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Tuesday, 08/13/1996
Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN
Soundcheck: Talk (intro, acoustic, x2), Waste (acoustic), Spooky -> Jam
Set 1: DividedDivided Sky, Tube, Tela > Maze, FEFYFast Enough for You > The Old Home Place, PYITEPunch You In the Eye, Llama, Glide, SlaveSlave to the Traffic Light
Set 2: BagAC/DC Bag > LizardsThe Lizards, Mike'sMike's Song > Lifeboy > WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove -> Somewhere Over the Rainbow[1], Waste[2], Train Song[2], Strange Design[2], Sweet Adeline, BowieDavid Bowie
Encore: Sleeping Monkey > Rocky Top
[1] Performed solo by Page on theremin.
[2] Performed on acoustic mini-stage.
Noteworthy Jams: Divided Sky (highly recommended), Slave to the Traffic Light (highly recommended), AC/DC Bag, Mike's Song (highly recommended), Weekapaug Groove
Average Song Gap: 14.3
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Page performed Somewhere Over the Rainbow solo on the theremin. Waste through Strange Design were performed on the acoustic mini-stage. Trey played the composed section to Divided Sky over the soundcheck jam. This show was officially released as Live Phish 12.
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Song Distribution:
3 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
3 The White Tape
2 Billy Breathes
2 Stash
2 Rift
2 A Picture of Nectar
2 Junta
1 Hoist
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This show was part of the "1996 Summer U.S. Tour."
In the twenty-odd Phish shows Ive attended in the past eight years, none stand out in the way this particular concert does. In fact, it was from the release of this show in the LivePhish series in 2002 that my interest in Phish re-emerged. Not only was this performances setlist in top form, displaying a slew of old favorites, rare tunes, and new songs, its quality of performance is almost unparalleled. Indeed, diehards need only look at this show on paper to get excited about what Phish once was, what the band is now, and what it could possibly be in the future.
The band, playing its seventh in the string of a ten show tour in the low-volume summer of 1996, had played some good, but some almost forgettable shows up to this point in the tour. Wolf Mountain, Red Rocks, and Alpine Valley had turned out some good moments, but none, on tape at least, match up to the quality and intensity of this particular night amid the vast cornfields of rural Central Indiana. It was the bands third performance at a now-favorite venue, Deer Creek. To preface, I saw not only the first three shows there, but every subsequent Phish and Phish-oriented Deer Creek performance there (minus the Trey Anastasio Bands appearance in 2002). After fifteen shows in the same spot up to the winter of 2003, none compare to this hot August night.
A positive buzz was in the air as fans and local adventure-seekers alike were herded into the venue grounds. Pre-show shouts for Tela! still resonate in my head when thinking about this Phish show, my personal favorite. After a solid first night in a two night stand which included rarities such as Esther, the first "Weigh" in a while, and McGrupp, both the band and fans alike knew they were in for a special treat.
As the skies opened after a cloudy Indiana summer afternoon, the band opened the lengthy first set with Divided Sky, which was its typical beautiful, moving self. My group and I had been listening to Tube earlier in the day and we were all excited to hear Treys muted strumming of the introduction to this song as the second in the set. Tube rocked hard and led up to the parking lot requested Tela. Subtle, delicate and vastly welcomed, Tela led us to another four-letter titled tune, Maze, which picked up where Tube left off. At this point, with three four-letter songs in a row, perhaps Reba was in store next?
Alas, it was played at Alpine Valley two shows previous, and the band chose to perform a delicately played Fast Enough For You. Punch You In the Eye and Llama got things back to a rocking pace, while the rare Glide was both unexpected and delightful. A climatic Slave to the Traffic Light sent the capacity crowd into the aisles for set break. So far,
we were experiencing a well-played, long-lasting and incredibly enjoyable Phish concert. Never have I witnessed such a well thought-out first set, played with such precision.
Setbreak was its usual lengthy self, but the band certainly made up for whatever yearnings the audience may have had in the second set. A long, tweaked, spacey instrumental groove left myself and most others scratching our heads, as it preceded a focused, hard-rocking AC/DC Bag to open the second set. The crowd-pleasing Lizards was next and got the crowd up and moving if it wasnt all ready. So far, the variety of novelty, vintage Phish was astounding. The omnipresent, but always anticipated Mikes Groove followed. In it, Lifeboy was sandwiched, and provided an excellent rest between a characteristically smoking Mikes Song and a long, incendiary Weekapaug Groove.
Page then entertained the crowd with a frightful Somewhere Over the Rainbow on the theremin on which he had been experimenting that summer. While it was nothing about which to write home, during this time the band rolled out on its mini-stage where it played acoustically for
the next four songs. This was the bands second of three mini-stage performances, and it was a true delight in the way it gave fans a look into the forthcoming Billy Breathes record that was due out in the fall of 1996. Most thought Sweet Adeline would close the set, but the familiar high hat cymbal introduction to David Bowie by our favorite frock-clad drummer caught the audience by surprise. Indeed, it was David Bowie, albeit in short form. While this was the antithesis to some of the spacey, explorative Bowies from 1994 and 1995, this one was focused and driven, capping off a superlative second set.
After the encore that followed, a usually uneventful pairing of Sleeping Monkey and Rocky Top, I heard one individual proclaim that the show was so good that even the "Rocky Top" was almost worthy of "best ever" status. Best ever or not, it sent droves of satisfied fans into the typically crazy Deer Creek parking lots.
Never have I been to a Phish show, other than my first, of course, that was so entertaining from top to bottom that sheer recollection alone enabled me to write a full-length review, such as this, from memory. This has been perhaps the most diverse and compelling Deer Creek show the band has played to date. And that, not coincidentally, says a great deal.
Furthermore, the release of this show on Live Phish was certainly a wise decision by those involved in the production and distribution of that engaging series. Hearing this again, in all its digital glory, led to my inclination in catching four more shows in the band's post-hiatus spring and summer tours of 2003. And I thought I was done with Phish, at least in the live setting. Needless to say, now that these discs are in wide distribution in both the trading and commercial realms, theres no reason not to hear for yourself the magnificent music the band emitted this night in Noblesville.
the divided sky: this was a very cool opener. the band came out in sync and flying high right off the bat. one of the better versions of this song that i have seen.
tube: bam! the first of many treats in the set. sure, these 96 versions arent quite as good as what would come in the next couple of years, but back then, this was damn good fun!
tela: ah, us indiana folk getting dropped tela 2yrs running. another fine version, and this one led into....
maze: here we go... back in serious rocking mode! page and trey kill this maze. there are some very hot licks on this one.
fefy: not my favorite song, but it was a decent mid set slow down tune. it seemed to work well in this slot.
old home place: some nice snappy bluegrass to get everyone going again. nice to get gordo back in the game too.
pyite: like tube, i prefer the versions that would come in the next couple years, but there is a fun simplicity to these shorter versions. not to mention, they always nailed the "landlady" portion of the song, which i have seen them flub pretty badly the last 2 times i've seen them play it in 09. anyway, this was a nice sharp 96 punch. good solid key work by page.
llama: as always, this one was hot from start to finish. once again, page was strong on the keys.
glide: another nice rare treat. this fit in this slot really well coming up right before...
slave!: very good slave. maybe the best i've seen. i've heard many say that this one has dark star teases all over it, but personally, i don't hear it. there are a few very brief passage where i could say maybe, but all in all, i just don't hear it. i do hear a damn fine slave.
set 2
ac/dc bag: a nice rowdy version of bag got the crowd moving in the second set. like pyite and tube, this one was not quite a monster jammer yet, but the boys sounded nice and tight on this one before it gave way to a snappy version of...
lizards: this one fit well out of bag, and was, like everything else this night, played very sharp. it was a last bit of breathing room before they drop a monster on us...
mike's song: this is my all time favorite straight up mike's songs. you get those with all the teases and dipping in out of mike's, but for a straight up jammer, this one takes the cake. after they weaved through a few different "mike's song" style climaxes, gordon and fishman led them into a very dark and exploratory groove. trey and page found there were through this groove and both had some really hot licks before trey moved to the wood blocks. this is also one of my favorite "trey on percussion jams." page had some hot and heavy licks while trey/fish/gordo layed it down. after a good 20+ minutes of jamming they eerily gave way to...
life boy: this one seemed a little darker than normal....
weekapaugh's groove: gordon came out of this one humming and the rest of the band caught on quickly. very good versiion, one of my favorites of the year behind msg in the fall....
sotr: here came the deer creek audience's first taste of the theremin... it would be back next year in a big way..
(acoustic mini set): this is one of 3 outings, along with red rocks and the clifford ball, for the acoustic mini stage. it was a good way to introduce some of the newer billy breathes material. strange design was familiar, but waste and train were hot off the presses. out of the 3, i found train song to be the most interesting.
adeline: a quick accapella number before we do one more quick tune and hit the road right....
david bowie: woah nelly... we already had gotten our money's worth out of this show, but phish threw on a monster bowie closer. they took this one to some deep spacey realm before driving back to the triumphant bowie outro. great set.
sleeping monkey: quick and easy
rocky top: ditto
must hear. great show from start to finish
set 1: the divided sky, tube, tela>maze, llama, glide>slave (yeah pretty much the whole thing)
set 2: mike's>life>paugh (probably a top 5 mike's groove), david bowie
Per livephish recording...
6:55 Mike and Trey play off each other and Page jumps in on the organ. Things get weird quickly. Amazing interplay by the entire band in this segment. Very '94 esque jamming segment here...
8:13 They come back together all at once and rip back into the Mike's song dark nasty groove.
9:30 Trey signals the end of the Mike's jam with the walk up and sustained notes.
9:50 Beginning of the "second" jam of Mike's song. Page goes to grand piano, Fishman settles on a nice tom groove, Trey plays some great trill licks over it. Love the bassline Mike has going.
11:10 Fishman plays a lot of ride/splash cymbals and Trey responds by increasing the tension and frequency of his screaming guitar.
11:55 GOLD. Trey is playing a wall of distortion, locked in with Fishman's cymbal crashes while Mike hammers away a funky bassline and Page rocks the grand piano. This is the type of 'sound' trey often goes for in 2.0 but much more focused and concise.
13:30 Fishman has a nice beat, hitting the splash cymbal on beat. Trey reels it in a bit and goes off with some absolute shredding. Machine gun Trey has been spotted.
15:00 Jam shows signs of slowing down, Mike plays some nice dissonant notes, Trey follows.
15:40 Mike drops a baseline and leads the jam. Page plays some dissonant stuff on the piano, Trey vamps on a riff similar to Mike's bassline. Page seems to be hinting to modulate the jam to major.
17:15 Awesome keyboard work by Page as the jam fizzles a bit though Fishman keeps it driving, eventually switching to a rim and tom driven beat. Mike also helps keep it alive and driving. Trey eventually switches to percussion kit?
20:00 Page drops back to the Grand Piano. 20:40 Page just goes off and Mike lays off his dissonant bass groove. Nice interplay between Page, Gordo and Fish here.
21:30 Trey comes back in with some scratches and feedback distortion and delays. Very cool and patient reentry by Trey. Jam seems like it may take off again when Trey enters with a high sustained note but the jam slowly fizzles into Lifeboy...
I saw most of my shows between 1994 - 2000 and some are very memorable and others not so much. This one is in the former camp. I remember much of the music, but also distinct images: the sea of moving bodies as we walked in during Divided Sky, the guy jumping up and down when they started Tube, the way the music in Lifeboy made it seem like chandeliers were swaying all above our heads, Page dangling the theremin, the band sitting down for the acoustic set and many others.
Everything about this show felt special that night and it has only gotten better over time. Kevin knew what he was doing releasing this show many years ago. It would nearly be impossible to ask for a better setlist and the band had that perfect balance of playing with severe intensity and flawless balance. Too many highlights to mention them all, but the Mike'a really is one of the best versions they've done. I can't recall them playing with such balls to the wall rock while being so cosmic. Really great.
Please do hear this show if you haven't already. It gets my vote as the most underrated show the boys have played.
My brother-in-law is a real sport- he and his wife played Waste at my wedding (on beautiful Lake Michigan) on ukulele and acoustic guitar respectively. I'm lucky as far as brothers go; the guy just keeps on giving!
The Tela is pretty and perfect after a short Tube. Maze is just one of those songs. The theme of the song has lent itself to be a solid crowd pleaser for literally decades. its a sick song . this is a great version.
I heard a FEFY my first show 6/28/95 at Jones Beach. I love the song. that said this is one of my fav versions. They really were laying into this song for about 2 years
the llama is awesome. The boys are felling themselves right now. And as a reviewer mentioned up top, this is a very interesting transition year for the boys.
GLIDE GlIDE GLIDE GLIDE!!!!!!!!!!! ALWAYS
SLaVE set I s=ender is another harbinger. Trey gets a nice country rock riff that lifts this slave to enjoyable heights. this is Fish's year though. listen.......
Did I mention harbingers??? we got a nice little jam before the AC/DC second set opener. Let's get this show on the road!!! Trey laughs after this line. the boys are enjoying themselves. it gets real at 6:50. Fish is a mad man.
u gotta expect a Lizards after a Divided opener. Solid.
This is a quintessential Mike's Song... the first 6 min. are straight ahead rock then they get into hey hole type II territory then bring it back to Mike's with Trey shredding it just for fun and Mission Impossible themeing to boot in a weird way...sick drone vamp jam after the first break. Its really a spaced Simple jam. awesome is really what it is. LISTEN!!!! CHyyUUUUURCH!!!! not to mention a sick keys/drums jam ... listen....
Lifeboy in a show like this serves its purpose. I like the song on its on though;-) one of the great Phish refrains,,, "God Never Listens ....To What I Say.."
CLLLLLAAAAAASSSSSIIIICCCCC Weeekapaugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
for reals. from start to finish. sometimes they don't just lock in . this time they do . AWESOME


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Sony plans to launch the next PlayStation 4 in North America on Nov. 15–likely marking the first time that Sony will sell the console in the U.S. market first, ahead of Japan. It is a departure from tradition and a subtle sign of shifting priorities for the Japanese company.
Historically, Sony has introduced its PlayStation hardware in Japan before rolling out the game system to other markets. This was born from convenience and practicality, because the company used to build its PlayStation consoles in Japan and Japanese consumers strongly supported Sony's videogame offerings.
Now, most of its production is done by contract manufacturers in China and Japanese consumers make up a smaller portion of its customer base.
Sony said it will announce the launch timing of the PS4 in Japan at a Sept. 9 news conference. Sony declined to say when the launch date would be, but the expectation is that Japan will not be first this time around.
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The Economic Clues Are Adding Up (and They're Not Adding Up to Much)
Tell us again, Uncle Ben, about how well the economy's doing.
The Fed's standard line all along has been that it will begin winding down its stimulus programs when it thought the economy was strong enough to handle it. A plethora of economic soundings over the past week or so, with this morning's plunge in durable-goods orders being the latest, are leading to the impression that the economic recovery is faltering.
If the Fed is really basing its QE-taper timetable on the economy, then September seems an odd choice to declare the economy fixed. We mentioned back in July that Wal-Mart's February sales "disaster" was the first clue that something was wrong. Since then, the clues have mainly been pointing in the same direction.
Durable goods orders this morning cratered, falling 7.3% when the consensus was that they'd fall 4%. But the headline numbers are notoriously volatile. These are orders for items designed to last more than three years, like airplanes, so a couple of orders one way or another from Boeing can swing the headline number. One key number used to gauge business spending – nondefense capital goods orders, excluding aircraft – was also weak, falling 3.3%, the first dip in six months.
Like we said, this is a wildly volatile measure, but the report is not an outlier when you plug it into the big picture. The big picture hasn't mattered much to markets this year. But with the Federal Reserve seemingly ready to declare victory in September and begin winding down its stimulus program, the markets might want to start paying attention.
Second-quarter earnings for U.S. retailers have been coming in the past few weeks, and they don't look good. Earnings growth for consumer discretionary has been 4.5%; for staples, it's been 1.3%. It would be one thing if it were one patch of the retail briar, say teen retailers, or department stores. But it's across the landscape, and it can all be boiled down to one common theme: weak demand.
That, in turn, points to an economy that is stubbornly refusing to follow the Fed's timeline in terms of improvement. How the economy (not only here, but overseas as well, apparently) responds to the exit strategy the Fed's putting in place will be a more important question that any tapering schedules.
If you're a cheery, bullish sort perhaps you can brush off the earnings reports as "stale," or old, with a smart-sounding quip about a second-half recovery. If you're less prone to wishful thinking, the numbers are merely an extension of what we've been seeing in retail since February, when Wal-Mart Stores Inc. let the cat out of the bag via some publicized emails in which executives bemoaned the state of sales.
Abercrombie & Fitch second-quarter report may have been on just this side of disaster, and the shares are getting appropriately pummeled. Earnings fell 33%, and the company offered a weak outlook for the rest of the year. A&F isn't the only "teen" retailer getting hit, Aeropostale Inc. and American Eagle Outfitters Inc. had similarly weak earnings reports. Now, we know from reporting elsewhere that it's been a pretty brutal summer for teens on the jobs front, but that's not the only reason retail is suffering.
Now, some broadline retailers, like Sears Holdings Corp. and J.C. Penney Co., are caught in downward spirals of their own making. But, it's not just teen retailers. It's not just aging, decliner broadline retailers. The weakness is showing up at Wal-Mart, it's showing up at Macy's, and it's showing up at Target.
Target Corp. reported second-quarter numbers this past Wednesday, with profit down 13%. While a big cause of that was its costly expansion into Canada, the retailer is also seeing weak sales growth in the States.
Susquehanna Financial's Bob Summers cut Target shares to neutral, citing "commentary concerning the strength of the consumer from a broad set of retailers along with potential back-to-school weakness and the loss of six selling days between Thanksgiving and Christmas." At the same time, the stock was reaching his price target of $73.
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The floor was dusty. Apartment is on the 5th floor without lift (no information on description) Be carefull for additional costs (bed linen, towels, taxes) Cleaning charged per person !!!! Wifi very expensive (24 Euro per week for 1GB) You must pickup and drop key 1,2 miles from apartment. Excellent furnitures on desciption - just typical table with chairs and sofa (nothing special) You must defrozen refrigerator but you cannot turn off. Huge PLUS - location !!!
This was an overall appalling experience and thus has led our family to never rent from Wimdu ever again moving forward. As the photos advertised a lovely apartment (not cheap, I might add - about $300 per night), we realized upon arrival and after reading the fine print that the photos on the post were simply an "example" of an apartment that you MIGHT be placed in. After taking an expensive cab ride to pick up the key and digging through pages of contracts to find the code to unlock the door and the safebox, we then had to take another expensive cab to the other side of the city where the apartment was located. The location was fine but we had to drag our heavy bags up three flights of stairs, because the apartment did not have a lift. When we arrived, the apartment was tiny and nothing like the photos online. The worst part was then at checkout, we were expected to return the key to the safebox again on the other side of town. These people BRIDGESTREET ARE COMPLETE FRAUDS! Do not rent from them. Ever.
Great place to stay during Alp days in Swiss. Charming apartment in a wonderful village with all comfort and home tools. Besides, Patricia the owner is really helpful and make you feel like home. I would recommend this apartment to any traveller.
The place was very clean and big. It had a nice garden that we could use whenever we wanted, which is great if you go with kids. The only problem was that it said the beach was 400m away, which is true but it was 400m of steps, which is a problem when you are coming back and have to go up (with kids, baby and a lot of stuff).
Apart from that, everything was great.
A great apartment well equipped good value for money, with a great view over the marina. This is the fifth time we have been to dives/ cabourg and would definitely stay here again.
The cottage is placed in a scenic surrounding. Even though there are many of them, you hardly recognize the summer houses with their grass roofs in the dunes. The architecture and interior design are nice and appropriate. - We had good luck because our stay was not during the main season, therefore it was quiet all around this week, and we just met two neighbours. The beach is not far away, and it is endless in both directions. - In some details, the cottage and its equipment should be renovated. Mainly the outworn mattresses caused inconvenience, and after our return a slightly bad smell in our clothes and luggage. Furthermore, the kitchen equipment was neither clean nor cutlery complete, therefore we started our holiday with dishwashing and sorting out the stuff we did not want to use for these days. - Nevertheless, it was a great stay, and we enjoyed being there.
Very good situation near the lakes and quite good reception
Wonderful apartment, easy to check in and check out. Great views. Wanted to stay longer but had other bookings. Easy to park. Groceries pretty expensive though and beware of strict refuse disposal that requires special plastic bag (can be bought at landlord office) but not an issue as the whole experience was simply great.
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I am doing A level history (OCR exam board) , I didn't study it at GCSE and have found it increasingly difficult. The teacher i have is in her first year of teaching and isn't as helpful as she could be. She has given us 4 sources and the question 'Use your own knowledge to assess how far the sources support the view that Churchill's wartime leadership was often flawed'. I don't even know where to start and because everyone else in my class seems to know what they are doing I don't like to say I don't understand. I have asked for help before and the advice she gave me was very brief and simple. What I find even more confusing is she has given us a method that is contradicting how our text book tells us how to do it. I have to have this essay in by Friday (she's already extended the deadline twice for me). Please help I just can't seem to get anywhere.
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Posted 14 March 2012 - 07:55 PM
The first thing to say is that A-Level History is not easy, even if you have done G.C.S.E. History (some of my best students didn't do G.C.S.E.).
Before I can go into detail I need to know what Unit you are doing. I suspects it is;
Unit F963 Option B: Modern 18151945: Churchill 192045
However, it may be;
Unit F983: Using Historical Evidence British History: The Impact of War on British Society and Politics since 1900
If you can let me know then I should be able to give you some pointers. If not, then we'll see what we can do.
Posted 14 March 2012 - 09:58 PM
I hope that helps
Thank you so much, any help will be a life saver
Posted 14 March 2012 - 10:49 PM
Thank you so much, any help will be a life saver
Well, let's hope so, but bear in mind that we always urge you to use your teacher as the main source of advice and information.
Right, this looks like a part 'b' question worth 70 marks. This is judged on two different 'Assessment Objectives' (AOs). AO1 could be summarised as how well can you use your historical knowledge to answer a question. Key skills include analysis, judgement and communication. AO2 is analysing and evaluating sources. I'm going to tell you what the mark scheme has to say about a mid-level and a high-level answer.
AO1: (out of 22) A Level 4 answer (9-12) has some analysis and explanation, but not always linked to the question. It will mainly be description and narrative. Some relevant evidence is used, communication is not always clear.
A Level 2 answer (17-19) is mainly focused analysis (i.e analysis which tries to answer the question) leading to a supported judgement based on the content and provenance. In other words, you use the sources to come to a conclusion based on what is in the sources (content) but also looking at their provenance (who wrote/created it, when, whose side were they on etc.) That's easy to understand, but much harder to do. For most people this technique comes with practice.
AO2: (out of 48) A Level 4 answer (21-27) usually deals with the sources one by one, often in order. Probably doesn't cross-reference the sources (i.e. "The assertion by one of his military advisors in Source A that Churchill often lost sight of the bigger picture is backed up by the view of the historian in Source D when he says..."). It may look at the limitations of some sources but doesn't go into detail. Analysis from sources and own knowledge is often not integrated i.e. there is something on the sources, followed by a section of 'own knowledge'.
A Level 2 answer (35-41) groups the sources. Firstly, it looks at all the relevant source material that supports the 'interpretation' (in this case 'Churchill's wartime leadership was often flawed). Try not to do this in source order, perhaps group similar points together. This is why careful reading and planning are so important. Use your own knowledge to back up or disagree with the material from the sources.
Secondly, it looks at the relevant source material that opposes the interpretation, again using relevant own knowledge.
Thirdly, you also need to evaluate the strengths and limitations of the sources in relation to the interpretation. In other words, what strenghts does this source have to help answer the question. Just saying, "This source is useful because the man who wrote it was one of Churchill's advisors.." isn't enough. If you then added "... who had responsibility for assisting the Prime Minister with military planning and therefore know about the strenghths and weaknesses of Churchill as a military leader" would be much better. I don't know whether O.C.R. are happy with you doing this as a separate section or not. Perhaps your teacher has already talked about this.
Finally, you have to come to a conclusion, based on what the sources and your own knowledge, have told you. So, if you feel that almost all the sources and your own knowledge are all pushing you towards saying that Churchill was a total failure as a war leader (bit controversial!) don't then declare that he was a military genius in your conclusion.
The good news is they are not looking for perfection. You are alloowed to include some things that are descriptive, not back up absolutely eveything with own knowledge and fail to evaluate every source to the last detail.
All I have done is paraphrase the mark scheme. These, and thje potentially useful Examiner's Reports are available on this page from OCR.
It's a lot to take in and it takes time to learn. That's why A-Level History is so highly regarded. Have a look and get back to me if you have further questions. Best of luck.
Posted 14 March 2012 - 11:10 PM
Just one more question, our teacher said that we should pick a main theme throughout the comparative essay. If I were to pick out Churchill's personality as a main theme then mention his relationships with the Generals and maybe talk about his obsession over empire building whilst comparing what each source tells me about this, would that work or am I totally wrong. (I have terrible own knowledge and my teacher had to go through each source with me because I just can't figure out what they mean. Dam I sound stupid :/ )
You have given some excellent tips. My teacher has never referred us to the OCR website before, I should of thought of it sooner Thank you
Posted 14 March 2012 - 11:20 PM
That is brilliant
Just one more question, our teacher said that we should pick a main theme throughout the comparative essay. If I were to pick out Churchill's personality as a main theme then mention his relationships with the Generals and maybe talk about his obsession over empire building whilst comparing what each source tells me about this, would that work or am I totally wrong. (I have terrible own knowledge and my teacher had to go through each source with me because I just can't figure out what they mean. Dam I sound stupid :/ )
You have given some excellent tips. My teacher has never referred us to the OCR website before, I should of thought of it sooner Thank you
If that's what your teacher said, go with it. The ideas you mention are all relevant; Churchill was often impulsive (e.g. the offer of union with France in 1940), expected his staff to work at all hours of the day and night and was always looking at the Imperial angle (e.g he didn't want the USA to replace Britain as the dominant power in S.E. Asia). Don't be too dismissive of your own knowledge; most AS students have to start from scratch. However, you will need to ensure you have enough to work with (examples are always good in essays). The OCR website is designed for teachers, not students. However, it's well worth having a look at it.
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Draft 3 of GPLv3 should be out Real Soon Now, so I'd like to review some of the topics. I couldn't find a thorough explanation of how GPLv3 will deal with the "anti-circumvention" clauses of the DMCA and it's EU counterpart, the the EUCD (see Article 6), so here's my layperson understanding.
These laws harm society in a number of ways. Some general information can be found on FSFE's EUCD page but here I just want to look at how these laws could cause problems for free software developers and distributors, and what free software licences can do about them.
I see two potential problems:
- A copyright holder could publish a work and authorise one free software application to access that work, and if a software developer wrote another application to access that same work, the copyright holder could accuse the second developer of copyright infringement for using an unauthorised piece of software to access the copyrighted work.
A copyright holder could publish a work and publish a free software program that is authorised for accessing that work, but if a software developer modified that free software program, the copyright holder could accuse that software developer of copyright infringement for using software other than the single authorised version.
I hope both cases would be thrown out of court by any judge, but there's no reasons to leave it to chance or to leave such uncertainty there.
Section 3 of Draft 2 of GPLv3 contains this wording:
No Denying Users' Rights through Technical Measures..
Regardless of any other provision of this License, no permission is given for modes of conveying that deny users that run covered works the full exercise of the legal rights granted by this License..
No covered work constitutes part of an effective technological "protection" measure under section 1201 of Title 17 of the United States Code. When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid circumvention of technical measures that include use of the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or modification of the work as a means of enforcing the legal rights of third parties against the work's users..
The meat is in the last paragraph. Sentences one and two seem to address problems one and two, respectively, that I described above.
Some people have wondered if this will work. Some say this is like declaring "this leaf is not cannabis" - but the situations are not analogous. That cannabis leaves are what they are is a fact of nature, but whether or not a software mechanism is an anti-circumvention system, that depends on the intent of the person who created the mechanism. Eben Molgen answered this last June:
I expect that US courts will be instructed on the intention of the licensor to reject the features of DMCA as it applies to GPL software. I expect the United States courts to listen closely to statements of the licensor's intent, because under US copyright law it is the licensor's intent which normatively determines the content of licence..
In the typically cuatious words of a lawyer, I guess he's saying that he can't predict the future but it looks like it should work.
Another document with information about this the "Opinion on DRM" which was published along with draft 2 of GPLv3:
The rise of free software is accompanied by a rise in the incentives for opponents to find loopholes and ways to exploit our licences. The extra clarifications like these are being added to the licence to protect the right of everyone to modify the software and distribute modified versions. These clarifications make the licence longer, but I think they reduce complexity at the same time because if GPLv3 said nothing about certain issues, then users of the GPL would have to additionally investigate the status of a program that has no explicit statement about that issue.
A complete solution to the EUCD/DMCA involves getting laws changed, and that means either getting involved in lobbying or supporting lobby groups which are representing positions you agree with. Like software patents, GPLv3 can't make the whole of this problem go away, but it can protect us in some situations, so now is the time to think of when and how GPLv3 can protect us in these and similar situations.
Ciarán O'Riordan, - Support free software: Join FSFE's Fellowship
"The world consists of US"
Anybody to tell the kind guys of FSF that the US Code is not the only law systemin existence? Eg. "under the appropriate parts of the local laws" instead of "section 1201 of Title 17 of the United States Code"? (IANAL; a better wording can be chosen, but you get the idea.)
They already know
The FSF has in fact gone to considerable effort to make sure that the GPL satisfies not only US laws, but those from many other jurisdictions. If you check the rationale you'll see that your criticism is unfounded:
IANAL either, so I can't comment on the particular sentence you quote. However, from what I've read and heard from Eben Moglen, I am confident that the legal team working on the GPL is very much aware of non-US legal systems, and they are making every effort to internationalize the license.
IANAL, but ...
... perhaps the last paragraph should start with the words "As such" to emphasize that the reference to U.S. section 1201 of Title 17 is but one example for the the preceding sentence so a clever lawyer does not try to call the meaning of the previous sentence into question when dealing with a different law.


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Jordyn Lynn and Jacob Aaron Conley, infant twins of Robert and Candy Conley of New London, Mo., passed away Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, at the Hannibal Regional Hospital.
Cremation arrangements have been made under the direction of the James O'Donnell Funeral Home of Hannibal.
No services are planned at this time.
Jordyn Lynn and Jacob Aaron Conley were born and passed away on Oct. 4, 2012, in Hannibal, Mo.
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PARKERSBURG - The past year has been a positive one for the Chamber of Commerce of the Mid-Ohio Valley, as more than 200 local business leaders and representatives gathered Tuesday night for the final Business After Hours meetings of the year.
Chamber President and CEO Jill Parsons, who just marked her second year in the chamber's top leadership position, said events like Tuesday's after-hours meeting are an important tool for local businesses of all types and sizes.
"For our members, a lot of people use the Business After Hours as a networking opportunity. It's a chance to bring your business cards and meet other chamber members because you never know when you might have a need for their product or service," she said.
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Vernadette Harris, left, and Tammy Reynolds, with Comfort Suites in Mineral Wells, enjoy refreshments at Tuesday's Chamber of Commerce of the Mid-Ohio Valley's Business After Hours at the Blennerhassett Hotel.
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The Chamber of Commerce of the Mid-Ohio Valley held its final Business After Hours meeting of the year Tuesday at the Blennerhassett Hotel. Nearly 200 business leaders and representatives attended the chamber event.
"It's really about being out there, making those connections, being seen and knowing what resources are available in our community," Parsons said.
Sandy Harris, a sales representative for NOE Office Equipment in Parkersburg, was among the business representatives attending Tuesday's event.
Harris said NOE is a longtime member of the chamber, which he believes is a positive influence in the community.
"A lot of people in today's society want to do business with other members, or in groups with them," he said.
Meetings like the Business After Hours, lunches and similar activities allow local business people to meet, talk and learn about each other in a more casual atmosphere and that can be a positive factor, he said.
The past year has a been a good one for the chamber in the Mid-Ohio Valley, Parsons said. Forty members joined the chamber in 2012, mostly new businesses but also including a number of existing businesses, which saw the benefits of membership and decided to become involved, she said.
Special events and activities started the previous year continued to grow and allow the organization to build on those successes, including the annual chili cookoff at Point Park, the chamber's annual awards dinner and the Spring Business Expo.
The chamber's ongoing programs also remained popular, including Lunch and Learn sessions and the Business After Hours gatherings, both of which are already booked through next May.
One new program this year was a Women in Leadership Luncheon, which drew a lot of interest and success.
"It was for women executives, a day to really kind of network with other female leaders and executives in the Mid-Ohio Valley," she said.
The chamber's members started a "Lunch Mob" program when members and the general community were encouraged to all eat lunch together at the same time on the same day at a member restaurant. The program was successful and the chamber plans to continue it in the coming year.
Parsons is interested in expanding the concept into a "Cash Mob" for small businesses in the local area.
Looking ahead at 2013, Parsons said the focus for now will remain on those existing programs and activities and working to continue to build and improve them.
"From our perspective, we're always looking at what do our members need," she said.
The chamber encourages input from its members and the community about what they think is needed in the local area, she added.


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Chief Charlo of the Salish VOLUME 16, NUMBER 22 THE HUNTING New eligibility rules Indian Health Service to adjust client roster over the next year Remember last summer when everyone was urged to testify at a public hearing in Pablo on the subject of IHS eligibility changes? Eleven thousand pages of transcripts later after 120 hearings across Indian Country, the federal government has proposed a revised set of rules that is scheduled to go into effect March 16, 1988. The new eligibility rules, as published in the Federal Register on Sept 16, are: • Beneficiaries must be enrolled members of a federally recognized tribe AND live in a designated health-service delivery area (on or near the Flathead Reservation, in the case of the Flathead Service Unit) • The Tribal-membership requirement will be waived in the case of Indian children 18 years of age and younger who have at least one natural parent who's eligible for IHS services. • A former resident of a designated health-service delivery area who is otherwise eligible (enrolled or a minor first-generation descendent) may receive direct services (offered at IHS-funded facilities such as the dental clinic in St. Ignatius) but not contract health care services. • Anyone on IHS now who won't be eligible under the new rules will receive services for six months after the March 1988 date. During this transition period, which will end Sept. 16, 1988, they'll have time to find alternatives for future health care, such as private insurance or county or state aid. The one-year transition period will also enable persons eligible but not enrolled as Tribal members to seek Tribal membership. Additional provisions are made for those under IHS care on the last day of the transition period or who have chronic degenerative conditions. Deleted from the final rules are two provisions that appeared in a notice of proposed rulemaking published June (Concludes on page two) © 00 in Z 0> *SJ 00 Z o> O 00 3| C/5 5/5 Last notice of primary deadline This Friday (Oct. 16) is the deadline for signing up as a candidate for Tribal Council — see the election notice elsewhere in this issue for full particulars. A special note for Arlee hopefuls: When you file your candidacy, indicate which term you're interested in — the two-year, recently vacated one, or the regular four-year term. The names of the top two vote-getters for each of the six terms will appear on the general election ballot to be decided Dec. 12. As we go to press, only two candidates have publicly declared themselves: Louie Adams, Arlee incumbent, and Vic Stinger. ^Pablo's representative since 1972._.
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retire 1
1 [no object] Leave one's job and cease to work, typically upon reaching the normal age for leaving employment: he retired from the navy in 1966
More example sentences
- Fixed annuities help stabilize income from investments, and are most commonly used by people who are not fully participating in the workforce, are about to retire or have retired.
- He had been a merchant seaman man and boy, covering some fifty years and he was so accustomed to shouting just to be heard that he couldn't stop doing it now that he'd retired.
- Beginning with an instructorship at Yale in 1909, he taught on a full-time basis for 51 years until retiring in 1960 at the age of 80.
give up work, stop working, stop work;
pack it in, call it quits
1.1 [with object] Compel (an employee) to leave their job, especially before they have reached the normal age for leaving employment: the home office retired him
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- The question here is whether a transfer of property that extinguishes the trust by merging the beneficial and legal interest can in any sense be said to retire a trustee.
- By retiring officers unfit for active service, this group attempted to revolutionize the navy's traditional system of promotion.
- By and large, the throngs of steelworkers have been retired by computers and automated controls that now watch over every aspect of the steel-making process.
force to retire, give someone the golden handshake/parachute
1.2(Of an athlete) cease to play competitively: he retired from football several years ago
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- When a superstar retires, the price is based on his racetrack performance.
- Bird was my favorite player and when he retired from basketball, I lost interest in the game.
- Only the nobility were allowed to take part in jousting tournaments though Henry VIII had to retire from the sport as he was seriously injured in a jousting tournament in 1536.
1.3(Of an athlete) withdraw from a race or match, typically as a result of accident or injury: he was forced to retire to the bench [with complement]: Stewart retired hurt
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- The game turned out to be his last professional outing, as unnecessary injury problems forced yet another player to retire early.
- A pity Shane had to retire through injury for the last quarter.
1.4 [with object] Baseball Put out (a batter); cause (a side) to end a turn at bat: the pitcher retired twelve batters in a row
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- But Budde settled down and retired the next three batters.
- It requires retiring all twenty-seven batters in order, without allowing a single runner.
- Scobie took the mound for the seventh, retiring the first batter.
1.5 [with object] Economics Withdraw (a bill or note) from circulation or currency.
Example sentences
- Instead, Congress cranked up the printing press and called on the states to levy taxes to retire the bills.
- Their issues of paper currency were retired at their original purchasing-power values; depreciation was not a serious problem.
1.6 Finance Pay off or cancel (a debt): the debt is to be retired from state gaming-tax receipts
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- When your clients are running late on their payments, it is unlikely that they will be able to retire the entire balance in one payment.
- After the war ended in 1816, these taxes were repealed and instead a high tariff was passed to retire the accumulated war debt.
- Most discussions of the surplus involve retirement of the publicly held debt, but once this debt has been retired, the surplus has to be redirected elsewhere.
2Withdraw to or from a particular place: she retired into the bathroom with her toothbrush
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- Later that evening after they had all finished their Christmas dinner, Sam retired to the window seat to read one of the new books she had gotten from Bryant.
- At the outbreak of the Civil War he retired to Montgomery Castle and declined to become involved.
- At half-past seven the onlookers had retired to safe positions five or six hundred yards away.
withdraw, go away, take oneself off, decamp, shut oneself away
formal repair
literary betake oneself
2.1(Of a military force) retreat from an enemy or an attacking position: lack of numbers compelled the cavalry to retire
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- The great black dragon was forced to retire from the fight.
- To the north of Ypres the Germans, by employing a large quantity of asphyxiating bombs, the effect of which was felt for a distance of a mile and a quarter behind our lines, succeeded in forcing us to retire.
- Yermati led a tactical retreat and the elves retired to their kingdom.
retreat, withdraw, pull back, fall back, disengage, back off, give ground
2.2 [with object] Order (a military force) to retreat: the general retired all his troops
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- From a military point of view, when you get into those situations, it makes sense to retire, withdraw, tactically or strategically, in order to reshape the war in a way that you can win it.
2.3(Of a jury) leave the courtroom to decide the verdict of a trial.
Example sentences
- The trial continued the next day and the jury retired to consider their verdict.
- The jury retires to consider its verdict - the jurors go into the jury room.
- After three days of courtroom arguments, the 12 men of the jury retire to decide if the boy is guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
2.4Go to bed: everyone retired early that night
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- MaryAnn wasn't worried about Lizzie because Lizzie rarely had plans for a Saturday night and usually retired early.
- The music started to die down, and the king announced for everyone to retire for the night.
- Late that night, after everyone had retired, I sat up in bed, listening to the chirps of the night creatures.
go to bed, call it a day, go to sleep
informal turn in, hit the hay, hit the sack
retirer noun
- Example sentences
- Mr Proffitt added: 'We will continue to develop our programme which is aimed at showing early retirers the many opportunities which are available to them, now they have more time.'
- 'Then there are the 'reticent retirers' who, on finding themselves stuck at home with a partner every day, are quite likely to escape back into the workforce.
- Already there seems to be considerable discrimination against older people in the jobs market and it's no good going on about late retirement if employers aren't going to give jobs to the late retirers.
Mid 16th century (in the sense 'withdraw (to a place of safety or seclusion)'): from French retirer, from re- 'back' + tirer 'draw'.
This was first used in the sense 'withdraw (to a place of safety or seclusion)'. French retirer is the source, from re- 'back' and tirer 'draw'. The sense 'withdraw from a job' is late 17th century.
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retiré 2
noun (plural same)Ballet
A movement in which one leg is bent and raised at right angles to the body until the toe is in line with the knee of the supporting leg.
Example sentences
- The orchestra stopped, and she continued to stay on pointe; sometimes moving from retiré into a la seconde, sometimes from retiré into arabesque.
- Put your hands on your shoulders or hips and just turn from the force of pushing up out of the demi plié and the working leg turning out as you place it into retiré and begin the turn.
French, literally 'drawn back'.
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LOS ANGELES -- The punishment may not have fit the crime. But it probably fit Raffi Torres.
His suspension for the rest of the Sharks' playoff series against the Los Angeles Kings was slightly stunning. Two games seemed the most lenient outcome and four games the most severe possibility, but this could be six. Yet when you consider Torres' track record of previous violations and suspensions, he is in no position to argue. Neither are the Sharks. They signed him knowing this could happen.
And now, the stark truth is that Torres may not ever pull on a San Jose Sharks sweater again. If Los Angeles wins the series, Torres will play no more this season. And on July 1, he becomes an unrestricted free agent, eligible to sign a contract with any NHL team. Doug Wilson, the Sharks' general manager, had expressed interest in offering Torres a multi-year deal before the free agent signing period begins. It's uncertain how the suspension will affect those plans.
Torres was not here Thursday night at Staples Center. After receiving his suspension that will eliminate him from the rest of the Sharks playoff series against the Kings, he and Wilson flew directly back to San Jose from their punishment hearing with NHL officials in New York. He'll join his teammates there when they return from Southern California for Game 3 and Game 4 at HP Pavilion. But he can only skate and stay ready for a potential trip to the Western Conference Finals, if the Sharks can beat the Kings.
His absence will make that task markedly more difficult. When he joined the San Jose roster early last month via trade, he was expected to provide a hard-hitting presence and energy on the third or fourth lines. But he became a valuable part of the team's offense and contributed some key goals in the closing stretch of the regular season as well as the winning goal in Game 2 against Vancouver in the first round. Martin Havlat's injury had placed Torres alongside Logan Couture and Patrick Marleau on the Sharks' top scoring line.
Theoretically, the Kings will be hurt just as much by the absence of centerman Jarret Stoll, the player who Torres knocked out of Game 1 with his open-ice check. Stoll sustained a likely concussion and did not dress for Thursday's Game 2. Word is, he'll be out at least for the first four games and perhaps longer. Stoll is Los Angeles' third line centerman, a good faceoff man. He entered the series with the most playoff points scored against the Sharks of any player on the Kings' roster.
Los Angeles coach Darryl Sutter minced no words in saying that in terms of the Stoll-Torres missing-games tradeoff, Stoll "was quite a bit more important to us than theirs." But the lack of Torres' physicality on the ice, which seemed to lift the Sharks' general intensity level, is difficult to quantify. The rest of the series should give us a read on that.
And whenever their playoff run is complete, Wilson and Shark management have a decision to make. Do they want to re-sign Torres for all the excellent stuff he did, for the way he contained his worst tendencies to become such an important player? Or do they want to risk that, knowing any step over the line is bound to receive more severe suspensions than for the average player? Cynically, you could probably say Torres' latest suspension will make him cheaper to sign for upcoming seasons. But that should not be the primary concern. The primary concern should be whether you will have Torres for 82 games a season rather than 50 or 60 because of potential suspensions.
Joe Pavelski, one of Torres' Shark teammates, said Thursday morning that he was convinced Torres was trying to keep his hit legal against Stoll in Game 1, but the speed of hockey -- Stoll leaned over to collect a puck with his hand and put his head in a vulnerable position just as Torres approached-- turned the hit into an illegal one. Torres never launched himself or went directly for Stoll's chin. If Torres had really wanted to damage Stoll badly, the hit could have been much harder. But should that earn Torres any consideration at all?
Barry Melrose, the ESPN hockey analyst, complimented Torres on the way he attempted to reform his game following a 21-game suspension for a bad hit in last spring's playoff. That doesn't mean Torres will receive a break from the league office moving ahead, Melrose said after Thursday's suspension was announced.
"He had an effective year," Melrose said. "But he can't do this any more. He can't put himself in that position any more. Because he's going to be suspended when it happens. Because if he hits somebody, he's guilty."
Torres has earned the respect and support of his Shark teammates during his brief time with the team. Will he get to play with them again this spring? Or next season? The answer to the first question could provide the answer to the second question.


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Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died of a heart attack at 6:30 this morning according to the New York Times. We TV-nerds remember him as George Constanza's boss, and pay tribute with this clip from Seinfeld.
Here's a bunch of "George Steinbrenner moments" from the show where Larry David voiced him.
"Jerry, it's Frank Costanza! Mr. Steinbrenner's here, George is dead, call me back!"


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Topic: This is for Jessie.
My sister said "if I am going to die from this cancer people are going to learn from it."
Medically speaking it may be sometime down the road before they figure out a cure, but through her blog she has shown her strength and courage for her will to live. She has shown us how to appreciate the little things in life we take for granted. She has shown us how her positive attiude is addictive. She is not afraid to talk about it and she wants to educate.
Though I talk to her almost everyday I still enjoy reading her blog every morning.
Jessie, you are my role model and my HERO.


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Prague Company Creates World's Biggest London Panorama
The world's biggest panoramic photo of London was unveiled last night, shot from the roof of the BT Tower by a Prague-based company.
The 320-gigapixel image made of 48,640 images stitched seamlessly together shows a full 360-degree view of the city. It's possible to zoom in and out to see incredible detail as well as sweeping context. 360Cities, a Prague-based panoramic photo specialist firm, produced the images.
A team of three photographers and specialists took five days in early November to shoot the image using robotic panorama heads positioned in four locations on the 29th-floor outdoor platform of the BT Tower.
"Software and hardware were pushed to the limits, and rain, wind and other potential stumbling blocks had to be dealt with," said Steve Hercher, director of 360Cities.
The digital picture is so large that if printed at standard photographic resolution the London panorama would be 98 meters across by 24 meters tall, almost as big as Buckingham Palace, BT said.
The telecommunications company sponsored the photo to commemorate the Olympic and Paralympic events held in London last year.


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I am currently in that level of hell reserved for people who upgrade their GNU/Linux system too quickly. I have for some time now been happily using KDE 4 with the plasma desktop enjoying the cute little animations and eye candy, and learning to use the task-bar and widgets. Then my bliss was interrupted by a simple mistake. I decided to upgrade. I forgot that my
/etc/apt/sources.list was set to load experimental versions of the software, and now my X-server system is broken. It is only now that I am discovering that there is no
apt-get undo.
But to understand best how I got here, let me give you a little history. This year, I saved my pennies and bought a laptop -- an Acer Aspire Timeline which has a rated battery life of 7 or 8 hours. I wanted this because of my habit of stopping in the middle of projects and carting my laptop around with me. I'd get up in the morning, start a project, close the lid, and hours later open the lid and finish. This doesn't work if your laptop has only a two hour battery life.
After all, the new version was just a bug fix, right?
So, happily, I bought the laptop and wiped windows off of the system, installing Debian GNU/Linux in its place. The problem was that, at that time, there were no drivers for my laptop in the 'stable' version of Debian, so I had to download drivers from the 'unstable' version of the software.
Now Debian has at least three versions of their software available at any one time. The main Debian GNU/Linux system is called 'stable'. The version with some newer components is called 'testing', and the version with all of the brand-spanking-new software that is largely untested is called 'unstable' or 'sid'. It is named after the demented kid in the original Toy Story movie. This image is there to remind you that if you want to run your system with only experimental software, then you are crazy.
Now I am not insane normally, but I do like to be on the cutting edge, so I run my system on 'testing'. It allows me to try out programs a little earlier, and makes me feel a little bit adventurous, but sometimes the software still has some annoying bugs in it.
Back to KDE 4. I was running the plasma-desktop and kept getting crash errors. It was weird, because for the most part the system didn't stop working, but I got errors saying some part of it had crashed. Most of the time I could ignore these and go on. Even so, I went to the KDE main site to see if there was a bug fix. Reading the page, I saw that KDE version 4.4.5 was mostly just a bug fix. Maybe if I could just upgrade this one program, I would stop the crash warnings. After all, the new version was just a bug fix, right?
Now although you can with some software just download a version from the website of each provider and set it up independently, Debian is an integrated system with dependencies. The proper way to get new software is download the official package using their
apt-get program. Now you have to realize that normally I love
apt-get. I've even made comments like "
apt-get happiness" and other silly jokes of the type usually reserved for python programmers. But when I decided to upgrade to the 'unstable' version of KDE in order to get that "bug fix" I was making a mistake.
You see, KDE is not just one program, and it has lots of dependencies, so when I upgraded the program, I upgraded all these dependencies as well to the 'unstable' versions, and one of them was not quite ready for prime time. The result was that when I try to login, after a few flashes of the screen, I get thrown out of KDE to the blinking cursor of the command line.
Lack of access to the internet makes me feel a bit like I've gotten a partial lobotomy
Now the command-line doesn't scare me, but not having an X-server does. It means no music, or videos, or access to my web browser! Now I don't know about you, but lack of access to the internet makes me feel a bit like I've gotten a partial lobotomy. It's amazing how senile you feel when you can't remember the name to a movie and their is no IMDB or Wikipedia to search.
I have to get it to work again or... or... the alternative is not worth thinking of! And so I read the man page in search of the undo button. There has to be an
apt-get undo. Just let me undo the last thing I did, and go back to the blissful world where all I had were a few crashes that really didn't hurt anything instead of this black flashy nothingness of despair.
But what I find after a borrowed search on my husband's computer is that the official policy is that people shouldn't ever downgrade packages. The system isn't designed to do it, and there are tales on the internet of people who have tried and been stuck with hopelessly broken systems. So there is no easy way to do it.
But I tell you that people make mistakes, and until we in the free software community start making allowances for people's stupidity instead of sitting on our high-horses talking about how 'those "win-doze" people are sheep who want everything done for them', we are never going to get the GNU/Linux platform on the majority of desktops.
The official policy is that people shouldn't ever downgrade packages
I tell you (from my text editor) that a broken X-server is every bit as traumatic as the old "blue screens of death" were, and it doesn't help when one realizes that searching for help usually reveals nothing but a few snide insults and a comment that when you start needing to downgrade packages, you're only a step away from needing to reinstall your system.
So what is the point of this article you ask? What do I want?
Well, I would love the APT developers to write an undo function of some kind into the apt program; I would love somebody to fix the bug in x-session that makes KDE crash on login; and I would love people in the free software community to be a little more tolerant of people who don't always do the right thing the first time. I would love everyone to help free software newbies, and congratulate them on daring to try to solve their own problems rather than mindlessly following the crowd because it's easier. But most of all, I just would like my x-server to work, and to see my desktop again even without the eye candy.
So when my courage comes back, I'll try removing individual packages the old-fashioned way, and hope that I'll get back some kind of desktop system. And yes, I'll file the bug report when I get my browser back.
Wish me luck!
On the cutting edge with debian????
Impossible, even if you use sid or sidux. I try it so long, until I switched to ubuntu and mint.
If you want to stay with a working debian system with cutting edge applications you have to try Mepis.
I'm a little confused
I'm a little confused. You started by saying your sources.list was "set to load experimental versions of the software" and then started talking about sid. I know I'm probably going to get shot down for being pedantic but sid packages are unstable not experimental. "Experimental" is another packaging level above sid. It's reserved for packages that are being tried out to see if they fit within Debian (over-simplification). They will almost certainly render your system broken (as opposed to Sid's "possibly") and they can only be installed if you specifically tell apt to do so. That is, experimental is not a "version" of Debian you can upgrade to. You add experimental packages to a Sid install.
But enough pedantry (see told you I would be called that). I sympathise with you. I even did a TBC cartoon about this very subject a while back. That said, having some way to undo an upgrade would be handy but it is fraught with difficulties. I think sometimes we users are fooled into the smooth way apt et al handles upgrades. It leads us to believe it's a much simpler process than it actually is. I guess the only way to really be sure here would be to backup your entire system and not just the data.
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"Bang!" -- I'm shooting you down for being pedantic!
If you look very carefully, you'll see that she used "sid" as a literal, and "experimental" as ordinary English.
Actually, you really have to be an insider to even notice there is an "experimental" set of packages. ;-)
yeah I know
Actually in the context given it's difficult (for me anyway) to interpret whether she meant "the packages are experimental ones" or "the packages have been labelled experimental by Debian". Thus my confusion ( which it's true probably stemmed from my over-sensitive pedantic gland :) )
I was trying to say that the packages in Sid are not experimental ones. That is they are not being tried out to see _if_ they will end up in Testing or Stable - that decision has already been made. It's more a case of Debian saying "these are a work in progress and they might break your system". The experimental ones (in the Debian and English sense of the word) are more of "We're trying these out to see if they'll fit in Debian and what issues putting them in might raise".
It's semantics I know and I wasn't trying to shoot Rosalyn down at all. I was just trying to clear something up.
And yes while you have to be an insider to know about the Debian experimental I would say almost all of those who do are running Sid.
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Feasability of APT undo
Actually, Ryan, I think it would be entirely possible to make the APT system recover its previous state.
The only real problem is remembering what packages are installed and making sure they are available to reinstall.
(Theoretically, there could be some problems with broken packages and install/uninstall scripts -- but Debian has a really good track record, and I almost never see those kinds of problems. The problem Rosalyn describes here -- simply installing a bad package, but not being able to back up because of "deb hell" -- is much more common. I've encountered it several times, and it's the most common reason for me to have to reinstall Debian from scratch).
In a previous conversation about this, it was pointed out to me that an "undo" would "require" the distribution archives to be very stable (i.e. that the packages are all still on the server).
But in fact this idea is outdated. Consider how cheap hard drive space is nowadays. It would be trivial nowadays to assign a large amount of cache space on the hard drive to simply keep copies of ALL of the Debian packages that are currently installed (there is already a cache, it's just a matter of making it bigger and changing the rules for when a package can be deleted).
Of course, this should be up to the user, but there's no reason why there couldn't be an option and a debconf question for APT to ask whether you want to retain an "undo" capability for APT by storing all packages.
If you run out of room, then the APT programs should warn you before deleting files to make room for new downloads -- and allow you to assign some alternate space. ("Apt cannot undo this action, unless you provide additional cache space..." etc).
Back when hard drives were small, this would've been kind of insane. But today, I don't think it's that big of a deal.
It's feasible. A lot of work, of course, but feasible.
And if such a feature were available, I would definitely use it myself (understanding that I would need a much bigger /var partition).
I can see your point but I really wouldn't want to try and diagnose an issue where the packages are from mixed repositories in the way you describe. Yes it's possible and yes it can be managed but the potential for creating a mess is huge. The problem is not remembering which packages (that is already possible) but the versions as well.
As said - and taking your point about cheap storage - perhaps the best way is to back up or mirror your entire system or even everything except the data directory onto a redundant drive. That gives you the unique configuration of your system.
Actually -- partially inspired by Rosalyn's piece -- I have a piece in the pipeline about another possible assistance to (rather than solution for) this issue -
dpkg --get-selection. Watch this space as they say.
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AFAIK, dpkg --get-selections
dpkg --get-selections is not a solution.
The problem is that it records package names, but not versions (unless there's an extra switch I don't know about). I'll have to check into the apt-show-versions suggestion you mentioned later.
APT already caches packages it has downloaded. It just doesn't give you any control (or warnings) over when it deletes them. (That would require changes to the code).
'dpkg-query' instead of 'dpkg --get-selections'?
dpkg --get-selections is not a solution.
The problem is that it records package names, but not versions (unless there's an extra switch I don't know about).
No, that won't record versions, but something like
dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package} ${Version}\n' > ~/list.packagenames.versionnumbers.$(date -I)
might be helpful, with some filtering of
/var/lib/dpkg/status so only
Status: install ok installed packages are returned.
Thanks for prodding me to think about this. I could add that to
/etc/crontab and have the file contents mailed to me locally and to my external email.
apt-get undo is an effectively unreachable goal, maybe an
apt-snapshot is reachable. Too bad
/var/lib/dpkg/status does not have the repo from where the .deb came, like
apt-cache policy does.
I did say it was not a solution
I did say it was not a solution but an assistance :)
Actually if you are resorted to reinstalling from scratch then get-selections can be of great assistance. It gives you a list of what packages you had installed. Version numbers won't be such an issue if you are switching repositories from say sid to testing or stable. In those instances I'd have thought the aim was to get the software you were using in the version that are the latest for the repo you are using. If you are after an exact replication - including version and configuration - then backup is your only option but using
get-selections can help as when you come to install apt will bork if you come to install clashing packages.
BTW apt does give you warnings when it is about to remove packages (which it will only do as part of a dist-upgrade anyway). The problem is that the list is tucked between the packages-to-be-updated and packages-to-be-installed lists so when doing an dist-upgrade it's easy to lose amodst all the info that whizzes past. I've lost KDE this way before now (even wrote a Bizarre Cathedral strip about I recall).
The dpkg piece is up now but you probably figured that out by now ;)
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One more positive suggestion
Rosalyn, this may be like someone saying "mind your head" just after you've walked into a low-hanging branch but if you are going to run Sid you might find apt-show-versions and particularly apt-listbugs useful. I wrote a piece on apt a while back if it helps.
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A Day to Remember... A Beautiful October Wedding at Tarrytown House Estate
Irene and Marshall had the most gorgeous October afternoon to begin to celebrate their Wedding at Tarrytown House Estate. The Bride was stunning in her photos throughout the 26-acre grounds and the evening Wedding Ceremony on the West Terrace captured their happiness. The Biddle Mansion served as the host for this classic Autumn affair here at the Estate!
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I started using PMS about 2 months ago, and it worked fine, plug and play, no problems. Then, since my computer is old and crappy, I decided to wipe my drive and start fresh. I reinstalled PMS but now it won't stream anything.
New things that happen that didn't before: It tries to transcode now, which it never did before. It gets to about 10%, fails, does it again, then says -99,949,008,320 bytes for "Transcoding buffer status". This happens every time, for every video. And nothing plays on the client.
I'm mainly trying to stream to my Android phone and tablet, both using BubbleUPnP and MoboPlayer, and also my Sony Blu-Ray Player.
Again, everything worked fine before the wipe, with the same client-side settings and stuff.
Is there something I missed in the reinstallation that I'm forgetting?
(Mac OS 10.7.4, PMS 1.52.1, Java 6)
(Oh, also, the phone is an HTC Thunderbolt running 2.3.8 CyanogenMod, the tablet a Galaxy Tab 8.9 running custom 4.0.3)


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Hundreds of students wore black to school today in rememberance of two teens killed in Sunday's crash. 18-year-old Taylyr Cochran was the captain of the Holt varsity baseball team before he graduated last year.
"We got so close. He was like a brother to me," said Holt High School baseball player Josh Rios.
"If we were ever down, he was the one to bring us back," said another Holt baseball player Jordan Mata.
Holly Bossenberry, 17, was a senior on the varsity gymnastics team.
"She was one of two seniors on the team and was a leader. She kept up the team spirit and moral at practice," said Varsity gymnastics coach Kristyn Dehne.
Holt High School has seven grief counselors available to students throughout Monday. Administrators excused dozens of students who visited varsity football captain Anthony Harris at Sparrow Hospital.
He taught me how to keep fighting and that's what he's doing now," said Holt football player James Jones.
Friends left flowers at the scene that still has broken glass and debris from the crash. School administrators say it is a tough job to try and prevent accidents like this.
"We tell them to always be careful, don't drink, drive safe. We always tell our students this," said Holt High School's assistant principal Ann Coe.
Now students are listening.
"It doesn't matter how they say it, people don't pay attention until something happens. But when something like this happens everyone will learn a lesson," said senior football player Curtis Nick.
The other two seniors in the car including the driver suffered lesser injuries from the crash, but will carry scarred memories forever.
Sparrow hospital is asking students to respectfully stay away from visiting Anthony Harris as he recovers. There is a candlelight vigil scheduled for 6:30 tonight. It will be held at Veterans Memorial Park right behind the Delhi Township offices on Aurelius Road.


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Quote: It was no personal attack,
telling me to take my mind off myself and my small world wasn't a personal attack? im sorrry but yes it was. it has nothing to do with any argument, its just a character assault.
Quote: , you thinking them wrong doesn't make them necessarily wrong.
did I say they were all wrong? more so did I say they were objectivly wrong?
Quote: yeah yeah, we have dealt with this a lot in philosophy. But I am NOT going where you are going. You are claiming that because we can't know anything 100% then all things are religions? Is this really what you believe? do you think history is a religion?
Quote: yes... but you must put forward arguments and back up your claims. I mean you can say "oh X is true" without backing it up and run away from discussion if you want, but this is not very productive.
Hiphopapotamus wrote: To say you are God is really egotistical.