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Tonight I will speak on what every Growing Christan needs to know.Thursday, May 31st, 2012 Posted in sermons | 3 Comments »
A father was talking with his daughter and her 5-year-old friend, Kristin, about birthdays. Kristin's was March 30 and the father's was March 27.
"The father said, "You know what Kristin? Our birthdays are three days apart!" She looked up at him and then said, "Yeah, but you grew much faster than I did!"
Why is it that some people grow faster spiritually than others? Why is it that some people make a commitment to follow Jesus Christ and then fall away, while others make a commitment that lasts a lifetime?
It all comes down to doing everything we can to grow spiritually.
God's Part and Ours
We need to understand that there is God's part and there is our part.
The Bible tells us to "work out our own salvation with fear and trembling" (Philippians 2:12). A more accurate translation of that verse would be "Carry to the goal and fully complete." What this means is we are "working out" what God has "worked in."
But then that verse goes on to say, "For it is God who works in you both to will and do of His good pleasure."
Clearly there are some things only God can do, and some things only you can do. For instance, only God can save a person.
Only God can forgive and forget our sins.
Only God can change the human heart.
But at the same time, only I can believe.
Only I can repent.
Only I can follow.
So, what practical steps do I need to take to become a growing Christian?I will answer that tonight in my message "What Every Growing Christian Needs to Know, Part 3."
It all happens at Harvest Orange County.You can join us live or watch the webcast at harvest.org.
Harvest America Is Coming!Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 Posted in sermons | 4 Comments »
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Today of course is Memorial Day.Monday, May 28th, 2012 Posted in sermons | 2 Comments »
Let's remember all of those who have served in our military and laid their lives down for our country.
We thank God for the freedom we enjoy in what I believe is the greatest country on earth, the United States of America!
As we gather with family and friends, let's remember also to pray that God will send a great revival to our country as well. We have never needed it more.
And remember to fly the Stars and Stripes!
This Sunday at Harvest/Riverside and Orange County!Saturday, May 26th, 2012 Posted in sermons | 2 Comments »
Hey Everyone!
Its' good to be back home and I am looking forward to speaking this Sunday at
Harvest/Riverside and Orange County.
We had a fantastic trip to Israel,Greece,Turkey and Rome and had the excellent Harvest video crew shooting everything we saw in HD video to share with you.
This Sunday I will share some highlights from the amazing ancient city of Ephesus.
This is the first of the seven Churches we have been looking at in our Revelation series.
Jesus had some very specific warnings to them,AND US that we will pay attention to.
We will also have a special communion service after the message.
So,I hope to see you at Harvest this Memorial day weekend!
If you cannot join us in person,it will all be carried live as usual at
Finding the Perfect PizzaTuesday, May 22nd, 2012 Posted in travel, video | 2 Comments »
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Videos from Italy, Turkey, and GreeceTuesday, May 22nd, 2012 Posted in travel, video | 3 Comments »
Here are more videos from our travels to Italy and Turkey.
The Library at Ephesus
The Fish of Ephesus
In Athens
Shooting my new film in Italy
More Videos from IsraelSunday, May 13th, 2012 Posted in stella, travel, video | 20 Comments »
Here are a few more videos we shot in Israel. Shalom!
Here's a video with Stella Laurie on the way to the Shepherds' Fields.
Behind the scenes of our video shoot at the Shepherd's Fields.
Harvest Worship in the Garden of Gethsemane
The House of Caiaphas
A Special Message for Mothers from Cathe LaurieSunday, May 13th, 2012 Posted in sermons | 6 Comments »
Hey Everyone!
I am in Rome, Italy along with my wife and 300 friends from around the country for a tour following in the footsteps of the great apostle Paul. But since today is Mother's Day, I wanted to send along an article my wife wrote about the prayers of her own mother.
Reflections on My Mother's Prayers
By Cathe Laurie.
My husband Greg has often said, "Your loved ones may escape your preaching, but they can never escape your prayers."
For a number of years, my devout mother prayed for my sisters and me. She often sat us down on her bed and tried her best to reach our hearts with words that, honestly, went in one ear and out the other. This proved to be a great test of her faith. Time after time, I mechanically nodded in outward agreement while staring blankly out the window, wishing it would end. I learned not to disagree or raise an objection, only because it would have prolonged the torture.
I was utterly disinterested in what she was saying.
Then one day, it dawned on me: my mother had quit her daily lectures. It was a relief; no more lengthy discussions at the dinner table or in her bedroom. "Whew!" I had escaped her incessant pleading!
I had escaped her pleading with me, but not her pleading with God. It was much later, after I had come to faith, that she revealed how she had determined to quit talking and instead to diligently pray that her daughters would be saved.
I share this with you today and pray it will serve as an encouragement to you moms who have children that seem disinterested, even hostile to your faith. I know it may look hopeless at times, and you may be tempted to doubt that your prayers are being heard. But we need to know that when we pray for that lost child, our prayers are according to the will of God. Keep seeking. Keep knocking. Keep asking!
I often think of St. Augustine's mother, Monica. As a young man, Augustine cast off his once childlike faith, but he could never cast off her prayers and her stubborn love. They followed him from their small town to the big city of Carthage, where things in his life went from bad to worse. There, Augustine's life would be marked by what he later admitted were his "wicked ways" and "carnal corruption."
At 29, despite Monica's incessant pleading with him not to go, Augustine determined to set sail for Rome. Her prayer was that God would somehow prevent her son from making the journey. Despite her specific prayer that Augustine not leave, he did, and she wept and wailed in sorrow. But though God didn't answer that specific request, He had heard the main point of her prayers. And He was at work in ways she couldn't see. In God's perfect plan and timing, so different from her own, the place she feared would be her son's undoing was the place he would finally surrender to God's will.
So may I challenge you who are weary and about to give up, don't! Though it may be a long wait, and it may seem like God is not at work, know that He is—in ways you can't always see.
There is a heartfelt poem written by Ruth Graham for her once prodigal son, Franklin. I pray that it will inspire you to not lose heart when it comes to your children. I pray you will trust God for their salvation, their very lives, and for God's timing, not your own. And remember, they may escape your preaching but they can never escape your prayers.
with my Jacob," I would pray,
"wrestle till the break of Day";
till he, knowing who Thou art,
tho' asked, will not let Thee depart;
saying, "I'll not let Thee free
saving Thou wilt first bless me;"
O God of Jacob, who knew how
to change supplanters then, so now
deal, I pray, with this my son,
though he may limp when Thou art
Ruth Bell Graham, from "Prodigals and Those Who Love Them"
Based on Genesis 32:24–31
Could you use a good dose of hope today?Friday, May 11th, 2012 Posted in sermons | 1 Comment »
Check out this weekend's TV program where we deal with the theme of Hope.
My special musical guest is Steven Curtis Chapman and my message title is "Hope for Troubled Hearts."
Both Steven and I know the loss of a child dying, and we share with any hurting people out there the hope that we have found in Christ through His Scripture. And that hope includes the fact that we will be reunited with our children again in heaven!
So, if you could use a good dose of hope today, watch the program on demand or go to your local TV listings to see if it's showing in your area.
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Shalom from IsraelThursday, May 10th, 2012 Posted in travel | 2 Comments »
Tonight we visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem.


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Larinee Dennis and Julie Jackson Albee worked with four area educators to develop a unit of study that incorporated several Common Core State Standards for grades three to five.
In the fall, Albee received notice that the International Reading Association had issued a call for researchers to partner with K through 12 practitioners to develop interdisciplinary units in Literacy Education. She contacted Larinee Dennis and they gathered a writing team. Two HLGU alumni, J'Lynne Schafer Mundle ('01), third grade teacher at Stowell Elementary in Hannibal, and Megan Duckworth Hathaway (�07), fifth grade teacher at New London Elementary, along with Principal Melanie Smith and Sue Spiegelhoff, fourth grade teacher, both at New London Elementary, completed the team.
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4. April 2013
15, 14, 13, 8, 7, 2 years ago, and the future? My Web Story
Netscape open-sourced the code to its "Communicator" Internet suite, using its own long-standing internal code name as a label for that project: Mozilla.
I always liked the sub-line of a lot of the marketing material for this time - under the Mozilla star/lizard logo and a huge-font "hack", the material said "This technology could fall into the right hands". And so it did, even if that took time. You can learn a lot about that time by watching the Code Rush movie, which is available under a Creative Commons license nowadays. And our "Chief Lizard Wrangler" and project leader Mitchell Baker also summarized a lot of the following history of Mozilla in a talk that was recorded a couple of years ago.
Just about a year later, in May 1999, so 14 years ago, I filed my first bug after I had downloaded one of the early experimental builds of the Mozilla suite, building on the brand-new Gecko rendering engine. This one and most I filed back then were rendering issues with that new engine, mostly with my pretty new and primitive first personal homepage I had set up on my university account. After some experiments with CSS-based theming of the Mozilla suite, I did some playing around with exchanging strings in the UI and translating them to German, just to see how this new "XUL" stuff worked. This ended up in my first contribution contact and me providing a first completely German-language build on January 1, 2000.
A few months after that, in May, I submitted my first patch to the Mozilla project, which was a website change, actually. But only weeks later, I created a bug and patch against the actual Mozilla code - in June of 2000, 13 years ago. And it would by far not be the last one, even though my contributions the that code were small for years, a fix for a UI file here, a build fix for L10n stuff there. My main contributions stayed in doing the German localization for the suite and in general L10n-related issues. Even when Firefox came along in 2004, I helped that 1.0 release with some localization-related issues, esp. around localized snippets for its Google-based and -hosted start page - and stayed with L10n for the full suite otherwise (while Kadir would do the German Firefox L10n). I wrote a post in 2007 about how I stumbled into my Mozilla career.
As Firefox became rapidly successful and took an increasingly large standing in the project and community, I stuck with the suite as I liked a more integrated experience of email and browser - and I liked the richer feature set that the suite had to offer (Firefox did cut out a lot of functionality in the beginning to be able to found its new, leaner and more consumer-friendly UI). When in March of 2005, it became clear that the suite was going into strict maintenance mode and be abandoned by the "official" Mozilla project, I joined the team that took over maintenance and development of that suite - once again using a long-standing internal code name for that: SeaMonkey. In all that project-forming process 8 years ago, I took over a lot of the organizational roles, so that the coders in our group could focus at the actual code, and eventually was credited as "project coordinator" within the project management group we call the "SeaMonkey Council".
When I founded my own business 7 years ago, in January of 2006, I was earning money in surprising ways, and trying to lead the SeaMonkey project into the future. We were just about to release SeaMonkey 1.0 and convince the first round of naysayers that we actually could have the suite running as a community project. In the next years, we did quite some interesting and good work on that software, and a lot of people were finally realizing that "we made it" when we could release a 2.0 version that was based on the same "new" toolkit that Firefox and Thunderbird were built upon, removing a lot of old, cruft code and replacing it with newer stuff, including the now common-place add-ons system and automated updates among a ton of other things. I would end up doing a number of the major porting jobs from Firefox to SeaMonkey, including the places-based history and bookmarks systems, the download manager (including a UI that was similar to the earlier suite style), and the OpenSearch system. With the Data Manager, I even contributed a completely new and (IMHO) pretty innovative component into SeaMonkey. In those times, I think I did more coding work (in JS, mostly) than ever before, perhaps with the exception of the PHP-based CBSM community and content management platform I had done before that.
The longer I was in the SeaMonkey project, the more I realized, though, that the innovation I would like to have seen around the suite wasn't really happening - all the innovation to the suite came from porting Firefox and Thunderbird features and/or code, and that often with significant delay. Not sure if anything other than the Data Manager actually was a genuine SeaMonkey innovation, and I only came up with that when trying to finally get some innovation going, back in 2010. I was more and more unsatisfied with the lack of progress and innovation and the incredible push-back we got on the mailing list on every try to actually do something new. In October of 2010, I took a flight to Mountain View, California, to meet up with Mitchell Baker and talk about the future of SeaMonkey - and I also mentioned how I wanted to be more on the front of innovation even though I seem to not manage to get the SeaMonkey community there. Not sure if it came out of this or was in the back of her head before, in one of those conversations I had with her, she asked me if I would like to work for Mozilla and Firefox. I said that this caught me by surprise but we should definitely keep that conversation going. Just after that I met then-Mozilla-CEO John Lilly, and he asked if Mitchell had offered me a job - just to make sure. As you can imagine, that got me thinking a lot more about that, and gave me the freedom to think outside SeaMonkey for my future. I was at the liberty to think about my personal priorities in more depth, and it became clear that the winds of change were clearly blowing through my life.
Where this all will lead me in the future? No idea. I'm interested in moving to the USA and working there at least for some time - not just because it would make my day cycle sane and having most or all my meetings within the confines of the actual work days in the region I'm living in, but also because I learned to like a lot that country has to offer, from Country Music to Football and many other things (not to mention Louisiana-style Cajun cuisine). I'm also interested in working from an office with other Mozillians for a change, and in possibly becoming even more of a manager. Of course, I'd like to help moving the Mozilla mission forward where I can, openness, innovation and opportunities on the web are something I stand behind nowadays more than ever - and Firefox OS as well as associated technologies promise to really make a huge impact on the web of the future. I'm looking forward to quite exciting times!
Von KaiRo, um 00:13 | Tags: CrashKill, Firefox, future, history, L10n, Mozilla, SeaMonkey | 6 Kommentare | TrackBack: 0
18. Februar 2013
LCARStrek 2.16 Brings Updated Look
That said, I kinda had my worries with the buttons of LCARStrek being not really discoverable unless you move your mouse over them, and also about the theme feeling "too orange", esp. after I reviewed some shots of LCARS screens in Star Trek series and once again saw both the shapes of buttons there, which are very discoverable, and also the amount of colors used there.
So I finally decided to something about it and added some gradual changes to LCARStrek 2.16, see e.g. the buttons, tab and scrollbars colors in those two screenshots (left is a Firefox release with 2.15, right is a Nightly with 2.16, that's why it also has an additional "Data Choices" tab):
The new colors are taken directly from video screenshots of the series, so they should be pretty "true to the original". Actually, I copied the colors for buttons and default buttons directly from buttons in those screen shots. Trying to apply the same color to more button-like elements, I also converted buttons to that color and a larger border radius similar to that of the fully-rounded buttons.
While I was at it, I also took the orange off the primary toolbars and replaced it with a gray color taken from some screen that I think I saw on Voyager shots. And I always wanted to get some more of the connected horizontal and vertical borders found usually in LCARS screens, but that needs to have enough elements to construct, so it's hard to do in a theme. I found a way to get this design into the SeaMonkey sidebar though - and also used that new button color for its headers which act similarly to buttons as well. See those two screenshots from LCARStrek 2.0 (left) and now 2.16 (right) on SeaMonkey (of course, some small non-theme-reated changes in SeaMonkey UI are visible as well, as the application itself saw some development since 2.0):
I hope I caught all the fine details that come along with far-reaching changes like esp. the one for the buttons, I've done a number of corrective changes along with this.
Still I had some time left and enough elements to play with to give SeaMonkey's profile switcher some real beauty in LCARS terms (you also see the different color for default buttons in there):
Unfortunately, this only applies to "Switch Profile…" from within a running SeaMonkey profile, as a theme like LCARStrek can only apply in that situation and not on the profile manager seen on application startup, where no profile and therefore no add-on or theme is loaded yet.
The new LCARStrek 2.16 version has been submitted to AMO, but is waiting for review now. Once that is granted, all users of this theme will see that updated look, and I hope they'll like it!
I probably will work on updating the look of more parts of this theme as time allows and I find things that should look differently.
Von KaiRo, um 18:46 | Tags: Firefox, LCARStrek, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, themes | keine Kommentare | TrackBack: 0
14. November 2012
Weekly Status Report, W44/2012
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
Filed a bug on sending an identifier with app crashes in B2G.
Also filed a Flash beta crash.
Discussed release channels for B2G and Socorro requirements.
And we needed another Socorro data backfill, unfortunately.
Added highlighting of the latest minor version of every Flash branch to the Flash hang overview reports.
Also adjusted the limit values for the "Are We Stable Yet?" dashboard and converted some style attributes to classes in my reports.
Had a long discussion with bjacob on getting new fields into Socorro data. We should find a way to make it easy to get new fields added in a way that (at least custom) reports can be generated against them, without using the mess that "App Notes" are right now.
Followed the recent Flash crash spike.
Did more monitoring of tracking+ crash bugs for 17.
As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
- Web Apps:
Fixed some glitches in the improvements to the Mandelbrot app, but there seems to still be an issue with appCache - on my otoro device, I don't see the main index.html getting refreshed and so the app stops working.
I also did quite a few updates to Lantea Maps, but now the map tiles seem to not load when appCache is active. Somehow I have a feeling that our techniques for offline apps are not working as well as they should.
- Various Discussions/Topics:
B2G testing, Marketplace URL and branding strategies, etc.
Due to my traveling to London for MozFest, I completely missed making this report public even though I had finished it up before. Will follow up with a report for last week soon.
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30. Oktober 2012
Weekly Status Report, W43/2012
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
Filed a bug on an extreme spike in Flash crashes this week, apparently related to Zynga games.
Also filed another bug on another aggregation data backfill needed in Socorro due to another late metrics data push.
Monitored tracking+ crash bugs for 17, so we get the best stability we can in this release.
Kept following the developments in B2G crash reporting, things seem to be moving forward nicely now.
Did some maintenance on my custom reports.
As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
- German L10ns:
Reviewed Firefox mobile and desktop localizations for the 18 cycle, and more Firefox OS strings.
Tried fixing a hard to understand phrase in German SeaMonkey and fixed another small bug there as well.
Checked in the sandstone theme for planet.mozilla.de - thanks to Jan for putting it together!
- Themes:
Put some more finishing touches on the 2.14 version of my themes, esp. LCARStrek adaptiations for Social API support in Firefox.
- Web Apps:
Worked on some improvements esp. for the Mandelbrot app, so it can save prefs (still need to figure out loading them in a quasi-sync mode) and have more of the settings the add-on version also has. Also started off the DB I'll need for bookmarks, even if there's no implementation of bookmarks yet.
- Various Discussions/Topics:
B2G testing, B2G geolocation, platform meeting format, etc.
When working on the Mandelbrot app for a bit on Sunday, I found again that appCache is tricky to use when it comes to updating. On my mobile devices, I apparently ended up with the app only being partially updated to the new version. I guess I need to dig deeper on how to make this work smoothly...
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25. Oktober 2012
Weekly Status Report, W42/2012
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
Went through all the tracking+ crash bugs for 17, 18 and 19 that are not fixed in those "trains" right now, and cared that they are updated and patches get uplifted where possible.
Kept tracking B2G crash reporting, the things we need are all moving forward right now.
Tested reporting of content crashes from B2G phones.
Did some small patches to keep my custom reports working well.
Had some discussions on possible Socorro improvements.
Filed a bug on better signatures for aborts.
As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
- Various Discussions/Topics:
B2G testing, Italy workshop, plugin crashes and URLs, Linux OMTC, click-to-play blocklisting, web app submissions, B2G L10n, etc.
I spent this weekend in Torino, Italy, for a workshop with students, and held a session there on how we go for measuring stability and investigating crashes. I wonder how many such sessions it takes to get more people to help us there. It's not hard to get in, but monitoring reports might sound tedious - but when you find a problem and it actually gets solved because of that before it hits too many users, it's a good feeling that you saved people out there from problems!
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19. Oktober 2012
Weekly Status Report, W41/2012
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
I created another patch for updating correlation versions and pushed for getting it shipped in the same week to fit the Firefox code uplifts.
Filed a bug for backfilling Socorro data once again after a late ADU push.
Again more talk and driving to move B2G crash reporting forward on multiple fronts, a number of pieces did, completing what we need for v1 is now underway.
Added display and linking of tracking bugs to the arewestableyet.com dashboard.
Made my report somewhat more robust against errors.
As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
- German L10n:
Synched Nightly and Aurora for the 18 channel.
- Various Discussions/Topics:
OMTC for Linux, All kinds of B2G testing, Italy workshop, etc.
My status reports will probably be pretty short in the next weeks, if I am even able to do them. There's a lot on my plate right now, and taking care of stability of our products is quite time-consuming, even more so now that we are getting ready to introducing yet another product with Firefox OS.
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9. Oktober 2012
Weekly Status Report, W40/2012
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
More talk and driving to move B2G crash reporting forward on multiple fronts: crash annotations, content crash reporting, UX implementation, about:crashes.
Started following bugs on making B2G use less memory, which reduces the probability of out-of-memory crashes.
Tracking stability of Firefox 16 for desktop and Android in preparation of the release.
Following the progress and fix to the large crash issue we had on CyanogenMod 10.
Tried to push for a fix for wrong daily crash numbers for Android on Socorro.
Switched arewestableyet.com dashboard to displaying Flash crashes and hangs per 100 ADU.
As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
- German L10n:
Reviewed Firefox for Android 17 L10n, some fixes for de as well as a first German Firefox OS L10n.
Updated suite and core L10n on trunk in preparation of the uplift to Aurora.
Updated the German dictionary add-ons to be installable without a Firefox restart and incorporate the newest upstream dictionary files.
- Web Apps:
Added OpenGeoServer Aerial layer to Lantea Maps, corrected the copyright notices for multiple layers, and added DOM full screen support to that app.
- Themes:
Put some finishing touches on the 2.13 versions of EarlyBlue and LCARStrek, matching the Mozilla 16 train, and uploaded those. They're waiting for AMO approval now.
- Various Discussions/Topics:
OMTC for Linux, icon sizes on Gaia, Flash stability, Vidyo stability, Italy workshop, etc.
It's probably quite visible in my updates that B2G / Firefox OS has become a much larger focus in my work recently, as it's moving from a feature work into a performance improvement and stabilization phase. The crash reporting UX is probably right at the borderline of that, as it's technically feature work, but needed as a large help for improving stability. I'm also testing the system a lot, with the default apps including the browser as well as my own apps, most importantly Lantea Maps, where it find it most annoying that I currently cannot save anything from the app to a file on the phone, so though I can record GPS tracks, I need to throw them away afterwards. I'll need to find a solution there.
That said, the system is shaping up nicely for a first edition geared towards a low-end smartphone market. I hope it will be successful in that setting, as it will only show its full power once we have that step behind us and can move to devices with more resources in addition to the low-end ones.
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3. Oktober 2012
Weekly Status Report, W39/2012
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
Sending Gecko crashes on B2G now works in a first stage! I submitted a few crashes myself in testing the system.
I continued to talk with people about getting further steps (see tracking bug), including a discussion with dbolter, who is helping with driving this.
Had some discussions on wireframes for the B2G crash reporting UI.
Discussed crash annotations for B2G with Hub.
Filed a bug on missing Socorro data one day.
Also filed bugs on enablid "by build date" reports for Android and about missing aggregated data on recent Nightly crashes for Android in some views.
Removed some outdated versions from my reports, including most of Fennec XUL.
Also created some commandline overrides so I can regenerate data for reports more easily.
As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
- German L10n:
Done some reviews for German L10n work.
Synched core, suite and Chatzilla L10n with trunk.
- Web Apps:
Added a TODO for Lantea Maps so both myself and potential contributors know what needs to be worked on.
- Various Discussions/Topics:
B2G Geolocation problems (now solved), B2G crashes when setting wallpaper, etc.
A lot of my time right now goes into various B2G discussions as well as testing the system on my device. That takes away time from e.g. writing those weekly updates, but OTOH help making Firefox OS much better once we ship it - and even if we're scrambling to make our deadlines, I think it's shaping up nicely and the final product will rock!
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28. September 2012
Weekly Status Report, W38/2012
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
More testing of Firefox OS on my otoro and trying poking people so we get crash reporting working.
That work on B2G crash reporting included a conference with UX and privacy teams on what the flow of crash reporting should be for users in a way that we respect their privacy (i.e. enable a really informed opt-out).
Followed how the Socorro team fixed two bugs in their recent release and deployed those fixes fast, also helped testing that those worked.
Filed a bug on getting more resilient against late ADU pushes again.
Had some discussions on crashes with CyanogenMod.
Added bug IDs to my topcrasher reports for ARMv6, Win8 and Mountain Lion.
Watched data for the new Flash release coming up that week.
As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
- German L10n:
Done some reviews for German L10n work.
Synched core, suite and Chatzilla L10n with trunk.
- Web Apps:
Made Lantea Maps available on GitHub, updated its screen shots on the Mozilla Marketplace, and did a blog post inviting contributions.
- Various Discussions/Topics:
UA strings and hardware tokens, B2G wallpaper customization, Mozilla Dino head, etc.
Things are busy again, esp. due to deadlines coming up in the B2G project and the general pace of Firefox OS work picking up. I have we finally are on the breakthrough to also get crash reporting in this system in the right direction so we can more efficiently help to make this a damn stable experience for our users!
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21. September 2012
Weekly Status Report, W37/2012
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
I continued testing Firefox OS on my otoro and tried poking people so we get crash reporting working.
Checked how crash reporting works after breakpad was turned on in device images - and found that they are generated but not sent as online detection had been backed out again.
Had some conversations on further build-side steps to make B2G vcrash reporting useful.
Tested the new "mobeta" release of Socorro on stage, watched it being deployed on production, and tested there again.
Filed a bug on missing data after that deployment, and another one on incorrect daily numbers which I missed in stage testing and only discovered in production testing.
Discussed adding Metro Firefox to Socorro.
Commented on about:crashes for Firefox OS.
As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
- Various Discussions/Topics:
MozCamp Warsaw, etc.
That week was a bit short as I only came back late from Warsaw on Monday, then needed to catch up with work and get rested again, and on Thursday I took most of the day off (except for some meetings) because it was my birthday. The report on the week comes quite late, though as this week was more intense again - but more about that in the next report.
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Starfish: A Selftuning System for Big Data Analytics
Timely and cost-effective analytics over "Big Data" is now a key ingredient for success in many businesses, scientific and engineering disciplines, and government endeavors. The Hadoop software stack - which consists of an extensible MapReduce execution engine, pluggable distributed storage engines, and a range of procedural to declarative interfaces - is a popular choice for big data analytics. Most practitioners of big data analytics - like computational scientists, systems researchers, and business analysts - lack the expertise to tune the system to get good performance.
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Arkeel Newsome rushed for 112 yards and three touchdowns as Ansonia squeaked past Seymour 21-20 on Friday at DeBarber Field.
For a change, it wasn't easy for the Chargers, who improved to 9-0 on the season with their school-record 37th straight win.
The UConn-commit's 19-yard touchdown run with 6:37 remaining gave Ansonia the lead for good, 21-20. The stunning loss was avoided, but a close win was surprising in itself for the state's No. 2 team.
"People wonder how upsets happen," Ansonia coach Tom Brockett said, "and all you guys get so excited about, 'We can't get beat.' I tell you guys over and over, 'It's a game of football,' … This can happen anywhere, it happens in every field, it happens in every league. Guys should believe it."
Ansonia's 37th straight win topped the streak the Chargers recorded from 1975-1978. Cheshire holds the state record of 49 straight from 1992 to 1996.
Despite fumbling three times and allowing Seymour to recover three onside kicks, the Chargers survived.
"You get to that number, everybody wants to be the one to knock you off," Brockett said. "People (say), 'You're going to get to 37, you're going to get to 40, you're going to get to 50.' No you're not. You better bring it every week or you're not going to get there.
"Reporters don't win this game, fans don't win this game. You've got to line up, put your hand on the ground, and you've got to play."
Running out of the wildcat formation, Seymour's Joe Salemme rushed 35 times for 239 yards and two touchdowns. He also threw for a score to Christian Thurmond for 43 yards.


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September 1, 2011
It's encouraging to see Supervisor Dan Sturm of Bethel acknowledge the very real debate over the legal definition of 'home rule.' Lumberland seems satisfied with shouting down the messenger and hoping for the best.
With a true conversation within the town—a conversation that is inclusive of diverse talents and opinions—Bethel may provide real, non-zealoted, non-fanatical leadership on this important issue, which has been missing thus far.
Those who shout loudest and most often are not always the best advocates for meaningful ideas.
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We wish to thank all who participated in the Holden Woman's Club gift basket raffle on May 11 at Jed's in Holden.
The winners were: First place – Charles Landry, second place – Sheila Dickman and third place – Libby Taft.
We especially thank our business contributors, as well as the members of the club for their generous support. Our thanks go to our corporate sponsors – Alden Research Labs, Jefferson Jewelers, Access to Health Chiropractic (Dr. James E.Vargas), and ART Engineering.
Our business sponsors — Book Cellars, Dream Dinners of West Boylston, Curves, Sharfman's, Wellness Group, Jillian Rollins Photography, Holden Jewelers, Squeeky Cleaners, D & J Contractors, Mexicali Restaurant, Talbots, Computer Central, Jed's, LA Automotive, Visions Hair Salon, Black Quilt Gift Shop, Family Eye Associates and Glamour Nails. Our gratitude to Jed's and Rocky's Ace Hardware for letting the club sell tickets at their business locations.
All proceeds support the club's scholarship fund and community projects. Information on HWC may be found on Facebook and townofholden.net. Click on "links" for HWC. We cordially extend a membership invitation to ladies of the area to join us as we approach our 100th year of volunteering in the community.
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Initial Question/Comment: Hello, I am trying to figure out this new recycling program. I just recycled my inks for this month and need to know if I am under the old program or do the rules of the new program (3/15/13 )already apply & I now have to buy $30 in ink before this latest reward is posted to my Premiere rewards account
12:19:37 PM : Rachel: Hi Premiere Customer. As the new program does not go into effect until March 15, anything done prior to that date will remain under the current program.
If the double/double deal is true, and you can indeed recycle up to 10 (or 20 for premier) cartridges, for those buying HP Ink, there is a $15 shell gift card if you buy $99 in ink:
Just did a chat and got this from the rep,
Quote :• $30 ink recycling minimum spend. Customers qualify for ink and toner recycling Rewards when they spend $30 or more on ink or toner within 180 days of recycling their cartridges. Once the minimum spend is met, which can be done over multiple purchases, they will be eligible to receive $2 back up to their monthly limit.
Another interesting note: Seems like you have to be a plus or premier member to be able to recycle ink! "up to 10 per calendar month per Plus customer or up to 20 per calendar month per Premier customer" - Incorrect. Both Base and Plus customers can recycle 10/month. See my entry above this and the 2nd attachment on this wiki (or post 430).
I think the real question is "whether or not the ink recycle from 03/01-03/14 required $30 toner/ink purchase in order to get the reward on April?"
Can anyone confirm with Staples Rewards CSR? and update the wiki?
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Where does one go to purchase a full cartridge for $1 each, including shipping?
I'm still unclear what double-double means. I assume you are allowed to recycle twice as many cartridges as normal and get twice the reward? Normal reward limit is $20/month, so that would be $80!
effective cost is about $1/cart, FILLED.
ETA: There is something to be said for maybe recycling all 20 the first part of the month before they make any announcement regardless of any ink promo. Can argue if anything changes that you recycled before the changes. Take a copy of premier benefits with old terms before they get changed.
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November 18, 2012 8:35am
What a busy 7 days for Canadian mobile. Several device launches – Lumia 920, Optimus G, Xperia T, HTC's 8X – and even a few new carrier price plans. Apart from Google taking us for a tour of their Toronto office, which was incredible, they also put up the new Nexus devices for sale. In addition, this week saw RIM roar back with an official announcement of BB10 launching on January 30th, 2013, but we'll see BBM Voice hit the market in December. Below are the top Canadian mobile stories from the past week, plus notable news from around the web:
– CIBC Mobile Payment App now available for BlackBerry [Read here]
– RIM announces "BBM Voice" [Read here]
– Microsoft's first retail store in Canada, here's what it looks like [Read here]
– Video: Google Canada's head office [Read here]
– Hands-on with the Google Nexus 4 (video) [Read here]
– Hands-on with the Nexus 10 tablet (video) [Read here]
– Huawei Ascend D1 Quad XL now available at WIND Mobile [Read here]
– LG Optimus G now available in Canada [Read here]
– Google Nexus 4, Nexus 10 and the Nexus 7 32GB 3G now available [Read here]
– Google Nexus 4 shipments delayed up to 3 weeks [Read here]
– Kobo's 7-inch Android-powered Arc tablet now available in Canada [Read here]
– TELUS to unleash new International Roaming packages [Read here]
– Chatr releases the LG Optimus L3 and LG C195 [Read here]
– Gold version of BlackBerry 10 SDK launching for developers on December 11th [Read here]
– RIM to officially launch BlackBerry 10 on January 30th, 2013 [Read here]
– Sony Xperia T (The Bond Phone) now available [Read here]
– Bell releases the Windows Phone 8X by HTC [Read here]
– Rogers releases the Nokia Lumia 920 [Read here]
– Sony Xperia Go launches at Fido for $300 [Read here]
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– LG Optimus G Review (TELUS & Rogers) [Read here]
– Contest: Win a TELUS Samsung Galaxy Note II [Enter here]
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– Taiwan Manufacturers Start Working on BlackBerry 10 Production [BerryReview]
– Google and Dish Network are in talks to launch a wireless service [The Verge]
– Court adds iPhone 5, Galaxy S III & Note to Samsung v. Apple trial [Engadget]
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By Mona Charen
"Real Men Moisturize." So begins an article on "Sharp Dressed Men" that appeared in a State Department funded magazine aimed at youth in the Arab world. The magazine, called 'Hi' is published in Arabic and English. A State Department Web site explains that Hi is published "with the hope of building bridges of greater understanding among our cultures."
The article continues: "In fact, some of them, like Michael Gustman, a 25-year-old public relations account executive from Boca Raton, Fla., even have separate moisturizers for the face and body. Facial pores can clog with too heavy a salve, it seems. Not long ago, these and other habits would have been considered odd for a male. Gustman exfoliates.
He gets manicures. He gets pedicures. He gets facials. He gets his hair done every two weeks. He accessorizes. He puts effort into getting ready for a date. He loves cooking complex dishes. He's a refined, evolved, sensitive guy. In a word, he's a metrosexual."
The photo accompanying the story pictures the male author seated in a pedicure chair, pants rolled up to his knees, along with half a dozen women enjoying the same treatment. (The women's faces aren't visible, but we can guess that they look puzzled or possibly even repelled.)
First things first. Is this what the U.S. State Department thinks America is really like? How many men, outside a tiny subset in major cities, are the primping, feminized "metrosexuals" the article lauds? Not many. You cannot enhance understanding between one people and another by presenting a false version of one side.
But more importantly, is this the way to "build bridges" between the Arab world and ourselves? Does the State Department believe that Arab males — some of whom do not permit their wives and daughters to go out in public without a male family member as escort, others of whom think nothing of killing a daughter who dishonors the family by fraternizing with a boy — are going to be impressed with a vision of America in which males are feminized "exfoliated" and smooth-skinned eunuchs?
The State Department is apparently so delighted with the Hi Magazine approach that they are translating it for use around the world.
"We realized that most of the articles in Hi were suitable for youth anywhere in the world," said Christopher Datta, the director of special projects at the
State Department's International Information Programs. A State Department Web site quotes a Hi Magazine contributor enthusing, "This is now everybody's world." Oh? What was it before?
In this "everybody's world," particularly the parts at which Hi is pitched, there are troubles that seem a bit remote from hair and nail care. In Iraq, half the population, according to one poll, believes that a man has a right to beat his wife if she disobeys him (and the Koran gives this sanction). In Iran, as Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi reports in "Front Page Magazine" — www.frontpage.com — women continue to be stoned to death for the crime of adultery. Accompanying this story is a photo (smuggled out of Iran) of a weeping woman being buried up to her waist in preparation for stoning to death.
The size of the stones to be used in such executions is specified by law. "Penal Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Article 116: Stones used in stoning should be neither so big as to kill the adulterous at the first or second blow, nor as small as a pebble."
Other punishments meted out by the Islamic Republic include cutting off hands, arms and legs, and plucking out the eyes.
In Saudi Arabia, an Australian man has been sentenced to 16 months in prison and 300 lashes for a crime his wife may have committed (stealing equipment from a hospital).
His flogging, inflicted 50 strokes at a time, by a guard with a Koran under his arm, has already begun. "The lashing," he wrote to a friend in Melbourne, "is to humiliate and control, and I draw a large crowd as I am one of those Western ungodly people, but they shall never hear me yell." In Saudi Arabia, the punishment for Muslims who convert away from Islam is death.
And the State Department magazine prattles about facials.
Mona Charen writes for Creators Syndicate. She may be contacted through the Web site:


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Daniel K. Howe, Ph.D.
Gluck Equine Research Center
My research interests are focused on molecular studies of the Coccidia, which are a very significant group of protozoan pathogens that includes the human parasite Toxoplasma gondii and the domestic animal parasites Neospora spp., Eimeria spp., and Sarcocystis spp. Our particular emphasis is on Sarcocystis neurona, the primary causative agent of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM).
Sarcocystis neurona Genome Sequencing Project
Examination of the SnSAG Gene Family in Sarcocystis neurona
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISAs) Based on Sarcocystis neurona Surface Antigens (SnSAGs)
EPM is one of the most common neurologic diseases of horses in North America. It is also one of the more enigmatic equine disorders that continues to be difficult to accurately diagnose, prevent, and treat. A primary objective for my research program is to resolve deficiencies in molecular data on Sarcocystis neurona, and to utilize this information to improve our ability to understand and control EPM.
To help define the molecular composition of S. neurona, we have conducted an expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing project that has produced over 15,000 partial gene sequences from two different EPM isolates of S. neurona. An additional 6000+ sequences have been generated from the closely-related parasite Sarcocystis falcatula. The S. neurona sequence data can be accessed at the URL http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/tgi/cgi-bin/tgi/gimain.pl?gudb=s_neurona.
We are currently exploring the sequence information produced by the S. neurona EST project to discover important parasite genes. Thus far, this approach has allowed us to identify and characterize a gene family of major parasite surface antigens, which we designated as SnSAGs, and several parasite secretory antigens. We are now investigating the biological characteristics of these proteins to gain insight into their role as parasite virulence factors.
Additionally, we have designed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) based on the S. neurona surface antigens. These SnSAG ELISAs will accurately detect S. neurona antibodies in equine serum and cerebrospinal fluid, thereby providing tests that reliably identify animals exposed to S. neurona. Additionally, these assays are being used as research tools to assess equine immune responses during parasite infections and the progression to neurologic disease.
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Pasadena's Unofficial Community Center
Robert Shahnazarian Jr. and his partners have established Noor as Pasadena's prime destination for multicultural weddings, fundraisers, corporate parties and more.
By Tariq Kamal 07/01/2014
No expense was spared for the November 2010 grand opening of Noor, an event space in Old Pasadena's Paseo Colorado mall. Robert Shahnazarian Jr., his wife, Maggie, and her brother, Sarkis Khatchikian, had searched the world over for the materials, decorations and equipment that would realize their vision of an upscale, mid-size event space that would cater to the needs of a multicultural city.
"Our ethnicity is Armenian, but every ethnicity has their banquet hall," Robert says. "The Chinese, the Koreans, the Jews, the Arabs, the Armenians, we all have these banquet halls. They know the food and they know the culture, but the décor might not appeal to the younger generations — they may prefer a hotel or country club. We give them the modern décor while being sensitive to their cultural needs."
Many traditional spaces also suffer from "spotty" service and limited capacity, he adds, pushing many would-be customers toward larger venues. Maggie and her brother began to sketch out their plan for Noor more than 10 years ago, when Shahnazarian was working as a music producer for Sony. In 2008, he left the company to join the executive MBA program at Pepperdine University, where he had majored in international studies as an undergraduate. He kept the Noor concept in mind as he worked toward his degree and left the program with a detailed business plan. A New York native who grew up in Palm Springs, Shahnazarian chose Pasadena for several reasons: He knew it was a diverse, business-friendly community, and he was optimistic that the city's vast array of businesses and nonprofits could keep Noor booked throughout the week. He invited his classmates — as well as friends, local business leaders and potential clients — to the grand opening, and Maggie arranged for a reporter from Hollyscoop.com to cover the event.
"In the beginning, it was all advertising," Robert says. "There's no word of mouth, there's no reputation, there's no celebrity chef. There's nothing to hang your hat on… And now, this November will be our fourth year, and every year I'm able to spend a little bit less on advertising because the word-of-mouth graph is going up a lot faster."
Noor (the Armenian word for pomegranate, a symbol of righteousness and abundance since ancient times) is comprised of two ballrooms — both named after Shahnazarian's young nieces — as well as back offices and a massive kitchen. The Art Nouveau–inspired Sofia Ballroom can accommodate 330 seated guests and is accessed via a spacious foyer featuring a custom-built wood bar. A large terrace overlooks Colorado Boulevard and offers views of the City Hall dome and the San Gabriel Mountains. The more intimate Ella Ballroom has its own foyer and bar and can hold 130 seated guests. The Ella sports an Old Hollywood feel and Venetian-plaster walls; both ballrooms and foyers are decorated with chandeliers imported from Prague. The Paseo's Garfield Promenade can seat up to 1,500 guests outdoors and serves as the site of most Noor-hosted wedding ceremonies. The décor is, by design, lavish but not overwhelming, allowing guests of any background to feel at home.
Shahnazarian believes Los Angeles is too often described as a "melting pot," implying that the city's various ethnic and religious groups have somehow coalesced, leaving behind their unique traditions. "If you really know L.A., you know it's more of a multicultural city. You drive around and suddenly you're in Koreatown or in Chinatown or in Little Armenia," he says. Noor's chefs specialize in continental and Middle Eastern cuisine but are equipped to handle most requests; some guests arrange for food to be brought in. Shahnazarian says that his international studies background helped prepare him to handle parties comprised of more than one group. "Part of my process of planning with couples of different ethnicities is making them aware of each other's cultural sensitivities so that both sides are represented. Both sides can celebrate and not feel like they've been left out."
No hot spot would be complete without music, and Noor is powered by a state-of-the-art audiovisual system. Guests can choose from a long list of Shahnazarian's playlists (including "Noor Vegas Lounge Mix," "Noor Arabic" and "Noor U.K. Top 40," for example) or bring their own music and movies. A recent upgrade allows Shahnazarian to stream content from guests' laptops and mobile devices, including 3D and Ultra High Definition video. Built-in and recessed lighting can transform both ballrooms into dance clubs with the flick of a switch.
In addition to family events, including weddings, anniversaries, birthday parties and bar mitzvahs, Noor hosts fundraisers for nonprofits and corporate events; the venue also books private parties for visitors with business at the nearby Pasadena Conference Center. He says Noor is able to run on "autopilot" for some of its more frequent guests, but new clients and one-time events continue to present new challenges. Weddings, for example, are a series of events that begins with setup and arrival and continues through the kiss, the cutting of the cake and the Champagne toast. An inexperienced wedding planner can further complicate the timeline, and Shahnazarian has met his fair share.
"We gather enough information from the clients before their event so that, if their planner is bad, it doesn't matter; we're going to run it anyway," he says. He is happy to recommend a planner for clients who ask. If they don't wish to hire one, he asks the family to choose a point person to make decisions. "I tell the couple, 'We'll do all the planning together, but, for that day, my goal is for you to be in the moment, not to think about anything. So either assign a family member who's not going to get drunk, or get a planner we can talk to.'" And every detail matters. "What we're dealing with here is everybody's most important day. They're going to remember those moments. I know that, as long as everyone has the same expectations going in, the food is going to be great, the service is going to be great. But if they expect the linen to be blue and they come in and it's green, then something's off."
The partners rely on a team of five managers and their workers to handle setup and breakdown, supervise events in progress and run the bars and kitchen. That frees Shah-nazarian to focus on marketing and sales. He personally conducts site tours and follows up with every visitor, even if they don't book with him. Many who do have been effusive in their praise. Noor's website and office bulletin boards are decorated with four years' worth of glowing testimonials, but Shahnazarian takes particular pride in an email he received from a client just last month. The parents of a 15-year-old girl had booked the main ballroom for her Sweet 16 party, and she was very involved in the planning. In the early stages, he says, she reminded him of the spoiled teens featured in MTV's My Super Sweet 16 series. ("My wife would never let our boys act the way those kids act on that show!" he exclaims.) He could have been heavy-handed, but he elected to try to win her over. He asked for her input every step of the way, answered every question and ignored every slight. The party was a success, and he was preparing to follow up with the parents when he received an unexpected email from the birthday girl: "I just wanted to say that it was amazing, and your staff was amazing." Shahnazarian was taken aback. "This from a 16-year-old girl," he says. "Some people, no matter how much you show them and do, they don't appreciate it, but she was able to appreciate it."
She isn't alone. The venue's reputation has grown, and the accolades began pouring in shortly after it opened. For the past three years, Noor has won a Best of Pasadena award in the wedding location and banquet hall category from Pasadena Weekly (Arroyo's sister publication); Pasadena Magazine also weighed in with a Most Stylized Venue award in 2012. Shahnazarian is pleased with the recognition and happy to be part of the business community in Pasadena, a city he describes as philanthropic by nature. Noor has played host to countless fundraisers, and a comment from a recent guest stuck with him.
"We were in the middle of doing this fundraiser, and I was talking to a woman who's a doctor in this nonprofit. She said, 'Robert, you know, Noor has really become the community center of Pasadena.' This is a locally owned, family business. The kids go to school here and I heavily discount and donate back to the nonprofits. I do that just because that was part of our mission statement. But it was nice to hear it in those words from her."
Noor is located at 260 E. Colorado Blvd., A209, Pasadena. Call (626) 793-4518 or visit noorevents.com.
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Andrea Buffa: 30 Years Island
With lots of dips, spikes, and groove-based movements, the quartet acutely intersperses Mediterranean folk into the grand schema amid the frothy pulses and whimsical interludes. Indeed, Buffa and Dato are strong foils, working through a hodgepodge of theme-building exercises. This is evident on the intense and up-tempo "Jo Jo (Dow Land)," where the pungent sax and clarinet tradeoffs propose an abundance of beguiling persuasions.
Often tumultuous and straddling the avant-garde spectrum, the band burns through angst-ridden patterns, the members interrogating each other through the improvisational medium. But they lighten the load with a few unconventional nuances on "Soft Memory (Rue L'Ostorion)," as the frontline injects off-kilter deviations and odd-metered voicings into the mix.
From a free-form standpoint, the musicians do not forsake melody, which is an appeasing proposition that offsets the blistering pulses and oscillating horn-initiated detours. And while the artists frequently accelerate matters into tenth gear with high-impact unison choruses and numerous reenergizing sequences, they impart a soulful muse into the briskly moving parts. What they create is a manifold program, brimming with polyrhythmic reconstructions in concert with an extensive musical plane that bears a confederation of gratifying outcomes.
Track Listing: Sing The Lifeguards On The Beach (Beach); Jo Jo (Land); Teimoso (Tanga City); Soft Memory (Rue L'Ostorion); Barley Coffee For Hamlet (Elsinor); Tranzione (Scilla E Cardiddi); Toutes Les Clarinettes En France (Sur Loire); S.P. Shuttle (Mobile Launcher Platform); Don Carlotte (Manze); Serpent's Thought (Apple Field).
Personnel: Andrea Buffa: alto and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet; Carlo Actis Dato: tenor and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet; Fiorenzo Bodrato: double bass, cello; Dario Mazzucco: drums.
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First Army battalion welcomes new commander
Fish assumes control of First Army Division East's training support unit
By Capt. Antonia Greene
174th Infantry Brigade
Posted 8/02/12
Lt. Col. Fish assumed command of 3rd Battalion, 3-312th Regiment from Lt. Col. Mark Towne. The Reserve training unit is headquartered at Fort Meade and subordinate to 174th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division East.
"Lieutenant Colonel Towne and Lieutenant Colonel Fish transition as 3-312th Soldiers are training, certifying, and re-certifying for their wartime mission," said Col. Craig Osborne, commander, 174th Infantry Brigade, at the ceremony. "Continuing the professionalization and development of our trainer mentors is our top priority."
Fish, the former training and executive officer of Basic Combat Training, expressed an appreciation to continue the Army's vital training mission.
"Training is about the basics, taking care of Soldiers and families and providing quality personnel to administer the training," the South Carolina native said. "My biggest challenge will be integrating active and Reserve component leaders and functions, and building on our lessons learned and sharing that knowledge and experience."
Fish's wife, Cheri, and family and friends attended the ceremony in support of this new command position.
Towne, a 26-year veteran of the Army Reserve, served two years as commander of 3rd Battalion, 312th Regiment.
The Minnesota native credited the Soldiers in his ranks for his success. His biggest success, said Towne, was developing leaders and continuing to improve standards by building upon Soldiers' civilian accomplishments.
"If you are successful in your civilian career, you are more likely to be successful in your Army career; it's reciprocal," he said. "Taking that expertise and knowledge and translating it into skills on the training lanes is the reward."
The battalion's mission is to prepare for mobilization to train and assess Reserve component units for missions in support of overseas contingency operations. Many of the Soldiers assigned to 3-312th have served or are currently serving as trainer mentors at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.
"Many times, our Soldiers are out supporting training missions across the brigade, and it is important to empower these subordinate leaders," Towne said. "Hearing good things about the training our Soldiers provide in the field is a reflection of the caliber of men and women in this command."
The battalion is in the midst of its annual training rotation at JBMDL. By the end of annual training, 3-312th will have gained more certified combat lifesavers and Combatives Level-One certified trainers prepared to train fellow service members for a variety of missions.
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Revenge of the naked nymph.
You're better off with the nymph, Lio…
Oh, it's tempting me… «O amor é deixar notas pequenas especiais para ele (não olha atrás de você).»
@Prof danglyass.
You must make allowances for other commenters. (See yesterday.)
Some perceive a nose on Lio's face (correct) and some see it as a mouth. Luck Eddie also provokes similar confusion as well as many others…
I have a degree in Psychology and deliberately made a typo in my previous comment to ensure a reaction from the prof.
Let's see if it works…
Play it down and dirty and cynical, Lio. Take out the guy with your Marvellous Machine and then turn around and take out the gal. Leave no witnesses (on your side of the 4th wall).
Shame it doesn´t fit with the one for today :D
re: number 6
Psychology? I hope it's different in the UK. Here in the States, a psychology degree is usually an excuse to party. Showing up for class half the time was not uncommon.
After 40+ years, she's going to get rid of him, eh?
I don't know what that vehicle is, but I know I want one.
Heck, make it two, i n case the first one breaks down.
Number Six, I do believe you were successful in exposing a typical case of codependency.
Considering the Prof is by far the most consistently rude and unpleasant poster to these pages, the message she gives today is a bit rich. I'm seriously becoming concerned that she has a mental health problem because she certainly isn't rational.
B.T.W I love The Goon Show. I have all the surviving episodes on my mp3!
The that puzzles me about Love Is is that: are they two little naked adults or just two naked little children?
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Norma Paulus Dedication
The 2015–2016 Oregon Blue Book is dedicated to Norma Paulus, Oregon Secretary of State from 1977 to 1985, and the first woman to hold statewide elected office in Oregon.
Norma is a pioneer in the truest sense of the word. She grew up in Eastern Oregon during the Great Depression. This self-described "dirt-poor girl from Burns" pulled herself up by grit and determination, blazing a pathway for women to take their rightful place among Oregon's political leaders. Her courageous example inspired a generation of women, some of whom would go on to serve in the Oregon Legislature, the governor's office, the U.S. Congress — and, of course, in the secretary of state's chair.
Norma entered Willamette University Law School in 1957 on the strength of a high school diploma and a bold dream. As a young, politically active housewife with two small children, she helped a Republican colleague run for the Legislature. In the process, she realized that "I can do this." In 1970, she won her own seat in the Oregon House of Representatives. During her three terms, she was instrumental in passing important environmental, land use, women's rights and open government laws.
As secretary of state, she shepherded Oregon's beloved vote by mail system through the Legislature and defended the integrity of the vote against a wholesale attempt to sabotage a county election. As superintendent of public instruction, she championed reforms in public education. In her service on the Northwest Power Planning Council and as director of the Oregon Historical Society, she was a tireless advocate for Oregon's rich environmental and historical legacy.
For her lifelong leadership and for her fierce commitment to making Oregon a cleaner, greener, fairer, and more prosperous place, we salute Norma Paulus, and we dedicate this book — this celebration of our state — to her.
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Ray Horton hired as defensive coordinator: Cleveland Browns Insider
cleveland.com ESPN.com profootballtalk.com clevelandbrowns.com Updated Jan 18, 2013
The former coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals, who interviewed with three teams for head-coaching positions, says he's excited by the talent on the Browns' roster.Share Tweet
Mike Lombardi's criticism of Browns players follows him to Clevelandcleveland.com clevelandbrowns.com profootballtalk.com ESPN.com Jan 18, 2013The candid NFL Network analyst who criticized, among others, Brandon Weeden and Josh Gordon, displayed much more restraint on Friday when asked about those players.Share Tweet
Mary Kay Cabot and Tom Reed discuss the Cleveland Browns hires of Mike Lombardi and Norv Turner (video)Plain Dealer Cleveland Browns beat writers Mary Kay Cabot and Tom Reed talk about the naming of Mike Lombardi as Vice President, Player Personnel and Norv Turner as offensive coordinator.Share Tweet
Francona not pleased with his Sox book teaserMLB.com Jan 18, 2013Indians manager Terry Francona said he feels the controversial excerpt painted a misleading portrait of the book, "Francona: The Red Sox Years," which was co-written by the Boston Globe's Dan Shaugnessy and is due to hit shelves on Tuesday.Share Tweet
Ian Thomsen: Hard to blame departed Gentry for Suns' woesThe Suns came to terms Friday with coach Alvin Gentry on his midseason departure. A friend of Gentry's said the coach had anticipated he would be fired at the end of the season, which is shaping up to be the Suns' worst since they went 16-66 in their ex…Share Tweet
Cleveland Cavaliers Are The Latest To Try Cryotherapy: "Your Mind Is Telling You, 'I Might Die'"dimemag.com Jan 18, 2013If you pluck the following quote out of context, you'd have a hard time telling if the story was about state-sponsored torture or team-sponsored injury prevention: "They're putting you in a room that's, like, minus 180. So your mind is telling youShare Tweet
Kent State/Akron Matchup Highlights Saturday MAC Slatetheclevelandfan.com Jan 18, 2013So far, the Mid-American Conference basketball season is shaking out the way it was expected to. The East Division, featuring Akron, Ohio, and Kent State is a three-horse race, while the West Division is up in the air. The Zips currently hold the top sp…Share Tweet
Cleveland Browns coach Rob Chudzinski talks about his new offensive coordinator Norv Turner (video)Rob Chudzinski, the new head coach of the Cleveland Browns, talked about the hiring of offensive coordinator Norv Turner, whom Chudzinski worked under in San Diego.Share Tweet
Lurie went straight to media with his concerns regarding Bannerprofootballtalk.com cleveland.com Jan 18, 2013On Friday, a feud suddenly emerged between Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and former Eagles president (and current Browns CEO) Joe Banner. Lurie believes Banner has been criticizing Eagles G.M. Howie Roseman, and Banner denies it. The strangest aspect of t…Share Tweet
N.F.L. Coaching Carousel Stops: Who Won?nytimes.com Jan 18, 2013Eight N.F.L. teams hired coaches in the past few weeks. Not a single hire was African-American.Share Tweet
MVP Posey leads large group avoiding arbitrationCHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago White Sox have agreed to one-year contracts with second baseman Gordon Beckham and outfielder Alejandro De Aza to avoid arbitration.Share Tweet
Browns Stadium needs more than a name change to be good for Cleveland: Mark NaymikHow will naming rights be good for the stadium itself -- and for the taxpayers who are on the hook for caring for it?Share Tweet
Indians sign Perez, Smith to one-year dealsMLB.com Jan 18, 2013The Indians sidestepped arbitration with Chris Perez and Joe Smith, signing both relievers to one-year pacts on Friday. Perez will earn $7.3 million for the 2013 campaign and Smith will merit $3.15 million, a source confirmed to MLB.com.Share Tweet
Don Banks: History not on Ravens' side as they try to get revenge on PatriotsThe Baltimore Ravens have worked hard and admirably persevered through multiple challenges this season to get back to the same position they were in last year: playing at New England in the AFC Championship game. But history says the chances of the outc…Share Tweet
Eagles And Browns Executives Are Feuding Like High School Girls Over Chip Kellydeadspin.com Jan 18, 2013On Monday, CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora did a hatchet job on Eagles GM Howie Roseman. He wrote that Roseman was "drunk with power" and "woefully out of his depth," and to add the sheen of authority, La Canfora cloaked it in "a g…Share Tweet
Cleveland Browns CEO Joe Banner's "extensive" search ends with a foregone conclusion in the front office. What gives? -- Bud ShaMike Lombardi's resume bothers me, along with the process that brought him here.Share Tweet
Mike Lombardi press conference: Get updates and chat live at 11:30 a.m.The Browns will introduce Mike Lombardi as their new vice president-player personnel at a news conference in Berea today at 11:30 a.m. Get updates from Plain Dealer reporters in Berea and chat live with other fans during the news conference.Share Tweet
PTI Big Finish January 18thJan 18PTI runs down Friday's top stories.
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ONION & PEA by Villena & Tomaselli
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Hey Guys, I'm a little surprised that you haven't done your take on the hit movie "The Life of Pie" er Pea.
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Trend Report: SA Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013.
With a new turn on the weather and high anticipation in the air, SAFW deserves its own standing ovation. Designers embraced their iconic, original aesthetic to pave the way for fashion leaders and retailers. With our diverse street style and cosmopolitan lifestyles, this season saw an emergence of pristine simplicity, natural sophisticated minimalism, sublime embellishments, subtle opulence and eclectic use of prints. With such iconic garments, why not take a peek to see which spring/summer trends suit you.
MonochroMAGIC _
Printed, spotted, striped and sequinned, this Spring/Summer 2013 had South Africa Fashion Week embracing and evolving the Monochromatic trend to another level. From Black Coffee, Gert-Johan Coetzee's iconic, edgy, yet highly feminine gowns to Cutterier by Laz Yani's serene, sensual and effortless pieces and Jacqueline Munsami – you're bound to have at least three items created for your unique personality.
Subtle Opulence _
With a re-emergence for the versatile, effortless wardrobe designers pursued a sensual, subtle opulence with Womenswear. Silhouettes were relaxed and feminine, as models strode across the runway an inner bliss shone through. Details were refined and emphasis on interesting silhouettes and construction was realised through the fabric; soft, bouncy cottons, satin and draped chiffons. Garments accentuated the body with high, chic waistlines and asymmetric flounces. Designers featuring this trend were:
Nature's Bliss _
Nature is mystified with expressive prints and dye techniques used onto lightweight, effortless, ethereal fabrics like satin, voile, chiffons, silk, linen, and knits. Joel Janse van Vuuren featured lightweight silk creations aweing the audience with feminine bliss, Sies! Isabelle evolved her effortless, versatile garments with a unique screen-printed signature for this season on soft satins and Vesselina Pentcheva made fantasy a romantic reality with angelic dresses and wedding gowns.
Conceptually Chic _
Customised and conceptual; Black Coffee and Clive Rundle's creations were wearable art. From Black Coffee's textural exploration through fabric and silhouette to Clive Rundle's invigorating paint/ dye technique and Gert-Johan Coetzee edgy, provocative pieces – these designers took seasonal fashion to another level!
Refined and regal _
Refined and regal; designers Albertus Swanepoel, Lunar and Tiaan Nagel expressed serene sophisticated in their collections with garments made from soft tailored cottons, taffeta, sateen and linen – these designers gave garment construction another dimension.
White It Out _
White was a major 'palette' this SAFW with Bianca Warren, Samantha Constable, Colleen Eitzen and Kottin & Twille, embracing its understated magic. With pleating, pin-tuck, drapery and tailoring – warm and cool whites are a timeless 'must- have' albeit casual, classic or conceptual.
Black Up _
Minimalism is made timeless with the Black trend. Why not embrace that gothic, romantic, fierce colour in summer? Here's how Colleen Eitzen, Gert-Johan Coetzee, Suzaan Heyns and Black Coffee captured it.
Menswear _
Menswear dominated SAFW from the ever-so-vibrant Dandysim trend with Skorzch, to tailored modernity with Palse Homme, sophistication with Ephymol and Row – G. Setting the tone for a 'new' metrosexual gentleman; these collections redefined menswear and had the gentlemen in anticipation for the upcoming spring/summer season!
Elegantly Green _
Green is going to be iconic this season from Loxion Kulca's edgy, military take with street style vibrance, to Joel Janse van Vuuren's sensual leafy green and Amanda Laird Cherry's regal emerald. Green give way to a calmer, cooler and more vibrant spring/summer.
Streamlined & Sporty _
Sporty deluxe features subtle references to sportswear through streamlined, contrasting and casual silhouettes with a feminine touch as seen in TWO, Colleen Eitzen, Bianca Warren and Just.
Sheer &Sensual _
Sheer and layered – designers up-style the sheer trend with a refreshing twist as seen with Anmari Honiball, Black Coffee, Suzaan Heyns and Mej. Lues byHanri Lues. The use of organza, chiffons and netting is layered and intricately detailed with applique and embroidered detailing and refined, playful proportions.
Can't wait to shop! What's your favourite trend?
Tags: Albertus Swanepoel, Amanda Laird Cherry, Anmari Honiball, Bianca Warren, Black Coffee, Clive Rundle, Colleen Eitzen, Cutterier by Laz Yani, Ephymol, Funduzi by Craig Jacobs, Gert-Johan Coetzee, Jaqueline Munsami, Joel Janse van Vuuren, Just, Kottin & Twille, Loxion Kulca, Lunar, MEJ. Lues by Hanri Lues, Monochrome, PALSE Homme, Row - G, Rubicon, SA Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013, SA Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013 Trends, Samantha Constable, Sies! Isabelle, Skorzch, Sober, Stoned Cherrie, Suzaan heyns, Tiaan Nagel, Two, Vesseline Pentcheva
Designers: Albertus Swanepoel Amanda Laird Cherry Anmari Honiball Bianca Warren Black Coffee Clive Rundle Colleen Eitzen Craig Jacobs Ephymol Gert-Johan Coetzee Hanri Lues Jacqueline Munsami Joel Janse van Vuuren Just Kottin & Twille Laz Yani Loxion Kulca Lunar Palse Homme Row - G Rubicon Samantha Constable Sies! Isabelle Skorzch Sober Stoned Cherrie Suzaan Heyns Tiaan Nagel Two


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Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems
Director, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
Dr. Larson received his Ph.D.
from MIT.
The majority of his career has
focused on operations research as applied to services industries.
He is author, co-author or editor of six books and author
of over 75 scientific articles, primarily in the fields
of technology-enabled education, urban service systems (esp.
emergency response systems), queueing, logistics and workforce
planning. His first book, Urban Police Patrol Analysis
(MIT Press, 1972) was awarded the Lanchester
Prize of the Operations Research Society of America
(ORSA). He is co-author, with Amedeo Odoni, of Urban
Operations Research, Prentice Hall, 1981.
He served as President of ORSA,
(1993-4), and is Past-President of INFORMS,
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
He has served as consultant to the World Bank, the United
Nations, Johnson Controls, EDS, United Artists Cinemas,
Union Carbide Corp., Rand Corp., the Kuwait Foundation for
the Advancement of Science, Predictive Networks, WebCT,
Hibernia College in Ireland, Hong Kong University and the
U.S. Department of Justice. With outside companies on which
he serves as board member, most recently Structured
Decisions Corporation, Dr. Larson has undertaken major
projects with Citibank, American Airlines, Actmedia/Turner
Broadcasting, the U.S. Postal Service, the City of New York,
Jenny Craig, Conagra, Diebold, BOC and other firms and organizations.
Dr. Larson's research on queues has not only resulted in
new computational techniques (e.g., the Queue Inference
Engine and the Hypercube Queueing Model), but has also been
covered extensively in national media (e.g., ABC TV's 20/20).
Dr. Larson has served as Co-Director of the MIT
Operations Research Center (over 15 years in that post).
Dr. Larson was first listed in Who's Who in America in 1982.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and
is an INFORMS Founding Fellow. He has been honored with
the INFORMS President's Award and the Kimball Medal.
From 1995 to mid 2003, Dr. Larson
served as Director of MIT's CAES, Center for Advanced Educational
Services. Dr. Larson's position at CAES focused on bringing
technology-enabled learning to students living on the traditional
campus and to those living and working far from the university,
perhaps on different continents. During the years 1995 -
1999 he built the center from two to seven business units,
encompassing MIT's production and R&D capabilities in
educational technologies and its two major lifelong learning
academic programs. His center produced the world's most
ambitious point-to-point distance learning program, the
Singapore MIT Alliance.
He has been invited to give lectures on the future of technology-enabled
education in testimony before the House Committee on Science
(Washington, D.C.) and in North and South America, Asia,
Africa and Europe. He has served as Principal Investigator
of several of MIT's most ambitious technology-enabled learning
programs, including PIVoT
-- the web-based the
Physics Interactive Video Tutor, Masters'
Voices (sponsored by the Ford Motor Company), MIT
World, "Inventing the Global Classroom," "Good
Clinical Practices" and "Fungal
Infections" (the last two sponsored by the Pfizer
Corporation). He is Founding Director of LINC,
Learning International Networks Consortium, an MIT-based
international project that has just held its third international
symposium. Dr. Larson also served as founding co-director
of the Forum the
Internet and the University, a not-for-profit organization
affiliated with the Forum for the Future of Higher Education.
Currently he is founding Director
of MIT's new Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals.
Can We Improve Disaster Response? (September 30,
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Op-ed by Richard Larson about STEM and the education system: "STEM, teachers and the Boston shoe maker" Washington Examiner – August 27, 2011
Letter to the editor from Richard Larson about STEM and free web-based programs: The News-Press (Southwest Florida) – August 15, 2011; The MetroWest Daily News – August 12, 2011
"Torontonians spend 2009 standing in line" Torstar News Service – December 29, 2009
"Surviving holiday shopping lines" FOX 25 – December 9, 2009
Just before "Black Friday," Richard Larson talks about queue theory: The Boston Globe (November 22, 2009); The Sacramento Bee – November 24, 2009; Talk of the Nation-NPR – November 24, 2009
Richard Larson talks about businesses and flu on WBUR – November 5, 2009
Op-ed by Richard Larson on education as a service industry Service Science – November 1, 2009
Larson talks about improving checkout lines The Wall
Street Journal – August 19, 2009
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