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"The role of the new media is extremely vital. It is bridging the gap between what activists are doing on the ground and the classic media."
Monajed runs The Syrian Revolution News Round-up, a daily briefing on protests, clashes and killings using eyewitness accounts and leaked footage taken by mobile phones of protesters that is authenticated to the best of their ability.
The flawlessly written briefing, in English, Arabic and French, is then emailed to rights groups and the international media.
Mainstream and new media have increasingly had to rely on citizen journalism — a term only recently introduced into the Arabic lexicon — for coverage of the Syria protests, which began in March and have put the regime of Bashar al-Assad under unprecedented pressure.
Major news outlets have regularly aired amateur, grainy footage of rallies and killings, which activists sometimes have to smuggle across the border to neighbouring countries to disseminate, as part of their newscasts.
Along with a handful of other Syrians based outside their homeland, Monajed is in daily contact with fellow opposition activists inside Syria, who are braving detention, torture and death to film the once-unthinkable protests — as well as the carnage that has ensued.
"A virtual operation center has developed in which everything comes from inside the country and is assembled abroad," Monajed told AFP by telephone from the United States.
"People on the ground contact us, feed us information, images, contact numbers, whatever they have, and all this is processed and disseminated back into the country and fed into international mainstream media outlets."
The Syria uprising has left more than 1,000 dead as state security forces crack down on protesters demanding major democratic reforms after 48 years of Baath rule. Countless others have been detained, according to rights groups.
Syrian authorities have since tightened their iron clasp on the media, denying the press entry to protest hubs including Daraa and Latakia and assigning "escorts" to journalists reporting around the capital.
Shaam News Network, which identifies itself as a "group of patriotic Syrian youth activists… supporting the Syrian people's efforts for democratic and peaceful change," has gained popularity for putting news and footage of the uprising online.
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter emerged as a motor of regime-changing protests in Egypt and Tunisia, and have since been a source of information on demonstrations and killings in Syria for citizens and journalists alike.
One of the first indicators that the protest movement would not be short-lived was when Facebook group The Syria Revolution 2011 won tens of thousands of followers within days as the first videos began to surface online.
But Assad's government has also launched a cold war on information and communications technology, with activists turning to satellite phones when Internet access is cut off and mobile phone networks jammed.
"Much of our communication network depends on satellite communication equipment," said Lebanese-based activist Rami Nakhle.
Nakhle, who edits a daily "Jasmine Revolution" report on protests and killings and sends it to journalists around the world, pointed to the improvement of mobile phone footage in recent weeks.
Citizens filming rallies now give the time and place of the protest on camera and demonstrators carry placards bearing the name of their cities.
Internet users in Syria have long had to go through proxies to access social networking sites such as Facebook as well as the Arabic version of Wikipedia.
President Assad however opened access to Facebook in February, saying he had nothing to fear as Arab governments began to tighten their grip on Internet access amid the spreading uprisings.
But his opponents say the move was yet another ploy to allow closer monitoring of online dissent.
"We have reports from our contacts in Syria that several people are being forced to disclose their Facebook and email passwords under interrogation," said Nakhle, who along with his peers depends on Skype to communicate as it is monitored less closely than the telephone network.
"Most people have now learned to go incognito online, but it is still a matter of concern."
Yet despite all safety concerns, thousands of Syrians citizens today have found a voice.
"A major role citizen journalism is playing is that it is magnifying the dispossession and despair of those who cannot speak," said sociologist Samir Khalaf, professor at the American University of Beirut.
"Who is going to speak on behalf of those who are bereft of speech? This is where citizen journalism comes in… in an uprising that is all about citizenship."
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Luisa Frasconi in the role of Phebe is a joy to watch in her fully committed comic portrayal of a fatuous and conceited teen infatuated with Rosalind in breeches. Dennis Yen as Adam gets lots of laughs in a superb comic characterization of Orlando's Sancho Panza.
Dr. Hillman's (PhD UCB) growth as a director is a success story full of chance-taking and innovation. Hillman is grooming the next generation of theatre-goers. She knows her audience and speaks to them in a voice that brings Shakespeare to life with great theatricality without pandering, and serves up plays full of juice and most fulfilling.
Don't cheat yourself—get a ticket while you can. And you'll be abashed that you can have such a lively and fulfilling two-hour jaunt for such a modest ticket price.
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First and third ingredients are named meat products
Insufficient meat content, mixed quality ingredients, controversial filler
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product, in meal form. There is a second meat product 3rd on the ingredient list. This is chicken, inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once that is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. Ingredients are listed in order of weight, and the dehydrated ingredient would probably be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list. It is unlikely that this ingredient makes up any substantive portion of the food.
The main grains are rice and corn. Rice is a good quality ingredient, but corn and brewers rice are not. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value, and is commonly associated with allergy problems. Corn Gluten Meal is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that bit of the corn leftover after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Brewers rice is a low grade ingredient and byproduct.
Chicken fat is the fourth ingredient. We note that research at Purdue university has identified fat in the top four ingredients of dry food as a factor increasing the risk of bloat in large breed dogs. Smaller breeds are untested. We would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product in the food.
Beet pulp is filler and a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required. Rice hulls (outer casings of rice) are further filler.
Overall, this product has been given a 3* rating primarily on its first three ingredients. Ingredients overall are of mixed quality though, and the product is close to a 2* rating.
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At the turn of the century the London County Council's Inner London Education Authority established the Shoreditch Institute Girls Trade School (founded 1906) and the Trade School for Girls, Barrett Street (founded 1915). In 1967 the two schools were amalgamated to form one college for the garment trades - the London College of Fashion.
The London College of Fashion College Archive is a collection of historical materials which chronicle the history of the College from its origins as two early needle trade schools up until the 1970's. This database contains images of black-and-white and sepia photographs from the Archive depicting a wide range of subjects taught at the schools over the years. These include, fashion, design, clothing technology, dressmaking, tailoring, millinery, furriery, upholstery, embroidery, beauty, hairdressing, wigmaking, physical education, science, drama, and general studies. Also included, are images of photographs which provide an insight into events and activities related to the colleges, for example, the education of women and men, student club activities, school visits, World War II evacuations, a Royal Visit by the Queen Mother, various ceremonial openings, and the architecture of the colleges and other buildings.
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It may also be of interest that the book Couture or Trade: an Early Pictorial Record of the London College of Fashion by Helen Reynolds (Phillimore 1997) which documents the early history of the college, and includes many of the historical photographs from the London College of Fashion College Archive is available through the publisher or through contacting Katherine Baird, Head of Learning Resources at the London College of Fashion - contact details below.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Q for Dhab: magazine covers Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Q for Dhab: magazine covers" immimemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 629Location: vancouver Posted: Mon Oct 25, 1999 12:53 pm Hey dhabih Im curious as to how how you started doing magazine covers? Were you noticed from your web presence or did you send out stuff to companies? Also, i know salary is a touchy subject, but seeing as it was a while ago that you were doing covers, what was the going rate for it? thanks Back to top immimemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 629Location: vancouver Posted: Mon Oct 25, 1999 12:57 pm Oh, just wanted to add I think you should consider changing the format of the threads so that the original question is at the top. It seems most people support this idea...it is kinda confusing..i know i always scroll to the bottom to see what the question was origianlly. Back to top [Shizo]memberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 3938 Posted: Mon Oct 25, 1999 1:22 pm What's popular isnt always right, and what's right isnt always popular. (you might of heard this from someone else, but i'm the true creator of this saying.. dont trust copydogs!) ------------------ Russia is power! You dont agree, we nuke you! Back to top Scorchmonjunior memberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 34Location: USA Posted: Mon Oct 25, 1999 8:42 pm Explain to me how any method of having the messages ordered a specific way is "right". I think that Dhabih should place a CGI poll on his page so that the majority can decide which way the messages should be ordered. Back to top DhabihAdministratorMember #Joined: 13 Sep 1999Posts: 532Location: Kirkland, WA, U.S.A. Posted: Mon Oct 25, 1999 9:25 pm immi, the mag covers happened from my website. A couple art directors for magazines saw my page and contacted me about doing covers. Prices range from $600-$2500 and up from there. In general. (i'm not at liberty to discuss my specific price, due to a pending a lawsuit. ok, not really, but i'm still doing covers so....) and a cgi poll will take a really really long time to make...since i dont know how to program cgi scripts . I think i'm gonna switch it to the other order though, since i'm prefering it also and so do most others. what i wish i could do was have original message at top, then the latest replies following it...but i cant do that with this message board script. -dhab Back to top NocturnalmemberMember #Joined: 24 Oct 1999Posts: 97 Posted: Mon Oct 25, 1999 9:37 pm Dhab, I'm not sure if this will help, but if you check out http://www.designsbymark.com you will see that his forum is just like this one. (delphi) I asked him to let you know if theres a way to change it. -Dwayne (Nocturnal) Back to top DhabihAdministratorMember #Joined: 13 Sep 1999Posts: 532Location: Kirkland, WA, U.S.A. Posted: Mon Oct 25, 1999 9:53 pm thanks nocturnal, but i'm using a different message board than his. The one i have i can't edit that much, i just have a bunch of settings i can choose, and for thread order, the only ones are regular or reversed. -dhab Back to top LeomemberMember #Joined: 24 Oct 1999Posts: 328Location: Russia Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 5:08 pm Dhab, does the magazines art directors look at your world position? If you wouldn't be from US can they contact with you anyway? /Leo Back to top Alexjunior memberMember #Joined: 23 Oct 1999Posts: 44Location: Toronto, Ontario, canada Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 5:28 pm Hey Dhab, if you wanna customize this board more, I can help. I know CGI and Perl, the scripting language UBB uses. And I have written simple poll scrips and some other crap, so if you need help, contact me email@example.com ------------------ Alex D. G. http://www.alexdg.com Back to top DhabihAdministratorMember #Joined: 13 Sep 1999Posts: 532Location: Kirkland, WA, U.S.A. Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 9:07 pm Leo, i don't think it matters what country your in because you can just send them the drawing over email or in the mail. I did covers for the UK and US. Also since its a contract/freelance job, the companies dont have to deal with work visas and all that stuff. Alex, thanks, however i think this UBB is already compiled or something, there is no source thats readable. 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France boss Philippe Saint-Andre has made one change to the side ahead of their Test with Argentina on Saturday in Lille.
Second-row Yoann Maestri, who missed last weekend's rout of Australia due to a back injury, comes back into the side in place of Jocelino Suta. The rest of the team is unchanged with Frederic Michalak, who shone against the Australians and scooped the man-of-the-match award, retained at fly-half with Maxime Machenaud alongside him at scrum-half.
The Test is the second of France's three for the November period and they will tackle Samoa in the Stade de France next weekend.
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Small planes outfitted with video cameras have been flying over Baltimore since January, capturing activity on the streets below and relaying the footage to police to help them catch criminals, NBC News reported.
The public knew nothing about it until this week — when Bloomberg Businessweek ran a cover story about the trial program.
The revelations triggered outrage from elected officials, defense lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union, who said the program raised privacy concerns and could aggravate public distrust in a city that exploded in riots last year after the death of a man in police custody.
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Dawson City is the heart of the Klondike Gold Rush! An incredible community that has preserved its past, Dawson City invites you to turn back the pages of time and experience our rich living history. Meander the wooden boardwalks and visit national historic treasures. Join interpretative programs and amazing special events. Tour the Klondike Gold Fields and try your luck panning for gold. YES! We still have operating gold mines. Participate in unforgettable First Nations tours and Wilderness Adventures. Spend a night on the town in one of the most entertaining communities of the North, home to Diamond Tooth Gerties Casino – Canada's first legalized gambling hall. Without a doubt, you'll need a week to see it all!
One ton of goods and a hard grind up the Chilkoot Trail got you into the Klondike. Gold seekers heading to the Klondike in 1898 were required to pack and carry their goods over the Chilkoot Pass. The list of supplies required for each man included 400 pounds of flour, 100 pounds of beans, and 100 pounds of sugar, to name just a few. The average man took about 40 trips to haul his ton of supplies 33 miles to Bennett. That's 2,600 exhausting miles over the icy trail, up the golden stairs at the summit, through blizzards, and sub-zero conditions. Most gold-seekers took at least three months to complete the task.
Air North, Yukon's Airline is the simple, comfortable and affordable way to reach the Yukon with scheduled jet service from Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa & Yellowknife – as well as frequent jet and turboprop flights between Whitehorse and Dawson City. Get the gold without the rush!
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A comfortable six to seven hour drive from Whitehorse along the North Klondike Highway. You'll enjoy rolling hills and river valleys. If you're heading to Alaska, include Dawson in your itinerary by driving the Top of the World Highway, which connects to Tok.
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Expect the unexpected while looking for a place to eat in Dawson City. The Klondike boasts some of Yukon's greatest diversity in restaurants choices. All under the midnight sun. Dawson City Restaurants…
Dawson City Trivia
- Gold is 19 times heavier than water.
- In 1904 the Klondike was the largest gold producer in Canada and the fourth largest in the world.
- The engines that turned the massive paddle wheels on Yukon's riverboats burned a cord of wood per hour. The 500 mile journey from Whitehorse to Dawson City took only 40 hours while it took as much as 4 days the other way.
- More than 250 sternwheelers plied Yukon waters from 1896 to the mid 1950's. At one time, there were up to 70 of the majestic riverboats on the Yukon River alone. The 500 mile journey from Whitehorse to Dawson City took only 40 hours while it took as much as 4 days the other way
- A Dawson City team set two Stanley Cup records. In 1905, the Yukon team played the Ottawa Silver Sevens in Ottawa and established the worst goals against record with a 23-3 loss. Ottawa's one-eyed Frank McGee scored the most goals by one player in the playoffs – 14.
- The Yukon River is 2200 miles (3520 km) long, the 4th longest in the world.
- A gold nugget was unearthed in the Klondike that weighed over 72 oz. It was nearly 6″ long. In 1898, the nugget was valued at $1,158. Today, it would be worth well over $30,000.
- The Klondike got its name from the Indian word "Thron Diuck" meaning "Hammer Water". Early settlers had difficulty with the pronunciation and thus it became KLON-DIKE.
Dawson City was the largest city north of Seattle and west of Winnipeg.
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One million people, it is said, laid plans to go to the Klondike.
One hundred thousand actually set off and about thirty thousand made it. What was moose pasture and a fish camp to the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in for many generations was transformed into a metropolis in 2 years.
Dawson grew slowly throughout the winter of 1897, but once the Yukon River thawed in May of 1898, boats arrived in the hundreds and pulled to shore at all hours of the day and night.
The Klondike Gold Rush was touched off by the August 16, 1896 discovery of placer gold on Rabbit (later Bonanza) Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River. Miners already on the scene staked every creek (or "pup") in the Klondike River and Indian River watersheds, including the fabulously rich Eldorado.
Not until the middle of July, 1897 did the outside world learn of the strike, when some of the newly rich pioneers arrived by steamboat on the West Coast. The description
of "a ton of gold" in Seattle's Post-Intelligencer triggered
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Dawson may be a small town, but its arts scene thrives with the help of Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC), the Dawson City Arts Society (DCAS), the Dawson City Music Festival (DCMF), and the northernmost art school in North America, the Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA).
First Nations
The Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in is a Yukon First Nation based in Dawson City. The citizenship of roughly 1,100 includes descendants of the Hän-speaking people, who have lived along the Yukon River for millennia, and a diverse mix of families descended from Gwich'in, Northern Tutchone and other language groups.


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It's been a quiet summer, so I suggest we head up to Algonquin Park for a little light canoeing, some fine camp cuisine and some beautiful autumn scenery. After all, there's no better time to be in the Park.
All are welcome. As usual, everyone takes care of their own rations, but I think we might be able to manage at least one big pot of hearty soup, something that would go down well on a crisp October night.
Options on dates.
- Friday October 4th to Sunday October 6th (Maybe 7th) (New Moon)
- Friday October 18th to Sunday October 20th (Maybe 21st) (Full Moon) - My preference
Added in response to Old Boot's query: As far as the destination goes, I was thinking something no more than a two hour paddle away. There's Ragged, Joe, Head (remember that little sylvan spot beyond the camp and over the hill?), Rock (Rose Island), Louisa (long portage = unlikely). And then there's Rain, Daisy, Butt, to name a few. Options are wide open. All I really need are some trees and good weather. One's easy to come by in Algonquin, the other... well, it'll be what it'll be...
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LONDON – As he left the Main Press Center Thursday morning to check in with his opening ceremonies team, London Olympic Organizing Committee chairman Seb Coe was able to eschew a raincoat and an umbrella.
That would have required a devil-may-care dress code in London the past month.
Thursday's mottled skies – black, white, grey and even patches of blue – over the Olympic Park were a relief from the monochromatic gloom that has left Londoners suffering through the wettest summer on record.
"This may be the first day the ceremonies team has been rehearsing without rain around," Coe said.
As an Olympic champion runner, Coe was used to competing in all conditions, from cold that required gloves to intense heat to torrential rain. "You just suck it up and get on with it," he said. "Track and field, hockey, triathlon, we tend to be sort of a hearty bunch."
As an Olympic Games organizer, Coe has to deal with the possibility of inclement weather with a much less stiff-upper-lip attitude.
"It has given us a challenge," Coe said. "But we have contingencies in place."
Some are routinely in place at every Olympics, such as open days in sailing and rowing in case events need to be rescheduled because of unfavorable weather.
In London, the recent planning has included putting down harder surfaces in grassy or dirt areas to prevent support vehicles from sinking into the mud.
"We will be ready to do everything we are supposed to do," Coe insisted.
Coe would not say if any parts of the July 27 opening ceremony would have to be scrubbed because of bad weather.
Rain will make things uncomfortable for most spectators at the Olympic Stadium, where the lowest (and highest-priced) seats are not covered. There is no roof over 40 percent of the seats.
Ironically, Coe said, southeast England had water use restrictions in early spring because of drought that began in the winter. The BBC reported in April "exemptions were in place for grass and surfaces used for national and international sports which means the Olympic and Paralympic games will be unaffected."
The weather forecast for the next 10 days is slightly more promising, with temperatures ranging from the high 50s to low 70s, more sun and only a 10 percent chance of rain July 27.
But there is a 60 percent chance for the first full day of competition, July 28.
When it was suggested to Coe that the weather was one thing he couldn't control or be blamed for, his response was wry.
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Former "Terminator" star Edward Furlong faces four years behind bars after allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend, actress Monica Keena.
The former child star has been charged with felony dissuading a witness by force or threat and felony vandalism following claims he damaged his former lover's laptop and photo equipment during a dispute at her home last month.
Furlong is also accused of threatening her if she called the police, according to TMZ.com.
The actor was arrested following the altercation on suspicion of violating a protective order she had obtained against him.
He has also been charged with disobeying a domestic restraining order – a misdemeanor – and has been ordered to return to court on July 1.
At press time Furlong was still behind bars – he was initially released on May 18, but returned to jail on June 10 after a Los Angeles judge ruled his bail was too low.
It has been a tough week for stars who have played John Connor in the "Terminator" movies – Nick Stahl has been placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold after he was hospitalized in Los Angeles.
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A Georgia Republican wants to expand a tax credit benefiting private school students, a system that critics say allows donors to illegally earmark scholarships for individual students.
Republican Rep. Earl Ehrhart of Powder Springs introduced a plan this week to enlarge a system that allows individuals and businesses to obtain tax credits when they make donations to scholarship providers to private schools. He has proposed raising the cap on the tax credits to $80 million annually from roughly $50 million.
The bill also would let the state offer $100 million in tax credits for people who contribute toward public school enrichment programs.
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The program, based on a traditional English service and initiated at Wabash by the late Eric Dean, features Advent and Christmas scriptures read by members of the Wabash faculty, staff, and student body, as well as Christmas music sung by the congregation and performed by members of Wabash and community musical ensembles.
This year's Christmas Festival will feature a variety of music, including selections performed by the Wabash College Glee Club under the direction of Richard Bowen; a solo by Wabash instructor of voice Kevin Trager; the Wabash College Brass Ensemble, directed by Peter Hulen; instrumental performances by a Wabash string ensemble (Andrew McKone, Daniel Gillespie, Matthew Bentley, Diane Norton); Eponymous Three (Amanda Ingram, Matthew Bentley, Diane Norton); and Cheryl Everett on organ. The audience will have the opportunity to join the performing ensembles in several familiar carols.
Readers include J. D. Phillips, Kenneth Ngwa, Raymond Williams, Sherry Ross, Beth Swift, Philip Eubanks, and Jacob Juncker.
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Black Brooklyn Renaissance (February 2010-February 2011), features performances, exhibitions, screenings, symposia and workshops, a conference, an oral history project and an archive. BAC has joined forces with artists and organizations across the borough to make Black Brooklyn Renaissance a truly collaborative and holistic endeavor. Brooklyn has evolved as a major Black cultural center in the United States, largely as a result of the diversity of Black cultures here 'African American, Afro-Caribbean, and African' all with distinct arts traditions interacting and expanding in the urban uhuru (freedom) of Brooklyn. Here the historic Black struggle for social justice met the making of art in powerful ways. That legacy continues today without an end in sight. All power to the artists and art of Black Brooklyn Renaissance. Click here for the Fall Events Calendar!
Since 1988, BAC has presented and documented the expressive arts of numerous Afro-diasporic traditional artists in Brooklyn. This slide show samples documentation from our archive.
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One area in which Microsoft operating systems have long been on the vanguard is multithreading APIs. Even before multicore processors were the norm, Microsoft offered expansive APIs for managing threads and thread-like execution streams called fibers. The Win32 platform had a wide selection of thread-management functions that could be used with considerable ease. While I can't speak for every operating system, that collection of APIs was considerably greater and more sophisticated than UNIX or Linux counterparts. Pthreads, the now-standard threading implementation on Linux, is a much smaller solution. However, Pthreads does provide a benefit singularly lacking in the Windows implementation: portability. Pthreads originated on UNIX where it still runs on the various variants. A good port on Win32 exists, in addition to the multiple Linux distributions.
The Microsoft APIs, however, are very much drawn from the traditional approach to threading, which is a complex model of creating threads, managing them individually, and using mutual exclusion to prevent them from interfering with each other. Even though Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE has decent support for working with threads, developers can expect to spend a lot of time in the debugger. In this shared-memory model, the two great debugging challenges are replicating the problem, and once it's replicated, diagnosing it.
The issue of replication has driven more than one developer to the brink of insanity, if not pushed him over the edge entirely. Some errors show up only when certain threads interact in a rare way, with each one handling a specific piece of data. This might show up as a defect report indicating that, occasionally, transactions aren't logged correctly to the database. Trying to recreate what conditions might lead to an event transiently not occurring when dozens of threads are in various states of operation can be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. But even if the situation can be faithfully reproduced, trapping the condition and determining how the threads are crossing each other incorrectly is arduous. In sum, the shared-memory model is no one's idea of programming fun. And as a result, much software that should have been parallelized long ago runs serially because the job is constantly deferred until parallelization is the only way to gain the needed performance.
Various attempts have been made to remove this complexity and thereby facilitate parallel development. One of the strongest pushes has come from Intel, which spearheaded OpenMP a decade ago. OpenMP sought to add keywords to the C (via pragmas) and Fortran, so that portions of existing programs could be parallelized. This approach, while limited to only sections of the program, worked well. It was easy to grasp and it cleverly handled the messy thread-management issues behind the scenes. If the code ran correctly on a single thread, chances were excellent that it would still run correctly when parallelized with OpenMP keywords. Microsoft's support of OpenMP made it a natural choice for many applications.
More recently, Intel has come out with a more elaborate solution, Cilk Plus, which follows the OpenMP model and leverages Intel's deep knowledge of threading (acquired from a decade of investment in threading tools). James Reinders of Intel provided an excellent technical overview of the problem and solution as viewed from within the industry in a recent blog post.
Java and the Actor Alternative
Interestingly, the languages on the JVM are heading towards a different kind of solution, namely actors. If you're not familiar with actors, it's easiest to think of them as functions to which discrete tasks can be sent for execution. The most common operational metaphor is a thread that has an incoming mailbox to which messages are sent by other actors. The actor processes these messages (which can include tasks to execute or data to operate on) and the output is sent to another actor for downstream work.
Actors avoid the dangers of the shared-memory model because they touch only the data that's sent to them in messages. If they need some external data, they request it from other actors (by sending the request in the form of a message). In addition, the data actors receive is immutable. They don't change the data, rather they copy it and transform the copy. In this way, no two threads are ever contending for access to the same data item, nor are their internal operations interfering with one another. As a result, the nightmares I described earlier disappear almost completely.
The actor model has been used in applications that naturally align with message passing: telephone switches, Web servers, and the like. Increasingly, however, JVM languages are using them for run-of-the-mill applications. Obviously, actors require a different kind of architecture (in most actor applications, everything is done by actors mixed-model applications are generally not favored.). And in support of this, they are finding support in several recent languages. For example, Scala and Fantom have built in-actor libraries (Scala's enjoys native syntactic support). Groovy has a widely used actor library. And actor frameworks, such as Akka and Killim, that can be used by any JVM language have recently come to market.
For all the extensive threading APIs Microsoft offers, the company has not substantially embraced actors. A good start was made in 2010 when the Redmond giant released Asynchronous Agents Library, but this is only a partial actor implementation and it runs only in C++. (Note: A highly portable, widely used C++ library with actor building blocks but no actor framework is the ACE library.)
Microsoft has released a pair of packages that contain many actor primitives. These packages, named the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) and the Decentralized Software Services (DSS), were released in 2008 as part of the Microsoft Robotics toolkit, curiously enough. The packages have languished there ever since and are not part of the .NET framework. However, some posts on Microsoft's website suggest that, at some future point, the packages will be migrated to .NET. The timing is left ambiguous and it's not clear whether the APIs will be changed in the migration, nor whether a full actor framework will be constructed from them.
Another concern about CCR and DSS is that they have not been updated for more than a year, although in the forums, a project lead from Microsoft refers at several points to an "upcoming" announcement.
In either case, there is no long history of working with this technology nor any evidence that I can find of any other support for actors in the .NET languages. Microsoft is still primarily oriented towards the traditional models of parallel programming. The benefit of this approach is raw performance. For the same reasons, Intel's libraries target only C, C++, and Fortran three languages that are associated with high-speed computation and frequently run as native code.
Application developers who are willing to trade a little performance for ease in writing parallel applications are likely to find Java's embrace of actors an appealing solution (although Java certainly has the traditional primitives for developers who want to follow that path.)
I expect that over time, Microsoft will increase its support for the actor programming model. But if it comes, the support will likely not be fully embraced by Redmond until pressure for large-scale actor models is applied either by its customers or competition in the market place. In the latter case, the pressure will be exerted primarily by JVM-based solutions.
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In what might be one of the most appealing, and therefore misleading, advertisements in recent memory we have a local Ford dealership promoting both a Ford Focus RS and a Ford Raptor.
Can someone please go to Elder Ford and tell us how many of those are on the lot? Also, inside, you can meet the original Henry Ford!
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"Gossip Girl" star Taylor Momsen recently showed a little bit more of herself than just her singing ability.
The 17-year-old actress reportedly flashed her breasts to the audience while singing with her band The Pretty Reckless in New York Oct. 21,.according to People magazine. During the show, Momsen pulled down her shirt, which revealed black tape shaped as an "x" covering her front.
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Momsen is further stirring the pot with her cover appearance in rock magazine Revolver 's November issue by wearing a scantily clad dress and holding a gun and a rifle. According to E!, Momsen talks about things such as porn in the issue.
"If it's a good sex tape, I'll watch it...I like some adult stars," she says. "I have a couple favorites. But I will say this: That Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson video wasn't very good."


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The microphone is a Kel HM-1, which is a cardioid condenser microphone. It's mounted in a Kel shockmount to reduce noise from vibrations and other external influences. In front of the microphone is a standard pop filter that helps filter out my explosive P's and Q's so that they don't flow into the podcast. All of this is mounted on an AGK deskmount broadcast arm which helps keep the mic where I want it.. and out of the way when we're not recording.
The Kel HM-1 microphone is provided with phantom power from the first item in our rack – the Peavey PV-8 compact 8 channel mixer. This mixer allows the input for up to 8 channels of sound. The mixer allows me to independently control the volume of each inbound channel – as well as provide for insert processing on 4 of those channels.
From here, the microphone signal crosses through two different processors.
The first is a TC Electronic C300 Compressor/Limiter and Gate/Expander. Essentially, this is a processor that takes the inbound signal from the microphone and processes it according to settings that I establish. Currently, we have it first set to "gate", or basically silence the microphone except when I am speaking. In other words, it waits for the sound to cross a certain threshold before passing it further down the mixer chain to be recorded. This allows us to eliminate a certain portion of the background noise from the computers and other noise sources in the room. After it "gates" off the ambient noise it listens for the "hum" from the computers when I am talking and works to eliminate that hum.
If you are into serious podcasting, this is worth checking out for the tips and equipment used.
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More than 750,000 people visit Grand Central a daily; some to shop, some to dine, but most to hit the rails. Beyond being a pulsating artery of New York City, the transit hub is also a spectacular work of architecture with an undeniable beauty and an incredible history.
Opened in 1913, the station was designed by architecture firms Reed & Stem and Warren & Wetmore in a Beauxs-Art style and has become one of the city's most celebrated landmarks. However, while it's difficult not to be entranced by the station's grandeur today, this hasn't always been the case. Like most of New York City landmarks, Grand Central has fallen in and out of favor over the last century, and as one might expect, it harbors some fascinating tales. From a massive screw-up in the celestial ceiling to a thwarted Nazi plan to blow the station to smithereens to the terminal's surprising Donald Trump connection, ahead are the top 10 secrets of Grand Central Terminal.
1. It's actually the third station to occupy the site.
The first was Grand Central Depot, built by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt and opened in 1871, which served as a hub for a number of railroad lines entering Manhattan. The complex, which stretched in an "L" shape along 42nd Street and what is now Vanderbilt Avenue included storage yards and a balloon shed where passengers boarded and departed trains. The railroads quickly outgrew the Depot, and in 1899 it was demolished and replaced with a far larger building, six stories high, which was named Grand Central Station. It wasn't until 1903 that construction began on the current building, a project that took 10 years to complete.
2. Grand Central's birth was the result of a tragic accident.
For decades, New Yorkers had complained about the unhealthy soot and smog coughed up by the steam locomotives crisscrossing the city, but it took a fatal accident to create lasting change. On January 8, 1902, a commuter train travelling from suburban Westchester County crashed into another train waiting in the station's entrance tunnel, killing 15 passengers. When an inquiry revealed that the noxious clouds emanating from the station area had blinded its driver, reformers and politicians acted swiftly, announcing plans to prohibit steam engines from operating in the city. Sensing the shift in the political winds, the Vanderbilt family announced plans to construct a new, state-of-the-art station that would utilize electricity, not steam. Grand Central's design also transformed Manhattan real estate's practices. When the new station went completely underground, it opened up valuable air rights on the streets above, and the resulting business boom created the midtown Manhattan we know today.
3. Grand Central was a technical marvel.
The building of Grand Central was the largest construction project in New York's history up to that time. It's 70-acre compound had 32 miles of track, which fed into 46 tracks and 30 passenger platforms, making it nearly twice the size of the recently-opened (and original) Pennsylvania Station built by the Vanderbilt's railroad rivals. The Vanderbilts were also immensely proud of Grand Central's status as one of the world's first all-electric buildings. In fact, their pride greatly influenced the station's interior designs. When it first opened, every one of the stations chandeliers and lighting fixtures featured bare, exposed light bulbs—more than 4,000 of them. These bulbs remained a trademark of the station for nearly a century, until a massive retrofitting of the building in 2008, which required six-full time employees to replace the traditional bulbs with energy and cost efficient fluorescent ones. Another innovation was the extensive use of ramps, rather than stairs, throughout the station. This allowed both local commuters and long distance travellers to quickly get from track level to city streets, without lugging luggage up and down crowded steps; the feature was soon adopted in transportation centers around the world.
4. Please don't call it Grand Central Station.
Once upon a time, trains arriving at Grand Central continued on into southern Manhattan, and the building itself was just a stop along the route. However, when the third and final Grand Central was built, it became the final stop—all railroad lines terminated at 42nd Street—making it a "terminal" not a "station," and giving the building its new name. Just to keep things confusing, there actually is a Grand Central Station located just next door—it's the branch of the U.S. Postal Service.
5. Hitler tried to destroy Grand Central Terminal during World War II.
By the 1940s, the equivalent of 40 percent of the U.S. population traveled through Grand Central every year, and during World War II millions of servicemen passed through Grand Central on their way to and from the front—so many that the U.S. government opened a special branch of the USO inside the station. Considering its high profile and vital importance to the U.S. war effort, its perhaps not surprising that Grand Central was the target of Nazi sabotage during the war. In 1942, four German spies snuck on to Long Island with plans to destroy key logistical locations in the northeast, including Grand Central. They were quickly apprehended, but if they had made their way to the station's secret subbasement, known as M42, they would have been met with an awesome sight—a platoon of armed soldiers, who monitored the super-secret outpost. To this day, M42 has never appeared on any maps of Grand Central, and behind its doors remain the controls of New York's transportation network. Find out more about M42 here.
6. Few people have ever heard of Grand Central's Track 61, let alone seen it.
It's likely that many a commuter has wished for a short cut that would whisk them to their destination without the hassle of Grand Central's bustling, rush hour crowds. For one native New Yorker, that wish was a reality. During his time in office, President Franklin Roosevelt utilized a secret rail line, Track 61, which provided an underground connection between Grand Central and the nearby Waldorf-Astoria hotel. There was even a large freight elevator at the Waldorf's end of the track, big enough to fit the president's Pierce Arrow limousine, which allowed FDR to travel to and from New York in secrecy—quite handy for clandestine missions as he led the U.S. war effort during World War II.
7. Edward R. Murrow took on Joseph McCarthy from the confines of Grand Central.
For much of its history the terminal has served as an important cultural hub for the city of New York. In it's early years, people flocked to the building to take in a movie at its theater, dine at its restaurants and cafes or learn about the history of railroads at an on-site museum. There was even an art school, established in the 1920s by a group of painters included John Singer Sargent, which offered lessons to hundreds of students before closing in 1944. And while the station has provided a backdrop to countless books, movies and television shows, few people realize that during the early days of television, dozens of programs were filmed and broadcast out of studios located above the famed Oyster Bar. Among the notable productions to call Grand Central home was CBS' "See it Now," which included host Edward R. Murrow's critical reports on Senator Joseph McCarthy's controversial anticommunist hearings. The studios have long since been converted, in part, to a series of private tennis courts.
8. A rocket once left a hole in Grand Central's ceiling.
After the Soviet Union became the first nation to enter space with the launch of their Sputnik satellite in 1957, Americans grew concerned that the communists had taken the technological lead in the race to be the world's superpower. In an effort to ally these fears the U.S. government decided on a curious—and conspicuous—display of military might. Later that year they installed a Redstone rocket in the main concourse. The rocket may have been technologically advanced (t would later be used in the Mercury missions to launch astronauts Gus Grissom and Alan Shepard into space), but someone forgot to bring a tape measurer. When the rocket was first hoisted into position, it pierced a hole in the ceiling, just above the depiction of Pisces. When the ceiling was undergoing renovation years later, preservationists insisted that the hole remain as a reminder of the troubled era—and it's still there today.
9. Grand Central's biggest "flaw" is also its most recognizable feature.
The massive celestial ceiling that adorns the main concourse is depicted backwards. The mistake went unnoticed until a commuter—and amateur astronomer—pointed it out. The true reason for the mistake has never been uncovered, and theories vary. Some believe the ceiling's designer accidentally transposed the original source, while others–including the Vanderbilts themselves–claimed that it was a purposeful depiction of God's unique vantage point of the stars. The original ceiling was replaced in the 1930s, but the "mistake" remained, though for many years most New Yorkers couldn't have seen it if they tried—the entire surface was covered in grime and dirt. It wasn't until the 1980s that a restoration project began to remove the gunk, long thought to have been caused by the arrival and departure of thousands of trains. In fact, it was man—not machine—that caused the damage, which was the result of millions of cigarettes smoked by waiting commuters. Preservationists left a small patch of the ceiling untreated as a reminder of its former condition. Another irregularity may be even harder to pinpoint to modern eyes. When the building was first constructed, there was just one grand staircase in its main concourse. During the renovations, however, another was added on the eastern side to ease congestion and balance out the room. Workers tried to make the new section visually align (going so far as to briefly re-open the Tennessee quarry that had provided the original building material), but they did make one key change: Because the staircase is not part of the original structure, it was purposely built a few inches above the level of the one across the way—a visual sign to future historians that it was a more recent addition.
10. Jackie Kennedy is just one of many celebrities associated with Grand Central.
The former first lady is rightfully remembered for her efforts to prevent the planned demolition of Grand Central in the 1960s, but long before that celebrities had made the building their own. In its early years, the exclusive 20th Century Limited railroad line, which ran between New York and Chicago, was so popular with movie stars that a red carpet was laid out every time it arrived. During World War II, stars like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney entertained the troops in the concourse, where they sold millions of dollars in war bonds to aid the war effort. Pop artist Andy Warhol once commandeered President Roosevelt's old Track 61 for a raucous one-night only party at the height of the "Swinging Sixties." And it was another swinger, famed French aerialist Philippe Petit who wowed the crowds with his high-wire act in 1987, when he traversed the main concourse on a tightrope.
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WILLIAMSBURG, VA (Feb. 12, 2013) – Borrell Associates today announced that Kirk Davis, president and COO of GateHouse Media, will be the recipient of its 2013 Award of Merit for outstanding leadership and innovation in local media. The award will be presented on March 5 at Borrell's 2013 Local Online Advertising Conference at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.
"Among all this year's nominees, Kirk Davis stood out in an exceptional way," said Gordon Borrell, CEO of Borrell Associates. "He's provided leadership in such a way that I don't think we'll be calling GateHouse a 'newspaper' company much longer. With the creation of Propel Marketing, he's taken his company out of the 'disrupted' column and is making GateHouse a disruptor."
"I'm honored to share this award with our leadership team and employees," Davis said. "I'm grateful for the amazing job they do and for this truly humbling recognition." He said he feels privileged to work for a company that "embraces the thrill and challenge of innovation, and to work with a group of executives who are incredibly talented, but also passionate about the opportunity at hand."
Davis joins top local media executives from Fisher Communications, Deseret Media and CBS Local who have been past recipients of the innovator's award. Borrell pores through dozens of nominees and issues the award annually to an executive who's taken an innovative path to help a local media company in its digital transformation.
"What a bold move to start a new business unit with a separate brand, staff and structure and hire 100 FTEs," said Nancy Lane, president of the Local Media Association, who put Davis' name in nomination. "He's a gutsy, bold leader who's deserving of this honor."
Davis is a longtime media executive who has served as publisher of newspapers in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and California. He was named president and COO of GateHouse Media in January 2009, GateHouse is one of the largest publishers of locally based print and online media in the United States as measured by its 78 daily publications, 261 weekly newspapers, 92 shoppers, 6 yellow page directories and more than 400 locally focused websites and mobile sites. GateHouse Media currently serves local audiences of more than 10 million per week across 21 states. The company's business model is to be the preeminent provider of local content and advertising in the small and midsize markets it serves.
Last year, GateHouse launched Propel Marketing (www.propelmarketing.com), a local online marketing company providing digital solutions to small and medium sized businesses. GateHouse Media also launched Adhance Media, a private ad exchange that brings together media companies who are looking to maximize revenue from excess ad inventory. For more information on the awards or Borrell Associates, visit www.borrellassociates.com or call 757.221-6641.
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Public uproar at Oakland Council meeting
Oakland Councilman Noel Gallo came into office last week touting youth curfews and aggressive policing measures like "stop and frisk." But as he chaired his first council committee meeting Tuesday, he got a taste of what those views get a politician in Oakland.
Hundreds of protesters rallied in front of City Hall and then packed the council chambers, and Gallo was shouted down within minutes of the meeting's start. After a five-hour meeting, the committee approved an agreement at the heart of the controversy - extending a consulting contract to advise the Police Department on a citywide crime-reduction program - and moving it to the full City Council next week, where the scene will probably be repeated.
"He hasn't really tarried with Oakland residents yet," said Rachel Herzing, co-director of Critical Resistance, which questions the actions and operations of the criminal justice system from police to prisons. "He hasn't seen how vociferous Oaklanders are when it comes to gang injunctions, anti-loitering ordinances and curfews."
On Tuesday, the issue that brought out all those protesters to the Public Safety Committee meeting was the proposed hiring of consultant William Bratton, a former New York and Los Angeles police chief known for innovative - and aggressive - tactics.
In particular, Bratton has come to be known for "stop and frisk," in which officers seek to reduce crime by stopping and questioning people they deem suspicious. But others see it as pure racial profiling.
Lashing out at Bratton
"William Bratton is the mastermind of stop and frisk, which has led to the harassment of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers - overwhelmingly Latino and black," said Todd Chretien, a longtime organizer and activist with the International Socialist Organization, who helped organize the rally.
Bratton, who will be paid a portion of a $250,000 contract for his work, will help the city develop a short-term crime-fighting strategy. Oakland, the state's most violent city, experienced a 23 percent spike in serious crimes last year.
Some worry this year could be worse. On Friday, four people were shot to death in a six-hour span. This year, there have been six homicides - compared with two at the same time last year.
How - or if - "stop and frisk" will be implemented in Oakland is unclear. It was not on Tuesday's agenda but nonetheless consumed discussion Tuesday.
Protesters held signs with messages that included "OPD stops are terrorism" and "No more stop-and-strip-and-beat-and-shoot-and-kill."
Anticipating the high level of agitation, Police Chief Howard Jordan issued a press release minutes before the meeting stating that the department "firmly and unequivocally stand(s) with our community against racial profiling. The practice is wholly unacceptable and clearly prohibited by our training, policies and by law."
As to "stop and frisk," Jordan said, "the true and obvious expectation of any law enforcement agency is to interact with citizens when and where required and take appropriate action to prevent or resolve criminal activity."
With more than 80 people signed up for public comment, Gallo struggled to hold back the crowd, who hissed, meowed, shouted and heckled city officials and supporters of Bratton.
Crowd is warned
"I'm going to direct the officers to arrest you and move you from the chambers if you don't give our parents and citizens and common courtesy to speak," Gallo said, a refrain he repeated at least three times.
Bob Wasserman, a consultant to the city who will oversee the Bratton hire, said that a key aspect of the crime-reduction plan will be engaging the community through town hall meetings and other forums.
"We have seen here tonight, a tremendous amount of energy - energy which if it could be harnessed, could make a difference on the issue of crime," Wasserman said.
Several residents spoke in support of the Bratton contract. But for many residents, the main issue is increasing the size of the police force. The department has 615 officers, down from 837 just four years ago. Proposals to add a police academy, hire technicians and temporarily bring in Alameda County sheriff's deputies will be brought to the full council Tuesday.
Jim Dexter, a longtime community policing advocate, spoke out in favor of Bratton's hire. But he also said that increasing the police force, which will continue to decline for at least two months because of attrition, is the city's top priority.
"It's a shame for this city to have a police force of 600 or less," said Dexter.
To that, someone in the crowd said, "Let it drop to zero."
Matthai Kuruvila is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @matthai


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