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Owner 1.0.3 what's new? Part 1: variable expansion
0 Comments Published February 4th, 2013 in Java, OWNER API Tags: bsd, configuration, framework, free, Java, library, maven, opensource, owner, owner api, properties.In the last blog post I introduced what is the OWNER API and how to use it.
Basically it is tiny library that helps reducing the Java code to read the configuration for your application from Java Properties files. You can find full documentation here. Version 1.0.0 was having the very basic features, and now I'm adding new things that may return useful without compromising its simplicity and compactness.
Yesterday I have released version 1.0.3 which includes some new features that I want to introduce in some short blog posts.
On this weekend I set up the continuous integration on CloudBees and I noticed that compiling with JDK 6 there was a compilation error, since I was using JDK 7, so I decided that the fix was worthing another release, so that if somebody is using JDK 6 won't have any problem.
So, what's new then?
First of all, the OWNER library is now available on Maven Central Repository, and this will ease the job of people willing to try it, since now it only requires few lines to configure your project to use it, and I tried to improve the documentation. Unfortunately, publishing the library on Maven Central Repository required me to buy an internet domain name and use it for the groupId of the library. This may have broken the backward compatibility if someone started to use this library. I apologize for that.
The first thing I want to point out, is something I always missed in Java Properties files. A "variable expansion" mechanism.
For example, imagine your application having a configuration file like this:
server.host=myhost.com service.url=http://${server.host}/some/endpoint application.path=${HOME}/myapp application.data=${application.path}/data application.logs=${application.path}/logs
With plain Java properties file, the job to replace the variables is left to you. With Owner API, you can create a Java interface to map the above configuration and have all the variables resolved:
public interface MyAppConfig extends Config { @Key("server.host") String host(); @Key("service.url") URL serviceURL(); @Key("application.data") File appData(); @Key("application.logs") File appLogs(); } // then use it with: MyAppConfig cfg = ConfigFactory.create(MyAppConfig.class, System.getenv());
The System.getenv() is used to resolve the ${HOME} system environment variable. In the same way you can pass other properties files too, like System properties or any other class implementing java.util.Map, see ConfigFactory.create(). I called this technique "importing properties", since you specify some Properties or Maps during the creation of the Config object.
More details can be found on the README file on github: variables expansion and importing properties.
I'll write more about what's new in the next blog post.
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Based on what I know about Mexico and other Latin American countries that
have used paramilitary forces, if this plan gets enacted, we will see even
more extra-judicial killings and the level of impunity will increase (if
that is possible?)… A paramilitary force will have carte blanche to carry
out social cleansing and will be even less accountable than the current
federal police and military forces, in my opinion. It is interesting to
see this proposal from the PRI candidate since what most people seem to
think he will do is reestablish arreglos (arrangements) with criminal
organizations as a way to lessen the levels of violence. It is hard to
imagine that these new forces would not be even more easily corruptible.
The term fascist also comes to mind. molly
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Stratfor Wikileaked
I have been critical of Stratfor for several years, not because of
their corporate customers, supporters or "shadow CIA" reputation.
Rather, I have criticized Stratfor reports for being insipid and dull
at best and full of errors at worst. I remember the first time I read
a Stratfor intelligence report on the situation of extreme violence in
Mexico. It reminded me of the Weekly Readers we got back in junior
high school in the days before Channel 1 took over the lucrative
school media markets. I could honestly see nothing in a Stratfor
report that could not be gleaned from reading ordinary newspaper
stories and a few government think tank reports… These things have
now taken on the fancy name of "OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE." Librarians
and historians and investigative journalists have always used
government documents as sources. The internet has made these resources
much more accessible than they used to be. It takes a lot of patience
to ferret out the good stuff in GAO and CRS reports, and even more to
search through miles of National Archives microfilm or microcard
versions of the US Congressional Serial Set and other congressional
committee reports and testimonies from thousands of hearings (open and
closed) often stored in the basements of university libraries. All
this stuff is online now and most of it "open source" that is, free of
charge to the reader (investigator, reporter, journalist, or any other
end-user). Basically, what it seemed to me that Stratfor was doing
was employing graduate students or offshore workers with language
skills to read a lot of news sources on the web and then digest them
into the "weekly reader" style reports that they then sold to
corporate clients who were too busy making lots of money to read and
think for themselves… Of course, I never bought any of the stuff
the corporate clients paid for. I wonder how different or better it
Expensive corporate newsletters providing business intelligence have
been around forever, long before the internet. These are often priced
beyond the budget of public university libraries, or in some cases,
the publishers will sell one version to government and another pricier
version to corporate clients. Kind of like airline tickets. If
anybody buys their own airline ticket, they will most often look for
the best price. If a corporation or other organization with money buys
a plane ticket, they may default to first class (or business class)
and pay 6 times what the ordinary person pays. Even a ticket bought at
the last minute can often be had for a reasonable price, but the old
corporate travel office model helps keep airlines in business when
they buy a ticket from El Paso to Los Angeles (a real example I know
of) that costs $2,500. In this example, I bought a ticket for the same
route and schedule and paid less than $400.
It seems that Stratfor and other commercial firms claiming to sell
"intelligence" are in the same racket. I think Mr. Friedman is correct
in that the trove of emails will not yield much that is terribly
interesting or damaging to Stratfor or their clients. Actually, the
release of these private communications will probably do more to
reveal the "banality of intelligence" rather than anything
terrifically evil… I don't agree with hacking and stealing. That
seems to go beyond civil disobedience. But, if it helps people to
think more critically about the real value of what is being sold as
intelligence, well, maybe in the long run it will do some good…
Maybe people will think a little more carefully about what kind of
information they get for their money. Just my two cents… or two
thousand dollars. whatever I can get… molly molloy
REFILE-UPDATE 2-WikiLeaks publishes security think tank emails
Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:14am EST
STRATFOR: Meth in Mexico: A Turning Point in the Drug War?
Mexican authorities announced Feb. 8 the largest seizure of methamphetamine in Mexican history — and possibly the largest ever anywhere — on a ranch outside of Guadalajara. The total haul was 15 tons of pure methamphetamine along with a laboratory capable of producing all the methamphetamine seized. While authorities are not linking the methamphetamine to any specific criminal group, Guadalajara is a known stronghold of the Sinaloa Federation, and previous seizures there have been connected to the group.
Stratfor MYTH debunked by Mexican reporters…
Check out the translation of this article in Hilo Directo by José Pérez Espino, commenting on a report in LETRAS LIBRES by Juan Carlos Romero
Puga. Both Mexican journalists note that the portrayal of the ZETAS that appears over and over again in US media and reports from "intelligence analysts" like STRATFOR (and I would add by US government agencies also) are simply repeating the Mexican government's own pronouncements that have little basis on the ground in Mexico… Here's the quote from Perez Espino:
"The security consultants Statfor practically reproduced the official
version and assumed that the Zetas are a drug trafficking cartel, and
the most powerful criminal group in the country."
Thanks to UPSIDEDOWN WORLD for the translation and to Dawn Paley for
sending to the list. Below the translation are the original articles
from Hilo Directo and Letras Libres. molly
Stratfor's Myth in Mexico
Written by José Pérez-Espino, Translation by Laura Cann
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:37
Editor's note: We republish the translation of this blog entry to
share with our readers an important, critical perspective on Austin,
Texas based "intelligence" firm Stratfor, whose reports are often
cited and repeated without question in the U.S. media.
Source: hilo directo
Original en español:
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The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal on a lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims against Saudi princes whom they accused of helping the terrorists, thereby ending a legal process some seven years in duration. (In contrast, the case against several hundred Saudi commercial banks accused of laundering money for Al-Qaeda continues for they, unlike the princes, cannot hide behind the skirts of "sovereign immunity.")
Allan Gerson. |
Gerson thought I had a good point and he followed up on Feb. 28, 2002 with a confidential memo, "Deterrence Through Accountability," where he wrote that 9/11
presents the central challenge for dealing with international terrorism. A key weapon in this war is the potential use of civil suits against those who helped finance and thus enabled the operation. It would have demonstrated that financial contributions to the Taliban regime was equivalent to contributions to OBL [Osama bin Laden], whose murderous ambitions were clear. Under American and universal principles of tort law, those whose conduct resulted in wrongful death bear responsibility for the consequences. This is also true for donations to charities that could have reasonably been expected to make their way to agents of OBL.
Being connected in the right legal circles, Gerson took the case to the powerhouse lawfirm of Motley Rice, which quickly accepted the case and (with help from other law firms, including Cozen O'Connor, which directly sued the Saudi government) went after the Saudi princes, an effort that culminated in an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Comments: (1) I kept quiet about my role in this law suit, waiting for it to reach a final conclusion, as it did today.
(2) I commend Motley Rice and its partners in pursuing this litigation, I regret that the Obama administration sided with the Saudi princes, and I am proud of having played a small but key role in what came reasonably close to being a landmark decision with vast policy implications. (June 30 2009)
Sep. 8, 2011 update: The Supreme Court notwithstanding, Motley Rice and Cozen O'Connor have not given up, Michael D. Goldhaber writes in the American Lawyer. Indeed, "the plaintiffs, determined to hold private sponsors of terror accountable, refused to walk away." They are pursuing four courses of action:
- They filed a new 9/11 suit against the Kingdom, along with select princes and charities, in the name of a new plaintiff: an insurance syndicate.
- Sen. Charles Schumer will soon reintroduce the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act that pushes aside the unfavorable legal rulings on sovereign immunity and personal jurisdiction, permitting a new suit to be filed against Saudi Arabia.
- Get the Second Circuit "to reconsider its own holdings on sovereign immunity and personal jurisdiction, or, if needed, to see the Supreme Court finally review them."
- Proceeding "with discovery against the fourteen original 9/11 defendants that have survived motions to dismiss, with the aim of a trial in 2012."
Steven Cozen
Mar. 14, 2012 update: Steven Cozen of Cozen O'Connor will be in court this week, writes Laura Goldman, in the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, "to go up against the kingdom and the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which allegedly provided financial and logistical support to Al Qaeda, in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. Cozen is suing on behalf of several insurance companies that suffered economic damages, the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost 658 employees on the attack on the World Trade Center, and others."
Dec. 19, 2013 update: More evidence that the Supreme Court's declining an appeal has not ended the saga of suing the Saudis: A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a defendant in lawsuits accusing it of helping Al-Qaida before 9/11, even though it had earlier ruled otherwise. Circuit Judge Chester J. Straub explained the shift: "We conclude that the circumstances here are 'extraordinary' and warrant relief." Stephen Cozen opined that "We are confident in our ability to prove our case against them."
June 30, 2014 update: The Supreme Court declined to review O'Neill v. Al Rajhi Bank in which 9/11 victims sought to sue Al-Qaeda supporters such as Saudi banks, Islamic charities, three financial institutions in Liechtenstein, four of Mr. bin Laden's half brothers, and the family construction business, the Saudi Binladin Group. Lower courts had previously dismissed much of the class-action lawsuit on the basis that the plaintiffs failed to prove that actions taken by the alleged Al-Qaeda supporters had proximately caused 9/11.
Feb. 4, 2015 update: The Saudis filed again to have this case dismissed; in opposition, the plaintiffs dropped a potential bombshell: Zacarias Moussaoui gave testimony from his U.S. supermax prison home fingering leading members of the Saudi royal family - Turki al-Faisal, Bandar Bin Sultan, al-Waleed bin Talal - as major donors to Al-Qaeda. Although Moussaoui has shown signs of acute mental illness, not to speak of unreliability, Sean P. Carter of Cozen O'Connor, who met with him, said he found Moussaoui "of completely sound mind — focused and thoughtful." Click the link above to find references to the testimony and judge for yourself.
Feb. 10, 2015 update: James Risen provides an overview on the what's simply called the "9/11 suit," which "has occupied the federal court docket for almost the entire 21st century":
"When I began this, I would never have guessed that I would have spent so much of my legal career on one case," said Sean Carter, a lawyer for plaintiffs in the case. "There are times when it is exhausting, but everyone is committed to see it through." ... Over the years, the case has suffered so many delays and false starts, endured so many ups and downs, that it has sometimes been compared to Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, the endless legal drama at the heart of Charles Dickens's Bleak House.
May 17, 2016 update: In a unanimous voice vote, the U.S. Senate approved the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act that permits victims or surviving family members of victims of terror attacks on U.S. soil to bring lawsuits against foreign government for supporting terrorism. In other words, it permits lawsuits against the Saudi government for its role in 9/11. Arguing in favor of the bill, Sen. Chuck Schumer noted that, "If the Saudis did not participate in this terrorism, they have nothing to fear about going to court. If they did, they should be held accountable."
In turn, the Saudis threatened to sell off their holdings in U.S. government paper; but while this has been rumored to amount to $750 billion, recent disclosures indicate that it amounts to a not-too-impressive $117 billion.
May 24, 2016 update: Belatedly, it's clear why the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act passed the Senate without opposition: at the last moment, Schumer inserted an addition that nullifies the bill's purpose. Paul Sperry, who broke this story in the New York Post, explains:
The section that was slipped in at the last minute — "Stay of Actions Pending State Negotiations" — leaves it up to the secretary of state to merely "certify" that the United States is "engaged in good-faith discussions with the foreign-state defendant concerning the resolution of claims against the foreign state."
The attorney general, in turn, can petition the court for an extension of the stay for "additional 180-day periods," effectively delaying lawsuits against the Saudis indefinitely.
Add to this that the House is unlikely to take up the bill, Obama is opposed to it, and the Saudi government has mobilized against it and the vote does appear to be, as Sperry calls it, "a cruel hoax."
Comment: It's tricks like this that fuel support for the Left (Sanders) and Right (Trump) candidates who promise integrity in government.


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The global network of OIE Reference Centres is the central core of the OIE's scientific excellence. The First International Conference of OIE Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres (held in Florianopolis, Brazil, in 2006) recommended that a network of OIE Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres be developed with the objective of harmonising and exchanging data, information and reference material to improve disease surveillance and control worldwide.
The Second Global Conference of OIE Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres (held in Paris in June 2010) encouraged the networks of OIE Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres to continue working together to strengthen multilateral cooperation, in particular with the aim of producing and increasing availability of validated biological reference materials. In order to strengthen this collaboration, the OIE Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres should continue to exchange knowledge, reference materials and expertise to the benefit of OIE Member Countries.
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The OIE has identified the need for further guidance on the coordination of the OIE Reference Centre networks. The objective is to assure unified expert opinions and advice to OIE Member Countries through the enhanced exchange of information.
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Re: Irwin 38 MKII Center Cockpit 1990 its best to re core from the top The core is plywood. The top skin is cut off. The blade of the saw is set just to cut thru the top fiberglass then lifted off. The core is then removed and and the lower part is left to dry. A new core is then inserted and bedded with epoxy. The top skin is then epoxy to the core and then weighted, once all is cured the seam is ground back all the way around the repaired area to a tapper and glass is laid into the tapper. Make sure the tapper goes back enough on both sides of the repair. Once that is done the gel coat is then applied. I have the same boat! |
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Re: Irwin 38 MKII Center Cockpit 1990 congrats John. you have bought a hell of a boat for a 38' footer and probably at a great price! Just something to consider..... I read a post where someone mounted the traveller on the rear side of the coaming. |
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Re: Irwin 38 MKII Center Cockpit 1990 Attachment 12155 Sorry I didn't get the jpeg attached. |
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Re: Irwin 38 MKII Center Cockpit 1990 Sorry I don't have a better picture, but as you can see the travler is mounted on a teak block just aft af the cockpit. This allows full movement of the travler and controll of the mainsail from the end of the boom. We often would use the rear of the cockpit for exiting and entering from the aft deck the travler easily moves the mail sheet out of the way. when all battened down only the main sheet tail sneeks into the cockpit under the curtian. |
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Re: Irwin 38 MKII Center Cockpit 1990 Hey John, I just bought a 1987 Irwin 38; sits in Herring Harbour South right now and will be home on the Magothy this coming spring. I hear ya on the traveler, mine needs some revision on location and how it works. But seriously - boom end traveler's are far better, and putting it on the bridge deck will seriously compromise the ability of the traveler to control the sail - it's about arc and how much travel you can get from the traveler. Here's my setup currently (as bought): For those non-Irwin folks reading - and me, I'm assuming you mean to put the traveler up on the forward coaming (next to my coffee cup in the photo). That also means your mainsheet would be mid-boom - and all that tangle and mess of lines has to come back to the helm. My revisions will be to replace the pin stop car with a 3:1 sheeted arrangement - then have the control lines go off to either side to a turning block with a cam cleat - simple and efficient way to get the lines into the cockpit where they can be adjusted with one hand. I fully believe that the traveler should only be centered when motoring, I use the heck out of it to balance helm and heel control. I'll be watching for your posts on the deck core - PM if you are close by to Pasadena, Love to have a look. |
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Re: Irwin 38 MKII Center Cockpit 1990 I had an Irwin 38 cc from 1985 to 2007. Loved it wonderful cruiser. As for the traveler we put just aft of the cockpit. This kept it out of the way and left the main easily handled by the helmsman. |
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Irwin 38 MKII Center Cockpit 1990 So I have bought this much neglected but still very worthwhile sailboat. Two immediate projects need others experience and guidance. #1 Deck Recore The aft deck has a lot of soft stuff and needs to be recored from the taff rail to the cockpit coaming. Before cutting any holes can anyone tell me if they know what the core is (was!) made of. Next part is how to replace the core. I am attacking this from below, so as to preserve the integrity of the deck. Would a good dense foam product provide the strength necessary, or should the core be replaced with wood or similar material. #2 Traveller I intend to refit the boat for single handing capability, so am interested in a traveller. Ideally, to keep the aft end of cockpit clear I would like to mount a bridge traveller just foreward of the cokpit coaming so as not to interfere with the dodger. All comments, pros and cons would be appreciated, especially where experience has been gained. Looking forward to hearing all input. There will be lots more questions so please keep looking John Rebel Lady on the Chesapeake |
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It's easy. Just eat a couple of warm glazed donuts an hour before dinner.
Home Cookin Chapter: Recipes From Thibeault's Table
Yeast-Raised Glazed Doughnuts
Yeast-Raised Glazed Doughnuts From the King Arthur Flour All-Purpose Baking
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg
1/4 cup (1 3/4 ounces) sugar
2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
3 cups (12 3/4 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour
1 large egg
1 cup (8 ounces) milk
2 tablespoons (1 ounce) butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 cups (2 pounds) vegetable oil or shortening (2 1/2 pounds), for frying
1/4 cup (2 ounces) milk
2 cups (8 ounces confectioners' sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Whisk together the dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, combine the egg, milk, butter, and vanilla and stir into the flour mixture, mixing until well combined. Let the dough rest for 5 minutes, then knead for 6 to 8 minutes by hand or mixer until you have a smooth, soft dough. Place the dough in a buttered bowl, turn it over to grease the top, and let it rise, covered, in a warm place for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, until doubled in bulk.
Deflate the dough and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Gently roll the dough out to 1/4-inch thickness and cut with a round cutter (or, using a pizza wheel, cut into strips to make crullers, see pg 40 of KAFAPBC). Cover loosely with greased plastic wrap and let rise again for about 1 hour, until doubled again.
Place oil or shortening in a heavy pan or deep skillet and heat to 350F. Place the doughnuts in the oil, two or three at a time, and fry until golden brown. Turn over and cook the second side. This should take no more than a minute for each side. Overcooking will make the doughnuts tough. Drain on paper towels.
To make glaze, stir the milk into the confectioners' sugar until it is smooth, then add the vanilla.
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Salto Angel is the highest waterfall in the world. It height is 979 metres. It's called after famous American pilot Jimmy Angel, who discovered it, when he was looking the gold in Venezuela.
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The Seattle Seahawks announced this afternoon that they have released tight end Chris Baker and quarterback Nate Davis.
Baker played in all 16 games in his first and only year in Seattle, and then was placed on the injured reserve with a hip issue for the postseason.
Baker served as Seattle's blocking tight end, finishing with just nine receptions for 116 yards and a score.
Davis signed a futures contract with Seattle off of the San Francisco practice squad and was considered a developmental prospect for the future.
"He had a great preseason with the Niners," Seahawks general manager John Schneider said about Davis during the combine last week. "So he's just coming into this thing. He's got his eyes wide open right now. But it was an opportunity to look at another guy."
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It was ready for a while already, but now it's part of the official FOSDEM schedule as well: I am very pleased to announce the presentations and speakers of the MySQL & Friends Developer Room, which will take place this coming Saturday (5th of February) in Brussels, Belgium.
This year, our DevRoom will be located in room H.2213 (in the H Building), which has a capacity of up to 100 people and will be available to us from 13:00-19:00 o'clock. We have 12 sessions lined up, each will last 25 minutes (incl. Q&A). Without further ado, here's our schedule:
I would like to thank all speakers for their submissions and for the efforts they are willing to go through in order to make it to this event! If you happen to be at FOSDEM this year, please stop by and join us.
We also plan to head out for a meetup over dinner after the event. If you would like to attend, please register, so we can take you into account! (Thanks a lot for Kenny Gryp for organizing this meetup)
Just a quick reminder: the Oracle user groups of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Russia are organizing a joint conference, the Harmony. It will take place on May 19th-20th in Helsinki, Finland. I've met the organizers at the IOUC summit that took place at the Oracle HQ this week and they would love to have some more MySQL content. So if you have an idea for a talk about a MySQL-related topic, please submit it! The call for papers closes on February, 1st!
Greetings from the University of Latvia in Riga, where the local activities related to Software Freedom Day 2008 are in full swing! We've just finished the introductionary talk "Software freedom in Latvia" by Evijs Taube (LATA) and Leo Trukšāns (Linux Centre). Currently, Mark Callaghan from Google Inc. is talking about "Running a database when your business depends on it". We've more talks scheduled for the rest of the day and there also is an ongoing workshop about MySQL Performance tuning by Jay Pipes, which takes place in the University's Linux Lab. The full agenda is published on the MySQL Forge Wiki and I just published a first batch of pictures on my gallery. Enjoy!
As I mentioned some time ago, Software Freedom Day 08 will take place on Saturday, 20th of September 2008.
Coincidentally, the a large number of Sun/MySQL Engineers and other Sun folks will be in Riga, Latvia for an internal developer meeting around this day. To make use of this opportunity, we plan to give a number of sessions and presentations (in english) about various topics and to contribute to this global celebration of Open Source Software.
We've set up a Team Page on the Software Freedom Day web site for this event - the venue will be the Cafeteria Conference room in the basement of the University of Latvia, Riga, which can accomodate 60-80 people:
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There is no entrance fee and you don't have to register - just come by and meet with us! There will be free coffee, refreshments and cake during the breaks.
In the evening, Sun will host a social event (incl. free drinks and food) in the SAS Radisson Daugava hotel, starting at 19:30:
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We've set up a tentative schedule (45 minutes per session plus 15 minutes of Q&A), please check the Wiki for eventual last-minute changes!
11:00-12:00: MySQL/Open Source in Latvia (Evijs Taube, Sun Microsystems) 12:00-13:00: Open Source Business Models: how to build a business around free software (Speaker TBD) 13:00-13:30: Lunch Break / Ask the Guru your tech questions 13:30-14:30: MySQL in the Enterprise: Customer references, commercial offerings (Rob Young/Robin Schumacher, Sun Microsystems) 15:00-16:00: MySQL Community Overview: How to engage and contribute (Giuseppe Maxia/Jay Pipes/Lenz Grimmer, Sun Microsystems) 16:15-17:15: MySQL Performance tuning best practices (Jay Pipes, Sun Microsystems) 17:15-18:15: Maintaining your Open source project with Bazaar and Launchpad (Lenz Grimmer/Giuseppe Maxia, Sun Microsystems) 19.30: Social event: Software demonstration, buffet and free beer in the SAS Radisson Daugava hotel
We'd like to thank Leo Trukšāns, Michael Dexter and Georg Richter for their help and support in getting this event arranged and organized! I look forward to being there and help to spread the word about the stuff that keeps me occupied for more than 13 years now
Are you a member of a local Linux User Group? Or a MySQL User Group? Or any other group that is related to open source software? Have you heard of the Software Freedom Day yet? This is a good opportunity to spread the word and showcase what OSS is all about to a wider audience. Some quotes from their Software Freedom Day website:
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Freddy, I'm in Ames. Good luck on your search. There is a fantastic paint and body shop in town (they're actually the biggest in the state)...Shaffer auto body that will give your car a slick job. However, I think you're going to find a lot of shops won't spray over your prep work, Shaffer's included. Nobody in this town will spray over someone else's prep work. And unfortunately the shops that I can think of that would do that are not shops I could recommend to you in good faith.
Thanks Lizer. I understand what you are saying and I understand their position too. I had a guy all lined up that did good work and had guided me thru the prep and primer stage - then he was going to do the finish straightening and squirt it. Unfortunately, he has been struck with cancer and only has weeks to live. So now I am searching for someone new.
Freddy, I do know of a guy in Osceola. I know it's a bit of a drive for you. He's an old retired body guy and now he restores Mustangs professionally. I've been in the shop and have seen his body work and can say it's superb and impressive. I have not seen any of his paint jobs but I don't have any doubts they'd be different than his prep work, though he has another guy who does all the spraying who's supposed to be pretty good. If you sweet talk him, he can be convinced rather easily to spray over your work. He was going to shoot my 67 Mustang that I prepped but I'll be doing that mostly myself now. He is cheap too (says he has to be because of his location) at ~$30-40/hr.
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Thanks much, Lizer. I will keep this in mind. Because of the distance involved, for now, I am going to try to keep finding someone more local. If that proves unsuccessful, I will PM you for the info. I greatly appreciate your help!
I don't blame you. That would probably be a good four hour drive or so for you? Okay, I originally didn't want to bring this one up but there IS one person in this town who would shoot over your stuff I'm sure. His place is kind of sketchy and I wasn't exactly happy with some metal work and sandblasting he did for me some time ago, but he's a nice guy, wants to help me out, and it's hard to stay mad at him. He's been painting for a long time and can still make your car look good nonetheless, especially if you aren't going for concourse.
I was just in there this morning to look at some junk mustangs he had in the back. He offered to rent his paint booth to me when I'm ready to spray my Mustang. If I end up doing that, I would probably have him shoot the clear and I'd feel fine about it. His shop time is $60/hr. I have a friend who owns 50+ old rare European cars that he completely restores (all of them fully licensed, insured, registered, and driven) and he sends all of them to this guy I'm telling you about now for body work or paint. I'm about 2 hrs from you. Just another option in case you still don't find something local. |
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Salon political reporter Alex Seitz-Wald: "If more guns were the answer [to gun violence], then the U.S., with its 300 million guns, should be safest country on the planet."
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Hillary Clinton is stepping down as secretary of state on Friday. Today, she told questioners (for the upteenth time) that she's "not inclined" to run for president in 2016. I'm inclined to believe her. But her statement is hardly Shermanesque ("I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected"). So the door is still open a smidgen. Now at age 65, I seriously doubt Hillary wants to run the gauntlet of another presidential campaign (and, if she wins, do it again in 2020 at age 73). But the gathering winds of politics and history may compel her into the race nevertheless. That said, I'm sure Hillary was sincere when she quipped: "I am looking forward to finishing up my tenure as secretary of state and then catching up on about 20 years of sleep deprivation." She'll probably need it.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Just a Monday thought
There's no turning back, of course. But as one Slate writer recently mused: It really is a shame that exiting the interstate in America, "regardless of where you are, you see the exact same thing."
Friday, January 25, 2013
Quote of the day
The Economist: "In most sports, the best men outperform the best women, but the best women outperform almost all men."
History repeating itself - with a twist
Army Col. Eugene Householder on racially integrating the military (Dec 8, 1941): "[Social] Experiments to meet the wishes and demands of the champions of every race and creed for the solution of their problems are a danger to efficiency, discipline and morale and would result in ultimate defeat." Army Lt.Col. Allen West (Ret.) on women in combat (Jan 24, 2013): "Now is not the time to play a social experiment with our ground combat forces ... This is the misconceived liberal progressive vision of fairness and equality which could potentially lead to the demise of our military." The "sociological laboratory" argument was wrong then, and it's wrong now. But to complete the historical irony, had West been a young man in 1941 and eager to fight, the ex-congressman would have been summarily assigned to a segregated, "all-Negro" unit, probably as a Private. Yes, West is African American.
See Jane shoot
In a terrific piece defending the logic of employing women in combat, the Economist noted that no testosterone is required to pull a trigger. "Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a Russian sniper during the second world war, is credited with over 300 kills. The Nazis surely would have preferred a Soviet army with no such female combat troops."
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Resisting G.I. Jane - Ctd
SURELY, this had to be an Onion parody piece, I kept thinking. But it wasn't. To wit: "Only someone deliberately blind to human reality could maintain that putting men and women in close quarters 24 hours a day will not produce a proliferation of sex, thus introducing all the irrational passions (and resulting favoritism) of physical attraction into an organization that should be exclusively devoted to the mission of combat preparedness," so wrote National Review commentator Heather Mac Donald who has never served a day in the military, let alone in combat. And we're supposed to take her seriously? Not only did Mac Donald straight-up insult our male warriors (who she blithely paints as a cadre of unethical, unprofessional, sex-crazed brutes), she actually sang a forlorn paean to -- wait for it -- chivalry. No, I'm not kidding. "Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world. It is already on life support, but sex-integrated combat units will provide the coup de grâce," Mac Donald writes. Wow. It's a pity this poor woman wasn't born in the 19th century. She'd clearly be happier.
Resisting G.I. Jane
IT'S BEEN SAID that there are only 36 basic plots in literature. Similarly, a certain narrative against civil rights is retreaded whenever intolerance is forced to confront fairness. For example, antediluvians (a polite term for clueless traditionalists) have dependably employed "the Army is not a sociological laboratory" argument to resist equal rights in the armed forces. The Army leadership used the aforementioned quote in 1941 to justify why it wouldn't integrate African Americans into its ranks. Letting blacks fight alongside whites would pose "a danger to efficiency, discipline and morale," warned spokesman Col. Eugene R. Householder one day after Pearl Harbor. Today, 165 years after women demanded suffrage at the Seneca Falls Convention, the Pentagon lifted the ban on women serving in combat roles. Cue the tattered playbook. "Our military cannot continue to choose social experimentation and political correctness over combat readiness," said Penny Nance, president of Concerned Women for America. "This kind of a social experiment is a dangerous one," said Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness. "The people making this decision are doing so as part of another social experiment," said retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, executive vice president of the Family Research Council. "Is the social experiment worth placing this burden on small unit leaders? I think not." Ignorance of history invites its repetition every time.
Will the GOP bring its ship about?
FOUR YEARS ago, it was evident - at least to me - that Republicans would fatally overreach in their quixotic quest to confine Obama to a single presidential term. Theirs was always a doomed galleon plying against history's trade winds. Mr. Obama - now a wilier, battle-hardened politico - is still here and he's not going away. Today, it is evident that this reality is finally sinking in among rational members of the Grand Old Party. New York magazine's Jon Chait pointed to some revealing tweets by conservative Robert Costa, National Review's Washington editor. Costa wrote: "One thing Repubs seem privately confident about: O is a singular, historic figure. Loud chants of O-Ba-Ma today on mall isn't the Dem norm." He noted "Consensus among my GOP sources: Obama is expertly repackaging old-school, tax-and-spend liberalism as the status quo, conservatism threatened" and added "Many members, people you wouldn't expect, are truly concerned about how party's rep is hurting them back home. Some may start to speak up." Is a Great Republican Awakening in the offing? I'd argue yes - particularly since their choice (ironically) is fundamentally Darwinian: adapt or die.
The trouble with 'conviction politics'
Today, much of the GOP (and, to be fair, many leftist Democrats) worships at the altar of conviction politics, a style of governance that puts principle and adherence to ideology first -- regardless of the cost. Congress' current crop of Republican freshmen are especially bewitched with this modus operandi. But for the nation's sake, it would be wiser for these folks to take the counsel of political economist Max Weber. In his famous Politics as a Vocation, he wrote: "Politics is the art of compromise and decision-making based on social benefits weighed against costs; in this respect, political action cannot be rooted only in conviction, since one's conviction can be another's social anathema." This seems so blindingly obvious. And yet, too many politicians and the voters who abet them continue to struggle to see what is in front of one's nose.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Did we just get Gettysburg'ed?
Granted, President Obama's Second Inaugural Address was not conjoined with a civil war or world war -- events that surely helped to elevate the speeches of Lincoln and FDR to greatness. But was Obama's speech actually one for the ages, too, and we just didn't recognize it? The question is not as ridiculous as it sounds. Today, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is regarded as one of the greatest in American history. But that wasn't the case in 1863 when Honest Abe delivered it. The applause was "scattered and barely polite," according to noted historian Shelby Foote. The next day the Chicago Times (a 19th century version of Fox News) described the address as "silly, flat and dishwatery." Echoing a (weirdly) similar sentiment, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius characterized Obama's speech as "flat, partisan and pedestrian." Plus ça change. We'll probably have to wait a century for history's final verdict on Mr. Obama's address. But I have a feeling that its greatness is staring us in the face.
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Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is a hypothalamic peptide that acts via G(q/11)-coupled 7TM receptors on pituitary gonadotrophs and mediates the central control of reproduction. Recent evidence also indicates that GnRH can affect numerous tissues, but the molecular mechanisms of GnRH receptor stimulation are cell type-specific. Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1 and 2 are key regulators of GnRH function in several cell types, but they also integrate signals from a wide variety of other stimuli. This leads to the obvious question of how specific cellular responses to ERK activation occur, and it is now clear that this is, in part, achieved through strict spatiotemporal control of ERK activity. This means that, in order to infer the function of ERK regulation accurately, multiple readouts for ERK activity, localisation and downstream consequences (e.g. transcriptional activation or cell growth) must be compared simultaneously. Here, we describe some of our findings in the investigation of GnRH signalling to ERK, with particular emphasis on novel, high-content microscopy methods for studying ERK regulation.
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Ok here's my situation. I'm from central IL, and Flat Nasty is ~5.5hr drive. I had already planned to canoe the Current the 24-26th, so I did a little research and found that Flat Nasty is only 16 miles from where I plan to canoe. It'd be plum dumb not to drive the 20 mins to check out the park.
I plan to arrive mid morn (~10 or so), and will most likely leave mid afternoon (3 or 4). I'm not lookin to do any seriously hardcore shit, mostly just tool around and get a feel for the park. This way I'll be halfway familiar with it if/when I make a dedicated weekend wheelin trip there. Anyways, I'm just seein if anyone is plannin on being there that day, that might be able to show me around.
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Tossa de Mar
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Location in Catalonia | |||
Coordinates: 41°43′14″N 2°55′56″E / 41.72056°N 2.93222°E | |||
Country | Spain | ||
Community | Catalonia | ||
Province | Girona | ||
Comarca | La Selva | ||
Government | |||
• Mayor | Gisela Saladich Parés (2015)[1] (Ind.) | ||
Area[2] | |||
• Total | 38.6 km2 (14.9 sq mi) | ||
Elevation | 6 m (20 ft) | ||
Population (2014)[1] | |||
• Total | 5,681 | ||
• Density | 150/km2 (380/sq mi) | ||
Demonym(s) | Tossenc | ||
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Tossa de Mar (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈtosə ðə ˈmar]) is a municipality in Catalonia, Spain, located on the Costa Brava, about 103 kilometres north of Barcelona and 100 kilometres south of the French border. It is accessible through Girona Airport, some distance north.
There is ample evidence of settlements dating back to the Neolithic period, and it is believed that the area has been continuously populated since that time. Between the 4th-1st century BC the first Iberian settlements appeared, followed shortly after by the Romans in the 1st century.
In 966 Tossa was ceded by Count Miró of Barcelona to the Abbey of Ripoll. Some two centuries later, in 1187 Tossa was granted its charter by the Abbot of Ripoll, coinciding with the building of a church atop Mount Guardí, the remnants of which can still be seen today.
Sometime in the 12th century the mediaeval town was walled off and a castle was built on the highest point of Mt. Guardí, this castle was to be subsequently replaced by a wind mill, and this in turn by a lighthouse which is still operational.
By the year 1500 the first houses were built extra-murs to accommodate population growth. This process was greatly accelerated during the 17th and 18th centuries, shaping an urban configuration which was to remain practically unchanged until the arrival of mass tourism in the 1950s.
In 1989 Tossa de Mar was the first place in the world to declare itself an Anti-Bullfighting City.
Contrary to popular belief that Tossa has traditionally been a fishing town, in medieval times and until the arrival of tourism, the local economy was mostly based on agricultural production, principally Grape vine and cork. There was a thriving export market of the latter (in the form of cork taps shipped to the Americas) during the 18th century and early 19th century.
Fishing has traditionally been a relatively minor contributor to the village's economy, although it has consistently provided an alternative source of income in times of economic crisis. A small fishing industry is still active as of 2005 and occupies a few members of local fishing families. Most of their captures are sold to local restaurants and in the fish markets in neighbouring Blanes and Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
Tossa de Mar has three main beaches:
- The Tossa Beach (Platja Gran), in front of downtown. This beach is enclosed to the west by the medieval castle. It is 380m long and 60m wide.
- La Mar Menuda, on the other side of the bay. It has all the usual services and facilities, such as sports equipment hire. Local police patrol the area on bicycles. Dimensions of the beach : 180m long and 20m wide.
- El Codolar, behind the walls.
The Ancient Hospital of Sant Miquel[edit]
This ancient hospital was founded in 1773 as a hospital for the poor. The founder, Tomás Vidal i Rey had become wealthy in America. It is a building with two floors and a central courtyard. It now houses the cultural centre of the village. At its side is the chapel of Sant Miquel with a baroque altar of some note.
Roman villa of Ametllers[edit]
This rural villa (1st century BC - 6th century AD) belonged to the Roman province of Tarraconensis. It consists of two parts : the rural and the rustic. One can get an idea of its great value by looking, among other things, at the remains of the spa, the central heating system, the mosaics and the base of a fruit press with recipient for the crushed juices. Fragments of the mosaics, the stucco and several elements of sculptures attest to the wealth of the owners of the villa. The ceramic vases are proof of the trade with the Mediterranean world. Farming tools, fish tackle and loom tools reveal agricultural and fishing activities. Everyday life is evoked by other objects such as hairpins, small spoons and bone and ivory utensils.
Parish church[edit]
This church, dedicated to the martyr Vincent of Saragossa, was inaugurated at 29 November 1775, after 20 years of construction. The church is one of the largest in the diocese and can, during important celebrations, host the whole population of Tossa de Mar. Much of the interior of the church was devastated during the Civil War in 1936.
Inside is the chapel of Saint Sebastian, a saint adored by the population. The devotion, started in the 15th or 16th century, culminates each year on 20 January into the commemoration of "Vot del Poble" (pledge of the people). The retable of the Rosary has also survived the destruction in 1936.
The walled-in Old Town[edit]
The "Vila Vella enceinte" is the only example of a fortified medieval town still standing on the Catalan coast. Its present appearance dates back to the end of the 14th century. It still has the entire original perimeter with battlemented stone walls, four turrets and three cylindrical towers with parapets. At the highest point, where the lighthouse stands today, was, until the beginning of the 19th century, the castle of the Abbot of the Monastery Santa Maria de Ripoll, the territorial Lord of the town. The site has been declared a national historic monument in 1931.
The interior of the Old Town is a charming place with narrow, cobblestoned streets, the Governor's House (now the Municipal museum), the House of Holy Cloth ("Sant Drap"), a medieval hospital, and remnants of a Romanesque church and a Gothic church.
Municipal museum[edit]
The Municipal Museum, built in Late Gothic style, is situated in the Governor's House, inside the Vila Vella enceinte. It used to be the residence of the jurisdictional governors of Tossa de Mar and its environs, who ruled for the Abbots of the monastery Santa Maria de Ripoll.
The museum was opened on 1 September 1935. It houses an important collection of contemporary art with works of Spanish and foreign artists who frequented Tossa de Mar during the 1930s, such as the Celestial Violinist by Marc Chagall. The archaeological section houses artefacts dating from the Paleolithical Period to the Late Middle Ages. Of particular note are the mosaics found in the atrium of the Roman Villa of the Ametllers, dating from the end of the 4th - beginning of the 5th century.
- ^ a b "Ajuntament de Tossa de Mar". Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ "El municipi en xifres: Tossa de Mar". Statistical Institute of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
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- Tossa de Mar travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Official website
- Tourist Information
- Government data pages (Catalan)
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Cordless blinds can often be fixed at home without needing to call the manufacturer or have new ones installed. Cordless blinds have an internal motor spring that retracts to hold the blind in place, and sometimes this motor needs to be reset for the blinds to work properly. In addition, the internal ribbons strung through the blinds may become tangled which again can be easily fixed.
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There is a continuing debate among statisticians, little known to those outside the field, over the proper definition of probability. The frequentist definition sees probability as the long-run expected frequency of occurrence. P(A) = n/N, where n is the number of times event A occurs in N opportunities. The Bayesian view of probability is related to degree of belief. It is a measure of the plausibility of an event given incomplete knowledge.
As can be imagined, if the two schools can't agree on this, there may be some friction elsewhere as well. Participating in this deliberation is counterproductive. Much of the acrimony between the two schools is over how to describe a prior distribution to represent ignorance. Since there is no disagreement on the veracity of Bayes's Theorem, I suggest the pragmatic approach: If we have, or can get, an appropriate, informative Bayesian prior, we will use it.
Bayesian philosophy is based on the idea that more may be known about a physical situation than is contained in the data from a single experiment. Bayesian methods can be used to combine results from different experiments, for example. In other situations, there may be sound reasons, based on physics, to restrict the allowable values that can be assigned to a parameter. For example material strength must be nonnegative. Bayesian techniques can help here as well. But often the data are scarce or noisy or biased, or all of these. Experimental results are compared with predicted values, and observing a difference, the predictions are "corrected" by arbitrarily subtracting off the discrepancy. When new data are collected, these too disagree with predictions, and another "correction" is applied, leading to an aggregate of ad hoc tweaks, certainly not Best Practice, however common. Bayesian methods can be used here too, avoiding these tenuous heuristics.
Bayes's Theorem begins with a statement of knowledge prior to performing the experiment. Usually this prior is in the form of a probability density. It can be based on physics, on the results of other experiments, on expert opinion, or any other source of relevant information. Now, it is desirable to improve this state of knowledge, and an experiment is designed and executed to do this. Bayes's Theorem is the mechanism used to update the state of knowledge to provide a posterior distribution. The mechanics of Bayes's Theorem can sometimes be overwhelming, but the underlying idea is very straightforward: Both the prior (often a prediction) and the experimental results have a joint distribution, since they are both different views of reality.
Let the experiment be A and the prediction be B. Both have occurred, AB. The probability of both A and B together is P(AB). The law of conditional probability says that this probability can be found as the product of the conditional probability of one, given the other, times the probability of the other. That is
P(A|B) x P(B) = P(AB) = P(B|A) x P(A)
if both P(A) and P(B) are non zero.
Simple algebra shows that:
P(B|A) = P(A|B) x P(B) / P(A) equation 1
This is Bayes's Theorem. In words this says that the posterior probability of B (the updated prediction) is the product of the conditional probability of the experiment, given the influence of the parameters being investigated, times the prior probability of those parameters. (Division by the total probability of A assures that the resulting quotient falls on the [0, 1] interval, as all probabilities must.)
The following example Venn diagram can help keep all this straight.
P(A) =3/4 (absolute)
P(B) =2/4 (absolute)
P(A and B) = P(AB) =1/4 (joint)
P(A|B) = P(AB) /P(B) = (1/4)/(2/4) = 1/2 (conditional)
Figure 1: Venn Diagram illustrating Absolute, Conditional, and Joint Probabilities. (Note that the conditional probability of A, given B is not, in general, equal to the conditional probability of B, given A.)
The mathematics in equation 1 assumes that events A and B each have a single probability. While true in many cases (including the following simplified example using NDE), in most situations the events are better described with probability densities. The underlying idea is still the same, but the arithmetic can become tedious rapidly. Until recently (the past two decades) computational difficulties were a severe impediment to the utility of Bayes's methods. Current ubiquitous inexpensive computing power has greatly mitigated this difficulty.
Let be the prior distribution of some parameter, . It is what is known about before the data, x, are collected. is the posterior distribution of , and is what is known later, given the knowledge of the data. Bayes's Theorem for a single continuous random variable is then:
equation 2
The idea can be expanded for any number of variables, but the resulting integration is often tedious.


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The Frank L. Kovacs Numismatic Library, undoubtedly one of the largest and most complete reference collections on ancient numismatics situated on the West coast of the U.S., is now housed at the Stanford Libraries and was immediately put to use by students and a visiting professor throughout spring-quarter seminars.
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On June 15, Salim Mohammed, Stanford's rare map curator and David Rumsey was featured on KQED's Forum with Michael Krasney. Salim and David spoke about the unique and varied map collection at the David Rumsey Map Center, the benefits of exploring both the physical and digital map collection, and "how digitizing maps make them even more relevant today."
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The Ute & Bill Bowes Art & Architecture Library was featured this week in Stanford News:
"Trees and thoughts go together; the students there, and me, too, are alone with our thoughts, away from the street, and the mind branches like the trees do. The feeling of being off the ground – of being levitated, even among all those heavy, heavy books – is something I love about Bowes."
Kathleen Sullivan, Stanford News writer, takes her readers on A stroll through the Bowes Art & Architecture Library.
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Alanté Kavaïté's Summer of Sangaile is a drama about following one's dreams, love and relationships. The film was the Lithuanian entry for the Academy Awards 2016 (Best foreign language film).


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Harwich was one of the townships of the County of Kent in Ontario, Canada. When Kent was superceded by the single-tier authority of Chatham-Kent in 1998, the townships ceased to be. Historical records will continue to be filed under the old names, so the general rule is to go with whatever name was being used at the time of the record you're looking for. Harwich Township was surveyed for settlement in 1794 and named Harwich, Essex--the English port at the mouth of the Thames. A resident of Harwich, Valintine Zimmer, co-founded with friends of the same nationality, a settlement in Harwich Township known as the German Concession of Harwich. Centres of population are Blenheim, Erieau and Erie Beach. The map of Kent County circa 1951 from Ontario Archives locates the individual townships, city, towns and villages of the county. (Click at the bottom of the page to see the map enlarged.) A sketchmap from Ontario GenWeb provides a simple illustration of the location of the former townships. [edit] Research TipsThe primary source for basic documents (vital statistics, land records, wills) for people who lived in the Province of Ontario is the Archives of Ontario, 134 Ian Macdonald Blvd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M7A 2C5. [edit] Early RecordsCivil registration did not begin in the province until 1869. Before then there may be church records of baptisms and burials. For the most part these are still held by the denomination who recorded them. Copies of marriage records made pre-1869 had to be sent by individual clergymen to the registrar of the county in which the marriage took place. These marriage records are available through Ontario Archives, on micorfilm through LDS libraries, and on paid and unpaid websites, but because they were copied at the registrars' offices, they cannot be considered a primary source. [edit] Vital Records after 1869Birth, marriage and death registrations are not open to the public until a specific number of years after the event occurred. Births to 1915 are now available [October 2014]; dates for marriages and deaths are later. Birth and death registration was not universally carried out in the early years after its adoption. Deaths were more apt to be reported than births for several years. The more rural the area, the less likely it would be that these happenings were reported to the authorities.
[edit] Land Records and WillsInformation on how to access land records and wills is best sought on the Archives of Ontario website. An ancestor's land holding might be found on Canadian County Atlas Digital Project if he was in occupancy circa 1878. Association for the Preservation of Ontario Land Registry Office Documents (APOLROD). A list of Land Registry Offices for all Counties of Ontario. [edit] CensusesThe original censuses are in the hands of Library and Archives Canada, known to Canadians as "LAC". Copies of original microfilms are online at the LAC website for all censuses up to 1911. Each census database is preceded with an explanation of the geographical area covered, the amount of material retained (some census division material has been lost), the questions on the census form, and whether there is a name index. Census divisions were redrawn as the population increased and more land was inhabited. The 1921 census is only available through Ancestry.ca, but it is free-to-view. [edit] Hard-to-Find Places
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text: Jackson State To Sue Grambling For Boycotting Its Homecoming GameDom Cosentino10/23/13 3:52pmFiled to: grambling tigersgrambling state tigerscollege footballjackson state tigers24EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The Grambling football players' decision not to travel for Saturday's game left its opponent in a lurch. It was homecoming for Jackson State, which earned a forfeit win but suddenly had less than 24 hours to come up with some alternative programming for all those returning alumni. Jackson State ended up playing an intrasquad scrimmage (Jackson State won!), but it claims the school and the city of Jackson, Miss., took a financial hit that "could be in the millions" because of the canceled game. So now Jackson State says it intends to sue Grambling. Advertisement Jackson State made the announcement on its website last night:The Jackson State University community experienced an unprecedented event during our Homecoming Week.The cancellation of the football game was disappointing for faculty, staff, students, alumni and supporters. Yet we did not allow it to diminish our tradition of coming together and celebrating the university's history and legacy.Thank you for your assistance and patience for making this Homecoming like no other.The Charlie Wilson concert was sold out, with some revelers dancing in the aisles. The Greek Show was well attended. Our Gibbs-Green Pedestrian Walkway was packed with alumni and students with their families. This was a testament to the strong spirit of those who refused to let another institution's challenges dampen JSU's Homecoming.Still, the JSU family was damaged. Our Homecoming game draws tens of thousands of fans. The university intends to use litigation to be made whole for our direct and indirect financial losses.We have a fiduciary responsibility to Mississippi taxpayers and the JSU community to mitigate our ongoing and substantial losses. Jackson State plans to pursue litigation against Grambling State and others.Grambling's issues are well documented and long standing. Those issues, however, are not JSU's issues nor are these JSU's responsibility.Grambling repeatedly assured us its team would travel to Jackson. Late Friday afternoon they informed us their student athletes would not travel to Jackson for our scheduled game. We have dealt in good faith with Grambling and the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The actions of both have hurt JSU.The SWAC commissioner did not return calls from our director of athletics the entire week. The Clarion-Ledger reported the SWAC commissioner would be meeting with folks at Grambling and JSU. We haven't seen him, nor has he called.Jackson State University's and the city of Jackson's losses could be in the millions. It would be irresponsible for JSU to fail to pursue some redress.Given Grambling's dire financial situation, it's not clear how much Jackson State stands to gain by filing suit. According to Sports Illustrated, Grambling's football program has been running a deficit of between $1.2 and $1.8 million in recent years, and its athletic budget is expected to be slashed by another $1 million next year. Photo: Associated PressReply24 repliesLeave a reply


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She has always been a firecracker, right from day one...she still is & that makes me happy. It's exhausting sometimes but I love that this girl is spicy.
Her personality is dynamic, her empathy is deep and her humour is off the charts. I love being around her. We all do.
Miss Z is very excited to turn four, although she told me she can't wait to turn five. I explained how lucky she is to be a kid...there's no hurry to grow up....
It's such an exciting time for our family, our kids are growing & new experiences are around every corner. Baking, swimming, skating, skiing, school...questions & laughs everyday.
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Currently, at least 110 countries are involved in 22 regional investment negotiations. This follows the conclusion of eight regional IIAs during 2012, involving 49 countries from Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
Regionalism brings both challenges and opportunities. The current approach to regionalism leads to a multiplication of treaty layers, making the network of international obligations even more complex and prone to overlap and inconsistency.
However, regionalism can also provide an opportunity for rationalization of the IIA regime.
A recent UNCTAD analysis of nine selected regional negotiations has found that, were these to lead to agreements, they could replace close to 10 per cent of today's bilateral investment treaties (BITs). That is to say, if parties to these nine negotiations (i.e. those where BIT-type provisions are on the agenda) opted to replace their respective BITs with an investment chapter in a regional agreement, today's global BIT network could be reduced by more than 270 treaties.
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Kenny Chesney isn't the only one who's paying more attention to the Heights these days.
We're here because writing about BC sports is a really great way to keep the two of us out of trouble. The BC blog community has grown leaps and bounds during our time away, and while we've kept our eye on it from afar, we've spent enough time on the sidelines and are excited to get back to contributing a bit. What's one more perspective on Dominic LeGrande's dismissal going to do? Long run for the world? Not much. But for us, we want to throw our voice back out there, that's for sure.
So, Twitter exists now (when it didn't when we first stopped), so you can of course find us there. Look for some of our series of posts after we get through season previews this week. And with some ancient posts in the hopper, you better believe we'll be digging up our own past.
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Yesterday, Discover Financial Services (DFS - Free Report) announced an affiliation with Birmingham-based Cadence Bank to launch the new Cadence Bank Debit Card. Through this alliance, Discover Debit will provide network support to the new debit card, which will be issued to all Cadence debit card holders in the second quarter of the year.
The alliance is a result of Cadence's comprehensive evaluation of its debit options, which revealed that an affiliation with Discover would be the most beneficial for the bank. The evaluation was conducted considering the changing scenario in the financial services segment. There is a visible shift in the utilization of traditional payment options due to the changing needs of consumers.
Thus, in order to make transfer, management and spending of money easier, Cadence decided to improve its signature debit program. The bank believes that the alliance with Discover will help in offering appropriate solutions to its card members. Moreover, Discover is offering an attractive interchange rate structure and lower network fees, which is expected to enhance the bank's profits.
Further, with this alliance, Cadence card holders will get access to over 8.5 million merchant locations in the U.S. Moreover, participation in the PULSE Loyalty Edge program is expected to boost spending at individual merchant locations by offering loyalty rewards to card holders. This in turn will help strengthen local commercial-client relationships, which will be beneficial for all the parties.
Cadence's faith in Discover, despite the presence of larger players in the market, shows the company's growing clout in the market. The company is benefiting by offering flexibility and superior value proposition to clients in an industry that traditionally offers entrenched business models.
Discover Debit not only offers an extensive coverage in the U.S. along with security and convenience, but also provides efficient fraud-prevention and data-security tools. This reduces the risk of debit card fraud for card holders.
The alliance is expected to boost the transaction volume in Discover's PULSE network, which manages Discover Debit. This in turn will boost the revenues of Discover's Payment Services segment. The segment has already been witnessing substantial growth over the past few quarters, primarily due to an increase in point-of-sale transactions on the PULSE network.
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Artemis, in comics, may refer to:
- Artemis (Marvel Comics), a goddess in the Marvel Universe
- Artemiz, a member of the Female Furies
- Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, the Amazon who became Wonder Woman for a short time in the 1990s
- Artemis Crock, the current incarnation of the DC villainess, who used the name "Artemis" during her period working with Injustice Society
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
heart shaped hairstyle with braids
This style was inspired by this design I had seen on Chocolate Hair Vanilla Care. I thought it was SUPER cute and had to do it. The night before I actually already did the left side with the heart design and I put her to sleep like that because I was stumped and didn't know what to do to the rest of her hair. The next morning I saw this post and decided to incorporate it into what I already had and it turned out great!This is the top left side with the "heart". The right side of the style. Sorry its blurry. I basically flat twisted all around her head and tied it off when I reached the left side.She actually wore this style for Halloween as well. She was a fairy and it went great with it. & babydoll was a lil bumblebee. I didn't get any good pics :( but they did have a lot of fun!
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- style='clear: both;' Michelle G said...
This is cute. Great job.
- November 6, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- style='clear: both;' Nikki's HairThoughts said...
Very pretty! Great job, Mama
- November 6, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- style='clear: both;' Dominique-Alexis said...
This is absolutely gorgeousness!
- November 6, 2011 at 10:33 AM
- style='clear: both;' Diva Locks said...
cute, I love it:)
- November 6, 2011 at 10:58 AM
- style='clear: both;' Precious @ Precious-Curls.com said...
Awesome job! This looks beautiful!
- November 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- style='clear: both;' Boysandgirlsnaturalcurls said...
this is very cute!
- November 6, 2011 at 1:39 PM
- style='clear: both;' KGilbert said...
Very pretty!!!
- November 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM
- style='clear: both;' UntrainedHairMom said...
I love the cornrows...they look really nice. Aw, I would have loved to have seen them in their costumes!
- November 6, 2011 at 3:03 PM
- style='clear: both;' Charlotte's Avenue said...
Very cute, mami!! You did a really great job on this!! :)
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- style='clear: both;' Shay said...
very cute!
- November 7, 2011 at 5:09 AM
- style='clear: both;' Elizabeth@Different Kinds of Curls said...
I can totally see how this would go perfect with a fairy costume! Beautiful, your braids are on point. :)
- November 7, 2011 at 6:29 AM
- style='clear: both;' DiaryofaHairPrincess said...
I love this!!!
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The Mets acquired left-hander Adam Bostick along with lefty Jason Vargas in November of 2006 in exchange for right-handed relievers Henry Owens and Matt Lindstrom. Last season Bostick pitched for AAA New Orleans. He had a pretty bad year going 6-7 with a 5.66 era, 91 strikeouts, and 45 walks in 21 games (20 starts, 97 innings).
Even though he did not fair too well last season in AAA he pitched very well in the Arizona Fall League (2-0, 2.74 era in 6 starts) and is pitching well in the Dominican Winter League (0-1, 2.77 era in 3 starts). This is the best Bostick has ever pitched since being drafted sixth round of the 2001 First-Year Player Draft out of Salem High School (PA). I would keep an eye out for him because if someone gets hurt he could sneak up and start for the Mets if Humber and Mulvey struggle.
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New Flash Drive Duplicator Clones or Erases USB Flash Drives with No Computer Connection Required
Northampton, UK - March 18, 2013 - StarTech.com, a leading manufacturer of hard-to-find connectivity parts, has announced the release of a portable USB Flash Drive Duplicator (SKU: USBDUP12), which enables users to simultaneously clone a single flash drive onto two individual flash drives, or erase two flash drives, without having to connect the duplicator or the drives to a computer.
The duplicator provides the option to copy an exact image of the entire source drive volume, or just the data from the flash drive, to two other flash drives at speeds up to 1.5GB per minute. The high-performance duplicator also features an integrated LCD display and LED indicators, which simplify monitoring the operating status and progress while cloning or erasing is being performed.
"The portable design and standalone nature of this duplicator provides a lot of convenience and flexibility, for users where system resources and access are constrained" said Carey Cline, Senior Product Manager for StarTech.com's Hard Drive Accessories product line. "The duplicator offers a simple way to manage flash drive contents, as well as an easy way to wipe data from the drives to prevent security issues such as identity theft or confidential information falling into the wrong hands".
Features of StarTech.com's new USB Flash Drive Duplicator also include:
- Support for both Asynchronous and Synchronous copy modes, with 64MB of internal memory
- Department of Defense (DoD) secure erase
- Compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 thumb drives/flash drives
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RRP for StarTech.com's USB Flash Drive Duplicator is 178.99 (GBP exc. VAT) in the UK. The USBDUP12 is available from leading technology resellers including Insight, Amazon.co.uk and Dabs and is also distributed by Enta, Ingram Micro and Micro-P.
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Hey, I like it! But - if I can say - the quotations at the end moved too quick. I couldn't read them :-(
I like the music a lot, and the general mood.
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Oh, damn. I was afraid of that! I'll have to see if I can slow them down a little. Hmmm.
Well, I started with Windows Live Movie Maker, but now I'm working with an older version of Adobe Premiere. There's a lot more to learn with the Adobe software! - January 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM
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