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Flights to the Cook Islands: Jewels of the South Pacific
Experience the Cook Islands
The Cook Islands – or Cooks – are a castaway's paradise. After your flight to Rarotonga, dive straight into warm, translucent lagoons that teem with tropical fish. Look out for giant clams too – just don't touch them if you value your fingers. Laze on powder-white beaches so deserted you'll feel like Robinson Crusoe. Hike rugged mountain trails and through dense tangled rainforest that's alive with local birdlife.
Get cultured
Immerse yourself in local culture on your Cook Islands holiday. Take a lesson in choral harmonies at church on Sundays – all the locals go and all the locals sing. Follow up with an umu (earth oven) feast of pork, fish, chicken and vegetables steamed for hours on hot volcanic stones. To market now, where stylish girls buy screen-printed pareu (sarongs) and learn a dozen ways to wear one, and brave boys embrace the recent revival of tata'u, the ancient Polynesian art of tattoo.
Back to nature
Walk on white coral beaches where palm trees lean at perfect 45 degree angles and trade winds cool the sun's tropical heat. Spot the rare Rarotongan flycatcher, or kakerori, with guide Birdman George on tiny Atiu, also known as 'land of the birds' for its prolific birdlife. From July to October, humpback whales make their slow leaps from the water just beyond Atiu's reef.
Cook Islands dancing is dramatic, an attack on all five senses. Think frenetic thigh beating, sensuous hip swaying, pounding drums and flowing flower garlands. You'll be expected, by the way, to join in at the end. The locals find this hilarious. Papa'a (foreign) men knocking their knees together generally make poor imitations of the big, bronzed local hunks. Girls – throw those hips as fast as you can.
Fast facts
Where? The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii in the centre of the Pacific Ocean's Polynesian Triangle.
Getting about: Island buses circle Rarotonga every half hour. Rarotonga to Aitutaki is an hour by propeller plane.
Population: The people are Polynesian and number just 17,800. Most live in Rarotonga. Suwarrow, in the northern island group, has only two occasional inhabitants from April until October.
Did you know? Aitutaki, the second most visited island in the Cooks, has barely 18 square kilometres of land and more than 50 of incredibly blue lagoon.
Cook Islands Hotels
Our favourite resorts are delightfully laidback whether you go budget or barefoot luxury. Shower inside or out – depending on your mood – at Pacific Resort and Little Polynesian's private villas. Or go back to basics at Atiu Villas with rare kakerori birds as your neighbours.
Cook Islands Restaurants
Cooks by name, cooks by nature. Seafood is super-fresh in the islands, and there's quality lamb from New Zealand too. Don't miss local specialities like ika mata (marinated raw fish) and rukau (taro tops and coconut cream) – delicious.
Shopping in the Cook Islands
Bag a bargain pareu (sarong) at Punanga Nui Market. Or break the bank on a unique tivaevae (patchwork quilt) at the Atiu Fibre Arts Studio and rare black pearls from the outer islands. You really won't find these at home.
Cook Islands Nightlife
There's always an excuse to party whether you're at an island night show on Rarotonga, trawling nightclubs or joining the tumunu. These bush beer clubs in Atiu start with a ceremony and end with a ukulele sing-along.
Cook Islands Attractions
The colours of Aitutaki's lagoon move from turquoise to aquamarine on a day cruise. Take a hike with Birdman George or the perennial Pa to get beneath the skin of the real Polynesia. Just don't forget your camera.
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Fally Jump Crab
Published on May 27, 2011. Played 977 times. Editors' rating 2.2
Help Fally, the crab, climb the falling world, in this very fast paced, addictive, action and fun packed platform tower jump game. Also you can aim-and-shoot the birds for extra score. Much fun!
Arrows / WASD = Move and Jump, Spacebar = Jump, Mouse = aim-and-shoot.

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Beam Central Vacuums
Amongst the many brands of central vacuum systems are the names you recognize from the portable vacuum world. While some may make great portables, the bigger names in central vacuums may be some with which you are not that familiar. One such name is Beam.
Beam has recently launched their new series of central vacuums called the QS series. One of the touted new features is the extreme quiet with which the system runs. The QS series has units designed to service homes from up to 3500 sq. ft. to 15,000 sq. ft.
This new system is a bagless system with the On-guard® anti-microbial canister. The height of the canister runs from 35 inches for the smallest unit to 45 inches for the unit that services 15,000 sq. ft. This is a little smaller than some brands for the lower units and about 6 inches higher than the Nu-tone unit on the higher end of performance.
Beam does offer one of the better warranties, with a full 10 years on all 4 sizes of the QS series. Many brands give you increasing years of warranty as your purchase the larger units. A 10-year warranty is one of the highest on the market.
As far as the quiet is concerned, the QS system starts at 67 decibels for the smallest unit and only increases to 72 decibels for the largest of the 4 units, while almost doubling the air flow in cubic feet per minute from 122 cfm to 211 cfm.
The Classic series from Beam runs about $80 to $100 cheaper for comparable performance, without the anti-microbial canister and only a 7-year warranty. The canister are, however, a few inches shorter, if space is a concern. As far as a complete kit, check out
and see the range of Beam do-it-yourself kits, that come complete with the hardware, equipment, and varying sets of accessories for the central vacuum system.
Beam's packages, while slightly higher than some brands in price, more than make up for it with the items included in the package. Garage kits, kitchen vacpans - an opening in which you simply flip a switch to turn on the vacuum and then sweep the dirt in, a 30 ft. hose and attachment kit and an outside exhaust vent all come with the basic Builder's Deluxe package. The kit also includes the piping for 4 inlets. As the kits increase in the size of home they'll service, more tools and attachments are included, as well.
Some manufacturers recommend doubling the size of your home when calculating your central vacuum needs. This is to maximum the suction performance. But this is entirely up to you.
Still, the prices will pleasantly surprise you, even on this better brand of central vacuums. If you are a good do-it-yourselfer, you can save the installation costs and have a Beam central vacuum in your home for between $1200 and $2000.
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A reminder based on a question from Pierre Abbat: John Marino isn't working on 32-bit packages for dports; there's a volunteer who will, but until the volunteer is ready, 3.7 users will want to build from source.
Month: December 2013
A reminder about 32-bit dports
Lazy Reading for 2013/12/29
Last of the year! You'll want to take some reading/watching time this week.
Can you be arrested for what's on your computer? Yes, of course.
Making SSH connections easier. If you don't know it, you should.
Ansible vs. Salt and Creating a new Ansible node. BSD-focused.
Vim in the hands of a Real Maniac. Damian Conway, the speaker, is a man of complicated skill, and a good speaker. It gets pretty crazy by the end. (via)
The Saddest Moment, James Mickens talking about Byzantine fault tolerance. (via)
The via link on that last one led me to Dadhacker, with some excellent entries like this Eject button at Apple or Fuctuation.
Digital restoration and typesetter forensics. Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson, and Joe Condon reverse-engineering hardware because the vendor won't reveal how it works – in the 1970s. The letter to the vendor is hilarious. The story of how it was recovered, also linked there, is a good read, too. (also via)
Over-Extended Metaphor for the Day. Could quibble, won't. I like the Emo Phillips followup joke quoted here, where I found it.
Oldcomputers.net. There's some neat old things there – and they're selling/buying! (via)
Console Living Room; more old game systems resurrected via JSMESS. First reaction was that it was neat, second reaction: these old games were horrible, compared to what we have now. (via multiple places)
exabgp, human-readable BGP messages. (also also via)
The Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition. I had a student who excelled at this, involuntarily. (via)
We've run out of closed-source things to re-implement as open source, and now we're reinventing the open-source wheel.
How open source changed Google – and how Google changed open source. Their open source group is essentially about license compliance, not evangelism. That is the way it should be. The last paragraph about Summer of Code is spot-on. (via)
Readers of a certain age will recognize the global vector map theme. (Here's more.) It makes me think of the old Apple ][ game, NORAD. (incidentally, I was way better at it than the player in that video.)
Your unrelated comics link of the week: not a comic, but a magazine that includes comics: Mineshaft. I've heard about it many times, and I keep meaning to get a subscription.
In Other BSDs for 2013/12/28
Again, quiet from the holiday break.
- strlcpy/strlcat users, a rundown. The buffer overflow problem is suprisingly widespread. (via)
- The PC-BSD Digest for 12/20 and for 12/27.
- The DiscoverBSD weekly summary.
- Faces of FreeBSD: Kevin Martin.
- FreeNAS 9.2.0 is out. (via)
- OpenSMTPD, a project I've always meant to look at more, has been updated.
- BSD Magazine for December 2013 is out. The RSS feed for them/their newsletter is no longer working, cause I had to find out here.
- ruBSD talks about OpenBSD are online.
- There's new support in NetBSD for that old Amiga.
- You may need to update your OpenBSD packages.
- NetBSD's smbfs is now an import from FreeBSD.
- NetBSD has updated ACPICA and OpenPAM.
BSDNow 17: The Gift of Giving
BSDNow has a new episode for Christmas; this contains an interview with Scott Long of (among other things) Netflix.
BSDTalk 236: NYCBSDCon and 8 years too
BSDTalk, which is hitting its 8th year, has 20 minutes of conversation with Ike Levy and Brian Callahan about NYCBSDCon. (which is coming up on February 8th; will you sponsor?)
My DragonFly 3.6 upgrade adventure
Here's how my upgrade from DragonFly 3.4 to 3.6 for this server went.
The system install went normally. I rebooted before performing 'make upgrade', as noted in UPGRADING and elsewhere.
I already have dports installed, so a binary upgrade should be possible. I had heard of people with older version of pkg, having trouble getting it to notice upgrades. I rebuilt pkg, and ran 'pkg upgrade'. A number of the updates coredumped. Here's one example:
[156/160] Upgrading gtk2 from 2.24.19 to 2.24.19_2...Segmentation fault (core dumped)
After the upgrade, I had two problems: PHP wasn't working for the website, and some programs would segfault.
The random segfault was fixable by forcing a binary upgrade of all packages. Since there were some programs on the system that were still new enough that the version number was the same as on the remote repository, pkg didn't upgrade them. Those packages were linked against old versions of system libraries that predated the locale changes in DragonFly 3.6, so they'd crash. Forcing the update for all packages fixed the issue.
The other problem, PHP on the web server, is not new to me. The binary package for PHP does not include the module for Apache. The solution is to build from source with that option selected. I understand that pkg is destined to support (some?) port options in the future. There's also an immediate workaround for locking it.
However, the port would not build because of a security issue. The binary package installed without any warning. This, I am told, will change to pkg giving you the option to install if you are aware of the security problem, and whether it really affects you. (which is just what I want, yay!)
Anyway, other than the system changes biting me because I didn't realize some packages weren't updated, it went very quickly. That is the reason for binary updates through pkg, or at least a major one.
Lazy Reading for 2013/12/22
Still quiet out there, but I found some good reading.
PHP functions originally named for string length and sorting. Yeesh. (via)
A great old-timey game programming hack. There's an initial speed hack in this story, and then there's another clever trick to fix memory corruption. (via)
My hardest bug. This was a pretty fiendish problem. (via)
Gitdown: don't commit when drunk. I've done that. Actually will use an Arduino-based breathalyzer. (via)
Another Perl One-Liners review.
Zeno of Elea, a game. It's based on a classic… (via)
Vim plugins you should know about. From that One-Liners author.
Speaking of Perl, here's a Larry Wall interview. An old-school hacker – he wrote patch, too.
Moonpig: a billing system that doesn't suck. An in-depth review of system design. More Perl, too.
Three Books You Should Read… Mostly BSD content.
How to use Tor wrong, in multiple ways. It's not for petty crimes, and it's not any use when you're using it from a monitored network. (via)
Your unrelated comics link of the week: Cookie Puss.
In Other BSDs for 2013/12/21
Odds and ends for the quieter holidays.
- Hubert Feyrer spotted this video interview of Amitai 'schmonz' Schlair about NetBSD.
- OpenBSD has tmpfs.
- PC-BSD has made it through a pkg upgrade.
- pkgsrc is frozen until at least the end of the month, for pkgsrc-2013Q4.
- OpenBSD wants to shift electrical costs. (via)
- The DiscoverBSD weekly roundup.
- Managing custom ports. (can apply to dports too)
- Building tcsh on 4.3BSD-Quasijarus. This led me to…
- 4.5BSD. An ambitious project.
- A pfSense video review.
- Steryana Shopova is this past week's Faces of FreeBSD.
- OpenBSD had a head start on not trusting RNGs.
- OpenBSD has a new vioscsi(4) driver.
- Michael W. Lucas's books are available through OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD Kitten. (via NYCBUG)
BSDNow 16: Cryptocrystalline
As you can kinda sorta guess from the show title, BSDNow 16 is about encryption.
One of the things noted there that I hadn't heard of is that FreeBSD ports is getting a 'stable' branch for the first time – I suppose I need to read even more mailing lists.
Who's for an OpenPF?
Things are very quiet this week; I've had nothing to post for some days – DragonFly or even for other BSDs. The end of the year has most people distracted, I think. This makes it a good time to bring up something that's been bothering me: the state of software firewalls in BSD. The pf utility is a BSD advantage; I've heard people say "I used iptables on Linux and pf is a much better alternative." I know that's anecdotal, but there it is. Here's the question, and the reason I'm writing this: which pf?
DragonFly has a version of pf equivalent to what was shipped in OpenBSD 4.4. FreeBSD has a version equivalent, I think, to OpenBSD
3.8 4.5's pf, and it has been further modified. NetBSD has a similar, older pf, but there's people working on a NetBSD-specific version called npf, which isn't yet ready. And of course, OpenBSD has its version of pf. If you feel good about these different alternatives, you call it divergence. If you don't feel good about it, you call it fragmentation.
Compare this to OpenSSH – it works the same on each platform. There's no confusion on how to configure it, or interoperability problems. It would be wonderful to have the equivalent for pf, where other BSD platforms would import a portable version. This software firewall is a strength, and it's much easier to tout it when there's only one.
I doubt there's a way to bring it all back to one source tree. There's a lot vested in the different forks out there. You know what would take a lot less effort: a compatibility test suite. Agreeing on a common syntax and set of functions would make life easier for every end user. It would incidentally make vendors a lot happier, too. Even if a user or vendor wasn't hoping to move between BSD flavors, a test suite would still guarantee a certain known level of functionality for any BSD release.
How likely is this? I don't know. But I want to bring up the notion before it gets missed. Now is a good time, with each pf version still being relatively close to one another.
Update/note: Henning Brauer is willing to help.
Lazy Reading for 2013/12/15
Halfway to Christmas; time to buy presents if you haven't already!
DragonFly on Hacker News. I haven't read through the comments fully.
The Meaning of "Doom". This article makes a very good point; Doom was one of the first game that encouraged user participation in the creation of the game. Not the creation when it was first made, but the endless recreations as mods. It's sort of the same mechanism as open source, but as an activity and not a license.
Alphabet of the Obsolete. Also known as "Things my children don't know and don't care about."
Now is a good time to donate to the Internet Archive. (via many places)
The Development of the C Language. Dennis Richie was good at telling stories about some otherwise very dry subjects; his histories are enjoyable. Maybe you have to have a certain kind of temperament or interest to really like them. (via)
The Birth of Standard Error. It was a smelly typesetting machine where it first started. (via EFNet #dragonflybsd)
There's some other interesting articles on that site, including "Programming Languages vs. Fat Fingers" and "The Importance of Being Declarative".
Better and Better Keyboards. Continuing the keyboard theme from previous weeks. (via)
Building the Commodore C-128. I never used one of these, but I'm sure there's a few readers that will be gripped with nostalgia. (via)
The Amiga 500 as a Chrome add-in. Nostalgia, again. (via)
Running 4.3BSD Quasijarus with simh VAX. It's apparently 4.3BSD for Vax hardware. I did not know of this, or at least I don't remember it.
When a Bash script asks, "Where am I?".
Have you heard the axiom that every program grows in scope until it reads email? It's really all programs grow in complexity until they have their own auto-updater. (Also, XScreenSaver is awesome.)
Vim, in Javascript. Or maybe the axiom should be 'Everything eventually is rewritten in Javascript'. (via)
"Did you see that interstitial? It was dope!" (via I forget, sorry)
Your unrelated animated gif of the week: Happy talking boat.
In Other BSDs for 2013/12/14
Another week where I could get away without any commit links, just cause there's so much BSD stuff out there.
- Randomness changes in FreeBSD. Saw commits before, but this is a good summary. (via)
- Cipher changes summary for OpenBSD.
- The DiscoverBSD summary.
- Faces of FreeBSD for this week: Brooks Davis.
- PC-BSD's weekly summary.
- FuguIta, an OpenBSD liveCD.
- The FreeBSD Foundation's Semi-Annual Newsletter. There's details on the FreeBSD Journal.
- Also, that newsletter links this first of 4 BSD whitepapers.
- The FreeBSD Challenge on linuxcauldron.com – a 30-day challenge.
- BSDCan 2014 has issued a call for papers.
- So has NYCBSDCon 2014. Here's the announcement of NYCBSDCon 2014 itself, and flyer.
- Note to self: investigate cheap bus trips to New York City.
- The IP-Plug, a NetBSD-powered wall wart. The article goes into terrific detail.
- Ruby in pkgsrc will be (apparently?) defaulting to version 2.0.
- robotpkg, a specialized fork of pkgsrc that I didn't know about.
- PC-BSD is going through lots of changes to support pkg. (that's one of many commits.)
- FreeBSD has added newcons.
BSDNow 15: Kickin' NAS
BSDNow episode 15 keeps the pun titles going. Josh Paetzel is apparently replaced by Santa Claus in the interview? There's also FreeNAS coverage, and lots else.
Holiday shopping guide 2013
Go APE for bge and bnx
A pkg fix for 3.4 upgraders
If you have a DragonFly 3.4 system that has already been switched over to dports, and you upgrade it to DragonFly 3.6, you might see an odd problem. Rebuild pkg, and it will work.
I've only seen a few reports, so I don't know if this is even likely to happen to most upgraders.
ISA support is really gone
ISA device support is really gone. Well, except for keyboard and some spots where it can't be be removed. I don't think I've even seen an ISA card in some years…
Binutils update to 2.24
John Marino has moved DragonFly from binutils 2.22 to 2.24. I think this may require a full buildworld when upgrading… not sure. Anyway, binutils has a changelog if you are curious.
BSDNow 14: Zettabytes for days
BSDNow episode 14 is up – and actually has been for a few days; I've been on the road. There's an interview with George Wilson about OpenZFS and a bunch more stuff I haven't had a chance to watch yet. (see previous note about being on the road.)
A BSD plan: license summaries
I had a sometimes-great, sometimes-difficult trip to New York City over the past few days, and while I was there, I met the ball of energy that is George Rosamond of NYCBUG (which is having a huge party right now.) He and I talked for a bit about various aspects of the BSD ecosystem, and one thing he noted was that people aren't generally aware of all the licenses in use for the different software packages on the system, or even the individual licenses in the system files.
There is an ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES setting in pkgsrc, where software licensed under terms not in that list won't install. That's useful, but frustrating, because it keeps people from getting what they asked for – a software install. Something that would be useful – and it could be cross-BSD very easily – would be a license audit summary.
There's meta-data on every package in FreeBSD's ports and DragonFly's dports and pkgsrc and OpenBSD's port system. Why not say 'pkg licenses' in the same way you can say 'pkg info', and get a summary of the licenses you have installed in the system? (or pkg_licenses, etc. You get the idea) This wouldn't prevent people from installing software, but it would give a very quick view of what you were using.
> pkg licenses
Software package License
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foo-2.2.26 Apache license
bar-7.999999 Donateware
baz_ware-20131209 MIT
quux-silly-6.5 BSD
It could be extended to the base system, but I'd like to see this in all the packaging systems as a common idea, in the same way that 'info' in a packaging command always shows what's installed.
Lazy Reading for 2013/12/08
Links are a bit rushed this week cause I've been on the road, but here you go.
explainshell – help for arbitrary shell commands. It's a really good idea, implemented in a pretty way. (via)
True X-Mouse Gizmo for Windows. I'm also saving this for later, just like the person who found this link.
From the same place: The ARPANET IMP Program: Retrospective and Resurrection. Recreating the entire Internet, when the Internet could be summed up as a list of 5-6 locations.
How ALL CAPS and punctuation is now used to communicate mood. Communication methods still tied down by ASCII, and then UTF-8.
I miss USENET. (via)
A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility. Watch the video at the end. (via)
Your unrelated comics link of the week: There are more comics and illustrated works out there than there ever have been. A decade ago, I could buy a few art comics and a reprint each month and feel like I was keeping up. Now, it's like a firehose of minicomic, self-published books, and prestige reprints that completely refreshes every week. The Comics Reporter 2013 Holiday Shopping Guide is huge but barely touches on it all. Read through and order something you aren't familiar with; I can almost guarantee there's several items in there you've never heard of.
In Other BSDs for 2013/12/07
Happy birthday to me!
- Is Your Stack Protector Working? On Undeadly, so it's OpenBSD.
- ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in OpenSSH. (via)
- The next PC-BSD 10.0 image is available.
- Reid Linnemann is the latest in the Faces of FreeBSD series.
- NetBSD has updated file.
- FreeBSD's iwn(4) driver has some updates (also in DragonFly).
- FreeBSD now has casperd, for controlling access to out-of-sandbox capabilities.
- FreeBSD's oce(4) driver now supports 40Gb devices. (yay for manufacturer support)
- FreeBSD has Hyper-V drivers.
- OpenBSD's ifconfig now shows the NWID, channel, and BSSID for IBSS networks.
- OpenBSD has updated to pixman 0.32.4.
- pkgsrc's 2013Q4 freeze will start on the 16th.
- How old is who? (Don't tell me 900 years.)
- There's a broken builds list for pkgsrc-2013Q4 for anyone who wants to help.
- Hacker News had a link to the FreeBSD version of the BSD Family Tree, which is not unique, but the comments led to some interesting links, like this story of an 8-year NetBSD uptime.
- FreeBSDNews's summary.
- All the AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos. (Last week's link was just OpenBSD ones.)
- FreeBSD authentication against Samba 4 LDAP. I'm going to need this for the DragonFly machine I'm setting up in the same role at work… in my copious spare time.
Book Review: Perl One-Liners
No Starch Press noticed that I keep talking about Michael W. Lucas's BSD-related books, and I've linked to Peteris Krumins's catonmat site before, so they sent a copy of Krumins's new "Perl One-Liners" book to me.
Here's the hook for me: Perl was the first language I wrote a program of any real use in. Years ago, I had the Perl Cookbook. It was a pretty simple formula, where I'd have a problem. I'd look it up in the Perl Cookbook. If there was already a recipe that matched what I needed, I was set. I ended up having to stuff the book into a binder because the spine broke.
This reference is essentially what the Perl One-Liners book is, though this is less about programming and more about the solution you need right now. The book realizes this and it's laid out like a menu. Flip through the index to find your problem, and then type the answer. The book even includes a link to a text file that you can copy down and grep for answers – I won't link to it because it's not mentioned on the author's page, though he does include example chapters.
It's not about learning Perl, and it's not about technique – these are one-liners, after all. If you are doing the sort of thing Perl excels at, like text mangling, this will be a book full of tools for you. I think the author is going to continue in this style; he's done a lot of one-liner articles and even some previous e-books.
Probably a good idea to make this disclaimer: As with other books, I get no reward for this review, unless you count me having another book in the house. That's more of a problem than a benefit for me.
Remember: manually clean up offline Hammer volumes
If you have a Hammer volume that is offline, meaning that you don't have the pseudo-file-systems null-mounted anywhere, it won't get cleaned up in overnight processing. You just have to manually specify it.
A bge(4) fix for some hardware
If you have a bge(4) network card and it's giving you problems every time you configure it, there's a fix on the way.
Someone for i386 and dports work
Rett Kent has volunteered for maintaining i386 support under dports. Good luck! 3rd-party software management is difficult.
Minimal installation notes
This post from Konrad Neuwirth asking how to do a minimal installation of DragonFly led to this list of all the 'knobs' you can set to make your installation smaller, from John Marino. (And your buildworld faster, if that's appealing to you.) I also pointed at rconfig and PFI, which are criminally underdocumented.
Lazy Reading for 2013/12/01
Now that I'm going into more descriptive detail with these, I'm going to try without the bullet points. It's less of a Wall Of Text that way.
Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code. Really, very good advice. (via)
'vr' mentioned the Space Cadet and Symbolics Macivory keyboards in comments for last week's Lazy Reading keyboard links. I didn't know what they were, so searching around found me this Symbolics keyboard image (the model itself is apparently dearly missed)and the inevitable Wikipedia Space Cadet entry. I also found this study of keyboards that mentions some other 'special' modern models I've heard of in passing – Das Keyboard and Happy Hacking models.
Also found as part of that search: one man's quest to get his own Lisp Machine. That appears to be about 10 years old, so my guess is that you'd go for emulation these days.
Sorting information that isn't quite numeric. This bites everyone sooner or later.
The death and life of great Internet cities. "Whatever we may ultimately make of our move towards sites like Facebook, it's almost certainly the case that, for the average netizen, it was a movement away from online literacy." An excellent article about how communities are no longer built online – at least not through social networks. (via)
Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1m later. Data-driven analysis of hard drive prices, and how they've recovered poorly from the Thailand floods. I always like it when a company takes data from doing something on a large scale – something very few people are doing or could do – and releases it. (via)
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant. Rob Pike pointing out how the system ecosystem was becoming monocultural. It's over 10 years old, so some of the problems have changed. The interesting thing is to look at it and see which parts were identification of upcoming trends. (via)
DragonFly 3.6 video review. This person doesn't realize the shell is tcsh, not bash, and it really, really messes him up. I had to stop watching about 6 minutes in. (via blakkheim on IRC)
Your unrelated link of the week: The Church of the Subgenius is selling 2-for-1 deals on ordainment. It's really a legal ordainment, too, at least in the U.S. You can perform weddings, funerals… circumcisions? Not sure about the legal restrictions on that, and maybe I don't want to know. Anyway, you get an entertaining pack of literature which you can take either completely seriously, or not at all.


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Fried, Theodore, b. 1902 d. 1980
Active in New York, N.Y.
Collection size: 45 items (on 1 microfilm reel).
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Grand Opening of the New Poets House in Battery Park City
• 11:00am: A charismatic poet and musician who was featured in Bill Moyers' Fooling with Words documentary, Kurt Lamkin delivers a spirited performance for children and their adults. This event starts at Poets House.
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A charismatic poet and musician who was featured in Bill Moyers' Fooling with Words documentary, Kurt Lamkin delivers a spirited performance for children and their adults.
Be among the first to see the new Poets House! We invite you to an all-day public viewing of our home.
Bagels and coffee are served from 11:00am to noon.
Renowned poet Matthea Harvey reads from The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, her tale of a little general and his Realist army who attempt to fend off the imagination. Illustrator Elizabeth Zechel also leads a snowflake-making workshop.
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Robert Hass shares his own poems of the natural world as well as those by children across the country. A discussion about connecting watersheds and imaginations through poetry and art will follow.
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Israel At the Forefront in Saving the Environment
When Adam was created, a Midrash teaches, God took him on a tour of Eden and said, "Do you see My beautiful trees? It is all for you – but make sure you do not destroy My world, for if you do, there will be no one to repair the damage."
It is only fitting that the nation guided for centuries by such rabbinic teachings should take its rightful place as one of the world leaders in protecting the environment and natural resources. Of the world's top 100 Cleantech Group companies specializing in environmentally-friendly technology, eight are from Israel.
How many people know that Israel reuses 75 percent of its wastewater for agriculture – the highest rate in the world – and recycles 20 percent more of its plastic bottles than the U.S.? Or that proportionately more homes in Israel (83 percent) use solar energy for hot water than in any other country? (The popular dud shemesh, sun-heated boiler, is actually an Israeli invention and saves 4 percent of Israel's electricity usage.)
There are many more such stats, but let's look at three areas in which Israel has recently made major strides: Desalination, natural gas for electricity, and an air pollution battle plan.
It's given that producing electricity from natural gas leaves the air we breathe cleaner than using coal, mazut, and the like. In the past several months alone Israel has increased fourfold the amount of electricity it produces via gas; at the beginning of this year only 13 percent of its energy production was gas-powered, while the figure now stands at 50 percent.
This breakthrough came about largely due to two major developments: The first is that the Israel Electric Company has made a gradual changeover, over the course of several years, of eight of its ten power stations to gas. The second and more immediate development was the sudden and copious availability of natural gas following the activation of the giant off-shore Tamar gas fields this past April. Though Tamar was discovered in 2009, it took four years until its gas started flowing from offshore platforms to the mainland.
Even better news can be expected next year, when a larger gas field –Leviathan, some 80 miles from Haifa – begins producing. This will actually give Israel the capacity to export natural gas by 2016.
Given these developments, plans for a major coal-energy plant to be built in Ashkelon have basically been shelved; the installation will instead be based on natural gas, with coal to be used only as a backup.
Why is natural gas such a blessing? The answer is that though coal is the cheapest fossil fuel for electricity generation, its emissions are also the dirtiest. Both coal and oil produce high levels of carbon, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide, not to mention ash particles that remain in the air. Natural gas, on the other hand, is the cleanest fossil fuel there is, emitting about 29 and 44 percent less carbon dioxide than oil and coal respectively.
Turning to desalination, who doesn't know that Israel, like all its Middle East neighbors, has a water problem? Nor has its situation been helped by the 1994 peace treaty with Jordan, which requires Israel to provide its eastern neighbor with 50 million cubic meters of water a year, help in the production of another 100 million, and receive in return 10-20 million of groundwaters from the Aravah.
But look at the bright side: In the past several weeks alone Israel's annual desalination capacities have jumped by about 200 million cubic meters of water. Just two weeks ago the Sorek desalination plant began working at full capacity, producing drinking water on its two production lines at a rate of 150 million cubic meters per year – supplying some 20 percent of Israel's drinking water. It is now the largest desalination plant of its type in the world, and the third Israeli facility in a row to hold this title: It took the crown from the Hadera plant, which itself not long ago unseated the facility in Ashkelon as the world's largest.
Further south, the Palmachim desalination plant has also just completed an upgrade, doubling its annual capacity to 90 million cubic meters.
Israel's natural water resources are currently faring better than they have in recent years. The Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), which provides a quarter of Israel's water, now stands at 211.34 meters below sea level, a meter higher than this time last year. With the rainy season hopefully on the way, the Kinneret can be expected to rise another meter or two, reaching within a meter or less of its optimal level. This will not, however, solve all of Israel's water problems and desalination, long resisted by many, is now widely considered the best solution.
Air pollution is a worldwide concern, and Israel's government this summer authorized a 140-million shekel plan to battle that vexing problem. The plan concentrates on reducing pollution caused by buses and taxis, increasing solar energy for electricity, and encouraging the use of improved public transportation.
The government decision states that thousands of Israelis die each year of diseases attributed to air pollution, and related illnesses cost the economy some 8 billion shekels a year. The new plan will reduce the number of deaths by 700, if the experts are correct in their calculations.
Elements of the plan include efforts to reduce a full 20 percent of the country's electricity usage by the year 2020. This is to be accomplished by replacing energy-hungry appliances and machines with those that are more energy-efficient. At the same time, at least 10 percent of the country's electricity needs are to be produced from solar energy by 2020.
In fact, among the eight above-mentioned world-leading Israeli companies are several that have developed energy technologies based on the sun and other natural sources.
The anti-air pollution plan calls for the removal of some 7,500 cars 20 years old and older from the country's roads. Owners of these clunkers will be paid 3,000 shekels to hand them over for scrapping and crushing. Close to NIS 30 million will be earmarked for businesses to encourage their employees to use public transportation, to increase work done at home, and to cut down on company-owned vehicles. Some 40 million shekels will be further allocated to improving public transportation. Next April a pilot program will be activated involving the use of three city buses using only compressed natural gas – cleaner and cheaper than the fuel currently used by most vehicles.
(This past Yom Kippur, not surprisingly, amazing drops in air pollution levels were registered in Israeli cities. In Jerusalem, pollution dropped a full 95 percent, while in the Tel Aviv and Gush Dan areas it was just 8 percent of the norm.)
Another Midrash teaches, "If you have a sapling in your hand and are told that the Messiah has come, first plant the sapling, then go out to greet the Messiah." How better to sum up this wide-ranging topic than by noting that Israel not only seeks to prevent environmental damage but is actively involved in improving the situation: It is the only country in the world that ended the 20th century with more trees than it began with. In 1948, it had only five million trees. Now? More than 200 million.Hillel Fendel
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Pat and Corey are back this week with their unique perspective on Phillies baseball. They make a case for Dom Brown starting the All-Star game, preview the Phillies current road trip (and why now is the time to bury the Nationals), plus figure out what's going on with Mike Adams. Ryann relays some of the best fan questions of the week, like when is the right time to promote Darin Ruf and should the Phils trade Cliff Lee (gasp!)?
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OK fans, what do you think about Cliff Lee and Ben Revere for Mike Trout. The Angels may bite on this considering how poorly they're playing.
a) pay Lee/Revere $25+ mil to provide less value than Trout
b) pay Trout less than $1 mil to be one of the best in the game, and have $24 mil left over for other players
Tough one 🙂
That is absolutely insane. That is the silliest trade proposal I have ever heard. Mike Trout is not available. If Mike Trout was available, it would take players that the Phillies don't have. And like 9 of them. You're talking about a guy who was almost an MVP in his rookie season, a 21 year old with more raw talent than any other player in the league under team control for very close to the minimum. He would be the hardest player in all of baseball to obtain in a trade.
If Cliff Lee was 25, and Ben Revere was Mike Stanton, and the Phils agreed to eat all of both salaries, at that point the Angels would take a few seconds to think before saying no.
Love to have Mike Trout,local boy from Millville,N.J. Would hate to see Ben + Cliff leave but Cliff is 34+Ben is 25 still young but Trout can hit long ball as well as average+ just 21!
I, too, must facepalm at this suggestion. Why the Hell would the Angels make that trade?!?
I would keep cliff lee , get rid of ben revear. bring up darin ruff send howard to the minors, until he remembers how to hit. ever since rollins got his contract he has no drive in him. freddy glavis should be ss
Afraid not — Rollins actually had one of his best seasons overall last year, and was one of the best shortstops in baseball. Not doing too bad this year, either.
Why do you think so many people want to get rid of Rollins (.313 wOBA YTD in a down year) and replace him with Galvis (.272 wOBA in 344 career PA's)? This team struggles to score runs as it is. I can't even imagine how bad this team's offense would have been so far if they had Galvis as the everyday SS and Jimmy was on another team for the first 66 games. SS is the next-to-last place (obviously LF is last) that this team needs an upgrade.
I have been very critical of RAJ's moves, but I liked – and continue to like – the decision to re-sign Rollins.
hk, I second that notion. I can't think of why so many people want Rollins gone. Mass frustration, maybe; but picking on Rollins is still pretty dumb. He's not perfect, but he's not the problem, either. I'd take him over ten Delmon Youngs, and if you threw in half the bullpen, I'd still take Rollins.
Your point about Rollins might carry some truth. You specifically commented on his efforts, nit his results and as long as you apply proper credit to his current and projected future, you aren't being unfair. Player wise, all around, Jimmy's still an asset, and probably is for the balance of his deal. Probably even the option year. Asset's kind of gray, but the guy hasn't been enamoring a while.
Attitude and heart can be tough to read. The go getters are easy. Jimmy, occasionally lackadaisical is another story. But I moistr definitely suspect that in a winning environment, his concentration improves. Maybe from good to great, as opposed to bad to okay, or good, as I said, it's a hard thing to read. But I suspect he's bored as hell with this bullshit, as may be quite a few.
The Cardinals have had a tremendous start, and Raffy Furcal, a pretty major contributor in his time there is out, replaced by Pete Kozma. He gives you good effort, plays half decent short, and is at best acceptable offensively. The Cards would be a simply perfect next or last stop for Jimmy. A trade there would provide less question about Jimmy's approach.
My point is Jimmy could still be part of a retool. His situation isn't that much different than Bowa's was. Hopefully, they can do a better joib replacing Jimmy. Fredy may or may not be a good solution for a while. Roman Quinn is not necessarily gonna stay at short, and is 2 years away. But at this point, Jimmy is far more valuble to other franchises, and trying parlay for worth isn't a bad idea.
In any case, we can only guess at what he's feeling. All we can go by is the results, and the results show that in the year-plus since signing his contract, he's been about as good as he ever was (aside from 2007), which is not bad at all for a player in his age 33-34 seasons.


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In the past six months, some have hoped, some have crossed their fingers and some have called out to the heavens for rain. Sunday evening, many Portales residents finally got their wish as more than half an inch of rain fell between 8 p.m. and midnight.
It was the first significant rainfall for the Portales area since mid-October. Floyd McAlister, Roosevelt County extension agent, called Sunday's rain a "shot in the arm" for area wheat farmers.
"It was six-tenths of an inch to eight-tenths of an inch depending where you were in the county," McAlister said. "What wheat that has not already died will benefit from this rain. That benefit will be greatly diminished if we don't get anymore rain. I'd like to see more rain in the next week or at least the next month."
Weather forecasters say Portales has a 30 percent chance of rain again on Wednesday.
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Norvell said she had heard a school official speculating that the constant dry weather could have contributed to bad moods in some students. Dee Washburn, a teacher at Brown Early Childhood Development Center, said she noticed that her students had a "good day in class" the day following the rainfall.
"I think the rain was fantastic," Washburn said. "I was hoping and praying. I live in Floyd and (prior to the rain) all that dirt had just been blowing around."
The dirt resulted from extensive grass fires in the Floyd area in late 2005.
Chuck Abbott, owner of Big League Sports in downtown Portales, said one reason he had been hoping for rain was so he could see if recent repairs to his store's roof would keep the rain from dripping down into his store.
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By Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque London:
Julian Robertson, a legend in the hedge fund world for having run a highly successful hedge fund for 20 years, is also known for having mentored some of the brightest in the field, now known as the Tiger Cubs. What is less known about him, though, is that after his fund closed in 2000, he seeded quite a few young sparks too. He revealed, in a video interview with Opalesque, the decisive factors for selecting managers and many other things.
About the Tiger
Robertson is credited with turning $8m in start-up capital from friends and family into $22bn in 1998, and performing returns of more than 20% net yearly for 20 years. He gathered the smartest stock-pickers on Wall Street to work on the fund which closed in March 2000, when poor stock picking a lesson about the smartest -, together with the shorting of technology stocks caused sharp losses and investor withdrawals.
Tiger Cubs
Tiger Seeds
The Tiger Seeds are people that we have backed and we have a small piece of their company, Robertson told Opalesques founder Matthias Knab in a recent video interview (here) in his Park Avenue offices. And the Tiger cubs, most of them just went out on their own, having worked with me at Tiger.
When shutting his fund in 2000, Robertson was left with a large, empty office space. He told Opalesque that he then persuaded three of his most successful analysts to stay. They were Robertsons first seeding ventures and turned out to be more successful than he had imaged.
He has seeded 38 funds so far:
Although there were no hints as to whether he had more in the pipeline, we learnt from WSJ.com shortly after that he was planning to seed a private-equity infrastructure firm led by Emil W. Henry Jr., a Lehman alumnus, which will be called Tiger Infrastructure Partners.
Talent, according to the Tiger
Indeed, Robertson uses state-of-the art, multi-dimensional profiling and psychological tests to indentify hedge fund talents, having worked closely with leading researchers from NY University.
The test assesses the managers honesty, intelligence, their ability to get along with their co-workers and their competitiveness. Because we found that competitors are usually better hedge fund managers, Robertson noted.
To be a good hedge fund manager, he said, you have to be absolutely honest, intelligent, competitive and be able to get along with a team.
I can go beyond that, he continued, I think there is something strange in that the make-up of the most successful hedge fund people [they] have a real interest in making this world a little bit better than it was when they got into it.
Current positions
At the New York Value Investing Congress, also last month, he said he was bullish on credit card companies, as well as the likes of Intel and Google, but would steer clear of gold as an inflation hedge, Reuters reported. He dismissed gold bugs as "certifiably crazy."
Theres more to the Tiger
To view Robertson talk about hedge fund managers profile, the Tiger Foundation, philanthropy, New Zealand, and golf on Opalesque TV, click here: Source


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Tom Nevels , May 23, 2001; 04:02 p.m.
I recently acquired a Mini from the local thrift store and matched the lamp base from the smashed bulb I found in it to a GE High Intensity 12 Watt bulb available at Lowe's or any home improvement store that carries specialty bulbs. The power cord from the projector was also missing, and when I replaced it and plugged the thing in, the lamp burned out. I don't have any specs for this thing, and was wondering if you know anything about why this might have happened.


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Perennial powerhouse Woodsboro captured a 15-5 win over the Pettus girls on Friday in Woodsboro. The local squad came back to Tuleta to cage the Yorktown Kittens 12-9 on Monday evening.
The Lady Eagles vs. other Eagles contest was close through the first four innings. In fact, the Pettus girls owned a 5-2 lead going into the bottom of the fourth. Woodsboro plated four runners in the home half of the inning to grab a 6-5 lead. The big inning came in the fifth as the Woodsboro batters struck for six runs and then followed up with another three runs in the bottom of the sixth to earn the 10-run rule win.
Abby Cantu batted 1 for 3, with one run scored. Tristian Moore went one for two at the plate with a big two-run round-tripper. Moore also reached base after getting hit by a pitch. Hana Kruger walked once and scored for the Pettus girls. Ashlynn Schauer was a perfect 3-3 with two runs scored in the game. Destiny Carrillo had two hits in three trips to the plate with one RBI. Madi Garza went 1-3 with an RBI.
In Monday's contest, the Kittens scored three runs in the first to get an early lead but the Lady Eagles answered with a two-run first to trail by one.
Pettus hurler Hana Kruger set down the Kittens in the second and the Pettus offense struck for three more runs to gain a 5-3 lead. The advantage was short-lived, however, as the Kittens roared back with a big four-run third to regain the lead at 7-5.
Pettus tied things up in the fourth with two runs and it was 8-8 after both teams scored single runs in the fifth. It was still a toss-up as Kruger again blanked the Kittens in the sixth. Her offense came through for her and tagged the Yorktown hurler for four runs in the bottom of the sixth to put the Lady Eagles on top for good 12-8.
Yorktown rallied for one run in the top of the seventh but it fell way short as the Lady Eagles got the final out without any more damage to capture the victory.
Kruger got the win in the circle for the Pettus girls. Abby Cantu reached base three times on two walks and an error and came around to score all three times. Moore was 3 for 4 and also reached on an error, Moore continued her hot hitting with two triples and a double in the win.
Kruger went 2-4, with two runs batted in. Ashlynn Schauer reached on an error and scored. Destiny Carrillo had one hit in three trips to the plate with an RBI. Madi Garza went 1-3 with one RBI and she scored once. Brittany Trevino was 2 for 4 with an RBI; Randi Arrisola reached base twice and scored one run.
The Lady Eagles were in Three Rivers on Tuesday night. On Tuesday evening, the Lady Eagles will hit the road for Runge to meet the Lady 'Jackets.


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Jennifer Rhyne
Senior Lecturer and Affiliate Artist
- Professional
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Additional Titles/Roles
- Chair of Winds and Brass
- D.M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook
- M.M., University of Michigan
- B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music
- B.A., Neuroscience, Oberlin College
Areas of Emphasis or Expertise
- Flute
- Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble
- Music Fundamentals
- Camas Wind Quintet
Applied Flute Lessons, Directs Solvvinden Flute Ensemble, Teaches Music Fundamentals, Member of Camas Woodwind Quintet, Director of the Summer Flute Workshop
Selected Publications
Jennifer Rhyne serves as Affiliate Artist and Senior Lecturer in Flute at Pacific Lutheran University where she teaches flute and music theory, directs the Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble, and performs with the Camas Woodwind Quintet. Before joining the faculty of PLU, Rhyne taught at Fort Hays State University in Kansas.
The North Carolina native holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience from Oberlin College. Her teachers include Kathleen Chastain and Michel Debost at Oberlin, Lorna McGhee at the University of Michigan (MM degree), Carol Wincenc at Stony Brook University (DMA degree), and Pierre-Yves Artaud at the École Normale de Musique in Paris. She has been a prize winner in competitions sponsored by the National Flute Association, the Texas Flute Society, the Albuquerque Flute Association, and the Washington, DC Flute Society and has performed at Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden in New York. She is a member of the Tacoma Symphony and has performed in the Northwest with Bellevue Opera, Vashon Opera, the Northwest Bach Festival, on the Second City Chamber Music Series, and at the Icicle Creek Music Center in addition to directing the Tacoma Flute Choir. She has performed in the Northeast with the New Haven Symphony and the Atlantic Philharmonic. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with the PLU Wind Ensemble, the Fort Hays Wind Ensemble, the Stony Brook Orchestra, and the Charlotte Symphony. A dedicated pedagogue, her articles have been published in School Band and Orchestra Magazine and Flute Talk, and she has been a featured lecturer and masterclass clinician at the Kansas Music Educators Convention, the University of Oregon, Cornish College of the Arts, Ohio University, and Columbus State University in Georgia as well as a frequent adjudicator for contests in the Northwest.. Her students have won prizes in competitions sponsored by PLU, the Coeur d'Alene Symphony, the Tacoma Philharmonic, the Washington Music Educators Association, and the National Flute Association. Rhyne enjoys performing a wide variety of music from all genres and eras, including historically-informed performances of early music on a one-keyed traverse flute as well as performances of avant-garde contemporary solo and chamber works. Her Two Muses recording with guitarist Matthew Hinsley is available from Amazon.


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Judge allows former town manager's appealSeptember 18,2013The Associated Press
ST. JOHNSBURY - A judge has cleared the way for a former St. Johnsbury town manager to take his bid to get his job back before the Vermont Supreme Court.
Judge Mary Miles Teachout's ruling Monday allows Ralph Nelson to seek an appeal of Teachout's decisions on some aspects of the lawsuit.
Nelson's lawyer has argued that the issues involved in Nelson's lawsuit are relevant to towns and town managers statewide.
At issue is Teachout's prior ruling that Nelson was an "at will" employee and eligible to be fired at any time for any reason. In doing so, Teachout interpreted the Vermont statute governing town managers, for which there was no prior case law.
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When little Jack wakes up one morning, he is soooo hungry. And all he can think about is pancakes. In the book Pancakes, Pancakes!, Eric Carle tells the story that so many can relate to, not only being very hungry, but being so hungry for something particular – craving a food to the point of not being willing to eat anything else. That's how Jack feels when he wakes up to the call of the rooster on this morning. The only problem is there are some things his mom needs before she can make the pancakes for Jack. That means there may be some work for Jack to do in order to help her get those things.
Eric Carle tells the story in a way that will be entertaining and fun, and give the reader a sense of how desperately Jack really wants those pancakes. The things his mother needs, like four from the mill, eggs from one of the hens, and firewood to cook them with, may be the easy things to get. He also needs to milk the cow and make butter with the fresh cream off the top of the milk. Jack has his work cut out for him, and he needs to decide if Pancakes, Pancakes! are what he really wants.
Eric Carle has become one of the children's books masters, with awards and recognition for his work over many years. This story is another that will draw you in, and maybe you will even want to eat some Pancakes, Pancakes! by the time you are finished.


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Jimmy Wales's date of birth
There is some confusion over the date of Jimmy Wales's birth. A number of sources, including sources—including Current Biography and Who's Who in America, give as well as a marriage license filed in Monroe county, Florida—give his birth date as Aug. 7, 1966. In June 2007 Mr. Wales notified Britannica that this date was incorrect. However, Mr. Wales would provide Britannica with the correct date and appropriate documentation only if it was agreed that his date of birth would not be published, which runs contrary to Britannica's policies. Given that the majority of sources report Aug. 7, 1966, and without documentation that disproves this date, Britannica has decided to give August 7 with a question mark.


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Fudgy Cocoa Brownies
Total Time
Prep 12 mins
Cook 28 mins
Recently adopted this abandoned recipe and began making some small modifications. Despite being nearly fat free, this recipe yields a moist and fudgy brownie that is sure to cure your chocolate cravings.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1⁄2 cup yogurt
- 1⁄2 cup cold brewed coffee
- 1⁄4 cup corn syrup
- 1 cup applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- cooking spray
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together dry ingredients into a large bowl.
- Add wet ingredients and mix well.
- Pour batter into a 13 x 9 inch baking pan prepped with a light coat of cooking spray.
- Bake 28 to 30 minutes. The brownies will still be sticky on top but firm.
- Let cool 5 or 10 minutes before cutting.
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Pretty darn good... I'm always trying to find low-cal recipes and this one is pretty good. I only had vanilla yogurt, so I just reduced the amount of extract I added and stuck to the rest of the recipe. I cut it into 16 portions and figure they are 3 points on Weight Watchers. Even my hubby is digging it!
Theses are quite nice for a guilt free chocolate fix. I brought the fat and sugars down even more by using 3TBS of sugar in a 3/4 cup measuring cup and filling the rest with Splenda (I made a half recipe and cut that into 16 pieces). The yogurt was fat free, unsweetened applesauce and the syrup was No Sugar Added imitation maple. The applesauce flavor does come through but that doesn't mean that it's bad. I think that the coffee could be quite a bit stronger (I used leftover morning coffee). All in all, considering the very low fat and sugar in mine, I found this to be a welcome treat. I should perhaps add that I'm well used to very low fat foods. Made for Photo Tag.
I'm having a really hard time rating these. They have the very applesauce-y taste and the texture of numerous other fat free baked goods I have made before. (And the taste and texture that makes my husband say "ah.. fat free, huh?" after one bite without having been told.) So I don't think this is the right brownie to make for someone who you are trying to convert to a lower fat lifestyle. But for those of us who have adjusted to the taste some (like my kids), it was a decent snack. This is somewhere between a 3 and a 4 for me. Not bad but probably not something I'll make again. Thanks for one to try though!


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General Motors is convinced it can't afford to kill Buick. If it could, it would; but it can't, so it won't. So now what? Clearly, the Lucerne and LaCrosse (improvements though they are) aren't winning a great many brand converts. A radical re-think is in order. It's time to drop any pretense that Buick can possibly appeal to anyone younger than 70, and drink fully from the golden goblet of Metamucil. If GM insists upon keeping the marque on life support, what better way to do so than by wholeheartedly crafting a car designed for buyers close to employing the same?
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The battle is joined; the safety nannies have scaled the walls of common sense to patrol the courtyard outside the castle keep. How else can you explain Euro-NCAP's (European New Car Assessment Program) pedestrian safety standards for automobiles? Apparently, it isn't enough that modern cars must coddle their occupants in hyperbaric cocoons, girded by all manner of airbags, crumple zones, seatbelt pretensioners and Silicon Valley chipset wizardry. By the look of things, it's now necessary to legislate OUTSIDE the box, to protect hapless bystanders from Death Race destruction.
Europe's new NCAP testing regime rates a car's ability to protect a pedestrian's body upon contact with the front bumper and hood. Eventually, cars that fail the test will not be allowed for sale within the Euro-Zone. It's yet more proof (if proof were needed) that Brussel's non-elected bureaucrats would have their sponsoring nations consider automobiles a curse that must be controlled, a lethal weapon ready to savage any luckless pedestrian who dares place a stray toe beyond the curb.
A preppy soccer mom wearing steel-toed boots and work gloves. That's the look copped by most wagon-based crossovers. And while grafting raised white letter tires and frightening quantities of ribbed cladding to the family transporter hardly qualifies today's genre-benders for MOMA's parking lot (let alone their exhibition hall), virtually every manufacturer in the segment uses the recipe. Unsurprisingly, all of Subaru's previous efforts became ensnared in the very clichéd design trap that they helped originate. Until now
The athletic contours of Subaru's attractive Legacy are a welcome departure from the norm. Its tapering greenhouse, sloping backlight and interesting harp-shaped taillamps are inherently attractive. Fortunately, the team at Subaru charged with transforming the Legacy's basic form into an Outback didn't violate that trust. Yes, there's still lower cladding and a vestigial spear of door-ding armor, but both have been smoothly baked into the vehicle's form (available in body-color on certain hues). So even if the 2005 Outback it isn't a picture of modern maternal magnetism, it's still a second-look MILF. The design works particularly well up front, where eagle-eyed headlamps no longer appear malnourished (in comparison to the bumper's elephantine fogs). Handsome, broad-spoke alloys draped in 17" mud-and-snow rated Bridgestone Potenzas mark out their territory convincingly. A wisp of roof rack topside completes the picture.
Just a few model cycles ago, savvy auto-shoppers could indulge in the fine art of speccing-up. Consumers coveting European motoring on the cheap flocked to Volkswagen's second-generation Jetta. Shoppers could specify a lightweight, no-frills special: crank-it-your-damned-self steering and windows, no a/c and a basic radio. (Even steel wheel trim rings were optional.) The converse was also true– intenders could option-up a high-end GLI with most every feature then extant.
Fast forward to the new Jetta. Even a cooking version of VW's fifth-generation Jetta comes with air-con, remote keyless entry, power windows and a 10-speaker MP3-compatible CD stereo. And that's just the creature comforts; safety-wise, figure six airbags, ABS and traction control. Which goes some way towards explaining the car's 3,200-pound curb weight. (For comparison's sake, the average 1986 Jetta weighed around 2,500-pounds.)
Detroit execs have been too quick to sell the idea that consumers' clocks have struck midnight and turned the hardcore small SUV and pickup party into a pumpkin. Ask any domestic automaker, and today's smart truck money is almost exclusively on the crossover market. And while it's true that all-wheel-drive softroaders are hot, the notion that Americans won't pony up for a charismatic, purposeful body-on-frame compact is utter nonsense. The segment's erosion has far more to do with a dearth of compelling product than it does with the rise of alternative classes.
Need proof? Look no further than Jeep's evergreen Wrangler. Despite underpinnings hewn from Woolly Mammoth tusks and a convertible top that only a masochist could love, it continues to sell smartly year after year, decade after decade. In fact, its sales have actually been trending UPWARD as of late– no doubt thanks in part to the overdue addition of Jeep's Unlimited model (and the brand's ever-present cult of personality).
In 1986, pop rockers Huey Lewis and the News grabbed America by its blue collar and unironically proclaimed that it was "Hip to Be Square"– a rather peculiar assertion given that rock and roll music has historically stoked the fires of nonconformity. Almost in spite of itself, this ode to the joys of orthodoxy became a smash hit. And though it's taken the better part of twenty years to come to the fore, automotive design now finds itself deeply enthralled with Mr. Lewis' orthogonal ideology.
Here in the world's biggest automotive market, the automatic gearbox rules, with the vast majority of American electing to have their cars do the shifting for them. This, despite the fact that automatics are inherently less efficient than stick shift systems (an autobox's torque converter squanders resources unless in full lockup). What's more, the average slushbox falls apart sooner than a manual transmission, while often being a high-cost option in the first place. But even if you stray beyond the empirical realm, the truth of the matter is obvious: manual transmissions are the more pleasurable, safer choice.
Enthusiast drivers derive much of their satisfaction by changing gears of their own accord. Even the best adaptive automatics consistently fail to respond to the sporting driver's commands with suitably efficiency. (Hence the motivations behind most racers opting for manual gearchanges, even when the sanctioning bodies under which they compete fail to mandate them.) Technological advances like "fly-by-wire" throttles and GPS-based logic may eventually eliminate the autobox' temporal shortcomings, but until then, accomplished cog swappers know the tripedal dance remains most efficient and satisfying method for conducting business.
Despite the capable stewardship of GM Grand Pooh-bah Bob Lutz, Saturn is quickly falling out of orbit. That's the unavoidable conclusion after learning that General Motors plans on pushing its resident flower child upstairs, to an office from whose door a janitor is hurriedly scraping the "Oldsmobile" appliqué. Oh, how the flighty have fallen
Remember when Saturn was 'A Different Kind of Car Company'? From Day One, the brand was a utopian marketing and social experiment in need of decent product- a calamity that grew more acute over time. Apparently, the powers that be finally realized the Bohemian goodwill of its dealers and a no-dicker sticker weren't grounds enough to sustain a brand. As a result, over the past few years, GM has been steadily reeling in its wayward progeny, with an increasing percentage of its operations falling under the corporate umbrella.
It's common knowledge that today's auto execs are obsessed with "clinics", those allegedly scientific investigations into the public's views about a new or planned model. As in Hollywood, this fixation has sucked much of the vibrancy and innovation from the car business. For evidence of its crippling grip on the industry's creativity, look no further than the alphanumeric soup that is our new car marketplace: RX7, X3, XK8, S500, A4, SC430, F150, FX45, ad nauseam.
This pseudo-military mania stems from the widespread tenet that established vehicle names succeed at the expense of the parent company's visibility. Predictably, hired image and brand consultants wrongly view popular model monikers as a serious threat to the overall corporate gestalt.
Over the last year, we've watched Ford officials desperately plugging the fruits of their 'reinvigorated' Mercury brand. The Blue Oval's trumpeted reinvestment into the fallen badge can be summed-up thusly: more reheated Fords in shinier tins. The main difference from previous attempts to keep the former purveyor of flatheads from flat-lining lies in Ford's willingness to tarnish old monikers like Monterey, Montego and Marauder to sell a few extra units. What's old is new again, and vice-versa.
Journalists attending a Mercury press event these days must muffle their guffaws while Elena Ford's minions wax euphoric about 'rebirth' and 'DNA', only to pull the sheet on, say, the Mariner, a Ford Escape that emerged from fashion school with a skosh more chrome and an analog dashboard clock. This latest Mercury may in fact be a competent little SUV; the Escape from which it spins isn't at all bad. But most of the Mariner's salient points are available on the cheaper bread-and-butter Escape. So why bother?


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Lowered on 24's?
Hi Guys,
I am in need of a little input.
Has anyone lowered their WK on 24s? What are you running?
I am running a 24" Gianna Blitz with 275/30/24 Nitto Invo's. I can turn full lock to lock with no rubbing and would like to keep it that way while improving the performance and appearance. I am a little worried about the clearance.
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First-Half Outburst Leads Dartmouth Past BU
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HANOVER, N.H. - The No. 16 Dartmouth women's lacrosse team avenged a two-goal loss to Boston University from a season ago with a 13-6 victory over the Terriers Wednesday afternoon at Scully-Fahey Field.
Once again senior Sarah Plumb (Wellesley, Mass.) dominated for the Big Green who improve to 3-0 this season. Plumb scored four times and assisted on another for five points on the afternoon. The senior attacker now has at least five points in each of the team's first three games in 2012, as she leads Dartmouth in both goals (13) and points (16) in the early stages of the season.
Plumb also had a Dartmouth-record nine draw controls in the game, one off the Ivy League mark of 10 in a game set by Princeton's Abigail Gutstein in 1995.
An early offensive outburst saw Dartmouth jump out to a 10-3 lead at the half over the Terriers (1-3). Plumb and sophomore Lindsey Allard (Cohasset, Mass.) each scored twice in the opening period, while six others also found the back of the net in the first 30 minutes of action.
"We wanted to put BU on its heels right away," head coach Amy Patton said. "Our focus this game was to have a majority of our goals be assisted since they play such good one-on-one defense. We knew we would have to move the ball and create our offense around passes, which is what I think we did today.
"It was nice to move the ball so well and to see that at halftime the scoring was so spread out with a lot of players scoring points," Patton continued.
Midway through the period, Dartmouth held a commanding 9-1 lead.
Included in the Big Green's eight different goal scorers in the opening half was freshman Frances Bird (Summit, N.J.), whose goal 3:57 into the game gave Dartmouth a 3-0 and marked the first of her collegiate career.
Exactly 13 minutes came off the clock to start the second half before Dartmouth finally added to its goal total. Nice work from Allard and Plumb around the net allowed the younger Bird sister to move inside the eight-meter arc almost untouched by any BU defender. Allard found the freshman midfielder at the top of the circle for the quick shot under the crossbar for her second goal of the afternoon.
Plumb followed with her third of the game just 36 seconds later, the first of two in the second half. That third goal was one of three on the free-position shot (3-of-3) for the senior co-captain.
Each team scored three times in a second half that featured far more structured plays than the wide-open style of the opening period.
One of the main reasons the second half was more defensive than first was the play of sophomore goaltender Kristen Giovanniello(Old Brookville, N.Y.). The second-year Dartmouth keeper stopped a season-best nine shots, while allowing a season-low six goals to the Terriers.
On the other side, Christina Sheridan was bombarded by the Big Green offensive in the BU circle. She stopped 11 shots, but allowed 13 in the loss, her third of the season.
Held off the scoresheet in the last game against Yale (a contest that followed a five-goal game in the opener at UNH), senior Kirsten Goldberg (Cockeysville, Md.) responded with a four-point day against the Terriers. Goldberg scored once and assisted on goals from junior Courtney Bennett (Dairen, Conn.), Allard and Plumb.
Bennett opened the afternoon tilt with the first goal 3:21 into the game, a marker that sparked a 3-0 run in the next 36 seconds with Goldberg and Bird also chipping in.
Bird finished the afternoon with the two goals, while adding a ground ball and a caused turnover. Allard also had two markers and an assist for three points on the day.
For the game, Dartmouth was 5-for-7 with the free-position shot, something that had not gone well in the first two games (2-9). The Big Green outshot the Terriers, 33-23, and also held a distinct advantage in draw controls, 14-6.
BU was called for 33 fouls in the game, including 21in the first half alone. Dartmouth, on the other hand, was whistled just 17 times.
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