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The London Olympics are off to a kicking start after a screw-up at Hampden Park in Glasgow led to the South Korean flag being displayed before North Korea's women's soccer match against Colombia and the subsequent refusal of North Korea's side to take the field. (You can see a photo of the mix-up here.) The team eventually did return to the pitch and the match got underway after an hour delay.
North Korea's women's team has been a lightning rod for drama (as well as a lightning rod for, uh, lightning). Let's not forget this is the same team that's banned from the next Women's World Cup for roiding up, and about everything dealing with North Korea is a bit wacky these days. But the IOC should at least be able to get this sort of thing right; at least they apologized. [NBC]

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Things have been a bit hectic lately. What with putting in a new kitchen, being insanely busy at work, and trying not to come out with embarrassing sheep jokes, I've ended up with quite a long list of things to do blog-wise.
Top of the list, until now, was installing the long-awaited Oracle 11gXE Release 2 onto one of my Linux machines.
Yes, the free version of Oracle's RDBMS has finally had an upgrade from 10g and I really want to get my hands on it and have a good nose around.
As well as being based on the latest release of the RDBMS, the Express Edition has had one or two other improvements added. Maybe the most significant of these is that the limit for the amount of user data that XE can hold has been increased from 4GB to 11GB.
What I'm going to do here is :
- Go through the package conversion process
- Install the database using steps applicable both to Mint and Ubuntu ( and any other Debian based distro)
- Apply some finishing touches so that the menu items work as intended
Along the way, we'll find out just why Oracle can't speak English (and lots of other languages), where Mint has hidden the .bashrc, and how Aliens can be friendly.
Because I'm trying to cover both distros in this post, the installation process will be done entirely on the command line. Don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds.
But first…a small morsel of Linux history. Debian, the distro upon which both Mint and Ubuntu are based, was named after a Deb. I had to mention that as this will cause my beloved to think that I'm writing about her ( again), and thus give me enough time to finish writing this !
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text: Billy Joe Shaver never became a household name, but his songs -- including "Good Christian Soldier," "Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me," and "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train" -- became country standards during the '70s and his reputation among musicians and critics didn't diminish in the ensuing decades. One of the best synopses of Shaver's upbringing is his own song "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train." When he sings, "My grandma's old-age pension is the reason that I'm standing here today," he ain't kidding. The "good Christian raising" and "eighth grade education" -- not to mention being abandoned by his parents shortly after being born, working on his uncles' farms instead of going to high school, and losing part of his fingers during a job at a sawmill -- are all part of his life story. "I got all my country learning," he sings, "picking cotton, raising hell, and bailing hay." Shaver did a quick turn in the Navy and worked a series of nowhere jobs (including the one in the sawmill) before trying his luck in Nashville. After several futile trips between Texas and Tennessee, he appeared one day in 1968 in Bobby Bare's Nashville office, where he convinced Bare to listen to him play. Bare ended up giving him a writing job. Shaver recorded one song for Mercury, "Chicken on the Ground," which went nowhere, but soon his songs began to see the light of day thanks to Kris Kristofferson ("Good Christian Soldier"), Tom T. Hall ("Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me"), Bare ("Ride Me Down Easy"), and later, the Allman Brothers ("Sweet Mama") and Elvis Presley ("You Asked Me To"). Shaver's real breakthrough, though, came in 1973 when Waylon Jennings recorded an album composed almost entirely of Shaver's songs, Honky Tonk Heroes -- largely considered the first true "outlaw" album. Shaver's debut album was Old Five & Dimers Like Me, produced by Kristofferson and released by Monument (Kristofferson's label) in 1973. Along with the title track, it contained the now-classic Shaver songs "Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me" and the aforementioned "Georgia on a Fast Train." Shaver switched to MGM a year later, but no album materialized. "Raising hell" was, as he had sung, part of his lifestyle at the time, and it kept him out of sight for a couple years. In 1976, Shaver resurfaced with When I Get My Wings on Capricorn, and followed it up a year later with Gypsy Boy. In 1978, Johnny Cash recorded "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Some Day)," a song Shaver wrote just after he chose to give up drugs and booze and turned to God for help. Religious references do crop up his songs (including "Chunk of Coal"), but they never dominate the emotions or get in the way of the earthy rhythms and melodies. Shaver switched labels again, this time to Columbia, in 1980, and recorded three more albums during the next decade: I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal, Billy Joe Shaver, and Salt of the Earth. The latter was produced by Shaver with his son, Eddy, who played on many Billy Joe records and also toured in Dwight Yoakam's band in the '80s. After a few more years out of the spotlight, Billy Joe returned once again in 1993, this time recording under the name Shaver. Tramp on Your Street, released on Zoo/Praxis, featured Eddy on lead guitar and Billy Joe's own raspy but lovable voice, and coming out during a time when hunky hat acts where the new flavor in Nashville, it was quickly recognized as one of the strongest and hardest country records to hit the shelves in many years. Shaver toured regularly over the next couple of years and recorded a live album for Zoo, Unshaven, in 1995, but was dropped by the label a year later. Victory followed on the New West label in 1998, with Electric Shaver appearing a year later. The rock-oriented Earth Rolls On appeared in spring 2001. His next four albums, all released on the Compadre label, were Freedom's Child (2002); the emotional Billy and the Kid, which saw Shaver singing songs written by son Eddy, who had died of a heroin overdose on New Year's Eve in 2000 (2004); Real Deal (2005); and Everybody's Brother (2007). The year 2007 also saw the release of Storyteller, a live set recorded in 1992, on Sugar Hill Records. Ever the road warrior, Shaver recorded a gig in September of 2011, and released it as the CD/DVD package Live at Billy Bob's Texas in July 2012. Long in the Tooth, released in 2014 in Shaver's 75th year, featured ten new original songs. ~ Kurt Wolff


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At a Google presentation last week, many business owners in Michigan learned firsthand from the search engine gurus themselves, why every business must have a website. At the top of the list of vehicles to help customers find their website was social networks like Facebook and Twitter. These networks are so important because they help your customers find you as you leave breadcrumbs
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You may have heard that Google has recently launched their own social network, Google + but do you have a circles yet? If I'm talking a foreign language to you, I invite you to visit www.facebook.com/socialmediamadeeasycoachingand watch the recent videos that were created by Google to show you how their new social network can work for you.
Google gets it. They know that social networks are not going anywhere. They are only growing. Google sees that this concept of people connecting to the things that matter to them (which 10 years ago was made popular by another search engine Yahoo and social network MySpace) is worth them also giving it a shot. With the best internet minds and their robust search engine user collateral at their disposal, Google is betting they can compete with Facebook the current social network favorite with 500 million active users.
Don't wait any longer. Learn to maximize your social media connections and content. The book buyer's market is vast and many readers are impulse buyers. Start leaving breadcrumbs that lead to your book everywhere. Here is one of my breadcrumbs. www.theartofreinventingyoubook.com Follow it and see where it leads you.
BTW, http://bookbusinessmag.com has this free white paper "21 Tips for Book Publishers to Build an Effective Social Media Strategy" that I highly recommend. Check it out as well.
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Really TLDR: The Parrot has landed.
It brings me great joy to announce that I have completed all milestones for my TPF grant regarding the Parrot Embed/Extend subsystems! Not only that, but all of my grant work was included in the most recent release of Parrot, 3.5.0 "Menelaus".
The actual TLDR of this update is "many tests were written, code coverage is above 95% for all systems described in the grant, docs were improved, many Parrot Trac tickets were created and many a blarg toast was cooked.
For those of you that have a thirst for knowledge unquenched (I know who you are), you are welcome to pondiferously peruse the Impending Technical Details.
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The last portion of this grant definitiely challenged me to think in new ways about testing and I am now only beginning to reap the benefits. I was charged with adding code coverage a few rarely-if-ever-used C functions in Parrot's embed/exted subsystem, which allows you embed Parrot into other applications and other funky stuff.
Whiteknight++ greatly helped me write a test for Parrot_sub_new_from_c_func which takes a C function and a string that describes the function signature of the C function and returns a NCI PMC, which can be invoked.
I also learned many lessons about code coverage during the final stage of this grant, even though I thought I was at such a level of expertness that it would be hard to learn drastically new and important perspectives on testing. This pattern of thinking is always wrong.
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Sometimes you are the underdog and you have to interpret the rules in a new way in order to have a chance at winning. You need to be Ender Wiggins from Ender's Game: continually inventing new tactics to keep a winning edge over the competition.
I noticed that a large portion (about 80%) of the uncovered code in one file was a macro that was copy-and-pasted into two places. I refactored this into a single macro called POP_CONTEXT, which reduced the total number of lines in the file by roughly 10, while simultaneously decreased the number of uncoverd lines in the file by ~20 lines, which had a combined effect of pushing the code coverage over the necessary 95% mark.
This change definitely increases the maintainability and modularity of the code, but it feels a bit like gaming the system. Nonetheless, it saved the day.
Lesson 2
The simplest useful test that you are avoiding is the most valuable next test to write, because it has the best ROI (Return on Investment, where investment is the time it takes to write the test, and the return is having an automated way of verifying that the feature works.
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Software developers are very optimistic about time estimates. We forget about all the possible things that could go wrong and often quote estimates on something approaching "base case scenario". As a rule of thumb, I think all software developers should think long and hard about a time estimate for a given project, write down the estimate, then multiply that time estimate by pi for a REAL estimate.
I theorize that pi is the factor of time it takes to debug and write tests for behavior of hard-to-recreate edge cases.
I originally thought my grant would take about 3 months, but it ended up taking about 9 or ten. QED.
Finally, I would like to thank my grant manager Makoto Nozaki for providing lots of feedback, support and encouragement, as well as everyone else at the The Perl Foundation for funding this grant.


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I've been using HE.net's TunnelBroker service to ensure the various sites/services I host are available via IPv6. When we moved up to San Francisco, I decided to finally setup our home network with its own tunnel as well. (SCALE's services hosted over at ActUSA have long IPv6 enabled since 2009~). Currently we tunnel traffic using our trusty old Linksys WRT54G running OpenWRT through HE.net, routes are advertised to the local network using RADVD.
So far things have worked surprisingly well, with a few exceptions for older devices. Here is a quick review of what we have working, and what is still in progress.
Devices supporting IPv6:
- Linksys WRT54G w/ OpenWRT
Required some futzing with modules and configuration but work if you follow instructions. I'm a bit surprised ipv6 kernel modules are not load out of the box on current builds.
- Nexus One (Android 2.3.x)
Works out of the box on wifi, pickups route advertisement and passes on test-ipv6.com.
- Maru's iPhone 3GS
Had to upgrade to latest iOS release (4.2.3) as it was running ancient jail-broken 3.1 build. It looks like you need to be running at least iOS 4.x for IPv6 support. The anyone part is I cannot seem to find is a GUI that allows you to display the IPv6 address. The usual dialogs only display an IPv4 address. Accessing a test site though, I'm able to see what the address is and confirm traffic routes as expected.
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Centos 5.5, Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and OSX all seemed to work out of the box. No configuration was required, as soon as I turned the systems on they had an IPv6 address.
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Network color laser printer. No issues with IPv6 so far. It is not enabled by default, you need to login via the web interface and check a box.
Devices not yet working with IPv6:
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Do any Blu-ay devices support IPv6 yet? ( Update: Panasonic has indicated none of their current Blu-Ray players support ipv6.)
- Linksys WIP 300 SIP phone.
I believe it runs a uCLinux for its operating system, but Linksys stopped providing OS / firmware updates long ago.
- Nintendo Wii
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In an interview with the Guardian, Nokia designer Marko Ahtisaari suggested that he wants future Lumia phones to involve zero moving parts. We're not just talking no buttons, either: he means scrapping the power and data cable for good.
Speaking to the Guardian, he talked about the next logical step in phone design being a complete stripping down, to the point where handsets are entirely sealed units.
"If you can take away a moving part and make it [the phone] more beautiful in the placement of the components, we'll do it, so that's something where we can certainly keep improving. Take it to the extreme, and why are there any connectors?"
The Guardian suggests that he's thinking of removing the micro USB port from Lumia phones altogether. That would mean they would rely on wireless charging, and presumably Wi-Fi for data transfer. It's a big step, but it's fair to say the technology's already here to support it. And imagine how sleek those things would be.
In fact, he's quite philosophical about the future of mobile phone design. "In the 1880s in the car industry cars had tillers – it took 15 years to agree on the steering wheel controlling the front wheels," he said to the newspaper. "We're in the middle of that part of the evolution of interaction."
If we ignore for now some of the major stumbling blocks of entirely sealed phones — replacement batteries being the obvious one — I have to admit it's a cool idea. Maybe not a useful idea, but a cool one all the same. [The Guardian]


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February 16, 2007, 07:13:24 PM »
In case you didn't know.............A long time ago and far away............................
two clubs in KC in the early 1990's, the KCFDC and The Swope Park Disc Golf Club. Of course there were only two courses then. Rosedale and Swope.
It was not the most pleasant experience for all, as there was tension between the clubs, but both clubs still elevated the sport and acted as a catalyst for the 8+ courses we have now.
I can see the WO migrating as a special event to a totally KS or MO side in the future, but logistics for travel is the prevailing factor as well as coordination for the event courses. KCFDC, via Rick Rothstein, Jack Lowe, Chappy and Dan Cashen have a great history with the KC metro Parks & Rec for city support, and supplies for course readiness and flexibility of design. We are blessed to have so many types of courses with more coming up.
I am concerned if the club can keep up with them all. It takes a vast amount of volunteer support to set up the courses, monitor them and coordinate activities with the various municipalities, even on a daily basis. When we promote the tournament there is so much that goes on behind the scenes it would make your head swim. And we are just doing a regional tourney, albeit A tier, 25th year. There is talk of doing another major national week long event next year.
The KCFDC function has torn down the previous barrier and allowed us to proceed on a metro wide basis. We all have our home course. Me, I was raised at Swope. 27 year player, 22,650 bags of trash, although who is counting?
Volunteer for the Wide Open or do things to help on your own, just don't get carried away.
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Re: KCWO 2007
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February 16, 2007, 08:02:35 PM »
I would love to see PC used in the Wide Open. We used PC in both of the Am Worlds held in KC within the last ten years. I remember talking with some of the out-of-towners after their round and they loved the course. They would really love it now that we've made even more improvements recently. What's wrong with using the course on Friday for perhaps the ams in the Wide Open? Maybe by then I'll be recovered from my hernia surgery. Later...Fisherman Bob Hayett
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February 16, 2007, 10:48:30 PM »
We used PC in both the 1999 and 2003 Am Worlds, and used it most recently for the 2002 and 2003 KCWO. We did not use it in either 2004, 2005, 2006. I think this year, at least, the concern was more location to the other courses and the party on Saturday night at BV. We have not shied away from using PC in the past. It's a fine course, but historically we have gotten more complaints from players when we left out Water Works, Rosedale, or Swope from the KCWO than we have gotten we we've left out PC. Just saying. Such is the curse of having so many good courses. PC will definitely be used in a Pro/Am Worlds scenario in 2009, should we submit a successful bid.
I like playing PC....I used to go to league out there all the time, even though I lived up north. I regret not being able to go out there this year, as I will be running league at Cliff the same night.
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February 17, 2007, 12:56:34 AM »
Two consecutive rounds at the same course is prefered by pros. Cool. But we are talking about the AMs at PC, and that would be great.
Too much stuff for one club to handle in the near future? No problem. Dont need to have another club. Maybe just a Kansas division of the club, and a Missouri division of the club. Like an organization that does business in different markets or regions. It is governed by the same principles, with both sides being accountable to the same executive committee and each other. Working together for the greater kansas city area. ONE CLUB. Each side can coordinate with each other, while receiving direction from the executive committe which administrates both sides.
P.S. Seattle is freakin' awesome guys. I played Sea-Tac today, and it is one of the best designed layouts I have ever played. Playing random flip doubles with some locals I met last time I was here. Won both rounds last time with a local partner. Will do my best to represent KC!
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February 17, 2007, 09:13:57 PM »
I live on the east side of the city and agree that PC and WyCo would be a great first day for the ams. Then two rounds on Sat. at the course that isn't being used that day by the pros(CliffDrive, Swope, Rosedale). The final round (just 18 holes for the people coming from out of town) at Water Works. We didn't get to play WW last year. A question that keeps coming up, do you have to make a course long to make it hard? Can't you put rope on a short course? Or should you put more rope on the longer courses. These are honest questions from someone who is just getting to know the game.
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February 18, 2007, 01:14:28 AM »
I think that rope should be used with discretion. There is a fine line(no pun) that should be determined by considering the density of foiliage ( will a bad shot be punished with an impossible shot from the bush?) in combination with distance and the width of the fairways. If there are not enough natural obstacles and "rough" to keep a player in check, then rope should be considered. Distance should only be a factor relative to those other variables.
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February 20, 2007, 11:30:36 AM »
Hey Jack (or whoever),
Is there a pretty flyer somewhere we can print out and show our boss to try and sell the teesign sponsorship?
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February 21, 2007, 10:57:58 AM »
I love reading your posts! Great ideas here. Just shows that the kcfdc is always top-notch and working hard to make the players happy.
You all have valid points on locations, roping and issues. I believe when the day arrives, regardless of where we play, it is going to be a badass time.
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I am working on sponsorship forms with Spady today. Hopefully something soon will happen.
As for WyCo and PC, the decisions that need to made will be made by the TD and the TD alone. He will decide what makes the most sense.
As for ROPES, have any of you ever helped with the WO and the roping of a course? HOURS and HOURS of time to get the rope out properly, making sure that it is visibile to the players, then HOURS and HOURS of getting the rope up. TIME effort and ENERGY to make that happen, if you can get 5-10 people to volunteer and get rope out, then talk with Dan about it, otherwise, it isn't gonna happen. It is the hardest most labor intensive part of course prep ever.
As far as WyCo and PC again I think that they are fine courses, but travel time and then also having some of the people not being able to play the "Original KC Courses" for the 25th would be bad. Everyone wants WW, who can blame them, Rosedale and Swope are solid as well, BV will be for the Pro's and then you have people that will want to see how they scored compared to the Pros on the same courses, by using the same courses you get that, plus not to mention if you really use 5 different courses you have to have officials that know each of the courses inside and out and move your staff around ALOT more, then focusing in on 4 courses. Time effort and ENERGY.
As for the thread about succeding, we already have a VP for each state. If you do not feel as though Dirk is representing KS well, then srtep up and take him out of office. If Mark is not doing well in MO then step up and take him out. we work as hard as we can on a complete VOLUNTEER time allotment. If you can do it better, then PLEASE come do it, we need more help always will.
As the courses get more involved, this was a vision that I saw with having the need to have VP's in each state, and that is why I presented this change to the by-laws in 2002 or 2003, we need to have representation of each state, but again folks we are at the discretion of the P&R in all municipalities, if they want to do something different then they can. We are squatters and have very little rights, with the exception of MO as we have a contract with them on the land, but again if they want to do something different they sure could and we don't have a leg to stand on.
Hopefully we will have CLiff Drive Pads in over the next few months, and that will help. As for the comment about the disc golf courses in the "HOOD", KC is one of the highest crime rates in America right now, so our whole city is in the "HOOD" Olathe gets more traffic because it is the only place to play in that part of town with sprawling growth, as the other courses go in, it will trail in numbers, and hopefully take some out of Rosedale as well.
Olathe P&R woprks hard at the course but they also have less to worry about than WyCo (WyCo and Rosedale) and KCMO (over 200 parks) so it makes sense that it is more manicured, but they also have taken down trees that were diseased and do not replenish them as we as a club have to find ways to make that happen.
I understand gripes and complaints, but if you spend more time working with the people involved in pushing things to get done for the sport and less time typing in here, we would have better courses across the grain. To select a course in my mind that has a great P&R that do good work and singe it out as the best to play is really short changing the remainder courses that have just as much work from just as many people.
Bottom line if you want to wait for someone to do something, then you need to get out there and work with the CC and get it done. Typing about it in the chat rooms will never accomplish anything.
ZSorry if this sounds crass, but some of the topic in here is way out of line.
Help out however you can, even if it is bringing a new player into the game, or watching the Wide Open.
BTW, if we have a record turnout in players pre-registering you will FORCE the TD to have to use all the courses, that would bee the best way to get your course out here.
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February 23, 2007, 03:44:36 AM »
Who's complaining? Who's out of line? I believe there was just a lot of exchange of ideas going on between some people with common interests. Thanks for clearing everything up though. Oh, and I guess the club is already in the format that I was talking about. You could of just said that. After all, that is just lack of keeping myself informed, so I dont see why you think I was criticizing anyone or the job they are doing. Pardon me for getting defensive, but I think that was a bit harsh my friend.
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Rope sucks.
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February 23, 2007, 07:39:11 AM »
Pine tree wilt has been killing, and continues to kill many of our trees at Prairie Center. Fortunately for us, the Olathe arborist is constantly planting new trees around the park. Originally, PC had very few trees. Since 1990 approximately 200 trees have been planted in PC by the city.
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February 23, 2007, 09:45:15 AM »
I say the tree farm on #10 and #11 at PC should stay. In 10 or 15 years, those would be some very tricky holes designed by a very sadistic disc golfer. Trying putting an S-curve through that.
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February 23, 2007, 06:56:49 PM »
If you have never laid rope out on a course it takes a long time (hourS), and isn't that much fun, especially when you'd rather be playing golf. As far as seperate clubs good idea, but I don't think it should be revisited. I believe a better solution would be course clubs, such as what Jim Neal is doing at Swope (Swop Love Society). Personally I think that once the new KS courses are in, that instead of one major event a year there should be 2, yup two events. One in the spring time, the other in the fall, one on KS courses, the other on MO courses. But thats just me pipe dreaming again.......
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In publishing The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, the UK government is putting the UK on track to a low carbon economy.
The white paper lays down the measures to meet its legally binding target of cutting emissions by 34% by 2020. The main policies driving emissions reductions are the EU Emissions Trading System, energy efficiency and increased use of renewable energy for heat and transport. New policies announced today include piloting "pay as you save" for domestic energy saving; clean energy cashback for householders and businesses; support for a smart electrical grid and; new vehicle {CO2} standards as well as the largest demonstration project in the world for new electric cars.
Published in parallel, the UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy sets out the scale of potential business opportunities. Budget 2009 announced £405 million of new funding to encourage business to invest in low carbon technology and up to £4 billion of new capital from the European Investment Bank to support renewable and other energy projects. The UK government estimates that by 2020, more than a million people will work in the low carbon and environmental sector, with half a million additional UK jobs in the renewable energy industry.
Mark Kenber, Policy Director at The Climate Group says: "We welcome government efforts to provide greater clarity and certainty necessary for businesses to make major low carbon investment decisions in the UK. The White Paper sends a strong signal to UN international climate negotiations that major global economies like the UK are confident that switching to a low carbon economy makes sense for the planet, for jobs and for future prosperity. We hope the UK's policy leadership can help break the current deadlock around a robust international climate deal and that this in turn will spur greater UK ambition to 2050."


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I took this photo last night here in the Hudson Valley. Very pleased to say that a poem of mine, "Nonfiction," has just received a Willow Review Award. Am using my prize money for a handsome new fountain pen, thus completing the poetic cycle.
Although I yearn to serve what is important, I am exhausted by Importances. Living that keyed-up, wired, efforty onrush of priorities— Alert! Important! Respond! Flash! Gone. Alert! Important! Respond! Flash! Gone. Alert! Important! Respond! Flash! Gone. It's not so much that we can't hear ourselves think, but that we can't hear ourselves ask questions.
The synaptic dazzle obscures the humility of questions. To pause seems unresponsive, anti-athletic—when you are tossed the ball, you are not to stand and question. You are to zen-monk it to the next player, to the goal, no thinking, just respond. We know the meaning of Game On!
Assuming questions are important, when exactly is Game Off? The 24/7 circadian jumble, the clamor for attention– I recognize this world. It's like my urgent childhood as one of seven children, when it was psychic life or death to be noticed, to be valued, to be important. But how important is important now?
What is important? For me, flow. The flow of ink across a page, for one. The ebb of ink, important also. Have to stay with the ebb to go with the flow. Come to think of it, ebb is still flow, just backwards.
If flow is important, questions are important. They flow more abundantly and frequently than answers. If answers were The Answer, the Internet would be the answer. But while answers are meaningless without questions, unanswered questions still have meaning. The most meaningful questions of all have no answers.
Happily, most answers give rise to more questions, and the image of a grassy blossomy meadow arises. A field of inquiry. A natural landscape of the mind.
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The Stupidity Of Data Caps: No One Knows What A Megabyte Is
from the caps-don't-work deptWe've argued that data caps for internet access are silly, and even as they're becoming more popular for both wired and wireless broadband data offerings, it seems more people are recognizing this. The NY Times has an article about data caps that makes the key point upfront: no one knows what a megabyte is:
But what, exactly, is a megabyte?It's actually much worse than that. The fact that it's not easy to mentally keep track of these things without significant effort means that there's a real extra cognitive cost in using broadband with caps. You have to sit there and think about what you want to do online. You have to think:
If a sampling of pedestrians on the streets of Brooklyn is any guide, most people have only a vague idea. One said a megabyte was "the amount of something we have to use the Internet," adding, "We should have three or four."
Miranda Popkey, 24, was closer: "It's a measure of how much information you store. If there are too many of them, I can't send my e-mail attachment."
A megabyte is, in this context, 1,000 kilobytes — or about the size of a photo taken with a decent digital camera, or roughly one minute of a song, or a decent stack of e-mail.
Therein lies the problem: Counting things like minutes and text messages is fairly easy, but there is no intuitive or natural way to gauge data use.
- How much room do I have before I hit the cap?
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- What if I'm wrong?
- How much does it cost if I go over?
- Wait, what if this is taking up a lot more data then I thought?
- How much more data will I need this month?
- No, seriously, what if I confused things and watching this video uses up my entire allotment?
It still amazes me how short-sighted many ISPs are that they aren't looking to capitalize on this more by competing by getting rid of caps. Of course, one key reason is that there just isn't that much competition, and so the short-sighted view can win for the time being. But it's a dangerous long-term strategy. Pissing off customers as a business model isn't a very good idea.


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PhD candidate, Julia King for the 2014 AJ Women in Architecture Awards
Julia King's work focuses on the future of urban development. She is doing a PhD at London Metropolitan University in the Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources department and is establishing a practice in New Delhi and London. King designed and built a sewer for 322 low-income houses in New Delhi and is regenerating the Taj East Drain, which runs through slum areas. She is one of nine UK practitioners engaged in a 10-day lab to explore the theme 'Future Cities' for UnBox, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Council, and the Science & Innovation Network.
Why did you choose architecture? At school I had many interests and I saw architecture as a course which offered the opportunity to explore many disciplines, from physics to art. I still very much enjoy this aspect. However, most of all I wanted to be an architect because I believed, and still do, that architecture can be used as a tool to improve lives.
What is your design ethos? Doing something isn't always better than doing nothing. Good architecture doesn't always result in a building. There is a difference between complicated for its own sake (particularly enabled by the computer), and something that has layers of meaning and cultural depth.
Which architects inspire you? Anna Heringer and Suzanne Hall.
What is your advice to aspiring female architects? The same as to aspiring male architects: be prepared to do a lot of boring work if you aren't prepared to push boundaries, be scared and take risks.
Why do women leave the profession? Because it isn't worth it to work the hours for the pay.
What would make them stay? Better pay and shorter hours. There is a culture in architecture that you have to work long hours, which is counterproductive, inefficient and a waste of money - if this could change I think more women would stay.
What is the biggest challenge facing women in architecture? An architect's career is kicking off at a time when most women want to have children. Thus women are effectively cut off. I also think there is another challenge facing women in architecture: I call it the 'bullshit factor'. Statistically, far more men than women apply for jobs for which they are underqualified and consistently punch above their weight. This is part of a culture which celebrates men for being gung-ho, but when a woman does this she is thought of as aggressive or cut-throat.
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Clients Sir Dorabji Tata Trust; Agra Municipal Corporation; CURE; Mahila Housing Trust and the Savda Ghevra slum resettlement colony
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MANCHESTER - An $18,000 grant from the Vermont Agency of Transportation could result in a new sidewalk and improved crosswalks in downtown Manchester, according to a town official.
"We're looking at opportunities and constraints to building a new sidewalk on School Street and also safe crosswalk design at School and Bonnet and what can we do to enhance the crosswalk at Memorial Avenue and Main Street," said Manchester Planning Director and Zoning Administrator Lee Krohn who will be stepping down at the end of next week. "Together the idea is what can we do to enhance opportunities for children to walk to school and also to enhance general pedestrian access in the heart of the downtown."
The Town received the grant on Sept. 18 for a scoping study, which requires a 10 percent match from the town. However, the town and Manchester Elementary Middle School have opted to share the $1,800 for the match.
"It's a great opportunity for the town and the school to collaborate on something of mutual benefit," said Krohn. "My hope is this can be a very useful project on its own, but also plant seeds for future opportunities for collaboration."
Once the scoping study is complete, Krohn said that the town and the school would then have to decide if the project was worth doing, whether the benefits outweighed the costs and what it would look like in terms of time and funding if they were to pursue the project.
He also said that it was possible to pursue parts of the project, but not others.
The potential project is also consistent with town plan projects as well as the community vision - the Manchester 2020 project, which is working with the Vermont Council on Rural Development.
"This is really great timing and it is part of why I'm so optimistic about this community going forward," said Krohn. "There's a lot of good energy. There's a lot of good things going on. The town plan supports this. The community vision priorities support this and this will help advance those ongoing efforts." Krohn said he believed that the scoping study would begin shortly and if the town ultimately decided to pursue the project that the could apply for construction money.
"From a program perspective, if everything looked good, went well and we were going to apply for money to build it, we couldn't apply for that construction money without first doing the scoping. So, this is useful on its own. It also sets the stage for applying for construction money down the road," said Krohn. "I'm thrilled that we got this. It's a great piece of a gift to leave behind that others can sort of carry on. I'm glad to have been able to help us get this grant."
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Rutter then went on to explain how Football Club will revolutionise FIFA's online play by adding a new layer of social depth to the game: "Everything you do in the game will accumulate XP and you can track your progress in FIFA 12 and other FIFA games in the future with your friends. You can compare yourself against your friends but also see how you're doing in the bigger global leaderboard."
In many respects it appears Football Club is FIFA's equivalent of Need for Speed's innovative Autolog, which enabled you to keep track of how your friends were doing and issued challenges in-game.
However, Rutter believes it will make the FIFA experience even more authentic because it'll take in even more aspects of the real game. "We're going to rip stuff from real life and put it into the game as part of the challenge system, which is a free live service that gives you different challenges throughout the year." One example given at the EA press conference was playing as Spurs in the FA Cup semi-final, tasked with changing history and overcoming Manchester City.
Interestingly there's much more to it than that though and Rutter confirms "It's not about the club you play as in the game, it's about the club you support. So as a Manchester United fan, as part of the challenge service, you might be asked to play as Blackpool and survive the Man United onslaught on the last day of the Premier League season."
Importantly, everything you do in the game contributes to your overall ranking, but performing well has a much bigger impact: "You'll be able pledge your allegiance to a club in the 'support your club' feature", says Rutter. "This is where you can say to everyone 'I support this club'. But when you accumulate XP for yourself you also do the same for your club, which goes into a pot. This amount is averaged out depending on the number of fans each club has and clubs will move up and down the league based on how good they are."
So if you're an Arsenal fan, you can help shift the Gunners to the top of the game's global leaderboard, although fellow fans need to be sticking in the goals in order for your club to enjoy success.
Rutter promises it won't just be the top flight clubs that are the focus for challenges either, stating "We have a lot of teams in the game and we'll be operating it as a live service, so we'll have people back in the office who are prepped to get everything ready. The scale of it at the moment is undefined so the plan is to run and see what people like but continue to make changes and deliver the best we can based on players' feedback."
IGN also spoke to Rutter about the player injury system shown off in an early demo of the game, and while he was hesitant to reveal too much, he did offer this: "True injuries are part and parcel of the new Player Impact Engine. We harvest information about the player so we know exactly where they've been hit and how hard. Self injuries happen rarely and it's based on fatigue, but if you're playing career mode and you're caning a player every single game he will come to you and ask for a rest. If you ignore that multiple times then there is a chance he will injure himself."
Clearly it's an ongoing development cycle in which the team behind FIFA is continually looking for new ways to innovate, something FIFA 12 promises to do when it launches later this year. "The Player Impact Engine has taken two years to get right in the game. Football Club will add a different type of authenticity and realism to the game based on real life. There are huge opportunities for the future but this is by far the biggest step in quality we've done in years."


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DENVER — Four people were found dead Tuesday in Colorado after a woman called police to report a shooting and was apparently shot to death while she was on the phone.
Weld County sheriff's spokesman Tim Schwartz says dispatchers heard the woman who called 911 scream "No, no, no," and then heard a gunshot. Schwartz says a man grabbed the phone and said he was going to kill himself, and dispatchers heard another shot.
The bodies were found in a home in a subdivision east of Longmont, which is about 35 miles north of Denver.
The dead included two men and two women, including one who appeared to be in her late teens or early 20s.
Schwartz says investigators have a possible motive for the shootings, but he refused to release details.


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A Potential Reality Check in the Apple/Samsung Battle?December 19th, 2012
As Apple and Samsung continue to battle each other in courts around the world over patent rights and licensing issues, there may be sign a possible thaw. While it doesn't mean the two corporate powerhouses will soon shake hands and make up, it's possible they've come to realize that wasting hundreds of millions of dollars has done little but enrich lawyers. It's not as if, aside from a few court-mandated interface changes to Samsung handsets, products have changed all that much.
You can still buy iPhones, iPads, Samsung handsets, HTC handsets, Motorola handsets, not to mention those bearing the Google Nexus label. And the lawyers keep filing the legal actions. Win a few, lose a few, the lawsuits go on without an end game. Or is it just a case of fighting and fighting until someone cries "uncle."
Is there any possibility at all that this troubling situation is going to change? Well, it's a sure thing that a company has the right to protect intellectual property. If Samsung is slavishly copying the iPhone, the iPad and the iOS, then Apple has the perfect right to use the courts to stop that practice if a simple phone conversation or email doesn't do the job. But quite often it's all about subtle interface elements that can be easily changed to eliminate the alleged infringement. That appears to have already happened in some cases, such as emulating the bounceback feature from the iOS.
But there's now a published report this week that Samsung is dropping patent injunction demands filed against Apple in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. In the U.S., Judge Lucy Koh has denied Apple's petition to block the sale of Samsung handsets found to infringe on the company's patents in a recent trial. So while Samsung may still have to pay over a billion dollars to Apple, you'll still be able to buy Galaxy handsets and tablets. Maybe product build costs will have to include a percentage to cover ongoing legal fees.
I suppose you've gathered by now that I think these legal actions are getting downright boring, not to mention accomplishing very little in the real world. Samsung, for example, didn't do themselves any good attacking the qualifications of the jury foreman in the case in which they lost to Apple. It all came across as a sign of supreme desperation, not a legitimate strategy to overturn a verdict they didn't like.
But you have to wonder why the claims against Apple in Europe were dropped. Is it possible the two parties have come to their senses long enough to sit down and negotiate a possible settlement? Certainly Apple has huge pockets and can fund these legal actions for years on end. The same is true for Samsung, but it's also true that Samsung earns buckets and buckets of money supplying components to Apple for various products. What makes it all the more peculiar is the fact that Samsung's mobile division is being accused of infringing patents for products for which they built some of the parts.
Yes, there are reports that Apple is attempting to expand the supply chain to exclude Samsung as much as possible. In time, I suppose that could happen. But it hardly makes sense for Samsung to want to sabotage billions of dollars worth of business because of a few mobile interface elements and the wrong sized rectangles and squares. Where's the logic in that?
I suppose some of it is due to corporate pride. Samsung isn't a monolithic empire, but a sprawling conglomeration of individually managed divisions. Each has their own profit and loss statements, and business priorities. That's why there's this curious situation where Apple sues one division, but buys products from another division.
Sure, it's obvious that Tim Cook isn't near as intractable as Steve Jobs when it comes to pursuing ongoing legal actions against other companies for possible intellectual property infringement. Or at least you'd come to that conclusion based on what Jobs said about going "thermonuclear" against Google. But that statement, quoted in that authorized biography, may be as serious as one wrestler threatening to vanquish another, to destroy one's opponent. It may be all about posturing. Surely Jobs was a savvy enough businessperson to understand that, in the end, Apple would have to strike settlements with Google, Samsung, Motorola and all the rest.
Indeed, the recent settlement with HTC over various patent issues demonstrates that Apple can be flexible. But even when Jobs was in charge, he made cross-licensing agreements with Microsoft soon after he returned to Apple. Some years ago, Apple made a deal with Creative Labs over iTunes patent issues. Jobs was still alive when, in early 2011, Apple struck a deal with Nokia involving cross-licensing. Then again, Nokia uses Microsoft's mobile OS, not Google's, so there were fewer potential emotional roadblocks to a fair settlement.
I only hope all these companies come to their senses in 2013. Well, if I were part of the legal team for any of these companies, I might be disappointed by the lost business. In the end, though, the real legal actions should be focused on the most blatant violations, not the subtleties, even if a company regards them as critical to public acceptance and sales.
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Minibuses and vans in the Philippines
Vans and minibuses are mass commercial vehicles that can carry more people than cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs). Vans can carry between 9 and 21 passengers, depending on their seating configuration and minibuses can carry more than 20.
In the Philippines, they are popularly used as non-metered forms of mass transport with most vans acting as commercial vehicles. These vehicles travel a limited, mostly round-about route. The UV Express, a wide network transport franchise that operates mostly in Metro Manila and other major cities uses the Nissan Urvan and Toyota HiAce as their company's taxicab units.
Multi-purpose vehicles
Vans have one of the most configured and versatile vehicle models in the automotive industry. As they have an interior space and a wide body, they are used for a number of purposes including ambulances, delivery vehicles and small business vehicles for companies like electrical repair services.
Some vans are also upscaled with interior features and amenities to cater to high profile customers such as celebrities. One such vehicle is the Hyundai Grand Starex Limousine.
Meanwhile, some companies use minibuses which serve as shuttle buses to transport their employees to and from work, or to transport their visitors to their business complexes.
Increasing need for commercial vehicles
Vans and minibuses are categorized in the commercial vehicle division. The Philippines, as one of the fastest growing economies in Asia, has an increased demand for commercial vehicles to help transport people and products.
Price range of these vehicles
According to Carmudi's listings, some of the cheapest second hand vans cost less than P150,000, such as the Haima Fstar 2010. A brand new Hyundai Starex, one of the best selling vans in the country, has a price tag of P1,283,000 for its entry-level unit.
Prices of minibuses usually costs more than P1.5 million depending on size, engine, interior amenities, and general condition. A used Hyundai Aero Space 2011 minibus, for example, is valued at P1,700,000.


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This week we released a short creative film which explores the relationship between Shell and LEGO, the world's most popular toy company. We're calling on LEGO to ditch its co-branding deal with Shell, a company that wants to drill in the Arctic and lock us into fossil fuels for decades to come. If you haven't seen it, you can check it out here - assuming it hasn't been removed by the time this blog is posted.
Between Tuesday and Thursday this week over three million people watched the film, commented on it, and learned about the dark side of LEGO's partnership. But in the early hours of Friday morning, YouTube removed the video 'due to a copyright complaint from Warner Bros'.
Our legal team were bullish. They said that this is an issue in the public interest, which means people should be allowed to see it. Our video is a piece of satire that should be protected by free speech. YouTube's guidelines say that it will remove any video that receives a formal complaint from a corporation, even if that claim is weak as hell. Like this one. We immediately reposted our film on Vimeo, where we hoped the site's owners might be a little protective of free speech. It started to amass tons more views, and everyone was happy (ish). Then, Warner Bros suddenly withdrew its complaint and allowed YouTube to put the film back up. It was too late. We'd already seen a ton of blogs like this one on Torrentfreak explaining how Lord Business does not control the internet, and the tactic had 'backfired'. And then, earlier this morning, Vimeo also pulled the film, citing - guess what! - a copyright complaint from Warner Bros. If this is a game of 'copyright whack-a-mole', it isn't working. The film is all over the internet and picking up more views by the second. We can't say for sure what's going on between Warner Bros, LEGO, Shell and YouTube here. But what we can say is that these copyright claims just doesn't stand up to scrutiny, and yet they're being used to try to silence a video that is gaining real momentum online. We think people have the right to know about a partnership that Wired have described as 'ill judged'. Yet these corporate titans are doing everything they can to ensure that it's hard to find this film online, and when you do, the link might be dead. Or it might not. What do you think? Is this an attempt to silence dissent, or an example of bureaucratic ineptitude at some of the world's most powerful companies? Let us know in the comments. Oh - and please share the video - wherever it might be on the internet...
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Needing a 50 per cent plus one majority, Dr Ary Graça recorded 103 out of the 204 eligible votes
Anaheim, USA, September 21, 2012 – Dr. Ary Graça has been elected as the fourth FIVB President at the FIVB Congress at Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, USA on Friday.
Needing a 50 per cent plus one majority of the eligible votes, Dr Graça, who was president of the Brazil Volleyball Federation and the South America Confederation and a member of the FIVB Board of Administration, recorded 103 votes, with USA Volleyball CEO Doug Beal obtaining 86 and Australia Volleyball Federation President Chris Schacht 15. With 206 participating federations, two votes were recorded as invalid.
Former FIVB President Jizhong Wei promised the FIVB's first democratic election and that was exactly what happened with each federation voting by secret ballot with a choice of three candidates.
"Dear friends, dear colleagues," President Graça, 69, told the Congress. "I would like to address my thanks for those who trusted me, for those who voted for me and I would like to thank most of all President Wei, who is always saying the FIVB is undergoing an evolution. I think FIVB had a revolution. Today was a demonstration of the revolution we have had. All of you had the right to talk today to transmit ideas, this was demonstrated. I believe in democracy. I believe that 220 persons thinking, is much better than one person as a so called dictator. Business is much better with a lot of people, new ideas is much better with a lot of people.
"Mr Wei is a very wise man, he taught me lot. I thank all my colleagues on the Board. You can be sure what was aid on the podium will be done. We will prepare the FIVB in a modern era following the work President Wei has done. In that way it will be an evolution. We are here tomorrow to make our sport one of the biggest in the world. So my friends from the bottom of my heart I would like to thank you for those who trust me and those who will trust me in the future. Thank you."
Honorary President Wei added in his closing remarks: "My dear colleagues, in a general satisfaction our Congress is closed. I will like to congratulate you all for electing your new president and your new leading team. Now, a new era is opened by you and for you. You have all made this congress successful. Here I would like to thank you. I would like to thank the USOC and USA Volleyball for providing us with the best conditions for the congress. Thank you to the FIVB staff here or not here, working together with me, very, very hard over the past four years. I'm sure that the FIVB will continue to develop thanks to your common effort. I will be a volunteer and ready serve you at anytime."
Earlier, the two minority gender positions on the FIVB Board of Administration were confirmed with Mrs Marta Centeno O. De Sajche (Guatemala) and Mrs Rita Subowo (Indonesia) elected unanimously by the general assembly following the withdrawal of the candidature of Mrs Vilja Savisaar-Toomast (Estonia).
The FIVB Congress also ratified the new FIVB Board of Administration which consists of 31 members comprising 29 elected by the Continental Confederation's General Assembly and the gender in minority positions. The 29 elected continental members are the following:
Africa: Dr. Amr Elwani (EGY), Habu Gumel (NGR), Louis Timba (CAM) and Issiaka Sawadogo (BUR)
Asia: Dr Saleh Bin Nasser (KSA), Essa Hamza Ahmad Al Failakawi (KUW), Yi Cai (CHN), Shanrit Wongprasert (THA), Dr Sivanthi Adityan (IND), Taizaburo Nakano (JPN) and Chris Schacht (AUS)
Europe: Andre Meyer (LUX), Aleksandar Boricic (SRB), Miroslaw Przedpelski (POL), Renato Arena (ITA), Philip Berben (BEL), Stanislav Shevchenko (RUS), Vicente de Araujo (POR), Theofanis Tsiokris (GRE) and Agustin Martin Santos (ESP)
NORCECA: Cristobal Marte Hoffiz (DOM), Saul Castro Verdugo (MEX), Douglas Beal (USA), Mushtaque Mohammed (TRI) and Hugh Wong (CAN)
South America: Dr. Ary Graça (BRA), Rafael Lloreda (COL), Roberto Escobar (PAR), Julio Perez (URU)
The FIVB Executive Committee, which is composed of 12 members – five confederation presidents and five members proposed by the President, plus the gender in minority persons – and the President, was also confirmed with the following persons appointed:
Africa: Dr. Amr Elwani (EGY), Habu Gumel (NGR)
Asia: Dr Saleh Bin Nasser (KSA), Essa Hamza Ahmad Al Failakawi (KUW)
Europe: Andre Meyer (LUX), Aleksandar Boricic (SRB)
NORCECA: Cristobal Marte Hoffiz (DOM), Saul Castro Verdugo (MEX)
South America: Rafael Lloreda (COL), Roberto Escobar (PAR)
Plus two co-opted members for the upcoming World Championships:
Carlo Magri (ITA)
Miroslaw Przedpelski (POL)
The 1st executive vice-president was also confirmed as Cristobal Marte Hoffiz (DOM), the 2nd executive vice-president André Meyer (LUX) and the treasurer as Dr. Amr Elwani (EGY).
Honorary titles were also given as follows:
Honorary president for life Jizhong Wei (CHN) and advisor to the Board of Administration
Honorary vice-president Theofanis Tsiokris (GRE)
Honorary vice-president Sivanthi Adityan (IND)
The first FIVB Congress took place in Paris, France in 1947 when Mr Paul Libaud was elected as the FIVB's first President.
FIVB President history:
Mr Paul Libaud (France) 1947-1984
Dr. Ruben Acosta (Mexico) 1984-2008
Mr Jizhong Wei (China) 2008-2012
Dr Ary Graça (Brazil) 2012-


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The mission of the Tri-City Animal Shelter & Adoption Center is to provide exemplary care for impounded and unwanted animals through redemption, adoption and public education.
The vision statement of the Tri-City Animal Shelter & Adoption Center:
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More information about the Tri-City Regional Animal Shelter Board of Directors.
To report a lost or found animal please contact the shelter.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer or need to complete community service for school, you must submit your ID and volunteer application before signing up to attend one of our two monthly volunteer orientations, which are held the 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month. You must be at least 10 years of age to volunteer. Please bring your ID, a guardian's ID if you are under 18, and a completed volunteer or student application, which you can pick up at the shelter or print out online on the Cedar Hill website under the animal shelter volunteer section. If you are under 16 years of age, your guardian must also be a volunteer and present. Hope to see you there!


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Review: Library e-books easier, but still hassle
(AP) -- Libraries have been lending e-books for longer than there's been a Kindle, but until recently only a few devices worked with them. That's changed in the past few months with the arrival of software for reading library e-books on some popular devices: iPhones, iPads and Android-powered smart phones.
However, I'm sad to report that reading library e-books is still more hassle than buying them. The whole process could be smoother, and there are questions about how libraries are going about the transition to the e-book world.
But let's focus first on the good news: You can now download library books straight to your Apple or Android device. Once you've figured out the system and are lucky enough to find a book you want, it takes only a few minutes to start reading.
- First, you need a library card. Visit a local branch if you don't have one.
- Second, download a free application called OverDrive Media Console to your Apple or Android device. OverDrive Inc. runs the lending system for the 5,400 U.S. public libraries that offer e-books - a bit more than half of all public libraries.
- Third, follow the app's instructions to get an "Adobe ID" and tie your device to it. It's an e-mail address and password registered with Adobe Systems Inc. to prevent you from sharing borrowed books with the whole world. The books you borrow won't be readable on devices that aren't "authorized" with this ID.
- If you're still with me after dealing with three different parties just to get started, you can now tap "Get Books" in the app. That fires up the Web browser, where you can find your local library's website. Once there, you can search for e-books. You'll need to enter your library card number and usually a passcode that comes with it.
There's a particular lingo to learn. Your "shopping cart" of books that you want to check out is called "My eList." The books you have checked out already are "My eCheck Outs." Most libraries have entirely separate systems for physical books, and if you blunder into that part of the site, getting back to e-books can be challenging.
Each library has a limited number of copies of each e-book to lend out. If it has five electronic copies of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," then five patrons can have the book at once. Others have to place an "eHold" on it and wait till one of the five "return" the e-book, which happens automatically at the end of the borrowing period, usually three weeks, if the borrower didn't voluntarily return it earlier.
That's right: there's no more hunting around the house for overdue books, no more late fees. That alone should make up for some of the hassle of e-book borrowing.
But the selection of e-books is small, and the limited number of copies is frustrating. Right now, I'm No. 62 out of 98 people waiting to read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Black Swan" at the New York Public Library. It has 12 electronic copies, so I can expect one to free up in about four months.
The OverDrive Media Console has some limitations compared with other e-book software. You can't change page margins or the color of the page, and there's no iPad version.
Another e-book application deals with those shortcomings, but it can't load e-books straight from the Web. You need a Windows or Mac computer and Bluefire Reader, free software that works with the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, but not Android.
As with Overdrive, you need a library card and an Adobe ID. You also need Adobe Digital Editions, another free application. Instead of browsing for e-books on your Apple device, you do so on the computer. You download books to the computer and open them with Digital Editions.
Then, connect the Apple device to the computer with the usual cable. In iTunes click the name of the device and navigate to the Apps tab. Under "File Sharing," you'll find an icon for Bluefire. Click the "Add" button and find the e-book file on your hard drive. Click "Open" to transfer it to the iPad.
This is clunky, but Bluefire has the advantage of being able to load books from the many online bookstores that use Adobe ID, including Google Books. So one app can hold both your library books and commercial ones.
Using a similar process, you can load library books on to Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook e-book readers and Sony Readers. Instead of iTunes, you'll use computer's file system or Adobe Digital Editions. Sorry, you're out of luck if you have an Amazon Kindle, which doesn't accept books protected by Adobe ID.
For those willing to figure out the system, library e-books can be rewarding. But many steps in the process are poorly thought out and unfriendly to the user. For instance, to download a book to an Android phone using OverDrive, you have to tap three different "Download" buttons on three different screens.
Another source of frustration is the way the nation's e-books are divided among thousands of libraries. Some branch out there might have a spare copy of "The Black Swan," yet I'm stuck in the long line of the local library. One national e-book library would be better.
But the current system, though unfriendly to users, probably serves the interests of local libraries, which can point to e-book lending as one way they're staying current and relevant. And it's hard to see that publishers would have a big interest in streamlining e-book lending - they want people to buy e-books or even printed copies instead.
So we're probably stuck with what we have: a system where you can trade the time it takes to learn the system for free e-books. It's not great, but it's free.
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The sound of raindrops on the skylight startled me. I'd forgotten the once familiar noise; thought maybe a cat burglar (or just a cat) had landed on our roof.
It made me wonder what else that is now common place and overlooked I will one day jump at.
I've forgotten the sound of Eli crying.
Mothers can differentiate between their child's cry and another's. I was sad that Baby Eli is in some ways now lost to me.
Ezra has pretty much potty trained himself this weekend. My theory is that he's fed up with waiting for me to settle down and get to it. Postponing seems to be our way of life these past few months. So, he's taken it upon himself to make use of his froggy toilet. His cheerleading skills are equally impressive.
We're still not in our own place. Which means that I'm making the hour round trip to the kids' school twice a day. The words of Eugene Peterson on being a pastor have been my companion. Arthur Morey's voice is so soothing.
I might actually miss my drive time.
We're moving this Saturday! Luckily the majority of our possessions are still stacked in boxes in my mom's garage. It should be our easiest move ever.
Tonight we asked the kids what they're most excited to unpack.
Cora said Barbies…
Ezra said cars…
Eli yelled, "Wii!"
None of those items have been asked for in the past three months.
I'm really looking forward to a reunion with my Kitchenaid stand mixer and my crock pot. I've missed them.
It will be nice to be home; to become familiar again.