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In the process, the contours of Kashmir's poetry have changed. The stories of romance have been replaced by tales of bloodshed.
Irises, a token of grief and mourning that are traditionally grown in Kashmir's graveyards, are now the central metaphor rather than an idyllic image of the cold peaceful breeze on Dal lake - an emblem of Kashmir's natural beauty and once a favourite honeymoon destination.
In the couplets that portray feminine characters, the beautiful face of a beloved is replaced by the gloom and distrust of Kashmiri women. Kashmir no longer symbolises paradise, but a heaven on fire.
Literature has always prospered in conditions of turmoil. Here the tragedies have compelled ordinary young men, college students and farmers, to try their pen, as poetry becomes one of the safer tools of expression.
"I cannot consider myself a poet even as I write. It is a complete art form which is either a gifted talent or something you have attained through training. I don't have either of the two. The provocation of the circumstances has made me a poet," says Shakeel Shan, a 30-year old Kashmiri singer.
"What do I write? These are amateur poems which reveal whatever I see. I have no other means to tell my story. Well, prose can be simpler and easier, but it is dangerous too. You have to be politically correct in your every line because your life is at stake."
Shan's poem is about his friend, missing after being taken by unidentified gunmen from his home.
"It was really a dark night. Nobody knows what happened to him and he literally vanished into thin air. This uncertainty followed me and if I had not written it down and sung it regularly, my heart would have exploded like a bomb," he says. Shan writes:
"Who knows where my friend is?
Who knows where my friend is hiding?
Who knows whether he is scared in the dark night?
Who knows whether he is hungry and unable to stand on his feet?
Who knows if the place where he sits is damp?"
His questions remain unanswered as the couplets carry on and the poem concludes. Shan explains: "There are dozens of such poems and the theme is always the reaction of a sensitive Kashmiri youngster, who craves to tell his story but fear fails him to be open. It gives me some solace. I manage to tell the story yet do not endanger my life".
Another youngster writes anonymous poems. Scared to identify his work, he talks about the taste of blood in the waters of Kashmir's streams.
"I cannot drink water
It is mingled with the blood of young men who have died up in the mountains.
I cannot look at the sky
It is no longer blue; but painted red.
I cannot listen to the roar of the gushing stream
It reminds me of a wailing mother next to the bullet-ridden body of her only son.
I cannot listen to the thunder of the clouds
It reminds me of a bomb blast.
I feel the green of my garden has faded
Perhaps it too mourns.
I feel the sparrow and cuckoo are silent
Perhaps they too are sad."
Kashmir's older generation of poets also cannot escape the trauma and the tragedies around them.
Much of this poetry revolves around Kashmir's yearning for peace, its politics of hatred, the censorship of free thought and even the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, besides the daily uncertainties of life in Kashmir.
Farooq Nazki has won a Sahitiya Academy award (India's top literary prize) for his moving and sad collection, Naar Hutun Kazil Wanus [The Forests of Soot are on Fire].
"Poetry to me is not merely the articulation of truth or the verification of ideas. It is my intimate response to events", he says.
The pain he feels at the sight of the blood-drenched dress of a bridegroom finds this expression:
"The blood dappled apparel of bridegrooms
Is washed at the river by mothers
And the dress of brides is set ablaze
The milky mothers pine
And quiet flows the Vitasta".
The character that emerges from contemporary Kashmiri poetry is a self-destructive person, says Nazki. "This character passionately leads himself to the death-well and then turns into a mourner. His heart is seething with anger, full of commotion," Nazki says.
"The protagonist of my poetry is sauntering through a dense forest trying to catch a rare sun drop. Each sun drop is like a moment in time that turns into a milestone in the treatise of my poetry".
Explaining this change, Nazki says that green, indigo and yellow, which exhibit tranquillity, no longer dominate the spectrum of Kashmiri poetry.
"Instead black, white and red and most importantly tinges of blue find expression. The blue symbolises eternal hope in goodness and faith in one's cultural moorings." Nazki's poetry emerges from the image of marauders ravaging the chastity of Himal, the Kashmiri Juliet. "My verses emanate from the umpteen agony-filled faces of the ordinary Kashmiris I meet everyday," he explains.
"I fear
They will come
Whose eyes pierce like spears
And bruise over hearts
Those faceless people do talk
Doors of wine houses have been bolted
Guards have been stationed
On the temples of beauty
The city has been vandalised
Wailing bleak evenings seem to be descending."
Nazki mourns the fear that led to the mass exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, forced to leave their homes as the fundamentalists took over Kashmir's separatist movement, by talking about the tragedy of his childhood Hindu friend and neighbour:
"A dedication once more,
Somnath Sadhu, for you ...
You Know?
Your mother Kamli has run away from Kashmir,
She took along with her silver plate,
that you and I ate from,
the food that she laid,
She fled Kashmir, fearing me,
You Know?"
The sarcastic advice of another poet, Bashir Manzar, to the prose writers vividly explains the dangers of free expression:
Break the pen, spill the ink, burn the paper
Lock your lips, be silent, Hsssh......
Say, I saw nothing even if you do
or else, have your eyes gouged, be silent, Hsssh......
Make all discerning
Gouge out the eyes that discern,
Keep humming eulogies, be silent, Hsssh.....
It is now the season of burying the truth, Manzar
Seal your lips, be silent, Hsssh....."
Another well-known Kashmiri poet, Agha Shahid Ali, became a true emissary of Kashmir's pain after he published his acclaimed collection, Country Without A Post Office. His poems expose the uncertainty of life and the unease in the streets of Kashmir:
"I am writing to you from your far-off country.
Far even from us who live here
Where you no longer are.
Everyone carries his address in his pocket
At least his body will reach home."
Shahid lived and taught in United States and even on his death bed last year, he continued giving expression to the trauma of his native land:
"You must have heard Rizwan was killed.
Guardian of the Gates of Paradise.
Only eighteen years old.
Yesterday at Hideout Cafe (everyone there asked about you),
A doctor - who had just treated a sixteen-year old boy released from an interrogation centre - said:
I want to ask the fortune tellers
Did anything in his line of Fate reveal that the webs of his hands would be cut with a knife?".
And he portrayed the strife:
"Don't tell my father I have died, he says, and I follow him
Through blood on the road and hundreds of pairs of shoes the mourners left behind,
As they ran from the funeral, victims of the firing.
From windows we hear grieving mothers, and snow begins to fall on us, like ash.
Black on edges of flames, it cannot extinguish the neighbourhoods,
The homes set ablaze by midnight soldiers.
Kashmir is burning."
Shahid's love for Kashmir's lost composite culture, its traditions and ethos, is the theme of his poem Farewell, a plaintive love letter from a Kashmiri Muslim to a Kashmiri Pandit.
"At a certain point I lost track of you
They make a desolation and call it peace.
When you left even the stones were buried -
The defenceless would have no weapons."
Shahid's poetry talks of the relations, the bonds, that were broken in the flood of events:
"I'm everything you lost - You won't forgive me.
My memory keeps getting in the way of your history -
There is nothing to forgive.
You won't forgive me.
I hid my pain even from myself; I revealed my pain only to myself - There is everything to forgive.
You can't forgive me.
If only somehow you could have been mine, what would not have been possible in the world?"
But there is optimism as well. In another poem, Pastoral, that he dedicated to his Kashmiri Hindu friend Suvir Kaul, Shahid talked of reunion:
"We shall meet again, in Srinagar,
By the gates of the Villa of Peace,
Our hands blossoming into fists
Until the soldiers return the keys
and disappear. Again we'll enter our last world, the first that vanished
In our absence from the broken city."
· Muzamil Jaleel is a Srinagar-based journalist working with The Indian Express


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- Activity Book
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|Cambridge ESOL YLE Starters / pre-A1
|September 2007
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Super Starters is the first level of the Delta Young Learners English course and is an activity-based course suitable for 7 to 9 year olds and is ideal for preparation for the Cambridge ESOL YLE Starters test. It encourages
pupils to "learn-by-doing".
Super Starters has a rich variety of activities including:
- Cut-outs for each unit where pupils make puppets, spinners and masks, which are then used for speaking activities.
- A wide range of photocopiable material in the Teacher's Book, including picture cards for each unit (used for card games and introducing / revising vocabulary) and two board games.
- Listening and pronunciation activities on the CDs.
Each unit of Super Starters revolves around a topic which will be familiar to young learners and which is included in the revised Starters syllabus e.g. Clothes, My Family, Face and body.
Super Starters emphasises natural, spoken English and encourages genuine communication between pupils.
Language in Super Starters is always introduced through a listening activity, so learners can see how it is used in context before practising it themselves.
Key language and structures are revised at regular intervals throughout the course.
Learner autonomy is encouraged through the use of activities, both in the Pupil's Book and more extensively in the Activity Book.
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Are SEO services helpful for older, established sites?
Depending on how old and established a site is, the need for an aggressive SEO service may not seem as urgent. After all, if you already have the rankings for your most competitive keywords and others, then you can't really get much better. That said, there are three key reasons an SEO service is still important and effective for older, established sites.
1. Just because a site is older and more established doesn't mean the site has no room to grow. The OurChurch.Com website is a great example. We have been around for nearly 14 years. We have thousands of members and tens of thousands of incoming links. I'd say that qualifies us as "old and established", but are we ranking number 1 for every keyword we'd like? Nope. Even as old and established as we are, we have room to grow. So, we continue search marketing services for our own website.
2. I've never come across a site that was well optimized for all the keywords from which they could be getting traffic. This means that even though the site is old and well established, it's not getting the all rankings or traffic it could be getting. Why settle for half the traffic? I've even seen a lot of older sites that aren't optimized at all. Those sites could increase their traffic dramatically very quickly by having their site optimized.
3. The Internet is constantly changing. There isn't really any point when you have reached the ultimate goal and can stop. There are always new sites coming on the scene and competing for the same keywords you want to rank for. I'm reminded of the story of The Tortoise and the Hare. As we all know, the hare stops running the race and takes a nap. Meanwhile the tortoise is slowly but surely gaining and eventually over takes the hare. The same thing can happen to websites that are doing very well in the search engines, but decide to stop and rest on their rankings. One morning they may wake up to find they don't have the rankings or the traffic they used to have and they are no longer so well established.
Search marketing never really ends. Techniques change and your competition is always nipping at your heels. I know this may sound a little daunting, but do Olympic athletes ever stop training to be faster or better? Well, yes, they do…when they retire.
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WMCS 1290 silences the talk
It was a shock to hear that Milwaukee's home for black talk radio had decided to change formats Tuesday.
It was even more a shock when the station started playing Elvis Presley this morning just to make sure listeners got the point.
The Milwaukee radio station WMCS-AM (1290) has served the city's African-American radio audience for more than two decades with a variety of popular on-air hosts and personalities.
Black talk radio is a vibrant force in town, particularly during local elections, but the city's two black-owned radio stations have always been challenged by economic realities that made the going tough. (The other station is WNOV-AM 860, which still offers talk radio.)
The general manager at the company that runs WMCS chalked up a drastic decision to end the all-talk format on most days to strictly business. "Radio stations have to make money and serve the community," said Bill Horwitz, vice president and general manager of the Milwaukee Radio Alliance.
Nobody can argue with that.
Co-owned by Packers great Willie Davis, it's always been perceived as a struggling radio station that lacked the ratings and revenue to survive in a competitive market. But over the years, the talk radio on WMCS did serve the community with passionate discussions of issues and often combative discourse between listeners and on-air hosts and guests.
Listening to the most popular talk shows on WMCS – Eric Von in the morning and Earl Ingram in the afternoon, along with syndicated shows including Al Sharpton – was often akin to being part of a raucous debate in a black barbershop.
The radio audience for WMCS is largely made up of older African-Americans who don't listen to hip-hop 24/7 and prefer more serious discussions about politics and society. It's also not an audience drawn to another popular feature on Milwaukee radio, right-wing conservatives who often speak a different language than most African-Americans in Milwaukee.
WMCS was always racially inclusive, with white guests and experts on a regular basis and even a white male morning co-host – Joel McNally – for a time. I've been a regular guest on WMCS programs for most of my time in Milwaukee and recognize it as a valuable forum that's not provided by other mainstream radio stations.
Through most of its existence, the radio station's "Talk of the Town" talk format proved to be a place for serious discussions all listeners could enjoy but aimed specifically for black people; Elvis notwithstanding, one can only wonder what happens now.
fetlarpo | March 1, 2013 at 6:44 p.m. (report)
Any body no what a paid pod cast site is. I am sure this audience could pay for good diverse content. Otherwise, this audience seems like a good fit for government radio. God for bid they listen to those evil right wingers. There love for a pro life God and a strong defense of country would be alien to this audience.
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Otto | Feb. 27, 2013 at 10:11 a.m. (report)
It would seem that not enough listeners were tuning in to MCS to make the station viable. Logic would have it that the remaining two stations will have an increase in listeners and will be in a position to be more profitable. How about Your Milwaukee Schools WYMS as an outlet for 'the community'. Perhaps they can fill the void with black centric programing as well.
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mikeb | Feb. 27, 2013 at 6:02 a.m. (report)
In reading the comments it's always a bit unnerving to see people see racism in everything. WMCS is owned by Willie Davis. The reason they are changing formats is that for whatever reasons they couldn't make any money with the current format. It's not because Willie Davis wanted to "slap black people in the face". Radio stations change formats all of the time, it's nothing personal.
I would also say that if the assumption that this type of radio format is supportable it should open up a business opportunity for someone.
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People of low socioeconomic status are shorter than those of high socioeconomic status. The first two years of life being critical for height development, we hypothesized that a low socioeconomic status is associated with a slower linear growth in early childhood. We studied maternal educational level (high, mid-high, mid-low, and low) as a measure of socioeconomic status and its association with repeatedly measured height in children aged 0–2 years, and also examined to what extent known determinants of postnatal growth contribute to this association.
This study was based on data from 2972 mothers with a Dutch ethnicity, and their children participating in The Generation R Study, a population-based cohort study in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (participation rate 61%). All children were born between April 2002 and January 2006. Height was measured at 2 months (mid-90% range 1.0–3.9), 6 months (mid-90% range 5.6–11.4), 14 months (mid-90% range 13.7–17.9) and 25 months of age (mid-90% range 23.6–29.6).
At 2 months, children in the lowest educational subgroup were shorter than those in the highest (difference: -0.87 cm; 95% CI: -1.16, -0.58). Between 1 and 18 months, they grew faster than their counterparts. By 14 months, children in the lowest educational subgroup were taller than those in the highest (difference at 14 months: 0.40 cm; 95% CI: 0.08,0.72). Adjustment for other determinants of postnatal growth did not explain the taller height. On the contrary, the differences became even larger (difference at 14 months: 0.61 cm; 95% CI: 0.26,0.95; and at 25 months: 1.00 cm; 95% CI: 0.57,1.43)
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Unlike any other celebrities who tend to remain tight-lipped on the sex of their unborn babies, singer Seal opens up about it. The star publicly reveals that he and wife Heidi Klum is expecting a baby boy.
Per Contactmusic, Seal made public the sex of his unborn baby whilst onstage performing at a concert in Germany, saying that he was looking forward to the birth of "the little boy".
Just for you to know, Seal and Klum has had a son named Henry. And so this will be their second, while Klum's third as she's a two-year-old daughter called Leni from her relationship with Flavio Briatore.


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you will have no problem getting there using the Broad St (orange) line in plenty of time. no need to waste money on a cab.
Nice, thanks for the tip, Mike.
Take Broad St.(orange)line and you will be there in 10 minutes.
i think first you just might have to take the Market St line (blue) to get to the Broad St train.
Just our luck, KG might miss the entire playoffs probably the whole first round. A depressing win last night on all fronts.
No way the Sixers could beat the Celtics....even without KG. Pierce and Allen KILL the sixers...
Having said that..Is there a worse team going into the playoffs than the Sixers ? In either conference ? Sixers tried there very best to pull a NY mets but didnt do it...
Avery Johnson picked the sixers to upset the Magic. I never considered him as a guy who drinks on the job but I stand corrected.
Market-Frankford (blue) line from 30th Street eastbound (you have to leave 30th St station and cross the street to enter Septa) to City Hall (1 stop). Then Broad Street (orange) line southbound to the end. You have to take the local on the BSL.
That's pretty much my ride home from work when I take Septa. It's 25-45 min.
Basically, get to Broad Street and follow the small crowd wearing jerseys.
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It can be really lonely working from home so it's critical that you set up some systems to support yourself.
When I worked in a busy office I used to long for quiet time to write and study but then when you get it you have to be extremely diligent in not letting it just slip away.
I'm a combination of introvert and extrovert so most of the time I love working quietly on my own but with a young family and busy household I'm never in danger of feeling lonely.
If you're alone at home working online you may feel lonely sometimes or even if you have a busy house like me you may still be in danger of feeling isolated or cut off from others who share your entrepreneurial mindset & lifestyle.
When you're a home based entrepreneur you live a completely different life to the average parent you meet at the school gates or 9-5er and let's face it, YOU ARE NOT AVERAGE!
Even if you work partly outside your home or split your time between jobs as a 5-9er (the new term for people starting part time businesses while still employed during the day) the more skilled you become it seems the less most people understand or relate to you.
You've chosen a different path and it won't be long before you notice some old friends falling away in a natural renewal process.
Research shows that good relationships lead to increased happiness so if you have a tendency to be a bit of a loner I urge you to plug into some support networks to stay connected and build new relationships.
Perhaps even more importantly is that the internet is no longer a place to just sit on your own plugging away; with the advent of social media it is now a 2-way street and I believe collaboration is the key to success.
To become well known as an expert in your niche it's essential that you seek out partnerships or collaborations so you can position your content and services in front of thousands of new people.
This is called tapping into OPA 'other people's audience's,' which is a similar high leverage concept to tapping into other people's money which Robert Kiyosaki of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad, brand teaches as a strategy for building wealth.
Here are 10 Ways for you to Creatively Collaborate to Grow Your Business!
1) Hire a personal coach so you get heard and get real time feedback as you develop specific skills. (Joining group programs is valuable too but there's nothing like having a coach's personal attention.)
2) Join or create a mastermind so you can support other business owners and receive their support as you grow together. If you're not sure how a mastermind works read 'Think & Grow Rich,' by Napoleon Hill where he writes about the power of the mastermind. As the old saying goes, 'two heads are better than one,' so in this case you can tap into multiple heads and fortunes have been created with this approach.
3) Join a local networking group. BNI or The Chamber of Commerce are brilliant groups and you'll be able to develop friendships & rewarding business partnerships for referral exchanges and get out from behind your electronic device to chat with some real people!
4) Join associations for your industry and attend live events on or offline.
5) Attend seminars and conferences to develop your skills. Here you can meet potential affiliates for your products, joint venture partners for new projects, other experts to interview and of course potential clients or customers.
6) Join online groups. The private ones are the best so you can create your own or join others relevant to your niche. (Benefits are similar to no.5)
Once you've got your feet wet it's time to step up to even higher leverage activities:
7) 'Pitch yourself' as a guest blogger on targeted blogs in your niche. (This is the OPA concept at it's loveliest and you can generate hundreds of free targeted subscribers or leads with a strategic post)
8) If you're game for speaking at live events then 'pitch yourself' for conferences and seminars. You can start small with local networking events as there are always opportunities to speak for 10 or 15 minutes on your topic and one speaking gig leads to another.
9) Keep an eye out for tele-seminars where multiple experts are contributing content or interviews on a topic related to yours. Don't be afraid to 'pitch yourself' as the worst that can happen is you get a no. This can lead to other opportunities or to a yes next time! This is my favourite as you don't even need to leave home!
10) Contribute high value content through some of the above methods and be alert for 'content syndication' opportunities. This simply means your blog, interviews or articles can be picked up and distributed regularly through another site and you can receive a permanent link as a 'panel expert' or contributor. Think 'Huffington Post,' and you're on the road to fame and fortune baby!
A final word of advice
As you become known as an expert in your niche you'll begin to attract lots of invitations to speak at online and offline events. Choose wisely as you don't have to say yes to everything but this is the most highly leveraged way for getting your business in front of the most people with the least amount of effort so be strategic and go for it, expert!
OK so we've covered a lot of expert positioning strategies here. This week's challenge is to pick one or two and get cracking. I'd love to hear which one you plan to start with and/or which you've done already and what results you've had.
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A schoolteacher abandons his job, his wife and family.
A ghostwriter heads south from Paris to rendezvous with a famous author.
A woman gets dumped at a roadside café and gas station by her boyfriend.
She accepts a ride from a stranger. Will it prove to be the final, fatal mistake of her life?
A pig gets slaughtered. Two men appear to die. One woman does.
But who's who, and who kills who, and why?'
You must watch the French (with English subtitles) film Roman de Gare ("Crossed Tracks") to find out. Here's the movie's trailer.
Besides its mysterious elements, what's intriguing about this movie is that it gives you a taste of ordinary life in the French capital, farming in the countryside, and the romance of living aboard a yacht on the Riviera. It's enough to make you want to book the next flight to France to see if you can track down and hangout with the people in this film.
And if you're a novelist, this is a "must see" movie.
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Kentucky Women's Tennis Knocks off No. 54 Indiana
Feb. 17, 2013
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky women's tennis team recorded its second win over a ranked opponent of the week on Sunday, defeating No. 54 Indiana 4-3 at the Hilary J. Boone Varsity Tennis Complex.
"I couldn't be any more proud of my players," UK head coach Carlos Drada said. "They have bought into our process and they're actually believing that they can execute what they've been working on and that they can execute it under pressure."
Kentucky earned an early lead Sunday morning, taking two of three doubles matches to clinch the doubles point. Sophomore Edmée Morin-Kougoucheff and junior Cece Witten paired up in the No. 2 doubles slot and won the first doubles match recorded, 8-1. Indiana took the No. 3 doubles match 8-3, leaving the doubles point to be decided on court one.
The No. 1 doubles match saw a constant back-and-forth as junior Caitlin McGraw and freshman Nadia Ravita looked to improve on their 3-1 record on the year by knocking off Leslie Hureau and Sophie Garre. The tandems were deadlocked at 4-4 before McGraw and Ravita surged to claim the match 8-6 and clinch the doubles point for Kentucky.
"We did great in doubles," Drada said. "Winning that point was very important for us going forward in the match and obviously had a major impact on the outcome."
Leading 1-0, Kentucky added on early in singles play with two quick wins in the No. 1 and 2 singles spots. Senior Jessica Stiles stepped up and took the No. 2 doubles point in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2. On court one; Ravita battled Hureau in the first set, winning the tie-breaker 7-4 to take the first set. Ravita finished Hureau in the second set 6-3 and increased Kentucky's lead to 3-0.
With Kentucky one point away from clinching the match, Indiana was not ready to back away. Morin-Kougoucheff and freshman Kirsten Lewis had taken the first sets on courts three and four but Alecia Kauss and Garre battled back to take both points in three sets.
Indiana took the No. 5 singles match in straight sets and tied the match at 3-3. Sophomore Stephanie Fox and Indiana's Shannon Murdy took the court as the deciding match. Fox put the team on her back and defeated Murdy in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, to clinch the match for Kentucky.
"Stephanie was very solid today," Drada said. "It was great to have her as our last player; she really stepped up to the opportunity."
Kentucky's match with Northern Kentucky on Sunday at 6 p.m. was cancelled and will be rescheduled for a future date.
The Wildcats will return to the courts on Tuesday, hosting Miami (Oh) at 4 p.m.
Kentucky - 4
No. 54 Indiana - 3
1 – Caitlin McGraw/Nadia Ravita (UK) def. Sophie Garre/Leslie Hureau (IU) 8-6
2 – Edmée Morin-Kougoucheff/CeCe Witten (UK) def. Carolyn Chupa/Katie Klyczek (IU) 8-1
3 – Alecia Kauss/Shannon Murdy (IU) def. Kirsten Lewis/Jessica Stiles (UK) 8-3
Order of Finish: 2, 3, 1*
1 – Nadia Ravita (UK) def. Leslie Hureau (IU) 7-6 (7-4), 6-3
2 – Jessica Stiles (UK) def. Katie Klyczek (IU) 6-2, 6-2
3 – Alecia Kauss (IU) def. Edmée Morin-Kougoucheff (UK) def. 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
4 – Sophie Garre (IU) def. Kirsten Lewis (UK) 2-6, 6-0, 6-2
5 – Carolyn Chupa (IU) def. Caitlin McGraw (UK) 6-0, 6-1
6 – Stephanie Fox (UK) def. Shannon Murdy (IU) 6-2, 6-1
Order of Finish: 2, 1, 4, 3, 5, 6*


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Through this six-year task order, which has a base year and five one-year options, Raytheon Technical Services Company (RTSC) will provide comprehensive logistics integration support, including equipment support and services, program support services, infrastructure services, an enterprise information management system, and program management.
Work will be performed in FSU countries, primarily in the Russian Federation.
This effort is part of the U.S. government's Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program that assists successor states of the FSU in reducing their stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and the infrastructure supporting them.
Work on the task order, under DTRA's IDIQ (indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity) CTR Integrating Contracts (CTRIC) Program, is expected to be completed by July 2011.
"Since 1994 Raytheon has provided Mission Support to cooperative threat reduction projects involving logistics, transportation, storage, dismantling, safeguarding and destroying weapons of mass destruction in the FSU," said Dan Schultz, RTSC vice president and general manager of one of RTSC's Reston, Va.- based business units.
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Creekmore Fath:
An Inventory of His Papers, 1938-1992 and undated, in the Southwest Collection, Special Collections Libraries
Biographical Sketch
Creekmore Fath was secretary-treasurer for the Democrats of Texas (DOT). He worked under Sam Rayburn and Lyndon B. Johnson plus a number of other well-known politicians. He helped raise money for the Texas Democrats and public awareness of their political views. He was born in Oklahoma and attended public schools in Fort Worth and Austin. He entered the University of Texas in Austin in 1933. In 1939, he entered law practice with Bob Eckhardt in Austin, Texas. Thereafter he was a participant in state and national politics. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army from 1943-1945. He has influenced the Democratic National Committee with his skills as an attorney.
Scope and Contents
The Collection contains correspondence, financial material, and printed material collected by Creekmore Fath while secretary-treasurer for the Democrats of Texas (DOT).
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Richard Hein is the Principal and Managing Partner of Hein Law Firm, an International Commercial Immigration Law Firm in Missouri, USA. With office extensions in Mexico City through the Firm NDA Nájera Danieli & Asociados, for which Mr. Hein serves a US Counsel, its affiliation with the Buenos Aires, Argentina Firm, Estudio Jurídico Traboulsi & Asociados, its status as a Cooperating Law Firm for the Mexican Consulate in Missouri, and Mr. Hein's Board Membership in the prestigious International Law Firms, a cooperating, international organization comprised of highly regarded law firms with member firms in more than 70 cities and 50 countries worldwide, Hein Law Firm is particularly well-positioned to provide legal services on a global basis with an emphasis on Latin America. He is likewise a Member of the Planning Committee for the Solo and Small Firm Division of the Missouri Bar.
Mr. Hein has been interviewed on and provided legal analysis for CNN en Español, Voice of America, Radio France International, Deutsche Welle (the BBC of Germany), Univisión, NTN24 (South America's CNN), El Clarín (Argentina), TeLoCuento News (Caracas), CiudadRadio Buenos Aires, ActualidadRadio Miami, as well as on other various radio and television news and political programs on domestic themes of international interest and import.
Mr. Hein earned his law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law as the youngest member of his graduating class in 1994 (the second-youngest by eight days being his now-wife, Maria). He also received his undergraduate degree in History, magna cum laude, from Saint Louis University in 1991. Mr. Hein was born and raised in St. Louis, and graduated from the St. Louis Priory High School.


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Classification: Court Packing
Date: March 6, 1937
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A man will likely face murder charges in a bizarre incident that began with a fight over keys and ended with a death, a sexual assault and two other assaults, police say.
Johnathan Renard Castaneda, 25, is on the run after the incident in the 5200 block of Van Fleet.
Baron Keith Armstrong, 45, is dead as a result of Castaneda's assault, HPD says.
A man and two other women were beaten, and one of the women was raped by Castaneda, they say. They are hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
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HPD answered an assault-in-progress call and found Armstrong dead and the others injured.
"All four were assaulted by one suspect, whom they were socializing with when the incident began," HPD says. "Armstrong was looking for his keys and began to ask the others on the whereabouts of the keys. An argument started and the suspect attacked Armstrong and beat him unconscious."
He was truly angered, HPD says: "The suspect then turned his anger on the other victims, beat them unconscious and then further assaulted Armstrong with household objects."
He fled shortly before police arrived. The female victims positively identified him to cops.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of suspect Johnathan Castaneda is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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By Susan Page, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON The day after the election, Barack Obama was viewed more favorably by Americans than his wife, Michelle.
Not any more.
A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken in the past week shows a surge in positive views of the first lady over the past year even as her husband's ratings have eroded. As the anniversary of the presidential election approaches, Michelle Obama is viewed more favorably than her husband, and her standing is 19 percentage points higher than Vice President Biden's.
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"She has conducted herself as an educated, sensitive, down-to-earth woman — not a black woman, a woman — like when she does the gardening (to encourage healthful eating) and taking care of the family," including daughters Malia and Sasha, says Rosemarie Tate, 55, of West Hartford, Conn. "Those are values that everybody shares," says the registered dietician, who was among those called in the survey.
Among the poll's findings:
• Barack Obama is viewed favorably by 55% of those surveyed, unfavorably by 42%. Non-Hispanic whites are evenly split, 49%-49%, while his rating among blacks is overwhelmingly positive, 90%-9%. The day after his election, on Nov. 5, 2008, his overall rating was 68% favorable to 27% unfavorable.
• Michelle Obama is viewed favorably by 61%, unfavorably by 25%. Her standing among non-Hispanic whites is 57%-30%; among blacks, it is 91%-5%. During the campaign and at the time of the inauguration in January, she lagged her husband's favorable rating by as much as 10 points. Her standing has fallen from a high of 72% in March.
• Biden is viewed favorably by 42%, unfavorably by 40%. That's a decline from his 59%-29% standing last November — a steeper fall in favor than his boss's.
• Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, is viewed favorably by 54%, unfavorably by 37%. The day after the election, his ratings were 64%-33%.
The poll of 1,521 adults, including 933 non-Hispanic whites and 408 blacks, was taken Friday through Monday by land line and cellphone.
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The art of filmmaking is an incredibly strange beast, in that those who pursue it, to a large degree, decry the idea of it actually being art. Now, it can be successfully argued that the (perceived) high cost of entry into filmmaking justifies the more business minded approach of many modern filmmakers. As well, the fact that the film industry hasn't exactly made its copious amounts of money on selling 'art' films, might also explain the advent of independents discussing ROI as opposed to Fellini.
Fine points indeed, but I would argue that as we stand at the dawn of this new decade, with more tools, and opportunity than ever before, it is time that we reclaim our art, by all means necessary.
Let's be honest, it was most likely not box office numbers that first sparked our collective interest in making films. I didn't look up the opening weekend returns for Down by Law, after being mesmerized by its utter coolness, nor did I check the box office for 8 1/2, Mean Streets, Blue Velvet, The Last Picture Show, Europa (aka Zentropa), Junior Bonner, The Limey, Pi, The Wild Bunch, The American Astronaut or any of the other films that inspired and informed me over the years. My film library isn't organized by studio, or box office gross, is yours?
Sure, I get that films cost varying degrees of money, and yes, it should be recouped if at all possible, and yes, I absolutely want to see filmmakers, and artists (myself included) making a sustainable living from our own work, as it is key for continued work, and growth in that work. What I am saying is, maybe it's time to stop chasing an 'industry' that isn't interested. Maybe it's time to embrace our meager beginnings, our vast inspirations from great cinema, and instead of trying to conform to a world increasingly dominated by spectacle, carve out a wholly new space for alternative cinema.
It may be a little too utopian an ideal, I get it, I do. But, the writing seems to be on the wall. There is no golden ticket, are there are no rules. We are at a point in history where we really do have the opportunity to be an integral part in shaping this new landscape of modern cinema, so what the hell are we waiting for? An invitation? Someone to tell us what to do? Isn't that the problem in the first place?
Here's my 1st draft at a personal little three-part plan to get this going:
1) Double down on your personal investment in your craft, with the knowledge that in the end, better films, more engaging stories and solid craft will pay more dividends, monetary and otherwise, than any market research ever will.
2) Forget the film industry, seek out inspiration from those truly re-shaping the way in which we work, share work, share information, interact and live our day to day lives. The folks at Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, YouTube, and the list goes on…and on, are the ones on the cutting edge, driving the future. Not Hollywood.
3) Create. A lot. And share it. With everyone you possibly can. And encourage them to share it, by making it awesome.
So, maybe we don't have deep pockets, or a vast rolodex, to get started in creating this new cinema. And, maybe we have to endure a little more sacrifice, maybe we have to shoot on nights and weekends on borrowed gear, or maybe we do have a budget, but it's only $50K, or $25K, or 10K, or perhaps only $1K, but with that we create something amazing, that doesn't sell to Hollywood, but does sell to people. And from that we can build, and continue to build, and experiment, and grow. Maybe during the next little while, we're sharing our work for free online, and selling some DVDs here and there, some downloads here and there, and screening it live here and there, gathering fans here and there, and doing new, better, and more exciting work along the way, as we all steadily build a body of work. Work, that over time, increases in value, and increases our value.
It's not impossible to make great cinema for little, or to make a living from our art, we just need to start doing it, and stop waiting for something to just happen. Christopher Nolan made Following for six thousand dollars over 2 years, Jonathan Caouette made Tarnation in iMovie for $300 based on footage filmed over his life and it was absolutely incredible, Shane Carruth made one of my favorite films ever, Primer, for seven thousand dollars, while teaching himself every aspect of filmmaking along the way, my friend Lovisa Inserra made her completely unrelenting look at a 3-time loser on the expressway to self destruction, Buster, on hand processed Super 8, and no budget. All of these films and artists blew me away, and I know that there are more artists like them out there, so let's get ourselves together and do this thing.
Let's make this our decade, let's resolve to create a new, and sustainable alternative cinema. Starting. Right. Now.
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The famine of the Word of God (Amos 8: 11-12): "Behold the days come, said the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea and from north to east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it."
This famine takes place in most of our churches today. The plan today is to make the church as much like the world as possible so that unregenerate people will not feel uncomfortable and will be attracted to its ministry.
Turn the church into a theater; worship into a musical display; ministers into actors and clowns to amuse and entertain; sermons into political, patriotic or philosophical essays; and the living God into a good buddy whose attributes are adjustable to any culture or creed. This will attract the flesh and successfully quench the Spirit.
Preachers today are licensed and ordained by their church; men of old were ordained and sent by God. Preachers today go forth armed with degrees and credentials; men of old went forth anointed by the Holy Spirit. Preachers are questioned by committees and hired to preach what their church believes; men of old came preaching.
Thus said the Lord, "Preachers today give themselves to programs, visitation, church business; men of old gave themselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. Preachers today preach and men are persuaded to move their membership; men of old preached, and they were pricked in their hearts and cried, 'Men and brethren, what shall we do?'"
Preachers today pray, and the organ plays softly. Elisha prayed, and the fire of God fell. Modern religion says to the sinner, you take the first step, and God will do the rest. God says to the sinner, "Without me, ye can do nothing. You have no ability and no will to come to me. I will come and be gracious to whom I will be gracious. Grace always takes the initiative in salvation." Preachers today are afraid that they will offend someone; Paul was afraid that he would not.
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Several areas of Chicago were utilized as movie sets during the 2013 summer for the fourth installment of the Transformers saga, "Age of Extinction". The trailer is now out with glimpses of several Windy City buildings in explosive scenes.
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In the boys' race, which involved all of the Mountain Division schools, Ridge easily took first with 19 points as Johnson (71), Gov. Livingston (93) and Immaculata (107) were the runner-ups. The Ridge victory marked the 10th consecutive season that the Red Devils have taken home the crown.
For the boys, Ridge placed six runners into the top eight including the two top spots. Senior Pat Breault won the race with a personal best 17:02, while junior Tim Kuppler was second overall with a personal record of 17:25.
Billy Kung (17:57, personal record) and Darren DeAngelis (18:04) placed fourth and fifth, while Eric Munch (18:20) and Sean Mooney (18:21, personal record) were seventh and eighth. Evan Mooney was the next highest Ridge finisher at 19:22 in 21st place.
"Pat ran his best race and Tim, Billy and Sean all had personal records," said coach Tim Mooney. "Times are coming down at the right time, but we still need to continue to improve as we head into the State Meets."
The boys' junior varsity and freshman teams also placed first. Junior varsity runners Dennis Mahoney (first, 18:29), Rob Vohden (second, 18:42), Gerard Ganey (third, 19:08), Jeff Hanft (fourth, 19:12) and Tim Henry (fifth, 19:35) swept the top five spots as Ridge won the top 10 positions.
In the freshman two-mile run, Dave Guglielmo was first overall at 11:40, while Jake Cuttler (sixth, 12:36), Greg Jones (seventh, 12:42), Dave Henderson (eighth, 12:43) and Tom Holden (tenth, 13:15) contributed for Ridge.
Lady Devils Win
Going up against all of the schools from both the Mountain and Valley Divisions, the Ridge girls placed first with 33 points, one spot ahead of Immaculata (48) which had recently defeated Ridge in its only dual meet loss.
Although Immaculata took the top three spots, Ridge bunched its runners together in spots five through eight to win it. Kathleen Henry (fifth, 20:25), Emily Sarokhan (sixth, 20:28), Mary Pratt (seventh, 20:42) and Kim Philhower (eighth, 20: 44) all ran personal records to lead Ridge. Linda Sinni (11th, 21:30), Lindsay Kos (12th, 21:37, personal record) and Katrina Roi (13th, 21:39, personal record) also contributed for Ridge.
"It was a great team effort," said coach Mooney. "Things are really starting to come together for the entire team. They train well together and they race well together. The county title is now a possibility, but Hillsborough, Pingry and Immaculata are all in the running."
The junior varsity also placed first as Kate Crowley (first, 22:23), Alexis O'Connor-Robol (second, 22:43) and Emily Slapin (third, 23:06) all ran personal bests. The freshmen were led by Nicole Gilhuley (fourth, 15:26) and Stephanie Castrilli (sixth, 15:34).
The teams are scheduled to run in the State Sectional Championships on Saturday away.


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By Greenlight | 02 March 2016 |
Finding the perfect Valentine's Day gift is the ultimate challenge for many, but Greenlight has conducted research discovering that finding a present for a loved one may not be as hard as we think, with over 41% of Instagram users admitting to dropping #InstaHints about what we want to receive this year.
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With the holiday season fast approaching, it's important to have all your campaigns optimised and implement your bid adjustments to meet consumer demand in preparation for the busy period. And Google have launched a few tools just in time to make campaign optimisation faster and more efficient.
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Google's new search console API is now available!
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At the beginning of the year, Google hinted that more search query information would be available to webmasters by the end of 2015, probably referring to the new Search Analytics report implemented on the Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools).
Digital Marketing in China: What you need to know
By Andreas Pouros | 06 October 2014 |
Every 1.6 seconds a new Internet user is added to the Chinese Internet population – which now stands at 618 million users. They are spending more and more time online – from 18.7 hours per week to 20.5 hours in the last 12 months alone. However, there are fundamental differences – Political, Economic, Social, and Technological – that make digital consumers in China and those in the West markedly different
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Greenlight, will take to the main stage at Travel Technology Europe 2014, Europe's largest travel-related technology and marketing event, being held at Earls Court 2 in London on 4 - 5 February, 2014. The two day conference will feature thought-provoking speeches, industry panel debates and practical case studies, alongside an exhibition. Greeenlight will be joined by Google and Yahoo.


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In place of the former Arise! Bookstore, there is a Nerd Party going on until Monday evening. Tonight there's even a Linux workshop. For more info: http://nerdparty.drupalgardens.com
krypted June 19th, 2010
Posted In: personal
Tags: events, Nerd Party
DeployStudio has the ability to rename volumes as part of a standard workflow. These are typically set to something like "Macintosh HD" (the default) or "Computer Lab" or something like that. But what if you wanted to name the volume something unique to a given computer, which makes it easier to keep track with what you are doing across a number of servers? You could create a workflow for each computer and change the hard drive name for each to something unique; but that would be tedious and pollute your list of workflows, likely resulting in accidentally running the wrong workflow at times. Instead, you could look at a really simple script in most cases (according to how complicated your logic for assigning names would be).
To rename a volume, you can use the diskutil command along with the rename option. You would then list the existing name followed by the new name that you'd like that volume to have. In the case of DeployStudio the initial name of your boot volume might be "Macintosh HD" and to change the name to something like "Computer Lab" you would then use a command like:
diskutil rename Macintosh HD Computer Lab
It might then be logical to use a host name to rename a computer. Therefore, we could replace Computer Lab with the hostname command like so:
diskutil rename Macintosh HD `hostname`
However, this ends up showing the fully qualified name. Therefore, we could replace hostname with an scutil query for the ComputerName:
diskutil rename Macintosh HD `scutil –get ComputerName`
This would result in the name without all the .local, etc. But if you ran this as part of a DeployStudio workflow, you would end up calling the hard drive for all of your machines localhost. This is because the hostname or ComputerName will be queried from the DeployStudio set that you are booted to for running the DeployStudio Runtime. Luckily, DeployStudio has a number of variables that it can use in scripts. One of them is DS_HOSTNAME, which pulls the ComputerName being applied to the system at imaging. This means that if we were to rename the hard drive of the computer from Macintosh HD to the DS_HOSTNAME, you could use the following script:
diskutil rename /Volumes/Macintosh HD $DS_HOSTNAME
Now, one might think to oneself, couldn't I just put $DS_HOSTNAME in the field for renaming the hard drive (part of a workflow). I tried it a number of different ways and couldn't get it to work (in parenthesis, quoted out different kinds of ways, in different types of brackets and combinations of the above). If anyone knows of a way to use a variable in a GUI field within DeployStudio, let me know (I am guessing it can be done).
krypted June 12th, 2010
Posted In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mass Deployment
Tags: computername, DeployStudio, diskutil, get, hostname, rename computer, rename volume, script, scutil, variable, Workflow
MacSysAdmin will again be held in Gothenburg, Sweden. The dates for MacSysAdmin (and most of the speakers) have been announced. The conference will be held from September 29th through October 1st at the Folkets Hus.
I am honored to again be a speaker and will be there throughout the conference, which includes sessions from a number of Mac gurus, including Arek Dreyer, Andrina Kelly, Alan Gordon, Karl Kuehn and Duncan McCracken.
Click here to sign up and hope to see you there!
krypted June 11th, 2010
Posted In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Mass Deployment
Tags: conference, MacSysAdmin, speaking
The document handler in Podcast Producer has been exposed to the command line in the form of a tool called document2images (located in the /usr/libexec/podcastproducer directory), which takes a pdf and converts it into a set of tiff files. In its most basic iteration the documents2images tool simply inputs a document and then outputs a couple of tiff files per page of that document. 15 pages will typically net you 30 tiffs and an xml output (not that you can put Humpty Dumpty back together again very easily).
When you use document2images you will need to specify the pdf using the –document option, the xml file to output using the –xml option and the directory to drop your images into using the –imagespath option. To use an example of this command, if I wanted to convert a pdf called /Users/cedge/Desktop/test.pdf into images in the /Users/cedge/Desktop/tiffs directory and drop the XML file into /Users/cedge/Desktop I would use the following command:
/usr/libexec/podcastproducer/document2images –document /Users/cedge/Desktop/test.pdf –xml /Users/cedge/Desktop/test.xml –imagespath /Users/cedge/Desktop/test
It's worth note that the user invoking the command will need access to write to the directory that you're dropping your images into as well as the directory that the xml file will be written to (and of course, to read the pdf).
krypted June 10th, 2010
Posted In: Mac OS X Server
Tags: convert pdf to tiff, document2images, pcastaction, Podcast Producer
In BRU 2, you have 3 tools to use. These include:
To get started, open the BRU Server Config application from the components that come with your software (or that you downloaded from the BRU website). First you will be asked to provide an administrative password to BRU. Provide the password and then click on Save.
Next, the server components will be copied to /usr/local/bru-server. The system will also perform a hardware scan of your server, looking for tape drives and libraries (you can always rerun this process later if need be).
Once the processes are complete the BRU Server Configuration Tool will open and you can configure the server. To do so, first click Start to start the daemon. If you need to restart it at a later date you can simply click on the Stop or Restart buttons here. Then, if like most, you would like for the server to start at boot, check the box for Server daemon starts at boot. Here, you can also use the Backup and Restore buttons to backup and restore server configurations or the Modify button to enter a new password for the server.
You can also perform most of these options from the command line using the server command located in /usr/local/bru-server. For example, to stop the server, you would use the –kill option:
/usr/local/bru-server/server –kill
To then start the server, run it with no arguments:
Or to set the password, you would use (go figure) the –password option:
/usr/local/bru-server/server –password
You can also perform some options not exposed in the Configuration Tool GUI, such as running it on a custom port using the –port option followed by the port number:
/usr/local/bru-server/server –port=8090
Finally, you can check the version and license information using the –version and –license options respectively.
Once you are satisfied with your configuration of the server component, you will then close the tool and move on to installing the Agent(s). Each machine that will get backed up will need an agent installed. Configure the options for the BRU Agent using the BRU Server Agent Config application. Simply open the application from your installer. On first open, the agent will copy /usr/local/bru-server to your machine (if you installed the server it will just copy the agent portions of BRU), which will contain the agent. You will also then see a b icon in the menu bar. Click on the b icon in the menu bar and then click on Agent Configuration to bring up a screen similar to the following.
Here, click on the Start button to configure the agent. You will typically want the agent to start automatically when you install a system, so click on the check box for Agent daemon starts automatically. You will then need to provide a server that the agent can communicate with. To do so, click on the plus sign (+) on the screen and then provide the server that the agent can communicate with and the credentials to do so. Once complete, you will then be able to see the client system in the Server Console.
You can also configure it from the command line, fairly easily. To do so, run the agent, located in /usr/local/bru-server, along with the –config option:
/usr/local/bru-server/agent –config
The BRU Server Agent Configuration will then enter into the interactive mode and you will see any BRU Server Console's that the agent is configured to communicate with. Here, type N and then you will be prompted for the hostname of your BRU Server. Here, provide the name or an IP address for the server and then hit the enter key. When prompted, provide a password to enter into the Console. The server will then be assigned a unique number. Entering that at the interactive prompt will then remove the server again. Once the agent has been started, it can be stopped by running the agent command with the –kill option:
/usr/local/bru-server –kill
Note: For Windows, the configuration command line tool is located in C:Program FilesBRU Server Agent Configuration.
Now that you have configured the agent and the server, it's time to actually setup jobs and schedules. To get started, open the BRU Server Console application. The console components will then be copied into /usr/local/bru-server.
Click on OK and then the authenticate to the server.
Once you have logged in, you will see the console. If the installation of the agents went properly, you should see any that you have installed as well.
Disk-to-Disk backups in BRU are mostly considered a staging area, where data is stored while waiting to be shuttled to tape. To set the staging area, click on the BRU Server Console menu and then click on Preferences…
In the Stage Path field, provide a path that the stage files will be stored in. You can also set the maximum age of the staging data and the number of jobs to be stored in the history. When you're satisfied with your settings, click on the Save button.
Back at the Console screen, you will click on the plus sign (+) to add a new backup job, which will bring up the screen you see here.
The backup job will include the following options:
Once you have configured a job as you see fit, click on OK and you will be taken back to the BRU Server Console screen. For each job you will still need to configure a schedule for the job as well as what source directories/files to be backed up. To set the schedule, click on the job name to be scheduled and then click on the Schedule… button. At the Job Scheduler screen, set the frequency and starting times that your job should run at and then click on the Save button.
You will then need to configure the source directories for your backups. Back at the Console screen, click on the name of the job and then click on each directory to be backed up. Clicking on a directory will cycle through color codes. The colors indicate whether or not the directory will be backed up:
When you are satisfied with your backup job, click Save. You will then configure an incremental or differential job for each base job and finally a job that is specifically for upstaging data to tape, or completing the disk-to-disk-to-tape sequence. When you are finished configuring each of your jobs you can run them manually to test by clicking on the Run Now while the job is selected from the console. When running, you can monitor each job using the Tools icon in the side bar and then the Job Monitor option in the Tools drop-down menu. To stop a job that is running, you can click on the Kill command here.
You can also run jobs from the command line, using the backup option for the bru-server.cmd command located in /usr/local/bru-server. The command can be run using the -j option (name of job), followed by the name of the job to be run, followed by the -t option (type of job), followed by the type of job being run (ie – Full, Incremental or Differental), followed by -Z (enable compression) and -v (enable verification), followed by the paths (starting with server names) to be backed up in brackets. For example, to run our test job:
backup -j "test" -t "Full" -Z -v ["/krypted//Volumes/Installers"]
This allows you to somewhat seamlessly integrate the backup of files that are archived with Final Cut Server, by calling up the backup command as a post-flight action for any automations kicked off by Final Cut Server. You can also backup data using the bru-server.cmd command in /usr/local/bru-server. You can then restore files that are backed up using the bru-server.cmd command's restore option. In order to use the restore option, you'll need to know which archive the file is stored in. In order to find that you will also need to script the search option (search for the appropriate file and then craft your restore to pull data back to the restore path for fcsvr_client using the correct archive that the file is stored on). To search through the archives for the appropriate file:
search "my file.mov"
You can also provide archives as part of the search, but we likely wouldn't be searching here if we knew which ones to use.
Note: The BRU commands are based on python. When the python environment on a machine has been customized the results for BRU can be unexpected.
krypted June 9th, 2010
Posted In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security
Tags: agent, backup, BRU, bru-server, Command line, config, console, kill, Mac OS X, script, server
There are a lot of versions of the popular perl scripting language out there, and depending on what version you may have written a script with you might find that using a different version than the one that comes with an OS by default can have a drastic impact on a script. In Mac OS X you can change the default version of perl that the perl and a2p command will use. Before doing so you should check the version of perl being used by default, which can be done using the perl command, followed by the -v option:
perl -v
By default, the OS currently uses version 5.10.0. To change the version, you would use the defaults command to change the com.apple.versioner.perl defaults domain. You will add a key called Version with a string of the version you would like to use. For example, to switch to 5.8.8:
defaults write com.apple.versioner.perl Version -string 5.8.8
To change it back to 5.10.0:
defaults write com.apple.versioner.perl Version -string 5.10.0
You can also set perl to run in 32 bit mode:
defaults write com.apple.versioner.perl Prefer-32-Bit -boolean TRUE
To put it back:
defaults write com.apple.versioner.perl Prefer-32-Bit -boolean FALSE
Python provides the same functionality:
defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Version -string 2.6
Or to run Python in 32-bit mode:
defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Prefer-32-Bit -boolean TRUE
krypted June 8th, 2010
Posted In: Mac OS X
Tags: 32-bit, com.apple.versioner.python, Command line, defaults, perl, python, Version
Final Cut Server has an option to archive and restore assets. When archiving an asset, the asset will be moved to a file system path that is represented by the device ID. The archival and restore can be done using the steps shown in this video:
fcsvr_client archive /asset/318 /dev/8
Once archived, the asset can be easily restored provided that it is still in the archive path that it was backed up to. So assuming that the asset is still on /dev/8 you could use the following command to restore the asset (the device path is implied as it is tracked in the metadata that corresponds to the asset ID:
fcsvr_client restore /asset/318
If archiving and restoring, it is never a bad idea to log that the action was sent to the queue. For example, if the asset ID were a variable of ASSET and the device had an ID of DEV then you could use the following to log that the automation had been fired off:
fcsvr_client archive /asset/$ASSET /dev/$DEV
/usr/bin/logger "Asset $ASSET is being copied to device $DEV"
krypted June 7th, 2010
Posted In: Final Cut Server
Tags: archive, Automation, Command line, fcsvr_client, Final Cut Server, restore, script
One of the tools in the iCal -> iCal Server troubleshooting toolbelt is to debug log HTTP connections. You can capture packets for port 8008 using tcpdump. In the following command, we'll capture the packets over interface en0 for tcp port 8008 to a file called iCal.pcap:
tcpdump -w iCal.pcap -i en0 tcp port 8008
We'll then attempt to create a calendar entry in iCal or simply log into the server through iCal. CalDAV traffic will occur and then you can stop the tcpdump. In order to then read the tcpdump:
tcpdump -nnr iCal.pcap
Another option that can help to correlate traffic you see in the pcap from tcpdump is to enable debug logging of HTTP traffic in iCal. To do so, we'll use the defaults command to write a TRUE value into the LogHTTPActivity key of the com.apple.iCal defaults domain:
defaults write com.apple.iCal LogHTTPActivity -boolean TRUE
Given the output of LogHTTPActivity and tcpdump to iCal.pcap you will in most cases triangulate the source of many of the problems that you encounter in iCal Server. Whether iCal cannot traverse to a given directory with CalDAV data, iCal cannot connect to the server or there is another form of connectivity issue, much of the troubleshooting will start with looking at the traffic over port 8008.
krypted June 6th, 2010
Posted In: Mac OS X Server
Tags: 8008, caldav, defaults, iCal, LogHTTPActivity, tcpdump
When you're integrating Final Cut Server with other products, you often find yourself writing scripts to perform various tasks. One of those tasks might be to create a new project, or a production as it's called in Final Cut Server. Because a production can have a number of attributes, a great way to do this is to create a template production and then make copies of it (or clones) when you want to create subsequent projects. To do so, you'll use the fcsvr_client command, along with the clone verb. The -name option will allow you to set the name of the production which would then be followed by the unique ID of the production template that you manually create using the Final Cut Server application. Presuming we are creating a production called Emerald with a template of /project/298, we could use the following:
fcsvr_client clone –name Emerald /project/298
If we wanted to get the ID of this project, we would then use:
fcsvr_client search –crit Emerald /project
We could then go a step further and actually create an asset in this new project by using the –projaddr option for createasset. In the below example, we'll presume that the new project ID was 299 and then create an asset called Emerald1.mov that is stored on a device with an ID of 5 as well as provide a description and a tag:
fcsvr_client createasset –background –projaddr /project/299 pa_asset_media /dev/5/Emerald1.mov CUST_DESCRIPTION="Emerald throwing food at daddy" CUST_KEYWORDS="food fight"
Now to throw it all together in a little script that could be fired off through another application that can be kicked off from another application. In the below, we assume that it is a bash script that was handed a project name via $1, a device ID in $2 and a file name in $3:
fcsvr_client clone –name $1 /project/298
MyProjectID = fcsvr_client search –crit "$1" /project
/usr/bin/logger "Production $MyProjectID with name of $1 created"
fcsvr_client createasset –background –projaddr /project/$MyProjectID pa_asset_media /dev/$2/$3 CUST_DESCRIPTION="Automatically uploaded file" CUST_KEYWORDS="movie, automated"
/usr/bin/logger "Asset $3 on device $2 created in production $1"
If we had just wanted to create the asset, we could have simply used line 5, placing the Project ID in $1 by changing out $MyProjectID with $1. We could also use Transmogrifier to easily return the assetID once it has been created in Final Cut Server, allowing that to be returned to the application that might be calling up this script. This allows you to integrate the asset and production creation part of Final Cut Server with other solutions, such as a PHP web upload application, FileMaker or even another Digital Asset Management solutions.
krypted June 5th, 2010
Posted In: FileMaker, Final Cut Server
Tags: Command line, create asset, create production, create project, fcsvr_client, Final Cut Server, projects
As of version 8, Retrospect uses port 22024 when the Retrospect Console needs to communicate with the engine. It just so happens that this can become unresponsive when the engine itself decides to stop working. Therefore, if you're using Retrospect 8, you can run a port scan against port 22024 ( i.e. stroke <IP_ADDRESS> 22024 22024 ) and then restart the engine if it goes unresponsive. To restart the engine, simply unload and then load com.retrospect.launchd.retroengine. For example:
/bin/launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.retrospect.launchd.retroengine.plist; /bin/launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.retrospect.launchd.retroengine.plist
I have found that if you alter the nice value that the engine crashes less (not that I'm saying that it crashes a lot or is buggy btw, just seen it in a few cases now). To do so, change the nice value in /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.retrospect.launchd.retroengine.plist from the default (0) to -10 (or -20 even).
Historically, there have been intermittent issues with the client software running. To determine if it's running or stopped from within the host that the client is running on you can use the following (for versions 6 and below):
ps -cx | grep retroclient
Or you can use the following for version 8:
ps -cx | grep pitond
Or you can port scan port 497 for the client:
stroke <IP_ADDRESS> 497 497
krypted June 4th, 2010
Posted In: Mac OS X Server
Tags: 22024, Command line, launchd, port, restart engine, retrospect, tcp


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For many Pinoys, Amazon shopping is as elusive as the stock market. It's there, but not a lot of people have experienced buying from it.
Amazon is an online retail giant that sells a wide range of products, from books to power tools. A number of their products are shipped worldwide, so even if you're in the Philippines, you the buying power of someone who's in US soil, all thanks to internet globalization!
Here's a quick rundown of what to expect on your first Amazon shopping experience:
1. Log-in to your account and start searching (and comparing prices).*Tip: Stick to the ones with FREE Super Saver Shipping – to save money.
2. Add your purchases to the shopping cart. Just keep adding even if your decision is not final. It's easier to delete later on than look for the same item again.
*Tip: Check the status of your shopping cart by clicking on the shopping cart button on the upper-right corner of the screen.
3. Once done, go to your shopping cart and double check the items in it. Make sure colors, quantity and sizes are correct before proceeding to checkout. If you change your mind on something, just click on delete or save for later.
*Tip: Make sure the item you're ordering is in stock to ensure timely delivery. You can also check if your items have qualified for Free Super Saver shipping on this screen.
4. Choose a shipping address. Amazon can keep a bunch of your addresses in the records. In this purchase, I decided to direct the packages to my friend in Sunnyvale, CA, to get free shipping. She'll hand-carry the items when she comes home for a vacation here in the Philippines.
*Tip: Free super saver shipping does not apply to international shipments. You may look into package consolidation services if you don not have a friend or relative in the US.
5. Shipping and payment. Here you will be asked to choose a shipping option. If you're opting for free super saver shipping, make sure you tick on standard shipping. Enter your payment details on the next page, whether you're paying with your Amazon Payments balance, using a gift card, credit card or check. Amazon keeps a record of your payment details for future convenience.
* Tip: Free 2-day shipping is available when you register with Amazon Prime. You can do this, too, just don't forget to end your free trial subscription if you don't want to use the service after this transaction.
*Tip: You can pay your total in increments using different payment methods. See my invoice on another purchase below where I paid portions of my invoice using my Amazon Payments balance, Gift card and Credit card.
6. The next section if for gifting. You may skip this part if you are buying stuff for yourself.
*Tip: You may go back and forth the pages without having to re-enter previously typed information, which is great for minor changes.
7. Review your order. This is the last step in the order process. All the order details are laid out in one page. Double check everything to avoid billing and shipment errors.*Tip: Any amount to be taken from your Amazon Payments balance will not be shown on the order total yet. These will be applied later on after the order is invoiced.
8. Wait for your order confirmation email. Your order summary can also be accessed in your Amazon open orders. Here, you can see how the gift card balance was applied on one item (maybe because it's over $25, and the Amazon Payments balance was applied on both items in one order.*Tip: Amazon may choose to ship these separately, but what the heck, there is no additional charge anyway. Don't forget to inform the receiving party of your incoming package.
This may look like much, but in reality, it's very very simple! There's no reason to be intimidated when shopping in Amazon. Happy holidays!


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THE "creaking" hospital system could come under even greater pressure if proposals to send thousands more emergency patients to Worcester become reality, a councillor has warned.
Councillor Joy Squires has grave concerns about Worcestershire Royal Hospital's ability to cope if it is asked to handle 25 per cent of emergency patients currently treated at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
That is one of two options being proposed in a cost-cutting review of hospitals in Worcestershire, with a downgrade of emergency services at the Alex and enhanced facilities, including more consultants and specialist care, at Worcestershire Royal. But Coun Squires, who last week told your Worcester News how her 88-year-old neighbour Betty Newberry had to endure a 12 -hour wait for a bed at Worcestershire Royal, believes that may not address the issues that already exist.
"My neighbour was actually seen by two consultants very quickly and I have no concerns about the actual care that she received," she said. "It was not the consultants that were the problem but simply the lack of nursing staff to cope."
Coun Squires said that she feels "the whole service is just creaking" and that she would want strong assurances that her concerns would be addressed before any decisions are made.
She has already used her role as chairman of Worcester City Council's scrutiny committee to seek answers.
"There were a lot of questions about capacity and I am not sure that there were many answers given," she added.
But the Worcestershire Clinical Senate, comprising healthcare professionals from across the county, has given its backing to the options as a viable way forward "clinically and financially", stating again that "doing nothing is not an option".


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Hermann Beyer
Kaspar Hauser
In a scheme to keep legitimate heir Kaspar Hauser (André Eisermann) from ascending the throne, the conniving Comtesse Hochberg (Katharina Thalbach) has the boy kidnapped and imprisoned. Deprived of all social contact for 12 years, he emerges from his captivity a primitive "wild man." Director Peter Sehr also penned the screenplay for this critically acclaimed drama, which won German "Oscars" for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture.