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Thanks Gavin-for posting more positive transplant info. I am living proof it works, it was my only option and I am now 2 years cancer free.
Lots of prayers-Cathy
Cathy, where did you have your transplant done at? I read this article this morning and found it very interesting. I am going to mention transplant again, at my Dr. appointment this Friday.
Cindy-I had the most amazing treatment at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis Mo. with Dr. William Chapman. The man is one of the top CC doctors. I have been contacted by several CC patients who have contacted him and are so impressed by his care. I noticed you are in Indiana so I would definetly consider this a second opinion option. People who have contacted him have actually talked to him by phone, instead of the usual protocol of setting up appointments and test first, then meeting the doctor.
Please read my story at thetelegraph.com under christmas miracle. Please feel free to email me if you would like to talk or get more info. And PLEASE discuss transplant with a doctor who believes it is an option!!!
Lots of prayers-Cathy
Thanks Cathy!
I will ask my oncologist about transplant this Friday. I asked the surgeon previously about it. He said it was not an option because the tumors would reappear while in recovery.
Thanks for the prayers!
No problems Cathy, you are most welcome. And yes, you are living proof that it works!
Cindy, I hope that you get some good news when speaking with your onc about the possiblity of a transplant. Please let us know how you get on with this.
Best wishes to you both,
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so I did some searching, and found some help for nvidia users, but I am running an hp g71 with an Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07). my graphics just kind of crap out on me sometimes right at start, and sometimes later, its in all applications and programs. any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance
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Tuesday August 6th, 2013 1:11am
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – In its season opener, the Rutgers men's lacrosse team defeated Manhattan, 15-6, on the RU Turf Field at the Stadium Complex on Sunday. The Scarlet Knights were led by a career-high five goals from junior A Nick DePaolera (Kinnelon, N.J.) as well as multi-goal games from classmate M Steve DiGiovanni (Cranford, N.J.) and freshman A Nick Kilkowski (Summit, N.J.).
"It's certainly exciting to start the season," said second-year head coach Brian Brecht. "To get out here at home on a nice day and play well, I'm excited about it. The players make plays. Fortunately, we got a lot of guys in today for quality minutes. They all did their job. Give a lot of credit to the players today."
The 15 goals were the most by a Rutgers team since the season opener on Feb. 12, 2011 when that squad tallied 17 against Wagner. The Scarlet Knights improved to 11-0 all-time against the Jaspers.
DePaolera's previous career-best in goals was two, which he had done five times, most recently against Villanova on April 7, ,2012. His five total points tied a career-high. Freshman GK Kris Alleyne (New City, N.Y.) started in net for the Scarlet Knights and recorded 13 saves.
Overall, Rutgers doubled Manhattan with 28 groundballs to 14 for the Jaspers and outshot the Jaspers, 50-38. The Scarlet Knights won went 22 for 25 in the faceoff circle with the help of a 21 of 24 (.875 percent) performance by sophomore Joseph Nardella (Cazenovia, N.Y.). Nardella finished third on the team with three points on one goal and two assists.
Rutgers started the game off by scoring the first four goals of the contest and held a 6-1 lead heading into halftime. DiGiovanni opened up the scoring at the 8:28 mark in the opening quarter. He would later find the net again with 41 seconds on the clock in the second stanza.
After an early second-half goal by DePaolera, the Jaspers responded with four-straight goals of their own to make the score 7-5. The Scarlet Knights responded, notching the next six goals in the game, led by two from DePaolera, who netted three goals in the third period.
RU scored tallied three goals in the fourth quarter and held Manhattan to one to secure the victory.
The Scarlet Knights are back in action at home on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 1 p.m. against Air Force. The game will be played in the RU Field Turf at the Stadium Complex.
Follow Rutgers Athletics on Facebook (www.facebook.com/RutgersAthletics) and Twitter (@RUAthletics) for all of the latest news and updates. For specific updates regarding Rutgers men's lacrosse, follow the program and Brecht on Twitter (@RUMLax and @RUlaxCoach) and Facebook. Fans can receive timely information, including special offers and giveaways throughout the year on our social media outlets along withwww.ScarletKnights.com.


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Two things you probably haven't been paying a lot of attention to lately:
Election Day in Ohio. (It's not 2016 yet.)
Former boy-band star and reality TV spouse Nick Lachey. (It's not 2003 anymore.)
Well settle in, because you have some catching up to do. On Tuesday, Ohio goes to the polls to decide if marijuana should be legal. If they vote yes, the Cincinnati native and long-ago leading man of "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica" will automatically become one of the top weed kingpins of the Buckeye State.
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RESEDA -- A suspected drunk driver lost control of his car on Reseda Boulevard and hit a row of parked cars, fatally injuring a woman who was removing items from the trunk of one of the vehicles, officials said Wednesday.
Daniel Corner, 22, was northbound on Reseda Boulevard near Saticoy Street about 6 p.m. Monday when he lost control of his vehicle and veered across the roadway, smashing into two cars parked on the west side of the street, said Los Angeles Police Officer Jennifer Ward.
Hilary Ann Six, 56, suffered severe leg injuries when she was pinned between her Mini Cooper and another vehicle in the chain-reaction crash, Ward said. Six was transported to a local hospital, where she died about 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Corner was arrested on suspicion of felony drunk driving, and was jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail. Ward said charges against him will be amended in the wake of Six's death.
Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to call Ward at 818-644-8114. After-hours calls should be made to 877-LAPD-24-7. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous should call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.


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Brad Paisley Releases New Album 'Love and War'
Brad Paisley released his 11th studio album Love and War today. One of the first things you'll notice is the album includes collaborations with Mick Jagger, John Fogerty, Timbaland, Bill Anderson, and even a posthumous collaboration with Johnny Cash.
Brad says this album represents a couple of things for him. It represents where he's at with his thinking in his life, as well as his observations on the world we live in. It's also his attempt to leave the usual way he makes a record and collaborate in a way that he says is, "way beyond my pay grade."
I team up with legends I have no business being in the same room with let alone, writing with.
Brad is known for mixing serious and fun on his albums, and Love and War is no different. He says that his next single, "Last Time For Everything" is a perfect example of that.
It's looking back playfully at areas of your life such as high school or those moments when you're dancing in a high school gym in a tux. Things you look back on fondly, but hope maybe pictures didn't exist. As well as, the moments that pass that you don't necessarily realize at the time are the last time you'll do. Such as seeing one of you're favorite artists in concert before they pass away. There's a lot of stuff like that on the record that have one foot in the serious, and another in the light hearted.
This is an album that accomplishes two things for him he says. "It has some gravity to it and some collaborations that feel so outside my comfort zone and so outside my or anyone's typical collaborative efforts. At the same time I think it feels the most sort of throwback me, of any record since back when I was just starting out. And that's weird combination to be an album that feels like vintage me and also has sort of the collaborations of a lifetime."
Watch songs Brad performed at the iHeartRadio Theater in LA.
Brad Paisley - Today
Brad Paisley - Water
Brad Paisley - Who Needs Pictures, Online, Celebrity Medley
You can win a free copy of Love and War by entering here, and the grand prize winner will also receive a tweet from Brad!


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Little Big Town Gets Lucky Shooting 'Day Drinking' Video
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Little Big Town feels lucky to have the fun-in-the-sun video they wanted for their current single, "Day Drinking." The country group recently shot the clip near Miami Beach, and band members Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook admit they were a little concerned the weather might not cooperate with their plans.
Singer Kimberly Schlapman adds they didn't really have a backup plan. She recalls having dinner with the director on the eve of the shoot, and when they asked what they'd do if it rained he "wouldn't even entertain the though."
"Day Drinkin'" is the lead-off single from Little Big Town's upcoming album, Painkiller.


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Show-Stopping Styles of American Country Awards
Gone Country!
The men and women of country music hung up their boots and spurs (well, some of them) and put on their formal fashions for the American Country Awards on Monday night, Dec. 10, 2012, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. From Carrie Underwood's peachy keen style to Miranda Lambert's festive mini-dress, click the pics to see the hottest style statements in country music.


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REDONDO BEACH — Cheer for Children will have its annual toy wrapping party from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Center for Spiritual Living, 907 Knob Hill Ave., Redondo Beach.
Participants are asked to bring their own wrapping paper, tape and scissors if possible.
New unwrapped toys can be donated at locations in Redondo Beach, Torrance, Rolling Hills Estates and Hermosa Beach. For drop-off locations, go to the all-volunteer group's website at www.cheerforchildren.net and click on the Contact Us tab.
Cheer for Children events benefit acutely ill and hospitalized children and physically challenged children attending schools in Redondo Beach.
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Its members are guitarist and backing vocalist Stefan Turkowski, drummer Colin Sutton, bassist Jonathan Wyatt, and lead vocalist and guitarist Noah Stid. The band has released two albums, "Barely Covered" in Februrary 2012 and "Rough and Dirty" in October. T-Sex has played at a variety of bistros and cafes throughout the Bay Area, with its most recent show at the Brainwash Cafe in San Francisco on Dec. 29.
As drummer Colin Sutton explains it, the boys were "friends since the beginning" of elementary school and began jamming together starting freshman year. It was a smooth transition since "we have all been playing and jamming for years. ... We all kind of know how each other operates," he says.
Each played an instrument and taught one another guitar and bass. By junior year, the band was officially pieced together, and by senior year, it won M-A's annual Battle of the Bands contest.
They have limited time to play together. Each member attends a different college so they keep in contact by sharing music files by computer. "The common thing now for college bands since technology is so great is to ... use DropBox to share GarageBand files or recordings back and forth and then add to it," Mr. Sutton says.
Each song is started by a band member who lays a foundation and then shares the fragment with the other band members via DropBox. Most of the second album, "Rough and Dirty," was written this way.
"One of the interesting things about this technique for songwriting is ... everyone fills in the gaps on their own in totally different ways," bassist Jonathan Wyatt says. "And then when we come back together, you can have these totally different images about what the rest of the song is going to look like."
Such a patchwork method of song collaborations based on riffs or singular beats can sometimes create a rift in the group itself. As guitarist Stefan Turkowski says, there tends to be some disagreement about the direction of songs. "There's definitely some tribulations," he adds.
"And trials," Mr. Sutton chimes in.
The band practices when all its members are in town, which happens only when there are breaks from school. This past summer band members consistently practiced every three days to gear up for their August sold-out gig at Angelica's Bistro in Redwood City.
The main focus of the group is the instrumental sound, complemented by the deep voice of Noah Stid. As the main singer, he takes on the responsibility of writing the lyrics. "The lyrics usually have a lot of meaning behind them; we just tell him not to write about his girlfriend too much!" Mr. Sutton jokes.
As a unit, the band is mostly influenced by Gov't Mule, a Southern folk-rock group formed out of the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers. T-Sex covered two Gov't Mule songs on its first album. Yet the members have a conflicting preferences when it comes to music, ranging from bluegrass to metal. Their friendships and professionalism transcend individual quarrels, they say. The band, Mr. Sutton says, "is really what all of our tastes come together as."
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Hello, I am not new at all to linux, but I am new to backtrack. I am very familiar with most network attacks and security as well as OS design, etc. However I am just looking for other attacks that anyone might know of that backtrack offers? I have been using hydra and medusa for local workstation login passwords. But these days people are not using simple words these days, everyones uses numbers and characters, etc., so I think dictionary attacks are phasing out on me personally. Does backtrack have any other attacks that I can play around with that arent a dictionary attack?
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Social Engineering
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One Direction's Harry Styles nearly crushed by fans in Paris
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Apparently one-fifth of One Direction is just as capable of creating as much frenzy as the band as a whole. Footage of Harry Styles attempting to exit his hotel in Paris on Monday has been making the rounds online.
The scene shows the chaos that erupted when the singer supposedly tried to leave without proper security. The video shows Harry being bombarded by a swarm of female fans, while inching toward a car with some helpers. According to "Sugarscape," one paparazzo identified the helpers as a photographer, a chauffeur and a cook from the hotel, adding that Harry "lost his hat" and "almost lost a hand" by the time he finally reached his car.
Harry made headlines on Sunday when he was escorted by a large group of police officers at Charles de Gualle airport after landing in Paris to meet the rest of his bandmates. The group's tour continues in Antwerp, Amsterdam, Germany and Denmark.


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What do you expect when these people see the world through their Android lenses with hatred for Apple. I can understand not liking the phone and preferring another style, company, os whatever.... But to completely ignore the historical facts and not even admit that the entire Android line would look more like a blackberry circa 2008 than what they have today is insane. Plus the biggest gift apple gave us was freedom from carrier owned and operated application stores, that up until the iPhone were terribly over priced, under functional and severely fragmented due to carriers adopting java, or brew on the same hardware another carrier offered. They saved us from carriers crippling phone features like bluetooth just because they didn't want to give it away. So everyone can thank apple for that because even if you don't like their products, you've benefitted from this.
God I hope this isn't a trend. That's all we need. Everything made out of that ugly *** fake gold.
Thats just sad! Get creative samsung.
Oh Samsung, you are so droll. It's just another in a long line of "monkey see, monkey do" hacks you have shown us for these last few years. Follow the leader Samsung, follow the leader.
Gold is best!
I ordered my gold phone here - ww.GiveMeGoldPhoneNow/okIGotYou/ThanksRaffiYouTheMan_YouGotItMan\GoldIsBest.Yes
Vid - http://youtu.be/9p_FzRW_Vv4
Gold on a phone is so incredibly ugly
[QUOTE=Schnedi;6948864]and 10 years ago (2003)...
Using the same idea that was just brought hot & fresh to the market is called "follow the lead" or "copy the DESIGN", on the other hand, using a similar idea (with modification) that was on the market long time ago and is long forgotten by the customers is called "recreate a fashion" or "initiate a brave design challenge".
show me the jailbreak app that lets you use one log in the way Google does., and now iOS has iCloud keychain !!
Airdrop? Google up WiFi direct. again, apple copied it and stuck their logo on it.
hit me up if you want more proof.
Gold iPhone 5S? Whatever Apple, Samsung's Been Making Gold Devices For Years
i was 101% sure that the big copy cat Samsung will do follow it as the firm has been a tendency of duplicating everything that get a good response from a mass
2: Keychain? You mean like Mac OSX has had since before android and iOS were even in the picture? Ya sure, Google came up with a unifying password system first :sarcasm:
Password pilot in Cydia can also function in a similar fashion.
3: Never heard of Google up wifi direct. Don't use airdrop either though so this part just gets a big meh from me.
Saw that link with Samsungs gold phones from the past. Never really got it quite right did they? Those are a who's who of cheap, gaudy phones. I just got a gold 5S today and gotta say it is neither cheap or gaudy looking. The gold is very understated (hence the champagne moniker people have been using). Sexy is the word I would use for it.
HTC one is sexy too though. Funny how I can appreciate both sides huh. Give it a try why don't ya. Maybe one day you will realize EVERYONE borrows ideas from others and puts their own takes and improvements on them. Apple has done it. Samsung has done it. Windows was born from it. Fact is iOS owes way more to the jailbreak community than it does google or samsung. The single biggest feature of both android and iOS started way back in the 1.X iOS days with installer. The App Store and play store both came way after that.


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PHOTOS: Fabolous celebrates birthday with Great Gatsby-themed bash
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Everything at rapper Faboulous' 36th birthday bash was well… Fabulous!
The Great Gastby themed soiree in New York City featured a 1920′s style atmosphere, plenty of popping bottles, furs and of course a fleet of Rolls Royces.
Decked out in a tuxedo alongside his girlfriend Emily B, Fab arrived in a vintage Rolls-Royce for the prohibition-style bash. Fab tweeted, "I knowwww.. I knowwww… Some places we can go.. Some places we can go.. Do you wanna riiiiide… Wit me? My arrival & departure for the evening… White 1958 Rolls Royce & my driver Castro. #TheGreatFabsby"
Guests included Adrienne Bailon, Swizz Beats, NeYo, Meek Mill, DJ Clue and vintage jazz band Honey & Vinyl also entertained the crowd.
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Business Tips:
As your business trims the fat and weathers a tough economy, here are a few business tips and practices, from business professionals, including Stacy Tetschner of National Speakers Association and Pamela Barker of Genesis Strategic Planning Inc., to consider to keep your business afloat without burning out employees or missing opportunities.
Cut back or not?
When money is tight, what should your business cut and keep? Some businesses are cutting essentials that cost them customers. To keep and grow your customer base, Stacy Tetschner, CEO of National Speakers Association, says to follow best-selling business writer, Jim Collins' advice.
"Find out what you are best at," Tetschner says. "It's great to generate alternative revenue sources, but don't forget your core business. Make sure you provide that better than anyone else in the world."
To keep your businesses performance level above the competition, Pamela Barker, president of Genesis Strategic Planning Inc., says to invest in your employees. "Make sure people are well trained, naturally wired for their roles, and share in your organization's vision," Barker says. "Also, stay with services and products that have a high rate of return and are tailored to your niche market."
Good service with a skeleton crew
Since 2008, many businesses survived by whittling down their staff. Employees who absorbed workloads of terminated positions are now facing burn out. Ownership in goal setting is one way to keep employees engaged and creating realistic, long-term work plans.
"It is important for teams to set thematic goals with everyone contributing action steps," Barker says. "Patrick Lencioni's team building material asks the critical question, 'What must happen in the next 30, 60, or 90 days to consider this organization a success?' Goals are set around the answer, but goals are set as a team."
It's also important to build the fire of excitement around what your organization is doing to keep employees inspired.
"Show your team your excitement about your vision," Tetschner says. "Everyone wants to be excited about what they are doing and why they are doing it. And when your employees do incredible work for you, be sure to show your appreciation."
Cheap marketing
Marketing and networking don't always need to involve money. There are ways to stay connected to your community and interacting with the public without spending a dime.
Social media: Create a strategy with reachable goals for getting customers interested in your work using Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Sign up for Ragan's Daily Headlines, a free e-newsletter with social media ideas (ragan.com).
Community presence: Barker says to stay in touch with your community by "serving on non-profit action committees, stay involved in the chamber, and the Better Business Bureau."
Develop partnerships: Partner with non-competing businesses to provide discounts to customers. "You can share marketing expenses and enhance the brand image of each other," Tetschner says.
Ready to launch?
With as much cutting back and energy put into surviving a fluctuating marketplace, this is actually a good time to launch well thought-out products and services. Tetschner says to look at what Apple did with iPhones.
For services, Barker says its an excellent time for pilot programs with solid strategies. "Create a win-win service for clients," Barker says. "Their participation in the pilot project can create a stronger relationship. It can also help to create a service with a proven track record for future clients."
Before launching, continue to monitor and evaluate your business. "It is easy to identify opportunity areas," Tetschner says. "But in a time of doing more with less, it is important to decide what programs or products are not generating revenue or meeting goals and make a strategic decision to let them go."
Adapting to unbalanced economic recovery
As the economy recovers in segments, its creating new challenges for professionals in the meeting industry. Stacy Tetschner, CEO of National Speakers Association, identifies two challenges and strategies for response.
Corporations are taking 60 days or less to book a meeting.
Respond by:
Understanding the meeting's purpose — "When everyone understands, it makes decisions and selections that much quicker and focused."
Identify what will be accomplished for the organization — "Think through how attendees connect, network and build professional community to how key messages are delivered and reinforced."
Keep a sense of humor — "Make things happen in a cool and confident manner. Your bosses and clients will love you for it."
Due to shorter booking times, former practices in forecasting businesses are not applicable, hindering long-term decision-making.
Respond by:
Keeping accurate historical records — "Everything from inquiries for meeting (looking for peak periods) to usage numbers at a meeting. With accurate numbers, new trends and dates can be developed. If this is going to be our new reality, we can develop good tools to forecast for shorter time frames."
Evaluate in six- to 12-month ranges — "This will allow you to know possible pieces of future business, which can help negotiate and create a longer relationships (for better pricing) with vendors and suppliers."


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Is the title of a poem that debuted in print along with the editorial brilliance [compliment directed towards the team with whom I had the good fortune of working, BTW] in Giuseppina magazine 21 : The Acceptance Issue.
And not that you asked . . . but yes : In my continued assault against the expected, this piece was composed in a form not open but rather fixed, or — despite how deliciously perverse I consider usage of the term, a myriad of connotations attached to it as stead-fast as a spiked cilice to the inner thigh of an Opus Dei — strict.
By no means is it my intention to imply that free verse is inferior, but rather familiar. Hence, exploring the paradoxical freedoms of composing within a limited; i.e., formal poetic structure . . . namely, one of my own creation? Oftentimes the experience is nothing short of numinous.
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Paperino e il Mistero di Marte
Federico Pedrocchi was born in Argentina as the son of Italian parents. His family returned to Italy in 1912. After his father's death, Pedrocchi cancelled his studies and started a graphics and advertising atelier in Milan. He collaborated as an artist and scenarist on Il Corriere dei Piccoli, Jumbo and Il Domenica del Corriere. For the magazine I Tre Porcellini, he scripted 'I Due Tamburini' for Kurt Caesar (1935) and 'Saturno contro la Terra' for Giovanni Scolari (1936). He cooperated on the launch of the Italian Disney magazine Paperino in 1937. For this magazine, he wrote and drew the first Italian 'Donald Duck' episodes, 'Paperino e il Mistero di Marte' and 'Paperino Inviato Speciale'. He then focused on the scenario writing, leaving the artwork to Enrico Mauro Pinochi.
He also proved to be a versatile writer of realistic comics, cooperating with artists like Walter Molino, Rino Albertarelli, Bernardo Leporini, Edgardo Dell'Acqua, Pier Lorenzo De Vita, Libico Maraja and Nino Pagot. Among his best known works are 'Virus', 'Il Dottor Faust', 'Zorro della Metropoli', 'Aeroporto Z', 'Capitan l'Audace' and 'Saturnino Farandola'. In 1939, he became the editor of the children's magazines of Mondadori. Federico Pedrocchi was killed when the British airforce (RAF) attacked the train he was travelling in.


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Mainstreaming Human Rights
Human Rights Based Approach and Water Governance
Water governance is about the political, social, economic and administrative systems that determine who gets what water when and how. A human rights based approach (HRBA) emphasizes both development outcomes and the process by which rights are realized. It focuses on the relationships of obligations and rights, and on improving the capacity of those with responsibilities to respect, protect and fulfill rights (duty bearers) to meet their obligations, and on improving the capacity of those that have rights (rights holders) to claim them. The HRBA focus on process and its foundation in the core principles of equality and non-discrimination, participation, and accountability offer one concrete way to work with improving water governance.
The Right to Water and Sanitation
The human right to water and sanitation provides the procedural principles – notably equality and non-discrimination, participation and accountability, and substantive standards - availability, safety, acceptability, accessibility and affordability, to guide the realization of access to water and sanitation for all. Applying an HRBA in supporting the implementation of the right to water and sanitation advances the process ("how") and the substantive standards ("what") of the right. It also furthers other substantive rights, such as the right to education and health, and procedural rights per se such as the right to non-discrimination and participation.
UNDP's Response
UNDP supports the practical implementation of a human rights based approach in water supply and sanitation, water resources management and water governance by:
- Developing experience, lessons learned and guidance
- Improving the capacity of water professionals and development practitioners to integrate a human rights based approach in policies and programmes
- Developing tools and approaches to strengthen water integrity and sector reform
- Exploring synergies with Integrated Water Resources Management to improve the equity of water resources allocation
- Supporting the work of the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
How we work
- Bondo villagers preserve water as a human right
In Kenya, UNDP's Water Governance Facility supports capacity building to enable right holders and duty bearers to participate effectively in water sector reform and utilize anti-corruption and complaint redress tools. Villagers in the Nyanza region put an end to vandalism of water pipelines and started benefit-sharing discussions with water providers. They also report mismanagement practices to a national body tasked with tackling corruption issues. Read the full story here.
- Boznia and Herzegovina – participative awareness campaign
Through the design and implementation of a participative awareness campaign, UNDP's Water Governance Facility supports a project in Boznia and Herzegovina to assist selected local municipalities to meet their responsibilities for the provision of safe and reliable water services. This will entail a review of the relevant regulatory environment for the target municipalities, an assessment of the ownership and management structures of drinking water suppliers, and a constraints analysis for public water utilities.
- Bridging the gap between theory and practice – a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) to improve water governance
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As the global market for smartphones heads toward saturation (its growth is expected to slow to 9.8 percent in 2017 from 27 percent this year), tech companies are moving forward to the next big thing -- wearable devices.
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Josiah as a seeker after God
We find in Josiah a tender heart, subject to the word, and a conscience that respected the mind and will of God: only at last he had too much confidence in the effect of this to secure blessing from God, without the possession of that faith which gives intelligence in His ways to understand the position of God's people. God however makes use of this confidence to take Josiah away from the evil He was preparing in the judgments which were to fall upon Judah, the knowledge of which should have made Josiah walk more humbly. At the age of sixteen he began by the grace of God to seek Jehovah; and at twenty he had acquired the moral strength necessary for acting with energy against idolatry, which he destroyed even unto Naphtali. We see here how sovereign grace came in; for both Hezekiah and Josiah were the sons of extremely wicked fathers.
The book of the law found: the secret of Josiah's success and failure
Having cleansed the land from idolatry, Josiah begins to repair the temple; and there the book of the law was found. The king's conscience, and his heart also, are bowed under the authority of the word of his God. He seeks for the prophetic testimony of God with respect to the state in which he sees Israel to be, and God makes known to him by Huldah the judgment about to fall upon Israel; but tells him at the same time that his eyes shall not see the evil. It was this communication which should have made him act with less precipitation, and with a more exercised heart than he manifested when he went up against the king of Egypt. The knowledge that their well-deserved judgment was soon to overwhelm Israel, and that there was no remedy for their sins (although Josiah himself was spared), ought to have prevented his going up against Pharaoh, when the latter did not attack him, and even warned him to forbear; but he would not hearken, and was lost through a hardihood which was not of God.
The consequences of Josiah's death
His death opened the sluices to the affliction of Judah and Jerusalem, which had been blessed through his means; for they had followed Jehovah all the days of Josiah, and had therefore been blessed; they had also mourned for his death. Jeremiah (that is to say, the Spirit of God by the prophet), in lamenting over the last king who would maintain the relations of God with His people, wept for the ruin and desolation which sin would bring upon the flock which Jehovah loved -- the vineyard that He had planted with the choicest vine.
However faithful Josiah had been, this had not changed the heart of the people (compare Jer. 3: 10). Josiah's faith was in action, and overruled this state of things; and, as we have constantly seen, blessing depended on the conduct of the king, although the undercurrent was always tending to the ruin and rejection of the people.
The keeping of the Passover
It remains for us to notice the passover. Everything is set in order according to the ordinances of Moses and David, and that in a remarkable manner. It appears that even the ark had been removed from its place (chap. 35: 3); but now, the ark being restored to its rest, the Levites occupy themselves diligently with their service, and even make ready for the priests, that they might keep the feast. They were all in their places according to the blessing of Israel in the rest they enjoyed under Solomon. Those who taught all Israel no longer bore the ark, but they ministered to God and to His people. The singers were there also, according to their order, so that there had not been such a passover since the days of Samuel. It was like the last glimmering of the lamp which God had lighted among His people in the house of David. It was soon extinguished in the darkness of the nation which knew not God, and those who had been His people came under the judgment expressed by the word Lo-ammi (Not-my-people); but this was only to give occasion afterwards to the manifestation of His infinite grace towards the one, and His unchangeable faithfulness to the others. Ezekiel dates his prophecy from the year of this passover, when he says "the thirtieth year." Why so, I cannot tell. Was it the year of the jubilee? or did the passover itself form an epoch?Synopsis by John Darby


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Komodo dragons are also known as Komodo monitors, or by the local Indonesian name, "ora." These giant lizards belong to the family Varanidae, which includes 52 species of monitor lizards. All varanids belong to a single genus. Varanus includes very tiny lizards only a few inches long to the immense Komodo dragon. Komodo dragons live on four southeastern Indonesian islands in the Lesser Sunda region: Flores, Gili Motang, Komodo and Rinca. As recent as the 1970s, their habitat also included the island of Padar.
Komodo dragons inhabit hot, seasonally arid grasslands, savannas and monsoon forests. They live mostly in the lowlands, but have occasionally been found at elevations up to 1,967 feet (600 m).
Male length: Commonly up to 9 feet (2.75 m) long, including tail, although the record is slightly over 10 feet (3 m). Males and females do not appear to be strikingly different, with the exception of size. A different arrangement of the scales around the genital opening is one distinguishing characteristic between the sexes. Adult Komodos are mostly black, green or gray, with patches of yellow-brown or white.
Male weight: An exceptionally large male can weigh as much as 550 pounds (250 kg) after a large meal (about half that on an empty stomach). Females tend to be shorter and weigh less: up to 7.5 feet (2.3 m) long, and up to 150 pounds (67.5 kg).
Life span in the wild is unknown. Komodo dragons have lived up to 25 years in captivity; this is based on estimated age at acquisition.
In the wild: The primary prey for wild adult dragons is the Sunda deer, but they also eat birds, snakes, fish, crabs, snails, small mammals, pigs, water buffalo, eggs, wild horses and younger Komodos. Komodo dragons are also scavengers, and will eat almost any type of carrion. At the zoo: Mainly rodents, NOT offered alive.
Sexual maturity likely occurs at 5 to 7 years of age. The breeding season is from May to August, as dominant males fight other males to gain mating rights with females. Before mating, the winning male courts the female. To initiate mating, they touch tongues, rub snouts and scrape chins. When the female accepts his advances or is too tired to outrun the male, he climbs on her back, scratching her and sometimes lightly biting her neck.
Copulation is a relatively quick affair. Six to eight weeks later, in the months of July through September, Komodo females lay their clutch of 15-30 eggs. The female usually lays them in a burrow dug into a hillside or in the sand. Eggs are oval, smooth, and 2 inches (5 cm) wide by 4 inches (10 cm) long. Females rarely guard the nests and, if so, only for a short amount of time. The eggs incubate for eight to nine months, and hatch at the beginning of the dry season in April. The hatchlings are 10-22 inches (25-56 cm) in length, weighing less than 3.5 ounces (100 g
Hatchlings are multicolored, with different parts of their body in brown, yellow, orange and red, covered by a pattern of black and white speckles, stripes and bands. This coloration camouflages them in trees. Young dragons remain arboreal for a few years, eating bird eggs, insects and small mammals. As they grow larger, juveniles eat rats, mice or birds. When they reach about 4 feet (1.2 m) in length (at 4 to 5 years of age), adolescents become too large to climb trees, and shift to a terrestrial lifestyle.
Komodos are solitary, but will gather in groups to rapidly consume large prey, or to breed. Younger dragons sometime circle a group of feeding adults waiting for a chance at some leftover food. They do so cautiously, as they can easily be mauled to death by the dominant male. Smaller dragons are forced to roam over large areas in search of food and potential mates, sharing their space with other subordinate lizards. Dominant males are more aggressive about guarding their territories, which overlap the home ranges of adult females. Smaller or weaker Komodos use an appeasement posture to signal the end of a dispute over territory, prey or mates. Signs of Komodo aggression include puffing out the throat, hissing, adopting a semicircular stance and thrashing of the tail.
Komodo dragons bask in the morning sun to raise their body temperature. During the hottest parts of the day, they retreat to cool areas, as the outside temperature can easily exceed 100°F (38°C). At night, to minimize heat loss, they seek cover in brush, caves, or burrows (either ones made by other animals, or ones they make themselves).
By weight, Komodos are the world's largest lizard; their long, thick tails are sometimes half their total body length. A hardy constitution has enabled them to survive for millions of years as the dominant predator in an environment that is inhospitable to other large meat-eaters. Komodos are also excellent swimmers, allowing them to travel between islands in search of food or mates. While swimming they use their tails for propulsion in the strong marine currents. Komodos have flat, long heads with rounded snouts. They amble about on short, powerful legs. Small, smooth scales cover their body. They have powerful claws, and are surprisingly quick in their attack. For large prey, dragons may attack the prey's feet and lower legs, inflicting terrible bites in an attempt to bring down the animal.
They have been recorded taking down a 1,300 pound (590 kg) water buffalo. Smaller prey usually get snapped up with a quick lunge, led with wide open jaws. Despite their fearsome reputation, Komodos are rarely successful when attacking. For this reason, carrion sometimes makes up the bulk of their diet. A Komodo dragon regulates its internal body temperature by alternately basking in or seeking refuge from the sun. This allows them to use 10% of the energy a similar-sized mammal would need to survive. Like most reptiles, Komodos have a low resting metabolic rate. Studies show that even a large individual can survive on as little as 1 pound (.45 kg) of food per day.
Komodos have an excellent sense of smell. Using a long, yellow forked tongue, they are able to find carrion up to 6.8 miles (11 km) away. They also use their tongue to investigate other Komodo defecation sites; it provides information about another's sex, size and age. Although their eyes detect motion better than stationary objects, dragons can see objects more than 984 feet (300 m) away. Komodos are not deaf, but they do hear only in a restricted hearing range of 400-2,000 Hertz.
Komodo dragons have mouths full of flat, serrated teeth, highly adapted for cutting flesh. The teeth break off easily and are replaced frequently; a dragon may grow as many as 200 new teeth each year. A dragon rushes from the vegetation in which it was camouflaged and ambushes its prey. Its acute sense of smell leads the Komodo to the dying victim, which has run off some distance. Bacteria in a Komodo's saliva are highly dangerous, and quickly cause infections. Komodos are not affected by the infectious saliva of nonlethal bites from other members of their species. Their saliva is a source of great interest for many scientists, since its properties may help control diseases in the future.
Komodos actively hunt their prey, roaming their territory in search of food. They can eat up to 80% of their body weight at one meal, at a rate of up to 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg) per minute, using their sharp teeth to carve out huge chunks of flesh and tissue. They may not need to eat again for weeks. To help them eat so much so quickly, their jaws stretch wide open, and they produce a large amount of saliva to help move food down the throat.
Komodos are efficient eaters, consuming almost 90% of their prey. Komodo dragons digest all parts of a meal except for the hair, horns or hooves; these simply pass through the lizards' digestive tracts. Komodos can extract up to 80% of their water needs from the flesh of prey. This is especially helpful in times of drought, which can last for months.
Woodland Park Zoo's Komodo dragons can be viewed in their exhibit at the Trail of Adaptations. Their exhibit provides a multilevel, naturalistic setting that contains major components of their normal habitat. Other species of lizards at Woodland Park Zoo can be found in the Day Exhibit.
Komodo dragons were first listed on Appendix I of CITES on July 1, 1975 and listed as an endangered species on June 14, 1976. This was due to its limited range and the small number of wild specimens. Currently, scientists estimate there are 3,000 - 6,000 individuals in the wild, with another 200 in captivity. Komodo dragons have the smallest range of all the large carnivores. The government of Indonesia protects most of the Komodo's range in Komodo National Park (KNP). KNP, created in 1980, consists of 669 square miles (173,300 sq hec) of land and marine area. Unfortunately, not all Komodos live in KNP, and there is little protection outside the park.
Exportation of Komodos is allowed only by the president of Indonesia, and they have been designated the National Animal of Indonesia. There are several threats to the Komodo, most of them caused by humans. Habitat loss, fear (which leads to dragon poaching or poisoning of carrion), pests and exotic species (such as wild dogs and rats), fire, and expanding human population all pose problems. Poachers often kill the food that Komodos rely on, reducing the available prey populations. Komodos sometimes also eat native livestock, which leads to confrontations with humans.
One uncontrollable threat comes in the form of potential natural catastrophes. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tidal waves occur in the area. All monitor lizards are listed as Appendix II (threatened) animals by Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). At least three species of monitors are also protected under the Endangered Species Act, and listed on Appendix I. Many species of snakes and lizards are considered endangered or threatened by the pet trade, or the animal products trade.
The United States is the world's largest market for wildlife products, much of which includes illegal trafficking and the black market. Almost 2 million live reptiles are brought into this country every year, while almost 10 million live reptiles are exported annually. The first captive breeding of Komodo dragons in the USA occurred in 1992. There is an international zoo studbook for Komodo dragons, which records their various bloodlines in captivity as a tool for genetically managing the zoo population.
In addition to maintaining Komodo National Park, Indonesia also preserves the Komodo by raising captive-bred dragons for other zoos. As the dominant predator in their habitat range, Komodo dragons eliminate weak, sick, or dead animals, maintaining the balance of nature. They keep populations of prey species in check; otherwise these species could quickly overpopulate and destroy isolated and fragile island habitats. Though their name may invoke fear, Komodo dragons rarely attack humans. There are less than 20 credible accounts of dragon-caused deaths in the past 100 years.
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Auffenberg, Walter. The Behavioral Ecology of the Komodo Monitor.University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 406 p.
Lutz, Dick and J. Marie. 1997. Komodo, the Living Dragon. Dimi Press, Salem, OR. 173 p.
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At the girls volleyball game between Nevada Union and Woodcreek tonight there will be an abundance of pink. That's because tonight is Pink Night at the Albert Ali Gymnasium with proceeds from T-shirt and concession sales going to the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital's Breast Imaging Center.
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I could blame global warming, but I wouldn't have the scientific facts to back it up. But the weather has taken a turn for the strange here in Felton, where the sweaters that have been packed away for the summer have to be pulled out for extra duty and the fog that rolls in off the Monterey Bay that makes it past Santa Cruz parks bewteen us grounddwellers and the sun.
Long before the air raid siren goes off — like clockwork in Felton, at noon the air raid siren atop the solar-powered fire station wails, signifying that we're either under attack or it's high noon; so far, thankfully, it's only been the latter — the overcast morning lends itself to another cup of coffee and staying in the office. And catching up on this blog.
This would probably be a good time to bring everyone up to date on what's going on with Lindependence 2008. When I last talked about the project and Felton, I was somewhat surprised and disappointed at the lack of response to this project. My initial thought was that distros and FOSS programs would jump at the chance to have a month to promote their wares and provide a town with the opportunity to use the fruits of their labor for at least a week, possibly more.
I'll have that plate of crow now: My disappointment was somewhat premature, since people are now stepping up, contacting me and wanting to know more about the project and offering help. Someday a study should be done to test the premise that no matter how fast the Internet might be, human contact still is the key to getting things done. Case in point: Talking to people at the MySQL conference last month and JavaOne attendees yesterday has been a lot more productive than a flurry of e-mails and several calls.
I am in the process of gathering up questionnaires that I had given to businesses in the community. The most encouraging sign is this: Question 7 — which asks if, given the choice, business owners would try and use Free/Open Source Software alternatives to purchased or pre-installed software — comes up as unanimously "yes" so far.
We are moving forward. In fact, it occurs to me that perhaps I should have a separate blog for Felton developments, so watch this space.
52 and overcast, and maybe it's time for a redwoods break.
[As a postscript, I have to say that my blog a few weeks ago on Microsoft's 10-K report to the SEC garnered my first four-digit amount of hits on this blog. So if I were concerned about that sort of thing, I'd mention Microsoft — Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft — and watch the numbers roll in. But that would be cheating, so never mind. If I was really that concerned about getting numbers up, I'd change the title of this blog to I CAN HAS FREEZOFTWARE and put cat pictures on it.]
(Larry Cafiero runs HeliOS Solutions West in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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I'm sorry to all brother if i posted this topic in a wrong folder. It's my first post since i used bt. Before i used bt3, it worked find with my laptop but since bt4 was released i decided to test it because i wanted to find out what are new. Then i've downloaded it and burnt it into Dvd. But i don't know why after typing startx, i can't see anything besides big letter (very big). Can anyone kindly help me? Thank again in advance. And sorry again too.
You could try starting the XServer with
and see if that helpsCode:# startx -- -dpi 96
that should cylce thru resolutions available to you.
also u wanna make sure the right module is getting loaded for yr video card, in my case I needed to load "nvidiafb" (which came with backtrack 4beta = in the /lib/modules/220.127.116.11/kernel/drivers/video/ folder)... but after learning more, I ended up downloading the latest linux nvidia display driver directly from the nvidia.com website, installed the driver, and let it auto-conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf - this seemed to work pretty well. now I don't know what resolution u are looking to get, but even after letting nvidia driver auto-config'd my xorg.conf file, I still had to manually configure it to allow 2560x1600 resolution (i got a 30" monitor).
one other note, might be of use if u got nvidia card... the backtrack4 beta DVD comes with CUDA and NVIDIA drivers (correct me if I am wrong there guys!) dated 01/30/2009 in the folder = /opt/cuda ... to install do the following ;
dpkg --force-overwrite -i /opt/cuda/nv_20090130-1_i386.deb
depmod -a
modprobe nvidia
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At the recent NAMA show, I had dinner with a manufacturer who expressed concern about the future of the vending industry. He explained that advances in technology made it necessary to charge more for his company's equipment. "Operators need more sophisticated vending machines, but they're not willing to pay more for it. What they really need to do is raise their prices. Vending operators and the way they merchandise have not kept pace with modern technology."
Now, unless you've just awoken from a long slumber, you know this is not a revelation. It has been a hot topic in our industry for the past 40 years.
During a recent distributor open house, I had lunch with a local operator who cast some light on the question, from the operator's perspective. "Every time I raise my vend prices, my competitor lowers them," he said. "Why is it that the convenience store down the block can sell the same item for 5¢ more, but the vending industry can't follow suit?"
Good question. Why is that? What is it about a vending machine that justifies lower prices? And isn't a candy bar of a given size and brand the same thing, whether you purchase it out of a glassfront vender or from a 7-Eleven? If people will pay more for convenience at a convenience store, why won't they pay a premium for the convenience of having an on-premises retail outlet that's open around the clock, seven days a week?
So, what is stopping us from adjusting our prices to reflect current trends and desires in the marketplace? After decades of believing that you couldn't get more than quarter for a game of pool, amusement operators discovered that there wasn't as much price resistance as they had thought; today the average price is $1 per game. Might this not be true in vending?
Operators here and there have found that it is true. A very well-known and well-regarded vendor in southern California once told us that he got a location which already had awarded a coffee concession to an operator of espresso carts. That contract did not forbid coffee vending, but it did specify that anyone else selling coffee on the premises had to charge the same as the carts, $2 or thereabouts. Our operator friend accepted the challenge, installed a state-of-the-art coffee machine set to vend at that price, kept it clean, filled and correctly adjusted – and sold a gratifying amount of coffee!
Many industries, maybe most, tend to become prisoners of their early successes. There's a widespread belief that this is the explanation for vending's long inability to break the $1 price ceiling. The idea is that the vending industry's mindset, its culture, was formed in the old industrial workplace. The factory worker demanded low prices; his employer demanded high commissions. With relatively simple, inexpensive machines, very high volumes and low operating expenses, vendors could meet those demands and still make money. The "smokestack" economy has passed, but the vending industry remains trapped in the web of operator, location and customer expectations woven in the 1960s. In its short form, this view might state that we found our niche as a "source of last resort" for people who couldn't leave the assembly line long enough to leave the premises, and a "last resort" never commands premium prices.
This view is held by many long-time observers, and it makes a lot of sense. But I don't think it's the whole story. I think many operators also have sacrificed retailing flexibility to avoid what they think of as excessive complexity. In the old days, everything in a machine sold for a nickel, or a dime, or a quarter. This made for easy cash settlement: if you sold 50 items at 10¢ each, you expected to find $5 in the coinbox. If you found more, the machine was sometimes failing to drop the product (which got us the reputation of running "one-armed bandits"). If you found less, somebody was stealing.
In those days, machines imposed serious limitations on the size and shape of the packages they could sell. This resulted in the "vend size," which then was formulated to meet the price-point at which most machines would sell it. As digital electronics came together with versatile glassfront designs, equipment hit the market that offered wider selectivity, the ability to accommodate a much greater variety of packages – and true multipricing capability. The vending industry moved toward the retailing mainstream, and knowledgeable observers foresaw that movement accelerating.
Here and there, it has. Operators have had good success with branded premium-product machines selling such things as energy drinks. The "large single serving" initiatives of the 1990s have had a positive effect. But, overall, vendors have not added the sort of upmarket items that you can find in most C-stores nowadays.
Most vendors also don't promote the way other retailers do. A great deal has been said about this, and indeed, there is a great deal to say. But no one argues with the criticism.
Taken together, the reluctance to add more price flexibility and the reluctance to promote has deprived operators of the opportunity to take advantage of very well-financed advertising campaigns that tie limited-run variations of best-selling brands in with hit motion pictures – and so on and on. The two limitations reinforce one another.
The operator needs the ability to change prices frequently – and it can be done in both directions! We know a vendor who has become famous for always having one or two items in his snack machines that sell for less than any packaged product in the local C-store. He reports that he doesn't lose money selling them, and people get a kick out of seeing a bargain. That's merchandising, and it helps build a perception that pays off when he adds a higher-priced selection.
Operators and manufacturers agree that vending has a price problem. I've asked around, and I've gotten a number of opinions about it. Is it concern that drivers don't reliably match up the products with the appropriately priced slots? Is it reluctance to change the pricing on the controller, either because it takes too much time or because no one can be trusted to get it right the first time? Are we making the best use of planograms? Do we need more effective route supervision?
We all know that consumers are willing to pay more for items they regard as higher quality. In fact, often times a consumer will perceive an item to be better just because it has a higher price tag. We've observed just about every retail category, from automobiles to cereal bars, so why not vending? We'll never know until we try.


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TV Tidbits: Matt Bomer is 'The New Normal', Bonnie & Clyde Get a Modern TV Makeover
Matt Bomer is a Sexy Ex-Boyfriend: Announcing casting choices on Twitter is The New Normal for Ryan Murphy (see what I did there?!), as he took to the social media network to announce that White Collar (and big brother to Blaine on Glee)'s own Matt Bomer will be showing up on NBC's The New Normal. According to Murphy, Bomer will play "the sexy ex-boyfriend" of Bryan (Andrew Rannells). [EW]
Lost Creator Finds The Sixth Gun: Carlton Cuse and screenwriter Ryan Condal adapting the graphic novel series The Sixth Gun for a potential series on NBC. It's about six mythical guns in the Old West. When the Sixth Gun–the most powerful and dangerous of the group, obviously–resurfaces in the hands of an innocent girl named Becky Montcrief, dark forces abound! Oh no! [Hollywood Reporter]
Abby Lee Miller is Back: Dance Moms, the semi-controversial programming surrounding Abby Lee Miller's dance school in Pennsylvania is coming back for a third season. So for those of you that love to watch stage moms and a lady aggressively yell at children, you're in luck! More for you! [Deadline]
Bonnie & Clyde Get a Modern Makeover: FOX is apparently giving a modern-day makeover to the story of infamous Depression-era bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (aka Bonnie & Clyde. You've heard of 'em). The project is currently in development as a serialized drama. Don't worry, the sexy and young (of course, because this is Hollywood) couple are going to do a whole Robin Hood-style thing (criminals with a heart of gold!), and will apparently capture the hearts of a nation in recession as they become total celebrities. [Deadline]
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Renewed pickets at San Pedro Bay marine terminals aren't expected to disrupt shipments in or out of the twin ports.
Some port clerical workers have resumed picketing at selected terminals of the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles after nearly 1 1/2 years of stalled negotiations, igniting a long- simmering dispute at the nation's busiest seaport. Some of the clerical workers were back on the job Monday.
The dispute stems back to the summer of 2010, when members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union's office clerical unit, Local 63, struck 14 shipping companies at the ports. The roughly 800 workers involved in office work at international shipping terminals claim employers are outsourcing jobs to Asia, undercutting wages and slashing benefits.
The wider ILWU membership has remained neutral, but the clerical unit took to the streets anyway Friday.
"We're sick and tired of seeing these wealthy companies outsource good jobs that our communities desperately need now," said John Fageaux, president of ILWU Local 63. "We're taking this action to help our communities stand up against the corporate greed that's been wrecking America."
Striking members are an arm of the longshore union representing more than 50,000 members along the West Coast and in Hawaii, who collectively represent nearly all dockworkers in America and part of Canada's Pacific ports.
Company and union representatives say the strike isn't expected to disrupt shipping at local ports, which handle more than 40 percent of the nation's waterborne trade. But both sides admit the dispute is unwelcome in light of the recent economic downturn, which has seen cargo volumes drop more than 15 percent in the past month.
The organization representing shippers, the Harbor Employers Association, said firms have offered a fair deal, and they don't expect to budge despite the protracted negotiations.
Companies claim the pickets reinforce negative images of West Coast ports, where a 2002 lockout by shipping companies and a massive shortage of workers in 2004 led to widespread diversion of cargo to ports outside California.
"The (unions') actions reinforce perceptions held by shippers, retailers and other trade partners across the globe that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are being held hostage by union self-interest, in this case, the interests of office clerical workers," shippers said in a statement. "The harbor employers cannot accept the (clerical workers') demands. America's fragile economy and increasing competition among U.S. ports require a more dedicated effort to meet customer needs than ever before."
The dispute dates back to June 2010, when workers launched picket lines at the entrances of a China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) terminal in the Port of Long Beach, among other terminals, slowing truck traffic and briefly halting the unloading of two container ships.
In total, the eight-day strike at that time disrupted operations at four terminals used by some of the world's biggest ocean carriers.
Office workers, locked in negotiations with 14 shipping companies since mid-April of that year, began walking off the job after their previous labor contract expired July 1.
"We're not out here striking for money or for pensions," said COSCO employee and ILWU Clerical Unit negotiator John Buggeln of the resumed walkout.
"The issue here is preventing outsourcing and securing this work for us and for future generations."
Office workers, who process orders and handle customs and brokerage duties for shippers, have been bargaining for a new agreement that maintains specific job protection language, which employers have so far rejected.
When workers' offered to forgo all wage increases and pension hikes in favor of the job-protection language was rejected, they walked out, then returned several weeks later after negotiations resumed.
Now, they're back on picket duty.
"We can't accept a contract that has major loopholes that allows the companies to find excuses to send these jobs overseas," said Gregory Tribelhorn, a worker at a terminal in Long Beach. "We have to stick this out."
Pickets have been set up at terminals used by shipping companies Yang Ming, Hanjin, Evergreen and Hapag- Lloyd, among others. More actions are expected at various terminals in coming days.
Longshoremen, who are bound under terms of a separate labor agreement, have so far been prevented from honoring picket lines, though dockworker crews have refused to cross picket lines in two cases before labor arbitrators forced them back to work.
The arbitrators rule on provisions in a "master" longshore contract covering workers from Seattle to San Diego.
During the current conflict, the arbitrators have refused to recognize the office workers' strike, which they term "non-bona fide."
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Joining the fray: Why Debian matters
Registration is now open for SCALE 9X — register now by clicking on the winking penguin.
As mentioned in this blog in the past, and as mentioned to various people who ask, I don't like the six-month release cycle. I can go further: I hate it. There's nothing like getting comfortable with a distro, only to be prodded to update to the latest, greatest improvements — in many instances the improvements are both great and welcome, but then the cycle of getting comfortable starts all over again.
This is why we run the office of Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, on Fedora 10. That's right, Fedora 10; a two-year old version of Fedora which reached it's so-called "end of life" already. Know why? It has worked since I installed it, and I've tweaked it to do what needs to be done to run the business. I'm too busy futzing with other people's computers and too busy developing our FOSS server project to budget time tweaking the business computer. So I left it at that particular version because, simply, it just works.
So in many ways that we'll probably not cover here, thank God for Debian and, for one reason for gratitude, its "we'll release it when it's good and ready" release cycle. Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" was just released over the weekend and its release prompted a couple of interesting items from two of FOSS's best writers.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote in a blog item that says that Debian is not as important as it once was. He concludes with the following: "Debian is still important. Its developers do a lot of the hard work of mixing and matching basic Linux components and many open-source programs into the strong, reliable foundation that other versions of Linux, such as Ubuntu and MEPIS use. But, while Linux programmers will continue to appreciate Debian, it seems to me that Debian is becoming increasingly irrelevant to the larger user community that Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, and openSUSE has brought into the Linux fold."
Meanwhile, Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier doesn't exactly concur in his blog item that says that Debian is still relevant; not only this, it matters more than ever.
Give them both a look. I'll wait.
So who's right, Steven or Joe?
Both are right, to varying degrees, though I think they're coming at the issue from different perspectives: Steven from the popular use aspect, and Joe from the development and contribution side of things.
Debian never gets the credit it deserves by the wider public, and that may be OK with them; or not. Personally, I think this is a tragedy — my first distro in 2006 was Debian, and while I went to Ubuntu and then to Fedora, Debian was the one where I started. If you started with Ubuntu, you really started with Debian.
That's because without Debian, there's no Ubuntu. Without Debian, there's no Linux Mint. Without Debian, there's no Mepis. The list goes on, and it's huge.
[Meanwhile, in a classic case of ADD, I found this link in one of the responses to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' blog — it's an update of a poster we used in Lindependence in 2008 and shows the "family tree" of GNU/Linux. If you look at the chart, you can see all the distros which can trace their roots to Debian.]
So is Debian still relevant? Depends on how you look at it. Is it eclipsed in use by easier-to-use distros, some of which don't contribute back in proportion to what they take? In that sense, it's relevancy arguably is waning.
But in uplifting the FOSS paradigm, maintaining GNU/Linux's progress in development, offering options to architectures that are thought to be extinct, and sending improvements upstream for the benefit of all, and not just for itself, then, is Debian relevant? Yeah. Hell, yeah. Debian is relevant in a big way.
In a big way.
[Incidentally, as an aside, "Squeeze" will go on the PowerPC boxes in the "Jungle Room," the name for the Redwood Digital Research computer lab. Elvis would have wanted it that way.]
And, once again, here are the last three words of a well-traveled Buddhist sutra: "Don't Waste Time." Even if it means releasing your distro in more-than-six-month cycles.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation. He is also one of the founders of the Lindependence Project.)
February 7, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Why Debian Matters:
The Colonel uses Debian. So it matters.
Debian is free of a lot of that corporate
BS that infects other distros. Zonker is
the go to guy for tech writing.
If you do not like some distro just leave
it alone. Write about what excites you,
tell me what is great about xxxnux. My
loss of hearing is mostly limited to the
words No, Don't, Can't.
What percentage of the servers in this
world run on Debian? Is that relevant
enough for you?
Elvis did not use computers.
February 7, 2011 at 3:16 pm
I totally agree…..I use debian on our servers at the office and I run a heavily customized ubuntu (built from command line install up to avoid the bloat) on my desktop and personal computers for the ease of hardware & multimedia.
Debian CAN be a good desktop distro (if you spend the time to add the repos & software) but I use ubuntu just for the ease & more current kernel/hardware support. However I really think debian shines on the server SUPER reliable and easy to configure if you know your way around a text editor.
February 7, 2011 at 3:34 pm
People tend to forget that Debian supports more architectures, CD install Desktop-flavors-by-default, etc than any other distribution.
Is like trying to compare the Ocean vs a bucket of water.
Try Debian Squeeze at:
February 7, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Quite agree about Debian.
But those are the final words of the Daiji-no-ge, the Verse of the Great Matter, not the Heart sutra:
"The Great Matter is birth and death,
Life slips and time is gone.
Right now, wake up! wake up!
Do not waste time."
Quite agree with your point.
February 7, 2011 at 5:12 pm
My first distro was Progeny Debian 1.0 back in '04. After that was Lindows 4.5, later Linspire. I switched to Ubuntu around Breezy Badger or so. Now, I've come full circle back to Debian Squeeze. It's a classic and always will be.
February 7, 2011 at 6:08 pm
I stopped using Debian5 Lenny when it couldn't handle 1920×1080 on my new system. I switched to Mint. Now I have a dilemma: Debian6 or Mint Debian Edition?
February 7, 2011 at 7:17 pm
"Lenny" was released 2 years ago and it has an older "X", so that's probably why it doesn't work. The new "stable" "Squeeze" will probably work. If you need a Debian that is more bleeding-edge for newer hardware you should use "testing" not "stable". "Testing" never gets real out of date. Even though it's called "testing" it's pretty stable.
That's what I use and don't have many problems with it. Many people at home use unstable and that's even more up to date.
February 8, 2011 at 1:33 am
Debian is the back bone at my work. I always try other distros but they do not stand up, when the stable version of gnu and freeBSD I'll be there.
February 8, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Mepis8 on the laptop, Debian on everything else for me. I'm installing D6 on a VM to check it out right now.


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Photo gallery: Carl And Dora Anderson School graduation
SAN BERNARDINO -- After 21-year-old Dominic Vasquez was handed his certificate Tuesday, he headed into the crowd to give his family enthusiastic hugs and kisses.
"Give me love," Vasquez said. "I graduated. "
The graduate's uncle, Paul Gomez of San Bernardino, grinned. "Dominic is so excited about graduating," he said.
Vasquez then joined his fellow 2013 graduates at the 40th annual Carl and Dora Anderson School Commencement Ceremony.
The 17 graduates entered the Anderson cafeteria through a vine-covered archway.
About 100 fellow students and well-wishers jammed the room, which was lined with posters of the graduates and glowing with blue and yellow balloons.
The school for developmentally disabled young people, ages 12 to 22, presented students with certificates of completion, a medallion and a gift along with congratulations and hugs from teacher and emcee Nick Cataldo and San Bernardino public school board members, including Bobbie Perong, Margaret Hill and Judi Penman.
"We see each child's abilities - not their disabilities," said principal Avis Stuart-Board. "For us who will miss them, this is a happy-sad day. Sometimes I think of Anderson as the best-kept secret in the district. "
Older students participate in a variety of work programs with Walgreens and Cal State San Bernardino, among others.
Under the direction of teacher Julie Chesney, the Anderson entertainers sang "Forever Young," while friends and family dabbed their eyes.
Haralambos Miragias, was emotional as his son, Athanasios Miragias, accepted his certificate. "I am very proud of him," said Miragias, of San Bernardino. "He will be going to Plum Lane day care in Redlands. "
Cynthia Miragias, his wife, said caring for her son 24/7 is a joy and a pleasure. "He came here as soon as he could. The school has helped him," she said.
Pratap Champsi who owns Waterman Car Wash and donated the gifts, said "It takes a special person to teach these special students. "
"Our goal is to teach our kids to be as independent as possible at school, at home and in the community," said Cataldo, commencement ceremony emcee and Anderson teacher for 35 years.
Accompanied by Bette Midler's "The Rose," the graduates presented roses to their parents.
"The warmth you feel in the room is unconditional love," one bystander said.


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Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2014
Dolce & Gabbana is a shining example of why it's good to remember where you come from in fashion. In the case of these designers, it's Italy, or more specifically, Sicily, Domenico Dolce's birthplace, an island of so many layers of history and culture, it's mind-spinning. This season, they explored yet another Sicilian fantasy, a medieval fairy tale spun from the little-known fact that, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the island was ruled by the Normans—the French invaders who brought Catholicism, castles, and chivalric codes with them.
Cue "Once Upon a Time in Sicily," a scene set in a forest of his and Stefano Gabbana's imaginings, and whimsically drawn from the illustrations of knights and ladies, and flora and fauna that once adorned medieval illuminated manuscripts. It proved a clever, richly rewarding source of entertainment, gorgeously pretty clothes, and delightfully elaborate accessories. The ideas spun out: soft chain-mail hoods; bejeweled gauntlets and gloves; flat, pointy page-boy slippers and Mary Janes; tunics and capes naively appliquéd with squirrels, owls, hedgehogs, birds, and trees. Somewhere in the forest, there was even an appearance from someone who looked like Little Red Riding Hood, snuggled into a cozily hooded red-and-black fur coat.
The other thing to notice about all this, however, is just how smart Dolce and Gabbana are at staying with the straight-and-narrow of all the clothes they've established as house standards. Women flock to them time and again for the curvy, knee-length dresses they sell every season, and there they were, represented in gabardine or lace, perfectly readable, if you subtract the hoods and imagine how they might look at a grown-up party. As always, these designers keep faith with the hot mama as well as throwing temptation in the way of her daughters. That's just one of the reasons Dolce & Gabbana's shows have become such a high spot in Milan's show fixtures.


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