bin in Montevideo as well as a new scale and pit in Hanley Falls, stating that each project has made operations more efficient.
Later on in the evening, the FCE General Manager acknowledged that which he deemed the biggest potential disappointment looking ahead. Dubbelde said that the cooperative may be forced to abandon its recently launched cooperative health insurance program so that it can be absorbed into new federal health care plans.
"Had the government taken time to look at a program like ours they'd have fixed their problems and saved some money," he said.
Several reports from FCE management provided an overview of the increasingly volatile market as well as the fundamentals that have allowed the company to prosper while remaining a relative calm amongst the storm. "Just as the market has gotten larger, faster and more volatile, so too has the environment and Farmers Cooperative Elevator," said FCE Grain Merchant Ben Hedtke.
A scholarship and years of service award portion followed the reports.
On an annual basis FCE employee memorial scholarships are awarded to students with ag-related, post-secondary aspirations who reside within FCE member school districts. This year, Jean Rosenau (Yellow Medicine East), Allison Peterson (RCW) and Elen Skaar (Minneota) each received $500 in scholarships.
Page 2 of 2 - Attesting to the company's desirable work climate and strong sense of community, the number of employees recognized for at least 15, and as many as, 40 years of experience tallied over a dozen.
With the meeting adjourned, the night was capped Gottschalk. The author/speaker recounted two of his own unbelievable tales of life and death experiences during a highly entertaining and energetic talk dubbed: "Are Angeles for Real?"
The long and short of it: absolutely.
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The German government sponsored the concert and chose as the venue Srinagar, Kashmir. That's the disputed territory in the Himalayas over which India and Pakistan have twice gone to war. Indian-controlled Kashmir has been torn by internal conflict as well for two decades as separatists fought to expel Indian forces.


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A select group of winemakers can be credited with revolutionizing modern day winemaking in California. They are the innovators who, some 20 years ago, brought Old World traditions to the New World. David Ramey is clearly a member of that group, and is widely acknowledged to be among the wine pioneers whose efforts helped raise the bar for all American winemakers and brought California to the forefront of the international wine world. One of the most popular Ramey wines today is what Ramey calls his "Napa Claret." Claret is a classic "old world" concept. In fact, before France started its AOC (appellation) system, it was common during the 1800's to import Syrah from the Hermitage region in France to blend with the wines of Bordeaux. These hermitage wines often fetched higher prices in the English market than those which had not been "improved" (meaning that the Syrah softened the Bordeaux wines at the time, therefore improving the wine). Hence the very English sounding name Claret - because the British were the first customers for this wine! Today Claret is the term used to describe a dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, as well as any similar wine made elsewhere. It should come as no surprise that Ramey should be making the French favorite here in California. That's because his winemaking roots are planted deeply in some of the most coveted soil in Bordeaux. After receiving a graduate degree from the UC Davis - where he wrote his 1979 thesis on volatile ester hydrolysis (how flavors evolve in wine) - Ramey enjoyed a stint working for the Moueix family at the renowned Chateau Pétrus, which produces some of the world's most sought-after wines. He brought his lessons home and applied them to the grapes he found growing in California's premier wine regions. Since the early 1980s, Ramey has helped establish a number of wineries that have become household names. They include Chalk Hill, Matanzas Creek, Dominus Estate (owned by Christian Moueix, of Pétrus) and most recently, Rudd Estate. Producing Claret also makes business sense. Ramey's Claret is basically a blend of the leftovers from his two to three top Cabernet growths, which are used to produce much more expensive wines. The Ramey Napa Claret can, therefore, be considered an "entry level wine." In this economic environment where many wine buyers think twice about spending more than $40 on a bottle of wine, Ramey may have achieved the perfect product/market fit. As Ramey says, "This soft, easy-drinking wine is a good introduction to the vintage, and while it will improve over the course of two to five years, it is not intended for long-term aging." Ramey encouraged one wine reviewer to consider the Claret, "... for roast chicken, not steak." The ultimate endorsement came from Robert M. Parker Jr., in The Wine Advocate (December 2007, Issue 174). "Fashioned from lots culled out from all of David Ramey's Cabernet projects, the 2005 Claret is a stylish, delicious red that is meant to be consumed during its first 7-8 years of life. It offers up aromas of cherries, underbrush, black currants, and cedar. Evolved and medium-bodied with a silky finish, it will drink well for 5-7 years." Ramey Cellars Napa Claret is not a typical Bordeaux blend. Although it contains 54 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 25 percent Merlot, 12 percent Cabernet Franc, 1 percent Petit Verdot, 1 percent Malbec, the addition of 7 percent Syrah makes it the sort of wine that the Bordelais would have produced in the 1800s. OnPoint readers may also like to know that Ramey Wine Cellars produces world class Chardonnay and Syrah wines in addition to the Bordeaux-style red wines. Ramey Wine Cellars - Napa Claret. Current Vintage: 2005. Wine Trivia Question: Pinotage is a red wine grape that is South Africa's signature variety. 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Charles Dickens' book "A Christmas Carol" has become a holiday staple in much of the western world, beloved for its vivid characters and their trademark language. Just as well known as the miser Ebenezer Scrooge's "Bah! Humbug" is Tiny Tim's sweet refrain, "God bless us, every one!"
Monday's mail brought that latter suggestion from donors to the Pocono Record's annual Toys for Joy campaign, which raises money to buy toys and gifts for needy children around Monroe County. Amid the donations featuring personal messages to loved ones and in memory of friends and family, the "God bless" and another, "Good will to men," really elicit the holiday mood.
Every year we collect our readers' donations between Thanksgiving and Christmas, after which we turn over the proceeds to the Salvation Army and Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network, which buy and distribute gifts to the children.
You, too, can help. Stop by our office or send a donation to: Toys for Joy, Pocono Record, 511 Lenox St., Stroudsburg, PA 18360.
Tyler, Connor and Autumn Smiley in memory of our Great-Uncle John ...........................................$10
Tyler, Connor and Autumn Smiley in memory of our Nana and Poppy .........................................$10
Gertrude Armitage in memory of Frank O. Armitage ......................$15
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John and Cristina Anderson: God bless us, every one ...........$25
Gustave and Marie Ebeling ...$25
Rich and Kathy Field in honor of our grandchildren .....................$25
Robert & Maureen Pelcher ...$25
A. Apicello ............................$30
James and Christine Bonser in loving memory of Jimmy, Nancy and Bob Bonser ........................$50
H.W. Haas Jr. Post No. 56, Society of the 28th Division AER .....$50
Daniel and Sara Hamblin ......$50
John and Diane Higgins in honor of our granddaughters, Lizzy and Evie Higgins ...............................$50
Robyn M. Smith .....................$50
David Emanuel in memory of Ruth and Milton Emanuel ........$100
Jens and Cecilia Hansen .....$100
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Incoming freshmen and transfer students are welcomed into the SUNY Oswego community with the symbolic passing of the Torch of Learning. Free. 315-312-2106.
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All the songs are about that length. Short, punk-ish, cocksock anthems. Grunge has only very recently taken a break from his regimen of excessive masturbation to craft "The Tresser", a departure from his usual hip-hop output, an album of incredibly short, incredibly catchy, incredibly credible songs meant to be heard by ears of all kinds. Lord Grunge describes the packaging of this CD as "Sweet. Totally fucking sweet. REAL CD. Not a bullshit CDR. REAL jewel case. Not a bullshit digipack. Professional shrink-wrap job. Vibrant colors, (brief but thorough) liner notes, white tray, secret weirdo picture of Lord Grunge underneath said tray."
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Motion—all duck hunters know they need it in their decoys. Motion mimics real ducks, transforming a lifeless spread into one brimming with activity.
Of course, the rage in motion decoys in recent seasons has been wing-spinners: Robo, Mojo, etc. When these spinners hit the scene, ducks were mesmerized. The flash from the rotating wings resembled ducks landing, and the attraction to passing birds was strong. However, in the past couple of seasons, some ducks have learned to avoid wing spinners, and now many hunters see them as a liability instead of an aid.
So, what other alternatives are available for adding motion to a spread? What devices are available for agitating water and showing movement to convince circling ducks that a spread is real? Following are brief looks at four of these "non-spinners."
This "duck butt" feeding decoy is attached on top of a small electric bilge pump. When turned on, the pump spurts water in alternating blasts, causing the decoy to wobble and bob like a live feeding duck. One, two or four Pulsators can be run with the same control. Available through Cabela's.
This is a pre-rigged version of the old-fashioned jerk string, with a twist. With three spreaders included, the Jerk-A-Spreader can be rigged to "swim" a dozen decoys in a spread-out formation. The resulting large amount of commotion is very noticeable and convincing to wary ducks. Available through Cabela's.
This hockey puck-like wave maker is about as uncomplicated as it gets. Simply attach anchor lines, turn it on and drop it out in the decoys. A half-dozen Quiver Magnets spaced evenly in a pothole spread can make still water come alive. Units are virtually invisible in the water. www.edgebyexpedite.com
This inflatable feeding decoy fits over the Quiver Magnet battery-operated wave maker mentioned above. Fill it with air, switch on the motor and drop the decoy in the water. A continuous ripple pattern resembles a real duck feeding. Large bright orange legs add an extra touch of realism. www.cherokee-sports.com
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"Les Misérables" has come a long way from its slow start as a French "sung-through musical" in 1980. I have no idea what the difference between a sung-through musical and an opera is, but it's an opera to all intents and purposes.
An English-language version was developed and premiered at the Barbican Centre in London, England, on 8 October 1985. In spite of bad reviews word spread by word of mouth and it became a world-wide sensation. Such a sensation it became one of the few productions with a universally recognized nickname, "Les Miz."
When you see and hear it, you understand. Soon after it opened in the U.S. critics noted with wonder rock-ribbed nuke-the-dirty-hippies-till-they-glow right-wingers coming out of theaters singing "Will you join in the crusade, who will be strong and stand with me? Beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?"
I've been familiar with the music for 20-odd years, and days after seeing the opening on Christmas Day the tunes are still running through my head. "Red – the blood of angry men! Black – the dark of ages past…"
"Les Misérables" is based on the book of the same name by Victor Hugo. It covers three decades of the life of Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), one-time convict, who becomes a prosperous factory owner under an assumed name. He becomes a fugitive again, the foster father of an orphaned girl Cosette (Amanda
Seyfried, Isabelle Allen as a child) whose love, and the love of God, redeems him. He is pursued relentlessly by Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe) who is obsessed with his capture.
This is the personal story of a handful of people, set in an age of turmoil and revolution. In other words, it's an exciting story set in an exciting time.
It's about sin and redemption, of individuals and nations.
Hugo pulled this off so well "Les Misérables" is considered one of a handful of the best novels ever written, in spite of some quirks. Hugo liked to make lengthy digressions on a number of subjects, which is why most people have read abridged translations and thus miss the 20-odd page long grammatically correct sentence Hugo wrote just to show he could.
As a former sewage treatment plant operator I personally miss Hugo interrupting Jean Valjean's flight through the sewers of Paris to discourse for 27 pages on the folly of polluting the water with sewage instead of using it to fertilize the land, but I digress.
Visually it's stunning. Since I've always managed to miss it on stage, I don't know how they did it without the wonders of CGI. But the visuals don't overwhelm the production.
The casting was inspired. Even Allen's relatively minor part is magnified by her image used as the now universally recognized logo of the work, based on the iconic illustration from Hugo's first edition.
But… I'm scarcely the first to notice that they cast actors who sing, rather than professional singers in the major roles. Of the three leads, Crowe's voice is kind of high and reedy, not at all what you expect from his speaking voice. Jackman is competent but not strong. Seyfried is not a strong soprano.
I don't think any of them could have belted their numbers out to the back rows without a mike.
On the other hand, the sheer presence of Jackman and Crowe makes you forget the flawed voices.
The supporting cast are great. Anne Hathaway as the beautiful, doomed Fantine, knocks you down and sits on you, reaches into your chest and rips the heart right out of you with her rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream."
And somehow they took a woman rated one of the 100 most beautiful people and made her look malnourished and diseased. You watch with horrified fascination the corruption and death of a beautiful innocent.
Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter as Monsieur and Madame Thénardier are repulsively comic and they can sing, who knew?
Eddie Redmayne as Marius sings beautifully and portrays to perfection one of the earnest young idealists who in the time since the founding of the American republic have given France The Reign of Terror, two kingdoms, five republics, and an empire.
And keep an eye on newcomer Samantha Barks (from the Isle of Man of all places) as the other beautiful doomed character Éponine, who loves Marius and dies on the barricade after doing the right thing so he can live happily ever after with Cosette. Rumor has it Barks beat out Taylor Swift for the role. Not too shabby.
As the movie ended with the peaceful death of Jean Valjean and the beginning of Marius and Cosette's happily ever after, Valjean's spirit left for the big barricade in the sky with all the martyrs of the 1832 uprising joining him in a reprise of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" I heard a hearty "Amen!" from the audience.


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Courses, Research Interests, Publications
Health at Every Size / Body Image Issues
PhD Research Seminar: Social Justice in Psychology
Social justice in psychology and psychotherapy; multicultural competence; Health at Every Size; LGBTQIA issues; impact of social privilege and oppression, especially as regards to body size, physical appearance, sexual orientation, race, gender, gender expression, religion, age, and social class
Academic History and Background
B.A. - Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1986
M.A. - Counseling Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989
Ph.D. - Counseling Psychology, APA Accredited. University of California, Santa Barbara., 1994
"The Counseling Psychologist Major Contribution of the Year" for: Counseling Psychology Model Training Values Statement Addressing Diversity. Awarded by The Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA., 2010
"Issues in Higher Education." One of six people chosen to participate in this annual program designed to prepare faculty for administrative roles in the academy., 2004
"High Flyer Award" for excellence in teaching. Presented by the College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia for teaching evaluations of higher than a 4.8 on a 5 point scale., 2003
"Community Foundation Award" and "Congressional Recognition" for outstanding service to the Southern Nevada Community. Presented by the U.S. Congress for being one of the 25 most influential leaders of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender communities in the history of Southern Nevada., 2003
National Council of Schools and Programs in Professional Psychology (NCSPP), 2009-Present, 2009
Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs (CCPTP), 2002-2005, 2002-2005
Society of Counseling Psychology's Section on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Awareness, 1998-Present, 1998
American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, 1994-1996, 1994-1996
American Psychological Association (APA), 1987-Present, 1987
Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17 of APA),1987-Present, 1987
Society for the Study of Lesbian and Gay Issues (Division 44), 1987-Present, 1987
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Vintage ad for the Sports Afield Magazine. This ad shows the cover of the September 1947 Sports Afield magazine, cost 25 cents. Ad quote: Most of the important men in America are sportsmen. And more of them read Sports Afield than any other sportsmen's magazine. Get your copy at the newsstand today.Circa: 1947, good condition Size: 10 1/4 x 14 This advertising collectible has been professionally removed and is guaranteed to be original from a vintage publication. Suitable for matting and/or framing, this ad is perfect to decorate your home or office. It is also a perfect gift for someone who is hard to buy for. Each ad comes with a separate backing board and is sealed in a temporary plastic sleeve to protect it from the elements. PLEASE NOTE: This item will be shipped FREE to any US address. Other locations, please contact for shipping quote. Insurance added at customers request.
Circa: 1947
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It all started at a dinner one month ago. Ten of our neighbors got together in mid-April. We ate, we talked about snow, summer, food, the usual. Over dessert, the subject of ERS came up and we discovered that all of us were passionate about the subject. We decided to become involved.
We are not coordinating with the developer, and we have not taken any funds from the developer or from forces that are outside the town. We are entirely self-funded by individuals interested in our grassroots effort. But we feel strongly that this town must pass this referendum for a number of reasons.
We have researched the numbers, met with town staff, and worked to discover what the facts are concerning ERS. On day one, our group decided to work to be as honest and accurate as we could be. We try to cut through whatever spin there might be on the facts regarding ERS and we present those facts so that folks can make an informed decision.
It is easy for one side to cherry-pick selective data resulting in partial truths or misinformation. Finding reality among the spin can be tough for voters.
Here is our shot at presenting the facts that we have found regarding the main issues around this debate.
Jobs - ERS will create about 760 construction jobs in 2013 and probably around 360 for 2014. ERS will create about 1740 long term jobs once the entire development is completed.
Parking - ERS has proposed a parking density of 3.63 parking spaces for each 1000 square feet of retail space. Including the parking for the apartments, the parking space density is 3.75 parking spaces per 1000. This is very low compared to many other shopping districts.
Location - The location is considered to be one of the best locations for retail stores between Copper Mountain and Grand Junction because of weather, visibility, and accessibility. The ERS proposal exactly matches what is specified in our community plan.
Size - ERS Phase I is 68 acres. In an apples to apples comparison Glenwood Meadows Phase I is 66.3 acres. ERS Phase II adds 20 more acres, Glenwood Meadows Phase II adds 60.7 more acres. But perhaps a better comparison would be relative to the size of our existing Chambers business district which is about 122 acres. ERS Phase I is about half the size of our existing Chambers business district.
Who pays? -There are two pots that the funds will come from to pay for building ERS. $203.8 million will come from the developer's funds and $67 million will come from an ERS Metro District. Just as the Eagle Ranch project created a metro district to build the community part of Eagle Ranch (like the water, sewer, streets and golf course), ERS will build the water, sewer, streets and exit on I-70 using funds from the ERS Metro District. These funds will be repaid by the ERS customers and property owners in the new development through sales and property taxes. Eagle will not assume any financial liability for any of the debt and cannot be in default. There is no financial risk to the town for this project.
Who is the developer? -RED Development has a website at www.reddevelopment.com where voters can review the company and 31 ERS-type projects that they have in both large and small towns.
Will this be successful? -Voters should understand that much of retail in this project will be custom built based on what a particular store desires for its space (build to suit). The town has specified that some 40 percent of the retail space needs to be signed up via contracts or letters of intent prior to the start of construction work.
Small town character - Eagle has a fun small western town vibe with a pretty, but struggling downtown. Although only 7 percent of our retail trade occurs on Broadway, community events often center there or in the nearby Town Park. Other towns along I-70 have discovered that by nurturing national brand retail along the highway, they can benefit from the increased trade while they preserve and enhance their downtowns.
City Market -There has been a lot of buzz about the City Market issue. Are they staying, are they moving, are they expanding? Cutting through the spin, let's just look at the facts: City Market accounts for about 40 percent of all the sales tax money that funds our town's operations. Sales taxes are the lion's share of the town's revenues. So basically, we have 40 percent of our eggs in one basket. Even if City Market does not move, the citizens of the town and the town are in a risky situation.
Town budget - We have spent a good deal of time looking into the town finances. The town is not going belly up this year. Or next. But we are depleting our reserve funds and that can not continue forever. Sales tax revenues into neighboring towns have rebounded from the recession. Last year, Rifle was up 10 percent, Gypsum up 7 percent, Avon up 4 percent, Glenwood up 3 percent. Eagle is the only town not bouncing back from the recession. We now have four years in a row of declines. This year we are using 1/3 of our remaining reserve fund. At this rate, our reserves will be completely gone in two years.
Vote Yes to Eagle is a grassroots group of Eagle residents who care about the health of our community. We are your neighbors and your friends, united by the recognition that we desperately need more jobs in town and we desperately need more retail business in town to balance with our residential numbers. Please vote yes to ERS.


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UPDATE: Ex-priest convicted of trying to hire hit man to kill abuse accuser
A former Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy at gunpoint was convicted this afternoon of trying to hire a hit man to kill the boy.
John Fiala, who faces up to life in prison, showed no outward emotion as the verdict was read. The jury of nine women and three men that convicted him after a few hours of deliberating will decide his punishment.
Testimony in the punishment phase of the trial is underway.
Fiala testified this morning that he told a purported hit man to kill his accuser because he thought his own life was in danger.
He said his friend and neighbor Scottie Fisher told him the hit man was his brother. The brother would likely turn on Fiala if he wasn't convinced the hit was on, Fiala said Fisher told him.
"I knew that if I didn't do this, I'd be the one on the list, marked to be killed, according to what Scottie said," Fiala said.
But the man Fiala met with in November 2010 and instructed to murder his accuser in exchange for $5,000 was actually an undercover police officer. And the entire conversation was surreptitiously video recorded and played for the Dallas County jury yesterday.
Fiala's attorney asked him why he gave specific instructions to the undercover cop, including to "chop off his head."
"That was what Scottie told me to say," Fiala said.
Prosecutors Hector Garza and Brandon Birmingham have argued that Fiala wanted his accuser dead because he was distraught over indictments that accused him of sexually assaulting the 16-year-old boy in his rural West Texas parish in Edwards County.
Fiala testified that he was distraught about the allegations against him. But he said it was because he was having trouble forgiving the boy for making up false allegations against him.
Garza asked Fiala what Fisher would have gained by having the boy killed.
"Nothing," Fiala said.
Prosecutors urged the jury not to buy Fiala's claim that Fisher's threats led him to act like he wanted his accuser killed.
"John Fiala is not a puppet," Birmingham said. "He is a puppeteer."
Defense attorney Rex Gunter said Fiala had no true intentions of having his abuse accuser killed. He told jurors not to find his client guilty despite what they saw on the potentially damning video.
"Just saying the words doesn't show intent," Gunter said.


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Study Abroad: Istanbul, Turkey
Studying abroad is usually touted as an important experience for undergraduate students. But last fall, ACU's Dr. Garry Bailey decided to take a group of graduate students to Turkey to study gender conflict firsthand.
Our students got to meet these great women who are doing wonderful things in countries where women are often oppressed. We had opportunities to visit with people who knew very intimately the problems of gender conflict.
Bailey, associate professor and academic director of the Duncum Center for Conflict Resolution, said he got his inspiration for the program after visiting with a speaker from last year's ACU Peace Conference about attending a meeting in Turkey.
This inspiration led him to take a group of nine students, along with colleague Dr. Cindy Roper, to a Mediators Beyond Borders Congress in Istanbul. The students earned credit in a course called "Gender Conflict Issues in the Middle East."
Bringing theory to life
Taking the class in Turkey, an area where gender conflict is especially prominent, brought the class from theory to reality.
"Our students got to meet these great women who are doing wonderful things in countries where women are often oppressed," Bailey said. "We had opportunities to visit with people who knew very intimately the problems of gender conflict."
The trip was a wonderful opportunity for the students to engage with each other on a personal level since the majority of their degree is earned online. Many of them had not met until stepping off the plane in Istanbul, but building relationships with each other quickly became a highlight of the experience.
"The trip was awesome," participant Javier Leon said. "Wonderful teachers, wonderful sight-seeing in ancient cities, but most of all great friendships were born."
Bailey said the students were encouraged to "look for the places beyond the tourist spots, to look for how average Turkish citizens relate to one another."
Lasting impact
Detailed planning allowed the trip to run smoothly, but Bailey is already thinking of ways to enhance future trips. He recognizes the innate value of studying abroad and the tremendous impact it can have on a student's life and education.
"I don't think it's even possible to measure the value of the experience because it's so great," he said.
Studying gender conflict in an area of the world where the issue is so pronounced had a lasting impact on the travelers.
"I left Turkey different than when I came," student Anna Jane Perry said.
Bailey agrees.
"We can talk about gender conflict in the Middle East, read about it in textbooks, or we can actually go and hear people talk about their experience with it."
Read more about the trip and view a photo gallery on the Duncum Center for Conflict Resolution blog
Learn more about ACU's online graduate programs in conflict resolution
- Damir Kramaric ('13) Online Graduate Student, Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation
- Grace Lozano (M.S. '12) Clinical Psychology
- Caitlin Winegeart ('11) Master of Accountancy
- J. Garpue Lieway ('11) M.S. in Social Work
- Christina Johnson ('11) English
- Gustavo Villanueva ('00) Ministry/Education
- Joel Overall ('06) M.A. in English
- Joel Brown ('09) Bible, Missions & Ministry
- Jonathan Straker ('11) Graduate School of Theology
- Kevin Washington ('11) Communication
- Kara Jenkins ('10) Master of Accountancy
- Kyle McVey ('09) Master of Accountancy
- Lydia Ezzell ('05, '08) RN, Nurse Practitioner
- Olivia Hodges ('07) Christian Ministry
- Tera Harmon ('03, '07) Graduate School of Theology
- Shannon Williamson ('10) Clinical Psychology
- Dr. Wayne Paris MSSW Program Director


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By Alli Knothe TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
February 05. 2014 6:00AM
WORCESTER — Local energy prices are up because of increased demand nearly across the board, as temperatures fall to below freezing for days at a time and people crank up their heating systems.
Propane has been attracting a lot of attention in particular during this pinch because customers buy large quantities of the product at a time, then buy more when needed rather than paying for it on a monthly basis through a bill sent by a utility company.
That makes things difficult for propane consumers — especially people who are low-income, because the tanks are often filled by no less than several hundred dollars at a time.
"Our phones are ringing off the hook for people looking for help with fuel assistance," said Mary Knittle, director of energy programs at the Worcester Community Action Council.
Just 300 of the organization's nearly 14,000 eligible clients use propane for their heat, yet Ms. Knittle said that "after one or two deliveries, (those clients) have exhausted their benefits."
While people are encouraged to plan ahead and budget those funds by purchasing the propane in the summer when it is substantially less expensive, she said that unforeseen circumstances, such as the loss of a job or medical emergency, can put needy families in a real bind.
"For some of these people, they just don't have it," Ms. Knittle said.
At Dileo Gas Inc. on Route 20, co-owner Harry Dileo said that his company has tried to work with those customers to help them get through the rest of the cold season.
"A lot of our customers are on fuel assistance," he said.
This time of year, the family business sells about 5,000 gallons of propane per day, and buys about 10,000 gallons at a time. With a 30,000-gallon holding tank, Mr. Dileo said that there is a quick product turnover and the company has to work constantly to ensure it is getting the lowest price possible, even if that means going as far as Canada to get it.
Mr. Dileo also explained that there is an increase in demand, as new houses are "moving away from oil and toward propane and natural gas."
As the price goes up though, the company has absorbed much of that increase in cost, he said, and while other distributors may increase prices by as much as $1 to cover the increase in cost per gallon, Dileo customers have not seen a jump of more than 10 or 15 cents.
The average price of propane is currently $3.65 per gallon, up from $3.12 last year, according to the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.
The department surveys the price each week based on the average price to fill-up 100 to 150 gallons.
"The propane price year over year is up about 50 cents a gallon, which certainly is not good," said Joe Rose, president of the Propane Gas Association of New England, which represents propane gas suppliers in the area.
Mr. Rose is quick to note that there is no actual propane shortage in the area. "With this cold weather we're having, (suppliers) had to go to the open market to meet that demand."
In New England, that meant ordering shipments from Europe and Africa to meet demand, despite the fact that prices are about 70 or 80 cents more expensive per gallon than the domestic product, he said. While the situation is not uncommon, it does drive prices up even further for the season, especially when this season the domestic propane, transported by train and pipeline from Texas and the Gulf Coast, is supplying just 60 percent of the market.
There was another holdup when railroad cars used to fill the gap between domestic demand and what can be pumped through the pipeline were running nearly two weeks behind schedule because of inclement weather.
"By April I would fully expect the prices to be back to normal," he said.
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Well, I didn't quite make it to all of day 3 of PyCON, but I got a good piece of it, starting with some very nice presentations of scientific software from Enthought and finishing with some questions about the future of Python packaging for GNU/Linux distributions.
I first heard about Chaco when I was working at Caltech, supporting scientific software there. We were extremely far in arrears on our payments to RSI for the many seat licenses of IDL that the Caltech/JPL IPAC needed. So, converting scientists over to using a suite of free software packages in a Python-based environment seemed like a very attractive idea.
Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore was really taking the initiative on this. Enthought was essentially on contract to produce the necessary astronomy plotting package, which would be named "Chaco" after the famous Anasazi archeological site (though probably a principally religious site, the ruins at Chaco Canyon include a wide range of astronomical markers).
Chaco was meant both to modernize and replace existing plotting packages like Mongo and SuperMongo, which were not only rather kludgy, but also had extremely awkward and uncertain licensing terms.
However, at the time, Chaco was in its infancy and we couldn't really use it. Fast forward four years, however, and Chaco is looking pretty amazing! It combines the ideas of plot scripting (which has been of use in the scientific community for publication quality graphics as well as exploratory visualization) and interactive graphics manipulation (which may be more familiar to users of "business graphics" tools). In Chaco, you script your data, which then launches a plot browser application to interact with your data. Far better for exploration, of course.
I didn't actually see how Chaco produces publication graphics, but I'm fairly sure they wouldn't have overlooked this.
Chaco is part of a larger suite of scientific data reduction and analysis tools called "scipy". Though not part of scipy, NumPy (the inheritor of both the Numeric and Numarray packages, which have been unified) is the expected way to handle image and spectral array data within scipy.
I've been out of astronomical research for many years now, so I haven't really had any data to analyze, and so I haven't personally tried these packages out—but I sure wish I had had them back when I was doing active research. They really do look nice.
Immediately afterwards, we had another talk about a package which was not itself free, but demonstrated an application of Enthought's free-licensed application framework, "Envisage". The package is (I'm told) not much different from Eclipse, except of course for being written in Python.
Enthought has a plugin/component architecture system, which, if I understood correctly, is called "traits". Installing all of this stuff is now on my to-do list, I can definitely tell you.
Unfortunately, although the 3D visualization widget is apparently free, the CAD system Enthought used to create the models apparently is not. However, I'm very intrigued by the possibilities of using these tools and extending them. It seems like Envisage might make a very nice start on a CASE tool of some kind.
There was also a very handy talk by Sean Reifschneider about the
vim Python module, as well as vim scripts for handling Python code: syntax handling, block jumps, re-tabbing and so forth. This was personally interesting to me as a vim user, of course.
Following that was a very edifying if not exactly exciting presentation from Anita Ewing and David Hancock of ARINC Direct. Their company sells a service for business air traffic, which has to aggregate an enormous amount of information from various web services to produce flight plan reports for pilots on demand. This lets a pilot know, for example, what sort of winds to expect on his planned course, and how long it will take him to arrive.
Their problem was that this huge and complex system had to be accurately tested, and they went from a very laborious manual process to an almost fully automated system using Python test scripting based on Fitnesse, twill, buildbot, Selenium, and nose.
Fitnesse is a web-based testing technology that resembles doctest, but with the test strings embedded in a Wiki. Twill automates web browsers, including forms. Buildbot of course, runs tests automatically, and Selenium is a tool for capturing web-based test runs and recording the information. The ARINC folks automated the process so that Selenium would generate the necessary test scripts automatically, base on an interactive test session.
They reported that their biggest problem was getting their programmers to use the automated testing approach, but also that they had managed to get everyone using it—by recruiting one programmer to work on the sysem full time, and another to spend time evangelizing about the benefits of test-driven development. The company has apparently seen this succeed very well.
Afterwards, Titus Brown followed up with a presentation of his various testing packages: twill (automated web browsing and form-filling), scotch (it records and replays WSGI—this is a bad pun on one of the popular alternatives for pronouncing "WSGI"), and figleaf which is a code coverage tool (code coverage tools test how much of a program has been executed during testing to determine whether you've tested everything).
A presentation by Dr. Roberto de Almeida returned to the scientific programming theme with a talk on serving and reading "Data Access Protocol" (DAP) data. He has some fairly clever hacks to allow your python program to essentially pretend that it has the dataset on disk, even though it's really being served by a remote file server. His package is "PyDAP".
At the end of the day I wavered a bit. There was a talk about the status of Women in IT which interested me as a journalist. But in the same time slot was a talk about packaging Python applications for use by GNU/Linux distributions, and that has definite practical utility to me, so I decided to go pragmatic.
I will say though that my subjective impression is that the number of women attending this conference, though still a small minority, was probably twice what it was last year. There were certainly a lot more women giving presentations, as well. We must be doing something right.
The package talk raised some interesting issues. Python has a newly maturing package format specifically for Python programs, called "Eggs" (to go alongside Java "Beans" and Ruby "Gems"—Perl has some kind of package format at CPAN. Probably just "modules" without the kitschy names).
However, the major GNU/Linux distributions have language-neutral package formats like DEB and RPM. Creating a Python Egg is (apparently—I haven't tried it yet) quite easy, because the mechanism is built into Python's "setuptools" package. However, the process for producing RPMs, let alone DEBs, is fairly complicated and not well documented. Also, Debian exercises a great deal of gate control, keeping out packages that they don't like. Depending on your purposes, that can be very good or very bad.
So, the question arises: should programmers worry about distribution-significant packages or should they simply produce Eggs? There are pros and cons on both sides.
After that last talk, I was pretty worn out, so I went home. There was a closing address which I'm sorry to have missed, but overall it was a great conference. Next years' is not expected to be in Dallas (at this point, I'm thinking that Chicago is most likely). I do plan to find out, PyCON has been a great conference for two years running.
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Go for Eggs
First off, thanks for writing these articles about PyCon. I've enjoyed reading them very much, and am considering doing something similar when I attend the OSCMS Summit in March ( http://2007.oscms-summit.org/ ).
I would think that the best way to go about delivering Python programs would be to use the Eggs, and let the distro maintainers determine the actual method of delivery on their system. I haven't used Debian for a long time, but I would hope that they would have some sort of system to handle unusual packages. Gentoo, for example, uses "build scripts", so installing an Egg using portage should be straightforward, at least no more difficult than installing/compiling packages from source, since you could merely pass the Egg to Python in the script and let Python handle it (Ok, ok, it's more complicated than that, but not much more).
Nah, not eggs, I don't think...
Eggs are fine for developers and Python fanatics, but they aren't the right way to go for user apps and libraries.
The problem is the "language ghetto" thing -- you'd wind up with multiple package formats by language (eggs, beans, gems, modules...) and of course that's added to existing multiple formats by origin (deb, rpm, and whatever that thing is that Inkscape uses).
I don't know about commercial distributors like Red Hat, but Debian needs all the help they can get with 8000+ packages to worry about already, so it's better to package your own work if you can.
The real kicker about having all these different packages is "package hell" -- and now we'd have a multi-layered, multi-bolgia, highly Dantesque Hell!
Because, see, none of these packages recognize each other as dependencies. So you might be fine with Eggs within Python, but then Debian packages that depend on them, won't know they are installed, and APT will try to replace them with (possibly outdated) dpkg versions.
So, what we actually need is a package multi-format integration system, which would allow either:
A pluggable APT tool that can read all of these formats and somehow magically figure out which is who, OR...
A pluggable Cheeseshop (and the equivalent for Java, Perl, and Ruby, of course), which allows you to automatically convert Eggs into custom DEBs (or RPMs, or whatever) for download. In fact, we could just provide a "cheeseshop" DEB archive as an unofficial archive. Then APT would just work, as long as you had the cheeseshop in your sources.list file.
I think the latter would be my preference. But of course, that's work to do on the Cheeseshop, then.