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From HaskellWiki
Netwire is a library for functional reactive programming, which uses the concept of arrows for modelling an embedded domain-specific language. This language lets you express reactive systems, which means systems that change over time. It shares the basic concept with Yampa and its fork Animas, but it is itself not a fork and has many additional features.
This wiki page corresponds to Netwire version 3 and is currently a work in progress.
1 Features
Here is a list of some of the features of Netwire:
- arrow interface (or optionally an applicative interface),
- signal inhibition (ArrowZero / Alternative),
- signal selection (ArrowPlus / Alternative),
- self-adjusting wires (ArrowChoice),
- rich set of event wires,
- signal analysis wires (average, peak, etc.),
- effectful wires.
2 BasicsThe Netwire library is based around a data type called
import Control.Wire data Wire e (>~) a b
comp :: Wire e (>~) a b
a >~ Either e b
2.1 The inhibition monoidThe
2.2 Base arrowsThe
type MyWire = Wire () (Kleisli IO)
3 Running wiresFor running a wire you can use the stepping functions available in the
stepWireM :: Monad m => Wire e (Kleisli m) a b -> a -> m (Either e b, Wire e (Kleisli m) a b)
stepWireM :: MyWire a b -> a -> IO (Either () b, MyWire a b)
system :: MyWire Int String system = {- ... -} main :: IO () main = loop system where loop :: MyWire Int String -> IO () loop w' = do (mx, w) <- stepWireM w' 15 {- ... do something with mx ... -} loop w -- loop with the new wire.
Note: Even though the FRP idea suggests it, there is no reason to run wires continuously or even regularly. You can totally have an instant depending on user input, a GUI event or network traffic, so instants can be minutes apart.
3.1 Testing wiresThere is a convenient function for testing wires, which does all the plumbing for you. It's called
testWireM :: (Show e, MonadIO m) => Int -> m a -> Wire e (Kleisli m) a String -> m ()
main :: IO () main = testWireM 1000 (return 15) system
4 Predefined wires
There are numerous predefined wires, which you can compose using the arrow interface. We will practice that with three very simple predefined wires (the type signatures are simplified for the sake of learning):
constant :: b -> Wire e (>~) a b identity :: Wire e (>~) b b countFrom :: Enum b => b -> Wire e (>~) a b
stepWireM (constant 15) inp -> (Right 15, constant 15)
stepWireM identity inp -> (Right inp, identity)
Both identity and constant wires are examples of stateless wires. They don't change over time. You can see this in the stepping examples above. They always return themselves for the next instant.


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Washington (AFP) Oct 26, 2013
The US military has invested billions in blimp-like aircraft to track militants planting roadside bombs but the spyship experiment is losing altitude because of technical failures and changing priorities.
The lighter-than-air projects were billed as an innovative revival of an old aircraft design to conduct "unblinking" surveillance on the battlefield -- at a fraction of the cost of fuel-guzzling planes or helicopters.
The Pentagon invested $7 billion in airship programs between 2007 and 2012, but the funding has mostly dried up amid budget cuts and embarrassing setbacks.
Tethered balloons equipped with radar have been used routinely for surveillance by US forces over the past decade and are a common sight floating over American bases in Afghanistan.
But the big money went towards airships, which are a step up from the "aerostats" held by ropes. The airships fly on their own power similar to the zeppelins of the World War I era, while carrying more technology on board.
The most ambitious project was the Army's massive, unmanned airship, the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV), which was launched in 2010 with plans to deploy the craft to Afghanistan within 18 months.
The LEMV, manufactured by Northrop Grumman, was supposed to be equipped with sensors that could track enemy mortar rounds, withstand small arms fire with special material and also serve as a cargo ship that could handle up to 20 tons of supplies.
Northrop Vice President Brad Metzger promised it would "redefine persistent surveillance."
After falling behind schedule, the 300-foot-long (90 meters) airship ran into major trouble after its first flight at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey in August 2012.
It turned out to be 12,000 pounds (5,400 kilograms) overweight because of problems with its tailfins and other systems, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of the US Congress.
The weight problem meant that the craft could not stay in the air for three weeks as planned at an altitude of 20,000 feet, but only for four to five days.
After the first test, there was a post-flight review and engineers came with up "with a long list of things that needed to be repaired," said John Cummings, an Army spokesman.
Facing daunting technical hurdles, along with a reduced appetite for surveillance in Afghanistan amid a troop drawdown, the Army decided to scrap the program after spending an estimated $294 million.
For critics, the program's short-lived, expensive history seemed to embody everything wrong with the Pentagon's bureaucracy. But officials said the concept was promising and the results simply were not up to expectations.
"This was a very interesting program. We are all disappointed it didn't go the way we wanted it to," Cummings said.
The US Air Force pursued its own helium-filled spyship, the Blue Devil 2, that was supposed to hover over battlefields for days, equipped with state-of-the-art sensors and cameras.
The Blue Devil 2 suffered similar problems as the Army's project, missing deadlines and failing technical thresholds.
Like the LEMV, the Blue Devil's tailfins were far too heavy, so heavy in fact that the airship could not fly, according to the GAO. There also were problems with flight control software.
After spending about $115 million, the Air Force called off the Blue Devil program in June 2012.
Other airships have flunked their flight tests.
The HALE-D, or high-altitude airship demonstrator, crashed on its first flight in July 2011, causing the destruction of its solar cells. In 2010, the solar-powered HiSentinel airship had a propulsion system failure after eight hours of a scheduled 24-hour flight.
A more modest Navy project, the MZ-3A research airship, has survived and is used to test sensors for the military and other government agencies.
The Navy calls it a "flying laboratory" that offers a "slow moving, vibration free" way to test out sensors designed for various aircraft.
As for the Army's failed giant airship, the Defense Department tried to sell the LEMV for $44 million. Last month, it settled for a modest $301,000, officials said.
Under the terms of the sale, Cummings said that if the airship's new owners "fly it again, we would be provided with data from their flights."
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Over the last 4-6 year I've developed my own CMS. Most of my clients are agencies and what we've been doing is branding the CMS as their own and building sites for their clients. This has been working well so far as we have full control over the CMS and find it very easy to modify it to suite the needs of each individual client.
Recently however we're getting more and requests from our clients to start using open source solutions like Wordpress. Many of my agencies clients are being warned against bespoke content management systems and advised that open source solutions are by far the best and preferred option.
I've always kept my distance from things like Wordpress, to be fair, I don't really know why. I have this idea (maybe wrongly) that I'd be shoe horning websites into Wordpress rather than moulding the CMS around the needs of that client. I also have this idea that each time a client request a site and wants different functionality that I'd be constantly researching existing plugins to see if someone already does the job, and/or finding a similar plugin and making modifications to it t get it to do the job required.
My problem is at the minute I think our CMS gives us a unique selling point, we're not just churning out Wordpress sites. On the flip side however I think we might be about to lose business or at least a client if we don't start doing Wordpress development and custom plugin development.
If I'm honest, at the minute I don't want to do it. There's a million and one different businesses out there churning out sites built on Wordpress, how do you compete with that? What can you do differently. My problem is persuading my clients (and their clients) that using our CMS isn't a bad thing, and that it has it's benefits. This is where I struggle because technically anything our CMS can do you can do in Wordpress, and Wordpress can probably do more.
I don't really know what I'm asking, but am I wrong for wanting to continue pushing our own CMS, or should we (like most other people) be investing time into looking to scrap our CMS and start working with an open-source solution?
Is there anything I can say to clients that would persuade them that open-source isn't always the best way? Surely my clients want to be different to their competitors, but on the other hand is seems using a bespoke CMS is seen as a bad thing.
To give you an idea, here's some of the benefits I think our CMS has;- We developed it, so we have a good understand of how to build in custom functionality, even right down into the framework should it be needed. So there's excellent support- It's currently delivering 4 differently styled administration interfaces, each styled to match each agencies branding.- There's plenty of built in functionality, pages, menu, panels (selecting which panels to show on which page), e-commerce, blog, case studies, form builder, control which users access which modules, galleries, slideshows, testimonials, events etc. At one point it did have some multi-lingual functionality, but found 99% of sites didn't need it so we dropped it to make things easier to manage. We only turn on functionality that each site needs to keep things simple.- If they have a problem there's someone of the end of the phone or an email to fix it.- We're not currently charging for the use of the CMS, but instead we charge for creating the HTML, integrating it and installing the CMS etc, plus any bespoke functionality.- If it's felt that new functionality could be build in that would benefit other clients, we're footing the bill for it.- We understand one site doesn't fit all, and we can make changing the admin interface to improve usability, even if one client has different needs to another.
My problem is, I could probably apply those same benefits to Wordpress.- A good developer should have a good understanding of Wordpress, so should have no problem integrating custom functionality- I'm sure a good develop could apply different styling to Wordpress.- Wordpress has plenty of plugins available for it to do almost anything.- A good developer should be able to provide a reasonable amount of support for Wordpress, although bugs within Wordpress itself could take time to resolve as you're waiting for someone to fix it.- Wordpress is free.- Wordpress is very usable.
I really don't know how to proceed.
You could pursue the security angle. Since Wordpress is open source, it means that hackers have access to the same code and can exploit that knowledge to hack sites. Do a [Yahoo or [URL="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=wordpress+hacked&oq=wordpress+hacked&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.1454.3062.0.3126.96.36.199.18.104.22.1685.1960.1j9j1j1.12.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.ZPHWGvU_V_g&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=a1b10ddcb3a6a158&bpcl=38897761&biw=1154&bih=623"]Google](http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A2KLtdFpdrZQOlIB12WbvZx4?p=wordpress+hacked&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701) search for "Wordpress hacked" and show that to your clients. Thousands of Wordpress sites have been hacked over the years.
I've had Joomla and SMF open source scripts hacked and another site was hacked that was running Wordpress as an add-on blog. In each case I didn't check for updates regularly and security vulnerabilities were found and exploited. In the case of the site with a Wordpress blog as an add-on, I failed to check for Wordpress updates for 13 days or something like that during which time a security hole was found. My web host suspended the account until I contacted them at which time they proceeded to clean up the account, remove the exploit, and change some permissions.
That isn't to say that your own in-house CMS can't be hacked. But it isn't going to be as easy for a hacker to find a vulnerability when he has no access to the code. When a vulnerability is found in an open source script like Wordpress, automated hacker bots scan the web looking for vulnerable sites. They can hack a lot of sites in a short period of time. If a client of yours has any sensitive information on the site like customer names, addresses, or even credit card numbers, an open source script with a track record of security exploits may not be a good choice.
If I was running a site where security was crucial, I would never use an open source script. While I have had three open source scripts hacked (due to my not checking for updates), I have never had any of mine own code hacked. The client should be told that Wordpress requires babysitting. They have to check for updates regularly, preferably every day. Not every client is going to want to worry about their site being hacked if they forget to check for updates.
Demand for Wordpress-based sites is growing and may continue growing. Instead of fighting the trend, you should embrace it and consider mastering it and offering it as a service. Whether you want to or not, you have to change with the times and adapt to changing market conditions. The market is demanding Wordpress, so you should seriously consider offering it.
It seems like you already know the answers to your questions, littlened, but that you're just trying to come to terms with it.
From a business perspective, your best bet is to offer both options. "Want a Wordpress site? We can do that. Prefer a custom solution? We can do that too."
Well, we had a really nice fast and capable in-house CMS some time ago but we too started getting requests for WP/Drupal/Joomla.
Initially, I had the same idea as you, that offering our own CMS was something that set us apart from other firms but eventually I took the plunge and started looking at open source offerings. It took me a while to decide which one I liked and then a while longer to get really comfortable with it but since then I've moved all my CMS sites except for two onto Drupal which I'm in the planning stages with so they too will become Drupal sites.
The main reason I switched to a well supported open source solution is because over the years I have seen numerous examples of in-house CMS's lock the end users into systems that become unsupported due to rewrites that don't provide an upgrade path or become unsupported because the originator moves on and hasn't anyone in place to take over. I probably see this about once every year or two. This doesn't mean all open source CMS projects are the be-all-end-all. There are lots of CMS projects that have horrendous code bases and poor vetting processes to ensure that contributions from the community are secure but the ones I'm interested in are pretty good in that regard.
As far as fitting the website into a CMS shaped box goes, that was one of my first concerns as well but I have found that the one I chose to pursue (Drupal) has a flexible enough theming system that allows me to replicate pretty anything that comes my way. It wasn't always this way... Five years ago it was not as evolved and neither was my knowledge of its API but now I'm at the point where I can envision how it will work with a particular requirement and fill in any holes with custom code.
With regard to security, if it's on the web, it has security vulnerabilities. The good thing about a well supported system (supported by developers) is that you have an entire community poking at it to see if it leaks and then when a leak is found it gets patched extremely quickly. It's not to say that you won't find vulnerabilities with a project like Drupal, but the first line of defense is keeping the core and modules updates current.
The only downside I see to using an Open Source CMS like Drupal is that memory footprint that it might require. My CMS was very conservative with regard to memory and didn't expose any objects or hooks into the API at runtime whereas a CMS like Drupal exposes a lot more in the way of developer hooks. It's never really been an issue with my sites but it i something to keep in mind; more db queries and more objects created and exposed than a single purpose custom CMS.
I think these guys have all contributed well.1. Be security conscious and choose your platform wisely. Keep it updated.2. Offer both your CMS (which you are obviously invested in and passionate about) and an alternative Open Source. Be able to explain benefits of both.3. Know the limitations of both and be able to advise your clients accordingly.4. Remember that you have experience and are a web professional. If you have built your own CMS, picking up and learning another open source CMS will be much easier for you. You should be able to wield it effectively in the marketplace against others who are less skilled.
I've had disastrous experiences with an in-house CMS that was intentionally dumbed down for the companies ease of use. By the time I had arrived they had invested hundreds of thousands into a system which was written by 2 guys. In the space of a couple of years the marketplace outpaced their production and they couldn't compete with mainstream features of off-the-shelf products, but our company was invested and held hostage by the high cost of switching systems. There was minuscule development of requested features and no way for a third party to inject anything useful into the website. Highly frustrating and in the end damaging of the companies progress. Not saying this is everyone or your CMS, just my experience with one in-house CMS.
To be short, if I were you, I will not use wordpress.
1, Security should be the most important thing for a commercial site. If you use wordpress, you need to upgrade it frequently to keep up with the newest version for security issues, which seems to be a big problem.
2, Some of your customers wanted wordpress just for their own conveniences. I believe more of your customers would prefer your own cms system.


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"Consumers have decreasing tolerance for anything that doesn't work right," says John Traynor, vice president, Products, at Bsquare Corp. "The more thoroughly a product is tested prior to launch, the more reliable it's likely to be."
And if testing is automated, as opposed to manual, there is likely to be more of it done in less time to greater effect.
BSQUARE Corp. recently released TestQuest 10 for automated testing of embedded devices and applications. TestQuest 10 combines features of two earlier Bsquare products, TestQuest Pro for test creation, and TestQuest CountDown for test execution. "In addition, we did extensive product research and added many of our customers' top requests," Traynor says. "The result is a solution that provides greater breadth and depth of automated testing while delivering tremendous value to customers."
Traynor says TestQuest 10 mimics the actual type of interaction a human would have with a device without the limitations, strain and errors associated with manual testing. "The automation features in TestQuest 10 can also improve the quality of testing," he adds. "It provides testing that's similar to what would be encountered in the real world—across multiple environments, in different geographies, and with varied hardware—so developers and device manufacturers can detect defects that might not otherwise arise in a single location or test environment."
TestQuest 10 integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio, which is popular with app developers, and with software version control systems. Traynor says there's no need for developers to have to learn to use new tools. The product supports test development in C#, Visual Basic, IronPython, IronRuby, and any other language that supports the .NET common language runtime (CLR).
"Customers decide what test cases they want to develop, and those tests can run 24×7 using automation versus manual testers," Traynor says. "We're seeing dramatic improvement in customers' ability to get products to market quickly, and they are seeing a big improvement in customer satisfaction. Our automated testing technology helps them reduce risk by identifying defects more reliably – avoiding false passes and fails, for example. The fact that each test is identical can help developers identify defects that might otherwise be hard to find."
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KidsCodeCamp - LA Ruby Conf 2013
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Sunday, February 24, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM (PST)
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Have you ever wanted to make a videogame, program a robot, or create a web site? Now you can!
Come to KidsCodeCamp, a free one-day event to learn how to use computers and technology to make things that do whatever you want.
PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION: KidsCodeCamp at LA RubyConf 2013 will take place on Sunday, February 24, 2013 in Santa Monica, CA at Satellite.
Lunch will be at 12 PM - 1 PM.
Ages: Older Elementary, Middle and Up
Have fun and make games, or hack your homework using Ruby! Just tell your parents or teachers you are learning Ruby programming... ;)
KidsRuby is FREE and OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE* and works on any computer. We have set aside 2 hours to teach kids how to program in Ruby using KidsRuby.
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Ages: Middle School and Up (Advanced Elementary welcome!)
If you ever wanted to program a robot, this is your chance! We are going to have Sphero (http://www.gosphero.com/) robots for student use during this exciting class. Make your robot move "by your command" using your own code. Robot races and more!
Teachers: Ron Evans (@deadprogram) & Friends
Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
Teachers: Patrick Teng (of Senden)
Here is how KidsCodeCamp works:
1. Local volunteers will run classes intended for a particular age group (elementary, middle, or high-school age kids). Each class is from 1 to 2 hours long.
2. Kids register for free, just so everyone knows how many people will be coming.
3. Everyone has fun on the day of KidsCodeCamp!
***** YOU MUST BRING A PORTABLE COMPUTER TO ATTEND! Does not matter which kind, PC or MAC... SORRY NO iPADS/iPODS. *****
Each kid will receive a free USB drive. Afterwards, they can be used at home, school, or wherever.
Special thank you to our sponsors Engine Yard (http://engineyard.com) and Sphero (http://www.gosphero.com/) for helping make KidsCodeCamp at LARubyConf 2013 possible.
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CLAREMONT - School board members decided to sell off two pieces of surplus property Thursday night.
The first property is the Service Center, located at 700 W. Base Line Road, and the second is the La Puerta piece of land, at 2475 N. Forbes Ave., and both were passed unanimously as separate items at a regular school board meeting inside the district offices.
Board member Steven Llanusa, who has raised questions about the Service Center being named a surplus property because of items like it being used for district property and employees, gave a speech before voting in favor of it.
"At the last meeting, there was talk of the necessity of doing this within a certain time frame. To make this decision, it would enable the district to capture $500,000 to $1 million dollars. My preference has been to retain the Service Center until we know it is a surplus If we declare it a surplus, there is no option to return to if the current plans don't work out. While I don't know for sure this is a good decision I hope it is."
Assistant superintendent of business services Lisa Shoemaker said after the meeting the district would go to bid for public auction on the properties in May.
In other news, a resolution initiating proceedings for a Recreation Assessment District and ordering the assessment engineer to prepare a report passed unanimously.
Also, a resolution to urge congress to rescind an across-the-board cuts to education, or sequestration, passed on a 4-1 vote.
Board member Sam Mowbray said: "It seems to me this does not solve the problem of the budget at the federal level. I don't believe this in the end will happen."
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Terrific buy
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I've leagally silanced my neighbors. They haven't bothered me since I started using the Sleep Sound Generator. Ditto their obnoxious barking dogs. Great product.
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The product works great as a sleep aid and as a therapist it provides greater privacy and prevents those in the waiting room from overhearing conversations.
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My family and I have used this white noise machine for over 20 yrs. Over this time i have looked at and listened to many others and none sound as natural. The electronic versions sound like radio static - totally unnatural and to me annoying. I take mine on business trips and even through the constant jostling they take, they tend to last about 10 yrs. I currently own 5 of them since my kids now sleep with them too.
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text: When it comes to shelling out for animal welfare, the price is always right for Bob Barker. On Monday, former The Price Is Right host and animal rights activist Barker welcomed three African elephants -- Iringa, Thika and Toka -- to their new home at the Performing Animal Welfare Society's ARK 2000 compound in California's San Andreas Hills. Barker (89) footed the nearly $1 million bill to bring the elephants on the 50-hour truck journey from Canada's Toronto Zoo to PAWS' sanctuary, which provides elephants with "hundreds of acres of varied natural terrain to roam, lakes and pools to bathe in, and elephant barns equipped with heated stalls and therapeutic Jacuzzis." Love that Bob. He said that every last dime that he owns will be spent on causes close to his heart. "I want to die broke."


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Winston-Salem, N.C.- The Brevard College Tornados softball team swept a doubleheader from the Winston-Salem State Rams at South Park Field on Wednesday afternoon, taking the opener 7-4 before winning game two 8-3.
Game 1: Brevard 7, WSSU 4
The Tornados rallied from a 2-1 deficit with six runs over the final three innings to get the win in the opener.
The Tornados used a three-run 5th to erase the 2-1 Winston-Salem lead, tying the game at 2-2 on a Brittany Tucker RBI single to left. BC then took the lead on a dropped pop fly that allowed Alyssa Miller and Brittany Fowler to score to give BC a 4-2 lead.
The Tornados scored a pair of unearned run in the 6th before capping their scoring in the 7th on a Brittany Jones RBI double to put BC in front 7-4.
BC starter Jamie Hrobak (W, 7-11) allowed four runs (two earned) in the complete-game effort, yielding eight hits and three walks while striking out two. Winston-Salem scored unearned runs on an error in the 1st and following a passed ball in the 6th.
Game 2: Brevard 8, WSSU 3
BC scored in three straight innings to earn the sweep, led offensively by Clemens and Emily Boykin's three hits apiece.
The Rams took a 1-0 lead in the 1st before BC responded with a three-spot in the top of the 2nd. Heather Morris singled in a run to tie it and Corinne Stiles plated two more with a single up the middle to give BC a two-run lead.
Winston-Salem made it a one-run game in the bottom of the 2nd, but the Tornados again answered with three runs in the top of the 3rd to take a 6-2 lead.
Fowler and Clemens scored on a fielding error by Winston-Salem's third baseman before Brittany Jones scored on throwing error by the Rams catcher.
BC capped their scoring with two runs in the top of the 4th when Miller scored on a throwing error and Emily Boykin knocked in a run with a single to center.
Miller allowed just one earned run in a complete-game effort in the circle for Brevard, limiting the Rams to six hits and three walks. Winston-Salem scored two unearned runs on BC errors in the 1st and 2nd inning.
The Tornados wrap their 2013 season on Saturday as they visit the Carson-Newman Eagles for a doubleheader at the Lady Eagle Softball Complex beginning at 1 p.m.


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Few drivers - examples in their primes include A.J. Foyt and the senior Dale Earnhardt - have achieved the status Danica Patrick has today: very little middle ground.
You're either for her or not.
Foyt (IndyCar) and Earnhardt (NASCAR) backed up their character flaws with numerous checkered flags. Patrick has only one win (in Japan) but has greatly benefited by the work of marketing people and public relations firms.
Until last Sunday.
She (fill in your own verb) the racing world by becoming the first woman to win the pole for the Daytona 500, stock car's biggest race. It's rather doubtful many others could have endured the pressures she has handled since she started racing, even before reaching the highest level.
"I feel like, first and foremost, I grew up with good values and good goals. I was brought up to be the fastest driver, not the fastest girl," she said after her historic moment. "That was instilled in me from very young, from the beginning.
"Then I feel like thriving in those moments where the pressure's on has also been a help for me. I also feel like I've been lucky in my career to be with good teams and have good people around me.
"I don't think any of it would have been possible without that."
Some of her biggest detractors, although not openly, have been competitors. They have, however, understood the attention she has generated has been good for them as well. Her biggest fans? Youngsters and their parents.
"I've had the experience with mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, listening to them say the reason why they're here as a family today is because of me out there," Patrick said. "Whether it brings the girls out, the guys out, whatever it is, I don't care. That's nice to hear. It's also nice to hear families talk about the fact that a little girl might say, `But, mommy, daddy, that's a girl out there!'
"Then they can have the conversation with their kid about you can do anything you want and being different doesn't by any means not allow you to follow your dreams. I love to think that conversation happens in households because of something I'm doing."
Those conversations certainly will take place Sunday.
Some research following the Winternationals, the NHRA Drag Racing Series opener over the weekend at Fairplex produced a startling fact. Never before in its 63-year history have there been younger winners.
Vincent Nobile, a full-time student at Delphi University in New York who drives for a Pro Stock team based in Rancho Cucamonga, was the youngest at 21. Courtney Force, the youngest daughter of 15-time Funny Car champion John Force, won her second title in the same class at 24. The elder statesman was Top Fuel dragster winner Shawn Langdon at 30.
A close second were the winners last summer in Seattle: Steve Torrence (Top Fuel) at 29; Courtney at 24 and Erica Enders (Pro Stock) at 28.
Could this be start of a new era for NHRA?
Many veterans such as Force remain, but there are a number of young drivers in Top Fuel and Funny Car. Nobile is among a handful of competitors under 40 in Pro Stock, long considered the most competitive of the four pro classes.
Langdon's fellow young competitors include AlAnabi Racing teammate Khalid alBalooshi, Brandon Bernstein, Morgan Lucas, Leah Pruett, Brittany Force, Spencer Massey and Torrence. That's more than half of the 16-car field.
In Funny Car, Courtney's under-30 contemporaries include Alexis DeJoria, Bob Tasca III and Matt Hagen. Bob Tasca III and Robert Hight, Courtney's brother-in-law, are just slightly older.
Nobile and Enders are the youngest in Pro Stock, which has long been dominated by middle-aged men. In fact, when Jeg Coughlin won his first of four titles in 2000, he was 30.
A day after competing in the NASCAR Cup race in Phoenix, Jimmie Johnson will be back in Southern California as a teacher and student.
He'll be joined by snowboarder Todd Richards, surfing champion Ian Walsh, ski racer Daron Rahlves and Dave Kalama, stand-up paddler and big wave surfer.
The day will start at 6 a.m. in Huntington Beach, where Irons and Kalama will `school' Johnson, Richards and Rahlves. At 9:30, Johnson will be the mentor as the remaining quartet get behind the wheel at Auto Club Speedway.
Fans are invited to view the action in Fontana and help break-in the "Pit Box Lounge."
After a short flight to Mammoth, it will be Richards, Rahlve and Kalamas mentoring Johnson and Walsh beginning at 1 p.m.
During last week's unveiling of the 2014 Chevrolet SS that will race in NASCAR this year, team owner Rick Hendrick said without the Gen 6 the red bow tie might have disappeared.
"It would have been a good chance," Hendrick. "As a matter of fact, I'm sure they might have."
This from an owner who won 60 races and four champions in the car of tomorrow that debuted in 2007 and was used throughout last season.
"The car of tomorrow, we had a lot of success with it and won championships with it, but it was time to get back to our roots and a production car we could race," Hendrick said.
NASCAR president Mike Helton agreed it was a push from Chevrolet that led to the Gen 6 car.
"They backed us in a corner and said, `Here's what you guys need to think about doing,' " Helton said.
Scribbled information in the margins of a new Mello Yello notebook:
Racers and jets.
On Tuesday, Austin Dillon had the opportunity to fly in an F-16 with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. In several weeks, Courtney Force and Hight will take rides in an F-18 with the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels. ...
Construction has started to convert busy city streets into a competitive course for the 39th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 19-21. Over the next two months, more than 14 million pounds of concrete blocks will be set. ...
Sunday's winner of the Daytona 500 will meet Southern California NASCAR fans next Wednesday at Sprinkles Cupcakes at The Grove in the Los Angeles Fairfax district. It's part of the national tour for the winner.
The event will start at 3p.m....
A.J. Allmendinger, who lost his NASCAR ride last year after failing a drug test, was back in an IndyCar for the first time since October, 2006 in a test earlier in the week at Sebring International Raceway in Florida. He was driving a car for Roger Penske, who owned the NASCAR ride Allmendinger lost.
"I'm so grateful to the organization to give me this opportunity. To what I went through last year, to have Roger ask me to come here and drive one of his race cars happy is an understatement," Allmendinger, 31, said. "In this process, I've learned a lot about myself and how to be a better person."


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The movie "Emperor," starring Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur, is currently playing in theaters and tells the story of the final days of World War II and the U.S. occupation of Japan. For an Ohio perspective on these events, we turn to the War Era Story Project.
Ruth Hergenrather, age 86, of Brookville, Ohio, shared with us her husband's story. Bob was a U.S. Marine and was witness to the signing of the peace treaty with Japan on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. Here is his experience, in his own words.
"On the day of the 2nd, at 9:00 a.m., dignitaries from all the Allied Nations were assembled on the 0-1 level, where a table from the mess hall had been brought in. It was covered with a green cloth. The Japanese delegation came up the gangway right in front of us, the Marines. I think I could have reached out and touched one man, he came that close to me. There were 11 of them. Three were in top hats and tails, six were in full military dress, and the others were in civilian suits. We did not salute them, and we did not wear our dress uniforms. They were still the enemy. They came aboard and took their places in front of the table.
"Only two chairs were there, one on each side of the table. The Japanese men stood for a couple of minutes before General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, approached the table and faced them. He made a few remarks without the microphone, then asked them to place their signatures on the official surrender documents. Standing by General MacArthur was General Jonathan Wainwright and British General A.E. Percival, who were heroes of the Battan march on Corrigidor. As General MacArthur signed his name for the Allied Powers, he used five pens. The first one he gave to General Wainwright and the second to General Percival. Both men had been prisoners of Japan until the surrender on August 14th.
"When the signing was completed, General MacArthur gave the Japanese delegation their copy of the document. He told them it would be his purpose to see to it the terms of the surrender were carried out, then told them the ceremonies were complete. The Japanese delegation then turned and went down the gangway onto a destroyer that would return them to shore. General MacArthur then made a few remarks into a microphone in order for the men who could not actually see the happenings to at least hear his voice as he related to them what had just taken place. There were men hanging from every possible spot all over the ship to watch or catch a glimpse of that event, and I had the privilege of standing close enough to see and hear the entire proceedings. What a gift I had been given. Then General MacArthur asked the ship's Chaplain to close in prayer."
Judy Cupp, age 75, of Greenville, shared the experiences of her uncle, Donald Kincaid, who served in the Army. He was a Military Police guard who had a very personal connection to the end of the war.
"As a Military Police guard, Uncle Donald had a very unusual experience. He was one of the guards for a very famous prisoner: Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo. (Uncle Don) was on duty, Sept. 9, 1945, the night Tojo was to be executed. Tojo's dress uniform was brought to him. He called his interpreter over, pulled his ribbon bar off his tunic, indicated that it should be given to Kincaid as a souvenir, and then personally handed the bar to my uncle, who was startled. Surprisingly, Uncle Donald was allowed to keep them. The interpreter wrote a letter of authenticity. The Army flew the metals home to my grandparents."
Mr. Kincaid kept the ribbon bar his entire life. After his passing, the family contacted several museums about the unique keepsake. It currently is on loan to the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, FL.


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when i use my auditor live cd it reads my wifi card and it works ic an use kismet and things like that. but when i boot backtrack on my harddrive it wont read it.
my second thing is more of a question which is when im using my auiditor disc and i trying to send packects and capture them using airforge it says there is no buffer space to send packets or something. im sure these are pretty n00b questions but can somebody please help.


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Jennifer Hudson gets star on HWOF
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Actress-singer Jennifer Hudson now has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Hudson was on hand Wednesday for the unveiling of her star in front of the W Hollywood Hotel.
An emotional Hudson said she never would have dreamed she would be honored this way.
The Grammy and Oscar winner was first noticed participating on the third season of the Fox reality show "American Idol," where she finished seventh. She made her film debut in 2006's "Dreamgirls" and won an Academy Award for her role as Effie White. Hudson won the best rhythm and blues album Grammy in 2009 for her self-titled debut album.
Congrats Jennifer!
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text: As title, I want to know how to install Backtrack 5 to USB. I have a 16GB USB. Should I Split partition, one for install BackTrack, and one for daily use? Note that I want Full Install, like install Ubuntu to HDD, not live. Because LiveUSB, when shutdown, every documents on that session will be deleted. So I want to know how to install Full Backtrack 5 to USB, and can boot on other Machine. Sorry for my bad English.


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"Because it's an intimate collection of homes within a larger, established neighborhood, you get a sense of familiarity that is hard to recreate in a large, brand-new community," says Winningham, the community sales manager at The Enclave. "There's a comfort level here. You can easily picture kids riding their bikes to the elementary school — which is only three blocks away — or neighbors heading over to each other's homes for weekend barbecues. I think people miss having those types of experiences and connections today."
Built by CamWest, a Toll Brothers company, The Enclave is a collection of 10 five-bedroom, three-bath homes located in Bellevue's Newport Hills area. This weekend marks the opening of the neighborhood's sales center.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.
This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies.
An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at .
Oscar Wilde.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and allows less room for lies.
Le Corbusier.
"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral--immoral from the scientific point of view."
"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for.
People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us. And yet I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream -- I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal-- to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be."
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Man Who Posted Picture Of Murdered Wife Enters Plea
(Miami, FL) -- The South Miami man who allegedly killed his wife and posted a picture of her bleeding body on Facebook is pleading not guilty to the charge. Derek Medina went to police and confessed to killing Jennifer Alfonso in the kitchen of their home. Medina also posted on the social media website that he was the victim of Alfonso's abuse and wrote that he wasn't going to take it anymore. He remains jailed on charges of first-degree murder.


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Provo • Most incoming freshman basketball players wait until they are at least sophomores or juniors, and some never get around to it. But Eric Mika clearly is not your typical freshman even when it comes to picking tunes.
BYU's prized recruit already has appointed himself director of the music before practices in the Cougars' locker room, and he hasn't even played in a game yet.
Then again, the same could be said of the hype surrounding the phenom from nearby 2012-13 national champion Lone Peak High. It is sky-high, and the 6-foot-11 Mika has yet to score a point, grab a rebound or throw down one of his signature two-hand dunks at the Marriott Center.
"Honestly, I don't get it myself, either," Mika said, shaking his head. "I think [the hype] is cool, but I just think it is crazy how these accolades are coming out without me doing anything yet. So I am trying not to pay attention to them."
Even CBSSports.com got into the act last week, putting Mika at No. 98 on its list of the top 100 players in college basketball. Junior guard Tyler Haws, who actually has scored 1,177 points in his career, is No. 34.
"Mika could be one of the nation's most impactful freshmen," Jeff Borzello wrote. "He rebounds at both ends, has a nice touch and is physical in the paint."
BYU coach Dave Rose, the man who downplays everything, good or bad, including his own battles with neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer in 2009 and this past summer, hasn't been immune to piling on the expectations for the 18-year-old from Alpine.
"The expectation for Eric is huge," Rose said at BYU's media day. "He has come in with quite a reputation as far as his high school career and his recruiting ranking."
Rose then compared Mika's arrival in Provo to that of former Cougar Mekeli Wesley. All he did was win Mountain West Conference Player of the Year honors in 1999-2000.
"We are going to throw him the ball, and we are going to expect him to make positive plays," Rose said. "He's a great runner, one of the best we've had at getting up and down [the floor] and being able to finish."
Mika heard about that as well and only could shrug when it was brought up again after practice Wednesday.
"It is definitely a nice compliment, and it shows that coach has confidence in me," he said. "But it doesn't mean anything. I haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove before I can say anything.
"I mean, they expect me to do well, and I expect myself to do well, but I am not trying to put extra pressure on myself and be some sort of one-and-done freshman. Even if I don't perform at a freakish level, I am not going to beat myself up or be too hard on myself. I know if I play within the system, keep working hard, then I will be able to contribute."
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The website CollegeSportsMadness.com recently named Mika its Preseason All-High Major Freshman of the Year. After all, he did earn MVP honors at the West Coast All-Star Classic last spring against some of the other top recruits in the country, scoring a game-high 28 points. He was ranked No. 28 by ESPN.com, No. 37 by Scout.com and No. 49 by Rivals.com in the prep class of 2013. He was a third-team high school All-American.
"I think [the mention at media day] is because his talent level is ready right now to play and contribute at this level," Rose said Wednesday. "The thing I think we are most impressed with as a coaching staff is his physicality, his ability to take hits, deliver hits. He likes to kind of get engaged. He and Luke [Worthington] are two guys that like to get contact in the post and then play from there. Hopefully that will really help us."
Will he live up to the expectations?
"He will. He will," said sophomore Kyle Collinsworth, the recently returned missionary who got his first look at Mika's game in pickup games and the like this summer. "He's very good. The one thing I love is how he runs the floor. He can get from one end to the other very fast, and he's very athletic."
Not since then-BYU coach Roger Reid lured rural Utah farmboy Shawn Bradley and his 7-foot-6 frame away from the likes of North Carolina, Duke and Kansas in 1990 has a player entered BYU's basketball program with so much fanfare and scrutiny.
Like Bradley did after averaging 14.8 points, 7.7 rebounds and 5.2 blocked shots per game in his one and only season at BYU, Mika plans on going on an LDS Church mission immediately after the season and winter semester end.
"Yeah, that's for sure," Mika said. "I will probably put my [registration] papers in in February, and then hopefully leave mid-May."
What happens if he has a phenomenal season? Any chance he changes his mind?
"Nope," he said. "I'm going."
Making Mika's story even more amazing is that he seemingly came out of nowhere. Neither his 6-5 father, Ron, his 5-10 mother, Sue, nor any of his four older siblings played college basketball, although Sue set some scoring and free-throw shooting records at her high school in Michigan. He's the fifth of Ron and Sue's children to attend BYU.
Mika's list of schools that recruited him isn't all that impressive, mostly because he committed to BYU early (Dec. 17, 2011) when he wasn't even playing basketball. He was forced to sit out his entire junior season when the Utah High School Activities Association denied eligibility after he transferred from Sandy's Waterford, a private school, to Lone Peak, even though he lived in Lone Peak's boundaries all along.
So he played just one season at Lone Peak, leading the Knights to the MaxPreps.com National Championship and shining in various tournaments against national competition. He credits Lone Peak coach Quincy Lewis for turning him into the player he is today.
"He saw my potential and just didn't let me slack off for anything," Mika said.
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Huge expectations for BYU freshman Eric Mika
O Checked in at No. 98 on the CBSSports.com preseason list of top 100 players in college basketball.
• Named the Preseason All-High Major Freshman of the Year by CollegeSportsMadness.com.
• Won MVP honors at the West Coast All-Star Classic, scoring a game-high 28 points.
• Ranked No. 28 by ESPN.com, No. 37 by Scout.com and No. 49 by Rivals.com in the prep class of 2013.
• Named a Third-Team High School All-American.
• Helped lead Lone Peak to the MaxPreps.com National Title.
• Averaged 16.4 points, 11.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game as a senior, while shooting 67 percent from field.


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PHOENIX -- MB Media Brokers has begun seeking to bring companies into compliance with its patent related to wireless vending machine messaging. MB Media chief executive David Levine explained that U.S. patent No. 7784643 B1 relates to wireless vending machine messaging, as well as how and where such systems can be retrofitted or positioned within a vending machine.
"It also specifies design features that facilitate the installation of a screen within a vending machine, both as an OEM piece and as a retrofit, so as to prevent problems such as product bridging or hanging within the machine," Levine said.
Levine said he believes that many machines and retrofit kits from several manufacturers in use today employ features covered under the patent, and future machines will also employ them. However, he did not name any.
MB Media began by marketing retrofittable LED signs that display highly visible wireless text-based content in snack machines, and expanded into a new service that will help vending operators and telemetry providers sell advertising space on vending machines and display devices.
"We have noticed an increasing amount of activity around patents of this nature, and feel that now is the right time to announce this initiative, since the passage of time will only make these issues more difficult to solve," Levine said. "As one of the first companies to send media wirelessly to vending machines, and the creator of the first newsfeed service for the vending industry, we look forward to hearing from proactive parties. We hope to give companies within the industry ample opportunity to work with us so that they can position themselves for the future."


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in aid of the construction of the Central Valley project, authorized by the Acts of April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115), and August 26, 1937 (50 Stat. 850), there is hereby granted to the United States, subject to the provisions of this Act, (a) all the right, title, and interest of the Indians in and to the tribal and allotted lands within the area embraced by the Central Valley project, including sites of agency and school buildings and related structures, as may be designated therefor by the Secretary of the Interior from time to time, and (b) such other interests in or to any of such lands and property as may be required and as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior from time to time for the construction of reservoirs, canals, ditches, pipe lines, highways, railroads, telegraph, telephone, and electric-transmission lines in connection with the project, or for the relocation or reconstruction of such facilities made necessary by the construction of the project.
As lands or interests in lands are designated from time to time under this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine the amount of money to be paid to the Indians as just and equitable
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Funds deposited to the credit of allottees, their heirs, or devisees may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the acquisition of other lands and improvements, or the relocation of existing improvements or construction of new improvements on the lands so acquired for the allottees or heirs whose lands and improvements are acquired under the provisions of this Act. Lands so acquired shall be held in the same status as those from which the funds were derived, and shall be nontaxable until otherwise provided by Congress.
As to any Indian cemetery lands required for the project, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, in lieu of requiring payment therefor, to establish cemeteries on other lands that he may select and acquire for the purpose, and to remove bodies, markers, and other appurtenances of the new sites. All costs incurred in connection with any such relocation shall be paid from moneys appropriated for the project. All right, title, and interest of the Indians in the lands within any cemetery so relocated shall terminate and the grant of title under this Act take effect as of the date the Secretary of the Interior authorizes the relocation. Sites of the relocated cemeteries shall be held in trust by the United States for the appropriate tribe, or family, as the case may be, and shall be nontaxable.
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Steven Ehrlich Architects' design for this four-unit loft project caught the judges' attention with its high level of livability. "They've opened up internal sight lines as well as external views," said one. Although the architects had a tight, 0.18-acre site and a 30-foot height limit to work with, they didn't have stylistic restraints imposed by context, local laws, or market factors. "Venice is a bohemian, eclectic community," says principal Steven Ehrlich, FAIA. "It attracts an artistic, free-spirited kind of person. So, we could explore ideas of space, volume, and livability without conforming to a certain style."
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project architect: John Gerard, Steven Ehrlich Architects
project designer: Thomas Hanley, Steven Ehrlich Architects
developer: Richard Ehrman, Malibu, Calif.
general contractor: Sanchez Brothers Construction, Culver City
landscape architect: Ray Hansen, San Diego
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Did you look into the rfkill command? Also ifconfig (interface) up command? Also the dmesg|tail -20 command?
Let me know what you people get.
HI Guys I recently installed bactrack and when I was doing an airodump-ng to scan networks nothing comes up, in my phone there is like 5 APs, there has to be something wrong with the driver or somwthing, how can I install it
I type
airmon-ng start wlan0
Found 4 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!
PID Name
662 NetworkManager
837 wpa_supplicant
1266 dhclient3
1645 dhclient3
Process with PID 1645 (dhclient3) is running on interface wlan0
Process with PID 2003 (airodump-ng) is running on interface mon0
Process with PID 2011 (airodump-ng) is running on interface mon0
Interface Chipset Driver
wlan0 Unknown rt2800pci - [phy0]
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mon0 Unknown rt2800pci - [phy0]
airodump-ng mon0
CH 8 ][ Elapsed: 4 s ][ 2012-11-29 06:27
BSSID PWR Beacons #Data, #/s CH MB ENC CIPHER AUTH ESSID
BSSID STATION PWR Rate Lost Packets Probes
Nothing comes up. Can you help, I am a newbie at drivers in linux, how can I fix this? THansk
Did you look into the rfkill command? Also ifconfig (interface) up command? Also the dmesg|tail -20 command?
Let me know what you people get.
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According to linux Drivers page, this is fully supported (Minitor mode, cfg82011, AP mode, etc): refer here and look for your chipset: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers
Post output of: ifconfig -a and iwconfig
Also output of: lspci | grep -i network (see the beggining of line a number, it is the PCI ID: xx:xx.x)
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prenatal vitamins
If you eat healthy and take care of your diet would you still need to take the prenatal vitamins for the entire 9 months?
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Dear sonu84,
Thank you for your question.
A healthy diet is the best way to give yourself and your baby what you need in pregnancy. You should eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables as well as wholegrain foods and beans. However, it is also wise to take additional supplements; as this article explains.
Folic acid supplements are recommended for at least the first trimester of pregnancy although there are benefits to continuing to take folic acid throughout the second and third trimesters too. Other supplements to consider taking are: iron, Calcium and Iodine.
A woman who suffers from more severe morning sickness may not be getting all the nutrients she needs from her diet; in these cases it is particularly important to take antenatal vitamins.
I hope this helps you. Please post back if you have any further questions about this.
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GSA's Outreach Effort to Women-Owned Businesses
Good afternoon Senator Allen, and other distinguished members of the committee.
I am Emily Murphy, Chief Acquisition Officer of the General Services Administration (GSA).
Thank you for inviting me here today to testify on GSA's support of women-owned small businesses and how GSA is doing its best to support this vital aspect of the economy. During Small Business Week earlier this year, President Bush reaffirmed his commitment to "fostering an environment where innovation succeeds and small businesses can flourish." Indeed, he stated that "The great thing about the entrepreneur in the small business sector of our economy is that you provide great steam and strength to the growth of our economy." GSA wants to make sure that that these innovations are available to our federal agencies, which means having small businesses, including women-owned small businesses, continue to make up a vibrant part of our vendor community.
I am proud to represent our Administrator, Lurita Doan, who was selected by President Bush for the proficiency she demonstrated as a small businesswoman. She has brought incredible entrepreneurial energy to GSA, and she is committed to small businesses. Indeed, entrepreneurial women seem to run in her family. Her great-grandmother sold pralines in New Orleans shortly after the Civil War. Like all good entrepreneurs, she knew the key to success was being first to market, so she made her pralines before sunrise so that she was at the docks as the businessmen were enjoying their first cup of coffee. Ms. Doan's grandmother started a small business school in 1908 – during the Teddy Roosevelt administration – when women still couldn't vote.
The strength and viability of small businesses are fundamental to our nation's economy. A successful and strong small business community is integral to job creation, community empowerment and economic revitalization. GSA supplies a wide range of products and services from construction equipment, tools, telephone and information technology to furniture and office supplies. GSA is committed to creating opportunities for small businesses, including women-owned small businesses, to compete through our acquisition programs.
Let me underscore how GSA encourages the participation of women-owned small businesses in the Federal marketplace. One of the largest procurement programs in the Federal Government is GSA's Federal Supply Schedules program. Under this program, GSA establishes contracts against which any Federal agency can place an order directly, or obtain access through our assisted acquisitions. The ordering procedures applicable to the Schedules program make it easier for GSA and other agencies to reach women-owned small businesses and other types of small businesses. Contracting officers ordering off of GSA's Schedules may make socioeconomic status a primary evaluation factor when making a best value determination, and, under a policy issued by my office, GSA specifically asks our customers about their socioeconomic goals when we conduct an assisted acquisition.
These policies have paid off in meaningful contracts and real opportunities for women- owned small businesses. The Small Business Act established a goal of awarding 23% prime contract dollars to small businesses and 5% to women- owned small businesses. At GSA, approximately 80% of our Schedule contracts are with small businesses, and they account for 37.7% or $12.8 billion of the $33.9 billion sales under the Schedules program last year (FY 2005). Woman owned small businesses received 6.4% or nearly $2.2 billion of the total Schedule sales last year. We are proud that we have surpassed the goals established by the Small Business Act.
And there is more good news in this area at GSA. While the Federal acquisition community at large spent 3.3% of its dollars on women-owned businesses last fiscal year, GSA spent nearly twice as much - 6.2% - and surpassed the 5% goals when purchasing on behalf of others. Perhaps there is no better example of this than the work that GSA did in response to Hurricane Katrina. Despite the enormous time constraints associated with the relief effort, over 10% of the contracts GSA awarded went to women-owned small businesses.
Let me briefly share with you a few other highlights of GSA's partnership with women-owned businesses. GSA provides training programs and networking sessions throughout the country, in addition to one-on-one assistance to address specific questions. We have adapted our acquisition planning wizard, our online tool that helps contracting officers develop strong acquisition strategies so that it encourages the use of small businesses and involves small business technical advisors at the beginning of the acquisition process. In addition, at the behest of our Administrator, we are investigating various streamlining and innovative measures to enable contract negotiation, for small businesses submitting offers under the Federal Supply Schedule program, to be completed within 30 days from date of application. This will reduce barriers to entry for small businesses, further honoring the commitment the President made in his Small Business Agenda to "Ensure that Government contracts are open to all small businesses that can supply the Government's needs."
Thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before you here today. I will be happy to answer any questions you might have.


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Tornados take second victory in a row as they defeat Converse, 98-83November 29, 2008
Amber Roberts scores career-high 25 points in win over Valkyries
Brevard, N.C. - The Thanksgiving layoff did not affect Amber Roberts' play in the least bit as she scored a career-high 25 points in the Tornados win over Converse College, 98-83.
With the win, the Tornados improve to 2-3 on the season, while Converse falls to 0-5 in 2008.
The Valkyries jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first three minutes of the game behind the inside play of Kendra Bothof. The Tornados battled back as Coach Shannon Reid employed a full-court press, forcing several turnovers as Brevard tied the game up at 12 on a three-point play by Amanda Whitaker.
The teams traded baskets as Converse went up 16-15 with 13 minutes left in the first half, but the Tornados turned up the defensive pressure and forced five turnovers in the next four minutes as Brevard went on a 12-0 run highlighted by three pointers by both Holli Flippo and Roberts to go up, 28-16. The Tornados would not give up the lead for the remainder of the contest as they went into the half holding a 47-33 lead.
In the first half, the visiting Valkyries outshot the Tornados, 48 percent to 43 percent, but the Tornados connected on 46 percent of their shots from behind the arc to take the lead. Brevard also held the edge in the turnover battle by forcing 17 Converse turnovers while only giving the ball up seven times.
Whitaker and Flippo had 12 points apiece to pace the Tornados scoring effort in the first half. Bothof led the Valkyries with 12 points as well to go with a game-high six rebounds at the break.
The first three minutes of the second half belonged to Roberts as she connected on three shots from behind the arc as well recording a layup in scoring 11 of Brevard's first 12 points of the second half as the Tornados built a 19 point lead. Brevard would coast the rest of the way as Converse was unable to come closer than 13 points the rest of the game in taking their second straight home win of the season, 98-83.
For the game, Roberts led the Tornados with 25 points, going 5-10 from behind the arc, as well as dishing out a game-high seven assists in the contest. She was joined in double figures by Amanda Whitaker who recorded her second double-double of the season with 19 points and 14 rebounds, Flippo with 15 points and Samantha Winn with 12 points.
Converse was led by Bothof who recorded a double-double with a game-high 32 points and 11 rebounds. Ashley Arff, 16, and Alaina Smith, 11, also scored double digits for the Valkyries.
The Tornados are back in action Saturday, December 6th as they open 2008-2009 South Atlantic Conference play, traveling to Greeneville, Tenn. to take on Tusculum College. Tip-off is slated for 2 p.m. Converse is on the road as well as they take on Mount Olive College on Tuesday, December 2nd, with a start time of 5:30 p.m.


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Robin Roberts comes out on Facebook
(Yahoo!) - "Good Morning America's" Robin Roberts shared a very personal detail in her Facebook year-end post Sunday, December 29.
The longtime ABC news anchor, 53, addressed her sexuality publicly for the first time, naming girlfriend Amber Laign in a reflective post on her Facebook page.
"I am grateful for my entire family, my long time girlfriend, Amber, and friends as we prepare to celebrate a glorious new year together," she wrote, discussing the anniversary of her bone marrow transplant.
One year ago Sunday, Roberts reached the 100 day mark following the risky procedure to treat myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare blood disorder (in 2007 she was diagonosed with breast cancer and after treatment went into remission). Her sister, who she also thanked in the post, was her donor.
Roberts has been out to friends, family and co-workers for years, but this is the first time she's publicly identified herself as gay.
Laign, who has been Roberts partner for 10 years, is a licensed massage therapist with a private practice in New York specializing in patients dealing with injury.
Roberts' Sunday social media post, which had already received over 20.000 likes in just a few hours, featured words of inspiration as well.
"Flashback 12/29/12....Hard to believe this was 1 year ago today..when I reached a critical milestone of 100 days post transplant...and KJ was finally allowed to come back home.
Reading this comforts me and I hope the same for you: 'If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.'
At this moment I am at peace and filled with joy and gratitude," she wrote before wishing her followers a "Healthy and Happy New Year."
"GMA" issued a statement of support later in the day, saying, "We love Robin and Amber, who we have all known for a long time. We were so touched by her Facebook message today and so thankful for all the loving support she has in her life."
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