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Curry scored 45 points in 3 quarters. You see, he won't play the 4th quarter. Lebron would play the 4th quarter to get more than 50 points. Curry's stats go underrated sometimes cuz a lot of times he'll score around 40 points or more and not even play the 4th quarter.
That's why you can't compare guys like Harden to Curry cuz they're playing many minutes to get high stats on purpose, whereas Curry does it so much steffortless when you consider less time.
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The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
The body found east of Otter Creek by hunters on Friday afternoon, Jan 18, has been identified that of DeAnna Lee Stires, 18, of Brooksville who was reported missing on Jan. 1, according to a Levy County Sheriff's Office press release.
"Hopefully this will provide some closure for some friends to the south, said Lt. Scott Tummond, head of investigations for the Levy County Sheriff's Office.
K. M. of Old Town writes, "I've got a question…last month you wrote about taking a gun into a bar being illegal, but taking a gun into a restaurant wasn't, if you have a concealed weapon permit. What about a knife? What's the rule there?
Dear K. M.
Cedar Key police were kept on the run Memorial Day weekend when two people — an 18-year-old man and a juvenile — from Chiefland broke into several cars and at least one, possibly two homes in the Paroda, Whiddon and Shellcrest avenues area.
But the thefts are on the way to being solved with the arrest of one person and the search for a second person — a juvenile, said Police Chief Virgil Sandlin.
Levy County Sheriff's Lt. Shawn Hunt has been named to the first Agriculture/Marine Unit in the department.
Citizens have never had a full-time Ag/Marine Investigator to work with farmers, timber business owners and clam farms in Cedar Key. The duties will consist of investigating any Ag-related crimes, educating the farmers by giving crime prevention tips and community policing
Jeffrey Earl. Lashley, 52, convicted of sexual battery in 2004 and classified a "sexual predator," has registered his address in Cedar Key, according to a Levy County Sheriff's Office press release.
In response to two deaths involving riders on ATVs (all-terrain vehicles) the Levy County Sheriff's Office has issued a reminder about laws governing the vehicles' use and offered some safety tips to prevent users from being a victim of an ATV accident.
In 2006 the Florida Legislature passed a law allowing ATV's to be operated on any public roads or streets during the daytime hours on an unpaved roadway where the posted speed limit is less than 35 miles per hour by a licensed driver.
Cedar Key Police Chief Virgil Sandlin reports a range of arrests and warrants in the past couple weeks. Once again, drugs, trespassing, DUI's and some vandalism prevailed.
C. C. of Cedar Key writes: "I fell behind on my child support payments and the State of Florida's Department of Revenue suspended my driver's license. It's going to take me a month or so before I'll be able to get it back. I can still drive my Golf Cart around the city of Cedar Key, can't I?"
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As an art student in New York City, you'll never cease to find inspiration from living in the Big Apple, but what are the best cultural activities you can do? Take advantage of what the art schools in New York have to offer. Not only will you support your fellow students, but you'll get to see up-and-coming artists, and all while staying on a budget.
If you're trying to get away from the city's hustle and bustle, the Tisch School of the Arts has an exhibition space open six days a week to the public for free. Located at 721 Broadway, the art school's student-run exhibition space includes three galleries that contain anything from photography to digital imaging and multimedia and more from graduating seniors.
The Art Institute of New York City also has free exhibits demonstrating their students' innovative projects. Portfolio Reviews showcase the original work of talented students - ranging from digital film to fashion design - at the end of each quarter for the public to come and see. These open houses are also a great way for art students to collaborate, discuss works, and network with each other.
A handful of museums around New York City also have free admission on Fridays: the Museum of Modern Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology.
The New York Film Academy is a top film and acting school providing focused education and instruction. As a result, you can expect top-notch works from aspiring directors, actors, photographers, and more.
Each year, musical theater students perform their final presentation at the Cooper Union Stage where they showcase their hard work and skills learned. If you're in the mood for some live theater, grab a seat at their performance and see these rising stars before they hit the big stage.
The academy also has photo exhibits with works from its students, and you can expect to see exhibitions like Photography and Neorealism in Italy, 1945 - 1965.
Students are in for a treat at one of New York's finest art schools - NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. Here, students can enjoy free musical performances, educational theater, master classes, and book readings from passionate art students who have dedicated themselves to the craft.
Steinhardt, founded in 1925, has a wide range of performances taking place at least once a week in the evenings also for free. Famous alumni graduating from their department include Grammy Award-winning Cy Coleman, jazz musician Wayne Shorter, and composer Enoch Light.


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Sunday, July 15, 2007
Harry Potter
John and I did something last week that we haven't done in years. We went to the movies. We actually do occasionally (once or twice a year) go to the second run theater but I decided I didn't want to wait so we headed down to the mall for a matinée. Believe it or not, they were showing Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix at 9:30 am. Apparently that was too early for most people, there were only about 15 others in the theater with us.
I won't spoil it for any of you that are waiting to see it. As always, if you've read the book you'll note all the things that had to be left out for time. I will say that this is not a movie for young children. I'm glad I went but the 1st movie still remains my favorite.
I go back to work very early in the morning. As it turns out I won't be there very long as I have to report for jury duty later in the morning. I guess it's too early to start counting but there's only four weeks to go until my next vacation.
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I've never heard of a movie at 9:30 am but I would go to avoid the crowds too. I enjoy a movie much more when the theater isn't jam packed..ReplyDelete
Sounds like a great time to go to a movie. I could probably stay awake at that time :)ReplyDelete
It's too bad they didn't make it suitable for young children.
Sorry you have to go back to work already. What a bummer. I think you told us what you were going to do, but I can't remember. Driving summer schoolers perhaps? But I think they're almost finished, aren't they?
Are you hoping to be chosen for Jury Duty, or not?
I did Grand Jury duty once and enjoyed it...mostly. It lasted about 3 months.
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Chase Rice's Album 'Ignite the Night' Debuts at No. 1
Even though Chase Rice chose to enter into country music on a non-traditional route, he's still quickly on his way to becoming a notable country star, with his most recent accomplishment being a No. 1 album debut.
Rice's 'Ignite the Night' was released Aug. 19 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, selling over 44,000 in its first week. The record's lead single, 'Ready Set Roll,' was certified Gold before it even entered the Top 20 at mainstream radio -- just another showing of Rice's steady accomplishments.
Yes, the newcomer is an independent country artist, and his own Dack Janiels Records did the marketing and promotion for the album (with help from Columbia Nashville). Rice explains his rather unique process, saying, "We've built things a little bit differently, starting with live shows and building up our fan base through touring. Now people are showing up night after night to sing these songs right along with me ..."
Adds Rice, "And to do it the way we've done it and have the No. 1 country album in the nation this week is unbelievable. It's surreal."
The 27-year-old is currently headlining shows across the country and will kick off the Ignite the Night Tour on Sept. 5 in Denver, Colo.
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Obama says he believes Sochi Olympics are safe
President Barack Obama says he believes the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, will be safe and is not discouraging Americans from attending.
Obama says Russian authorities "understand the stakes" involved in securing the games and the potential threats against the events. He says the U.S. is coordinating with Russia and officials have looked at the Russian security plans.
Still, Obama says there are "always some risks" involved with large international gatherings like the Olympics. And he says he feels better when those types of events are held in the United States because American officials have full control over what happen.
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Bill Would Transfer Ownership of 9 South Dakota Cemeteries
SIOUX FALLS - South Dakota Sens. Tim Johnson and John Thune have introduced legislation that would allow local communities to assume ownership of nine historic cemeteries in the Black Hills.
The cemeteries are currently owned by the U.S. Forest Service, but the communities have acted as caretakers for generations under special use permits issued by the government.
Thune says the current arrangement causes headaches for communities that have been managing the cemeteries and places unnecessary liability on the Forest Service.
Johnson says the so-called Black Hills Cemetery Act allows for a permit solution to the temporary special use permits.
The bill affects Englewood, Galena, Hayward, Mountain Meadows, Roubaix, Nemo, Rockerville, Silvery City and Cold Springs cemeteries.
All are pioneer-era cemeteries in the Black Hills.
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An OraParameter object represents a bind variable in a SQL statement or PL/SQL block.
OraParameter objects are created, accessed, and removed indirectly through the OraParameters collection of an OraDatabase object. Each parameter has an identifying name and an associated value. You can automatically bind a parameter to SQL and PL/SQL statements of other objects (as noted in the objects' descriptions), by using the parameter's name as a placeholder in the SQL or PL/SQL statement. Such use of parameters can simplify dynamic queries and increase program performance.
Parameters are bound to SQL statements and PL/SQL blocks before execution. In the case of a SQL SELECT statement, binding occurs before dynaset creation.
The OraParameters collection is part of the OraDatabase object so that all parameters are available to any SQL statement or PL/SQL block executed within the database (through CreateDynaset or ExecuteSQL). Before a SQL statement or PL/SQL block is executed an attempt is made to bind all parameters of the associated OraDatabase object. The bindings that fail (because the parameter doesn't apply to that particular SQL statement or PL/SQL block), are noted and no attempt is made to rebind them if the SQL statement or PL/SQL block is re-executed but doesn't change.
Since neither SQL statements nor PL/SQL blocks are parsed locally (all parsing is done by Oracle), any unnecessary binding results in performance degradation. To prevent unnecessary parameter binding, make use of the AutoBindDisable and AutoBindEnable methods.
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ORATYPE_RAW_BIN ServerType is used when binding to Oracle Raw columns. A byte array is used to Put or Get values. The maximum allowable size of ORATYPE_RAW_BIN bind buffers is 2000 bytes when bound to a column of a table, 32k bytes when bound to a stored procedure. For example code, see the samples in the \oracle_home\OO4O\VB\Raw directory.


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Now that Congress has approved tax increases, the focus in Washington needs to be on runaway spending, deficits and the massive accumulation of national debt.
NOW THAT Congress has approved tax increases, the focus in Washington needs to be on runaway spending, deficits and the massive accumulation of national debt.
But some in Congress just can�t stop eyeing the paychecks and wealth of Americans. Only days after passing a tax compromise that raised rates on the wealthiest wage earners, taking in an estimated $600 billion over 10 years, congressional leaders are eyeing another $1 trillion in new revenue. Many in Congress � and evidently, the man in the White House � don�t get it. It�s the spending side of the ledger, not the revenue entries, that is driving the nation toward a real fiscal cliff.
The nation is more than $16 trillion in debt and is fast approaching another borrowing limit that will require congressional approval to increase. The debt situation is so bad, even plans by Republicans labeled as �extreme� by Democrats don�t balance the budget for decades.
The truth is, it will probably take many years to balance the budget even with what most in Congress consider aggressive spending cuts.
But the federal budget will never be balanced � and $1 trillion annual deficits will continue � unless Congress and the White House put the brakes on entitlement spending.
But the major driver of the annual deficits is spending, especially on entitlements. Writing for The Wall Street Journal last month, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said if entitlements continue to rise, federal spending will hit 40 percent of gross domestic product. It stands at 24 percent now.
Most disturbingly, Portman noted that there won�t be enough tax revenue to cover new obligations.
To avoid this dystopian debt future, Congress and the White House must agree on a �grand bargain� that reforms the big entitlements � Medicare and Social Security � perhaps by raising the eligibility age and extracting a bit more from wealthier seniors. Leaders must also slow the spending on smaller but ballooning entitlement programs such as Medicaid, food stamps and more.
Cuts to the defense budget should also be weighed, but must not run as high as 2011�s hastily agreed-upon number of $500 billion over 10 years.
And last but not least, the U.S. Senate must do its job and pass a formal budget. It has not done so for more than three years, allowing automatic spending to increase at a much faster rate.
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I met Darya coming out of the subway in Bay Ridge and asked if I could take a picture of her tattoo. She kindly allowed me to do so and share it here with everyone on Tattoosday:
Darya explained that she always wanted a peacock tattoo, and she has fourteen tattoos in all (not all peacocks). Joe Maggs at Brooklyn Ink tattooed the peacock.
The cherry blossoms, symbols of regeneration, were added by Illya at Studio City Tattoos in California.
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You can look at your dashboard thermometer display and try to gauge the temperature, but according to new reports, it's probably wrong.
According to The Washington Post, your car isn't actually equipped with a thermometer at all, but with a thermistor instead. They work similar, but the main difference is that it's not gauging the temperature using mercury but as an electrical current.
The other thing to take note of is where the thermistor is located. According to The Washington Post, they are mostly located on the front of the car, below the grill, which means it's susceptible to heat from the surface of the road, which let's face it, is a lot hotter than what it actually is temperature wise.
So basically, what we're saying is, when you get into your car today and your temperature on your dashboard says 104 degrees, that's just a guestimate, and you should probably check your local weather for a more accurate temp.
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Beyond Barcelona
by Rick Steves
It's hard to top Barcelona, Spain's most cosmopolitan and fun city. I love the place, but I'm not alone. Every year, 10 million visitors swoop into town, rambling the Ramblas, touring hidden corners of the Old City, and marveling at playful
If you want a break from the crowds, several day trips from Barcelona are tempting scene-changers: the mountaintop monastery of Montserrat, the Salvador Dali museum at Figueres, and the beach town of Sitges.
For almost a thousand years, Benedictine monks have lived atop Montserrat -- the "serrated mountain" -- which dramatically rockets up from the valley floor northwest of Barcelona. Poets claim that the mountain was carved by little angels with golden saws. Geologists blame nature at work. Either way, with its unique rock formations and dramatic cliff-clinging monastery, this is an inviting excursion for pilgrims with (or without) hiking boots. A one-hour train ride from Barcelona links up with a rack railway or a cable car to get you to the lofty site. Serious pilgrims walk up.
Legend has it that in medieval times, shepherd children saw lights and heard songs coming from the mountain. They traced the activity to a cave, where they found a statue dubbed La Moreneta, the Black Madonna. The monastery quickly became a pilgrim magnet. The small wooden Mary is behind protective glass in the Montserrat basilica, but the royal orb she cradles in her hand is exposed, ready to receive the venerating touch of the faithful. Newlyweds in particular seek this Mary's blessing.
For hikers and nature lovers, a funicular climbs nearly a thousand feet above the monastery. Up top, the air is fresh and the views are spectacular, sweeping (on the clearest days) from the Mediterranean to the Pyrenees. From the trailhead here, well-signposted hikes radiate out. The most popular one is mostly downhill back to the monastery. Hiking along the peaceful trail makes me want to turn cartwheels.
If you're a Dali devotee, head to Figueres (two hours north of Barcelona) and the strange, fanciful Dali Theater-Museum. From the Figueres train station, it's an easy 15-minute walk to the museum. You can't miss it -- it is painted pink, studded with golden loaves of bread, and topped with monumental eggs and a geodesic dome. For fans of Surrealism and Dali, it's one of Europe's most enjoyable museums.
Much of the art in the building (a former theater) is movable and coin-operated, so have a few euro coins in your pockets when you go. You know how you can never get a cab when it's raining? Pop a coin into Dali's personal 1941 Cadillac, and it rains inside the car.
Another highlight is the Mae West room. From just the right spot, you'll see that the sofa lips, fireplace nostrils, painting eyes, and drapery hair come together to make the face of the sultry actress. Wandering around this place, I can't help wondering: am I crazy, or is it Dali? The artist himself is entombed in a crypt below center stage.
If you simply want to kick back without an agenda, go to welcoming Sitges, which has frequent 30-minute train service from Barcelona. With a much slower pulse than Barcelona, this resort town southwest of the city is a perfect break from sightseeing. Sitges has jet-set status, but it's hung on to its Old World charm while managing to be both family- and gay-friendly.
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Nine beaches, separated by breakwaters, extend southward from town (the last three are intimate and cove-like). Stroll down the seaside promenade or rent a beach chair for some extreme relaxing. Along the way, you have your choice of restaurants and chiringuitos (beachfront bars) for tapas, paella, and drinks.
If you happen to visit during one of Sitges' two big festivals (St. Bartholomew in late August and St. Tecla in late September), you may see teams of castellers competing to build human pyramids up to 60 feet high. Balancing on the shoulders of the people below, the castellers are judged by how quickly they can assemble and take down their people towers. No one is really sure how this quirky tradition got its start, but it's a perfect reflection of the region's team-building bent.
Skipping out of Barcelona for the day is easy. Whether you experience the sacred, the surreal, or the seaside, you'll return to the city recharged and ready for whatever it has in store.
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Hyperion, Apr 2002, 23.95, 338 pp. ISBN: 078686804X Orange County Deputy Sheriff Archie Wildcraft lies in a hospital near death from the bullet lodged in his brain while his wife Gwen is already dead. The law enforcement officials detest that one of their brothers killed his wife and tried to commit suicide. Only Detective Merci Rayborn thinks differently though circumstantial evidence targets Archie as the culprit. Though he does no...
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Morrow, Oct 2004, 24.95, 384 pp. ISBN: 0060745428 The Becker and Vonn families share a history that goes back years starting when they rumbled in the old packinghouse because a member of the former threw a hat belonging to the latter to a dog. When the Beckers apologized for the incident, they noticed that five years old Janelle Vonn had a black eye. Years later Janette attended a sermon given by David Becker. Afterward she told David and his ...
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Hyperion, April 2003, 25.95, 372 pp. ISBN 0786868058 In 1952 San Diego, a Braga killed a McMichael in what was called self-defense. A few months later Pete Braga's son Victor was beaten up so severely that he sustained brain damage. He would always have the mind of a ten-year-old. The rumor went around town that Gabriel McMichael beat up Braga's son but it was never proven. In the present San Diego Police Homicide Detective Tom McMichael is...


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While there's a lot of interest in Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 in the enterprise, it doesn't look like there will be any wholesale migration to new Windows desktops. Instead, a new survey of 953 IT professionals, conducted by Dell KACE, a provider of desktop systems management tools, finds that customers are taking a piecemeal approach to Windows 7 and Office 2010 upgrades.
The end result is that IT organizations will most likely be dealing with mixed Windows environments running multiple versions of Microsoft Office for years. Many IT organizations are trying to forestall hardware upgrades, while others expressed concerns about having to train users to adapt to the new user interface in Office 2010.
The Dell KACE survey also notes that while Office still dominates in productivity applications, open source rivals and Google Docs are gaining ground. But all in all, Microsoft dominates the desktop.
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The virus that swept across Hope College causing the campus to be closed for several days has another casualty.
Officials at Mt. Union College notified Hope on Wednesday afternoon that its women's basketball team will not be allowed to travel to Holland for a season-opening game against the Flying Dutch at DeVos Fieldhouse on Saturday night.
The decision came on the heels of Hope receiving permission from Ottawa County health officials to resume to normal activities, including athletic practices and contests.
Mt. Union officials indicated their decision was based on their assessment of what is happening at Hope. The virus that affected approximatelty 425 students, faculty and staff has received national media attention.
Lisa Stefanovsky, health officer for Ottawa County, noted that the numbers of cases at Hope have significantly declined since the outbreak began nearly a week ago and that "risk of exposure is minimal."
Mt. Union College had its own health scare earlier this fall when a volleyball player was taken seriously ill while on an athletic trip and ended up being hospitalized for two weeks. The source of the illness was identified as E.Coli, according to "The Dynamo,: the student newspaper at Mt. Union. The student has since recovered, according to Mt. Union officials.
The Purple Raiders are coming off a 10-17 record and had been picked to finish sixth in the pre-season Ohio Athletic Conference poll. The Flying Dutch were 30-1 a year ago and have been picked as the pre-season favorite in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
Hope's season opener will now been a home Tipoff Tournament the weekend of Nov. 21-22.


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Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), one of the cosponsors to the radical budget proposal authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), went on Fox News yesterday to float one of the budget's key components. Heralding "personal [Social Security] accounts" for "younger earners," Blackburn touted Social Security privatization as the only way "you could get some of this under control":
BLACKBURN: You know, people forget Medicare is a program that individuals have paid into every single year with their Medicare and their Social Security beneifts the federal government has first right of refusal on that paycheck. And this is one of the reasons we need to make sure individuals get the money out that they have placed in. This is one of the reasons we have had the discussion over and over for our younger earners of having accounts that have their Social Security number and their information on that — personal accounts.
VARNEY: You're right, but it was roundly rejected when President Bush suggested doing just that. Didn't fly. […]
BLACKBURN: I was just going to say, and it's interesting to me the number of people now that are coming to town hall meetings and are saying 'you know what, if you were to scale back some of this bureaucracy and you began to look at some options for younger workers, you could get some of this under control.'
Watch it:
While Varney seemed supportive of the idea of subjecting the retirement safety net to the whims of the stock market, he rightly noted that President Bush's attempt was "roundly rejected." Indeed, if Bush were successful at his push to do what Ryan and Blackburn are proposing now, seniors would have lost tens of thousands of dollars in the 2008–2009 market plunge.


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Amount of time to keep the journal (max): 1 week. Unless you don't live in North America, then you get 2 weeks.
It looks as if the old Journal is gone and never coming back. So here's a group for all the people who want to be in the new (Journal 2) chain. It'll be moderated, so not just every single person can join.
The immediate bar is to anyone who has joined within that last 3 months, unfortunately, unless another user vouches for you. It's only to keep the chances of circulation really high. That also means, by joining the group you're under the honor system and will transfer the journal properly.


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So Much Pretty
Paperback, 283 pages, Simon & Schuster, List Price: $16 |purchase
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Book Summary
A dark tale inspired by a true case encountered by the author as a police beat reporter follows the experiences of a young victim of domestic violence whose memory is further compromised by community perceptions. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
NPR stories about So Much Pretty
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Excerpt: So Much Pretty
THEY ARE LOOKING for someone with blond or dark brown or black hair.
Someone with blue or maybe brown or green eyes. She could be five foot six or five-eight. Her hair could also be red, could be an unnatural color like pink or white.
It is likely she weighs between 110 and 140 pounds and may have a scar or bruise on her throat.
She would be working somewhere unseen. Working as a waitress or secretary or laborer. She could be a student. There is a strong possibility she would have a nontraditional job. That she's transient, works agriculture or construction or second shift.
She has physical strength and is articulate. Could be speaking English or Spanish or French. Could be in New York or Illinois or Tennessee. Canada or Mexico. Places where it rains all day or places where the grass has burnt to yellow. Could be among hollows between road and field, trails where the creek bed has dried. Could be anywhere.
She could be hitchhiking or taking public transportation, could be walking. She could be named Jamie, or Catherine, or Liz. Alexandra, Annie, Maria. Any name at all.
She may be aloof. She may be sensitive and drawn to helping people.
She is on her own and likely broke, and might be reliant on those she doesn't know.
Searches peaked in the spring and summer months, and they are looking for her still.
As we are well aware, it is easy for a woman who fits this description to just disappear.
© 2011 Cara Hoffman
ALL THREE OF us walked in our sleep.
Later, when I would think about what happened, I would tell myself she was sleepwalking. Acting out a nightmare. Sleepwalking ran in our family. Dreaming while walking. Dreaming while talking. I know this is not an answer. The real answer is too simple.
Did she have health problems? Was she low–birth weight? Did she have headaches? Self-destructive behavior? Sudden changes in grades or friends? No.
Alice was a remarkably consistent soul. Healthy and athletic like her father. At home wherever she was. Happy at school and happy with all the things outside of school. Gymnastics and trapeze. And later, swimming, building, archery, shooting.
Her focus was so joyful, so intense. Like her happiness, when she was little, about swimming in the river, about building the cardboard forest or the paper Taj Mahal. Once she made a mobile of hundreds of origami frogs, locusts, paper dolls, and butterflies.
She was never bored. Had the same friends at sixteen as she'd had at four. Her teachers talked about how she was a "leader." It was a word they used often, and this is certainly part of the problem. "A Leader." But they also talked about how she was sensitive to other children, always so caring.
I am not trying to justify a thing. I am not trying to make excuses for my daughter. I am describing it as it was.
Before April 14, the words "I am Alice Piper's mother" meant very little to anyone but me. Now those words are a riddle, a koan. A thing I have to understand even though nothing will change, even though the phrase "nothing will change" is something we fought against our entire lives.
The years in which we raised her were marked by diminishing returns for our diminishing expectations. But it hadn't always been that way.
Things were different in the city. We moved because of Constant's uncle. Because of Gene's dreams about land and air and autonomy. But also because of me. Because of traffic and noise and sewer smells and the seventy hours a week I worked at the city's Comprehensive Free Clinic for the Uninsured on First Avenue.
Prior to moving upstate, Gene and I lived on Saint Mark's and First Avenue. Then later in a two-bedroom apartment on First and Seventh, with Constant and Michelle Mann, who were also done with their residencies and, like Gene and I, planned on working for Doctors Without Borders. We moved to First and Seventh because of the rooftop, so Gene could have space to plant. In those days everyone but Gene was exhausted—sometimes punch-drunk on three hours of sleep a night, nodding off on the subway coming home from Lenox Hill or staggering bleary-eyed in clogs and scrubs from Beth Israel or CFC. We all felt like the walking dead, knew we were in bad shape, envying Gene, especially later, when he was home all day with the baby. In the end, moving to Haeden was all we wanted.
When we drove out to the house and barn through that wet and green countryside, we were excited. We would finally have a place of our own. The apparent beauty and possibility of it all was overwhelming, something we had tried and failed to build for ourselves the last six years in New York.
Even the double-wides and sloping farmhouses with their black POW and American flags seemed oddly majestic with so much land around them, the tiniest trailers close to creeks or ponds.
As we drove in, I was thinking about Michelle when we worked in the clinic together, saying the responsibility of every intelligent person is to pay attention to the obvious. How had we missed the obvious benefit of all this land? A whole house and acreage for the cost of one room on the Lower East Side. I was thinking how, the second we got out of the car and brought our boxes inside and wrote Uncle Ross his rent check, this whole thing would start. In those days I could not wait for it to start.
Alice was two then, and we walked inside and put our boxes down and sat on the kitchen floor, nervous and tired from the drive, eating some blueberries we had bought on the way. She had just woken up and her face was placid and her hair was tangled and she leaned against me eating blueberries, her body warm and gentle from sleep. Then evening came in from the fields and lit the place with sound and stars. Peepers called up from the river, and crickets played below the windows in the grass. It was the first time Alice had heard crickets, and we went out on the porch together, Gene and I, watched her listen, quiet and alert and hunkered down, her whole body taking in the sound. Her blue-stained lips parted and her eyes shining.
It was Alice's happiness, her joy in those moments, that allowed me to stay even years after, when paying attention to the obvious became a horror.
And for a long time we did not regret our singular vision. Our attempt to strip the irony from the slogans we'd come to live by. Phrases that buoyed us and embarrassed us at the same time. "Demand the Impossible," "Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach," anarchist sentiments we first took up in the city as a joke, then ultimately to comfort one another, to remind ourselves that we were different from our cohorts. Those words seemed—with all the incessant construction, and the destruction of the natural world, and Gene becoming fixated on "living the solution" and bringing down corporate agribusiness—more poignant at that time than when real revolutionaries scrawled them on the Paris streets in 1968. We might not have been burning cars and shutting down a city, but we were living in the sterile and violent future they had imagined, and we were certainly committed to destroying one culture by cultivating another.
This sensibility was one more way we were sleepwalking, dreaming. We did not stick with our plan. Though all four of us had passed the initial screening process for Doctors Without Borders, only one of us left on assignment. Gene and I were graced with Alice; Constant became plagued by an American concept of freedom, liquidity, mobility. These changes did not seem pivotal at the time, seemed instead the best possible outcome, exciting, a release. And how could we not admit that what we had been looking for by joining Doctors Without Borders was a release. Absolution from the lifestyle our postresidency careers seemed to necessitate, a lifestyle that was making the four of us—and not our colleagues—sick.
Those early years in Haeden were restful. Literally. Luxurious eight- and ten-hour nights. Waking up to quiet and birds instead of traffic. No six a.m. meetings at the clinic. Each season with its own particular beauty.
Bright, quiet winters snowed in and baking bread together, sitting around the woodstove, each of us silently reading. Summers resonant with the hum and staggered harmony of insects. The meadow in front of our house growing tall and strange from the warm rain. Swimming in the river and tending our vegetable garden. Alice could talk pretty well when we moved, and she loved the sounds, imitated them. Never herself, she was a frog, a mermaid, a bird. Radiant fall spent roasting and canning peppers with the smell of wood smoke on the cool air. And spring: Alice's favorite time in the world, when everything comes back to life and it's warm, with patches of snow, and we would wear shorts and big rubber boots and celebrate the first snowbells and crocuses. The air was lush and still cold and smelled like mud. Alice loved to run along the mowed path all the way to the river. In those early summers she was no taller than the goldenrod, just a head above the jack-in-the-pulpit that flanked the trails between the barn and woods. She loved to climb in the exposed roots of trees along the pebbled riverbank and collect stones and dried skeletons of crayfish. She was fearless.
We expected after a few years our friends would come, build, plant. Once Constant had made the money he wanted, once Michelle had finished her assignment, we would get back to the land, we would live and drink and work by the ideals we'd always had. Mutual Aid, No Boredom.
We expected, when Alice was bigger, we'd have enough money to have a real farm and for me to go back to some kind of practice. But these things never happened, and paying attention to the darker aspects of the obvious became a bad way to live if we wanted to stay happy and make friends.
Sleep had won out at last. We moved through our days in Haeden in a somnolent kind of daze, blithe when our senses called for panic, blind to our deepest fear, even as it lay, naked among the tall weeds, waiting.
© 2011 Cara Hoffman


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A local entomologist said mosquitoes can be easily fooled, simply by changing your clothes or wearing scented lotion.
A local entomologist said mosquitoes can be easily fooled, simply by changing your clothes or wearing scented lotion.
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For those prone to being bitten, attire, body heat, and odors have a lot to do with it, said Dawn Flynn, curator of life sciences at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia.
�They say don�t wear black because it will absorb heat,� she said. �Darker colors tend to attract insects. Wear lighter colors.�
Mosquitoes are also attracted to bodily odor, particularly on the skin. She recommends wearing scented lotion to mask any odor, making it harder for mosquitoes to find skin.
How do you know if you�re a mosquito magnet?
Flynn said some people produce more carbon dioxide than others, and are more likely to attract mosquitoes because of it.
�If you�re going to be more active, if you�re running in the woods, or exercising, you�re probably going to draw more,� she said.
And drinking beer can increase your chances of getting bitten by mosquitoes, according to a study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
It found that more mosquitoes landed on people after ingesting beer than before they drank.
Dr. Randall Gehlewith CaroMont Family Medicine in McAdenville said ethanol in alcoholic drinks is secreted in sweat, and attracts mosquitoes.
He�s also noticed that blood type plays a role in whether or not a person attracts more mosquitoes.
For instance, he said people with Type O blood, known as the �universal blood type,� are usually prone to being bitten more because there are no antibodies in the blood, and mosquitoes prefer sucking it over other types.
In the past two weeks, he�s seen a few people treated for infections from scratching mosquito bites. He said the scratching causes abrasions and bacteria in the skin.
He recommends holding ice to the bites to decrease swelling.
You can reach Wade Allen at 704-869-1828 or twitter.com/GazetteWade.


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It's Good Work When You Can Find It
Al Stevens has long been Dr. Dobb's eminent C/C++ programming guru. In this 2001 installment from his long-running column, Al discussed, among other things, open versus closed-source development--a topic that might as well be called: "The differences between Linux and Windows development," and his long ride on the "dependency carousel."
It's Good Work When You Can Find It
by Al Stevens
My exploration of Linux as a development platform continues this month. Most of my activities have involved reading books and talking with other Linux users and programmers in Usenet newsgroups. This month, I'll discuss some of the books, the perils of newsgroup participation, and some of the issues I've uncovered. You'll also realize why I probably have to park the Dobbsmobile (the roving DDJ reporter's motorhome) outside my friend Lou Grinzo's house and live there for a while. Lou is a frequent contributor to DDJ and editor of the Linux Programming e-zine (http://www.linuxprogramming.com/). He's also the source of much support and help as I get in further and further over my head with Linux programming.
Usenet is an essential resource for Linux users and developers. Although books are plentiful, there are so many small, specific issues related to installing and using Linux, that your only hope for help is to find someone else in this huge community who can shed light on your problem. Linux runs on hardware platforms with potentially millions of possible unique configurations. Not all devices have Linux support, and some of those that do are not that easy to get running properly. Installing the latest software can pull you into what Lou calls the "dependency carousel," which I'll address later in this column.
But discussing Linux on Usenet is an experience unlike what you might be used to. Linux newsgroups are populated by many learned, helpful, polite people. But an element lurks there that prefers insults and flames to the civil exchange of information. Be prepared to have your questions ridiculed, your competency challenged, and your integrity impugned. You need a thick skin. On one occasion, Lou stepped in and defended me from a particularly viscous affront. The moral? Don't go in there alone. Thanks, Lou.
GUI Wrappers
I said two months ago that my preliminary selection of KDE as a development platform was based partially on the availability of a C++ application framework for KDE. Readers wrote to tell me about gtk-a C++ wrapper around the GTK API upon which GNOME is based. Readers also pointed me to wxWindows, a multiplatform GUI C++ framework (which coincidentally is examined elsewhere in this issue). I'll report more about these libraries in a later column.
KDE endures a problem well known to Windows users and programmers-bloat. The KDE 1.1.2 that ships with Red Hat Linux 7.0 performs reasonably well with low-end hardware. I installed Mandrake 7.2, which uses KDE 2.0, and observed a significant performance degradation. Other users on the Mandrake news group (alt.os.linux.mandrake) report similar observations. To use the kdevelop IDE, which was one of the criteria for which I selected KDE as a development and target platform, I must install KDE 2.0 or higher. Obviously, Linux is not immune to the Windows syndrome that consumes processor resources as quickly as PC builders can add them.
Winmodems and Linux
Winmodems and Linux are not a happy couple. A winmodem (in the generic sense-if someone has trademarked "winmodem," I am not referring to that specific product) is an internal modem device that implements some of the traditional modem functions in software. Usually, the driver interprets the modem command set and translates the commands into low-level protocols that the winmodem understands. I am told that some winmodems also perform the digital signal processing that translates between digitized audio waveforms and digital modem data.
A winmodem has obvious advantages over traditional modems that implement these things in firmware and hardware in the modem itself. Those devices include serial port line drivers and UARTs, a microprocessor to interpret the commands, and memory for the firmware and data. The advantages are cost, weight, and size-all valid concerns for manufacturers, particularly laptop manufacturers.
In the old days, devices were dumb and the CPU had to do a lot of stuff. But slow CPU cycles and limited memory were precious, so devices got smarter and device-dependent functions were offloaded as much as possible onto the device.
The winmodem concept comes full circle. By exploiting today's fast CPUs and huge memory resources, the winmodem "onloads" device dependent functions back onto the host computer's CPU by implementing them in device drivers. The advantages? As I said earlier, cost: You pay for software once. Size and weight: More functions are crammed into smaller packages. The disadvantage? Nonstandard implementations. Since there are no standards for implementing protocols, each unique winmodem has a custom device driver, protocols are proprietary, and manufacturers usually deliver drivers only for Win32 platforms, which represents virtually their entire market. Consequently, most winmodem devices have no Linux support. As vendors publish the protocols, enterprising Linux driver programmers try to support the devices. But not all vendors do that, and the only way to get support is to reverse engineer the Windows drivers. That takes time and a desire to do it.
Other devices are following the winmodem model. I have an HP color printer designed to work only with Windows. I have two sound cards in the same boat. All three devices depend on software implementation of functions that are traditionally managed in the device. Linux users tend to react negatively to such devices because the unavailability of Linux drivers makes it difficult to install Linux on laptops and desktops that use them. But PC builders need to reduce per-copy cost to stay competitive and profitable, particularly as appliance computer prices plummet. The HP unit next to the Emachines unit on the shelf at Best Buy needs to compare favorably in features and price.
If Linux can ever support all those devices (no reason it can't, it's just software), OEMs might begin to look favorably on Linux as an alternative OS for their appliances. It's free, it's getting really friendly, and MicroSmurf can't push OEMs around the way they used to. Linux can have a really desirable effect on the per-unit cost. We're not that far from having an OEM configurable, shippable Linux. Eventually, there will be more VA Linux kinds of companies and their names will be Dell, Sony, Gateway, Toshiba, IBM, and so on.
(Then Linux will be mainstream, won't be considered cool anymore, and the next generation of geek-rebels will find some other platform to champion, publicly disparaging Linux and its proponents.)
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
A substantial part of my exploration into Linux has been into the culture of Open Source software development. More than a culture, Open Source has become a religion. I regret repeating that cliché, but there seems no better way to define it. Open Source has doctrines, scripture, and a self-proclaimed spiritual leader. Open Source advocates are sensitive to challenge and circle the wagons when outsiders ask obvious and penetrating questions about the validity of their doctrines and beliefs. To the outsider, Open Source looks like a religion.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Open Source's leader is Eric Raymond, the author of an Open Source program named fetchmail and of a series of essays that define the movement. These essays have become the official doctrine of the movement and are available in print as The Cathedral and the Bazaar in its second edition published by O'Reilly & Associates (http://www.oreilly.com/). They are also available online at the author's web site (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/).
This book is a wonderful collection of essays. The first two essays, "A Brief History of Hackerdom" and "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," are well written and a delight to read, whether you agree with them or not. Later essays, however, are written in a more ponderous, verbose style leading me to wonder if the author decided not to do any rewrites or, enamored of the acclaim he properly received about the earlier ones, decided not to expose his new deathless prose to the close scrutiny of a good editor who might dare to paint a mustache on his Mona Lisa. I've done that.
In Raymond's thesis, traditional software is built much as a cathedral would be, with management, planning, goals, strategy, teams, and so on, whereas Open Source software is built in the environment of a bazaar, with many independent programmers reviewing, debugging, and contributing corrections to an ongoing software-development effort. In the bazaar, many more volunteer eyes view the bugs than cathedral developers can afford to employ. Consequently, and because the beta testers are themselves developers, most bugs are revealed and corrected in short order. This concept is the foundation of the Open Source movement, and Raymond goes further to examine its social and economic implications, not necessarily to my complete satisfaction, but nonetheless thoroughly and interestingly.
I won't try here to repeat all the tenets of the Open Source movement-you can read the essays yourself. But one of them is that to be successful, a bazaar project must avoid the traditional mistake of irrevocably tying release schedules and feature lists. Release often, and add features only when they are ready to be released. Sacrifice features for timely releases. This is music to the ears of any programmer who has worked on a big project against a deadline within which some feature list has been promised. I don't know if anyone can make any money this way, but it's the way I'd rather write programs.
In the first edition, Raymond made some predictions, a dangerous thing to do in print because you often have to eat your words. One of his predictions was that Windows 2000 would never "ship in a usable form." Well, he had to eat those words in the second edition, but rather than poking fun at himself for getting one wrong, he tried to salvage his credibility by saying, "Microsoft managed to ship Windows 2000 by drastically curtailing its feature list." This, I think, contradicts the release-often doctrine.
Another Open Source cultural rule that Raymond breaks states that the proprietor of a project must be humble and self-deprecating, downplaying his own importance and the importance of his contributions (or hers), deferring instead to the members of the team. You won't find a lot of humility in this book. You will, however, read about Raymond's many achievements, his close association with the famous and their admiration for him, and his importance to the movement. To his credit, I must acknowledge that it's always difficult for a major contributor to write about his own work, remain humble, and still get the job done.
Finally, addressing the issue of whether software for sale is all that much of a concern, Raymond tells us that as he talks to programmers at software conferences, he asks how many people are paid to write software and how many of them have salaries that depend on the "sale value" of software. He always gets lots of hands for the first question and not very many for the second, which, he says, surprises everyone except him (having come to expect it, I suppose). Obviously, he has never spoken at a shareware convention.
Those small criticisms notwithstanding, The Cathedral and the Bazaar is required reading for anyone who wants to join the movement. Besides explaining the technical and social implications of membership, Raymond associates the movement's attitudes and mores with philosophical, sociological, and anthropological theories from the past and many nods to the great ones who went before him-Brooks, Weinberg, and others.
More FreeBSD
Earlier I told you about The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, from which I learned what I need to know to build my Linux network. Now I have The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide, by Ted Mittlestaedt (Addison-Wesley, 2000). I haven't finished reading the technical chapters. I did leaf through the book looking at the diagrams. Based on the pictures and the "Preface," the book looks promising. Naturally, it includes a CD-ROM with the operating system. But the real gem in this book is Chapter 10, "FreeBSD Advocacy," which the author says is "political." He first gives the history of UNIX, then FreeBSD. FreeBSD began as a project called "386BSD," which its authors, William and Lynne Jolitz, described in DDJ in the early 1990s. Mittlestaedt explains how 386BSD forked into three independent projects, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. He compares FreeBSD to Linux and tells why he thinks FreeBSD is a better choice. Chapter 10 addresses Open Source, Microsoft's antitrust problems, and many other things. This chapter alone is worth the price of the book.
To develop applications for UNIX-derived platforms, you might consider building a network with machines running Linux and the three BSD knockoffs. That way, you can determine whether your code compiles and runs on each of the platforms. The hardware investment would be minimal because you can dual-boot in some cases. Besides, Linux and its relatives don't consume the kind of horsepower required by that other operating system.
Open versus Closed Source Development
This discussion might well be titled: "The differences between free and costly software." It might also be titled: "The differences between Linux and Windows development." Let's go with that last one.
When I talk with for-profit Windows developers, I often ask their attitude toward the Open Source development model. If they have never heard of it, they are aghast. If they have heard of it, they are skeptical. I then ask if they have any thoughts about porting their applications to Linux platforms. The typical response is immediate: They have no such notions because Linux users are unwilling to pay for applications software.
In my meanderings through the Open Source community, I have observed a dearth of formally submitted Open Source Windows applications. The Open Source community seems dedicated to the Linux platform.
With no more to go on than these observations, I might draw these conclusions: If a Windows application has merit, people will pay money for it. Since developers are people too, and people like money, Windows application developers are unwilling to simply give away their work and forsake the money. Whether a Linux application has merit or not, trying to profit from it is useless because Linux users do not pay for software, good or bad. You might as well give it away and, if profit is a motivator, charge for support.
Next I wondered about the Open Source mentality among Windows (and before this, MS-DOS) users and developers. Does it exist? I draw upon my own experience with this column for some conclusions. Over the years I have, through this column and books, released many programs that fit the model of an Open Source project as defined by Raymond.
For this discussion, I'll address a program named "Quincy," an open source Windows IDE front end to two compiler suites, the mingw32 port of gcc and the free Borland 5.5 C/C++ compiler. Quincy is well known to readers of this column and my recent books. This discussion would apply to other programs I released, but Quincy is the most widely known, so I'll discuss it.
When I say that Quincy is open source, I do not mean that it is formally listed among the projects on freshmeat.net or announced in slashdot.org. Furthermore, Quincy is not covered by an officially sanctioned Open Source license that defines terms for its use and redistribution. Quincy and its source code are in the public domain, the open-source distribution model that I prefer.
I'll quote from Eric Raymond's list of things he did with fetchmail to test his theories about why Linus Torvalds's open source development model works:
- I released early and often...
- I grew my beta list by adding to it everyone who contacted me...
- I sent chatty announcements to the beta list whenever I released, encouraging people to participate.
- I listened to my beta-testers...
Quincy did not, however, benefit much from the bazaar model of software development that Raymond describes, even though Quincy seems to meet all the criteria for an open-source bazaar model. There are many users on my list of Quincy testers. I can presume that they are programmers because Quincy is an application for programmers. But whereas I received many bug reports, virtually none of Quincy's users submitted corrections to the source code. Most such help came from a small number of people who are developing similar programs. Usually, they explained how they addressed some particular problem I was having, often with fragments of source code from their applications, but never with actual corrections to Quincy's code. With their help, I was able to get past a number of obstacles, but even so, all the source code in Quincy is mine.
Most of the communications I receive about Quincy either report suspicious behavior, leaving the debugging work for me, or simply ask how to use the program. Yet Quincy was originally released six years ago, has gone through four major version releases and many more minor ones.
Conclusions? I don't know what to conclude. Perhaps Windows programmers are not interested in participating in the bazaar development community. Perhaps they don't understand how it works or that fixing bugs and submitting code is an option. Perhaps I didn't properly explain that I am willing to receive and review such contributions. I find no such explanation in any of the release history, so I probably did not. I don't even know that the possibility occurred to me as I released new builds.
I do know that I often reacted to some pesky bug report with a knee-jerk mutter like this: "Quit whining. You're a programmer. Fix it yourself and tell me how you did it." To myself, of course. I never said that to anyone, and shame on me for thinking it.
Here's one possibility. Quincy is a Visual C++ MFC program but, since it also does a lot of what VC++'s Developer Studio does, users might be getting Quincy and the compilers for free instead of buying VC++. Wouldn't that be nice? Perhaps most Quincy users, who receive binaries and source code, do not have the VC++ development environment to compile Quincy because having Quincy makes it unnecessary. Quincy cannot compile itself. Neither of the two free compilers includes MFC libraries. Perhaps most Quincy users cannot debug and fix Quincy.
The Dependency Carousel
The dependency carousel, according to Lou Grinzo, is a serious issue that doesn't get addressed much except when someone has a specific Linux application installation problem, which happens more often than it ought to. Anyone who tries to upgrade an installed Linux distribution with some new package is likely to run into the difficulty.
Here's how the carousel spins. Linux applications are released to depend on certain versions of supporting compile-time and run-time libraries. Those libraries themselves depend on other libraries. For example, kdevelop might require a certain version of KDE, which might require a certain version of QT, which might require a certain version of X, all of which require certain versions of the compiler headers and libraries.
Fortunately, installation of a package automatically senses when a dependent package is either not installed or not the correct version. Unfortunately, you are not informed of nested dependencies from the git-go. Each successive installation advises you that you need something else upgraded, and these dependencies can nest deeply. At best, you are in for a long session of downloads and installs. At worst, you get way into the process, with much time invested, only to be told that replacing an earlier version of something violates an earlier dependency because something else is installed that depends on the installed version of the library you are trying to replace. Whew. That's as difficult to say as it is to understand.
If you are lucky, you can vector over to the other thing that needs to be upgraded and start over again from there. If you are not so lucky, you don't recognize the name of the thing that refuses to be preempted, don't know where to get an upgrade, and aren't sure whether you ought to.
The installation procedures include options that permit you to ignore or override dependencies, but nothing tells you what effect that has on your system.
This is an area of Linux installation and maintenance that needs some attention. It reminds me of DLL version problems in Windows, only much worse and much more out of control. At the very least the problem needs to be well documented with careful procedures for installing particular upgraded packages. At best, the cause of the problem needs to be examined and alternative approaches worked out.
What to do? I work in an impoverished region where cable modem does not reach. Actually, it could reach my house, but after the law permitted us to install our own cable extensions without paying Ted Turner for them, I ran about 100 feet of underground TV cable from the house to the office. Reception was poor, so I added a Radio Shack video amplifier. It suffices for watching Gilligan reruns, but the signal isn't strong enough for Roadrunner (the cable-modem service, not the cartoon). Okay, now that you're feeling sorry for me, you will understand why I do not download the latest of everything at 31,200 bps, particularly when downloads run many megabytes and disconnects are frequent. (Another travail of the bucolic lifestyle is unstable phone lines.)
Therefore, I wait for things to become available on CD-ROM distributions. I have installed Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.2. Neither one fully supports kdevelop as of this writing, and my first several attempts to upgrade introduced me to the dependency carousel. I don't like getting dizzy, so I'll wait for a distribution that provides what I need. After all, the Open Source development model has no deadlines for delivering working code. I think I'm going to enjoy this work.


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Back to school. Back to the routine.
Back to the unpredictable, too — at least until things settle down.
Young children's reactions often deny predictability or explanation. That's especially true when children get excited. Plenty of children are excited about heading to school, whether they're seeing friends again after the long summer, meeting a new teacher or entering elementary school for the first time.
They dart into the road. They cut across the parking lot. Hop out of the car before it comes to a complete stop. They run around a corner and "disappear."
Young people also often react in an unpredictable manner when they're distracted. Whether they're in elementary, middle and high school, they may be preoccupied about the fresh start, concerned about changing schools, worried by the uncertainty and unfamiliarity of the new school year.
That puts the onus on adults to be alert. Watch out for children, in the school zone and out. Be alert for teen drivers thrilled and nervous about providing their own transportation. Expect the unexpected. Slow down. You cannot control students' actions and reactions, but you can control your own.
Remember that you were young, excited, distracted and even unpredictable once, too.


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WD® Gives Consumers A Cloud Of Their Own
With New My Cloud™ Consumers Can Easily Save, Access and Share all of their Photos, Videos and Files from Any Device, Anytime - without Sacrificing Privacy
Oct 02, 2013, 07:57 ET
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and a world leader in storage solutions for the connected life, today introduced its new My Cloud™ family of personal cloud solutions. WD's My Cloud is a complete solution for users to organize, centralize and secure the digital content from all of their computers and mobile devices and access those files from any device, from anywhere in the world. By simply connecting a My Cloud personal cloud drive to the Internet, consumers get the anywhere, any-device access they can get from the public cloud, without having to pay monthly fees or giving up control of their personal data.
"We believe that there's no place like home for the cloud," said Jim Welsh, executive vice president and general manager of WD's branded products and consumer electronics groups. "Everyone is inundated with thousands of digital files scattered across multiple computers and mobile devices, and controlling that chaos is a challenge. WD's personal cloud is the easiest, most secure and most affordable way for customers to control that chaos, with access to all of their files anywhere, anytime."
Research firm Gartner estimates that the average household will own approximately 3.3 terabytes (TB) of digital content by 2016[1]. In line with this growth of digital content is the explosive growth of Internet-connected devices, with the current U.S. household owning 5.7 connected devices, according to The NPD Group[2]. The convergence of rapid content and device growth requires a new storage paradigm that gives consumers complete control over their digital lives. Personal cloud storage is the new standard, allowing users to keep media and files safe at home on their own physical drive and then access them over the Internet with any PC or Mac® computer or on tablets and smartphones through mobile apps. Using the My Cloud drive, users can share files, stream media and access content anywhere with no monthly fees and feel secure in the knowledge that their cloud resides in their own home under their exclusive control.
"Families are connecting, sharing, syncing, and backing-up numerous mobile devices and computers in their household, with the amount of digital data being created on these devices growing dramatically," said Liz Conner, Senior Research Analyst, Storage Systems, IDC. "Personal cloud is an ideal solution to simplify the complex issue of organizing digital files across various devices so that users can enjoy their digital videos, photos and music on all of their devices."
Streamlined Setup and Backup
Customers can get their personal cloud up and running in minutes with WD's rich web-based user interface for seamless web-guided setup. WD's software auto-detects the drive to make setup simple for novice users. Once the My Cloud drive is setup, customers can easily connect their computers and mobile devices with WD's free desktop and mobile apps. With a Gigabit Ethernet connection and Dual-Core processor, transferring files is blazing fast, allowing customers to quickly centralize all of the digital content scattered across various devices onto My Cloud. With direct file uploads from mobile devices, important files and videos can be safely moved to My Cloud, freeing up valuable space on users' tablets and smartphones.
Customers can also use their My Cloud to back up their computers and digital files. For PC users, WD SmartWare™ Pro software offers options for how, when and where to back up files. Mac users can utilize all the features of Apple® Time Machine® backup software to protect their data.
Complete Control
My Cloud users can store and organize their families' photos, videos, music and important documents in one secure place on the home network. With the new My Cloud desktop app, navigating, controlling and sharing these files from anywhere in the world is simple and intuitive. My Cloud is available in 2 TB, 3 TB, and 4 TB capacities, providing bountiful storage capacity with no monthly payment required. Customers can also attach a compatible USB 3.0 hard drive directly to the USB expansion port on the My Cloud drive and instantly expand their storage capacity.
Additionally, My Cloud serves as a home's digital entertainment hub, storing terabytes of movies and music that can then be streamed to any DLNA™-certified multimedia device such as a WD TV® Live™ media player, as well as smart TVs and gaming consoles.
Accessing the Personal Cloud
Available for iOS® and Android™ devices, the new WD My Cloud mobile app allows users to view photos, stream video and access their files from anywhere on their smartphones or tablets. The mobile app also makes file sharing and collaborating simple and secure, allowing customers to easily email files, share files as a link, and print and open files with third party apps.
Additionally, the My Cloud mobile app integrates major public cloud services so that customers can easily transfer files between their Dropbox™, SkyDrive® and Google Drive™ public cloud accounts[3].
Price and Availability
The 2 TB and 3 TB My Cloud is currently available at select U.S. retailers and online at the wdstore.com. The 4 TB My Cloud is expected to be available in November. MSRP is $149.99 USD for 2 TB, $179.99 USD for 3 TB and $249.99 USD for 4 TB. The My Cloud mobile app currently is available for download from the App Store(SM) and Google PlayTM. A two drive and four drive My Cloud configuration will be available in the future.
Capacity and Compatibility
My Cloud personal cloud storage is available in capacities of 2 TB, 3 TB and 4 TB and is compatible with Windows® 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista®, Windows XP, OS X Mountain Lion™, Lion®, Snow Leopard®, as well as DLNA®/UPnP® enabled devices.
About WD
WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD's leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.wd.com.
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is a global provider of products and services that empower people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands. Visit the Investor section of the company's website (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.
This news release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected availability of My Cloud products in two drive and four drive configurations, estimated growth of digital content and interconnected devices, and the expected availability of the 4 TB My Cloud product in November. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including changes in markets, competition, demand; failure to accurately anticipate customers' changing needs and emerging technological trends like personal and corporate cloud storage, failure by certain suppliers to develop and manufacture components, technology or production equipment for our products, global economic or political conditions and or other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our most recent annual report on Form 10-K, to which your attention is directed. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak as of the date hereof, and WD undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
Western Digital, WD, and the WD logo are registered trademarks in the U.S. and other countries; Windows and Windows Vista are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac, OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard and Time Machine are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. IOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in the U.S. and other countries and is used under license by Apple Inc. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. All other brand and product names mentioned herein are the property of their respective companies. As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131002/LA89940)
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000711/WDCLOGO)
[1] Source: Gartner, "Forecast: Consumer Digital Storage Needs, 2010-2016"
[2] Source: The NPD Group, "Internet Connected Devices Surpass Half a Billion in U.S. Homes, According to The NPD Group"
[3] Dropbox, SkyDrive or Google Drive account required. Cloud services may be changed, terminated or interrupted at any time and may vary by country.


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Deputy Coroner: Unclear if Death Caused by Gas
ABERDEEN - Brown County deputy coroner Taylor Oster says a preliminary autopsy on a 57-year-old North Dakota man found dead in a garage in Aberdeen shows low levels of carbon monoxide exposure, but it's unclear if the gas caused his death.
The Aberdeen American News reports that Brent Colding, of LaMoure, N.D., was found dead on Tuesday.
Oster says the official cause of death will be released in a few weeks after the toxicology report comes back. Brown County Coroner Michael Carlsen will then make the final ruling.
No foul play is suspected.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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I know she made it out of the first series but I think she was dropped after the vicious double land blind.
Congrats on your 3rd with Tea at Lake Champlain! You have a very nice dog and have done an excellent job training and handling her. It was great meeting you at Western NY.
Any word on how Heather Horton did with Ticket, the Flat-Coat? He's done very well with Lois Munroe handling him, but I think this was Heathers first time at the wheel.


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Warlpiri invest in education
After eight years of lobbying, the remote community of Willowra is celebrating the opening of its very own Learning Centre.
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Funded with money from Warlpiri mining royalties and built by local men, the Willowra Learning Centre has been developed by the community for the community.
The site features an early childhood facility, training and meeting rooms, a library, computers and internet access, staff accommodation and even an outdoor movie screen.
Resident Maisie Kitson has been asking for better education programs for the community for eight years.
"It's not only an adult learning centre, it's also a playgroup."
"It's important because young people need training with how to use a computer, and young mums can come across from the playgroup to learning centre," she says.
The Director of the Central Land Council, David Ross, says the community played a key role in planning and developing the facility and its programs.
"A lot of men and women, when they go through initiation process, they drop out of school because it's not for them.
"Well this is a place for them to come and learn because they're treated as adults and not as children," he says.
Now that the centre is built the Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education will run the training programs and the early childhood facility.
The Institute's Director Adrian Mitchell says training programs have been ad hoc in the past, and the new facility will create a dialogue for organisations operating in the community.
"This facility gives us the opportunity to work with organisations like the Central Desert Shire and the Central Land Council so we can identify those employment opportunities and create meaningful pathways," he says.
The Learning Centre was built using $600, 250 of mining royalties through the Warlpiri Education and Training Trust, and $2.6 million from the Aboriginals Benefit Account.
FaCHSIA will provide two years worth of operational funding.
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