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FRA Director presents the results of the EU LGBT survey in The Hague on International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, 2013.
Ladies, gentlemen and others,
Let me start with a quote: "It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life."
Emma Goldman, the Russian-born activist wrote these words nearly 100 years ago. This could have been written today. It remains a reality today that respect for human dignity is still not a reality for everyone across the EU.
As the report we present today testifies, many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are simply not able to be themselves at work, at school or in public, and too many not even at home. Many hide their identity and live in isolation. Far too many have experienced violence, or live in fear of being attacked or harassed. Many others experience discrimination and even violence.
How do we know?
We have just finalised a major survey of the LGBT population in Europe. We have more than 93,000 repsondents from all 27 EU Member States and Croatia. This is the largest ever survey to ask LGBT people about their experiences of violence and discrimination. The survey was developed in response to calls from the European Parliament and Commission Vice President Reding in 2010 to look into the discrimination of LGBT people.
We used the tried and tested methodologies that the Agency has developed, and that we have successfully applied in the past with other hard-to-reach discriminated groups. We brought our own in-house experts together with Gallup, one of the market leaders in large-scale surveys. In addition, we also worked in close cooperation with civil society organisations including ILGA-Europe and Transgender Europe provided advice on how to best approach LGBT people. I would like here to thank them for their excellent cooperation.
After serious consideration, we decided to carry out the survey online and anonymously. It was the best, and only, way to capture as many responses as possible of those who do not feel comfortable to come out and share their experiences. We do not claim that the results are fully representative, but the views of almost 100,000 people are certainly very relevant, politically and in terms of finding specific, targeted solutions. Their answers have allowed us to perform robust statistical analysis on the perceptions and views of a very large and diverse number of LGBT people across the the 27 Mamber States and Croatia.
And the results are sobering. Significantly, LGBT people reported problems in all EU Member States, from east to west, from north to south.
So, what were the key findings? What do we know now?
I will focus on four main areas:
First, let's go back to school. We all remember our school time. Many people say that school marks the best years of your life. Our survey results suggest otherwise. At least 60% had personally been bullied throughout their time at school. And over 80% of respondents, in every EU Member State, said they had seen their LGBT peers bullied at school. But what is specialabout that? To those who say that bullying is part of 'regular' school life, let me mention some telling suicide statistics. A Danish study found that LGBT people were twice as likely as the average population to have considered or attempted suicide. Of these, more than 60% were under 20 years old. So bullying in school has a real impact and needs to be addressed.
Clearly, Member States need to ensure that LGBT students, like all other students, feel safe at school. Bear in mind, it is at school where negative experiences, prejudices and exclusion often begin.
To this end, anti-bullying policies should be developed and implemented. Governments should make efforts to provide objective information on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression as part of the overall school curricula. And teacher training should be introduced. This includes how to tackle bullying, including against those who are or are perceived to be L, G, B or T.
Secondly, there is widespread discrimination.
Apart from education, our survey identified problems in many other walks of life. This included discrimination against LGBT people at work, in housing, healthcare, social services, and in access to goods and services. About half of all respondents said that they had personally felt discriminated against or harassed on the grounds of sexual orientation in the year before the survey. And despite the EU-wide protection against discrimination in employment, one in five of those who were employed or were looking for work in the year before the survey felt discriminated against in the workplace. For transgender respondents this rose to about one in three.
Such figures reveal the need for EU-wide and Member State action to counter the many obstacles LGBT people face in the enjoyment of their basic rights in everyday life.
That's why Member States, and civil society, need to work together to exchange good practices, review legislation and develop policies. EU action could be the driving force to bring this about.
Thirdly, LGBT people are frequently victims of hate crime and harassment.
Our survey found that about a quarter of all respondents had been attacked or threatened with violence at home or elsewhere in the last five years. As many as 35% of transgender respondents said they had been victims of violence or threats of violence more than three times in the past year.
When we asked "what did you do about this?" – 80% said "nothing." People don't turn to the police.
Just 22% of the most serious violent incidents experienced by LGBT people in the five years preceding the survey were brought to the attention of the police. Looking at it another way, this means 78% were not reported. I must add here that in many areas of our work with different groups, with different groups of victims, the same pattern emerges: Victims do not report discrimination, victims do not report violence. How can we create stronger trust between law enforcement and LGBT people and minorities across the EU? We can see that there are some countries where there is higher reporting. So we need to look at what they are doing in those countries.
There is a wall of silence, cemented by fear, mistrust and a sense that nothing will change.
All of this points to the need for LGBT victims to have recognition and protection EU-wide and nationally.
This could be done by including homophobic and transphobic hatred as possible motives in national legislation on bias motivated crime. A number of EU Member States have already done this. Others could follow.
Rights awareness, and the means to report hate-motivated violence, should be promoted. Member States should tackle the high levels of underreporting by supporting equality bodies, national human rights institutions and other national complaints mechanisms to raise awareness of what LGBT people can do, who they should turn do and what support is available. Member States should also train law enforcement officials on how to respond to LGBT issues or encourage civil society organisations to report on behalf of victims.
But that is not suficcient. We also need to collect and investigate hate crime data and the motivations behind such crimes. This does not only relate to LGBT, but hate crime in general. For example: is this sort of hate crime linked to extremism?
Intelligence services are addressing this question. That is fine: they are there to protect state institutions. But we also need the police to be involved.
Respondents to a FRA survey of ethnic minorities said that only 10-15% of hate crime perpetrators were right-wingers, which means they define 80-85% of offenders as "normal citizens". This is another reason to involve police, as they have a human rights obligation to protect everyone.
This will enable targeted policies and laws to best tackle hate crime.
Lastly, the experiences of discrimination, harassment and violence captured by the survey often take place against a backdrop of widespread fear.
One that really strikes me is that a very high percentage, 75% of gay and bisexual men do not dare to hold hands in public.
Who would not want to hold hands in public of the person you love most? But more than half of LGBT respondents across all EU Member States were scared of holding hands in public with their same-sex partner. For gay men this figure rose to almost two-thirds. From Greece to Great Britain, from Spain to Sweden, it was the same story.
When it comes to combatting this fear, politicians should lead by example. It is telling that almost half of all respondents believe that offensive language about LGBT people by politicians is widespread where they live. We know that negative public speech can fuel prejudice and fuel hatred, which is why elected officials as well as other public figures really need to be mindful of what they say.
Ladies, gentlemen and others,
A too great number of LGBT people across Europe are being barred from being themselves. Their ability to enjoy their basic human right of living with dignity, to enjoy life and express themselves freely without discrimination, is being denied.
And I can't help asking myself: what is the issue here? What are people actually afraid of? What is preventing policy makers from acting?
So in a way, it should be easy. Let's move.
I've already made a number of concrete suggestions on how to move forward. What is evident is that there is a clear need for political leadership and EU-wide action as a catalyst for change. Here, the Council of Europe plays a key role, and their recommendations could serve as a useful benchmark. I'm very please with the CoE's idea to roll out our survey in other European countries outside EU. National action plans – which in some countries are already making a difference – need to be rolled out in all Member States. From the survey, we can detect an impact of the action plans. This will ensure that comprehensive and effective measures deliver respect and safeguard the rights of LGBT people on the ground.
So, let me close with the words of a young transgender Bulgarian person who answered our survey.
"I have experienced humiliation, beatings, and insults from people I know and people I do not know, but I wanted people in my surrounding to learn that I am a human like any other, and that my sexual orientation does not make me different from them! I am a human."
Thank you very much for your attention!


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Peep can't wait for Halloween to start, but the younger Egg has a long list of reasons to wish it would not. In a scene familiar to many families, the prospect of trick-or-treating conjures costumes and candy for some, while others are haunted by thoughts of vampires, mummies, witches and ghosts, real or imagined. Peep and Egg, two delightful sibling characters introduced this spring in Peep and Egg: I'm Not Hatching, return in Peep and Egg: I'm Not Trick-or-Treating, a hilarious, endearing new read-aloud book for young children that may help take the fright right out of Halloween. With a first book that was called, "delightful and right on target," by Kirkus, and "spot-on" by Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal, Author Laura Gehl and Illustrator Joyce Wan have created books that gently offer a way to help children discuss fears. Laura Gehl, who has been doing a lot of school talks to preschool and early elementary students, explained the appeal this way: "Kids can relate to Peep and Egg, and they open up and talk to me about their fears. These range from the fantastical for younger children–like monsters, dinosaurs, and exploding jellyfish; to more realistic fears for older kids, such as fear of strangers, injury or fire. There's a lot of overlap, including many fears that I hear again and again, such as fear of thunder, spiders, sharks, or moving to a new home. "We then talk about what helps us have the courage to move past our fears. Sometimes kids offer something imaginary, like unicorns, but they also talk about how friends and family can help – or even a beloved stuffed animal. "The fears that come up at school visits are often ones I recognize from raising my own four children, who had all kinds of fears, some of which surprised me at the time with their intensity. It helped when I came to the realization that early childhood can be a very scary time because so much is new and unfamiliar. That's why, when I talk with adults, I ask them to think about experiences that are new to them – like skydiving or swimming with sharks. Once put that way, it's easier to understand how the world can look to a young child for whom almost everything is new. "Our next book will be Peep and Egg: I'm Not Taking a Bath," which addresses one of the most common childhood fears. We hope that giggling through Egg's list of excuses…too splashy, too fishy, too slobbery…and watching the way clever Peep changes stubborn Egg's mind, will help take some of the stress out of bath time for little ones." ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Laura Gehl is the author of several picture books, including One Big Pair of Underwear, illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld. Laura has four children, who all love trick or treating. She and her family live in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Visit her online at www.lauragehl.com. ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: Joyce Wan is the author and illustrator of many popular board books, including You Are My Cupcake and We Belong Together. Joyce lives in New Jersey. Visit her online at www.wanart.com. Peep and Egg: I'm Not Trick-or-Treating • Written by: Laura Gehl • Illustrated by: Joyce Wan • Ages 2-6 • Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux • ISBN: 978-0374301224 • $16.99 Hardcover
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Finding aid to Charcoal Sketches of Los Angeles, California, circa 1934-1947
Finding aid to Charcoal Sketches of Los Angeles, California, circa 1934-1947
Collection number: BANC PIC 1979.124--BThe Bancroft Library
- Finding Aid Author(s):
- Processed by James Ryan.
- Finding Aid Encoded By:
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Container Listing
Back yard garden, Chinatown, 1934. BANC PIC 1979.124:01--B
Los Angeles, 1934. [Yard; laundry hanging; City Hall visible over top of building] BANC PIC 1979.124:02--B
Marchessault Street, Los Angeles. 1934. BANC PIC 1979.124:03--B
Ferguson Alley, Los Angeles, 1934 [Alameda and Los Angeles St.] BANC PIC 1979.124:04--B
China Alley and Apablasa (?) St. BANC PIC 1979.124:05--B
The Old Winery, Alameda St. BANC PIC 1979.124:06--B
[First hospital in Los Angeles; site of Union Terminal] BANC PIC 1979.124:07--B
Court House, Los Angeles County BANC PIC 1979.124:08--B
[View toward City Hall] BANC PIC 1979.124:09--B
Marchessault St. BANC PIC 1979.124:10--B
Marchessault St. and Alameda St. BANC PIC 1979.124:11--B
Los Angeles St. and Ferguson Alley. BANC PIC 1979.124:12--B
Tong House, Apablasa St. BANC PIC 1979.124:13--B
Santa Fe Station BANC PIC 1979.124:14--B
Southern California Gas Company's May Street Plant. BANC PIC 1979.124:15--B
Los Angeles Times Building, and new building under construction. BANC PIC 1979.124:16--B
Railway and other bridges over Los Angeles River, from Elysian Park BANC PIC 1979.124:17--B
From Elysian Park, looking down on railroad yards and city sky line BANC PIC 1979.124:18--B
Old Post Office, Temple and Main BANC PIC 1979.124:19--B
Old Post Office, rear view BANC PIC 1979.124:20--B
Alameda Street, near Ferguson Alley [U.S. Hotel on right] BANC PIC 1979.124:21--B
Commercial Street at Main [U.S. Hotel on right] BANC PIC 1979.124:22--B
Spring Street [rear of Post Office, Health Building, City Hall] BANC PIC 1979.124:23--B
View from top of Hill Street tunnel [Federal Bldg, Hall of Records, Lawyer's Bldg., City Hall] BANC PIC 1979.124:24--B
The Plaza from Los Angeles St. [1st Firehouse on left] BANC PIC 1979.124:25--B
Vegetable market, Apablasa Street BANC PIC 1979.124:26--B
The Chinese Herbalist, Marchessault St. BANC PIC 1979.124:27--B
Harmonia Apt., Hill Street building on Bunker Hill (1947?) BANC PIC 1979.124:28--B
Chinese Flower Garden, Los Angeles. BANC PIC 1979.124:29--B
Untitled: Chinese Buildings BANC PIC 1979.124:30--B
Apablasa St., Los Angeles 1934. BANC PIC 1979.124:31--B
Apablasa St., Los Angeles [showing Tong House] BANC PIC 1979.124:32--B
Chinese vegetable market [Apablasa St.], 1936. BANC PIC 1979.124:33--B
Cathedral, 2nd & Main, 1934. BANC PIC 1979.124:34--B
Old Banning Residence, Ft. Moore Hill BANC PIC 1979.124:35--B
Rear of old house S.E. corner Figueroa and Temple BANC PIC 1979.124:36--B
Window of a tong house (?) 1934. [Apablasa St.; Sun Yat Sen lived in basement in 1901] BANC PIC 1979.124:37--B
Los Angeles Times Building from No. Broadway and Bunker Hill. BANC PIC 1979.124:38--B
Old House, Alameda St. 1944 (?) BANC PIC 1979.124:39--B
Tong Company on Marchessault St. BANC PIC 1979.124:40--B
Bryson house, Spring and Los Angeles Sts. 1934 BANC PIC 1979.124:41--B
Old Los Angeles Times Building BANC PIC 1979.124:42--B
Old House on Ft. Moore Hill [Backyard; laundry hanging] BANC PIC 1979.124:43--B
Buddhist Temple entrance, Ferguson Alley BANC PIC 1979.124:44--B
Title illegible; disused yard with old truck; gas storage tanks in background. BANC PIC 1979.124:45--B
Meat market [Apablasa St.] BANC PIC 1979.124:46--B
City Hall, from Commercial and Alameda, 1934. BANC PIC 1979.124:47--B
Chinese laundry rear of Mar San Low Cafe. BANC PIC 1979.124:48--B
Foot bridge connecting Hall of Records and Library. BANC PIC 1979.124:49--B
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Explicit calls to setfsuid() and setfsgid(2) are usually only used by programs such as the Linux NFS server that need to change what user and group ID is used for file access without a corresponding change in the real and effective user and group IDs. A change in the normal user IDs for a program such as the NFS server is a security hole that can expose it to unwanted signals. (But see below.)
setfsuid() will only succeed if the caller is the superuser or if fsuid matches either the real user ID, effective user ID, saved set-user-ID, or the current value of fsuid.
Note that at the time this system call was introduced, a process could send a signal to a process with the same effective user ID. Today signal permission handling is slightly different.


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In the most recent White House press briefing, presidential apologist Jay Carney responded to a provocative question from Fox News about the President's "milquetoast" statement on the coup d'etat in Egypt. "As you know," Carney asserted angrily, "The President has called directly on the Egyptian military to "…move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government."
"Who did he call, Jay," the reporter followed up.
"I didn't say the President called anyone, I said he called on someone." Anticipating the follow-follow-on question, Carney continued, "the difference between calling someone and calling on them is that when you call on someone you don't actual call them, but you speak to a third person or group of persons instead and hope the other person overhears you. This is also different from the President's approach to the recent spat with Putin over the NSA leaker, Snowden. In that case, the President announced in advance that he would neither call Putin nor call on him. These are both subtle ways of ensuring that if the other person doesn't do what you ask, you can deny that they refused you."
"And have the generals given any signs of complying quickly?" another reporter asked, anxious to return to the matter of the coup d'etat.
"It's early days and Egypt is a big country. We think there is some progress, but there is a lot more to do, as the President often reminds us," Carney said. "The President has assured me that he intends to get to the bottom of this and ensure that it never happens again."
"But the latest reports are of arrests and shootings," a puzzled reporter objected.
"Yes, but there have been peaceful protests too," Carney answered. "The President's goal is not to pour gasoline onto the fire, but to use our influence in a positive way."
"But do we have any influence there?" the Fox News reporter asked. "Reports are that Morsi's supporters see the coup as an American plot, and that Morsi's enemies think we support him."
Carney laughed. "You still don't get it, do you? When everyone hates you, it means your policy is even-handed, fair and balanced. Stick to the news and let the politicians govern," Carney joked as he left the briefing room.


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SEC Charges Two State Street Employees for Misleading Sub-Prime Mortgage Info
The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a pair of employees at Boston-based State Street Bank and Trust Company with misleading investors about their exposure to sub-prime investments. The SEC's Division of Enforcement claims that John P. Flannery and James D. Hopkins marketed State Street's Limited Duration Bond Fund as an "enhanced cash" investment strategy that was an alternative to a money market fund for certain types of investors. By 2007, however, the fund was almost entirely invested in sub-prime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and derivatives. Yet despite this exposure to sub-prime securities, the fund continued to be described as less risky than a typical money market fund and the extent of its concentration in subprime investments was not disclosed to investors.
The SEC charged State Street in a related case earlier this year and the firm agreed to settle the charges by repaying fund investors more than $300 million.
"Hopkins and Flannery misled State Street's investors about the risks and credit quality of a fund concentrated in subprime bonds and other subprime investments," said Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "The SEC is committed to identifying and holding accountable those who violated the law and harmed investors through subprime investments."
According to the SEC's order instituting administrative proceedings against Hopkins and Flannery, they played an instrumental role in drafting a series of misleading communications to investors beginning in July 2007. Flannery was a chief investment officer who no longer works at State Street. Hopkins was a product engineer at the time, and is currently State Street's head of product engineering for North America.
According to the SEC's order, the misleading communications to investors related to the effect of the turmoil in the subprime market on the Limited Duration Bond Fund (established in 2002) and other State Street funds that invested in it. State Street provided certain investors with more complete information about the fund's subprime concentration and other problems with the fund. These better-notified investors included clients of State Street's internal advisory groups, which provided advisory services to some of the investors in the fund and the related funds.
The SEC's Division of Enforcement alleges that State Street's internal advisory groups, one of which reported directly to Flannery, subsequently decided to recommend that all their clients redeem from the fund and the related funds. The pension plan of State Street's publicly-traded parent company (State Street Corporation) was one of those clients. At the direction of Flannery and State Street's Investment Committee, State Street sold the fund's most liquid holdings and used the cash it received from these sales to meet the redemption demands of better informed investors. This left the fund and its remaining investors with largely illiquid holdings.
In the settlement with the firm announced jointly by the SEC and the offices of Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, State Street agreed to pay more than $300 million to investors who lost money during the sub-prime market meltdown in 2007. State Street distributed those funds to investors in February and March. State Street additionally paid nearly $350 million to investors to settle private lawsuits.
When the SEC announced its settlement with State Street in February, it also announced that State Street had agreed—pursuant to a limited privilege waiver—to provide information to enable the SEC to assess the potential liability of individuals involved with State Street's investor communications about the fund.
The SEC's case was investigated by Robert Baker, Cynthia Baran, Deena Bernstein, and John Kaleba. The SEC's litigation against Hopkins and Flannery will be led by Bernstein, Kathy Shields and Baker.
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text: MUKILTEO — People who like to hike and kids who like to play now have fresh opportunities to do so. Mukilteo has improved the south fork of the Big Gulch trail and installed new playground equipment at 92nd Street Park, both in the central part of the city. A dedication ceremony is scheduled for 5 p.m. Feb. 10 at the park, located just west of the Mukilteo Speedway. Hikers had complained that a quarter-mile section of the trail gets muddy and tough to hike in the winter, said Patricia Love, acting planning director for the city of Mukilteo. During the autumn, crews applied gravel to a section between a footbridge and the trail's confluence with the north fork. From that location the trail continues more than a mile toward Puget Sound, ending near the Mukilteo wastewater treatment plant. The old playground equipment at 92nd Street Park was deemed unsafe and was removed during the fall. It was more than 20 years old and its wooden anchor beams had deteriorated, according to the city. "The supports were all rotted through," Love said. The city was able to complete both projects without spending any of its own money, she said. The city recently received a $55,000 parks grant from Snohomish County. This covered most of the playground equipment and all of the trail improvements, Love said. A contribution of $8,801 from Buell Recreation Park and Playground Productsin Bothell, through which the city bought the playground structure, covered the remainder of that project. Another cost- cutter came when 30 volunteers helped assemble the modular playground equipment, with help from an installer. Volunteers included members of the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs and staff members from Bank of America, Buell Recreation and the installer, the White River Fence Company of Auburn. Neighbors and current and former city officials also pitched in. The work took place on a rainy, windy Saturday. The date was Jan. 11, the day of the Seahawks' first playoff game. "We were scrambling," said City Councilman Ted Wheeler, one of the volunteers. Wheeler was elected in November and took office just last month. "It was cold and wet and miserable, but it was fun," he said. The playground equipment opened for use on Jan. 20, Love said. The Big Gulch trail is located just south of 92nd Street Park. The two areas together encompass more than 180 acres. Bill Sheets: 425-339-3439; firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Manowar – Gods Of War (2007, SPV/Magic Circle Music)
- Overture To The Hymn Of The Immortal Warriors
- The Ascension
- King Of Kings
- Army Of The Dead (Pt.1)
- Sleipnir
- Loki God Of Fire
- Blood Brothers
- Overture To Odin
- The Blood Of Odin
- Sons Of Odin
- Glory Majesty Unity
- Gods Of War
- Army Of The Dead (Pt.2)
- Odin
- Hymn Of The Immortal Warriors
- Die For Metal (bonus track)
Band Lineup:
Eric Adams – Vocals
Karl Logan – Guitars
Joey DeMaio – Bass
Scott Columbus – Drums
Total Time – 1:13:49
Manowar is one of those bands like KISS: either you love'em or you hate'em. I can honestly say that I like Manowar. I've been a fan since the FIGHTING THE WORLD (1987) days and I have kept up with them ever since. The band can write a good Metal song but their albums have become more and more grandiose and more of a collection of epic themed songs with each release. I wasn't crazy about the last album, WARRIORS OF THE WORLD (2002) and I skipped the SONS OF ODIN E.P. (2006) so I was hoping for a lot with GODS OF WAR. This is a concept album about the Norse god Odin, Valhalla, etc. Then again, aren't all Manowar albums loosely based on this concept?
Let's start by looking at the packaging. Manowar has always prided themselves as thinking of the fans first and their product is usually second to none when it comes to material, packaging, and extras. Again, very KISS-like. I bought the special edition CD/DVD combo, right there you get value. I haven't watched the DVD yet but I found out there is a "making of" feature about the new album and a "behind the scenes" section also. The package comes encased in a metal slipcase with an embossed Manowar logo. The package is a book-style, leather bound digipak with a full color booklet and full artwork. What makes the booklet interesting is that it almost entirely written in what I believe to be old Norwegian lettering. You need to use the letter key at the end to translate the booklet. This is a little annoying but Manowar diehards will eat this up., it's all part of the gimmick.
The first song 'Overture…' is 6+ minutes of nothing. It's all choir, orchestra, and sound effects…..boring. Second song, 'The Ascension', is almost three minutes of the same but with some narration and a calm Eric Adams vocal. The song carries into 'King Of Kings' which is definitely Manowar: fast, furious, and dated. It's good Power Metal but the song sounds like it has been released on every Manowar album thus far. Two more minutes of choir vocals and orchestration is 'Army Of The Dead (Pt.1)'. This is another complete waste of time, why continue with this "brothers in arms choir" crap? Four songs in and only one is a real song!
'Sleipnir' is another Power Metal tune with an elaborate introduction that takes up a full minute of the song. It's a serviceable tune: it's fast, big guitars, big drums, and Adams singing well…..it just sounds too much like 'King Of Kings' before it. I really like 'Loki God Of Fire', finally something I can sink my teeth into. Logan pulls out a monster main riff and Adams growls right over it. Columbus is reserved, playing within the song and not doing too many fills and double-bass acrobatics. Killer solo also. 'Loki…' shows the band still has balls.
'Blood Brothers' is a typical Manowar ballad of brothers in arms battling until the end. Eric Adams shines vocally, this guy has always had a great set of pipes. It's slow and layered giving off the epic feel and it's really long clocking in just under five minutes. There should be a rule about having two "overtures" on an album, 'Overture To Odin' is another instrumental piece that is totally unnecessary. When will the madness end? This isn't a movie score, this isn't an orchestra…..this is a Heavy Metal band! Play some Metal! This request goes unheard because 'The Blood Of Odin' is a four minute narration.
The band redeems themselves from wasting the last eight minutes of our time with 'Sons Of Odin', a six minute epic power metal song. Another song with balls: superb vocals and guitars/ The only downfall is the narrative/orchestration five minutes in that concludes the song. Remember 'The Warrior's Prayer' from KINGS OF METAL (1988)? That's basically what 'Glory Majesty Unity' is…..another 4:42 of wasted time. It's a well done narrative with sound effects and orchestration but where is the Metal? We are eleven songs in and there are only FIVE real songs! With all the passages and narratives, I feel like I'm at a stage production but there are no visuals.
The title track is a slower song, more orchestral bits added to the Metal guitars and great Eric Adams vocals. It's over seven minutes long though and I am about ready to throw this CD right out the window. Luckily I have 'Army Of The Dead (Pt.2) to make it worse. Another instrumental with choir vocals and organ, it makes me think of Sunday mass. These two songs alone waste another ten minutes of my listening pleasure.
The main guitar riff on 'Odin' sounds like something straight from Queen's FLASH GORDON album. Another slow epic song that I think I've heard before. By this time, I'm sick of hearing the following words: Valhalla, Odin, Valkyries, Sword, Blood. Again, Adams shines and seems to be the only bright spot on the album. If you have to have 'Overture To The Hymn Of The Immortal Warriors' to start the tale then you better have 'Hymn Of The Immortal Warriors' to end the quest! Can you guess what the song is? Correct, a slow epic song with orchestration, choral arrangement, another great Eric Adams vocal, and a good Karl Logan solo and a narrative. Thankfully the record is over…..or is it?
'Die For Metal' is the anthem you've heard Manowar do before, the anthem you expect, the anthem you hoped would be on the album. Manowar aren't reinventing the wheel here, they do one or two of these per record but this is a refreshing change from the Norse concept that took up over an hour of my life. The main riff is a Led Zeppelin rip-off but that is forgiven because the tune really kicks ass. It's mid-paced and cliche but it's welcome among all the concepts.
Bottom Line:
For diehards only. If you're a casual fan, save your money. Honestly, I think the diehard Manowar fans in the U.S. will have a hard time getting into this album but I'll bet this is loved in Manowar strongholds in Europe and South America. I have given this album numerous critical spins and I just can't get into it. It's not the concept, that doesn't stray far from the Manowar ideas, it's all the wasted time. How many instrumentals and narratives do we need? Out of 16 songs you only get half that are true songs, the rest are conceptual fluff. I will probably never reach for this album again and I will only give the DVD a single spin. A true disappointment…..


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Tenn. police allowed to carry personal AR-15 rifles
- Police can carry personal AR-15 rifles with inspection%2C training
- Currently%2C imited number of officers involved in SWAT and canine unit carry assault rifles
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NASHVILLE -- In response to the recent mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., and others, the Nashville police department will allow trained officers to carry their personal AR-15 rifles inside their vehicles while on duty.
"Deadly events across the United States over the past few years, including, among others, those in Carson City, Nev., Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., demonstrate the high-powered weapons with which criminals are arming themselves," Police Chief Steve Anderson said.
"It has become increasingly clear that a pistol and shotgun may not be enough for an officer to stop a threat to innocent citizens. This policy change is in the best interest of public and officer safety."
Under the department's existing policy, a limited number of officers involved in SWAT and canine unit assignments carry those weapons.
According to police spokesman Don Aaron, the updated policy will allow officers to carry "personally owned" rifles inside their vehicles as long as guns are inspected and authorized, weapons aren't modified and officers complete a three-day course on patrol rifle deployment.
The move is similar to a police policy change in Brentwood, Tenn., policy after an armed bank robbery in 2002 in which gunfire injured two officers. There, local businesses and residents chipped in financially to arm officers with the AR-15s.
Aaron said Nashville's department has considered the move for a few years.
He likened the change to a departmental shift in 1990 from revolvers to semi-automatic pistols, framing the latest change as a necessary step to deal with modern crimes. "Criminal behavior and criminal activity evolve."
The AR-15 rifle, the weapon of choice during three U.S. mass shootings, has emerged at the center of a national debate over gun control.
A gunman turned to an AR-15 in the December shooting spree in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that killed 20 children and six adults. An AR-15 also was used in a recent shooting at an Oregon mall and the movie-theater massacre last summer in Aurora, Colo.
With its modular design and reliability, the AR-15 is a favorite among some gun enthusiasts. Gun control advocates take issue with the gun's stopping power and bullet capacity. But some who back greater gun control measures applauded Metro Police.
"I think it's a good policy," said Philip Breen, pastor of Nashville's St. Ann Catholic Church, who has helped lead a petition drive in Nashville that calls for restrictions on high-capacity ammunition clips and assault weapons. He drew a sharp distinction between gun control and equipping officers.
"They are the lawful authorities and are trained to use them," Breen said. "In fact, they probably need to protect themselves in this day and time."
Some surprised
Still, the change surprised some with Nashville law enforcement backgrounds.
"It's a very big change," said Metro Councilwoman Edith Langster, a former police officer here, declining to give an opinion before she reviewed the policy.
"This is more dramatic than that," she said when reminded of the shift from revolvers to semi-automatic pistols more than 20 years ago.
Patrol rifles, under the new policy, are to be used only "when it is clear that a tactical advantage over a criminal suspect is warranted," Aaron said, and are not meant for routine calls. Officers are to keep guns in locked cases inside their police cars.
According to department figures, an estimated one-third of 1,400 sworn Metro police officers own these weapons. Twenty of these officers will help oversee the department's initial training course later this month.
A spokeswoman for Mayor Karl Dean directed questions to police officials when contacted by The Tennessean.
Robert Weaver, president of the Nashville Fraternal Order of Police, said his members support the policy change. "This is the appropriate measure to make sure officers have the tools they need."
The department will provide ammunition. Aaron said it would be a "tremendous expense" if Metro Police were to furnish every officer with an AR-15, which costs between $800 and $1,200. The full-scale transition would cost $1.4 million.
"There are no immediate plans to conduct a massive purchase of rifles at the city's expense," Aaron said.


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There's a heck of a lot more to it than that, of course; something that will dawn on you as you exert your direct commands in this Ensemble Studios creation that takes the Halo universe into fresh and challenging new territory. To some extent, Halo Wars is derivative as a real-time strategy game. It relies on the same systems of unit management, resource and technology management and multitasking that have made as many fans of the genre as it puts off. However, with the console-only focus comes a refreshing emphasis on action and speed over complex tech trees and endless staggered menu systems.
As the story goes, the events of Halo Wars take place 20 years before the original Halo on Xbox – an era where the human-led UNSC are fighting a losing battle against the ever-growing Covenant threat across planets in various stages of colonisation. There are also plenty of Spartans alive and kicking, as well as ODSTs (Orbital Drop Shock Troops) and a host of cool new battlefield armaments to raise all sorts of anachronistic questions; it's the Star Wars paradox all over again.
Seeing as Master Chief isn't around yet, the story is told through the perspectives of Captain James Cutter, the Commanding Officers aboard the UNSC Spirit of Fire, the onboard professor and eye candy, Ellen Anders, and the cliché slap-head Sergeant John Forge (now there's a power name). The Covenant's steel-clad Arbiter crops up along the way as the story progresses, told through high quality pre-rendered cinematics that feature some lovely lip synching and a chance to ogle the far-future landscape that Bungie and Ensemble have put together. The score is also suitably impressive and epic, playing off the classic Halo guitar riffs but transcribing them to a classical arrangement.
The Halo licence is a precious thing to Microsoft, and it's evident that it isn't going to let just anyone fool around with the fundamentals of the series. To that end, the setting, many units, locations and technology are pleasantly familiar; much of the iconic design work from Bungie has made the jump to RTS very nicely. At first, the most striking thing about the game is just how pretty it is for a strategy game. There's a level of polish applied to the engine that just isn't seen in many console RTSs, down to small, subtle animations, real-time lighting, environmental damage and the top-notch HUD system.
How you interface with the world and your troops is arguably the single most important element in Halo Wars. If it's too confusing to navigate menus at speed, or you need to memorise clunky button combinations and mapped controls, then you'll be at an immediate disadvantage. That's why Halo Wars is so refreshing – taking elements from games like the latest Command & Conquer console renditions and further refining them. The game uses a radial menu system that is also context sensitive – just highlight a unit or building and hit A; then, just use the left stick to point to the unit you want to create, the action to perform and so on. The radial menu also tracks things like material cost, tech level required and the creation time, as indicated by a green ring that gradually fills around the selected unit in production. There are no confusing icons or abbreviations – just images that are big and specific, well labelled in the centre of the radial menu. In fact, it's up there with the most streamlined menu systems in RTS console history.
This streamlining also extends to the way you play through the single and multiplayer game modes. Base construction is no longer a matter of finding a suitable location. Rather, most maps either come with the basic base preset on-location, ready for gradual expansion, or you can seek out pre-defined base locations dotted around the map. It's only a small change, but it takes a few moments of fiddly and somewhat unnecessary placement out of the equation. Constructing buildings is similarly streamlined; bases initially come with a handful of vacant expansion plots, but can be upgraded to a maximum of seven open locations on which to build. These are all automatically attached alongside the base headquarters, so there's no need to fiddle around with elevations or units in the way.
The limited construction sites actually add an interesting dimension to the strategy. Rather than having potentially unlimited energy creation or material refinement facilities (essentially, the raw components to create your Warthogs, Scorpions, Flamethrower troops and so on), you must juggle the speed of resource creation against how many different kinds of troops you want on the field. For example, a Wolverine counter-air unit costs three energy refineries and a vehicle depot if you want to create it. Along with a high resource cost, that means you need to use at least two building slots for creating refineries (and upgrade one, at additional cost), plus have at least two resource plants and a vehicle depot. Right there, that's five out of a total of seven of your potential building sites used. To get to that stage of production takes a little bit of forward planning – what kinds of troops you'll need, whether the enemies will be stronger or weaker against a certain vehicle and so on.
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Are We Talking About 'Cyberwar' Or Massive Incompetence?
from the perhaps-more-the-latter... deptRich Kulawiec points us to the news of Dillon Beresford of NSS Labs recently discovering (and revealing) that the Siemens control systems targeted by Stuxnet have massive security holes, including a hardcoded username/password combo ("basisk" for both, in case you were wondering). As Kulawiec noted:
We have been treated, over the past few years, to an increasing chorus of hysteria and hype about "cyberwar". Some of that has come from governments eager to justify their increasing invasion of citizen privacy. Some of that has come from government contractors, eager to score more $100M do-nothing contracts. And since Stuxnet has come to light, it's been held up repeatedly as an example of the extreme cleverness of attackers.But that kind of stuff isn't quite as sexy as declaring "cyberwar" and asking for billions of dollars from the government.
But while Stuxnet is pretty darn clever, that's not the real problem. The real problem is that the incompetent morons at Siemens allowed this piece of crap to get out the door and into production environments. Thus the storyline isn't so much about the devious and subtle craft of Stuxnet's creators, as it is about the jaw-dropping negligence of Siemens: how could their QA miss this? How could they allow such a rudimentary, obvious mistake to pass?
We don't need to spend billions (or trillions) on elaborate cyberwar initiatives. We need to stop making fundamental mistakes. We need to stop doing the stupid things that we KNOW are stupid.
Filed Under: cyberwar, incompetence, stuxnet
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text: Yesterday, after working my two hives, I was watering plants on my patio, when out of the corner of my eye I saw what I thought was one of my honey bees with a huge load of white pollen. When I could finally step back far enough to focus on her, what I saw was a small bee carrying a rolled up piece of flower petal. She carried it head first into the throat of a scarlet mandevilla, unfurled it, and spent a minute or so tacking it down, then flew off. Within a very short time she was back with another, then another, and another. I think she probably brought in six or seven bits of some white petal before she climbed into her flowery bower, and rolled herself tightly round with her covers. I've never seen any thing like it and have been unsuccessful at finding out what kind of bee she might be. Any ideas?


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Today, August 25th, the National Park Service turns 97!
I've recently rediscovered a love and passion for the National Parks starting with a trip to Zion NP back in April. Since then I've visited Saguaro National Park and the Grand Canyon and have plans to visit Hawaii Volcano National Park and Death Valley before the year is over. Next year I hope to see Bryce, Arches, Canyonlands and Joshua Tree…maybe more!
My Zion trip inspired a cool collaborative project you may remember from previous posts. The Trail Sherpa National Parks Series is a collection of National Parks photos collected from the Trail Sherpa Network of bloggers, processed and curated by me. This project was really cool and a lot of fun. When we posted the collection publicly, Tim and I were flooded with emails from people who had photos they wanted to add to the collection, some of which seemed to have great stories behind them. The Trail Sherpa Series wasn't the right place for that but we really wanted to be able to showcase some of these cool images and stories that people were itching to share.
Enter Parksfolio…
Parksfolio is our answer. Parksfolio will be a photographic journal of the National Parks as told by the many visitors who have a piece of the story to tell. We want Parksfolio to be THE place to share your favorite memories from the National Parks. It will be a place where people can tell us about their favorite trail, most amazing viewpoint, most memorable campsite or just share a really cool experience. What better way to honor the Parks Service's 97th birthday!
Read the stories. Submit your own photo and story. Join the conversation by commenting on any story that moves you. Or search the stories to find inspiration for your next trip.


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|Suicide Bombers Strike in Kabul
|Two Taliban suicide bombers struck near a U.S. base in Kabul early Wednesday, killing two Afghan guards in the heart of a neighborhood filled with foreign forces and embassies. The attack came despite increased security ahead of a Muslim holy day that last year saw one the capital's deadliest attacks.
The bombers apparently meant to target the American base but were spotted by security guards as they approached on foot. The guards fired on the assailants, killing them, but not before one of the vests exploded, said Gen. Mohammad Daoud Amin, the deputy provincial police chief.
Two Afghan security guards were killed and five civilians were wounded in the morning explosion, he said.
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I am using Mathematica 8 to do lengthy asymptotic expansions for use in statistics. In particular I have
where the first term is of order $O(n^{-1/2})$, the second one is $O(n^{-1})$, the third is $O(n^{-3/2})$ an the last one is $O(n^{-2})$ (where n is some asymptotic index). What I want to do is to expand
Series[Log[1 + A*x], {x, 0, 4}]
where $x=\lambda$ and A is of order $O(n^{-1/2})$, and I want Mathematica to be able to automatically retain all the terms up to $O(n^{-2})$. I have tried to expand and to use Simplify by telling the orders of the components in $\lambda$ through Assumptions, but I am not still able to get anywhere. Does anybody knows a way to do this or a good tutorial to learn from?
Thank you in advance,


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District is investigating coach Dwayne Strong and has informed Florida governing body for high school sports.
The Manatee High baseball program and its head coach Dwayne Strong are being investigated by the school district for alleged violations of policies while Florida's governing body for high school sports has been notified of the situation.
An Oct. 3 memorandum from Mary A. Murray, the school district's executive director of high school management, to Manatee High Principal Don Sauer cites the "severity of the allegations and initial evidentiary findings."
It directs Sauer to "suspend all interactions between Mr. Strong and the MHS baseball program," to "freeze all MHS baseball program funds and accounts" and to contact the Florida High School Athletic Association and "self-report this investigation."
On Friday, Strong was still fulfilling his on-campus duties as an in-school suspension teacher.
Though the exact reasons for the investigation remain unclear, sources close to the investigation confirmed to the Herald-Tribune that the program's finances are at the center of the inquiry as are some of Strong's ethical decisions as a coach.
FHSAA spokesman Cory Sobers also confirmed the existence of an investigation.
"Manatee County is conducting its own investigation and they will report back to us when they complete it and we'll go from there," Sobers said.
School district spokesman Steve Valley confirmed that an investigation of the program is active and was prompted by tips shared by someone affiliated with Manatee High.
Manatee High Athletic Director Joe Kinnan, who supervises coaches, did not return a call on Friday for comment.
Second athletic coach under fire
Strong is the second athletic coach at Manatee to come under fire in the past year.
Former football coach and parent liaison Rod Frazier has been charged by the state with seven counts of misdemeanor battery and three counts of interfering with a student's attendance. Frazier has been accused of inappropriately touching female students and employees at Manatee.
In addition to his duties at Manatee High, Strong is the owner of a baseball and softball training facility in downtown Bradenton called The Sandlot @ 5-Tools Baseball.
Many area players have trained there, including Sarasota's Ian Desmond, who plays for the Washington Nationals.
According to state records, Strong also is listed as the registered agent for a non-profit charity called Dream Big — Do It Big Inc.
Former player
Manatee High School's baseball program has been in the shadow of the highly successful football team, but it has still enjoyed success in recent years under Strong.
In 2011, Manatee went 20-7 and reached the state semifinals before losing 7-6 to Lakeland. It was the first time since 1963 that a Manatee team went that far.
The 1963 team eventually won the state championship, and on Thursday night former players from that team assembled in Bradenton for a 50-year reunion of the state title.
Strong was a former player at Manatee High and Manatee Community College, now State College of Florida. He was also a former assistant coach at Booker, Sarasota High and MCC.
He has had two players reach the professional ranks since he took over Manatee High's program in 2007.
Cord Sandberg, a 2013 Manatee grad who played on the 2011 state semifinal team, was selected in the third round by the Philadelphia Phillies in the June draft and signed for a $750,000 bonus. He spent the summer playing rookie ball in Clearwater.
Sandberg, a former star quarterback on the football team, bypassed a football scholarship to Mississippi State to turn professional in baseball.
Correlle Prime — a star pitcher on the 2011 team — was drafted in the 12th round by the Colorado Rockies in 2012 and signed for a $125,000 bonus. He has spent the last two season playing rookie ball.


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NBC News projected Doug Jones the apparent winner of an extraordinary election that resulted in Alabama voters sending a Democrat to the Senate for the first time since 1992. Thanks for sticking with us.
Here are the highlights from Election Night:
- Democrat Doug Jones stunned the political world by defeating Republican Roy Moore in a contentious race that was flipped on its head after decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against Moore. African-Americans, women and moderates helped fuel Jones' win with stronger than expected turnout.
- Moore has refused to concede, however, and told supporters the race is not over in a speech late Tuesday. The Alabama Republican Party has acknowledged Jones as the winner and said in a statement "we respect the voting process."
- Republican finger pointing began immediately after the results became clear.
- For the second time in as many months, Democrats were energized by important electoral victories they painted as a rebuke of Republicans and President Donald Trump. Last month, Democrat Ralph Northam won a hotly contested governor's race in Virginia.
- Jones' apparent victory is the second loss for Trump in the Alabama race. The candidate he endorsed ahead of the GOP primary, Sen. Luther Strange, fell to Moore in September. He then endorsed Moore in the final weeks of the general election.


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Why you should add Scotland to your Indie/RTW tripScotland is known for its Highlands and golf and gorgeous scenery, but lately its cities have been getting a lot of attention from international travelers as well.
- This is where to come to buy kilts and eat haggis if you want to tread in the cultural clichés, but urban Scotland is fast emerging as an important player on the global scene.
- Edinburgh in particular gets filled to the brim with festival-goers every August and the parties go all night.
- Edinburgh is Scotland's capital and second largest city, but it's the main tourist hub. The city is fairly compact, but it's crammed with enough palaces and castles and cathedrals and squares to keep any history or architecture buff busy for days.
- After dark Edinburgh really turns into something special. The city has long been a center of literature and culture, but now there are clubs and bars and other amusements that will impress even jaded residents of London
- Glasgow is the largest city and while not as historic as Edinburgh, it does have more than its fair share of museums and other fascinating sights. The city's center has been revitalized and is attracting travelers for its excellent shopping as well as restaurant and nightlife scene.
- Don't neglect the Highlands. This district in the northwest is home to amazing scenery, Loch Ness, and the Great Glen.


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QuickBookmarks - Easy way to navigate in your code
Posted by Dan Kozub
Desktop-as-a-Service Designed for Any Cloud ? Nutanix Frame
You can define up to 10 hotkeys, each bound to specific place in
your code. These bookmarks can be saved and reloaded in
any time.
I am using unnamed bookmarks, so they stay valid after insertion or removal of previous lines.
- Select meaningful text and press hotkey to set bookmark
- Make sure that there is no selected text in the line and press the hotkey to go to the bookmark
- Use 'Alt+Num1', 'Alt+Num2',... hotkeys for bookmarks, 'Alt+Num-' - to clear current bookmark, and 'Alt+Num/' for list of bookmarks, if you do not have better idea
- Do not set unnamed bookmarks by using standard SetBookmark function
- Do not remove text with bookmark, redifine this bookmark at first
- Do not forget to save you bookmarks, they are saved only after you press 'Yes' in the list of bookmark dialog
- Call list of bookmarks if you forget the number
Any comments and suggestions will be appreciated.
v 1.1: A function to display list of all bookmarks was added. Assign 'Alt+Num/' hotkey to ShowQuickBookmarks()
v 1.2: It is now possible to simply clear bookmark instead of resetting it. Assign 'Alt+ Num-' hotkey to ClearCurrentBookmark()
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Some GREAT upcoming open-source conferences are now seeking speakers:
- linux.conf.au 2011 is to be held in Brisbane, Australia, January 24 – 29, 2011. This is the premier large-scale open-source event in the region, and from all reports it is always a "corker". I particularly appreciate that they sponsor an Open Day during the conference to enable the local community to participate. CFP ends this Saturday, August 7, so get a move on!
- Also in Oceania, the Open Source Developer's Conference will be held this year in Melbourne, Australia, November 24-26. 2010. This is the seventh year for this intimate, vibrant gathering of Oz-oriented open-source advocates. (Note that intimate doesn't equal small – this conference has over 250 attendees.) Check out the schedules for previous years to see some of the fantastic content that has surfaced at this conference. CFP open until August 23, so hurry!.
- The first MeeGo conference is scheduled November 15 through November 17th in Dublin, Ireland. MeeGo was just announced as the official platform for GENIVI – a very exciting time to be associated with this great project from Intel and Nokia, now shepherded by the Linux Foundation. CFP open until September 1.
- The Symbian Exchange and Exposition (SEE 2010) is to be held this year in Amsterdam, November 9-10. SEE is the primary developer conference for the Symbian operating system, which has been open-sourced to great fanfare (and which now runs on some very interesting hardware, including the BeagleBoard). CFP open until September 3.
UPDATE: I just found out about Open Source Developers' Conference France, which will be held in Paris and is free. This sounds like a great place for French-speaking open source folks to gather and network.
If anyone cares to sponsor me to travel to any of these shows from North America, I'd be happy to talk to you. 🙂 Meanwhile, I'm busy preparing for LinuxCon and the Teaching Open Source Education Mini-Summit next week, can't wait!
By the way, these and many other conferences are listed on my Open Source Conferences calendar.


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And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
By Randy Shilts
Re-released in April 2000 by St. Martin's Press, New York; 672 pages, $16.95
"The bitter truth was that AIDS did not just happen to America -- it was allowed to happen by an array of institutions, all of which failed to perform their appropriate tasks to safeguard the public health," wrote San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts. "The story of the first five years of AIDS in America is a drama of national failure, played out against a backdrop of needless death."
In these two short sentences in a brief prologue, Shilts summarized a perspective that he would then go on to painstakingly document for more than 600 pages in his landmark book And the Band Played On. Originally released in the fall of 1987, Shilts' landmark book was re-released last year and is well worth a repeat visit in this 20th year of the epidemic. Before And the Band, the early history of the AIDS epidemic was a dizzying welter of contested facts and confused details. But Shilts helped to bring order to this chaos, constructing a narrative framework for understanding the emergence and explosive spread of HIV in the U.S. Because of this contribution, Shilts' book not only provided a record of the early epidemic but also became a major event in its own right.
Full of vivid journalistic portraits of both people and events, And the Band consists of three major, interrelated story lines. The first story line is that of the gay community, mostly in San Francisco and New York, and the ways in which a deeply ingrained hostility toward government authority caused many gay leaders to resist public health efforts and to deny the magnitude of the emerging crisis.
The second story line traces the scientific and medical establishments in their attempts to track down the cause of the new syndrome. On the one side were a cadre of dedicated public servants, on the other ambitious careerists who did not want to taint their professional lives by association with the "4 Hs" of early AIDS: "homosexuals, heroin users, Haitians, and hookers."
Finally, Shilts weaves in a story line about politicians and policy makers, explaining how the best of intentions (such as among concerned public health authorities in San Francisco) could lead to paralysis and how even the worst of intentions (such as among members of the resurgent right-wing of the early 1980s) could sometimes make sound public policy.
Does this version of events sound familiar? If this outline seems to simply reflect the conventional wisdom, it must be remembered that And the Band largely constructed this conventional wisdom.
Of course, there are any number of shortcomings in And the Band. Shilts tried to cover global developments, yet the book's heart is very much in San Francisco. Perhaps more seriously, Shilts often failed to make clear the extent to which he was not only an observer, but also an active participant in many of the debates he covered, particularly about the closure of bathhouses. Likewise, the somewhat sensationalized account of the so-called "Patient Zero" of the North American epidemic, a French Canadian flight attendant, is given emphasis far beyond its actual significance. And his focus on white, gay male communities can be relentless, leaving the stories of other groups to be told by other journalists (such as the excellent The Invisible Epidemic: The Story of Women and AIDS by Gena Corea).
Yet, in all, the book remains a landmark of thorough reporting and hard-headed objectivity (neither of which, it should be noted, were reflected by the watered-down HBO movie version of 1993). Shilts' version of events was, obviously, not the only one possible, and remains contested. But the combination of his incisive historical perspective, his insider-outsider status as a gay man and a journalist, and his dogged reportorial style make his contribution one of historical importance. A century from now, people will probably still be reading And the Band Played On.
Throughout his work on And the Band, Shilts refused to get tested for HIV, fearing that it might compromise his objectivity. After testing HIV-positive, he ignored his doctor's advice and struggled past his illness to finish his last book, Conduct Unbecoming, a weighty account of the then-burning "gays-in-the-military" debate. Shilts died of AIDS in February 1994.
Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D. is the editor of Body Positive_._


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text: University of Chicago's Theaster Gates currently has an installation in the Milwaukee Art Museum titled To Speculate Darkly: Theaster Gates and Dave the Potter. During Fall 2009, the Art History Department's lantern slide collection was relocated to Gates' Dorchester Project house for "reuse as performance material, research and speculation." Part of that reuse includes the To Speculate Darkly installation, with the glass ceiling entrance as pictured above. For more information about the installation, see this article recently published by the Wisconsin Gazette.


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The hyptasticness that is Google Wave continues to annoy me as a Flash developer and RIA enthusiast. Now I preface all of this by admitting that I haven't used it; maybe when I get an invite this thing will be worth all of the finger grease that keyboards have endured as people talk about it. And I'm not saying it's not impressive; it is. It's a great demo, it does some very cool stuff. I'm not annoyed at Google Wave, I'm annoyed because everything that people like about that demo was doable 3-5 years ago with Flash. Flash Remoting, Flash Communication Server, and our much better user interface capabilities pretty much could have created Google Wave. Now I understand that there's some excitement because this is built on open standards with a more open model, but people don't get excited about standards- they get exited about vision. And that's what kills me.
I don't care if you're a Silverlight developer or a Flash developer; the technology platform you've got is years ahead of what Google Wave is built on. Yet with all of our UI prowess, our design sense, and our pure and simple technical superiority with things like real time communication and scalability we haven't built very much that captures people's imaginations the way that Google Wave has. I think we lack the vision.
I think it could be argued that in some cases we're TOO visionary. If someone had actually built Google Wave 3-5 years ago it wouldn't have made the same impact because people wouldn't have realized what it meant. In the RIA world we live in the bubble of the future. I genuinely think that most of us look 3-5 years ahead because that's where our technology puts us. When people don't get what we're trying to pitch we just move on to the next thing. Look at Augmented Reality. Possible with Flash for a couple of years now but it's just starting to get some main stream attention. RIA developers seem permanently entrenched in the Technology Trigger of the Hype Cycle and we don't seem to be able to follow things through to the Plateau of Productivity.
Part of the Wave hypefest is probably because of the world's love/hate relationship with Google. When they do something everyone goes nuts and that's because they really do have the power to change the web. They did it once, they're big, they're smart, they can do it again. But there are a lot of smart people in the RIA world. Big companies like Microsoft and Adobe and small ones like Aviary and Picnik. We just don't seem to encourage the visionary demos, the ones that make people rethink how they'll communicate and interact. I don't know if that has to come from the big companies directly or whether it's something we can encourage startups to do. We don't have a technology problem; if that was all it took we'd be cranking out Wave-esque demos all the time. We just don't seem to be able to look at the entire scope of what we've been doing for the past couple of years and put it together in a game changing way.
I don't have a solution, but if you've got suggestions, I'm all ears.


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I've just bought a device commercially known as "Zelig Pad", which reports to be "XZPAD700" in settings screen. The device looks made by Hamlet but distributed with Exagerate brand.
It carries Android 4.0.4.
Anybody knows how to root that device?
For sake of curiosity: the device goes in download mode by pressing VOL- + Power. Seeking for something to download into its ROM without bricking it.


text: I'd never stick one of these clunky beeping remote finder devices on any remote I gave a damn about. But they are triggered by the tone of the included whistle, which gives you and your clicker a relationship not unlike Lassie and Timmy. Very cool, until you lose the whistle. US$18. Bonus: They've got a keychain version with a flashlight and voice recorder, too. [1ofakind via Crunchgear]


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The problem I'm having is the iPhone doesn't show up as a network interface in the Network System Prefs pane.
-Tried an iPhone 4 and a 4s - both running iOS 6.0.1
-MBP is running OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), all system updates up to date.
-iTunes 11.0.1, which installs AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext 2.3.6 (which comes up several time on the web as a possible problem, but doesn't seem to have fixed it in my case).
-Tried PRAM Zap, Permissions repair, fsck
-Both phones are on Vodafone, one post pay, one pre pay.
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You get the idea.
In the genealogical world there is much discussion about correct citations of our sources. There probably isn't a genealogist alive that hasn't wished they could go back and do things a little bit better. I remember thinking, "Oh, I'll always remember where that was." Then, life got in the way and I don't have a clue.
But, back to the family legends - perhaps we ought to listen a little bit closer to those stories. Try as I might, I could not locate a single fact in our family's history that pointed to our having Dutch lineage. But, Dad insisted that was what this ancestor was always called.
Dutch. Dutch. Dutch. Deutch?
Yep, that was it!!! The line was German!!! That made a lot more sense, because a lot of the German foods and traditions were passed on through the family. I just didn't realize it. The sausage, the sauerkraut, the Christmas legends, etc.
But, one legend still continues to haunt me. One of my mother's grandfathers was Robert H. Stevens/Stephens. He fought in the Civil War. He settled back into Elliott County, Kentucky. He died.
A few years after his death, the legend was that a Doctor Brown (?) was supposed to assemble a skeleton as part of an exam.
The legend was that Robert's grave was disturbed.
The legend was that someone ran upon Doc Brown in the woods with a big pot of boiling water.
The legend was that a hand floated to the top.
The legend was that Doc Brown kept a skeleton hanging in his closet for years.
Now, this all makes for some wonderful storytelling. But, that's not what I'm after. I'm just trying to find where he was buried.
A few years ago, my uncle told me that a picture existed of Robert, and that it was hanging in the home of a cousin who was in her 80's. I really wanted to see it, and perhaps take a picture of it. He told me to go up to the house and knock. If there wasn't an answer, just look through the door, for it was hanging right inside within viewing distance.
Now, we are talking Kentucky. You just don't do something like that. But, I figured there wasn't any other way to see that picture. My husband and four young children drove up to the house, and I told them to stay put.
I knocked on the door. There was no answer. Looking at the hound dog out of the corner of my eye, I took my chances and looked through the door. It was hard to focus, but that's because just an inch away on the other side of the glass was another pair of eyes looking at me!
I thought for sure I was dead.
This was my mother's dear cousin and childhood playmate. She reminded me so much of my mother - same hair, same arms, same laugh. I wanted to get right to the point, but there are some very important points to remember when visiting someone in the south:
1. Do not, under any circumstance, rush. If you're foreign, or from the north (in my case, Ohio), you've got to earn their trust.
2. Ask how the garden was this year.
3. Ask how the family is doing. Include the hound dog.
4. Talk slowly. Don't try to imitate the "twang". You'll just sound silly.
5. Again, don't rush. Things go at a different speed. Adapt to it, no matter how anxious you are to get the information and get on the road.
We had a wonderful visit as she shared such fond memories of my mother. We did finally get around to talking about family, and I asked her about the picture that was indeed hanging on the wall. She took it down for me to look at, and I gave it a good "goin' over".
I was amazed at the family resemblances that were in this man's facial features that have carried right on down through the generations.
I asked her where she had gotten it. She slapped her leg and said that some people up the holler had been tearing up their linoleum and ran across it. (People often placed layers of newspapers and other papers between the floorboards and the linoleum to help insulate against the cold.) She said Robert's name was even on the back of it, though I didn't ask her to take it out of the frame to look at that. I kind of wish I had.
She agreed to let me take a picture of the picture, so I took it outside and placed it under a tree so the sun wouldn't glare on it. This was before the days of digital cameras, so I took several pictures with my inexpensive Vivitar 35mm to make sure at least one turned out.
Robert H. Stevens/Stephens, md to Rachel M. Burton
I have since downloaded his Civil War Pension File, and learned that he served in the Union Army, and at one point was taken as a prisoner of war. In the 1890 Kentucky Veteran's Census, he is living at Hogtown, Elliott Co., KY, where he states he had a pain in his side and he broke his foot during the war, possibly due to: "A sudent jar from shells by cannon".
He's a bit of a hero to me. He's in the Civil War, he dies, perhaps is dug up and hangs in a doctor's office for years. His picture stays under the linoleum for years and is finally uncovered. My husband asked, "Were they singing 'I'm Walkin' the Floor Over You'?"
Smarty pants! Quit talking about my grandpa!!


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Aug 28, 2007 | ISBN 9780345477156
Advance praise for For the Love of a Dog
"For the Love of a Dog is a wonderful book. Fine, balanced, charming, it is sure to appeal to all dog fans whose numbers seem to be increasing (and rightly so) by the day. I read it with great delight."
–Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Ph.D., author of Dogs Never Lie About Love
"A step-by-step guide on how to interpret how your dog feels by reading his facial expressions and body posture. A marvelous book that everybody who loves dogs should own."
–Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation
"Brilliant! For The Love of a Dog is a perfect balance of science and soul. These stories will either keep you up reading long into the night knowing that with your dogs, you love and are loved, need and are needed."
–Dr. Marty Becker, resident veterinarian on ABC's Good Morning America and author of Fitness Unleashed!
"A fascinating, highly educational read. McConnell alternates between expressing empathy with our canine friends and taking a step back to explain the scientific limits of any attempt to get into their heads."
–Frans de Waal, author of Our Inner Ape
"Patricia McConnell skillfully blends cutting edge scientific data with examples from her personal experiences with dogs to produce a clear picture of the emotional life of dogs. In the process we learn more about how the mind of a dog works, and how to better understand and interact with them. This is a 'must read' for all dog owners."
–Stanley Coren, author of The Intelligence of Dogs and How Dogs Think


text: Here's an idea. Let's start a thread to talk about the venerable Suzuki DR650. Recommendation 1: Limit your posts to the DR650 and its variants Recommendation 2: Do not moan/bitch about how your carb mods are superior to everyone else's carb mods Recommendation 3: Do not moan/bitch about how dumb everybody else is and how smart you are Recommendation 4: Do not moan/bitch about difficulty you're having w/ a vendor. Put on your big girl panties, pick up the phone/email them and work it out. Recommendation 5: Do post pics of your rides and adventures that include your DR650 (which is a really swell motorcycle) Recommendation 6: If, after reading 1-5, you still choose to whine/moan/complain like a little girl, do so comfortable in the knowledge that you will be publicly ridiculed and offered a couple of Extra Strength Midol and a Hello Kitty blanket. Recommendation 7: If you don't have something nice to say, then just don't say anything. There are plenty of other threads here where you can let your immaturity gallop at full speed. If you find yourself confused about a proposed post, examine the brief list above and see if your contribution conforms to these established criteria. ****This thread was started as a lighthearted way to poke fun at some of the inmates on the regular DR thread who are taking themselves and their individual pursuits a little too seriously. I'm not, repeat NOT trying to torque anybody off or start a shouting match. Just tryin' to keep it all real****


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We all love those little Android figurines that come from the mind of Andrew Bell, and with Christmas coming up, that can only mean one thing: a holiday Android! I'd like you all to meet Frankie Frost.
Look at him, all frosty and cute - you know you want one. Or two. They're on sale now for $10 a pop, so you can always head over to the Dead Zebra Shop and order one up.
Or you can try to win one here. We have five to give away, so here's how to throw your hat in the ring.
Like the last time we gave away some little Android guys, we'll keep this one simple. Hit the Rafflecopter widget below and follow the requirement - yep, there's only one. After that, you're in the running. We'll let this one go through the weekend, so it ends on Tuesday, December 11 at 12:00 AM PST.
You will be contact shortly for your info. Congratulations!
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I'd like to keep a div element within the viewport when page is being scrolled. I'm currently using this snippet using jquery:
$(function() { var offset = $("#column-menu").offset(); var topPadding = 25; $(window).scroll(function() { if ($(window).scrollTop() > offset.top) { $("#column-menu").stop().animate({ marginTop: $(window).scrollTop() - offset.top + topPadding }); } else { $("#column-menu").stop().animate({ marginTop: 25 }); }; }); });
It works great but what happens is that the element disappear upon scrolling and then comes down from the top
-- what I would like instead -- The element stops as soon as its top border reaches the top of the viewport, no animation, no gliding no nuttin'.
It should be ie6,ie7 and ie8 compliant... Any suggestions (even with prototype) would be great. Thanks.


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Will do! Thank you for the suggestions.
Absolutely, Steve. Sooner would be better than later though. I'll be working abroad in a few weeks right through till January.
Thanks for welcoming me, Steve. I look forward to our conversation tomorrow.
Fabulous! That's exciting! One of my favorite movies (though I know the title is a sappy as can be) is "Autism: The Musical." If she hasn't seen it, it would be really inspiring for the kind of work she does. I would love to connect with her. I will visit her website, but please feel free to give her my information. Cool!
Thanks for all you do,
Thank you. Would love to help in this regard. Worked with many of Dr. Deming's colleagues in the 80s and have extensive background in his principles. I know they can be applied to ANY process and would love to help in leading the way for applying them to education.
May 25th, Wednesday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 12am GMT): Sir Ken Robinsonon Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
If I missed this. Is it available or archived?