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BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. BBEdit transforms text with high performance.
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I use this for virtually everything I write in natural language, quite apart from code. It is simply the most powerful editing environment available, and this is coming from a decades long Emacs user.
I find Coda is friendlier for my site-oriented coding, and there is a native programming environment I use for an exotic language. But BBedit is capable of being a code editor for your own domain specific language.
BBEdit is a text manipulation tool not just an editor.
I still can't believe they charge $125 for this. I'm a recent mac convert, and have been using UltraEdit 32 (Win) for about 8 years. It's an amazing app, and my biggest regret in leaving windows. Ok, it's my only regret. It's THAT good. And the price recently went up from $35 to $50.
This is more than double that, but I've used the demo, and it's DEFINITELY not more than twice as good.
Flame me for trying to put a price on productivity, but from my perspective, which I just presented, there is enough evidence for me to call this grossly overpriced.
you might think it's crazy to spend over $100 on a TEXT editor, of all things, but BBEdit is worth every penny to anyone who writes code, writes websites, or has to process a lot of text files. If you don't need the heavy lifting, then TextWrangler is free and very very good. But BBEdit is better, so when you find you need it, get it. You won't regret it. And the move from TW will be totally painless.
Great little app. You can get others that do the same for free, but this has a very powerful set of tools in it (eg ordering list, completing tags, spellcheck, find-replace, css validator etc etc
I have been moving over to TextMate recently as it has some nce new features still missing from BBEdit and has a much nicer look and feel more in keeping with the OS. But secretly I hope the next version of BBEdit kicks it's ass, as I have always loved it since I started developing using way back in vewrsion 4.6 I think it was.
Brilliant Applescript support, also look at http://c-command.com/bbautocomplete/ for a free addon
Sorry for the caps, but this is good. TextWrangler is the free version of BBEdit. If you download it, register, and use it for a little while, you get a discount code for the full version of BBEdit. Price goes from $200 to $100.
If you cant' afford it then beg, borrow, or ........ it. If you do any sort of scripting/programming on your mac, you need this app.
Excellent application, but far too expensive.
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5th title in Dubai
Roger showed a great display today to defeat Andy Murray 7-5, 6-4 in the final to secure his fifth title in Dubai and his 72nd career title.
"It's beautiful winning this" Roger said. "I've had a great start to the season, and a great finish to last season, so I hope I can keep it up. But there are a lot of guys who are going to play tremendous as well."
It has been a tight opening set and both players were in excellent condition. A break in game no. eleven was just enough to take the opening set after 52 minutes. In the second set, Roger scored an early break to take a 3-1 lead but Murray responded with a re-break shortly after. After another break on Murray's serve at 4-4 Roger was then able to serve out the match, which he did with his second matchball - winning the Dubai trophy for the fifth time.
Next up is the BNP Paribas Showdown in New York on Monday where Roger will play Andy Roddick.


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Planet Earth is about to blow. Okay, planet Earth blows already, what it's about to do is ....blow up. Everybody on the planet is going to die, except for, miraculously, 13 TWers. We here at TW have managed to horde away enough supplies to sustain 13 people until the nuclear clouds clear away. Supposing that you want to stay alive, (and I know that many of you are only living for death, so you can skip this game) what qualities have you got to give us, so that you will be one of the 13 chosen who will be responsible for repopulating the planet? C'mon. Sell yourself. What makes you invaluable? shitr
I refuse to repopulate.Besides, can you imagine what kind of world order I would come up with? Actually, I'm a lab mouse on stilts.
I'll make everyone laugh. My funny genes will help populate the planet with funny people, thus making the people of the future more calm, more easy going, and more entertaining!!! Vote Kerry! Clark dropped out.
Not everybody needs to be a *breeder*, SPF. You know, if you want to make an argument to stay alive, perhaps you could aspire to be a scullery maid, or a sanitation engineer, or a Finch instructor.shitr
Ah yes. Wouldn't it be cool if the whole future world spoke a demented fangirl-assimilated version of Finch? Actually, I'm a lab mouse on stilts.
JarethsGirl's qualities:Reproductive capabilities - I'm willing to attempt reproduction at a near constant rate until I am impregnated. And a side note: STD Free Since '93.Entertainment value - They don't call me "Anything For A Life Kaitlin" for no reason. If earth blows up, no more TV, movies, books, theatre, etc. That's where I come in. I have the memory skills to recreate dozens of movies. I have also comitted several episodes of Friends to memory. Not only this, but I am apt to create original productions, such as musicals about cheese and ninjas and Corey Haim. I can also write, draw, sing, act; to be frank, I could hold up the Fine Arts department of the new generation. And I know lots of dirty jokes.I am a good mediator. When people start freaking out, I'll be there to calm them down with my soothing voice and ample bosom to rest upon. I'm like a human pillow.I'm a team player. When shit needs done, give me my task and I'll do it. At the same time, when I need to be a leader, I am also well equipt to do so.Granted, I am still young. I have a lot to learn. But this also means I have plenty of time to make lotsa babies. Little future Student Council Presidents and leads of the school musical ( once we get a school up and running) and dorks. And every society needs a dork, right? In addition, if things get really bad, I'd feed many people..Hey, I'd just be glad for making it that long. But at least be civil folks, don't eat me alive. Club me first. Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Okay, elvenlass, how am I going to put this to one of the sweetest TWers that ever posted? A sense of humor is indeed important. There is even research indicating that a belly laugh is beneficial to one's overall health. But, honey, sweet as you are, I don't recall you ever launching one of those belly laughs. If you've got indication that you are riotous, I suggest you post it here. Either that, or dare I say you learn to *multi-task*, and sell a few more of your charms. A mild sense of humor, compounded with another, more critical sort of skill, and well, you'd be on the *maybe* list. shitr
In reply to:I have also comitted several episodes of Friends to memory.
I have also comitted several episodes of Friends to memory.
That might not have been the wisest thing to divulge if you want to live past the apocalypse.This is Dukewhite's Signature Side 2, hence it contains no words
With me around, you can be assured that the English language will not degenerate into poor usage and meaningless grunting despite the unfortunate apocalypse we've endured.Plus, I'll disappear for months at a time every now and then so you don't have to worry about me getting on anyone's nerves.WWThe average American walks less than 400 yards a day. The average American needs to get off his lazy ass and go for a walk -Mark Stevens
hmm ... pedantics ... fangirl Finch ... pedantics ... fangirl Finch ... *thinking ... thinking ... thinking* ... These things need not coexist. One of you is expendable.shitr


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Class focuses on chronic disease self-management and peer support
RANDOLPH – A new Healthier Living Workshop series begins May 15 and continues Wednesdays through June 19 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the Chelsea Health Center.
Healthier Living Workshops are six-week classes for people with chronic conditions and their caregivers. They are offered for free – along with chronic pain workshops – throughout the year by Gifford as part of the Vermont Blueprint for Health.
The workshops are led by trained facilitators and are designed to help improve strength, flexibility and endurance. They also provide tips for managing medications, eating healthier and improving communications with family and friends.
The goal is to help people better manage their health conditions and deal with the frustration, fatigue and pain that can accompany a chronic disease.
Participants also benefit from meeting other people with chronic conditions, learning how they cope and enjoying the camaraderie of knowing that they are not alone in how they're feeling, notes Gifford workshop coordinator Susan Delattre.
According to the Vermont Department of Health, past participants report increased energy, reduced stress, more self-confidence and fewer doctors' visits as a result.
Gifford Healthier Living Workshop participants have called the series "very relaxed and you really felt free to express yourself" and said they most enjoyed "meeting people who understand what I am going through."
To register or for more information, call Zach Bean at Gifford's Blueprint office at the Kingwood Health Center at (802) 728-7100, ext. 6.
The workshop will take place at the Chelsea Health Center at 356 Route 110 in Chelsea.


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Freeman Lake Park
Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln Memorial:
The memorial cabin was built in 1992, Kentucky's Bicentennial year, from handhewn logs that were 122 years old at the time. It is a close replica of the one Sarah Bush Johnston was living in, here in Elizabethtown, at the time she married Thomas Lincoln on December 2, 1819. 14'x 14'log cabin - replica of one lived in by the most famous step-mother in American history.
Lincoln Heritage House:
The Lincoln Heritage House was restored as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln. While a Hardin County resident for more than 10 years, he built cabinets and farmed. His personal property included a 200-acre farm on Mill Creek and an Elizabethtown log house where he and Nancy lived. Their first child Sarah was born there in 1807. The Lincoln Heritage House is comprised of two log houses. Both were the homes of pioneer Hardin Thomas and his family. One was built in 1789. The larger of the two was built in 1805 with the help of Thomas Lincoln.
Although this beloved historic double cabin was gutted by fire early in 2009, the community has rebuilt the house using historic building materials and salvaged timbers. The interior has not been completed, which prevents tours of the cabin.
Progress updates are available by calling 270-765-2175.
Hardin County One-Room School:
The story of the one room school begins when the old log school at Summit, Kentucky, with its split log benches anddirt floor were found no longer acceptable to the Hardin County community. In the spring of 1892, it was decided that a new building was needed and construction of what was to be known as the finest school in the county was begun. During most of its years, the school was operated under the supervision of a trustee, who was elected by vote, and was responsible for hiring the teacher, seeing that adequate supplies were available, and keeping the building in repair. With the formation of the Board of Education, a trustee was no longer necessary.


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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Northwestern University (Joint Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation)
- Conduct restoration ecology research related to the identification, development and use of genetically appropriate native plant materials for restoration
- Understanding genetic and environmental controls on critical stages of plant recruitment success, with applications to restoration and conservation in a changing climate
- Ex situ conservation of exceptional species, including Oaks
- Foster collaborations with government agencies, universities, and other partners to implement research and communicate findings to a wide audience nationally and internationally
- Mentor students in the Garden's science career continuum
- Support the work of the Plant Conservation Alliance Non-Federal Cooperator Committee
My research (carried out in collaboration with Drs. Jeremie Fant, Kayri Havens, and Krissa Skogen) as part of our Conservation And Restoration in Changing Environments project uses the tools of ecological genetics to answer questions aimed at making ecological restoration practices as economically feasible and successful as possible. Most of this work takes place in the western United States, where there is a great need for restoration on a large-scale. Restoration efforts are often hampered by a lack of information about which species and seed sources should be used to maximize restoration success. Even when this information is known, the availability of seeds often limits what can be done for the restoration. I use ecological genetics research to inform the selection of species and seed sources for restoration, and to support the development of native plant material that will allow species diversity and ecosystem function to be restored to degraded arid environments in the western U.S.
Basey, A. C., J. B. Fant, and A. T. Kramer. 2015. Producing native plant materials for restoration: ten rules to collect and maintain genetic diversity. Native Plants Journal 16:37-53.
Kramer, A., D. Larkin, and J. B. Fant. 2015. Assessing potential seed transfer zones for five forb species in the Great Basin. Natural Areas Journal 35:174-189.
Barak, R. S., J. B. Fant, A. T. Kramer, and K. A. Skogen. 2015. Assessing the value of potential "native winners" for restoration of cheatgrass-invaded habitat. Western North American Naturalist.
Havens, K., A. Kramer, E. Guerrant. 2013. Getting Plant Conservation Right (Or Not): The Case of the United States. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 175: 3-10.
Fant, J. B., A. Kramer, E. Sirkin, and K. Havens. 2013. Genetics of reintroduced populations of the narrowly endemic thistle, Cirsium pitcheri (Asteraceae). Botany 91:301-308.
Cires, E., Y. Smet, C. Cuesta, P. Goetghebeur, S. Sharrock, D. Gibbs, S. Oldfield, A. Kramer, and M.-S. Samain. 2013. Gap analyses to support ex situ conservation of genetic diversity in Magnolia, a flagship group. Biodiversity and Conservation 22:567-590.
Kramer, A., and V. Pence. 2012. The challenges of ex situ conservation for threatened oaks. International Oaks (Journal of the International Oak Society). 23: 91-108.
Kramer, A.T., J. Fant, and M.V. Ashley. 2011. Influences of landscape and pollinators on population genetic structure: examples from three Penstemon (Plantaginaceae) species in the Great Basin. American Journal of Botany. 98: 109-121.
Kramer, A.T. and K. Havens. 2009. Plant conservation genetics in a changing world. Trends in Plant Science 14(11):599-607.
Vitt, P., K. Havens, A.T. Kramer, D. Sollenberger, E. Yates. 2009. Assisted migration of plants: changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes. Biological Conservation. 43(1): 18-27.
Kramer, A.T., J.L. Ison, M.V. Ashley, and H.F. Howe. 2008. The paradox of forest fragmentation genetics. Conservation Biology 22(4):878-885.
Selected Presentations:
A test of potential seed transfer zones for restoration in the Great Basin: examples from Penstemon and Eriogonum. Society for Ecological Restoration World Conference, Madison, WI, USA. October 2013.
A genetics primer to producing seed for restoration. National Native Seed Conference. Santa Fe, NM, USA. April 2013.
Genetic considerations that determine the success of native plantings: examples from Penstemon in the Great Basin. American Seed Trade Association. Kansas City, Missouri. November 2009.
Successful restoration of plant communities: why pollinators matter. Lecture at the Chicago Botanic Garden. July 2007.
Conservation and Restoration in Changing Environments (CARICE)
Much of the native habitat in the western United States is degraded as a result of changes imposed by invasive species, altered fire regimes and land use patterns, and a shifting climate. These changes will only become more prevalent in the future. To ensure the region's unique plant and animal diversity, and the ecosystem services it provides, is resilient in the face of these changes, restoration on a large-scale is needed. To help make restoration efforts as efficient and effective as possible, we conduct applied research to inform restoration in the arid environments of the western U.S. (particularly the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin).We focus on two broad research themes: 1) Identifying, developing, and using appropriate native plant material for successful restoration; AND 2) Quantifying and restoring ecosystem function that has been lost
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Botanic Gardens Conservation International maintains information on plant conservation and education around the world, highlighting the important work of botanic gardens and partners in achieving the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. From 2008 - 2013 I was Executive Director of BGCI in the United States and helped develop numerous projects in support of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, including ex situ conservation of exceptional species, botanical capacity in the United States, a North American assessment of ex situ collections, and developing conservation interpretation materials for public gardens.
Seeds of Success
The national Seeds of Success program, established in 2001 by the Bureau of Land Management and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Millennium Seed Bank, is working to collect, conserve, and develop native plant materials for stabilizing, rehabilitating and restoring lands in the United States. Many botanic gardens, including the Chicago Botanic Garden, are partners on this nationwide project. I learned a lot about the power of partnership from this program, and am proud that my research helps inform its work.
Center for Plant Conservation's National Collection of Endangered Plants
As an endangered plant specialist, I managed a two-year, collaborative project (funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, or IMLS) to create CPC's National Collection of Endangered Plants website. This site outlines what the network of CPC-member botanic gardens are doing to help conserve more than 575 threatened and endangered plants in the United States, and details each species' current status, as well as management and research needs. This project was completed in December 2002, and the site is now hosted and continually updated on the Center for Plant Conservation's website. This project allowed me to interact with the wonderful network of researchers at botanic gardens around the country who are working to conserve the nation's imperiled plants, and also showed me the significant need for more research to help guide management decisions for these rarest of plants. This experience strongly influenced my decision to pursue my Ph.D. and conduct research with real on-the-ground applications.
Plants of Concern
As a Garden intern, I worked with Garden scientists on research aimed at understanding the population biology of threatened/endangered plant species in the Midwest (including Viola conspersa, Platanthera leucophaea, and Lespedeza leptostachya). This research helped form the basis for long-term monitoring protocols on rare species in the Chicago region, in what is now the Garden's Plants of Concern program.


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PIKEVILLE, Ky. – No. 4 Pikeville will head into the break with a sparkling 13-1 worksheet after a 112-63 win over St. Andrews University Monday night at the East Kentucky Expo Center.
Pikeville blistered the nets for 58.6 percent shooting from the field and hit 14-of-28 from the arc while holding St. Andrews to 32.4 percent overall.
On the day he was named Mid-South Conference Player of the Week for the second time this season, senior guard Jamar Briscoe fired in 32, including 6-of-11 from the arc. He added six rebounds, four assists and a steal.
Remarkably, on a night his team poured in 112 points, only two teammates reached double figures. Senior guard Trevor Setty finished with 20 to go with six rebounds, three assists and two blocked shots, while senior guard Chris Johnson finished with 11 and seven assists.
All 12 Bears in uniform played at least five minutes while 11 of them scored in the win.
Included in that dozen players was junior guard Elisha Justice, the Louisville transfer and former Mr. Basketball, who made his regular-season debut. He finished with three points, five rebounds, three steals and one assist in 21 minutes of action.
St. Andrews (0-9) was led by freshman forward Chris Orr, who turned in the game's only double-double. He finished with 16 points and 11 rebounds, seven of them off the offensive glass.
Senior Demetrius Monroe and freshman D.J. Carnegie had 11 apiece for the Knights.
Pikeville will return to the East Kentucky Expo Center on Thursday, Jan. 3 when it hosts Ohio Christian University. Game time is set for 8 p.m.


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Oklahoma State faces Missouri in the Cotton Bowl at Arlington, Texas. 5 p.m. PST, Fox.
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Clemson takes on Ohio State in the Orange Bowl at Miami. 5:30 p.m. PST, ESPN.
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Undercover Boss: This special episode of UNDERCOVER BOSS features seven former bosses as they share the challenges of keeping their undercover identity, as well as updates on some of their memorable employees, on UNDERCOVER BOSS, Friday, Nov. 22 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo by Jeffrey Neira/ CBS ( Jeffrey Neira )
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Will I-26 plan finally come to fruition?
Published: Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 6:35 p.m.
If theres a lesson to be learned from the states decades of delay in improving Interstate 26, it might be this: Poor planning and pork-barrel politics are more costly in the long run than doing the job right the first time.
We should probably be celebrating news that the N.C. Department of Transportation has finally restarted planning on this project after it was stalled 10 years ago. The DOT held an informational workshop Thursday to gauge public interest on a proposal to widen I-26 to six lanes as part of a major refurbishment. Most among the more than 160 people who showed up expressed support for the idea.
It may not be time to pop the champagne just yet, though. The first phase of construction may not begin until fiscal year 2019-20, with the final phase earmarked for startup in 2030, if all goes well, DOT says. Given this projects checkered past, theres little reason to bank on this schedule.
It all started years ago, when Hendersonville business leaders dreamed that the way to boost development was to get the DOT to build a new interchange at Clear Creek Road and I-26, and a road to connect it to U.S. 25 and N.C. 191. The Clear Creek Connector was a product of a time when five-lane highways were considered a swell way to spur development. It was also about that time that people began to call such automobile-centric development by a different name: sprawl.
While our business leaders thought the Clear Creek Connector was a great idea, the public was split, with many residents adamantly opposed to the idea. They feared this new entranceway would turn into another congested commercial strip like Four Seasons Boulevard. Homeowners in the subdivisions on N.C. 191, fearing that road would become the next commercial strip, opposed the Clear Creek Connector. So did medical professionals in the Beverly Hanks Centre, which would have been razed along with a corner of Patton Park.
Wait, werent we talking about I-26? Whats the connection? When the DOT bowed to public outrage and dropped the Clear Creek Connector from its Transportation Improvement Program, local leaders and DOT engineers came up with an idea to try to keep the millions earmarked for the doomed connector in Henderson County: Widen I-26 to six lanes.
It seemed like a good idea. The interstate would get a long overdue refurbishing and new lanes to speed the flow of traffic, with minimal impact on property owners. But there was a hitch. A big one.
The DOT created plans to construct the new widened I-26 in Henderson County but had done little planning for the next section to the north in Buncombe County, despite the soon-to-open extension of the interstate into Tennessee. Opponents argued that it made little sense to have a six-lane interstate in Henderson County feeding into a four-lane bottleneck in Buncombe County. But widening that section presented a much more complex problem involving replacing the Blue Ridge Parkway overpass as well as the interstate bridge over the French Broad River.
Environmentalists charged that the DOT had wrongly separated the two projects for planning purposes without adequately studying drawbacks such as vehicle pollution and sprawl. The plan was halted in 2003 when U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle agreed and ruled that the DOT had to study the overall environmental impact of widening the interstate in both counties.
Now, a decade later, the DOT is moving ahead with that plan. The projected cost is $264 million to widen 22.2 miles from the U.S. 25 South Connector to I-40. The DOT estimates that 45,000 to 80,000 cars travel this part of I-26, with higher counts during tourist season. Heavy traffic often leads to snarled traffic, a situation one resident at Thursdays meeting aptly described as a rolling parking lot.
It is good news that the DOT is finally getting this project rolling again, seeking public input and looking at all of the influences to impacts along the corridor, as stated by Undrea Major, project development engineer. He says the state wants to do the proper investigation, start the dialogue and keep the communication going so we make informed decisions.
To which we can only add: better late than never.
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When my DVD player stopped working, I definitively proved to myself (and to people I know) that if there is a simple and effective solution to a problem and a complex one which promises unpredictable results, I always choose the second option. Instead of buying a new DVD/DivX/MP3 player for the modest price of $40-50, I decided to build a home-made device that would allow me to record the TV, receive podcasts, watch my favorite movies, view webtv, play games, and a lot of other things that I considered cool. So my modest adventure with Freevo, GNU/Linux and a lot other free software begins...
A media center is a special type of computer conceived for your living room rather than for your office. There are several models of media center available on the market and most of them are based on the Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition. Differently from a traditional personal computer, the interaction with a media center mainly flows through the remote control and the television screen. It is of course possible to add a wireless keyboard for writing text but most of the time a media center is used by one or more users enjoying content from separate sources such as DVD, Video CD, digital video cameras, FM radio, analog/digital terrestrial TV or satellite TV, network streaming and, of course, the local hard disk.
Differently from a traditional personal computer, the interaction with a media center mainly flows through the remote control and the television screen
What hardware you need
Assuming you want to build your own media center, the ingredients you need are of three types: hardware, software and connectivity. Your media center will gain a lot from a LAN connection which is useful for management tasks and for receiving media streams from the internet. Regarding the hardware the essential components are: motherboard, CPU, RAM, disk, video card with TV/OUT, audio card, TV/FM card, network card, CD/DVD player and a remote control with IR receiver. Of course you can add a lot of optional components like a DVD writer and USB memory readers.
To build an effective system you need a minimum CPU power for video encoding/decoding. Buying an Intel Core Duo with 2GB of RAM is a viable choice, but in my experience you can save a lot of money reusing some old hardware. I've assembled a system with Pentium III processor with 320MB of RAM and I found that for video encoding/decoding this configuration is powerful enough. If you don't have any old PC to cannibalize, you can buy a mobo/CPU/RAM for less than 100$ on eBay and get your system done.
I've assembled a system with Pentium III processor with 320MB of RAM and I found that for video encoding/decoding this configuration is powerful enough
GNU/Linux helps to make your old hardware run again. It's always possible to optimize GNU/Linux, while Windows XP is too resource consuming. Another proprietary alternative for old hardware is, as usual, Windows 98, but would you venture to make it your OS? I wouldn't. Thus, for my media center I've acquired the following:
- Microstar mother board with Intel P3/800MHz
- 320MB of RAM
- Matrox Millennium graphics card G400 with dual head
- A DVD/CD combo player
- A PCI network card 10/100
I also added some special purpose components for the media center:
- Technisat TS35 Remote control with IR receiver
- Hauppauge WinTV GO tuning card
The distro the kernel and the screen
Inside the galaxy of GNU/Linux I have chosen Fedora. The reasons behind this choice are absolutely disputable: my first Linux installation was a Red Hat 4 and I'm too lazy to evaluate other distros. About the screen, unless you want to buy a 26" VGA LCD you need to use your TV. Driving the TV out from the Linux kernel may cause some problems. First, you need a video card with TV out (this is obvious); second you need to activate the TV-out function in Linux (not so simple). After some searches on the net I discovered that among old cards, the Matrox Millennium G400 TV out setup is well documented. To use the G400 with TV out I needed three main tools:
- kernel sources to be recompiled (sigh)
- fbset
- matroxset
The TV out can be activated using the framebuffer device, and for this reason I needed to recompile the kernel. Recompiling the kernel is not a difficult task, but making the wrong changes in the configuration can cause your machine to become unbootable. This is not irreversible, because you can always reconfigure the system to boot from an older kernel, but this recovery may require some knowledge. Please refer to online documentation. In my kernel compilation I needed the followings settings:
- Code maturity level options→Prompt for development...
- Processor type and features→MTRR support
- Character Devices→I2C support→I2C support
- Character Devices→I2C support→I2C bit-banging interfaces
- Character Devices→I2C support→I2C device interface
- Character Devices→Matrox g200/g400
- Console drivers→Frame-buffer support→Support for frame buffer devices
- Console drivers→Frame-buffer support→Matrox acceleration
- Console drivers→Frame-buffer support→G100/G200/G400/G450 support
- Console drivers→Frame-buffer support→Matrox I2C support
- Console drivers→Frame-buffer support→G400 second head support
You can find these settings in different positions depending on the version of the kernel you are recompiling. I've statically compiled every piece of the kernel that dealt with the Matrox card; however, doing so is not strictly necessary. After rebooting with the new kernel, I have configured the framebuffer devices in the following way:
matroxset -f /dev/fb1 -m 0 # this disconnects fb1 from outputs matroxset -f /dev/fb0 -m 3 # this connects fb0 to both outputs matroxset -f /dev/fb0 -o 1 1 # this sets fb0 to PAL output
With these settings the dual head card sends the output signal to the TV. To adjust the screen resolution you can use the
fbset tool.
fbset -fb /dev/fb0 -xres 800 -yres 600
Now you get the TV PAL signal correctly generated and driven by the Linux kernel. As you can see, getting this card to work is not a trivial task and this is a common problem with Linux.
The tuning card
The tuning card is the component which receives the TV radio signal from the aerial and makes audio/video available to the system. Tuning cards with BT878/BT848 chipset are well supported—keep this in mind if you have to buy a card. A great site to visit if you want to know more about Linux and TV is linuxtv [1]. In this site you can also find a large list of cards with BT878/BT848 chipset [2]. In my case, I've purchased (from eBay) an analogic TV board: Hauppauge WinTV Go. In Italy, analog terrestrial, digital terrestrial and digital satellite TVs are now available. Satellite TV broadcasters offer better TV shows, sport events and recent movies but they are quite expensive. The digital terrestial has not yet replaced the old analog system which still carries the main TV shows. Once you have plugged your tuning card into the system you can simply test it using tvtime (figure 1).
The remote control
You need a remote control for your media center. Although there are some solutions to control the system via bluetooth or wi-fi, I'm convinced that IR control is the best. So I've retrieved a Technisat remote bundled with a IR receiver to be plugged in the serial port (figure 2). To get an IR receiver like that you have two options: you can either build it yourself following the instructions available in several blogs, or you can buy a receiver already assembled. If you don't have enough time to build your own homemade receiver, have a look here. To make your remote/receiver work with GNU/Linux you need to install the
Lirc driver [3] which is packaged for the main distributions. In my installation I've installed:
Notice that
lirc-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1378_FC3-0.7.2-49.rhfc3.at is good for my kernel because I have that exact version (2.6.12-1.1378). Once you have
lirc installed you should find among your devices:
or maybe
If the device is not listed in the
/dev directory then there is a problem with the driver loading. To face this problem I typed:
modprobe lirc_serial
and I got resource busy. Googling back and forth I found that the command:
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
was a good fix. Then by retyping:
modprobe lirc_serial
I've successfully created the device
/dev/lirc0. At this stage I launched:
mode2 /dev/lirc0
and started to press the remote control buttons getting some printouts in the console:
pulse 871 space 839 pulse 848 space 840 pulse 848 space 839 pulse 848 space 90856 pulse 850 space 843 pulse 902 space 788
Bingo! My remote/receiver set was working.
mode2 displays the features of the wave form received by
lirc. If you prefer a graphical user interface you can use the
xmode2 tool.
Once you have the hardware working with GNU/Linux, you need a good front-end to control the media center. In the GNU/Linux world there are two options which differ mainly for the design choices and for the internal implementation: MythTV [4] and Freevo [5]. MythTV is a solid piece of software written in C++, while Freevo is a python wrapper which delegates a lot of work to external tools. For example, Freevo uses mencoder for TV recordings, xine for DVD playing, tvtime for watching and mame for videogaming. MythTV implements most of the media playing functionality itself and among its features it performs live TV time-shifting, allowing the user to skip commercials or to pause the show in case of phone ringing or roast burning. These two features would be enough for the average couch potato to choose MythTV. Nevertheless, Freevo is a very interesting and modular platform. This also allows beginner programmers to hack Freevo and to participate in the development. For these reasons, I decided to install Freevo.
Freevo and MythTV are the two main platforms for PVR (Personal Video Recording) under GNU/Linux
Freevo is packaged for mainstream distros and it is easy to install from sources too. The main dependencies are:
- python2.4
- pygame
- mmpython
- egenix
- twisted
- libexif
- tvtime
- mplayer
- xine
- pylirc
- lirc
- xmltv
- aumix
- lsdvd
Once installed and launched, Freevo shows a user interface with a very nice skin. From the menu you can activate the main functionalities like watching a video or setting a TV recording.
Freevo also provides a web server, which is very useful for browsing the disk, working on media files, or setting new TV recordings from a laptop connected to your domestic LAN. It is especially useful to work on the system while the TV screen is busy with a movie or a game. Having Freevo connected to the LAN also allows you to receive podcasts, webcasts, and allows maintenance and any futher adjustment via SSH.
TV recordings and XMLTV
One of the main components of Freevo is the recordserver. It runs in background and is based on mplayer/mencoder. In the file
local_conf.py, you have to set a number of options for mencoder to effectively record your favorite shows. An example of mencoder settings is shown below:
VCR_CMD = ('/usr/bin/mencoder ' + 'tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:input=0'+ ':norm=PAL' + ':channels=%(channel)s' + ':chanlist=italy' + ':width=320:height=240' + ':outfmt=yv12' + ':device=/dev/video0' + ':adevice=/dev/dsp' + ':audiorate=44100' + ':forceaudio:forcechan=1:' + ' -ovc lavc -lavcopts ' + 'vcodec=mpeg4' + ':vbitrate=1500:' + 'keyint=10 ' + '-oac copy ' + '-ffourcc divx ' + '-endpos %(seconds)s ' + '-o %(filename)s.avi ')
No commercial/closed solution can give you the power and control to add and remove features like a GNU/Linux based media center
The resolution of 320x240 is quite low. Nevertheless, the size of generated AVI files is quite big: about 1GB for less than one hour of TV show. The encoding may appear ineffective if you are used to encoding an entire movie in a single 700MB volume. But consider that, in this case, the encoding is performed on-the-fly while DVD to DivX/Xvid encoding is usually performed in two steps (and can therefore be much more efficient in terms of size).
In Freevo you can schedule a future show for recording in two ways: manually saving date, channel and duration of the TV show, or by using the XMLTV listings. The first option is clumsy and tedious to do with your remote control (it is a little better using the web interface), while the second is much more user-friendly.
XMLTV [6] is a toolset that grabs TV listings from the web and convert the information into a unified XML format. Grabbers are Perl modules which connect to various web sites (the data sources). XMLTV acts as an interface between the data sources and the applications. These are supposed to take the XML and present the listings through the most appropriate user interface.
I have successfully installed and integrated a podcast reader, a list of webtv, an email reader and the mame emulator
Building a media center from scratch is a fun activity. In my box, I have successfully installed and integrated a podcast reader, a list of webtv that are browsed exactly like other media, an email reader and the mame emulator.
It was an enjoyable exercise of design, practice and hacking. But, I won't venture to say that it's easy and inexpensive, because, even if you save money reusing some old computer components, you spend a lot of time reading docs and trying to get everything working. Moreover, the results I got were not at the same level as with an off-the-shelf media player. For instance, my G400 lacks some brightness, the screen resolution is not optimal, and every now and then the system crashes. Another negative remark is that my Freevo box is based on a common PC architecture; thus, the power consumption, the cooling system and boot time are affected. All these issues can be successfully addressed by buying fanless hardware specifically designed for multimedia computers (like Via EPIA motherboards, which come with native mpeg2/4 coding).
The positive aspect is about features: no commercial/closed solution can give you the power and control to add and remove features like a GNU/Linux based media center. Furthermore, all of the above problems can be solved by further hacking the system or upgrading the hardware. And they have not prevented my family from being happily entertained through the use our home-made Freevo box.
[2] http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Cardlist.BTTV
PDF please
Call me old-fashioned but I don't like to read major stuff online. I prefer to print it out and a single PDF makes that a very good experience. An online HTML magazine is a pain to print out, what with all the crazy pagination issues. Why not provide a compressed archive of the HTML at least?
I'm also concerned that eliminating the PDF file is the beginning of the end for freesoftwaremagazine, similar to the fate of Tux Magazine. I'm afraid its a cost cutting measure. I see it that way because I don't recognize the loss of the PDF file as being of benefit to the reader. No reader says "damn this nasty PDF article."
Please return with the PDF version of the magazine.
- John
No PDF = One Reader Less
I won't be reading this issue at all. I liked the PFD version because i could have access to it offline.
Please bring it back if you can, if not then there's nothing for me here on this site.
Good Bye :(
No PDF = One Less Idiot
If you're going to bitch about something you get for free, perhaps it's better that you go away. And by the way, PDFs suck.
Noise issue
A PC based Media Center should definitely deal with the noise issue. It will be good know if the suggested hardware configuration takes care of this.
Also, a very basic diagram of how the components are interconnected will be helpful
my box is at the moment quite noisy. I've been investigating the best choice to reduce noise and I've found an interesting thread in the freevo mailing list. The url is http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30941563&forum_id=9234
I'm not reading free software magazine anymore
I'm not reading free software magazine anymore because of PDF is now unavailable..
I just converted Issue 16 to pdf. Copy, past to MSWord, cleaning the document and printing with pdf creator. It is the first and the last time I did it. Speaking about TUX; I paid the $ 9,90. Now getting Linux Journal. For my kind of folks to geeky. Missing Tux and now also Free Software Magazine. Wanted to make a donation to FSM. Happy I didn't do it. Again 10 bucks thrown in the water.
Comments on the PDF and on the Media Center
First, if you are here only to comment about the loss of the PDF version, get out. The author already explained the reasons to do this. I miss the PDF version also, but facing the reasons that have been presented, and - it seems to me - all the attempting to solve this question, I can't complain of not trying.
Second, about the Media Center, it really is interesting, except that i live in Europe, and not all functions mentioned are available here. It is, though, a wonderful way to acquire knowledge and entertain at the same time.
I live in Italy and it works
Hi, I wrote this article and I live in Italy (Europe I guess). Which functions are not available in your country?
PS:about the pdf. Please do not comment this article for that. Leave your comments in the first article of the issue which cover this topic.
This is a great article. Thanks very much.
I currently have a Gentoo box at home that runs MythTV. I have 3 Hauppauge PVR cards. It works great. One of these days I may have to try this Freevo on another box to see how it compares. I really need to change this system from Gentoo though, as I find it difficult to use. Fedora seems like an option, but I've been hearing a lot of great things about Ubunutu.
What do other readers here think about the various Linux distributions, primarily for a Media Centre?
myth tv seems good
I didn't try mythtv but I've read a lot of good reviews. A great thing that makes the difference is that mythtv has real-time shifting video while freevo has not. There is a brand new freevo 2.0 version out there but I've still to test it
Feedback on distro
Been using Mandriva for Mythtv for a few months now. Works great. The advantages of Mandriva are the good wizards (I don't like to mess in config files), and the fact that about anything you need as software has been packaged. Also the Mythtv configuration guide has a lot of Mandriva specific stuff written into it.
I'm running my MythTV backend on my main PC in our home office (to prevent too much noise in the living room, and because that allowed me to simply add a capture card to the machine and not having to acquire another machine), and view on the TV via my laptop (soon to be replaced by an Hauppauge MediaMVP). Otherwise, if I would have put everything on one and the same machine, dedicated as media centre, I would have chosen for Knoppmyth. Makes it even easier to install and configure.
Distro choice feedback
Been using Mandriva for Mythtv for a few months now. Works great. The advantages of Mandriva are the good wizards (I don't like to mess in config files), and the fact that about anything you need as software has been packaged. Also the Mythtv configuration guide has a lot of Mandriva specific stuff written into it.
I'm running my MythTV backend on my main PC in our home office (to prevent too much noise in the living room, and because that allowed me to simply add a capture card to the machine and not having to acquire another machine), and view on the TV via my laptop (soon to be replaced by an Hauppauge MediaMVP). Otherwise, if I would have put everything on one and the same machine, dedicated as media centre, I would have chosen for Knoppmyth. Makes it even easier to install and configure.
Dual-boot Configuration Systems Windows XP wiht Mandrake Linux
I've got a CP with Windows XP installed, but I want to make a dual-boot with Mandrake Linux 9.2.I already tried 2 times, but I did'nt get.
MythTV vs. Freevo / suboptimal G400-Configuration / Silent HW
You wrote: MythTV is a solid piece of software written in C++. My Question: What is your definition of "solid"? My opinion is that MythTV includes some nice ideas (seperation of frontend and backend, tv functions), BUT apart from that the architecture and stability is relativly bad. The source code is here and there really ugly. You also forgot to mention VDR which is the third ("famous") HTPC/TV-Project for Linux out there. I've tested MythTV and VDR - both didn't convince me (I expected a lot from MythTV), so I'm now experimenting with Freevo, which sure lacks a lot of features in comparison to MythTV, but I prefer the philospohy "don't reinvent the wheel" (MythTV people obviously don't know this principle).
I also have a Matrox G400 and played a lot with. After many different configurations I can only suggest a DirectFB-solution (which MythTV doesnt support after version 0.19). The DirectFB-library has still the best support for the G400 and TV-OUT-setup is near "configurationless" (if you have an europeaon TV with SCART-interface i would suggest to build a VGA/SCART-cable). There are no brightness, nor resolution problems (as you mentioned in your article) with this solution.
As silent HW I could recommend either VIA Eden Mini-ITX motherboards or an AMD-Geode-Setup. The problem with the via-boards from my view: the tv-out is not as good as the g400-tv-out and the soundcard is also not better than common ac97. For an interesting geode-setup look here: http://bird.zero.ad.jp/~zas55369/geodenx.htm (i dont speak japanese, but the photos are pretty self-explaining). An affordable motherboard which supports the Geode-family is eg the ASRock K741GX.
GNU/Linux Media Centre Rocks
I am using openSuSE 10.2 based PC with Media Center along with Development tools. I gotta tell ya, It rocks (I've used XP Media Center for a while in my past too, so you gotta trust my comment).
This article is great. I actually found solution for some of my problems through this article.


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Clair shares a tip for writing even when you don't feel like it:
Writing for a living has trained me to write anything - no matter what. But of course. it is tougher. Writing three blog entries a day and editing other people's entries (grammar, etc) could be quite painful too.
How do I get to write and finish up what I have to?
I read. :D
Yeah, simple answer for me. I read and talk about things that got me interested. If not about the article itself but maybe the circumstances around it, the person who wrote it, how I could relate, etc.
On my personal blogs, I don't write when I don't feel like sharing the very deep thoughts that are in my head. But when I find something I feel totally interested in or I need a break, I write :) It's therapy, in a sense. Even though this is what I do for a living ;)
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2. Notetaking: 13:58
From Personal Branding for Technology Professionals:
I had about twenty notebooks that were filled with many lists and notes:
- Practices of people who had distinguished themselves
- Tips for life, productivity, and relationship building
- Techniques to get more value out of your time
- Other observations that I had collected in the last ten years
I should write more things and blog them, too. =) I run into so many interesting people and learn about all sorts of interesting things...
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3. Business blogging: 14:04
If you're interested in blogging for business, you should check out BlogHarbor. I ran into John Keegan at the Mesh Web2.0 conference in Toronto, and he's cool. Here are some of the special features for business blogging:
So Des can offer exclusive access to content on private categories via his blog, with a full User/Group permission model which allows him to not only provide access to restricted categories but to provide authorship privileges to any user or group. If you're interested in reading more about this powerful security model, check out some of our help pages:
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4. Sampaloc: 15:03
Sipping sampaloc nectar with milk and coconut. Whee!
Apparently, the Linux Caffe stocks tamarind juice from concentrate...
5. Women in technology: things to think about: 15:16
Upcoming Social Tech Brewing planning meeting. Jane has some pretty interesting questions:
# What are the challenges facing women in IT today? What can we do to change these challenges? # What is the definition of women in IT? Roles for women in technology does not necessarily have to be restricted to "pure techie", perhaps it's our perception about women in IT that needs to change. # The non-profit sector has always been a female dominant sector. Is this true for technology roles as well? If not, why? # Who are some of the leaders/organizations out there that are making a difference for women in technology? What innovative projects are they working on? # Best practices/tips for women who woud like to get a career in technology. # Do female foreign trained professionals in technology have more barriers to overcome? Are there any existing resources for these women?
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Hollywood probably isn't paying any attention anymore, but what Billy Beane has wrought with this 2014 A's team would make a far better movie than "Moneyball." It shouldn't just blow your mind how good and how complete this club is, but how many machinations Beane and his cohorts have made to make to create what Oakland has today -- a team that looks as if it can finally break that postseason first-round spell and at least get to the World Series, if not win it.
Let's just start with the rotation. Somehow, a club that lost Jarrod Parker and A.J. Griffin on Day 1 to season-ending injuries, AND lost Bartolo Colon to free agency, AND lost Brett Anderson in trade, AND wound up sending Dan Straily to the minors early on somehow comes out better on the other end with Beane beating the competition to Scott Kazmir, and now Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammels, to go along with Sonny Gray and three or four guys who can ably fill the fifth spot (Jesse Chavez, Tommy Milone, Drew Pomeranz and Brad Mills). Really, that's a shell-game success story unlike I've seen in years with any baseball rotation reclamation.
In the bullpen, you have Dan Otero, a guy the Giants designated for assignment, as a primary setup guy to go along with Luke Gregerson, acquired for Seth Smith, a good player but one the A's barely miss. You haven't seen the best of left-hander Eric O'Flaherty, a free agent coup at $1.5 million. There's another young stud left-hander in Fernando Abad, acquired for a guy still in Class A, John Wooten.
OK, so the Jim Johnson thing hasn't worked, but the A's are hardly the poorer for it on the field even though it might have stressed them at the bank. With so much depth elsewhere, they could make their converted first baseman Sean Doolittle the closer after two standout seasons as a setup man. Doolittle is a movie unto himself, actually, when you consider how unlikely his myriad transformations have been. Ryan Cook is still here starting to look like the Cookie of old. He was part of the Parker for Trevor Cahill deal.
The everyday lineup offers so many incredible plot twists. The ascent of Josh Donaldson, the converted catcher who was named an All-Star Game starter Sunday, is just off the charts amazing. What a player. He crushed his 19th homer in Saturday night's 5-1 win over Toronto and also made another death-defying catch in foul territory, crashing into the tarp roll near the stands at full speed yet hauling in a critical first out in the eighth inning.
You have three solid catchers, none of them named Kurt Suzuki. Brandon Moss at first, looking at a 100-RBI season. A three-headed monster at second with Alberto Callaspo, Nick Punto and Eric Sogard. Jed Lowrie, down average-wise this season but still productive at the plate and better defensively at short. Two big first basemen in reserve in Nate Freiman and Kyle Blanks.
The outfield we know well. Coco is Coco. Yoenis Cespedes is having his finest season offensively and defensively. Josh Reddick has been hurt and inconsistent when healthy, but it has hardly mattered because of another key Beane move -- acquiring the versatile Craig Gentry for former No. 1 pick Michael Choice. That deal was a head-scratcher when it first came down, but it has turned out to be another Beane coup.
Choice has eight homers for Texas but he's hitting .177 with 50 strikeouts in 198 at-bats. Gentry might not have Choice's power but he's hitting .286 with 15 stolen bases and has been a veritable life-saver playing all three outfield spots. After watching Gentry, it's easier to see why the A's had no problem letting San Fuld go at season's outset.
Now the Samardzija-Hammels chapter begins. What will they add? Judging by all the other successful moves Beane has made to strengthen the team, the odds are good it helps drive the A's home to a third consecutive A.L. West title. With Kazmir, Gray and Samardzija as your prospective 1-2-3 starters for the playoffs, you can't ask for much more.
And let's not forget one other crucial move that makes the Moneyball era look weak -- the hiring of manager Bob Melvin, who has made all the moving pieces work so magnificently. Melvin has already distinguished himself as the best manager Beane has ever hired, and it's not even close.
I've long tossed it, but I wish I still had the Baseball America issues from the past few years that have tried to project the A's roster three years ahead. Boy, those projections must look like a disaster at this point. There's a hollow pit in A's fans stomachs that Addison Russell will never be in their team's lineup, and when you hear Derek Jeter comparisons, it makes you all the sicker. But it's all about winning now, because by the time Russell is ready to star, many of the key pieces of the current A's -- Kazmir, Cespedes, Donaldson, Crisp -- could be gone.
I tried to come up with my own Baseball America-style projection of the A's for 2016 if the A's had made all the same draft picks but didn't have a general manager as bold as Beane to throw it all in a blender and emerge with so many new, unpredictable pieces. I had Michael Choice, Billy McKinney and Ryan Sweeney in the outfield, Russell at short, Jemile Weeks at second, Grant Green at third (I know, a reach), Chris Carter at DH, Suzuki at catcher, and of course, the eternal Daric Barton at first. The rotation would still include Cahill and Anderson and Gio Gonzalez, and who knows about the other two. Tyson Ross maybe (and Ross is having a nice year for San Diego) and I suppose Gray has to be in there as well, since he was an actual top draft pick who didn't get dealt.
Anyway, like that team better than the current version? Thought not.
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Fill the bottom of the container with the red stuffing. Add cookies. Close box.
Print and cut out Kai-lan gift tags. Punch a hole where indicated, thread through a piece of ribbon, wrap both ends around the take-out box hanger, and make a bow tie.
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Friday, 02/15/1991
The Colonial Theatre, Keene, NH
Set 1: CurtainThe Curtain > Wilson > DividedDivided Sky, SOAMeltSplit Open and Melt, Fee -> Buried Alive, MangoThe Mango Song, SlothThe Sloth, Dinner and a Movie, Magilla, Llama
Set 2: BowieDavid Bowie[1], GinBathtub Gin, Ya Mar, GuelahGuelah Papyrus, MSOMy Sweet One > Oh Kee PaThe Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > BagAC/DC Bag[2], HoodHarry Hood, Let's Go > Terrapin[3] > Let's Go, CDTChalk Dust Torture
Encore: Caravan > BBFCFMBig Black Furry Creature from Mars
Encore 2: Contact, GolgiGolgi Apparatus
[1] Silent jam near the end of the jam segment.
[2] Three dead stops during the jam segment and uncommon dissonance.
[3] Wolf calls during vacuum solo, final verse sung through vacuum.
· Sounds of Silence tease in David Bowie
· Happy Birthday to You tease in Ya Mar
· Theme from Bonanza tease in AC/DC Bag
· Horn tease
· Buried Alive tease in Divided Sky
Average Song Gap: 6
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Trey teased Buried Alive in Divided Sky. Bowie contained Sounds of Silence teases in Fish's high hat intro, and had a silent jam near the end of the jam segment. Ya Mar contained a brief Happy Birthday tease from Trey. Bag contained a Bonanza theme tease from Trey was also unusually adventurous, with three dead stops during the jam segment and uncommon dissonance. Trey briefly started Horn before Harry Hood, but abandoned it. Before Terrapin, Trey announced that Fish would be "bringing out the big, heavy artillery" for the people in Keene. The "artillery" was Fish's new vacuum, which made its debut at this show. Fish noted that "if I bleed during this song, that'll just be part of the effects." Inspired by his new instrument, Fish took an exceedingly spacey solo during Terrapin, complete with ersatz wolf howls, before singing the final verse through the vacuum.
Song Distribution:
6 Junta
5 A Picture of Nectar
4 Lawn Boy
3 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
2 The White Tape
1 Stash
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Appeal Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Lord Justice PillTable of Contents
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The Schlegelberger note
62. The judge introduced the issue in this way:Mr Davies submits that the note is central to the appeal on the facts. It is an authentic record of Hitler's thinking on the Jewish question and so of seminal importance. At the trial, the applicant referred to it as a "high-level diamond document" (13.33).
"5.151 One central document cited by Irving in support of his case that Hitler consistently intervened to mitigate the harm sought to be done to the Jews is a note said to have been dictated by an official in the Reich Ministry of Justice, namely, Schlegelberger, which is undated but which is claimed to have come into existence in the spring of 1942, which records what he has been told by Lammers, a senior civil servant at the Reichskanzlerei:
Reichsminister informed me that the Fuhrer has repeatedly declared to him that he wants to hear that the solution to the Jewish question has been postponed until after the war is over'.
That note, says Irving, is incompatible with the notion that Hitler authorised or condoned the wholesale extermination of Jewry during the war."
63. The respondents' case, also made by Mr Rampton at this hearing, was that the Schlegelberger note made no sense against the background of the events of 1942 which included the mass transportation of Jews from Western and Central Europe. The respondents sought to cast doubt upon the date of the document and the circumstances in which it came into existence so as to question whether any weight could be given to its contents. Even if it did accurately record a statement of Hitler's views in March 1942, it was likely to be his view not on the Jewish question generally but on the narrower issue of mixed marriages between Jews and Gentiles and the children of such marriages (Mischlinge) (5.155). That question had been discussed at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942 and again discussed at a further conference on 6 March 1942. The allegation against the applicant is that no reputable and objective historian would in the circumstances admit only one possible interpretation of the note.
64. The judge was prepared to assume that the note was a 1942 document but concluded (13.35) that:
"it is (to put it no higher) very doubtful if the Schlegelberger note is evidence of a wish on the part of Hitler to postpone the Jewish question until after the war, that is, to take no offensive action against them of any kind until after the cessation of hostilities. I do not believe that Irving was able to provide a satisfactory answer to the Defendants' question: why should Hitler have decided suddenly in March 1942 to call a halt to a process which had been going on with his authority on a massive scale for at least six months. I am persuaded that, for the reasons advanced by Evans, it is at least equally likely that the note is concerned with the complex problems thrown up by the question how to treat half-Jews (Mischlinge)".
65. The judge went on to state that if the respondents' explanation of the note is correct "the note does not possess the significance which Irving attaches to it".
66. The judge's conclusion was:
"13.36 I do not regard the arguments advanced by Irving, which I have set out at paragraphs 5.165-7, as being without merit: they are worthy of consideration. But I do consider the Defendants' criticism to be well-founded that Irving presents the Schlegelberger note as decisive and incontrovertible evidenced Hitler's War at p 464) when, as he should have appreciated, there are powerful reasons for doubting that it has the significance which he attaches to it. Irving's perception of the importance of the note appears to take no account of the mass murder of the Jews which took place soon afterwards."
67. That conclusion was stated in the context of the judge's earlier opinion (13.32) that "Irving's treatment of the Schlegelberger note and the importance which he attaches to it shed important light on the quality of his historiography". It is clear that the judge has not fully accepted the respondents' attempt to diminish the value of the note. The judge regarded the issues surrounding the note as "worthy of consideration". The criticism of the applicant's historiography is based on the applicant having presented the note as "decisive and incontrovertible evidence". We have been referred, as was the judge, to the applicant's references to the note in his books and speeches. In Hitler's War (1991, p 18) the applicant stated: -Whatever way one looks at this document it is incompatible with the notion that Hitler had ordered an urgent liquidation program". In Hitler's War (1991), p 464, Lammers' statement in the note is said to be "highly significant". In Goebbels (1996), p 388:
"Hitler wearily told Hans Lammers that he wanted the solution of the Jewish problem postponed until after the war was over -- a ruling that remarkably few historians now seem disposed to quote".
68. In a speech to the Institute for Historical Review in 1983, the applicant referred to the note as "the most cardinal piece of proof in this entire story of what Hitler knew about what was going on". At Toronto on 13 August 1988 the applicant referred to the note as the "most compelling document" that Hitler did not know about the extermination of the Jews. He added that "there is no clearer proof than that one document".
69. The judge's use of the expression "decisive and incontrovertible evidence" was a paraphrase of what he considered to be the applicant's views. As such, it was somewhat too strong, in our view. The judge was however correct, in our judgment, both in his view that the applicant's treatment of the note sheds light on the quality of the applicant's historiography and in the substance of his eventual conclusion. A reputable historian would have let his readers and listeners know of the problems involved in assessing the value and effect of the Schlegelberger note and would not have used the language he did. The particular relevance of the issue is that it bears upon the role in events of Hitler himself, an important issue between the parties.
70. Mr Davies urges us not to judge the applicant as a "platform speaker". The fact that some of the strong statements just cited were made in public speeches rather than in written publications does not, in our judgment, greatly lessen their significance in present circumstances. Where, as in some of the instances we have had to consider, the charge is one of incomplete treatment of a range of evidence, it would not be right to demand too stringent a standard of comprehensiveness in formal lectures. Where, however, as with the Schlegelberger note, the charge is the promotion of historical claims on the basis of evidence that the applicant should have known was questionable to the extent that it could not be used in support of those claims without qualification, it seems to us that the conduct is equally open to criticism whether it takes place in a public speech or within the confines of a work of scholarship. In the speeches to which we have been referred, the applicant was presenting himself as a professional historian, entitled to speak as such and entitled to be given credence as such.
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Center made NHL debut for Carolina at Florida in 2011-12
Welsh, 24, is in his first full professional season. He appeared in one game for the Hurricanes, skating 5:46 of ice time during the team's home opener against Tampa Bay. The Bayfield, Ont., native has 13 points (6g, 7a) in 39 games for Charlotte in 2012-13. Welsh made his NHL debut for the Hurricanes in the team's final game of the 2011-12 season, and has now played two career NHL games with Carolina, totaling four penalty minutes. Prior to turning professional, Welsh completed a three-year collegiate career for Union College of ECAC Hockey with 100 points (53g, 47a) in 119 games.