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Eighth International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of
Distributed Systems
(formerly Symposium on Self-stabilizing Systems) (SSS 2006)
November 17th-19th, 2006
Dallas, Texas, USA
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the ACM Transactions
on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS).
Important Dates
Paper Submission: July 7th, 2006
Notification to Authors: August 21st, 2006
Camera-ready: August 31st, 2006
Symposium: November 17th-19th, 2006
The Symposium is a prestigious international forum for researchers and
practitioners in the design and development of fault-tolerant distributed
systems with self-* properties, such as self-stabilizing, self-configuring,
self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing,
self-adaptive, and self-protecting.
The theory of self-stabilization has been enriched in the last 25 years by
high quality research contributions in the areas of algorithmic techniques,
formal methodologies, model theoretic issues, and composition techniques.
All these areas are essential to the understanding and maintenance of self-*
properties in fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution,
marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks,
large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks,
etc. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, banking and
e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive,
industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of
distributed systems.
Now, more than ever, the theory of self-stabilization has tremendous
impact in these areas. Therefore, this year, we are extending the scope of
the symposium to cover all safety and security related aspects of self-*
systems. The title of the conference has been changed to reflect this
expansion. There will be three tracks: networking, safety and security, and
self-* properties in static and dynamic systems.
The symposium solicits contributions on all aspects of self-stabilization,
safety and security, recovery oriented systems and programing, from theoretical
contributions, to reports of the actual experience of applying the principles
of self-stabilization to static and dynamic systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- self-stabilizing systems
- self-managed, self-assembling, autonomic and adaptive systems
- self-optimizing and self-protecting systems
- self-* abstractions for implementing fundamental services in static and
dynamic distributed systems
- impossibility results and lower bounds for self-* systems
- application of stabilizing algorithms and techniques in dynamic distributed
- data and code stabilization
- algorithms for self-* error detection/correction
- safety critical systems
- trust models and specifications
- semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk and
- trust-related security and privacy
- reliable and dependable systems
- fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems,
failure recovery
- security of network protocols
- security of sensor and mobile networks protocols
- secure architectures, frameworks, policy, intrusion detection/awareness
- proactive security
- self-* properties and their relation with classical fault-tolerance and
- security protocols for self-* systems
Networks and Applications:
- models of fault-tolerant communication
- stochastic, physical, and biological models to analyze self-* properties
- communication complexity
- data structures for efficient communication
- self-stabilizing hardware, software, and middleware
- algorithms for high-speed networks, sensors, wireless and robots networks
- mobile agents
- peer-to-peer networks, sensor networks, MANETs, and wireless mesh networks
- network topologies, overlays, and protocols
- protocols for secure and reliable data transport and search in wireless mesh
- information storage and sharing in wireless mesh networks
Contributors are invited to submit a PDF file of their paper. Submissions
should be no longer than 4800 words and should not exceed 12 pages on
letter-size paper using at least 11 point font and reasonable margins (the
page limit includes all figures, tables, and graphs). Submissions should
include a cover page (that does not count towards the 12 page limit) that
includes paper title, authors and affiliations, contact author's e-mail
address, an abstract of the work in a few lines, and a few keywords. Submitted
papers may have appendices beyond the 12 page limit, but reviewers are free to
disregard any material beyond the 12 page limit. A paper submitted to SSS 2006
is expected to be original research not previously published; a submission may
not be concurrently submitted or to any other conference, workshop, or journal.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected papers will be
published in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive
Systems (TAAS).
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The aid is for businesses in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights that were affected by the fire, and will be extended whether or not the businesses were affected by Hurricane Sandy last fall.
Seaside Park and Seaside Heights were hit hard by Sandy and had only recently finished major boardwalk repairs in the wake of the October storm.
Christie met with businesses owners before Saturday's aid announcement.
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Buffalo Bill Cody
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill, 1846–1917, American plainsman, scout, and showman, b. near Davenport, Iowa. His real name was William Frederick Cody. His family moved (1854) to Kansas, and after the death of his father (1857) he set out to earn the family living, working for supply trains and a freighting company. In 1859 he went to the Colorado gold fields and he claimed, apparently falsely, to have ridden for the pony express in 1860. His adventures on the Western frontier as an army scout and later as a buffalo hunter for railroad construction camps on the Great Plains were the basis for the stories later told about him.
On his first visit to the East in 1872, Ned Buntline persuaded him to appear on the New York stage, and, except for a brief period of scouting against the Sioux and Cheyenne in 1876, he was from that time on connected with show business. In 1883 he organized Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and toured with it for many years throughout the United States and Europe. Wyoming granted him a stock ranch, on which the town of Cody was laid out. He died in Denver and was buried on Lookout Mt. near Golden, Colo. The exploits attributed to him in the dime novels of Buntline and Prentice Ingraham are only slightly more imaginative than his own autobiographies (1879, 1920).
See R. J. Walsh and M. S. Salsbury, The Making of Buffalo Bill (1928); biographies by D. B. Russell (1960, repr. 1969) and J. Burke (1973); L. W. Warren, Buffalo Bill's America (2005).


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In local news, in the past year or so, three guilds semi near here have all moved farther away. So folks here are starting one of their own. It's an open guild - anyone is welcome. The first meeting is tomorrow. Here are the details:
Peteetneet Museum
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Bring your own sewing machine, project and lunch and enjoy the day sewing with us! It will be a great place to share ideas and a great resource to hone those quilting skills. No nursery or day care provided.Call Annette Rawlinson (801-465-2181) for more information.


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$700 Billion Toxic Bail Out: Fire The Arsonists
[Election 2008: Economic Meltdown]
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson along with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben
Bernanke offered to solve all of the current Wall Street credit problems. Their solution,
Congress remits to them a blank check payable for $700 Billion. That's slightly less than
$2,300 from every man, woman and child in the United States. To paraphrase a member
of Congress, "it's like a paying an arsonist to put out the fire."
Maybe it's time we fire the arsonists.
Secretary Paulson, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth with a Harvard M.B.A., is
brilliant. Having started at Goldman Sachs in 1974, he rose through the ranks to become
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs from the firm's initial public
offering in 1999 until his swearing in as Treasury Secretary in July 2006. It is more than
ironic that he has amassed much of his personal of fortune of $500 million by creating
and selling the very "toxic waste" investments that he is proposing that we, the U.S.
taxpayers buy.
Chairman Bernanke has pronounced that the price to be paid for this is at what he
describes as "hold-to-maturity" value. He says "the holders have a view of what they
think it's worth. It's hard for outsiders to know." So, the Chairman proposes we trust the
firms who own the investments to tell us how much they're worth, and then pay whatever
they say. He argues this is much better for our markets and economy than paying current
"fire sale" value. Really? It sounds like a terrible investment to me. So, let's look at the
Chairman's background to understand his experience with investments and the
Chairman Bernanke received a B.A. in economics in 1975 from Harvard University
(summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in economics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Since 1985 he was Professor of Economics at Princeton, where he rose to
Chair of the Economics Department. He is another incredibly brilliant man. So for
twenty years, from 1985 until his swearing in as Chairman of the Federal Reserve in
June, 2005, he has worked strictly as an academic. He spent not a single day in business
and has no experience in the private sector.
So the Secretary who helped to start and feed the fire, and the Chairman who wrote and
taught about it, now want American taxpayers to give them total authority to buy $700
billion worth of investments that the very people who own them call "toxic waste."
Today, Warren Buffet came out in favor of the Treasury Secretary's proposed bailout.
However, Mr. Buffet, perhaps the greatest value investor of all time, didn't buy at "fire
sale" prices the "toxic waste" investments that he is recommending the U.S. taxpayer buy
at the much, much higher "hold-to-maturity" prices. Instead, with his own money, he
made a sweetheart deal to invest $5 billion in Goldman Sachs preferred stock. This
investment carries a 10% interest rate, along with warrants that today guarantee him at
least a $1 billion profit on his investment in just 1 day! Mr. Buffet buys entire
companies when he wants to make a great investment. He buys stock in companies on
the open market when he is exploring a longer-term investment approach. Historically, he
makes specially negotiated investments in companies when he is taking advantage of
market conditions to make a short-term trade, as he did with Level 3 a few years ago.
Why should the U.S. taxpayer get ripped off while he makes billions on a short-term?
When the Congressional committee suggested that the $700 billion be made available in
stages, not all at once, Secretary Paulson said it would be a grave mistake. In making any
new investment, isn't it prudent to invest slowly and methodically, evaluating and
improving the process and the values paid? Shouldn't the U.S. taxpayers' money be
invested wisely? Why rush to hand this money to a bunch of "consultants" to invest all at
once? We are asked to believe Secretary Paulson and Chairman Bernanke will hire the
right investment bankers, and act wisely. These are the same two gentlemen who have
repeatedly assured us that everything was under control since two Bear Stearns hedge
funds collapsed in June of 2007.
We've been rushed to action before by this duo. On January 17th in testimony to
Congress, Chairman Bernanke said, "To be useful, a fiscal stimulus package should be
implemented quickly and structured so that its effects on aggregate spending are felt as
much as possible within the next 12 months or so.''
When the Federal Reserve lent $29 billion to JP Morgan to buy Bear Stearns, with the
assets of Bear Stearns as collateral in March of 2008, Secretary Paulson defended the
move as necessary to prevent "severe" damage to financial markets. Then we saw
Fannie, Freddie, AIG and Lehman fall. They were wrong then, what has changed that we
should rush to believe them now?
Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve Chairman from 1979 to 1987 commented at the time that
the Federal Reserve under Bernanke was testing the "time-honored central bank mantra
in time of crisis: lend freely at high rates against good collateral; test it to the point of no
return.'' So, what exactly is the "point of no return?"
No one, certainly neither Secretary Paulson nor Chairman Bernanke know the full extent
of the problem with these "toxic waste" investments. So, let's do a little math.
It is estimated that the total net worth, or wealth of the entire United States is
approximately $57 trillion. It is further estimated that the total value of all derivatives is
approximately $600 trillion. Derivatives are financial agreements between two parties
often backed only by their "promise", and little or no assets. In his 2002 letter to
shareholders, Warren Buffet said, "derivatives are financial weapons of mass
destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal." Let's assume
only 10% of these derivatives are "toxic waste", that there is no ability by the issuer to
honor their contract. That comes to $60 trillion, or a few more trillion than we have if we
sold our entire country. Bottom line: we don't have enough money to fix the financial
toxic waste that these geniuses with their MBAs, PhDs, and fancy computer models
created, and that Mr. Buffet warned us about more than 5 years ago.
Since we don't have enough money to fix that problem, what can we do? Strengthen the
safety net for the poorest Americans, create jobs for those who can work, and promote
American industry and energy independence.
Here's a 5 point plan for bolstering confidence and our economy:
1. Double the time period for unemployment benefits
2. Increase aid to states to enhance welfare, workfare and child care
3. Increase aid to states to increase pay to teachers
4. Create and fund important infrastructure projects a la the Depression Era WPA to
revitalize our roads, bridges and utility grid.
5. Provide tax incentives to promote energy efficiency, solar power, and a $10,000 credit
for any new vehicle that can run 40 miles continuously without the use of liquid fuels
(this last one may save General Motors and the United States)
Oh yes. I almost forgot.
Point 6. FIRE THE ARSONISTS!
Jeff M. Wilson, BSE, CLU, ChFC is President of Wilson Advisory Group, LLC. He
received his B.S. Economics from The Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania and was trained by one of the principal advisors to the DuPont family.
Wilson Advisory Group was founded in 1987 to deliver independent wealth
management services free of the conflicts of interests that prevail in most Wall
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Texas Rep. Ted Poe blasted the Obama administration for delaying a final decision on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline at least a year, accusing the administration of being "at war with American energy production."
Poe, R-Humble, said TransCanada Corp.'s proposed 1,700-mile pipeline for carrying tar-sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas refineries could create thousands of domestic jobs and reduce U.S. oil imports from volatile Mideast nations. By delaying the decision, "we are just continuing down the road of high energy prices," said Poe, whose district includes the Port Arthur region that has refineries that will receive the crude.
"The people I talk to feel like this administration is at war with American energy production," Poe told Newsmax TV. "This is a perfect example."
Environmentalists oppose the project because they say tar-sands oil is an especially dirty form of energy. They're concerned that tar-sands oil takes more energy to extract than conventional oil, meaning more climate-warming greenhouse gases go into the air. They also are concerned the pipeline could spill and contaminate drinking-water supplies.
Poe said pipelines are "the safest way to transport crude oil in the whole world."
"We have to get this oil to our refineries some way," Poe said. "The environmentalists have not given us a solution except saying, 'We don't want this pipeline.'"
He added: "Why not trade with a stable partner rather than relying on Middle Eastern oil?"
Just days after 10,000 pipeline opponents surrounded the White House to urge Obama not to approve the $7 billion project, he announced the delay. Obama said the State Department had decided to study alternative routes, amid objections to its current proposed route taking it through the Nebraska Sandhills above the Ogallala aquifer, which supplies drinking water to the Plains states. TransCanada has since said it will work to reroute its pipeline to avoid the Sandhills.
By punting until after the presidential election, Obama may have solved a political dilemma, as he risked upsetting key voting blocs regardless of his decision. Some labor unions support approving the project for its job-creation potential, while environmentalists and a smaller number of unions oppose it.
Opponents say TransCanada and the project's supporters in Congress have inflated the job-creation numbers. Pointing to some analyses of the proposal, opponents say the pipeline would create roughly 6,000 temporary jobs instead of creating 20,000 jobs as supporters have claimed.
The State Department insists its decision wasn't political. Poe suggested he didn't believe that.
"That's a political decision to me. This is not something that just came up," Poe said. "This has been studied since 2008. In fact preliminary approval of the pipeline has been given."
The administration looked at 14 different route options when it did its environmental review. But the State Department recently said those options didn't include any that avoided Nebraska's Sandhills, which sit atop the Ogallala aquifer.
Poe also said rejecting the project wouldn't stop Canada from tapping its tar sands and giving the oil to someone else: "That crude oil is going somewhere. The Canadians are going to build a pipeline."


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A Do‐It‐Yourself Guide to Cutting the Military Budget
The New York Times has posted a handy tool for calculating savings from the Pentagon's budget over the next ten years. I went through the exercise, and my plan resulted in cuts of $1.144 trillion over ten years. Had I checked all of the boxes in the Times's calculator, it would have generated savings of up to $1.4 trillion.
Though I support reform of the the military retirement system, I think some of these proposals go too far (they would have saved up to $86.5 billion). We should continue to spend money recruiting the very best force, comprised of the most‐qualified men and women ($5 billion), and we might find it hard to do that if/when the economy improves. Tuition assistance is a key factor driving recruitment, and I wouldn't scale that back ($5 billion). (Full disclosure: I attended college on an NROTC scholarship.) We need the best possible services for families, and I could foresee problems with closing elementary and secondary schools on bases ($10 billion). And I have no particular quarrel with military bands ($0.2 billion). My ideal military will be smaller and more elite, but likely better compensated than today's force. And retirees would continue to receive many benefits not enjoyed by their fellows who never served, but we should experiment with ways to control costs. The key take‐away, and the one stressed in the accompanying story by Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker, is that it is possible to reduce military spending, and the resulting force will still be larger and more capable than any conceivable combination of rivals.
A few additional observations:
1) The Times's calculator cites my and Ben Friedman's contribution to the Sustainable Defense Task Force report, "Debts, Deficits, and Defense," but the main part of the report was the work of the entire task force, and they deserve proper credit. I am particularly grateful to Carl Conetta and Charles Knight of the Project for Defense Alternatives.
2) Ben and I published a stand‐alone report a few months later with some numbers drawn from the SDTF report, and with some additional detail surrounding our proposals that were not endorsed by all SDTF members. Our savings were calculated against the baseline from fiscal year 2010, and these numbers are now a bit dated.
3) When I hit the submit button comparing my choices with others who participated in the exercise, I discovered 80 percent of respondents supported the plan to reduce forces in Europe and Asia. That sort of systematic restructuring is necessary to ensure that we don't impose undue burdens on what will necessarily be a smaller force. As I have said repeatedly, if we are going to spend less, we must expect our troops to do less, and expect other countries to do more.


text: Vegetus (veh'.geh.tuss) is the Latin word meaning lively or vigorous. The word vegetarian was purposefully derived from vegetus, not vegetable, by the folks at the Vegetarian Society of the UK, or at least that's what one of them said (see The Heretic's Feast). The point was that vegetarianism encompasses a lot more than not eating animals (or dairy or eggs, as per the original definition). Vegetus is also a lot more empowering than vegetable (even though that too was derived from vegetus). So the next time some smart aleck tells you fungi aren't vegetables, now you can tell him where to shove it. In your mouth, jeez, what do you think I am? Bitter?


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A cattle industry spokesman estimates that about 200 cattle have been stolen in the past two years in Southwest Missouri, making a potential loss of $200,000. Local cattlemen think the actual number of cattle stolen has been underreported.
Eldon Cole, a cattle expert with University of Missouri Extension in Lawrence County, says it appears thieves are mixing the stolen cattle with other cattle of a similar type before taking them to market.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Two school records fell at the Billy Hayes Invite in Bloomington, Ind., as the Lipscomb track and field team completed its last meet before the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament next week.
Katie Bunker set a new school record in the women's 1,500-meter invitational run with a time of 4:24.57. Bunker finished second, almost two and a half seconds in front of third place.
"Katie ran amazing," Bill Taylor, director of cross country and track and field, said. "She was the big improver this meet. I've been waiting for her to solve the third lap. It's been the one weakness in her race. She solved it today and destroyed her PR and the school record. "
Tucker Peabody also set a new school record in the 100-meter dash. Peabody ran a 10.49 to finish third, 0.01 ahead of fourth place, and had the second fastest time in the A-Sun this season.
LU did very well in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase placing three runners in the first four spots.
Tessa Hoefle won the event with a time of 10:39.97, while teammate Madelin Talbert finished in second place with a time of 10:45.16. Kendra Lobley finished fourth with a time of 11:10.12.
Talbert finished 0.60 ahead of third place. Lobley finished almost 17 seconds ahead of fifth place.
"Tessa and Madi looked strong in the steeple," Taylor said. "Tessa took control early and never looked back."
The track and field team had multiple members who picked up silver during the meet.
Taylor Mason finished second in the women's javelin throw with a throw of 35.58 meters, 3.34 meters ahead of third place.
Kayla Droessler placed second in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:51.42, about five seconds ahead of third place.
Brenna Thompson placed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 57.58, 0.55 ahead of third place.
LU placed third, fourth and fifth in the women's 3,000-meter run.
Minna Fields led the team with a bronze finish with a time of 10:06.44. Alex Newby finished with a time of 10:14.84 and Nora Coenen finished with a time of 10:16.90.
Grant Stromberg picked up the bronze in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, two seconds ahead of fourth place.
The men's and women's track and field teams head to Jacksonville, Fla., next week for the A-Sun Tournament.
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Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900
Cambridge University Press, Apr 22, 2004 - History - 532 pages
South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great "world religions" have interacted in the region over many centuries. This book uses a powerful combination of oral, literary, and architectural evidence to investigate the social and religious world of those large and influential groups of South Indians who came to identify themselves as Christians and Muslims, while retaining powerful links with the religion and culture of the wider society. The author shows how Christianity and Islam spread along the military and agricultural frontiers of southern India, and how certain beliefs and practices derived local force from an ambiguous relationship with the worship of existing Hindu goddesses. The book illuminates not only the meaning and history of religious conversion and the nature of community, but wider processes of social and political change within the sub-continent and colonial societies in general.
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No matter how many options trading articles you read, all experienced option traders began their trading careers as rookies. It may seem so simple right now — you look at your charts or option chains — and you are ready to place an order. It wasn't always that easy. So if you are fairly new to trading, I'm going to share some of my insights on things that are important to do before you begin trading options.
#1 – Choose a Broker and Get Approval to Trade Options
When you open a brokerage account for options, it's not as simple as with a stock trading account.
The industry offers education such as the Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options document. It also sets limits on the strategies that inexperienced customers can adopt. The logic isn't always clear. Beginners are allowed to trade some simple strategies, such as writing covered calls, but are prevented from trading safer, less risky strategies like selling credit spreads.
Your broker always allows Level 1 strategies. With options some brokers let newcomers trade anything, others are much stricter. Pick a broker who allows you to trade your desired strategy.
One more item: Open a margin account. You may prefer never to use margin where you borrow money from your broker, and that's fine. However, most brokers require that option trades be made in a margin account.
#2 – Options are Special: the Greeks
Options are unique in the investment world because they have a limited lifetime and their value erodes over time; they can be used to speculate as well as to provide insurance on an investment portfolio; they can be used to control risk.
We use the "greeks" to measure risk. The greeks are a series of Greek letters, each of which is used to represent a specific risk for a trade. Delta tells us how long or short our position is in relation to the underlying product. A position with 326 deltas earns or loses money at very nearly the same rate as owning 326 shares of the underlying stock.
The greeks serve one purpose. They allow traders to measure the risk of any option position. And the greeks are readily calculated. In fact, your broker provides the greeks and there is no need to do the calculations yourself.
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Make some trades in your broker's paper-trading account before investing real money. The first benefit is to be certain that you understand how to enter orders, especially spread or combination orders. It's easy to enter such orders backwards — confusing 'buy' versus 'sell' when the definition of a specific spread is not clear.
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I agree with most of the ones mentioned above. Also, from a purely biased NZ fan's perspective, I'd put in Jesse Ryder's catch and pose in the semi. It was a wonderful moment.
I agree with most of the ones mentioned above. Also, from a purely biased NZ fan's perspective, I'd put in Jesse Ryder's catch and pose in the semi. It was a wonderful moment.
Swann's wicket of Sarwan was amazing. A short leg catch in a ODI = win
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
ESPNCricinfo's top 10 performances (Incidentally, the guy who wrote this article is a senior from my university):
World Cup 2011: Ten performances that lit up the World Cup
- Shahid Afridi v Sri Lanka, 4 for 34
- Andrew Strauss v India, 158 off 145
- Kevin O'Brien v England, 113 off 63
- Ross Taylor v Pakistan, 131 off 124
- Brett Lee v Pakistan, 4 for 28
- Yuvraj Singh v Australia, 57 off 65
- Jacob Oram v South Africa, 4 for 39
- Wahab Riaz v India, 5 for 46
- Mahela Jayawardene v India, 103 off 88
- MS Dhoni v Sri Lanka, 91 off 79
Ponting's 100 in QF unfortunate to miss out. But can't quibble too much over the chosen ones.
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I can't disagree with any list posted so far. Too many performances to mention
For me the some of the most magical moments were in the last 5 overs of the finals and the celebrations afterwards
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"Thanksgiving Bread," Friend, Nov. 2012, 22–23
Thanksgiving Bread
You're the only person who ever can be you (Children's Songbook, 142–43).
Mom says different can be good, but Ying isn't so sure.
When Miss Nonchello asked the class to bring a treat to share in honor of Thanksgiving, Ying was excited to ask her mother to bake bread.
"I will make a special bread for your class," Mom said before Ying went to bed that night.
Ying spent the night wondering what kind of bread Mom would make. She pictured herself taking cinnamon bread to class. Everyone would like cinnamon bread. Or what if Mom made honey bread, like Emily's mother made? Her classmates would like that too.
Thinking about it made Ying's tummy rumble. The next morning, Ying imagined she could smell the aroma of baking bread. Then her eyes popped open. She really was smelling something!
Ying jumped out of bed and got ready for school. Hurrying to the kitchen, Ying saw Mom wrapping something in foil.
"What did you make, Mom?" Ying asked eagerly.
"Bread," Mom replied as Ying peeked under the foil.
Ying jumped back, staring at the flat pieces of bread she saw. It wasn't honey bread or cinnamon bread. She didn't think it was bread at all!
"That isn't bread," Ying said, disappointed. "It's like pancakes."
"Well, in the Chinese culture, we consider it like bread," Mom said.
"My classmates won't want to eat it," Ying said with a frown. She was worried about seeming different.
"You never know," Mom said, smiling. "Different can be good, and this bread is part of our family's heritage."
With a grumble, Ying took the Chinese bread to school. She knew Mom wanted her to be proud of her family, but she could only imagine her classmates laughing when they saw her treat.
A few of the students brought pumpkin pie. Others brought popcorn and candy. Seeing how different her treat was, Ying tried to hide the bread behind the large punch bowl at the back of the classroom.
"What's that?" Steve asked.
"Bread," Ying murmured.
Before Ying could stop him, Steve opened the foil and took a sniff.
"Ooohh!" Steve said loudly.
A crowd of classmates gathered around to stare at the flat pieces of bread. A few tears formed in Ying's eyes as she braced herself for laughter.
"That looks wonderful!" Miss Nonchello said. "Who made this?"
"My mom did," Ying said, blushing.
"It smells delicious," Miss Nonchello said. "Ying, why don't you tell us about it?"
"My mom said it was Chinese bread," Ying said quietly. "But it doesn't look like bread to me."
"I think everyone is excited to try some," Miss Nonchello said.
And with that, the feast began. Ying's classmates all took a piece of the bread. Afraid to try it herself, Ying nibbled on popcorn and pumpkin pie.
"This is good!" Steve called out.
"Yeah!" Emily said as she took another piece of bread. "It's even better than my mom's honey bread!"
"Really? You think so?" Ying asked.
"We all think it's great," Miss Nonchello said with a smile. "Come have some, Ying."
Ying nervously lifted one piece of the flat bread from the pile and took a bite. It was delicious!
"I guess Mom was right," Ying thought. "Different can be good." She smiled as she took another bite, proud of her family and their delicious heritage.


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HOMETOWN: Rockford, Mich.
MAJORS: Elementary education, integrated science and mathematics
Leaders aren't always the bold people; leaders can be behind the scenes as well.
For one week every August, 33 student leaders from Calvin's varsity athletic teams board a plane and travel to the Two Moose Ranch in southwest Montana. In this corner of Big Sky Country, life slows down. No phones. No Internet. So what draws them there?
According to soccer player Michael Sanderson, it's about leadership. "This is an opportunity to learn about you, your faith and your relationship with Christ; to learn what it means to lead and to challenge yourself to become a better leader."
Over the past 10 years, more than 300 Calvin athletes have participated in the Gainey Leadership Retreat. They start by learning about themselves.
"If you're going to lead others, we think you need to first understand yourself well," says associate chaplain Aaron Winkle.
Wilderness hiking, group worship, talks by alumni athletes, around-the-world ping pong—even encounters with rattlesnakes—focus on team building, gaining trust and communicating with others.
"In the book of John, Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. By this act, we learn the great impact of servant leadership. Jesus led by example—we should do the same," says Sanderson.
"…Leaders aren't always the bold people; leaders can be behind the scenes as well."


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IN just two days, nearly 40,000 people will pound the streets of the capital for the 2014 London Marathon. Alex Wynick talks to people from Oxfordshire who are set to take part – and raise as much money as they can for their chosen good causes
BETH REEVES - Anthony Nolan
THREE years after her father-in-law had a bone marrow transplant, Beth Reeves will be running the London Marathon to help the organisation that saved his life.
Cholsey resident Mrs Reeves, 37, is raising cash for charity Anthony Nolan, which matches stem cells and bone marrow donors to people with blood cancer and blood disorders.
Her father-in-law Tony Reeves, 69, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in 2010. Thanks to Anthony Nolan, Mr Reeve found a match with an unknown donor, whose bone marrow was the key weapon in his victory over cancer.
Mum-of-two Mrs Reeves said: "It costs over £100 to put someone into the register.
"It's not only important to raise awareness so that more people sign up, but also to fund the work that they do.
"They give people a second chance at life."
Mrs Reeves, who works as a manager with Thames Water, said: "Watching it on television, it always gets me right in the heart. It's really emotional.
"This is a really good opportunity to do something I have always wanted to do and give something back to the charity."
Mrs Reeves aims to raise £1,850, and is well on her way, having collected more than £1,200.
STUART HARPER & PAUL WILSON - SeeAbility
ONE ill-timed photograph led to two colleagues taking on this weekend's marathon.
Paul Wilson and Stuart Harper from Abingdon-based IT reseller Open Reality will be pounding the streets of London on Sunday.
- Paul Wilson, left, and Stuart Harper
Their director, Andy Grover, accidentally confirmed their spots at a charity auction when he decided to take a photograph of the table at the charity ball.
While lifting the camera, the auctioneer mistook his actions for a bid and he scooped the prize, to run for charity SeeAbility, who support people with disabilities, including visual impairment.
Sales director Mr Wilson, 38, said: "Never did I imagine that I would run a full marathon, especially not the reputedly toughest marathon course in the world.
"Ultimately our goal is to raise as much money as we can for SeeAbility."
Mr Harper, 31 said: "They have been one of our customers for many years. We agree with what they do, and we see the hard work they do. It was a no-brainer, really."
The pair are trying to raise £1,400, and are hoping to run the course in under five hours.
Mr Harper, from Brackley, said: "We're not doing too bad, we've raised just under £1,000.
"Most people are dubious that I'll manage it, but I'm quietly confident."
For Mr Harper, Sunday will be extra-special. He said: "It's my birthday as well, so it'll be a great present when I cross the line."
EILEEN NAUGHTON - Children with Cancer
THOUSANDS run the London Marathon each year, but Didcot's Eileen Naughton will soon have run seven.
For the past six years she has run to support Children With Cancer, which funds research and supports families affected by cancer.
- Eileen Naughton
Miss Naughton, who works in medical records at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, said: "A lot of people can't do it, and working in the hospital you see a lot of people who are so sick, and it's just lovely to be able to pull on your trainers and raise money for people."
She said: "Eight years ago, when I was 22, I wanted to give blood in Didcot, and they found that my red blood cell count was really low.
"I was rushed to the JR and had to have treatment there, and I was on the same ward as children with cancer.
"I saw how bad it was for them and their families."
She said: "In total I think I've raised over £15,000."
The Wessex Road resident said: "I did three hours and 40 minutes in the Abingdon Marathon, and I'm looking to do a bit better here.
"I usually go off a bit too quick and then I start to get tired towards the middle, before picking up again at the end.
"This time I'm going to stick with the pacers, at eight minutes a mile, so hopefully I can do it in three and a half hours."
But she added: "It's not about getting a good time, it's about having a good time."
WENDY FOSTER - PCP Housing
ALSO pounding the streets of London will be Wendy Foster, 46, of Launton, who is running her second London Marathon.
Miss Foster is raising cash for charity PCP Housing (Perry Clayman Project), which provides support for people overcoming an addiction.
She said "keeping motivated" had been her toughest challenge, but she has been given a boost by local schoolchildren.
- Wendy Foster
Miss Foster, who runs her own grant finding and fundraising consultancy business called Pot of Gold Consultancy, said: "Recently Launton Primary school pupils have come to the rescue after I went into their assembly and talked to them about the marathon. They were so interested and supportive and now wave at me and shout 'Come on Wendy' when they see me running around the streets."
JUDE BARBER & ANNA READING - Breast Cancer Campaign
AS TWO Bicester women step across the finishing line of Sunday's London Marathon their thoughts will be of one person.
Fitness instructor Jude Barber, 50, and Anna Reading, 34, are running the 26 miles around the capital to raise cash for Breast Cancer Campaign in memory of Bethan Reading.
Mother-of-one Dr Reading died in January last year aged 34.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2010, and was given the all-clear in 2011 but it returned and spread to her lungs and brain.
Her sister Anna and friends set up a fundraising group called Beth's Pink Ladies and have so far raised more than £23,000 in her name.
- Anna Reading, left, and Jude Barber
Office manager Anna, of Forge Place, Fritwell, hopes to add to that total.
She said: "Jude and I decided to enter the marathon as not only was it a personal goal for each of us and a great way of raising some money, it was also something that Beth had always wanted to do.
"Training has gone OK, it has been much more involved than we could've imagined and it has often been difficult what with children, jobs and decidedly nasty weather, but we clocked the miles up each week.
"I think we will both be keeping Bethan in our minds to get us over the finish line.
"Jude and I both ran with Beth when she was alive and I think if she was here she would, without a doubt, be running with us."
To donate to Mrs Reading and Mrs Barber
GILL BEGNOR - Cancer Research UK
RUNNING a marathon is hard enough but Gill Begnor is going to try to run it while wearing a 20lb backpack.
The Hook Norton mum is attempting to set the first Guinness World Record for the feat on Sunday.
She said: "The record people have set me a time I have to beat, because otherwise I could just take a week and still get the record."
- Gill Begnor
Mrs Begnor, 48, is trying to run the course in five and a half hours, with sandbags weighing down her backpack.
But it won't be easy. She said: "My training has been up and down, 20lb is really very, very heavy.
"I hadn't really understood how much of a difference it would make."
Mrs Begnor, a software programme manager, said the motivation to take on new records is to raise more money.
She added: "You have to find something a bit different to do to challenge yourself more.
"It makes it better for fundraising if you're doing something a bit different."
She is aiming to raise £2,000 for Cancer Research UK.
She said: "There's usually a big push just before the race, and the week after.
"Many of my close friends have been affected by cancer, including two of my best friends who lost parents to the disease in the last few years.
"Struggling around the marathon is nothing compared to what so many people have to endure.
"I'll have five and a half hours of misery, but they have months, or years."
SIMON BARRETT - The Mulberry Bush School
HAVING completed the London Marathon last year, Simon Barrett swore he would never do it again.
But he will be hitting the streets this Sunday as he raises money for The Mulberry Bush School.
The school, in Standlake near Witney, provides therapy and support for traumatised children.
- Simon Barrett
Car salesman Mr Barrett said: "I did my first marathon last year, and I promised I'd never do it again. It was so painful and horrific.
"Then 18 months ago my fiancee Vicki Kenyon started working at The Mulberry Bush School as a therapeutic care worker."
Mr Barrett, 39, said: "I see the work that they do. The kids are so vulnerable and they need to be rehabilitated into a normal family life.
"I see my 10-year-old son Theo and I think about how those kids have been brought up, and it gets me.
"They haven't got the life my boy has and it touches my heart."
Mr Barrett aims to raise £2,000. He said: "I've raised just over £1,000, but if I get to £1,500 I'll be really, really happy."
Mr Barrett said experience has not made the London Marathon any less daunting: "It's really hard work, a lot harder than the first time.
"Now my brain knows what I'm getting in for and it's harder to motivate, even when my legs want to carry on.
"I'm definitely not doing another one after this.
"Getting up at 5.30am and training is not fun."


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A generous reader of this blog, who may or may not wish to be named, shared a digitised copy of the video with me. With her consent I have uploaded it to YouTube for others to see. Watch the Fat Underground video from 1979.
Edited to add: I watched the video at the weekend and realised that it is different to the video that I referred to in the other post. I suspect the other video that I saw at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco in 2010 is Shirl Buss' original 1975 footage, edited and embellished here by Marge Dean. This begs the question: could there be other Fat Underground videos out there?! Meanwhile, it would be great to see the 1975 video digitised and made available too.
By the way, I am thrilled to notice in the credits that Kathy Fire is one of the chorus. Her album, Songs of Fire, is a classic of protest music, a favourite of Homosexual Death Drive, and still available through the Smithsonian Institution. It makes sense that she was also a part of early fat feminism.
There are some things to bear in mind:
- The video might not stay there for very long. I have done a brief search for Marge Dean, the copyright holder, and will continue to look for her. I haven't been able to find her yet, but she may get in touch and she may want the video taken down, which I will do.
- YouTube identified some copyrighted material in the film in the form of a song. I don't know if the film-makers cleared the right to use that song. The song owners have allowed its use on YouTube but it does mean that there may be ads, and also that other people can't embed the video on their websites. This is beyond my control. If the ads turn out to be weight-loss related or in any way fatphobic or offensive, I will remove the song and therefore the restrictions, and add some notes about that to the video's page.
- I have turned off comments on the video because they are usually crap.
- I have set it to unlisted to try and avoid random fatphobes.
- It's a little glitchy because it was made from an old VHS tape.
I can't believe other fat activists are going to get to see this video now, after all these years. What will it spark?
Dean, M. and Buss, S. (1979). Fat Underground [video]. Available https://youtu.be/UPYRZCXjoRo


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Monday Mish-Mash (and Open Thread)
It rained here yesterday, an event that was much more exciting even than the Super Bowl. We probably got just a quarter inch of rain, but for a drought-stricken region, even that is thrilling. There are storms lined up along the California coast . . . but that damned high pressure system refuses to let them pass. The lizard part of my brain, the one taken up with magical thinking, keeps hoping that one of these storms will batter the high pressure system so hard that it breaks. I know weather doesn't work that way, but most days lately that fantasy is the best that I can do.
Still, and thankfully, there's always blogging. I'm sadly lacking in original thought at the moment, but others do have interesting stuff to say:
Apropos yesterday's Super Bowl blowout, I learned two things about Seahawk's coach Pete Carroll: He's quite possibly a 9/11 Truther and he graduated from Redwood High School in the heart of Marin County. Hmmm. I wonder if the two are related?
The IRS is planning on formalizing its persecution of conservative and Tea Party groups. Until February 27, however, you can have a say in the matter. At American Thinker, Sylvia Bokor mourns the fact that only slightly more than 20,000 people have weighed in, out of an American population greater than 300 million. I'm not surprised. First, most people truly don't care; second, those who do care now have reason to worry that if they comment on the proposal, they're basically signing on to the IRS' future target list. Chilling, that's what it is.
Daniel Greenfield, aka Sultan Knish, takes on the belief fostered in every school child since about 1968 that, by signing on to the right (er, Left) charity, you too can save the world. To him, this is the idiot stepchild of free enterprise and Leftism:
The West can't fix Africa no matter how much of the price of a cup of coffee it donates. By attempting to fix it, Africa and the West become entangled in each other's problems, each worsening the problems of the other instead of solving them.
No one can save Africa except Africans. No one can fix Detroit except the majority of the people who live there. Social problems aren't solved by nationalizing them or internationalizing them. They aren't solved by engaging and guilt tripping those who have already solved those problems and live thousands of miles away but by engaging the people who live right there and are part of the problem.
If a man is drowning, you can toss him a rope. But if a man jumps into the water, tossing him a rope doesn't accomplish anything. A physical problem can be solved by applying the right resources, but a human problem can't be solved except when the affected humans change their attitudes or behaviors.
I am grateful to him for articulating something I've always felt in my bones, but couldn't put into words.


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Flash your BBC micro:bit via USB
Once you're happy with your program in the code editor, the next step is to connect the device, download the program to your BBC micro:bit and watch your masterpiece come to life!
To send the program via the USB connection, you'll need the following things:
- A Male-to-Micro USB cable to connect your computer to your micro:bit.This is the same cable that is commonly used to connect a smart phone to a computer (make sure that it can transfer data as well as power).
- A Computer running Windows 7 or later, Mac OS X 10.6 or later or Linux
- Access to the Internet
Step 1: Connect your BBC micro:bit to your computer
- USB කේබලයේ කුඩා අග්රය ඔබේ micro:bit යේ micro USB port ය වෙතට සම්බන්ධ කරන්න.
Your computer should recognise your micro:bit as a new drive.
On computers running Windows, MICROBIT appears as a drive under Devices and drives.
On a Mac it appears as a new drive under Devices.
Step 2: Download your program
Using the editor of your choice, select Download. If prompted, choose to save the compiled file on your computer (or anywhere other than the BBC micro:bit).
Windows Edge
Select Download. When asked what to do with this file, select Save and it will be saved to your downloads folder. Selecting Open Folder will allow you to view your downloads
OSX Safari
When you select Download in Safari, your file will appear under downloads in the top right of the screen, you can open your downloads folder from here. Note that a bug in Safari prevents the .hex download, so you may need to rename your file with a the .hex suffix.
This is the same process on Windows and Mac. Select Download and your .hex file will appear as a download at the bottom of the browser.
Right click on the download and select show in folder.
Step 3: Flash the file to your BBC micro:bit
The process of transferring the .HEX file to the BBC micro:bit is called flashing. To flash the file, simply drag and drop it on to the micro:bit drive from the file explorer or finder window. Here's the process on Windows:
- The LED on the back of your BBC micro:bit flashes during the transfer (which should only take a few seconds).
- Once transferred, the code will run automatically on your BBC micro:bit. To rerun your program, press the reset button on the back of your BBC micro:bit. The reset button automatically runs the newest file on the BBC micro:bit.
- By copying the program onto the 'MICROBIT' drive, you have programmed it into the flash memory on the micro:bit, which means even after you unplug the micro:bit, your program will still run if the micro:bit is powered by battery.
You can't drag and drop more than one hex file at once onto your micro:bit. If you try to drag and drop a second hex file onto your micro:bit before the first file has finished downloading, then the second file may fail in different ways.
When the first program has been written to the micro:bit, the drive will eject. If you drag and drop a second file at this point it may not find the drive and the second write will fail.
The errors may look like this:
Or it may appear that there are two hex files on your BBC micro:bit so the micro:bit won't be able to run multiple files. To rectify this, unplug your micro:bit and plug it in again. Make sure that your micro:bit appears as a MICROBIT drive and not MAINTENANCE.
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