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- Apr 17:
- Brave actions by Audrie Pott's parents are appreciated
- Brave actions by Audrie Pott's parents are appreciated
- Apr 15:
- Audrie Pott case docs: Police took cellphone, computers from three suspects in sexual assault
- Audrie Pott case: Documents detail party, acts at heart of sexual assault blamed for teen's suicide
- Audrie Pott case: Stepmother's statement on pain Saratoga girl, family faced
- Saratoga sexual assault case: Parents of teen victim to file wrongful death suit against three boys
- Apr 14:
- Saratoga High's tragic assault case: Students say photos didn't go viral
- Saratoga High's tragic assault case: Students say photos didn't go viral
- 3 charged in sexual abuse case previously cited
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- Saratoga girl's suicide fuels cyberbullying debate
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- Audrie Pott suicide: Grim picture of Saratoga teen's final online cries of despair
- Canadian police reopen case of girl who committed suicide after alleged rape
- Lawyer: Girl saw details online of sex assault
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- Teens arrested in rape case tied to Saratoga High student's suicide
- Canada minister to oversee probe to teen's suicide
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- Mom: Teen kills herself after rape, bullying
SARATOGA -- In the days after 15-year-old Audrie Pott took her own life, the campus murmurs reached a fever pitch.
Whether it was guilty conscience or frustration about the true story not being out there, the voices got louder, and in earshot of Saratoga High School's school-resource officer, a deputy with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.
"We started listening to what the kids were saying," said Sheriff Laurie Smith. "We knew there was more to this."
A picture of the naked girl was being shown to her classmates. But they weren't of a youthful indiscretion gone too far, authorities and family attorneys say. They were part of a sickening chronicle of her being sexually violated at the hands of three boys she had considered friends, the attorneys said.
The sharing of the image, and the humiliation that followed, drove her to desperate measures. Eight days after the alleged attack, Audrie committed suicide.
Friday, the sheriff's office offered more insight into the seven-month investigation that culminated with the arrest Thursday of three teenage boys accused of sexually assaulting Audrie, who was intoxicated and fell asleep at an unsupervised house party last fall. The case has garnered national media attention, particularly in light of similar cases in Nova Scotia, Canada and Steubenville, Ohio.
In the first statement sent on behalf of the juvenile suspects, San Jose-based attorneys Eric S. Geffon, Alan M. Lagod and Benjamin W. Williams asked the public to reserve judgment on their clients.
"Much of what has been reported over the last several days is inaccurate. Most disturbing is the attempt to link (Audrie's) suicide to the specific actions of these three boys," the statement reads. "We are hopeful that everyone understands that these boys, none of whom have ever been in trouble with the law, are to be regarded as innocent. Due to the juvenile nature of the proceedings, we believe it inappropriate to comment further at this time."
The suspects were still in custody Friday, Geffon said.
On campus and around Saratoga Friday, dozens of students declined to talk about whether they knew anything about the case, Audrie, or the suspects. They had been told, they said, not to talk about it.
The truth began to surface after Audrie's Sept. 10 death when the deputy assigned to the high school started looking into rumors of the photo, though at the time there was no indication of a sex crime.
Tracking down the photos in a school environment, where they can disappear with the tap of a phone screen, made for a lengthy probe, the sheriff said. But dozens of interviews, mostly with students, started to tell the story behind the pictures.
The initial sexual assault revelation came "more based on statements," Smith said. "The photographs were substantiation."
Audrie had gone to a female friend's house on Sept. 2, the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, according to Robert Allard, an attorney for her family. The friend's parents were out of town for the weekend, Allard said, and the teens had access to an unlocked liquor cabinet.
The teens, including Audrie, began drinking alcohol mixed with Gatorade, Allard said.
At some point Audrie reportedly went to a bedroom and fell asleep.
She woke up, Allard said, "to the worst nightmare imaginable."
"They did unimaginable things to her while she was unconscious," Allard said. "A photo or multiple photos were taken of the assault as it was taking place."
The digital photos "spread like wildfire" among students at Saratoga and at least one image was posted on the Internet, Allard said.
As sheriff's detectives conducted more interviews, they served search warrants at the suspects' homes, gathering computers and the cell phones of them and anyone else they suspected of receiving or sharing the photos. A combination of subpoenas of phone records from cell-phone service providers and then poring through reams of data made for a painstaking investigation, Smith said.
"We still have more interviews to do. We have more phones to get," the sheriff said. "We have good evidence to justify the criminal charges even though the investigation is ongoing."
The length and depth of the current investigation is at least partly informed by the agency's 2007 probe into the alleged gang rape of a woman at a party hosted by De Anza College baseball players, which drew controversy when prosecutors declined to file any charges and it was later revealed that the case was under-investigated in its early stages.
"These aren't easy cases. We put resources into the De Anza case and were frustrated that couldn't be prosecuted," Smith said. "But in De Anza, we didn't have photographs. I would rather have the best case we can move forward than the fastest case we can move forward."
Audrie posted a series of tortured messages on Facebook including one describing the "worst day in her life." Her final post was dated Sept. 7, three days before her death.
"I think it's clear from the Facebook message that she was devastated and humiliated by what had taken place," said Ed Vasquez, a spokesman for Allard's law firm, Corsiglia McMahon & Allard. "She was extremely angry that an image was captured and it was being disseminated. She was humiliated that everybody at the school would find out and she wanted answers from people at the party about what happened."
Smith was equally aghast.
"The bravado to think ... what were they thinking?" she said. "I don't why they would think it would be OK."
This newspaper does not typically identify victims of sexual assault. But in this case, Pott's family wanted her name and case known, Allard said. Family members, who have reportedly gone into seclusion, also provided a photo of the teen during happier times.
The boys who were arrested Thursday -- two at Saratoga High School and one at Christopher High School in Gilroy -- were booked into juvenile hall, each on suspicion of two felonies and one misdemeanor count covering the sexual assault and subsequent distribution of the images. Officials are withholding their names because they are juveniles. Allard said Audrie's parents hope they won't be treated as juveniles in court.
It is unclear whether they will be: The District Attorney's Office said it is legally barred from publicly releasing the details of juvenile prosecutions.
Deputy District Attorney Jaron Shipp, who recently finished a stint on the office's juvenile justice team, said the state legislature specifically set a higher-than-usual standard to call for the adult prosecution of sexual assaults involving intoxicated minors. As opposed to other violent crimes such as premeditated murder, there is nothing compulsory in the law to prosecute defendants in this case as adults.
While there might be a groundswell for that, an adult prosecution might not necessarily ensure a harsher penalty, said Steve Clark, a legal analyst and South Bay criminal-defense attorney.
"This could be a difficult case to try, and it might be easier to prosecute in the juvenile court where they're in front of a judge and not 12 jurors," Clark said. "So strategically, the D.A. might want to keep it in juvenile court. And as a practical matter, it's not clear they would serve more time if they were tried in an adult court."
Audrie's parents and stepmother, who have asked for privacy until a Monday news conference, started a foundation aimed at providing kids with music and art scholarships -- two of the great loves in their daughter's life. The Audrie Pott Foundation, at audriepottfoundation.com, also offers youth counseling and support.
Friday, someone from the foundation posted a message on its Facebook page stating, "We suspect that the boys who we believe are responsible for Audrie's death took deliberate steps to destroy evidence and interfere with the police investigation. If students have information about this crime, if they saw pictures or know anything that will assist in bringing these young men to justice, please come forward."
The sheriff's office declined to comment on the claim that evidence was destroyed.
"We know that the kids know what happened and we know parents have probably heard rumors," Vasquez said. "It's imperative parents sit down with their kids and have a discussion about what is known, and these kids should come forward if they have something. It is the responsible thing to do.
"What are you teaching your kids by having them clam up?"
Audrie had been bullied for a year or two before the Labor Day weekend party, Vasquez said, but could not say whether those incidents involved the same group of teens accused in the sexual assault.
"She had been bullied and it had been brought to the school's attention," Vasquez said. "Saratoga High School was aware that the parents had spoken to them about their daughter being bullied."
Two weeks after Audrie's death, Saratoga High School Principal Paul Robinson brushed off claims that bullying had anything to do with her suicide, a stance that has since been widely rebuffed. On Friday, Robinson deferred comment to the superintendent of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District.
Two recent cases involving cyber-bullying have made Audrie's death particularly resonant.
A judge last month convicted two Steubenville high school football players of raping a girl after an alcohol-fueled party in August 2012. The judge found both Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'lik Richmond, 16, delinquent by reason of rape and sentenced them to youth prison. Trent was also found guilty of taking and sending nude photos of the 16-year-old Weirton, W.Va., girl who was assaulted during a night of end-of-the-summer parties in August. The boys and the girl were drinking, and testimony indicated that the assault occurred while the girl was drunk and appeared to be passed out.
Seventeen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons of Halifax, Nova Scotia hanged herself last week, and was later taken off life-support, following months of bullying after she was sexually assaulted by four boys back in November 2011, and a photo of the alleged incident was distributed.
Audrie's parents want their daughter's case to become a model for an anti-bullying law bearing her name.
"Audrie's Law would address some of the things that happened here," Allard said. "There are two common elements here that are being repeated across the country -- sexual assault by an adolescent and the cyberbullying that follows."
Staff writers Mark Emmons, Erin Ivie and staff researcher Leigh Poitinger contributed to this report. Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga. Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869. Follow him at Twitter.com/MarkMGomez.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – Jerred Kite (San Antonio/Antonian Prep) is the latest addition to the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team for the 2012-13 season, it was announced today. Kite is enrolled in summer classes at the university and has begun participating with the team.
"Jerred is a young man with a great attitude and strong character," Head Coach Willis Wilson said. "It's going to take time for him to adjust physically to the college game, but he is a guy who will be a contributor for us down the line. There's a saying that you can't teach height, and he has plenty of that."
The 6-foot-10 forward played for the Apaches at Antonian College Preparatory High School under Head Coach Charlie Boggess, earning four varsity letters at the school. In his senior year, he averaged 11 points, 9.9 rebounds, 3.0 blocks and 2.0 assists per game. He posted his best game against Austin St. Michael's, delivering a triple-double with 13 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocks.
During his career at Antonian, he was named Newcomer of the Yearin TAPPS 2-5A (2009), Second Team All-District (2009-2011) and First Team All-District (2012). He helped the Apaches to the state finals in 2010 and 2012 and was named to the Academic Honor Roll three times (2009-2011).
The son of Raymond and Laurie Kite was born on Sept. 27, 1993, and has a younger brother, Jorden. He plans to major in Pre-Med Biology and is looking toward a future career as an orthodontist.

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As Colin has already said, we need a bit of luck today.
Our away form is so miserable you can not have a lot of confidence, but the Blackpool result should have given the team a lot more of that. We also seem to have made a lot more chances in that game and although we didn't take most of them, it is an encouraging sign.
I was at a meeting in the Bremner Suite on Thursday, and it was good to see a photo of Billy, sharing a room with Big Jack, lying in bed smoking his #$%$. Brought back very happy memories.
MOT and fingers crossed we go on another good run against the better teams over the next 4 matches.
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Chances not taken again, but I think the result sounds as though it was fair, and in all honesty I would have settled for a point before the match.
I would settle for any positive score Lotto with a clean sheet. We need to reduce the GD drastically if we are to compete for the play off's.
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Leeds must beat Millwall on saturday, a must win game at home clean sheets for next 3 matches if we are to make playoffs, all very tight in there at the moment. MOT whatever happens.


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The old '60s actionist troublemaker, mellowed by time it seems, triumphantly reappearing here with a (graphically) composed piece for 42 piece orchestra. Originally made for a 6-day event in 1998, this version was (very well) recorded in 2004. Though Hermann still talks in an Artaudian way about the scream, sado-masochism, warm entrails and accompanying ecstatic noise, this has more the sound of Brandt, Scelsi, Partch or Universe Symphony Ives. It is extremely coherent and highly unusual - strangely meditative and thoughtful. And it works stunningly well on a purely musical level. In fact few composers today make music so radical and interesting to my ear; partly perhaps because Nitch's approach, from the other side of the sensory divide, has given him an ear for the theatre of sound that is unhampered by conformism or rebellion or the opinion of his peers. This is a music free of the cul de sac that music has of late backed into. A breath of fresh air. In a threefold digipack with a 28pp book with scores and photographs printed on strong art board. Comes in a slipcase.L
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The trial involving an MCG doctor accused of causing a deadly head-on crash is delayed. Prosecutors say Mohammad Ali Bazadian was driving on the wrong side of the road and under the influence when he crashed into Brandon Layton's car. News 12 sat down with Layton's mother who says she has been waiting too long for the trial to begin.
"We just moved in a few months ago and I set Brandon's bedroom back up the same way it was at the home he grew up in," said Kathy Layton.
Kathy Layton says her world was crushed when her youngest child was killed. 18-year-old Brandon Layton never received his high school diploma. His mother Kathy Layton accepted it on his behalf.
"There's always going to be a hole in my heart forever," Kathy said.
On February 28, 2003, Brandon Layton was driving on River Watch Parkway. Prosecutors say Mohammad Ali Bazadian was driving under the influence on the wrong side of the road when he crashed head on into Brandon's car killing the 18-year-old high school senior. Kathy Layton remembers walking into her son's hospital room.
"I was told I couldn't touch him. I can't touch him because his body is evidence and will be taken to Atlanta for an autopsy. Bazadian also robbed me of holding my child one last time," Kathy said.
"He had that on Thursday the day before he died, I won't wash it," Kathy said.
Kathy has been waiting for justice for the past three years.
"I've been patient now for three years and I'm ready to go to court and get this over with so that I can close that chapter of it and hopefully begin to try and heal," Kathy said.
Kathy has dedicated her life to making sure Bazadian is put behind bars.
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At both libraries, the hours are 10-9 Mon.-Thurs., 10-5 Fri.-Sat. At Blue Bell only, we are open 1-4 Sun. (September - May)
How do I get to the Ambler Branch Library?
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How do I get a library card?
If you are a resident of Ambler Borough, Whitpain Township or Lower Gwynedd Township, fill out the library application and bring it with proof of address (driver's license, car insurance, rental lease or utility bill) to the library and we will give you a card. A child's (under the age of 18) application requires a parent or guardian's signature . The parent or guardian must present identification and proof of residence.
If you don't live in Ambler Borough, Whitpain Township or Lower Gwynedd Township, click here (http://www.montcopubliclibraries.org/montco_map.html) to see a map of Montgomery County Public Libraries. It will help you determine which library to contact to get a card. Once you have it, you can use it at WVPL.
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Come to the library and a circulation desk attendant can help you. Bring ID showing your current address.
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Blue Bell Branch: Mon. 10:30 AM, Wed. 4:30 PM, Fri. 10:30 AM, Ambler Branch: Tues. 10:30 AM, Thurs. 7 PM
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When I try and play flash videos(flv) on the PS3 they are the tsmuxer versions from transcode and they won't play. The mmplayer and ffmpeg versions in transmux play fine. I tried re-arranging the orfer of video codec's in media server but it doesnt' do any good. I have good video icons if that makes a difference. Other video formats are supported ok.
System is a duocore running Linux 12.04 completely current on all updates, Ps3 media server 1.71.0 current, my PS3 is completely current as of this date, 11/12. FLV's played ok before this software update and I do not recall txmuxer being shown in the video file names so that appears to be new.
I was also having a problem with PS3 media server once I ended it. It would not re-start without a re-boot of the system. I did some de-installing and re-installing of a lot of software including ffmpeg, mplayer and PMS and somehow magically the problem went away.
When I go to the transcode folder I can play the mplayer and FFmpeg versions of the videos but the tsmuxer version will not play. I get a black screen. If I click on the video from the file folder I get a format or maybe it was content not supproted message.
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The aim of this award is to support research training and research projects in the area of chromosome activities and their links to cancer. This includes (but is not limited to) research on mechanisms of DNA replication, repair, rearrangement and modification; transcription, splicing and RNA modification; chromatin structure and epigenetics; mitosis, chromosome segregation and instability; oncogenes and tumor suppressors; tumor initiation and progression; cell transformation, differentiation, apoptosis and senescence; cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, adhesion, migration and growth factors; and other areas of chromosome and cancer biology. Candidates pursuing research in other areas are encouraged to apply: fellowships will be awarded based on qualifications as well as relevance.
The trainee must be a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national, or have permanent resident status. NIH training grant funding guidelines stipulate that no individual trainee may receive more than 5 years of aggregate Kirschstein-NRSA support at the predoctoral level and 3 years of aggregate Kirschstein-NRSA support at the postdoctoral level, including any combination of support from Kirschstein-NRSA institutional research training grants and individual fellowships. Therefore, trainees who have already received this level of NIH funding are not eligible to apply for the training grant fellowships. Support from NIH research project grants awarded to faculty do not count towards the 3 year eligibility rule.
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The month-long schedule includes two-night engagements in New York City, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and, for the first time since the band reunited with their surprise show at the Showbox, they will be playing 2 shows in their hometown of Seattle.
The tour starts January 18 in Washington, DC and runs to February 16 in Los Angeles. - more on this story
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Welcome from the Dean
The Faculty of Education and Language Studies is an innovative and exciting place to work. Our staff are at the forefront of curriculum, research and pedagogic development, working with a range of collaborative partners across the world. This website offers you the opportunity to see our work and find out more about what we do. Whether you are looking for information on our teaching, wanting to work with us on collaborative projects, looking for opportunities for research or just browsing, we hope you find our site of help.
Professor Mary Kellett, Dean and Director of Studies
Our organisation
The Faculty of Education and Language Studies comprises four academic areas:
- Department of Education;
- Department of Languages;
- Department of Applied Linguistics and English Language
- Department of Childhood, Youth and Sport
Plus infrastructure and project management support through the Faculty Office and the Curriculum Management Office. The Faculty employs around 200 academic, administrative, secretarial and clerical staff at Milton Keynes and in OU regional centres throughout the United Kingdom.
Our work
The Faculty provides curriculum for four programme areas:
- Language Studies;
- Childhood, Youth and Education;
- Arts and Humanities;
- and Psychology.
In 2009/10 we had almost 29,000 registered students, covering ten degrees, including four Foundation Degrees. Around half of these were studying languages, linguistics and English language, with the most popular areas for study in French, Spanish, Children's Literature. Other very popular subject areas include child psychology, early years and primary support. We are also the foremost provider of distance teacher education in the UK and have built on this expertise to pursue the Open University's mission in the developing world with projects such as the Queen's Anniversary prize-winning Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Faculty hosts a multidisciplinary research centre, the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technologies (CREET), which is one of the leading education research units in the UK. CREET pursues and develops research within the themes of childhood and youth studies, education studies, language and literacies and technology enhanced learning.
Partnerships are very important to both FELS and CREET, given the close relationship between theory and practice in our subject specialisms and the vocational nature of much of our curriculum. See the Our Work section and the Collaborate with Us section for more details of how partnership with the Faculty might be able to help you achieve your aims.


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We are a full-service advertising agency with a history of creating powerful emotional connections to brands. In creating these connections we do more than make our clients' brands top of mind for their target. We find soul mates for our clients' brands.
We are able to achieve this because we don't use a rational approach to sell a brand, but rather emotion to make people want to share ownership for that brand. Such emotional bonds can rekindle the love customers once had for a brand, attract new enthusiasts, motivate employees and reinforce existing loyalists.
Our enemy is complacency, mediocrity and the conventional. We rally against the ordinary and hold sacred the power of inspiration: to transform, to instigate, to delight, to create devotion.
Unlike most great creative agencies, Carmichael Lynch owns and operates a sister public relations firm, Carmichael Lynch Spong, that has achieved Agency of the Year honors from PRWeek, Holmes Report and PRNews trade magazines. For many of our clients, Carmichael Lynch works hand-in-glove with Carmichael Lynch Spong, which is regarded as the undisputed champion of best practices in public relations with few PR firms winning more awards for their work nationally.
Evereve, a national brand dedicated to empowering moms through fashion, has selected Carmichael Lynch and its public relations division Spong as the red-hot clothing retailer's integrated agency of record (AOR). Work will begin immediately and will include brand planning, advertising, public relations, social engagement and digital marketing. The decision comes after a competitive review.
"Our winning contenders showed a deep understanding of the powerful role fashion can play in a mom's life," said Megan Tamte, co-founder and CEO of Evereve. "Their unmatched passion and distinctive creative and integrated service offerings will help us continue to share our mission of inspiring every mom to embrace her beauty and power."
"Evereve has an amazing brand story that needs telling, and of course, we love the chance to help strengthen our fellow moms who are shaping the world," said Julie Batliner, president of Spong and a managing partner at Carmichael Lynch.
This partnership is Evereve's biggest marketing investment to-date as the company continues to expand its presence nationwide, as well as through its e-commerce site and Trendsend, an online styling service.
About Evereve
Evereve, co-founded 11 years ago by Megan and Mike Tamte, is a casual contemporary women's clothing boutique dedicated to styling the fashion-loving mom. As one of the fastest growing retailers in the U.S., Evereve operates 68 stores in 22 states, supported by a team of over 1,000 uniquely trained stylists who are committed to the company's mission of inspiring moms to realize their beauty and power. Evereve can also be found online at www.evereve.com and www.trendsend.com. Trendsend, Evereve's fast-growing online styling service, is accessible 24/7 to moms who prefer Evereve stylists to handpick and mail outfits to them without leaving home.


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Dust off those boots and binoculars and prepare for a walking
adventure like no other when you book a Horton-in-Ribblesdale
cottage! This charming village is known far and wide as the
starting point of the challenging Three Peaks Walk.
Indeed, this part of Ribblesdale is often just called Three
Peaks, an affectionate term describing the famous mountain tops of
Pen-y-ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside. Each one deserves at least
a day's attention, though the real test is to complete the
gruelling 24.5 miles across all three peaks in one day! Expect
spectacular views across limestone pavements, rock scars and wild
moorland. The Pennine Way also passes through the village, while
cyclists and fell runners add to the air of outdoor adventure.
Such craggy terrain brings with it a labyrinth of underground
surprises, too, and if you're into caving or potholing,
you're in for a visual treat. And whether you stay above or
below ground, welcoming cafés and historic coaching inns
satisfy any cravings for wholesome food and drink.
Sightsee by train from your Horton-in-Ribblesdale cottage!
Less energetic ways to soak up the scenery from your
Horton-in-Ribblesdale cottage include a trip aboard the
Settle-Carlisle Railway, unquestionably one of the UK's most
picturesque lines with magnificent views of those ever-looming
Three Peaks.
Along your travels, look out for flora, fauna and wildlife -
tiny flowers and fossils in the limestone crags; curlew, lapwing,
grouse; even hare and fox.
And on Tuesdays, don't miss Settle's bustling market - a
great way to stock up with local provisions for your
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Following much anticipation, college football Hall of Famer and 1990 Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer announced the three finalists for this year's Heisman Trophy race tonight on ESPN's 6:00PM EST edition of SportsCenter. On behalf of The Heisman Trophy Trust, Detmer revealed the gridiron stars in contention for the prestigious 78th Annual Heisman Memorial Trophy are Kansas State University quarterback Collin Klein, Texas A&M University quarterback Johnny Manziel, and University of Notre Dame middle linebacker Manti Te'o.
The three finalists will be invited to New York for the live Heisman Trophy announcement on Saturday, December 8, airing on ESPN at 8:00PM EST, presented by Nissan North America. Each finalist would be accomplishing a notable first as the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner: first from Kansas State, first freshman, or first true defensive player to ever be named the year's outstanding college football player.
Klein would be the first Kansas State Wildcat to win the Heisman Trophy. Klein passed for 2,490 yards and 15 touchdowns and rushed for 890 yards and 22 touchdowns. The senior holds the Football Bowl Subdivision record of the most rushing touchdowns in two seasons, totaling at 49 between 2011 and 2012. Klein ranks second in Kansas State history for scoring with 336 points and third in career yards with 7,028.
Manziel would be the first-ever freshman Heisman Trophy winner. Hailing from Texas A&M, the young quarterback passed for 3,419 yards and 24 touchdowns. He also rushed for 1,181 yards and 19 touchdowns. Manziel is the first quarterback in SEC history, and only the fifth player ever in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision, to have 3,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in the same season. Upon surpassing 4,600 yards, he set a new SEC record for total yards in a season. Manziel holds a Texas A&M record of logging eight straight games with 300 or more total yards.
Te'o would be the first true defensive player to ever win the award, joining seven previous Notre Dame players as a Heisman Trophy winner. This season, Te'o helped lead the Fighting Irish to an undefeated season with 101 tackles, of which 46 were solo tackles to bring down his opponent; he ranks third in Notre Dame history for career tackles at 427. Te'o amassed a school-record of seven interceptions in his third-straight 100+ tackle season.
The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity. An electorate comprised of 928 sports journalists and every living former Heisman winner determines the finalists and winner. Included in the electorate is one overall fan vote, an opportunity supported by Nissan North America, Heisman's Premier Partner.
"It has been an especially exciting race this year and we are excited to welcome the three finalists to New York for a remarkable weekend they will not soon forget," said Robert Whalen, Executive Director of The Heisman Trophy Trust. "The Heisman Memorial Trophy is college football's most esteemed award and its past winners make up of some of the world's most elite athletes. We're looking forward to honoring the newest winner this weekend."
Tickets are still available for the 78th Annual Heisman Memorial Trophy Dinner on Monday, December 10 at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square. The winner will be presented with his award at this event, where three former Heisman winners will also be recognized: Terry Baker (Oregon State, 1962) on the 50th Anniversary of his award, Tim Brown (Notre Dame, 1987) on the 25th Anniversary of his award, and Carson Palmer (USC, 2002) on the 10th Anniversary of his award. The Trust will also recognize NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon as the 2012 Heisman Humanitarian Award winner for his continued efforts to support children battling cancer.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.heisman.com or by calling The Heisman Trophy Trust at (212) 425-7000. Only ticketed guests will be permitted at the event.


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Family Friendly Getaways:
Disney World
With rates lower then ever at the one of the most entertaining places in the U.S., why not gather up the whole family for some fun in the sun at Disney World? With rooms starting at $74 a night, you don't have to break your pocketbook, and … you just might have some fun yourself! Order a free vacation planning guide to plan your family getaway. For other great offers and more information, visit the Walt Disney World Resort online.
If you find yourself on the West Coast, why not visit Disney World's counterpart, Disneyland? With all the fantastical elements that Disney World offers, Disneyland is sure to entice the young and the young at heart. Start planning your trip today!
Busch Gardens
With two separate locations in Williamsburg, VA and Tampa Bay, FL, there are adventures and other worlds to explore at Busch Gardens. See what adventures await you and find out more!
Tucked away among the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, Dolly Parton's Great Smoky Mountain Family Amusement Park is sure to bring some fun for the entire family! Learn more about this hot family spot destination!
Shedd Aquarium - Chicago
Discover all the amazing things under the sea, at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, IL. The whole family will have encounters with deep sea turtles, sharks; you can even explore the Amazon! Start planning your trip today!
Getaways for Two:
Take a Cruise
Escape for a few days or a week on a cruise! Travel to destinations like Hawaii, the Caribbean, Mexico, and St. Thomas, all while enjoying the amenities and entertainment aboard a luxurious cruise ship. Visit one of the links below for more information:
Go Camping
Visit one of the many national parks around the U.S. and enjoy the great outdoors! Whether it's for a weekend or a week, it's sure to bring great conversation and relaxation! Find a park near you!
Find Some Time for Two
Find the perfect romantic getaway that's right for you! Simply check your region and city, and Time for Two does the work for you! Find out more and to find the perfect getaway for you and your loved one.
Staying In and On a Budget:
Get Crafty
If you're not traveling this summer, get crafty! Indoors or outdoors, young or old, crafts are a sure way to keep you busy and entertained for the summer! Here are some craft ideas the whole family will enjoy!
Indoor Treasure Hunt
Have an indoor Treasure Hunt! Gather up coins or small knickknacks and hide them throughout your house. Make a sheet of what's 'hiding', give everyone a time limit, and then start hunting! The person, who finds the most objects, wins an ice cream sundae!
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The last episode closed on a cliffhanger as the final two "Top Chef" contestants -- Brooke Williamson and Sheldon Simeon -- were joined by the victor of "Last Chance Kitchen," Bravo's brilliant web-only spinoff. As tonight's finale (part I) opens, we're about to discover who it is -- Kristen Kish or San Francisco's Lizzie Binder.
Fast forward six months since that Alaskan episode -- whoa, seriously? -- and Sheldon and Brooke are getting ready for the finale. We see Sheldon in Hawaii, in his restaurant and barbecuing at the beach with his adorable family, and Brooke in Los Angeles with her sous chef-husband and son and at her restaurant, where she's making a pig ear salad. Ahem.
The finale will go down at Tom Colicchio's Craft restaurant in Los Angeles, where they're joined by "Last Chance Kitchen" champion Kristen. (Aww, Lizzie! But we can still vote for Lizzie for fan favorite by tweeting #ChefLizzie, so that's good.)
The challenge: Running the dinner service at Craft, which opens in three hours. Sheldon says the spot prawns in the big walk-in refrigerator are talking to him, maybe with quail. Kristen is doing tuna. And Brooke is overwhelmed by choices, but she's leaning toward short ribs and sweetbreads. There's plenty of teasing in the kitchen, particularly between Kristen and Sheldon, who joke about "falling into Tom's baby blue eyes."
But everyone is nervous. "I'm sweating in places I didn't think I could sweat," Kristen says.
Dinner time
Colicchio is expediting in the kitchen, while Padma shmoozes with Emeril Lagasse, Hugh Acheson, Martin Yan and John Besh. The first courses include Sheldon's spot prawns in a delicate broth, Kristen's chestnut veloute and duck rillette, and Brooke's salad with sweetbreads, kumquats and beets.
Brooke is melting down in the kitchen. "It's a bad day to have a bad day," she says, when Colicchio makes her toss a plate that has gotten cold.
"Tom expediting is frightening," Kristen says.
The entrees follow: Kristen's ahi with Meyer lemon puree, Brooke's braised short ribs with nettles and Parmesan sauce, and Sheldon's roasted quail and pine nuts.
"Overall, this is not Sheldon, it's someone else who has put on Sheldon's hat," Hugh says. "I want the old Sheldon."
Martin Yan loves Brooke's brown butter cake with whipped goat cheese and blackberries, complimenting the balance of "the yin and yang." "Did you just say 'the yin and Yan'?" Besh asks him.
Reviews are mixed for Kristen's chocolate with curry cashew and Sheldon's white chocolate mousse with apple and fennel.
Judges table
The judges go through the dishes, praising and critiquing. Padma has gotten a lot feistier over the seasons, hasn't she? She's pretty fierce in her critiques, while Hugh goes for the quips every time. The judges discuss each dish and each cheftestant, the pros and cons.
Colicchio compliments Brooke's food for being complex, but "never showy." This time, however, she got way behind in the kitchen. He tells Sheldon "all season long you put together some dishes that were new and exciting." By going in a different direction at the finale -- with quail -- "You lost yourself a little back there." And Kristen "played it a little safe," he says.
Aww, Sheldon is out. Padma tells him to pack his knives and go. Sheldon makes a gracious exit speech, leaving Brooke and Kristen to duke it out in the final challenge.
Next week: The final challenge goes down in front of a live audience and a new chef is crowned Top Chef.


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News 12 at 6 O'Clock, December 3, 2007
AUGUSTA, Ga.---The year was 1957. Eisenhower was President. America was in a space race with the Soviets. Teenagers named Lennon and McCartney were just getting acquainted in Liverpool. And a young man in Augusta was just beginning his career in local television.
That man is Charles Moody, and the station is WRDW-TV, "Augusta's Tall 12" as it was known back then. Charles remembers being star-struck pretty early in his career.
"Well, the first thing that impressed me the second or third day- there's Bing Crosby doing a radio show in our studio, from Augusta of all places- and here I am, 20 years old."
We found some old black and white pictures of the studio crew from back then. You can see Charles in the middle, leaning on the camera. The man seated in the middle is Jim Davis who used to anchor the news here.
"Only 50 years?" Jim asked. "Hard to believe it's not 75 or 100. But we're still pretty young looking."
50 years in television and all of it at the same station. That's something worth celebrating. The News 12 family turned out to honor Charlie Moody for a half century of service. That includes a proclamation from Mayor Deke Copenhaver. He named December 3, 2007 Charlie Moody day in Augusta.
Fifty years is a long time in any profession--but just think of the changes Charles Moody has seen. From black and white to color to high definition.
When Charles started working here, all of our programs were done live.
"We did not have videotape," Charles said. "Everything was live in the studio."
That includes the commercials.
"Jim Davis used to do commercials in front of a jewelry set, Lee Sheridan used to do chinchilla commercials--with live chinchillas. So, we did everything."
And so it's only fitting that instead of a gold watch, the station's general manager, John Ray, gave Charlie a very old Polaroid camera. Probably one of the very ones Charles used to use at the station. He also got a very new flat screen TV to take home with him.
And there's one thing more: when Charlie comes back to work in the morning, he'll be walking into the same old studio, but with a brand new name. The sign above the door now reads "The Charles Moody Studio."
Charlie Moody is the kind of pro you hope you get to work with at least once in every career. How lucky we are that he decided to spend his whole career here with us.


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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that has love in the air, or at least in the air at Loveland Ski Area.
Eighty-eight couples attended Thursday's 22nd annual Mountaintop Matrimony event at Loveland to tie the knot and renew their vows. One couple even came all the way from New South Whales, Australia!
It's a Loveland tradition to have a mass wedding among these hardy folk who dare to get hitched while the snow flies all around. It all happens at Ptarmigan Roost Cabin, 12,050 feet above sea level. Five inches of snow fell during the ceremony, making for the perfect wedding gift! For some, anyway. Like those guys shredding it up above.


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Some would say 3D desktops are useless fluff; some swear by them. This article gives you an overview of today's 3D desktop options, and how they can help you be more productive.
Barring that, you can still brag about your top-notch computer in front of those poor Aero Glass-limited friends of yours.
Beryl and Compiz are two sides of the same coin: in fact, Beryl is a fork of Compiz, headed towards glitz and shiny stuff, while Compiz tries to become as stable as possible.
Beryl and Compiz are two sides of the same coin
Recently though, Compiz reached a stage where it was stable enough to start adding nice stuff; since Beryl hasn't progressed that far away from Compiz yet, the two projects are currently attempting to merge back together. The core system will be a modified Compiz, some basic plugins will be linked to it, but stuff like Beryl's plugin manager, themes manager, several plugins and the configuration panel may remain.
What hardware do you need?
Essentially, any video card that has working 3D under Xorg may work. I'll give you some details, manufacturer by manufacturer.
There are two drivers for ATI/AMD cards: the free Xorg
radeon driver, and the proprietary
fglrx one.
radeon—free, default
- supports all r100 and r200 chip families fully; r300 is very well supported too. r400 and more recent are touchy at best
- performance is best when using the latest Mesa CVS snapshot, and a kernel version 2.6.18 or better.
- AIGLX supported—preferred option.
fglrx—proprietary, extra install
- latest version supports r300, r400 and r500 chip families.
- XGL is the only option.
Option "Composite" "disabled"needs to be set manually in
Basically, the same as ATI/AMD's offer: free and proprietary
nv and nouveau—free
No 3D yet, plain and simple.
- The nv driver is maintained by NVIDIA and supports their whole range of hardware on all platforms, but it's 2D only.
- The nouveau driver is based on nv for 2D, but has seen EXA and DRI support added and is adding 3D support. However, it doesn't support textures yet; it is still very much experimental.
96.xx and 100.x: for Geforce2MX (96.xx up to Geforce 4, 100.x from Geforce FX up) to Geforce8, support for AIGLX, Xorg ABI 1.0 and accelerated
GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap. The different driver versions may indicate a focus on programmable shaders depending on the hardware.
There is an annoying bug under Beryl with drivers 96.xx and more recent: when you fill up the frame buffer, all subsequent windows (or dialogues) will appear black. This is caused by Beryl's use of an NVIDIA specific rendering method; forcing Beryl to use AIGLX will fix the bug, at least on driver versions 97.55 and 100.14.03, with the price of a slight reduction in performance depending mainly on frame buffer size:
- 32MB: forget about this fix, it's slow as molasse.
- 64MB: with a screen that isn't too big (1024x768), you can consider it. You may want to disable triple buffering too.
- 128MB or more: go for it.
As far as I know, Compiz doesn't use the NVIDIA rendering method and thus doesn't fall for the bug.
Options for
xorg.conf in the "Screen" section:
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true" makes window borders work.
Option "TripleBuffer" "true" gives more fluid graphics
Driver is in Xorg, Mesa and Linux DRM trunks, supported directly by Intel; it works out of the box. No notable bugs, full support—except for the long forgotten i740. i810 to i965 work well now.
There are two sources: Matrox-published source code for g100 to g550, and rewritten Xorg code. The latter is usually preferred.
3D should work, and AIGLX is supported; however, both drivers are quite buggy and your experience may vary. My advice: try AIGLX then XGL on the free driver first, before you attempt to compile the Matrox sources.
Except the 730 Sis family which has a working free 3D driver, they are not worth mentioning. This may change, but don't hold your breath.
The software itself: Compiz or Beryl?
Compiz is essentially the basis of Beryl, the latter being supplemented with plugins; as it stands though, most of the plugins developed for Beryl are either extensions upon Compiz's set, or brand new ones. Since studying Compiz's plugin means looking at a "cut-rate" but much more stable subset of Beryl's own set, we'll study Beryl's plugins and say how they are common with Compiz's when needed.
The standard package
Essentially, Beryl is a compositing window manager—meaning that clients (applications) connected to it send full windows to it and Beryl does what it can to display them on screen. Beryl alone merely handles windows, that's it. The first subset of plugins are windows movement, positioning, and resizing. Can be added, border snapping, window switcher, window attributes, scaling. This set of plugins bring it up to par with the best "classical" WM out there.
Now that you can move your windows, you need to decorate them: add borders, a window title, buttons... That's a job for the window decorator. Beryl comes with its own, called Emerald, which allows you to choose whatever theme you want; these usually come as mock-ups of other OSes' interfaces, with added transparencies, gradients, etc., or completely new ones. It allows the use of Compiz themes too.
However, you can make use of your native environment's themes with window decorators such as Aquamarine for KDE or Heliodor for GNOME, which replace your environment's decorator while retaining its themes—with improvements such as linear gradients in translucency applied to inactive windows, and drop shadows. This makes it much less jarring when switching Beryl on and off too (figures 1 and 2).
You can make use of your native environment's themes. This makes it much less jarring when switching Beryl on and off
The most well-known thing about Compiz and Beryl is the cube. Essentially replacing virtual desktops for GNOME or making a single desktop 4 times larger than before, the Cube plugin is probably the core of most further plugins (figure 3).
Other plugins include "fade to desktop" which allows fast access to the desktop, and cube cloning.
Lastly, a trigger (some distributions use F12, others use a small screen area) allows all windows to be arrayed in a mosaic on the desktop, allowing you to choose the new active window in a snap (figure 4).
Differences with Compiz
The following plugins are very specific to Beryl:
The window switcher has a secondary mode, called ring mode (figure 5), that displays small captures of opened windows in a 3D carousel. The window scaling and snap to border may not be part of Compiz's standard array of plugins either.
Beryl adds upon it by increasing windows sense of depth (figure 3 again): you can set all windows to stack "closer" to you, giving a better view of them—you can even make them thick instead of paper thin. It is useful when the desktop is cluttered and you use free rotation to see what's behind on top of giving a better "feel" for the desktop, but other than that it's pure glamour.
Animations allow you to apply different effects to different actions made to a window: minimize like a genie getting back in its bottle (figure 6), or fold the window, fade it out (several variants)...
Deformations are common with Compiz's "jelly" window behaviour. Funny at first, it gets really annoying really fast.
Blur effects are also available. Pure glamour, it allows you to emulate some of Vista's AeroGlass effects. Heavy in resources and pretty useless, I recommend you deactivate these.
Some extra plugins allow you to doodle on screen, water effects, splash screens..
A very useful accessibility is the interactive zoom plugin: with it, you can instantly magnify a portion of the screen. Content stays editable. Another useful thing when, say, typing a document, is the ability to see in transparency what is under the window. This is, for example, priceless when describing a full-screen image in a text editor without having to switch from one to the other all the time.
Some extra plugins allow you to doodle on screen (figure 8), make a screen copy, give water effects, get a splash screen, window previews (useful for minimized apps—see figure 6) and a benchmark.
Image management allows you to decide what images will be supported by Beryl: PNG, JPEG and SVG support allow you to put images on the top or bottom of the cube.
Differences between Beryl and Compiz
The nicest thing added to Beryl compared with Compiz, is the Beryl manager—which allows you to change stuff such as operational modes for Beryl, what WM is in use, what window decorator is used, what plugins are active, and allows you to start the Emerald theme manager. You can also import Compiz's options; Beryl can either store its data in GNOME's gconf "hive" or in a flat file. On Compiz's side, you need to use
gset-compiz—which is quite a bit less entertaining—to set it up, on top of a GNOME hive.
On Compiz's side, you need to use `gset-compiz`—which is quite a bit less entertaining—to set it up on top of a GNOME hive
The Beryl manager allows you to do away completely with command lines such as
compiz --replace and also allows a backup WM to be loaded if Beryl crashes (this can be done through a plugin too). It is also quite handy to disable 3D use when starting a full-screen game, when the 3D driver won't allow hardware video overlays (making video a tad choppy) or to start the theme manager without having to hunt for it. It, moreover, dispenses you with configuring start-up scripts to engage 3D mode, as it will start with the latest WM active when it was shut down—starting Beryl-manager can thus start Beryl automatically too.
Most (if not all) of these plugins have several options that are activated by triggers (usually, key sequences, but also screen areas or timers) that can be set up in Beryl Setting manager (figure 9).
Personally, I prefer to associate most of them with the "Super" key plus a sequence (the "Super" key is usually the Windows logo key in the keyboard, but could be the Apple or Command key on a Mac) such as:
- Super + mouse wheel: interactive zooming
- Super + mouse click (hold): free cube spinning
- Super + left/right/up/down: snap to cube face
- Super + Alt: doodle mode
- Super + Tab: ring window chooser
- Alt + mouse wheel: window transparency
These don't normally interfere with GNOME's hotkeys, but you are free to choose.
What else?
GNOME vs. KDE
While the two environments can be mixed and mashed to a great extend, due to Compiz having been developed primarily for use with GNOME, integration with KDE is a bit more troublesome. As such, you'll have much more success making both Compiz and Beryl work nicely with GNOME than with KDE; note that due to its ability to store settings in a flat file, Beryl doesn't need GNOME as much as Compiz does.
Under KDE, you won't get virtual desktops anymore, only a very wide desktop split in four (default number of faces for the cube).
Graphical bugs may also occur more frequently under KDE than under GNOME—it is getting less frequent though.
While you can ask Beryl and Compiz not to redirect full screen applications to textures, the abundance of ways to get an application full screen often result in this setting being inefficient. In that case you frequently need to switch off Compiz/Beryl.
Hardware video overlays are the best way to get video on screen flicker-free and save on CPU time; such an overlay allows the card to receive a YUV chain of images and does the YUV to RGB conversion on the fly. The overlay doesn't use the frame buffer but has a dedicated share of memory—this is why making screen capture of a video overlay results in a black or solid colour-keyed rectangle—and this also causes the video to not follow the cube's rotation or windows scaling.
Note: NVIDIA binary drivers do software redirection; when an overlay is created in 3D mode, said overlay becomes virtual and is sent as a texture—making those following the cube's rotation, at the price of a very slight flickering. Cards with programmable shaders can still accelerate the YUV to RGB conversion, as such CPU use doesn't go up a lot.
Compiz and Beryl concentrate on the desktop; as such, window planes are always parallel to the cube's face to which they are linked. Other 3D managers don't always use the same philosophy, which leads us to...
Some other compositing window managers
Project Looking Glass was the first such 3D desktop worth its name; it allowed you to stack windows, and to rotate them on their X, Y and Z coordinates.
More recently, a French project took up the same principle of acting on the windows: it is called Metisse (figure 10), and is right now available in Mandriva 2007.1 Spring and others such as Ubuntu and Fedora.
The interest is that the desktop gets a real depth in Metisse: windows are really in 3D, and you can interact with them when they are turned. The prerequisite are the same: some 3D hardware, the ability for the X server to do compositing. Metisse also provides a window manager and a decorator.
Windows are really in 3D, and you can interact with them when they are turned
Please note that for now, no extra plugins have been created: you have to turn and fold the windows yourself and set the transparency level manually. However, pre-recorded behaviours could include stacking the windows on a side of the screen, putting them in a real carousel for window switching, make them spin away, or even rolling them so as to see only a few lines at a time—or magnifying those same few lines.
While still very much eye-candy oriented, several uses can stem from the extended options a compositing window manager provides, and 3D acceleration makes it very smooth while at the same time unloading the CPU from window management tasks. As such, even if you end up using only a few options from the plethora available to you, there is still something to gain in tinkering with those environments.
Mandriva's Metisse page.
The latest version of my 3D driver matrix.
The NVIDIA forum page that yielded the black windows bug workaround.
Very nice article.
I liked this article a lot. I have messed with Beryl quite a bit, and Compiz a fair amount. This is a good "top level" introductory article. I especially enjoyed the lack of any competitive tone, something that's hard to find in tech articles these days.
And now, I need to go check out Metisse! :)
Very good
It's great to see a good walk through like this that details the actual hardware used to get these results.
Beryl and Compiz have merged
See http://dev.beryl-project.org/~cyberorg/beryl/36/compiz-fusion-arrives/
Beryl and Compiz
being a non-technical person, i find it very difficult to install the open source software.... though i may have interest in using it... what is the reason for not having installation package which would make it more encouraging to use these software.
I would love to hear suggestions in this regard.
This is experimental
This is experimental software and not intended for general use. It will be harder to install in the meantime. Much experimental software for Windows or OS/X is just the same.
Most modern desktop Linux systems have a completely GUI software installation system: you select the software from a list in a program, click 'INSTALL' and type in your password. In many cases you can also just double-click on a package to install it.
Tip: When you see a file ending in .gz or .tar it probably means you have to compile it.
I've recently become a fan
I've recently become a fan of this 'composting manager' stuff. We'll see about productivity... but I love the way it looks!
Compiz is installed and enabled by default in Linux Mint 4.0. I also found you could install the latest PCLinuxOS and type 'beryl-manager' in a terminal window and it would start Beryl.
That's pretty friendly! You just have to have a supported video card.
Debian based distros, like Ubuntu and Mint, use Synaptic package manager.
Even without the package manager, if you download a .deb file (or .rpm for RedHat style packages) and double click, it usually runs the default package installer utility.
That's pretty friendly!
Being free, Linux is not quite as 'polished' as an OS supported by the country's richest man.
But it's good. Very good!
Remember, you didn't learn your current OS in a day. Give it some time :)
Liked your page but really good to mention that if you use the 'doodle' function!
you erase it by using "super + alt + k"
I must have spent 45 minutes tracking that down!
Take care.
The Eraser
Well, when you want to use the Doodle plugin (or any other plugin, for that matter), it's a good thing to look at its default settings - because the key combos can change from one distribution to the other, so super+alt+k may not work for everybody.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.
Personally I think there
Personally I think there should be an option for cube/multi-faceted windows instead of/or as well as cube desktop, so you can spin one window around in a cube, so multi-window applications dont take up a lot of space, like a firefox cube... or dodecahedron XD, and even allowing you to group different applications into one multi-face window as well, I'd prefer that to 3D cube desktop, it'd be more useful to me, when they have that, thats when I'll use a 3D desktop :)
That's a good idea BUT...
...I'm not sure Compiz/Beryl/Fusion is the right WM for that; more than likely, it's something Metisse would handle better.
Submit the idea to the devs, you may get what you wished for.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.
Thanks for the post. It
Thanks for the post. It would be useful to know if 3D desktops offer any advantages to 2D desktops productivity wise. I have been using Linux for about a decade now and with it virtual desktops which I find invaluable. Do 3D desktops help improve work efficiency?
Hi, what is super, as in super + mouse ?
The Super key - explanation
PC keyboards oribinally had 88 keys. It was then extended to 101 (the numpad's dual functionalities were separated, and we got arrow keys, etc.), and when Windows 95 came out, Microsoft 'created' an extended keyboard with two 'Windows' keys and a list key (creating the current 104-key keyboard layout).
However, Apple already had, with the Macintosh, a similar number of keys with a very similar layout - and two 'Apple' keys.
Since X, Gnome, KDE etc. also run on Macs, it was impractical to refer to those different keys separately (no way you'd get an 'apple' key on the same keyboard as a 'windows' key), and on the other hand, it would have been unfair to call it the 'Windows' or 'Apple' key' (asking Mac users to use the 'Windows' key was akin to asking them to cut their own finger).
The solution was to give these keys the same name - and the chosen name was 'Super'.
I think Sun hardware (with Solaris) also have an extra function key, and it is used as such too.
In short, the 'super' key refers to that extra key on your keyboard that represents the major OS for your architecture.
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Anyway, these guys just rocked. Fun, energetic, loose. I don't remember much of the details, but firmly remember the Sweet Up & Down closer. SU&D was a DMB song that got scrapped (a damn good tune), and hadn't been played or heard from in over 3 years. So for them to bust into it here....I basically lost my shit. Started going crazy and freaking out. Good stuff!
The encore was exactly what it looks like: Dave took a couple lines in Gin, and the entire arena sang the guitar line from the Gin solo. Fun experience. Then the whole band came out and dropped the Zeppelin cover, which basically brought the house down. Trey teased Gin right at the beginning of Fool In the Rain, which even my fledgling Phish ears picked up.
I doubt I'd like this show much these days. I don't plan on ever relistening to it. But when it happened, I thought it was one of the finer shows I'd seen, and I can see now that it captures my musical life at an interesting time: 6 months later I would all but swear off DMB for good and move towards Phish. 18 months later, I was a true Phish Phan. And we of course know that this change occurred just in time for me to not be able to see any Phish shows due to the break-up. Thank god for the reunion!


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Today's letters: Let's speak up
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To the editor: In community decision-making, i.e. politics, there is often a disconnect between complaining and effective action. This was illustrated here recently in the case of education budget cuts that will affect teacher assistants, among others.
Reacting to Bruce Bensons May 18 column concerning education cuts, there was an unusually high number of online comments, more than 30. The overwhelming number were opposed to these cuts. It is gratifying that so many citizens are willing to support public education generously.
However, are these citizens just complaining or taking effective action? Several days ago, I received Rep. Chuck McGradys Raleigh newsletter. Here is an excerpt: While I met with two educators two weekends ago, except for that meeting, Ive not had any recent meetings or requests for meetings from Henderson County residents to talk about the education budget. What has been surprising to me is how little input Ive gotten from my constituents about the part of the budget that I actually have some ability to influence .
Only citizens that are heard can make changes. Surely educators and parents want to meet with the people who divide the money. And by the way, Sen. Tom Apodaca is home, too.
Eva L. Ritchey
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To the editor: It would appear that the IRS is being accused of the heinous crime of scrutinizing the tea party. Considering the amount of dark money being firehosed into this and other conservative organizations, scrutiny is something I approve of.
Weve yet to see any evidence that the IRS has unfairly acted against any organization. I am inclined to believe the IRS is not at fault in this instance, anyway.
It is interesting to note how much the tea party and the Occupy movement had in common at first. Both were aghast at the bank bailouts and endless wars that jacked the national debt beyond reason. The media initially portrayed the tea party as a bunch of racist rednecks and Occupy as dirty hippies. But then the aforementioned dark money started pouring in, and they became not so similar.
When was the last time a tea partyer got pepper sprayed? Or the tea party was infiltrated and subverted by the FBI and Homeland Security? Or arrested under questionable legality?
If three tea partyers meet on a street corner, the media is all over it. But if hundreds show up at an Occupy-related event, there is almost no acknowledgment at all.
Damn that liberal news media.
Tim Blaes
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Just been knocked out AET to Sporting Lisbon in the Quarter Finals: 1-2 @ HT, went up to 1-3 at 65 mins, got it back to 3-3 for FT with Sporting getting another 2 in the first half of ET. Sounds like an exciting match, and there's no shame in getting knocked out at this stage to Lisbon. Wish I'd gone along, it was at the O's ground and only a fiver.
Interestingly (well, I think...) English teams gone through are Chelsea and Aston Villa(!), with Arsenal to play theirs next week.
Future's looking bright for our young'uns: there's this, we're leading the 'Elite Group' U21 League by 4 points (in second are Man U), and have 9 players in U21 or lower international teams (U21s: 1 Germany, 1 Scotland, 4 England, 2 U19s and 1 U17s), including this in training from Tommy Carroll (wonder goal's pushing it, but it's a good'un): http://www.givemefootball.com/335961-video-tottenham-star-scores-training-ground-wonder-goal-on-england-u21-duty
I just posted about our U21 game vs Arsenal being on Monday & free entry, & how it's being backed by the "1882 Movement", and it's gone! Rubbish.
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