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Two games tomorrow.
Well, sort of. We have 31 pitchers in camp and the Pirates have 38. So, the two clubs will play a 9:30 a.m. "B" game in Bradenton and then a 1:05 p.m. game in the afternoon. Bus time for the 44 minute trip south for the "B" game players is 7:45 a.m.; the other bus is 9:30 a.m.
Brett Myers and J. C. Romero will be in the early game. J. D. Durbin, Shane Youman, J. A. Happ and Joe Bisenius are listed for the afternoon game. We all know Myers and Romero are on the staff but the afternoon crew needs to face the Pirates' "A" lineup.
Bowling Buddies
A two-team bowling challenge was held last night with Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Brett Myers, hitting coach Milt Thompson, non-roster invitee Brandon Watson, former Phillie Robert Person, third base coach Steve Smith, minor league catcher Tim Gradoville and Shane Victorino.
The last two NL MVPs (Howard/Rollins) and the last two Phillies to have 7 RBI in a game (Howard/Person).
Sold Out
The Phillies return to Bright House Field on Saturday, hosting the Yankees at 1:05 p.m. (CW Philly 57 TV game).
But, 500 tickets to the outfield berm area will go on sale at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning at the ticket office windows.
Brad Lidge was in uniform again and played long toss in the morning . . . Kris Benson faced hitters for the first time in batting practice and threw very well.


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I found that if I have left images in an Album which are no longer where the album thinks they are (renamed, deleted, moved) there then cam2pc will not open. When it scans the pics in the album, and they are not there, it spits the dummy. It used to just place an icon in its place. The cure is to change the album data file found to be at:
I drop on Notepad and edit it. I usually find it easier to just delete the album entry and recreate the album in cam2pc.
I hope this helps someone. I still consider it a good programe - worth the money by today's rip-off world - but sorrowfully unsupported.


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A BMW won the 2010 Mille Miglia, mirroring the outcome of 70 years ago. But the Ferrari Tribute to the storied event itself was in many ways the spotlight feature.
The three-day competition spanned about 733 miles and showcased 130 classic and modern Ferraris--a salute to one of the iconic Italian races by the iconic Italian carmaker.
The cars from the Prancing Horse, 43 different models, went ahead of the regular Mille Miglia. They carved a route from Brescia to Rome and back, with touchstone features like the Apennines and Tuscan country as backdrops. Small towns and Italy's great cities--Bologna, Florence, Siena, as well as the capital--were included on the trek. Drivers and navigators came from 16 different countries.
Ferrari says the event drew hundred of fans along the roadside at the famous hairpin turn of Futa and Raticosa. It ended along the same route as the Miglia itself near the company's Maranello factory. A Modena won the event, followed by a California and a 512 TR.
The BMW 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupe won the overall Miglia. The modern race is a timed rally, rather than the true race which ran from the 1920s to 1950s and required guts and skill in navigating the grueling Italian terrain. The 328 MM also won in 1940, and drove to the event this year as a warm-up.
Ferrari's historic race within another historic race was a shot in the arm for the company and Tifosi, which have suddenly and surprisingly seen an abrupt change of fortune. Ferrari is considering cutting production and idling its fabled plant for a week to reduce costs in response to fewer engine orders from sister automaker Maserati.


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In the height of summer, a hot cup of coffee isn't exactly the most appealing proposition, but fortunately there are plenty of ways to chill out with your favorite brew as the mercury rises, including, of course, coffee cocktails—the cold variety. You can use your favorite hot-brewing method and then chill your coffee for cocktails, or you can use a cold-brew method or even use one of the bottled coffee options on the market. Whatever your method, we're pretty sure cold coffee cocktail recipes are just what your summer ordered. Here are five to try.
The Beccaccino
Bartender Murray Stenson puts his own twist on this Seattle bar classic.
Francis the Mule
This cocktail puts coffee in a great supporting role, bolstering and balancing the other ingredients with its ninja-like acidity.
Black Forest
This drink has a deliciously nutty chocolate stout flavor. It looks the part too, pouring a pretty medium-brown color with a nice tan head.
South of No North Cocktail
This coffee cocktail combines an African coffee with the smokiness of tequila and the earthiness of Cynar to delicious results.
White Russian
The addition of fresh coffee gives this classic vodka cocktail and added depth and richness that's just right.


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Eagles: McNabb Versus T.O.
Stephen A. Smith, that big yapped yenta over at ESPN is doing his best to stir up a controversy where none ought to exist. Here are the basic facts: Philadelphia Eagles receiver Terrell Owens wants to tear up his contract after a year, even though he was injured the second half of the season and the team made it all the way to the Super Bowl without him.
He returned for the big game, and guess what? They lost! Still, he somehow thinks that he deserves a raise, as if he were the reason they finally got over the Conference championship hump. So, he fired his agent and hired another who promptly demanded that Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie renegotiate his seven-year agreement.
When that ploy didn't work, Owens, at shameless media whore stooped to an all-time low, trashing team leader, quarterback Donovan McNabb. Working his puppet Smith like that trash-talking marionette you see in those annoying NBA ads, T.O. has somehow raised a rather unique criticism of his teammate.
He alleges that other Eagles see Donovan as a company man willing to front for the organization. Duh! To me, this makes perfect sense for a couple of very good reasons. First, McNabb has a $100-plus million contract. For that amount money, if my boss asked me to shine his shoes, I'd do so gladly, and offer to iron his shirt and dust his office, too. I'd even do windows.
Secondly, the Eagles organization has enjoyed phenomenal success over the last four years, achievements only overshadowed by the New England Patriots. I can tick off 25 cities which would eagerly trade their lot for that of Philly's. Yes, Donovan and coach Andy Reid are very close. Yes they are conservative, almost corporate. Yes they are tight-lipped, and never give a good sound-bite.
But their real job doesn't revolve around helping the media sell newspapers. As Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis would confirm, their sole responsibility is to "Just win, baby!" Therefore, believe it or not, the sort of sensational swirling around the team is a distraction which could rip the team apart.
The silly accusations being circulated by Smith suggest that Donovan is a modern-day house Negro who has no problem enriching himself at the expense of the rest of the brothers. The so-called football field Negroes who do the dirty work.
Uncle Tom and slavery analogies are no longer applicable, when everybody we're talking about is enjoying an income which places them in the top 1 percentile of all wage-earners. I say Terrell is a cancer which needs to be excised ASAP, before he sows enough seeds of discontent to wreck the foundation laid by Reid, one of the league's best cap-ologists.
Obviously, there is no longer enough room on this team for both Terrell and Donovan. I say the one that's got to go is the Johnny-come-lately without a proven track record.
For while Terrell may be a showboat who knows how to garner media attention by doing a jitterbug after he scores a touchdown or by getting into a hot tub with the naked blonde-of-the-moment, his big mouth, bigger ego, insatiable greed, and backstabbing ways are far more toxic than anything Donovan has ever done. Give me the modest company man over the flamboyant jerk anytime. Sayonara, TO.
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Brian Mock is intrigued by the challenge of creating something unique, fun, and inherently curious. This artist merges imagination with technical skill by incorporating unusual found objects and everyday items into one-of-a-kind pieces. His work integrating welded, recycled material is designed to be highly interactive, and results in a spectrum of applications such as abstract wall pieces, freestanding sculptures, and functional furnishings.
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Detroit Lions reporter Tom Kowalski died suddenly Monday morning, according to his fiancee, Diane Wolan.
The 51-year-old Kowalski covered the Lions for Booth Newspapers and MLive.com. He was found unresponsive at his home and was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Kowalski started for Booth Newspapers in 1997 after covering the Lions for the Oakland Press. His last story for MLive.com was posted online Monday morning.
"My heart broke this morning when I heard the news. I love Tom Kowalski," said Bill Emkow, executive editor at MLive.com. "He was my friend. I trusted him, and I know he trusted me. He is the first reporter that bought into what we were doing with MLive.com. I needed someone to buy into what we were doing online, and he was the huge star for Booth. I don't know why he listened to me, but he helped make MLive what you know it as today."


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This property Closed on 11/26/18
Close Price: $65,000
Original Listing Price: $85,000
List Date: 11/06/18
Easy access-able buildable lot. Mountain views, as well as French Broad River views. Convenient to downtown Asheville and Weaverville.
Listed by Eddie Delaney at North Asheville
Directions: From Asheville, take I26 to New Stock Rd exit, left onto New Stock Rd at bottom of ramp, go 1.4 miles to left on Hidden Falls Rd (private rd. street sign is on right side of the road. Go .4 miles to start of property on left- continues to the gate of MSD plant.
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With a population of 3,200, Weaverville has had a mini growth spurt in recent years. Away from the hustle and bustle of urban life, Weaverville is attracting newcomers because of its small-town, friendly atmosphere.
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With a population of 3,200, Weaverville has had a mini growth spurt in recent years. Away from the hustle and bustle of urban life, Weaverville is attracting newcomers because of its small-town, friendly atmosphere.
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The town is situated in the Reems Creek Valley, adjacent to Interstate 26 and just five miles north of Asheville, where many Weaverville residents work. The community that surrounds Reems Creek spans 260 acres of rolling hills and serpentine streets, offering many different Weaverville homes that include condominiums, townhomes, and single-family homes.
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Weaverville is located 15 minutes north of Asheville, NC, adjacent to Interstate 26 (running from Kingsport, TN to Charleston, SC). Weaverville offers many amenities within minutes of the town's center, including a county library branch, Buncombe County schools (elementary, middle, and high school), and innumerable shopping, entertainment, and dining options. There is a Sisters of Mercy urgent care center in town, and Weaverville is less than 20 minutes away from Mission Hospital, the largest in the region. Weaverville is also conveniently located near the Pisgah National Forest and Blue Ridge Parkway, a sightseer's and cyclist's haven.
Mars Hill: 13 minutes
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Marshall: 18 minutes
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Asheville is the largest city in Western North Carolina, but surrounding towns in Buncombe County offer small-town flair and varied amenities. The population is approximately 240,000 in the county. The four-season temperate climate with average snowfall of only 13 inches makes year-round living easy. Average elevation is 2,165 feet above sea level with surrounding mountain elevations of up to 6,685 feet at Mount Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. Because of this broad range of elevations and corresponding climates and plant growth, the area is one of the most biodiverse in the United States and the world.
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12.01.11 – I've always loved trains ever since I was a young boy and my brother and I would setup model trains in the basement. Back then, when the issue of money was, you just didn't have any, I would pour over model train catalogs dreaming about the different types of trains, buildings and tracks I would someday buy and build.
Even now as an adult, I still get a big kick out of anything to do with trains. I remember living in Santa Barbara where you could stand so close to the tracks you could almost touch the freight trains and Coast Starlight passenger train as they whisked by on their way to Los Angeles. Europe still relies heavily on trains to move cargo and passengers which makes it a great place to admire the stations and the different types of locomotives.
I spent some time walking around the Helsinki central train station and reverting to my childhood. I hope I never lose the feeling.
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- If This Model Train Was Much Bigger, They'd Just Call It A Train (crunchgear.com)
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- David Letterman, or Someone He Knows, Likes Trains (observer.com)


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Can You Guess the Celebrity Cleavage?
This set of cleave belongs to a girl who once played an heiress to a toaster strudel fortune. How fitting, because this actress is all kinds of deliciously hot.
The 31-year-old actress pictured above has been in the spotlight for most of her life. One of her first big roles was as Young Cosette in the Broadway production of Les Miserables in 1992 and 1993.
In 1994, she became a part of a family that was huge in the '90s. The show she was on was fraught with drama and we ate it all up. In the later '90s, she put her unique voice to good use and started giving life to a cartoon character whose series would spawn an incredibly amusing meme.
In the mid-Aughts, she played one of our favorite characters ever, because she was hot, a little vapid and her hair was huge because it was full of -- secrets.
Can you guess who this buxom beaut is?


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Out of Character (Hardcover)
Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us
Harmony, 9780307717757, 272pp.
Publication Date: May 3, 2011
Have you ever wondered why a trumpeter of family values would suddenly turn around and cheat on his wife? Why jealousy would send an otherwise level-headed person into a violent rage? What could drive a person to blow a family fortune at the blackjack tables?
Or have you ever pondered what might make Mr. Right leave his beloved at the altar, why hypocrisy seems to be rampant, or even why, every once in awhile, even you are secretly tempted, to lie, cheat, or steal (or, conversely, help someone you never even met)?
This book answers these questions and more, and in doing so, turns the prevailing wisdom about who we are upside down. Our character, argue psychologists DeSteno and Valdesolo, isn't a stable set of traits, but rather a shifting state that is subject to the constant push and pull of hidden mechanisms in our mind. And it's the battle between these dueling psychological forces that determine how we act at any given point in time.
Drawing on the surprising results of the clever experiments concocted in their own laboratory, DeSteno and Valdesolo shed new scientific light on so many of the puzzling behaviors that regularly grace the headlines. For example, you'll learn:
• Why Tiger Woods just couldn't resist the allure of his mistresses even though he had a picture-perfect family at home. And why no one, including those who knew him best, ever saw it coming.
• Why even the shrewdest of investors can be tempted to gamble their fortunes away (and why risky financial behavior is driven by the same mechanisms that compel us to root for the underdog in sports).
• Why Eliot Spitzer, who made a career of crusading against prostitution, turned out to be one of the most famous johns of all time.
• Why Mel Gibson, a noted philanthropist and devout Catholic, has been repeatedly caught spewing racist rants, even though close friends say he doesn't have a racist bone in his body.
• And why any of us is capable of doing the same, whether we believe it or not!
A surprising look at the hidden forces driving the saint and sinner lurking in us all, Out of Character reveals why human behavior is so much more unpredictable than we ever realized.
About the Author
PIERCARLO VALDESOLO is an assistant professor of psychology at Claremont-McKenna College. His work has appeared both in top journals and major news outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, and Newsweek, and he has been awarded fellowships at Harvard University and Amherst College. He is a contributor to the Scientific American Mind Matters blog.
Praise For Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us…
"A fascinating yet highly readable perspective on the psychology of the hero/villain spectrum of human character, inviting us to reconceive personality, both our own and that of others." – The Atlantic
"My bad -- and your bad too. This smart and lively book uses cutting-edge research in psychological science to reveal the hero and the villain that live inside each of us."
-Daniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University and bestselling
author of STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS
"Who would have ever thought that a pair of social psychologists would have so much to say about good and evil? David DeSteno and Piercarlo Valdesolo are brilliant experimentalists and deep thinkers, and Out of Character hits the sweet spot --it's scientifically rigorous, smoothly written, and achingly relevant to everyday life. It shows how laboratory research is undermining the very notion of a fixed moral character, and explores a new approach to hypocrisy, pride, prejudice, jealousy, and love."
-Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology, Yale University, author of HOW PLEASURE WORKS
"It is not unusual to think of someone as either a moral or immoral person, of good character or not. David DeSteno and Piercarlo Valdesolo make the intriguing argument instead that the world is not filled with saints and sinners, but rather there is good and bad in all of us. Marshalling data from some of the most clever and counterintuitive experiments in social psychology and interpreting these findings in new ways, DeSteno and Valdesolo surprise us on nearly every page. Out of Character should be read by anyone interested in human behavior; it challenges simple but engrained ideas about virtue and evil in a lively, entertaining, and insightful way."
-Peter Salovey, Provost, Yale University and co-creator of the theory of Emotional Intelligence


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For children between 15 kg and 36 kg, approx. 3-10 years old. Volvo recommends that your child sits facing backwards in the car to at least 4 years of age.
The deep well-cushioned sides and the comprehensive protection for the shoulder area give optimal protection. The adjustable seat cushion can be adjusted to the child's pelvis and ensures that both the lap belt and diagonal belt are positioned close to the body.
As is always the case, Volvo does not compromise when it comes to safety, which means that the seat meets Volvo's stringent safety regulations. The seat is extremely comfortable and blends discretely into the car's interior, thanks to its Volvo labelled upholstery.
For the safest placement of a child in the car, see Table for placement of a child in the car.
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Headrest with high side panels and protection around the shoulder area gives optimum protection in the event of a front or side collision
Headrest with 11 different setting options
Detachable and washable upholstery
Three position adjustment along the width, for optimal belt geometry
Integrated belt guide
Backrest tilt function
Used together with the car seat belt
Approved according to norm ECE R44, 15-36 kg (Grp 3)
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6.5 kg (14 lbs)
Must not be installed in the front seat if the car is fitted with an activated passenger airbag.
This accessory is only available in certain countries. You should therefore contact your local Volvo dealership before ordering.


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Frameworks 5
A recent Dot article explained changes in the KDE release cycle that will be happening with the upcoming introduction of Frameworks 5. The changes to KDE's core libraries are enough to warrant a name change from 'Platform' to 'Frameworks'. This article provides some background, an overview of the changes, and the benefits and improvements that can be expected from KDE Frameworks 5 for the entire Qt community. A later article will address Frameworks 5 benefits for KDE developers.
The KDE libraries are currently the common code base for (almost) all KDE applications. They provide high-level functionality like toolbars and menus, spell checking and file access. Currently, 'kdelibs' is distributed as a single set of interconnected libraries. Under the KDE Frameworks efforts, these libraries are being methodically reworked into a set of independent, cross platform modules that will be readily available to all Qt developers.
The KDE Frameworks, designed as drop-in Qt Addons, will enrich Qt as a development environment with functions that simplify, accelerate and reduce the cost of Qt development. For example, KArchive (one of the first Frameworks available) offers support for many popular compression codecs in a self-contained and easy-to-use file archiving library. Just feed it files; there's no need to reinvent an archiving function.
The transition from Platform to Frameworks has been in progress for more than 2 years and is guided by top KDE technical contributors. Previews of the first Frameworks are expected to be released in December 2013.
Introducing Frameworks 5
Frameworks 5 consists of functional components and are structured in categories and tiers, based on their dependencies.
The Frameworks are also separated by respecting core/gui distinctions and the different GUI technologies. So it's not uncommon to find a core, a gui and a widget module relating to a given Framework (e.g KConfigCore vs KConfigGui). This way third parties can use only the parts they need and avoid pulling unwanted dependencies on QtGui.
Show me the code
To give an idea of what is available in Frameworks 5, a cross-section of Frameworks from different tiers is presented below. These are in various stages of completion and many more are under development.
Functional Frameworks
Integration Frameworks
Solution Frameworks
History of KDE Libraries
When KDE began more than 15 years ago, development was application-driven. Libraries were an afterthought, intended to share work, making development easier and faster. Libraries were added based on simple rules. For example, if a particular functionality was used in more than one place, it was put into a shared library. Sometimes the functionality was an addition to existing Qt classes, other times new libraries were developed for functions such as hardware discovery (Solid) or file access (KIO). The libraries had the additional benefit of improving overall functionality, consistency and stability. These overall improvements provided substantial value, so developers were encouraged to create and use more common library components.
For these reasons, it is hard to re-use KDE Platform 4 components outside of KDE applications. With the emergence of mobile platforms, this is an important consideration. On a modern desktop computer, the footprint of the KDE libraries and the runtime components is not very significant, but things are different on mobile or embedded devices. Developers have become more and more interested in using only the useful bits and pieces in their code. They do not want to pull in a lot of other unneeded components that generate their own dependencies, possibly hard to fulfill on a target platform. Splitting up kdelibs into independent modules would greatly improve their standalone utility.
Qt and Frameworks
Frameworks 5
Frameworks 5 was started in the spring of 2011 at an architectural strategy gathering in Randa, Switzerland. Developers from various KDE areas and projects (including several developers from the GNOME project) spent a week in discussion considering the impacts of the Qt 5 release. KDELIBS classes were pulled apart into pieces destined for upstreaming to Qt, deprecating or refactoring. The result of these efforts was a roadmap to Frameworks 5. Sebastian Kügler's blog post provides further insights about the work involved with Frameworks 5.
Kévin Ottens
Collaboration and Roadmap
KDE Frameworks 5 is currently under development by a team of about 20 developers led by Kévin Ottens and David Faure. About half are supported by the four companies that are actively involved in the development of Frameworks 5.
Work on KDE Frameworks 5 is coordinated at the weekly Tuesday 4 p.m. (CEST; UTC+2) meetings on #kde-devel (freenode IRC). Reports from the meetings are sent to the Frameworks-devel mailing list. The meetings consist of announcements at the beginning, after which participants share what they worked on during the previous week and what they plan to tackle in the upcoming week. Work is planned and documented on the wiki. In addition to IRC, coordination takes place over the kde-Frameworks-devel mailinglist. The mailing list is also a place to inquire about particular KDE functionality that may be available for Qt development.
David Faure - photo by Martin Klapetek (CC BY)
The project of transitioning to KDE Frameworks 5 is essentially a matter of refactoring a large, mature code base, and work has been in progress for more than two years. A preview release is planned for December 2013, with a final release in the first half of 2014. To give those interested a sense of the expected level of quality, documentation and testing, two Frameworks are planned to be released as 'final' with the December preview release: KArchive and KThreadWeaver. (For developers using Qt 4, KArchive is available as a download from David Faure. It works on Unix-like systems and reportedly on Windows too.)
Current state and code
The current state of Frameworks 5 development is available in the KDE Frameworks repository. The KDE Community wiki has an overview of the functionality offered by the Frameworks. The wiki also has a Frameworks page, which includes a dashboard with the current status of Frameworks 5.0.
Inqlude.org is another resource for Qt developers. Inqlude offers a view from the Frameworks perspective. The goal of this site is to provide a comprehensive cross reference of KDE Frameworks for Qt developers who are looking for ready-made functionality for their applications. The site, currently in Alpha, is scheduled for an overhaul during October. Additional contributors are warmly welcomed.
Article by Howard Chan and Jos Poortvliet, input from core frameworks developers including David Faure, Kévin Ottens and Sebastian Kügler.
why isn't Sonnet a 'functional framework' ?
Is the separation between functional or integrative just on whether they have plugins loaded at runtime or not?
Deploying Sonnet is trivial.
By Ian Monroe at Wed, 2013/09/25 - 5:04pm
my guess would be that a
my guess would be that a functional framework needs to work on all platforms (due to no external dependecies), while an integrational framework might not
By Kevin Krammer at Wed, 2013/09/25 - 8:11pm
integration frameworks
Integration frameworks provide integration with services on the system. Solid integrates with hardware awareness features on the native OS, while sonnet provides access to the system's spell checking services.
The functional frameworks provide a set of functionality in and of themselves that does not change or necessarily rely on operating system / platform service infrastructure. They may, of course, use external libraries (beyond Qt) but these would not be platform services.
By Aaron Seigo at Wed, 2013/09/25 - 9:10pm
logind and ConsoleKit
How does KDE frameworks 5 deal with logind, ConsoleKit, etc?
By Olav Vitters at Wed, 2013/09/25 - 5:27pm
I am not sure there is a
I am not sure there is a library respectively a framework interacting with those.
By Kevin Krammer at Wed, 2013/09/25 - 8:12pm
session management / user access
A lot these features are really only relevant to the workspace, so integration exists in Plasma. Frameworks is not concerned with things like managing sessions, for instance.
There are Frameworks, such as KAuthorized which allows applications to (transparently to them) tie into system services such as PolicyKit.
It really comes down to: do applications need to worry about this feature set, or is it really a workspace (e.g. desktop shell) issue? The latter all fall into the category of Plasma and are entirely unrelated to Frameworks. Frameworks and Plasma Workspaces are separate things.
By Aaron Seigo at Wed, 2013/09/25 - 9:13pm
Is QML interpreted each time on run, or only once on build time? I'm quite not happy with kde 4 then talking about laptop up time from battery. As I correct understand for Qt5 interfaces will only on QML. It should have performance, memory and battery up time penalty.
By Maksim at Thu, 2013/09/26 - 6:51am
Quite the opposite.., qt5 and qml = performance improvements
While it is true that interfaces are interpreted at runtime, this mostly only applies to plasma and the workspace. Additionally, the migration to qml not only makes designing interfaces that behave and look as we intend, it does also bring a lot of performance improvements with this.
Traditionally, with c++, the prior methods of rendering interfaces, even in plasma, were not properly hardware accelerated. That meant burning cpu time to render updates when the gpu can do it far far faster and go back to power saving states. Qt5 brings a lot of improvements in this area, due to implementing items on a scene graph(especially with qt5.2),reduces texture switches, over draw, and reduces draw calls made.
Also with QML, it is far easier and more practical to load only what we need when we need it. This simply wasn't practical in c++'s methods of forming interfaces.
So basically all of these changes are significant improvements in performance, resource usage, and interface formation. So really your worries are pretty much non existent, I would say. Not only that, but we've really come a long way, able to squash bugs just so much faster, and reduce the maintenance burden of previous c++ code, when it comes to user interfaces in the worskpace(mostly plasma, but also parts of kwin)
By Shaun Reich at Thu, 2013/09/26 - 7:45pm
At load time
QML is currently parsed at load time but there are plans to enable it at build time as well.
By Kevin Krammer at Fri, 2013/09/27 - 8:57am
"To give those interested a sense of the expected level of quality, documentation and testing, two Frameworks are planned to be released as 'final' with the December preview release: KArchive and KThreadWeaver"
I'd say it's ThreadWeaver, not KThreadWeaver.
Good article!! :-)
By David Gil at Thu, 2013/09/26 - 8:39am
Other Qt desktops
With the merge of Razor and LXDE-Qt, it would be great to get them also on board of this project. IMHO, a framework created and maintained by all Qt desktop projects would be a huge gain for the Qt community.
Are there any discussions about this already?
By cloose at Thu, 2013/09/26 - 5:27pm
The folks from Razor/LXDE are following the development of frameworks quite closely.
By Kevin Krammer at Fri, 2013/09/27 - 8:58am
Thanks for the article
Thanks for the article, I really enjoyed reading it, especially the "Introducing Frameworks 5" and "History of KDE Libraries" part.
By Richard__ at Sat, 2013/09/28 - 10:16am
Broken link
In the last section ("Current state and code"), the link
gives me a 404 error.
By A. at Wed, 2013/12/11 - 4:37pm
link fixed
Thank you. The link is fixed.
By Carl Symons at Wed, 2013/12/11 - 5:47pm
"Places" in file dialogs
"Places" in file dialogs seems broken now, all my favorites in there are gone and there is no more button to add them. Will this be fixed? Thanks!
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It's not every day that the Speaker of the California Assembly drops in on a UC San Diego class. But Speaker John Perez, D-L.A., did just that late last week after attending a Toni Atkins fundraiser here.
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Plus, Donovan has World War I-era hotel brochure pictures clearly showing the crown shaped chandeliers hanging in the Crown Room. "They may have been taken down and then reinstalled, or upgraded or refashioned in some way, which accounts for the later reference," Donovan opines.
Baum crafted furniture and other items, so designing lighting fixtures was a fit with his skill set, she added.
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Another FAS alumnus - with a very different style than Robert Heindel's - is Carl Kock. I wrote about Kock way back in 2006 when I first discovered two beautiful illustrations he did in a volume of the Childcraft children's encyclopedia. Tracking down more examples of this artist's work proved to be difficult - until I found him featured in the Summer '64 issue of Famous Artists School magazine.
Below are the two illustrations from Illustrators, '63 mentioned in Kock's write up. The first certainly demonstrates what Kock talked about when he said the FAS course gave him a sound, basic understanding of drawing...
... and the second (and most of these subsequent pieces) all reinforce what Kock told me when I phoned him back in 2006, that Antonio Frasconi was a major stylistic influence on him.
Later in his career, Carl Kock went into fine art painting. Recently I discovered that he started a blog, and was posting examples of his work up until some time in 2010. I emailed him to see how he was doing, but have not heard back as of this posting.
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Hope College history professor Dr. Albert Bell has returned to the ancient Roman Empire with his latest murder mystery, "The Blood of Caesar: A Second Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger."
Bell's first mystery featuring Pliny the Younger, who was a real-life historical figure, as a protagonist was "All Roads Lead to Murder," which was set in April of A.D. 83 and followed his sleuth as he solved a murder in the provincial city of Smyrna. The latest takes place a few months later in the city of Rome itself.
Pliny's success in solving the previous crime has drawn the attention of the empire's current ruler, Domitian, who fears that a rival might challenge his claim to the throne. Domitian enlists Pliny to determine if there are any previously unknown relatives of his deceased predecessor Nero, who was supposedly the last of the great Julius Caesar's descendants. At the same time, the body of a mason who was working on Domitian's palace is found in the building's library, and Pliny's mother implores Pliny to find the killer. In the course of his dual investigations, he begins to find that the two cases might be related.
Mystery novelist Clyde Linsley has written that "Bell weaves a fascinating, convoluted, but thoroughly convincing tale of intrigue and double-dealing in a society that is at once strangely exotic and all-too-familiar. His solution to his seemingly insoluble problem borders on genius: perfectly plausible, consistent with the known facts, and totally satisfying."
In its review, the "Library Journal" has said that the novel "could be one of the masterpieces of the historical mystery genre," calling the book "outstandingly researched and laden with suspense." Also, the "Journal" noted, "Readers will delight in the duo's tracing of Caesar's blood line; walking with Pliny through his daily routine is entertaining, too."
"The Blood of Caesar" draws on Bell's professional interest in ancient history. His scholarly work includes the book "Exploring the New Testament World," which reviews the social, political and cultural background against which the New Testament was written, and a number of articles on topics including Pliny the Younger.
According to Bell, Pliny the Younger had held a variety of government offices in the Roman Empire, and is known through surviving letters that include his first-person account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and his investigation of the Christians in the province of Bithynia. His appellation distinguished him from his uncle, Pliny the Elder, who wrote a natural history that was one of the era's largest compendiums of science.
The new Pliny the Younger novel is Bell's sixth work of fiction. In addition to "The Blood of Caesar" and its predecessor "All Roads Lead to Murder," he has also written the mystery "Death Goes Dutch," which is set in present-day Grand Rapids; the mystery "Kill Her Again," which involves an archaeological dig in modern-day Italy; the historical novel "Daughter of Lazarus," which is set in first-century Rome and includes Pliny the Younger as a character; and the children's mystery "The Secret of the Lonely Grave," which is set in contemporary Kentucky and earlier this year won the inaugural Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award from Western Kentucky University Libraries. He also wrote the autobiographical "Perfect Game, Imperfect Lives: A Memoir Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Don Larsen's Perfect Game," which reflects on the 1956 World Series.
Bell has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1978. He holds a bachelor's degree from Carson Newman College, a master's from Duke University, a Master of Divinity degree from Southeastern Seminary and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina.
"The Blood of Caesar: A Second Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger" is published by Claystone Books, an imprint of Ingalls Publishing Group of Boone, N.C., and is available for $15.95 at the college's Hope-Geneva Bookstore or at any bookstore or online book dealer.


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Just out of bankruptcy, 2004 was a
survival year for Champ Car. By the end of 2004 the naysayers had put away
their death of Champ Car proclamations and were figuring out a way to remove the
foot they had stuck in their mouth.
During the off-season Champ Car began
to lay their foundation for the future. Based on recent moves by Champ Car,
and other strategic moves yet to take place, Champ Car is poised to complete that
foundation by the end of 2005. From here 2006 looks to be far brighter and
far more organized.
Positive Changes
Personnel: In the past
two months Champ Car has made a number of staff changes, hopefully for the better.
But that's not all.
Domestic TV: Although
late in coming together, Champ Car's 2005 TV package is the best it has had in
over five years. CBS is back on board with four races and even NBC will air
three races. SPEED Channel will air the remaining 7 to 9.
International TV: In Europe Champ Car will be on Eurosport
in almost 100 million homes. Eurosport has added a 2nd channel called
Eurosport 2, effectively doubling their inventory of available time slots to
show Champ Car races live. Nearly all races will be shown live on one of
the two stations. TV deals are still coming together for Latin America,
South America, Asia, Mexico and Canada. Champ Car in '05 will reach far more
households than it did in '04.
TV Production: Champ
Car has retained Molson Sports and Entertainment to do the TV production for 2005
and beyond. After the hack job done by Betelgeuse last year, making the
Champ Car races almost unbearable to watch, in Molson Champ Car has a company that
understands how to do sport TV production.
South Korea: The Ansan,
South Korea race will not only bring NAFTA sponsors into that market, but it will
expose the Korean companies to Champ Car. With Champ Car's solid array of
NAFTA races, I expect we will see some of these Korean companies enter the series in coming years to
reach the all-important NAFTA market, i.e. the Koreans want to sell product in
North America, a lot of product.
China: The rumored
Beijing, China race has the potential to be the biggest boost for the series in
the next five years. Beijing will not only bring NAFTA sponsors into that
burgeoning market, but it will expose the Chinese companies to Champ Car.
With Champ Car's solid array of NAFTA races, I expect we will see Chinese
companies enter the series in coming years to reach the all-important NAFTA
market, i.e. the Chinese want to sell product in North America, a lot of product.
If Champ Car eventually has a Chinese driver in the series, this race has the
potential of drawing a bigger attendance than Mexico City someday.
South America: Some
sponsors like Ford want Champ Car to race in South America. Although beset
by economic woes in recent years (both Argentina and Brazil), there are signs of a
solid economic turnaround. Buenos Aires is a city looking to put itself back
on the map and Champ Car's strong international TV package will bring the exposure
they seek in all the major markets worldwide. Ditto for Brazil where Champ
Car, though not as popular as it once was, still has a strong following. If
Cristiano da Matta comes back to Champ Car as rumored, and joins the likes of
Bruno Junqueira and Mario Haberfeld, Champ Car's popularity will once again rise
in Brazil.
True Global Sports Property:
Can Champ Car, a NAFTA based series, be a true global sports property? Do
NAFTA sponsors care about overseas races? Sponsors stay in F1 and spend big money. F1 isn't just "European" money.
CART was so poorly mismanaged, and the international TV package so poor in the past,
they could not market themselves as a global sports entity. In 2005 Champ Car will
have a proper international TV presence so companies can use that to get the word
out about their product. Now the question is whether Champ Car itself hires the
right marketing and sales staff to capitalize on this....and how long it will take to
build a global awareness.
There simply are not enough domestic dollars around to make Champ Car successful
as a "NAFTA" only product. Ditto for the IRL. NASCAR has sucked the USA (and soon
NAFTA) market dry. A real hope for Champ Car is international money, if it has the
right international platform.
As long as every race is televised and a sponsor's name is seen by the demographic
of people they are trying to reach, it does not matter whether the race is in
Oshkosh or Beijing. TV reaches far more people than the people at the actual race
track. Sure, you must have fans in the grandstands, but if I am a sponsor, those
50,000 to 100,000 pair of eyeballs is dwarfed by the tens of millions of fans watching on
Champ Car must have the right marketing people in place who can sit down with the
sponsor rep and explain the "vision" and benefits to them of a global series, but
that they still reach the specific markets they want through TV, regardless of
where they are racing this week. It comes down to good TV production and a solid
TV reach into both domestic and foreign markets. There are still "plenty" of races
in the NAFTA market to reach the fans at the race tracks in North America. Champ Car has excellent
NAFTA venues and that will soon get even better, but TV is the key to global
sponsor exposure.
Champ Car vs. F1: The difference between F1 and Champ Car is
that Champ Car delivers far more NAFTA race markets than F1 does. While
both are international, Champ Car has a home-base in NAFTA while F1 has
a home-base in the EU. That is the difference and sponsors can choose
one or both series, depending on what markets are most important to
them. Champ Car is also far less expensive than F1, so if it reaches a
lot of the same markets, the potential to deliver a better return on
investment is there.
Better crop of drivers:
Until Champ Car re-establishes itself as a flourishing sports property,
some teams will continue to rely on ride-buyers to exist. However,
already we are seeing a better talent pool of drivers eyeing Champ Car
and this is an important factor in rebuilding the fan base. You
can't make a hero out of a wanker but you can develop a great racing
driver into a hero-figure.
Still some major hurdles
Retaining Long Beach:
Champ Car's biggest race is up for renewal after this year. The
IRL wants it. Can Champ Car get a renewal? Losing Long Beach will
be a major public relations blow for Champ Car. The next big battle between
Champ Car and the IRL is indeed Long Beach. Champ Car appears to have the
upper hand right now. The Long Beach City Council does not want a
switch to the IRL, but Dover Motorsports is the promoter and they could
sign a deal with the IRL. Can Champ Car get the renewal they seek?
The motorsports world is watching.....
No Title Sponsor:
Champ Car still doesn't have a title sponsor which underscores the fact
that sponsors are still sitting on the fence waiting to see if Champ Car
is indeed out of hot water and on its way to success.
Healthy teams: As it
stands now, there are 10 confirmed seats in the Champ Car series for 2005:
Dominguez (HVM), Paul Tracy and Rodolfo Lavin (Forsythe Racing), Alex Tagliani
(Rocketsports), Jimmy Vasser (PKV Racing), A.J. Allmendinger and Justin Wilson
(RuSPORT), Gaston Mazzacane (Dale Coyne), Bruno Junqueira and Sebastien Bourdais
(Newman/Haas). There are also as many as nine possible openings still up for
grabs, however, a great many of those are dependent upon adequate sponsorship
being found.
Healthy promoters:
Having promoters who can make a profit on their Champ Car event is a key
ingredient to solidifying the race schedule. It's hard to build a
fan base in a city if the venues are continually changing. NASCAR
had a staple of races that were held on the same weekend for decades.
Only recently, after it established a huge fan base, did NASCAR start
changing their schedule around, primarily to make room for new, bigger
races. Both Champ Car and the IRL have had a big turnover of races since
the split, owing to a drop in popularity of Champ Car when Tony George
created the IRL, split Indy Car racing in two and destroyed the once
hugely successful sport.
Meaningful engine manufacturer
support: While Ford is helping Champ Car, since Honda,
Toyota and Mercedes left the series, the paddock has become noticeably
poorer. Gone are the majority of sponsors and the hospitality
facilities that they bring. The car companies have very deep pockets and
they help a race series in many ways - from track signage and corporate
hospitality (both help race promoters) to TV ads, magazine ads,
newspaper ads and team financial and technical support. Despite
all the "evil" that goes with this money, manufacturer support is a key
ingredient to all successful racing series. There isn't a single
successful racing series that doesn't have car manufacturer support.
Think like a true Global Property:
If Champ Car wants to become a true global sports property it had better
start thinking and acting like one. Why go back to Europe, to
South America, South Korea or China if you are going to continue to
conduct yourself as a domestic racing series? The entire
organization, from the head office right down to the mechanics must
understand the vision, the goals.
Only 14 races :
To date Champ Car has announced just 14 races, the same as last year, a
bankruptcy year. Races in Argentina and Beijing are rumored and
Road America is still out there, but 14 races does not put Champ Car in
front of their audience enough and provide their sponsor the type of
exposure NASCAR does racing 38 weekends per year. Just another
reason why NASCAR is stealing sponsors away - good exposure week in and
week out.
No Superstars:
As we have stated on numerous occasions, every successful sport has
superheroes. Champ Car currently has none, hence why attendance
and TV ratings are down. There is very little marketing of the
drivers and Champ Car doesn't seem to have a clue how to engage sponsors
to use their drivers in their advertisements. One of the secrets
to NASCAR's success has been their ability to convince their sponsors to
help make the drivers superheroes.
Re-Sign Ford:
Why hasn't Ford re-signed with Champ Car? Did they scare away that
manufacturer too? If our sources are to be believed, they will be
back on board for at least one more year, and possibly three, but why is
it taking so long?
Need more teams:
Champ Car is in need of more new teams. The cost is not very high
right now but still rumors of possible new teams have gone silent.
That means Champ Car is not able to convince team owners to invest in
them. The goal should be 28 cars, preferably 14 two-car teams.
More teams, each with their own PR and marketing staff, puts more people
out there looking to bring sponsors into the series and getting the word
out about their team, their drivers and the series.
2007 cars:
First we were led to believe that Champ Car would adopt all-new cars for
2006, but now that is delayed until 2007. The existing cars are
getting old and tired. New cars and possibly new engines always
generate renewed fan interest. After all, Champ Car is not IROC,
but given all the teams will use Lolas powered by Ford Cosworth makes it
appear that way.
Improvement in TV Ratings:
In order for Champ Car to become a "hot" property to sponsors, the TV
ratings will have to improve. In the world of sports marketing and
advertising, TV ratings are king. Low TV ratings mean no sponsors
and no TV advertising revenue. Individual TV ratings by country
are important to generate TV ad revenue in each market, but Champ Car
must get a handle on its cumulative worldwide TV ratings because the
cumulative rating dwarfs just the USA rating and this number is
important to sponsors who have their name on the race car. Those
sponsors want to reach as many eyeballs as possible.
While Champ Car is laying a
solid foundation for the future, there are still many challenges ahead.
But compared to this time last year when the vultures were circling
CART's dead carcass, the future looks better than it has in a long time.
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Vannini advocates major overhaul to rescue CART series
Engines - There, that was easy, now let's race
Americans don't realize what they have in CART
A proposed solution to CART's engine dilemma
Ford Cosworth opens its doors
Bullish on CART
A German's first-time CART experience
My thoughts on a variety of CART issues - by Jon Vannini
AutoRacing1 Exclusive - Is Shanghai in CART's future?
As CART goes global, what about its sponsors?
If Mexico City will get 350,000, would India get 400,000?
The inevitable globalization of CART
New CART TV deal - don't put the CART before the horse
CART in China - Why Shanghai is the best venue
Rockingham is ready for CART. Is CART ready for Rockingham?
Beating a dead horse.; Where's my fork?
Successful CART Venues - It takes two to tango
Setting the record straight on CART's German 500
Rebuilding CART from the grassroots up!
Could this be the break Gidley has been waiting for?
CART, ALMS or NASCAR extravaganza weekends
A true global vision will serve CART well
A proposal for CART and IRL to coexist peacefully
The Triple Crown - a proposal for CART's success
650HP, 750HP, 850HP, it doesn't seem to matter
Movie Review: DRIVEN
Ryan Arciero hopes to continue family dynasty
CART & IRL, a missed opportunity
Things are happening at CART
CART' Data Acquisition Systems - there's a new kid on the block.
CART's next moves will be crucial.
The greatest Long Beach GP of all-time.
CART & IRL - close, and yet so far.
Andretti set to return to Indy
Sam Hornish wins Phoenix, de Ferran punted
Greg Ray wins Phoenix pole, deFerran 5th
CART Engines, If it ain't broke, don't fix it
And the 2001 CART Champion will be....
The HANS Device saved my fathers life
Soft walls or soft cars?
Safety- It's going to take more than just magic to fix
Safety - It's going to take more than just magic to fix
CART vs. IRL, Hatfields vs. McCoys
DRIVEN is CART's best chance to become mainstream
Is CART's problem really a lack of American's?
CART vs. NASCAR - TV Coverage
Bubbas' rule auto racing
Book review - Autocourse 2000/2001
Do heroes make a sport, or does a sport make heroes
To-Do-List, for CART's new President
Lawsuits, Will Greg Moore's final legacy to racing be more than one of…….
Tire Warmers, an idea whose time has come
BrandingCART and their race cars
Will CART's next leader be a corporate visionary?
AddressingCART's TV issues
CART, do you know who you are?
Will CART miss this boat too, - Destined to shadow NASCAR?
Why the new Indy Lights cars should meet IRLspecs
SoftWalls - drivers take a stand while you still can
CART Fan Forum - Highlights from CART's very first Fan Forum
Warren Hughes - A name to remember
CART restarts - NASCAR Style
Mario Andretti Tribute - America's Driver of the Century
Shift w/o Lift- How it works
Aerodynamics- CART's chance to make progressive changes
CART's HP dilemma
Soft Walls - Finally, a safer wall system
BuddyRice deserves a shot at Champ Cars
Choices, Choices, we rate possible new CART venues
CART must avoid Detroit's politics
10ways for CART to invest $100million
Montoya and Ganassi do CART proud at Indy
Welcome to AutoRacing1.com
A year of progress shapes Rockingham
A solution for CART's franchise dilemma
Lausitzring nears completion, fighting hard to win CART date
Paul Tracy keeps his Kool, wins LBGP for2nd time
What is an American driver?
Warming-up at Nazareth
172mph in a Champ Car is the ultimate adrenaline rush
Standing Start Rules proposed standing start rules for CART
Standing Starts are they right for CART?
Champ Car's Minardi 2-seater is the ultimate ride
For Alex Figge and PCM it's baptism by fire
A tribute to Alfred J. Cipolloni
Champ Car owners move to silence critics
Establishing a firm foundation for Champ Car
One-on-one with Champ Car President Steve Johnson
J.R. Hildebrand is one American going places in a hurry
What's new for Champ Car for 2007 - Part 1
Champ Car positions itself for international expansion
Paul Stoddart confirms interest in Champ Car
An inside look at Champ Car TV production
Ho-Pin Tung wants to be Champ Car's first Chinese driver
Stephen King explains Justin Wilson's novel Investor's Club
One-on-one with American sensation AJ Allmendinger
Champ Car moving forward without the IRL
One-on-one with Paul Tracy
Bruce Delahorne explains CDW's sponsorship in Champ Car
One-on-one with Justin Wilson
Champ Car bosses won't be bullied
Part 2: NASCAR/ISC get dirty in Phoenix, out to destroy Open Wheel
Part 1: NASCAR/ISC get dirty in Phoenix, out to destroy Open Wheel
The Rahals: Like father, like son
Why and IRL/Champ Car merger will be a big boost for the sport
Headless Open Wheel Racing appears doomed
Richard Lyons looking at Champ Car for his next challenge
We salute the champions of 2005
Is Jay Howard the next Ayrton Senna?
Interview with Grand-Am President Roger Edmondson
Otaru, Japan Champ Car race moving closer to reality
Champ Car's global appeal may ride on mimicking the Team
Australia concept
Champ Car's Surfers Paradise race promoter "gets it"
Champ Car cements another brick in its foundation
Custom built Champ Cars and Indy Cars
Interview with RuSPORT Team President Jeremy Dale
Conspiracy Theory: What Indy was really all about
Why the Champ Car/IRL war must end
How a
Champ Car and IRL merger might work
Will the battle for Long Beach destroy its Grand Prix?
Katherine Legge has her eyes set on Champ Car
Traveling Light Media - Just what the doctor ordered
Car lays out bold 3-year plan
Champ Car's 2005 driver lineup vastly improved
Hunter-Reay anxious to get racing again
with new team
That sucking sound you hear is NASCAR
Feud - The story of the murder of Mickey Thompson
Yes, Blame Tony and the CART defectors too
Interview with ALMS President Scott Atherton
2005 a foundation laying year for Champ
Kalkhoven talks Champ Car with AutoRacing1
Kalkhoven and Forsythe buy Cosworth from Ford
Carl Russo is bullish on Champ Car
Can this be Champ Car's next-generation car
Champ Car poised for major comeback
Champ Car Race Control - the 'Hot Seat Zone'
Open Wheel Racing is in serious need of consolidation
Champ Car South of the Border, An
interview with Joe Heitzler
There is an easy way for Champ Car and the IRL to unify
From airport to race track, a race within a race
The 2-seater Car is one of Champ Car's biggest assets
Why Bernie Ecclestone could, and should, buy Champ Car now
Champ Car rocks the streets of Times Square in Manhattan
Why did Fernández leave Champ Car? Follow the money....
Next Generation Champ Car: A call for F1 tires
Coming to America? Interview with Ralph Firman Jr.
Open Wheel Racing defeats IRL - Champ Car
Series to continue
Open Wheel Racing needs a win by OWRS - Part
The next generation Champ Cars - Part 2
CART next for Villeneuve?
New deal for CART may be better than first thought
The genius of one Bernard Ecclestone
CART Champ Cars, the next generation - Part 1
Details emerging on CART race in Seoul, South Korea
CART hits a Grand Slam in Mexico City. Now What?
Top-10 Challenges facing new CART owners
CART can still race in Europe, but will they?
For CART, time is of the essence
Making sense of CART's situation
Push-to-Pass means no more parades for CART
An interview with CART's David Clare
What did Roger Penske really mean?
CART must differentiate itself - clearly
turbos make for superior street and race engines
For CART, it's now or never
Chicken or the Egg?
War of the worlds
What Bernie brings to CART
CART, Driven to where?
Is it really about CART vs. IRL?
If I were
The Champ Cars and St. Pete
informal survey of the St. Pete race attendees
Artificial Dissemination
CART, F1 coming to grips with doing business in China
Cancel the Funeral
CART and F1 must, and will, share a common V-10 engine
Book Review: Autocourse 2002-2003 F1 yearbook
Does CART need Michael Andretti?
2002 CART TV ratings by the numbers
Now is the time for CART to redefine its ladder system
CART gets a taste of tifosi passion in Mexico
affair in Mexico
Making sense out of Bernie/CART rumors
Changing of the guard?
Mom, apple pie, CART and....Formula1?
Why CART and Bernie make perfect dance partners
Miami should be a CART and ALMS kickoff party
David slays Goliath in Miami
What to make of Gurney's F1 team
Taking it to the streets, why Miami is a war
CART, like the Phoenix, about to rise up from the ashes
There's more
than handwriting on the wall.....and here's the concrete facts
Day weekend 1952...A weekend I'll never forget
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CART still
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Bryan Herta, USA's next best chance for F1
Is Paul
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CART's real attendance numbers
Is Brands
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An Unappealing Appeal, George reigns in GEORGE-town
A candid
conversation with Chris Pook
More than meets the eye with CART's turbo move
It's time for CART to define its own future
upgrades at Road America
Back-Breaking work
rebirth of CART
hidden costs of Indy Car racing
CART's road and street circuits are clicking with the fans
Is it sport, or a P.T. Barnum show?
IRL at Fontana - a victim of friendly fire
CART's 2003 race venues #1 in the world
Meet the Gonzalez brothers
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LOS ANGELES, April 9 (UPI) -- Melissa Joan Hart shared a photo of her latest Nutrisystem ad featuring her newly-toned body on her Instagram account Tuesday.
"It's not everyday I like to show a lot of skin but these days I'm feeling confidant," the former Clarissa Explains It All star captioned the pic. "Thanks Nutrisystem! Look for my new commercial that begins airing April 21!"
The 37-year-old star, a spokeswoman for Nutrisystem, first flaunted her 40-pound weight loss in February, just two months after she told Us Weekly that she was "so sick of things not fitting properly" after her third pregnancy.
Hart and her husband Mark Wilkerson have three children -- Mason, 8, Braydon, 5, and Tucker, 19 months. She currently stars in the ABC family series, Melissa & Joey.
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Student or Learner
Is there any meaning than the obvious one for "to mend the garden"?
I received it in a mail.
I thing there is a double entendre with garden and gardener as a simil to male and female genital organs. I heard about this when using colloquial English but I can not remember at all, am I right? I know this is quite colloquial or slang but just to confirm that sometimes these word are used under this context.
Thanks a lot,
It probably should read "tend the garden" or, less likely, "mind the garden."
We would say "mow the lawn" for that metaphor. ;)
Quizi: If this is a reference to what I think it is, then this is not a double entendre.
The reference is to a letter sent in to a council:
"Will you please send someone to mend the garden path.
My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant."
Can you quote the paragraph where the sentence occurs?


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Let me preface with this that I am a linux and network noob, so talk slowly and use big words.
We have a Red Hat machine running GNOME 2.16. We're trying to stand up a webapp there. From the windows development environment we are able to ping RH, but cannot telnet to the web container
Connecting To our.ip.address.## ...Could not open connection to the host, on port 80##: Connect failed
Things I've checked:
iptables is not running
A browser on the RH box can see the webapp at 127.0.0.1:80##
The webapp defaults to include ip 0.0.0.0 which should make it public (right?)
The masks are the same on both boxes
The RH server also can ping a subversion server, but can't make checkouts
All I can think is that there is some firewall between the windows and RH box, but I don't know how to check that. I wanted to be sure I'd tried everything I can before I knock on IT's door.
Are there any other settings or linux commands I should be checking?
What is your diagnosis?


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The White Sox confirmed that Jake Peavy will make his Sox debut Saturday at U.S. Cellular Field against Kansas City.
UPDATE: whitesox.com:
Some sort of pitch count or innings limit will be placed on Peavy, who has gotten up and down for the equivalent of four innings in his simulated side sessions. Peavy also has to channel his emotion and adrenaline during what amounts to being an Opening Day type of start.


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As the 19th International Conference on AIDS continues, two MORE inspiring young women from the YWCA share their reflections:
Hannah Yurkovich's World YWCA Intern from Kent University, USA
I have been excited to be involved in the 19th Biannual International AIDS conference in Washington DC, but before arriving here, I did not know what I expected to see. Since arriving, I have not been at all disappointed, and my first thoughts after entering the Convention Centre with the other 21,000 delegates, was that people here were by far very passionate about ending AIDS. Many of those attending are HIV positive, and not hesitant to hide their status, something I have never observed before. I am certain that this will be a unique and valuable experience for me, and that I will learn a lot about one of the world's most real and widespread issues.
I have been fortunate enough to have never personally known anyone who has been affected by the AIDS pandemic. Yet from the very first session that I attended, it struck me how many people's lives had been changed directly and indirectly. That which had been a secret not to be disclosed even to one's closest friends and family was now being shared through detailed personal stories by many of the speakers. One particular example that stuck out to me was the presentation on body maps that one young HIV positive woman shared with us. The traumatic and unspeakable suffering that many of the marginalized women experienced, who were HIV positive, who had gone through physical, sexual and psychological violence or who were transgender, was drawn in graphic images highlighting their physical and psychological wounds. This was a perfect example of how a diverse community can find security in opening up, when one individual chooses to share what is vital in standing up for one's human rights. Even though I was encouraged to hear that action was taken in utilizing such exercises, in presenting evidence of gender based violence to the government, it was saddening to hear how the justice system and the police played a part in the oppression that this marginal population went through.
The opening ceremony could be summarised in a message of hope. Each speaker represented a different cultural group with a different connection to the AIDS movement. But there was optimism in the air, reminders of the successes that science had achieved through history, and promises to support the fight to free the next generation of the pandemic. I look forward to hearing more success stories as well as supportive reliable statistics in how progress is being made in ending mother to child transmission of the virus, ending social prejudices, making treatment prevention, and turning this former death sentence into a condition that enables people to lead long and comfortable lives.
Dana Awwad from YWCA of Palestine
First and for most, I am grateful and thankful for the YWCA for providing me with this opportunity of attending the 19th International AIDS Conference. It is a great pleasure to be here and to experience what I am currently experiencing. I have been to a number of conferences before, but this time the experience is different. I am attending this conference as a health care advocate being part of the YWCA of Palestine and not as a scientist. The information I am seeking is not the same, not experimental designs nor scientific data, but approaches, solutions, and success stories. However, after the Interfaith Pre-Conference I realised the difficulties that health advocates and HIV patients are still facing in their community. Unfortunately, science has come a long way and has produced impeccable solutions while humans still have a long way to go. I was devastated to learn that women are still undermined and unfairly treated in many if not most parts of the world. Women are still violated, women are still raped, women are still forced to work as prostitutes, and children are still born to live a dark future. I don't want this to happen to my family, friends, and people. AIDS is not a serious issue in Palestine, but there are many vulnerable and risk groups and their numbers are on the rise. There are many factors affecting the health and lifestyles of Palestinians, and I hope we act now to save our future before the danger is out of hands. On the bright side, I heard many success stories.
I learnt that since 2009 in the capital of the Unites States of America, Washington DC, no one child has been born HIV positive! I have heard the promises and commitments of the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, when she declared the commitment of the Obama Administration towards HIV and AIDS. The United States will grant millions of dollars to science and research and the health sector. Finally, in a special meeting with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the YWCA delegates learnt that they are not the only women advocating for women's health and rights. Representative Schakowsky is one of the advocates for the International Violence against Woman Act (IVAW). I am in my second day of the conference and I am positive that there is still more to learn and more to be inspired by.
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia (Official Music Video)
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Topic: Jango Fett vs. Count Dooku.
Let's step into an alternate reality for a moment, a look at what possibly could have been. THis shall take place in episode 2. Jango and Obi-wan are fighting on kamino. Obi-wan realizes he is losing, and knows he needs to do something to save his life. At the same time, Obi-wan puts two and two together, and suddenly realizes that Tyrranus, the man who hired Jango, and Dooku, are the same person. He takes a desperate gamble. Just as Jango has wrapped up his hands in clingwire and is about to commence dragging him, Obi-wan shouts: "Wait! I've got a proposition! If you do something for me, the republic will pay you twice what you are being paid now!" Jango stops, and hovers to the ground on his jets. "Keep talking," he says. Obi-wan replies: "I want you to hunt down and detroy Count Dooku, the leader of the seperatists!" Jango things about it a while. "Deal," he says. After quickly discussing the details of the job with Obi-wan, Jango releases the clingwire and boards Slave 1. As he climbs into the plots seat, a confused Boba asks: "Dad, why didn't you kill the jedi?" Jango replies: "There's been a chang of plans, Boba." Boba asks: "what is it?" Jango replies: "Our destination is the same. But the bounty is different. I am hunting Tyrranus."
So, now that Jango has turned against his employer, who will win in the battle that is soon to commence? I say Jango will certainly win.


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The Gift of You and Children
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Please watch this video if:
- you are a parent or guardian
- you are an educator
- you are in the medical or healing arts professions
- your heart longs to connect with your Soul again and be the gift you came here to be
- you are a human being living on planet earth
Please visit TheGiftOfYou.com for a free gift entitled Discover Your Brilliance.
I hope to meet you soon,
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How to Change a Bad Habit
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Have you ever heard "neurons that fire together wire together"? Have you ever given any thought to what that really means; how it happens and how you can rewire them to serve your needs better?
Let's cover those items one at a time.
YOUR Success Process
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Do you have a success process? If you have one, can you write it down? Does it work every time?
I created a class a few years ago to help participants discover their own unique success process. Feedback told me that most people didn't realize that what they do and how they do it equals successful results.
Do you want to write a book? How often do you sit down and write? Do you know what you want to write about and have you visualized the outcome in advance? Can you feel the feeling of excitement inside you when you think about it? Do you have faith in yourself to be the person in your vision? Again, how often do you write and what is your deadline?
The decision is the starting point, and I do mean decision, not just a wish. The vision in your mind coupled with the enthusiastic feeling of accomplishment for the sheer joy of doing it is what will get you to work on it every day. Please read that again.
That process can apply to any goal – not just writing a book.
What's your vision? Are you committed to it? Make a plan. Create a schedule and "just do it" as Nike is famous for saying.
Need motivation? Imagine yourself on your death bed looking back at your life. Will you regret not having done it?
Need inspiration? Read some inspiring quotes at The Gift of You or on my Facebook Page.
Need assistance getting started or staying on track? Check out this offer for a limited time free coaching session.
To your dream! Don't let it pass you by.
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Have you ever wanted a certain outcome but knew you had no real control over how it would turn out? Did you ever just have to trust God/Consciousness to guide you? I've had that experience many times.
One of my most impressive experiences involved a healing. I was told I needed a surgical root canal for the second time on the same tooth. The endodontist showed me film of it to prove his point.
Later, I thought "God, I can't go through that again. I just can't. I've had so many of those already." I had been in a car accident years before and my teeth started to be affected over time.
So I decided I was going to try to change the outcome to be the way I wanted it to be. I meditated and then visualized the endodontist's office and not needing the surgery. I did that until I saw the room filled with white light and felt the feeling of it with gratitude. Then I let it go.
I did some healthful things I knew to do after that and just lived my life until it was time for the appointment. When I sat in the chair and he took a new film, he was shocked and asked what I did? I asked what he meant to which he answered it was healed and I didn't need surgery. "What did you do?"
I told him prayer and the other things. It wasn't me. It was Consciousness. I was very grateful. 🙂
Another time I was guided to sell my house during the housing melt-down before I was headed for foreclosure. I set the intention to sell it in less than a month even though that seemed totally unrealistic in that housing market especially for my small two-bedroom villa.
With appropriate actions, focus and attitude, guess what? Not only did it sell and close in less than a month, but I got to live there as a renter. My cat also got to live the rest of her life in the neighborhood she grew up in and loved. I was very grateful.
Those are only two examples of healing in my body, mind and life to align with my guidance and intentions.
What do you want in and for your life or for the world?
There is an Asian story about a farmer who was about to loose his farm. He went to a wise man and asked what he should do. The wise man told him to gather some carrots, eggs and tea leaves. The wise man told him to fill three pots with water and set them to boil; one with the carrots; one with the eggs and one with the tea leaves.
When the desired outcome had occurred, the wise man told the farmer to remove the carrots, eggs and tea from the fire. The wise man asked the farmer what had happened.
The farmer smiled in recognition. The carrots grew soft and mushy. The eggs hard shell did not protect the inside from getting hard. The tea leaves transformed the water into tea.
The boiling water was the challenge. The carrots, eggs and tea leaves all met the challenge with very different results.
As the song title says, "I've got the power" and so do you! God is in each and every one of us and every thing. How do you think a caterpillar turns into a butterfly? How do you think an acorn turns into an oak tree? How do you think I healed my body and sold my house?
We have the power of love flowing through us to create blessings for ourselves, others and the world. Sure there are those who believe more in fear than in love and they try to spread that B.S. Guess what? They just get more to fear in life because that's their focus.
I suggest you tap into your God-given power and go for the life you want. Go ahead. I know you've got what it takes.
If you need a little help tapping your inner wisdom along the way, I'm doing a small amount of free coaching.
Enjoy infinite blessings,
Cheryl Healey
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Confidence is a state of mind.
It is also a skill that takes practice. Your unconscious mind wants to keep you in your comfort zone where it feels safe but often confused on how to succeed.
In other words, you only have confidence if the task is not new to you. Practice is the only thing that will build confidence and greater skills.
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The Ellis Martin Report Monday, March 18, 2013
March 18, 2013
Hosted by Ellis Martin
Episode Description
The Ellis Martin Report
The Ellis Martin Report
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Each week the Ellis Martin Report brings you potential investment opportunities and analysis of financial markets including a variety of commodities. If you're truly seeking to possibly buy low and sell high, listen as Ellis interviews public companies that in many cases are just beginning to get their success-based stories out to the public. If geopolitics is your area of interest, learn how global tensions and market stresses can affect your money. Opportunity exists, especially in volatility. Trade short or trade long based on news….or sit on the sidelines collecting information until the time comes where you are well positioned to act. Invest at your own risk. Ellis Martin is a veteran broadcast journalist, not a financial adviser. We make no specific recommendation for investment on this program.
Note: Companies reviewed on the Ellis Martin Report in most cases are paid sponsors. Ellis Martin may also be a shareholder of companies mentioned.
Ellis Martin
Ellis Martin, President and CEO Big Sky Productions, Inc, created The Opportunity Show in 1999 as a successful terrestrial radio resource for small and mid-cap public companies seeking to vastly expand their shareholder base as they in turn grow their companies. Now as The Ellis Martin Report, this investment oriented program airs throughout the United States. Prior to that he served as Senior Vice President for the Phoenix Media Group in Burbank, California, Station Manager for WHB-AM in Kansas City, Missouri, Instructor/Lecturer for the Academy of Radio Broadcasting in Huntington Beach, California and a variety of broadcasting positions across the US. Mr. Martin has been an entrepreneur with interests in media, entertainment and financial concerns since 1978.


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Interesting talking point now the transfer window has closed is the old club v country debate!
Nivea are covering football at both ends of the spectrum, they are the official grooming supplier for the England team but are also involved with grass roots football in the The Great Football Experiment.
Then in-between, we have our dreams, hopes and fears in what for most can only be described as the roller coaster ride that is supporting our own team. Overload for our brains or what, and the ladies say we can`t multi task!
Where do you stand? Do you look forward to your own club games more? Do you prefer international football (whoever your country is) or are you drifting more towards playing the game or watching grass roots instead these days?
With the qualifiers upcoming, how much do your thoughts turn to your country?
The lads at Ivory FC (the great football experiment team) are predicting a 1-1 for England v Bulgaria… And predict a rout against Wales. Is it ever that simple?
For the prediction, go to: Will Takes On The England Predictions and feel free to vote on the poll and leave your prediction in the article comments (same logins as for your usual team site)
Let us know your thoughts!
Club v Country? And England Predictions
Interesting talking point now the transfer window has closed is the old club v country debate!