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A while ago I posted this:While preparing a hardware workshop and playing with multi-position keylocks, I was reading out the keylock position using GPIO pins. I had the idea to structure this a bit more and integrate it with the operating system. Out of this, experimental support for keylocks was born. The attached diff, which is also online at http://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/diffs/keylock_03.diff , adds the following components:- Generic support for keylocks in the kernel. The number of keylock positions and the current keylock position can be read from the kernel using two functions, userland can access them through the hw.keylock.npos and hw.keylock.pos sysctl variables.- gpiolock(4) a driver for GPIO attached multi-position keylocks. The driver registers with the in-kernel keylock "subsystem".- secmodel_keylock, a kauth(9) security model that authorizes based on the keylock "closedness". Wheter the rightmost (default) or leftmost position of the keylock means open can be controlled using the security.models.keylock.order sysctl variable (access to which will be protected later).The enable this, "options KEYLOCK" and "options secmodel_keylock" must be set in the kernel configuration; to use the gpiolock(4) driver att a "gpiolock* at gpio?" line.[ ...]In the meantime I got useful feedback and reworked the keylock support. In particular I changed the following parts:- The secmodel_keylock security model is now decoupled from the bsd44 security model. It is started when a keylock driver registers and stopped when there is no more keylock driver. The keylock security model is optional, keylock support can be used without the security model as well (e.g. to provide keylock state to a userland applications. very useful for POS applications).- The keylock state interpretation has moved from secmodel_keylock.c to kern_keylock.c. This is the better place and it allows us to add support for multiple keylocks in the future. The hw.keylock.pos and hw.keylock.npos sysctl variable have debugging character, the hw.keylock.state variable reflects the state and should be used.- The keylock positions are interpreted as follows: There are max. four positions, OPEN, SEMIOPEN, SEMICLOSE, CLOSE. What exactly that means leaves room for interpretation right now.... (experience will show what makes sense in the end).- The hw.keylock.order sysctl value can only be changed when the keylock is in the open state.The attached diff can also be found online at http://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/diffs/keylock_04.diff Many thanks to all that replied to my initial posting.
Please find an updated diff at http://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/diffs/keylock_07.diff that includes the gpiolock(4) man page in the dirstribution set lists file.
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Abductees have had some REALLY strange experiences. Usually abductees have a number of close up sightings through out their lifetime. Even though a lot of these stories I am sure are fabricated to sell a book, or to make false claims to stir the pot of misinformation, some claims have hard evidence, and some common truths, throughout each experience. Let's talk about some of these common truths:
Lost Time - Many individuals who have been legitimately abducted have had large gaps of missing time. This time, they cannot remember. In most cases it is hours, or days, and sometimes weeks of missing time. How could this be? Imagine looking down at your watch, after a spectacular UFO sighting, and having 2 hours missing that you cannot explain. It has become popular among many modern day physicists that time does not exist. Some abductees have claimed to have felt like they were gone for years, and when flashed back to Earth, within the exact time frame they "left".
Landing Sites - Some abductees claim that they have seen the UFO land in a clearing before approaching them and being led onto their ship, unwillingly. When brought back to these areas where the ship landed, circular spots have been found full of radiation, where the mark has killed all grass and other vegetation, that would have been in the landing area. These areas are still radioactive. You can go there and scan these areas and see for yourself. If you know where any of these places are please list them in the comments.
Alien Implants - Implants have been removed from many people across the globe after saying they have been abducted by aliens...These implants are very strange indeed. Some have been shown to actually transmit an RF signal. Others have been found to have the ability to bind to the host in a way, that cannot be removed, not even with surgery, without risking the abductee's life. No one has any explanation where these implants came from. In my mind this is some of the most mind numbing truth on the alien abduction subject.
Recurring Visits from UFO crafts - Abductees claim that they have repeated occurrences of UFOs coming to visit them. Especially when they are alone. A lot of these people also say that they have been visited by aliens for the majority of their life, they even remember childhood contact with the alien beings.
Loss of memory during time of abduction - The most common denominator in alien abduction cases is the missing time. It seems me like people's brains are being wiped. A lot of people have had success with hypnotherapy that allows people to remember their experiences. I urge everyone that feels like they have been abducted, to give this a shot. The more the world knows about your experiences, the more we can understand whats going on.
Experiencers or Abductees can connect with other experiencers, or abductees
It is said that abductees, have an ability to tell if someone else has been abducted. I have never been abducted, so I don't know if this has any basis in reality or not. However, maybe it is true, maybe people were infused with psychic abilities, in one way or another after being abducted by alien or extra dimensional beings? How else could this be explained?
Have you had an alien encounter? You will not be judged here I moderate all comments, please let us know of your experience. You may help others just like you that have had something happen to them, that cannot be explained. Do not be afraid to come forward, sometimes in order to start to deal with this type of thing in human consciousness, we need an open fair discussion about it. Don't worry I won't approve any hate comments. Let us all know what you have been through...Do you trust the Free organization by Edgar Mitchell? Only time will tell...
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The 26th Annual Meeting of the
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PLACE: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA)
DATES: Sept 27-30, 2012
From its inception, SLSA has distinguished itself from other humanistic scholarly societies through its sustained interest in the nonhuman. Not only does SLSA concern itself with nonhuman actants like tools, bodies, networks, animals, climate, media, or biomes but it is also engaged with such nonhumanistic academic disciplines as mathematics, computing, and the natural and physical sciences. SLSA 2012 takes up the "nonhuman turn" that has been emerging in the arts, humanities, and social sciences over the past few decades.
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- August 28th: Schedule of Panels Finalized
- July 10th: A Preliminary Schedule of Panels is now available. This schedule is intended to help participants with their planning and lists only the PANEL Sessions. This is not the Program: keynotes, receptions, and other events are not listed.
- June 13th: An additional block of rooms has been organized at the DoubleTree Hotel -- across the street from the Hilton. You can find links to the registration portals on the Accommodation page.
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Malibu Coconut Rum is distilled from fermented molasses and blended with coconut and sugar. The brand is owned by one of the world's largest spirits producers, Pernod Ricard.
Currently produced in Canada, Malibu Coconut rum was originally made in Curaçao from fruit spirits flavored with coconut and rum. The original recipe was developed as a shortcut for bartenders making Piña Coladas, however today the stands on its own.
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Simply rofl. It smells just like old Ford Fiesta...
Mix with fresh pineapple juice and you get a tasty drink, use in any cocktail, you will get a tasty drink. Sweet, consumable, but has no real rum influence outside of a cocktail night. On the positive side, it is cheap and readily available and I do have a penchant for the premixed cans with sparkling pineapple juice.
I am sure there are better quality coconut rums out there, but this one will serve its purpose.
There are much better coconut rums out there. First thing its like 42 proof so its almost all water and sugar so I cant consider it a true rum, more like a liqueur. With that in mind you cant expect much as far as quality. Opening it you get a sugary coconut smell with no hints of alcohol. Drinking it is much the same you get a very distinct extract of coconut taste with a side of a large portion of sugar cane and thats about it. I prefer other coconut rums that dont use coconut extract because its just not anywhere near comparable to a natural coconut flavor. Which is why this rum loses points because it is beat out by a large amount of competitors.
-Not a liquor more a liqueur (low proof 42)
-Smells of coconut and sugar (no alcohol)
-Tastes like coconut EXTRACT and sugar cane
-There are better rums for the price that use a natural coconut and at higher proof
-Very fact manufactured taste
Cocococonut well don't know why I'm even rating this one
The chemical aftertaste is pretty offensive. Why on earth would anyone drink this stuff when they can buy hand sanitizer more cheaply (and it's probably more tasty than this poo).
A decent coconut rum that you should break out for a party, save the good stuff for yourself.
Anyone who mistakes Malibu for a proper rum knows little about rum. It's basically an artificially flavored sugar syrup with a little rum added.
Cheap, cheerful, easily obtainable and probably you want this in your home bar for those "friends" visiting that want a sweet coconut flavoured cocktail.
Just go the supermarket walk straight passed this Malibu and get yourself a ripe coconut and start making some home-made real unsweetened coconut rum at higher proof. Plenty of recipes on-line to get you there,
Make sure to hide it from your "friends" as they will see the light and drink your home-made good stuff ;)
My affair with rum began when I was slightly underage, and slightly more naive. Asking the barman for a 'surprise' drink luckily resulted in what is now my standard drink; Malibu and cranberry. The sharpness of cranberry with the crispness of coconut and a twinge of lime makes it my perfect drink.
I use this one in a easy mixer with pineapple juice! It's low rum rate and strong coconut taste makes it taste like your on holiday...
A party liqueur if there ever was one. Although the scent and flavour brings back memories of vacation and summer time, it is not match for a proper coconut infused rum, or coconut liqueur when it comes to crafting cocktails. It knows how to shine when it needs to, but it shouldn't be taken as a serious ingredient for any true mixologists
Coconut flavored syrupy sugary garbage, plain and simple.
Tak toto je veľmi sladké s príchuťou kokosu a nemá to vôbec nič spoločné s rumom, ale vôbec to nie je zlé ako prísada do niektorých miešaných drinkov a s dobre vychladeným ananásovým džúsom sa to priam pýta. Na ten účel, ktorý bol Malibu stvorený je celkom vydarené dielo.
The backstory: My buddy was having his 21st birthday party and I was working at a now defunct liquor store in St. Charles MO. There was a $5 cover charge unless you brought booze. I brought beer and a pint of Malibu Rum. It was midnight and we all sat in a circle passing this around. The next morning I went to White castle and threw up all over the bathroom. The last thing I had to drink was Malibu.
I will never buy Malibu again, because of this incident. The artificialness of the coconut was just too much. This is perfect if you're in high school and don't know better. But as you get older you tend to get much wiser. Avoid.
if you're a teenage girl you probably think that this is good rum but I'm not and you're most likely not either so go to the grocery store and buy a freaking coconut..... Or..... Get fancy and buy a half of a coconut and pour some decent rum into it and voila.... Coconut rum that won't give you a hangover.
We use this in mojitos with mint from our deck. Tastes like you're drinking it off the back of that special someone who you've just lathered with suntan lotion...in a good way.
Pas vraiment du rhum...
Une mixture industrielle, avec du rhum et des arômes de coco
Sympa à boire en cocktails.
So it's sold everywhere from Walgreens to Walmart. So what? Pour some Malibu, Sprite, and the juice of your choice (pineapple or orange works great) and you've got a beach drink to take you away from your worries. It's sweet, it accents a tropical/fruity drink well, and I honestly love it.
I've been drinking this since forever, half the time without not knowing it, since this is probably the favorite bar staple for making Hawaiian drinks. Good enough, but would l-o-v-e to see an organic version on the market, especially now that coconut water and milk have become such the rage with the vegan yoga crowd recently.
A bit artificially sweet, but ok for a flavored bum. Works in concoctions nicely, and that is the breadth.
This is the rum you buy in college or high school because your girlfriend or boyfriend is a light weight and knows nothing about rum? Most bar drinks with coconut are made with this. Light on alcohol but heavy on coconut flavor.
Tastes fine, like coconut with a little bit of college. It is what it is. Very strong on the coconut flavor very little in the way of rum flavor. Nothing wrong with it for what it is, fairly inoffensive, but its definitely not great. Perfect for parties.
Not great. I like coconut but this somehow misses the mark. Perhaps in a cocktail it serves a purpose?!
Un bon cocktail, facile à boire. Je pense que les femmes l'aimeront. Je préfère acheter un bon rhum et le mélanger avec tout ce que je veux.
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I want to observe Valentine's Day by discussing some of my favorite soap couples. I know soaps are famous for their "supercouples," those pairs that keep coming back to each other through sleet, snow, and psychotic ex-spouses. Most shows have had these grand couples: Luke and Laura, Bo and Hope, Josh and Reva, and so on. But I'd like to honor five couples that had the most impact on me — the ones that moved me, made me laugh, made me sigh and made me believe in love — or as Marlena would say, l'amour!
Rachel and Mac, Another World: Mac and Rachel were one of the most believable stories ever to play out on our screens. A theater director I worked with once said the magic of any performance was when you really believed, and I really believed that Mac [Read more…]


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Coffeetrish necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Let's Live to 100 ......and love it. (letsliveto100.com)
I am starting a new membership site all about How to live to 100 and I need a great logo.The site will have input from Natural Health professionals about diet, exercise, general well being and alternative therapies, with a long term view of health.
People who are generally interested in improving their health, losing weight, getting fit and finding out - through natural methods, how to stay healthy and live a long life ....and love it! Not too young and certainly not beauty queens and/or muscle men. I expect women 30-60 will be the majority of subscribers, but I don't want to exclude men
A fresh crisp design incorporating - healthy food, exercise, nature (out-doors), that will appeal to people wanting to be healthy.
No Cartoons - I want it to be crisp and educational
The typeface should be clear, simple and bold. I want something that stands out.
Not cute. - educational and crisp.
I will be using this in a Wordpress theme (to be designed when the logo is decided).
The design will mostly be used online, but will also be used in print.
Please do not use any clip art.
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Perhaps the most important step in developing applications with DataNucleus is the enhancement of compiled classes. NetBeans provides a convenient way of integrating this procedure into the build process without the need for any additional tool or plugin. This is possible because NetBeans has native integration with Maven and Ant. Any DataNucleus project based on Maven will open and run as is with Netbeans. No changes are needed in the project nor in Netbeans. When using Ant Class enhancement thus becomes a simple matter of adding a new task to the existing build.xml generated by NetBeans.
This tutorial shows how to integrate DataNucleus with NetBeans 7.0 to simplify the development of JDO applications. Please contribute any updates to this guide that you have since the developers of DataNucleus don't use Netbeans
The following components are required to complete this tutorial successfully:
NetBeans has native integration with Maven. If your project builds with Maven then it will also build with NetBeans without any change. Unzip the sample project to $home/DNSamples/datanucleus-samples-jdo-tutorial-3.0
The sample project comes with a pom.xml. When you try to open this project NetBeans will automatically detect it as maven project.
Start Netbeans
Open Maven Project
Clean Build the project
You will see a success message as below
------------------------------------------------------------------------ BUILD SUCCESS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total time: 5.406s Finished at: Fri Aug 05 09:23:53 IST 2011 Final Memory: 14M/108M ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Run Main Class
The results can be seen in the output window
DataNucleus AccessPlatform with JDO =================================== Persisting products Product and Book have been persisted Retrieving Extent for Products >> Book : JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings by Tolkien >> Product : Sony Discman [A standard discman from Sony] Executing Query for Products with price below 150.00 >> Book : JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings by Tolkien Deleting all products from persistence Deleted 2 products End of Tutorial ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BUILD SUCCESS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total time: 6.221s Finished at: Fri Aug 05 09:27:43 IST 2011 Final Memory: 7M/106M ------------------------------------------------------------------------
The first thing to do is to register the DataNucleus components in the Library Manager of NetBeans 7 so that these become available to any project created with the IDE. This involves creating a new library and adding the JAR files to it, as shown in the following screenshots
Open Library Manager
Add New Library with Name DN3 - Repeat the process for DN3Deps
Add all the libraries under $home/datanucleus-accessplatform-full-deps-3.0.0-release/lib to DN3. Add all the libraries under $home/datanucleus-accessplatform-full-deps-3.0.0-release/deps to DN3Deps
Once this is done, the NetBeans 7 will add the JAR files to the classpath whenever the newly-created DN3 and DN3Deps library is selected for a project.
Delete pom.xml from the downloaded samples project. NetBeans treats any folder with pom.xml as maven project. Copy the datanucleus.properties to src/java in the downloaded samples project.
Now create a new project from existing sources.
Remember to Select Java Project with Existing Source
Click Next and Add Folder. The source folder should point to datanucleus-samples-jdo-tutorial-3.0/src/java
Then click Next and Finish
Now we have the sucessfuly created the sample project using Ant
Add the Libraries created in first set to this project. Right-Click on Libraries in the Projects Tab
Add DN3 library to your project. Also add DN3Deps
We also need to add JDBC support to our project. Add this using add Add jars option. Right-Click on Libraries in the Projects Tab and select Add jars
Add hsqldb
The enhancement process needs to be defined and integrated into the build process. As stated in the introduction, this requires a simple change to the nbbuild.xml file.
TypeSafe Queries :- Datanucleus generates addtional code for supporting type safe queries. Ensure that "Enable Annotation processing" check box is selected, which is under Project Properties | build | compiling
Click on the Files tab, expand the project tree, then open nbbuild.xml
Override the -post-compile task/target with the following Ant instructions.
<target name="-post-compile" depends="init"> <path id="module.enhancer.classpath"> <pathelement path="${javac.classpath}"/> <pathelement location="${build.classes.dir}"/> </path> <taskdef name="datanucleusenhancer" classpathref="module.enhancer.classpath" classname="org.datanucleus.enhancer.EnhancerTask"/> <echo message="start datanucleusenhancer"/> <datanucleusenhancer classpathref="module.enhancer.classpath" dir="${build.classes.dir}" verbose="true"> <fileset dir="${build.classes.dir}"> <include name="**/*.class"/> </fileset> </datanucleusenhancer> <echo message="end datanucleusenhancer"/> </target>
This target is the most convenient for enhancing classes because it occurs just after all classes have been compiled and is called in any case, whether the project is being built, tested or deployed. This ensures that classes are always enhanced. Ensure that the Compile on Save option is turned off. Enable Annotation Processing should be turned ON
The project can now be built, with the knowledge that the classes will be enhanced in the process.
Output window will show some thing similar to this
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 2 seconds) Run the main class The output window will show as below Product and Book have been persisted Retrieving Extent for Products >> Book : JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings by Tolkien >> Product : Sony Discman [A standard discman from Sony] Executing Query for Products with price below 150.00 >> Book : JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings by Tolkien Deleting all products from persistence Deleted 2 products End of Tutorial BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 2 seconds)


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Home > Animal health in the World > Technical disease cards
The OIE has updated the technical disease cards for 34 important animal diseases, including 33 OIE-listed diseases. These are currently available in English only.
The OIE expresses its gratitude to the scientists from its Reference Laboratories and other experts, as well as key donors such as USDA-APHIS, who have contributed to the new versions of the disease cards.


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Consolidate Information Protection
Data protection in the retail industry often suffers from coverage gaps and vulnerabilities. Most protection that does exist – often guided by PCI auditors – is a confusing patchwork of point solutions that are difficult to monitor and untrustworthy in a crisis.
Symantec combines solutions and services for a unified approach.
- Data Loss Prevention solutions integrate discovery, monitoring, protection, and management of confidential data wherever it is stored or used
- Encryption solutions protect data on mobile endpoints or trigger Safe Harbor exemptions when data is moved suspiciously
- Consulting services help to address process gaps and make information protection programmatic
Defend Against Targeted Attacks
PCI compliance is just the beginning of your information protection program. To effectively manage security across an extended network that includes headquarters, stores, and mobile networks, you need a unified solution that includes:
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- Strong authentication and certificate management across devices, applications, and users
- Two-factor authentication for high-value or high-sensitivity transactions
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Retailers are fighting an asymmetric battle. Unknown adversaries deploy seemingly limitless resources to launch increasingly sophisticated, multi-staged advanced targeted attacks.
Improve your odds by investing in intelligence and training services that keep your teams ahead of an evolving threat landscape.
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Half of enterprise retailers worry about their ability to respond to new threats. Their most common concern? Staffing. It's difficult to find and hire and skilled security experts.
Symantec maintains a world-class team of trained security professionals to help with global threat monitoring 24/7/365, in addition to security management services and emergency incident preparation and response.


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'Suge' Knight shot at pre-VMAs party
Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was shot early Sunday morning at a pre-MTV Video Music Awards party, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed to USA TODAY.
"Early stages of the investigation indicated that the person known as 'Suge' Knight has been identified as one of several victims of this shooting that occurred in West Hollywood," says Deputy Jeff Gordon.
Gordon confirmed two other victims: a 32-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman. The shooting occurred after 1:30 a.m. PT Sunday, Gordon says.
Knight remains in intensive care after undergoing surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, TMZ says.
There is no confirmation of how many shots were fired, Gordon says. "We're still in the early stages of this investigation and don't have any updates at this time," he says.
Shots struck Death Row Records co-founder Knight, 49, at a nightclub party hosted by VMAs nominee Chris Brown at 1 Oak on Sunset Boulevard and attended by apl.de.ap of the Black Eyed Peas and model Tyson Beckford. Justin Bieber was photographed earlier in the evening at another pre-party hosted by Brown, but it's unknown whether he went to the club event.
Video posted at TMZ shows Knight getting into a police car after the shooting.
"The family of Suge Knight ask that you keep Suge in your prayers and to stray away from the negativity portrayed by the media," Knight's family said in a statement to Revolt TV's website. "Suge is currently resting and has lost a lot of blood, he's human. He's done a lot of things for the community and the culture as a whole so we ask that you respect that."
Brown referred to the incident on Twitter Sunday morning, tweeting, "It's disappointing that we as a society can't have fun or enjoy ourselves without any altercations sometimes."
His reps issued a statement to USA TODAY, saying, "Chris hosted an event in Los Angeles last night to celebrate the upcoming release of his album X, during which an incident occurred. This incident did not involve Chris; he was merely the host of the event. He has and will continue to cooperate with the investigation."
MTV also issued a statement to USA TODAY, saying, "MTV has no affiliation nor is connected to this event in any way."
No additional information has been released about the other shooting victims.
"In compliance with strict federal and state privacy laws, we do not confirm or deny anything about patients, including whether someone even received treatment here," Laura Coverson, senior media specialist at Cedars-Sinai, told USA TODAY.
Knight founded Death Row Records with Dr. Dre in 1991, signing artists such as Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur and MC Hammer. In 1996, he was in the car with Shakur when the rapper was fatally shot in Las Vegas.
Knight was shot in the leg by an unknown gunman at a pre-VMAs party in 2005, hosted by Kanye West in Miami Beach.
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Then as now, I refuse to let go of the idea that to embark on even the most common encounter with art . . . is to think freely about social life, ideally to talk freely, and to summon a human disposition for speech, for disagreement and otherness that is part of aesthetic experience. Rhea Anastas, "Being Opposite," Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, March 21, 2017
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About now, high-school seniors everywhere slip into a glorious sort of limbo. Waiting out the final weeks of the school year, they begin rightfully to revel in the shared thrill of moving on. It is no different in south-central Georgia's Montgomery County, made up of a few small towns set between fields of wire grass and sweet onion. The music is turned up. Homework languishes. The future looms large. But for the 54 students in the class of 2009 at Montgomery County High School, so, too, does the past. On May 1 — a balmy Friday evening — the white students held their senior prom. And the following night — a balmy Saturday — the black students had theirs.
Racially segregated proms have been held in Montgomery County — where about two-thirds of the population is white — almost every year since its schools were integrated in 1971. Such proms are, by many accounts, longstanding traditions in towns across the rural South, though in recent years a number of communities have successfully pushed for change. When the actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for last year's first-of-its-kind integrated prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi, his home state, the idea was quickly embraced by students — and rejected by a group of white parents, who held a competing "private" prom. (The effort is the subject of a documentary, "Prom Night in Mississippi," which will be shown on HBO in July.) The senior proms held by Montgomery County High School students — referred to by many students as "the black-folks prom" and "the white-folks prom" — are organized outside school through student committees with the help of parents. All students are welcome at the black prom, though generally few if any white students show up. The white prom, students say, remains governed by a largely unspoken set of rules about who may come. Black members of the student council say they have asked school administrators about holding a single school-sponsored prom, but that, along with efforts to collaborate with white prom planners, has failed. According to Timothy Wiggs, the outgoing student council president and one of 21 black students graduating this year, "We just never get anywhere with it." Principal Luke Smith says the school has no plans to sponsor a prom, noting that when it did so in 1995, attendance was poor.
Students of both races say that interracial friendships are common at Montgomery County High School. Black and white students also date one another, though often out of sight of judgmental parents. "Most of the students do want to have a prom together," says Terra Fountain, a white 18-year-old who graduated from Montgomery County High School last year and is now living with her black boyfriend. "But it's the white parents who say no. … They're like, if you're going with the black people, I'm not going to pay for it."
"It's awkward," acknowledges JonPaul Edge, a senior who is white. "I have as many black friends as I do white friends. We do everything else together. We hang out. We play sports together. We go to class together. I don't think anybody at our school is racist." Trying to explain the continued existence of segregated proms, Edge falls back on the same reasoning offered by a number of white students and their parents. "It's how it's always been," he says. "It's just a tradition."
Earlier this month, on the Friday night of the white prom, Kera Nobles, a senior who is black, and six of her black classmates drove over to the local community center where it was being held. Standing amid a crowd of about 80 parents, siblings and grandparents, they snapped pictures and whooped appreciatively as their white friends — blow-dried, boutonniered and glittering in a way that only high-school seniors can — did their "senior walk," parading in elegant pairs into the prom. "We got stared at a little, being there," said one black student, "but it wasn't too bad."
After the last couple were announced, after they watched the white people's father-daughter dance and then, along with the other bystanders, were ushered by chaperones out the door, Kera and her friends piled into a nearby KFC to eat. Whatever elation they felt for their dressed-up classmates was quickly wearing off.
"My best friend is white," said one senior girl, a little glumly. "She's in there. She's real cool, but I don't understand. If they can be in there, why can't everybody else?"
The seven teenagers — a mix of girls and boys — slowly worked their way through two buckets of fried chicken. They cracked jokes about the white people's prom ("I feel bad for them! Their prom is lame!"). They puzzled merrily over white girls' devotion both to tanning beds ("You don't like black people, but you're working your hardest to get as brown as I am!") and also to the very boys who were excluded from the dance ("Half of those girls, when they get home, they're gonna text a black boy"). They mused about whether white parents really believed that by keeping black people out of the prom, it would keep them out of their children's lives ("You think there aren't going to be black boys at college?"). And finally, more somberly, they questioned their white friends' professed helplessness in the face of their parents' prejudice ("You're 18 years old! You're old enough to smoke, drive, do whatever else you want to. Why aren't you able to step up and say, 'I want to have my senior prom with the people I'm graduating with?' ").
It was getting late now. KFC was closing. Another black teenager was mopping the floor nearby. A couple of the boys mentioned they had to wash their cars in the morning. Kera had an early hair appointment. The next night, they would dress up and dance raucously for four hours before tumbling back outside, one step closer to graduating. In the meantime, a girl named Angel checked her cellphone to see if any of the white kids had texted from inside their prom. They hadn't. Angel shrugged. "I really don't understand," she said. "Because I'm thinking that these people love me and I love them, but I don't know. Tonight's a different story."


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Chelyabmetallurgstroy of the NKVD of the USSR -- The Largest Forced Labor Camp for German-Russians
Tscheljabmetallurgstroj des NKVD der UdSSR -- das Groesste Zwangsarbeitslager Fuer Russlanddeutsche Untertitel
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Krieger, Dr. Viktor. "Chelyabmetallurgstroy of the NKVD of the USSR -- The Largest Forced Labor Camp for German-Russians." Volk auf dem Weg, June 2006, 20-22.
Translation from the original German-language text to American English by Alex Herzog, Boulder, Colorado
The rich iron ore fields at Bakal in today's Chelyabinsk/South Ural area had served for centuries for harvesting iron. Not until August of 1940, did the Soviet government and the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party decide to build the Bakal iron and steel works. Still, construction activity remained at a low level until the beginning of the war.
|Entry gate to the camp following the fencing in of its main zone Pershino, 1942
Hitler-Germany's attack on the Soviet Union led to decisive losses in metal production in the European part of the country, but countered by a rise in demand for quality steel. The People's Commissariat (The Ministry) for Black Metallurgy was ordered to design an iron and steel production complex, that would encompass various production phases and would thereby be equipped to function on a largely self-sufficient basis. The new project included construction of blast furnaces and "Martin-ovens," a coke/chemical operation, electro-steel and rolling mills, as well as its own heating and power facility. Given the lack of sufficient mechanization, this project called for a highly productive construction organization with access to large numbers of laborers for the heavy work.
Only the People's Commissariat for Interior Matters (NKVD), with the GUlag system under its control, had the relevant experience in organizing such a massive effort. Thus it was a natural consequence to entrust the NKVD with this construction project. A decree dated January 25, 1942, signed by Beriya, documented detailed measures toward the construction of the camp and the support of the construction activities. The overall project was given the code name "Bakalstroy" in August of 1942 was renamed "Chelyabmetallurgstroy (Construction Project for the Erection of the Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works) of the NKVD of the USSR."
The large land area called Pershino, measuring 4,400 hectares [over 13 million acres], linked to the railroad depot, Shagol, and located immediately next to the provincial metropolis of Chelyabinsk, was designated as the main site for the project. In addition to the administrative center and headquarters, the penal and work camp included numerous branches and camp sites that supplied the construction site and, later on, the iron and steel works; further, several tree felling sites scattered throughout, two lime production sites, a large tile manufacturing site, a pit for producing fireproof aluminum oxide, a cement factory, and various other operations. Under the control of the camps were several coal mines in the cities of Kopeysk and Korkino as well.
The Camp Population
Contemporary photo of the chief (1942 - 1944) of the Chelyabimetallurgstroy camp, Major General Alexander Komarovski
From various directives it is apparent that only GUlag prisoners and independent workers were used for the construction at first. However, the massive call-ups to the war front, which affected those prisoners as well, and the plethora of construction projects resulted in a huge demand for workers. This explains in part the decision made at that time to make use of the German "contingent." Officially the ordering of Germans into the work camp was called "Worker Mobilization," and the police officers at the various sites and, later, various other authorities, gave the work camp the deceptive name of trudamiya or Work-Army, and the workers themselves were dubbed "Trudarmyists." However, their forcible recruitment would, as the chief of the camp administration GUlag, Lieutenant General Viktor Nasedkin readily admitted, also facilitate, in a not so minor measure, their repression and punishment.
By February 1, 1942, the construction site already housed 4,237 forced laborers. Barely warmed up, German-Russians began to take their places: as early as by the end of March of 1942 Their number, 13,125 men, comprised by far the largest number of the work force. During that year alone, further mobilizations doubled this number.
The card index of the Chelyabmetallurgstroy camp provides information on more than 38,000 forced laborers, the by far largest number being German-Russians. As of 1943, there were among them 3,500 Finns, Italians, Bulgarians, and other Soviet "citizens of nationalities whose home countries are at war with the Soviet Union," as described by NKVD jargon.
Arriving workers were distributed into so-called Construction Troops (stroyotryady), which consisted of columns of up to a thousand men, broken down into brigades of various sizes -- usually between 15 to 25 members. The "Troops," numbering 16 in all, were assigned to the construction projects as well as other areas: for example, Construction Troop 1 was mainly used for construction of quarters, Number 3 in the building of the heating and power station, etc. Inside the completely blocked-off site of Pershino (the main zone), there were as many as nine Construction Troops. Each had its fenced-in living zone, the only area where the workers were allowed to move about freely. In the actual main zone, they were allowed to be without a guard only with special permission or if they had been issued a personal pass.
Contemporary Witnesses Report
Rudolf Romberg remembers the completely unsatisfactory preparation in the camp before the arrival of tens of thousands of workers, and the miserable living and working conditions:
The first German forced laborers arriving at the construction site, spring 1942
On March 18, 1942 I was taken from the Marinovka settlement in the Kustanay region and assigned to Construction Troop Number 10 in the Chelyabmetallurgstroy of the NKVD. During early morning, we found ourselves in front of the entry gate of the camp, which was enclosed with barbed wire and secured by guard towers and dogs. Ordered into 4-men rows, we were counted like sheep and crammed into camp for a full four years lasting until May 1, 1946. The grounds of our group held 14 barracks holding 180 men each. These barracks in reality were construction pits covered with a gabled roof. Inside, in the center, there were two-tiered wooden-plank bedsteads, and simple rows next to the walls, under which the snow was visible. This "shelter" was heated by two ovens, which were not capable of heating the entire, huge room. There was no bedding and, for about two months, no bathing facility. Water for drinking and for the kitchen came in kegs. Lice wandered around on us in large numbers. Out Troop Number 10 was constructing a rolling mill. Using spades, crowbars, picks, chisels, and mallets, we dug out of the frozen ground huge pits intended for the foundation of the millworks. We slaved twelve hours a day. Our [daily] provisions were as follows: if one fulfilled one's norm ["quota"], one received 600 grams dark bread, watery soup (sup-balanda) three times, and an additional 100 to 150 grams of oat or millet porridge for the noon meal. Those who did not fill their work quota received only 400 grams of dark bread and the watery soup. There was practically no meat or fat. The spring of 1942 lasted long and was frosty, and digging out the pits for the foundation demanded all the strength of the mobilized workforce. As early as September, most were barely able to move due to loss of weight and illnesses from lack of vitamins. The great wave of dying was beginning.
A Massive Wave of Deaths
In 1942 alone, camp statistics indicated the deaths of 2,727 trud-armyists, and at 840, the month of December provided the year's highest number of outright dead and those dying of the cold. During 1943, of the 27,430 forced laborers, 8,013 (or 29.2%) were in barracks for the sick, and 1,512 (5.5%) had become invalids. The camp administrators were forced to "de-mobilize" several thousands of famished and nearly dying (dochodyagi) workers. It is not known how many of these actually were able to return to their families alive.
In view of alarming statistics - the plan for the first quarter of 1943 was not filled even by half - central party and government officials, as well as the local authorities, began to realize that the given speed of wear and tear on the workers would make the high goals impossible to attain. Parallel with its increasing acts of terrorizing the workers, the administration began to take other measures toward minimizing the collapse of production quotas. More attention was paid to the physical condition of the mobilized "contingent." For example, an increase in provisions and a higher differences between food rations were introduced as greater incentives toward overfilling of work quotas. Furthermore, some especially tough "German-hating" overseers were issued warnings by the camp administration - as stated in flowery wording - for "grave misuse of the directives issued by the administration of the Chelyabmetallurgstoy."
This particular work camp would go down in the history of the Trudarmiya, as the site with the numerically largest use of mobilized Germans. Only as of the second half of 1943 would there be an increase in other nationalities from the corps of GUlag prisoners and oriental workers (Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Tadzhiks, etc.); they were intended to compensate for the strong numerical reductions in the workforce. By January 1, 1944, besides the free personnel, the Chelyabmetallurgstroy camp numbered 35,462 forced laborers, of whom 20,648 came from the "mobilized German contingent," plus 12,482 prisoners and some 3,332 workers recruited from central Asia.
By February, 1946, the worker columns were dissolved, and Geman forced laborers were transformed into the natural workforce of the operations and construction organizations. However, they were not given the rights of normal Soviet citizens, but instead were assigned the status of Special Resettlers. They were placed under the supervision of a so-called "Commandature," a reporting [military] command structure created especially for them by the Ministry of the Interior, and they were not allowed to leave their places of residence without express permission of the Commandature. They thereby comprised by far the majority of the residents of the metallurgical rayon of the city of Chelyabinsk. Only with the agreement of the factory administration and its commandant were these German-Russians allowed to go back to their originally and forcibly assigned resettlement locations, or as far as the local dwelling situation permitted, to their families. The actual process of reunification of families that had been torn apart would last until the mid-Fifites.
A few thousand Trudarmyists, however, were transferred to the city of Kyshtym (construction project 859) and continued to be used until 1948 in the construction of various parts of the atomic industry.
The Camp Leadership
Between January of 1942 and April of 1944, brigade-engineer and (later) general, Alexander Komarovski was at the helm of the camp administration. Born in Odessa May of 1906, he concluded studies at the Moscow Institute for Transport Engineering in 1928. Early on, he gathered "experience" in dealing with forced laborers during the building of the Moscow-Volga Canal. This is where he held various positions beginning in November, 1931. The bloodletting during the "Great Terror" actually created the conditions for and the rapid rise of a new technical intelligentsia of cadres dedicated to Stalin -- at the age of 32. Komarovski was named vice-commissar for the navy with responsibility for constructing harbor installations. Following the outbreak of the German-Russian war, he directed the construction of defensive lines in Ukraine and in the region of Stalingrad. With complete disregard for any losses, he then laid the basis at Chelyabmettalurgstroy for one of the largest iron and steel complexes in the entire USSR.
In May, he began to lead the "Central Administartion of Camps for Industrial Construction" of the NKVD of the USSR. Under his direction, forced laborers and prisoners would continue to be employed after the war in the construction of specific parts of the atomic industry, the building of Moscow University, and construction of other military and civilian projects. He was able to survive without problems Chrushchev's "Reestablishment of the Socialist System of Laws." In fact, in 1963 he was promoted to Deputy Defense Minister responsible for construction and for maintaining quarters for army units. In 1972 he was given the rank of Army General. Loaded with State honors and Orders of Merit, he died in Moscow in 1973 and was buried in the cemetery "Novodevich" reserved for honorifics. To commemorate his achievements, a street was named in his honor in the city of Chelyabinsk, that is, in the part of the city containing the original site of the work camp.
His successor [as camp commander], Major General of the Engineering-Technical Service, Jakob Rapoport (1898 - 1962), possessed no less "experience" in handling GUlag prisoners and forced laborers. He commanded Chelyabmetallurgstroy from May, 1944 until its removal from the system controlled by the Ministry of the Interior. During the subsequent year and half, particularly as chief of the forced-labor and penal camp in the city of Nishny Tagil (Tagillag), he was responsible for thousands of innocent victims. Just like Komarovski, he was never held accountable for his "activities."
Terror, Persecution, Discrimination
|A memorial for the starved and deceased forced laborers, erected in the early 1990's of the former cemetery grounds of the camp, meanwhile having fallen victim to vandlism and neglect
The number of State security people at the Chelyabmetatllurgstroy camp by the end of May, 1944, had doubled from its beginning, reaching as many as 55 persons. The names of the director of State security, Konstantin Pupas, and of "expertly knowledgeable" secret police members such as Vikenyi Lobanov, Meir Ufland and Fedor Glaskov, aroused fear and horror in the inmates of the camp. Terrorization of the workers served several purposes. On the one hand, it was an important tool for intimidation and submissiveness. On the other hand, the sharpened application of penal policies against intellectuals, specialists, former functionaries and business leaders was served to remove the entire elite of the Germans and to debase them to a mere mass of applicable resources. Not the least reason might be that the sheer numbers of those sentenced or the "discovery" of counterrevolutionary organizations was used in justifying the existence of each Tcheckist and the reasons for allowing his absence from the war front.
All camp personnel and Russian employees were forbidden any contact with the Germans beyond the absolute required minimum. This is apparent from many orders that critically publicized all-too-close contacts with the forced laborers and from the tough punishments of the violators. For example, in an order issued by the camp command structure, a Russian female doctor of Construction Troop 11, was accused of having had several meetings with a worker in her own quarters, to wit, "counter to strict regulations for administrative personnel, which forbid personnel exempt from contractual status to form any contact of any kind with mobilized Germans." The doctor received a first warning for this violation of discipline.
Other cases, however, did not end up in such a mild manner. A one-night stay by F. Haffner and E. Teolani with friendly Russian physician's assistants cost the latter their jobs. For the two Trudarmyists, who had been surprised by the guards at 6 o'clock in the morning, it resulted in a three-month stint of the heaviest work in a penal brigade.
Concluding Observations
The first steel smelting procedure following the beginning of operations of the first phase of the electro-steel works took place on April 19, 1943. It is considered the birth of the metallurgical operation. Overall, during the years 1943 and 1944, the Chelyabmetallurgstroy complex produced only a fraction of overall Soviet production: 2.3% of raw iron, 0.7% of steel, and 0.8 of rolled metal. It is extremely doubtful whether the untold number of human victims, particularly those of the years 1942-1943, during the building of the complex, were justified by such a modest level of production. A significantly higher usefulness would have been achieved in using these experienced German farmers and other forced laborers in the very needy Soviet agriculture. However, for the Stalin regime, the interests and welfare of its own population were always of the least concern.
Our appreciation is extended to Alex Herzog for translation of this article.


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However, my record of implementing it has been dismal. I first started about this time last year (end of December 2011). At the time I hoped to get it finished for FOSDEM in February. This was a tall order, but by FOSDEM I had invokeExact working, and could run several simple examples (all with OpenJDK 7). I understood the general framework, and the way in which method handles were chained together (invocation involved following the chain, performing transformations along the way, until the final target method was reached).
The problem was the number of transformations the VM needed to implement. Certain ones such as unboxing (REF_TO_PRIM) and retyping were straight-forward. But more complex ones such as argument spreading were extremely time consuming, and there were even more exotic ones requiring "ricochet frames" (I never did work out exactly what they were). Anyway, I didn't deliberately abandon the work, I just stopped and didn't touch JamVM for 6 months.
The breakthrough came from reading Roman Kennke's blog of getting Zero working with OpenJDK 8. Of particular interest was the removal of the adapter code from Zero (like JamVM, it was incomplete). It was no longer needed as the transformations are now done in Java, via LambdaForms. These are compiled into bytecodes via the JSR 292 runtime, again coded in Java.
So the main stumbling block of my last attempt was gone. However, unlike with Zero, in addition to invokedynamic the rest of the JSR 292 support within the VM has to be implemented (class file changes, resolution of method handles/types, call site bootstrap methods, stack walking, field injection, etc.). It's taken a couple of weeks work, with a lot of debugging over Christmas (it's been so wet in the UK there's been nothing much else to do) but all but one of the jtreg tests for java.lang.invoke pass. In fact, all tests were passing until I updated my sources a few days ago and found an extra 6 tests.
Passed: java/lang/invoke/6987555/Test6987555.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/6991596/Test6991596.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/6998541/Test6998541.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/7157574/Test7157574.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/7196190/ClassForNameTest.java FAILED: java/lang/invoke/7196190/GetUnsafeTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/7196190/MHProxyTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/lambda/LambdaAccessControlDoPrivilegedTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/lambda/LambdaAccessControlTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/AccessControlTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/BigArityTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/CallSiteTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/ClassValueTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/InvokeDynamicPrintArgs.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/InvokeGenericTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/JavaDocExamplesTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/MethodHandlesTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/MethodTypeTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/PermuteArgsTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/PrivateInvokeTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/RicochetTest.java Passed: java/lang/invoke/ThrowExceptionsTest.java Test results: passed: 21; failed: 1The changes aren't pushed to git yet, as JamVM will currently only work with OpenJDK 8. Getting it to work with OpenJDK 6/7 (without JSR 292) won't be difficult, but GNU Classpath will be more tricky.


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Through guile and subterfuge, the wily Jack escapes the drow to discover a new world waiting in his old stomping grounds, Raven's Bluff, a city equally abounding in fortune and danger. Unfortunately for Jack, he is best at stirring up the latter. His former archenemy the Warlord Myrkyssa Jelan is at large, and she isn't the type to forgive and forget. And worst of all, the drow aren't done with Jack and they mean to get him back.


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Recording Industry Ass'n of America, Inc. v. Librarian of Congress, — F.3d —, 2010 WL 2487842 (D.C. Cir. June 22, 2010)
Recorded music is usually subject to copyright protection in two ways — the musical composition (think sheet music and lyrics) is protected by one copyright, and the actual sound recording is protected by another copyright. In general, for someone other than the copyright owner to use a copyrighted work (e.g., to copy or distribute it), he or she must get a license from the copyright owner (setting aside exceptions such as fair use).
The compulsory license schema
But there's a kind of zany exception to the general requirement of a negotiated license when it comes to reuse of a musical composition. Others seeking to make such further reuse can do so without obtaining an agreement with the owner of the copyright in the musical composition, provided that the reuser obtain and pay a fee for a "compulsory license." The mechanics for such licensing system are set up in Section 115 of the Copyright Act (17 USC 115).
There is a Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) that the Library of Congress oversees. This three-member panel sets the fees due to copyright owners under the Section 115 compulsory license schema.
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As you probably know, ringtones that sample popular songs are popular these days. (As a commuter on public transportation I can attest to what a scourge this is on our modern society.) Since they're all the rage, they're big business.
In 2009, after some complex hearings, the CRB set the rate for payment under a compulsory license at 24 cents per ringtone sold. The Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) had argued that its copyright owners were entitled to a percentage of total revenue, not a flat "penny-rate." Unhappy with the CRB's determination, it appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court affirmed the CRB's penny-rate of 24 cents.
How the CRB was right
The CRB determined that a penny-rate was more in line with reimbursing copyright owners for the use of their works. In upholding the CRB's determination on this point, the court observed that in other cases it had validated the CRB's preference for a royalty system based on the number of copyrighted works sold — like the penny rate — as being more directly tied to the nature of the right being licensed than a percentage-of-revenue rate.
Moreover, the CRB had determined (and the court agreed) that a percentage revenue model did not make as much sense for the sale of individual copyrighted works as it would in the sale of media that is streamed or broadcast. Simply stated, it is relatively easy to measure how many copies of a ringtone are sold, and thus easy to calculate a penny-rate amount. But that is more difficult to accurately do in the case, for example, of satellite radio. Those difficulties were not present in this situation, and that militated against the adoption of a percentage rate.
Finally, the court agreed with the CRB's disdain for the complexity of calculating a percentage of revenue licensing fee. A penny-rate structure was much simpler to handle than the "salient difficulties" presented by the RIAA's percentage mode.
The court found nothing unreasonable about the CRB's determination (i.e., that the the CRB's determination was not arbitrary and capricious, and so it affirmed that determination.
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I LOVE your Board and Batten in your bathroom. I really want to do this in both our bathrooms and our family room. I just love that you love the country style. So do I. But I'm having a hard time knowing where to start. I have a wonderful home but its not how I'd like it it be. Reading your blog encourages me to start somewhere. Thanks for giving me the kick start to start with something and do it little by little. By the way, what grey color did you use in the bathroom?ReplyDelete
I love your blog and am so excited when I see a post! You always make my day!Replies
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The color gray is Wood Smoke from Glidden.
Loving the yellow sign!!ReplyDelete
Good point about drawing your eyes upward instead of stopping at the short towel rack!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I love the colors you chose!ReplyDelete
what an awesome transformation! love the pop of yellow from the sign!ReplyDelete
Love it! Will totally be adding this moulding to my house :). Thanks for the great tutorial!ReplyDelete
I looks amazing!! Love the whole look!ReplyDelete
So beautiful! It's nice the toilet doesn't 'pop' either with all the white surrounding it.ReplyDelete
This is super - thanks for the tutorial!ReplyDelete
Wowza! How's that for an awesome before and after! It looks totally custom and fresh in there now! Definitely looks bigger too! Beautiful work!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 30, 2012 at 12:08 PM
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Love it, your bathroom looks great! We have been wanting to do something in our daughter's room.ReplyDelete
I love it!! I've been looking for something to spruce up our guest bathroom... this would be perfect! Your house looks amazing, and I love all your ideas!ReplyDelete
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That looks wonderful! We were just talking about doing one of the bedrooms in our house. Thanks for the thorough tutorial.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 30, 2012 at 6:30 PM
what is the wall color?ReplyDelete
I love the molding, it really added a nice touch to the wall. Your quote board looks perfect there too!ReplyDelete
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It looks great. I love the gray, yellow, and chunky molding together.ReplyDelete
Love it! You are so talented! I love board and batten, but I've just not become brave enough to tackle it! Maybe some day….ReplyDelete
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This is really beautiful! I would like to have a bathroom this crisp and clean. Thanks for sharing the tutorial.ReplyDelete
Love it!! So much. =)ReplyDelete
LOOKS AWESOME!! Cant wait to try this in our bathroom! As always, thanks for sharing all of your ideas with us!ReplyDelete
LOOKS AWESOME!! Cant wait to try this in our bathroom! As always, thanks for sharing all of your ideas with us!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 2, 2012 at 9:02 PM
Turned out great! One thing: the correct term is "quarter round" rather than "corner round" (because it's 1/4 of a full circle) -- just thought I'd mention in case someone was looking for it at the store.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 3, 2012 at 3:51 PM
Love it! What color yellow did you use on the sign? Finding a good yellow can be hard!ReplyDelete
This project is currently in the works for us, but already looks great for one wall in our tiny bathroom...we removed the bottom ledge trim of a window that is smack in the middle of our wall, and ran the ledge shelf straight underneath, which now makes the window look like it is built in and belongs there...the effect in our small bathroom is amazing....really opens it up...we love it!ReplyDelete
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The following piece was written by one of my students after her first Nose Work trial with her little toy Schnauzer Becca:
The night before the trial I heard Becca barking from a distance. What was she barking about? Finally discovered she had gotten herself locked in Mom's old bedroom. Was this an omen? Nah. But I loaded myself up with all the good luck charms I could find. We made it to Enumclaw in under an hour with no problem until I discovered we had left the brand new metallic car cover at home. You know what they say, "If a little something goes wrong, that's a good sign."
We were #5 in group B in the running order. Everyone got together before we started and walked the 4 events: indoor was a small room in the school with tables stacked on top of each other and 2 sets of office furniture. Two desks and 2 chairs, rubber waste baskets. Outside the building there were 3-4 vehicles (can't remember exactly). The containers were in an X pattern ( you were expecting them to be patterned like an ORT? Not here), and finally the outside search was in a tiny courtyard with a walkway and some grass on either side. Nothing that we haven't seen before except for all of the wait stations that you moved systematically through before the event. Later after the walk through, at the briefing the judges and officials answered questions and were told that if the judge asked you were the hide was you had to be exact as if you had to retrieve it yourself. Close only counted in horseshoes. This freaked me out a little. I believe the man's name was Bob and he was a former policeman who trained and worked with German Shepherds. He supposedly wrote the book on nose work.
When #4 was flipped over on the stand, Becca and I approached the test odor boxes. She wanted nothing to do with them. Very odd. We finally started on the trail of wait stations. Our first event was the inside room with the office stuff. We walked in the room she took 2 whiffs at the chair and desk next to the entry and turned around and wanted out. I tried to move her through the run, but she stuck close to me and sat down 3 times. I was working my way back to the chair when the 3 min time was called. If you put a gun to my head and asked me if the 30 sec warning had been called I would have said no. Otherwise, I would have made a beeline for the chair again. Zero faults but we ran over the time limit. Zero points. The judge said she had no odor obedience. She is a pleas-or and was unsure in the new environment. He said she went right to the odor, touched it and wanted to go. He told me not to get frustrated and when I reward her go over the top. I wonder how our other dog, Jake , will take this since he is on a diet.
Next we went thru the waiting stations to get to the vehicles. Becca caught the scent (yes, you go girl) and began sniffing the running board and the corner of the front fender. I called the alert in 38 sec and 57 hundredths of a sec. The scent was on the exact spot except on the other side of the vehicle. The judge said she knew her odor she caught scent of it quickly but it was on the other side of the car. More experience with gusting wind will help and good trust in the dog's odor recognition. I couldn't believe it. We had never missed on vehicles before. Zero points and 2 faults.
Back to the car to wait for all 48 dogs to finish before lunch break. A nice volunteer named Terri, from Oregon, came over and loaned us her metallic cover and a small battery operated fan for the dash board. The match started back up around 1:30pm. I walked Becca over early. There was a young oriental girl sitting there with a pencil and a book busily scribbling something. ( Maybe she was Japanese and went to this school) I asked her if she wanted to give Becca a treat and she was very excited. No problem with Becca here. Then the girl handed me the cutest drawing that she had done of Becca. I should have had her sign it. You never no, Picasso may have started this way.
Everyone wondered what kind of dog Becca was and said how adorable she was. Now we started the maze of hall, stairs and wait stations. Our first event here was the white container boxes. We went in and she was working until she saw an exit door and she wanted to leave again. I told her no, we still had work to do. She finally caught the odor and sniffed one box on 3 sides. I called the alert and held my breath. Yes! She had gotten it right in 1 min 17 sec and 77 hundredths of a second. Thank you God. The judge told me always positive comments towards the dog. They never let us down, we let them down. Becca has lots of potential. No faults and 25 pts. We went outside where she was given a chance to pee and have water and she refused both. Now back thru the maze inside the school and to the waiting areas. When we got to the final door before entering the final event, the outside hide, we were introduced like we were at a royal event. "Presenting Pamela and Becca." Again Becca wanted to leave the event area but I brought her back and was trying to work her. I stepped into the grass and her nose made a beeline to sniff the grass. Oh, no. She's tracking to mark and I tried to pull her away as she squatted and peed in front on the judge. The judge said she was sorry. Peeing is an immediate disqualification. Yes she had potty breaks all day long and before each event. On our trek back to the car she peed 3 more times. Everyone kept asking if we were having fun. Yeah, I love working my dog in 86 degree weather, trying not to drop a treat (another disqualification), climbing hill and dale and stairs and mazes without being very successful. Well, I guess since Becca and I have only been working on this since March. I guess we can feel really good about getting one hide. Also a lot of the other contestants had handled dogs in other sports. So this was our maiden voyage for the two of us.
Carla and I chatted and compared results. Between us we had one perfect dog. The events Becca missed Gimme got and Gimme blew the containers Fringing, (smelling the odor one box off). We couldn't decide to call this new wonder dog Becme or Gimca. Finally at 3:30pm the trial was over. Now the long wait for the debriefing. I lost $1.00 to Carla as we bet on when it would start. It took over an hour. When it began they were giving individual times for placement. In one event third place was 6 sec. Six seconds for third. Holy banana oil , Batman. The fast time in one event was 2 seconds. I can't walk thru the door in 2 seconds and the all around best time was a little over 1 min. Darn those border terriers. They also awarded the Harry Award to a rescue named Apollo. He also took a gold ribbon in all around and got several other awards. We honor Harry because he was a rescue who was going to compete and was bitten by a snake and died 3 days prior to the first event. But as the judge pointed out he might have competed and peed in the outdoor search. LOL. Everyone who passed got a ribbon plus there were the placement awards. Finally it was over and we couldn't wait to get out of there. We got Terri's stuff back to her and left. I was trying to program the GPS with Becca asleep on my lap and Charles asked if we turned on 400St SE. Not wanting to break my record for the day I said no. This led to a detour around the river and through Geyser Park. We got home at 6:37pm to be met with the silver car cover where we left it in the kitchen, two dogs, and absolute exhaustion.
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When I think shooting stuff, I think Clint Eastwood, a guy who would never carry the Wii Zapper into a room full of zombies. But he'd love the Overkill Hand Cannon, punks.
Bundled with The House of the Dead Overkill or purchasable from Amazon UK for $US17, the Overkill Hand Cannon is beautiful in that it's the anti-Wii, the anti-family-hanging-out-on-Friday-night before their Disney Channel marathon.
For a Wii peripheral, it is indeed "overkill," clearly manufactured with the intent to be spraypainted black before holding up a Gamestop, its namesake intact. [Amazon UK via Kotaku]


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Seven PSOne Imports hit PSN this week
This week's US PlayStation Store update will deliver seven PSOne Imports, a boon for those of us not old enough to get on the import craze when it was at its peak.
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Six new PSOne Imports in this week's US PS Store update
Gungho Online American will launch six PSOne Imports through the PlayStation Store today, Joystiq reports. The new additions are Zanac X Zanac, Makeruna Makendo 2, Vehicle Cavalier, Art Camion Sugorokuden, Lup★Salad and Finger★Flashing. Apparently the stars are official. You'd probably need to be a bit of a hardcore Japanese gaming fan to be getting fogged […]
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SCE Europe has announced it will pick up one of the features we're most jealous of our US brethren for – PSOne Imports on the PlayStation Network.