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This past weekend was one to remember. Our football team came back to beat Michigan, 17-13, in the Big House. I, along with my good friends Jim Abel and Tonn Ostergard, watched it unfold in the biggest stadium in America and in front of the biggest crowd ever to see the Huskers win a game with more than 112,000 in the stands. Coach John Walker's soccer team won the Big Ten Tournament in Champaign, Illinois to match the regular-season title it won a week earlier on our home field. Our men's and women's basketball teams opened the curtain at Pinnacle Bank Arena with Coach Connie Yori's team beating UCLA and Coach Tim Miles' team defeating Florida Gulf Coast in two decisive wins over 2013 NCAA Tournament teams. Coach John Cook's volleyball team won two road games over Top 16 teams at Wisconsin and at Minnesota, winning the fifth set to snap the Gophers' 18-match home winning streak. To top it all off, Coach Stacy Underwood's fifth-ranked rifle team beat a third straight ranked opponent, and Coach Bill Straub's defending NCAA champion bowling team defeated 12 of the 13 teams it faced at a season-opening tournament in Indiana.
What a memorable day it was to watch our basketball teams launch a new era at PBA on November 8th. That morning, a sportsmanship pep rally for 4,300 middle-school-aged children from Lincoln and the surrounding areas featured Husker coaches and student-athletes in a 90-minute event coordinated by our Life Skills Department. Coach Miles and Coach Erstad gave powerful presentations. Tim talked about the importance of setting goals, and Darin talked about "emptying your tank" and to give your best in everything you do. Jordan Burroughs, Mattie Fowler, Shavon Shields, Meghan Williams and Chad Wright also spoke with great passion and purpose, representing wrestling, softball, men's and women's basketball and track and field.
I'm proud of the athletic success we have had this year and particularly last weekend. However, our No. 1 priority is academic success, and this weekend we will reinforce and celebrate that important fact. On Friday and Saturday we will salute our best and brightest student-athletes over the last half century. These scholar-athletes helped Nebraska reach an incredible milestone this past year – 300 Academic All-Americans and counting. Each of the 223 individuals who combined to earn 307 CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) Academic All-America certificates, and four others who earned the honor by other publications, were invited back to Lincoln to commemorate this historic and unprecedented accomplishment. Nearly 120 will join us this weekend on our campus. Only two other universities have even reached the 200 plateau--Notre Dame which is second in overall Academic All-Americans with 231 and MIT which ranks third with 204.
Friday night, we will host a private reception and give our Academic All-Americans a chance to tour the Dick and Peg Herman Family Student Life Complex. On Saturday, we will acknowledge each of our Academic All-Americans in attendance following the Marching Band Performance at halftime.
It's an honor for me to point out that Björn Barrefors, Nebraska's 2012 Big Ten Conference decathlon champion, is the Huskers' first and only four-time Academic All-American across all sports. Björn has earned the honor to lead our Academic All-Americans onto the field. Joining Björn will be five other 2012-13 Husker Academic All-Americans – fellow first-teamers Josh Ihnen (wrestling) and Gina Mancuso (volleyball) and second-teamers Morgan Wilken (track & field), Mara Griva (track & field) and Emily Wong (gymnastics). Two former football players from this class – Sean Fisher (second-team) and Rex Burkhead (first-team) – are unable to join us on Saturday with commitments to medical school and the NFL, respectively.
Mike Brown will be honored twice on Saturday…first for being a First-Team All-America defensive back and second for being voted one of Nebraska's Top Eight All-Time Blackshirts. Mike went on to a stellar NFL career with the Chicago Bears and Kansas City Chiefs.
Another legendary student-athlete who succeeded on the court and in the classroom is in Lincoln this week as well. Karen Jennings was the 1993 winner of the Margaret Wade Trophy as the Nation's Outstanding Women's Basketball Player and is currently a successful real estate agent in Omaha. She is also a double honoree this weekend. She is in Lincoln for UNL's Alumni Masters Week and on Thursday afternoon, she spoke to our Academic and Life Skills teams. Karen is one of three Huskers in the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame, and just one of three Huskers to earn First-Team Academic All-America honors three times. Two football players, Dave Rimington and Patrick Tyrance, join Jennings in the Academic Hall of Fame, while volleyball players Virginia Stahr and Sarah Pavan share Karen's achievement of earning first-team Academic All-America honors for three consecutive years. Prior to her highly successful career in real estate, Karen worked as a physical therapist for Methodist Hospital in Omaha.
Even though they are not Academic All-Americans yet, three Nebraska football players became eligible for consideration last Thursday when the Capital One Academic All-District 7 honorees were announced by CoSIDA. By earning an all-district honor, Spencer Long, twin brother Jake Long and C.J. Zimmerer advance to the national ballot, and that's good news for Nebraska football, which leads all programs nationally with 104 Academic All-Americans. On the women's side, our volleyball program has won more Academic All-America awards (37) than any other women's team in the nation, while the Husker softball program (29) ranks second on that list. We also lead all NCAA women's gymnastics programs with 14 Academic All-Americans.
On Saturday, another outstanding former Husker student-athlete will be acknowledged. Mary Weatherholt will be honored with her teammates and individually at the football game. An accomplished scholar-athlete, Mary was named an NCAA Top Ten Award Winner for 2014 earlier this week. That designation is considered the most prestigious individual award the NCAA presents on an annual basis. I have been fortunate to get to know Mary and watch her compete on the tennis court last year, where she finished as the 2013 NCAA Singles Runner-up. She is one of the finest student-athletes I have ever had the privilege to work with. She was also an All-American in doubles for our Big Ten co-championship team last spring. With this week's announcement, Nebraska leads the nation with 17 Top Ten winners, two more than second-place Stanford.
This past week I was able to attend the recent Downtown Lincoln Association's Impact Awards Luncheon with Chancellor Harvey Perlman. Awards were presented for significant development, downtown residential development, downtown business leadership, plus recognition for a downtown champion and a young entrepreneur. Attending that luncheon, in the shadows of the new Pinnacle Bank Arena, brought to mind one of our own leaders who has worked tirelessly to help two of our teams make a smooth transition into PBA. Executive Associate Athletic Director Marc Boehm, who oversees both basketball programs, has spent countless hours making our new basketball arena feel like home as well as leading the Game One opening programming this past Friday. Our entire staff did a wonderful job making the opening day memorable. Thanks also to Tom Lorenz and the staff at Pinnacle Bank Arena and our Husker Marketing, Media Relations, Facilities and Events, HuskerVision, Capital Planning and Construction, Ticket Office, Huskers Athletic Fund staffs and all those who had a hand in making opening day one I will always remember.
Until next time, stay positive and Go Big Red!
As competitive as our athletic programs are, I think it's important to acknowledge that UNL students also compete every day. In the Department of Philosophy, for instance, UNL sent two undergraduate teams to compete in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Rocky Mountain Regional Competition in Boulder on November 2. Both teams were sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Robert J. Kutak Center for the Teaching & Study of Applied Ethics. Steve Goddard is the interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences which supports our Philosophy Department. There is a national board-controlled group that ranks the reputations of U.S. Philosophy Ph.D. programs, and in the Big Ten Conference UNL is tied with Illinois and is rated ahead of Purdue, Penn State, Michigan and Iowa. The competition is intriguing because each team presents its resolution to an ethical dilemma before a panel of judges and the opposing team. Clare LaFrance, a philosophy graduate student at UNL and the Ethics Center assistant director for undergraduate programs, helped organize and coach both UNL teams along with graduate student Allison Fritz. One UNL team went undefeated through all rounds and won the regional at the University of Colorado. That effort qualifies them to compete in the national championship event in Jacksonville next February. Nebraska's winning team included Kate Miller, a Philosophy major from Omaha; Maddie Bien, an Anthropology major from Lincoln; Sarah O'Neill, a Global Studies major from Lincoln; Tony Moran, a Philosophy major from Johnson, Nebraska and Oliver Tonkin, a Political Science major who was born in Malaga, Spain, but grew up in Lincoln and was the captain of the team. Congratulations and good luck in Jacksonville!
Cornhusker Marching Band Makes PBA Debut Memorable
Last Friday's first Nebraska basketball games inside the Pinnacle Bank Arena were as memorable as they were successful, and I'm glad I didn't miss these historical moments. Jordan Hooper proved why she is one of the best young women's basketball players in the country, and Shavon Shields displayed his talents and leadership skills, winning a National Player of the Week honor. We've all been talking about the extraordinary fan experience for the sold-out men's game, complete with incredible lighting, compelling videos, spectacular ribbon boards, Tommy Lee on the drums, Karmin singing the national anthem and the awesome sight of the full Cornhusker Marching Band helping us celebrate a new era. It truly was spectacular. Our sincere thanks to the band, celebrities and most importantly…our new fan base that purchased every ticket six months before the opening tipoff.
Last Saturday was a physical game between two of college football's most storied programs. I want to share an email we received from Tim Byrne, an usher for Section 35 in America's biggest college stadium affectionately called the Big House. Tim wrote, "I just wanted to comment on how friendly and courteous Nebraska fans were at the game this past Saturday. It was a pleasure!" I know "Hail to the Victors" is Michigan's fight song, but when a stadium employee compliments our fans after a tough game like that, I want to reciprocate and thank Tim for his compliment and thank our fans for their sportsmanship.
We have another unique challenge for Big Red fans this weekend. Maggi Thorne from our Capital Planning and Construction group reminds us all that UNL will compete for a fourth consecutive year in the Game Day Challenge. It's a recycling competition to see which schools can divert the most waste during one football game. Last year, we finished second in the Big Ten. Through our first six home games, we've diverted an average of 75 percent of stadium waste from landfills to recycling. That pace is about 15 percent higher than last year's 60 percent. We're able to be highly competitive an event like this because we have a Solid Mixed Waste Permit from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality in partnership with Recycling Enterprises. This allows us to collect everything in a single stream from the stadium and then sort at a recycling warehouse.
Donde Plowman, Dean of UNL's College of Business Administration, is in the midst of raising $84 million to build a new CBA facility scheduled to open in 2017. She had more good news last week when Bloomberg Business Week released its 2013 ranking of part-time MBA programs. UNL ranked second in the Big Ten and 18th nationally ahead of Indiana, Texas, Ohio State, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Congratulations Donde for making great strides on CBA's goals.
Congratulations to John Walker, his assistants and our soccer team on the 1-0 win over Iowa last Sunday in Champaign, Illinois, to add the Big Ten Tournament Championship trophy to our regular-season title a week earlier. Our soccer team has won four double conference championships in the same season, but this was our first Big Ten double title sweep and first in 13 years. Our nine-game winning streak is the longest we've had since 2000 and is tied for the fourth-best active streak in the nation. We are seeded No. 2 in our region behind Florida State and will play host to Southeastern Louisiana this Friday, November 15, at 2 p.m. at the Nebraska Soccer Field next to Memorial Stadium. We hope you will take the time to watch our team which is ranked 10th in the latest national ratings.
VIDEO: Watch Huskers Celebrate Big Ten Title in Lincoln
Husker Student-Athletes: Heroes in More Ways than One
There are so many innovative events that we embrace at Nebraska and one of the most popular is the Husker Heroes Event. On the first Sunday night of this month, 200 of our freshmen and first-year student-athletes met and interacted with about 600 guests at the Hawks Championship Field. It was the fourth-annual indoor event for our special guests and their family. Our Life Skills Department worked with "Organizations Networking for Everyone with Special Needs," a group that includes 11 participating sponsor groups. It's a home run every year, and this year was no exception. Every interaction is tender and touching and helps our student-athletes realize who some of their biggest fans in the world are. To prove how true that is, we invite you to view the photo gallery on the link below.
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This small town served since the beginning of the last century as the first port to disembark passengers of the big liners after crossing the Atlantic, and was the home port of a large fleet of trawlers of all sizes. Passing ships are even today a normal sight and it is no wonder that young and even older boys cultivate dreams of the sea and a world beyond the horizon. So did I ! No wonder with my father a sea-captain, I forced my way to go to sea. His connections made it possible to secure a berth for me on four mast bark "Priwall", one of the two big "Cape Horners" still managed by the "Flying P-Line" Laeisz & Co.
When leaving Hamburg on the 16Th May, 1939 on the long voyage to the West Coast of South America, none of the young men of the crew imagined that this was the beginning of the ultimate stormy voyage round Cape Stiff the hard way, form east to west in the southern winter in a big merchant sailing ship and that the voyage would last for most men of the crew, seven years.
Leaving Hamburg as a boy of 15, I returned as a man of 22 who had endured strange and different experiences of all kinds for a very long time. But in the "Priwall" I had to learn a few things which I shall never forget. The start of the voyage seemed to me like the beginning of a big adventure. The whole surroundings were confusing. The height of the masts with the long steel yards seemed much too heavy to keep the ship upright and I wondered if the function of the many ropes shall remain a closed secret to me. But there were many loose ends on a sailing ship when the loading had been finished to keep a boy quite busy.
While the crew cleared the deck, the "Simson" towed the "Priwall" downstream and let go the tow-line on arrival in the German bight. The experienced crew members who had previously sailed on one or two voyages, set sails so that in a short time the ship proceeded with a favorable wind to start her long voyage.
According to and old ritual the first and second mates elected alternately the members of their watches. Therefore routine took over and the youngsters were told about our special jobs by the mate or the A.B.'s.
It took some time till I got used to the change of watches and to leave sleep behind, such rude hours like midnight to eight bells al four o'clock in the morning. But I remembered that it was my own will and forgot to be more tired than the other boys.
In due time we reached the channel and there was the usual fog with the normal calm waiting for us. Being a wind ship we had to anchor in a most unfavorable position near the narrows, a short distance off Dungeness with steamers passing all around. A Danish steamer avoided a collision just in time with good luck and hard maneuvers.
I shall never forget climbing the full length of the mast under the keen eyes of an A.B. The doubling was the worst part of it, but I got used to it without any special trouble and soon felt at home right on the top. The narrow body of the ship (it seemed to me) and the marvelous visibility around to a horizon more distant than normal, creates its own thrill which I remember as if it was yesterday in my old age. Besides that and the work with trimming the slap lines or the running gear you could watch the play of the dolphins for miles around in the bright sunshine.
The days were filled with the duties each ship requires as preservation of the running and standing gear never ends, the change of sails, ropes and splices as well as serving the ship needs, takes every seamen's time during his watch. One day we caught a formidable shark, which had followed the ship for miles till it took the bait of more or less musty smelling old salt meat. It took its time to get that beast of almost 2.5 meters length on deck. When killed, which took some time, it served as a welcome addition to our scanty rations of preserved food. The same happened to a dolphin when caught, which was harpooned by the chief mate from the bow-sprit. We young boys were hungry all the time.
At last the big day came to cross the line. We youngsters of the first trip listened with mixed feelings the horrible tales of what might happen to us beginners. Not only that we would be cleaned of the dirt of the Northern Hemisphere but, much worse, the old hands would, in preparation to becoming a seaman, treat our black souls in a way we should not forget for the rest of our lives. To make it short, all to be baptized still lived to see another day, but it took quite a time to get rid of tar and paint from the whole body. Looking back, all this was a funny interruption of the monotonous working days of a long voyage.
In the same area we met, surely for the last time ever, a big old-fashioned sailing ship (that means without a motor) which turned out to be the Finnish four mast bark "Lawhill" on her way from Australia to a northern port with a full cargo of grain. After the many long days we took it as confirmation we were not alone on this glassy ocean, and to ensure this, the next day the big German liner "Cap Arkona" passed, with several rounds, the almost becalmed "Priwall" –quite show for her passengers.
Abreast of Argentina we encountered a "pampero" during the late afternoon which did no harm to us as we saw it coming and had the time to reduce our light sails in the time. It was heavy work to change our older and worn sails against heavy storm sails and to undertake all the necessary precautions as we neared the bad weather region of the Roaring Forties.
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In the middle of July we passed 50 degrees south latitude. I remember to this day, the heavy rolling ship in the choppy sea and a strong northerly wind. The chief officer asked me if I could see the big cloud ahead and then answered to himself after a short moment, "That is Staten Island the door to Hell". The Captain believed that God created Cape Horn and the whole area in his anger. Quite soon I learned that the opinion of both men was quite correct.
The Captain preferred to pass Staten Island to the east, and today I know that he was right with his decision. After a couple of hours severe westerly gales started, which only abated three weeks later. It seemed to me that Cape Horn showed its temper to the extreme to end a period of 300 years with the last west-bound voyage of a merchant sailing ship. In this southern winter all assumptions were given with winds, which took the breath out of the men when reducing sails on the yards, and a sea which flooded ship from fore to aft. The sore and bloodied chance to heal in the never ending work on the deck and in the rigging.
With the wind increasing up to hurricane force we rounded Cape Horn on 21st July, 1939. on the permanently flooded decks, under hail and snow showers, the tired men, wet to the bone, undertook the necessary work and lay for hours on the ice covered yards to furl the nearly frozen sails when it became necessary to ice covered yards to furl the nearly frozen sails when it became necessary to heave-to. Though both watches were in action many times, several sails were lost. After a short deep sleep the duty watch, and many times the men off watch, had to take up again the fight against sea and wind.
After three weeks of constant storm, wetness, cold and tiredness to exhaustion we had passed the stormy region. One of the hardest chapters in maritime history, which started in 1616 with Willem Schouten on his ship "Eendracht", had found after 300 years the end by this last rounding of Cape Horn of a merchant sailing ship the hard way, from east to west, in the southern winter.
When wind and sea decreased we found the fore upper top yard party broken. This was replaced in the first port of call which was Corral in Chile, with the mizzen upper top yard. It appeared quite a piece of heavy work to transport the yard of nearly three tons weight from after over the bridge deck to the foremast. But we needed it there for safe maneuvering when going about or tacking.
When the "Priwall" arrived at Valparaiso on the 3rd of September 1939 to discharge the last of the cargo after the intermediate port of Talcahuano, the war had commenced and condemned ship and the younger members of the crew to a long stay in Valparaíso while the nucleus crew was transferred to different German Steamers which departed soon. The call for us came two years later when the old "Priwall" was given to the Chilean Navy to start a new life under the name "Lautaro". She ended up by burning out with loss of life near the coast of Perú.
We, the last members of the crew, were distributed to two German coasters going to Japan and to German steamers trying to run the blockade to Germany. I found myself on board of the (at that time) most famous S.S. "Erlangen", which at the beginning of the war had reached Chile with a Chinese crew, party sailing and also fired with self cut wood (on the Auckland islands). But that will be another story.
Thinking over the significance of sail training after a long life at sea and going through all the ranks, I came to the conclusion that it improves and increases a firm self-assertion which in other surroundings scarcely can be produced. You grow up to be a man when demands are put upon you to the limits of your capabilities and mental powers of resistance and you soon realize that with every new strain new strengths will arise. Later I became aware that those experiences I endured on board the "Priwall" showed their own worth, not to be learned elsewhere.
Concerning the "Priwall" is to say generally that she was a stout but not very fast ship, which needed a lot of wind. Her utmost speed was not much more than 14 knots when loaded. The ship was quite heavy and her behavior seemed always different to other sailing ships of the same size.
On the other side, she showed best sailing qualities when she did the voyage from Hamburg to Port Victoria in 1933/1934 in the marvelous time of 65 days (Captain Claus) – best clipper time and best time for a heavy four mast bark. Even as late as 1938 the "Priwall" rounded the Horn in the shortest time ever done – five days fourteen hours from 50 south in the Atlantic to 50 south in the Pacific under Captain Hauth.
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First he handed out cash to victims of China's 2008 earthquake. Then he sold "canned fresh air" to residents of smog-ridden Beijing.
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Maxwell's single knocked Sinnery from the game and he went on to receive a no-decision, going 4.2 innings and allowing three runs on eight hits while striking out six.
Jeremy Barfield made his season debut for Stockton in the fifth and pitched around a leadoff walk to keep the Ports in front. In the sixth, however, Ryan Court tripled to right with one out and scored on a two-out single to left by Raul Navarro that tied the game at 3-3. It was the only run allowed by Barfield who pitched two innings and allowed two hits while striking out three.
After a perfect seventh inning thrown by Tucker Healy, Michael Ynoa (0-1) took over in the eighth and set the side down in order. Ynoa returned for the ninth inning and with one out, gave up a single to right to Navarro. After a pair of wild pitches advanced Navarro to third and brought the infield in, Rawhide batter Socrates Brito hit a sharp grounder to the shallow-playing Ports second baseman Chad Pinder. Pinder bobbled the ball and had no play at the plate as the winning run crossed to give Visalia a 4-3 victory. The play-Stockton's third error of the night-was ruled an error on Pinder and an unearned run for Ynoa.
Jimmie Sherfy (1-0), who pitched a perfect ninth inning, picked up the win for the Rawhide.
Stockton and Visalia will play the third game of their four-game set on Saturday at Recreation Ballpark. Manny Correa (0-0, 0.00 ERA) will make the start for the Ports, opposed by Rawhide left-hander Spencer Arroyo (0-0, 0.00 ERA). First pitch is set for 7 p.m. PDT.
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CEO Magazine has ranked Queens' executive and professional MBA programs fifth in North America.
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As part of my desire to reduce my usage of third parties concerning my online data, I've always wanted to get my own sync server going for Firefox. I had tried this a few different times and had been unsuccessful each time until today. I've mostly been wanting to have one going to further reduce my dependence of third parties in regards to my online data. Of course, this has been mostly been directed at Google but I have extended it to Dropbox and now Mozilla. I don't really have any reasons to dis-trust Mozilla but, the Degooglify attitude shouldn't stop with just Google. If you have the option of fully taking control of your data, I feel that you should. ;)
So, looking at starting a FF Sync Server leads to this documentation that Mozilla has. After reading over it again, I realized that the dev setup is very similar to the basic setup of MediaGoblin that I currently have running here. My MediaGoblin setup is using a python server, running on a port which is then redirected to the sub-domain in the Apache configs, I wrote a little about that recently. The Python Paste server underneath my MediaGoblin install has seemed to work quite well for me so I figured that it'd do fine as I don't plan on having very many users accessing the Sync Server. In the Mozilla docs, it does say that the built-in server shouldn't be used in production due to it not handling a lot of load on it. So far, it seems quite fine with just one user. ;)
Anyway, since I already had the dependencies installed (mercurial, sqlite3, python-virtualenv and python2), I proceeded to clone the source into a directory on my webserver. One note about the dependencies, currently python in Arch is 3.2 and this sync server will need python 2 (it says 2.6 but I built it with 2.7). I checked the 'Makefile' prior to running 'make build' and noticed that I was going to need to add '--python=python2.7' to the virtualenv options on line 42. I also ended up needing to add '--force' to the buildapp options on line 46 before it'd build properly. In the end, it looked like this (also removed the no-site-packages option as it's deprecated):
$(VIRTUALENV) --python=python2.7 .
$(INSTALL) MoPyTools
$(INSTALL) Nose
$(INSTALL) WebTest
$(BUILDAPP) --force -c $(CHANNEL) $(PYPIOPTIONS) $(DEPS)
After those changes, it built properly and running 'make test' showed that all was good. I started the server with '.bin/paster serve development.ini' and was able to connect. WooHoo!
Final Configuration
For the final setup, I figured I'd just start with using the Paste server and see how it handled the load. I knew I'd be modifying my MediaGoblin Paste server init script link for this setup as well so starting and stopping the server would be a breeze. I started with the supplied 'development.ini' file and made a few modifications. I changed the host to the internal IP address of my server from being 127.0.0.1. This allows for the Sync server to be accessible from the outside (on the other side of my router). Wasn't necessary but I also changed the port that it would be running on. There is also a path to an error log that I changed to be consistent with the location of the rest of my logs. For the time being, I've left all the other settings as they are. The edited copy of this file I named 'paste.ini' and left it in the root of the Sync server directory. The other file that I edited is './etc/sync'. This file holds quite a few important settings. I changed cleanshutdown to true, turned off the captcha (for now), left it using sqlite for it's database and changed the sqluri path (for both 'storage' and 'auth') so that the database would be in the Sync directory. Also, the fallbacknode setting has to be changed to however you are going to access the server. For me, I changed this to the subdomain that I setup through dyndns.org. I setup apache the same way I did with MediaGoblin. For examples of these files check these links: paste.ini, sync.conf and httpd-vhosts.conf.
Prior to editing my init scrip, I knew that I wanted a separate user to run the Paste server for security reasons. I ended up creating a user named ffsync with:
useradd -d /srv/http/syncserver -r -s /bin/false -U ffsync
I also wanted the PID file to reside in /var/run/ffsyncd and the log file in /var/log/ffsyncd, therefore the init script ended up as this: Link
After tweaking my init script, I started it all and was able to connect Firefox on my various machines and devices. \o/
There are a few of the setting that I want to play with just yet, turn debug off in paste.ini, maybe lower the threadpool_workers some but, it seems to be working quite well so far. One thing that I have noticed is that on my phone and tablet, pulling up the list of tabs from my other computers seems to work quite a bit faster.
If anyone tries all this out and has issues, let me know in the comments below.
[EDIT] I just came across an article in the Arch wiki on the same subject. However, the procedure in this article seems hackish to me. Maybe I need to rewrite the article. ;)
- Firefox
- Sync Server how-to
- My MediaGoblin Post
- Python Paste
- paste.ini example
- sync.conf example
- httpd proxy vhost example
- Sync init script
- Arch wiki article
I think it worths to give it a try. Looks a bit complicated as you can use SyncPlaces with your own server for a simple home-brew sync solution but i guess this is the best option if you want a real Mozilla sync.
2012-05-06 14:23:40
I think my experience with setting up MediaGoblin made this an easy setup for me. For the most part though, the Python Paste server isn't that bad to work with though. It's getting the Paste server to work with your existing webserver that causes the complication in my opinion.
2012-05-06 15:04:59
Good to know. Thanks for letting us know about your experience Mr. Pope :)
2012-05-06 16:03:05
Hey, great article!
I'd forgotten about how you can setup your own sync server like this.
I got mine working on arch + nginx based on this post.
Keep sharing!
2012-05-15 19:48:36
Glad I could help. :)
(also glad this comment wasn't another gucci comment attempt. :D )
2012-05-15 19:52:19
I have followed step by step in this tutorial, everything is describe, how to install and configure own Firefox Sync Server (Weave) with MySQL.
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What a week for men's hair, in a the good, the bad, and the ugly (yeah, Bieber, that's you) kind of way. First, let's praise Mohawk Man, the NASA flight director Bobak Ferdowsi, whose red-streaked...
August 9, 2012
Is Going Bald Really Something to Fight?
It's supposedly one of a man's biggest fears: No, not getting married—going bald. But is a naked skull really something to dread? A new study from the Wharton School of Business suggests that men would...
July 25, 2012
Allure Man: The Case for (and Against) Manly Face Scrubs
Who is the most macho? That seems to be the question posed by the men's facial scrubs I've been testing lately, like Kyoku for Men's Exfoliating Facial Scrub with volcanic ash, rice bran, and ground...
July 19, 2012
Sexual Side Effects of Hair-Loss Drug May Last Months, Even Years ::Gulp::
The hushed and hurried voice listing a drug's many side effects at the end of a commercial always makes my ears perk up. "May cause sleep-fighting...." Wait, did she just say sleep-fighting? Is that a...
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Tom Cruise at 50: At Least He Has His Looks
Not a good week for Mr. Mission Impossible: Katie Holmes has filed for divorce; his ties to Scientology are all over the headlines again; and, oh yeah, he turns 50 today. But we'll give Tom...
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Dudes: Man Up and Wear Sunscreen Already
After my boyfriend and I recently opened his pool for the summer, he requested a sunscreen refill (ah, the perks of dating a beauty editor). I was more than happy to load him up, especially...
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Batter Up: Smelling Jasmine Improved Major League Players' Hitting
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There is a vibration being picked up by many leaders, signaling a growing swell of Jesus-led compassionate social activism. Many non-profits are still feeling the impact of a poor economy -- an environment characterized by a moribund political system and a society increasingly known for its disparity between the haves and have-nots. But, there's hope.This weekend I went to Portland for the 2012 Justice Conference. Initiated last year in partnership with Kiln's College, Christian de … [Read more...]
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by Lori Keesey for Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Nov 20, 2012
The hunt for the organic molecules that create proteins and enzymes critical for life here on Earth has largely happened in sophisticated terrestrial laboratories equipped with high-tech gadgetry needed to tease out their presence in space rocks and other extraterrestrial samples.
A technologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., now wants to take that search to the sources themselves.
Stephanie Getty, who recently was selected as Goddard's Innovator of the Year for her trailblazing work in the area of advanced instrumentation, has won $1.2 million from NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program to advance the Organics Analyzer for Sampling Icy Surfaces (OASIS).
This miniaturized liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer leverages technologies developed under previous Goddard-sponsored research and development efforts to study the chirality, or "handedness," of amino acids on the icy moons of the outer planets, asteroids, and Kuiper Belt Objects.
"It's like we're packing up a well-equipped Earth lab and flying it to an asteroid or another solar system body, where we can get access to a pristine supply of these organic molecules to study," Getty said, adding that by going to the source, scientists reduce the risk of contaminating samples with Earth-borne compounds.
"With an instrument like OASIS, we could get that much closer to understanding how organic chemicals formed in the solar system, whether the potential for life exists elsewhere, and what may have seeded life here on Earth."
And OASIS would carry out this science with 100 times greater sensitivity than what was possible with previously flown liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometers, she added.
Why Amino Acids?
Amino acids, in part, hold the key to ultimately answering that question. They are the building blocks of proteins - the workhorse molecules of life, used in everything from creating hair and fingernails, to the enzymes that speed up or regulate chemical reactions inside cells.
Just as the 26 letters of the alphabet are arranged in limitless combinations to make words, life uses 20 different amino acids in a huge variety of arrangements to build millions of different proteins.
Amino acids demonstrate another interesting characteristic. Although they come in two non-superimposable forms - left-handed and right-handed - only abiotic or non-biological organic compounds use both.
The amino acids that give rise to life must have the same orientation or chirality, which means they use only one of the two available mirror images of the amino-acid structure. Left-Handed Bias
Life on Earth got established with only the left-handed version, leading scientists to wonder whether this inclination arose because of random processes or whether meteorites may have seeded this propensity.
To find out, Getty's colleagues at the Goddard Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory have studied carbon-rich meteorites and tiny grains collected from the Wild 2 comet. They discovered an excess of the left-handed amino acids in some of the meteorite samples they studied, suggesting that left-handed amino acids got their start in space, where conditions in asteroids favored the creation of this particular orientation.
"Research shows that meteorites seeding the early Earth could have jump started left-handed-based protein in life as we know it today," said OASIS Co-Investigator Danny Glavin, a world-renowned expert in extraterrestrial organic chemistry at NASA Goddard. "They contributed these molecules that may have created an initial bias toward left-handedness."
The question is, does the bias exist on other solar system bodies, and if so, does it favor left- or right-handed amino acids? OASIS's ability to detect amino acids and determine their chirality - the ratio of left- to right-handed molecules - will be an important capability for ultimately answering that question, Glavin said.
ASIS's Unique Instrumentation
It also is being used on the Goddard-developed Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard the Curiosity rover. Like the Viking version, SAM uses heat to process crushed rock samples. As they heat, the samples break down, releasing gases that SAM's gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer then measure to identify organic compounds in the samples.
Although effective, heat can fragment organic carbon, resulting in the loss of molecular information. To preserve those details, SAM features a "one-pot" solvent-extraction experiment that is gentler on the samples. Though the experiment is capable of detecting amino acids, it won't measure chirality, Getty said. Her team specifically is designing OASIS to provide that critical measurement. Instead of heat, the instrument uses liquid to prepare the samples and then separate and detect complex organic compounds, including amino acids.
"We have found that liquid chromatography, coupled with mass spectrometry, is the most sensitive and selective method for measuring amino acids in the laboratory," Glavin said. "OASIS is our first step towards the development of a miniaturized spaceflight instrument."
Breadboard Design
Among other technologies, it also will include a "lab-on-a-chip" liquid chromatograph, an instrument that - like Glavin's VAPoR - traces its heritage to previous Goddard Internal Research and Development (IRAD) program investments. "The real key is liquid chromatography," Getty said. "It will separate the sample according to chemical structure, giving us another dimension of data, another approach for teasing out details that would identify the compound."
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Palapag is a 4th class municipality in the province of Northern Samar, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 30,520 people in 5,852 households.
Palapag was the hometown of Juan Ponce Sumuroy, a Waray who led a rebellion against the Spaniards from 1649-1650. The main reason for the Sumuroy Rebellion was the forcible conscription of workers from Eastern Visayas to work in the shipyards of Cavite.
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