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3718 Oakdale Drive, Hamilton 49419
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06/27/2016 at $240,000
Desirable Hamilton home situated on a private lot situated on a private drive. Nestled on 9.9 acres, this property offers horse or hobby barn, paddock area plus fabulous layout on this 2003 built home. Main level hosts mud room 1/2 bath/laundry, kitchen with breakfast bar & glass accent cabinets plus tile backslash, dining offers sliders to deck backyard & fire pit area, living room plus master suite w/nice deep walk in closet & master bath. Soaring ceiling in master bedroom gives a spacious feeling. Accents include 6 panel oak doors & oak trim, some thin coat plaster finish- upper & main level. Wood floor on upper landing & wood stairs w/ spindled stairway. Upper level includes 2 nice sized bedrooms & full bath. Lower level has 2 gathering areas with egress windows for future bedrooms.
Property Information
- Status
- Sold
- Address
- 3718 Oakdale Drive
- City
- Hamilton
- Zip
- 49419
- County
- Allegan
- Township
- Heath Twp
- Zoning
- Total Finished SqFt
- 1,722
- Above Grade SqFt
- 1,722
- Garage Desc.
- 2, Attached
- Water
- Well
- Sewer
- Septic System
- Year Built
- 2003
- Taxes
- $2,318
Rooms and Land
- MasterBedroom
- 14X18 1st Floor
- Bedroom2
- 14X14 2nd Floor
- Bedroom3
- 13X14 2nd Floor
- Bath
- 9X9 1st Floor
- Dining
- 14X10 1st Floor
- Family
- 14X25 Lower Floor
- Kitchen
- 14X11 1st Floor
- Laundry
- 5X10 1st Floor
- Living
- 1st Floor
- Other
- 8X10 1st Floor
- Rec
- 17X12 Lower Floor
- Basement
- Daylight, Full Basement
- Cooling
- Central
- Heating
- Forced Air, Propane
- Acreage
- 9.78
- Lot Dimensions
- 647x661
- Appliances
- Microwave, Oven, Range, Refrigerator
- Features
- Ceiling Fans, Garage Door Opener, LP Tank Rented, Wood Floor
- Exterior Materials
- Vinyl
- Exterior Features
- Deck(s)
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A Steady Hand Guided A Tysons Task Force
Monday, September 22, 2008
The push to remake the sprawling canyons of Tysons Corner into a vibrant city where people can walk, dine, work and live could take its biggest step forward today, when the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to listen to -- and act on -- the findings of a panel that has been studying the issue for 3 1/2 years.
Standing at the lectern, directing the crucial presentation, will be Clark Tyler, a 74-year-old Sunday school teacher and longtime Democratic operative. His grandfatherly touch and seasoned political instincts have enabled him to command a refractory 37-member task force responsible for writing one of the most ambitious policy initiatives in county history.
The Tysons Corner Land Use Task Force is an unwieldy collection of boosterish business leaders, skeptical neighbors and advocates for walking, biking and the environment, each with a vision of what Tysons should be. At the helm is Tyler, a direct descendant of the president of the same name and a man whose political career was shaped in part by Watergate: It was his office at the complex that was broken into in 1972.
As task force chairman, he has literally walked the walk, regularly traveling on foot the two miles or so between his McLean townhouse and the heart of Tysons, along what he calls the area's "hyphenated" sidewalk system.
Tyler's unwavering determination to submit the most dramatic plan possible has prompted criticism that the task force's conclusions were preordained. Still, his civility has prevented the panel from collapsing altogether.
"He's earned his angel's wings many times over just by doing it," said Rob Jackson, president of the McLean Citizens Association, one of the leading critics of the task force's work. "It's a tremendous public service. However, I'm very frustrated with the process. I've asked, for well over a year now, for access to the information, the assumptions and the underlying conclusions that they're basing their recommendations and their vision on. And we've not been able to get that. And I'm frustrated by that."
Tyler's preparation for his current assignment might have begun in 1972, when he took on a forbidding task for presidential candidate George McGovern's platform committee. He was asked to stage eight public hearings across the country to give voters a chance to comment on what the Democratic Party's positions should be.
"I said, 'This is going to be an unmitigated disaster,' " Tyler recalled. "And I was told: 'I'm glad you said that. Because your job is to make it a mitigated disaster.' "
Tyler has made no secret of the potential for unmitigated disaster on the Tysons Corner task force. But he has also made no secret of what he views as being at stake: the future of Virginia's largest jobs center, which he calls "the blob that ate Northern Virginia" and which he thinks must transform from edge city to real city if it is to survive.
Tyler has peppered his tenure with generous doses of folksy good humor and war stories from a long career in politics and government. In the 1960s, he worked in the U.S. Department of Transportation, the White House and the Appalachian Regional Commission, and he loves to quote Lyndon B. Johnson from those days. One of his favorite LBJisms: "Never load a fellow's pistol when it's pointed at your head." And in the same vein: "Never spit tobacco juice on a piece of cake you may have to eat."
Tyler worked for the Democratic National Committee in the early 1970s, and his office in the Watergate was ransacked during the famous break-in.
"I got back to my office, and the FBI was there," Tyler recalled. "I said, 'It always looks like that.' "

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The Houston Texans face a divisional opponent and huge a rival in the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. With Chris Johnson and a much improved defense, the Texans will need everyone back, especially if they start this game the way they did against the Chargers. So the question is, who has a chance of coming back?
Antonio Smith was suspended for the final two preseason games and the first regular season game for his scuffle with Richie Incognito, and is guaranteed to return to the playing field Sunday. He was returned to the Texans roster on Tuesday, sending David Quessenberry to the injured reserve. The best news about Smith returning now is that according to him, he is the healthiest he's been in years.
J.J. Watt played in the game against the San Diego Chargers, but sustained a minor quad bruise that led to a little concern that he might miss the game Sunday. However, head coach Gary Kubiak relieved all fears about Watt's status at his press conference Thursday.
Darryl Sharpton is another good candidate to return for the Texans as he had a successful practice Thursday. He's expected to pass the final stage of the NFL concussion protocol, and be active against the Titans at Reliant Stadium. Sadly, Shiloh Keo will be starting for Ed Reed once again. Reed is still recovering from hip surgery in April and didn't play in the game against San Diego on Monday. He's once again a game-time decision.
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"Legions of fans worldwide have enlisted in the fight to help test and polish the most anticipated blockbuster of the year, but the battle is poised to heat up even more as Epic Games invites you to recruit your friends for duty when the "Never Fight Alone" beta phase for Gears of War 3 kicks off on 8 May.
"Starting today, everyone who's played at least one game in the beta will receive a "buddy token" to share with a friend on Xbox LIVE, giving them access to the Gears of War 3 beta. The buddy tokens will be distributed via e-mail starting 8 May when the "Never Fight Alone" phase begins, giving beta participants and their friends a full week to enjoy the multiplayer mayhem together.
"New players entering the beta on 8 May will have a chance to cross chainsaws with their buddies in three new Gears of War 3 competitive modes (Team Deathmatch, Capture the Leader and King of the Hill) on four stunning multiplayer maps (Thrashball, Checkout, Trenches and Old Town). Additionally, beta recruits can unlock an array of exciting content such as exclusive medals, weapon skins and character variants like the fan-favourite Thrashball Cole, which they can carry over to their retail copy of Gears of War 3 when it launches on 20 September. For additional details, please refer to the official Epic Games FAQ: http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=767359.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Amid the crush at media day, it's a challenge just to get a question in to a player or coach. You have to squeeze near their podiums and then squeeze in your question. Grace Ybarra, 12-year-old correspondent for Scholastic News Kids Press Corps, met the challenge.
"I just tried to spit it out as fast as I could," she said.
When the Patriots arrived here Sunday, she managed to get in a question for coach Bill Belichick: How would it feel to match former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Chuck Noll by winning a fourth Super Bowl?
Belichick looked down to see who was asking the question and smiled when he saw Ybarra. He said it would make him feel "pretty good" to match Noll.
During media day, Ybarra also interviewed Vic "The Brick" Jacobs, a host on Fox Sports Radio.
Ybarra wore a red polo shirt with the Scholastic News logo. Jacobs wore a trademark fur hat, along with big, dark glasses and a full-length robe with Chinese designs. He had a yellow, furry dragon around his neck because this is the "Year of the Dragon" in the Chinese astrology.
"Kids Press Corps! Right on!" Jacobs said when Ybarra introduced herself.
Ybarra asked him if he knew the Chinese word for dragon.
"No, do you?" said Jacobs.
She told him the word was pronounced "long." She happens to be studying Mandarin Chinese, and she also did some interview with Mexican TV outlets in Spanish.
"Grace, you're doing a great job here. The amazing Grace," said Jacobs.
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- Certificate of Paz y Salvo, this can be obtained from the RUNT and is a document stating that the driver does not have any outstanding debts or tickets with the transport authorities
- A photocopy of a valid ID
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- The previous license must also have been registered on the RUNT system in order for it to be renewed
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The wardrobe belonged to my mother in law who's house we have just cleared. Has mirror on inside of door. Some nice decoration on the front. Due to age and use there are some marks.


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This article is about the ancient vampire known as The Prince of Lies. For Angelus, whom Connor referred to as "The Prince of Lies", see Angel
- "They dare conceive such violations upon my temple! The Prince of Lies is not a slab of meat to be set upon by insignificant maggots."
- ―The Prince of Lies[src]
The Prince of Lies was an ancient vampire who was captured by the Third Reich during World War II as part of an effort to surgically alter vampires on a psychological level in order to create an army of vampire soldiers.
In 1943, he was trapped in a U-Boat alongside Spike and Nostroyev, and, upon learning of the purpose of his capture, an enraged Prince of Lies attempted to kill the only German left on the sub. He was stopped by Angel with a stake through the heart. Before he died, the Prince threatened to suck out a Nazi's brain and digest his thoughts. It is unknown if this is a description of some unique ability of his or just a creative threat.
Behind the Scenes
- He was portrayed by Camden Toy.
- He bears a striking resemblance to Count Orlok, the lead character of the 1923 vampire film Nosferatu.
- The Prince of Lies is another example of a vampire so ancient that its human features are little more than a shadow to the monstrosity it has become. Other such vampires include The Master and Kakistos.
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A/N: This is written for the Writing World Cup 2013, pools, round 1.1 (friendlies). I'm representing the Netherlands and I used Tom Riddle and Moaning Myrtle for this round. I've also used the following prompts:
- "Any similarities between you and a human are completely coincidental."
- tears
- grey
- broken glass
I also used the bonusprompt: "You think killing people makes them like you, but it doesn't, it just makes them dead."
From the other side of the library an ugly, fat-looking girl in a Ravenclaw uniform was staring at him. She could not have been any older than a fourth year. Tom huffed in annoyance. He wasn't keen on all the female attention he received, even though he used it to his advantage if he could, but the girl irritated him. She always popped up whenever he did not want her to and it had become more difficult to sneak off into the lavatory on the second floor with her constantly tailing him. He had to be careful lest she'd give him away. And the worst part of it was that she was a Mudblood.
Oh, if only he could get his basilisk to kill her, what bliss would that be! He was certain he would actually be doing lots of people a favour if that happened, because he was far from the only person who couldn't stand Myrtle Miller.
But he needed to stay composed. Things had been going so well lately, he could not risk it all for some filthy little Mudblood. He knew that Dumbledore suspected something, so he needed to keep a low profile. He also knew the Gryffindor Hagrid kept a pet spider and in due time, he would rapport him as the one setting the basilisk on students.
A girl from around the Mudblood's age walked by.
"What's that Myrtle? It looks like the glass in your glasses is broken."
The Mudblood looked up, panicked, and immediately reached for her glasses.
"Oops, my bad, it was your ugly face that shone through," the second girl commented mercilessly.
The Mudblood burst into tears. "I hate you, Olive Hornby!" she yelled, before she left the library, crying.
The other girl chuckled and walked towards her friends.
Tom waited a good ten minutes, until he was sure that the Mudblood would be far enough away to prevent her from following him, and left the library as well. The moment with the Mudblood girl had spurred on his irritating and he decided that today would be the day. Today, someone would die.
He went to the lavatory and a sinister smile crept upon his face when he saw the tiny grey snakes above the sinks. He started speaking in Parseltongue and the hissing sounds fell off his lips like he had never spoken anything else. The sinks started to part and a low hiss was heard from the depths of the chamber.
It is time, Tom hissed. We will not stop until we kill someone today.
The replied eagerly and slid out of the opening.
"What are you doing here? This is a girls' lavatory!" a voice behind him screamed upset.
Tom turned around and recognised the Mudblood from before. Now that was a welcome coincidence.
"Shut up Mudblood," he said coldly.
"What is the matter with you all?" she whined. "I'm a human, I've got feelings too."
"Trust me, any similarities between you and a human being are purely coincidental," was Tom's sneered reply.
The girl was speechless from shock and Tom hissed: Dinnertime.
The giant basilisk slithered over the floor towards the Mudblood. She screamed and tried to run, but the basilisk was quicker. She then made the mistake of not closing her eyes and Tom watch in slight amusement how the girl's muscles gave way and she fell to the ground, dead. He had never before been physically present when the basislisk attacked, because that way, no one would have any evidence that he was behind the attacks. But the death was quite interesting to watch actually.
A pale, see-through figure emerged above the limp body and the ghost of Myrtle Miller pointed an accusing finger at Tom. "You!" she said. "What did you just do?"
"I killed you," Tom replied passively. "The world is better of without you."
"Oh, you're so clever and all aren't you? You think killing people makes them like you? It doesn't, it just makes them…"
"Dead. And good riddance."
The Mudblood retraited into the cabin she had emerged from, sulking and whining. Tom was tempted to let the basilisk free in the castle, but after a moment's thought, he ordered the basilisk back into the Chamber. The Mudblood would be found soon and it would hold a stronger warning if they didn't go all at the same time but had the time to get frightened for their lives. He left the lavatory rather quickly, because if he was found next to the body of a lifeless student, there would no way of letting Hagrid get the blame for the death.
But as he walked wack to his dormitory, he was deep in thoughts. Myrtle's ghost had risen questions inside of him, like what would happen after death, and that he wasn't going to see the day he did. He had already been reading about Horcruxes in the forbidden section of the library, but now he came to think that maybe one split wasn't enough to reach immortality. He thought about it. Maybe seven was a good number. Maybe, in order to reach true immortality, one had to split one's soul into seven. He would ask Slughorn about it one of these days.
It took a couple of hours before the Mudblood was found. See, I've done the world a favour, he thought, no one misses a Mudblood when they're dead.


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I'm no Newt hater but I'm going to have to call BS on this one. The commercial was a series of spots done by different people with "opposing" views, but who support the scam now known as global warming.
The spots were done for Algore. So much for bipartisan.
Newt just tell the truth. You were on drugs and it seemed like a good idea at the time. Now you realize is was a chitty idea and global warming is a hoax.


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News Overpriced GPUs everywhere you look.
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I remember the first painting problem that really engaged me. I tried to paint the sky seen between two buildings so that the whole of my painting would be nothing but an empty blue space. I wanted the painting to be filled with a pale empty sky. I thought it would be very easy to do, but found it nearly impossible. The painting was a failure and I had to put it off for a long time.
In a way, my concerns now are not much different in that I want the maximum sense of color, light, and space with the most simple and direct means. I think the Japanese painter Ike No Taiga (1723–1776) was right: the most difficult thing to achieve in painting is creating a space where absolutely nothing has been painted.
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Next week, the Guardian reports, a 230-foot stretch of solar bike path is set to officially open in the suburbs of Amsterdam. Instead of asphalt, the path surface is a layer of tempered glass protecting crystalline silicon solar cells. The glass has a skid-resistant coating and has been tested to withstand falling steel balls. Approximately 2,000 cyclists are expected to use the path daily.
The solar panels are hooked up to the electric grid. The makers of the solar technology hope it can generate enough daily electricity each day to power two or three households. Future hopes include making enough electricity for traffic signals and street lights.
The path will cost $3.75 million and also melts snow and cuts greenhouse gases by 75-percent.
The Dutch are Europe's number one cycling nation. A massive rise in pedestrian deaths sparked a protest movement against cars, led by a man who had lost his own child.
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confluence-el is an Emacs extension that allows you to interact with Atlassian's Confluence wiki. It supports various methods for both navigating/viewing the wiki content and editing wiki pages and associated content.
Release Notes: This release includes various minor bugfixes and enhancements.
appengine-rest-server is a drop-in server for Google App Engine applications that exposes your data model via a REST API with no extra work.
Release Notes: This release includes fixes for a variety of minor issues.
Moneychanger is a GUI built on top of Open Transactions, a financial crypto library. Moneychanger can be used to create pseudonyms, issue currencies, open accounts, withdraw and deposit cash (untraceable digital cash), write and deposit cheques, trade on markets, and much, much more.
Release Notes: Many bugs have been fixed; it seems to run pretty smoothly now. It adds copy/paste to all modals showing financial instruments. Tokens are now properly exported. A button has been added for verifying the last signed receipt against the intermediary files for any given account.
CorneliOS is an easy-to-use and cross-browser "Web Desktop Environment", "Web Operating System", or "Web Office" that comes with a set of cool applications. It includes a Content Management System (CMS) so that you can easily set up and manage your own website as well as a Database Management System that allows you to rapidly build any kind of database application.
Release Notes: This release offers a wiki SQL app now supporting the new timestamp format, blog and forum SQL apps that now also work on pages using modes, a clock now featuring a switch to disable automatic launching, a parser converting external image links with sizes to inline images, additional CIOS community layer text element translations, a CIOS community microblog supporting images within message text, various CIOS Edu Lib enhancements, bugfixes and translations, and a CIOS::IO version now supporting a faster (quick)list command.
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the latest USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added from recipes or food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
Release Notes: This release adds "Weight Log Regression" to the GUI, a feature that applies linear regression to a weight log and enables one to know quickly if a nutrition strategy is increasing lean mass and decreasing fat mass.
dos2unix includes utilities to convert text files with DOS or Mac line endings to Unix line endings and vice versa. It is an update of Benjamin Lin's implementations.
Release Notes: The handling of symbolic links has been improved. Options to skip, replace, or follow symbolic links. Error handling has been improved. Improvements for Cygwin.
PoDoFo is a C++ library to work with the PDF file format. It also includes also a few tools. It includes classes to parse a PDF file, modify its contents in memory, write the changes back to disk, and create new PDF files. The PoDoFo tools are simple tools built around the PoDoFo library. These tools are primarily examples of how to use the PoDoFo library in your own projects, although they offer useful features for working with PDF files.
Release Notes: This is a bugfix release. It mainly contains fixes for parsing PDF files and optimizations in the library.
AjaXplorer is an easy-to-install file explorer for remotely managing files on a Web server. Its rich GUI makes it accessible to any end-user. Its main features are common file actions (uploading, downloading, moving, renaming, etc.), online file editing, image preview, a bookmarks system, and more. It requires PHP to run and FTP access only for installation.
Release Notes: AjaXplorer now comes with a built-in WebDAV server for accessing the repositories' content using this popular protocol.
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Release Notes: This release contains new features, especially user preferences, the ability to export a relation schema to multiple formats, an ENUM/SET editor, a simplified interface for exporting and importing, AJAXification of some parts, charts, and a visual query builder.
Z1 CertServer (formerly Z1 Backbone Of Trust CertServer) is a server-based software solution for the storage and administration of X.509 certificates and OpenPGP keys. It targets customers who use a public key infrastructure (based on X.509 or OpenPGP) and who want to take advantage of the central access to certificates. It also automatically validates certificates by querying certificate revocation lists (CRLs) from the issuing trust centers, or by using OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol). Java and C/C++ SDKs are provided. It is available as pre-installed hardware or a virtual appliance, with evaluation packages for Debian and Solaris.
Release Notes: This major release contains several updates and fixes. It introduces the new feature "z1-ldapinterface", which provides an LDAP interface to Z1 Backbone CertServer. The interface works as a separate process and provides a fully featured LDAP service, which delegates all requests for X.509 certificates and OpenPGP keys to the CertServer. The Certificate Search page has been improved. Now the filter is split into a simple and an advanced filter.
milter manager is a flexible and low administrative cost anti-spam system that can be used with MTAs that support milters like Sendmail and Postfix. It provides an effective solution by combining a range of existing milters.
Release Notes: Improved robustness and SMTP AUTH support in the bundled benchmark tool. Exceptions caused in callback are handled, and SMTP AUTH related command line options are added to milter-performance-check.
JGame is a 2D game engine that makes multi-platform development easier. It runs on the Java JRE 1.3+ platform with optional OpenGL (JOGL) enhancements, the J2ME (MIDP2.0/CLDC1.1) mobile platform, and the Android (2.1+) platform. JGame features sprites with automatic animation and collision detection, a tile-based background with easy sprite-tile interaction facilities, automatic scaling, sound, game state, persistent storage, and game options. The engine provides an enhanced graphics API with a fallback to simpler and more efficient graphics on J2ME and plain JRE. A patched version of the JBox2D physics engine that runs on all platforms is included.
Release Notes: Support for the Android platform was added, including new methods isAndroid and methods for reading the accelerometer. Ogrotron and Caverns of Fire were improved and redesigned for Android. A retrigger bug in disable/enableAudio was fixed. A new method invokeUrl was added. Centering and scaling for the JRE and JOGL platforms were improved. The load progress bar was lowered to be more splash screen friendly. Other minor changes were made.
With LinkChecker, you can check HTML documents and Web sites for broken links. It features recursion, robots.txt exclusion protocol support, HTTP proxy support, i18n support, multithreading, regular expression filtering rules for links, and user/password checking for authorized pages. Output can be colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, or a sitemap graph in DOT, GML, or XML format. Supported link types are HTTP/1.1 and 1.0, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet, and local files.
Release Notes: Mac OS X users now have a binary installer package in DMG format. The Windows installer now includes all needed C++ runtime files directly instead of executing a separate installation.
CCFE is a simple tool to quickly supply an interactive screen-oriented interface to command line scripts and commands. It prompts users for the information needed to run the commands, and can be programmed with your preferred shell to provide predefined selections and run-time defaults. It also provides a menu system to hierarchically organize them and a viewer to browse the standard output and standard error of invoked scripts or commands.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug in the Output Browser screen: lines exactly as long as the screen width were followed by an empty line. Improved configuration files parsing for better diagnostics (when debugging is enabled). This release adds an "end_marker" configuration parameter in the browser_global{} section. Some changes were made to the ccfe.conf(5) manual page.
openpom is a Web interface based on NDO for Nagios or Icinga. It allows you to view almost everything about Nagios or Icinga in a single page: alert, ack, downtime, comment. You can also interact with Nagios or Icinga through ack, downtime, comment, disable, and reset buttons. You can filter on hosts and services states (such as critical, warning, unknown, ok, or outage). The status popin allows you to display graphs, either the ones from Nagios (trends.cgi) or custom ones based on RRD (such as pnp4nagios).
Release Notes: Lots of bugs were fixed and a new style was added.
PHP Mini SQL Admin is a light, standalone script for accessing MySQL databases. It is intended for Web developers and requires knowledge of SQL commands.
Release Notes: Cross-site scripting (XSS) issues were eliminated. An issue with default charset was fixed. Single table export was fixed. A bom-mark was added to CSV export. Caching of database list was added.
The Drizzle project is building a database optimized for Cloud and Net applications. It is being designed for massive concurrency on modern multi-CPU/core architectures. The code is originally derived from MySQL.
Release Notes: Various bugs were fixed. Fixes were made to xtrabackup, to replication, and to logging stats. Various code refactoring was done. Innodb patches from Percona were applied.
BitNami WordPress Stack is an easy-to-install distribution of the WordPress blogging software. It includes pre-configured, ready-to-run versions of Apache, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin (optional), so users can get a WordPress installation up and running in minutes after answering a few questions. Linux, Windows, Solaris, and Mac OS X are supported.
Release Notes: Wordpress was updated to 3.1.1. phpMyAdmin was updated to 3.3.10. PHP was updated to 5.2.17. phpMyAdmin was updated to 22.214.171.124. AWS SDK was updated to 1.2.6. MySQL was updated to 5.1.56. libmcrypt 1.2.8 is included. A cacert issue for curl was fixed.
The xterm program is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102/VT220 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. If the underlying operating system supports terminal resizing capabilities (for example, the SIGWINCH signal in systems derived from 4.3bsd), xterm will use the facilities to notify programs running in the window whenever it is resized.
Release Notes: Configurability was improved for UTF-8 and bold fonts, adding new menu entries for selecting UTF-8 versus ISO-8859-1 fonts, and for optionally suppressing the use of bold fonts. Several bugfixes and portability improvements were made.
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or USB boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for many filesystem types (Reiserfs, Btrfs, Ext2/3/4, HFS+, ISO-9660, Squashfs, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS2, CIFS, MS DOS, NTFS, and VFAT) and contains several utilities for system recovery. It also has IDE/SCSI/SATA, RAID, LVM2, and Ethernet/Wireless network support.
Release Notes: The kernel and software were updated.
OXID eShop is an eCommerce system backed by a flexible range of support and licensing options, Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, and additional Enterprise features.
Release Notes: This is the final release of version 4.5.0. It provides a completely revamped store front design. It also introduces a theme engine to make it even easier for you to adapt the default design to the shop owner's business case, to make future updates easier, and to develop your own templates from scratch.
Spacewalk is a Linux and Solaris systems management solution. It allows you to inventory your systems (hardware and software information), install and update software on your systems, collect and distribute your custom software packages into manageable groups, provision (Kickstart) your systems, manage and deploy configuration files to your systems, monitor your systems, provision virtual guests, and start/stop/configure virtual guests.
Release Notes: Client packages were added for Debian and OpenSUSE. Support was added for IDN (except for the RHN Tools part). Issues in the PostgreSQL backend were fixed. System history reports were added in spacewalk-reports. Spacewalk-repo-sync now automatically creates errata from updateinfo.
TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF supports all ISO page formats and custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure, UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages, HTML, barcodes, TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, and CID-0 fonts, images, graphic functions, clipping, bookmarks, JavaScript, forms, page compression, digital signatures, and encryption.
Release Notes: This version includes minor improvements.
TCExam is Web-based assessment software for generating and managing online tests and exams. It simplifies the exam cycle, including generation, execution, evaluation, presentation, and archiving.
Release Notes: This version includes the new TCPDF library and updated Arabic language.
FastFlow is a pattern-based programming framework targeting streaming applications. It implements pipeline, farm, divide and conquer, and their composition, as well as generic streaming networks. It is specifically designed to support the development and the seamless porting of existing applications on multi-core, GPGPUs, and clusters of them. The layered template-based C++ design ensures flexibility and extendibility. Its lock-free/fence-free run-time support minimizes cache invalidation traffic and enforces the development of high-performance (high-throughput, low-latency) scalable applications. It has been proven comparable or faster than TBB, OpenMP, and Cilk on several micro-benchmarcks and real-world applications, especially when dealing with fine-grained parallelism and high-throughput applications.
Release Notes: This version has been tested on Linux, Mac OS (32- and 64-bit, 10.3 or later), and Windows XP and 7 (32- and 64-bit). Michael and Scott's queue was reworked and tested. It now requires only CAS (instead of DoubleWord-CAS) and it works on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Some performance problems on Windows platforms were fixed. A Quicksort example implementation was added, which uses MPMC queue (both in the blocking version and the non-blocking version).
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We are an elite network of Information Technology professionals, educators and students dedicated to continuing education, professional growth, leadership and the exploration of issues that face the IT industry. Members in the RTP Chapter work in Life Science, Consulting, Education, Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Service and Software industries.
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Senators have approved legislation that would void a 10-point-6 percent pay cut for doctors treating Medicare patients. Senator Ted Kennedy, who has been recovering from a brain tumor, made a surprising return to Capitol Hill and cast a crucial "aye" vote.
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In addition to voting on FISA, there was another dramatic outcome in the Senate this afternoon. Republicans defied their leaders and President Bush to pass a bill that will reverse a 10 percent pay cut to doctors in the Medicare program. The scene in the Senate was all the more dramatic, thanks to a surprise appearance from Senator Ted Kennedy. He's been home in Massachusetts to be treated for a brain tumor.
And NPR's Julie Rovner is here to explain exactly what happened today. Hello, Julie.
JULIE ROVNER: Hello, Michele.
NORRIS: Let's start with the Medicare bill. It's becoming something of a political football.
ROVNER: Yes, and with all kinds of trick plays and gadget devices. The bill really has had bipartisan support for the part of it that would cancel the pay cut for doctors. Everybody agrees that that should happen, that they shouldn't take this 10 percent cut. What they've disagreed on is how to pay for it. In the bill, there would be reductions in some of the payments to private plans that serve Medicare. Republicans have been mostly dead set against that - at least President Bush and the Republicans in the Senate.
In the House, this bill passed overwhelmingly by a six-to-one margin. In the Senate, just before the July 4th break, it didn't get 60 votes that it needs to go ahead, it fell one vote short. That was a really big surprise.
NORRIS: And so, when Congress went home for the July 4th recess, the cut took effect.
ROVNER: Yes. Well, not exactly. The administration said, we're going to maybe sit on these bills for a while. We're not going to process any of the bills from the doctors. Until Congress comes back, maybe they'll be able to work this out in hopes that it won't really happen. But in the meantime, the American Medical Association, which represents the doctors, started running all kinds of ads in the districts of these senators who voted no.
NORRIS: So Congress is now back in recess, takes this up, and there's been these defections.
ROVNER: Yes, and I think that was not really what we expected to happen. The Democrats came back and thought Republicans were going to still vote no, so they brought back Senator Kennedy to be their 60th vote. Remember, they were only one vote short last time.
NORRIS: That's right. So how did they do this? What happened?
ROVNER: Well, Senator Kennedy came, he voted yes. They thought they had 60 votes. And then at the very end, all these Republicans changed their votes. And lo and behold, they got 69 votes, more than enough to override the threatened veto. And this is pretty much now - it seems to be a done deal because now, there's an override majority in the House and then override majority in the Senate.
NORRIS: Just quickly, how did Senator Kennedy looked today?
ROVNER: He looked pretty good. Actually, I was really surprised. I only saw him on TV but walking under his own power got a huge ovation from everyone on both sides as he came in.
NORRIS: Thank you, Julie.
ROVNER: You're welcome.
NORRIS: That's NPR's Julie Rovner talking about the Senate vote this afternoon on Medicare.
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Eric Freedman has been named Knight Chair and director of the John S. and James L. Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, which is housed in the College of Communication Arts & Sciences' School of Journalism at Michigan State University.
Freedman joined the School of Journalism faculty full-time in 1996 after almost 20 years as a newspaper reporter in New York and Michigan. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for coverage of a corruption scandal in the Michigan legislature.
He now serves as the director of Capital News Service, the School of Journalism's public affairs reporting internship program, which is one of the leading legislative and state government news sources for media outlets throughout Michigan.
A former MSU associate dean of International Studies & Programs, he has led MSU's study abroad program on Australia media, environment and culture and a freshman seminar abroad on media and environment in Scotland. As a Fulbright Scholar, he developed and taught the first university-level course on environmental and science journalism in Uzbekistan.
"Eric Freedman is a highly distinguished journalist and scholar with a deep and long-standing commitment to environmental journalism and educating the next generation of environmental reporters," noted Pamela Whitten, Dean of the College of Communication Arts & Sciences. "I am delighted that he has been appointed as the new Knight Chair and director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.
"His expertise and leadership, combined with the outstanding team of scholars already on board at the Knight Center, will ensure that MSU's School of Journalism continues to be at the forefront of this increasingly important and challenging field."
Freedman earned a bachelor's degree in government from Cornell, a law degree from New York University and a master's in resource development from MSU. His master's project examined public lands litigation alliances between Native American and public interest groups.
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He acknowledges that "while not all journalists and journalism students need or want to be environmental journalists, all of them should be prepared to understand, analyze and explain the issues to a wide range of audiences in a fair, balanced, accurate and ethical way - regardless of medium."
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For weeks it was officially announced and not actually go on sale until next April. Nevertheless, Samsung seems determined to follow the Galaxy S5 making headlines by continuous drip of details about their services. So before the rumors about the future Galaxy S5 Zoom 20 megapixel remove him prominence, time to take out the camera of this smartphone has arrived.
Faithful to the tradition of the sector , yes , even the new 16 megapixel camera is one of the star features of the Galaxy S5 is not easy to give the technical details of this new photographic module.
What sensor used? And the goal? How does this system approach that promises to be the fastest seen so far in a mobile work? And the ability to refocus after the shot ? Nothing better than trying to answer some of these questions while we wait to get their hands on the new Galaxy and try it on the ground.
A larger CMOS
" A larger sensor. " That was the only clue that gave Samsung S5(samsung galaxy note skins) during the presentation of a few weeks ago at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As a really vague as it does not seem enough , after asking responsible for signing we have discovered that the phone uses a CMOS 1/ 2, 6 inch.
Size , indeed greater than the Galaxy S4 and that of most mobile - 5S iPhone uses one 1/3 of an inch , for example , but smaller than the Sony Xperia Z2 and most compact ( 1 / 2.33 inch) and of course the Nokia Lumia 1020.
Why a bigger sensor? Very simple: to increase the resolution to 16 megapixels without affecting the size of each of the cells, which seem to continue to maintain its size of 1.12 microns.
There is also no changes - as confirmed in us - optics, featuring a 31 mm equivalent coverage and F2.2 brightness . Data , coupled with the absence of image stabilization, place the S5 one step behind other handsets in this section.
An object that also seems to be giving occasional headache for Samsung . And according to the latest rumors , the change in the structure of the optical and the addition of a fifth element is complicating production. Something that could directly impact the timing of the arrival terminal to some markets.
Technology ? Isocell ? it seems
But beyond size , the most interesting of the new sensor is its Isocell technology announced by Samsung in late 2013 and whose first commercial application will materialize in the S5 . At least that is what is assumed , because the truth is that , even though we fetched, there is no official track that confirms that the smatphone use this type of sensor instead of CMOS backlit used so far .
Neither the official presentation and nothing was said in that video demonstration of the recently published Isocell technology is specifically indicated for use in the S5 (in fact , the silhouette that appears different from the mobile ) . Nor in the press release of the semiconductor division of Samsung Galaxy notes this as the model to brand captor said .
Isocell The key technology is the separation of the photodiodes to prevent light leakage and improve color reproduction and dynamic range
In any case, the figures seen and dates coincide , we are optimistic and demos by valid theory that the Galaxy S5 uses a CMOS technology with Isocell . Something that certainly would be good news in view of the promises of Samsung regarding this system.
The key is in the sealed cell of each of the photodiodes of the sensor to prevent leakage between them. Something that, at least on paper, direct impact on color reproduction and improved dynamic range. In other words : the classic and annoying effect of burned areas in the image would be one of the potential improvements of this system.
Hybrid approach
Although these details were not mentioned during the presentation of S5 in Barcelona- not is curious that if the camera is so important, the premiere of a new technology like this, Samsung is obviated itself emphasized the focusing system S5.
And it is the first mobile hybrid approach, a technology seen so far in some compact cameras in many of the mirrorless interchangeable lens . The idea is to mix two systems approach : the contrast used in compact and phase difference , traditionally reserved for SLR.
Thus, the S5 includes in its image sensor some cells dedicated to this system approach phase difference , combined with the contrast promises reaction times of 0.3 seconds would have little to envy to the most advanced cameras .
At Mobile World Congress had the opportunity to try for a few minutes the S5 , and the truth is that we approach behavior was excellent , even under very poor light. We'll wait to shoot with it more calmly , but first impressions are good.
There was also time to check that offers manual controls - "shoot like a pro ," promises nevertheless this Page Samsung UK - , which we assume will be reserved for said S5 Zoom. What we offer is a HDR mode that allows improved screen - preview during capture both photos and video - effects exploiting the raw processing power .
The S5 is the first smartphone(iphone 5c cases) that uses a hybrid approach , inherited from the latest models of interchangeable lens cameras
Another development that reaches the S5 is the function that allows refocus after shooting. Something that threatens to be the new fad of this generation of phones: the Nokia Lumia 1020 already provides (actually all Lumia with Windows Phone 8 ) , and the new HTC One that will be released in a few days seems willing to convert this tool on one of the stars of its dual camera .
In this case the operation is similar to that seen in the mode Refocus Nokia : from a burst allows the user to vary the focus from the front to the rear area of the image. Does it work ? Yes, but from what little I 've been able to test it lacks some agility and flexibility - we could only take the focus from foreground to background , not - for intermediate points it becomes more useful and not a curiosity.
Photographic Evolution
Many people have criticized the new features of the Galaxy S5 warm , calling it more like an updated S4 than a revolutionary terminal. A classic that is repeated every time he touches renewal at the top of the window.
Applied this idea to the section of the image, the truth is that the S5 comes with much of the homework done . Increase resolution but also the size of the sensor to keep quality on the road suggests that it has been understood , at last the message that more megapixels is not always better .
And the latest news on the approach , 4K video - another benefit largely ignored in official discourse , by the way - and the overall performance of the camera interesting craved . Especially if the advent of technology Isocell confirms and promises are fulfilled.
However, the S5 seems to have left in the background something as important as the optics. These 31 mm focal remain at the gates to be a interesting angle and a mobile is what we want -the opening of f2.2 is improved and no optical stabilizer is not good news.
In any case, if that matters are the results and not the theory , in a few weeks we can be sure.
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Minnesota (Socialist Aryan Republic of Norwegian Lutherans) is the United States' 32nd state, and filled with evil Norwegians and overweight blonde women. All outsiders who enter this land forgotten by God who happen to have dark hair or swarthy characteristics are constantly watched with fierce disapproval. Known for venerating political failures like Walter Mondale and naming buildings at universities after them. Part of the American Mordor known as the Upper Midwest. It has voted for the godless sodomite Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1972, when it voted for beacon of truthiness, Richard M. Nixon. Its one redeemable quality was Senator Norm Coleman (R-America), who is DEFINITELY not gay. I mean, he's never had sex with another man. Okay, maybe once or twice. Alright fine, he can't keep his fucking hands outside of gay sex, are you happy now? Even though Norm won in a landslide in 2008, the commie liberal media in Minnesota somehow managed to rig the election. Minnesota also has the largest Lutheran population furthering Stephen Colberts hatred for land of 10,000 lakes. Too many damn lakes.
Basically, the whole bottom half the state is farmland, and the top half is a combination of lakes, forests, hills, and mosquitoes that could eat your cat. Minnesota shares a border with Canada, and therefore provides access for communist, French, and bear infiltration into the United-States. The city of Fargo lies in the northern part of the state, and in the middle of the state is the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, which is like the 13th or so biggest in the country, and easily the most full of gays other than San Francisco. Literally. The Metro Area sprawls for fifty or so miles in every direction, one of the best examples in the country of urban sprawl, and how to keep the demand for gas high.
Minnesota has voted for a Godless Democrat for president every four years since 1976, even voting for Mondale for some reason in 1984 instead of St. Reagan (When America lost its mind in '84, Minnesota was the only blue state). But, the state is relatively moderate because the outstate yokels cancel out the people in the metro area. So there is currently a Republican Governor, Tim Pawlenty. And he abides by the essential principle that it's a great idea to not raise taxes no matter what, even when neglected bridges are collapsing into the Mississippi.
Apparently the only reason they voted for Libertarian candidate Jesse "The Body" Ventura is because they confused him with fellow "heel" wrestler Hossein Khosrow "The Iron Sheik" Ali Vaziri. Even with that confusion it was kind of like one of those situations where everyone votes for him just to be funny, expecting everyone else to vote for an actual candidate, and then he gets elected.
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Mall of AmericaEdit
The Mall of America, the largest indoor retail center in the country, lies in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington. It is an abomination to God, primariliy due to the fact that it is a breeding ground for San Fernando Valley Girls & Canadian girls who perform bubblegum pop oldies there that hadn't charted since the 80's. It is rumored that occasionally when outstaters come to visit the mall, their heads explode out of shock at the sheer size and scope of the thing. Concrete proof hasn't been offered to backup these rumors, but there is a red residue along the ceiling in the main entrance to the mall.
The mall's recent expansion also includes the Water Park of America, which is supposedly the world's biggest indoor water park. It really doesn't look that big. But whatever. It is said that the architects had planned to make a much larger version of the current mall, but when they got to a certain point, God thought better of it and struck the workers with a curse, making them speak different dialects of Spanish than what they had spoken before, some Argentine, some Colombian and some the lispy Spain-Spanish.
After September 11th, when George W. Bush asked Americans to make the ultimate sacrifice and go shopping, the Mall of America was considered as a temporary capitol building. It is rumored that Bush considering using The Peanut Butter Experience as the temporary Oval Office until he was reminded that Jimmy Carter would be rich from all the publicity. To this day, Jimmy Carter remains on welfare.
Lake CalhounEdit
Named for a Southern, pro-slavery, Civil War-era US Senator, Lake Calhoun is the recreational heart of urban, liberal Minneapolis. Typically on weekends, its running trails are crowded with Godless sodomites who insist on being referred to as human beings, while degrading the moral atmosphere of the lake. Luckily, the area isn't big on history, and doesn't see the massive irony in this.
Mayo ClinicEdit
Another thing that Minnesota is known for is the Mayo Clinic. Once upon a time, somebody spilled a bunch of Mayonaise on the floor and another person slipped on it and broke their leg. That is how the Mayo Clinic started. They do cancer research.
Minnesota is the self-proclaimed "state of hockey," and is played by 91.5% of those who live in the state. The state's professional team, the Minnesota Wild, dresses in green and red uniforms at home, making their players look like ice-skating Christmas trees. This is symbolic of the culture war in Minnesota between Democrats and Republicans.
Ice FishingEdit
Ice fishing is a year round activity enjoyed by men and women of all ages. Occasionally amid the heavily liquored parties thrown in ice houses across the state someone manages to catch a fish, but they usually escape from the hands of the drunken bums :) and fall back through the icehole.
Famous MinnesotansEdit
- Edwin Somdahl, State Cow Tipping Champion 1982-1990
Infamous MinnesotansEdit
Minnesotan CitiesEdit
A Typical Day in MinnesotaEdit
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7:00am - Leave the house. After listening to Sven Sundgaard's weather report, you realize you won't EVER listen to that pretty boy again. He says it is going to be 60 and sunny when, in fact, it is 30 and snowing. Not so much a problem because of all of the layers of clothing you are currently wearing.
7:01 - Take off large, down-filled parka and throw it in the back of your Ford Ranger (extended cab of course).
8:45am - Arrive late to work after sitting in traffic for 105 minutes while people on the ramp in front of you attempt to merge onto the freeway, but are thwarted by the Hummer H2 with the "Ducks Unlimited" sticker and conservation license plate that is being a little too "Minnesota Nice".
9:00am - Settle in for your day working for one of Minnesota Fortune 500 corporations (3M, General Mills, Target, etc.). note: you are still wearing your rubber boots because you forgot your wingtips again. Man, you look ridiculous, but no worries the other States will catch up with Minnesotan fashion one day.
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1:00pm - Back to work you lazy liberal.
3:30pm - Man the lines along any of the state borders making sure no one escapes to the better state of Wisconsin.
6:30pm - Arrive home where your wife has prepared you and your five children an entire pig.
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