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Womens Basketball Earns Spot on WBCA Academic Top 25July 28, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. In its first attempt, the MIT womens basketball team placed 14th on the Womens Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll. The award, given at the NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA, and Junior College/Community College levels, recognizes programs that carry the highest grade point averages for the entire season based on the nomination submitted by WBCA-member head coaches.
MIT Finishes 11th in Directors' Cup RankingsJuly 21, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Coming on the heels of one of the most successful campaigns in Institute history, MIT placed 11th among all Division III schools in the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA) annual Learfield Sports Directors' Cup. This was the highest ranking for the Engineers in the 14-year history of the program and the first time they were the best performers in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC).
Womens Basketball Tabbed for NEWMAC Sportsmanship AwardMarch 12, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. For the third time in four years the MIT womens basketball team was the recipient of the New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Sportsmanship Award. Voted upon by the leagues student-athletes, the award recognizes the team that best demonstrates the ideals of the NEWMAC and its Code of Conduct.
NEWMAC Announces 2009-10 Winter Academic All-Conference TeamMarch 05, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference recently announced the 2009-10 NEWMAC Winter Academic All-Conference Team. Twenty-five MIT athletes were recognized by the conference for their performance in the classroom.
Smith Tops MIT in Season FinaleFebruary 20, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The MIT womens basketball team was defeated by Smith College, 55-35, in New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action on Saturday. The Engineers finished the year with an overall record of 5-19 and a 3-15 mark in league play.
Engineers Fall to WPI, 63-41February 18, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A 23-8 run during the first 9:30 of the second half helped propel WPI to a 63-41 win over MIT in a New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) womens basketball game on Wednesday. Sally Simpson paced the Engineers (5-18, 3-14 NEWMAC) with 13 points while Aparna Sud added 10 of her own. Anna Merrifield contributed six points, three rebounds, and two steals as Stephanie Cooke led the Cardinal and Gray with five boards. Lauren Sascha Burton posted six assists and a pair of steals.
Mount Holyoke Fights off Women's Basketball, 60-50February 13, 2010SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. Using a balanced scoring attack, the Mount Holyoke College womens basketball team picked up a 60-50 triumph over New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) foe MIT this afternoon at the Mildred S. Howard Gymnasium. With the win, the Lyons completed the season sweep of the Engineers and clinched a spot in the upcoming NEWMAC Tournament.
MIT Stuns Wheaton, 75-65, in OvertimeFebruary 11, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Solid free-throw shooting during the last two minutes of overtime helped power the MIT womens basketball team to a 75-65 victory over Wheaton College in New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action on Thursday. The Engineers picked up their first win against the Lyons since the 2002-03 season and saw their ledger improve to 5-16 on the year and 3-12 NEWMAC play. Wheaton, previously tied for second in the NEWMAC, moved to 13-9 overall and 10-5 league action.
Wellesley Rallies Past MIT, 60-51February 06, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A 20-5 run that spanned 10 minutes in the second half helped propel Wellesley College to a 60-51 win over MIT in a New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) womens basketball game on Saturday. Aparna Sud paced the Engineers (4-16, 2-12 NEWMAC) with 16 points, including a 4-of-9 performance from behind the arc. Ashleigh Sargent recorded an efficient outing for the Blue (8-11, 6-8 NEWMAC) as she shot 6-of-8 from the floor and 3-of-4 from the charity stripe for a team-high 15 points.
Babson Subdues MIT, 59-29February 04, 2010BABSON PARK, Mass. – Babson College used a 16-3 run over the final 7:38 of the first half to pull away from visiting MIT on Wednesday night, as the Beavers went on to defeat the Engineers, 59-29, in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) contest at Staake Gymnasium. With their ninth win in a row, the Beavers upped their overall record to 17-3 and remained unbeaten in the conference at 13-0. Meanwhile, MIT fell to 4-15 overall and 2-11 in the NEWMAC.
Springfield Defeats MIT, 72-54January 30, 2010SPRINGFIELD, Mass. A 21-2 run during the last six minutes of the first half helped propel host Springfield College to a 72-54 victory over MIT in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) womens basketball game on Saturday afternoon at Blake Arena. With the win, the Pride improved to 10-9 overall and 8-4 in league play while the Engineers dipped to 4-14 on the year and 2-10 in NEWMAC action.
Four Engineers Reach Double-Digits in Win at Coast GuardJanuary 28, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Behind a career-high 20 points from Anna Merrifield, the MIT womens basketball team went on to record a 62-48 victory over host U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday night. Of the Engineers 16 wins against the Bears, this was the programs sixth victory in New London, Conn. and the first since the 2002-03 season.
Engineers Edged out by Clark, 44-42January 23, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Ivori Aikens running jumper in the paint with 11 seconds remaining in regulation lifted visiting Clark University to a 44-42 win over MIT in a New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) womens basketball game on Saturday. Lauren Sascha Burton tallied 10 rebounds, nine points, five assists, and four steals for the Engineers (3-13, 1-9 NEWMAC). Jillian Camilleri had a solid outing for the Cougars (4-13, 3-7 NEWMAC) as she posted 12 rebounds, 10 points, two assists, and a pair of steals.
Women's Basketball Grinds Out 47-43 Win Over WPIJanuary 20, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. In a back-and-forth battle that featured eight lead changes and seven ties, MIT tallied five consecutive points during the final 51 seconds of regulation to pull out a 47-43 win over WPI in womens basketball action on Wednesday. The victory over WPI was the first for MIT since the 2002-03 season and helped it improve to 3-12 on the year and 1-8 in New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action. The visiting Engineers saw their ledger dip to 10-6 overall and 6-3 in conference play.
Mount Holyoke Tops Engineers, 42-29January 16, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Mount Holyoke College used a late first-half run to propel it to a 42-29 victory over MIT in a New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) womens basketball game on Saturday. Sally Simpson paced the Engineers (2-12, 0-8 NEWMAC) with 10 points. Angelica Pascual tallied 14 points, 12 rebounds, and three assists for the Lyons (5-10, 3-5 NEWMAC).
Burton Posts 17 Points, Womens Hoops Sets Record at WheatonJanuary 14, 2010NORTON, Mass. Lauren Sascha Burton tallied a career-high 17 points as MIT committed an Institute-record six turnovers in a 64-39 loss to Wheaton College on Wednesday night. The Lyons improved to 9-5 on the year and 6-1 in NEWMAC play while the Engineers dipped to 2-11 overall and 0-7 in conference action.
Smith Tops MIT, 45-28January 09, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A 15-2 run during a seven-minute span in the second half helped power Smith College to a 45-28 win over host MIT in a New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) womens basketball game on Saturday. Lauren Sascha Burton posted 11 points and a game-high two blocks for the Engineers (2-10, 0-6 NEWMAC). Jessica Welk paced the Pioneers (6-4, 3-2 NEWMAC) with 11 points as six of them came during the late rally to go along with five rebounds.
Late Rally Falls Short as Clark Defeats Womens Basketball, 51-46January 07, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Despite a 13-6 run by MIT during the final three minutes of regulation, host Clark University held on a for 51-46 victory in a NEWMAC womens basketball game on Wednesday night. Aparna Sud led the Engineers (2-9, 0-5 NEWMAC) with 14 points, including 11 during the late rally.
Simmons Holds Off MIT, 48-41January 02, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Anna Merrifields 16 rebounds and 10 points in addition to a 10-point outing by Kristen Whaley would not be enough as host Simmons College held on for a 48-41 victory over MIT in non-conference womens basketball action on Saturday. Aparna Sud chipped in nine points for the Engineers (2-8) while Lauren Sascha Burton tallied five rebounds and two steals. Stephanie Cooke added five boards, including four off the offensive glass.
Whaley Notches Double-Double in Loss to WellesleyDecember 11, 2009WELLESLEY, Mass. Junior forward Kristen Whaley recorded her second double-double of the season on 15 points and 10 rebounds in a 75-47 loss to NEWMAC foe Wellesley College on Friday night. The Engineers ledger dipped to 2-7 on the year and 0-4 in conference action while the Blue improved to 3-6 overall and 1-3 in the NEWMAC.
Sud Posts 17 Points Against BabsonDecember 09, 2009CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A 17-2 run during the first six minutes of the second half helped power Babson College to a 75-30 win over host MIT in a New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) womens basketball game on Wednesday. Becky Bowman, one of four Beavers to reach double-digits, notched 18 points on 8-of-12 shooting in addition to five assists and five steals. Aparna Sud posted 17 points for the Engineers (2-6, 0-3 NEWMAC) in her second straight double-digit outing.
Springfield Edges out Women's Basketball, 53-51December 05, 2009CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Despite numerous attempts by MIT to reclaim the lead in the final minute of regulation, Springfield College held on for the 53-51 victory in a New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) womens basketball game on Saturday afternoon. Meghan Biondolillo led all scorers with 20 points and added nine rebounds and three steals for the Pride (3-3, 2-0 NEWMAC). The Engineers (2-5, 0-2 NEWMAC) saw three players reach double-digits in scoring, paced by Kristen Whaley who registered 15 points to go along with a team-high seven rebounds.
Coast Guard Defeats Engineers, 47-38December 02, 2009CAMBRIDGE, Mass. In the New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) womens basketball opener for both teams, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy defeated host MIT, 47-38, on Wednesday night. Melissa Martinelli registered a game-high 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the floor to go along with six rebounds and two blocks for the Bears (2-1, 1-0 NEWMAC). Anna Merrifield had a solid outing for the Engineers (2-4, 0-1 NEWMAC) as she compiled 10 rebounds, five points, and four blocks.
Sud Scores 17 as MIT Rallies Past Albertus Magnus, 54-46November 28, 2009CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A 20-5 run that spanned 12 minutes in the second half helped power MIT to a 54-46 victory over host Albertus Magnus College on Saturday. Aparna Sud paced the Engineers (2-3) with a game and season-high 17 points to go along with six rebounds and two steals.
Women's Basketball Fights Off Lasell, 52-46November 24, 2009CAMBRIDGE, Mass. In a back-and-forth battle that featured eight ties and five lead changes, the MIT womens basketball emerged with a 52-46 victory over Lasell College on Tuesday night. Kristen Whaley registered a double-double for the Engineers (1-3), notching 12 rebounds and 10 points. The Lasers (0-4) Tricia Culver compiled a game-high 17 points on 7-of-16 shooting from the floor to go along with two steals.
MIT Falls to Philadelphia Biblical, 57-43November 21, 2009CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Despite outscoring Philadelphia Biblical University, 26-20, in the second half in addition to having edges in points off turnovers (17-16), second-chance points (10-3), and bench scoring (6-2), it would not be enough as the Crimson Eagles registered a 57-43 victory over MIT at the Gordon College Invitational.
Gordon Tops Engineers, 61-42November 20, 2009CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The MIT womens basketball team fell to host Gordon College, 61-42, in the opening game of the Gordon College Invitational on Friday. Lauren Sascha Burton recorded a solid performance for the Engineers (0-2), tallying 11 points, seven steals, four assists, and four rebounds in 40 minutes of action.
MIT Falls to Wentworth, 50-38, in Season OpenerNovember 17, 2009CAMBRIDGE, Mass. With 17 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the floor, 12 steals, and seven rebounds, Michelle Fauci helped power Wentworth Institute of Technology to a 50-38 victory over host MIT in a non-conference womens basketball game on Tuesday. In her intercollegiate debut, Aparna Sud registered 15 points and nine rebounds for the Engineers (0-1).


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November 2018
Recent Releases
Solemn Graves
James R. Benn
Irish American Army Lt. Billy Boyle, a former Boston cop who's now a special detective for General Eisenhower.
What happens:
Just after D-Day
, Billy and two friends investigate an American officer's murder at a Normandy farm near the top secret Ghost Army (which is using inflatable tanks to trick the enemy).
For fans of:
This 13th Billy Boyle World War II mystery should please those who like Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope novels (Maggie starts off working for Winston Churchill) or Martin Limon's George Sueno and Ernie Bascom mysteries (featuring Army investigators in 1950s Korea).
The Infinite Blacktop
Sara Gran
What happens:
In her 3rd outing, eccentric P.I. Claire DeWitt describes three cases she's been involved in: the disappearance of a fellow teenage sleuth in 1980s Brooklyn, a cold-case double murder in 1990s Los Angeles, and her own attack by a homicidal driver in 2011 Oakland.
Who it's for:
those who like critically acclaimed, noir-ish novels featuring troubled, philosophical detectives.
Want a taste?
"This was how it always was and always will be, exactly as it was meant to be."
The Vanishing Box
Elly Griffiths
Brighton, England
DI Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto, who met in a secretive World War II unit nearly ten years ago.
What happens:
Edgar is called to a murder scene where a body is arranged as if in a famous Jane Grey painting...which calls to mind the poses that the young women in Max's new opening act create.
Series alert:
This 4th Magic Men novel is a charming holiday mystery featuring romance and a well-crafted plot. To start with the 1st book (and see character relationships develop), pick up
The Zig Zag Girl
The Darkness
Ragnar Jónasson; translated by Victoria Cribb
Hulda Hermannsdottir, a dogged 64-year-old Detective Inspector with the Reykjavik Police who's being forced into retirement.
What happens
: With two weeks left on the job, Hulda's begrudgingly allowed to select a cold case to investigate. She picks the murder of a Russian asylum seeker -- and not everyone's happy about it.
For fans of:
This debut in the Hidden Iceland series should please readers of Arnaldur Indridason's Iceland-set mysteries as well as Anne Holt's Hanne Wilhelmsen novels, which star an older female detective.
The Hollow of Fear: The Lady Sherlock Series
Sherry Thomas
The premise:
Sherlock Holmes doesn't exist; he's an alter ego made up by socially ruined Charlotte Holmes, who uses her extraordinary powers of deduction to succeed as an inquiry agent in
Victorian London
What happens:
Aided by the capable Mrs. Watson (a former actress), Charlotte helps her sister (who, unable to speak, is hidden away by their parents), her half-brother (whose life is in danger), and a friend (whose
estranged wife is
discovered dead on his estate).
Series alert:
This is the 3rd book in the atmospheric, cleverly plotted Lady Sherlock historical mystery series that begins with
A Study in Scarlet Women
The Frangipani Tree Mystery
Ovidia Yu
Chen Su Lin, a clever 16-year-old with a limp due to polio, who wants a job, not an arranged marriage, and turns amateur sleuth to help police Inspector Thomas Le Froy when a young Irish woman on the governor's household staff is killed.
What it is:
a charming traditional mystery set in British-controlled 1930s Singapore written by an award-winning Singaporean writer.
Series alert:
This is the 1st in the new Crown Colony series; the 2nd,
The Betel Nut Tree Mystery
, is also out this month.
If You Like: Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, starring Botswana's inimitable Precious Ramotswe, features richly drawn characters, engaging prose, and vivid settings. Characters' thoughts and perspectives are central to the novels, and a gentle, often warm tone typifies the books (though troubling topics do arise).
The Colors of All the Cattle
, the 19th in this beloved, bestselling series, comes out this month; while you're waiting for it, try some of these books.
Recipes for Love and Murder: A Tannie Maria Mystery
Sally Andrew
What it's about:
In rural South Africa,
50-something Tannie Maria (tannie means "auntie" in Afrikaans and is a term of respect), writes a newspaper column that combines food and advice (recipes included)
What happens:
Maria pens advice for an anonymous abused woman and then investigates a murder...much to the chagrin of a handsome cop.
Why Alexander McCall Smith fans might like it:
eaturing a kind-hearted detective, i
t's the 1st in a charming cozy series set in Africa by a writer who knows and loves her part of continent.
A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel
Alan Bradley
Flavia de Luce, a precocious, quirky (and adorable, but don't tell her) 11-year-old chemist, who lives in a large house in a 1950s English village with her widowed father and two tormenting older sisters.
What happens:
Flavia draws on her knowledge of poisons, Romani lore, and more to discern what happened to a long-missing child and figure out who committed a murder in the present.
Why Alexander McCall Smith fans might like it:
This witty 3rd in a series beautifully describes rural village life and the relationships therein, and features a sleuth whose personal life plays a role in each book.
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
Vaseem Khan
What happens:
In Mumbai, India, Inspector Chopra is forced to retire from the police after more than 30 years due to a heart attack. On his last day at work, he begins to investigate a drowning...together with his new sidekick, a baby elephant.
Series alert:
This acclaimed book is the 1st of four (so far) in the Baby Ganesh Agency investigation books.
Why Alexander McCall Smith fans might like it:
it has a fascinating, well-drawn setting, endearing characters, and warm wit and wisdom.
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
James Runcie
unconventional clergyman Sidney Chambers, who teams up with a police inspector friend on various occasions to investigate a suspicious suicide, a jewelry theft, the unexplained demise of a jazz promoter, and a shocking art forgery.
Why Alexander McCall Smith fans might like it:
the people and places are just as or more important than the mysteries in this collection of interlocking short stories, the 1st in the Grantchester mysteries.
Did you know?
The TV show
is based on James Runcie's books, but aren't as cozy and introspective and are faster paced.
Contact your librarian for more great books!
Clarence Dillon Public Library
2336 Lamington Rd.
Bedminister, New Jersey 07921

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Equity and Inclusion
Student named to service-oriented advisory board
November 19, 2012
From her grassroots work with Portland's immigrant and refugee community to her involvement with activism on campus, Goldann Salazar '12 epitomizes the Lewis & Clark commitment to service. In honor of her dedication, Salazar was named to the 2012-13 student advisory board of Oregon Campus Compact (ORCC), an organization that aims to engage Oregon students in service and civic action and create global citizens.
"This year we have been planning a student leadership conference for current ORCC members, as well as brainstorming how to get more college students across Oregon involved in alternative spring break trips and other service learning activities," said Salazar, a sociology/anthropology major.
ORCC membership is competitive, and students must show outstanding leadership and outreach experience. Last summer, Salazar received the Stephanie Fowler and Irving Levin summer internship award to facilitate her work with the Center for Intercultural Organizing.
"I think historically, college students haven't been given enough credit for our capabilities," said Salazar in an ORCC press release. "As scholars we are in a unique position to be critical of the world around us and to take action and be leaders."
Several Lewis & Clark students have been involved with ORCC in recent years, including Gabe Montes de Orca BA '11 and Aukeem Ballard BA '11.
ORCC news and project updates are available on the organization's blog.
Zibby Pillote '14 and Blue Lassiter '15 contributed to this story.
Career and Community Engagement


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Tegra/Mainline SW/U-Boot
< Tegra | Mainline SW
NVIDIA Tegra SoCs are well supported by mainline U-Boot.
U-Boot releases may be obtained from:
- ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ releases, via download.
- http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=summary releases and overall development code, via git.
- http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-tegra.git;a=summary Tegra-specific latest development code, via git.
Features that already work are:
- It boots!
- Serial console.
- SD/eMMC.
- USB2 Host:
- USB networking for network booting.
- USB keyboard enabled on some boards.
- Display controller, for some SoCs and boards - mainly Tegra20/30.
- bootz, sysboot, pxe commands, shell, and scripting available for easy distro booting support.
- Extremely basic PMIC support necessary to boot the main CPUs.
- I2C master.
- SPI master (e.g. for boot flash programming).
- NAND (Tegra20 only, for boot flash programming).
- I2C slave (Toshiba AC100 specific NVEC keyboard support).
A probably-incomplete list of features that are not yet implemented is:
- Advanced (high-speed) transfer modes for SD and eMMC. IO voltage scaling.
- PCIe (e.g. for PCIe-based network devices on some boards).
- USB2 device mode and OTG. (device mode support is work-in-progress, and nearly complete).
- USB3 controller.
- SKU awareness (SKU-specific clock and thermal limits).
- POR (Plan Of Record) clocks.
- HDMI display.
- LCD panel support on many boards (especially Tegra114 and later).


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riothub necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 26 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
RiotHub - Fast. Free. Fun.
RiotHub started out as a fun portal that was a side project for a few friends. The idea behind the name is that it's a Hub where people can come and have a Riot of a time (connecting people and fun). Originally we incorporated .com into the logo, but we're looking to branch into mobile and social outlets and want to leave the .com behind. The new tagline that we believe best fits our new direction is "Fast. Free. Fun.". We're not partial to RiotHub over Riot Hub and would like the new tagline incorporated if possible.
Our new target audience is inline with companies like Zynga (e.g.: FarmVille and Mafia Wars) and Playdom as well as Miniclip (http://www.miniclip.com). The demographic therefore is broad and we would like a logo that appeals to a broad audience of social gamers.
Our current site is up at "http://www.riothub.com", but we're really looking to branch into social markets and on multiple devices. We would like "RiotHub" or "Riot Hub" as the main portion of the logo and a smaller tagline of "Fast. Free. Fun." incorporated. The main idea should capture some variation on people connecting and having a good time.
There is currently no style guide or color restrictions and the logo should be fun and playful with colors that are fitting for both a male and female audience.
Best of luck and we're excited to see what you are able to offer!
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Last call at California restaurants, bars and nightclubs could come later under legislation proposed by a state senator from San Francisco.
Sen. Mark Leno's bill would allow cities and counties to petition state alcohol regulators to allow alcohol service until 4 a.m., two hours later than current regulations.
Leno, a Democrat, tells the San Francisco Chronicle ( https://bit.ly/10Lecfm ) his bill would make California cities more competitive as tourist destinations with cities that allow alcohol service past 2 a.m.
Leno says he expects opposition based on public safety concerns, but he has not seen evidence that later alcohol service leads to increased alcohol-related traffic deaths.
Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, https://www.sfgate.com


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Six highlights in your travel week | 20 July
Craft beer has brewed up a new market niche for the Sunshine Coast's tourism sector, with its emerging profile recognised officially recently with the beachside Moffat Beach Brewing Co being named the Champion Small Brewer of Australia at Sydney's annual BrewCon awards.
It also took home two gold medals, as did Maleny-based Brouhaha, while there were silvers for Macleod Brewing Co in Maleny, Sunshine Brewery and Land & Sea in Noosa.
Sunshine Coast Craft Beer Tours' Josh Donohoe said that the area's craft-brewing scene had expanded dramatically over the past three years and had become an increasingly important attraction for Sunshine Coast holiday goers.
He said BrewCon's 'Will Travel for Beer' section highlighted how craft beer can add a distinct 'taste' to a region's tourism offer, and complement the destination's other food and natural attractions.
Visit Sunshine Coast CEO, Simon Latchford, said that food, wine and beer were a major focus of the region's tourism marketing, with the Sunshine Coast one of Australia's richest agricultural producers.
There are plenty of family-oriented activities available in Western Australia's Peel region, and its major city, Mandurah, about hour south of Perth.
Mandurah is the state's largest and fastest-growing regional city and is set against a backdrop of magnificent beaches and an estuary twice the size of Sydney Harbour.
Among the choices are:
— Take to the trees on a forest obstacle course. Climb along wobbling bridges, through cargo nets and across zip lines at Trees Adventure near Dwellingup.
— Be a zookeeper for a day at the Peel Zoo, in Pinjarra. Experience handling, feeding and how to care for over 100 animals, including Tasmanian devils.
— Travel on a train through the forest aboard the Hotham Valley Railway steam train, in Dwellingup, or along the foreshore aboard the Mandurah Tourist Train.
— Get back to nature at the Forest Discovery Centre. Enjoy forest walks, a viewing platform, nature play, art and craft tables, microscopes and a touch table.
— Explore by horseback along a scenic trail through the beautiful Darling Ranges with Langford Hill Riding Farm in Waroona.
Visit www.visitpeel.com.au
Located at Sydney Fish Market, the Sydney Seafood School, which has been teaching keen home cooks to prepare fresh Aussie seafood in a multitude of ways for almost 30 years, has just released the line-up of its hands-on cooking classes for the colder months.
Many of the city's leading chefs impart the tricks of their trade at weeknight classes and weekend workshops, and there is a selection of ongoing favourites such as teaching the basics of Singaporean classics like chilli crab and black pepper crab, Spain' seafood paella spiked with smoky paprika and sweet piquillo peppers, and Moroccan fish-and-vegetable tagine.
This winter the school is offering a book-for-six-pay-for-four group discount for all classes.
Phone (02) 9004 1111 or visit www.sydneyfishmarket.com.au
If you are short on time, UTracks' five-day walk along Iceland's most well known hiking trail could be in your potential travel mix.
Book now for selected August departures this year and save $100 per person on UTracks' guided Laugavegur Trail hike.
The trail crosses the third biggest geothermal zone in the world, where steaming hot springs are dotted through a landscape of yellow rhyolite mountains and black deserts.
Highlights include climbing old volcanoes, plunging into glacial lakes, walking through ice caves and soaking in a hot spring thermal bath.
With the discount the hike is priced at $3050 per person twin-share, and includes meals (four breakfasts, five lunches, four dinners), four nights in mountain huts on a multi-share basis, an experienced English-speaking walking guide, cooking gear, daily luggage transfers and transport to and from the capital, Reykjavik.
Phone 1300 303 368 or visit www.utracks.com
This year marks the 200th anniversary of a broken organ in an Austrian church leading to the creation of the most popular Christmas carol of all time.
Legend has it that on Christmas Eve, 1818, at Oberndorf, a village outside Salzburg, it was discovered that mice had chewed through the bellows of the church organ.
The choirmaster hurriedly wrote Silent Night to be played on a guitar instead, and since then the carol has become a firm favourite all over the world, with translations into more than 300 languages.
Austria is celebrating the anniversary this year with dedicated tours, a special exhibition at Salzburg Museum and a musical based on the carol.
After or before attending these events, Australians can enjoy a self-guided, inn-to-inn walk offered by On Foot Holidays, traversing Austrian meadows, woods and charming villages.
Located in the Bregenzerwald region in western Austria, the seven-night itinerary aims to provide a true Austrian experience but caters for ordinary walkers rather than the super-fit.
Included in the package is the use of cable cars which can assist walkers in the final ascent, which will offer stunning views of the five 2000-metre peaks around the Damuls valley, enabling them to look back on how far they have journeyed over the past six days.
Including accommodation, all breakfasts, six dinners, cable car services, and all luggage transfers, the Austrian walk costs about $1720. Bookings made before September 30 will secure 2018 prices on all 32 On Foot Holidays routes for 2019.
Visit www.onfootholidays.co.uk
Viking has cut prices on 2019 sailings its 11-day Kiev-to-the-Black-Sea river cruise between Kiev and Odessa.
The new price is from $5595 per person twin-share and includes return economy flights.
Guests will cruise the Dnieper River to the Black Sea, an ancient trade route lined with rich cultural treasures, onion-domed churches and rural folkways that recall the days of Vikings, Tatars and Cossacks.
Phone 138 747 or visit www.vikingcruises.com.au


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The University of North Carolina is committed to working with community, regional, and statewide partners to help lead the state through the challenges and opportunities our global economy offers.
We believe our campuses have a unique capacity and responsibility to produce high-quality graduates with the skills and abilities to work in our state's most important businesses and organizations and to start new enterprises; to generate new ideas, processes, and technologies through the work of our faculty; and to work in partnership with businesses, agencies, and organizations throughout the state to create a better quality of life for all North Carolinians.
The work on economic transformation is a top priority of the UNC president and of the UNC Board of Governors. It is also a key element of the UNC Strategic Plan adopted by the UNC Board of Governors in January 2017. We are committed to meeting the needs of North Carolina in a variety of industry sectors and to create additional capacity to work with businesses, government and nonprofits to respond to their needs and anticipate future needs.
Our work at the University level is led by Kevin Howell. For questions about how UNC is engaged in economic transformation, please contact him.
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Sound designer Richard Devine ventures underground to capture sound effects with the M-Audio MicroTrack recorder.
Name: Richard Devine
Occupation: Artist, producer, sound designer, remixer
Credits: BT, Trent Reznor, Aphex Twin, Apple, Ableton, Nike, Scion, Land Rover, Audi, Microsoft Gaming Division (Halo2), Sony PlayStation, Konami and more
Base of Operations: Atlanta, GA
Official Website: http://www.richard-devine.com
"The MicroTrack has been an amazing tool—I never leave home without one," says Devine. "I have three of them including the MicroTrack II, and all have proven to be solid and dependable. I often go out and record in very difficult situations, doing sound design work for TV, film and video games. Sometimes I even record sound from fireworks, weapons or heavy machinery. The MicroTrack has held up time and time again.
"I recently went on a field recording trip to Petty Johns Cave in northwest Georgia. The cave is located on the east side of Pigeon Mountain in the Appalachian Plateau. It has small rivers and waterfalls deep at the bottom of the cave, which is about four hours below ground level. I used the MicroTrack II to capture the unusual ambient sound of water flowing through strange cuts in the rocks. All the recordings ended up getting included in my new Sony effects library. The MicroTrack held up very well even in the most challenging conditions."
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Hi to all,
After many years working with open source OS's (Linuces and BSD's), I think that the BSD community tries to mimic Linux at its bads.
Currently there are these BSD distributions and counting: DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, DesktopBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MirOS BSD, etc.. .
While this a very small list compared to the thousands of Linux flavors, since the BSD community is very small compared to the Linux one, I think that these projects should be merged somehow to provide a magnificent BSD operating system, to make it the best secure/multiplatform/fastest/stable operating system available.
Almost all of the above BSD's are trying to re-invent the wheel with different approaches, waisting development time and resources, instead of focusing their powers to fix crucial BSD problems and adding necessary functionalities that already exist in Linux or introduce new ones.
What is your opinion about this?
You're very ignorant of how different each BSD project is, the major 3 BSD's OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD have been around for over a decade.
Each of them have worked on their systems separately, they do not share the same kernel or user-land.. they've diverged over the years.. dramatically.
It is wrong to call them distributions of BSD, because they aren't just distributing an unmodified version of 386BSD or 4.4BSD-lite.. they've each made unique changes to the code based on their independent views and philosophies.
In the Linux world, distributions are simply the same kernel.org kernel and a few things listed on gnu.org.. customizations typically include fancy initializations scripts and silly branding.
OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD are separate entities.. each of them may have started out as 386BSD/4.4BSD-lite.. but today they're 3 entirely different operating systems.
DragonFlyBSD is also a separate project, they may not have been around as long as the other 3.. but they're maintaining and developing their kernel and user-land independently.
MirOS/BSD is a fork of OpenBSD 3.1, comparatively I know little about it.. but it isn't a carbon copy of OpenBSD anymore, 7 years of being a separate project.
FreeBSD has always been a project trying to make life easier for people running in a world full of i386 boxes.. some people have attempted to make life easier by providing novice users with a pre-configured environment and OS X inspired package management system, examples being PC-BSD and DesktopBSD.
A lot of Desktop oriented BSD projects are around as of recently.. that they're not full fledged derivatives of BSD, most of them don't claim to be.. some even try to emphasize the fact that they use an entirely unmodified kernel.
It might be a way to publicize various BSD derivatives, I know for example one of this forums members, jggimi, creates his own OpenBSD based LiveCD images, no doubt his overall goals include making it easier for grandma to try out OpenBSD in a somewhat user friendly manner.
If you don't like the pretty boxed versions meant to lure people who like boxes.. go to the source and get the real deal.
Whining helps nobody, take the time to research the differences between each project.
Take care.
Last edited by BSDfan666; 31st May 2009 at 02:13 PM.
> I think that the BSD community tries to mimic Linux at its bads.
I don't believe that to be true. If anything the BSD's try to adopt whats good in Linux. (For example FreeBSD is in a healthy competition with Linux in the performance area...check out the fbsd dev blogs)
> Currently there are these BSD distributions and counting...these projects should be merged somehow to provide a magnificent BSD operating system...trying to re-invent the wheel with different approaches, waisting development time and resources...
Sorry but that sounds a bit like FUD. Besides, it's worth keeping in mind that the BSD's are essentially volunteer driver projects, nobody can prevent any person (or group) from starting a new distro.
[/offtopic]Thought for the day: Have we become a rant forum?
BSD: flavor
My classification of such.
Anyway, each BSD is separate but can work with parts from the other without greatly modifying the system. This isn't so with the Linux distributions. RPM, deb, source, emerge, etc packaging systems have to be modified for another distribution and then it is not guaranteed to work. The major distributions of Linux do not have the fine grained control of
the major flavors of BSD.
BSD: cd /usr/<port source>/<directory>/<subdirectory>
make config
make install clean.
Linux: Download package and install.
Want it custom made? Download, extract, edit, test, config, install, clean.
PC & Desktop are based upon Free. So are a lot of other BSD based projects.
Diversity within the Linux community is based upon the function the developer wants and the audience the developer is targeting.
There is nothing stopping the OP from building boxes and installing his own version of a BSD flavor on them and then distributing it.
Be sure to include:
Full source of all packages.
Build instructions.
Howto's for extra functionality.
Handbook for base flavor plus handbook for modified flavor.
Links to patches, security.
Customer support.
Product warranty.
List of compatible hardware.
Continua com outras problemas e mais.....
A good thing about the Open Source community- both Linux and BSD- is that you do get support with any project you build that is within reason.
There are four separate BSD operating systems each one with the different very limited set of objectives. For instance DragonFly is trying to achieve kernel support for cluster computing full stop. Nothing else. It supports only i386. OpenBSD is security appliance and network tool. Everything else is extra stuff. They absolutely have nothing in common except that both can be used as desktop operating system.
There are lot more distributions but fortunately not in the Linux sense of that word (couple idiots are trying to put set of desktop packages they like). Distribution is customized installation of an Operating System. In Linux world
it is a bit more because Linux is just a kernel. So the distribution is also a choice of userland tools.
There were in total over 40 distros based on FreeBSD. Almost 20 based on OpenBSD and at least 3-4 based on NetBSD. Most of them are dead.
Active based on FreeBSD
8. MidnightBSD
Dead based on FreeBSD-u
4.Bzerk CD
6.Damn Small BSD
14.FenestrOS BSD
16.FreeBSD LiveCD
27.Triance OS
29. WarBSD
Active based on OpenBSD
4. BowlFish
5.LiveCD made by jggimi's for Desktop demonstration
Dead based on OpenBSD-u
2.CD Bootable OpenBSD firewall
10.OpenBSD Live-CD Firewall
Each of active distros based on FreeBSD like m0n0wall, pFsense, FreeNAS, PC-BSD or AskoziaPBX is trying to solve specific problem.
m0n0wall is FreeBSD firewall for embedded devices. pFsense is FreeBSD firewall for regular PC, FreeNAS is network based storage, PC-BSD is BSD for incompetent Desktop users, and AskoziaPBX is Asterix server.
Last edited by Oko; 1st June 2009 at 07:17 AM.
The reason that the BSDs have not joined forces to become a super-terrific-happy OS is that it is simply far too difficult to do so.
Claim 1: The overall central goal of each group of developers is different, and many developers have ideologies which would conflict with each other if they needed to work together (an obvious yet crucial example would be whether or not to include binary blobs in the source tree). Progress in this environment would be extremely frustrating to developers when such simplistic decisions cannot be made.
Claim 2: This has been stated previously, but I'll state it again; each BSD has diverged significantly from the common starting point (386BSD and 4.4BSD-lite) and thus merging the systems together from their current states would be impossible without relinquishing some functionality, reliability, speed, portability, or security. Each BSD project focuses on a specific, limited set of desired goals, and each project excels at its chosen goals.
One could attempt to write a BSD-based OS which possesses all of the merits of the current systems, but that is no easy task. Look at the most common desktop OSes; many of them try to succeed at perfection (or at least that is what they would have their users believe), and they can never quite get all of it right.
This query is very similar to discussions I've heard on game emulation forums: why can there not be an emulator which is speedy, accurate, and lightweight on resources all at once? Because writing the perfect emulator is a relatively impossible feat. It is the same answer for an operating system; none can be perfect for everything, but they can be darn good for a few tasks. They do not reinvent each others' wheels; they craft entirely different ones.
"Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else." - /usr/games/fortune
The FreeBSD & NetBSD projects began with an unencumbered source base which had been vetted by real world usage & customized it to their own liking. The various projects have been around long enough now that the divergence is very real -- one cannot expect to take major subsystems from one project & splice into another without encurring a significant amount of work.
Likewise given that the projects have developed their own forms of funding (self-sustainment) & developed their own cultures, there isn't much motivation to merge. Even looking at OpenBSD's PF firewall which has been ported to both FreeBSD & NetBSD, the versions used by Free- & Net- are a few versions older than what can be found on OpenBSD. What this implies is that porting isn't that trivial or no one is motivated enough to change the status quo. The truth probably lies somewhere between.
Usually when people argue for unification, they contrast the number of drivers available in the *BSD world to that of Linux. Again, two core issues are at play:
Outside of technical differences, the cultural differences extend past different funding models to personality differences. Development requires that people work together & that communication occurs freely. Forcing people to unify doesn't mean that they will freely do so -- especially when much of the work is done without pay.
To be fair, developers in the various projects do watch what is committed into the various code repositories. Given that each of the *BSD projects descends from a common base means that some bug fixes & drivers can be ported from one project to another, but the greatest limiting factor is whether competent engineers are both capable & willing to do the work.
Nevertheless, merging entire projects means that some project identity may be lost, & scaling development teams who aren't being paid is a real management issue. Because the *BSD world is predicated on the resulting code be freely available to other uses (read the BSD license...), the various projects are primarily managed by engineers. Engineers don't necessarily make good managers, & managing large teams of developers requires real management skills. I don't see unification ever occurring in the *BSD world because the motivation isn't there.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
>most of them don't
It's more like 'most of them won't' ;-)
use UNIX or die :-)
You *just* did't get the point, not even a bit and I feel sorry for this .
ocicat really understood my point.
Let me give you a quick resume about me: I am using Unix systems since 1991, I have worked and administer in the past with Sco unix, SunOS, Digital Unix, Solaris, AIX and I have got official certifications for Tru64 unix and Solaris. Currently my job is head administrator of over 350 servers with Solaris/RHEL linux in a respectful company in my country. I personally use FreeBSD for hobby since 1996 and I'm very happy with it. I know which is the roots of each major bsd distribution and their focuses and I know about computers in general (I have computer engineering and electronic engineer degree), probably better than you both, too.
I don't know about Oko, but I'm not very fond of people like you.. I honestly don't care how smart you think you are, but considering you feel the need to say that you're smarter then both of us.. that just speaks volumes about your character.
cut the bull and close this topic
Verbose mode can also be turned on for SSH2 with the (surprise!) VerboseMode keyword.
I am also sticking with my assessment of your knowledge in spite of your formal credentials.
Pretend I am a big pitbull who going to bite the first person who's going to continue this non-sense.
Back on topic, everything else can be fought in private if you feel the need.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
If something works for everything, it doesn't work for anything
Make each program do one thing well.
you can tell same for BSD (FreeBSD=perfomance, OpenBSD=security, NetBSD=portability)
merging projects would sacrifice bought performance, security and portability (+ big bonus of bugs)
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -Philip K. Dick
Last edited by roddierod; 4th June 2009 at 05:52 PM.
It's pretty bad translation of saying we have in Latvia:
"Ja kaut kas der visam, tas neder nekam"
This was best translation I could think of
Here, we have a similar saying, which looks at the same issue from another point of view:
Help for FreeBSD: Handbook, FAQ, man pages, mailing lists.
"If you'll trade your horse over and over, eventually you'll get old (bad) horse" (well something like this)
Linux people should read this quote, especially working on linux audio systems and package management (this is very old saying, but it's still effective up until nowadays)
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Last week my coworker Brad and I tortured an accordion.
This thing was old, beat up and had a hole in the bellows, which made it awesome! We bent it, flicked it, hit it and dropped it.
I went a little atypical on the miking setup. Left channel in the recording below is an AT4050 about 5 feet away. Right channel is a Schoeps CMC6/MK41 about 3 inches away.
The intent was not to create a stereo image, but rather to preserve to separate mono perspectives in on stereo file.
Here are some excerpts:
*update* and here's a little composition that Brad made exclusively using the sounds of that instrument.
Antique Accordion - Design Example by MoleculeMusic
This thing was just great fun to record and we got tons and tons of material out of it. We even managed to keep the thing intact throughout, so it's still basically performable if we need it later on.
Many thanks to Tim Prebble for providing the inspiration for this kind of endeavor.
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Mike I necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 90 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
We are a small software company based in Winnipeg, Canada (since 2007). Our primary business is custom software development, system design and project management services for small, medium and large companies. We are a high-end consulting shop with strong reputation for quality work and taking the time to understand our clients' business.
We also recently began developing proprietary web based product which we plan to release later this year.
The web site should be targeted towards general corporate/business audience that might be interested in our consulting services.
We would also like to emphasize our new product "BookedIN" on the web site's home page as this will be the first form of advertising for this product (we will be creating separate web site for this later).
Basically, have a look at the current site (http://www.coldwin.com) and make it look better (i.e. clean, consistent layout, menus, etc.).
(all web site images are attached... see file: images.zip)
specific notes:
- web site should have clean, simple and professional feel to it - not too "busy"
- please use 3D effects sparingly
- no images with people
- not looking to redesign company logo (we like it as is)... but feel free to play around with size and background colors, etc.
- "Home" and "Consulting" pages: would like client testimonials to stand out
- final design should have total 6 pages (as per copy deck)
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Western blot analysis of extracts from rat brain and KNRK cells using Myelin Basic Protein (2H9) Mouse mAb (upper) or β-Actin (D6A8) Rabbit mAb #8457 (lower).
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Supplied in 10 mM sodium HEPES (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 100 µg/ml BSA, 50% glycerol and less than 0.02% sodium azide. Store at –20°C. Do not aliquot the antibody.
For western blots, incubate membrane with diluted primary antibody in 5% w/v nonfat dry milk, 1X TBS, 0.1% Tween® 20 at 4°C with gentle shaking, overnight.
NOTE: Please refer to primary antibody datasheet or product webpage for recommended antibody dilution.
From sample preparation to detection, the reagents you need for your Western Blot are now in one convenient kit: #12957 Western Blotting Application Solutions Kit
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalent grade water.
Load 20 µl onto SDS-PAGE gel (10 cm x 10 cm).
NOTE: Loading of prestained molecular weight markers (#13953, 5 µl/lane) to verify electrotransfer and biotinylated protein ladder (#7727, 10 µl/lane) to determine molecular weights are recommended.
NOTE: Volumes are for 10 cm x 10 cm (100 cm2) of membrane; for different sized membranes, adjust volumes accordingly.
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Reprobing of an existing membrane is a convenient means to immunoblot for multiple proteins independently when only a limited amount of sample is available. It should be noted that for the best possible results a fresh blot is always recommended. Reprobing can be a valuable method but with each reprobing of a blot there is potential for increased background signal. Additionally, it is recommended that you verify the removal of the first antibody complex prior to reprobing so that signal attributed to binding of the new antibody is not leftover signal from the first immunoblotting experiment. This can be done by re-exposing the blot to ECL reagents and making sure there is no signal prior to adding the next primary antibody.
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalently purified water.
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Myelin Basic Protein (2H9) Mouse mAb recognizes endogenous levels of total myelin basic protein.Species Reactivity:
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Corton Grand Cru Clos du Roi Domaine Prince Florent de Mérode 1990
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The prestigious Château Haut-Brion surprises by the number of first places it occupies in many situations. Created in 1553 by Jean de Pontac, Haut-Brion was the first wine of Bordeaux's history to have the same name as the domain. At that time, the wines were sold anonymously. First chateau to practice techniques which are now unavoidable, such as racking or aging in oak barrels. Therefore, it will be the only classified Grand Cru in the Graves appellation in 1855, and is number 1 of course! There is no small vintage at Haut-Brion, owned by the Dillon family since 1935. In 1983, the Dillon family bought La Mission Haut-Brion, Haut-Brion's neighbour. It is always exciting to compare the different vntages of the property. In great vintages, it is perfectly able to age for several decades. Some vintages, such as the 1961 or 1989, show the incredible potential of Château Haut Brion, one of the greatest red wines in the world. The second wine of the chateau, formerly called Bahans, is now called Clarence de Haut-Brion.
Served at the table of King Charles II in 1660, Château Haut-Brion has never stopped writing history since. This blend is made up of 45% Merlot, 44% Cabernet Sauvignon and 9% Cabernet Franc with a hint of Petit Verdot. The harvests are manual, and the grapes are sorted several times throughout the process. Limited yields and a long maturation of 22 months in new oak barrels contribute to the production of this magnificent wine. Haut Brion develops velvety notes of ripe blackcurrant and has a mineral profile with legendary finesse. In its best vintages, it can be aged for several decades. Some of its vintages, such as the 1961 and the 1989, demonstrate how Château Haut Brion can figure among the best red wines in the world.
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Have You Heard? KDE Applications 17.04 and Plasma 5.9.5 Now Available
The last two weeks have been busy for the KDE Community. On April 20 we announced the release of KDE Applications 17.04, and five days later we released a new set of bugfixes and translations for Plasma, officially versioned Plasma 5.9.5.
Both new versions of our products have introduced several features and stability improvements to the overall KDE user experience. Here are some of the highlights from the latest KDE Applications and Plasma releases. As always, you can find a lot more information in their respective changelogs.
What's New in File Management?
If Dolphin is your file manager of choice, you will be happy to hear that it now allows you to interact with the metadata widgets in the tooltips. The Places panel now has better context menus, and opening a new instance of Dolphin using the "New Window" option will launch it in the same target folder as your current Dolphin window.
A significant change that affects not only Dolphin, but also Kate and KWrite, is that launching these applications as root on Linux systems has been disabled by default. The reason for this is that it is a safety risk to run GUI apps with root privileges in the X Window System (X11).
When it comes to viewing your files, Okular will be even better at it thanks to numerous improvements. You can now create bookmarks from the Table of Contents, resize annotations, and disable automatic search while typing.
Finally, Ark - the application that lets you manage compressed files and folders - now has a handy plugin configuration dialog and a Search function to help you look inside your archives.
What About Multimedia Applications?
The biggest improvements in the multimedia department will be visible in Kdenlive, KDE's video editor. The profile selection dialog has been fully redesigned, and it is now much easier to tweak the framerate, screen size, and other details of your project. Perhaps the coolest new feature in Kdenlive is the ability to play your video directly from the notification you receive when rendering is completed.
Other multimedia applications received some minor improvements, for example Gwenview now lets you hide the status bar in the application window.
Don't Forget About KDE Edu!
Our educational applications have seen some interesting changes. KAlgebra - the powerful graphing calculator and math-learning tool - has a new 3D back-end on the desktop, and its mobile version has been ported to Kirigami 2.0.
If you love music more than math, the new version of Minuet will delight you. The music education tool now comes with more scale exercises and ear-training tasks, plus an entire Test Mode for practicing and monitoring your progress.
KStars, our desktop planetarium, will now work much better on OS X, and KGeography now includes a map of Ghana.
New Members of the KDE Applications Family
We are happy to announce that K3b, the disk burning software, is now part of KDE Applications. In other great news, several applications have been ported from their old kdelibs4 base to KDE Frameworks 5. The list includes KCachegrind, Kajongg, kde-dev-utils and kdesdk-kioslaves.
No longer included in KDE Applications is the unmaintained development tool Kommander.
What About the New Plasma?
The most obvious changes introduced in Plasma 5.9.5 are related to window decorations and other visual tweaks. Themes in the System Settings module are now sorted, Plastik window decoration supports the global menu, and Aurorae window decorations support the global menu button. KWin will respect theme colors in buttons, and you will be able to edit the default color scheme of your Plasma Desktop.
Moreover, your Plasma session will correctly handle the event of disconnecting a primary screen and replacing it with a new one. The Media Controller Plasmoid has been fixed, and can now properly seek tracks longer than 30 minutes.
Where Can You Get All These New Things?
Both KDE Applications 17.04 and Plasma 5.9.5 are available in KDE neon. Linux distributions are expected to provide packages or update their existing ones in the coming weeks. Users of Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux, and Gentoo should already see our latest software in their repositories.
If you can't wait for your distribution's packages, you can always download our source code and compile it yourself. We provide build instructions for both KDE Applications and Plasma.
What's Next?
Plasma 5.10 is expected at the end of May. If you have been following our developers' blogs, you might be aware of some upcoming features. Folder View will have a much more prominent role on the Plasma Desktop, and it will include practical spring-loading navigation.
A lot more is in the works, and we will reveal some of the novelties as the release date approaches. Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ to keep up with all the news. If you're planning to celebrate the release of Plasma 5.10 by hosting a release party, start preparing now! Our Community Wiki has some tips on how to organize a local KDE event.
In the meantime, let us know about your experience with KDE Applications 17.04 and Plasma 5.9.5 in the comments!
Okular improvements
It's wonderful that Okular recieves some love and gets better.
Yet we still have the very big problem with Qt not supporting ppd-options for printing anymore!
This cuts off a very big part of using Okular... printing is "crippled" since Qt5. From my POV this is an essential part which is now defunct since a long time. I want to be able to choose from my printers ppd options for a print job (e.g. stapling... color options...etc...). It did work with Qt4, but somehow "vanished" with Qt5...
By thomas at Tue, 2017/05/02 - 2:20pm
Qt printing
Yes, this is a known regression. We still hope someone finds the time to submit patches for QPrinter classes (and QLocale classes ;) because the maintainer unfortunately had to resign from the task.
By cfeck at Tue, 2017/05/02 - 10:14pm
PPD print options are broken and nobody seems to care
The standard answer would be "file a bug".Certainly -- but where? bugs.kde.org? Look at how many orphaned bugs and duplicates there are there. This looks like a serious project management problem. We have this: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Bugtracker which was last updated in 2011. It appears that all the same issues still apply, and it's six years later. How do smaller projects manage this while KDE can't?Or how about over at Qt? https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-54464 - This bug is almost a year old. It's assigned, but there is no sign that any progress has been made on it. "No work has yet been logged on this issue." I know we're all busy people, but seriously?And frankly, why are we still talking about this in 2017? This worked in 4! This functionality is so basic that it should be the first thing that gets addressed in any new design. It is absolutely staggering that this isn't high on the priority list. Printing from Plasma 5 is essentially useless.
By rhombus at Thu, 2017/05/04 - 1:21pm
inattention to bug reports
I couldn't agree more. There are a number of bugs in Kontact, and none of them is getting any serious attention from developers. Why can't KDE focus on attending to these problems with the Kontact suite before traipsing off to new projects? If Kontact were bug-free, it would be a much better sales agent for KDE than more bells and whistles on the desktop.
By Ken Freeland at Mon, 2017/07/17 - 2:35am
Dual monitor setup improvements
Having a Macbook pro laptop with a retina display and a 1080p or a 1440p external display I would love to have different DPI settings on each display. But I'm not sure if this fits KDE or QT!
By Paulo Fidalgo at Tue, 2017/05/02 - 5:00pm
Dolphin as root
Good work, but how do you re-enable running Dolphin and Kate as root? Might be a security hazard but if you know what you're doing you should be able to do so. Browsing the filesystem and editing files can be a PITA otherwise if you have to perform administrative tasks. Thanks!
By Mario at Wed, 2017/05/03 - 1:10pm
Individual wallpapers for each desktop
Is there any hope that this long-standing bug (a well-known and used KDE4 feature) will be fixed soon? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143
Hopefully the amount of feedback given by your users might show you that it's worth spending a little time to restore this feature we've missed for so long. Keep up the great work!
By Maarten at Wed, 2017/05/03 - 10:59pm
no dolphin as root
Really disappointed with this change. I have been using kde since back in the days of kde 3 {suse 8.1} and have now had to install some gnome programmes to edit system files. Please don't turm plasma into a locked-down MS Windows style o/s.
By dth1 at Thu, 2017/05/04 - 7:06pm
Root access
No more graphical root access: because the user is stupid, because the "administrator" is protected (he is Administrator, or what else?) again every possible error...
Why leave it easy, when making it complicated is possible?
By Frank Einstein at Thu, 2017/05/04 - 7:25pm
Allow operations as root
"A significant change that affects not only Dolphin, but also Kate and KWrite, is that launching these applications as root on Linux systems has been disabled by default. The reason for this is that it is a safety risk to run GUI apps with root privileges in the X Window System (X11)."
This is terrible. There may be use-cases where people want to run a desktop as root. Or even "kdesu dolphin" or kate. From the post, I understand that there's nothing technical that prevents these applications from running with root privileges. Just that a policy decision has been imposed on the users. This is a terrible decision - along the lines of silly gnome designers. There are genuine use cases for running GUI applications as root. KDE shouldn't impose such restrictions on its users.
By Syam Krishnan at Fri, 2017/05/12 - 2:44am
By sukiyoyo at Tue, 2017/06/13 - 6:39am
Really though, sudo access for dolphin/kate is crazy useful.
Even if we have to go find a config file somewhere to allow starting dolphin as root, the option would be very much appreciated.
By John at Thu, 2017/09/28 - 9:04am
Running dolphin/kate as root
See a few people asking about this, and when you have a few asking there are thousands looking, but no information forth coming. How can we run these programs as root?
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Steve Ulfelder was "always a car guy, racing for 15 years" with a burning desire to write a mystery novel–and, during the past several years, more than one of his dreams has come true. A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, Steve spent a couple of decades working as a technology journalist. In 2006, he left his journalism career behind to co-found a company, Flatout Motorsports, with two partners (more about that later) and, in 2011, his first mystery novel was published. Titled Purgatory Chasm, this book was nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America (Edgar Award = the Oscars of the mystery novel world) in the category of Best First Novel and chosen Best First Mystery by readers of Romantic Times. A Romantic Times book review reads, in part: "Ulfelder's debut grabs you from its wryly hilarious opening line and keeps going full throttle till the finale. His characters are deep and realistically rendered – sometimes painfully so – and the broken family dynamics are right on the money. Ulfelder writes so well that even non-NASCAR fanatics will get something out of the car talk and racing scenes." Steve shares how he wanted his detective character, Conway Sax, to "be gritty, with a working man occupation," so he created the following backstory: "Conway used to be a NASCAR driver, a very promising one, but life's problems got in the way, so he quit racing. Now a recovering alcoholic, he works as a mechanic in independent garages. He gets things done, he works with his hands, he does rather than talks." Before beginning this book and subsequent ones in the series, Steve created a situation/problem and could picture the final scene in his mind–and then he simply began writing, filling in the story as he went along. "The biggest challenge," he admits, "is to keep track of all of the threads, because there are lots of moving parts in my novels. It's hard to remember who did what, who knows what, who talks to whom in what chapter, but I keep writing the first draft until it's done. Then, in the second draft, I make all consistent. For example, if Jane knows about the gun in chapter 2, she can't be surprised to learn about the gun in chapter 4." In 2012, the sequel to Purgatory Chasm was released, titled The Whole Lie. And now, the third book, Shotgun Lullaby, has just hit the stands. In 2014, we can expect another one. Steve Ulfelder successfully followed the adage to write about what you know. "I love cars and so it's pleasurable to write about them," he says. Steve has done more than write about them, of course, working as a mechanic, racing cars and co-creating the Flatout Motorsports company, which now has eight fulltime employees. Flatout Motorsports serves talented amateur race car drivers who don't have the time or the mechanical skills to maintain and/or repair their own race cars. So, the company maintains and repairs the vehicles for clients; delivers the vehicles to the appropriate race tracks at the right times; serves as pit crew; and then takes care of the vehicles, post-race. "All the drivers need to do," he explains, "is to show up with a racing helmet and drive." Flatout Motorsports also rents race cars for $1,000 per day for racers who don't own one. At this point, Steve doesn't do much work on the race cars themselves, focusing on the financing and marketing aspects of the business, plus web site development. He still maintains his own vehicles, though, enjoying the hands-on work. And, the bottom line, according to Steve, is simple: "I am," he says, "the luckiest guy in the world." We hope you've enjoyed the Advance Auto Parts author interview with Steve Ulfelder. Keep an eye out for more author interviews coming soon. Jim Kazliner Editor • DIY'er
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Rage: Campaign Edition (Mac App Store link; GameAgent Store link) isn't going to win any awards for originality, but it's an enjoyable, action-packed first-person shooter, decked out in top-notch 3D graphics. The game is set in the near future, following an unfortunate collision between the Earth and a large asteroid. Emerging from your underground bunker after a cryogenic snooze, you discover a post-apocalyptic wasteland dominated by bandit gangs, creepy mutants, and a shadowy organisation called The Authority.
You're immediately attacked by bandits and rescued by a bruiser called Dan, who helpfully gives you a gun and a nippy little all-terrain motorbike and sends you off to slaughter the entire bandit camp. That's pretty much the game in a nutshell.
The action consists of a series of quests that generally involve driving across the wastelands and blasting the bejesus out of anyone that gets in your way. The story isn't terribly involving, but this is an id Software game, and that means it's all about the guns. On that score the game doesn't disappoint. As you blast your way across the wastelands you'll come across a variety of body-bursting weapons, including hand guns, shotguns, big fat rifles, razor-tipped boomerangs, and a futuristic crossbow capable of, er, mind control.
You can also upgrade your vehicle and use that as part of your armory. The driving and racing elements add a bit of variety to the game, but I was disappointed that the Mac version lacks the Road Rage multiplayer racing mode available in the PC version, as well as the two-player co-op missions.
The system requirements are pretty high. Lion is essential, along with a fairly powerful graphics card.
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Despite its state-of-the-art 3D graphics, Rage is really an old-fashioned shooter in the same mold as the now-ancient Doom and Quake. Don't expect a deep, engaging storyline, but if you enjoy the simple pleasures of big guns and endless fragging then you'll feel right at home amid Rage's rubble-strewn landscapes.
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In honour of Presidents Day this year I thought I would post a couple of pictures I have regarding Presidents of the United States.
That is pretty much the closest I got to any of these Presidents, that I can prove. I have also been the resting spots of William Howard Taft, Harry S Truman, John F Kennedy.


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A short distance up or down can make a big difference for birding! On a recent trip to Lewa Conservancy in Kenya — with which The Nature Conservancy works to foster a community conservation movement that is rapidly spreading through northern Kenya — I was surprised at the difference 400 meters in elevation could make in the birds we saw.
Pictured above are two guineafowls — same family, obviously different species — helmeted guineafowl on the left, and vulturine guineafowl on the right. Driving the dozen or so miles that led to the 400-meter elevation change, it occurred to me that we were traveling through an ecological threshold point, and the slightly drier and hotter climate translated to subtle habitat shift from mostly grass and shrub (pictured in the photo on the left) to more scrubby and sparse.
This slight habitat shift led to a consequent fascinating change in bird species — and not just the guineafowls. A lot of species changed — go-away-birds, barbets, mousebirds and flycatchers to name but a few.
Most ecologists understand these zones well, while many birders do not — to their detriment. Recognizing the different zones as applied to your interest (birds, in this case) — and what occurs in between (known as transition zones) — are critical to which species you can find and to maximizing the diversity of species.
And where do you find information about what zones that birds prefer? Simple: most of it is in the field guides you would buy before visiting a new place!
In the text of almost all of them are basic descriptions of which habitats and sometimes even elevations that the birds prefer. From my field guides, I knew that the helmeted would be most common around Lewa (which it was), but to see the vulturine I would need to get lower (and drier). Well, on the one planned field trip, we did go lower (to Il Ingwesi) — to below the important 1,100-meter elevation level, and that's where we saw that zany bird on the right.
Now, identifying the vulturine guineafowl was easy (clearly it's visually very different), but sometimes visual differences can be subtle. This is when knowing the habitat can be critical. Sometimes it may not be elevation, it can be simply a different type of forest, or aspect of a valley, or side of a range.
But knowing these habitat clues will make all the difference in your quest to find our feathered friends and learn more about them. As an old ornithologist friend (admittedly a curmudgeon) once said to me (clearly after many questions on my part) — "It's all in the book! Read it!"
And I have been reading ever since.
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- One and one-half cups water
- 2 teabags of choice
- One-half lemon, thinly sliced
- 1-inch piece of fresh ginger, sliced
- One-fourth cup honey, or to taste
- Brandy or Cognac to taste
- In a small saucepan bring the water to a boil and remove from the heat. Pour the water into a heated teapot over teabags, add the lemon, ginger and honey and brew for up to 5 minutes. Serve in teacups, with brandy or cognac to taste.
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When AVI set out to remake Mt. Union College's dining hall last summer, it had just 12 weeks to achieve its goals.
A facilities overhaul is a major undertaking under any circumstances. One that results in a total re-concepting of the foodservice program—and is achieved in 12 weeks—is another challenge altogether.
That was the situation faced last summer by AVI Fresh, the campus dining division of Warren, OH-based AVI Foodsystems, when the company was awarded the first-ever foodservice contract at Mt. Union College in nearby Alliance. According to AVI executive vice president John Coker, who developed the plan, the fast-track, gut-renovation project transformed the circa-1960s cafeteria into contemporary dining destination.
"Their new president, Dr. Richard Giese, had set out to make a major improvement in the quality of resident life," says Coker, "affecting both the residences and dining hall. The project completely changed the nature of the foodservice operation there."
Last updated in the late 1980s, the food platforms in the old Kresge Dining Commons were "standard cook-and-park" offerings, according to Coker: cluttered, pieced together and totally unexciting. But Giese was determined to make the 2,300-student liberal arts college more competitive in the college marketplace, and was well aware that improving foodservice would help make Mt. Union more desirable.
Now the 21,500-square-foot facility—the centerpiece of the Hoover-Price Campus Center—is a showplace, for both Mt. Union and AVI. Opened in August of 2006, the project has been a resounding success. As of January 2007, cash sales were up 25% over the prior year, and student participation in the meal plan has grown by double-digit percentages. The new facility has also allowed AVI to create a commuter meal plan (signups have been double initial projections), and to substantially increase faculty and staff use.
"In addition to creating a great dining facility for students, we wanted a place where the entire community would feel comfortable and welcome," says Coker. The 600-seat dining room, outfitted with stylish booths and freestanding tables, is set up with decorative divider curtains—in a custom shade of deep purple for the school's Purple Raiders football team—that can be used as a backdrop for speakers and other special events. Every Sunday, there is a full brunch open to the public. "In order to grow and develop, you have to have the support of the community," notes Coker.
The project filled the same footprint—quite an accomplishment considering how many new food platforms and features were added. The $3-million price tag included all new flooring, lighting, seating and furniture, millwork, cooking and baking equipment, and fixtures, as well as new visual merchandising components such as signage, plasma televisions, uniforms, smallwares, and merchandising and presentation materials. Environmentally friendly building practices and locally sourced materials were used wherever possible.
The new facility was designed as an inviting, Marché-style servery with a variety of different environments, including special event space, and scratch-made restaurant-quality food. Features of the project include:
- A breakfast bar & lounge featuring specialty coffee and a display bakery with a "donut robot," as well as pastries and other baked goods such as breads,
- Pizza and pasta stations with a gas-fired Woodstone deck pizza oven and stoves for making a la minute pasta specialties,
- A deli dispensing sandwiches made from freshly sliced ham, turkey and roast beef—roasted onsite—and housemade breads and buns, with a panini press and Turbo-chef oven, for made-to-order sandwiches, plus side salads and scratch soups,
- Homestyle, a display rotisserie and oven featuring chickens, meats and seafood, as well as casseroles served with classic side dishes; at night, the area is transformed into a carving station.
Flexibility, in fact, was a key parameter. "Every piece of equipment and every station needed to work hard," says Ron Kooser, president and CEO of Cini-Little International, which helped design the space, working with local architects Baker, Bednar & Associates, Inc. "We had a lot of space constraints." Being able to push back all of the cooking stations under existing HVAC equipment helped make the entire project feasible, according to Kooser.
Creating interactivity with out-front "cooking boutiques" was also extremely important. "It all speaks to our freshness mandate," says Coker. "Customers can choose how they want their food, and watch it being made."
To that end, the entire servery spotlights a dramatic central International station, which includes a massive, central double-sided exhibition grill and five-foot long teppanyaki-style flattop, as well as a sushi bar with chilled display and three dedicated rice cookers. Counter seating faces the station.
More than being just an Asian destination, however, the setup is completely multipurpose. "The teppanyaki is much better than a round grill for Mongolian stirfries, because it's so much more flexible," explains Coker.
Indeed, the station is used for all sorts of interesting purposes, from standard burgers to Mexican specialties like quesadillas and fajitas—with all the prepped ingredients set out in the chilled display areas. "We can rotate through all types of cuisines and dayparts," says Coker.


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There is a lot of anticipation for the next generation I-Pad in the Bay Area.
On Wednesday, hundreds of people will pack the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
On the eve of the unveiling people we talked to are excited about seeing the new tablet.
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Steve Gross from San Francisco says, "I knew something was coming. I didn't want to buy a two and have it be obsolete in two months."
"I'm excited. Everything Apple releases so far has been amazing. There's no reason it won't be," Rafi Diaz of San Francisco said.
This is the first unveiling of an Apple product since the death of its co-founder Steve Jobs.
The announcement will take place at 10am at the Yerba Buena Center. Our own business and tech reporter Scott Budman will be inside blogging, tweeting and facebooking to bring you the latest.


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Seeking, finding, obsessing: an introductionPosted: November 17, 2009 | Author: Liz Lynch | Filed under: Genealogy, Meta | Tags: Genealogy, Haigneys, Meta | 6 Comments
I am one of those genealogy addicts. You might run from us at parties. I understand.
Worse, the addiction has grown beyond mere family trees. In trying to uncover my ancestry, I've become addicted to uncovering history lessons on topics that fascinate me, if not the rest of my household.
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BOSTON — Some consultants in the health club industry are predicting a tough summer ahead for fitness facilities if gas prices continue to rise.
"Summer is the worst time for selling memberships in eight of 10 clubs," said Michael Scott Scudder of MSS FitBiz Connection. "What may occasion a worse slump is what is likely to happen with fossil fuel prices and consumer prices in general."
Gasoline prices are expected to increase another 25 cents to 30 cents per gallon this summer with some experts predicting $5 per gallon of gas in the coming months. Also, consumer discretionary income is lower, food prices are higher and interest rates continue to climb, which could flatten the real estate bubble — a concern for the large number of Americans for whom their main investment is their home, said Scudder.
"I don't know at what point consumers will totally react to it, but I'm suspicious that we'll get a consumer reaction, and I think it will be one of cutting back on certain purchases or cutting back on things they've already committed to," he said.
Membership growth has already stalled, according to numbers from the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA). Memberships remained at 41.3 million in 2005, the same as in 2004. In the meantime, the number of clubs increased from 26,831 in 2004 to 29,061 in 2005. During the past six years, the number of clubs has grown from 15,372 to 29,061, an 89 percent increase.
John McCarthy, IHRSA executive director, suggested that this stall would be temporary. While this is the first period of membership nongrowth in a decade, stagnation has occurred before — between 1989-1990, 1991-1992 and 1994-1995. Even during the recession of the 1980s and mini recession of early 1990s, the industry lagged behind and only slowed when the recession was about over, Scudder said. Nonetheless, IHRSA recently published a booklet, How to Prevail in Competitive Markets, to help its members effectively compete for new clients.
"If gas continues to go up and we see $3.50 to $3.75, it will affect us," said Bruce Carter, president of Optimal Fitness Design Systems International, a club design firm. "It is a psychological barrier. People will stop and say 'Whoa, I better hold off here.' For someone making $400 per week and spending $70 per week on gas, something will have to give."
However, Carter is still seeing a brisk business in new builds and expansions, saying that interest rates are still low enough that club owners aren't yet holding off on new clubs.
Competition is geographically driven, he added. Areas in which low-priced competitors such as LA Fitness and Planet Fitness are entering are being stirred up, often with pre-existing clubs dropping their prices from $49 per month to $10 per month to compete.
Scudder doesn't suggest competing on price. Value-priced players like Planet Fitness have established their niche — no classes, no salespeople and no child care. Mid-priced clubs who drop their rates yet offer everything can't compete because they can't sell enough volume to make up the differential while their operating expenses remain the same, he said.
"The smart operators are always willing to look at negatives and figure out what to do with them," Scudder said. "The rest of the marketplace is either unwilling to look at negative statistics or bad news or they are in denial. They think if they keep doing [business] the way we've done it for 15 to 20 years that things will go back to normal. The veterans who have kept up with the news and are willing to look at the current developments will tell you that the industry has changed. It is going in new directions — some of which are hard to see and unexplainable."
In the coming months the strong operators and business people will survive and the weaker ones will be hurt, Scudder and Carter agreed.


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Vanilla Ice is coming back to the small screen — and this time, he'll be hanging out with the Amish.
The rapper's new DIY reality series Vanilla Ice Goes Amish, in which he learns crafting from Amish people, will premiere later this year, the network announced Tuesday at Scripps' upfront presentation.
Other new series announced at the presentation include DIY's home renovation series The Rev. Run Project, starring Run DMC's Joseph "Reverend Run" Simmons, and The Daryl Hall Project, which tracks the Hall & Oates singer-songwriter as he restores a historic home.
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Later this year, the Food Network will debut a slate of new competitive cooking shows, including Cutthroat Kitchen (working title) with Alton Brown and Giving You the Business, which features employees unknowingly competing for the opportunity to run their own restaurant franchise.
Celebrity Apprentice and Rock of Love star Bret Michaels will also return to the small screen in the new Travel Channel series Rock My RV with Bret Michaels, which debuts next month.


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Viral photo reunites dog in shelter with owner
Homeless man gets dog back because of a stranger's kindness
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – A homeless man in California is with his best friend again...man's best friend, that is.
Dave Thomas' pup Buzz Lightyear was brought to the San Bernardino shelter after Thomas was arrested for failing to appear in court for a traffic violation.
When Thomas got out, he only had $6 in his pocket, but the shelter required $400 to get Buzz out. While visiting Buzz, shelter photographer Maria Sanchez snapped the above photo, capturing a touching moment between the man and his dog.
Sanchez posted it on Facebook, and as of Tuesday night, had raised more than $2,000 to help Thomas out.
Thomas went to pick up the newly-neutered Buzz on Wednesday, and you can see in the video just how happy they were.
Thomas said he was grateful for all the support, and that he intended to take Buzz to the park to run around, and get him his favorite snack--Cheetos.
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Back from Orlando - More IBM Storage Announcements
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Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means... IBM announcements!
Last week, IBM had a big storage launch of various products, with the June 4 announcements at the IBM Edge 2012 conference. I provided highlights in my post [IBM Edge Announcements]. As promised, here are the rest of the announcements.
This week I am on the road visiting various clients. Next week, Moscow Russia for the "Edge Comes to You" event!
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