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Mapping the dark matter in the core of galaxy cluster Abell 520
These composite images, taken by two different teams using the Hubble Space Telescope, show different results concerning the amount of dark matter in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520.
Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that astronomers deduce is the underlying gravitational "glue" that holds galaxies together.
Top Image: Observations of the cluster, taken by D. Clowe with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, map the amount of dark matter in Abell 520. The map reveals an amount of dark matter astronomers expect based on the number of galaxies in the core. The dark-matter densities are marked in blue, and the dotted circle marks the dark-matter core. The map is superimposed onto visible-light images of the cluster.
Bottom Image: A second team, led by James Jee of the University of California, Davis, used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and found an unusual overabundance of dark matter in the cluster's core, denoted by the bright blue color at image center. The observation was surprising because astronomers expect that dark matter and galaxies should be anchored together, even during a collision between galaxy clusters.
This discrepancy between the two results requires further observation and analysis, say researchers.
The two dark-matter maps were made by detecting how light from distant objects is distorted by the galaxy clusters, an effect called gravitational lensing.
Abell 520 is located 2.4 billion light-years away.
Andrea Gibson
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Douglas Clowe
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
[Top] NASA, ESA, and D. Clowe, (Ohio University); [Bottom] NASA, ESA, and J. Jee (University of California, Davis)


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The question that forms the title of this post has been getting a good bit of play in conservative circles of late. It was hinted at in a segment of FOX and Friends on Friday that featured NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton. And it is the main focus of a column by National Review Online news editor Daniel Foster that appeared on Saturday.
"Tebowing," should the term be unfamiliar, takes its name from another quarterback, current Denver Broncos play caller Tim Tebow. More specifically, the term designates the now-viral mockery of his habit of kneeling down and bowing his head after a touchdown to commune with his God.
As Foster writes with more than a hint of indignation, Tebowing his become an Internet phenomenon, with its own website, a Twitter account, and most recently a YouTube video titled "Tebowing for Dummies." At such sites, Foster continues:
[Y]ou can see an act of communion with one's creator rendered as a bit of pop-cultural ephemera, [complete with] pictures of folks striking the pose everywhere from Oxford to Istanbul, with that muddle of irony and enthusiasm that has become my generation's trademark.
Foster's obvious pique at these send-ups derives in part from the fact of Tebow's wholesomeness (he is in Foster's words "squeaky clean, in a sport that notoriously is not"). Wherein, Foster insists, lies the origins of Tebowing. It is, in short, "the power of Tebow's evangelical-Christian faith, and the earnestness with which he professes it [that] seems to annoy so many people."
I'm going to have toss out my red challenge flag here. Foster may be right that for some people, the problem isn't Tebow's religiosity but the fact that professional sports are "so filled with clichéd Jesus praise that" fans doubt his sincerity. But I submit that for many who prefer to spend their Sundays watching the exquisite choreography of a perfectly executed screen pass, the problem is Tebow's self-absorption.
Tebow is free to give "mad respect" to his lord, but I'd rather he do it on his own time. A number of players cross themselves on every play, but they do it discreetly — and expeditiously. Tebow's prayer timeouts, by contrast, are as gratuitously in-your-face as the most flagrant end zone dance. And they last as long. Yet, according to his supporters, all of footballdom is supposed to give him a pass because his purpose is holy. Isn't that what churches are for?
Another, subtler, ingredient in the widespread antipathy toward Tebow is that he is an anomaly. His success as an NFL quarterback (he is 4 and 1 since replacing Kyle Orton at the helm of the Broncos offense) doesn't make sense to diehard football fans. His passing numbers — he has a 45% completion rate — are awful. His team is winning through a combination of razzle-dazzle and offensive schemes that haven't been used by college, let alone NFL, coaches in two decades.
I am predicting that "this too shall pass" (to cite a proverb that Tebow should appreciate because of its religious roots). Sooner or later all 31 remaining teams in the league will develop defensive strategies to counter Denver's pre-Knute Rockne offense, and Tebow — and Tebowing — will be gone.
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/politi...bridge-primer/(CNN) -- What started with days of traffic jams in an obscure New Jersey town has now become a major scandal for one of the most prominent U.S. politicians. For those of you west of the Poconos, or just with normal lives, here's how the closure of two lanes on a bridge over the Hudson River suddenly became the epicenter of American political news.
Governor who?
Chris Christie is seen as a rising star in the Republican Party and a possible presidential contender in 2016. He won a second term as governor of Democratic-leaning New Jersey, the 11th-largest U.S. state, in November. He was the keynote speaker at the party's 2012 convention, serves as chairman of the Republican Governors Association and led all other potential GOP contenders in a recent CNN/ORC International poll.
So what happened on the bridge?
Back in September, two months before Christie's re-election, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey closed two of the three lanes that lead to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, across the Hudson from Manhattan. That caused days of massive traffic jams in Fort Lee, where the Democratic mayor had declined to endorse Christie.
The closures were ordered by David Wildstein, a Christie confidante and the governor's appointee to the Port Authority, which operates the nation's busiest bridge. They immediately sparked speculation by Democrats that the action amounted to political retaliation against Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich. That led to hearings in New Jersey's state legislature and the December resignations of Wildstein -- who had said the closures were part of a traffic study -- and Bill Baroni, New Jersey's top Port Authority official.
Then came Wednesday's revelation that a top Christie aide had e-mailed Wildstein before the closures, telling him, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee." In a lengthy news conference Thursday, Christie announced he had fired the author of that e-mail, deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly, and said he was "embarrassed and humiliated" by the "abject stupidity" of the move.
On the George Washington Bridge: 'Those days ... worse than a disaster'
Fort Lee's emergency medical services chief warned at the time that the resulting traffic jams could have life-or-death implications for residents by delaying firefighters and paramedics. He listed several examples, including car wrecks, chest pains and a 91-year-old woman who suffered a heart attack and later died.
And politically, several analysts say the scandal endangers any national ambitions Christie may have.
"If a woman died here, he's in deep, deep trouble," said David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst.
The former federal prosecutor's combative personality has produced some compelling video clips over the past few years, particularly when confronted with hecklers. Critics call him a bully -- an allegation Christie denied in his news conference Thursday, but one Gergen said the Fort Lee scandal reinforces.
"There's something about this that's so petty and so vindictive ... he's going to have to find some way to defuse this to prove he doesn't run a shop like that," Gergen said.
Now what?
Investigations and some "soul searching" on the part of the governor, who said he was "blindsided" by the e-mails.
"I have worked for the last 12 years in public life developing a reputation for honesty and directness and blunt talk, one that I think is well-deserved," he said. "But, you know, when something like this happens, it is appropriate for you to question yourself. And certainly I am, and I am soul searching on this."
But first, he headed to Fort Lee for a mea culpa -- a personal, "face-to-face" apology to Sokolich and the people of his town Thursday afternoon, which Sokolich called "gracious" and "conciliatory."
That may not be the end of it, however. State lawmakers are still holding hearings into the bridge scandal. Wildstein refused to testify before the state General Assembly's Transportation Committee on Thursday afternoon, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
And the U.S. attorney's office in Trenton -- the governor's old post -- says it's looking into whether any federal laws were broken. Both the Port Authority's inspector-general and state Sen. Barbara Buono, Christie's opponent in November, have asked federal authorities to step in.


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School shooting victim's dad dies on anniversary
The father of one of three teens killed in a northeast Ohio school shooting was found dead Thursday, the second anniversary of his son's death, a sheriff's investigator said.
A family member found 48-year-old Russell King Sr. dead inside his home, said Lt. John Hiscox of the Geauga County Sheriff's Department. The cause of death had not been determined, and a coroner was investigating. Hiscox said there were no signs of foul play.
"Whatever transpired, there's no question Russell King is another victim of this tragic shooting two years ago today," said Craig Bashein, an attorney who represents the family in a wrongful death lawsuit.
King's 17-year-old son, Russell King Jr., was one of three students killed in the shooting at Chardon High School east of Cleveland. Three other students were wounded.
Attorneys for families of the victims, including King Sr., and some of those who were wounded filed a personal injury lawsuit Thursday against the Chardon school district, some of its administrators and the alternative school that the shooter attended.
Online court records on the lawsuit listed 25 defendants, but did not indicate any monetary damages the families were seeking or specify their legal claims against the schools.
"Because this is now a legal matter, it would be inappropriate for the district to comment," Chardon Superintendent Michael Hanlon Jr. said in a statement. "Our focus today has been on supporting our students, staff and the community on this important day."
Lake Academy Alternative School's director did not immediately respond to phone and email messages seeking comment after school hours Thursday.
Prosecutors say T.J. Lane, who was waiting for a bus to the alternative school, took a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the high school and fired 10 shots at a group of students inside the cafeteria on Feb. 27, 2012.
Daniel Parmertor and Demetrius Hewlin, both 16, also were killed.
Lane, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, pleaded guilty and is serving three life sentences. At his sentencing last March, he wore a T-shirt with "killer" scrawled across it and cursed and gestured obscenely at relatives of victims in the courtroom.
Investigators said he admitted to the shooting but said he didn't know why he did it.
A year ago, families of the three slain students filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the teenage gunman and his family. The suit alleged negligent supervision by Lane's parents and grandparents. Attorneys said the families hope the lawsuit, which is still pending, will resolve unanswered questions and ensure that Lane doesn't profit from his crimes.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Sam Taylor and Tiffany Palmer have
been named the Most Valuable Runners on the 2009 Tennessee Tech
cross country teams, and several other team awards were also
announced recently by Golden Eagle coach Tony Cox.
A junior from Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., Taylor paced the Golden Eagle men's team in six of seven meets during the 2009 season. Palmer, a senior from Cleveland, Tenn., was Tech's highest finisher in every meet.
On the men's team, in addition to Taylor's honor, Peter Woerner was named Most Dedicated, Ben Shassere Most Improved and Chris Bishop captured the Rookie/Impact Award. Jarrad Read was selected as team captain.
For the women's team, Palmer was also named team captain in addition to her MVP award, Traci Jones earned Most Dedicated, Amanda Simmons the Most Improved, and Kathryn Forbes the Impact Award.
Taylor was Tech's frontrunner in six of seven meets, posting a season-best 8K time of 26:49.94 in the TTU Invitational when he placed sixth overall. He was among the Top 15 runners in every meet during the regular season, then placed 16th at the OVC Championships.
"Sam had a great season and got very close to making the all-conference team," said Cox. "He is very consistent and smart in the way he races."
Woerner, a senior from Knoxville, wrapped up his cross country career with the Most Dedicated award. He was Tech's top finisher at the Evansville Invitational, and was second on the team in three other events.
"Peter put in a lot of hard work last summer, which paid off in the fall," Cox said. "He ran a lot of miles this year and was very strong all season long. Peter is a brilliantly smart young man and knows what it takes to be the best. He set an example to the rest of the team which will help raise the bar for those who follow. He is very respected by his teammates for his work ethic."
The Most Improved went to Shassere, a junior from Oak Ridge, Tenn. He finished fifth on the team in his first meet, then moved up to fourth and third, before placing second on the squad in a season-best time of 27:09.85 at Evansville.
"Ben continued to improve throughout the season," Cox said. "He was consistent and had solid performances in every race. Ben is quickly becoming a team leader and continues to work hard to get better every year."
Bishop, a hard-running freshman from Morristown, Tenn., was the team's top rookie and won the Impact Award. He was second on the team in his first collegiate meet, posting his season-best of 27:24.93 at the Sewanee Invitational.
"Chris burst on the scene this year with the fastest time on the team in our early season time trial. He followed that up with some great results in the meets," Cox said. "He is a hard worker and a high mileage guy. He learned a lot this year about what it takes to run at the collegiate level, and he has a bright future with this team."
A senior from Knoxville, Jarrad Read was selected team captain. He ran in all seven meets and continually improved his finish on the squad in every meet.
"Jarrad has been our team leader all year. His maturity and leadership has gained the respect of his teammates and coach," Cox said. "He is a hard worker and has an excellent grasp of what we are trying to accomplish here as a team. He is very supportive of the new guys on the team, and expects everyone to work hard every day at practice. His leadership has helped raise the bar for this cross country program."
Palmer was not only the Most Valuable member of the women's team, she was also chosen team captain. She ran off a string of six straight top finishes for the Golden Eagles, and was among the top eight individual finishers three times. That includes a seventh place showing at the OVC meet to earn first-team all-OVC honors. Her career-best time was 19:27.14 at the Evansville Invitational.
"Tiffany had a great season this year," Cox said. "She led the team in every meet and earned first-team all-conference honors at the end of the season. She puts in a lot of miles and continues to work hard to improve. She is finishing up her college career as one of the best runners in school history."
Palmer's selection as captain was a logical choice, according to Cox.
"Tiffany was the team leader this year, both on and off the course. She led by example with her training load, and encouraged the other women on the team to work hard. Tiffany had a lot of academic responsibilities this fall, but she continued to focus on her training and it paid off at the conference meet," Cox said.
The Most Dedicated honor went to Jones, a sophomore from Aiken, S.C., who posted runnerup finishes on the squad in all six meets. Her best time of the year was 20:43.52 when she placed 12th overall at the TTU Invitational
"Traci finished second on the team in every meet this year. She works hard and is very dedicated to getting better every time out. She is a great teammate and is very respected by the team and coach," Cox said.
Simmons, a senior from Woodstock, Ga., was given the Most Improved honor to cap off her final season. She was consistently third on the team, and posted a season-best time of 21:04.73 at the Sewanee Invitational.
"Amanda worked hard last summer and it paid off in the fall," Cox said. "She continued to improve throughout the season and was a great benefit to the team. She is a hard worker and a pleasure to coach."
Forbes, a freshman from Norris, Tenn., claimed the Impact Award in her debut season. After a fifth-place finish on the squad in her first collegiate meet, she moved up a notch to fourth in four of the next five events. Her best effort placed her third on the squad at Evansville with a career-best 22:01.78 showing.
"Kathryn had never run a cross country race until this year," Cox said. "She ran track in high school, but did not run cross country in the fall. She learned a lot from training and competing with the team this year, and she has a great future ahead of her. Kathryn continued to improve every meet, and set goals for herself to reach. She is a great young lady and a pleasure to be around."
The track & field team gets the 2010 indoor season underway on Jan. 30 at the Tennessee State Invitational in Nashville.
Taylor, Palmer named Most Valuable on cross country teams
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Sam Taylor and Tiffany Palmer have
been named the Most Valuable Runners on the 2009 Tennessee Tech
cross country teams, and several other team awards were also
announced recently by Golden Eagle coach Tony Cox.


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Virtual Hosts for DummiesAugust 05, 2004
Running your own local Apache server for development is a great idea, and even better if you've enabled local virtual hosts.
As demand for open source software increases, so do the options. Popular packages are frequently ported to different platforms, so it's fully possible to run a local install of Apache regardless of which operating system you use on your workstation.
The stumbling block is mainly know-how, which is fortunately an easy gap to fill. I am decidedly not a system administrator, but I've run various Apache installs over the past year — without much conviction I should note, so learning has been slow.
After this past weekend's rebuild, I got around to re-configuring a fresh copy of Apache Complete last night. Here are two tips from that experience.
Virtual Hosts
Virtual hosts enable you to intelligently run multiple sites on a single server. The useful side effect is that with proper setup, you can point your browser to www.whatever.whatever and load a local copy. My development site is now www.mezzoblue.dev, which works exactly the same as the .com, just faster. I don't even need a connection to work on it, because it's all local; all my PHP scripts and Movable Type templates work, and the local filesystem access is so much nicer than using FTP.
I've long been aware of their use, but never committed to learning how to set up virtual hosts in Apache. A conversation with Narayan of Etherfarm on his recent trip through Vancouver enlightened, and it's really ridiculously easy, to the point where I wish I'd done this last year.
Find your
httpd.conf file, and then add this line somewhere near the bottom (there's a spot with example virtual server code, I stuck mine below that):
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
You might want to run a search for 'NameVirtualHost' within the file before-hand to make sure it's not already set, or at least commented out with a preceding octothorpe (#).
Next add an entry for localhost pointing to the root of your web server, so that typing localhost in your browser's address bar continues pulling up the default site:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1> ServerName localhost DocumentRoot /Path/To/WebRoot </VirtualHost>
And finally, for each individual virtual site you wish to run, add a new entry pointing to the proper directory. This is especially useful because, at least on Unix-based systems, this means it can sit anywhere in your filesystem. I'm used to dumping all sites in a special 'www' folder and pointing the web server to that; this way I can simply direct Apache to, in my case,
/Volumes/Shine/mezzoblue/www and keep all articles, .psd files, and web files in one folder.
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1> ServerName www.mezzoblue.dev DocumentRoot /Volumes/Shine/www/delhi </VirtualHost>
Host Redirection
But here's the part I didn't read, which I should have — you're only halfway there once you've set up Apache. In a bout of doing one thing while having a hunch I should be doing another, I wasted far too much time configuring and re-configuring
httpd.conf before realizing I also had to tell my computer where to look for this host I'd just invented. It's in the articles I linked above, but I missed this step. May you not make the same mistake.
Simply, all that's required is editing your local computer's hosts file so that your browser is able to resolve the fake names for your development sites. For each entry created in
httpd.conf, a corresponding entry needs to exist in your hosts file. Instructions on how to do this vary between operating systems, but it's not hard to find tutorials. (The step-by-step instructions on this evolt article work perfectly in Panther.)
And That's It?
As long as the directories you've pointed your virtual hosts to exist, and have files in them, you now have customized local hosts for your sites, on your own computer. Make sure to restart Apache before checking, which may require command line access, depending on your install. Other than that, you're done.
Getting 403 errors?
If you've done everything above and can't access your new site, due to a '403 Forbidden' error, you have a permissions problem. If the directory/files you wish to load haven't been given read permission for all users, the web server won't be able to access them. As a general rule, public-facing directories and files should be at the very least something like 644 or (- r w - r - - r - -), and ideally 755 (or - r w x r - x r - x). If you don't know what this means, a quick introduction to Unix permissions in general,
chmod in particular is in order.
Now, assuming everything looks alright, you may still get a Forbidden error. Turns out this is due to the execute permissions on all folders above the root of your virtual host on the server; namely, it must be set. For all of them.
If you have a directory serving as your root like so:
…then every directory above
Sites must have execute permissions set for all users. If you're feeling brave, a quick and easy way to do this on the command line is as follows:
cd /
sudo chmod -R 755 /Users
You will be prompted for your local computer administrator password. This will change permissions of everything in
/Users on down the hierarchy to 755. Fine if you're in a fairly low-risk situation, like having a firewall in between you and the public internet (and trusting the local network your machine is attached to). Problematic if not. Otherwise, you'd simply do it on a per-directory basis:
cd /
chmod 755 /Users
cd Users
chmod 755 dave
cd dave
chmod 755 Sites
If necessary, add the
sudo command before each
chmod line and authenticate as necessary.
Reader Comments
Best way is certainly to set up another machine with apache and as exactly as possible the same configuration as your webserver has. In particular if you developing any PHP based applications or make use of some very special apache features like .htaccess-files or sessions your windows/mac-system probably won't be able to handle.
Here's my way: I'm working with and developing on Win2k (shame on me) just because i's more comfortable when _not_ working ;-) My laptop is a dual-OS with Win2k and SuSe Linux. I configured my local Linux distribution the same way as I did with my webserver. Instead of www.mezzoblue.dev I make use of dev.mezzoblue.com e.g. which I defined in my local hosts file.
Fortunately I'am able to develop with all comfort I like to have, heavenly speed and with the guarantee that there are no incompatibilities when I upload my scripts.
My 2 cents,
Dave, following your lead, I just wiped the hard drives on my PowerBook and my G5, and was writing up a virtual hosts article while I was setting everything up again. Many thanks for saving me the effort!
I'll just add a few things:
Name-based virtual hosts not only simplify the access to various websites-in-development, they also allow you to more closely match Apache options a client might have turned on or off on their webserver. If a client has indexes turned on, for example, you could turn indexes on (or off) for a particular virtual host using apache directives. Between the VirtualHost tags, add (for example):
<Directory /Users/narayan/Sites/etherfarm>
Options FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
True, you can do this with .htaccess files but, as Robert Hahn proclaims in a previous comment, I've taken to mirroring as closely as possible the server on which a client's site will be running. As such, I have these directives in the the virtual host declaration in the .conf file, then modify them as needed with .htaccess files (as I would on the "live" site).
Similarly, within the virtual host declaration, you can specify locations for logs, add file types or modify icon handling, and (importantly), specify scriptalias directories. Basically, you can place almost any apache directive within <VirtualHost> tags, thereby mirroring various clients' hosts on a per-virtual host basis.
Lastly, I prefer to use ~/Sites than /Library/Webserver/Documents. I'm the only one on my machine, and I like to keep my stuff in my user folder, which gets backed up on a regular basis. To do this, I move to /Library/Webserver/Documents and create a symbolic link:
$ ln -s /Users/narayan/Sites Documents
This way any calls to localhost get automatically sent to ~/Sites, which for me seems the most logical devbed. I run behind a firewall and don't grant external access off port 80, so I have no problems doing this.
As for transferring MT data from the dev box to a live server, I twice used an SQL dump (via phpMyAdmin) to do this successfully, but it was my personal site, so I didn't care too much if things went awry. I don't know if an SQL dump is a recommended practice for MT or if it work if tried again.
Patrick Gibson has a shell script (not too geek intensive) available to set up virtual hosts:
I have only had a quick play with it but it seems to work OK.
I just discovered virtual host 2 month ago. I was running two website in development and I use only use relative to root links (link beginning with a /). I had some problem with my PHP include that use relative to root links, they kept pointing in one site only.
It might be useful but I'm only a designer, it's getting to be too much for me, I might be a real geek but configuring my Apache server and host file is way out of my field of expertise.
I just finished this on my OpenBSD laptop. One thing I was considering is setting up all my URIs to be a php variable so I can drop the new code into the live site with one change. I don't like relative URIs as a personal preference - I've made too many mistakes with the number of directory levels to go up or down.
What I'm considering is having every URI be of the form $host/some/path/to/a/file and declaring $host to be the local copy of the site, in your case $host="www.mezzoblue.dev". Then, when I move it over to the real server, all I need to do is adjust the $host variable to be $host="www.mezzoblue.com".
I'd be interested to know if anyone else has ideas on the best way to handle such things, or if I'm overlooking some major issue that's going to come back and bite me.
> I don't like relative URIs as a personal preference - I've made too many mistakes with the number of directory levels to go up or down.
What's wrong with absolute URI's?
You certainly shouldn't be using
http://www.example.com/path/to/file.html within the site www.example.com itself!
i use a similar setup. but one thing i wish is that the rendezvous (opentalk?) support for apache would just automatically lay claim to any .local virtualhosts you define. it would save the step of tweaking the /etc/hosts file, and make those virtual hosts available to other local machines (assuming you're using NameVirtualHost * and not just NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1).
I'd like to contribute a couple of other tips on the topic.
Like Dave, I use .dev for development work. I *also* have a .static set of domains if I'm running a site that generates static pages destined for the live site. So, on my business site, roberthahn.ca, I have on my machine roberthahn.dev and roberthahn.static for development and staging servers.
The first tip I want to contribute might not be an amazing revelation, but here 'tis: If you can swing it, try to set up a directory structure that exactly matches what the live server's is. This structure should extend 'above' the web root as well, in case some of your scripts need filesystem-based root-oriented paths to files or other scripts. This paves the way to a zero-tweak staging-to-live server move.
The second tip has to do with where you put your virtual host information. Dave suggests editing the httpd.conf file. If you are using Mac OS X, you should be aware of one important gotcha: every time you update your operating system, if it includes an update to Apache, then Apple will replace your httpd.conf file in favour of theirs, which will cause you to lose all your virtual host configuration.
An I idea I saw that I think I can credit to Rael Dornfest is to create a virtual.conf file in /etc/httpd/users/. In this file, you put all your virtual hosting configuration. Once you restart Apache, it will automatically load all files found in that users/ directory, including the virtual.conf. The benefits: you keep all the virtual host configs in one place, and it will never be overwritten by Apple.
Feel free to ask me any questions if I didn't explain anything clearly enough.
Jim - this article might help you in implementing RendezVous correctly so that sites do show up: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/08/mod_rendezvous.html
I came across this link a few days ago and bookmarked it. I haven't tested it myself yet though as I haven't found time to do it yet.
Good luck!
Quick question for everyone. I have a local apache configuration, but I haven't installed movable type because of synchronization. When you work locally, what is your procedure for synchronization up to the live server? Aside from a manual copy using FTP, is there a more elegant solution?
By pure coincidence, some discussion had taken place about OS X, Apache and virtual hosts here not so long ago :
"every time you update your operating system, if it includes an update to Apache, then Apple will replace your httpd.conf file in favour of theirs"
If you're using the copy of Apache built-in to OS X, that's true. I've installed the 'Complete Apache' package from Server Logistics — http://serverlogistics.com/apache2.php — and it sticks all config files in its own directory. Problem solved. (The 'Complete' packages offer extra options that most people love, although I find their control panel applets a little buggy)
'When you work locally, what is your procedure for synchronization up to the live server?'
I'm doing it two ways. First, all my templates are saved as external files in a /templates/ directory, so those go via FTP. Second, all data is easily exportable from the MT admin interface, so I just export and import all entries/comments as needed. (I'm sure there's a better way to do this if you're a database person, but I'm not, so Export works great.)
The only thing this leaves is manual configuration of preferences and archives and things within the manager. I do that by hand, and it's a pain, but you only have to do it once.
No real reason to transfer the actual generated .html pages themselves, those can easily be re-generated once you have the data/templates set up properly.
You can go a lot further than just running Apache locally (especially if you are using *nix or OS X).
On my Win XP box I have a complete application server running locally: Apache (and a whole bunch of modules), Perl, PHP, MySQL, Shapeshifter (the CMS), CVS, etc.
Better still, once local development is complete you can use CVS (or Subversion, etc) or RSync to automagically bring the production server up-to-date!
I'm just starting to set this stuff up myself, but i've decided it would be best for my situation to have one config file for each virtual host like www.theredhead.nl.vhost and dev.theredhead.nl.vhost etc. in a virtualhosts directory. This way i can set up individual virtualhosts through safari using my own php stuff super easy.
Now all i need to get all this working is figure out how to get this to live next to my router in peace. it works from the lan, but not from the web as is now.
Just a note for the Windows people: If you want to use virtual hosts in a local environment, you have to follow this method, but you should also edit this file:
hosts is a file without extension (not a directory) and all you have to do is enter the localhost's IP and the name you would like to resolve (e.g. 127.0.0.1 www.mysite.dev).
Setting up virtual hosts with Apache on Mac OS X does not involve editing a HOSTS file. Rather, the edits are done in NetInfo Manager:
Run NetInfo Manager.
Click the lock to authenticate.
Select /machines/localhost.
Click the Duplicate button.
In the Property list for the new entry, change the name to the same name as the virtual ServerName in the Apache httpd.conf file.
Click a different machine name to save the changes.
Add a new machine for each virtual host you have set up in your Apache configuration.
You may have to restart your browser.
I just actually set up something like this yesterday…I am using a Rendexvous base station with its own IP, so I set up ports on the base station IP for each site, and then added these ports to net info manager in os x. Works great, so far, except that I can't access the domains through the name alone (e.g. http://arkitrave), I have to use 10.0.1.2:8086. I don't know why this is, as this IP is in the /hosts file…But it does work across the entire intranet via the port address, which is what I really need to work.
I also configured a localhost page to access the files from the laptop when it isn't plugged into the network, via the 127…. address.
I haven't seen a lot written about using virtual hosts with a networked system and a wireless station, so I'm just experimenting and throwing out the stuff that doesn't work.
In response to the comment by Martin-Lucas Smith, I'm not sure what your point is. I'm saying that I don't like relative URIs. If I'm in example.com/dir1/dir2/dir3 and I want to go to example.com/dir4/dir5/dir6, I prefer to use example.com/dir4/dir5/dir6 instead of ../../../dir4/dir5/dir6 for the link to that page. Maybe I confused the issue by saying file versus page. Hope that makes sense.
Scott, to get to http://www.example.com/dir4/dir5/dir6/ from http://www.example.com/dir1/dir2/dir3/, you just have to link to href="/dir4/dir5/dir6". The important bit is the leading slash, which means "from the server root". That's what Martin was trying to say. Therefore, to go to http://www.example.com/ from any page in http://www.example.com/, just link to href="/". If you ever register www.forinstance.com and move your website there, all the links within your site will still work without any additional effort from you.
Sorry for the somewhat OT post.
Another good tool is the vhost module for apache. Bascially you give apache a root directory to look into, and then just stick your site directories in there. Apache uses the host: header to then look for your directory.
/www/vhtdocs/ is the root directory
you then add a directory called www.mysite.com
(no apache reboot or configuration file tweeking needed)
call up www.mysite.com, and apache will serve out the contents of the /www/vhtdocs/www.mysite.com/ directory.
V. Useful if you are working on multiple sites, or need to quickly set sites up without wanting to fiddle with the apache configuration file.
Very useful article. I finally got around to setting up my v-hosts yesterday after reading this. I use Fedora Core 2 and the process couldn't be easier. After following the directions in the article, just open up /etc/hosts and add the line(s)
127.0.0.1 vhost
where vhost is the name you gave in the apache file. repeat for all your vhosts. restart apache. voila.
Thanks for the info! I've been meaning to do this for a while, just hadn't had the time. Your instructions were great, and it took me all of 30s to get it done on OpenBSD 3.5. Thanks again!
To Scott Plumlee: drop me a line sometime if you want to bounce ideas / chew the fat about web development on OpenBSD - I've been working on that platform for a little while now - nice to see someone else is using it as well!
Take it easy, everyone!
> The important bit is the leading slash, which means "from the server root".
Thanks Patrick, and apologies to Martin-Lucas Smith if I sounded rude. Everytime I think I've got my head wrapped around something, I learn something new. I had learned my HTML via Dreamweaver, and everytime I used a relative URI it was always of the ../../ form.
Stephan Arehart, if you can drop me a line sometime at my first name then the symbol above the 2 then my last name, it would be great to have someone to toss ideas around with. Not much experience yet with the blowfish, but always willing to learn.
Lots of great ideas here. The vhost module looks interesting. Now to go tear apart everything I just did and redo it the right way!
"Octothorpe" not "otcothorpe" surely. :)
nice article though!
Another method to consider is to use Webmin in conjunction with the Virtualmin module. It does a whole lot of legwork in addition to the Apache setup.
Narayan wrote:
> I don't know if an SQL dump is a recommended practice for MT
> or if it work if tried again.
I don't know if it's a recommended practice for MT but it sure is a recommended practice for anything SQL dumps ;-).
As Jonathan M. Hollin mentioned, CVS is great when developing. I use it all the time. And it is included in OS X 10.3.x by default :-D.
"Octothorpe" rocks, much more so than "hash". Thank you.
For those of you running something other than OS X on your dev servers … most Linux distributions' default Apache configs are a bit more secure, with directory access set to "deny" by default and then selectively enabled for whatever the distro's default DocumentRoot is (/var/www or /opt/www or whatever).
If you're getting a "Forbidden" error after setting things up Dave's way, this is likely the problem.
So in addition to the VirtualHost definition you'll also want to do something like this. You should probably put it in the same .conf file as your virtual host config so everything's in the same place (but be sure to put it outside the <VirtualHost> block):
<Directory /path/to/vhostdir>
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
<IfModule mod_access.c>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
This example mirrors the default security settings of Mandrake … you probably will want to set the Options and AllowOverride directives to mirror your production server's config.
More info here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/name-based.html
Following these instructions, and the ones at evolt.org, I have everything running great in OSX. Does anyone know how to get Windows running in Virtual PC to see the same virtual hosts? thanks
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I have been using the shellscript by Patrick Gibson [see URL above] and it is absolutely great !!!! Highly recommended.
I have 8 'sites' in /Users/me/Sites/ directory, and I have another setup running under the fixed IP address of my computer on the LAN. (192.168.0.4) pointing to /Library/WebServer/Documents/ where I have other projects, or code samples, etc. stored.
Just download it, create a folder called 'bin' in your Home folder /Users/<yourname>/, store the virtualhosts.sh script in there and then open Terminal and type the following:
sudo ./bin/virtualhosts.sh <new.website.domain>
Hit return, and then enter your admin password. You then only have to type Y =yes or N = no to the options in the window.
Forget all the above complexities and use the Mac way of working. :)
Regarding VirtualPC:
On a VPC, Localhost and the loopback address (127.0.0.1) point to the VPC, not to the host machine on which it is running. The way I worked around that was to give my host machine (a beige G3 running OS X.2.8) a static IP and then either access the site from the VPC via the IP or edit the VPC's hosts file.
That works great if you're using a router to handle your 'Net connection, but I'm not sure it could be made to work if you're connecting the host machine directly to a modem as the machine would be getting a dynamic IP from your ISP everytime you connect. That is, your IP would keep changing on you.
Regardless, I eventually got tired of editing Netinfo on the Mac and hosts files on all 4 VPCs (this was prior to the discovery that yes, Virginia, there is a way to run multiple versions of IE/Win on the same PC), my VAIO and my GF's Dell.
Instead, I set up BIND on the OS X machine (there's a great tutorial on BIND 8, the version included in OS X.2.x, here: http://langfeldt.net/DNS-HOWTO/BIND-8/). I configured it to be a caching-only server, and to only respond to requests from machines on the same LAN (there are instructions for both at the aforementioned URL) . Then I set up zone files for each of the domains I wanted (all my various .dev sites) and set up BIND to handle them. Finally, I added the Mac's IP to the DNS servers list on all my machines (virtual and otherwise).
From that point on, setting up a new site was as simple as adding a new domain to BIND and a new host to apache—no more Netinfo, no more hosts files. Set it up on the Mac and all the machines in the apartment would recognize it instantly.
Very convenient—and *major* geek points to boot. ;-)
Personally, i have an old machine built from spares left over form upgrades etc with Windows 2K server on it.
This way i can have a pretty much identical setup to my live web servers.
Running the server addition means no virtual directories needed, each site has their own site.
I also run windows DNS on the machine, which enables me to run multiple sites for each client haveing a .dev equivalent to their live domain.
I never test anything live, everything is tested on the development server. Once i'm happy its stable, a copy is moved to dev.clientdomain.suf for feedback and then finally moved to their own account.
I encourage all to go and grab http://www.webmin.com to do the apache virtual host config for you through an UI.
PHP coders – a method that allows you to create PHP programs that can be relocated later (or installed to your friends'/enemies' hosts)/
Consider using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and similar variables (such as 'DOCUMENT_ROOT', 'SCRIPT_FILENAME', 'PATH_TRANSLATED') to refer to the current script and files located near it.
Check out http://fi2.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server
If you're looking to set up canonical domains on Win32 (with apache) I have an article i wrote a while ago that might help. It's a little rough (not to mention badly formatted) but it should be enough to point you in the right direction.
Oh, and it doesn't require a dns server:
If you're setting up a virtual host on a windows installation of Apache, make sure you put the DocumentRoot in quotes.
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName insight.dev
DocumentRoot "e:/dev/insight/trunk"
I set up virtual hosts on my mac a few days ago and I discovered that the method described at evolt for resolving the domain no longer works in some cases. Details are here: http://jemimap.ficml.org/wordpress/2004/08/12/netinfo-not-informative/
In Panther, NetInfo was moved in the lookup order, so adding your domain to NetInfo will work only if DNS resolution fails. For fake top-level domains like .dev that will always happen, but if you're using a fake subdomain of a real domain or a new domain name that's registered but not live yet, the response you get back will depend on how that domain's DNS is set up. You may not be able to see the local page. There are several solutions to the problem; I switched the lookup order back to the pre-Panther version.
A quick note about moving smoothly from development to staging to live servers, which was discussed above (comment #4, by Robert Hahn). Using apache virtual hosts for this works, but it is still a little too static for my tastes. In some situations, you simply cannot mirror the directory stucture ("above" the web root, at least) of the live machine on the development/staging machine.
What I do instead is use an XML file (INI format would work well too) to define all the different paths (e.g., document root, web root, cgi bin, …) that I will use in building the website. Call these the "logical paths". For each logical path, I specify three separate physical paths (one for the developement, staging, and testing server, respectively). Then, I use a PHP (insert your scripting language of choice) function to select which path should be used based on the current server's hostname.
Great post! So handy…
Just two quick notes:
1. You may want to also use ServerAlias, like so:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName example.dev
ServerAlias www.example.dev
DocumentRoot /path/to/example.dev
2. If you are behind a HTTP proxy server, you need to add your domains to "Bypass these domains…" under System Preferences > Network > Proxies. ("*.dev" works just fine) Took me way to long to figure that out!
Actually there is already a ton of utilities which allow you to get a running apache server, with sql, php and stuff, by simply installing them.
The other advantage is that the size of this "packs" is about 5Mb.
Here's one - http://dklab.ru/chicken/web/ - but, unfortunately, it's in russian.


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Don't believe everything you think.
The more I know, the less I know.
I think we are veering off a bit. But just for the sake of this discussion I will ansewer you.Well. He was God and choose not to distroy his accusers. Along those lines there were countless martars in the faith that once they were stricken on the cheek, offered the other cheek as well. That my friend is inaction.
We could argue semantics all day if you want, but let's not go there. A question I have for you: Do you REALLY want our advice, or do you just want to argue with us why we should embrace your way of thinking?
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Sorry for the late response: I didn't even see this post.I can't imagine that she is the one judging herself. Judgment was carried out when it was demonstrated to the mob that she was an adulteress: either her husband/betrothed came with the accusation, or her father, or her lover. They may have had evidence. But judgment happened long before she got to where Jesus was. In fact, judgment is precisely why she was where Jesus was - the mob had taken her to execute the sentence required by the judgment (which, before Christ intervened, there was the strictest of sentencing guidelines - specific punishments for each crime with no leeway, unlike most modern law systems which give options for most crimes, i.e. anywhere between 10 and 20 years, parole or no parole, etc.). In their time, judgment was probably carried out by the Rabbi of the town in accordance with the Torah, or by some other town official (sorry, I'm not too familiar with Jewish jurisprudence at the turn of the 1st century AD).
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Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson high-stepped toward halfcourt and greeted Draymond Green with a leaping shoulder bump.
"I've never seen him that emotional," Warriors power forward David Lee said. "I even saw him actually pump his fist one time, which is more emotion than I've seen in two or three years combined."
Thompson had plenty of reason to break from his usual stoicism, having left his grandfather's funeral just in time to make the game and then knocking down two three-pointers in the closing minute to clinch a 113-112 victory over the Trail Blazers on Sunday at the Moda Center.
The third-year guard missed a game Friday for the first time in his career, snapping a franchise-record 214-game streak, and then took three flights from the Bahamas to get to Portland between 1 and 2 a.m. Sunday.
He certainly appeared fresh by the fourth quarter, when he scored 15 of his 27 points to complete the Warriors' comeback from an 18-point deficit. With the score locked at 107-107 and 54 seconds remaining, Thompson drilled one three-pointer, and with the Warriors trailing 111-110 and 11.9 seconds left, Thompson hit another for the game-winner.
"We wanted to get this one for him," said Warriors point guard Stephen Curry, who had 37 points and joined Thompson in combining for 51 of the team's 69 second-half points. "We understand that he's been through a lot this week and traveled a lot of miles. He compartmentalized it for about two hours to come out and play, and that was big for us. We needed every play he made."
The Warriors (42-26) needed this win to avoid dropping three straight for the first time since Nov. 20-23. Bouncing back from a bad home loss to Cleveland on Friday, the Warriors rallied to beat the Trail Blazers (43-24) - a victory that moved Golden State 1 1/2 games behind fifth-place Portland and 1 1/2 games ahead of seventh-place Dallas in the Western Conference.
The Trail Blazers have lost five of their past six games and are playing without All-Star power forward LaMarcus Aldridge (back), but the Warriors are plenty beat up, too. Curry is nursing a quadriceps strain, Andre Iguodala is dealing with knee tendinitis, and Andrew Bogut had to get his left ankle re-taped after tweaking it.
"That's as good a win as we've had in three years when you think that we were really out of character early on in the game," Warriors head coach Mark Jackson said. "We were selfish offensively and defensively, but give these guys credit. I'm awfully proud of them, because it would have been very easy to fold the tent and hang our heads."
Because he was having trouble rotating to Portland's versatile power forwards, Lee sat for a 15-minute stretch that spanned the third and fourth quarters, but he didn't hang his head, either. When he finally got back into the game, he made some of crunch time's biggest plays.
Lee had a layup that gave the Warriors a 107-105 lead with 2:28 remaining. He swiped a pass from Mo Williams with 1:37 left. And he set the screen for Curry that allowed him to get into the lane and eventually work the ball to Thompson for the wide-open game-winner.
"That's not a position I'm normally in, but Coach was unhappy with a few of my defensive rotations early in the third quarter," said Lee, who had 16 points. "He decided to go with Draymond (Green), who played unbelievably. I'm always ready. Steph came over to me and told me to continue to be ready. I trust Coach. You saw me, I was cheering like I was in the game. It doesn't matter to me. I just want to get the win.
"I was able to come back in, and when I finally got my chance again, I was ready to go."
Rusty Simmons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @Rusty_SFChron


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Charlotte Bobcats say they have acquired forward Hakim Warrick from the New Orleans Hornets for guard Matt Carroll.
In 499 games over eight NBA seasons with five teams, the 6-foot-9 Warrick has averaged 9.5 points, 4.1 rebounds and a .494 field goal percentage.
Bobcats president of basketball operations Rod Higgins says Tuesday, "We are very excited to add a player of Hakim's ability and overall NBA experience. His athleticism allows him to play multiple positions, which will make for a smooth transition into our current roster and style of play under coach Mike Dunlap."
Warrick played in only one game this season after being acquired by the Hornets in July.
Carroll hasn't been in Charlotte's rotation.


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Mombasa, North Coast, Kenya
Fringed by white beaches, and shaded by coconut palms, the silver ribbon of the Swahili coastline offers the ultimate tropical paradise. Bright white against the blue sky, set in extensive tropical gardens, the architecture of the Serena Beach Hotel and Spa replicates the winding lanes and colourful market places of a traditional 13th century Swahili town. At its heart lies the coral-built 'Fortress of Tranquillity' of the exquisite 'Maisha' Mind, Body and Spirit Spa.
Facilities • Wide selection of rooms and suites: all • with AC, satellite TV, WiFi and voice-mail • Extensive gardens, grounds and nature trails. • Palm tree lawns and beach front. • Central restaurant, Pizza and Grill Restaurant • Jihazi Grill Seafood Restaurant on the beach. • Selection of bars and Arabic Coffee Terrace • Ice-cream Parlour. • Live music nightly. • Free form pool and swim-up bar. • 'Maisha' Spa and Health Club • Extensive water sports and PADI Dive School. • Animation programme • Butterfly Centre and Turtle Watch Programme • Dedicated world-class event and conference centre • Business Centre, travel desk, taxi and limousine service. • Wedding planning service • Unisex hair salon. • Gift Shop, news-stand and travel requisites kiosk. • Baby-sitting, family rooms, children's dining/menus.
Getting There The resort is situated on Shanzu Beach 30 kilometres from Mombasa. By road: transfers by road from Mombasa take approximately one hour. By air: a 'meet and greet' service for guests arriving from Moi International Airport Mombasa, is provided.
Our rooms and suites We offer a wide range of rooms and suites, all of which are elegantly presented in a fusion of international and Swahili style and all of which have private balconies or terraces. All our rooms and suites are equipped with: 24-hour room service, air-conditioning, WIFI and in-room modem hook-up, direct-dial phone, voice-mail, complementary newspaper, in-room satellite TV, mini bar, private safe, 240V/3 pin (square)sockets and shaver sockets, tea and coffee-making facilities, hair driers, mosquito nets, bathroom and slippers, umbrellas, in-room 'butler bath' service (at additional cost), porter/concierge, airport shuttle and limousine service. While most of our rooms are designated non-smoking, a number of rooms are available for smokers, but these should be booked in advance.
Dining at the Serena Beach Hotel and Spa The Serena Beach Hotel offers a number of dining experiences, and a selection of bars, coffee shops and café areas, both inside and out. Choose from; the central Fountain Restaurant, the charming Jihazi Grill seafood restaurant, the central Sokoni Terrace brasserie and a wide choice of inside and outside bars.
The Fountain Restaurant Cooled by a gentle ocean breeze and clustered around the hanging blossoms of a traditional Persian garden this sumptuous table d'hote restaurant features Swahili carvings, stained glass lanterns, Lamu-esque arches, marble fountains and wide verandas commanding views over waving palms and shimmering ocean.
The Jahazi Grill Drawn up on the shoreline, just yards away from the breaking waves, and built to resemble a traditional Swahili dhow - complete with sanded decks, painted prow, roped capstans, lashed sails and kanga-decked tables, the Jahazi Grill specialises in stunning extravaganzas of fresh-caught seafood.
The grill offers inside seating on the upper and lower 'decks' and outside tables on the soft silver sand of the beach. Menu choices include: crab, squid, lobster, prawns and a wide variety of sea fish. Vegetarian and non-fish options are also available. The restaurant is open for lunch (12.30 to 2 pm) and dinner (7.30 to 10 pm).
The Nyoti Terrace Bar and roof-top terrace Located above the main restaurant, the Nyoti Terrace offers a large screen TV for sports viewing, card tables, cocktail bar, piano lounge and an external terrace with relaxed sofa seating and views over the palm trees to the Indian Ocean.
The Pool Bar Offering both a shaded terrace and a 'swim up' bar, the Pool Bar offers a wide range of drinks and cocktails. It also operates a day-long brasserie-style café service that includes; burgers, pizza, pasta, salads, ices, fresh fruits and more.
The Makuti Bar Overlooking the ocean, this thatched bar offers all-day drinks and snacks plus a weekly Swahili buffet and handicraft market.
The Sokoni Terrace The bustling Sokoni plaza is designed to resemble the colourful marketplace of a traditional Swahili town and features an ornamental fishpond, fluttering Arabian sunshades and a palm-thatched dining area offering fresh-baked pizzas and a wide range of international snacks.
The Sokoni Terrace restaurant serves all-day snacks, a wide selection of lunchtime grills, salads and international choices, and evening cocktails.
The Arabian Coffee Terrace Overlooking the plaza, on a raised balcony opening off the central reception hall, is a terrace area offering inside and outside seating. Here traditional cardamom-flavoured Arabian coffee is served from traditional conical brass pots.
The Ice Cream Parlour Centre stage to the bustle of the market place is the cool of the ice cream parlour offering everything from lavish knickerbockers glories to luscious fruit concoctions.
Conferences, meetings and events The Serena Beach Hotel and Spa is the leading social and corporate-events venue on the Kenyan coast. A dedicated world-class event and conference centre, it stands in its own grounds offering a choice of three air-conditioned event or conference spaces, private kitchens, central Persian garden and extensive outdoor terraces. Among the services offered are: • PA system, table microphones, cordless microphones, TV/Video/DVD, LCD projector/screen, podium, white boards/flip charts and markers. • WiFi connectivity. • Delegate pads, pens/pencils and 1-litre mineral water. • Modern, modular events furniture, which can be tailored to your specifications. • Business support (secretarial services, photo-copying, WiFi and a full range of global communications). • Registration staff and conference organization support. • Floral services. • 24-hour generator back-up. • Travel desk for onward bookings or local safaris. • Concierge services. • Limousine and taxi services. • 'Meet and greet' services. • A wide range of CEO suites. • Extensive secure parking. • Health Club and Spa for your delegates. • Team-building programmes.
Weddings and honeymoons Idyllically located on the Indian Ocean, the Serena Beach Hotel offers a wide range of wedding options. The social venue of choice, it features its own event centre with private entrance, reception areas and central Persian garden. It also offers state-of-the-art audio visual equipment, external cocktail terraces, spacious grounds for photo and video opportunities and a selection of superb suites.
As to formalities; from registrar to certificate, cake to champagne, all will be arranged. We also offer some unique family and friends accommodation packages, 'his and hers' pre-wedding grooming, flowers for the venue and the bride, wedding planning service, professional banquet catering and limousine service.
Family time Family accommodation We can arrange for adjoining rooms for the accommodation of families. We can also provide additional beds, cots and baby-sitting services (prior notice appreciated). Alternatively, we can recommend our specially planned Family Suites, as outlined below.
Family Suites We offer a range of specially planned Family Suites. Each suite has a twin-bedded children's room with digital multi-channel TV, mini bar (which can be emptied on request), direct dial telephone, Internet connectivity, 24-hour room service and a private bathroom. The hotel also offers a children's animation programme; children's menus, a pizza restaurant and ice-cream parlour, baby-sitting services, nightly entertainment (clowns, acrobats etc), supervised nature trails, a delightful butterfly centre and sea turtle programme and a wide range of activities: ping pong, tennis, volley ball, pedalos, wind-surfing, yachting, swimming pool, water aerobics, coconut harvesting and more....
Children's meals All our meals are generous buffet-styled presentations, with something to suit absolutely everyone. High-chairs can be provided, as can baby-friendly food. We are also delighted to offer slightly earlier children's meals (as early as 12 noon and 6.30 pm) - tailored to suit your children. The hotel also offers a pizza restaurant and ice-cream parlour in the Sokoni Plaza.
Children's entertainment The lodge offers its own swimming pool (supervised by a qualified life-guard but not suited to small children other than under parental supervision) and a children's paddling pool.
Additionally we offer: • A complete children's animation programme and animation team. • Supervised nature trails. • Free entry to our Butterfly Centre. • Participation in our Sea Turtle Programme. • Camel rides on the beach. • Glass-bottom boat rides. • Snorkelling. • Sporting activities to include: ping pong, tennis, volley ball, pedalos, wind-surfing, yachting, coconut-picking and archery. • Free trial lessons in kite surfing, wind-surfing and diving. • Giriama dancing and cultural displays. • We can also arrange for culturally-interactive trips to local villages and/or schools. • Educational evening talks by our resident naturalists. • A selection of board games and books on Africa and wildlife. • Visits to the nearby Haller Nature Park plus visits to nearby snake farms and 'Wild Waters' water park, 'Ngomongo' Cultural Village, Mombasa Marine Park, The Shimba Hills National Park, Gedi Ruins, Fort Jesus 17th century Portuguese fort and Mombasa Old Town.
Maisha, the Serena Mind, Body and Spirit Spa The Serena Spa offers a central relaxation area (with spiritual library, Spa Boutique, and Spa Arena, luxurious changing areas (with spacious interior sauna and steam rooms; and exterior Jacuzzis), four individual treatment rooms (each with its own exterior garden, pergola shower and sundeck), one double treatment room, a Spa Bar (offering fresh-pressed juices, Spritzers and herbal infusions), and a communal garden. Additionally, there is a fitness studio offering cardiovascular and isotonic machines and free weights and tennis and squash courts, and a luxury swimming pool. Within the main body of the resort are two Bedouin-styled beach-front Spa Massage Tents, and an open-air Spa Space where daily 'Body Renewal' classes ('Body Sculpture and Tone, Yoga, Martial arts, and Ayurvedic regimes) are held. Adjacent to the Spa, there is also a Spa Hair and Beauty Salon.
What to do and see Located on Shanzu Beach, one of the finest and pristine beaches of the northern Kenya coast, the Serena Beach Hotel offers endless opportunities for sightseeing, sport, wilderness exploration and more. Listed below are just some of the many options. • Enjoy a private 'bubbly breakfast' for two on the beach. • Participate in our daily activity programme. • Visit the Butterfly Centre. • Take part in the hotel's Turtle Protection Project. • Visit one of the many tourist attractions of the area • Take a champagne dhow cruise. • Visit Mombasa • Visit the ruins of an ancient Swahili town - Gedi. • Visit Kisite Mpunguti Marine Park. • Visit the Mombasa Marine National Park. • Visit the Arabuko Sokoke Forest, one of the last remaining coastal rainforests. • Visit the Shimba Hills National Reserve Swahili banquets under the stars. • A kaleidoscope of nightly entertainment to include: live bands, discos, traditional dancing, acrobatic and gymnastic displays, magicians and fashion shows. • Informative talks by our resident naturalist on - butterflies, coral, turtles, dolphins and much more... • Afternoon cultural displays of dance, craft and music.
Sports and action • Extensive complimentary water sports to include: windsurfing, catamaran sailing, introductory scuba diving lessons and snorkelling. • PADI International Dive School • Glass-bottom-boat rides to the coral gardens of the reef. • Deep-sea fishing for marlin, tuna, wahoo and more. • Floodlit tennis courts and air-conditioned squash courts. • Shuffle board and crazy golf. • Aerobics workouts and Aqua Aerobics. • A fully equipped gymnasium with instructor. • Beach walks and nature trails with our resident naturalist. • Jogging trails around the nearby Bamburi Nature Trail. • Swimming in the pool or in the sea. • Volleyball, table tennis, darts and pool. • The facilities of a nearby golf course. • Serena Maisha Mind Body and Spirit Spa
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Geeks Will Be Geeks: Building Prosthetic Empathy
Much more recently, I was in a Werewolf game in 2007 where one of the players decided another player was a Werewolf and came up with an elaborate theory based on terminology I recognized from Speed Seduction. It amused me, in a nostalgic way, because the theory was wrong - the alleged werewolf turned out to be a villager - and because I remembered that kind of crude, clueless theorizing very well from my time among the Speed Seducers. This person, the Speed Seduction Werewolf theorist, was talking about a real phenomenon of human communication, and applying reasoning to it that showed an absolute and total failure to understand either the phenomenon or the human communication it happens in. If you think cargo cult code is bad, wait until you see cargo cult conversation.
I'm reading a book now which reminds me of that time in my life.
I recommend it; it's interesting. But check out this crazy paragraph:
We have begun building social prostheses that help people mold their signaling, so that they can be more socially adept. The basic elements of these social prostheses are a sociometer, to read the signals, and then an interface, to give the user feedback about how they are doing. We have experimented with interfaces such as cell phones, computers, and small earbud audio headsets. Some of the more interesting examples of these social systems are the "jerk-o-meter," which reminds husbands to pay attention to their wives, and the negotiometer, which gives real-time feedback during a negotiation.
I would like to emphasize that he is not fucking kidding. It might sound like a Dilbert strip, but it's real. A science geek studies human body language for years and his conclusion is, there's an opportunity here to build some gadgets. The gadgets will interpret human body language for you and beep at you when there's something you need to know about. That's a good way to use my research.
I recently saw a bunch of Speed Seduction flotsam wash up on the shores of Hacker News, in a thread about hacking body language.
Through college, I had a weak posture, submissive body language, and tended to fidget/move around. I often looked goofy.
About six months ago, I decided to improve all that. I consciously developed an upright, chest-out posture. I cut down or eliminated unnecessary motions. I keep my hands extended and parallel to the arms, instead of close-fisted and angled inwards. I keep my chin up and my gaze high. I keep my legs outward and, when comfortable, spread apart.
By now, it's all become second nature. And it works. Women react much more strongly to me (in a good way). I feel more confident. My body image has greatly improved.
That's great, and I'm happy for anyone who finds a way to make their life better. But the thread gets creepier than that, and quickly.
One of the more clever and disturbing ways to gain 'power' over an individual is to play the student in the master-student role. E.g. by having them teach you something - which is doing you a favor, you can gain their favor.
Can you guess where that's going? I'll give you a hint, it's not going somewhere good. That dude's going to have some fucked-up relationship problems in his future sooner or later. But that's nothing compared to what might be on the horizon. Imagine the damage you'd see if a fucked-up manipulator like that got his hands on a social prostheses that actually worked.
Nobody but the autistic should have social prostheses, and Asperger's doesn't count. Geeks should learn to listen to other people before building robots to do it for them. Otherwise you're going to get cyborg sociopaths - some weird combination of Terminator, American Psycho, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Picture a crazy fucker who lacks basic human empathy, but the robots whispering in his ears have it. Then consider that the robots have no understanding or responsibility for what their masters do with the information. Does that really sound like a good idea?
The answer, of course, is no. It sounds like a terrible idea. Although it does sound like a good movie.
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You just reminded me why Richard Thompson's Read about love is such a very fine song...ReplyDelete
Actually it sounds like a good tv show on HBO: DexterReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2009 at 4:01:00 PM PDT
Speed seduction was an interesting attempt at modeling pick-up artistry using the Bandler and Grinder approach. The bottom line is that if you aren't handsome you aren't handsome, but if you act like douche you'll do better with the types of people that fall for douches. And that leaves both of you in a bad place. I only went far enough to realize that I didn't like me better or the girls that suddenly like me better.ReplyDelete
But college is all about learning.
"Picture a crazy fucker who lacks basic human empathy, but the robots whispering in his ears have it."ReplyDelete
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The next phase of University of Memphis football officially began Thursday, Dec. 8. That's when 35-year-old Justin Fuente, co-offensive coordinator at Texas Christian University, told media and fans gathered at an on-campus press conference, "This is going to be Memphis' team. … I don't care what school you went to, you live in the city, I want this to be your team."
Fuente has never been a head coach. And his name did not come up in published reports about the university's search for a new coach until word leaked out late Wednesday that he had been hired and that Memphis apparently had been close to hiring Alabama offensive coordinator Jim McElwain.
Fuente will be paid $900,000 in 2012 as part of a five-year contract.
"I have hired some great leaders to run enterprises," said Brad Martin, who co-chaired the university's search committee with Willie Gregory. "This is a great leader."
Fuente, who played quarterback at Oklahoma and Murray State, replaces Larry Porter, who was fired after going 3-21 overall, 1-15 in Conference USA, in two seasons.
Fuente graduated from Murray State in 1999 and spent six seasons as an Illinois State assistant before becoming TCU's running backs coach in 2007.
In 2009, he was promoted to co-offensive coordinator. He has helped TCU to three straight Mountain West Conference championships, including the 2011 title. TCU will play Louisiana Tech Dec. 21 in the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego, but Fuente said he would not coach in that game.
Martin said among the criteria for hiring a coach was either previous head coaching experience or a current position as coordinator, but that in the latter scenario they preferred an offensive coordinator.
The Cincinnati Bengals' rookie quarterback Andy Dalton played under Fuente at TCU and became the school's career leader in every major passing category. This season, TCU's offense is among the national leaders with an average of 443.9 yards per game.
The U of M hired a search firm, Eastman & Beaudine Management Consultants of Plano, Texas, to assist the search committee headed by university president Shirley Raines. On Thursday, Raines said Fuente's "energy and enthusiasm" were key factors in his selection and committee member Cato Johnson echoed that opinion.
"His passion, his organization and the fact he really wanted this job" counted for a lot, Johnson said.
Porter had played at Memphis but never came close to energizing his alma mater's fan base. The 2011 season ended with just 2,500 fans at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium for the Tigers' home finale. The next week at Southern Miss the season concluded with a 44-7 loss and Porter was gone.
"We've got to energize this community," Fuente said, "that's the first thing."
Johnson agreed that Fuente becoming a recognizable name and face in the community is crucial, saying he needs to go from "Germantown to Boxtown … know the high schools and the high school coaches, visit the churches."
Logistically, Fuente said recruiting players and assistants for his staff was the top priority. Johnson said they assured Fuente he will be able to hire the assistants he wants.
"We're going to give him the resources," Johnson said.
Fuente spoke optimistically, if cautiously, about what is possible at Memphis. He said he believes there are programs where it is just about impossible to win, but Memphis is not one of them because it can be competitive in Conference USA and because there are a lot of potential recruits in the region.
He drew a parallel to TCU, saying, "At the last place, we didn't always have the biggest stick but we got it done."
The new coach hastened to add, however, that the stick can't "be a magic wand."
Fuente is the 23rd head coach in Tigers history, dating back to 1912 when Clyde Wilson's team went 1-2-1, and the lone victory coming when Memphis beat Bolton Agricultural College. The Tigers have not had a winning decade since the 1970s.
Of late, fans have complained about lopsided losses while playing a diluted schedule. In the second week of this season, the Tigers suffered a 47-3 pounding at Arkansas State – then coached by Hugh Freeze, who this week became the new coach at Ole Miss.
"Down the road, I'm not afraid of playing anyone," Fuente said.
"But we need to be smart and build this thing the right way."
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Kingston has launched a new SDXC card at Computex 2010. Called the 64GB SDXC UHS-1, the memory card was designed only for digital cameras, camcorders and laptops and it can't be used on a mobile phone yet.
The SDXC card is speed Class 10 and features a minimum data transfer speed of 10MB/sec, up to 60MB/s read speed and up to 35MB\s write speed. The new SDXC card will be compatible with devices such as HDTVs, nav devices, media players or computers in the near future and it will also be compatible with devices from Panasonic and Canon very soon.
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text: Senate Vote Fails on Ethanol Tax Incentive June 14, 2011 09:30 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By AgWeb.com Editors Email Source: Renewable Fuels Association The Renewable Fuels Association today applauded those Senators that voted to stop the political gamesmanship of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) over federal investment in ethanol. On a cloture vote to proceed to an amendment that would end the current ethanol tax incentive immediately, Senator Coburn lost 40-59, falling 20 votes short of the sixty votes needed to obtain cloture. Corn futures took a tumble today as many traders believed this would pass the Senate vote. "This vote demonstrates the lack of appetite for this kind of destructive policy and political gamesmanship. The Senate and the country need to focus on a comprehensive energy strategy that seeks to expand America's ability to renewably meet its fuel needs. Initiatives like the legislation introduced by Senators Thune and Klobuchar yesterday are the exact kind of responsible policy prescriptions that will create domestic jobs and help meet the energy challenges of the 21st century. With this kind of political theater hopefully behind us, American ethanol producers are ready to work with lawmakers to ensure a robust and diverse domestic ethanol industry can develop in a fiscally responsible manner." The RFA supports the Ethanol Reform and Deficit Reduction Act offered by Senators John Thune (R-SD) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). Under this proposal, the current ethanol tax incentive, known as VEETC, would transition to a variable tax incentive tied to the price of oil. Additionally, the bill would make available funds saved by the transformation of VEETC to expand ethanol fueling infrastructure by improving tax policies currently available for blender pumps and other ethanol-related infrastructure. Specifically, the bill calls for 53,000 blender pumps, a number the RFA noted was needed to help achieve the goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard. The bill would also extend current tax incentives for the next generation of ethanol technologies using cellulosic and other feedstocks. If passed, the bill would take effect July 1, 2011. This bill is similar to legislation introduced by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who is a cosponsor of this bill, and Kent Conrad (D-ND). Back to news