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"The Internet not only connects us to our friends, families and communities, but it is also the foundation of the global knowledge economy," Zuckerberg wrote in a paper posted to his Facebook page late Tuesday. The title asks "Is Connectivity A Human Right?"
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If the effort pays off, Facebook will grow its user base, advertising revenue and influence. Business and philanthropy, in this case, can go hand in hand, Levinson said.
The group's plans, still in an early, rough-draft phase, include developing cheaper smartphones and tools that would reduce the amount of data required to run mobile applications. For Facebook, the move would certainly add more users to its current 1.15 billion, and with them more advertising revenue. Still, Zuckerberg paints the effort as something larger.
"For nine years, we've been on a mission to connect the world. We now connect more than 1 billion people, but to connect the next 5 billion we must solve a much bigger problem: the vast majority of people don't have access to the Internet," Zuckerberg wrote.
He points out that the people who already use Facebook "have way more money than the rest of the world combined." That means it may "not actually be profitable for us to serve the next few billion people for a very long time, if ever. But we believe everyone deserves to be connected."
Most of Facebook's users live outside the U.S., and much of the site's new user base will come from developing countries in the years ahead. And while most Americans first got online using desktop computers, many of the Internet's newest users are bypassing PCs entirely, relying on mobile phones instead.
Javier Olivan, vice president of growth and analytics at Facebook, said Facebook's move continues what the company has already been doing to get more people online. This includes "Facebook For Every Phone," an app that launched in 2011 to let people with simple, non-smartphones use Facebook. Facebook says it has invested more than $1 billion so far to connect people in the developing world to the Internet.
The Internet.org project is Zuckerberg's latest venture that seeks to meld philanthropy with ambition.
The billionaire CEO made his first charitable splash in 2010, two years before his company went public, when he donated $100 million in Facebook Inc. stock to Newark, New Jersey, schools. He later gave another $500 million to a Silicon Valley charity with the aim of funding health and education issues. Earlier this year, he launched Fwd.us, a political group aimed at changing immigration policy, boosting education and encouraging investment in scientific research.
Wireless equipment company Ericsson, Web browser developer Opera Software and MediaTek, another wireless semiconductor company, are also founding members of Internet.org.
Google Inc., which is not a part of the Internet.org effort, launched a similar undertaking earlier this year with the goal of getting everyone on Earth online. Called Project Loon, the effort launched Internet-beaming antennas aloft on giant helium balloons.
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Analysis based on old news or Seattle's lack of Super Bowl experience is a waste, angles pursued when the truth is obvious.
Nothing has changed since the league championship games on Jan. 19 — the Super Bowl is the Denver offense vs. the Seattle defense. The only unknown is whether the wind will be strong enough to affect Peyton Manning's passes. If so, advantage Seattle.
Forget Seattle 40, Denver 10 in mid-August, Richard Sherman's antics after the NFC championship game and the extended reaction, and the fact that Seattle doesn't have anybody who has played in a Super bowl.
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Sherman's words and choke sign received an overload of attention because he was available to the media in the days that followed and the material was good filler for the lag time until both teams arrived on the East Coast.
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Under Denver's "O" would be protecting the 37-year-old Manning and running the ball enough to enable Manning to do his cerebral thing.
Under Seattle's "D" would be pass defense, including pressuring Manning and Sherman's coverage on Demaryius Thomas.
One man's opinion is that Sherman will do the job against Thomas, extremely productive in the league title game after New England's best cover defender was eliminated by Wes Welker. If Sherman is successful, Manning to Welker on dinky patterns will be a must. Manning might have an occasional opportunity to throw deep, but arm strength is a question.
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Although Wilson attempted 252 fewer passes than Manning during the regular season, his yards per attempt was 8.25 vs. Manning's 8.31. Much like other mobile quarterbacks, Wilson's feet enhance his arm.
Because of Seattle's defense, there is a real possibility that the team with the inferior quarterback will defeat the team with one of the best qbs in NFL history.
To be effective on offense, Seattle needs at least 90 yards from Lynch and Denver needs the same production from Welker.
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Growing up on defense, field position, and turnovers in the old Southwest Conference, Seattle is built just right, including plus-20 in turnovers during the regular season. If Wilson doesn't help Denver, the Seahawks win a close one.
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We've also heard that to accept Medicaid expansion from the federal government would be something Tennesseans later would regret, when the cost shifted to the state.
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Why don't Haskell Developers Use Windows?
Reading a recent thread on haskell-cafe, it was mentioned that there aren't a lot of Windows Haskell programmers. That's true, but I think it's misleading to say it that way. This is one of those situations where correlation does mean causation. Here's my story.
I write Haskell using Windows… sort of. Okay, not really. What I do is use a Windows laptop to open a PuTTY window, in which I write Haskell code on a UNIX system that's sitting on the other side of the room. This is certainly not my ideal working environment. I'd love to really write Haskell on Windows, but I don't for several reasons.
I don't write Haskell with Windows because I haven't found a good environment for it. I like my IDE programs, and especially Eclipse – which I already use for Java, C, and C++ programming; but that doesn't look feasible. The closest I could seem to come was eclipsefp, but it's nearly unusable. It gets syntax highlighting completely wrong. (It's easy to get hard cases wrong in Haskell; writing a really correct syntax highlighter is hard; but this one even gets obvious things wrong like forgetting to highlight
deriving, and requiring the occasional frivolous edit to poke it into changing syntax highlighting when something changes.) I tried to fix some things, but the Haskell code is in a darcs repository, and the only darcs plugin for Eclipse never seemed to work. Writing Eclipse plugins in any environment except Eclipse is hideously painful; so enough of that. Even if I did get it to work, the Eclipse support for Haskell doesn't seem to advanced; may as well use a command line.
I don't write Haskell with Windows because of Lambdabot. Lambdabot and GOA (GHCi On Acid) are important tools for me. They are far more important than the platform I develop on. But it looks rather non-trivial to build them for Windows. I tried to do so for several hours, before I gave up.
I don't write Haskell with Windows because I build development versions of GHC a lot. (I do this to at least help with testing, and partly because I have aspirations to contribute to GHC myself in the future.) While most of the breaking of GHC seems to happen on MacOS, I notice a lot of patches floating around to fix broken builds of GHC for Windows as well. One rarely sees a developer commit something that breaks the build for Linux, because that's what the developers use.
There are probably more people out there in the same situation. There seems to be a catch-22 here. It's not that Haskell doesn't attract Windows. Haskell attracts people, who subsequently realize that developing on Windows is harder than developing on Linux. Since Haskell does not attract the sort of people who are slaves to their platform, that means there are fewer people developing Haskell with Windows.
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austin seipp / Jul 10 2007 11:33 pm
I use (almost) the exact same setup you do in relations to using Windows for PuTTY and just SSH'ing to another box (I have 3), I however, find this a nice experiance as I had previously relegated my Windows box almost entirely to the small amount of web.py/ruby on rails development I do. I love emacs far too much to simply give it up (and with the lack of an adaquate console on windows, you can forget it) and haskell-mode (or even yi) beats the pants off of EclipseFP easy. It's these things that relgate windows to where it is in my books; not suited for something like haskell development.
I think the main thing it boils down to is just because Windows isn't what the hackers themselves are using, but it's because of that the whole sector is weak on it's knees. Stronger tools, stronger support, stronger base of users in that particular domain.
duder / Jul 10 2007 11:54 pm
Claus Reinke has a pretty good vim setup, and from his screenshots it appears to be windows. Or maybe a butt ugly KDE theme.
Max / Jul 11 2007 1:11 am
I use Visual Haskell on Windows (http://www.haskell.org/visualhaskell/). It works pretty nicely: the syntax highlighting is solid and it intergrates with Cabal. You do need to have Visual Studio though.
Neil Mitchell / Jul 11 2007 3:46 am
I don't patch GHC, because I choose to run Windows, which makes it nearly impossible to build GHC. You are indeed right, and these things need to be addressed seriously!
Pavel / Jul 11 2007 3:57 am
Unless I am way off, some of the primary GHC developers are working for Microsoft which makes me doubt that they are using Linux or OS X…..
augustss / Jul 11 2007 3:57 am
I think that when intelligent people have a choice they don't pick Windows. Unfortunatly, some of us don't get to pick. :(
ryan / Jul 11 2007 9:20 am
You forgot the most important reason not to use Windows to write Haskell. Windows blows. It's a terrible environment in general let alone for something as complex and rapidly-changing at software development.
Just install Ubuntu on your laptop, problem solved. Or you could just get a Macbook. Either way you will have solved your problem.
Jeff / Jul 11 2007 9:51 am
The biggest difference I find is that breaking an infinite loop with ctrl-c hangs GHCI on Windows. I use GHCI constantly, so this can be pretty annoying.
mattr / Jul 16 2007 7:47 pm
I think the difference is that the tools on windows are heavy weight (eclipse, visual studio) and there is a lot of work haskellising them (yes, I know about gvim, etc, but without good terminal integration, they lose a lot of their shine). However, it is simpler to integrate haskell into lightweight unix tools, plus you get tons of functionality just having bash/sch/… to run it on. You *can* get things just as nice on windows, but you have to go to much more effort. For this reason I think unix/linux/posix oses will always have the advantage as development tools for new languages or those with a small user community.
Alberto Gómez / May 26 2008 8:26 am
I used Visual haskell in Windows, but two years ago was heavy and buggy, later i moved to the editparPro editor, which is nice and configurable. I made my own haskell schema for colirizing keywords wich is no public in the editpadPro site. editpadPro also permits macros so I made somethig like a little IDE with it.
But later, after ghc 6.4.2 version, all the joy ended; hs-plugins was no longuer compatible with windows until today, so no lambdabot etc.
So I was forced to move to linux. I has a ubuntu emulated under QEMU just to use haskell. QEMU did not work well for me so I switched to VMWare.
I think that windows has the tools. And the fact is that no piece of software can expect to reach the mainstream without seriously consider windows as as prioritary. CLEAN has made a greath job on that and for this matter is considered an industrial language, taken seriously. But, for better or for worse Haskell is a research language tied to the unix world. I consider dangerous to forget windows no matter how good blah blah blah are other platforms.
Marzonian / Aug 16 2009 8:58 am
Its amazing how people often talks bad about Windows despite that its the major OS used by the world.
The reason why haskell is not popular in windows is simple because Windows programmers got better tools and IDE to get productivity work out in other languages than to sit around waiting for crumbs from a language that has no idea how important mainstream os is.
Windows saves tons of time, everything just WORKS thanks to its dominant shares instead of patching here and there to get simple things working. The GUI level is nothing compared to Windows , the gnome/kde is like primitive cavemens with a surface ICI painted on its face.
Oh your wifi aint working anymore? i bet u did an unbuntu upgrade! Can't get skype working? Use Windows.
The corporate world really dont give a hoot on how much time u spend fixing ur own notebooks, Windows saves America! (pun intended)
Anonymous / Nov 27 2011 8:37 am
A pun might have been intended but one certainly wasn't made! :P
Slacky / Oct 26 2013 2:51 pm
Haha, ditto. It's a pretty weak pun.
Anonymous / May 1 2012 11:31 pm
What a disgustful lunixoid shit with all these cabal dependencies! shame on you, haskell likers! intelligent people don't permit themselves such a slapdash work.


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Updating Packages on -current
I get an error when I tried to update a package:
root@reflux~#pkg_add -iu clamav Candidates for updating bzip2-1.0.4 -> bzip2-1.0.5 Candidates for updating zoo-2.10.1p1 -> zoo-2.10.1p1 Candidates for updating lha-1.14i.ac20050924.1 -> lha-1.14i.ac20050924.1 Candidates for updating arc-5.21op0 -> arc-5.21op0 Candidates for updating clamav-0.92.1 -> clamav-0.93 Candidates for updating unzip-5.52 -> unzip-5.52p0 Candidates for updating libiconv-1.9.2p5 -> libiconv-1.12 Looking for updates: complete Running the equivalent of pkg_add -r bzip2-1.0.5 zoo-2.10.1p1 lha-1.14i.ac20050924.1 arc-5.21op0 clamav-0.93 unzip-5.52p0 libiconv-1.12 Can't install bzip2-1.0.5: lib not found c.45.0 c.45.0: partial match in /usr/lib: major=43, minor=0 (bad major) Can't install zoo-2.10.1p1: lib not found c.45.0 c.45.0: partial match in /usr/lib: major=43, minor=0 (bad major) Can't install lha-1.14i.ac20050924.1: lib not found c.45.0 c.45.0: partial match in /usr/lib: major=43, minor=0 (bad major) Can't install arc-5.21op0: lib not found c.45.0 c.45.0: partial match in /usr/lib: major=43, minor=0 (bad major) Can't install unzip-5.52p0: lib not found c.45.0 c.45.0: partial match in /usr/lib: major=43, minor=0 (bad major) Can't install libiconv-1.12: lib not found c.45.0 c.45.0: partial match in /usr/lib: major=43, minor=0 (bad major) Can't install clamav-0.93: can't resolve libiconv-1.12,unzip-5.52p0 Can't install unzip-5.52p0: lib not found c.45.0 c.45.0: partial match in /usr/lib: major=43, minor=0 (bad major) Can't install libiconv-1.12: lib not found c.45.0 c.45.0: partial match in /usr/lib: major=43, minor=0 (bad major)
I have another box that I am replacing with a -current one and
just built a new box with a snapshot from June 8,2008..
No issues updating packages on this one..
Maybe the question I should be asking is:
What are the best practices in following -current..?
What I do on -stable
- update src
- rebuild kernel
- update ports (when needed)
- make build (rebuild all the binaries)
It seems like the same logic should apply to -current..?
Not too much info here regarding best practices..
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Last edited by roundkat; 12th June 2008 at 10:45 PM.
The reason for the failure to update the package is an update to libc, which makes the package out-of-date.
Snapshots of the OS are created on an as-needed basis. For popular architectures during normal day-to-day development periods, this may be daily, or every few days. But during hackathons, the frequency of snapshots may be every several hours. A hackathon is going on right now in Edmonton -- see the OpenBSD Journal for some recent information.
Snapshot packages, on the other hand, are updated less frequently. Understand that there are around 5000 packages to build, and that it can take days, depending on architecture and build platforms. On popular archs, this may be every couple of weeks. On less-popular archs, there are no snapshot packages created at all. On those architectures, -current users must build all their packages from ports themselves.
Snapshot packages are created for convenience. There is no synchronization with any particular snap of the OS.
The best practice for those who use snapshot packages is, in my humble opinion:
Much Thanks for the very informative and very helpful post..
Here is what I did ..
1. updated src
2. rebuilt kernel
3. installed and rebooted with new kernel
4. make build to rebuild binaries
5. pkg_add -ui
No more libc errors.. The update did remove and reinstall the same
versions of packages but I am guessing because of the libc
It sure looks like
rebuilding the binaries with the most current src fixed the issue..
If that is the case then I can probably expect future
breakage (term used loosely) on occasion.. ?
All of my packages upgraded without incident..
There was some package installation notes on which packages to check
and some packages put out the standard configuration instructions (like
I will check all these to make sure everything is still working..
I will post the output in the next post..
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Here is the ouput
root@reflux~#pkgadd -iu Candidates for updating amavisd-new-2.5.3 -> amavisd-new-2.5.3 Candidates for updating arc-5.21op0 -> arc-5.21op0 Candidates for updating autoconf-2.57p1 -> autoconf-2.57p2 Candidates for updating autoconf-2.59p2 -> autoconf-2.59p3 Candidates for updating autoconf-2.61p2 -> autoconf-2.61p3 Candidates for updating bzip2-1.0.4 -> bzip2-1.0.5 Candidates for updating cabextract-1.2 -> cabextract-1.2 Candidates for updating clamav-0.92.1 -> clamav-0.93 Candidates for updating curl-7.17.1 -> curl-7.18.1 Candidates for updating cyrus-sasl-2.1.22p2 -> cyrus-sasl-2.1.22p4 Candidates for updating gettext-0.16.1 -> gettext-0.16.1 Candidates for updating gmake-3.80p1 -> gmake-3.80p1 Candidates for updating gnupg-1.4.8 -> gnupg-1.4.9 Candidates for updating gperf-3.0.1 -> gperf-3.0.1 Candidates for updating lha-1.14i.ac20050924.1 -> lha-1.14i.ac20050924.1 Candidates for updating libdnet-1.10p2 -> libdnet-1.10p2 Candidates for updating libiconv-1.9.2p5 -> libiconv-1.12 Candidates for updating libidn-1.1 -> libidn-1.1 Candidates for updating libltdl-1.5.22p3 -> libltdl-1.5.26 Candidates for updating libtool-1.5.22p14 -> libtool-1.5.26p0 Candidates for updating libxml-2.6.30 -> libxml-2.6.32 Candidates for updating logsentry-1.1.1p2 -> logsentry-1.1.1p2 Candidates for updating lua-5.1.2p1 -> lua-5.1.3 Candidates for updating lzop-1.01 -> lzop-1.01 Candidates for updating metaauto-0.7 -> metaauto-0.9 Candidates for updating nasm-0.98.38p0 -> nasm-2.02 Candidates for updating nmap-4.53 -> nmap-4.62p0 Candidates for updating p5-Convert-TNEF-0.17p0 -> p5-Convert-TNEF-0.17p0 Candidates for updating p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 -> p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 Candidates for updating p5-MIME-tools-5.420p1 -> p5-MIME-tools-5.426 Candidates for updating p5-Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1p0 -> p5-Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1p0 Candidates for updating p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.4 -> p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.4 Candidates for updating p5-Net-DNS-0.61 -> p5-Net-DNS-0.63 Candidates for updating p5-Net-SSLeay-1.30p0 -> p5-Net-SSLeay-1.32 Candidates for updating p5-Unix-Syslog-1.0 -> p5-Unix-Syslog-1.0 Candidates for updating pcre-7.5p0 -> pcre-7.6 Candidates for updating pftop-0.7 -> pftop-0.7 Candidates for updating php5-core-5.2.5p2 -> php5-core-5.2.6 Candidates for updating postfix-2.5.0-sasl2 -> postfix-2.5.2-sasl2 Candidates for updating re2c-0.13.1 -> re2c-0.13.1 Candidates for updating ripole-0.2.0 -> ripole-0.2.0p0 Candidates for updating rsync-2.6.9 -> rsync-3.0.2 Candidates for updating smartmontools-5.37p0 -> smartmontools-5.38 Candidates for updating squid-2.6.STABLE18 -> squid-2.6.STABLE18p0 Candidates for updating unzip-5.52 -> unzip-5.52p0 Candidates for updating wget-1.10.2p1 -> wget-1.10.2p1 Candidates for updating zip-2.32 -> zip-2.32 Candidates for updating zoo-2.10.1p1 -> zoo-2.10.1p1 Looking for updates: complete Cannot find updates for freeze-2.5 unarj-2.43 unrar-3.78p0 Proceed? [y/N] y Running the equivalent of pkg_add -r amavisd-new-2.5.3 arc-5.21op0 autoconf-2.57p2 autoconf-2.59p3 autoconf-2.61p3 bzip2-1.0.5 cabextract-1.2 clamav-0.93 curl-7.18.1 cyrus-sasl-2.1.22p4 gettext-0.16.1 gmake-3.80p1 gnupg-1.4.9 gperf-3.0.1 lha-1.14i.ac20050924.1 libdnet-1.10p2 libiconv-1.12 libidn-1.1 libltdl-1.5.26 libtool-1.5.26p0 libxml-2.6.32 logsentry-1.1.1p2 lua-5.1.3 lzop-1.01 metaauto-0.9 nasm-2.02 nmap-4.62p0 p5-Convert-TNEF-0.17p0 p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 p5-MIME-tools-5.426 p5-Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1p0 p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.4 p5-Net-DNS-0.63 p5-Net-SSLeay-1.32 p5-Unix-Syslog-1.0 pcre-7.6 pftop-0.7 php5-core-5.2.6 postfix-2.5.2-sasl2 re2c-0.13.1 ripole-0.2.0p0 rsync-3.0.2 smartmontools-5.38 squid-2.6.STABLE18p0 unzip-5.52p0 wget-1.10.2p1 zip-2.32 zoo-2.10.1p1 arc-5.21op0 (extracting): complete arc-5.21op0 (deleting): complete arc-5.21op0 (installing): complete bzip2-1.0.5 (extracting): complete bzip2-1.0.4 (deleting): complete bzip2-1.0.5 (installing): complete cabextract-1.2 (extracting): complete cabextract-1.2 (deleting): complete cabextract-1.2 (installing): complete lha-1.14i.ac20050924.1 (extracting): complete lha-1.14i.ac20050924.1 (deleting): complete lha-1.14i.ac20050924.1 (installing): complete lzop-1.01 (extracting): complete lzop-1.01 (deleting): complete lzop-1.01 (installing): complete ripole-0.2.0p0 (extracting): complete ripole-0.2.0 (deleting): complete ripole-0.2.0p0 (installing): complete unzip-5.52p0 (extracting): complete unzip-5.52 (deleting): complete unzip-5.52p0 (installing): complete zoo-2.10.1p1 (extracting): complete zoo-2.10.1p1 (deleting): complete zoo-2.10.1p1 (installing): complete p5-MIME-tools-5.426 (extracting): complete p5-MIME-tools-5.420p1 (deleting): complete p5-MIME-tools-5.426 (installing): complete p5-Convert-TNEF-0.17p0 (extracting): complete p5-Convert-TNEF-0.17p0 (deleting): complete p5-Convert-TNEF-0.17p0 (installing): complete re2c-0.13.1 (extracting): complete re2c-0.13.1 (deleting): complete re2c-0.13.1 (installing): complete p5-Net-DNS-0.63 (extracting): complete p5-Net-DNS-0.61 (deleting): complete p5-Net-DNS-0.63 (installing): complete p5-Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1p0 (extracting): complete p5-Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1p0 (deleting): complete p5-Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1p0 (installing): complete libiconv-1.12 (extracting): complete libiconv-1.9.2p5 (deleting): complete libiconv-1.12 (installing): complete gettext-0.16.1 (extracting): complete gettext-0.16.1 (deleting): complete gettext-0.16.1 (installing): complete libidn-1.1 (extracting): complete libidn-1.1 (deleting): complete libidn-1.1 (installing): complete curl-7.18.1 (extracting): complete curl-7.17.1 (deleting): complete curl-7.18.1 (installing): complete gnupg-1.4.9 (extracting): complete gnupg-1.4.8 (deleting): complete gnupg-1.4.9 (installing): complete p5-Net-SSLeay-1.32 (extracting): complete p5-Net-SSLeay-1.30p0 (deleting): complete p5-Net-SSLeay-1.32 (installing): complete p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 (extracting): complete p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 (deleting): complete p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 (installing): complete p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.4 (extracting): complete p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.4 (deleting): complete p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.4 (installing): complete p5-Unix-Syslog-1.0 (extracting): complete p5-Unix-Syslog-1.0 (deleting): complete p5-Unix-Syslog-1.0 (installing): complete amavisd-new-2.5.3 (extracting): complete amavisd-new-2.5.3 (deleting): complete amavisd-new-2.5.3 (installing): complete metaauto-0.9 (extracting): complete metaauto-0.7 (deleting): complete metaauto-0.9 (installing): complete autoconf-2.57p2 (extracting): complete autoconf-2.57p1 (deleting): complete autoconf-2.57p2 (installing): complete autoconf-2.59p3 (extracting): complete autoconf-2.59p2 (deleting): complete autoconf-2.59p3 (installing): complete autoconf-2.61p3 (extracting): complete autoconf-2.61p2 (deleting): complete autoconf-2.61p3 (installing): complete clamav-0.93 (extracting): complete clamav-0.92.1 (deleting): complete clamav-0.93 (installing): complete cyrus-sasl-2.1.22p4 (extracting): complete cyrus-sasl-2.1.22p2 (deleting): complete cyrus-sasl-2.1.22p4 (installing): complete gmake-3.80p1 (extracting): complete gmake-3.80p1 (deleting): complete gmake-3.80p1 (installing): complete gperf-3.0.1 (extracting): complete gperf-3.0.1 (deleting): complete gperf-3.0.1 (installing): complete libdnet-1.10p2 (extracting): complete libdnet-1.10p2 (deleting): complete libdnet-1.10p2 (installing): complete libltdl-1.5.26 (extracting): complete libltdl-1.5.22p3 (deleting): complete libltdl-1.5.26 (installing): complete libtool-1.5.26p0 (extracting): complete libtool-1.5.22p14 (deleting): complete libtool-1.5.26p0 (installing): complete New package libxml-2.6.32 contains potentially unsafe operations @exec /usr/local/share/libxml2/rebuild proceed with update anyways? [y/N/a] y libxml-2.6.32 (extracting): complete libxml-2.6.30 (deleting): complete libxml-2.6.32 (installing): complete logsentry-1.1.1p2 (extracting): complete logsentry-1.1.1p2 (deleting): complete logsentry-1.1.1p2 (installing): complete lua-5.1.3 (extracting): complete lua-5.1.2p1 (deleting): complete lua-5.1.3 (installing): complete nasm-2.02 (extracting): complete nasm-0.98.38p0 (deleting): complete nasm-2.02 (installing): complete pcre-7.6 (extracting): complete pcre-7.5p0 (deleting): complete pcre-7.6 (installing): complete nmap-4.62p0 (extracting): complete nmap-4.53 (deleting): complete nmap-4.62p0 (installing): complete pftop-0.7 (extracting): complete pftop-0.7 (deleting): complete pftop-0.7 (installing): complete New package php5-core-5.2.6 contains potentially unsafe operations @exec install -d /var/www/conf/php5/ @exec install -d /var/www/conf/php5.sample/ proceed with update anyways? [y/N/a] y Old package php5-core-5.2.5p2 contains potentially unsafe operations @unexec rm -fr /var/www/conf/php5/ @unexec rm -fr /var/www/conf/php5.sample/ proceed with update anyways? [y/N/a] y php5-core-5.2.6 (extracting): complete php5-core-5.2.5p2 (deleting): complete php5-core-5.2.6 (installing): complete New package postfix-2.5.2-sasl2 contains potentially unsafe operations @exec PREFIX=/usr/local SYSCONFDIR=/etc /usr/local/sbin/postfix-install proceed with update anyways? [y/N/a] y Old package postfix-2.5.0-sasl2 contains potentially unsafe operations @unexec /usr/local/sbin/postfix stop @unexec /usr/local/sbin/postfix-disable @unexec rm -f /etc/mailer.conf.postfix proceed with update anyways? [y/N/a] y postfix-2.5.2-sasl2 (extracting): complete postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system postfix-2.5.0-sasl2 (deleting): complete 6025fix-2.5.2-sasl2 (installing)|********************************************************| 100% 6025 postfix-2.5.2-sasl2 (installing): complete rsync-3.0.2 (extracting): complete rsync-2.6.9 (deleting): complete rsync-3.0.2 (installing): complete smartmontools-5.38 (extracting): complete smartmontools-5.37p0 (deleting): complete smartmontools-5.38 (installing): complete New package squid-2.6.STABLE18p0 contains potentially unsafe operations @exec ln -sf /var/squid/logs/squid.pid /var/run/squid.pid proceed with update anyways? [y/N/a] y Old package squid-2.6.STABLE18 contains potentially unsafe operations @unexec rm -f /var/run/squid.pid proceed with update anyways? [y/N/a] y squid-2.6.STABLE18p0 (extracting): complete squid-2.6.STABLE18 (deleting): complete squid-2.6.STABLE18p0 (installing): complete wget-1.10.2p1 (extracting): complete wget-1.10.2p1 (deleting): complete wget-1.10.2p1 (installing): complete zip-2.32 (extracting): complete zip-2.32 (deleting): complete zip-2.32 (installing): complete Clean shared items: complete < instructions on how to configure packages removed >
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As a result of the upgrade I had to fix a few things..
1. Postfix was disabled
-- Killed Sendmail
-- re-enabled postfix
-- I have a transport file -- postmap transport
For some reason port 25 was still in use and postfix
would not start..
Reboot fixed it.. Postfix now happy..
Note to self:
find out how to see what process has port X locked..
This way I could avoid the reboot...
2. Amavisd had some changes
-- Fortunately, I had just done an install on another
box and have the current configuration files for
- amavisd.conf
- clamd.conf
- freshclam.conf
3. Squid was also changed.. haven't gotten that fixed yet..
My squid conf file is only used for remote tunneling so should be
a simple fix..
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...Cannot find updates for freeze-2.5 unarj-2.43 unrar-3.78p0...
$ fstat | grep :25
The ports you listed are required by amavisd...
-- freeze is really old and won't need to be updated..
-- the other archivers will though..
I didn't forget but I was going step by step..
i.e. changing one thing at at time..
I haven't gotten to that part yet but going there now..
fstat.. that is a new one for me..
I did understand the building the kernel and keeping userland
in "sync" but it was definitely worth mentioning..
My process always includes "make build" after updating the kernel..
Much Thx...
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FAQ Upgrade Guide: 4.2 to 4.3 has some answers
Not all for -current
Most important are the libgc bumps, current should be /usr/lib/libc.so.45.0
whether you made upgrades properly or not, you would end up with a full list ranging from i.e.: libc.so.42.0 to libc.so.45.0
Another ennoying one (among many others) is that some packages rely on /usr/X11R6/lib/libexpat.so.8.0 which on current is /usr/lib/libexpat.so.9.0
(had such a problem with x11/roxterm and the databases/evolution-data-server not upgrading from 2.12 to 2.22).
No big problems as you can symlink a library to the next one (in most cases).
Read the corresponding library file (the one ending in *.la) for hints.
-current code just got changed after the Japan hackaton, now busy including code from the Edmonton hackaton.
If you are not a seasoned -current litterate, stay away from -current for a while, until dust settles.
In OpenBSD, when you pkg_add -u (or make update), failed and/or left-overs of intallations will be written as hidden files under /var/db/pkg
mostly libs, hence
ls -dl /var/db/pkg/.lib*
which you can pkg_delete as any other package, but these are there for a reason: some packages still rely upon and are listed as usual under
/var/db/pkg/.lib* /+REQUIRED_BY
So, you have two choices (as the economists say, 1,2,3
1- Take the long (learning) way, pkg_delete the offenders (+REQUIRED_BY) and pkg_delete the ls -dl /var/db/pkg/.lib* when they are not needed anymore (no mere +REQUIRED_BY).
2- Delete all packages, re-check the FAQ upgrade entries
3- As I say in many cases, best upgrade is newfs.
This situation is very exceptional on OpenBSD, but as any other *nix, there has been a major gettext/libiconv change.
I guess July will have both correctly snapshots and snapshots/packages on the fast track again.
On a speculative note, as libc is marked with version 45, will there ever be an OpenBSD 4.4
If the hackathon codes keep coming in in such high numbers, next version could as well be the 5.0
da more I know I know I know nuttin'
Realizing that there are many new things I would have to learn..
That being said.. I will probably just hold off until then..
what a stellar job the OpenBSD devs have done..
I *never* do upgrades on anything.. Always reinstall..
As previously stated.. that was my comfort zone..
My brain is full...
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Not to worry, OpenBSD 4.5 will be released November 1. OpenBSD release numbers are incremented by 0.1 twice each year. "4.0" was released 6 months after "3.9" as it was the next sequential release number. It had the usual enhancement and improvements.
jggimi obviously meant OpenBSD 4.4, not 4.5.
jggimi is aware of libc.so.45.0 so, I join him when he writes OpenBSD 4.5
My speculation is that there now are so many changes a sequential increment of the version number would not be sufficient to get noticed, hence users not reading upgrading or warnings.
My upgrade (<U> choice) last weekend with -sbapshots as of June 3rd and snapshots/packages as of June 7 was made through
pkg_add -ui
and my system did not break: thumbs up!
But I had in excess of 25 /var/db/pkg/.lib*
Edit: right, forgot:
made a fresh install on a WS (sole libc.so.45.0 )
updated ports tree (and make index, just to mention, x11/pbrowser core dumped because /usr/ports/INDEX was corrupt. Must be one of the rare apps reading the INDEX and INDEX is not updated very often. Anyway, just use pbrowser for browsing the tree and get noticed of flavors).
still had the libexpat.so.8.0 problem an had to make a link to libexpat.so.9.0
da more I know I know I know nuttin'
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root@reflux~#ls -dl /var/db/pkg/.lib* drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 13 06:59 /var/db/pkg/.libs-clamav-0.92.1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 13 06:58 /var/db/pkg/.libs-curl-7.17.1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 13 07:04 /var/db/pkg/.libs-libiconv-1.9.2p5
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- unarj
- unrar
- freeze (even though freeze did not change versions it still needed
to be updated)
this was very easy...
root@reflux/usr/ports/archivers/freeze#make update ===> Faking installation for freeze-2.5 install -c -s -o root -g bin -m 555 freeze /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/bin/freeze ln -f /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/bin/freeze /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/bin/melt ln -f /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/bin/freeze /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/bin/unfreeze ln -f /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/bin/freeze /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/bin/fcat install -c -s -o root -g bin -m 555 statist /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/bin/statist install -c -o root -g bin -m 444 ./freeze.1 /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/man/man1/freeze.1 ln -f /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/man/man1/freeze.1 /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/man/man1/melt.1 ln -f /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/man/man1/freeze.1 /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/man/man1/unfreeze.1 ln -f /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/man/man1/freeze.1 /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/man/man1/fcat.1 install -c -o root -g bin -m 444 ./statist.1 /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/w-freeze-2.5/fake-i386/usr/local/man/man1/statist.1 ===> Building package for freeze-2.5 Create /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/freeze-2.5.tgz ===> Updating for freeze-2.5 Upgrading from freeze-2.5 freeze-2.5 (extracting): complete freeze-2.5 (deleting): complete freeze-2.5 (installing): complete
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Fwiw, fresh install from
-snapshots OpenBSD 4.3-current (GENERIC) #887: Tue Jun 3 13:36:55 MDT 2008
cvs Jun 14 00:54
make install clean on everything
no single warning (but Perl asking me to set some LC env variables).
Sensibly faster than my "upgrade" of last week-end.
Postgresql, motv, browser, java, mail, XFCE4 full, ... working after 18 hours compiling on a Celeron 2.4 MHz, I am in business.
No need for linking to some lost libraries.
Fresh install is the way to go for OpenBSD pre-4.5
da more I know I know I know nuttin'
Snapshot dated June 14 has libc.so.46.0,
when I asked if next OpenBSD would be 5.0 ?
Hard times to get snapshots and packages sync'd currently.
Better wait until the dust settles.
da more I know I know I know nuttin'
Rapid development during Hackathons is normally expected. Even when theo@ calls for testing during Hackations, I recommend those brand new to -current should delay until after the pace of development returns to normal.
4.4 beta..
Is it safe to upgrade..??
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This is the ninth year that Investment Advisor, AdvisorOne and Prima Capital, now Envestnet | Prima, will have researched, nominated and chosen the best separately managed account managers in multiple categories.
Below, we name those strategies, in alphabetical order, chosen as finalists by the 2013 SMA Managers of the Year Awards Committee in the small-, mid- and SMID-cap U.S. equity category. This year, the winners of the SMA Managers of the Year honors in this category and the others will be celebrated at a live event in Chicago, in online interviews posted to AdvisorOne and in the cover story of the June issue of Investment Advisor. (See our 2013 SMA Managers of the Year home page for more information on the process, the finalists and, on and after May 1, the winners of this year's awards.)
Nominee 1: EARNEST Partners Mid-Cap Core
The first nominee in this category is EARNEST Partners, led by founder, partner and CEO Paul Viera (left) and its Mid-Cap Core strategy. The first step in the Atlanta-based firm's investment process "is to screen the relevant universe to identify stocks that are likely to outperform based on their financial characteristics and the current environment," Envestnet | Prima's analysts wrote in recommending this product. "Using a proprietary approach, the investment team identifies the financial and market characteristics that have been in place when an individual company has produced outstanding performance in the past. These characteristics include valuation measures, market trends, operating trends, growth measures, profitability measures and macroeconomics."
The approximately 150 best companies identified in the screening process are put through a second review. The final step in the investment process is to construct a portfolio that includes those stocks expected to have the best performance and that effectively manage risk. The team uses downside deviation to measure and then constrain the likelihood of significantly underperforming the benchmark. This "risk budget" is based on financial characteristics, sector weightings and market capitalizations.
Nominee 2: Glenmede Investment Management Small-Cap Equity
Glenmede's Small-Cap Equity product is the second nominee in this category. The Philadelphia-based Glenmede Trust Co. subsidiary begins its investment process by screening a universe of 3,500 stocks using a multi-factor model to rank them into eight economic sectors, according to Envestnet | Prima's analysts.
"The model is based 45% on valuation factors, 25% on growth/profitability factors, 20% on earnings catalysts and 10% on market confirmation (relative price momentum)," according to the written recommendation on Glenmede by Prima's analysts. They continue by reporting that "valuation factors include P/E, EV/EBITDA, P/B and net cash percentage to market cap. Growth/profitability factors include ROA, ROE, growth rate and three-year sales growth/three-year EPS growth. For earnings catalysts, the firm uses earnings and sales surprises as well as earnings estimate revisions."
Nominee 3: GW&K Small/Mid-Cap Equity Strategy Wrap
Kudos to Gannett Welsh & Kotler. The firm's level of outperformance—as measured by the same 12 factors that all the 2013 SMA Managers of the Year nominees were judged on—earned Boston-based GW&K not one but two spots in the 2013 SMA Mangers of the Year nominees. The first appearance, in the U.S. Small-, Mid- or SMID-Cap Equity category, is courtesy of GW&K's Small/Mid-Cap Equity Strategy Wrap product.
"The Small/Mid Cap Equity Strategy relies on a bottom-up, research-driven process," according to the Envestnet | Prima analysts who recommended the product for a 2013 SMA Manager for the Year award. The GW&K research analysts for the product devote a considerable amount of time to understanding a company's business as well as economic and industry conditions. GW&K attempts to identify the leading players within niche markets by analyzing such characteristics as market share accumulation, improving margins and sales growth. Also, GW&K looks to invest "only in companies whose management is dedicated to enhancing shareholder value," according to Prima's analysts.
Nominee 4: Riverbridge Partners SMID-Cap Growth
Riverbridge Partners' SMID-Cap Growth product rounds out the nominees in this category. Led by cofounder and chief investment officer Mark Thompson (left), the Minneapolis-based firm's investment process begins by identifying and investing in companies that meet all aspects of the investment criteria. This initial universe is narrowed down through fundamental research.
Next, a bottom-up investment process is used to identify companies that are building their intrinsic values at rates faster than expected by the market. Once a stock is added to a portfolio, the analysts monitor its news flow, talk frequently with management and industry contacts, and keep the investment team updated on the state of the company, valuation, and other qualitative and quantitative factors.
We invite you to return to the 2013 SMA Managers of the Year home page to view profiles of these finalists and for additional and ongoing coverage of the winners and the award ceremony.


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If you club, perform music live or DJ regularly then your ears will be copping to some pretty harsh treatment, so there is nothing wussy about protecting your valuable hearing. If you have experienced ringing in your ears after a gig, then that is a sign you have pushed your ears too far. So what are the options?
Typically you have between 2 minutes and 1 hour safe exposure time in a club!
1. General purpose Noise Reduction: These will reduce the sound level by 22 - 33 dB and can be had for around 15 cents a pair, when purchased in bulk, and can be reused a couple of times. Throw some in your gig-bag, car or helicopter. The down-side is that if you need to make critical mix decisions then these will significantly skew the frequency response of the music to the low end. If you are mixing then you should look at the next two options.
Low cost: You can buy boxes of 200 quality foam earplugs on eBay for $30 USD
2. Special 'flat response' earplugs: These are designed to reduce the noise levels but do so with a relatively flat response. Rather than losing the highs as the foam style do. These cost between $10-20 USD for a few pairs and should last 6-12 months with heavy use (and regular cleaning). We especially like the skin tones and low profile of the EarPeace models as it encourages compliance & so wider use. NOTE: 'Musician' style earplugs may not block noise as effectively as standard NR earplugs, so take care and definitely don't use these for industrial NR purposes.
Two respected 'musician' products from Etymotic and EarPeace
3. Custom moulded earplugs: These are popular with music professionals and include a soft silicone shell with a flat frequency response filter positioned in the best place for your ear. These cost around $100-200 not including the audiologist's fees for making an ear moulding. Your local audiologist will be able to recommend some brands to you. If you want to see an example Etymotic make these. They should last years with good care.
Custom moulded earplugs are the next step up
4. In-ear monitors: These are becoming very popular for stage performers as they block out the direct house sound and deliver a custom mix in your 'ear-bud' style headphones. A good set of these will set you back between $199 - $1500 USD. Respected brands include - Futuresonics, Ultimate Ears, Sennheiser & Shure. Like the NR style earplugs there is a hierarchy of standard fit to custom ear-moulded designs, explaining the rather large price range.
In Ear Monitors block the live sound and replace it with your own private mix
IMPORTANT NOTE: Protection is only useful if it's used correctly in accordance with manufacturers instructions. All exposure times are indicative, please consult the recognized health authority in your location for the official safe sound level exposure charts. Use your brain and look after your most valuable asset, don't lose the beat!
Want to discuss this topic see the 'Am I going deaf???' thread in Looptalk.


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This is an apartment building, with two or three people living on the two upper floors, and communal rooms (kitchen etc.) on the lower floor. Octavio Capillius is one of the tenants and Sharli another. The maintenance person lives in the basement and the basement room should use poor furniture. The building is owned by Victus Pilious.


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by Tom Utescher
Battling with visiting Philadelphia University last Wednesday for the second seed in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference tennis tournament, the Chestnut Hill College racquetmen put themselves in a predicament by losing all three doubles contests in the first phase of the match.
Then, when CHC only managed a split with the Rams in the first two singles bouts to be completed, the Griffins were just one loss away from a team setback. Philly U. was unable to acquire that additional "W" though, as Chestnut Hill pulled out victories in each of the last four matches left out on the court to carry the day, 5-4.
Coming in, both teams were 3-1 in conference competition (each lost to New York's Concordia College, a squad with players from eight foreign countries), with CHC owning a slightly better overall record, 9-9 to the Rams' 8-10 mark.
For the lone member of Chestnut Hill's Class of 2012, Julius Twyman, it was Senior Day. Currently number four on the team ladder, Twyman has been a four-year starter and he played first singles and doubles as a freshman. The following season, he received All-CACC honors.
Twyman was playing first doubles once more as he took the court in his last home match on Wednesday. He and freshman Yoann Pham fell in the standard doubles pro-set, 3-8, to visitors Adrian Torroella-Cruz and Manoli Sgouros. There was also a convincing victory for the Rams in the third flight, where Nail Rachidi and Eric Guerrero won, 8-2, over Griffins freshman Sammy Atri and sophomore Michael Pecoraro.
The number two tandems were evenly matched, but eventually Kyle Burke and Ryan Christopher captured a 10-8 tiebreaker to sew up a 9-8 victory against freshman Mike Humes and sophomore Manuel Ceniceros of CHC.
"We got down 0-3 in the doubles, but we just took the approach that there were six more matches to play," remarked Griffins head coach Albert Stroble. "In singles we played great today. At the end I had a freshman and a sophomore who were in a real pressure situation and they came through."
With junior Pat Joson recovering from shoulder surgery, Twyman is the only athlete in the line-up who is not a first or second-year player. In singles, he was defeated by the Rams' Christopher, 4-6, 2-6, but just before that match ended CHC had picked up its first win of the afternoon with Humes' 6-1, 6-2 triumph over Torroella-Cruz at first singles.
On the court next door another Griffins freshman, Pham, soon wrapped up a pair of 6-3 sets against the visiting number two, Sgouros.
At third singles, CHC's Ceniceros had a tougher match against Burke, but he pulled out a 7-5, 6-4 win, and the Griffins were still on track towards a come-from-behind team victory.
Fifth and sixth singles were still on the court, and Chestnut Hill eventually captured both bouts by identical scores, 6-3, 6-4. Atri finished first, clinching at number five when his final serve was hit back into the net by the Rams' Guerrero.
The Griffins had clinched the second seed for the conference playoffs, and their reward was… a rematch with number three Philly U. in the four-team tournament at Concordia.
"Obviously, they'll want to avenge this loss," pointed out Stroble, "so we've got to make sure we match their intensity. Hopefully, we'll win at least one doubles match at the beginning so we don't make it so hard on ourselves."


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The iPhone is great. It is also very expensive if you don't qualify for or don't want to sign up for a two-year contract. If you want to live contract-free, you're looking at upwards of $800 for the phone. But Apple may be prepping a cheaper model for prepaid customers.
Rumor has it that Apple will soon sell a version of the iPhone for less than $350, no contract required. It may even be the iPhone 3GS, although I'm not sure how many people will want to spend that kind of scratch on a phone that'll be two generations old at that point.
And as for the iPhone 5, it should be hitting at around the same time: September. We should be hearing about Apple's next press conference soon, as it's rumored to be happening next month. And then we can start with the iPhone 6 rumors. What else do we have to live for, after all?
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If you cannot lead yourself, how can you influence others or be a productive member of a team?
Join us for an intensive 1-day, experiential workshop exploring the core elements of leading self and others positively and effectively. We start with self-leadership: purpose, values and how well I live them, and what gets in the way? It includes mental and neurophysiological tools for reducing fear (a.k.a. stress, tension), accessing presence/ the zone (often referred to in current trends as dynamic "mindfulness") all leading to increase the ACT of leadership - Awareness, Connection and Transformation - for self and others.
Having established this firm foundation, we build the capacity for open, productive, adult-to-adult interactions with others with emotional intelligence, trust, delegation and handling conflict.
Post-docs/Research Staff in the GSLS departments and UPIs PhD students should look for "Extraordinary Leadership (PhD)"
The workshop is lively, fun and highly interactive. You need bring nothing other than yourself, an open mind, curiosity, desire to learn, have fun, grow and leave your "comfort zone".
Number of sessions: 1
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• How to develop and maintain increased levels of trust and cooperation, communication and openness, engagement and empowerment, creativity, innovation and accountability • Awareness and Connection lie at the heart of leadership whatever "Style" might be used; the quality of your awareness determines the quality of your connection, which determines the quality of the transformation you can enable • Understanding that an essential part of leadership is exploring what others see that you cannot in order to make informed decisions • Values drive behaviours; personal values assessment; limiting behavioural paradigms can be identified and controlled through managing your "inner voice" • Flow or "the zone" is the highest performance state for a human being – learning tools to access and maintain this state instantly, effectively managing fear and tension • Understanding the neurophysiology of Flow, Fear and it importance for effective leadership of self and others • Importance of clarity and strength of purpose in leadership; clarifying own purpose • Creating and maintaining effective leadership focus and classification of tasks • Importance of and ability to access and maintain Adult-to-Adult relationships • Emotional intelligence – awareness and management of self and relationships • Importance of and how to generate and repair Trust • Origin and purpose of conflict; how to manage conflict positively and effectively; not-violent communication
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Drinks refreshments provided
Course Trainer - Jefferson Cann
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text: Our faculty Our faculty members have backgrounds in both research and in applied fields, incorporating both aspects into their teaching. About 100 professors, 110 assistant professors and permanent lecturers as well as more than 550 lecturers are responsible for the task of teaching our students. More than 50% come from abroad. Good teacher/student ratio To be able to cope with higher student numbers, the University of St.Gallen has invested in an extension of its faculty in the last few years. The HSG has today a good teacher/student ratio in economic sciences in Switzerland. This means that the high quality of education is guaranteed regardless of increasing student numbers. Teaching of basic subjects by full professors In contrast to many other universities, full professors, i.e. holders of chairs, teach undergraduates right from the start of their degree courses at the University of St.Gallen. Rooted in practice We place a premium on an education that is rooted both in science as well as in practical experience. Our professors are closely associated with the institutes, with some professors serving as institute directors. The institutes work to ensure practical relevance while maintaining close relationships with industry, legal practice, politics and society. Worldwide network Our faculty are part of a worldwide network and take part in an intimate exchange of ideas with our students. Faculty members pass on their expertise not only in lectures or study groups; they also make themselves available to students for questions in their free time.


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"Unintentionally" Aiding The Sudanese Regime?
An excellent, well-argued an informative analysis, by the human rights activist and journalist Michelle Sieff, points out "the absurdity and pernicious nature" of commonplace pseudo-left discourses, where one encounters "a Zionist and Jewish conspiracy" at work, along with claims that "the violence in Darfur is a Zionist plot to annex the region to become a part of Israel, to control Sudanese oil, minerals, and other natural resources, and so forth."
Read it all at the always excellent Z-Word.


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We frequently receive requests from readers asking us to reply to anti-creation articles appearing in their local papers. The problem is that such articles appear so frequently all over the country--in scientific journals and popular magazines as well as newspapers--that we could not possibly reply to all of them. When we do try to write such a response, it usually is not published anyway. Even when one is published it usually is edited and its message diluted.
Consequently, we have in recent years tended just to ignore these attacks and to get on with our mission. However, a recent lead editorial in our own local paper (San Diego Union-Tribune, 8/5/05) was so blatantly misleading that I was almost tempted to write to the editor anyhow.
The article, in fact, was itself written as a negative reaction to President Bush's recently publicized statement that he felt intelligent design should be taught in public schools along with secular evolutionism, thus allowing students to think and decide for themselves. The writer called his editorial "Creationism Redux," by which title he seemed to be suggesting that the intelligent design movement was nothing but "creationism with a slick makeover" (his words). Intelligent design, he said, is "worthy of respectful acknowledgement in any discussion of philosophy and religion," but any "admiration for its scientific value is laughable." Even so, he says it is "much more compelling than crude theories of creationism, which depict Bible class as tantamount to biology 101 and geology 101 combined."
The best one can say of such gratuitous comments is that this anonymous editorial writer, and many other such opinionated wordsmiths, "willingly are ignorant," as the Bible's insightful phrase (2 Peter 3:5) puts it. They have simply not done their homework before pontificating.
Since that writer presumably lives in San Diego, he easily could have checked with some of the scientists at the Institute for Creation Research. He claimed that few creationists or I.D. advocates have degrees in biology, but that is wrong. ICR's biology chairman has a Ph.D. from Harvard, for example, plus much research experience. There are also dozens of fully credentialed biologists in the Creation Research Society and other creationist organizations. Creationists may be in the minority, but scientific truth is never determined by majority vote. And that minority is growing as more and more biologists and other scientists are becoming aware of the actual evidence.
The editorialist approvingly cites a surgeon who has argued that evolution must be true because "physical adaptations to environmental pressures have been documented in hundreds of modern species." This kind of supposed "proof' is given as the main evidence of evolution by almost all evolutionary apologists. The adaptation of insects to pesticides and the different beaks on the Galapagos Island finches (the evidence that so impressed Charles Darwin) are among the most common "evolutionary" adaptations cited by evolutionists. If they would read almost any book by creation scientists, they would know that such horizontal variations (or microevolution) and adaptations are accepted by all creationists, who recognize them as evidence of the Creator's forethought. Each creature has been designed with a genetic system that can recombine its components as needed to keep it from becoming extinct when the environment changes. But evolutionists don't want to imply any validity to creationism by debating its advocates or reading their books. This looks like willful ignorance. We stress again and again that it is only the concept of macroevolution (the transmutation of reptiles into birds and mammals, or of apes into men, or other "upward" changes) that we find void of scientific proof.
In fact, it is just such a reaction on the part of evolutionists that seems to fit Peter's prophecy (in 2 Peter 3:3-4) so perfectly: ". . . there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." This is precisely the concept of naturalism, or uniformitarianism, which dominates most scientific thinking today, stressing that all natural processes have operated since the very beginning of the world in the same way they do today.
God's Word, the Bible, says otherwise, of course. God "rested" after the six days of creation "from all His work which God created and made" (Genesis 2:3). Whatever processes were used by Him to create and make all things in that beginning week, are, therefore, not in operation today, so cannot be observed scientifically. But most evolutionists categorically deny that there ever was any real creation; therefore they insist that everything must be explained by some kind of evolution.
That is exactly what Peter prophesied would be the situation in the last days. "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water." That is, Peter was predicting that a time would come--the last days of the age in fact--in which people would be scoffing at Christ's promised return. The reason for such an attitude would be--not just ignorance--but willful ignorance of the primeval creation of the heavens and the earth by the omnipotent Word of God.
Their refusal to understand or even consider the evidence for creation can thus only be described as willful. It reminds me of an atheist professor whom I was trying to win to Christ many years ago while I was teaching at a secular university. I gave him two excellent books to read setting forth the strong evidences for the deity of Christ and the divine origin of the Bible and he at first agreed to read them. A few days later, however, he angrily returned the books, saying he had started reading one of them but then changed his mind and refused to read any more. What he said, as I recall, was something like this; "I don't care what the evidence is: I just don't want to believe" and that was that!
The writer of the local editorial, in common with almost all of the multitudes of evolutionist writers on this issue, insists that evolution has been proved by science, whereas creation (and also more currently, intelligent design) is simply religion and thus should not even be mentioned in science classes.
But evolution has not been proved by science. Surely they ought to know this. Science is based on observability and repeatability but there is no recorded example of true macroevolution in all the thousands of years of human history. That in itself is proof that it is unscientific. Furthermore, there is no way to test it. No matter what kind of evidence for creation is presented, evolutionists can devise an evolutionary "just-so-story" to explain it away.
If they resort to the fossil record and the imagined billions of years of pre-history as their proof (as they, in fact, have to do, since macroevolution is not observed in action today) they must use the principle of uniformitarianism as their warrant for doing so, just as Peter prophesied they would do! "The present is the key to the past" has been their watchword. Even there, however, they can find no real evidence of evolution. In all the billions of fossils known to exist, not one example of a real evolutionary transformational series has ever been found. There ought to be multitudes of such series there if they ever really existed.
There is, therefore, no real scientific evidence of either present or past evolution. Furthermore, the universally acknowledged scientific law of increasing entropy seems clearly to indicate that any significant vertical evolution toward greater organized complexity is impossible without certain artificial constraints (which evolutionism cannot demonstrate are available). Willful ignorance again!
Once I had a formal debate with two biologists on the faculty at a state university. I used the entropy law as one of my main arguments, but neither of the evolutionists even mentioned this argument in their rebuttals. In the question period that followed, the professor who was teaching the course in engineering thermodynamics at that university asked them how they would answer the argument, which seemed valid to him. After consulting with each other, they said they did not know how to answer it, since they had both done poorly in physics. But they still insisted evolution was science.
Peter's prophecy also included the evolutionary rationalization for assuming evolution through long ages in the past. "For this they willingly are ignorant of, . . . the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished" (2 Peter 3:5-6). The Greek word for "overflowed" literally means "cataclysmic." But evolutionists deliberately ignore the Biblical record of the global deluge of Noah's day, as well as the geological evidence of that terrible worldwide cataclysm.
The fact is that virtually every geological formation shows by its fossils and by its very structure that it must have been deposited very rapidly--indeed catastrophically. Although individual formations in a vertical column may be separated from each other by one or more time gaps, there are no worldwide time gaps. That fact can only be explained by a worldwide cataclysm, primarily hydraulic in nature.
Hundreds of anti-creationist articles have been published in recent years, and the Intelligent Design movement is currently being subjected to the same ill treatment. Many of them have been more sarcastic and insulting even than this one mentioned here. The common theme of all of them is that evolution is scientific, while creation and intelligent design are not. The utterly fallacious nature of such a pronouncement is hard to explain by anything other than willful ignorance.
* Dr. Henry Morris is Founder and President Emeritus of ICR.


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The seed for Shabash was planted during an identity design project for Kashmir, an Indian restaurant in Stockholm. The locale, with its artistic decor, pleasant staff, and harmonious atmosphere left a deep impression on me, as did the brothers who owned the restaurant. Ejaz Khan's esoteric knowledge and Nisar Khan's artistic sensibilities were captivating to no end; while Chef Sita Ram's culinary skill provided easy incentive to drop by often. Our initial business meeting blossomed into a lifelong friendship and inspired me to travel to India. It was the people I met there, along with the explosion of colours and flavours that compelled me to create Shabash Pro… a Swede's tribute to the Near East! :: The word shabash means something like bravo, well done or excellent in Urdu, and so I fully dedicate this typeface and its name to my friends Ejaz & Nisar Khan. —GS
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A rapper being ashamed of how he was portrayed on Love & Hip Hop? Is that even a real thing? Most of the guys on the show end up looking like total cheating, violent d-bags, but they keep coming back for more, season after season. Not so for Saigon after his first–and reportedly last–go-round on the show.
As y'all recall, Saigon's story line ran the gamut from screaming at his child's mother and accusing her not being a good parent to seeking couples counseling to be a better communicator and father. Of course, that all backfired at the reunion amid his cussing and disrespect towards Erica Jean. The pair will be appearing on an upcoming episode of Iyanla Vanzant's Fix My Life, but that's the extent of Saigon's budding reality career. He doesn't like his edit from his inaugural season, and he won't be returning. Are we to assume that he takes the slightest bit of responsibility for his behavior or that it was all Mona Scott Young's fault?


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VATICAN CITY — Obviously oblivious to the fact that he would have a son who, one day, would become pope, a 17-year-old Mario Bergoglio actually became a sort of informal expert on the papacy, giving two talks on the subject in his native Italy.
An Italian author, Stefano Masino, made that and other interesting discoveries about Pope Francis' closest relatives when he conducted detailed research in local, national and diocesan archives in Italy. Some of his findings were published today in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
Mario, Pope Francis' father, grew up in the northern Italian city of Asti in the Piedmont region and took an active part in the diocese's youth group.
In 1925, when he was a 17-year-old high school student, the Diocesan Youth Federation organized a two-month-long series of conferences dedicated to a variety of topics. Some teens were assigned to give talks on the history of Catholic Action; the relationship between prayer, action and sacrifice; and responsible journalism.
Mario Bergoglio was assigned "The Papacy" and was given a very good write-up in the local paper after his talk.
In the paper's Dec. 12, 1925, edition, the article said:
"Mario Bergoglio, an accounting student, spoke passionately and forcefully — with frequent and apt historical references — on the theme, "The Papacy." Captivating his audience and receiving their applause, he can surely be counted on for successfully being an ardent proponent of our ideal."
Three years later, during an annual Father's Day celebration organized by a Catholic youth association, he also delivered "a most beautiful explanatory speech on the papacy," heaping high praise on the pope at the time, Pope Pius XI.
Less than a year before he and his parents were set to immigrate to Argentina, he took part in a "Catechist Contest" in 1928, testing — alongside the local bishop — the line-up of contestants.
Pope Francis has often talked very lovingly of his paternal grandmother, Rosa, who taught him how to pray and helped instill in him his great faith in Christ.
But her son — the pope's father, Mario — also inherited the same sensibility.
In fact, in this book-length series of interviews, the future pope says his father took his decision to become a priest very well, "More than well, he was happy."
While the pope's mother, who was also very religious, worried he was acting too hastily, "I definitely knew my father was going to understand me better," the future pope said.
His father's mother, Rosa, "was a very strong religious role model for him (for Mario), and he had inherited that religiousness, that fortitude," he said.
Pope Francis, too, inherited those gifts and, though he "came from the ends of the earth," didn't fall far from the Bergoglio's tree of faith.


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Nothing annoys non-photographer drivers much more than stopping every few minutes for someone to grab a photo of some interesting formation, or great view, or twisted tree, etc etc.
But a lot of 4wding trips have massive potential for photography.
I suggested in a 4wding forum that maybe those who love photography, might consider doing a trip where we'd all be like-minded, and so not mind stopping, and may actually learn from and inspire each other - "wow, I wouldn't have thought to take a photo of THAT" or "wow, I wouldn't have thought to use that angle to take THAT photo" etc etc.
It kind of appealed to way more people than I expected, and since it had to be in the ACT area for me, some people are now looking at arranging similar trips in their own States.
So far we appear to have between 4 and 6 vehicles, and possibly more, all coming along. Obviously if the group gets too huge it won't work, but there is probably room for a few more if anyone here is interested - even if you don't have a 4wd, we can possibly find room for people.
The plan at present is to start from Araluen or Moruya area (depending on which way you're coming) and start from Dry Creek Camp site (prettier than it sound), then hit the Mericumbene fire trail which is about 40km long with steep ups and downs, and great pano opportunities, and would take around 4 hours normally, but allowing much more for regular photo stops, and make our way down into Bendethera to camp the night - the Bendethera Valley is spectacular with views, history, wildlife, and even some pretty impressive caves that prior to the discovery of some of the better known ones, were some of Australia's best. Then out via a stop at "The Big Hole" (Scenic 4km walk) and maybe - and this is a very big "maybe" - extend the walk on past the Big Hole on to "Marble Arch," which is truly spectacular, but is 12kms return, so most likely not happen due to time constraints. Then on to Braidwood to have a coffee, say goodbye, and head off in various directions home.
The trip can be done with a very moderate 4wd, but is not suitable for faux-wheel drives (soft-roaders, AWD's, basically anything without true low-range gearing). There are quite a number of river crossings, so whilst a snorkel may not be necessary depending on river depths on the day, and depending on where your vehicle's air intake is located, but a snorkel would be adviseable - or at least a blind you can rig up for during the crossings. Also be aware that if the weather is bad, then some parts of the track could become quite challenging.
This is not being arranged professionally, it is just a bunch of people with similar interests getting together to travel and take photographs together, so there is no cost (maybe contribute to fuel if travelling with someone else), so if you come along, you do so at your own risk, and you will need your own equipment - having said that, you'd probably only need something to sleep in, as with this many vehicles coming there will likely be more than enough cooking facilities etc. November can be quite warm, but parts of this trip are at altitude and deep in shaded valleys, so come prepared for it to be quite cold at times. So if that hasn't scared you all off....
Let me know if anyone is interested.
If this is posted in the wrong place, my apologies, and feel free to move it.


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Miller Chill the Light Beer with Lime & Salt that Wouldn't die…Until it Did
And now for something from the scrap heap. Today we offer up an oddity dug up from a time capsule of beer drinking past. After we recently put together our review of Westbrook Brewing Company's Gose the margarita like flavors Alicia picked up reminded us of an article Kevin had written in the olden times before Beer Loves Company. This article covered (what was then) a new beer on the market which took the effort of squeezing a lime and salting the rim out of your hands and put it into a bright green bottle with a standard American Lager. We speak of none other than Miller Chill. Yes folks, Miller Chill a beer which we had thought went the way of Zima and other malt beverage curiosities before doing a little research for this entry.