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Galbraith and Vietnam
By Richard Parker
The Nation
Monday, March 14, 2005
In the fall of 1961, unknown to the American public, John F. Kennedy was weighing a crucial decision about Vietnam not unlike that which George W. Bush faced about Iraq in early 2002--whether to go to war. It was the height of the cold war, when Communism was the "terrorist threat," and Ho Chi Minh the era's Saddam Hussein to many in Washington. But the new President was a liberal Massachusetts Democrat (and a decorated war veteran), not a conservative Sunbelt Republican who claimed God's hand guided his foreign policy. JFK's tough-minded instincts about war were thus very different. Contrary to what many have come to believe about the Vietnam War's origins, new research shows that Kennedy wanted no war in Asia and had clear criteria for conditions under which he'd send Americans abroad to fight and die for their country--criteria quite relevant today.
But thanks also in part to recently declassified records, we now know that Kennedy's top aides--whatever his own views--were offering him counsel not all that different from what Bush was told forty years later. Early that November, his personal military adviser, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, and his deputy National Security Adviser, Walt Rostow, were on their way back from Saigon with a draft of the "Taylor report," their bold plan to "save" Vietnam, beginning with the commitment of at least 8,000 US troops--a down payment, they hoped, on thousands more to follow. But they knew JFK had no interest in their idea because six months earlier in a top-secret meeting, he had forcefully vetoed his aides' proposed dispatch of 60,000 troops to neighboring Laos--and they were worried about how to maneuver his assent.
Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, then Ambassador to India, got wind of their plan--and rushed to block their efforts. He was not an expert on Vietnam, but India chaired the International Control Commission, which had been set up following French withdrawal from Indochina to oversee a shaky peace accord meant to stabilize the region, and so from State Department cables he knew about the Taylor mission--and thus had a clear sense of what was at stake. For Galbraith, a trusted adviser with unique back-channel access to the President, a potential US war in Vietnam represented more than a disastrous misadventure in foreign policy--it risked derailing the New Frontier's domestic plans for Keynesian-led full employment, and for massive new spending on education, the environment and what would become the War on Poverty. Worse, he feared, it might ultimately tear not only the Democratic Party but the nation apart--and usher in a new conservative era in American politics.
Early that November, just as Taylor and his team arrived back in Washington, Galbraith arrived from New Delhi for the state visit of Prime Minister Nehru. Hoping to gain a quick upper hand over Taylor and his mission, he arranged a private luncheon for Kennedy and Nehru at the Newport estate of Jacqueline Kennedy's mother and stepfather. No one from the State Department--to Secretary of State Dean Rusk's great consternation--was invited, save Galbraith. Ten days earlier, Galbraith, in one of his back-channel messages, had shared with Kennedy his growing concerns about Vietnam. From India, he'd played a role in defusing the Laos situation that spring, but over the summer, the Berlin crisis had sent a sharp chill through relations with the Soviets, with the risks of nuclear confrontation for a time all too real. About this, Galbraith now told the President:
Although at times I have been rather troubled by Berlin, I have always had the feeling that it would be worked out. I have continued to worry far, far more about South Viet Nam. This is more complex, far less controllable, far more varied in the factors involved, far more susceptible to misunderstanding. And to make matters worse, I have no real confidence in the sophistication and political judgment of our people there.
This was advice Kennedy was hearing from no one else in his Administration, but clearly welcomed.
At the Nehru-Kennedy luncheon, Galbraith and JFK began probing the Indian leader about ways to avoid American militarization of Vietnam, a subject on which (for complex reasons) the neutralist Nehru remained maddeningly ambiguous, emphasizing only that the United States must stay out. The next day in Washington, as the three men took part in formal White House discussions with Rusk and other top US officials who were far more eager for intervention, it quickly became clear to Galbraith how isolated the young President was. When the day's morning meetings concluded, he thus rushed from the Oval Office to Walt Rostow's nearby office, determined to find out precisely what he and Taylor were likely to advise the President three days later when they presented their report.
Galbraith and Rostow had known each other since the late 1940s; but they'd drifted apart politically. (Vietnam, to the owlish Rostow, as he'd told Kennedy earlier that year, represented the chance to "bring to bear our unexploited counter-guerrilla assets.... It is somehow wrong to be developing these capabilities but not applying them.... In Knute Rockne's old phrase, we are not saving them for the Junior Prom.") After ushering Galbraith into his crowded office, the security adviser refused to discuss the report's contents because they were, in Galbraith's words, so heavily classified as "to limit access to God and the President." Then the phone rang. When Rostow turned to it, Galbraith, seeing a copy of the top-secret Taylor Report sitting on the desk between them, instantly decided what to do. "I simply picked up the copy and walked out."
Back at his hotel, Galbraith grew appalled as he read it: Here was the rationale for an open-ended US commitment to military engagement in Southeast Asia. Over the next two days he drafted a point-by-point response for Kennedy's eyes only, warning that "the situation in South Vietnam is perilously close to the point of no return," then outlining ways to end the fighting, yield a neutral Vietnam and put the UN in place to supervise the peace; he delivered it to Kennedy just hours before JFK received Taylor's report.
Reading both documents that night, the President grew as alarmed as his ambassador, and the next morning quickly put off the NSC meeting his aides had scheduled, at which he knew they would expect him to endorse implementation of Taylor's recommendations. Unnamed "senior White House officials" now began leaking word that, as one New York Times headline put it, "Kennedy Remains Opposed to Sending Forces After Hearing Report." Taylor and Rostow, as well as Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Rusk--keenly aware that Galbraith had the top-secret document and was leaking the President's reactions--were appalled, and applied fresh pressures to convene the NSC meeting. (That said, they were in fact divided among themselves about what they wanted Kennedy to do: McNamara, for one, opposed sending 10,000 troops; he wanted at least 200,000 dispatched immediately.)
The President kept on delaying for more than a week, but during that time no visible support surfaced in Congress, the press or the public; instead there was a deafening, and what must have been a disheartening, silence. After nearly two weeks of delays, finding himself virtually alone and keenly aware of the costs of provoking a major split in his Administration, he finally agreed to convene the NSC.
But when they met in the Oval Office, aides found Kennedy still resisting them. Newly discovered notes show that after listening to the arguments for intervention, an impassioned Bobby Kennedy kept insisting, "We are not sending combat troops. Not committing ourselves to combat troops." They also show that when Rusk suavely proposed making "saving Vietnam" a formal national policy goal, the President--who'd been largely silent until then--briskly refused. Telling the group coolly that "troops are a last resort," he said that if they were ever to be sent, he would let them go only as part of a multilateral force, under the sanction of the UN Security Council.
Yet after two hours of relentless and uniform pressure, sensing just how isolated he still was among his own senior Cabinet members and top military and national security advisers, as the meeting came to a close Kennedy suddenly partially relented. He would agree to just part of the Taylor recommendations--there could be increased intelligence coordination between the United States and South Vietnam, economic aid could be modestly increased, and a few thousand troops could be sent, but only, he insisted, as noncombatants to train the Vietnamese Army to do its own fighting. It wasn't at all what those around him wanted--but it was the opening through which they would now press their own goals.
Two days later Rusk told the British ambassador that the President had just approved an initial troop contingent--and that thousands more combat troops could follow in weeks, depending on the situation the vanguard found in Saigon, even though this was something Kennedy had categorically rejected. Galbraith meanwhile raced to reinforce the President in his struggle to stay out of Vietnam. At his urging, the day after the NSC meeting ambassador at large Averell Harriman gave JFK a quickly drafted proposal for immediate talks with the Russians to forestall the dispatch of any troops; thrilled to find someone of Harriman's stature finally supporting him, Kennedy told aides he wanted to send Harriman to meet with the Soviets by the end of that week.
This, however, set off new alarm bells among his advisers, who--as one warned Rusk--would now "have to move quickly" because clearly "Galbraith has been working on this." Two days later, National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy offered his personal counsel to a clearly concerned Kennedy, urging him not to send Harriman to meet the Russians but to dispatch a fully equipped combat division of 20,000 men--not the 10,000 noncombatants Kennedy had so reluctantly just approved--to help shift the tide of battle in Vietnam.
Although Bundy was perhaps his most trusted adviser in such matters, Kennedy not only rejected the advice out of hand but (just as Galbraith had advised in his first memo) ordered Bundy instead to draw up a plan for reorganizing the top levels of the State Department--and to put Harriman in charge of Asia policy. Three weeks later, despite Rusk's strong opposition, most--but not all--of Kennedy's reorganization took place.
By then Galbraith was back in New Delhi, after stopping in Saigon on Kennedy's orders to survey the situation there firsthand. He had filed not one but three lengthy back-channel cables to JFK, which make for sobering reading today (even though Galbraith interspersed them with his trademark wit: For example, he described one briefing by local US officials as "geared to the mentality of an idiot, or more likely, a backwoods congressman"; taken for a brief inspection tour of the countryside surrounding Saigon, he dryly reported that it was hard to tell "friendly jungle" from "Vietcong jungle" and added, "who is the man in your administration who decides what countries are strategic? I would like to...ask him what is so important about this real estate in the Space Age").
Given word of Kennedy's reshuffling at State, Galbraith was cheered by Harriman's promotion but also cautious, knowing full well by now the ambitions of the President's top advisers. To his diary that night he noted his ambivalence about the shift. "It is all excellent and not a moment too soon; but then Kennedy left in place at his right hand McNamara, Bundy, Rusk, and Taylor." His worry, needless to say, proved on the mark: Those top officials kept pushing the President for greater and greater US involvement, as they would push Lyndon Johnson when he inherited them following Kennedy's assassination. But Kennedy--with Galbraith counseling him throughout--kept resisting them in turn, right up to that fateful day in Dallas.
The Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, when for a moment the world hung on the brink of nuclear oblivion, seemed to have a particularly powerful effect on Kennedy. Soon after, he began work on the famous American University speech that he delivered in June 1963, in which he spoke more forcefully than any President had ever dared about the risks of nuclear war and the need to negotiate with the Russians (from that speech came the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty). He also asked Galbraith to take over as US Ambassador to Moscow, an offer Galbraith finally declined, convinced of the impossibility of working with and through Rusk.
We also now know that Kennedy that same spring ordered the Pentagon to plan to have all US troops out of Vietnam by early 1965, shortly after what he assumed would be his re-election--and further ordered that the troop pullout begin by the late fall of 1963. But he did not, of course, live to see their withdrawal.


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Confident things will work out in India: Walmart CEO
Walmart Chief Executive Officer Mike Duke has said he will be "patient" and is confident that things will get worked out in India for the company, amid the political uproar in India over opening of the multi-brand retail sector as well as lobbying efforts by the retail giant.
"I still believe that in India things will get worked out. I am confident that (India) is a country that has such an opportunity to help both the farmers, those that are producing products for consumers all the way through the supply chain to the consumer," Duke said at a Council on Foreign Relations event organised here yesterday on 'The Responsibility to Lead'.
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The Indian government had yesterday offered to hold an inquiry into allegations of payment made by US retail giant Walmart in India but it did not cut much ice with the Opposition which demanded a time-bound probe by either a Joint Parliamentary Committee or judiciary.
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Jon Bon Jovi's daughter, Stephanie Rose Bongiovi, is no longer facing drug charges because of an amendment made last year to New York law, People reports.
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The 19-year-old and another Hamilton College student, 21-year-old Ian S. Grant, were facing misdemeanor charges after authorities found heroin, marijuana and drug paraphernalia in her dorm room on Wednesday when Bongiovi overdosed on heroin. But the charges were dropped Thursday because of a "Good Samaritan" provision which exempts people from possession charges if they were seeking help for somebody experiencing a "drug or alcohol overdose or other life-threatening medical emergency."
Grant called for help when Bongiovi appeared to suffer a possible overdose. Bongiovi, the rocker's eldest child and only daughter, was subsequently hospitalized early Wednesday. Her condition was unknown.


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The Big Dig is the unofficial name of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), a megaproject that rerouted the Central Artery (Interstate 93), the chief highway through the heart of Boston, into a 3.5 mile (5.6 km) tunnel under the city. The project also included the construction of the Ted Williams Tunnel (extending Interstate 90 to Logan International Airport), the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the space vacated by the previous I-93 elevated roadway. Initially, the plan was also to include a rail connection between Boston's two major train terminals. The project concluded on December 31, 2007, when the partnership between program manager Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff and the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ended.
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Industry Experts has today relased the market research report on Fans and Blowers used in Passenger Cars and Light Commercial Vehicles. As per the new market report titled 'Global Light Vehicle Fans & Blowers Market – Passenger Cars and Light Commercial Vehicles', Electric fans constitute the largest type of fan in terms of volume consumed in light vehicle engine cooling application globally, with an estimated 114 million units in 2015 is further expected to reach 134 million units by 2020.
Fans form the main component of engine cooling systems while blowers are heart of the vehicle HVAC systems. Global demand for fans and blowers in light vehicles is directly correlated to the production of vehicles. Light vehicles segment, which includes passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, constitute the largest segment of automotive vehicles produced on a worldwide basis estimated at 85.4 million units in 2015 and is projected to touch 100 million mark by 2020.
The segments of light vehicles covered in this report include both passenger cars and light commercial vehicles comprising Light Trucks, Mini Vans, Multi-Purpose Vehicles (MPVs), Compact MPVs, Sedans, Small Cars or Hatchbacks, Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs), Compact SUVs and Vans. Global consumption of fans in light vehicles, estimated at 120 million units in 2015, is projected to reach 140 million units by 2020 at a CAGR of 3.2% over 2014-2020. On the other hand, the global volume consumption of blowers in light vehicles is expected to maintain a slightly better 3.5% CAGR during the above mentioned period and reach a projected 102 million units by 2020, owing to the increasing penetration of air conditioned vehicles in the light vehicles segment.
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Ms Curtis' class at Freeport Elementary recently participated in a study on "author's craft in poetry." As a culminating activity, Mrs. Devine (amazing title 1 tutor) read aloud her story, "Shoop the Sheep" to both of Ms. Curtis' classes during their "Poetry Picnic".
The students were so enthralled! Mrs. Devine allowed the students to illustrate the way they visualized the poem/story and will use some of the students' illustrations in her book (when it is published).
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Here is the card I made for the Magical Monday Challenge which was a sketch brought to us by Patti Nelson this week. I have had a sick little boy since Thursday, Saturday is when he started feeling better. Thank goodness, but it certainly adjusts your time in a different direction. For this challenge you could use any cupcake image. I used the image "For the love of lipstick". I have not finished the inside, but it is going to say "When is comes to friends, you're just the right shade" I took this pic last night, so I will see if I can get a little brighter one. I colored my image with my color pencils and Avery helped me pick all the colors. There were a few rejects in his choices, but for the most part he did well! :O)
Well, that's it for me today, now I need to get moving on finishing some paintings I am hoping to deliver this week. So... have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
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Portsmouth police investigate armed robbery
Police: Robber showed gun to convenience store clerk
Portsmouth police are investigating an armed robbery they said happened around 7:20 p.m. Saturday.
Police said they responded to a report of an armed robbery at the Mobil On-The-Run convenience store at 201 Islington St.
According to police, the clerk reported a man entered the store, and while the clerk was waiting on him, the man showed what appeared to be a semi-automatic handgun and demanded cash out of the register.
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Thank you to all the people who submitted entries for the "Only the Pearls" iPad app quiz!
And while I would like to declare you all winners, my publisher insists there can only be one…
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Melanie Lustig!
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Allcroft was an apartment building in New York City.
In The Big Good-Bye, one of the females who called the master criminal Silent Forrester at the Plaza lived at the Allcroft. The cops who interrogated her believed that she was from Australia and was born in England. She worked in a bank. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
The pages seen in the episode were actually from the detective novel, The Listening Man, by author John A. Moroso. This novel was published in 1924. Information on Allcroft was from page 145.
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Renowned Fixture Of Austin Streets Dies
Renowned Fixture Of Austin Streets Dies
An Austin, Texas, icon has died. Leslie Cochran was a cross-dressing peace activist and homeless advocate. Many say Cochran was the epitome of the slogan, "keep Austin weird."
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
And I'm Robert Siegel. In Austin last week, an unlikely civic symbol passed away. He was a cross-dressing homeless man who lived on the kindness of strangers, but he was much more than that, according to NPR's John Burnett.
JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: On a fine Sunday afternoon, Austinites gather in a riverside park to remember Leslie Cochran.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Please, you all, write a little short Leslie story. His family's going to be reading them.
BURNETT: He was a fixture on the sidewalks of this capital city in his bushy beard, tiara, thong and falsies. Leslie, as he was universally called, became a symbol of the eccentricity and rakishness that people celebrate in this fun-loving techie boom town.
Now, Leslie is gone. Mourners at the memorial donned rhinestone tiaras and feather boas in his honor. A young man who gave his name as Ozzie Zion went a step further, stuffing himself into a bikini bottom.
OZZIE ZION: This is what Leslie would have done today and I hope that I'm as hung over as he would have been on a Sunday afternoon.
BURNETT: When Leslie died at age 60 in a local hospice last Thursday due to complications from a head wound, the mayor proclaimed it Leslie Day. Leslie Cochran himself ran for mayor in 2000, appearing around town dressed like a stripper and holding hand-lettered campaign signs.
Linda Eldridge and Lee Modern(ph) came down to remember him.
LINDA ELDRIDGE: Halloween on 6th Street, everybody loved taking pictures with him and...
LEE MODERN: He was always goofing around, you know, throwing his leg over people's laps and stuff like that.
BURNETT: Leslie became something of an activist against police mistreatment of the homeless. He made tips posing for photos with revelers in the tavern districts around town. He also earned a portion of the profits from the sales of Leslie refrigerator magnets. You can dress him in his favorite outfits, including an orange and white UT cheerleader uniform. He did not earn anything from the Leslie iPhone app.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: House the homeless. Take me home.
BURNETT: Now, the inevitable question. What does Leslie Cochran's demise mean for this fast evolving city that embraces weirdness? Clearly, there's no one to fill his high heels.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Heaven just got a lot more weird. Whoo!
BURNETT: John Burnett, NPR News, Austin.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: We love you, Leslie!
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Week 1
- Labs
- Weekly labs, typically done in class
- Labs are due on the Friday of the week they are assigned by midnight
- Marked using Pass/Fail scheme
- All labs must be completed to pass the course
- Lab 1 is available now
- Releases
- 4 releases, some with multiple bugs/PRs required, including participating in Hacktoberfest 2019
- Due Dates: Sept 20, Oct 31, Nov 20, Dec 6
- Chance to work on real code, real projects
- Big learning curve, lots of time required
- Amazing chance to gain experience, network, build your skills and resume
- Work with new and emerging technologies, gain exposure to tech outside the classroom
- Discussion/Readings
- Copyright (Copyright in Canada video)
- Who created it, "owns" it.
- Set of exclusive rights granted to the work's creator
- "The right to copy," to produce or reproduce a work or substantial portion thereof
- Copyright is automatic when a work is created, you don't have to register it.
- Copyright in Canada
- Copyright Guide
- In a software project, there can be many copyright holders (e.g., many contributors), or all contributors may assign their copyright to the project (e.g., CLA, which we'll cover later)
- Copyright (Copyright in Canada video)
- What is Open Source?
Week 2
- Blogging
- Add bio/profile info as you feel comfortable, including links to GitHub, social media, etc.
- Blog Post Tips:
- Use blog post titles that help a reader (or Google searcher) to know whether this is useful info to them
- Include links: a blog should connect different resources and ideas through your experience and learning
- Write in sections. Try to avoid a wall of text, with only a single paragraph. Consider using sub-headings, shorter paragraphs
- Use formatting for source code.
- One good source of blog posts on open source and software development is Hacker News. Some recent examples to look at for style:
- https://css-tricks.com/how-to-contribute-to-an-open-source-project/
- https://antoinevastel.com/javascript/2019/09/09/improving-obfuscator.html
- https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i-googled-in-a-week-as-a-professional-software-engineer/
- https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/09/08/taskbar-latency-and-kernel-calls/
- Licenses
- Rights, privileges, responsibilities, etc. applicable to someone other than the work's creator
- "Terms and Conditions"
- These must be granted by a copyright holder
- No License
- What can you do with code you find that has no license?
- what can I, can't I do?
- Proprietary Licenses
- Public Domain
- SQLite, which is now used by literally everybody, see http://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
- Unlicense
- BSD License
- Family of Licenses, including 2-Clause BSD, 3-Clause BSD (aka New BDS), 4-Clause BSD
- "Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project"
- BSD Licenses code is usually compatible with other open/closed code, when you want to mix them.
- Example software projects licensed under the BSD License:
- Summary:
- You need to retain the license and copyright notice
- You can use it commercially or non-commercially (privately)
- You can distribute it freely
- You can modify it freely
- Discussion of projects found for Lab 1
- Lab 2
- Release 0.1 due Mon, Sept 23
Week 3
- Readings/Resources
- Introducing git and GitHub
- Content Addressable Filesystem and Snapshots
- Distributed: Local vs. Remote development
- .git directory
- Content Integrity, SHAs (Secure Hash Algorithm)
git init
echo 'test content' | git hash-object -w --stdin
ls .git/objects
git cat-file -p d670460b4b4aece5915caf5c68d12f560a9fe3e4
- Blobs, Trees, and Commits
- Branches,
- Working Directory, Staging Area, Repository
- What do these commands really do?
git clone url-to-git-repo
git add file.txt
git status
git rm file.txt
git commit -m "Added file.txt"
- Remotes,
- Filing and Fixing a bug: a cookbook approach
- set up git and GitHub
- https://help.github.com/ has lots of great articles to help you. You can also view video guides or read the printed guides
- setup your username in git
- setup your email address in git
- specify which editor git should use, for example you can use vscode
- setup line endings (CRLF vs. LF) in git, extra notes for Windows users
- setup ssh keys for GitHub
- In GitHub, create a fork of the repo you want to work on
- On your computer, clone your forked repo
- On your computer, add a remote named "upstream" for the original repo (vs. your fork)
- On GitHub, find or create an Issue for the change you want to make
- On your computer, create and checkout a branch for your work, e.g., issue-1234 for Issue #1234
- On your computer, make code changes, test them, add, and commit on your branch. Repeat as necessary.
- On your computer, push your changes (commits) to your fork (origin)
- On GitHub, create a Pull Request for your changes to get sent to the upstream repo
- On your computer, fix any problems pointed out by your reviewer(s), add the file(s), commit, and push again to update your pull request
- set up git and GitHub
- Release 0.1 due Mon, Sept 23
Week 4
- Blogging
- Why Blogging is Awesome
- Keep reading the Planet, there are great posts there
- Learning Licenses: MIT
- MIT License
- The MIT License, Line by Line
- One of the most widely used licenses in Open Source
- Like the BSD License, nothing about patents (created before software was patentable in the US)
- Example software projects licensed under the MIT License:
- "Do Good" forks of MIT:
- JSON License with a great overview and history here.
- Hippocratic License
- Recent situation with Chef-Sugar, Chef and ICE Contract. Update from today
- More Git
- Git Walkthrough Part I
- Git Walkthrough Part II
- Upstream and keeping your
masterbranch up-to-date
- Release 0.1 due Mon, Sept 23. Any issues you need help with?
- Lab 3


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Deploying Cisco Service Provider Network Routing (SPROUTE)
Who should attend
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Network administrators, network engineers, network managers, and systems engineers who would like to implement IP routing in service provider environments./list]
The secondary audience for this course is as follows:
- Network designers and project managers. The course is also recommended for all individuals preparing for CCNP Service Provider certification.
The knowledge and skills that you must have before attending this course are as follows:
- Intermediate knowledge of Cisco IOS/IOS XE and Cisco IOS XR Software configuration
- Skills and knowledge that are equivalent to those learned in Building Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Networks, Part 1 (SPNGN1)
- Skills and knowledge that are equivalent to those learned in Building Cisco Service Provider Next Generation Networks, Part 2 (SPNGN2)
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will be able to meet these objectives:
- Identify the typical routing requirements, and list the routing protocols that are used in service provider networks
- Describe the steps that are needed to implement OSPF in a service provider network
- Describe the importance of the Integrated IS-IS routing protocol for internal routing, and list the steps to follow when you are implementing Integrated IS-IS in a service provider network
- Implement BGP to connect an enterprise to a service provider and to connect a service provider to an upstream service provider
- Describe the tools that are used for routing protocol manipulation, route redistribution, and BGP route selection
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Course Content
The Deploying Cisco Service Provider Network Routing (SPROUTE) v1.2 course is designed to help
students prepare for the Cisco CCNP SP certification. The SPROUTE course is a component of the CCNP SP curriculum.
The SPROUTE course is designed to provide service provider professionals with information on the use of advanced routing in implementing scalability for Cisco routers that are connected to LANs and WANs. The goal is to train professionals to dramatically increase the number of routers and sites using these techniques instead of redesigning the network when additional sites or wiring configurations are added. The SPROUTE training reinforces the instruction by providing students with hands-on labs to ensure that they thoroughly understand how to implement advanced routing within their networks.
The course also includes classroom activities with remote labs that are useful to gain practical skills on deploying Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR features to operate and support the service provider network.
Online Training
Duration 5 days
- Cisco Learning Credits: 56 CLC
Classroom Training
Duration 5 days
- Australia: 5,500.- AUD
- Cisco Learning Credits: 46 CLC
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March is nearly over and as per every month we have
thrown together hand-crafted a playlist of the best tunes from the past few weeks.
One thing you might notice when listening to this month's playlist is that bands - yes, B A N D S - who make jangly indie-rock (Real Estate, War on Drugs, Future Islands) or a punk-rock clatter (Cloud Nothings, Eagulls, Blood Red Shoes) delivered some superb records this month. These releases probably won't be enough to shut up idiots spouting that "guitar music is dead" but then, what will?
March also saw the first taste of Sharon Van Etten's follow-up to her critically celebrated, DiS album of 2012, Tramp. Not many days have gone by since 'Taking Chances' hit the web that we haven't had it playing at least 4 times in a row at DiS HQ, it really is an impeccable piece of music that gets better and crawls deeper into your heart with each and every listen. I guess it might be safe to take the rest of the year off and prematurely declare Are We There album of the year? Would probably be better for my health than pummelling through all the heartless posers in my inbox and wasting my time drafting up rants about 'How Hipsters Destroyed Alternative Culture'.
Van Etten isn't the only solo lady filling my ears, as I found myself swept up by a wonderful Mount Kimbie remix of Kelis, Lykke Li returned (is it just me or do all her songs take your breathe away, then underwhelm, then about six months later when the tide of expectation recedes, you realise they're brilliant? I just know it's going to happen again...), Sky Ferreira's blog-hyped album finally got released in the UK (definitely one for pop-lovers who prefer an Uffie tornado rather to Hurricane Miley), the much-tipped Foxes had some UK chart success, and the debut album by Lyla Foy on Sub Pop left me twirling around DiS HQ whilst digging out our Azure Ray records and longing for a Rilo Kiley reformation. Then there's the bewitching Broken Twin whose debut album is coming out at the end of April on the label that's home to Tom Waits (Anti-) - we premiered her new video on DiS today. Oh and KATE BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!111
There was also the small matter of new Metronomy album, a 40th anniversary edition of Elton John's Goodbye Yellowbrick Road, a big swarm of noise from Ben Frost who was last heard co-producing Tim Hecker's incredible Ravedeath record... and if that wasn't enough there was also a new record from Britain's beloved Elbow and DiS-favourites Liars.
Sharon Van Etten – Taking Chances
Lyla Foy – Impossible
Broken Twin – Sun Has Gone
Ben Frost – Venter
Kate Bush - There Goes A Tenner
The War On Drugs – An Ocean In Between The Waves
Real Estate – Talking Backwards
Cloud Nothings – I'm Not Part Of Me
Eagulls – Nerve Endings
Blood Red Shoes – The Perfect Mess
Johnny Foreigner – Le Sigh
Foxes – Let Go for Tonight
Sky Ferreira – I Blame Myself
Kelis – Jerk Ribs - Mount Kimbie Remix
Lykke Li – No Rest For The Wicked
MØ – Don't Wanna Dance
Liars – I'm No Gold
Metronomy – Boy Racers
Future Islands – Spirit
Elbow – My Sad Captains - Acoustic
Elton John – Funeral For A Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding - 2014 Remaster
Related Reads
1) Messy Lesson: How Liars are setting the blueprint for electro transformation
2) 9/10 review of Eagulls' debut album
3) Steven Ansell from Blood Red Shoes: Is music becoming a passive experience?
4) "Lyrically the new album is very much about me": DiS meets Dylan Baldi of Cloud Nothings
5) Planet Gear: Inside Elbow's Studio
More Playlists
Browse our archive of Spotify playlists, including our 50 Favourite Songs of 2014... So Far!


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Ozuna's stats pick up despite drop in order
MIAMI -- Hit him first or ninth or anywhere in between, Marcell Ozuna is happy.
"It doesn't matter. I said early in the season, I want to be in the lineup," Ozuna said. "If it is nine, after the pitcher, it doesn't matter. Just get up there, in the box, and see the ball, hit the ball, that's it."
The more basic Ozuna keeps things, the better.
Right now, the Marlins center fielder is delivering toward the bottom of the order. In the first two games of the series with the Braves, the 23-year-old has driven in five runs. He delivered a two-run single batting sixth on Tuesday night, and he followed that up with a three-run homer batting seventh on Wednesday.
Sliding down started on Tuesday when Ed Lucas was slotted second. Ozuna has 59 plate appearances hitting second, ahead of Giancarlo Stanton.
Ozuna did post some nice numbers, batting .308 with one homer and seven RBIs. In 28 plate appearances batting seventh, Ozuna is batting .346 with two homers and five RBIs.
"I think with young guys, you kind of go with how they're feeling, how their at-bats are," manager Mike Redmond said. "Sometimes moving them down in the order makes them relax more. And sometimes when they're going good, it doesn't matter where you put them. You put them up there and they get more fastballs and they're squaring everything up."
Ozuna, a free swinger, is offering power to the bottom of the order, which is making the lineup deeper.
He's also driving in his share of runs. With 16 RBIs, Ozuna is tied with Washington's Jayson Werth for the 10th most among National League outfielders. Stanton leads the league with 31 RBIs.
"We got to the point there with O, to get him down a little bit [to seventh]," Redmond said. "I felt he was putting too much pressure on himself, maybe over-thinking the spot in the order with Stanton coming up behind him. Sometimes moving guys down a bit gets them more relaxed."


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The first preparatory meeting (PrepCom) for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will take place from 24-26 February 2014, at UN Headquarters in New York, US, according to a draft decision approved in the UN General Assembly's (UNGA) Second Committee on 11 December 2013 (A/C.2/68/L.67). The SIDS Conference is scheduled for 1-4 September 2014, in Apia, Samoa.
dates: 24-26 February 2014 venue: UN Headquarters location: New York City, US www: http://www.sids2014.org/index.php?page=view&type=13&nr=56&menu=1504


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas lawmakers began work Tuesday on crafting the state's budget for next year, nearing an election that could flip party control of the Legislature and amid unanswered questions about funding needs for schools and Medicaid.
The Joint Budget Committee gathered for the start of fall budget hearings, focusing primarily on organizational issues and seating charts before reviewing the funding needs for a handful of state boards. That's where most of the panel's work will focus until November, when they receive Gov. Mike Beebe's proposed balanced budget for the year that begins July 1, 2013.
Legislative leaders from both parties acknowledged they're beginning the budget work with uncertainty over an election where Republicans could win control of the House and Senate for the first time since Reconstruction.
"The biggest unknown is who's going to be here," said Sen. Michael Lamoureux, R-Russellville.
Republican control of the Legislature could alter budget discussions next year, with GOP lawmakers calling for an overhaul of the state's income taxes and limits on state spending. Republicans have also generally opposed or resisted an expansion of the state's Medicaid program under the federal health care law. Beebe, a Democrat, has said he supports the expansion and will ask lawmakers to approve it next year.
Democrats and Republicans are also expected to split on how to address a shortfall in the state's Medicaid budget, which Department of Human Services officials earlier this year estimated would be between $250 million and $400 million.
DHS spokeswoman Amy Webb said Tuesday that the agency currently expects to request $358 million in additional funding for the shortfall, but said that number would likely change the department presents its budget to the committee next month.
"We think it will fall somewhere within that range," Webb said.
Lawmakers have vented frustration with the range and say they want more specifics on the expected shortfall. Beebe has said he hopes to use some of the state's surplus, expected to reach $200 million by next year, to help pay for the shortfall.
"It's a two party state, and I think it would be helpful for both sides to have more information," said Rep. Terry Rice, R-Waldron, who Republicans hope to elect speaker if they win control of the House.
The agency's $1.1 billion budget request also doesn't include funding for the Medicaid expansion, because it's unclear if that will be approved by lawmakers.
Another major part of the state's budget that remains unknown is education. A legislative panel is expected to issue its recommendations on the per-student funding formula for the state's schools next week. That will drive much of the budget discussions because the state is required by law to fund education first.
Legislative leaders acknowledged they would begin the budget work in the middle of election politics, but said they hoped to keep it separate.
"I hope you will see serious discussions and debate and questions about the budgets. I hope they will be based on policy and not merely to score points on a campaign that's going on," said incoming House Speaker Darrin Williams, D-Little Rock.
Andrew DeMillo can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/ademillo


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They don't like to admit it, of course, but the French are the #2 consumers of McDonald's in the world. And now McDo, as it's known, plans to start serving just-baked baguettes.
Rest assured: we'll be hearing a lot about McDough in the months to come!
A new line of French breakfast items (baguettes, butter, jam, etc.) will be rolled out across France next month in the chain's 130 McCafés (separate counters offering coffee, pastries and buns); baguette sandwiches will follow next year.
The arrival of the baguette, the company says, is just another step in its efforts to cater more successfully to French food habits but also to boost breakfast sales, which now account for just 1% of McDonald's sales in France.
Le Figaro reports McDo will work with local producers: The baguettes will be baked on the spot, with dough from the French company Groupe Holder, which already provides the pastries for McCafé. The butter will come from the French cooperative of Isigny and the jam from "a traditional producer in the
The French still eat nine times more sandwiches than hamburgers and 60% of these sandwiches are made on baguettes. The favorite baguette sandwich remains the traditional ham and butter.
"The French love the baguette. We are just progressively responding to a natural demand," says the senior VP of McDonald's for
and France Southern Europe.
Supermarkets now sell packaged breads of all sorts, of course, and many large grocery chains have full bakeries within them. Yet the French make a strong distinction between breads baked the traditional or artisanal way and those that come from "industrial" or "commercial" bakeries. To call itself a boulangerie, a shop must sell only breads made from dough crafted on the premises. Stores that sell bread baked from prepared doughs--or breads baked in large production kitchens, for example--must call themselves depots de pain.
In food circles worldwide, there's been a lot of talk lately about a crisis in French cuisine.
is letting go of too many of its grand culinary traditions, they say, and, as a result, has lost its status as the global gastronomic leader. People blame the government and high taxes, culinary globalization, the demise of the small family-owned farm, the two-career family and, of course, the spread of fast-food chains. France
Photo: "Le Petit Parisien" by Willy Ronis,
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Catch the Fishing Show this weekend: The New England Saltwater Fishing Show, the largest of its type in the Northeast, will have over three-hundred fishing related exhibitors. Captains from the National Geographic Network program Wicked Tuna will be there Saturday and Sunday.
"Wicked Tuna" captains at Saltwater Fishing Show this weekend
Captains from the National Geographic Channel program Wicked Tuna will be at the 10th Annual New England Saltwater Fishing Show this weekend at the RI Convention Center, Providence, RI. The New England Saltwater Fishing Show runs March 8-10 and is the largest saltwater fishing show in the Northeast. Sponsored by the Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association (RISAA), the 10th Annual Fishing Show will have over 300 exhibitors.
You'll find everything at the show, including rods, reels, all types of lures, boats, kayaks, clothing and a wide assortment of marine related services. Many retailers will be offering low-priced show specials. Continual free seminars will be held every hour throughout the show. "Many of the top fishing experts in New England have offered their services," notes Ed Kearney, seminar chairman. "The topics include everything from inshore fishing to offshore fishing, as well as many seminars for the surf and shore angler." said Kearney. Wicked Tuna captains from the fishing vessels Odysea, Christina and Bounty Hunter will be at the show from 1 to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Show hours are Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission to the show is $10 for adults and children 12 and under are admitted free. Sunday is "Family Day"… all women and children are admitted free. For the youngsters, the show features a large "Kids Zone" with casting lessons and a number of games to keep them interested. There will also be a Scavenger Hunt on Sunday when all kids that enter will receive a Treasure Map in which they will receive small gifts at certain exhibitor booths throughout the show.
Visit the show website for more information and admission discount at www.nesaltwatershow.com .
East Bay Anglers to hold used tackle sale
The East Bay Anglers fishing club will run a used fishing tackle sale on Saturday, March 30 at the Riverside Sportsman's Club on Mohawk Drive – just off the Wampanoag Trail in East Providence. According to Matt Newell, Club president, "Last year's pioneering event was so well received, we're expected to repeat it this year."
The sale starts at 9:00 a.m. and runs untill 2:00 p.m., according to Newell. Buyers gain entry to the sale with a $2 donation. Sellers must purchase tables from the club at $25 each, and should start setting up at 8:00 a.m. Cutoff date for buying tables is March 20. Sellers should call event chairman Dave Fewster for information at 401 230-8201.
The East Bay Anglers is a 40 year old fishing organization which has promoted sportsmanship and conservation through the years and has participated in many marine conservation initiatives. Proceeds from the sale are used for educational purposes by funding speakers during the year.
Checks for tables can be paid by mail to: East Bay Anglers Tackle Sale, Box 293, Barrington, RI 02806.
Alabama man catches a 70 pound land locked striped bass
Striped bass tolerate both salt and fresh water. They live in the ocean but spawn up rivers and many are landed lock, meaning they live in lakes. They are generally smaller in lakes, perhaps because their food supply is limited. Howeerver, a Dora, Alabama man, James R. Bramlett, 65 years old, landed a 70 pound striped bass from the Black Warrior River on February 28, 2013.
Al.com reports the fish was weighed on certified scales with officials from the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Natural Resources at Bramlett's home. The fish was 45.5 inches long and had a 37.75 inch girth.
DEM awarded $2.9-million EDA grant for work at Galilee
The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) was awarded a $2.9 million grant today from the US Economic Development Administration (EDA) for infrastructure improvements at the Port of Galilee. The federal grant will support reconstruction of the 925-foot south bulkhead from Salty Brine State Beach to State Pier 3 and rehabilitation of 3,200 square feet of heavy duty work pier HH.
The Port of Galilee is operated by DEM and is one of the largest working commercial fishing ports on the East Coast, providing fish, squid and lobster to both national and international markets. Home to over 240 commercial vessels, the Port includes 38 docks and piers and supports hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses, hundreds of jobs, and attracts thousands of tourists. Commerce includes fishing and related businesses, recreational charter and sightseeing boats, ferry service, restaurants, and a hotel.
March 13 public hearing on key recreational fishing issues
Recreational and commercial fishermen are urged to attend and express their thoughts on proposed amendments to a variety of management plans that regulate the length, catch limit and season of a variety of species.
The Marine Fisheries Division of the Rhode Island Department of Environment Management (DEM) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 6:00 p.m. in the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, Corless Auditorium, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, RI. Important changes to recreational and commercial fishing management plans will be on the agenda including plan amendments for recreational summer flounder; recreational and commercial tautog; recreational scup; recreational black sea bass; Narragansett Bay Atlantic Menhaden; and amendments to statutes and regulations pertaining to fish/shellfish dealer regulations in regard to the reporting of research set aside (RSA) landings.
Visit DEM's web site at www.dem.ri.gov for additional information.
Captain Andy Dangelo of the Seven B's reported that the storm and rough seas over the past couple of weeks has kept the cod away and boats from sailing. However, Capt. Dangelo said Sunday, "The bite was slow all day, we went south of Block Island, to Cox's Ledge and nothing. Then we stopped back close to the Island and the fish finder was showing a lot of bait, likely herring. We ended up landing some nice cod right at the end of the day." Overall cod fishing has been spotty. The hope is that the seas and fishing stabilize a bit now and the season closes with a rally.


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The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) released the February 2015 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). Designed to collect leadership data, the index reports a qualitative assessment of the prevailing business conditions and expectations for the future as reported by key executives from the $903 billion equipment finance sector. Overall, confidence in the equipment finance market is 66.3, a slight increase from the three-year high level reached by the January index of 66.1.
When asked about the outlook for the future, MCI-EFI survey respondent William Verhelle, chief executive officer, First American Equipment Finance, a City National Bank company, says, "The economy continues to improve. First American is seeing increased equipment acquisition activity among the large corporate borrowers we serve. We are optimistic that lower energy costs, if they remain at current low levels, will drive increased U.S. economic activity in the second half of 2015. We are more optimistic about the U.S. economy today than we have been at any time during the past six years."
February 2015 Survey Results:
The overall MCI-EFI is 66.3, a slight increase from the January index of 66.1.
- When asked to assess their business conditions over the next four months, 30.3 percent of executives responding said they believe business conditions will improve over the next four months, up from 23.3 percent in January. 63.6 percent of respondents believe business conditions will remain the same over the next four months, down from 76.7 percent in January. 6.1 percent believe business conditions will worsen, up from none who believed so the previous month.
- 42.4 percent of survey respondents believe demand for leases and loans to fund capital expenditures (capex) will increase over the next four months, up from 20 percent in January. 51.5 percent believe demand will "remain the same" during the same four-month time period, down from 80 percent the previous month. 6.1 percent believe demand will decline, up from none in January.
- 27.3 percent of executives expect more access to capital to fund equipment acquisitions over the next four months, down from 33.3 percent in January. 72.7 percent of survey respondents indicate they expect the "same" access to capital to fund business, up from 66.7 percent in January. None expect "less" access to capital, unchanged from the previous month.
- When asked, 39.4 percent of the executives reported they expect to hire more employees over the next four months, a decrease from 50 percent in January. 57.6 percent expect no change in headcount over the next four months, up from 50 percent last month. 3 percent expect to hire fewer employees, up from none who expected fewer in January.
- 6.1 percent of the leadership evaluate the current U.S. economy as "excellent," up from 3 percent last month. 90.9 percent of the leadership evaluate the current U.S. economy as "fair," down from 97 percent in January. 3 percent rate it as "poor," up from none the previous month.
- 45.4 percent of the survey respondents believe that U.S. economic conditions will get "better" over the next six months, an increase from 43.3 percent who believed so in January. 54.6 percent of survey respondents indicate they believe the U.S. economy will "stay the same" over the next six months, down from 56.7 percent in January. None believe economic conditions in the U.S. will worsen over the next six months, unchanged from last month.
- In February, 48.5 percent of respondents indicate they believe their company will increase spending on business development activities during the next six months, a decrease from 50 percent in January. 51.5 percent believe there will be "no change" in business development spending, an increase from 50 percent last month. None believe there will be a decrease in spending, unchanged from last month.
February 2015 MCI-EFI survey comments from industry executive leadership:
- Independent, Small Ticket
"Demand remains moderate and competition is strong. We remain bullish for 2015 as we expand channels and products. We are planning on muted GDP so we are focused on making our own opportunities versus waiting for the general economy to expand." David Schaefer, CEO, Mintaka Financial LLC
- Bank, Small Ticket
"Things just seem to be better. Gas prices and unemployment are headed in the right direction. I am concerned about the negative effect of lower gas prices, such as, higher fail rates of energy loans and energy stock value." Kenneth Collins, CEO, Susquehanna Commercial Finance Inc.
- Bank, Middle Ticket
"I see continued strength in the transportation segment of the economy. That segment of our business will remain strong. The opportunities in oil and gas have substantially declined. I expect the decline to depress the volume of business during 2015. 2015 will be a mixed year with some industries doing well and others in decline." Elaine Temple, president, BancorpSouth Equipment Finance
- Bank, Middle Ticket
"All signs have been pointing to a 'break-out' year in 2015. However, investment in capital assets continues to be sporadic. Companies continue to be cautious in expanding their production capacity. Let's hope the economists are correct in their predictions for 2015." Thomas Jaschik, president, BB&T Equipment Finance
Why an MCI-EFI?
Confidence in the U.S. economy and the capital markets is a critical driver to the equipment finance industry. Throughout history, when confidence increases, consumers and businesses are more apt to acquire more consumer goods, equipment and durables, and invest at prevailing prices. When confidence decreases, spending and risk-taking tend to fall. Investors are said to be confident when the news about the future is good and stock prices are rising.
Who participates in the MCI-EFI?
The respondents are comprised of a wide cross section of industry executives, including large-ticket, middle-market and small-ticket banks, independents and captive equipment finance companies. The MCI-EFI uses the same pool of 50 organization leaders to respond monthly to ensure the survey's integrity. Because the same organizations provide the data from month to month, the results constitute a consistent barometer of the industry's confidence.
How is the MCI-EFI designed?
The survey consists of seven questions and an area for comments, asking the respondents' opinions about the following:
- 1. Current business conditions
- 2. Expected product demand during the next four months
- 3. Access to capital during the next four months
- 4. Future employment conditions
- 5. Evaluation of the current U.S. economy
- 6. U.S. economic conditions during the next six months
- 7. Business development spending expectations
- 8. Open-ended question for comments
How may I access the MCI-EFI?
Survey results are posted on the Foundation website, included in the Foundation Forecast newsletter and included in press releases. Survey respondent demographics and additional information about the MCI are also available at the link above.


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Da Bears
Here we go. The new era begins. Can you feel it? At least now, if Griese screws up, it's all on the rest of the offense. Updates to follow.
HALFTIME UPDATE: 7-3? Hmmm
UPDATE: These guys blow. Where to lay the blame? Obviously, it wasn't ALL Grossman. There is no running game at all. Griese produced more yardage, but three interceptions, two of them at the goal line, were killer. The secondary played all second stringers if we aren't mistaken. The only two highlights worth mentioning were Hester again and Griese's pushing the Bears down field in the fourth quarter. Granted, the Detroit safeties were playing way out there to prevent the big play, but moving the ball without using a timeout was impressive. Too bad the onside kick blew up in their faces.
Going into Green Bay at 1 and 3? They're leaving Green Bay 1 and 4.
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Judge Sides With Parents on Calif. 'Trigger' Proposal
A group of California parents seeking to overhaul a low-performing school won a legal victory when a judge ruled that they collected enough signatures to revamp the school's operations and convert it to a charter school.
San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Steve Malone overruled the objections of district officials in the Adelanto school system, northeast of Los Angeles, who had concerns about a parent-led effort to bring about structural changes to a school, Desert Trails Elementary. District leaders questioned the validity of many of the signatures and argued that parents were given false information about the petition drive.
But Malone, in an order issued last week, rejected those complaints, ruling that the parents' signatures were collected in a way that "was not misleading or [the cause of] confusion."
The Adelanto case represents what is probably the most widely publicized, and contentious, effort to date to take over a school through a "parent-trigger" policy, one that gives parents broad power to shape the direction of academically struggling schools, if they can secure the approval of a majority of parents.
California legislators approved a parent trigger law in 2010, though the signature-gathering process has never been used to successfully transform one of the state's academically teetering schools.
Since then, a number of other states have either debated or approved trigger laws that give parents similar degrees of power. Backers of parent-trigger policies say they provide parents with the leverage to bring about meaningful academic improvements and changes in leadership at schools that are resistant to change. But parent-trigger plans have drawn strong resistance from some parents and teachers, who regard those policies as a divisive and counterproductive, and warn that the policies will result in parents being manipulated by charter school management organizations.
Adelanto district officials and school board members had rejected petitions submitted by parents in the community, saying those documents were riddled with flaws, from missing dates and names to questionable signatures from adults who may not have been connected to the students. Some parents, the district said, were given false information about the purpose of the petition.
But Malone said backers of changes at the schools were up-front with the public during the petition drive, and that mistakes in their documents did not confuse those who signed on. The judge ordered the board and district to "immediately begin the process of soliciting and selecting charter school proposals."
Carlos Mendoza, the president of Adelanto's school board, said the panel has not decided on how to respond to the ruling, but he hoped it would appeal.
Mendoza said he believed many parents in the community were being manipulated by backers of the school overhaul, including an organization that has been active in the effort, Parent Revolution. It's unclear, he said, whether proponents of changes in Adelanto want the school converted to a charter, or are simply seeking other structural changes—and the public has a right to know what those plans are, Mendoza said.
"I am not concerned about converting Desert Trails into a charter school as long as the board has a say with community input on what that charter school will be," Mendoza said in an e-mail. As it now stands, he added, the board and community could be subject to a "bait-and-switch" in which the school community is led to accept a poor plan for changing the school.
At a news conference on Monday, Doreen Diaz, one of the parents who organized the petition effort, called the ruling "a victory for our children," which would improve the Desert Trails school.
"We are on the way to making it a quality school for them, and there's no way we'll back down," Diaz said.
Parent Revolution's executive director, Ben Austin, called the decision "historic," in that a court was validating the parent trigger process and a community's use of the law.
"There's no roadmap, no handbook," Austin said of the parents' efforts. "That's what happens when you make history."
Photo: Alyssa Mora, 4, cheers during a Desert Trails Parent Union press conference in January, where parents called for California's parent trigger law to be enacted to force the elementary school to be converted to a charter school. (David Pardo/ The Victor Valley Daily Press/AP-File)


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(a) The Director shall establish a system of uniform standard quality grades for all construc-tion materials commonly sold at retail in American Samoa and for which it is practical to do so.
(b) The Director shall publish the standards so established as regulations and in a convenient form.History: 1965, PL 9-17.


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Let us start actual programming with Android Framework. Before you start writing your first example using Android SDK, you have to make sure that you have setup your Android development environment properly as explained in Android – Environment Setup tutorial. I also assume that you have a little bit working knowledge with Eclipse IDE.
So let us proceed to write a simple Android Application which will print "Hello World!".
The first step is to create a simple Android Application using Eclipse IDE. Follow the option File -> New -> Project and finally select Android New Application wizard from the wizard list. Now name your application as HelloWorld using the wizard window as follows:
Next, follow the instructions provided and keep all other entries as default till the final step. Once your project is created successfully, you will have following project screen:
Before you run your app, you should be aware of a few directories and files in the Android project:
This contains the .R file, a compiler-generated file that references all the resources found in your project. You should not modify this file.
This folder contains the Android package files .apk built by the ADT during the build process and everything else needed to run an Android application.
This is a directory for drawable objects that are designed for high-density screens.
res/layout:- This is a directory for files that define your app's user interface.
This is a directory for other various XML files that contain a collection of resources, such as strings and colors definitions.
This is the manifest file which describes the fundamental characteristics of the app and defines each of its components.
Following section will give a brief overview few of the important application files.
The main activity code is a Java file MainActivity.java. This is the actual application file which ultimately gets converted to a Dalvik executable and runs your application. Following is the default code generated by the application wizard for Hello World! application:
package com.example.helloworld; import android.os.Bundle; import android.app.Activity; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.MenuItem; import android.support.v4.app.NavUtils; public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); } @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu); return true; } }
Here, R.layout.activity_main refers to the activity_main.xml file located in the res/layout folder. TheonCreate() method is one of many methods that are fi red when an activity is loaded.
Whatever component you develop as a part of your application, you must declare all its components in a manifest file called AndroidManifest.xml which ressides at the root of the application project directory. This file works as an interface between Android OS and your application, so if you do not declare your component in this file, then it will not be considered by the OS. For example, a default manifest file will look like as following file:
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.example.helloworld" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" > <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="15" /> <application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@style/AppTheme" > <activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:label="@string/title_activity_main" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/> </intent-filter> </activity> </application> </manifest>
Attributeandroid:icon will point to the application icon available under res/drawable-hdpi. The application uses the image named ic_launcher.png located in the drawable folders
The action for the intent filter is named android.intent.action.MAIN to indicate that this activity serves as the entry point for the application. The category for the intent-filter is namedandroid.intent.category.LAUNCHER to indicate that the application can be launched from the device's launcher icon.
The @string refers to the strings.xml file explained below. Hence, @string/app_name refers to theapp_name string defined in the strings.xml fi le, which is "HelloWorld". Similar way, other strings get populated in the application.
Following is the list of tags which you will use in your manifest file to specify different Android application components:
The The gen/com.example.helloworld/R.java file is the glue between the activity Java files likeMainActivity.java and the resources like strings.xml. It is an automatically generated file and you should not modify the content of the R.java file. Following is a sample of R.java file:file is located in the res/values folder and it contains all the text that your application uses. For example, the names of buttons, labels, default text, and similar types of strings go into this file. This file is responsible for their textual content. For example, a default strings file will look like as following file:
<resources> <string name="app_name">HelloWorld</string> <string name="hello_world">Hello world!</string> <string name="menu_settings">Settings</string> <string name="title_activity_main">MainActivity</string> </resources>
The gen/com.example.helloworld/R.java file is the glue between the activity Java files likeMainActivity.java and the resources like strings.xml. It is an automatically generated file and you should not modify the content of the R.java file. Following is a sample of R.java file:
/* AUTO-GENERATED FILE. DO NOT MODIFY. * * This class was automatically generated by the * aapt tool from the resource data it found. It * should not be modified by hand. */ package com.example.helloworld; public final class R { public static final class attr { } public static final class dimen { public static final int padding_large=0x7f040002; public static final int padding_medium=0x7f040001; public static final int padding_small=0x7f040000; } public static final class drawable { public static final int ic_action_search=0x7f020000; public static final int ic_launcher=0x7f020001; } public static final class id { public static final int menu_settings=0x7f080000; } public static final class layout { public static final int activity_main=0x7f030000; } public static final class menu { public static final int activity_main=0x7f070000; } public static final class string { public static final int app_name=0x7f050000; public static final int hello_world=0x7f050001; public static final int menu_settings=0x7f050002; public static final int title_activity_main=0x7f050003; } public static final class style { public static final int AppTheme=0x7f060000; } }
The activity_main.xml is a layout file available in res/layout directory, that is referenced by your application when building its interface. You will modify this file very frequently to change the layout of your application. For your "Hello World!" application, this file will have following content related to default layout:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" > <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:padding="@dimen/padding_medium" android:text="@string/hello_world" tools:context=".MainActivity" /> </RelativeLayout>
This is an example of simple RelativeLayout which we will study in a separate chapter. The TextView is an Android control used to build the GUI and it have various attribuites like android:layout_width,android:layout_height etc which are being used to set its width and height etc. The @string refers to the strings.xml file located in the res/values folder. Hence, @string/hello_world refers to the hello string defined in the strings.xml file, which is "Hello World!".
Let's try to run our Hello World! application we just created. I assume you had created your AVD while doing environment setup. To run the app from Eclipse, open one of your project's activity files and click Run icon from the toolbar. Eclipse installs the app on your AVD and starts it and if everything is fine with your setup and application, it will display following Emulator window:
Congratulations!!! you have developed your first Android Application and now just keep following rest of the tutorial step by step to become a great Android Developer. All the very best.


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VIDEO: Cormier, Calagione review Vampire Weekend
VIDEO: Day 3, Firefly's finale report with Ryan Cormier
Slightly dreary and probably wet from several afternoon showers, Firefly Music Festival goers are soaking up the final hours of the weekend. Tonight closes out with Vampire Weekend and Foster the People.
VIDEO: Sunday afternoon in the Forest Cinema
Firefly goers relax on Sunday afternoon in the Forest Cinema.
VIDEO: Selling and serenading at Firefly Music Festival
Karl Clark, sales manager for Hank's Cheesecakes, serenades fans to promote business.
VIDEO: Firefly vendor decorates free tote bags
Darin Hoopes of Austin Tx creates free Firefly totes with silkscreen designs. Several hundred fans waited in line for one at the Toyota Hybrid House Party tent Saturday.
VIDEO: Firefly Day 2 update with Ryan Cormier
Parking lot nightmares Friday night are behind us as we prepare for an exciting evening with the Alabama Shakes and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
VIDEO: Local artists increase in demand for custom TOMS at Firefly Music Festival
The demand for custom designed TOMS was so great at last year's Firefly Music Festival that the number of local artists increased from five to 30.
VIDEO: Headphone disco makes awkward dance party at Firefly
Dueling DJs offering two music options turned The Thicket into a silent dance party. It was only awkward when you took the headphones off.
VIDEO: Late night, early morning at Firefly Music Festival
Firefly's The Hub area gets some visitors late at night, and early the next morning.
VIDEO: Family ties for Spinto Band at Firefly Music FestivalJune 21, 2013 Respond
Proud fathers of two sons (each) in Spinto Band, the only Delaware group at the festival, share their sons' big moment at Firefly. And one proud papa is celebrating his birthday supporting his kids.


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I am taring a folder and for some reason the entire directory structure that preceds the folder I am tarring is included.
I am doing this in a script like:
'tar czf ' + dir + '/asdf.tgz ' + dir + 'asdf/'
Where dir is like:
In the man pages, I see I can fix this but I can't get it to work.
I tried:
tar czf -C dir ...
But now I have some kind of a file -C in my folder (which I can't seem to delete btw!).
Please help!


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