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such that $f_2 = 12, f_3 = 24$ and so on.
I tried out a lot but due to $(-1)^n$ I am not able to solve this recurrence? Any help will be highly appreciated.
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In Spring 2010, four undocumented students trekked 1,500 miles from Miami to Washington to press passage of the Dream Act, a bill that would offer a path to permanent residency for immigrants who came to the country as minors and achieved certain educational accomplishments. Moved by their courage, Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist who was part of the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize winning team for their coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting, revealed that he, too, was an undocumented immigrant in an essay published by the New York Times Magazine last June.
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I already have 12Gb; so, that is not a solution. Others have suggested $HistoryLength = 0, which works. On the other hand, mvary = . did not change the amount of memory in use at all. I guess acceptability of the memory/crash problem depends on your point of view. If indeed the ability to access previous outputs is important to the way you work (it is not to me), then I can see why it needs to be there even though it could lead to a crash in extreme cases like mine. However, the ability to limit this with $HistoryLength gives flexibility to the user. I do not make use of the whole In[] Out[] thing, and, in fact, turn those labels off in all my notebooks. Kevin On 6/2/2012 5:48 AM, Ralph Dratman wrote: > Solution: install more memory in your computer? > > That answer is sort of a wisecrack, but in real life, my Mac Mini now > has 8 GB of RAM for the benefit of Mathematica -- yet the program > still somehow manages to fill up memory and crash. That is why I keep > glancing at the desktop memory monitor. If memory is almost full, I > can usually stop Mathematica before things get really serious. > > That said, my experience has been that disposing of variables (using > myvar=.) does help quite a bit. But I am not reading files very often. > In your case, maybe something about reading a file is making it harder > to free the memory used. > > By the way, in case you might be thinking that this whole crash > problem is pretty unacceptable behavior for an app that sells for a > lot of money in 2012.... yeah, you're right, it is. > > Ralph > > > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Kevin J. McCann<kjm at kevinmccann.com> wrote: >> I am dealing with some good sized data sets from satellite data. These >> data are stored in hdf format. The problem is that I process a sequence >> of these data sets by Importing and then processing; however, it seems >> that the memory usage grows with each Import, even if I Remove the data. >> >> Here is a somewhat simplified example: >> >> MemoryInUse[] (* some data already read in *) >> 2781549920 >> >> Data=Import[fileName,"Data"]; (* import a new data set *) >> MemoryInUse[] >> 3302168936 >> >> Data=Import[fileName,"Data"];(* import it again *) >> MemoryInUse[] >> 3822781920 >> >> Remove[Data] (* this has no effect on the memory usage *) >> MemoryInUse[] >> 3822787840 >> >> As you can see, I will shortly run out of memory. Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kevin >> >
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Jon Karl Dares to Grill Obama on Syria: 'It's a Pretty Basic Question'
In a break from the usual softballs that Barack Obama receives at news conferences, the President on Friday endured some tough questions, including a testy exchange with ABC's Jon Karl. The White House correspondent pressed Obama, looking for a "direct response" to a previous question: Will the U.S. launch strikes against Syria, regardless of whether Congress approves it?
Obama lectured, "And you're not getting a direct response. Brianna [Keilar of CNN] asked the question very well. You know?" Karl shot back, "It's a pretty basic question." [MP3 audio here.] An annoyed Obama, in Russia for the G20 meeting, complained, "Did you think that I was going to give you a different answer? No."
NBC's Chuck Todd, mentioning how the American mood is shifting against strikes, wondered, "And it seems as if the more you press your case, the more John Kerry presses the case on your behalf, the more the opposition grows...Why do you think you've struggled with that?"
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Major Garrett of CBS News questioned if the public tide against the President had impacted his thinking: "I wonder if you leave here and return to Washington seeing the skepticism there, hearing it here, that might delay military action?"
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JULIE PACE (AP): Thank you, Mr. President. You mentioned the number of countries condemned the use of chemical weapons, but your advisers also say you're leaving this summit with a strong number of countries backing your call for military action. President Putin just a short time ago indicated a short time ago it may only be a handful of countries including France and Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Can you tell us, publicly, what countries are backing your call for military action and did you change any minds here? President Putin also mentioned your meeting with him earlier today. Can you tell us how that came about and did you also discuss both Syria and Edward Snowden? Thank you.
BRIANNA KEILAR: Mr. President, on the resolution to authorize the use of force, one of the big challenges right now isn't just Republicans. But it's from some of your loyal Democrats. It seems the more they hear from classified briefings, that the less likely they are to support you. If the full Congress doesn't pass this, will you go ahead with the strike? And also Senator Susan Collins, one of the few Republicans who breaks with her party to give you support at times, she says, "what if we execute the strike and then Assad decides to use chemical weapons again? Do we strike again? And many Democrats are asking that as well. How do you answer her question?"
KEILAR: Just to follow-up. Unless you have full congressional approval– What if the Senate votes yes and the House does not? Would you go ahead with the strike?
OBAMA: You know, Briana, I think it would be a mistake for me to jump the gun and speculate because, right now, I'm working to get as much support as possible out of Congress.
CHUCK TODD: I want to follow up on Brianna's question, because it seems these members of Congress are responding to their constituents and you're seeing a lot of these town halls. And it seems as if the more you press your case, the more John Kerry presses the case on your behalf, the more the opposition grows or maybe it's just the more the opposition becomes vocal, why do you think you've struggled with that? And you keep talking about a limited mission. We have a report that indicates you've actually asked for an expanded list of targets in Syria and one military official told NBC News, characterized it at mission creep. Can you respond to that report?
JON KARL: Thank you, Mr. President. One of your closest allies in the House said yesterday, "When you've got 97 percent of your constituents saying no, it's kind of hard to say yes." Why should members of Congress go against the will of their constituents and support your decision on this? And I still haven't heard a direct response to Brianna's question. If Congress fails to authorize this, will you go forward with an attack on Syria?
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I wonder if you leave here and return to Washington seeing the skepticism there, hearing it here, that might delay military action? For example, some in Congress giving the Syria regime 45 days to sign the chemical weapons convention, get rid of its chemical stockpiles. Do something to enhance international sense of accountability for Syria, but delay military action. Are you, Mr. President, looking at any of these ideas or are we on a fast track to military action as soon as Congress renders its judgment one way or another?
GARRETT: So, currently, the only way to enforce this international norm is militarily and even giving the Assad regime extra time wouldn't achieve your goals?
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Let The Stanley Cup Playoffs Begin!
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Yeah, they'd get it: you're a geek :).ReplyDelete
I'm just a bitter britches b/c my canes didn't make it.
- Anonymous9:46 AM, April 10, 2008
I'm with ya Lofty, nothing like a good first round playoff hockey game. Go Thrashers!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:21 AM, April 10, 2008
You could always try this speech:ReplyDelete
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard...long pause]
Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT!
- Anonymous11:29 AM, April 10, 2008
Pathetic. Obviously, there are no statistics classes required as med school pre-reqs.ReplyDelete
It is truly scary that statistical/mathematical illiterates like you advocate clinical trial based, evidence based medicine. I weep for the future. Weep.
Ted Lindsay STILL RULES. Wings all the Way!ReplyDelete
Jane, who lives in Calgary and is thus surrounded by patsy Flames fans.
Folks, you have to remember that I would be talking to Canadiens! They would obviously not get the math, but would be so fired up they would be ready to skate on the ice and shoot the puck 100 miles an hour and knock the bejesus out of Nashville.ReplyDelete
etotheipi-that is one of my favorite movies ever!ReplyDelete
GO WINGS! Congrats on having the best record in the NHL and winning the President's trophy. Now lets go win Lord Stanley's Mug!!! Hockeytown Rules!ReplyDelete
No way did you do the whole scene from NLAH. Props. Made me giggle.
- Anonymous2:18 PM, April 10, 2008
that randomized clinical trials stuff is a bunch of crap! I pick my medicines by which drug company has the hottest saleswomen thankyou very much.
Frank, just ignore Richter. She's a little troll in high school who just got banned over at panda bear's. I suppose she's looking for more targets.ReplyDelete
haha wow. I should say that at our next soccer game :PReplyDelete
Richter, after reading your previous posts, let me tell you something. If you ever want to put the skates on, I will pull your pink jersey over your head and start kicking your little gutless ASS before you know what hit you. That would be you in red, BIATCH!!ReplyDelete
Jeez, why are you so hostile? Go get an MD if you're so fucking superior.
- Anonymous6:21 PM, April 10, 2008
I just got back from a Chemistry Conference and now my head hurts more than when I left. Thank you Zahari, and American AirlinesReplyDelete
amy- Wait, wait, wait, richter's a chick?ReplyDelete
I would want my team to give 87-91 percent 95 percent of the time, so that if they needed that extra 9-13% (say, in overtime, which happens 5 percent of the time) they would have it, and could even give 109-113% for brief periods, and sacrifice the beginning of the next game giving only, say 86 percent for the first 10 minutes.ReplyDelete
What is this thing you call "hockey"? Your ways confuse the CAT.ReplyDelete
giving 110% means giving your 100% and taking 10% of the other guys'...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:40 PM, April 11, 2008
Go Wings! Detroit is a great sports city...too bad the rest of it is so Fxxxxx up, with the hip-hop mayor and his posse! Glad I'm living in the burbs.ReplyDelete
Out here in California nobody seems that interested in hockey or football: Our sports are plastic surgery and internet dating.ReplyDelete
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Library addition stirs discussion
The Haines Borough Public Library Board is pursuing plans to construct a 600-square-foot addition to the library, but whether borough funds will be used to design the project is under debate.
Library board chair Anne Marie Palmieri said the group has been talking about the addition for the past two years but recently approached the borough, asking that $55,000 in borough funds previously allocated to a separate library project be reallocated for design of the addition.
The $55,000 was set aside several years ago for construction of a heated storage unit at the library.
Palmieri said the addition is primarily to add work space for employees. The board's plan is to fund construction of the project through outside sources like grants, she said.
"When the library was constructed, there were significantly fewer staff members and right now we have all of the staff desks really piled up on top of each other in the back room... It's a shared work space, but it's really a hallway, and there's no place to do any of the book binding or mending. That has to be done on the same counter where the microwave is," Palmieri said.
Public facilities director Carlos Jimenez said he understands the 600-square-foot addition would include a conference room that could be used by both library staff and the public. The addition would be positioned in the space between the library and borough administration building, Jimenez said.
The borough's finance committee discussed reappropriating the $55,000 as part of a larger budget amendment package during an April 15 finance committee meeting.Haines Borough assembly member and finance committee chair Jerry Lapp balked at the requested change.
"The CIP was for a storage shed. This is totally different," Lapp said.
"We're going into what you might call a little tougher economic times and they're expanding, which is in the end going to cost us more money to pay for that expansion... Do we need to do this at this time?" Lapp added.
The $55,000 price tag also raised the eyebrows of assembly member and finance committee member Debra Schnabel.
"I can't approve of it. I think that if it was $55,000 for heated storage, and if we reappropriate $10,000 of it for design, that somehow would make a little bit more sense to me... I'm looking at $55,000 in design work. It's a huge amount of design work," Schnabel said.
Lapp discussed striking the reappropriation from the budget amendment, but the committee decided to seek more information on the project. The assembly will ultimately vote on the amendment and decide whether to reappropriate the $55,000 for the addition.
Mayor Stephanie Scott said she believes the library board and assembly members need to get on the same page. "The library board has spent an enormous amount of time crafting this project and we're unaware. They haven't given us a written track of that craft. So I don't think we need to be too judgmental right now. We can just say we don't have enough information," she said.
Jimenez said because the project is still very conceptual, he could not provide an estimated price tag. Manager Mark Earnest said design expenses normally account for 7 to 10 percent of a project's total budget.
"A half-million dollar addition is what this amounts to, at a minimum," Earnest said.
Jimenez said he started talking with library representatives three or four months ago. The group looked at several conceptual drawings of the addition, produced by Larry Larson at Deadtree Design, but hasn't settled on anything yet, Jimenez said.
Because the library wasn't designed with additions in mind, plans for such an addition need to be made very carefully, Palmieri said. For example, plans will need to retain access to an underground fuel tank or the tank will need to be moved elsewhere, she said.
"We are trying to be very conscientious and look at this in a realistic capacity," Palmieri said.


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Ripe's Eggplant Romesco Rigatoni
Treat your eggplant right and good things will come to you. Treat it badly and well, according to Cheryl Sternman Rule, author of Ripe, you'll end up with a oily, sloppy mess.
This Eggplant Romesco Rigatoni treats the meaty eggplant very well indeed, roasting it with onions and peppers before blending it with tomatoes and toasted almonds for an amazing pasta sauce that just to happens to be vegan.
What Worked: Transforming a classic Catalan sauce into to a pasta topper is a great move. The eggplant lends a great meatiness to this vegan meal.
What Didn't: This sauce is a keeper, no problems here.
Suggested Tweaks: Romesco can be used as a dip or a sauce for seafood. We envision ourselves going that route with the leftovers.
Reprinted with permission from Ripe by Cheryl Sternman Rule. Copyright © 2012. Published by Running Press. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
- Yield:serves 6
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:1 hour
- 2 dried pasilla or ancho chile peppers
- 1 globe eggplant (about 1 pound), unpeeled, cut in large dice
- 2 medium red bell peppers, cut in large dice
- 1/2 medium red onion, quartered
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided, plus additional for drizzling
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes
- 1/3 cup whole almonds
- 1 slice country-style or sourdough bread
- 1/2 cup minced fresh Italian parsley
- 1 pound freshly cooked rigatoni, 1/2 cup of pasta water reserved for serving
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Set the dried chiles in a bowl and add boiling water just to cover. Weight with a small ramekin to keep the chiles submerged. Set aside.
Place the eggplant, bell peppers, onion, and garlic on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons of the oil, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Rub the seasonings in with your fingers. Spread the vegetables in a single layer.
Dump the tomatoes and their juices in a medium baking dish. Set both the baking sheet and the baking dish on separate oven racks and roast until the eggplant and peppers have browned, about 30 minutes, stirring everything twice. Remove everything from the oven and reduce the temperature to 350°F.
Allow the eggplant mixture to cool for 5 minutes, then scrape into the bowl of a food processor fitted with the metal blade. Place the almonds and the bread on the same baking sheet and brush the bread on both sides with the remaining olive oil. Toast in the oven, flipping the bread halfway through, about 8 minutes total. Break the bread into pieces.
While the bread and nuts cool, drain, stem, seed, and rough-chop the chiles and add them to the food processor. Add the nuts, bread, and tomatoes with any residual juices as well. Purée until smooth. Serve with hot rigatoni, adding a bit of pasta water (1 tablespoon at a time) to thin the sauce, if desired, and garnishing each portion with parsley and a final drizzle of olive oil.
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It's hard to sum up a whole year in a few words. Not only were there both successes and disappointments, but for those of us lucky enough to work at the Royal Opera House, there was also all the work backstage to put the productions together. In a way, this is the biggest highlight of all: being allowed to work at the Royal Opera House means working with talented and passionate colleagues, and constantly meeting a flux of some of the world's leading artists coming to work with us.
That said, I've picked out a few of my highlights of 2013:
Les Vêpres siciliennes
Introducing Norwegian director Stefan Herheim to UK audiences was something I was hugely looking forward to, and with him and Antonio Pappano getting on like a house on fire for Les Vêpres siciliennes, it was every bit as exciting as I'd hoped for. I was also the very first ever live presenter for a Royal Opera live cinema relay when Vêpres went out to audiences around the world – a wonderful way of sharing our work with tens of thousands around the world.
Directing Eugene Onegin
Directing Eugene Onegin was very special. Getting to work with all the people on the stage, in the chorus and orchestra, I felt like I had finally really arrived at the ROH. Although many audiences and critics did not like the production, I was also lucky to get a large number of very positive and passionate responses. Dividing opinion is not necessarily bad, when we talk about artistic work. I enjoy engaging and discussing with our audiences, both when I agree and when I don't.
Written on Skin
Maybe the highlight of the whole 2012–13 Season for me was the overwhelming success of the UK premiere of George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's Written on Skin, which we co-commissioned. I have a passion for new music and it is always fascinating to watch a new work come to the stage, but it is rare for it to immediately capture the imagination of an audience in the way Written on Skin did.
Intense moments
During the autumn Wozzeck, Parsifal, Le nozze di Figaro and Elektra made for some very intense moments – and full houses! Simon Keenlyside's troubled Wozzeck and Mark Elder's impressive reading of Berg's score were wonderful, while Christine Goerke, Adrianne Pieczonka and Andris Nelsons's performances in Elektra are still ringing in my ears. Andris, Mark and Tony Pappano drew incredible performances from the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, who seems to be on better form than ever before, and the Royal Opera Chorus made us all so proud in Parsifal.
Outreach work making a difference
Some of the things that make ROH very special do not necessarily get noticed by the general public. The Learning and Participation team at ROH are fantastic, and although some of their projects make a very visible impact, they do great work 'under the radar' too. Following the work of the Youth Opera Company, and seeing older people from community centres and housing schemes coming to ROH for the first time to sing together were just two examples of how it feels like ROH can make a difference.
Taking on the Linbury
During 2013, The Royal Opera took over the programming of all opera work in the Linbury Studio Theatre, which feels like a natural and important thing for us to do. It was wonderful to have as potent a piece as Gerald Barry's Importance of Being Earnest in Ramin Gray's strong production to start off the new era.
Other notable mentions
Some other highlights deserve a mention: the incredible singing in La donna del lago, Richard Jones's brilliant insights in Gloriana and Gerald Finley's deeply moving Amfortas in Parsifal.
Here's hoping that 2014 will offer many more highlights. The first new production of the new year will be my own take on Mozart's Don Giovanni, and I can't wait to get my hands dirty once again!
What were your Royal Opera highlights of 2013?


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Fried Eggs, Red Pepper Flakes, Garlic, And Herbs Pasta
I love the simplicity and the flavors of this Fried Eggs, Red Pepper Flakes, Garlic, And Herbs Pasta. Sounds like a mouthful, I know; but, rest assured it's an effortless recipe from Dean And Deluca's cookbook. This will definitely come in handy when you need to cook-up a pasta meal quickly that's really delicious. The addition of fragrant fried eggs really makes this pasta's distinctive and tasty flavors. Try it!
Recipe adapted from The Dean & Deluca Cookbook
Fried Eggs, Red Pepper Flakes, Garlic, And Herbs Pasta
1 lb Bucatini or any long pasta
3 Tbsp Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
2 Tbsp Unsalted Butter
2 Large Garlic Cloves, thinly sliced
4 Large Eggs (preferably from free-range chicken)
Coarse or Maldon Sea Salt to taste
Crushed Hot Red Pepper Flakes to taste
½ Cup Freshly Grated Parmigiano-Reggiano plus additional as an accompaniment
¼ Cup Minced Fresh Parsley
1 Tbsp Minced Fresh Oregano or Sage
While the pasta for this dish is cooking, heat the olive oil and butter in a large skillet over moderate heat. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add the eggs and cook, sunny-side up, basting with a spoon, for 2 to 3 minutes without turning, or until the eggs are just done (the yolks remain runny). Remove the pan from the heat and sprinkle eggs with salt and red pepper flakes.
You must time this dish so that the pasta is ready as soon as the eggs are done. Place the pasta on a serving platter and toss with Parmigiano-Reggiano, additional red pepper flakes, and parsley. Pour the contents of the egg pan, including the oil, butter, and garlic, onto the pasta. Garnish pasta and eggs with oregano or sage and serve immediately. Pass the additional Parmigiano-Reggiano at the table.
Serves 4
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Jays hits four home runs in sending Sox to their eighth loss in the last 12 games.
BOSTON – The Red Sox continued their pursuit of second place in the AL East with another ugly defeat, this time by 10-4 at the arms and bats of the last-place Blue Jays Monday night.
The difference between a slump and a collapse is the calendar.
The Red Sox were 8-11 in late April and early May — that was a slump. They had plenty of time to recover from it and they did. What's happening now — it has the potential to be a collapse, an ugly one like in 1974, '78 or 2011.
A few more games should tell the story. A few more games like this and Boston will be scrambling for a wild-card spot, let alone first place.
Boston, which led the Yankees in the East by 5 1/2 games as recently as Thursday morning, has seen that advantage reduced by more than 50 percent. New York won an afternoon game and is 2 1/2 back.
The Red Sox have lost three in a row, four of five and are 4-8 in their last 12.
Boston never led this one, thanks in large part to starter Rick Porcello, who surrendered a three-run homer to Kendrys Morales in the top of the first. The Jays hit four all told, three off Porcello and one off Matt Barnes. Red Sox starters Drew Pomeranz, Chris Sale and Porcello are 0-3 with a 8.40 ERA in the last three games and have given up eight homers.
"What's surprising is the number of balls going out of the ballpark," Farrell said.
"I'm disappointed in my performance," Porcello said, "and take full responsibility for our loss tonight. ... We flat out got our (butts) kicked."
Porcello has already surrendered 35 home runs, tied for fourth most in Red Sox history, and should make four or five more starts. He could easily break the record of 38, set by Tim Wakefield in 1996. Heck, the way things are going, Porcello could tie it or break it in his next start.
It's a good thing he won't have to face J.D. Martinez before the season ends.
The loss dropped Porcello's record to 9-16, and he is the first Boston pitcher to lose 16 games since 1980 when Mike Torrez, a name that can still bring on a cold sweat for longtime Sox fans, also went 9-16. In fact, only two Sox hurlers in the last 51 years have lost 16 games. Ray Culp is the other. He was 14-16 in 1971.
Morales, Jose Bautista, Raffy Lopez and Justin Smoak homered for the Jays. Nobody homered for the Red Sox, and that has been a problem all year and a deadly problem during the slump.
Boston's offense is built around getting multiple men on base and singling and doubling them in, or hoping for the occasional passed ball and bases loaded walk. The Sox stranded 10 Monday night, including at least one in each of the first eight innings. Five of those LOBs were men in scoring position.
Porcello was bad, but Mookie Betts came up with five men on and did not drive in one. Hanley Ramirez had a hit, but it was a so-what single and he stranded three men on base. Xander Bogaerts came up with seven runners on and did not drive in a run.
Starter J.A. Happ was the winning pitcher for Toronto. He improved to 7-10 with 5 2/3 solid innings. The Jays played without manager John Gibbons, who is attending to a personal issue. Ex-Sox bench coach DeMarlo Hale is in charge and did a great job instructing his team to swing often and hard almost every time a Boston pitcher threw the ball.
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Hey--just got back from Rainfurrest 2008 last night. I thought I'd give you guys a report.
The Setup
The con had an aviation theme this year, which also served to structure the admin of the con rather nicely.
Registration was in a small conference room set up like an airport lobby check in area in miniature. Pre-reg'ed people could self check-in on remote terminals. The counter staff provided onsite registration and provided schedules and promo goodies for all attendees.
This was far better than my previous con, where when I went to check in, I was told there was nothing on the database about me. Fortunately I had saved hard copies of everything and presented those. I was awarded Most Organized Con Attendee on the spot.
There was the Control Tower, where the Flight Crew monitored things around the clock. Aptly, this was on the hotel's 4th floor overlooking the atrium. Staff wore flight uniforms for easy identification.
The Scene
I would guess that the majority of attendees were Fur Suiters and Therians. It took me nearly the whole weekend to realize that I belonged to the Arts cohort of the Furry scene. As I am quite shy among strangers, I spent most of my time haunting panel discussions about furry art and comics.
These were not as well attended as the social events. Even the two Guest of Honor panels were sparsely attended (Werepuppy: a yiff comics artist). I avoided the Guest of Honor Dinner though, because mostly I didn't want to eat Rubber Chicken in Grease Saute'.
Saturday afternoon there was a brief fursuit hoedown, with a real bluegrass fiddler. This was in the hotel's swimming pool atrium, so I pulled up a chair and watched. The event ended with a gratifying chorus of howls.
I was kinda disappointed that I didn't see nearly as many quadropedal furries as I had at Conifur 2005. But then again, I tended to avoid the large social gatherings where they were more like to have been.
Trivial Annoyances
I wanted to go to bed early on Saturday night because I was too excited to get a full nights-worth on Friday. I went to my room and clicked on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and watched a few programs. Gradually I became aware of people outside my window talking very loudly. Some attendees had started a tailgate party at a car parked about thirty feet below my window. It was the drunken type where everybody is bellowing at each other. And that was before someone turned on the car stereo.
Around 10:00pm, everyone drifted off except for two, who commenced to have a lovers quarrel that lasted 40 minutes while the car stereo played on. They stopped and left; I got a decent nights sleep.
The con schedule was poorly updated. About three panels which I marked on my schedule did not happen. Two were dropped from updated schedules, and one remained on the schedule but seemed to have been erased from the minds of the Flight Crew. I didn't mind that much. These guys do the best they can for no money.
Furry and Anime'? was one of un-events. My evil side had hoped for rancor and invective, given how there is this pointless mutual hatred between genres among some in the respective fandoms. Five of us showed up, but there was no panel leader, so we hung out and talked trash.
The Arts
There were panels and workshops for suit construction, drawing, and the social aspect of Furry fandom.
I attended art lectures, one entitled Light and Composition with KunCoon. That one was about basic light-and-dark concepts.
Marker Shading was not what I expected. I didn't have markers with me, but attended it for new information. It turned out that the demonstrations were entirely in MS Photoshop and MS Paint. Here I got some much need basic knowledge. My one attempt at coloring in Photoshop some time ago was thwarted by the fact that I did not know how to use the application and I gave up. I'm going to give it another shot.
Immediately thereafter in the same room was Anatomy with Kazan. I was able to pick up a couple of techniques that would make my basic sketches a little easier.
I attended several panels led by the Guest of Honor WerePuppy. The Q & A panel gave us a chance to get art pointers from him.
As I mentioned before, I really belonged to the art crowd, but I was afraid to attend the art jams, because I was almost entirely outclassed in ability at this con. I should have given it a shot, because later I saw one of the Jam portfolios and realized there were a few in my league who had been brave enough to contribute. So this is good incentive for me to practice practice practice.
Dealer's Den
This was smaller than the previous con I attended; there were fewer comics artists. My browsing through on Friday didn't turn up anything I really wanted to buy. But by Sunday, I realized that I had to have Werepuppy's Rocket Ship Rodents. I bought an autographed issue # 1.
I donated a couple of bucks to Ferret Rescue, whom had a booth in the Dealers Room.
I found someone selling copies of a graphic novel called Finding Avalon. This was done in a strong manga style with beautiful coloring. It was printed on glossy magazine stock. Now, the content would offend 99.99% of sentient beings, but I can assure you that there is no violence or non-consensual sex. The narrative is actually pretty emo.
I bought issue # 1 of that as well, and I was given it for 1/2 off the cover price. I didn't even bargain for it!
So with my treasure safely packed in my luggage, I got into my faithful Honda Akira and headed back to Portland.
Tacked On Comment:
The bank I do business with failed this weekend, to my mild shock. Holy Herbert Hoover, Batman! I got the information from the complimentary Sunday paper the hotel provided. Otherwise, I was pretty much on planet Furry the whole time. I went to one of the bank's ATM machine, expecting to see a screen display saying
"We're sorry--this machine is out of order. Please try another of our fine locations!"
And of course, every machine on the entire WaMu network would be displaying the same thing. Fortunately the bastard coughed up the dough.
I'm beginning to believe that my snarky comments about an approaching Great Depression may be coming true. But fuggit. I had a good time.


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A British man was charged Saturday after he allegedly posted a threat on Facebook to kill 200 people in the U.S. state of Tennessee, causing many children to stay home from school, authorities said.
Reece Elliott, 24, from a town east of the northern English city of Newcastle, has been charged with making malicious comments, which led to 2,900 children skipping class in Warren County, Tennessee, police said. He did not enter a plea at a 30-minute court hearing and was ordered to remain in custody.
The online posting threatening gun violence was made anonymously on a memorial page set up for a Tennessee student who died in October. Police did not address the motive behind the posting.
After the Facebook post, police in Tennessee were stationed this week at schools in McMinnville, the seat of Warren County, 70 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of Chattanooga, but many students stayed away. Other security measures included having principals restrict who could enter the schools.
Northumbria police said they were cooperating with authorities in Warren County.


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Calvert C. McCabe, Jr., WWII Letters
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
Biographical Sketch
Calvert C. McCabe, Jr., born in 1913, was a Baltimore area native and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Johns Hopkins University. His pre-military service years were spent as an executive with the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Entering the service as a Second Lieutenant in 1942, McCabe spent months in the United States undertaking specialized training. Departing for England in 1943, McCabe eventually saw service on the European continent and, by 1945, had risen to the rank of Major. He served with the 9th Tactical Air Command, Army Air Force. (See the attached for a full chronology of McCabe's military service.)
Scope and Content Note
The Calvert C. McCabe WWII letters consist of approximately five hundred letters and V-Mail items written by McCabe and addressed mostly to his widowed mother, Mrs. C.C. McCabe. The correspondence, from June 1942 through October 1945, spans McCabe's entire military career.
The letters provide an overview, almost diary-like description, of the life of a non-combatant officer serving in the European Theatre. Comments in certain letters suggest McCabe contemplated writing a compilation of his experiences after the war (see letter of 6/2/45.)
The letters discuss mostly the non-military aspects of this administrative officer's life: commentary, social and recreational activities, daily life concerns, descriptions of living quarters, surrounding countryside, weather, etc. Comments regarding food, the mail service, and requests for items appear very frequently. McCabe actively collected antiques while in England and Scotland. He was interested also in architecture and fashion (in Paris, he visited the Patou designer house). The acquisition of war souvenirs, while upon the continent, later become his main collecting focus.
Topics discussed include McCabe's attitudes toward women (12/20/43 and 6/8/45), African-Americans (11/28/43), U.S. men not serving with the military (10/26/44), married versus single U.S. soldiers (1/10/45), the German people (4/23-25, 1945), the French people (8/28/45), and American civilians
(4/11, 6/2, 8/24/45). Some remarks concern Baltimore society and its activities. Letters recording McCabe's reaction to V-E Day, the dropping of atomic bombs, and V-J Day provide additional insight.
Comments upon notable individuals and celebrities appear throughout the letters. Persons mentioned include golfer Bobby Jones (many references), FDR's son Elliot Roosevelt (4/11/44), Admiral Richard Byrd (11/18/44), Mickey Rooney (4/23 and 4/24/45), and Bob Hope (8/26/45). Reactions to FDR's death (4/13/45) and Churchill's election defeat (8/31/45) are noted also.
McCabe describes displaced people, victims of the Nazis, and the chaos of post-war Europe. The plight of displaced persons was noted in letters from 4/5, 6/5 and 6/17/45. Concentration camp descriptions (they appear not to have been witnessed personally by McCabe) can be found in letters from 4/19 and 4/20/45. Testimony of tortures inflicted at Buchenwald, as described by a former inmate of this camp, appear in a 4/23/45 letter. Former German soldiers (prisoners of war?) though still in uniform, replete with field gear, labor in the French city of Laon (8/28/45) months after the cessation of conflict. Reflections on an impoverished, aristocratic Russian lady appeared in a note from 4/11/45.
The letters also provide descriptions of wartime European cities and include the following: Normandy (8/6 and 8/12/44), Paris (9/3/44, 3/18, 9/1 and 9/2/45), Cannes (3/4/45), Rheims (8/24/45), Laon (8/28/45), Marsielles (10/2/45), Aix-en-Provence (10/8/45), Brussels (9/20/44), various German cities/areas (3/30, 5/1, 6/24 and 8/16/45),. McCabe also described London, England and certain cities in Scotland.
The McCabe letters cover also the months in Europe after V-E Day and V-J Day. From mid-August to October 11, 1945, McCabe endured an almost continual string of postponements before returning to the United States.
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2.6.4 Monsoons
Variations in the behaviour of the North African summer monsoon were highlighted in IPCC (1990). Moron (1997) demonstrated that long-term variations of Sahel annual rainfall, particularly the wet 1950s and the dry 1970 to 1980s, are seen over the Guinea coast area, although trends are strongest in the Sahel. The significant decrease in Guinea coast rainfall (Ward, 1998) is present in both the first and second rainy seasons, but is strongest in the second. Janicot et al. (1996) and Moron (1997) demonstrated that the moderate influence of ENSO (towards drier conditions) has increased since 1960, with warm events associated more strongly with large-scale anomalous dry conditions over the Guinea and Sahel belts. Ward et al. (1999) show that the Sahel has become moderately wetter since 1987, despite the increased drying influence of ENSO events, a trend that continued to 1999 (Parker and Horton, 2000). This recent behaviour may be related to a quasi-hemispheric variation of SST (e.g., Enfield and Mestas-Nuñez, 1999) shown to be related to Sahel rainfall by Folland et al. (1986), and which may be related to the recent strong increase in North Atlantic SST mentioned in Section 220.127.116.11. Many other parts of tropical Africa are influenced by ENSO towards either drier or wetter conditions than normal, sometimes modulated by regional SST anomalies near Africa (e.g., Nicholson and Kim, 1997; Nicholson, 1997; Indeje et al., 2000), but few trends can be discerned.
Multi-decadal and decadal variations of the Indian monsoon have been widely noted (e.g., Pant and Kumar, 1997) but links with El Niño do not now seem straightforward (Slingo et al., 1999). However, despite the recent strong El Niño episodes, the inverse relationship between the ENSO and the Indian summer monsoon (weak monsoon arising from an ENSO event) has broken down in the recent two decades (Kumar et al., 1999a). This link operated on multi-decadal time-scales
with NINO 3 SST until at least 1970. Kumar et al. suggest that persistently increased surface temperatures over Eurasia in winter and spring (Figure 2.10) have favoured an enhanced land-ocean thermal gradient conducive to stronger monsoons; they also observe a shift away from India in the sinking node of the Walker circulation in El Niño. Changes have also occurred in relationships with Indian monsoon precursors (Kumar et al., 1999b). One possibility is that warming over the Indian Ocean (Figures 2.9, 2.10) may have increased moisture and rainfall for a given state of the atmospheric circulation (Kitoh et al., 1997). There may be a link to multi-decadal variations in Pacific SST, but this remains to be investigated, together with other monsoon indices (e.g., Goswami et al., 1997).
It has been known for some time that the position of the western North Pacific sub-tropical high affects the East Asian monsoon. Gong and Wang (1999a) showed that summer (June to August) precipitation over central and eastern China near 30°N is positively correlated with the intensity of the high, with negative correlations to the north and south. A location of the sub-tropical high further south than normal is conducive to heavy summer rainfall in this region. Time-series of the sub-tropical high show an increase in areal extent in the 1920s, then another increase from the mid-1970s to 1998, giving frequent wet summers in this region in recent years. The north-east winter monsoon has also shown low-frequency variations. Thus the strength of the Siberian high increased to a peak around 1968, and then weakened to a minimum around 1990 (Gong and Wang, 1999b), in phase with the increased frequency of the positive phase of the NAO (Wallace, 2000 and next section). This is likely to have contributed to strong recent winter warming in China shown in Figure 2.10.
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Fresh spring produce has only barely begun to trickle into markets, and in these parts especially, the best that one can really hope for are a few slender stalks of green asparagus. Though a lovely pick to be sure, that isn't saying much, since asparagus is season-less according to my local grocery store… And whoever wrote up that chart of seasonal produce should really get their head examined, by the way. Regardless, the mere idea of spring veggies has me captivated, and I've become quite smitten with frozen fava beans after a number of surprisingly successful preparations. Besides being available all year 'round, [Unlike asparagus, apparently. Yikes…] they're already shelled, so it takes half as much work to get them on the table. With a quick thaw in hot water, the skins practically slide right off, and they're every bit as tender and delicious as those straight from the fields.
Yes, I use frozen fava beans, and I'm not ashamed to say so. Besides, who could possibly turn their nose up at these edible emeralds when they clean up so nicely?
Writing a recipe for a salad seems rather silly- A bit contrived, really. Salads are meant to be a grab bag of what ever is fresh and available, so naturally, feel free to mix and match ingredients at will. The way the fava beans, greens, and bright, spicy lemon dressing melded was simply so divine, it would have been a shame not to record how it all came together.
Spring Fava Bean Salad
1 1/2 Cups Shelled and Skinned Fava Beans, Fresh and Blanched or Frozen and Thawed
1 Skinny Leek (1/2 Cup Thinly Sliced)
2 Tablespoons Toasted Pine Nuts, or Chopped Cashews
1 12-Ounce Bag Frozen Artichoke Hearts, Thawed
9 Ounces Fresh Baby Spinach
Spicy Lemon Dressing:
1/2 Teaspoon Lemon Zest
2 Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon Maple Syrup
1 Teaspoon Nanami Togarashi, or a Pinch of Red Pepper Flakes, to Taste
Pinch Salt
1/4 Cup Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
Although you can probably figure out what to do with the above ingredients, here's how it all goes down: Prep all of your veggies and toss together, leaving only the spinach separate. Set aside.
Whisk together the dressing ingredients, leaving the olive oil out until last, and slowly drizzle it in while continuously whisking to form a vinaigrette. Toss the bulk of the veggies with the dressing; You may have a little bit extra, depending on your tastes. Simply serve that on the side for guests to add as they desire. Pile the plain spinach into a large bowl, and place the dressed vegetables in a mound in the center. Serve, and toss at the table, if you like.
Makes 6 – 8 Servings


text: The Technical Operating System (TOS) is an operating system which parodies the real-life Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS). The latest version of TOS mentioned in-game is TOS 3.0. It may also be "Windchime;" both OS's released in 1998. Users of the TOS are usually refered to as "TOSsers," which is slang for a person who masturbates. On the GTA IV internet, TOS is also referred to as "To$$", which is a reference to real-life term "Micro$oft" spelling on computing websites and message boards. This would also imply/suggest that they are very focused on making money, like Microsoft. Even though TOS is mentioned frequently on GTAIV internet, it does not have its own website like Eunux, or Fruit does. TOS' competition is Fruit Computers. TOSsers are depicted in the GTA series as "boring", with the TOS interface showing only green text on a black background (parodying the DOS color-scheme which is black and white), while Fruits (Fruit OS users) are depicted as exciting and/or interesting people, frequently using emoticons in forums.


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Click this link for the latest NBC renewal / cancellation information: [rssinpage rssfeed='http://feeds.feedburner.com/TvbythenumbersCancel/renewNbcShows' rssitems='1′ rssformat='Y']
Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts the network's decision on renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows by the end of the 2012-13 season in May, 2013. (includes results from December 31, 2012- February 3, 2013):
|Renew/ Cancel Index
|Do No Harm
|😳 (canceled 2/8)
|Animal Practice*
|The New Normal
|😥 😥
|1600 Penn
|😥 😥
|Guys With Kids
|😥 😥
|Go On
|😐 😐 😐
|😥 😥
|😐 😐 😐
|30 Rock*
|final season complete
|Parks & Recreation
|Law & Order: SVU
|The Office
|final season
|Chicago Fire
|Up All Night
|😥 😥
|Grimm (F)
2/8 Update: To no one's surprise, Do No Harm was canceled.
While it's blindingly obvious that Do No Harm is certain to be canceled after the lowest premiere rating in history for any scripted show on the big 4 broadcast networks, the SEO gods demand I get the name into a headline before NBC yanks it from the schedule.
The gods now satisfied, I can turn to NBC's sitcom mess full time next week.
I was going to hold off on a wholesale revisiting of NBC sitcom predictions until after Community premiered this week, but their continuing ratings free fall has caused me to move up my timeline. While future ratings are guaranteed to move these predictions around further, I decided to move a few predictions this week. The collapse of The New Normal ratings have dropped its prediction to likely to be canceled. Similarly, the collapse of Go On ratings have it downgraded to a "toss up" for renewal or cancellation. Could The Voice return in March and buoy both enough to save them? Perhaps, but I'll move my predictions up if it does.
Better to Follow The Bear, Than Be Chased By Him. This season you can follow the Cancellation Bear on Twitter via @TheCancelBear. The Cancellation Bear will retweet all the Renew/Cancel Index post titles and links as well as engage in a little more back and forth banter than we do on our standard @TVbytheNumbers Twitter feed.
*shows no longer on the air have their Renew/Cancel Index "frozen" at the point they left the schedule.
From now through the end of the broadcast season in May, the Renew/Cancel Index values will only be calculated using new episodes airing during 2013. However, until new episodes of a show air in 2013, I will keep the "old" Fall predictions in the table.
Want to know what the NBC Renew/Cancel Index table looked like at the end of the Fall season? Click here.
- 😳 – certain to be cancelled by May, 2013
- 😥 :cry:- more likely to be cancelled than renewed by May, 2013
- 😐 😐 😐 – toss up between renewal or cancellation by May, 2013
- 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 – more likely to be renewed than cancelled by May, 2013
- – certain to be renewed by May, 2013
The Renew/Cancel Index is the ratio of a scripted show's new episode adults 18-49 ratings relative to the new episode ratings of the other scripted shows on its own network. It's calculated by dividing a show's new episode Live+Same Day adults 18-49 average rating by the Live+Same Day new episode average of all the new scripted show episodes on the show's own network. The network's average ratings in the calculation are not time weighted (ie. hour long shows are not weighted twice what 30 minute shows are).
(F) -Fridays: Shows airing on Fridays were renewed with significantly lower than average Indexes.
How would the Renew / Cancel Index Have Done Predicting Last Season's Scripted Show Fates? Check out how the Renew / Cancel Index predicted renewals and cancellations from past television seasons.


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Day 0I was able to install Mozilla Firefox OK in the live session on my laptop, although it came with the typical ugly theme. After installing the Oxygen GTK2 and GTK3 themes, everything was OK. Installing LibreOffice worked fine as well; that is in the repository. Google Talk installed and worked fine too, which is great. Unfortunately, while Skype installed, it refused to run for more than 5 seconds, and running it from the terminal showed that the issue was the same shared library issue as in SolusOS 1.1 "Eveline". I'm beginning to wonder if this is a persistent issue in Skype 4.0 for any distribution, but then again, it worked fine in the live session of Linux Mint 13 LTS "Maya" MATE. If it's just an issue with Chakra, then unfortunately I will not be able to use it (Chakra) on my personal laptop.
Anyway, after installing certain dependencies from various repositories, I was able to unpack and install the static TAR binary package of Mupen64Plus 1.5. Using the CCR, I was able to install and use Redshift, although the associated Plasma widget failed to install correctly. Desktop effects worked fine, as did things like the KDE Lancelot menu. The only issue was the inability to log out and log back into the live session, as logging out would throw an error about KDM being unable to load. Also, as before, I had to change one of the boot parameters to "xdriver=yes nonfree=no".
Day 1Trying the live session on the desktop yielded the exact same results as on the laptop, except for Skype and Google Talk which I did not try because the desktop has neither a webcam nor a mic. After that I proceeded onto the installation, which is one that I have covered before. I shrunk the Microsoft Windows 7 partition from 290 GB to 60 GB just in case, and then I used the remaining space to create a 4 GB SWAP partition, a 50 GB EXT4 root partition, and a separate EXT4 home partition taking up the rest of the space available in the extended partition (so about 190 GB for the home partition). The installation went smoothly; that said, although I opted to install Mozilla Firefox on the installed session from within the installer, it was nowhere to be found and I had to click again to install the Mozilla Firefox bundle.
Logging in went fine, though there were a few hiccups for two or three sessions. For instance, desktop effects were not all applied at the same time for some reason. Another time, there was a Plasma crash, but it was recoverable quickly and did not come up again. In addition, after the first time logging in, logging out led to a black screen showing only the cursor but no KDM, so I had to switch to a different TTY to reboot the computer. Some things like Dolphin and the Lancelot menu require an additional logout before any changes in their settings take full effect.
It was only after installation that I realized just how minimal the more minimal live CD was (compared to the fuller live DVD). Even things like Gwenview and Okular were absent. I had to install those along with the Oxygen GTK+ themes to make things work as they should.
After that, though, everything ran smoothly. I have turned on desktop effects like the desktop cube, while I have turned off desktop search/indexing by Nepomuk. I have installed Mozilla Firefox and LibreOffice, and they work fine. KDE is set to tab together windows of the same application, and that works well. Although it uses about 570 MB of RAM at idle, Chakra feels quite smooth, stable, and snappy. I hope it stays that way too. (Oh, and of course, after installing the SSH tools, using SSH in the KDE terminal emulator Konsole worked just fine.)
Day 2Working with SSH worked fine today. I was also able to run a pretty resource-intensive computation job (outsourced through SSH, of course) without a hitch.
Today was the first day that I had to deal with the font issue in KDE. It's one of the few times I've seen the issue come up anyway. I installed the Droid fonts and used Droid Sans for all the major places where fonts could be configured; unfortunately, despite the use of anti-aliasing and slight subpixel hinting, some things like the letter 'O' still don't look quite right in Chakra, both in the live session on my laptop and in the installed session on that desktop computer. I would appreciate it if someone could suggest some other solution, because searching online and on the Chakra forums hasn't brought up much else. Also, to enable fonts, I had to log out and log back in once or twice, but after that they were enabled just fine.
One of the things I have been anticipating in KDE is the upcoming inclusion of KLook, which is the KDE equivalent to Gloobus-Preview in essentially every way. Chakra actually already has KLook in its community repository (CCR), so I was able to install that fine. KLook is a little buggy, in that every time it starts up and is terminated (because simply closing the application relegates it to run silently in the background, and it does consume a nontrivial amount of RAM while in the background), an error would pop up saying that KLook has crashed unexpectedly. I'm not too disappointed by that though because the behavior and stability of KLook is otherwise unaffected, KLook should be included in the main repositories with KDE soon enough, and Gloobus-Preview now has similar stability issues.
Finally, I saw a solution to the Skype issue that I had on the live session, so I decided to try out the live session once more to check out Skype, as well as Mupen64Plus and Google Talk just for kicks. Using the Skype package without PulseAudio (which is not used in Chakra by default, which was why the normal Skype package kept crashing) worked fine, and I was able to have a full video conversation with my family without a hitch. Google Talk, installed from the main repository, also worked fine.
Unfortunately, Mupen64Plus had some issues. They were not that serious in that installing the dependencies followed by the static package of Mupen64Plus 1.5 worked fine, but it had trouble pausing, restarting, and stopping an emulation once started. Plus, it had trouble with some game ROM files but not with others. I'll have to check this out at a later date to see if that is a fluke or a persistent issue.
Day 3Starting the computer in the morning again brought up the issue of the clock being improperly synchronized, and it was again solved by logging out and logging back in. Having installed GIT, I tried reinstalling the CCR packages for KLook, but that only seemed to exacerbate the problem somewhat, because now KLook throws an error every time it is closed instead of just occasionally. Otherwise, there isn't much to report here.
Day 4Starting the computer in the morning again brought up the issue of the clock being improperly synchronized, and this time it took several tries of logging out and logging in for the clock to be properly synchronized (and even then the synchronization didn't happen until the middle of a session randomly). Also, Mozilla Firefox crashed 3 times on this day, which has never happened before on this particular machine; that is a little disheartening. Otherwise, things worked as expected.
Day 5After starting the computer, I tried logging in, and while the login was successful, the system got hung up at the KDE splash screen. I switched to a different CLI TTY session using 'CTRL'+'ALT'+'F6', logged in there, and issued the command "sudo shutdown -r now". Although almost all the requisite processes were terminated, the system got hung up at the final process which was to physically restart the computer, so I had to hold the power button until it turned off and then I turned it on again.
After that, I decided to apply a few updates. I realized I would probably be better off doing it through a different non-GUI TTY session, so after doing that, I issued the commands "su" followed by "pacman -Syy" followed by "pacman -Syu". For some reason there was a file present that was locking up Pacman. After removing that using (still in the root session) "rm [whatever that file was]", I tried "pacman -Syu" again, and that worked well. After that, I issued another reboot command because the Linux kernel was among the packages updated, and again I ran into the hanging issue at the end of the reboot process. Doing the same manual reboot allowed me to resume work normally.
Today, Mozilla Firefox crashed once. That's less than yesterday, but still worse than having a crash-free experience. Otherwise, things were fairly normal.
Day 6After a few slower days, today was the first day that I had to use the capabilities of SSH with X/11 and LibreOffice as much as I did around 2 weeks ago. I was running a recently-created MEEP control file to produce output and was trying to copy that output into LibreOffice Calc. Unfortunately, there were three pretty big issues with this. The first was that quite often, Gedit wouldn't start because of some issue with the display server. I would have to logout and log back in to get it to work, and for some reason today logging in took a few seconds longer than normal, which was annoying.
The second is that when Gedit was open (because that was the only GUI program I needed to use from within the SSH session today), other applications in Chakra outside of the SSH session (e.g. Kate, LibreOffice Calc) would be noticeably slower to start. Plus, existing applications would be slowed down a bit.
The third is that I was not at all able to copy text from Gedit within the SSH session to other applications outside like LibreOffice Calc; that is something I have needed to do frequently, and it has always worked until today. That is really bad if that basic sort of thing doesn't work well.
On an unrelated note, I encountered another issue with Mozilla Firefox. The issue was that when I tried to close a tab but accidentally moved the cursor a little too much to the side of the proper button, the cursor would attempt to drag a tab to a different position but then would cause the entire system to freeze. The only solution to this was to hold the desktop power button until the prompt to log out came up, at which point I was saved by the fact that there is an automatic logout feature with a timer. Thankfully, when I logged back in, KDE tried to recover as many of my previously open windows as possible; it wasn't perfect, but this is the first time that I have seen such a neat feature. Then again, it would be bad if there was some persistent issue with a program that caused the system to freeze and if that program was always being reopened by KDE upon logging back in after a system issue. Unfortunately, I cannot say that this is the first time I have seen this particular issue with Mozilla Firefox on Chakra; I saw it for the first time late last week, and I hoped that it was a chance event, but it looks like that is not the case.
These are some pretty bad bugs. If they persist, I don't think I'll be using Chakra on a regular basis.
Day 7Many of the bugs that showed up yesterday involving SSH with X/11 appeared today too. The only thing I could do to solve this was to use SCP (copy via SSH) to copy the files from the remote account to the desktop file system and then open them in Kate/copy the data to LibreOffice Calc. It was OK for today, but for the long-term, I definitely want a working ability to open Gedit and other GUI applications through SSH. Otherwise, things were fairly normal.
Also, when I started the computer at the beginning of the day, I decide to apply updates to Chakra, so I did the same thing as a few days ago. The only difference was that after all that, instead of restarting (because the kernel and other vital OS components were unchanged), I simply switched back to the KDM login screen via 'CTRL'+'ALT'+'F7'.
Finally, upon shutting down the computer at the end of the day, I was greeted by an error message similar to the one displayed by all KDE distributions in their respective live sessions upon shutting down. That meant that it required my attention, so I couldn't just turn off the monitor and leave the room. It was the first time I had seen such an error on the installed system; I'll look out for it in the next few days.
Day 8This was the last day of testing for me, because although I worked for one day on the weekend as usual, I decided to work from my dormitory room instead. Today, though, I once again encountered issues like Gedit refusing to load via SSH more than twice in a row, slow SSH logins, and Gedit via SSH refusing to let me copy text into LibreOffice Calc in the local session. In addition, I tried starting MATLAB via SSH, and it never loaded completely, so the only solution was to simply close the parent terminal window. Also, I applied one last round of updates, and that worked OK. Finally, today while shutting the computer down, I was again greeted by the KDE error message that I saw during my previous day of work at the office. Otherwise, there were no crashes or other issues.
The good news is that I was able to set up my Chakra desktop exactly as I wanted it, and I was able to become accustomed to KDE quite quickly. Even the bugginess of KLook stopped being an issue when I saw how quickly native KDE applications like Gwenview and Okular loaded.
|Customized Chakra Desktop on My UROP Desktop PC
I think my biggest mistake in all of this was using the minimal CD image rather than the full DVD image to install Chakra; if I had used the DVD version, I could have probably saved myself a lot of headaches trying to get things like LibreOffice, GTK+ integration, and SSH installed and working, along with even basic KDE utilities like Gwenview, Okular, and KCalc. Oh well, I suppose I learned my lesson there.
Overall, my impression of Chakra is decidedly more mixed than when I simply did live session reviews, now that I have been able to use the installed session in a serious work setting for 8 days. I will certainly be keeping my eye on it, but unless other things happen (i.e. other distributions that I try turn out to be even worse), I probably won't be installing Chakra on my personal laptop.
Finally, this is just a reminder that there will probably be 3 more long-term reviews after this one, and they will each log about 7-10 days of use. The next one, starting tomorrow, will be of CrunchBang ("#!") 11 "Waldorf", so stay tuned for that!


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WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2008 (ENS) - The biggest single year increase in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants in nine years occurred in 2007, finds a new analysis by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Environmental Integrity Project. The finding of a 2.9 percent rise in carbon dioxide emissions over 2006 is based on an analysis of data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Now the largest factor in the U.S. contribution to climate change, the electric power industry's emissions of carbon dioxide, CO2, have risen 5.9 percent since 2002 and 11.7 percent since 1997, the analysis shows.
Texas tops the list of the 10 states with the biggest one-year increases in CO2 emissions, with Georgia, Arizona, California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Virginia and North Carolina close behind.
The top three states - Texas, Georgia and Arizona - had the greatest increases in CO2 emissions on a one, five and 10 year basis.
TXU's coal-fired Martin Lake power plant in east Texas (Photo credit unknown)
Director of the Environmental Integrity Project Eric Schaeffer said, "The current debate over global warming policy tends to focus on long-term goals, like how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent over the next 50 years. But while we debate, CO2 emissions from power plants keep rising, making an already dire situation worse."
"Because CO2 has an atmospheric lifetime of between 50 and 200 years, today's emissions could cause global warming for up to two centuries to come," he warned.
Data from 2006 show that the 10 states with the least efficient power production relative to resulting greenhouse gas emissions were North Dakota, Wyoming, Kentucky, Indiana, Utah, West Virginia, New Mexico, Colorado, Missouri, and Iowa.
The report explains why national environmental groups are fighting to stop the construction of new conventional coal-fired power plants, which they say would make a bad situation worse.
"For example" the report points out, "the eight planned coal-fired plants that TXU withdrew in the face of determined opposition in Texas would have added an estimated 64 million tons of CO2 to the atmosphere, increasing emissions from power plants in that state by 24 percent."
Some of the rise in CO2 emissions comes from existing coal fired power plants, the analysis found, either because these plants are operating at increasingly higher capacities, or because these aging plants require more heat to generate electricity. "For example, all of the top 10 highest emitting plants in the nation, either held steady or increased CO2 output from 2006 to 2007."
Robert W Scherer Power Plant is a coal-fired plant just north of Macon, Georgia. It emits more carbon dioxide than any other point in the United States. (Photo credit unknown)
Georgia Power's Scherer power plant near Macon, Georgia is the highest emitting plant in the nation. It pumped out 27.2 million tons of CO2 in 2007, up roughly two million tons from the year before.
In view of these facts, the Environmental Integrity Project recommends that the nation's oldest and dirtiest power plants should be retired, and replaced with cleaner sources of energy. That will require accelerating the development of wind power and other renewable sources of energy.
Another good solution is cutting greenhouse gases quickly by reducing the demand for electricity, the authors advise. Smarter building codes, and funding low-cost conservation efforts, such as weatherization of low-income homes, purchase and installation of more efficient home and business appliances will reduce demand and yield greenhouse gas benefits.
Texas tops every state measurement in the report from the most carbon dioxide measured in total tons to the largest increases in CO2 emissions over the last five years between 2002 and 2007.
Ken Kramer, director of the Lone Star chapter of the Sierra Club based in Austin, Texas, says his state not only has more emissions than any other state - it has solutions to offer, such as a recent boom in wind power installations.
"The bad news is that Texas is #1 in carbon emissions among the 50 states, and our emissions have grown in recent years," Kramer said. "The good news is that Texas has the potential to play a major role in addressing global warming if we embrace smart energy solutions such as energy efficiency and renewable energy, solutions which pose tremendous economic as well as environmental benefits."
In Des Moines, Mark Kresowik, Iowa organizer of the Sierra Club's National Coal Campaign, said, "Energy efficiency and renewable energy are powering a renaissance in rural Iowa and creating thousands of new manufacturing jobs for our state. By rejecting coal plants and reducing pollution through energy efficiency and renewable energy our states will prosper and attract new businesses and young workers for the future."
The consumption of electricity accounted for more than 2.3 billion tons of CO2 in 2006, or more than 39.5 percent of total emissions from human sources, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Coal-fired power plants alone released more than 1.9 billion tons, or nearly one third of the U.S. total.
The Department of Energy projects that carbon dioxide emissions from power generation will increase 19 percent between 2007 and 2030, due to new or expanded coal plants.
An additional 4,115 megawatts of new coal-fired generating capacity was added between 2000 and 2007, with another 5,000 megawatts expected by 2012.
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