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The New Homeless
By Mary Strong Jackson
I first met Martha a few months ago, when she sought help from The Life Link Santa Fe Clubhouse and Wellness Center, where I work. Together, we drafted an article for the Santa Fe Reporter [cover story, Jan. 25: "Homeless in Santa Fe"] describing Martha's challenges in overcoming homelessness. Before we finished, Martha had found a temporary place to live at a sustainability complex outside Santa Fe, where she could work a few hours each week in exchange for reduced rent. There was no flush toilet and limited use of water and electricity.
"It's sort of commune-like," Martha told us after she moved in. "My brother told me not to drink any of that funny Kool-Aid if they start passing it out." She had a roof over her head, and the area was beautiful, but living 30 minutes from Santa Fe made coming to town for support, job searching and socializing another catch-22 in the struggle to become and stay healthy.
Before submitting our first article, Martha and I talked about putting her life down in words.
"I don't think I'm ready to write about what's happening to me as I'm living it," she told me. "I'm sorry. I'm afraid everything I write will come out whiny or angry. Maybe that's OK, but I need some time and distance before I do it. And my stupid computer battery only lasts about 15 minutes, and I can't stay plugged in where I live because of limited electricity use."
The end of March came quickly, though, and Martha had to move again. Early one morning, she came into the clubhouse—which is not a clinical facility, but rather a resource where members can take yoga classes, learn coping skills to ease anxiety and depression, work toward their General Educational Development certification and receive help finding, applying for and maintaining employment—looking completely exhausted. She had found a new place that was closer to town, but she still didn't have a flush toilet.
Some days, when the fear starts to crawl up Martha's spine again and the what if's begin to fill her gut, she'll say, "It's going to be all right, isn't it? It is, isn't it? Just tell me it is, OK?"
I say, "It is going to be OK." But we've both lived long enough to know that OK doesn't mean easy, and OK today may not be relative to what it used to be. OK means you have people who will not give up on you.
Janet, another clubhouse member who is homeless for the first time in her life, is struggling to find even that kind of OK.
A few months ago, Janet turned down an opening in a reduced-rent housing complex for homeless people because she believed that she would have a job and be on her feet. She was wrong, and she regrets her decision. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of Feb. 2012, the average duration of unemployment in the US is 40 weeks—40 weeks to become more and more discouraged, which makes a perky, can-do attitude harder to fake at job interviews. (Fortunately, seven of our 40 members who are actively searching for jobs found them in just one or two months.) Janet sits for hours each day, using one of our computers to search for work and fill out applications. She has spent months going to interviews and creating different résumés for different jobs.
It's easy to characterize homeless people as those who made egregious errors such as neglecting to save their money or becoming addicted to drugs. But Janet used her savings to move to Santa Fe with the promise of a job—only to find, when she arrived, that someone else had taken the position.
"I didn't move three blocks away from home; I moved 2,000 miles," Janet says. "I have no family that can help. My mother died before I moved. My children are struggling with their own bills. I don't want them to know what's happened to me. Why should I worry them?"
Janet is of the age when the old cliché about feeling comfortable in one's own skin should be true. She is mature enough to appreciate the experiences that life has provided and young enough to look forward to spending her retirement perfecting that truffle recipe or taking a pottery class. Instead, she stays at the clubhouse, fine-tuning her résumé and continuing her frantic job search.
One day, when Martha and I return from volunteering at the animal shelter, Janet is still at the clubhouse. She has a doctor's appointment at Healthcare for the Homeless, and she's late. I promise to drive her, but we are both relatively new to Santa Fe and head in the wrong direction. When we finally arrive, Janet searches through the large trash bag that holds her life, then thanks me for the ride.
"What will you do after your appointment?" I ask.
"They told me that someone would give me a ride back."
"Back to where?" I know this will be Janet's first night in the Santa Fe Resource and Opportunity Center (also known as Pete's Pets), but it's 3 pm, and the doors don't open until 6 pm.
"To the shelter," she says. "It's good to get there early and wait outside for the doors to open so I know that I'll have a place."
I wave goodbye and turn on my car heater. It blasts warm air that I can count on to arrive, as expected, when I'm cold. It's freezing outside, and Janet is so thin and scared. My eyes tear up on the drive back to the clubhouse.
The next day, Janet is there. The warm Ugg boots she scored from a donation clothing room bring a smile to her face. This time, her feet will be warm while she waits outside for the shelter doors to open. Knowing that she can survive at the shelter helps ease her worry a bit. She shows off her new boots and shares thoughts on Edgar Allan Poe and memories of taking her little daughter with her on yoga retreats years ago.
Janet's luck continued beyond scoring Ugg boots. After reading the first articles Martha and I wrote, a generous couple contacted me and offered an extra bedroom in their house. The couple had reliable references and, after meeting with Janet and friends, they welcomed her into their home, where she has been living since early February.
I came to Santa Fe last May, believing that I would find employment. I did. Today, I realize how easily it might have been otherwise. Today, I know Martha. I know 10 other women my age—some a little older, some younger—all searching for work. They're bright, attractive women whose lives took turns here or there.
Maybe they took the road less traveled and now find themselves without a home or job. Some of their lives began or continued on a road no one should have to travel.
My own questions continue. Was it Martha and Janet's poor choices that made them homeless? Who doesn't make bad choices, whether it's choosing the brownie for breakfast instead of the banana or picking the life partner who lasts much less than a lifetime? Are they in some way more flawed than I am because I have a job and a place to live? Hardly. In Martha's case, is it being gay? Coming of age with feelings not OK to voice at the time she was a teen—a phenomenon that endures today, depending on where one lives or what type of support network one has? Did this limit Martha's choice of good partners and increase her rage at the world? But how is that different from my own idea, as a young woman, of my own limited and visionless future? Do you have regrets, Martha? Do I?
Poor People Have Poor Ways
By Martha
A cop friend of mine back home says, "Poor people have poor ways." I didn't like that saying then; now, I loathe it. By federal standards, I am now poor and homeless. I see firsthand the missteps that poor decisions can bring, and how these missteps can take you down.
That thoughtless, arrogant saying is emblematic of the way a lot of people in America see the homeless. This judgment allows us to look the other way with impunity. When a homeless person crosses our path, we say to ourselves, "They must have done something really stupid to get in that situation. I will never be like that."
I guess the 25 people who froze to death on the streets of Santa Fe in the winter of 2006 had poor ways? Sure they did. Most likely they had given up on waiting for shelter, waiting for answers, waiting to heal from their own anger, emotions and addictions. Or maybe they were just like me: They didn't see the train wreck coming. Sure, they saw the light at the end of the tunnel. They just didn't realize it was a locomotive bearing down on them at top speed.
I should have seen a lot of the red flags in my life. I chose to ignore them. I didn't want to believe what was happening—my business partner and her shift in emotions and behavior, the way she hid the financials and her borrowing schemes. I should have stepped in when the banker gave us an almost $1 million dollar loan. I should have read and reread the fine print. Were these oversights or poor judgments or greed? I should have. I should have. I should have.
In the past year, I have learned how to exist as a homeless, poor person. I have many homeless friends, and I now realize that poor and homeless people are manipulators, drug addicts, alcoholics, mentally ill and rage-filled—just like a lot of people in society. And yet, the homeless people I know are also amiable, funny, smart, fiercely loyal and incredibly determined. They will not give up, even when many of their friends and family have given up on them.
These people see through your crap, and they will not put up with arrogance and belittling. They know when you are being insincere, and they'd rather just walk away. They know that your unhealed heart and your ignorance aren't going to help them any. And most of them are not in a position to help you on your way.
A lot of the homeless people I know are also very prayerful and spiritual—as much as or more than my church friends. But their prayerfulness is also not born out of hopelessness; instead, I view it as a resolve of their situation. Some are amazingly close to the angels.
An example of this is my new homeless friend, Bridget, who was living at the center. She kept her few remaining possessions in a storage unit down the street. She sang for tips on the Plaza. When we met, she just beamed as if sunlight followed her. She's very pretty, with bright blonde hair. She knows how to dress up nicely, even with clothes found in the shelter boxes.
One afternoon, I drove her to the shelter, and she told me she had a message for me. At first I thought, "Oh, greeaat! Here we go…" But it was unlike anything I had ever heard. She said God told her I needed to know a few things in order to stay safe on the streets.
"First," she said, "know that God is always with you. Always. And also know to expect his help."
Then she told me a story about sleeping in her car, in a parking lot, with her husband. They had been living on the street for a couple of months; her husband, a former heroin addict, was in a drug treatment program nearby. One night, a group of young thugs surrounded their car with their trucks. Bridget remembered a story that Billy Graham had preached years before about a family in trouble that had prayed, and God sent down 10-foot-tall angels in armor to protect them. So Bridget prayed, too, and narrowly escaped by red-lining her car's engine and screeching through a hole that was barely two feet wide. When the three vehicles tried to pursue her, they all ran into each other.
"Ask—and I mean fervently ask—for God's help," Bridget said to me that afternoon. "Demand it. You will receive it."
Then she added a word of caution: "Trust no one," she said, "but trust everyone, if you know what I mean."
I knew.
One day, Bridget came to the clubhouse, sick as a dog, wearing every coat she owned. Sweating and shivering, she laid her head on the table and looked up only when she needed to. She had the flu. The center kicks you out at 6 am, and you're on your own until 5 pm that night. That day, I wished I could have been a 10-foot-tall angel and offered her a motel room and a bottle of NyQuil.
I don't know how she is doing now. I don't know where she went. The last time I saw her, she was walking down Cerrillos Road, dressed like a polar bear.
When you are without a home, you get bounced around a lot by the police, by your situation. You go where there is help, where there is food, where you are safest, where you are warm or cool, depending upon the season. Everything is dictated by your needs and your "haves": One day you have a cell phone; the next, you don't. One day you have a car, and the next day it won't start. One day you have a little money, and the next day it's gone. One day you feel OK, and the next you are sick.
Everybody asks me how I ended up in Santa Fe. I tell some that I thought the sign said Santa Claus. Others I ignore because I know they are just prying and don't truly care. But here is part of my story.
I came to Santa Fe late last summer with a friend. We were both out of work, but not yet out of hope. I had lost my business, home and property. She had just graduated with a BFA and had been thrown to the job market. We were relying on each other for emotional and financial support. She was a brilliant and talented photographer; I had planned on promoting her work. What a splendid town to do that in we thought: Santa Fe, the international art city. We were wrong.
We learned right away that, in Santa Fe, every other person is a photographer or an artist. Before long, we couldn't keep our heads off our chests. We had been looking for jobs for months. We both were depressed. Two weeks later, my friend left me in the woods, in a campsite with little food, little money and no cell phone. Things were so bad that she had decided to go home to her ex-husband.
Fortunately, I still had a running car—a lot more than some of my other homeless friends had. I was crying almost nonstop as I went from one social service agency to another, collecting the things they had to offer.
One gave out lunch; another offered free showers on Thursdays. One agency even gave me a strange, hand-drawn map of help centers, much like one you would use during a grade-school treasure hunt. I finally found The Life Link and was placed on a three-week waiting list for intake.
When I arrived for my intake, I signed up for the smorgasbord: therapy, housing assistance, medical assistance. I also applied for food stamps.
But like a lot of the new homeless, I had waited too long to ask for help. My money was all gone, and my luck with it. I had deluded myself into thinking that I was magically going to climb out of the hole I had dug for myself and be right back on my feet. That's what I'd always seen in my favorite films and what I was taught to pray for. Well, I was praying all right—praying for my tears to stop and my pup to stay healthy and my car to keep running. I prayed that I'd remember what color light meant to stop at an intersection—green or red? The fear was making me a basket case. When your safety net disintegrates below you, you flail around, trying to find some kind of foundation. But there isn't one; it no longer exists. That's when I started shaking. At my first Life Link meeting, my head was shaking so badly that I must have looked like I had Parkinson's.
When you are out on the streets for the first time, you start looking at strangers and sort of sizing them up. In your head, you say things like, "Can I talk with that person and ask for help? She looks really nice." But no one even makes eye contact. It hurts. It makes you horribly sad.
You stay sad a lot when you're homeless, and you're terribly aware of how you look. You aren't naïve. Before you were poor, you know that society is distant and cold—but back then, you were immune. You could look the other way.
At Life Link, the intake counselor told me about the clubhouse—a bright, cheery place, with several sitting areas, computers, a fabulous commercial kitchen and some offices. I wasn't sure what I had walked into at first, but Mary was so affable and friendly that it could have been a whorehouse and I would have signed up.
I had lost my voice, physically and emotionally—but at the clubhouse, I started talking again. I was thrilled to converse with the chatty bipolar woman and the slow-talking, gray-bearded man who stared at his hands a little more than normal. I even loved the sunburned young kid who talked in circles for hours about his job at the CIA and his position as a presidentially appointed spermicidal researcher. These people were just like me—broken, lonely and afraid—and somehow, I felt loved by them. At times, it was a little too much like fantasyland, but it was safe and warm; it gave me a chance to answer emails, write a bit and eat a healthy lunch.
This was the environment in which I was able to weigh my biggest issues: What do I do next with my life? How do I start over? Can I find a job? What employer will hire me if I show up crying? Who will hire me if my head shakes all the time? How do I stop thinking about all that I have lost? How do I begin to trust people again?
This issue of homelessness is not political. It is about people, and people are complicated. It is not about the one percent or the 99 percent, or the Republicans or Democrats, or the Tea party or coffee party; it is about you and me and our understanding that homelessness has to do with being human and walking down the wrong path that you were sure was clearly marked until you can't figure out how to make it back home. You look and look for the morsels or stones you just know you left out on the road, but all you find are other people looking for help, and your fellow human beings, the ones with the homes, are no longer talking to you because you look tired, afraid and dirty. Your fear is making them afraid.
Every homeless person you see is a symbol of how complicated life is. If you don't talk to them, how will you find out why they are panhandling? You may discover that they have issues just like your own, or wonderful stories to tell.
Once, I was a reporter in a major metropolitan city, where I covered the issue of homelessness many times. I would post my story and then drive home wondering which steakhouse served the best bloody marys. I didn't think again about the worn-out, ragged old man I had talked with that afternoon. I didn't consider that his story never ended—that he was cold and scared and hungry right then, and most likely would be the next day, too. I didn't think for a minute that he was anything like me.
By maintaining our comfortable lifestyles, we separate ourselves from an extremely difficult and scary idea: that I could be without at some point, that I may be more like this person on the streets than I previously thought.
I now live in a little garage home close to Santa Fe. It doesn't have a bathroom. I still remember the Jacuzzi tub I once lounged in—how could I forget? But I am truly comfortable. I sleep well at night. My pup sleeps well. I am not too cold. I am safe. I eat well. And I am gaining weight again…damnit.
I see houses differently now. Before, they seemed welcoming, beautiful places where I could see myself living or visiting. Now, I see them as fortresses where outsiders are unwelcome.
When you don't have a home, you have little (if any) privacy; everything in your life is played out on center stage, in the libraries or public parks or on the street. The closest you get to privacy may be your few visits to your therapist's office, if you're lucky enough to have one.
The issue of privacy also extends to the paperwork you must fill out—the zero-income reports, the don't-have-a-cent-to-my-name reports, the I-guess-I'll-file-for-general-assistance-since-I-don't-know-what-else-to-do forms. The case workers, social workers and bureaucrats all want to know everything about you except how many times a day you go to the bathroom and, honestly, that's what you want to talk about. How do I find a clean bathroom and a shower? Can I linger on the toilet somewhere and read like I used to without someone pounding on the door, wanting to know what I'm doing? Is there a hot bath waiting for me anywhere on Earth?
Maybe I will start saying rich people have rich ways, but that is not any closer to the truth. We really are all the same. We just don't believe we are. SFR
As SFR reported April 4 [news: "Friends in Deed"], Martha is spearheading an effort to unite needy people with Santa Feans who can help them. To learn more about Santa Fe Need and Deed, visit facebook.com/SantaFeNeedAndDeed or email Martha at email@example.com


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He was born in Scotland on December 1901 in Glasgow Scotland. His parents were John Mackay and Susan Durnion, married Helensburgh September 1900. He attended Saint Mary's School and Saint Mungo's in the east end of Glasgow. He was brought up in South Uist at North Boisdale and was a native speaker. He was a chef by occupation, a pastry chef. He died in 1947 in New York. His family are still living in Scotland and he has nephews and nieces in New York.. I think the occupation is wrong. There was another John MacKay in the census returns with that occupation. His father was the telegraph en gineer for the Post Office Telegraph at Lochboisdale. He set up the wirele.ss station at St Kilda


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ECM Publishers, Inc. President Marge Winkelman has announced the resignation of Jeff Coolman, general manager of ECM-Sun Newspapers, effective April 1, 2013. Coolman had been the lead manager of 34 weekly newspapers in the south and western suburbs of the Twin Cities, and the Stillwater Gazette and Valley Life, for the better part of the last decade.
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Winkelman, who made the announcement in a Wednesday, March 13, afternoon meeting of ECM-Sun Newspaper managers, said ECM Publishers, Inc., the parent company of ECM-Sun, was appreciative of Coolman's leadership during the past 15 months.
ECM Publishers, Inc. acquired Sun Newspapers in January of 2012. Winkelman credited Coolman with playing a key role during the transition period to help successfully blend the two companies, which combined feature 51 community newspapers and circulation exceeding 650,000 throughout Minnesota. "Jeff was key to our company and we truly feel fortunate that he was here during this period to provide such exceptional leadership. We wish he and Debbie (his wife) the very best," said Winkelman.
Coolman came to Sun Newspapers in 2001 as vice president and group publisher. He has been in the media industry for the last 20 years. As group publisher and corporate vice president he led the Minnesota group (one of four divisions of American Community Newspapers) through multiple acquisitions/mergers and in 2004 became one of three minority owners. In 2010 he formed an internal agency called the Twin Cities Newspaper Network (TCNN) with the sole purpose of partnering with other community newspapers in the suburbs to attract more national advertising clients. During his time in Minnesota Coolman has served on numerous MNA committees and has served as a volunteer for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
In addressing managers, Coolman said the timing for his departure just felt right. "It has been an honor to serve as the leader of Sun Newspapers group for the past 12 years. We have seen many transitions over the years and the most recent was the merger with ECM Publishers. The merger has strengthened the Sun Newspaper group, but also further emphasized the importance and need for local community news and advertising. The Minnesota team is one of the best in the business and I wish them and ECM many more successes in the future," Coolman said.
As general manager for ECM-Sun Newspapers he has been responsible for advertising, circulation and the overall operations of 34 weekly newspapers.
Former Gov. Elmer L. Andersen founded ECM Publishers in 1976. Julian Andersen, Elmer's son, is the CEO of the company. ECM Publishers also operates printing presses in Princeton, Minn., where it prints its own products, but also provides commercial printing for a variety of customers, including the New York Times.


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The Morda alphabet was invented by Kenny Austin (email@example.com) in 2001, and was inspired by the work of J.R.R Tolkien. The word Morda means knowledge in Mordish, a language invented by Kenny Austin. The script and language are used in several games made with RPGMaker, but apart from that there is no real use for them yet.
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POSSIBLY there's still something new and meaningful to say about the social impact of explicit music videos, ''sexting'' and internet porn, but this muddled American documentary feels like a symptom of a classic moral panic.
Directed by the team of Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus, Sexy Baby cross-cuts between three subjects in different parts of the US.
Laura Castle in Virginia is a young kindergarten teacher who decides to get a labiaplasty so she can look more like a porn star. Nichole Romagna, in Florida, is an actual former porn star who now teaches pole dancing while yearning to start a family.
Contrasted with these two is Winnifred Bonjean-Alpart, a bright Manhattan tween who appreciates Lady Gaga and Facebook and causes her liberal parents a normal amount of anxiety in the process of growing up.
Though the film contains some genuinely alarming footage - particularly when we meet Castle's sleazy plastic surgeon - little evidence is offered to support the debatable claim that mainstream American culture has grown ''raunchier'' in recent years.
And since Bauer and Gradus never get around to suggesting what non-alienated female sexuality might look like, their feminist critique of porn is hard to distinguish from sheer wowserism.
There's also a certain amount of barely concealed snobbery.
Winnifred, who comes from a wealthy, educated background, is the film's designated innocent, while Castle and Romagna are held up as cautionary examples of what might happen if ''raunch culture'' had its way.


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HPRC Fitness Arena: Physical Fitness
The physical and emotional stress associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can raise your blood pressure and cholesterol and increase body mass index, all of which are risk factors for heart disease. Veterans suffering from PTSD are more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack than those without PTSD. While the exact relationship between PTSD and heart disease is not fully understood, we know that regular exercise can help prevent heart disease and other risk factors, which could be helpful for those with PTSD. Some types of exercise can be effective in reducing psychological symptoms associated with PTSD and also can play a role in reducing unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, being overweight, and physical inactivity—sometimes byproducts of trying to cope. If you think that exercise might help you or a loved one cope with PTSD, speak with your healthcare provider to assess how much and what kind of exercise is best!


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(WBIR-Knoxville, Tenn.) Former University of Tennessee and University of Southern California head football coach Lane Kiffin will now be the Alabama Crimson Tide's Offensive Coordinator.
It was announced Vanderbilt University head football coach James Franklin will take over Penn State's program.
Plus, national sports outlets report former University of Tennessee Quarterback and current Denver Bronco QB Peyton Manning's retirement depends on a post-season neck exam.
All of the football news impacts Vol football in one way or another.
WBIR Live at 5 at 4's Stoney Sharp visited Western Plaza Barber Shop in Knoxville to receive reactions from Vol Nation.


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What do you get when you transport the bold colors, inventive flavors, and exotic spices of the well-loved Cambridge restaurant Oleana into a cozy bakery and cafe? Sofra, the popular spot created by James Beard Award-winner Ana Sortun and 5-time "Best of Boston" pasty chef Maura Kilpatrick.
Like Oleana, Sofra is inspired by the cuisine of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. Their savory offerings will make you weak in the knees (hot pepper labne with mint sizzle, anyone?) but the desserts and pastries are more than just a nice ending to a good meal. A mix of traditional Turkish, Greek, and Lebanese items combine with inspired riffs of Kilpatrick's own invention to make sweets that are one of the reasons you'll see a line of customers wrapping around the counter and out the door.
It can be a bit daunting to narrow down the menu to just an item or two, so we went straight to the source and asked Maura Kilpatrick what she'd recommend. As you'll see in the slideshow, picking only a few favorites is easier said than done, even for the pastry chef.
Sofra Bakery and Cafe1 Belmont Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (map) 617-489-5090; Sofrabakery.com
About the author: Kate Shannon is a cheesemonger by day and line cook by night. Although she calls Boston home, she hasn't lost her love for the fried cheese curds and Chicago-style hotdogs of the Midwest. She believes that leftover Thai takeout makes the best lunches and that strawberry shortcake is meant to be breakfast, not dessert.


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If you want to make files and directories available to other computers on your network, Mepis and Linux can handle a large variety of networking protocols to allow this. Many people accustomed to Windows may be confused by the variety of file sharing protocols and not understand why there are so many when windows simply allows you to "share" files without much rigmarole. Being open, though, Linux allows you to choose the protocol that best suits your needs. There are many ways to approach file sharing, but the the most common for typical home users will be SAMBA although there are choices outlined below.
SAMBA is installed in MEPIS by default and is also the protocol used by Windows machines (although Windows calls it SMB/CIFS). SAMBA is the most complete solution to share files with Windows machines on your network without making changes to the windows machines. SAMBA can also be used by many network media players and Network-attached storage (NAS) devices. SAMBA also offers some other services for interfacing with Windows networks, such as domain authentication, messaging services, and netbios name resolution.
- Looks and acts just like a windows file share to clients.
- Has lots of Windows networking features beyond file sharing (Domain authentication, windows messaging service, netbios names, print sharing, etc.)
- Very flexible and configurable
- Can be confusing to set up on the server side, because some of the terminology is different
- Security can be weird, since Windows clients are not all consistent in how they deal with security
For more technical info: See the SAMBA home page or Samba Wikipedia entry
This is the standard Unix protocol for sharing files. Many feel it is better than Samba for sharing files, and it can be used with Windows (2000 & XP) machines if you install "Services for Unix" or a third-party NFS client on them.
- More mature and stable than Samba for Linux / Unix servers.
- Simpler and less cumbersome than Samba
- Windows clients require extra configuration
- Terminology somewhat different from what Windows users are used to
This is a pretty new protocol that requires some additional installation on Mepis (at least for the client). It is a mountable filesystem protocol implemented using SSH, so it is encrypted and only requires that the server be running SSH.
- Server only needs to be running SSHD -- nothing else to set up.
- All transmissions encrypted for security
- Requires extra setup on the client -- modules need to be compiled, permissions set up, folders mounted, etc.
- Hard to control what user has access to; anything they can access locally is available over the network.
- Cannot setup "anonymous" shares. (?) (At least not without a major security compromise).
- Forget about using this with Windows clients. No, just forget it.
KDE file server
This is a kicker applet (package: kfs) which allows you to very easily share files over HTTP. That is, you can access the files remotely using a web-browser. This is best when you just want to make files available for download to any kind of client OS.
- Extremely easy to set up
- Clients only need a web browser
- Files can only be accessed through a web browser; shares can't be mounted or accessed through a file dialog.
- Each share requires opening another port; may be extra work if you are running a firewall.
- Requires KDE (?) (so, you can't use it on a "headless" server very well).
This is a very old protocol that still enjoys common use and support. It does not have all the features of other protocols and is somewhat insecure, but is a good choice if you are going to share files out to the internet and you have a wide variety of client OS's.
- Mature protocol, widely recognized.
- Most OS's (including Windows) come with ftp clients built in. (On windows, IE is a passable ftp client).
- Can be set up for anonymous sharing or secured sharing
- Not very secure for use on the internet (passwords sent in plain text)
- Not very flexible for sharing out multiple unrelated folders
- Setup can be a bit of a challenge for newbies


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UF's Muschamp hires Leak
Published: Monday, May 13, 2013 at 4:12 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, May 13, 2013 at 4:12 p.m.
Former Florida quarterback Chris Leak has reconnected with the Gators.
Leak, who helped lead UF to the national championship in his senior season in 2006, has joined Will Muschamp's staff as a quality control coach, with the plan to launch a career in coaching.
As a quality control coach, Leak will not be assisting on the practice field. He will have duties in the coaches' office, including breaking down film.
Leak took over as the Gators' starting quarterback during his true freshman season in 2003. In UF's victory over Ohio State in the BCS Championship game his senior season, Leak was named the game's most valuable offensive player.
Leak is not the only new face around the football complex.
Two members of the 2013 recruiting class — offensive tackle Trenton Brown and safety Marcell Harris — are enrolled in classes for the Summer A semester, which began Monday.
Brown, a junior college transfer, and Harris, a top-rated safety prospect, are expected to compete for possible early playing time when camp opens in August.
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Saddle Up at Big Bend Ranch for an Authentic Cattle Drive
PRESIDIO, Texas — Yee-Ha! Would you like to be a cowboy or cowgirl? On Oct. 4-6, Big Bend Ranch State park invites guests to participate in the park's fall cattle drive and roundup.
Weekend wranglers will have a chance to see cattle in the ranch's rugged and remote cattle pastures, learn how the herd is moved with horses and drive the park's historic Texas Longhorn Herd to stock pens at the ranch headquarters. Participants can take part in branding and vaccinating calves, recording lineages and experiencing the traditions of the Spanish, Mexican and Anglo-American cowboy culture.
The longhorn cattle drive program is Big Bend Ranch State Park's most popular event, allowing up to 25 visitors to participate and experience a part of the state's Western heritage. The three-day event allows one to experience life as a cowboy and gain a lifetime of memories. Guests have come from as far away as New York, Australia, Canada and England.
"If you're looking for a genuine taste of the wild, western range life, the Big Bend Ranch cattle drive is about as real as it gets," Colorado travel writer Christine Loomis said of her recent cattle drive experience in the vast and beautiful high country of the Chihuahuan Desert.
Cowhands end their days with a chuck wagon meal served on range, listening to cowboy music and poetry to make the outing an authentic and memorable experience. Participants can choose to sleep on the range or return to the ranch bunkhouse for the night.
The cost of the three-day event is $975, which includes horse and tack, park entry fee, lodging/camping fees, meals and the assistance of park wrangler guides. Big Bend Ranch is located northeast of Presidio off Texas Highway 170.
To find out more or to reserve a spot on the cattle drive, call Big Bend Ranch State Park at (432) 229-3416 or the Sauceda Ranch Headquarters at (432) 358-4444.
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I am student and I am interested to create a website so I want to know that How to create web hosting for thisI am buying a domain but I am not understand that how to create hosting for my domain so please help me. any hosting expert
Well to serve your site to the public you need to host the files on a web host. There are many different hosts and types of hosting.
SitePoint created a Find a Great Host In 5 Steps that will help guide you through finding the right host for your needs.
Its simple to put your web files you need space on the sever check for the company which provides space to upload your site for ex godaddy.com
When you buy a domain, you should also go with hosting from the same place you`re buying the domain from. They will assign the hosting for your domain name.
IMHO this is not always the case. Some registrars are experts at domain registration and DNS services but are not experts at providing a good hosting network or a support team that can handle it.
You need to answer a good many questions to determine if a host is best for you.
Try namecheap and some coupons, you could grab a .com domain for under 10 bucks. And google for some cheap webhosting, there are just too many to choose from.
When choosing a hosting solution it also should include domain name registration.
Please see post #5
So once you buy a domain, you need to buy a hosting plan. Once you buy the hosting plan, get your host's nameservers for the domain and enter them in the domain's control panel. After you do that, you can upload your HTML files onto your hosting plan server and access it via your domain.
You can skip the HTML part and go for the most popular and the easiest platfrom of websites - Wordpress.
Use a hosting company that offers you all the service, including a site builder, like hostgator or hostmonster.comThat way everything is included. Later, you can decide if you need something more advanced.
You have two options, You can either buy hosting that comes with a free domain, OR you can buy both the Domain and Hosting separately... Since you're a beginner i think it would be easier to look for a hosting provider that offers a free domain name that way you won't have to worry about setting up your domain to use the hosting plan you bought..
namecheap is a great start. The customer service is great also.
Hey there are many web hosting provider available ,you just read the reviews about that companies, compare these and choose hosting plan according to your budget. According to me for beginners shared and reseller hosting is best.
If you don't have technical skills to design a website, not to worry just find an online website builder tool to build your website where you can also get the ability to host your website.
I would suggest you to find a reliable web host that offers a website builder tool and contact their customer support to get live your website.


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Talking With the Co-Founder of Garden Litesby Toby Amidor in Grocery Shopping, December 8, 2012
This line of gluten-free frozen dishes, soufflés, and veggie muffins has taken the market by storm. I spoke with Garden Lites' co-founder Jeff Moskowitz to find out the secret of their success.
Q1. How did you come up with the idea of creating Garden Lites foods?
I wanted to make foods that would help people live a healthier lifestyle. There's no healthier food than vegetables, but people seem to look at veggies as something they HAVE to eat versus something they WANT to eat. I wanted to change that perception.
Q2. You have a delicious line of soufflés. Are they meant to be eaten on their own or can they be used in cooking?
Our consumers eat them for breakfast, lunch or a hearty snack as well as cut them up and serve as a side dish. The soufflés also make a wonderful ingredient. We started a partnership with Meatless Monday where we post meatless recipes using our soufflés on our social media and cross promote it on Meatless Monday's Facebook page. That has been very successful. We have a lot of really amazing recipe ideas (like our Veggie Lasagna below), which you can find on our website. We will also be expanding our recipe section on our new website starting in January 2013.
Q3. Soufflés have a bad reputation for being high in calories and fat. What's the secret to making your soufflés healthy and delicious? (I'm a big fan of your butternut squash flavor.)
We make it first and foremost all about the veggies, which are naturally low in calories and fat. We then add egg whites for lean protein and then just add our select spice blends.
Q4. Are all of your products gluten free? Could you tell us why it was important to create gluten-free products?
All our products are and always will be gluten free. The thing is, most prepared gluten-free foods found in your local market are quite high in calories and fat. People who eat gluten-free foods are constantly reaching out to us, thanking us for making gluten-free foods that not only taste good, but are actually really good for them. We feel that we are fulfilling a very important need for that community.
Q5. How can your foods fit into a weight loss plan?
Our foods are really a fantastic way to help with weight loss. They are all low in calories, high in fiber and because of all the egg whites, they are also high in lean protein which means you stay fuller for longer after you eat our foods. Studies have also shown that eating 5-6 smaller meals a day is a much more effective way to lose weight because it staves off hunger and keeps your metabolism revved up. At 7 ounces and 200 calories or less Garden Lites really are the perfect mini meal.
Q6. I tasted your zucchini-chocolate muffins at the Food & Nutrition Conference in Philly this past October—and they were delicious! How do you come up with your flavor combinations for any of your products?
We just keep ourselves open to any possibility. In the testing phase of any new foods, we give ourselves permission to fail. Because of that we'll try things that may seem a bit out there, but in the end, they're quite good.
Q7. What makes your frozen dishes better or different from typical frozen meals?
The problem with a lot of frozen foods is that in order to make them more efficiently and for less money, companies over-process the foods and fill them with a lot of unnecessary ingredients. We simply don't do that. We use premium vegetables and ingredients and make our foods in small batches and slow cook them. I love standing in front of the ovens and just watching all the soufflés slowly rise as they bake. We're really just doing what I would do in my home kitchen, just on a larger scale.
Q8. Do you have plans to expand any of the lines of products? What can folks expect from Garden Lites in the upcoming year?
We're very excited about our new Veggie Muffin line; we'll have 5 flavors; Zucchini Chocolate, Carrot Berry, Veggie Blueberry Oat, Zucchini Banana Chocolate Chip and Golden Corn. They are all 120 calories and 5 grams of fiber for each 2-ounce muffin, filled with veggies and they're also gluten free. Most importantly they taste great! We also have some new soufflés like our Veggie Chilli & Cornbread Melt. It has a corn bread soufflé base topped with veggie chili and a cheddar cheese sauce. It's amazing.
Garden Lites Veggie Lasagna
Serves: 6
1 each Spinach, Butternut, and Cauliflower soufflés, defrosted overnight and cut in half horizontally
1 (24 ounce) jar pasta sauce
1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
1 egg
1 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped fine
8 gluten-free or regular lasagna noodles, cooked according to package directions
1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
½ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
We recommend using a 9 x 5 loaf pan to stack all of the layers.
- Mix together the ricotta, egg, and basil
- Start the layering process by spreading ¼ cup pasta sauce on the bottom of the dish. Top with 2 noodles, the 2 spinach soufflé "discs", 1/3 cup ricotta mix, ¼ cup mozzarella, 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, and 1/3 cup pasta sauce. Continue the layers with the Cauliflower and Butternut soufflé. The last layer will be noodles topped by 1/3 cup pasta sauce, ¼ cup mozzarella and 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese.
- Bake at 350F for 40-45 minutes.
Nutrition Info (per serving)
Calories: 390
Protein: 22 grams
Carbohydrates: 47 grams
Fiber: 5 grams
Fat: 12 grams
Garden Lites is a Classic Cooking, LLC brand based out of Queens, NY that produces delicious vegetable soufflés and dishes. Since 2008, Garden Lites has raised the bar in healthy foods by delivering full flavor without sacrifice. For more information on the brand and products, please visit their website or call (718)439-0200.


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54 — By George L. Petrie —
November 2004
Turkish Thrill
Though not yet a household name, Vicem builds a yacht you won't soon forget.
The first time I saw a Vicem was more than a year ago, but that brief encounter made a lasting impression. I was on a trawler with friends making a leisurely trip along the coast of Rhode Island, heading for the Newport Boat Show, when off to the south we spotted one of the handsomest yachts I'd ever laid eyes upon. Like a distant apparition she appeared, a beautiful dark-blue hull gliding swiftly across the horizon. The four of us sat, mouths agape, guessing what kind of craft she was. Upon our arrival in Newport several hours hence, we were pleasantly surprised to see her again, docked just a few slips away from us. I immediately sauntered over to inquire as to her lineage and learned she was a Vicem 64, built in Turkey; she was even prettier close up. I knew then that I wanted to take one out for a spin.
That opportunity presented itself recently, when I tested the Vicem 54, Hull No. 1 of the Turkish yard's latest offering. She was every bit as impressive as her larger sibling. Better yet, she was mine for the day, and as I was soon to discover, her craftsmen apply similar attention to detail in her construction and outfitting.
The day started early, casting off before dawn so our photographer could capture the Vicem's image just as the sun rose over Huntington Bay, on the north shore of Long Island, New York. As we threaded our way out of the harbor, Michael Landsberg, president of Down East Yachts, filled me in on Vicem Shipyard. One of the premiere custom yacht yards in Turkey, Vicem has been building boats in the 50- to 80-foot range for many years, mainly for European customers. Over the past two to three years, Landsberg worked with the builder to establish a brand identity in the United States. Like all Vicems, the 54 is built using cold-molded mahogany; the hull is built up using four layers of thin mahogany planking laminated in WEST SystemTM epoxy. The exterior is covered with a layer of fiberglass to protect the wood and then finished with Awlgrip. Compared with fiberglass, cold-molded mahogany is stronger, lighter, and more resilient. And for icing on the cake, it also offers superior thermal and acoustic insulating properties.
All that's great, but what's really stunning about the Vicem is the lavish use of mahogany throughout the interior. The joinery and bulkheads are all mahogany; mostly solid stock with curved sections of molding built up from thin strips that are bended and laminated to shape. Only the largest flat panels are mahogany veneer. Even the interior decks are solid mahogany, bordered with an artfully crafted sapele pommelle inlay that lends visual interest. Use of a subdued, satin finish on the joinery and bulkheads keeps the dark mahogany from overwhelming the interior spaces, while a lighter tone on the soles adds an attractive contrast.
What distinguishes the Vicem, however, is not so much the use of mahogany per se as the superlative skill of the artisans who crafted the yacht. Consider, for example, the cabinet doors. There're not just handcrafted in mahogany; each cabinet door is also louvered, assuring good air circulation as well as stunning visual appeal. And in the saloon I found an even more impressive display of craftsmanship: a pair of curved, louvered mahogany doors on a cabinet that also serves to conceal a pop-up 20-inch LCD TV. Other examples abound; a cocktail table in the saloon is adorned with a beautiful compass rose inlay of contrasting hardwoods, and all of the interior doors (mahogany, of course) are shaped with a gentle radius across the top.
Next page > Part 2: With the standard engines our boat saw a top speed of more than 38 mph, while at a comfortable 2000 rpm, our cruise speed was a respectable 32 mph. > Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
This article originally appeared in the October 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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CHICAGO - Two convicted bank robbers used a knotted rope or bed sheets to escape from a federal prison window high above downtown Chicago early Tuesday, a week after one of them made a courtroom vow of retribution.
The escape occurred sometime between 5 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. when the inmates were discovered missing, Chicago Police Sgt. Mark Lazarro said. Hours later, what appeared to be a rope, knotted at six-foot intervals, could be seen dangling into an alley from a window of the Metropolitan Correctional Center approximately 20 stories above the ground.
Jose Banks, 37, and Kenneth Conley, 38, had been wearing prison-issue orange jumpsuits, but now might be wearing white t-shirts, gray sweat pants and white gym shoes, Lazarro said.
The FBI said in a statement that the men were last seen together in the Tinley Park area, about 25 miles southwest of Chicago, and that they should be considered armed and dangerous. Police SWAT teams stormed a Tinley Park home early in the afternoon, but it was not immediately clear what they found.
Banks is described as a black man, 5-feet-8, weighing 160 pounds. Conley is described as white, 6 feet tall, weighing 185 pounds.
The men apparently descended from a thin window on the flat south side of the prison into the alley below. The specially designed cell windows are barely half-a-foot wide.
Crowds of people gathered outside the building where the ropes still blew in the breeze, shaking their heads in disbelief that someone could have escaped from a lockup in the heart of downtown Chicago, just a block or two from key federal court and office buildings.
The owners of several small shops across the street from the wall said they didn't see any police activity until around 8:30 a.m., when a dozen or more police cars and SWAT teams rushed into the area. Some police officers sprinted for a nearby subway entrance.
"It was clearly already too late. They were long gone," said Randy Cohen, owner of the Royal Jewelry and Loans store 10 or 20 yards from where the inmates scaled down the rope.
Homeland Security and U.S. Marshal's Service agents questioned him later in the morning and asked if security cameras on his building could have captured the escape or the men fleeing, Cohen said. He said he didn't think the cameras would have been pointed in the right direction.
Liquor store owner, Baljit Singh, has a clear view of the side of the prison where the men escaped. She said there was no indication anything was amiss when she arrived at work at 7 a.m.
Banks, known as the Second-Hand Bandit because he wore used clothes during his heists, was convicted last week of robbing two banks and attempting to rob two others. Authorities say he stole almost $600,000, but most of that is still missing.
Banks was convicted by a federal jury last week after a trial at which he had to be restrained because he threatened to walk out of the courtroom. He acted as his own attorney and verbally sparred with the judge.
After U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer convicted him, he said he would "be seeking retribution as well as damages," the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune reported.
When the judge asked how long he needed to submit a filing, Banks replied, "No motion will be filed, but you'll hear from me," the newspapers reported.
Conley pleaded guilty last October to robbing a Homewood Bank last year of nearly $4,000.


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EDGEWATER, Fla. - The Edgewater Animal Shelter was targeted by a thief, a newborn puppy is stolen while workers are inside and police are now trying to help them track it down before it dies.
Bella and her adorable puppies have an incredible bond that was shattered Tuesday afternoon after one of her puppies was stolen right out of a private room.
"We all just sort of panicked and we knew one had been stolen," said shelter director Beverly Cowling.
Cowling said there was no sign of a break-in, in fact she thinks it was planned. Someone just walked in, waited for the right time and took the puppy.
"I can't imagine anyone that could be so evil to take a little puppy from its mother," said Cowling.
The puppy missing is one of seven in this litter. It is light brown and has a white spot on top of her head.
Cowling said the biggest concern is that the pit bull puppy mix is only seven days old and has yet to be weaned from her mother's milk. Without it, the puppy may not survive.
"A puppy taken away from its mother and is not nursing 6 to 8 weeks is not going to make it," said Cowling.
Cowling said the shelter just wants the puppy back, no questions asked and she's pleading the person responsible will hear her message.
"Bring it back. It's just like a child, it's a baby and it needs to be with its mother," said Cowling. "It needs to nursed and nurtured."
Bella and the puppies will be available for adoption in the next couple months.
The shelter does have cameras, but the surveillance company doesn't have the video because their equipment malfunctioned.
If you have any information, you are asked to contact Edgewater police or Beverly Cowling at 386-957-3994.
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Police officers will swap their uniforms for football kits as they take to the pitch to coach young players.
More than 200 girls and boys aged six to 11 will receive coaching from PC Donna Williams and PCSOs Steve King, Rob Sidebottom and Steve Kennedy in an annual initiative being run at Cheam Recreation Ground starting from today.
The scheme runs until the end of the week and each day 40 young people will get a morning of coaching followed by a knock-out tournament and winners presentations.
Sutton United striker 'marvellous' Marvin Williams is also due to attend and show the young stars how he managed to score 14 goals last season.
The free event, sponsored by Smith & Byford, Hyundai, Sainsbury's and Samsara Indian restaurant, has been organised by neighbourhood police officers for several years in an effort to give young people something to do during the summer holidays and cut anti-social behaviour.


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A CAMPAIGN is being launched to coincide with the World Cup which kicks off today urging people to "give domestic abuse the red card".
Awareness posters will be shown on buses, and in pubs, bars and other places where sports are regularly screened as research shows domestic abuse rates rose during the 2010 World Cup by 38 per cent when England lost, and by 26 per cent when they won. Calls to the Independent Domestic Abuse Service (IDAS) helpline rose by one third.
Sarah Hill, IDAS director, said: "The impact the World Cup has on domestic violence is largely based on people drinking more than usual. Alcohol should never be used as an excuse for violence but where people drink more, we do see an increase in violent or abusive behaviour.
"IDAS can offer advice, accommodation and support to anyone living in fear of domestic abuse and we'd appeal for people to get in touch if they are concerned about a their partner's behaviour."
Chief Inspector Alisdair Dey said: "It can take a great deal of courage for someone to accept that a relationship is an abusive one. It's important victims are aware of the support available."
l North Yorkshire Police figures showed 8,778 domestic incidents were recorded in York between April 2008 and April 2013; in Selby, there were 3,308 incidents and in Scarborough and Ryedale, 7,515 calls were logged.
In these incidents, 205 children aged ten and under were victims, another 2,228 11 to 18-year-olds were victims, while there were 1,307 offenders in that age bracket. Five offenders were aged 80 and over, with the oldest aged 96. The oldest victim of a domestic incident was 99-years-old.
Domestic crime incidents are not all violence-related, and could include burglary, theft, criminal damage or antisocial behaviour by family members.
Contact IDAS on 03000 110110, the IDAS Rape Support Line on 0300 1110777 or visit idas.org.uk. To report domestic abuse, phone the police on 101, or 999 in an emergency.


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Federal court filings show some LSU officials were determined to curb LSU professor Ivor van Heerden's public criticisms of federal engineers' design and construction of New Orleans levees that collapsed and drowned hundreds more than seven years ago.
The damage was done by Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Louisiana-Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, flooding wide areas of New Orleans.
Political pressure and fear of a potential loss of federal funding led some of those officials to strip van Heerden of his deputy directorship at the LSU Hurricane Center and eventually to decide not to renew his university contract in 2010, van Heerden contends.
The longtime expert in geology and marine science makes those allegations in his three-year-old lawsuit in Baton Rouge.
Those allegations are denied by LSU officials.
But email strings filed in the court record show some university and state government officials were intent on silencing van Heerden.
LSU's attorneys — Richard F. Zimmerman Jr., Randal J. Robert, Jennifer A. Hataway and Julie M. McCall — argued unsuccessfully that hundreds of pages of those emails and other documents should not be entered into evidence during a jury trial that had been scheduled for Feb. 19.
And Jill L. Craft, attorney for van Heerden, argued unsuccessfully that van Heerden's personal financial information should not be discussed at trial.
The coastal researcher and his wife own a 34-foot sailboat valued at $125,000, court records show.
After U.S. District Judge James J. Brady ruled Feb. 8 against exclusion of both sets of evidence, both sides informed him Feb. 11 that they had reached a tentative settlement of the dispute.
Brady immediately dismissed the case from his docket, but told both sides they could reopen the case within 60 days if they do not finalize the settlement.
Zimmerman, Robert and McCall were not in their offices for comment Friday, their assistant said. Hataway did not return a telephone message seeking comment.
LSU spokesman Ernie Ballard said in an email, "The university doesn't have any comments at this time."
And Craft said, "I can't talk about it until after everything is signed."
On Sept. 15, 2005, more than two weeks after Katrina inundated much of New Orleans, van Heerden sent an email to a list of recipients that included staff members of U.S. Sens. David Vitter and Mary Landrieu.
In that email, van Heerden said he had done an aerial assessment of levees in New Orleans' London Avenue and 17th Street areas.
The coastal researcher concluded those levees suffered "catastrophic structural failure due to pressure bursts." He said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrongly reported the levees had been overtopped by surging water.
Along the Industrial Canal, van Heerden reported, "are breachings, the longest 800 feet. All show plenty evidence of catastrophic structural failure due to bad engineering or bad design or bad construction or bad foundations."
He added: "I believe it will be a long time before anyone trusts" the corps.
Randy Hanchey, deputy secretary of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, received a copy of van Heerden's assessment the next day.
Hanchey then emailed Sidney Coffee, Gov. Kathleen Blanco's executive assistant for coastal activities and chairwoman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
"I think someone needs to call (LSU) President Jenkins and ask him to get his staff under control," Hanchey said in his email. "This could be touchy as (Ivor) will undoubtedly spin this in terms of 'shoot the messenger,' academic freedom, etc."
After 26 minutes, Coffee emailed Robert Twilley, director of the Wetland Biochemistry Institute at LSU's Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science.
"This is astounding and must be stopped!!" Coffee wrote Twilley. "This is grandstanding at its worst. This is not helpful."
On Dec. 7, 2005, van Heerden emailed Twilley that he had met with Blanco for two hours that day and discussed "her testimony she will have to give later this week in DC."
Van Heerden also wrote Twilley that he gave Blanco some ideas for "coastal restoration and the levees and how the (LSU) Hurricane Centers can further support the state.
"I will be reporting back to her after my trip to the Netherlands," van Heerden said. "She thanked me for all that the Hurricane Centers have done since Katrina and Rita."
The next day, Twilley emailed Coffee: "Passing this along to you. I assume this is connected to the allegations about the quality of the levee system."
Twilley then told Coffee: "I just want the governor to know that Ivor was not involved in our coastal restoration team that (helped) the (corps) develop the chief engineer's report. So, he does not represent the wider coastal science and engineering community."
By Jan. 5, 2006, less than five months after the deadly flooding of New Orleans, it appeared that some LSU officials were preparing to end van Heerden's LSU career.
George Z. Voyiadjis, chairman of LSU's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, sent an email that day to Zaki Bassiouni, dean of LSU's College of Engineering.
"You advised me that you will need my signature on correspondence that the university is preparing for the purpose of discharging Ivor," Voyiadjis wrote Bassiouni. "I will do as you requested. Let me know when to come to your office for that purpose."
As van Heerden repeated his allegations against the corps, powerful figures at LSU intensified their expressions of dissatisfaction with him.
Roy K. Dokka, director of LSU's Spatial Reference Center and Center for GeoInformatics, sent an email Oct. 24, 2005, to Michael Ruffner, vice chancellor of LSU's Office of Communications and University Relations.
Dokka did not mention van Heerden by name, but told Ruffner: "I have been in Washington several times recently, meeting with the congressional delegation and federal agencies. In almost every contact, I am asked how so-and-so's irresponsible behavior is tolerated."
Dokka said, "It is a shame that so many very competent people at LSU who do their business in a professional manner are being sullied by a few."
Dokka also told Ruffner that LSU "will remain in third rate category unless the 'cowboys' are (reined) in."
In November 2005, Ruffner told van Heerden to direct all news media requests for interviews to his communications staff, court records show. But Ruffner rescinded that order after his staff was swamped with rapid-fire requests from the BBC, National Geographic Magazine, PBS NewsHour, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and 10 other national, state and local news organizations.
After The New York Times published a story May 30, 2006, about on-campus criticisms of van Heerden, Ruffner wrote a May 31, 2006, letter to the publication's editor.
Ruffner wrote that the article incorrectly "created the perception in some that Louisiana State University tried to limit Ivor van Heerden's access to the press and silence his voice after Katrina. Nothing could be further from the truth."


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Hi All,
I have a form that has a drop down "select" for cust_name. When that drop down is clicked the value of the customer id goes into a PHP variable called $cust_id.
I am trying to use jQuery ".change" to load a new section of code when the customer name is changed. The load works great. But what I also need to do is capture the value of the $cust_id from the "value=" attribute so that in the loaded page I can execute a MySQL routine to retrieve the rest of the customer data. Here is a snippet of the relevant code:jQuery routine which does not work:
$('#custid').change(function(event) {// Get the custid from the value var custid = $(this).attr("value");// Send Ajax request to apply-payments.php, with custid set as "cust_id" in the POST data $.post("display-property.php", {"cust_id": custid});//Now load the div for the property display//This part works fine $('#display-property-address').load('display-property.php'); event.preventDefault(); });
here is the form select routine:
<form method="post" action="#"><fieldset><legend>Customer ID</legend>

<select title="Cust ID" name="cust_id" id="custid">
//A MySQL Routine was executed previously to get the values for cust_id below
$cust_id = $row['cust_id'];?> <option value="<?php echo $cust_id ?>"> <?php echo $cust_id_dis ?> </option></select></fieldset></form>
if you need anything else to assit me with this please let me know.
Thanks in advance for your help
I don't know if you ammended the code so as not to post a url publicly, but it seems that this comment and it's code are out of step:
// Send Ajax request to apply-payments.php, with custid set as "cust_id" in the POST data
$.post("display-property.php", {"cust_id": custid});
should be?
// Send Ajax request to apply-payments.php, with custid set as "cust_id" in the POST data
$.post("apply-payments.php", {"cust_id": custid});
And in your PHP you would capture the value:
Make sure you escape the value before passing it into your SQL
Thanks Anthony for your reply.
I made the change you suggested but I am still not getting the value passed to my code. Any further suggestions?
Anthony and all,
It seems there is some kind of problem with the $.post command:
$.post("apply-payments.php", {"cust_id": custid});
I tried replacing the "custid" label with a hard coded value (like '1') and it still will not come to my source page.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
There would be 2 things to check here. The first would be; Is the $.post actually submitting the data to the page. I use either Firebug (addon for Firefox), or Chrome Dev Tools (Ctrl+Shift+I) to inspect the POST request being made and check that you aren't getting any 404s and that your post variables are being sent.
Once you know the post is working, then you need to check the php page to make sure it's receiving the data. A very easy way to do this is to setup a simple test php page:
and simple jQuery:
$.post("test.php", {"cust_id": "a value to send"},function(data){
When you call the jQuery it should output the result of the page into the javascript console.
Great suggestions Anthony. Let me do these things and I'll re-post my results.
Thanks again for your reply.
This is extremely weird. When I run the Firebug routines it shows that the post is in fact getting the correct value and when I run the test program it shows the same. Could there be something in the way I am displaying the value in my source that is causing the value to not display?
What I am doing until I get this resolved is invoking a PHP echo instruction like this:
echo "custid: " . $POST['custid'];exit();
This code executes as the first couple of lines in the loaded HTML. What gets displayed to my webpage is:
As you can see the label is there but the value is blank.
Any Ideas?
Anthony & All,
Here is a link to the page that I am working on. It has Firebug lite installed on it so we can examine what is happening.
JD's Makit Green
if anyone wants to look at this page and see if they see something that will help me with this problem - Please do.
Having the example page helps alot to figure out your issue. You are submitting a post to apply-payments.php, then getting another page display-property.php. The $_POST variable is only current for apply-payments.php when something has been posted to the page.
PHP is stateless, if you want to transfer the value of something from one page load to the next you need to store it somewhere (Session, Database, File etc).
Ideally what I think you would want to achieve here is send your values to the page AND read the contents back in one $.post() and not split the saving/reading of the values into 2 different http requests.
Thanks for the response again Anthony.
I do get the concept of the $POST needing to be in the same page, but if I understand your comment correctly, even though I am loading the new HTML inside a DIV of the same HTML page, as far as the $POST variable is concerned it is not in the same page - is that correct?
I am not sure how I would code the single $_POST command to do both the save and read. If you have a suggestion here I would be interested in seeing what you mean.
As an alternative for now, I will play around with not loading the HTML dynamically but hard coding it to the same page. If what you are saying is the issue, then that should resolve the $_POST variable not being part of the same page.
It will have to wait until tomorrow though, as it is late here in the States.
I appreciate your help with this. I'll advise to my results tomorrow.
Hi Again,
Wow, this trying to learn Ajax is really beating me down.
I have now done this:
1) set the jQuery script to send the custid variable to a temporary php file called test.php. The test.php file looks like this:
<?PHPinclude('mig-sch-admin.htm');// the above just sets up the sessions etc?><?php$cust_id = $POST['custid'];$SESSION['custid'] = $cust_id;echo $SESSION['custid'];?>
2) as you can see when this routine loads it captures the $POST from the script and sets a $SESSION variable.
3) I then echo the $_SESSION variable and end the test routine.
4) Here is the jQuery script I am using:
$.post("test.php", {cust_id : custid}, function(data){ if (data.length>0){ $("#display-property-address").html(data); }
When I run the apply-payments.php routine with these changes the value of the $SESSION variable from the test.php routine gets displayed correctly in the display-property-address div. But when I try to load the display-property.php HTML, the $SESSION variable is not available to me.
So how do I capture the value sent to the script (Apparently html.data) so I can work on it with my database routines?
But when I try to load the display-property.php HTML, the $_SESSION variable is not available to me.
This is probably because you have to load the display-property.php after the post has completed. To ensure this you need to take the call you make and put it inside the callback from the $.post().
$.post("apply-payments.php", {"cust_id": custid},function(data){
The "callback" is the function that $.post is calling once the ajax is complete. Because these requests generally take time you need to wait until the server communication has happened before you run the rest of the code. The old way you had it would simply trigger both calls to happen at almost the same time. This is valid javascript, it lets you run 2 or more ajax calls at once (where the 'a' in ajax comes from, asynchronous), but in your case you don't really want this to happen.
Using session variables is probably a pretty messy way to do it, but if it works and you learn from it then it can't be all bad.
I must be really missing something here. What you are saying makes perfect sense but nothing I do seems to work. This script will put the custid into the box as expected:
$.post("test.php", {cust_id : custid}, function(data){
if (data.length>0){
But I do not know how to access the custid after it has been placed in the box by the html(data) Callback.
This code which should now have access to the $SESSION variable apparently still does not have the $SESSION variable and therefore the custid does not display:
$.post("test.php", {"cust_id": custid},function(data){
I sure do apologize for my ignorance with this and sincerly appreciate your patients with me, but I have to find a way to get this to work in order to move on with my client's project.
I'm not sure I understand why but this script works:
$.post("display-property.php", {"cust_id" : custid}, function(data){
It does not load the display-property.php to the apply-payments.php but it still gets the variable cust_id and allows me to execute a MySQL call and load the form properly.
So at least I can now move on to the next "Challenge". Thanks for your help thus far Anthony.


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The competition regulator has indicated it has serious reservations about approving Virgin Australia's bid to take control of Tiger Australia because it will effectively return the country to an airline duopoly.
Releasing a so-called ''statement of issues'' today, the competition tsar, Rod Sims, said the regulator's preliminary view was that the proposed acquisition ''may raise competition concerns in the market for Australian domestic air passenger transport services''.
Mr Sims said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's concerns related to ''the risk of muted competition following the reduction in the number of airline groups within Australia from three to two ... and the loss of Tiger Australia as an independently owned discount operator''.
''This potential reduction in competition arises as a result of the increased ability on the part of Qantas-Jetstar and Virgin Australia-Tiger Australia to coordinate their activities once Tiger Australia is no longer operating as an independent low-cost carrier,'' he said.
However, Mr Sims said the competition regulator would take into serious consideration the impact of Tiger exiting the domestic market if the deal was not approved.
''This would be highly relevant to our assessment,'' he said.
Mr Sims said a big increase in Tiger's aircraft fleet – as had been proposed by Virgin – would ''also diminish the prospect of any increase in coordinated conduct in the market''.
The regulator will now not make a final decision on the deal until March 14. It is seeking further submissions in response to its statement of issues by February 22.
A rejection of the deal by the regulator would be the first major blow for Virgin's chief executive, John Borghetti, since he took the reins of the airline almost three years ago.
Virgin's purchase of a 60 per cent stake in Tiger's Australian operations is aimed at giving Australia's second-largest airline its own dual-brand strategy to counter Qantas and its budget offshoot, Jetstar.
Last week, shareholders in Tiger Australia's Singaporean parent, Tiger Airways Holdings, voted in favour of Virgin taking majority control. The Singaporean airline will retain the remainder in Tiger Australia if the deal is eventually approved by the Australian regulator.
Under the plans, Tiger's Australian fleet would be boosted from 11 single-aisle A320 planes to up to 35 over the next five years as it takes on arch rival Jetstar in the domestic market.
Virgin would also appoint a new chief executive to Tiger Australia in the coming months after Andrew David resigned from the post before Christmas to become the boss of Jetstar's long-haul operations.
The Tiger bid is one of three deals Virgin unveiled late last year aimed at putting it on a more equal footing to Qantas and Jetstar. The others comprised a $100 million takeover of West Australian airline Skywest – which the ACCC approved last week – and Singapore Airlines buying a 10 per cent stake in Virgin.


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Several days before decorating cake add 1/2 teaspoon Gum-Tex to each packet of purple, pink orange and yellow fondant in Multi-Packs. Roll out fondant 1/8 in. thick. Make 8 bow strips using zigzag cutting wheels and 1/2 in. spacers from Ribbon Cutter/Embosser Set. Cut 1 strip approximately 4-1/2 in. long, cut the remaining strips approximately 6-1/2 in. long. Cut 2 strips of each color about 1/4 in. wide. Shape center and loops, sealing ends, if necessary, with a little water; trim off corners of bow loops to form an outward "V" shape. Allow loops to dry on cornstarch dusted surface, supporting with crushed tissue inside. Reserve remaining fondant.
Bake and cool a 2-layer 9-inch round cake. Stack cooled cake layers on foil-covered cake board. Prepare for fondant by lightly icing with buttercream.
Cover cake with white fondant; smooth.
Roll out reserved fondant 1/8 in. thick. Cut 8 in. long and 6 in. long ribbon strips, using Ribbon Cutter/Embosser wheels as for loops. Cut inverted "V" in 6 in. long strips. Divide cake into 8ths; attach strips at cake divisions with damp brush. Trim off excess.
Attach bow loops with fondant adhesive. Roll 1/4 in. diameter balls of matching neon fondant for each bow loop and ribbon strip; attach 1/2 in. apart with damp brush.


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The chairman of a Washington fruit research group is optimistic that the state's cherry and stone fruit growers will vote to double their assessments for research.
A proposal developed by the Wenatchee-based Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission would assess cherry growers $4 a ton and stone fruit growers $1 a ton to fund endowed chairs at Washington State University, said Jim Doornink, the commission's president and president of Wapato, Wash.-based Doornink Fruit Ranch.
The assessment, which also would pay for Extension programs, would be capped at $5 million or eight years, whichever came first.
Food safety and fruit pathology could be among the top research topics, Doornink said.
Washington apple and pear growers approved a similar referendum in 2011, Doornink said. Dollar-per-ton assessments on apples and pears will fund $27 million in endowments for research chairs, information and technology transfer positions and research orchard operations.
Cherry and stone fruit growers were notified of the referendum in December and voting is scheduled to conclude later this month, Doornink said.
This is the second referendum on cherries and stone fruit, Doornink said. A 2011 effort failed, but he said that was likely due to confusion in the balloting procedure. A clearer process this time around should ensure passage, he said.
After the measure failed, many in the cherry industry told the commission they wanted another chance to approve it.
"The cherry industry is a strong supporter of research, and they benefit from it a lot," he said. "I think it's going to do well."
One of the main benefits of the proposed measure is that industry members will play a big role in deciding what research the new endowed chairs conduct, Doornink said.
An industry committee would review what research is conducted.
"This is as close to a private-sector model as we could get," he said. "It makes it an easy sell to industry. They feel they have something tangible there."