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Puppy Master
Joined: 09 May 2005
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Fri 09 Sep 2016, 06:56
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Here are some instructions for getting wifi working:
I still haven't got wifi working on my Pi3. Stupid thing doesn't know my wireless network exists -- I am wondering if the wifi chip in the Pi3 doesn't support the frequency that my wifi hotspot in my phone broadcasts at?
I need to try a usb plugin wifi thingy.
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Location: GB
Posted: Fri 09 Sep 2016, 09:46
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I need to try a usb plugin wifi thingy.
- if you do that, it may require one of those dual band jobbies? I could not get my Samsung TV to work on a regular cheapo dongle and they wanted forty quid for their posh unit. Eventually, I found who supplied Samsung and bought one via a third party supplier on eBay for about £18. A couple of mobiles play the same silly tricks, as well as Apple. The HW inside one of these sticks barely differs, so I guess they've etched a couple of extra tracks in the silicon to deal with the two frequencies? Either way the cost of design, manufacture & marketing can't differ more than a few pennies.
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Location: Sweden
Posted: Fri 09 Sep 2016, 10:25
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BarryK wrote:
I still haven't got wifi working on my Pi3. Stupid thing doesn't know my wireless network exists -- I am wondering if the wifi chip in the Pi3 doesn't support the frequency that my wifi hotspot in my phone broadcasts at?
Are you using your M52 phone as a hotspot? I just set my M52 (running stock Android 5.0) up as a wifi hotspot and my RPi3 had no problem in finding it:
# iwlist scan
Cell 03 - Address: 6A:5D:3F:BC:F1:87
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
sns also lists the "M52_Red_Note" wireless network.
The M52 is capable of connecting to both the 2.4GHz & 5GHz bands (I've checked with my dual band AC router).
IIRC, you're running a modified Android OS on your M52. Could the hotspot be transmitting on the 5GHz band somehow?
Methinks Raspberry Pi were ideal for runnin' Puppy Linux
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Posted: Fri 09 Sep 2016, 11:46
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The M52 is capable of connecting to both the 2.4GHz & 5GHz bands...
- now that's really worth knowing! Thanks, p.
PS My dual band stick is a fenvi-n600. Other third party manufacturers/suppliers all wanted the Samsung price when I bought mine about a year or so back.
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Location: lincoln, uk
Posted: Fri 09 Sep 2016, 16:22
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the symlink solved the ethernet, using that at present
have mirrored don's pets
edit, could we have ssh to make testing easier?
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Puppy Master
Joined: 09 May 2005
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Fri 09 Sep 2016, 21:01
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Another problem I am having, with both Pi2 and Pi3, is the screen flickers off momentarily.
This is a very common problem, as a google search shows.
I have a modern TV, with HDMI input. I did the recommended troubleshooting things, settings in 'config.txt' to force HDMI, boost the signal. No difference.
It usually happens randomly after power-up, but seems to clear up after awhile.
I found that moving the case slightly, causes it. Then found that push the HDMI plug very gently causes it.
This does seem to indicate a fault in the Pi, a hairline crack for example, where the HDMI socket is soldered in.
The fact that it seems to disappear after the Pi has "warmed up" supports this theory, as does gently pushing, barely more than touching, the HDMI plug causing it.
But the fact that it happens to both my Pi2 and Pi3...
But this problem goes right back, the Pi1 report here for example:
...that one seems to indicate inadequate high-frequency filtering on the 5V line into the Pi, which indicates a design shortcoming.
There are so many problems reported with the power supply being inadequate, all stemming from the decision to go for a micro-USB socket.
I have a bit of a "bee in my bonnet" about that. I think that they should have gone for a normal power plug and socket, and sold power supplies to match.
...which is what the Odroid people have done.
I also had a power problem with my Pi3, initially. I am using my new Mbeat Gorilla power charger, with 2.3A rated output on each USB socket. However, I still got the little rainbow rectangle sometimes, so I changed the cable, that fixed it.
So it would seem that voltage supply is not a problem anymore.
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Puppy Master
Joined: 09 May 2005
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Posted: Fri 09 Sep 2016, 21:14
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gcmartin wrote:
Anyone know if this distro has bluetooth enabled, OOTB?
Quirky Xerus has bluez and bluepup, so should support bluetooth.
However, /root/Startup/bluetooth_tray tests for existence of /sys/class/bluetooth, and if it does not exist, does not load the bluetooth tray applet.
On my Pi3, /sys/class/bluetooth does not exist. This may be due to the 4.4.x kernel still being under development for the Pi, especially Pi3.
Just did a test on my laptop, 'bluetoothd' has to be running, to cause /sys/class/bluetooth to exist.
I need to fix that. Currently the daemon is not started at power-up.
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Posted: Sat 10 Sep 2016, 03:00
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These Rpi units certainly are flimsy although I've not experienced the issues BK reports - yet. I think the intention is that one purchases their custom cases to anchor them to some extent. Mine are screwed to bits of old (melamine-coated) kitchen cabinet. This helps stabilise the connectors as one can slide plugs into them with less force and more precision. I have experienced other HDMI and PSU issues, however. Not all TVs and, especially monitors, accept their output signals: ditto functionality of some PSUs and, worse, the Zero is fussy about USB hubs (all powered, of course, for the Zero). Fortunately, have boxloads to select from. One of the surprises I had was that an
el cheapo
HDMI-to-VGA, with sound pick-off was a great success with the B+ enabling use of old monitors for just over a fiver.
Reiterating previous comments, although I find it useful to be able run the oldest Puppy on these ARMv6/11 units, I see their greatest attraction in deploying their GPIO to operate relays, turn things ON/OFF, sensor inputs, etc. This is the intention of all educationalists in UK schools. Whether it will succeed depends on many factors, not least inspirational teaching, but many of the clever coders visiting fora like this could have a powerful contribution to make. Certainly, the latest ARMv7 Pi2 & 3 are not necessary for these purposes and Eban still regards the v6 architecture as current - hence the Zero
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Location: Sweden
Posted: Sat 10 Sep 2016, 04:26
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BarryK wrote:
This does seem to indicate a fault in the Pi, a hairline crack for example, where the HDMI socket is soldered in.
HDMI cables can vary quite a lot in quality, but since the signals being passed are digital, they usually either work or they don't. That also makes it hard to troubleshoot borderline cases, where you get a good image on the display but the signal strength is just barely over the threshold to deliver that image.
There isn't much surface area for contact on the many, tiny pins of an HDMI connector, and it wouldn't take much to get a bad connection at any one (or more pins). That's one place quality can come into the picture (or simply dirty contacts – note that HDMI cables usually come with a plastic cap covering the ends).
If you jiggle the HDMI connector at the end of the cable connected to
your Pi2 or Pi3 and the signal flickers, the problem causing the flicker is unlikely to be on
of your Pis. The HDMI cable would be much more likely the common denominator. The best way to find out is to try a different cable. I have a number of HDMI cables and I can vouch for the fact that they are not created equal
Methinks Raspberry Pi were ideal for runnin' Puppy Linux
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Puppy Master
Joined: 09 May 2005
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Sat 10 Sep 2016, 08:33
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After trying, unsuccessfully, to get bluetooth working, I decided it would be wise to download Raspbian and get bluetooth going. Then I will have a working setup as reference.
If you want to download Rasbian using wget, rather than the browser, here is a direct link to Raspbian Lite:
# wget http://vx2-downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/images/raspbian_lite-2016-05-31/2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip
Regarding the HDMI cable, I have used it elsewhere without issues, including with the RemixOS box.
I have another cable packed away in a box somewhere, will try that.
Er, no, Raspbian Lite is commandline only.
Here is the full Raspbian (1.3GB):
wget http://vx2-downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2016-05-31/2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie.zip
sha1sum: 64c7ed611929ea5178fbb69b5a5f29cc9cc7c157
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Posted: Sat 10 Sep 2016, 10:53
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Running Raspbian, bluetooth and wireless "just works".
I am using my new Bluetooth mouse, and Internet access via my Mlais M52 phone wireless tethering.
Bluetooth is flakey. Both keyboard and mouse just decided to stop working. Kept trying them, suddenly they started to work again.
My bluetooth keyboard is standard US layout, which I chose in the Raspbian Preferences. However, they got one key wrong, the backslash and shift-vertical-bar key.
Hmmm, mouse has gone again. Fortunately, I have the USB-cable mouse plugged in.
It seems, if you don't use them continuously, they die.
Nup, can't get mouse to come back.
So much for @just works@ --- they were supposed to be quote characters - it seems to have forgotten that it was set to US layout.
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Location: Ontario
Posted: Sat 10 Sep 2016, 15:19
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Question to Barry ...
Are you able to play ogg or wma music files on your install?
ffmpeg just ignores these two formats on my machine.
However I installed a lot of new multimedia libraries to make omxplayer work,
so I'm not sure if I damaged my install.
I am able to play ogg and wma music files with my omxplayer.
I noticed a strange font bug in terminal. I described it here
The newest version of pmusic will play 2barks.wav file in alarms
newest version of pmusic
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Posts: 177
Posted: Sat 10 Sep 2016, 16:39
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BarryK said
Bluetooth is flakey. Both keyboard and mouse just decided to stop working. Kept trying them, suddenly they started to work again.
My bluetooth keyboard is standard US layout, which I chose in the Raspbian Preferences. However, they got one key wrong, the backslash and shift-vertical-bar key.
Your post made me wonder about the stability of the bluetooth on my Raspberry Pi.
I am posting this using Raspbian and a 75-key Freedom Pro bluetooth keyboard on an Rpi 3. Raspbian keyboard Preferences are Country=US and Variant=English (US).
I tested all of the keys (unshifted and shifted) and the output was as expected. Specifically the quotation mark key output ' " ',the vertical bar key output ' | ', and the backslash key output ' \ '.
The bluetooth on my Rpi 3 seemed pretty stable, at least during the 35-40 minutes I was using it and no dropouts occurred.
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Location: Ontario
Posted: Mon 12 Sep 2016, 16:34
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ogg and wma music files are now working with pmusic.
I suspect that there was a strange permissions problem. I have found that
clicking on files in a windows server location don't open and that the open
dialog in applications doesn't show the windows server location, yet rox
file manager shows the location and let's me drag files from it.
I still haven't been successful in connecting my usb wifi stick.
For people who install omxplayer here are the the key bindings
Key bindings
Key Action
1 Increase Speed
2 Decrease Speed
j Previous Audio stream
k Next Audio stream
i Previous Chapter
o Next Chapter
n Previous Subtitle stream
m Next Subtitle stream
s Toggle subtitles
q Exit OMXPlayer
Space or p Pause/Resume
- Decrease Volume
+ Increase Volume
Left Seek -30
Right Seek +30
Down Seek -600
Up Seek +600
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Posts: 11245
Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia
Posted: Mon 12 Sep 2016, 23:01
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Hi Barry, I was on Facebook on the RetroPie Group and this guy posted a Commodore 64 that he gutted and purchased a C-64 usb adapter, basically turning a C-64 keyboard into a regular USB keyboard, then he tossed in Raspberry Pi and ran linux on it. A few years back in Sydney I purchased a C-64 for like $20 on ebay. That could of been a good candidate, But really I don't think I could destroy a working C-64 for any reason. Anyways here's a link to the Keyboard adapter, it isn't cheap but I guess it does the job really good if you like retro things.
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Residents of Morgan County will have to travel a good distance to catch Fourth of July fireworks displays this year after community displays were officially cancelled. In the midst of so many wildfires raging dangerously throughout Colorado, a special meeting of the Brush City Council was held on the evening of Thursday, June 28 where Brush Fire Chief Paul Acosta and Police Chief Mark Thomas officially announced the termination of the Brush Rodeo fireworks display this year.
Recently Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper issued an executive ban on all open burning and the igniting of private fireworks throughout the state and upon hearing that news Morgan County Sheriff Jim Crone left the decision on whether or not individual municipalities would move forward with community displays up to their respective fire chiefs.
Brush Fire Chief Acosta issued a statement on the matter during the special council session, stating, "Due to the recent critical fire conditions, I support the decision to cancel the annual Fourth of July fireworks during the rodeo. We have chosen to be proactive with the fire ban and feel that the safety of the public is our first priority. We ask the citizens of Brush to do the same and make sure NOT to light fireworks during these awful drought conditions."
Acosta also noted that after sending 23 firefighters and 7 fire truck units to the scene of Monday's Last Chance Fire that charred through 45,000 acres of land just south of Brush, the Brush and neighboring departments are now on-call for fire duty with retired fighters also having been re-activated in case of emergency. However, with so many fires, both large and small, devastating the entire state, finding enough firefighters to help assist with fireworks displays would also be a difficult feat.
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Brush Police Chief Mark Thomas reiterated Acosta's sentiments, suggesting that council approve the cancellation. He noted that the decision was made after collaborative efforts made by representatives from the City of Brush, Police, Fire and the Morgan County Sheriffs Office who weighed factors such as a 10-day weather forecast that has temps running in triple digits and a lack of precipitation, the size and swiftness of the Last Chance Fire and the consideration that fire departments may be gone assisting with other events. He also made sure to mention that no amount of rainfall over the next week would mitigate changing the decision.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
namastey Obamaji !
It made me think of how easily a couple of good looking terrorists clad in couture and playing their parts to perfection, could penetrate ANY event under the sun.
The reason I have terrorists on my mind is because of the past few days during which it was impossible to think of anyone else. At the end of the tv marathons, I felt drained, dehydrated and on the verge of a nervous breakdown ( okay... that last bit is for dramatic effect). The one person who really engaged my attention was the Israeli ambassador - suave, sophisticated, clever. He had all the answers - well, almost. He told me one important thing that has stuck - forget about past attacks. Don't waste time on them. Move on and stay ten steps ahead of the next hit if you can. Plan and pre-empt . So far, we've been busy deconstructing the 26\11 strike and not thinking beyond what went wrong. The blame game is on, and it is distressing to see finger pointing in place of solidarity. Cops against cops. Politicos against politicos. Mercifully, the commonman is still hanging together.
A fitting reply to terrorist attacks must come from the government, not citizens. As of now, the onus has been placed squarely on us. Absurd.
Oh hell.... forget the horror for now.
Michelle Obama's sequinned strapless dress was super sexy. Now, if only Naeem Khan had designed Shilpa Shetty's reception outfit!! That golden horror story hurt the eyes. And the bouffant made me wonder if a couple of pigeons were nesting inside.
18 comments:
- Unknown said...
Hey Shobha,
yeah shilpa's horror story and Shamita's a horror in itself :)
I saw her blabbing on the news channel... and wat the F--- is it abt 'Red Carpet' at the wedding??
Pls comment
- November 27, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- चंद्रमौलेश्वर प्रसाद said...
`A fitting reply to terrorist attacks must come from the government, not citizens.'
HOW? is the big question mark. We are supposed to retaliate, police is not supposed to kill in encounter[ branded as fake]. Even a martyr policeman like Insp. Sharma is not honoured. If government takes any action, there are so many groups, commissions, humanist![or is it humourist:)] organisations which pounce on the Government.
- November 27, 2009 at 9:06 PM
- Alex Engwete said...
It was a breach of security in the case involving the brazen party crash by that couple at the White House. Nothing more. (And they'd pay for it: it's a federal felony to lie to federal agents in the U.S.) They couldn't possibly go past checkpoints with AK-47s!... There's, however, a B-movie in which people explode after ingesting undetectable liquid explosives (I forgot the title). But that was a bad movie...
Mumbai wasn't alone on 26/11. The whole world--via newscasts--stood still in remembrance of the horrors... Though there was a foolish Pakistani scholar (he claims to be a political scientist) who intervened from Doha on Aljazeera to claim that "the world was tired of India" pointing fingers at Pakistan; and that India should look at its own internal strife to explain the Mumbai attack. Either this professor has run mad or he's doing political science fiction... The link to the 24-minute YouTube video of the Aljazeera discussion on Mumbai is here.
- November 27, 2009 at 9:36 PM
- sayrem said...
"What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief."- Shakespeare
- November 27, 2009 at 10:06 PM
- Vivek S Patwardhan said...
The Israeli ambassador said wise words. Hope our authorities are listening.
- November 27, 2009 at 10:08 PM
- Vaudeville of Exhilaration said...
It was just yesterday that I realized how horrendous the attacks were. I was nearly in tears watching the reiteration of the news of 26/11 on CNN IBN.
I think it's high time that our politicians move from mere politics to taking some serious responsibility. Rather than posing themselves at the ceremonies of commemoration and solidarity, they should take up the nations responsibility more seriously.
And we citizens on our part should stand against terrorism by not bickering wid one another in the name of region, religion etc.
- November 27, 2009 at 10:23 PM
- The Unsure Ascetic said...
A decent looking glib talking President look alike has crashed into the president's office at the White house. So, why cannot a decently dressed invitee look alike crash a garden party at the white house?
- November 27, 2009 at 11:46 PM
- Unknown said...
This is highly understandable that a men of high society is being treated with specialty. No wonder if that couple also went in...:)
Is it a myth or something else?
That used to happen in our golden period also when the demons disguised themselves as Munis..
So its not a new thing.
Bout the dress, i don't think Michelle Obama can look sexy in any outfit.
still some perplexity remains with me.
DO rply..
- November 28, 2009 at 12:22 AM
- Sparkling said...
I always knew that the Jews understood the 'Art of War' better than anybody else in the world!
That's it! If I say more, I'll be wiped out!
- November 28, 2009 at 1:36 AM
- Unknown said...
The couple's gstecrashing is a slap and a blessing in disguise. That type of incident can make the security personnel more alert in future. If our pm and his wife were not the pm and his wife, they could have been prevented from gatescrashing due to their attire and simplicity. Well dressed terrorists, well educated terrorists etc. are difficult to be identified and by the way what about Rahul Bhatt? He is no longer in the news.
- November 28, 2009 at 6:40 AM
- Theyoginme said...
This couple is a major 420. Things people do to get attention! Imagine a desi couple trying to pull such a stunt.
On the issue of terrorism perhaps it's time for India to "invest" in it's poor neighbors. Uplift those poor with education and opportunity and maybe those selling their soul will find other ways to achieve glory. Israel is a bad example. Those people will forever be fighting wars. They don't know how to make peace.
You can prepare 10 steps ahead bit it doesn't end fear and hate. That comes with love and empathy and compassion and the power of investment in uplifting the lost.
- November 28, 2009 at 10:58 AM
- PT said...
Tareq and Michaele Salahi have not just managed to gatecrash at the White House State dinner party hosted for the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but they have also gained unprecendented fame within a matter of a few days. Only the couple themselves can tell what their intention was in doing such a paranoidal act. The couple did not forge any invitation, neither did they jump a fence nor avoided any security screenings to get in, infact the security let them in. Lawfully, I do not think the couple can be charged with anything (Though I ain't no lawyer) as they seemingly did not trespass into the White House. Also they did not cause any problems once inside, rather schmoozed along with the other invitees quite well!
I think this whole incident is good for the US administration, considering that it allows for improvement in its security measures. The Secret service can learn more from an error like this one, it gives them a chance to improve its security measures. So instead of imposing criminal charges on the Washington couple (if they do so, I would rather consider it another rookie mistake by the Obama admin), maybe they should thank them, for giving a "wake up call". Hopefully the Secret service would capitalise on this incident to strengthen their security measures and should be able to catch any similar security issues in the future.
- November 28, 2009 at 8:09 PM
- Another Kiran In NYC said...
That was ballsy of the couple. Love it!!! Check out her facebook pages. They were auditioning for the "desperate housewives of washington" reality series. Sure way to get onto the series. You have to be exquisitely and very deliberately bereft of shame to do the things they do. I am still laughing. Provided my entertainment for the day.
Even so heads should roll at White House security.
Ummmm.. Shilpa didnt ever have any taste if her LV Logos and herve leger and "obviously designer" clothes are anything to go by. Just always a tad too plasticky and just a tad overdone and have we had enough already of that too long waist been exposed! Somehow she didnt dissapoint at her wedding. She stayed true to her slightly tasteless but expensive dressing. Atleast she is consistant, if nothing else... hehehe.
- November 28, 2009 at 9:06 PM
- Desmond Macedo said...
"a couple of pigeons was nesting inside"... plenty of indians would've got that grammar incorrect :) :)
- November 29, 2009 at 9:33 AM
- Harish said...
yegjacktly! i agree with the Israeli ambassador's "Aage Ki Soch" attitude. Yes, we need to learn lesson from the past. But we need to graduate and pass the test in the present and future too na.
We are too busy stuck on learning lessons from past, and our classrooms get bombed. tai tai phisss...
Come on, your TV marathon was absolutely tiring. But it was fun to watch you do cheer faad of that Shantaram Author. Sadistic pleasure. There were moments when the camera moved past you and you still had the animated reaction on your face. You were most genuine. My sincere Appreciations, thanks for being our voice.
I was outside our college - st. xaviers on 26 November. With an artist group called "We Are The Scene" I had organised a street extempore... where we encouraged people to "SPEAK UP" - the overall campaign was called CHUP NA RAHO.
there was Wide spread cynicism, we formed a circle and let anyone who wanted to say anything take the center of the circle. We had a lot of survivors, savious, footpath wallahs, building wallahs, come and vent their ire.
One gentleman told us in absolute numbness... "Kuch Nahi Hone Waala Hai.. Tum Log Kal Waapas aaoge... Waapas Band Baaja Bajaaoge... Mumbai Toh Fir Bhi Doob Jaayegi.. Behter Hai, tum Waqt Zaaya Na Karo.. aur Tairna seekh lo"
Everyone wants change to happen in a day.
"Change is not Maggi Noodles to be cooked and served in 2 minutes." But im happy that in the largely and easily distracted city of ours, the internal dialogue has began.
That Gate Crash story was hilarious. Did the gate crasher tell the darban that her name was Mrs. Kishan moolchandani? Possibility hai. LOL.
What is this craze of southie chokris falling in love with northie mundas? From Hema to shilpa...
i feel southindian women look great in a southindian attire. She would have looked agdi tavtaveeth... in a Kanjeevaram saree... Remember how sridevi used to walk to filmfare awards in her complete southindian avtaar... complete with golden kamar patta and all.
Regarding the jodi... I dont find this Kundra from Bandra a fit enough match for this Hurr from Chembur.
But I do hope Bollywood doesnt take the trouble to call her back from her honeymoon. Im really not missing her on the silver screen. Not thing substantial as yet...
- November 29, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- Desmond Macedo said...
why did u change it?...u were right earlier... :) ..."a couple of pigeons was nesting inside" ...'was' is correct
- November 29, 2009 at 8:59 PM
- Unknown said...
Good post short and succinct.
Sometimes your posts are too lengthy and become quite boring to read.
Donno Intelligent or foolish couple who crashed the door to misery...wondering how the FBIs are going to treat them now
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- December 1, 2009 at 2:58 PM
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Aion general chat has one less thing to complain about this morning, as NCsoft takes steps to prevent folks from abusing the personal shop system in order to remain online during peak hours.
The shopkeeper system has been abused terribly since the North American launch of Aion. Here's how it was supposed to work: a player turns on the private store option, putting items up for sale into special slots, assigning prices. They then become a clickable shop that players can browse.
The problem that arose is that becoming a shop acted as an anti-idle, allowing players to remain connected for long periods of time with no input on their part. A player would slip into store mode, set one item at a ridiculously high price, and then wander off to eat dinner or run to the store, without fear of coming back disconnected and having to wait in line again. This contributed greatly to the long lines of people waiting to get into the game during peak playing times. With less people disconnecting, the wait time only grew.
This morning Aion's servers went down for maintenance, and came back up with a 30 minute timer on personal shops, which should go great lengths towards cutting down wait time. At least until everyone figures out my special method of anti-idle, the pecking bird egg timer on the W key.
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There are very few people in show business who have reached the status that Neil Sedaka has attained. Who else has achieved comparable success as a singer, songwriter, and pianist? He shocked skeptics who thought his career was over in 1966 only to become even bigger in the next decade. And if that isn't enough, he took a song of his that sold millions in the 60s and re-recorded it as a ballad, giving it a brand new life as well as making it a chart topping record. There is not one other person who can claim this amazing achievement.
It all began when the eighty-four pound Eleanor Appel (born October 31, 1916) met Mac Sedaka (1913-1981), a New York City taxi driver, at a social club in Brooklyn when she was all of seventeen-years-old. While Eleanor danced with someone else, Mac cut in. He nicknamed her Skinny as they danced the night away. He even drove her home in his Checker Cab. Despite their regular dating, Eleanor was not in love with Mac. Her brother Sydney made it clear that Mac was in love with her and had a steady job. Mac was a Sephardic Jew and Eleanor, an Ashkenazic. She called his people the black Jews. They married on July 4th 1936. It was not the marriage of the century...or the year. Mac's new brother-in-law and wife even accompanied the newlyweds on their honeymoon. They settled down on Voorhies Avenue in Brooklyn. When Neil's sister, Ronnie, was born on September 4, 1937, the Voorhies Avenue apartment was just too small. Mac's parents, Marie and Nisim, insisted they join them in a two-room apartment with ten other family members on the second floor of 3260 Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Eleanor was warned against getting pregnant again for health reasons, but despite the warnings, Neil entered the world on March 13, 1939. The immediate Sedaka family all lived together in one room. The closeness resulted in lots of love for children, but there was still no deep love for Mac. Eleanor controlled the family and made all the decisions.
There was always music in the house ... perhaps not always pleasing as his grandmother carted out the Turkish records she had saved from the old country. It was Aunt Molly's American discs that really made an impression on little Neil. As early as three, Neil thrived on listening to the Moylan Sisters. It was the music of World War II with artists like the Andrews Sisters and the Big Bands like Glenn Miller that changed Neil's whole life. Songs like Chattanooga Choo Choo became his favorites. He even made up his own little shows with Ronnie where they imitated the Andrews Sisters. Ronnie was his true companion. He didn't have other boys his own age for friends like most kids. All he had was his mother (who never let him do anything for himself), his aunts and his sister. By the first grade he was known as a sissy. His father worked long hours driving his cab. He tried to make time for Neil and did, but it was tough. By 1946 Neil began listening to a disc jockey named Martin Bloch where he first heard Les Paul and Mary Ford, who were to have a major impact on Neil's overdubbing style on his own records. He also heard and imitated Johnnie Ray. When he got into the second grade school choir, led by a Mrs. Glantz, his talent was evident--hence Mrs. Glantz's suggestion that he take up piano. Eleanor Sedaka took a part-time job in order to purchase a second hand piano on which her eight-year-old could take lessons with a local teacher named Murray Newman.
Ronnie was required to take lessons as well. It was Neil, however, who leaped into Book Six of the John Thompson series within six months. These lessons led to an audition at the prestigious Juilliard School in Manhattan, where Neil was given a piano scholarship and began studying under the auspices of Edgar Roberts in 1947. He practiced four hours a day and performed his first concert on a Saturday with an original composition from Miss Shaeffer's Literature and Materials of Music class. As his thirteenth birthday approached, Eleanor frantically rushed Neil to Hebrew school so he could be Bar Mitzvahed in Jewish tradition. While in Hebrew school, the cantor discovered Neil's incredible voice and asked him to perform at every Saturday class. His performance at his Bar Mitzvah was a huge success with not a dry eye in the temple! As he entered the seventh and eighth grades in public school, he played classical piano for the other kids, but he was not who they wanted at parties. It was then that he decided to learn the pop hits of the day in order to become more popular. While in his first year at Lincoln High School, Neil was asked by a teacher named Bill Medine if he would like to be the music camp counselor at a summer camp he owned called Echo Park in Lake George, New York. Neil would be paid and get the whole summer at camp for free. He accepted and not only helped put on standard musicals, but also wrote original songs that are still being performed there today!
On October 11, 1952, Neil was approached by Howard Greenfield (born March 15, 1936), who lived in the same building. Howie's mother, Ella, had heard Neil practicing in the lobby at the Kenmore Lake Hotel and was so impressed that she insisted her son contact him about collaborating on a song.
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LOUISVILLE — The Monarch girls basketball team had plenty of extra incentive to play well on Thursday night.
Besides having the usual desire to win, it was senior night at MHS. And Gail Hook, the Coyotes' longtime head coach who is taking a leave of absence this year, was watching the team for just the fifth time this season.
In addition, two of the most influential people in the history of women's basketball in Colorado, Ceal Barry and Carol Callan, were also on hand, helping give a special tribute to Hook.
With all that going on, Monarch closed the regular season on a high note, never trailing in avenging last month's 17-point loss to Fairview with a 60-46 victory.
"It was really important (to win), especially because we lost to them the first time," said MHS senior Brenna Stimac, who hit three 3-pointers and scored 12 points. "We had a lot of motivation to come back and beat them, especially on senior night."
Monarch's run of consecutive Front Range League titles ended at four as the Coyotes and Fairview tied for sixth place in the 12-team FRL by matching both league (9-7) and overall (13-10) records. And now both squads will wait for the 48-team 5A state bracket to be unveiled on Sunday, then they'll open the playoffs on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Monarch used 9-0 and 11-0 runs in the first half to build a big lead.
"I think they came out and had that 'We're not going to lose' attitude when we started the game," said Chris Lewis, MHS' head coach this season with Hook on leave. "They were really pumped up and psyched because of what happened (against FHS) earlier in the season. They came out of the gate ready to go and we didn't let up."
And with Fairview's leading scorer for the season, Sarah Kaufman, being a little under the weather in the first half, she didn't score until there was 2:48 left in the third quarter.
By then, the hill the Knights had to the climb was large, and they never got closer than seven points in the second half.
"To begin the game, (Monarch) played really well and hit a lot of shots," Fairview coach Andre Goldberg said. "They're a good team and I think they're starting to find their groove. And we didn't really find our groove until the second half.
"It's tough to spot a team like that so many points in the first half and expect to come back and win."
Sophomore Raegen Rohn scored 15 points to lead Monarch, which had six players hit at least one 3-pointer. Senior Bridget Anthony (10 points) joined Rohn and Stimac in double figures.
Katie Kuosman paced Fairview with 14 points, while Annika Lai, daughter of former CU player Amy Mathern, and Kaufman contributed 11 each.
As for Hook, at halftime she was presented a plaque honoring her work as an assistant coach in helping the USA U17 women's team to a world title last summer. Presenting her the plaque was Callan, USA Basketball's women's national team director, who coached Fairview to a state title in the 1980s. And in the stands for the occasion was Barry, the most successful women's basketball coach in University of Colorado history. Also on hand was Hook's mother.
"Ceal and Carol have been extremely instrumental in my coaching career, so I was really excited that they were here," Hook said after the game. "That meant a lot to me."
Monarch 60, Fairview 46
At Monarch HSFAIRVIEW (13-10, 9-7)
Kuosman 5 2-2 14, Lai 3 4-8 11, Devenport 1 2-2 4, Ryder 2 0-0 4, Kaufman 4 0-2 11, McKee 0 2-4 2. Totals 15 10-18 46.
Dietz 1 0-0 3, Stimac 4 1-2 12, Keatley 0 0-0 0, Anthony 4 2-2 10, Eisler 2 2-2 7, Rohn 4 6-7 15, Cendali 1 0-0 3, O'Flannigan 1 1-2 4, Williams 1 2-3 4, Scott 1 0-0 2. Totals 19 14-18 60.
Score by quarters:
Fairview 7 9 14 16 — 46
Monarch 15 16 9 20 — 60
3-point field goals — Fairview (6): Kaufman 3, Kuosman 2, Lai; Monarch (8): Stimac 3, Dietz, Rohn, Cendali, Eisler, O'Flannigan. Total fouls — Fairview 14, Monarch 17. Fouled out — none. Technical fouls — none.


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Can Confucius save America's middle class?
Update: Sorry, in the first version of this column I confused two different companies. The corrected version is below.
BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY–For decades, this bucolic corner of southwestern Kentucky depended on Corvette sales from the local GM plant for its economic life. Now, it's trying something different.
Last year, the state university opened a "Confucius Institute" that offers nighttime Chinese language classes to local business people. An American auto parts company chose to create 280 new manufacturing jobs here instead of Mexico. And government officials brag about the 19 companies from India, Japan, Finland, Germany, Israel and other foreign countries that have invested locally.
"We just came back from China," Ron Bunch, the head of the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce, told me as he escorted Chinese investors around town. "We're starting an Indo-Kentucky Chamber of Commerce."
Even the town's old economy hallmark – the GM plant that is the world's only producer of Corvettes – is expanding. Fruit of the Loom, which is headquartered here, is slowly growing as well.
While the middle class agonizingly shrinks in other parts of the United States, Bowling Green, Kentucky boasts a growing number of jobs and a lower unemployment rate – 7.9% — than the national average of 9.1%.
"It's about not fearing globalization," said Brian Strow, a former city commissioner. "But being an active participant."
Bowling Green is reinventing itself. Pragmatic, diverse and not politically polarized, this city of 100,000 residents increasingly sees itself in a global context. It is slowly finding its way and providing a sign of hope for America's beleaguered middle class.
After working as a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for The New York Times for the last fifteen years, I recently became a columnist for Reuters. The primary focus of my column, "The Global Middle," will be the state of the middle class inside the United States and around the world.
While the American middle class has struggled in recent years, a new global middle class is emerging in countries like South Africa, Brazil and Turkey. Worldwide, an estimated 70 million people join an "emerging market middle class" each year, earning incomes of $6,000 to $30,000 annually. Economists predict they will surpass the Western middle class in global spending power within twenty years.
This column will examine which economic policies help create middle classes. What lessons from abroad, if any, can be applied to the United States. And whether growing middle classes overseas inevitably mean a shrinking middle class in the United States.
For me, and many others, the creation and preservation of middle classes is vital. Two decades of covering political, religious and ethnic conflict around the world has convinced me that the single largest instrument of stability in any society is a middle class. Whatever their nationality, members of the middle class tend to reject extremist leaders. They try to make governments more effective. And they often cherish the same values, particularly merit, justice and stability.
I plan to visit Bowling Green and other communities inside and outside the United States to see firsthand what is occurring on the ground. My goal is to move beyond political posturing, news media hyperbole and academic theory. Here in southwestern Kentucky, community leaders are trying to innovate, export and educate their way out of Washington's economic and political paralysis.
There are hurdles, of course. Over the last two years, only 2,200 jobs have been created in a community of 100,000 people. A taxpayer-financed, $25 million industrial park on the north side of town is attracting fewer tenants than hoped. And the desperate courting of foreign investors is a marker of the end of American economic omnipotence.
The Confucius Institute here is one of 74 that have opened on campuses across the U.S (and 322 worldwide) that are affiliated with a non-profit based in Beijing. Critics have said the Chinese government controls the organization and some have even accused it of corporate espionage.
And yet Bowling Green has few other options and a long history of welcoming foreigners. A refugee resettlement center since the 1970s, the city has large Vietnamese, Bosnian and Burmese communities. Thirty languages are spoken in local public schools.
The city defies traditional labels and limits. Neither Rust Belt nor rural, it has diversified from an economy dependent on Corvette sales to mix of services, technology and light manufacturing
While it is the hometown of Sen. Rand Paul, it is neither blue nor red. All local government offices are non-partisan. When party is identified, local Democrats are fiscally conservative. Local Republicans say government plays an integral role in economic growth. The local economic development philosophy is to add small numbers of jobs to existing companies, rather than courting potential white elephants.
"Our greatest strength has been staying the course," says Kevin DeFebbo, the city manager. "There is a great practicality here."
Lastly, the town has a college, Western Kentucky University, that is no ivory tower. Increasingly, the university is the region's economic engine. In 2001, the university and state purchased a 300,000 square foot local mall on the south side of town and turned it into a research center that holds laboratories, private companies and a high tech start-up incubator.
One of its fastest growing tenants is Pure Power Technologies, a spinoff of a local carburetor manufacturing company.
the research and development arm of a local heating and garden tool manufacturing firm that went bankrupt in 2008 after losing jobs overseas and being bought and sold by a series of private equity firms. Today, it creates develops and designs diesel engine control systems. Its director travels widely overseas to drum up new business. president is a university graduate, as are all eighteen of its employees.
"He's in Brazil today," said Doug Rohrer, a former business executive who runs the center. "He'll be in China on Monday."
What works in Bowling Green may not work elsewhere. Other communities lack the resources that exist here. But there is real change in this area. I will write more about Bowling Green and its efforts to fight back, and track over time its success or failure. For now, business people, local officials and teachers are engaging the outside world and succeeding. An odd mix of Corvettes, American pragmatism and foreign investment is helping Bowling Green's middle class claw its way back.
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Bowling Green, with a population of 100k has created a total of 2,200 jobs in the past 2 years. Looking at this piece through those glasses, its a load of crap.
Funny to hear "middle class" defined as families earning $6,000 to $30,000 per year, well below the poverty line.
As for Fruit of the Loom, they exported their manufacturing jobs long ago.
So we are left with this…a vestigital Corvette factory which either is union or keeps the union out by paying union wages, and a chinese language school, where you are going to get a daily dosage of chinese government propaganda.
This is was passes for "Good News" in 2011 Corporate owned America.
The folks protesting on Wallstreet are right. Time to get angry.
I took this excerpt when the strikeouts were still visible. Strikeouts marked (((begin…end)))
One of its fastest growing tenants is Pure Power Technologies, a spinoff of a local carburetor manufacturing company. (((the research and development arm of a local heating and garden tool manufacturing firm that went bankrupt in 2008 after losing jobs overseas and being bought and sold by a series of private equity firms.)))
Today, it (((creates))) develops and designs diesel engine control systems. Its director travels widely overseas to drum up new business. (((president is a university graduate, as are all eighteen of its employees.)))
David, good to see you are back on the beat. I am in Haiti right now which sorely needs a larger middle class and hopefully with the new Prime Minister, Garry Conille that can be achieved. I look forward to this series. I also look forward to reading your new book, once I get back to the states.
LordCavendish, that was the GLOBAL "middle class" that was earning between $6 k and $30 k. I am sure $6 k in Africa in some areas is quite a bit. You'd think that would be good income in Haiti, but the cost of living here is very high, especially with all the NGO's in town.
"We just came back from China," Ron Bunch, the head of the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce, told me as he escorted Chinese investors around town. "We're starting an Indo-Kentucky Chamber of Commerce."
Should please the Indians, but his Chinese guests need to introduce him to Sino-.
I will be following your column. May it continue to leave me feeling a little bit more hopeful about our future/my future.
LordCavendish, don't you think that Americans demanding higher wages is what damaged the middle class in the first place. $6,000 will go a long way when you live in a 400sq ft. apartment, ride a bicycle, don't buy gasoline, or heat and cool a McMansion, have government health care and free education, and buy a new $500 cell phone every 2 years. Our expected standard of living and consumption patterns cost too much for our wage earners to be competitive in the global economy. If every municipality in the US saw themselves as part of a global economy our national economy would be much better off.
I think that the component lacking in the US Government, and Banking is stability. Without stability businesses like mine just stay where they are, keep the extra cash for any surprises from the Government or the Banks, and just exist. I hear the "Hire People" thing. How can you expand in an unstable market. Barak Obama does not understand stability, nor do the Yoyos in Congress. They listen to so many voices and dance aroung getting reelected so how would they ever get to a point of stability. If the Republicans can find a candidate with a stabile life and who is willing to do his own thing he is a shoo in to win. Same goes for Congressmen and
I am in agreeance with Calvin.
LordCavendish fails to read closely enough to see that the author labels those earning $6,000 to $30,0000 "emerging markets middle class" – which is not to be compared to the American poverty line. Although $6,000 is well below poverty line in America, Calvin makes a sound argument. The American standard of living is unsustainable. We need to realize that we are all part of the global community now and realize we are competing on a global level for jobs. Thus, we need to reform our tax code, regulatory environment, and bolster our spending (intelligently) on education, infrastructure, R&D, and energy independence to be competitive globally.
BTW, I wouldn't call an unemployment rate that is more than 100 basis points lower than than national average a "load of crap"
Bowling Green sounds like every single small college town in the United States of America. What is not mentioned is that if the economics and business departments in Bowling Green and across the United States were not bought out by global corporations and teaching worthless nonsense then America would not be in this situation. With high unemployment and unsustainable government spending at every level, it is clear that globalization has not benefited the majority of Americans.
David, good to see someone honing onto the importance of the global middle class and the impact they will have in future markets. Preparing for this rise in this consumer base now will undoubtedly give companies an edge later.
I hope you will develop this idea of American cities becoming more mindful of their role in the global context. Too often, people unintentionally corner themselves by thinking on a local level. For example, bloggers should know that as soon as they've created their site, it's already gone global. By assuming you only have a set audience group, you've already put yourself at a disadvantage.
It is also important to note that a global mindset is only one important factor to this development in Bowling Green. David points out a great point about the openness of the city. If we look at Philadelphia in the years after William Penn, the city was the only city along the east coast of America that welcomed all (what did Boston do to those unwelcomed? Salem witch trials. Maryland only allowed Catholics, and so on and so forth). After 1776, Philadelphia became the center for industry and development. All railways wanted to connect to Philly. Workers had significantly higher wages (and therefore standard of living) in Philly. New York was only beginning to be competitive. Today, we look at Australia's open policy on immigration and see how their population is growing at breakneck speaks, attracting huge amounts of human resource. Their economy is thriving and survived the recent recession relatively in tact. Standard of living across the nation is one of the highest in the world. Take a look at Shanghai, what I would call the new global city. The people in that city don't sell to their Chinese counterparts, they're selling to the world. Global corporations compete for a place in Shanghai. Bowling Green is on the right tract by attracting foreign investors. The next step that they might take, is foreign involvement.
"Globalization has not benefited the majority of Americans."
Well said.
Democracy ceases to exist in a system where 1% of the people own and control everything, including the media and government.
Calvin needs to read John Calvin.
If you want to see what can really work for a Global Middle Class I would suggest a very hard look at Argentina and some of the innovations there.
When the Argentine economy collapsed, many businesses were shuttered as not worth even auctioning off the equipment. The workers there knew that just making anything would build more wealth in the long run and so broke into the factories and went to work.
By electing "managers" from among their own numbers and making them true agents at equal pay to line workers and so improved efficiency as a result of actual two way communication. Removing the overburden of excess "Top Management" pay also went straight to the bottom line.
When the previous owners showed back up to claim the now quite profitable companies the Argentine Courts awarded them the value of the companies at the time they walked away and that was easily paid.
But since most of the value added by those owners in many cases was the ability to borrow the money for capital expenses, and the companies themselves were the primary collateral, they discovered that the Royal model of business was no more and perhaps less valid than the Democratic/Republican model. All that is needed is structure to allow that to happen.
By making an open system that would allow the folks working at every level to compete and innovate, in creating products from vehicles to solar equipment, but have a published standard so parts are interchangeable, and those combining the final product can pick from those many available.
In the early days of the PC anyone could build them in the garage, because of just this happening and so growth was explosive. By guarding against manipulation of the markets and creating such standards for US businesses with loan & tax advantage for worker ownership, there could be a total renaissance of the middle class.
Nice touch, Reuters, leaving editor strikeout text so we can see previous revisions and decide for ourselves if the editor's change was justified, lol.
It is OK for cheap manufactured Chinese goods, but should we get the ideology too?
Perhaps a little too much!
I wonder if any lobbying interest behind this kind of articles.
We need to tax offshore outsourcing, perhaps some "decent" jobs will come back.
The high philosophical moral and logic on peace and hospitality introduce by Confucius which had surpassed the Christianity is far beyond world's comprehension.
The space technology was stolen and confiscated from the Nazi pre and post war. The reason for western civilization been capable of launch the space plane against the soviet was because the original idea was taken from the Nazi scientist who had bad intension to enslave the world.
Of course, Chinese were the first one who invented the rocket which had overtaken the European culture. Not to mention the gunpowder which later modified by noble. Neither were out of bad intension, but both were for the celebration of the festival.
What have I been living for? Is it to realize a foreigners life or my own? To accept guilt for being alive?!! What have we grown up experiencing? I can not possibly accept guilt for the life I have lived!
The United States of America has contributed a tremendous amount of effort and innovation to improve living conditions for everone in the "global community". I believe that is to be celebrated greater than pointing to the differences caused by hedonists.
Free trade exports standards of living. Both ways. How could it not? Buy much, sell less, does that.
What we in the US call a Middle Class is wealth in many countries, but as we export our standard of living we will find ourselves converging with people whose cheap labor and pollution-generating industries we have exploited. However… our Middle Class has gained only what we bought; our Super Rich reaped what profits could accrue.
The real problem is that what we once called the "middle class" has lost self-government and become just another bunch of peasants ruled by aristocrats.
Our money needs to be under our control, not Wall Street's, not Washington's, not Beijing's. The dollar is simply priced to high. A Chevrolet Corvette is a good, fun car, but if you price it at $250,000. you will not sell many, nor make many, nor employ many. It is a matter of price.
If needed, we should abandon "free trade" and slap up tariff walls. We are a continental country and can manage if we must. So what if a bunch of rich people in New York can no longer try to boss the world around? What did they ever do for us? Export all our jobs and profit from it? Yeah. That's it.
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Previously: East Texas Burger Company
Typically in Texas (or across much of the U.S.) "Asian Cuisine" is usually found in strip mall buffets filled with radioactive red sweet sour & sauce and deep fried shrimp that would best be used as packing material. Occasionally though, you can find the rare cherry blossom tree among the thorny briar patch of subpar "Take All You Want, Eat All You Take" establishments. Which brings us to the Bamboo House in Bonham, TX:
The outside windows boast "Sushi" and "Pho" so that's what we decided to try. But the menu was fairly extensive and could surely provide enough options for the most eclectic groups of dining companions. So let's head inside:
The mellow, intimate atmosphere easily lends itself to cozy conversations regarding menu selections and topics like: "Wow, that looks good! Let me try some!" We got there a little after the lunch rush so the crowds had gone which makes it hard to gauge the quickness of service with very few other patrons needing to be served. But everything came out in a timely manner. So let's start with the first course:
Let's start with something simple: "Salmon Sushi." It's a simple starter that's reasonably priced but it sets the scene for a satisfying meal in the simplest way: with the high caliber ginger and wasabi. You might not think that there is a big difference between great garnishes and mediocre ones but the sinus clearing effect of even the tiniest amount of this wasabi proves that the good stuff makes a big difference. Let's keep eating:
Course #2: "Tuna Roll"! Sure, we're keeping it simple as far as sushi goes but it's not too hard to be hesitant when ordering raw fish this far away from the ocean. But fortunately this one was also a winner and could easily go toe to toe (or fin to fin) with the equivalent from some fancy pants place. Onward we go:
Final Course: "Pho Dac Biet" We finished off our meal with a big bowl of their famous pho described in the menu as "Rice noodle soup w. special combination of steak, well done brisket, & meatballs"
The great tasting, flavorful broth compliments the three types of meat, each with their own unique taste. It's a great finish to a not so common Texas meal and a great way to refuel on the road to your next adventure.


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South Africa has its own recent horrific rape-combined-with-mutilation-murder, and there are people who want that too to be a catalyst for outrage and change.
The gang-rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl in South Africa has triggered expressions of outrage from politicians and calls for Indian-style protests against a culture of sexual violence.
Anene Booysen was reportedly lured away from her friends and raped by a group of men. She was badly mutilated and left for dead on a building site in the town of Bredasdorp, 80 miles east of Cape Town, and found by a security guard on Saturday morning.
Hospital staff who fought to save her life were given counselling because of the horrific nature of her injuries, local media said. Before she died, Anene identified her former boyfriend as one of her attackers.
The former boyfriend certainly makes it interesting. Not stranger rape and murder, not random opportunistic rape and mutilation and murder, but personal, vindictive, possessive, angry rape and mutilation and murder.
Patrick Craven, spokesman for the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said: "When a very similar incident occurred in India recently, there was a massive outbreak of protest and mass demonstrations in the streets; it was a big story around the world. We must show the world that South Africans are no less angry at such crimes and make an equally loud statement of disgust and protest in the streets."
But such a display seems unlikely in a country where rights groups complain that rape has become normalised and lost the power to shock. In 2010-11, 56,272 rapes were recorded in South Africa, an average of 154 a day and more than double the rate in India.
The same thing is said of DR Congo – rape has become normalized there.
Lindiwe Mazibuko, parliamentary leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, said: "It is time to ask the tough questions that for too long we have avoided. We live in a deeply patriarchal and injured society where the rights of women are not respected. Indeed, there is a silent war against the children and women of this country – and we need all South Africans to unite in the fight against it."
Mazibuko vowed to table a motion in parliament to debate "the ongoing scourge" and said she would request special public hearings "so that we can begin a national dialogue on South Africa's rape and sexual violence crisis".
Such calls are bemusing to campaigners already working to combat such violence. Dumisani Rebombo, who was 15 when he raped a girl at his school in 1976, is now a gender equality activist. "We don't need a debate, we need action," he said. "My take is that more people need to say enough is enough, let's prevent this in our country. We don't need more recommendations. We need education. The question of debate is an insult."
Really. What is there to "debate"? What is there to have a "dialogue" about? Whether or not rape is bad?
Maybe Mazibuko just said it clumsily, but clearly Rebombo doesn't think so. Clearly he thinks South Africa should skip the "debate" and just say Stop.


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On Assignment: Olympus E-P2 takes to the streets of Louisville, KY
My photographic heroes have always been "straight shooters" – documentary, street/candid, and environmental portrait photographers – so when I was offered the chance to take the snazzy little Olympus E-P2 out for an On Assignment feature to see how it handled as a "street" camera after I finished with my full review, I was excited.
Like environmental portraiture, street shooting is a sub-genre of documentary photography, and is primarily concerned with people in natural or candid situations that evoke some aspect of the human condition. Street photography also focuses on the metropolitan environments people move through and the complex societies in which they function. Famous documentary photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau used compact 35mm cameras to capture many of the archetypical moments that defined 20th century European and North American society, history, and culture.
Rangefinders are small and unobtrusive cameras, yet they are very responsive in the hands of a skilled shooter, capable of generating images that are every bit as good as those produced by bigger, bulkier, and more conspicuous cameras. The gold standard for "street" cameras has always been the Leica rangefinder (generally equipped with a normal or moderate wide-angle lens).
The new Olympus E-P2 looks (and handles) a lot like those classic Leica IIIFs and M4s and the nifty collapsible 14-42mm Zuiko kit zoom is, in an eerily retro way, similar to the collapsible Leitz optics of some of those classic cameras of yore. Olympus also offers an f/2.8 17mm prime lens, and there are two new lenses – a 9-14mm zoom and a 14-150mm zoom in the works. Both should be available in the late spring or early summer of 2010.
The elegant little E-P2 is a purpose-built reincarnation of the Olympus Pen "F" series of film cameras and it looks (and behaves) a lot like those classic imaging tools from the rangefinder era. The E-P2's 3.0 inch (230k) HyperCrystal II LCD screen is large, sharp, hue accurate, fluid, and has a 176 degree viewing angle – which is just about perfect for surreptitiously framing and composing images.
Olympus includes a new clip-on electronic viewfinder, the VF2, which provides a 100 percent view with 1.15x magnification. Olympus also offers a clip-on, non-coupled optical viewfinder, (the VF1) similar to those featured on old rangefinder cameras. The E-P2 features a maximum sensitivity of ISO 6400 (good for available light shooting in dimly lit indoor venues), sensor shift image stabilization, and full manual control over aperture and shutter speed. Unlike photographers in the old days, today's street shooters have the option to shoot HD video (AVI format – 1280×720 pixels at 30 fps) – and adjust color saturation, contrast, white balance, and sensitivity in-camera.
I had already learned a great deal about the E-P2 while shooting with it while I was writing my standard review of the camera. The most important of those discoveries was the E-P2's dependable color accuracy and the precision of its metering and the efficacy of its white balance system.
Over the last couple of weeks, we've had some really nasty weather in Louisville; unseasonably cold with more than a foot of snow. I shoot a lot at a handful of my favorite local spots; Cave Hill Cemetery, the local extreme sports park, and the Bardstown Road/Baxter Avenue corridor.
Cave Hill is buried beneath more than a foot of snow. The bowls, full pipe, and half-pipe at the deserted skate park are half filled with melting slush and the Highlands neighborhood is almost devoid of outdoor activity (aside from an occasional scurrying pedestrian bundled up against the bitter cold). Clearly, I was going to have to adapt to shooting with the little E-P2 in an almost arctic environment.
The E-P2 may look retro, but (like many of those supposedly unergonomic cameras from the golden era) it responds almost as if it were an extension of the photographer. In hand, the little E-P2 feels just right. All controls are logically placed and come easily to hand. The E-P2 hangs nicely and not too heavily around the neck when the included neck strap is used. Micro Four Thirds cameras, like the E-P2, behave as if they were a combination of a point and shoot digicam and a DSLR. They are compact and have a simpler user interface and are designed to primarily use the live view LCD for framing and composition – like P&S digicams. Like DSLRs, they have larger sensors than most P&S digicams (which means better image quality), the flexibility to shoot in manual mode, and the ability to mount interchangeable lenses.
The E-P2 works beautifully as a street camera. Simply put the camera in Program mode, choose auto White Balance and Auto Sensitivity (ISO) and hit the street. When compared to the classic Pen SLRs it is descended from, the E-P2's menu system may seem a bit cluttered, but photography was much simpler back in the day and veteran 35mm film shooters didn't have nearly as many options as photographers do now.
That said, users can shift into the E-P2's super control mode by pressing the OK button at the center of the compass switch and then pressing the info button. The E-P2's LCD screen displays all camera settings and exposure parameters at a glance (check quickly – the display doesn't stay up long) without resorting to the menu – allowing users to change settings through the compass switch.
When I took the E-P2 on assignment I decided that Bardstown Road, in the heart of Louisville's old Highlands neighborhood, was the best place to start. During the '60s and '70s, Bardstown Road was the epicenter of our local counterculture. Times have changed, but here and there a bit of the old Bardstown Road survives. Street shooters have a two-mile collection of laid back bars, unique restaurants, and funky shops. The sidewalks are busy with shoppers, pedestrians, musicians, artists, skateboarders, and street people.
An early destination was the Leatherhead, owned by one of Bardstown Road's original hippie entrepreneurs, a guy who's been selling his handcrafted leather wares from the same shop for about 40 years. Nick is an interesting guy and he's always been a good subject for an environmental portrait or two. When I walked in, I noticed him standing in a beam of bright window light toward the back of his narrow work area and brought the E-P2 up and framed tightly and snapped a picture.
Many digital cameras would have encountered problems capturing quality images indoors in a dimly lit indoor venue with bright window lighting, but the snazzy little E-P2 handled this available light situation very nicely, although there is some minor visible burnout in Nick's beard.
I carried the snazzy little E-P2 around for several days and captured a broad range of pictures: street shots, street scenes, environmental portraits, and documentary images. The EP-2 is a 21st century reincarnation of the "street" cameras of yore. After spending some quality time with the E-P2 I believe that Jim Marshall would have felt right at home shooting The Rolling Stones up close and personal with this classy little rangefinder clone. I can imagine Gary Winogrand wandering the walkways of Central Park with the elegant E-P2 in hand and it's easy to see Henri Cartier-Bresson wandering the back streets of Paris with the E-P2 hanging around his neck.
The Olympus Digital Pen E-P2 was clearly designed by photographers for photographers and it is a first-rate image-making tool for adventurous shooters who want to channel the spirits of compelling documentary photographers like Dorothea Lange – even high ISO indoor images are sharp and clean looking – with accurate colors and good contrast. Some reviewers have complained that the E-P2's AF is a bit slow, but it didn't cause me any grief; this is a very responsive camera. I give the classy little E-P2 this camera reviewer's highest award: I really hated to send the camera back to Olympus.


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Sunday, March 26, 2017
One of those weeks where loads of things were started, but none were finished. This week was dedicated almost exclusively to working on the entity system in the LT Core. This is, as we've found out from previous experience, where we'll either make or break LT's performance. Sadly, it'll be a rather bland log since I don't have all the solutions yet (getting these particular bits structured correctly is of utmost importance). I'll describe my work-in-progress nonetheless. On a side note, it's been a pretty rough week for me due to unfortunate events in my personal life, so forgive me if I'm not as enthusiastic as usual.
Entity Component System in C: In progress. I've been running through lots and lots of ideas on how to structure this bit, since, again, it's part of the overarching entity system that's going to make or break performance. I'm experimenting with several different architectures at the moment. Component-based entities are no doubt the right way to go in games (as opposed to big inheritance chains and/or multiple inheritance), but with them, the devil is in the details. Trade-offs are everywhere. Do we want to be able to add or remove components dynamically? Perhaps not -- but if not, can we still define new types of objects from script efficiently? If not -- can we define a 'generic enough' set of prefab entity types to support all that we want to do from Lua? Should we prefer structure-of-arrays format to save instruction cache misses, or array-of-structures format to save data cache misses (most people people assume the former when speaking of component-based entities; I'm not completely convinced.) Basically, there are a lot of choices to be made here that will have far-reaching consequences for both how gameplay is written in Lua as well as how performant everything is. Only time and experimentation is going to tell which set of choices are optimal
Notification/Event System: In progress. I spoke in the last log about my excitement for handling gameplay in a fundamentally different way using event-driven programming. I've started implementing the machinery for it in the core and have a few basic event types defined, although I can't test this system effectively until the entity component system is stable. Nonetheless, the more I get into the implementation and the more I shift my mindset to using events rather than 'polling,' the more comfortable I feel about LT's performance. I'm still absolutely convinced that we're going to see incredible results from this paradigm shift! When speaking about FPLT, I've often explained how the performance problems that arose in the old LT were, at their core, due to the sheer number of entities requiring simulation, resulting in a 'death by a thousand papercuts' situation. When the event system is complete, number of entities will no longer be the problem, because any entities that don't require computation on any given frame won't take up a single CPU cycle!
Scripting: I've had some revelations this week about my usage of Lua. In particular, I think I'm using it sub-optimally with respect to scripting the behavior of entities. I have a new idea that I've yet to get around to testing that involves binding an entity's local Lua state very tightly to the C Entity structure. When implemented, this will result in, essentially, me being able to turn off Lua's GC and manage memory explicitly, which will be a huge win. It will also solve the problem of how best to 'wrap' the core entity data with extra scripted data. However, until implemented, I won't know if the memory overhead of this approach will be a deal-breaker or not. I doubt it will be.
Lua...JIT..??: More performance tests this week yielded some startling news: the JIT part of LuaJIT is hardly helping at all. Turning it off entirely results in almost the same performance. This is both good and bad news. The bad news is that I'm obviously using LuaJIT sub-optimally (and it may have to do with the above point). The good news is that if such is the case, then there's more perf waiting to be squeezed out of the LJ parts of the code! I honestly just need to come to a better understanding of Lua and LJ, and perform more measurements to see what's up.
Physics Engine: In progress. Lots and lots of thinking time put into it this week. It's a toughie, but I'm going to nail it sooner than later Just wanted to give it a mention since a large amount of brainpower was spent on it.
LT @ NOEW: On Thursday I showed LT off in New Orleans at the 'New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week' event (check it). Since it was less amenable to interaction than the previous events, I wrote a new 'cinematic camera' that flies around a system, smoothly moving and panning while looking for interesting things to look at. Yes, my demo was, essentially, 'Limit Theory Screensaver' It was quite lovely and I got very positive feedback on the aesthetics (of course, that's not of particular consequence; we already know LT looks great...the being really fun part is more important now!) One guy even mentioned that he used to love playing Freelancer, and was excited because LT looked like a modern version of it. Naturally this made my day
In the coming week I'll just be continuing with all of this work and, if the fates align, perhaps even finishing some of it. The day where we leave FPLT in the dust is fast approaching
PS ~ To those who voiced their concern at the last log: my sleeping patterns were significantly more regular this week Don't worry, I did learn my lesson
Hey everyone! This is Talvieno, ready to serve up your non-technical summary!
Josh first mentioned that he's been working on how objects (entities) are designed in the code. In code, an "entity" could be a ship, or a station, or an asteroid, for instance, and could all use the same base code. Josh is working on designing this "entity code" so it will run as fast as possible, because with so many "entities" in the game, the quality of this code will really decide what kind of frame rate you see. He's not sure of the best way to do it yet, but he's making steady progress.
Something else Josh worked on: the "notification/event system" lets the program decide where it can safely (temporarily!) forget about things like ships to save even more frame rate (e.g. if a ship is idling, the game doesn't necessarily need to think about that ship all the time). LT runs fast, sure - but that's on his beefy machine. He wants it even faster.
As to LuaJIT (the scripting language that modders can use), Josh discovered that he was using it sub-optimally - kind of like if you were using a paintbrush with the wrong kind of paint. (It's a poor analogy, but hopefully you get the idea.) He's working on fixing that too, again for more performance improvements.
Finally, Josh took an "LT screensaver" to NOEW - the New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week event. This "LT screensaver" had a ship that flew around and looked at things in a system. People loved it, even though they couldn't actually play. Josh was quite pleased with this.
tl;dr: Josh is working on performance improvements so that almost anyone can run LT.
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Sunday, March 26, 2017
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right." ~ Henry Ford


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"Café con leche, please." Memorize that request for the Cuban version of a latte and you'll feel at home in Miami, which sports an international ambience with a decidedly Latin American twist.
"Café con leche, please." Memorize that request for the Cuban version of a latte and you'll feel at home in Miami, which sports an international ambience with a decidedly Latin American twist.
Home to South Beach, where "Miami Vice" was filmed, celebrity hangouts and SoBe
Just for Kids
The Everglades National Park, nps.gov/ever
Everglades Safari Park, www.evsafaripark.com
Miami Metrozoo, www.miamimetrozoo.com
Fruit and Spice Park, www.fruitandspicepark.org
Parrot Jungle, www.jungleisland.com
Miami Skylift Balloon, www.miamiskylift.com
Monkey Jungle, www.monkeyjungle.com
Miami Seaquarium, www.miamiseaquarium.com
Expensive: Loews Miami Beach, loewshotels.com
Moderate: Four Points Sheraton Miami Beach, FourPoints.com/MiamiBeach
Budget friendly: Extensive list at sunny.org, Fort Lauderdale's tourism site
style, it all boils down to a relaxed upscale vacation spot. A few miles north, Fort Lauderdale offers endless sandy beaches and its own cultural attractions.
All the beaches in Fort Lauderdale and Miami offer a sun-drenched respite full of soft sand, clear blue waters and fanning palm trees, but each beach also offers a distinctive experience.
To see the young and the beautiful, Lummus Park Beach (South Beach) is the place. You may feel out of place if you forget your thong bikini, or you may just have to buy one.
Want to shed all inhibitions? Head over to Haulover Beach, where bathing suits are not needed at all.
For family-friendly fun, try Hollywood Beach and its 2.5-mile Broadwalk, which is great for walking and biking.
Shopaholic, beware!
The choices are so staggering that it may be wise to leave your credit card at home.
If you like boutiques, browse the unique goods on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. The Galleria, with the likes of Neiman Marcus and Saks, is nearby.
For funky young clothes, nothing beats Lincoln Park Mall in South Beach.
Perched between Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Aventura Mall offers a leisurely indoor shopping experience. The Bal Harbour Shops may be out of many price ranges, but it's fun to contemplate Bulgari jewelry and Hermes scarves at this lovely landscaped spot. The restaurants and cafes are a perfect place to hang out and watch others spend their large disposable incomes.
Finally, the enormous Sawgrass Mills outlet mall is in Sunrise, a few miles west of Fort Lauderdale. It's for the more practical-minded shopper but not for the faint of heart; go there if you can shop with the determination of a marathon runner.
Millionaires, yachts and more
A leisurely drive down Collins Avenue, aka "Millionaires Row," reveals a bevy of luxurious sky-high buildings that shimmer in the sun, commanding dual views of the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Creek.
These condos usually come with valet parking and a boat slip for the owner's yacht. For a slightly more distant view of even more fantastic wealth, take the sightseeing boat cruise from Bayside Market, which passes the aptly named Star Island, home to 35 mansions of the rich and famous.
The marina at Indian Creek is the site of boating events in February, the time of year when yacht owners sail into Miami to sell their luxury vessels, upgrade or just commune with the other super-wealthy yacht owners. Check out Showmanagement.com to learn about the Yacht and Brokerage Show and miamiboatshow.com for the Miami International Boat Show, both Feb. 14-18.