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The Texas Association of Builders says new legislation requires that all new residential construction and remodeling have a minimum of three inspections to ensure compliance with building codes. All construction or remodeling that begins on or after September 1st is subject to the inspections. Inspections are to be performed at the foundation stage, prior to the placement of concrete; framing and mechanical systems construction stage, prior to frame coverings; and final inspection upon completion of the project. The builder/remodeler is responsible for contracting with the Fee Inspector, who must be a licensed engineer, a registered architect, a professional Texas Real Estate Commission-licensed inspector or a third-party inspector approved by the Texas Residential Construction Commission.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration office in Dallas has established an inspection program for crane operations. The Regional Emphasis Program will address being struck by objects, electrocution, crane tip-over, being caught in or between machinery and falls. There has been a general requirement for employers to inspect construction cranes prior to each use, during use and annually. The emphasis program will supplement existing OSHA targeting programs.
Government data show businesses added to their inventories in June at the fastest pace in five months–a bigger gain than had been expected. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that stockpiles held by businesses on shelves and backlots rose by 0.7 per cent in June, nearly double the 0.4 per cent rise in May. It's the biggest increase since a one per cent rise in inventories in January and is bigger than the 0.5 per cent rise that economists had been expecting.
The Federal Highway Administration says driving by Americans dropped sharply in June, just as the summer travel season was beginning. Americans drove 12.2 billion fewer miles in June 2008 than they did in June of last year. That was the biggest monthly drop in a downward driving trend that began in November as soaring gas prices started to pinch consumers. Overall, Americans drove 53.2 billion fewer miles November through June than they did over the same eight-month period a year earlier.
Treasury bond prices have advanced, driven by continued concern about credit losses from major Wall Street banks and uncertainty about the value of risky mortgage-backed securities. Investors sought the relative safety of government debt after two major banks warned about future losses caused by the credit market dislocation. JPMorgan Chase said it will write down the value of its mortgage-backed securities by at least $1.5 billion during the third quarter. And Switzerland's UBS posted its fourth straight quarterly loss, saying it sees "adverse economic and financial trends." Fears about the ongoing credit crisis have pummeled financial services stocks in the past year, often triggering a flight to government debt.
Continental Airlines is launching daily non-stop flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and Shanghai, China. The flights begin March 25th, and also offers through flight service between Cleveland and Shanghai. Continental has operated non-stop service between New York and Beijing since 2005.
American Airlines said it'll take delivery of another six Boeing 737-800s in 2010. That's an effort to speed up the replacement of gas-guzzling MD-80s in the Fort Worth-based airline's fleet. The move brings the total number of 737-800s expected to be delivered in 2009 and 2010 to 76 aircraft. American said the deal is part of an amendment under its purchase agreement with Boeing. The nation's biggest airline is exercising its right to buy 20 737-800s for delivery in 2009 and 2010. American said it has secured financing for about two-thirds of the Boeing 737-800 deliveries in 2009 and 2010. While the carrier said it has the option to finance all of its 2009 deliveries under the deal, it declined to disclose any further details about the plan. The airline said it still has "firm commitments" to its plan to take delivery of 11 737s in 2013, but it noted it is still evaluating opportunities to further speed up the fleet renewal process.
BP has filed court papers saying it is complying with required safety improvements ordered by federal and state regulators, according to the Houston Chronicle. The filing counters allegations from a refinery safety expert that BP hasn't complied with requirements to improve. The expert from Apex Safety Consultants had said that perpetuates safety lapses that led to the Texas City explosion. But BP counters that it has extended considerable time and effort in complying with the OSHA agreement.
Wartsila North America has been awarded a $19 million contract to deliver a 25 megawatt power plant to serve Greenville, northeast of Dallas, according to the Houston Business Journal. Wartsila is the Houston-based subsidiary of the Helsinki-based Wartsila Corporation. The plant is slated to come online in late 2010.
Fluor has been awarded a $3.8 billion contract to modernize BP's refinery in Whiting, Indiana. Sugar Land-based Fluor says that could lead to more hiring. The company added about 1,500 employees in the past two years. The expansion will increase production by 1.7 million gallons per day, and will enable the processing of Canadian crude. The project is scheduled for completion in 2011.
Best Buy is going to start selling iPhones September 7th, becoming first U.S. chain to do so outside of Apple and AT&T's own stores. The announcement by Best Buy expands the availability of Apple's phone to 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller Best Buy mobile stores. It's also a coup for the Minneapolis-based chain, which has been upgrading its cell phone departments. Best Buy also resells Apple's Mac computers and iPod media players. An Apple spokeswoman says the long-standing relationship between the companies is the reason best buy will now be able to sell the iPhone.
Consumer choices continue to grow when it comes to wielding the remote control. The nation's largest cable operator plans to team with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to provide a video-on-demand channel featuring action movies and TV shows. It will be called "impact." Comcast says the VOD channel will have 25 to 30 titles every month, and about 200 a year. And it will tap into MGM's library of over 1,000 action movies and TV shows, many in high-definition. MGM says it's in talks with other cable providers to carry the channel. Movies include those in the James Bond franchise, Rocky and Robocop. They'll be grouped into categories including thrillers, crime, war films, martial arts and westerns. Most of the movies offered will carry no additional charge.
Macy's says second-quarter earnings dropped slightly from a year earlier and profits for the full year will be below Wall Street forecasts. Macy's says it earned $73 million. Macy Chairman, President and CEO Terry Lundgren says the results came despite "the poor economic environment." Like other chains, Macy's is seeing a slowdown in clothing sales.


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When you ask Robin McFaul what the worst part about spending nine months on a small island off the coast of Alaska was, she doesn't complain about the cold or the solitude. Instead, she gripes about having to lug a cumbersome insulation tester back and forth to the jobsite. From Fall 2003 to Summer 2004, she and a handful of other electricians from Spokane, Wash.-based Peterson Electric upgraded the

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With the growth of the Internet in both its size and functionality from the 1970s through to the present, we have seen a massive change in both the nature of the threats and the level of malicious attack activity directed against Internet-connected systems.
During the last decade, broad sections of government and industry have
embraced the Internet as a generally reliable and cost-effective platform for
business critical communication and services. During the same period,
with increased exposure to and dependence on Internet connectivity and
dependent services, government, media and the public have also
increasingly given more attention to the potential threat of
cyberterrorism to these Internet-connected systems, particularly for the
critical information infrastructures of nation states. In this regard,
Australia is no different from most affluent and technology dependent
For sometime now (even dating back to the Gulf War in 1991) there has been a
heightened level of interest in the potential threat of cyberterrorism
coupled with an unhelpful amount of hype and misinformation surrounding
the use of the term.
Part of the problem is one of definition - there are broadly different definitions as to what actually constitutes
'cyberterrorism'. There are a number of well-accepted definitions which share
common similarities and are outlined below. But increasingly, there are a
number of loose definitions which are promulgated to encourage the purchase of particular computer security products or
services or to generate interest in a story by the media. If these definitions are not clearly articulated, an
uninformed reader/viewer may rely on their own, possibly misinformed, understanding
of the nature of the threat of cyberterrorism. As long as the term 'cyberterrorism' continues to be used loosely and
inconsistently, misinformation and hype associated with the threat will remain.
The purpose of this
article is to present a legitimate definition of 'cyberterrorism' and identify
some common misuses of the term. Once we are clear about accepted uses of the term, we will then provide an assessment of the threat of cyberterrorism for Australian networks and compare this threat with other existing cyber threats.
In Australia, the recently enacted Security Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act 2002 defines a terrorist act to mean:
an action or threat of action where:
(a) the action falls within subsection (2) and does not fall within subsection (2A); and
(b) the action is done or the threat is made with the intention of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause; and
(c) the action is done or the threat is made with the intention of:
(i) coercing, or influencing by intimidation, the government of the Commonwealth or a State, Territory or foreign country, or of part of a State, Territory or foreign country; or
(ii) intimidating the public or a section of the public.
(2) Action falls within this subsection if it:
(a) causes serious harm that is physical harm to a person; or
(b) causes serious damage to property; or
(c) causes a persons death; or
(d) endangers a persons life, other than the life of the person taking the action; or
(e) creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public; or
(f) seriously interferes with, seriously disrupts, or destroys, an electronic system including, but not limited to:
(i) an information system; or
(ii) a telecommunications system; or
(iii) a financial system; or
(iv) a system used for the delivery of essential government services; or
(v) a system used for, or by, an essential public utility; or
(vi) a system used for, or by, a transport system.
(2A) Action falls within this subsection if it:
(a) is advocacy, protest, dissent or industrial action; and
(b) is not intended:
(i) to cause serious harm that is physical harm to a person; or
(ii) to cause a persons death; or
(iii) to endanger the life of a person, other than the person taking the action; or
(iv) to create a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public. [4]
(a) the action falls within subsection (2) and does not fall within subsection (2A); and
(b) the action is done or the threat is made with the intention of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause; and
(c) the action is done or the threat is made with the intention of:
(i) coercing, or influencing by intimidation, the government of the Commonwealth or a State, Territory or foreign country, or of part of a State, Territory or foreign country; or
(ii) intimidating the public or a section of the public.
(i) an information system; or
(ii) a telecommunications system; or
(iii) a financial system; or
(iv) a system used for the delivery of essential government services; or
(v) a system used for, or by, an essential public utility; or
(vi) a system used for, or by, a transport system.
(i) to cause serious harm that is physical harm to a person; or
(ii) to cause a persons death; or
(iii) to endanger the life of a person, other than the person taking the action; or
(iv) to create a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public. [4]
For cyberterrorism to apply, these same elements should also exist as they
do in the following definitions:
Cyberterrorism is any premeditated, politically motivated attack against
information, computer systems, computer programs, and data which results in
violence against non-combatant targets by sub-national groups or clandestine
a criminal act perpetrated by the use of computers and telecommunications capabilities, resulting in violence, destruction and/or disruption of services to create fear by causing confusion and uncertainty within a given population, with the goal of influencing a government or population to conform to a particular political, social, or ideological agenda. [7]
unlawful attacks and threats of attack against computers, networks, and the
information stored therein when done to intimidate or coerce a government or
its people in furtherance of political or social objectives. Further, to
qualify as cyberterrorism, an attack should result in violence against persons
or property, or at least cause enough harm to generate fear. [8]
the use of computer network tools to shut down critical national
infrastructures (such as energy, transportation, government operations) or to
coerce or intimidate a government or civilian population. [9]
Interestingly, two of the definitions (2 and 4) specify that computer systems or
telecommunication cababilities are used to conduct cyberterrorist attacks.
The other two definitions (1 and 3) only specify that computer and information systems are the
targets of cyberterrorist attacks. Arguably both elements should
apply. While an information system can be attacked in any number of ways (eg,
conventional methods involving bombing, arson, etc), for an act to be classed
as cyberterrorism, the attacker must use information systems or
other electronic means to launch the attack (as applies to the
term 'bioterrorism', where the method of attack is a toxic biological agent).
Cyberterrorism is
but one form of cyber attack. Too often the terms cyberterrorism and cyber attack are used interchangeably and may result in a
misunderstanding of the cyber threat in general and the threat of
cyberterrorism in particular. These definitions demonstrate that for cyberterrorism to be perpetrated there are at least three
elements which must be satisfied in order to distingish a cyberterrorist
attack from an ordinary cyber attack.
Denning notes that politically motivated cyber attacks that
lead to death or bodily injury, explosions, or severe economic loss would be
examples of cyberterrorism. Serious attacks against critical infrastructures could be acts of
cyberterrorism, depending on their impact. Attacks that disrupt non-essential
services or that are mainly a costly nuisance would not. [12]
Most cyber attacks in Australia, even 'serious' ones, will be offences under the
Commonwealth Cybercrime Act 2001 or similar State legislation rather
than offences under the Security Legislation Amendment (Terrorism)
Act 2002.
To date, there is no known publicly reported incident of cyberterrorism in
the world that meets the first three definitions outlined above. The
fourth definition, has been met, but only in so far as there have been
several serious cyber attacks against critical information
infrastructures but these are not assessed to be politically motivated
Notwithstanding this, there
are however, some factors which are relevant to an assessment of
the threat.
Despite a relatively
long history of terrorism, to date terrorists'
modus operandi mostly has involved the threat of physical harm; actual maiming or killing of
people; and damage to property. In the vast majority of cases, terrorists have used conventional
methods which involve the use of
affordable, accessible and volatile substances, eg improvised explosive
devices or weaponry. Less often non-conventional methods have been used such as the Aum
Shinrikyo sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. [14] But through the use of a chemical weapon,
Aum Shinrikyo still
sought to cause physical harm to a large group of
people - necessary for instilling fear within a target population.
Terrorists have frequently
targeted critical infrastructure and sometimes this has been to cause disruption
only. For example, during the 1990s, some of the operations planned and conducted by the
Provisional Irish Republican Army were assessed to have the primary goal of
causing damage and disruption to critical infrastructures while minimising
harm to people. Two examples include the October 1992 week-end bombing of the
Square Mile financial district of London.[16] and the planned bombing of six substations of
the London power grid in 1997. [15]
At other times terrorists have targed critical infrastructures, including
critical information infrastructures to maximise disruption in addition
to generating fear through deliberate attacks on human life (as occurred with the World Trade Center attacks). World-wide there have been numerous cases of conventional methods used
to attack critical information and other infrastructures. [17]
A computer network attack on a critical information system such as a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system that controls
devices which provide essential services such as
power or gas, may potentially cause a harmful and unwanted
incident that could seriously damage property or endanger lives. This is
the essential concern associated with a cyberterrorist attack.
While this is a possibility, unless the attacker has an intimate
knowledge of the system being targeted then the best an attacker can
expect is that the impact will be unknown or unreliable. Add to
this the ability of network operators to manually
over ride critical systems in the event of a
malfunction or fail safe
mechanisms to
be triggered, then it is more difficult for
an attacker to be certain his actions will achieve the desired result.
By contrast, the impact of a conventional attack, on a critical
information system or other target, is immediate and
unequivocal and would require significantly less knowledge of the
inner workings of the system itself [19].
A computer network or electronic attack on critical computer
control systems, such as SCADA systems, requires the attacker to
manipulate data within that system to affect the way the systems
being controlled by the attacked system, function. Once
a computer network attack has been detected and diagnosed,
corrections can usually be made to prevent further damage and
compromise to the system itself and to the systems it controls. Recovery from a computer network attack on a critical information system
can occur more quickly than a conventional attack - perhaps requiring a reinstall of
operating system or other critical applications, back-up files, or
additonal network hardening etc. By contrast, a conventional attack
will usually involve serious physical damage
and require the rebuilding of complex pieces of equipment and
facilities which is likely to take considerably more time and
resources than would be to recover from the system changes due to a cyber
attack. If recovery is able to occur quickly then from a terrorist
perspective, the attack may be less effective as a means of
instilling fear or causing serious damage [18].
"Plausible deniability" in the context of cyber attacks generally
refers to the ability of an attacker to conceal the true source of
the attack, ie plausibly deny they did it [20]. But
'plausible deniability' may also extend to the attacked site. In the event a critical service disruption or
malfunction occurs due to a cyber attack, without evidence of
clear physical damage, operators may plausibly deny
the cause of the disruption or malfunction was due to a cyber
attack. The detection and correct diagnosis of a cyber attack
relies on the examination and analysis of largely hidden computer
forensic evidence (assuming it is collected and retained for examination).
By contrast, conventional attacks exhibit clear observable
physical evidence that an attack took place. Denying it would be
more difficult, if not infeasible.
Regardless of how successful a cyber attack may prove to be in
causing serious disruption to critical services or serious
economic damage,
without the targeted population being aware that the disruption
was the result of a terrorist operation, then the incident loses
its ability to generate fear and be an effective tool of
terror, and becomes indistinguishable from other prolonged disruptions to
essential services that have occurred in Australia and elsewhere.
Finally, an assessment of the threat of cyberterrorism depends on the
extent to which critical information systems are vulnerable to cyber
attack. The greater their perceived and actual vulnerability, the more
likely a terrorist may consider or experiment with cyber
attack and the
easier an attack will be. In theory, if the systems are recognised
as being critical then the owners and operators of these systems
should seek to mitigate the risk by protecting against cyber attacks to these systems - not
only from cyber terrorists, but from others who may hold greater
intent and capability to conduct attacks, including disgruntled
employees or contractors, competitors, or ordinary hackers (attackers),
or possibly nation states with identified information warfare programs
during times of war.
If critical information infrastructures are being protected to the extent
required of a critical system, ie commensurate with the risk, then the opportunities for
targeting these systems by terrorists or others should
theoretically be
low. (Admittedly, "should be" and "will be" are not the
same and this assumption may not apply to all critical
systems. There have been an increasing number of reports claiming
that some SCADA and other critical
information systems are vulnerable to cyber
attack [21], but while relevant,
is beyond the scope of this current paper).
Politically motivated cyber attacks, as a form of protest, usually involve web
site defacements (with a political message) or some types of denial of service (DoS)
attack and are usually conducted by loosely
organised hacker groups or individuals, with hacker skills, sympathetic
to a particular cause or who align themselves with a particular side in
a conflict. For example, the downing of a US spy plane in Chinese
airspace, resulted in an increase in attacks from both Chinese and US
hackers (mostly web site defacements) who were
apparently displeased with 'the other side' [23].
Another example occurred, in 1997 when a group aligned with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) reportedly
swamped Sri Lankan embassies with 800 e-mails a day over a two-week
period. The messages read "We are the Internet Black Tigers and we're doing
this to disrupt your communications." [10]
While the cyber attack was politically motivated, from the outset the
attack was incapable of harming
people or property or instilling fear into the target population. Its impact was
primarily designed to cause disruption to the Sri Lankan embassies'
email operations but with alternative forms of electronic communications
available to the embassies, in all likelihood, the attack did not have a serious impact
on critical lines of communication.
While DoS attacks have been used as form of
political protest, they are most effective when the attacker
publicly advertises the reason for the attack, eg through
virtual-sit-ins which invite participation from ordinary Internet
users as a form of political protest [24]. Such attacks are usually symbolic
expressions of protest and while they
may be illegal are not intended to, or are incapable of causing
damage or disruption sufficient to endanger life or cause serious
economic damage. Such attacks are likely to
continue on an opportunistic basis in response to international and global conflict.
Any organisation with an Internet connection faces a significant threat of
cyber attack. The rate of malicious scanning that occurs against
networks, the rate of new information about serious computer
vulnerabilities and the frequency of reports of serious computer attacks crime demonstrate that the opportunities for attack
are numerous as are the number of attackers willing to launch such
attacks. The motives for other forms of cyber attack also vary and may range from illicit financial gain, personal use
of resources, competitor advantage or malicious damage. Additionally, many attacks
are indiscriminate, as attackers are less concerned with who they are
attacking rather than launching the attack itself.
Misuse of the term or a pre-occupation with cyberterrorism as the seeming greatest
source of threat may divert attention from
addressing other forms of cyber attack which are capable of causing
serious harm to organisations and infrastructures and which have occurred
far more often and will continue to do so. Our focus should be on preventing serious and harmful cyber attack
regardless of who conducts them or what their motives may be.
organisations are taking steps to protect themselves from ordinary cyber
attacks of the type that are reported in the media and the 2003
Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey, then they will be
well placed to protecting against all forms of cyber attack.
As a final footnote, the Canberra bushfires earlier this year illustrated how a natural
disaster, assessed to be a one in a hundred year event, was able to disrupt and damage critical telecommunications, power,
gas, water and sewerage infrastructures, for an
extended period of time and affected individuals, businesses, government and
organisations that depended on these services. Organisations and
businesses should therefore ensure they focus on
managing all threats - deliberate, accidental or natural - logical or
physical - and implement appropriate security measures to manage that risk. This includes having in place sound disaster recovery or business continuity
plans and computer incident response plans.
This definition of terrorism also appears in the amended Criminal Code Act 1995, s. 100.1, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/cca1995115/sch1.html.
13. Denning, D., (1999) Activism, Hacktivism, and Cyberterrorism:
The Internet as a Tool for Influencing Foreign Policy, http://www.nautilus.org/info-policy/workshop/papers/denning.html
14. http://www.terrorismfiles.org/organisations/aum_supreme_truth.html


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Town Square
American Ideals
Original post made by Cindy Cross, Parkside, on Aug 26, 2011
I've been looking for some rational way of processing my feelings after watching a CNN interview with Michelle Bachman after her victory at the Iowa Caucus two weeks ago. With that crackpot look in her eyes, she recited the simplistic tea party line that her victory was the result of Iowa voters wanting less government and less taxation.
What I found perplexing about this interview with representative Bachman was not the message, although silly as it was, but how far we have descended as a people in accepting nonsense for truth and substance for sound bites.
Once again we are being asked to believe someone who proposes to represent the interests of common, hardworking middle class Americans, but the problem is, that's not the truth! Charles and David Koch want us to believe that because their interests are better served by less government and less taxation. That's not my opinion, but rather the financial reality of who supports the tea party movement, a movement that did not exist during the Bush years of tax cuts and two wars.
Add the Fox News media empire with Rupert Murdoch and his 24/7 propaganda machine, and you have a national conversation on nothing of substance and nothing that is going to get us out of our many crises. But the lack of truth is in large supply from every direction, with both parties and the corporations that own the media poisoning the well from which we drink.
Just as the likes of Palin, Bachman and any republican with any hope of getting elected, spout their narrow path to the Promised Land that is the American Dream; the democrats haven't had a good idea coming from their chambers since the Civil Rights legislation. Therefore this is not a partisan problem but a systemic illness that has infected our political system by greed and an unrelenting quest for power.
Our politicians feed from the same corporate trough and with the same agenda, only disguised by polarizing rhetoric that gives comfort to our personal points of views and interests. I think most of us Americans are more likeminded than one would think after watching either Fox News or MSNBC. Who really wants fewer teachers in our schools as a result of layoffs, or less police and fire department support protecting our persons and property? When will it become too terrible of a burden to pay exorbitant prices for gas while the oil companies post record profits while paying little in the way of taxes? And when do we agree that spending billions of dollars a month on wars that cannot be won, while young men and women are losing life and limbs in this mindless pursuit of nation building?
We're being lied to and it seems that unless we unite around higher ideals than personal gain, we're doomed to be a once great nation, not the dynamic nation most of us seek to be a part of.
a resident of Del Prado
on Aug 26, 2011 at 9:08 am
"after watching a CNN interview"
Yep. I betcha there's a lot of tv watching in cindy's house.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 26, 2011 at 9:44 am
Why does the media show up for this meaningless fiasco. Truly, meaningless, nothing official about it, but it ruins the primaries in later states with real primaries. Even when Iowa does have their substitute form of primaries...they are cacuses, where neighbors who want to get together meet at a neighbors house and openly discuss, well, who are we going to support? NO secret ballots...not an election process. Even doing that, they chose TV evangelist Pat Robertson as their guy, the year PAPA Bush was elected President.
Last time, their choice to oppose Obama was Evangelical tent revivalist Huckabee ! ! That screwed up the primary victories following. McCain was broke and ready to fold. But because egotistical Huckabee pigged out at the Iowa trough, it kept Romney from beating broke McCain. So, you might say Huckster and Iowa elected Obama.,..otherwise Romney would have been the one handling the financial collapse.
This year we have Bachman and her pray away the gay first spouse, Perry and his all-day prayer events. Iowa would be happy either way. since they understand the 'code' it's not about taxes, it all about sufficient prayer, gays, and abortion. And even more tragic, it's all about WHO they WANT ...NOT ABOUT WHO CAN BEAT INCUMBENT OBAMA,
They never learn. Obama's safe.
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 26, 2011 at 10:34 am
I was taught not to end a sentence with a preposition. Ex: "...not the dynamic nation most of us seek to be a part of."
maybe i'm wrong?
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 26, 2011 at 10:44 am
Is this the candidate that Americans want to elect as the President of the United States? Web Link
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 26, 2011 at 11:07 am
American Ideals and Justice: Web Link
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 26, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Does this mean you won't be voting Republican? Thanks for sharing......Like we care...!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 26, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Arroyo, my strong hunch is that Cindy probably isn't old enough to vote, and won't be for quite a few years.
a resident of another community
on Aug 26, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Seems like the comments on this blog are mostly angry and childish. Samson comments that the author most be watching a lot of TV - brilliant Samson, given your comment what do you spend your time doing, critiquing Tolstoy just for the fun of it? Cholo, maybe if you had taken more than 5th grade English grammar you would know that language has more depth than a simple grade school directive, relax and stretch yourself a bit - it's the message Cholo that language conveys, so loosen up. Denny, you and your little world view is why this country is in the mess it's in, small minded partisan hacks who vote for a party like it was a sports team, a die-hard fan no matter how much they stink the place up. If this is Cindy's audience, I sure hope she is writing just for the love of it, because this forum and the comments it generates is a reflection of the very point this article tried to articulate (you with me on these big words Cholo?).
a resident of Del Prado
on Aug 26, 2011 at 8:50 pm
john douglas,
It just so happens that I finished Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' just this past July. It was my third reading. It is one of my favorite novels, perhaps second only to Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamozov' and Honore de Balzac's 'La Comedie Humaine'. Funny then that you should mention Tolstoy, johndouglas, because I'm currently about halfway through War and Peace, after having had to start from the beginning again because I began to sink in the sea of its patronyms. I can't say I have much to offer by way of critique of Tolstoy, as he leaves me quite in awe.
I think you may be suffering some confusion, johndouglas. In all your self righteousness, you seem to have missed a pretty obvious point: That the commentators, in order to respond to Cindy, feel they must crank things down a notch to connect on her level. The irony isn't her audience, johndouglas -- yourself perhaps excepted -- but that Cindy would be lamenting in all of her erudition that we have arrived at a point where the populace appears to have suffered a collective dumbing down.
BTW, speaking for myself, Cholo is my favorite commentator on these posts. His sense of humor, better some days than others, is a rare treasure which I wish I possessed. Apparently he is conversant in at least five languages. I wonder whether you might claim any such level of accomplishment in your life. Keep using those big words, johndouglas! Very impressive!
a resident of Hart Middle School
on Aug 26, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Relax, Cholo. There is no grammar rule that tells you not to end a sentence with a preposition, despite popular belief that the rule exists.
Or, as the late Sir Winston Churchill once said: "There are certain rules of grammar up with which I will not put."
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 27, 2011 at 10:57 am
been had a long night of worry behine the question of prepositions...thx...


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Red lipstick is timeless, and an instant confidence booster. It also seems to be the hottest thing going at the moment. Stars like Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani and Rachel McAdams have been spotted wearing it, and it adorned the lips of models at a lot of the spring/summer 2009 runway shows.
The great thing about this Hollywood look is that everyone can pull it off. You have to match your skin tone to the right shade of red and keep the rest of your makeup simple for the look to really pop. Fair skinned beauties who burn easily should go for a true red and those with darker skin and hair can wear warmer reds, the deeper shades.
Don't be nervous about wearing red! Try it for a holiday party where red lips won't seem out of place.
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If the May index of purchasing executives shows anything, it is that it's possible to accelerate the pace of slowing down.
Images of the manufacturing economy in braking mode abound in the assorted commentary on this result. NAPM's chairman of the manufacturing business survey committee, Norbert Ore, said, "The manufacturing sector continued to decelerate, and at a faster pace, in May. May appears to be a continuation of the soft start for the second quarter that we saw in April … The key indicators continue to decelerate at a faster pace."
Among the sluggish key components are production, new orders, order backlogs, employment and new export orders. Of an even more serious nature, said Ore, "The average PMI for the months of January through May (42.3 percent) corresponds to a 0.2 percent annual decrease in real gross domestic product."
Analysis from outside the NAPM tells a similarly bleak story. Tim O'Neill, chief economist for the Bank of Montreal, said, "The May NAPM report…reinforced the impression of weakness in [the manufacturing] sector."
O'Neill's analysis accompanied his report on U.S. payroll employment, which dropped 19,000 last month. "The weakness in May employment was largely concentrated in manufacturing," he said. "The pace of employment decline in this sector shows no signs of abating as the magnitude of the drops has worsened over the last seven months."
An assessment from Carol Stone, analyst with Nomura Securities International, underscored the uneasiness about the manufacturing sector. Noting the decline in the NAPM index's key components, Stone said, "There's no question whatsoever that the manufacturing sector is in a deep and broad-based recession. A sharp drop in the new export orders index suggests weakness abroad and the stronger dollar are taking their toll."
Employment levels are clearly a key to the overall health of manufacturing —and judging from the recent figures, that health is not good. Mitchell Held, managing director of equity research for Salomon Smith Barney, noted that manufacturing employment fell 124,000 in May, and has fallen 675,000 since July 2000.
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Called "Shtetl Routes: Vestiges of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Transborder Tourism," the two-year project launched in December is being supported by a $570,000 grant from a program of the European Union. The grant was announced last week, the Associated Press reported.
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Re: st: How to calculate kurtosis on left tail and right tail separately?
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Dear David,
Thank you very much for the advice. I spent some time understanding the terms and interpreting the normality probability plot graph and also tried the "distribution dot plot" which seems more familiar to me. And these are really more direct to observe the skewness and kurtosis on different tails. So thank you again!
With regard to the "quantile-quantile plot", I'm confused that what shall be put as the "Quantiles variable 1" and "Quantiles variable 2", since my dataset looks like the following. There are 299 Funds and year lasts from 2005 to 2010 on semi-annual base. How to understand the "pairs" you mentioned in the previous response?
Fund | Year Week Return female
000011.OF 200506 Week1 -.01595214 0
000011.OF 200506 Week26 -.02965235 0
000011.OF 200512 Week1 -.01595214 0
000011.OF 201012 Week26 .00202634 0
000021.OF 200506 Week1 .03485255 1
690003.OF 201012 Week26 .02142162 0
Thank you for your time and precious advice,
在 2013-4-14,下午8:39,David Hoaglin <email@example.com> 写道:
> Dear Mengjia,
> Moment-based measures such as kurtosis are sensitive to outliers, so
> approaches based on quantiles may be a better choice, especially if
> you are interested in "great gain and great loss."
> You did not mention the numbers of funds and years, but I suggest that
> you start with a "normal probability plot" of the data for one year of
> one fund. Unless you have a good reason not to do so, you could
> include multiple years for a given fund in a single plot. I would
> expect the plot to show heavier tails, but it will allow you to look
> at the behavior of the two tails separately.
> Since you have the same number of observations for each combination of
> fund and year, it would be easy also to make empirical
> quantile-quantile plots for pairs of years in the same fund or pairs
> of funds in the same year (and aggregate versions of these). For a
> pair of years, for example, this amounts to sorting the weekly returns
> for each year separately and plotting the pairs of ordered values:
> (min1, min2), ..., (max1, max2).
> Various more-quantitative analyses based on quantiles are possible.
> David Hoaglin
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:22 AM, 李 梦佳 <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> Dear statalist,
>> I wish to test the kurtosis difference between female- and male-managed funds return to examine the possibility of great gain and great loss separately. The current code leads me to an overall kurtosis value on both tails. Is there any way to calculate the kurtosis value on each tail?
>> My current code:
>> bys Fund Year, egen kurt = kurt (Return)
>> For each fund at each year, 52 weekly returns are provided.
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Mengjia
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I am a 16-year-old girl and I have been seeing someone for more than a year. He's 18. Our relationship was never normal - he struggled with drugs and a commitment phobia. Three weeks ago he told me he needed £100 for his dealer or he would be killed. I couldn't get the full amount at such short notice so I gave him £50 and he said he was very embarrassed and sorry and that I would have the money within a week. A week later I got a phone call from him saying that he had the money and he could give it to me the next day. Since then he seems to have disappeared. I have been calling nonstop and he doesn't pick up the phone. I am actually getting worried now, as he may be in some kind of real trouble. He has never ignored me or lied to me before. What do I do?
Mariella writes: Hope and pray that he continues to keep his distance from you, because otherwise the person in real trouble here is you. Whether you're aware of it or not, I doubt very much that this is the first time your boyfriend has lied to you. No one who has a drug problem and, more importantly, a funding issue is going to be offering full disclosure. The last thing this guy needs from you is money. For a start, I'm afraid your £50 probably went not to paying old debts but to buying new drugs. Can you really see your boyfriend popping in to see his dealer, giving him your cash and then leaving empty handed? If you're into drugs and visit your dealer, you score - it's as simple as that.
If you are being honest with yourself, which is as important as expecting it from him, you know there is no way that your money has gone on saving his skin. We can spend hours sifting though the truths, the half-truths and the downright lies you've been told, but ultimately this is not a person you can rely on, or hope for any kind of future with. The only thing this man is in thrall to is narcotics. There's no room in his life for a real live person while he's conjuring up his highs chemically. You really need to understand that. It's not personal; it's actually got nothing to do with you. This man is good for nobody and nothing until he has stopped being a junkie. And just in case you think that's too strong a word to describe his problem, let me assure you that anyone borrowing money off their 16-year-old girlfriend to fund a supposedly recreational habit is not a casual user.
I once shared a flat with a girl who turned out to be a junkie. I tried to maintain our friendship through thick and thin, the fag burns on the furniture, the dodgy visitors at all times of day and night, and the sight of my clever, articulate girlfriend slurring and drooling in the sitting room. One day while I was out, she had me robbed of every piece of jewellery and sentimentally precious item I possessed just to fund a couple of days' drugs. You could say she failed to appreciate my commitment to our relationship! The next day I packed what was left of my belongings and left her behind.
I appreciate it's harder for you: your hormones are telling you you're in love, and who knows, you just might be - but with an illusion. As long as he continues to abuse drugs, he's just a vessel for his habit. In the place of the man you think you care for is an alien being that is entirely dictated to by his addiction.
When drugs become a lifestyle, you are faced with two options: join in or run as fast as you can in the opposite direction. Thankfully, you don't sound like you're itching to become part of his crowd, so prepare to take the latter option. Please don't waste time thinking he needs you or that you can change him. Neither is true, but you could waste an awful lot of your precious life trying. I beg you not to. I'm not some middle-aged fuddy duddy - or maybe I am. Anyway, I've been as close as anyone should ever get to the drug scene. Close enough to know that the only winners were those who had the good sense to get out while it was still fun. There's no fun to be had in borrowing money and lying to the people you care about; it will only increase your cynicism toward those around you. In many respects there's only one thing sadder than a tragic junkie, and that's the misguided person propping them up while thinking they're making a positive contribution.
Tell your boyfriend that until he's repaid your £50 and sought help for his habit, you don't want to hear from him. Then get a new phone number. If he manages to kick it, he'll have the energy and necessary incentive to find you. If he doesn't, then he'll only be in contact if you're making life easier for him, which means harder for yourself. His situation is not your fault, it's not your problem, and you certainly can't save him. If you are really interested in my advice, here it is. Change your number, tell your parents or an adult you trust the truth about him and the money he's borrowed, and if he doesn't understand 'goodbye', tell the police.
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I feed all my cats GO and Halo dry and wet food. well i took my male kitten to the vet and he told me i should put them on science diet because male cats tend to get urinary blockages and the natural food is not tested and does not have the proper electrolites to maintain male cats and said my cats although they are very healthy will end up getting a urinary blockage that will potentially kill them. is this a scare tactic to get me to buy prescription science diet or is there any truth to this? i only want to do what is best for my cats and thought feeding them healthy food was a good thing, am i wrong?
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DON'T FEED YOUR CAT Science Diet! That food is more like a science project. I took my vet's advice back in 2007 and fed her Science Diet. My cat collapsed in March 2007 in her litterbox after eating Science Diet for a few weeks. Remember the big pet food recall back then? My cat went into kidney failure and died because of that food. I now feed my new cat Wellness and she has had no problems. Wellness is grain free and high in protein. If your cats are used to wet and dry food, you can still purchase both for them. Wellness makes wet (can) food, pouches with gravy and a variety of dry foods (one will certainly be right for your cats). Best of luck. I'm sure you will be happy with Wellness. P.S. Wellness was NEVER on the pet food recall list back in 2007.
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Your vet is full of baloney. That's the line that Hill's feeds the vets when they sign them up to sell their food. Vet students get very little training about nutrition. Halo is excellent food. To be on the safe side, it would be best to cut out dry food altogether (high in carbs and calories) and make sure the cats get plenty of water
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I'm new to zine making but just finished two zines with a limited run of 30 each. They are photo zines and I'm pretty proud of them! I was wondering what you guys do about friends asking for copies of limited zines. While I'm not concerned with selling them, it would be nice to sell them and have new people exposed to my work. I may be over thinking this. What do you do when friends ask for a copy of your zine?
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it's really up to you, and whether you can afford to give them away or not, but I usually give away a couple of copies to my friends.
If they're only a couple of bucks a piece out of your pocket, I say gift them to your friends. It's a compliment that they're interested enough in your work to ask for it, and you can return the favor with your art. You can always make more copies.
Why are they a limited run of 30 each? If it's to increase value via scarcity, that is counter to your goal of exposing new people to your work. If you want to make some money *and* expose your work: make a bigger print run, give judiciously but frequently, and sell freely.
If your 30 run is because you could only afford a run of 30 at this time (I know art zines can be expensive to copy), give a few away this time. Tell the others you only have a few to give away, and that you'll give them one on the next print run you get a chance to do. That might prompt them to realize copies cost money, and offer some cash! Or, you could just tell them you're selling it. It's really up to you.
Congratulations on completing two new zines!
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They say milk does a body good, so we knew these indulgent Bath Milks from Mox Botanicals were just the ticket for a spa-rivaling experience at home. The oversized tea bags infuse bathwater with relaxing scents that'll make you want to never leave the tub, even when you start to get all pruney.
I'm a bath girl who loves her skin to feel pampered, to enjoy an aroma of flowers. This product is underwhelming: the smell is gone as soon as the powder dissolves, you don't feel relaxed, and worst of all, it doesn't leave you feeling like you're in a spa- the packaging even tells you not to soak for more than 20 minutes. What?! While it did leave my skin feeling as if it was coated with something, the "something" doesn't feel great. Baking soda gives a better bath. I don't recommend this one, unless they change the formula and make it more of a sensory experience.2
Really I love this product. I've only used so far the jasmine and the rose petal bath milks. Though I must admit some of the rose petals did escape into the water and I did have to pluck them from my hair later, but I was fine with that. There aren't too many in the sachet to begin with. And the material is quite thick like a cheese cloth and better quality that most tea bags even. My skin afterwards felt very soft and there is a subtle rose aroma to it.4
When it's actually some kind of herbal infusion in the pouch, I don't mind so much, but milk bath in a tea bag? Eh. On the bright side, the bag keeps petals and buds out of your tub, so if you like the spa experience, but don't want any sort of clean up, these might be your thing, but milk bath is one of those things that I just prefer in the tub directly in liquid or powder form. I just like that opaque white water.3
After a recent trip to Asia, I was reminded of how amazing a milk bath makes my skin feel, so I was excited to see an option available in the shop where I could try out 4 different scents.
I've used 2 of the 4 samples and have been disappointed with both. The fragrances are not very strong at all- actually the main smell is of the milk protein. The first bag ruptured, sending the botanicals all over my tub. The amount of product in each sachet doesn't really do anything to the bathwater.
I have another brand of milk bath that I've been using that requires me to use less product for a great bath. I'm disappointed that I'm not able to add Mox into my milk bath rotation at home. It just isn't worth the cost.
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I quite like the cute sturdy pot it comes in. The colour I brought was BE-1, it's a nice colour as a base and looks good on its own - not too intense, its very shimmery and you can build up the density easily. The texture is smooth and is easy to apply. Only a little is needed each time so this pot will last a long time. I'm not too sure on buying other colours as the pastel colours looks very nice but one of these pots will last for ages.
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Very very glittering!! I'm using BU-1 light blue. Very good staying power, still very visible after a whole day. Package was pretty too in a glass jar. Amount is generous enough to use till long.
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I have totally fallen in love with these.
They come in gorgeous glass jars for a boudoir look.
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The distress of the families of the dead has been the focus of the Japanese media since the historic summit on Tuesday between North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
The news of the death of Megumi Yokota, who was only 13 when she was kidnapped on her way home from school, has been particularly heart-wrenching. A daughter Megumi had in North Korea is now 15 years old. It is not known whether the girl will leave the North for Japan.
Relatives continued to doubt North Korea's revelations about the kidnappings. "North Korea said just a month ago there were no abduction cases," Megumi's father, Shigeru Yokota, said yesterday. "We cannot believe what the North says."
There is also growing anger at the Japanese Government's handling of the issue and its failure to push the issue with Pyongyang.
Even the way the families were told of the fate of their loved ones has been criticised as being callous. Tamotsu Chimura, whose son is alive, said Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yasuo Fukuda, "simply read out 'dead, alive' in a flat tone".
Mr Koizumi acknowledged the slow response of officials. "I think there are points for which the government must repent."
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Lyrics Growing up in Spanish harlem
she's living the life just like a movie star
long time since I started a thread!
very very poignant song for me
what: well not sure if I will run today, managed 7 yesterday
why: lots to do and not sure I want to
last hard: the hill at the start of the 7 miles
last easy: friday
enjoy your sunday folks
Yesterday's lyrics were Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate-The Positive. Written in 1944 and sung by many people since, the latest being Jools Holland and Rumor.
What: LSR
Why: Won't get a chance next weekend
Last hard: 2/12
Last rest: 14/12
Lyrics - vaguely familiar
Afternoon! Very quiet again!
What: 5.5k walked including 5k in 48 minutes flat.
Why: trying to speed up!
Sounds busy GGG.
No further hassle from the hamstring Tom?
That's a good walk Alehouse.
Glad the storm has passed OH.
Sweep - enjoy the extended break.
20 miles for me today, it felt much harder work than last weeks 17 which I thought may be due to last weeks 17 and it being quite slippery underfoot but when I checked the Garmin it was actually 3 secs/mile faster. Just goes to show that I'm not great at judging my effort.
Well done at Brockers, GGG! And that's a good long run in the bank, LMH. Would be a nice habit to get into!
Advice please: I'm going to buy my daughter a new bike for her 23rd birthday in January as somehow she left her bike at Uni last summer! She says she wants a road bike but from the very, very little that I know I think she may be better with a hybrid given that the river bank is at the bottom of our road: shale type surface, mostly. By and large the bike will only be for occasional use, both on and off road. Would really appreciate thoughts from the bikers amongst you.
Greetings all
11.25m for me today just over 90 mins, easy base... 43m for the week
2 more weeks of base then hit the road for VLM training on the 31st.....
Take care all
Alehouse - if it will be used off road as well as on then either a hybrid or a mtb with slick tyres really. I ride my road bike on the local cycle paths on occasion - a compacted gravel surface - but not at this time of year. I'm considering replacing my mtb with a hybrid when the time comes as the position on the mtb isn't as comfortable as my road bike and it's quite heavy to haul around - though I do still have nobbly tyres on.
It's that time of year when I realise just how far behind my promises I really am.
Yesterday's lyrics were familiar, but then again I did see Jools Holland (almost namesake) a few weeks ago. Today's seem familiar too, but a Google shows me to have the wrong Spanish Harlem era worm. Yup, era worm.
Alehouse, road bikes hate gravel, they don't even like rough roads. They are harsh and sharp and pass on all the vibrations from road surfaces. But on a smooth dry road they are very fast. Flat bar commuter/hybrid bikes have got more give about them. My old touring bike with a lightweight steel frame is so much nicer on the bum and hands, this is sounding like an advert for Nivea.
-Never buy a road bike for someone else, they are so VERY personal, you've got to get over the tough love before you really enjoy them.
-A hybrid is the modern tool on offer for most people, and it's good at what it says.
-An MTB is designed for tough terrain, and as a result is quite heavy.
Think of it like this:
-A hot hatch GTI with rail hard suspension and razor sharp steering.
-The car you could take shopping.
-A farmer's Landrover.
LMH: Big bonus points for the mahoosive training run of the weekend.
I've pretty much canned all training this week due to an annoying cold. I swam Monday. Bike Saturday in the pissing rain (great idea, that was), canned tonight's swim and have not even done any singing practice. Too much talking is a challenge.


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Maybe baby: The design of the new Proton light-car remains a mystery but it could take cues from the Emas concept that was revealed at the Geneva motor show in 2010.
18 November 2013
By TIM NICHOLSON
PROTON'S push for more market share in Australia will get a shot in the arm
next year when the Malaysian car-maker launches an all-new light-hatch
contender in the third quarter.
The new city-sized hatch will slot into the Malaysian car-maker's local line-up
below the Preve sedan that arrived earlier this year and the just-launched
Suprima S hatch to become the brand's new entry-level model.
The as-yet unnamed hatch will also fill a gap in Proton's line-up after the
aging Persona and Gen 2 models were discontinued due to their lack of
electronic stability control which became mandatory on passenger cars sold in
every state and territory of Australia earlier this month.
Speaking at the launch of the Suprima S last week, Proton's head of
international sales Dr Badrul was unable to disclose details about the
forthcoming light-car, but confirmed it would be a five-door hatch and that it
would go on sale next year.
The styling direction of the new model is unclear, but some reports have
suggested it could follow design cues from Proton's futuristic Emas concept
from the 2010 Geneva motor show.
It is also not known whether Proton will collaborate with Italdesign Giugiaro
in styling the car, as it did with the Preve/Suprima S twins.
Something that is all but guaranteed is that the future light-car will carry a
five-star ANCAP crash safety rating, with Proton introducing a minimum
five-star safety policy across its range.
Proton's last attempt at a true light was the quirky Savvy that sold in
middling numbers from 2006 before being discontinued in 2012.
Dr Badrul remained tight-lipped when pressed to detail Proton's wider future
product plans, but he did confirm the Suprima S would get a beefier 2.0-litre
turbocharged engine in the first quarter of 2015.
Proton executives gave little away about the new engine as it is still under
development, but it will be more powerful than the 103kW/205Nm 1.6-litre
turbocharged four-cylinder unit that currently powers the Suprima S.
This would give Proton something of a hero car that would hark back to the
much-loved Satria GTi hot-hatch that became a cult favourite when it sold in
Australia between 1999 and 2004.
Before the hotter version arrives, Proton will launch the Suprima S R3, which
essentially adds a sporty body kit, but offers no mechanical alterations.
As GoAuto has reported, the Malaysian brand will also add a turbocharger to its
top-spec Preve GXR small sedan sometime in the New Year, matching the output of
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Hey, we finally got another Apache 2.0 beta out! Cool! I was starting to wonder if it would ever happen. And not a moment too soon... Now if people will just start fixing the remaining bugs for us :)
There are still plenty of things to polish. AIX in particular is a platform I haven't used too much for Apache 2.0 development, and I think that's a shame. I've been around a great deal of AIX knowledge lately and have gained a new appreciation for the platform. There are serious tools for debugging programs, and finally with 5L there is an easier-to-use system trace facility (truss). The existing AIX trace facility has a lot more detail and can be applied to many more problems, but it takes some getting used to.
For the nth time I browsed around the web looking for info on the truerand library, which is the backup random number generator for aprlib and is used on systems without /dev/random. Unfortunately, truerand doesn't appear to work with threads or with programs which use SIGALRM. Perhaps APR should refused to use truerand if APR is built with thread support.
Several Unix platforms actively supported by Apache/APR don't have /dev/random: AIX, Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX, and OS/390 are among them. I don't know if real programs use truerand or if these platforms have routines in their native libraries which are reasonable.
There's always plenty to do...