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The Morris Fire Protection and Ambulance District fought an apartment fire Sunday night that was so extreme the chief said it was fortunate there were no fatalities.
At about 8:50 p.m., Morris fire was called by Morris police to 510 Twilight Drive to a fire in an apartment building. Police were evacuating the building, which was empty when the first fire engine arrived on scene, Fire Chief Tracey Steffes said Monday morning.
"I'm absolutely very surprised with the amount of fire and the type of conditions," Steffes said. "We're very lucky we did not have a fatality with the extreme fire conditions there last night."
When firefighters arrived, there were extreme fire conditions on the first and second floor. The fire began in an apartment with "very, very, very poor housekeeping that allowed for paper on top of a stove and then they used the stove," Steffes said. The tenant tried to extinguish the fire themselves, but couldn't.
About 15 people were displaced because of the fire that resulted in about $500,000 worth of damage.
"When you have an apartment complex, you have a lot of people in there," Steffes said.
A box alarm was alerted for the fire, which brought out Plainfied, Braidwood, Seneca, Lisbon, Channahon, Minooka, Troy, Coal City, Wilmington, Newark and Marseilles fire departments. The Grundy County EMA communications van was also called in. Morris police and MABAS 15 are investigating.
Since Wednesday, this is the third extreme fire Morris fire department has had to deal with. A house fire in an attic occurred Wednesday, a fire broke out Saturday morning at Quality Millwork and then there was Sunday's apartment fire.
No one was injured in any of the fires.
"All three were very different in their own way," Steffes said. "I couldn't be more proud of my people dealing with extreme fire conditions the last four to five days. All of our training paid off."
Poor housekeeping plays role in apartment fire
No one injured, but blaze caused about $500,000 damage
The Morris Fire Protection and Ambulance District fought an apartment fire Sunday night that was so extreme the chief said it was fortunate there were no fatalities.


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Here are some of the nice things that people are saying about Me Monstar:
"Me Monstar: Hear me Roar! is exactly what Minis are about: a delicious amuse-bouche of fun."
Official Playstation Magaine 9/10
"Finally a bit of class. Me Monstar isn't just one of the best minis yet, but a perfect embodiment of the concept: a simple idea, beautifully executed for a tiny price."
PSM3 Magazine 8.9/10
"Me Monstar: Hear Me Roar is the definition of a great PSN exclusive Mini: it is simple to learn, difficult to master, clever in design, pleasing to look at, cheap to buy, and, above all else, fun to play."
Blistered thumbs 8/10
"…Its the best Playstation Minis game I have played since I started Videogame 4 Gamerz. It's a really solid well made game. The presentation, visuals, sound design are all solid. It's addicting and very fun."
Videogames 4 Gamerz 8/10
"… a unique and original PlayStation Mini, with a stunning art-style and a solid gameplay foundation. The game might not be instantly engaging, but its bonkers premise and silly sense of humour will reward your perseverance."
Push Square 4/5
"…. what is best about Me Monstar is its colour and verve as it expands. This is a funny game, one that loves setting up domino-like scenarios and chucking you in the middle with just the tool for the job…. It's a tribute to Me Monstar that, despite lasting a good few hours, you want more."
Edge 7/10
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Primitives and Object Wrappers
This series, The Object-Oriented Thought Process, is intended for someone just learning an object-oriented language and who wants to understand the basic concepts before jumping into the code, or someone who wants to understand the infrastructure behind an object-oriented language he or she is already using. These concepts are part of the foundation that any programmer will need to make the paradigm shift from procedural programming to object-oriented programming.
Click here to start at the beginning of the series.
In keeping with the code examples used in the previous articles, Java will be the language used to implement the concepts in code. One of the reasons that I like to use Java is because you can download the Java compiler for personal use at the Sun Microsystems Web site http://java.sun.com/. You can download the standard edition, J2SE 5.0, at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp to compile and execute these applications. I often reference the Java J2SE 5.0 API documentation and I recommend that you explore the Java API further. Code Listings are provided for all examples in this article as well as Figures and output (when appropriate). See the first article in this series for detailed descriptions for compiling and running all the code examples.
In previous columns, you covered the concept of object wrappers. This is actually one of the most important, and interesting, object-oriented design methodologies. Perhaps the most elegant aspect of object-oriented design is when it comes to integrating with other technologies, specifically older, more established technologies. In fact, one of the hottest job opportunities in Information Technologies is that of integrating legacy applications with object-oriented technologies.
For example, because much of today's business data is kept on mainframes, and it will most likely be staying put, the ability to use a Web front end to interface with this legacy data is very important. Wrapping mainframe technologies in objects is a powerful mechanism form combining the two methodologies. Likewise, as you saw with the client-server systems of earlier articles in this series, using object wrappers to hide the hardware implementation provides a great advantage.
Interestingly, one of the best examples of object wrappers is also one of the simplest. Because the main purpose of this series is to explore the underlying concepts of object-oriented technologies, it is quite helpful to explore the relationship between primitives and objects.
When experienced programmers begin to learn object-oriented techniques, one of the first stumbling bocks encountered is the concept that everything is an object—well almost everything. In some languages, such as Java, the universe is really divided into two camps, objects and primitives (in other o-o language architectures, although the primitives are there, the programmer must access them via object wrappers).
Sun Microsystems's Java tutorial defines a primitive as: A variable of primitive type contains a single value of the appropriate size and format for its type: a number, a character, or a boolean value. For example, an integer value is 32 bits of data in a format known as two's complement, the value of a char is 16 bits of data formatted as a Unicode character, and so on.
The primitives are called built-in types, and there are eight of them:
- boolean
- int
- long
- byte
- short
- float
- double
- char
One of the problems that C programmers had was that the byte size of the primitive types differed among the various platforms. This led to a great amount of grief, or at least a lot of work, for a programmer wanting to port a program from one machine to another.
For example, there were times when I was porting C/C++ programs to different machines that had integer sizes of 16, 32, and 64 bits. This led to a lot of conditional compiling and made the code more vulnerable to bugs. In short, it was the programmer's responsibility to adjust to the variety of the platforms. This was not the optimal solution. The Java architecture allows the programmer to treat all primitives the same on all platforms. Table 1 shows the storage requirements for the various primitives.
|signed 8-bit integer
|signed 16-bit integer
|signed 32-bit integer
|signed 64-bit integer
|signed 32-bit floating-point
|signed 64-bit floating-point
|16-bit Unicode 2.0 character
Table 1
These primitives fall into three basic categories, the boolean type, the common numeric types (byte, short, int, long, float, and double) and the char type. I like to categorize them in groupings because the boolean and char types require a bit more explanation.
In the case of the boolean type, the explanation is really due to the fact that the boolean is not really what it appears to be. Because a boolean only has two possible values, true and false, it may seem obvious that a single bit is all that is required to implement the boolean. Yet, as most C programmers know, there was never an actual boolean type in the original C specification.
Yet, the concept of a boolean type was quite common in C programs. When a C programmer needed a boolean type, the programmer simply used an integer to do the job. To mimic the functionality of the boolean values true and false, a simple coding trick was performed:
#define TRUE 1 #define FALSE 0
In effect, this code defines TRUE and FALSE to the values 1 and 0 respectively. With this in place, the programmer can now use traditional Boolean logic.
if (flag == TRUE) { ...do something }
Although this workaround provides the functionality that we need, it has one drawback—it wastes space. This may well be a trivial problem, but the fact remains that you are using at minimum 8 bits, where only a single bit is required (this assumes that the compiler is implementing the boolean as a byte).
In fact, Java uses the same approach, although behind the scenes. There are efficiency reasons why a single bit is not used to implement a boolean. The compiler/virtual machine/operating systems are not designed to access individual bits. Thus, while you might be seeing bits, you are actually getting bytes simulating bits. As you can see in the code in Listing 1, you actually define a boolean type.
public class Primitives { public static void main(String[] args) { boolean flag = true; if (flag = = true)System.out.println("flag is true"); } }
Listing 1
The char type is the only non-numeric primitive, and is stored as a 16-bit unsigned value. Despite the fact that a char represents a single character, each char is stored as a numeric code that represents a specific character. Java represents characters in a 16-bit Unicode whereas earlier languages have used 8-bit codes such as ASCII. Unicode allows programming languages to handle a wider character set and support several languages using various alphabets. You can get a great idea of the various alphabet choices, as well as their definitions, by visiting: http://www.unicode.org/charts/.
The code in Listing 2 is quite interesting.
public class Primitives { public static void main(String[] args) { char c = 'a'; short num = 97; System.out.println("c = " + (short)c); System.out.println("num = " + (char)num); } }
Listing 2
There are two primitives declared:
char c = 'a'; int num = 97;
The numeric code for the character 'a' is 97. When you cast the char to an int and print it, you get the value 97.
System.out.println("c = " + (int)c);
Conversely, you can assign an int to the value of 97 and then cast it to a char. When you print this char, you do indeed get the character 'a'.
System.out.println("num = " + (char)num);
When executed, the output produced by the code in Listing 2 is displayed in Figure 1.
Figure 1
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Just finished drawing the tutorial for a Beaded Crystal snowflake, I used glass seed beads and Swarovski crystals, adopting the Right Angle Weave technique. You can always differ the size of the beaded Snowflake by changing the beads and crystal sizes, simply use bigger beads and crystals for a bigger snowflake. Great as earrings, pendant, phone charm, bag charm and perfect for this coming Christmas as a Christmas tree ornament!
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Policy statement on religious accommodation in schools
March 2017 - Education providers are responsible for many things, including delivering a curriculum, managing the various other aspects of educational services, ensuring student safety, fostering pluralistic environments that respect human rights, and managing tension and conflict as they arise in the school setting. Schools ought to be a place for healthy discussions about acceptance and where a diversity of views can co-exist. Educators should communicate messages about difference in a fair and respectful manner and be sensitive to the views of everyone protected by the Ontario Human Rights Code. Students, staff and parents should realize that they cannot reasonably expect their own views and beliefs to be respected if they are not willing to respect the views and beliefs of others.


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Norris: Chavez's experiences key to current success
ANAHEIM -- A's catcher Derek Norris, who's worked with Jesse Chavez as both a relief pitcher and a starter, said the right-hander's maturity is a key to his success in the latter role.
Chavez, 30, relieved in 189 of his first 191 Major League appearances. In three starts for Oakland this season, Chavez doesn't have a decision, but he has a 1.35 ERA, a .200 opponents' batting average, and has struck out 22 while walking two in 20 innings. The A's have won all his starts, two in extra innings, and Monday's on John Jaso's ninth-inning, two-run homer as a pinch-hitter.
"[Chavez] is a very mature ballplayer," Norris said Tuesday. "He's been through both the positives and the negatives. He's the kind of guy, if you give him four days to get ready, he's going to take full advantage of those four days."
As far as catching him, Norris said, "my opinion is, it's about the same. The obvious difference is, when you start against a team, especially a divisional team you might face three to four times a season, you only have to show part of your game the first couple times they come up, saving something for later. It's OK when you start to give up a run or two.
"As a reliever, you're always going for zeros, and you're only going to face a guy once, so you can throw everything you've got at him then."
Norris reiterated that Chavez's strength is "he's had his ups and downs, the moments when he's struggled, so he can cope with it. And he had a starter's background in the Minor Leagues, so it isn't something totally new for him."


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The Department of Defense (DOD) spends billions of dollars each year to procure tactical wheeled vehicles, such as several types of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. Tactical wheeled vehicles are used to transport people, weapons, and cargo. The advent of improvised explosive devices has had a significant effect on designing tactical wheeled vehicles for survivability. DOD is in the process of acquiring two new armored designsthe Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All Terrain Vehicle, and the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. The estimated total acquisition cost for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All Terrain Vehicle is about $12.5 billion. The military services expect to have a variety of tactical wheeled vehicles in use at any given time. Since 2008, GAO has identified tactical wheeled vehicle procurement as being at risk for duplication, and in 2009 GAO recommended that DOD develop a unified acquisition strategy.
DOD's acquisition of two similar tactical wheeled vehiclesthe Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, including an All Terrain variant, and eventually the Joint Light Tactical Vehiclecreates a risk of unplanned overlap in capabilities that could increase acquisition costs significantly. The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All Terrain vehicle contractor was expected to complete deliveries in November 2010. According to program officials, the vehicles fielded so far appear to be performing well. Development efforts for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, with an expected initial acquisition of over 60,000 vehicles, are still ongoing. While acquisition costs for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle are yet to be determined, a low-end estimate is $18.5 billion. The cost per unit, including mission equipment, could be over $800,000 each.
To date, the services have not considered using the vehicles in the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected familywith the exception of some vehicles planned for use by route clearance, explosives ordinance disposal, and medical evacuation unitsto offset the need for or replace other tactical wheeled vehicles. Currently, the services consider Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles to be mainly additive to their fleets. Given the high potential cost of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, reducing the number of units acquired could offer substantial savings, albeit with potential performance tradeoffs. To illustrate, a 5 percent reduction in Joint Light Tactical Vehicle quantities could save nearly $2.5 billion, assuming a unit cost of $800,000.
DOD does not have a unified tactical wheeled vehicle strategy that considers timing, capabilities, affordability, and sustainability. DOD stated in 2009 that it would create a unified plan for tactical wheeled vehicle investment decisions. The plan would be a comprehensive strategy compatible with Army and Marine Corps equipping strategies. As of January 2011, the Army had completed and released its updated tactical wheeled vehicle strategy, the Marine Corps had not yet completed its updated strategy, and DOD had not yet issued a timetable for completing a unified, departmentwide strategy.
With the Army and Marine Corps facing decisions about whether to repair, upgrade, or replace older tactical vehicles, it is important to fully assess the requirements and cost for buying and maintaining all classes of tactical wheeled vehicles from the dual perspectives of mission need and affordability. The services need to know what capabilities the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle will have, the scope and cost of any recapitalization of other vehicles or production effort, and the sustainment cost of placing the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected family of vehicles in their force structures. The services have expressed concern about their ability to fund operations and support costs for tactical wheeled vehicles in the future.
DOD could save both acquisition and support costs through a departmentwide tactical wheeled vehicle strategy that considers costs and benefits of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle compared to other tactical wheeled vehicle options.
To help the agency assess the affordability of these acquisitions and their implications for competing demands within the department, DOD needs to complete its planned DOD-wide tactical wheeled vehicle strategy to determine
In addition, as GAO recommended in November 2010, DOD should include in the strategy a cost-benefit analysis that could minimize the collective acquisition and support costs of the various tactical wheeled vehicle programs and reduce the risk of unplanned overlap or duplication. Such a cost-benefit analysis should provide an estimate of dollar savings for various options for offsetting Joint Light Tactical Vehicle quantities in favor of recapitalizing existing vehicles.
Any potential offsets between Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles and Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, to the extent that they are supported by cost-benefit analyses, could save both acquisition and support costs. Simply reducing the number of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles DOD procures could result in billions of dollars in cost savings. For instance, a reduction of just 5 percent would save $2.5 billion, assuming a unit cost of $800,000. In addition to saving initial procurement costs, reducing tactical wheeled vehicle acquisition quantities has the potential to reduce future operational and maintenance costs.
DOD concurred with GAO's recommendations and said that the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program will conduct an analysis of alternatives that explores potential offsets to planned acquisition quantities, including those related to the replacement of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. In addition, as a part of DOD's planned analysis of alternatives to the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the Army and Marine Corps have stated they will explore the implications, including maintenance and lifecycle cost benefits, of acquiring a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle family of vehicles as a part of a mixed vehicle fleet.
The information contained in this analysis is based on the related GAO products listed listed under the "Related GAO Products" tab.
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The Department of Defense (DOD) is acquiring two new tactical wheeled vehicles (TWV): the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) All Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) and the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV). The $12.5 billion M-ATV is for use in Afghanistan; JLTV is the future replacement for vehicles like the High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). GAO was asked to assess (1) DOD's progres...
Ground-based military operations generally make use of two broad categories of vehicles: combat vehicles designed for a specific fighting function and tactical vehicles designed primarily for use by forces in the field in connection with or in support of tactical operations. Combat vehicles generally move on tracks versus wheels and include the Abrams tank, Bradley Fighting vehicle, and the Paladi...
About 75 percent of casualties in current combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are attributed to improvised explosive devices (IED). To mitigate the threat from these weapons, the Department of Defense (DOD) initiated the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle program, which uses a tailored acquisition approach to rapidly acquire and field the vehicles. In May 2007, the Secretary of D...


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ZTE Corp, China's second largest telecoms gear maker in revenue terms, expects an increase in smartphone sales and an expansion in 4G networks to keep it in profit this year after posting its first-ever annual loss in 2012.
After two quarters of losses, ZTE on Friday posted a 35.9 percent increase in its first-quarter 2013 net profit, lifted by gains from selling assets late last year.
ZTE now expects network growth, especially within China, and higher smartphone sales to keep it in the black. He Shiyou, executive vice president in charge of handsets, told Reuters in Beijing ZTE expects sales of its mobile devices to exceed 50 percent of revenue by around 2028 from 31 percent in 2012.
"At ZTE, we hope that in the future, mobile devices will account for more than one-third of revenue," He said. ZTE is currently the world's sixth largest smartphone maker in terms of shipments.
ZTE was plagued by project delays and thinning margins in emerging markets last year, but analysts expect it to turn a profit this year.
"ZTE's major profit drivers in 2013 include China Mobile's capex, Africa market and smartphone business," BOC International said in a report prior to the earnings release. The brokerage expects ZTE to turn a 2013 net profit of 562 million yuan compared to a 2.84 billion yuan loss last year.
ZTE and larger rival Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd are expected to benefit the most from plans by China Mobile Ltd to spend 41.7 billion yuan on developing 4G technology this year.
In the quarter ended March 31, ZTE reported a net profit of 205.0 million yuan ($33 million), up from 150.9 million yuan in the same year-ago period, the company said in a stock exchange filing.
The figure was below the 220 million yuan quarterly profit forecast by three analysts polled by Reuters, and included around 800 million yuan of gains from the sale of stakes in several units last year.
The quarterly results came after the market closed. ZTE's Hong Kong shares, which have fallen by about 5 percent since the beginning of this year, ended down 0.5 percent, lagging the main Hang Seng Index's 0.7 percent gain.


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Before EATING DIRT was published, and before I head out on the book-tour roadshow, I didn't know much about American tree-planters. Research told me that the job was performed largely Mexican migrant workers who are in many cases an underpaid and invisible workforce. It was too big a topic for my humble account, but there's this excellent investigative piece by The Sacramento Bee, which is the best treatment of the subject I have found.
As I traveled through the Pacific Northwest, all these people showed up at my slideshows and presentations–in crowds I didn't expect. They wore flannel shirts and vintage Gore-Tex. Many might describe themselves as retired hippies. They told me that they had planted trees in much the same way I had–camping out with their co-ed crews in deranged woodland gypsy camps–but that the industry as they'd known it (and built it in some cases) had largely died out.
I got this letter–along with some great photos–not so long ago from Larry Fisher, who calls himself, happily I'd say, "a former dirt ball."
We were home based in Oregon, but worked all over the Pacific Northwest. Our company began taking shape in the early/mid 70s when a few folks who were tired of getting four bucks an hour planting for BLM and The Forest Service decided to band together and bid on some jobs themselves. It started out as a cooperative, where we bid by the acre then paid ourselves by the number of trees each person planted. Tough, rocky, unplantable ground made each tree worth more, and easy, gravy, very plantable ground made each tree worth less. We had plenty of steep, rocky, slashy ground, but from your book and pictures I've seen, it is magnified considerably up north.
We generally camped in the area of our work, but often had an hour or longer drive from camp to the job site. Our number one form of transportation was a 20 passenger bus which we affectionately called "THE MOTHER SHIP." We had a few vans and "six packs" for small jobs. Our camps consisted of teepees, churts, yurts, tents, and trailers of every size and shape. We grew to 25+ by 1980 and went from a cooperative to a corporation and began hiring employees. Like many who plant trees, most of us felt we were doing it "for the cause," and despite the labor, loved what we were doing. Before we had an official name, we loosely went by Hockett's Rockets, Hockett being the last name of one of our founders. We were officially Golden Reforestation, aka The Rockets. We competed for jobs with, and were friends with, crews with names like Home Grown, The Hoedads, Green Side Up to name a few. Sometimes we even worked together on big jobs or subbed jobs out to each other. We were co-ed and some of our hardest workers were women. You could insert our names in many parts of your book, but there are differences as well. We seldom planted by shovel. I disliked it when we did. Except for a few rare shovel or dibble jobs we planted almost exclusively by hoedad. An unwieldy tool for the novice. You guys were much more isolated, had larger areas to plant, more rugged ground, more threatening wildlife, worse weather, etc.
The early years(1973-1980) were probably the most enjoyable, the most bonds made, life-long friendship began, relationships that turned into marriages and families began. The later years (1980-1988) the most profitable (none of us got rich), saw people moving on to "real professions" and the hiring of more employees. By 1988 we were down to seven owners, logging (thus tree planting), was dwindling, it was getting harder to compete with the companies hiring illegal cheap labor, and we were getting older. All of us had been planting for 15 years and some more. So we disbanded. Just like that.
Fortunately, 25 years later, we still have a great circle of friendship. We have a yearly reunion(we call it a rendezvous) on Steamboat Creek, a tributary of The North Umpqua, at a spot we call The Riviera Club. We camped there often in our planting days, had a sweat lodge there, and lazed in the sun on those rare warm days. Some make it to the rendezvous every year, some every couple of years or so, and some only once or twice in the past 25 years. I'm fairly sure that all of the original 25+ have been at least once. They are spread around the world and in various professions. Some have retired. Two have passed on.
Again, I enjoyed your book. It is being passed around The Rockets with instructions to feel free to make notations, draw pictures, etc., and I'm hoping it makes it's way back to me. If it does, I was hoping I may send it to you to be signed, if that's possible?
Planting trees was a good thing. Good future luck. PEACE.
Larry Fisher
Well, Larry, thanks for the awesome email, and send The Rockets my best. I look forward to the day that your copy makes its way to my mailbox. And can I just say? I think if you saw some of the new fibreglass, ergonomically designed shovels that the kids are using today, you might even become a convert.
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This incredible email came my way from Terezka, who now lives in Ithaca, NY, but who once called herself a proud planter Amazonian. Some of you crusty old-timers may remember a great little tree planting documentary, Cache 22, from the late 90s. Yep, Terezka's brainchild:
She writes:
In a treeplanting camp, we all meet people who profoundly change our lives. You met your husband. I met a dear friend.
My BFF, Meg, and I met on crew near Prince George in the early '90's. Let's just say that if we were both single lesbians, I definitely would have asked her out on a date. The fact that Meg spells Gem backwards just about says it all. Never did I meet anyone who was so darn likable, smart, brave, generous, creative, empathic and generally awesome. When Meg and I planted, we were Amazon women reincarnate who wore our "Invincible Misfits" badges on our sleeves. You know what I mean. Meg planted for a year or two longer than I did and eventually started teaching writing at Vanier College in Montréal. We became mamas at the same time. Twice. She was a writer, too, married to Andy Brown of Conundrum Press. It was actually Meg's sister Kate who sent me your book last winter much to my jubilant anticipation knowing that Meg would have been thrilled, too, of your publication.
Now comes the sad part: Meg died in January 2011 from advanced breast cancer at the age of 43. In large part, she blamed the cancer on being exposed to so many [name your poison]-icides that she worked with during those silvicultural halcyon days. Who really knows? I'm sure many, if not all, of the chemicals the tree nurseries generously shower onto those wimpy seedlings are highly carcinogenic. Of course, we didn't all get sick. Maybe it is just those gemstone souls who are born with the wrong genes for this poisonous world who succumb to cancer.
I share this, in part, because I know you can relate to the tragic aspects of the log planting industry. You recall the quips: "We'll all be suffering prematurely from horrible ailments such as arthritis." as we try to unfurl The Claw…or "Those sprays are so toxic we'll probably all get cancer."
Sigh. Those effin chemicals.
One of Meg's favorite life experiences was the indisputably formative work of planting trees. Despite the fact that we were knowingly cogs in the wheels of deforestation, she was still a committed environmentalist who embraced the complicated intermingling of nature and culture that so characterizes the tree planting world. Able to flaunt our strength by tapping into our hominid self, we could simultaneously spar with Nietzsche or some other dead white guy, while wading through dense slash and screefing the b'jesus out of the land.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 at 12:39 am
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I took this photo of an old stump with a disposable camera while pounding out an awesome little cream patch behind the (then M&B) shop in Port McNeill on Vancouver Island. That's my glove in the springboard notch, for scale.
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This photo was sent to me by a retired planter–an 18-year vet. Thanks Gordon!
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This postcard arrived from Chris Stephenson. Planters, I get email all the time about your postcards–everybody loves them, including me.
Chris writes:
I cried when I stood in this, my first clearcut. I will never forget the eerie silence and the moonscape terrain. It was 1995 and I was out from Ontario for a summer adventure during university. But I also knew I was privileged to spend time in a part of Canada that most people never have the pleasure of even getting to see. I have done a lot of tough jobs since, but this remains a special rite of passage in my history, and the reason why I moved back to the beauty of the West coast as soon as I could.
I keep this framed photo on the wall of every place I have lived since. And I still have this first Tilley hat and, of course, my shovel.
In tough or uncertain times, I find myself gravitating back into the Canadian woods where I always find some calm. This summer I'm looking forward to doing the West Coast Trail and living amongst the trees again.
Well, Chris, if it's any consolation, I haven't been able to bring myself to toss my shovel or caulk boots, either. Thanks for writing in!
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Dirty MBAs: What were those Dardenites doing?
If you heard a hearty ho, ho, ho on Saturday, April 12, you might have thought it was Santa celebrating spring. But in fact it was more likely a chuckle from one of the 12 happy homeowners who were lucky enough to be part of Christmas in April, a Darden School charity project that pairs MBA candidates with local contractors to do home repairs for low-income residents.
Felisco Harris, 61, who cares for her ailing 91-year-old father in the home on Route 20 north that he built himself more than 60 years ago, is one of the recipients of Christmas in April. She calls the project a "blessing."
Approximately 20 Darden elves joined with Ace Contracting to do thousands of dollars of work– at no cost to Harris or her father.
Every window was replaced, the house was painted, a 120-foot drainage ditch was dug to prevent water from seeping inside and causing rot, and new covers were made for the well and the basement. In addition, the enthusiastic students even mowed her lawn, pruned her bushes, and raked her leaves.
MBA candidate Jay Lambiotte, who headed up the project at Harris' home, says that nearly 200 students participate in some way at the dozen homes Darden students work on. But though the actual home repairs take only one day, Lambiotte says Christmas in April– a national organization akin to Habitat for Humanity for existing homeowners– is something Darden students work on all year.
Money– about $60,000 this year comes from an auction. The students contact local businesses, including Better Living and Lowe's, to secure discounts on supplies, and then the recipients must be selected.
Lambiotte says churches and community agencies including the Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) provide names of low-income residents who are unable to perform home repairs themselves.
Contractors such as Ace (mentioned in the April 3 Hook cover story "My House as a Life") assess each home and determine which repairs can be completed in the one day allotted.
And that one day's work provides an immeasurable amount of comfort to the recipients.
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It has been some time since I learned a new programming language. Perhaps Haskell has me so firmly entrenched in "desirable properties" that any new language I look at either looks like another Javascript (a decent language sullied by terrible syntax) or Smalltalk (a decent language sullied by terrible engineering). I completely admit that I have had opportunities to learn new languages that I have turned down because I didn't find the language's ideas aesthetically pleasing after reading about them for ten minutes. But all in all I have been unimpressed by new languages and haven't felt inspired to learn them to the degree I would need to use them.
It has also been some time since I have been excited about programming. My readers are surely aware of this as the topics of this blog meander this way and that away from my expertise. I used to love seeking the elegant design, simmering 200 lines down into 40, hypothesizing about language features and module systems, imagining worlds in which all modern software was built upon my paradigm.
I think these two things are related. I am not sure which way the causation goes, or even if there is a causal relationship. But thinking back on my time as a programmer, the times when I was most productive I was learning: working in a new language or working in a new domain. I still think CodeCatalog is a great idea, in total a few hard weeks' work, and I can't convince myself to write another line of the damned thing. That's because I know how it's gonna go; I know what I have to do; there is no mystery to it.
What if, instead of twisting my arm and trying to force myself into "good behavior", I embraced this aspect of myself? There has to be some beautiful experimental kernel to that project; there has to be some beautiful way to express it. And it is certainly possible, even likely, that the result won't end up looking and feeling like StackOverflow or Google Whatever (beta).
So what?
Have I been so brainwashed by the business of software that I will abandon a project because I cannot inspire myself to bring it to business standards? I think it's because we wanted to make money. It would be nice not to have to worry about paying rent, I admit, but not worth exchanging for the beauty of an inspired work of code.
Someone invent a beautiful web/database language. I mean beautiful and unique — not practical or productive or real-world or familiar or interoperable or scalable. I don't care about those adjectives, those are for engineers.


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- Dor Guez is an artist who has dedicated himself to telling the story of Palestinian Christian communities
- He has launched a Christian Palestinian Archive which he draws on heavily for his work
- He says the community negotiates its identity against Jewish Israelis and Muslim Arabs
After generations of conflict, the clamor of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute has the tendency to drown out other voices and stories from the region.
The work of multimedia artist Dor Guez -- whose identity as a Palestinian Christian living in Israel makes him "a minority within a minority" -- aims to rectify this. Through the use of video, historical photographs and documents, the Jaffa-based Guez tells the narrative of a marginalized community.
"It's not about supporting one cause or another," he says. "It's about having this voice heard among other voices."
Guez, whose first solo show in the U.K., "40 Days," opens in London's Mosaic Rooms gallery on April 12, focuses on depicting the experiences of the Middle East's Palestinian Christian minorities, including his own family.
While his father is of Jewish-Tunisian descent, Guez's mother is a Christian Palestinian, her family hailing from Lod, known in Arabic as al-Lyddan, ancient city 15 kilometers (9 miles) southeast of Tel Aviv.
The city is home to the Church of St. George, a major shrine to the 4th-century Christian martyr.
"The cemetery is where my grandfather is buried, my great-grandfather, for many generations back," Guez says. "It can be under Israeli, Turkish, British regime; we have zero control over it, being a weak and small minority -- weak in numbers, not in education. But we have a connection to the place itself."
When the territory was claimed by the newly declared state of Israel in 1948, the Arabs were expelled, with only about 1,050 remaining. Some of Guez's family resettled in London, Oman and Cairo, but others remained, finding themselves in an "extremely complicated and difficult" situation, he says.
"We have pressure from both groups -- the Muslim Palestinians and the Israelis -- to identify with their goals," he says. "I think that in the case of the Christian Palestinians, we really got stuck in between sometimes."
Guez says the community had to negotiate their identity against two majority groups -- Israeli Jews and Muslim Arabs -- displaying a dual attitude towards both groups to protect their identity.
On the one hand, he says, they demonstrated their will to integrate, but they also had a clear desire to maintain a distinct cultural identity. "Both Jewish society and Muslim society fail to understand the versatility of the Christian minority, as well as its religious, social and cultural needs," he says.
Today, the majority of Palestinian Christians live outside Israel and the Palestinian territories. According to Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are about 120,000 Christian Arabs in Israel.
Guez's art draws heavily on the Christian Palestinian Archive, an electronic database he started that catalogs photographs, passports, birth certificates and other documents from the community's history. It started out as a family archive but quickly snowballed to include members of the Palestinian Christian diaspora throughout the world, he says.
"I started thinking, 'Why don't we as a community have our own archive, when almost every culture around the world has one?' " he says. "Obviously, it's because of political reasons. A lot of Christians around the Middle East don't want to build an archive because it will be interpreted as a political act of separation."
Omar Al-Qattan, secretary of the board of trustees behind the Mosaic Rooms, said Guez's personal background informed his work.
"He is the product of two conflicting realities -- the creation of the state of Israel which made it possible for his father's Jewish Tunisian family to immigrate to Israel and the dispossession of his mother's family," he says.
Guez's focus on the fate of the region's minorities was particularly poignant "in a time of great sectarian tension -- in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and quite possibly elsewhere," Al-Qattan says.
Guez says his work had provoked strong reactions in Israel. "Some of them are very supportive, but a lot of them are like, 'You're a traitor -- why should a museum in Israel show the narrative of Palestinians?' " he says.
"I think that's a part of the dialogue with audience. I would have been surprised if it was received quietly -- not that I think of what I do as something provocative. I don't."
Rather, he says, his work is about asking "what is nationality" and "creating a community through individual voices."
"I think that what unifies people is a will," he says, adding that there are "many different voices within what we call Palestine. I think that's something that's very important to remember."


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The Democracy Alliance is a donors collaborative established by a group of liberal political activists, labor unions and donors. The group was created in April 2005 in Phoenix, AZ. The attendees at the initial meeting included George Soros, former Clinton White House aides Mike McCurry, Sidney Blumenthal, and LBJ staffer turned PBS talking head Bill Moyers.[1]
Democracy Alliance does its best to keep the details of its members and inner workings under wraps, so complete information is lacking. Prominent members include George Soros, Tom Steyer, Peter B. Lewis, Susie Tompkins Buell, trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, trial lawyer Fred Baron, movie director Rob Reiner, Norman Lear, Drummond Pike, Rob McKay, Rutt Bridges, Patricia Stryker, Rob Glaser, Rob Johnson, Anne Bartley, Jonathan Heller, Charles Rodgers, Gail Furman, Davidi Gilo, Rachel Pritzker Hunter and the Service Employees International Union.[2] To become a "partner," as the members are referred to internally, requires a $25,000 entry fee and annual dues of $30,000 to cover alliance operations as well as some of its contributions to start-up liberal groups. Partners also agree to spend at least $200,000 annually on DA-endorsed organizations.[3]
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- America Votes
- Center for Community Change
- Data Warehouse
- EMILY's List
- Sierra Club[6]
- USAction
- Air America Radio
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
- Media Matters for America
- Center for Independent Media
- People for the American Way
- Center for American Progress[7]
- Economic Policy Institute
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Center for Progressive Leadership
- New Democrat Network
- Progressive Majority
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/06/AR2005080600848_pf.html
- ↑ http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?472778da-feca-4958-ac19-3031f2434dce
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/16/AR2006071600882_pf.html
- ↑ http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1198857554.pdf
- ↑ http://www.capitalresearch.org/search/orgdisplay.html?org=ACO100
- ↑ http://www.capitalresearch.org/search/orgdisplay.html?org=SIC105
- ↑ http://www.capitalresearch.org/search/orgdisplay.html?org=PPP100


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The mystic of The Beatles, Liverpool's most famous Fab Four, is a story that continues to intrigue classic rock & roll enthusiasts worldwide. The story of the rock band's origin is inextricably bound with the inclusion and eventual loss of the elusive fifth Beatle. These two stories are explored in the latest production at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre, Backbeat: The Birth of the Beatles. Based on the 1994 film from Universal Studios, written by Iain Softley, Michael Thomas and Stephen Ward, this Glasgow Citizens Theatre production is a hodge-podge of rock concert, coming of age comedy and intensely gripping bio drama, recounting the rock road into musical history.
Stuart Sutcliffe (Nick Blood) is an artist. He is a gifted abstract painter on the fast track to success and the darling of his instructors. Nevertheless his is ease lured into becoming a bass player for the band started by his childhood John Lennon (Andrew Knott). Despite his not knowing a thing about playing an instrument, John shoehorns Stuart into a position in the band where band mates Paul McCartney (Daniel Healy), George Harrison (Daniel Westwick) and Pete Best (Oliver Bennett) reluctantly accept him. Just when Paul decides to confront John about Stuart's arguably limited contribution of a coolness quotient to the group, John lands the group a steady gig in Hamburg.
The grind of working insane hours in a hole in the wall dive, in a not so reputable part of Hamburg, is worth enduring for the fifth kids who want nothing more than to play music, especially since the owner is willing to ignore that George is under aged. The group eventually acquire a following, among which is a German photographer named Astrid (Leanne Best). Astrid would be the first time the "Yoko Ono factor" is introduced to the group when Stuart becomes immediately smitten by her. They are kindred spirits in the world of visual art and Stuart becomes more and more pulled back into the world of art, neglecting the group. Paul the most serious minded of the group, works diligently writing music and trying to get the group better paying, more prestigious gigs as his resentment towards Stuart grow, leaving John in the middle: torn between his love for his friend and his love and dreams of success for the band.
Ultimately, this show is pretty uneven. The eventual descent into seriousness pretty much grinds the entire show to a halt. And while this is not a musical, but rather a show with music in it, in terms of the narrative pacing, the weighty drama makes for a pretty lopsided production. Perhaps I was looking for some personal, poignant and lasting effect that Sutcliffe himself has on the group that would make me feel watching his journey was ultimately satisfying, if any. There is no getting around the facts of his life and death, but feeling his impact in The Beatles , beyond John Lennon, was certainly worth illuminating a bit more.
Backbeat is a great production for the enduring fandom of The Beatles. It is the story of a band on the cusp of greatness, if only they can keep from imploding first. History tells us that the band survived long enough to achieve greatness, albeit not for the fifth member Stuart Sutcliffe. The musical numbers were all quite fun and energetic, although a bit loud for my taste. The light projection design was both nostalgic and pretty spectacular in its interactive quality with the actor on stage.
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This is my favorite taqueria in Pleasanton! I always get the vegetarian burrito, which is great, and the salsa bar is delicious. It's such a bargain, too! The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because, while most of the time the food is terrific, on occasion the quality hasn't been consistent.- Cheryl R.


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Posted: Tue 05 Aug 2008, 23:19
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Actually, as I am using this as my main OS now, Im going to "Beef up" the next version a bit. as I have mine. However, mine is a bit overdone. runs wonderfull, has it all, but fit on a cd...not a chance.
Im considering either an expansion pack kinda thing, maybe sfs? IDK. However, Gizmo or PSIP, or both. MPlayer and VBox are for sure gonna be there, Perhaps WINE as well, but I find it a pain. VBox serves me well for M$. Im fond of the Icecat/Opera setup, but do we need both??
Heck, you are the users, what do YOU want to see in an Enlightened Dingo???
Heres what Ive got so far:
E-17 (obviously)
Opera (Flash worhs in 9.51)
Icecat, (or Firefox, if it will behave)+Flash
MPlayer+plugins+every codec I can find.
Gizmo / PSIP
The Gimp
CPU scaler
Darkfire theme
Custom Backdrops / Icons for E-17
All of these run well in Dingo, I use them every day..
Any suggestions??
Any bugs??..(sometimes some of the Icons on my IBAR vanish, anyome else.??)
I thought about IceWM, but with darkfire, JWM will be fine!!! ( I have adapted it a bit for
Serenity, and turned it blue!!)
Looks like it may be a big Pup!!
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Posted: Thu 07 Aug 2008, 12:15
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I want to setup my older machine to give to my 13 year old niece. This may be the ticket with all the bells and whistles. I'm sure she would love the look.
Can you incorporate the shutdown fix?
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Posted: Thu 07 Aug 2008, 12:28
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Hello hayagix,
Yes, I can.. However, consider that it is a very dangerous button to have on your desktop!!! Especially with a touchpad..
Consider also that Dingo needs 256mb ram to run properly, and if you want to run a VBox XP within Puppy, 512 mb would give you enough to allocate half to XP, and Puppy still run fast too.
For a 13 yr old, on an older machine, you may want to look into Jonh Biles TeenPup. It has all the stuff kids need, (IPod software included), and is based on Puppy 2.14, which runs well on older machines..
What are the specs of the intended machine????
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Thanks Puppyluvr. Its an old desktop with a one gig athlon processor(Tbird) and 768 ram. Soundblaster sound and nvidia graphics. Linux runs very well on it. There is an old Xp install that will be wiped and a lone flavour of Puppy installed to hard disk. She will be pleased to have a computer and learning how to use linux will be secondary. I don't want her to be discouraged by root permissions and user logins. Its important that she can get online and do the basic kid stuff immediately.
Yes. I have downloaded TeenPuppy and will look at it. Maybe I should rig a dual or multiple boot of different flavours but that could be overwhelming. Was I reading somewhere that the developer was thinking of abandoning the Teenpup project?
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Posted: Fri 08 Aug 2008, 21:17
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Hello hayagix,
That may be old in the "real world", but in "Puppyland", thats a porche!!! You definately should be able to run any Puppy you want, or a few, or more
(I have a similar machine with 6 Puppies on it, (and XP)). Even Compiz should run with the nvidia drivers.
Noo , I had not heard that John Biles was giving up on Teenpup. I hope its a "vicious rumor" LOL. Although based on an older Puppy, (2.14), Teenpup is stable and well equipped. One of my daughters uses it Dual Boot with XP.( If it would see her wireless, she might forget about XP..Probably not..LOL)
The 768mb ram is great, and allows you ample "headroom" for big apps, ie Firefox, OpenOffice, ect..or for VBox.
Ive done "anything but" narrowing down your choices, huh??
Well, thats Puppy.
Unlike a certain fastfood place, Puppy really is "Have it your way!!
Whatever you choose, you will want working flash and java, fullscreen video, MP3 player, DVD playback, OOffice for homework,ect...One drawback for the kids, until recently, was myspace. Gizmo allows chat to myspace, as well as aim, yahoo, icq, irc, ect....PSIP will do the same, but is still under development..
Not to "toot one of my own" releases, but Transitions has all these and more.(except gizmo),and has proven very stable for me for daily use. Not as "Eye candy" as some other Pups, although it does have both XP and Vista themes...Just a thought..
Ive found my Enlightenment based Puppies to be a bit confusing to new Linux users,
at first, and difficult to upgrade for the average user, due to E-17`s menu structure. (The program installed, now where is it
No matter what you choose, congrats on getting her started with Linux at a young age, before M$ could warp her mind...
Any Questions, ect...I / WE are here..
Good luck and have fun....
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Thanks Puppyluvr. Excellent advice. You are absolutely right about E-17 and new users. I got distracted by the look. First bootup of Buddapup is amazing. We love to have it on when company comes over. It has generated alot of interest and questions.
I'm going to download Transitions tonight and, hopefully, testrun over the weekend along with Teenpup.
I can't thank you enough for your help.
I did not mean to start a viscious rumour about Teenpup. The project is alive and well. I misunderstood what was going on in this thread.
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Posted: Sat 09 Aug 2008, 01:33
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Hello hayagix,
Sorry, the vicious rumor comment was just a joke, however, looking at the thread does merit concern for the future of Teenpup.
Yes, E-17 is georgous, isnt it.
Great for showing off. On Puppy 217, I had a lot of stabilty problems, but Dingo seems to have solved that. I use Serenity daily, as my main OS. Ive blown my pupsave up to 3gb!!!
I hope you find the Puppy for you...
Good luck...and keep me posted
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Posted: Sat 09 Aug 2008, 18:42
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Can Compiz/Fusion be used with Enlightenment in BuddaPup?
And is it possible to run ReactOs with VirtualBox in BuddaPup?
And whether Compiz/Fusion and/or VirtualBox, what would be a advisable minimum requirement?
Thanx again for BuddaPup... It made me a believer, for sure...=!
PS: I believe Mplayer and Gimp would make excellent additions to BuddaPup...=)
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Posted: Mon 18 Aug 2008, 01:26
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Hello meridian_blue,
Sorry slow response, missed your post somehow.
@ Virtualbox:
VBox is very resource hungry. Yuo need enough ram to run 2 OSs. Say you allocate your Guest OS 256mb. At peak moments, it will use it all. But Puppy needs ram too. 512mb is a good enough mark, (256 for Dingo, 256 for guest). I have run it in 382mb well enough, unless your guest is an M$ product. But then I like to use the host OS as well, multitasking I guess. I believe 256 would work, but I havnt tried it as of yet.
Also, my CPU is 1.8 ghz, and at times VBox pegs it, causing everything to crawl. I use a CPU scaler to help keep this laptop cool, but before I installed it, VBox made it run HOT. Especially if I have the windows open.
(Pun intended).
@ Enlightenment and Compiz-Fusion.
That was the first question I asked Tombh when he released wNOP!!
Unfortunately, no. And as I have since learned, darn it, no.
Compiz-Fusion is a "Desktop Environment" which requires a compositing Window Manager such as KDE, Gnome or in the case of wNOP, Xfce.
Besides, Enlightenment produces its Desktop "on top of" the existing Window Manager. In Serenity, the Jwm Desktop is still running behind the Enlightenment Desktop. Transparent objects, like desklets, show the Jwm desktop behind them.
You can change the "background" of these transparent areas with the Jwm background settings, while in Enlightenment!!
So I think we would need Enlightenment-Fusion...LOL
@ I have tried to run ReactOS in VBox, but I believe I ran into a password problem.
I will try again and post the results...
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Posted: Tue 19 Aug 2008, 09:49
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I forgot to mention... does BuddaPup use ndiswrapper?
I'm using a NetGear WPN511T RangeMax Wireless N Adapter but this notebook card does not seem to register in the Network Wizard...=!
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Yes, ndiswrapper is in Serenity, however, having never used ndiswrapper, I couldnt tell you if it will work for your card or not.
Many members have reported good results with ndiswrapper, so should be no prob...
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A composite BuddaPup?
Sorry, forgot to mention... Xfe, XMMS and Mut in a future release?
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WOW, Im drooling!!!
That would be soooooooo cooooooooool
Will be looking into that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i've usedd e17 for a year now as my primary desktop (ii have always used xubuntu and installed e17 over it)...
e17 is AMAZING... if e17 ever gets to a DR, iit wil be the greatest thing ever (i doubt we will ever see a DR, since i've been waiting a year now for an alpha)...
i saw a buddapup demo on youtube, i have never thought about trying e and pup.. sounds like an awesome match....
then i come here and see that your in oklahoma... ii thought i was the only one nerdy enough here to actually use e17 daily...
i might have to give buddapup a try (although im going to try to compile my own and try that fusion module posted a few threads earlier (:drools:)...
one quick question, does buddapup include the bling module??? some e17 distros are not including it.. its bug ridden, but I love it...
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A fellow Okie? Running an e-17 Linux? Theres hope for this place yet!!!
Both the 2.17 (Fire and Rain) and the 4.00 (Serenity) relaeses of Buddapup contain the same mods:
bling <<<<<< As you can see, "bling" is there as well. For me, all it
clock >>>>>> seems to do is enable "dropshadows". Also disables
cpufreq >>>>>> itself occasionally. When my shadows are gone, I know to
deskshow >>>>>> re-enable it!!!
flame <<<<<< This one is a CPU hog..But I love it!!!!!
mem >>>>>> Several of these do not work for me, but I boot
mixer >>>>>> ACPI=OFF on my laptop, which renders several
net >>>>>> of them useless.
photo >>>>>> Also, the CPU freq scaler for Puppy is a godsend
rain >>>>>> for my P4 laptop. All my future Puppies will have it.
start >>>>>> It cuts the temp and batt usage in half..
Oh, Yea, definately gonna be all over the E-17/Compiz thing!!! Seems a natural combination. Probably wont use it in future releases though as Compiz has pretty high hardware specs video wise, whereas Enlightenment will even run in XVesa very well, and I want to keep the Buddapups as "Dinosaur Friendly" as possible.
Serenity needs 256+ ram to run, which I dont like. I am working on an E-16/17 Puppy for minimum machines. Shooting for Win98 specs, ie 96mb ram, 8mb video, 266mhz P1, ect... Have a test machine in route, as VMware can only tell you so much. Prob 2.xx based for older hardware.
If you get the Compiz/Enlightenment thing compiled and running before I do, which is likely as time is my "albatross", hook a brother up, LOL...
It will have to be an SFS Im sure, as Enlightenment seems to integrate better that way, at least for me. I still have a lot of stability issues with Compiz. If I tweak it much, It crashes X on me. CCSM is buggy for me, refusing to save changes ect...One of the reasons Ive stuck with Enlightenment is E-16 is rock solid, and E-17 is pretty stable as well, excepting Flash.
But both of them together would be worth "squashing" all the bugs!!!!
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It's SO hot here at the moment, like unnaturally hot! I'm SO lucky to be pretty well travelled and have been all over the world since I was a child, but I have to say Turkey this week has been the hottest country I've ever been to. Even though I've also been to remote islands in Fiji and not felt this hot! I've been literally soaked in sweat all day, Literally glistening! TMI? Its like being in one massive sauna! Absolutely gorgeous though, I cannot recommend Olu Deniz enough. It's a beautiful resort and has absolutely stunning scenery! I got burnt on my left shoulder today, Although I have no sympathy for those who burn because they don't use adequate sun protection (I can't STRESS how important it is to use a sun protection and a high factor if you burn easily! It's one of my pet hates!) So Im trying not to feel to sorry for myself!
Anyway, onto the real reason you guys are here! Two outfits from the past two evenings. Sorry I didn't get one up last night internet was a bit ropey in the evening so I gave up trying to post! I really like this AX Paris dress, but it's a touch to tight round my middle after two very indulgent holidays! Excessive amounts of sucking in trying to make sure it didn't look like my middle was poking through the holes! My tummy is my major body hang up/problem area, but I do like my waist so the detailing on the waist looks really pretty but understated! The second outfit is what Im wearing tonight, One of my flatmate's playsuits that I borrowed for a night out but still haven't given it her back yet! Sorry Dalz if you're reading this! I've been looking after it! It's quite old from Topshop and I really love the shape and the drapey sleeve! Paired with my much loved rose gold cuff necklace, I hardly bought any jewellery with me this holiday but this one just looks so pretty without being too much!
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HONOLULU — Preparation work for the demolition of Frear Hall is scheduled to begin the week of May 15 with construction of a 12-foot high construction and dust fence surrounding the three buildings, which have not housed students since 1997. During the following 2 to 3 weeks abatement work will be conducted inside the buildings including the removal of asbestos in the floor tiles and removal of an underground fuel storage tank.
Actual demolition of the buildings is expected to take place beginning June 19 and take about 3 weeks. [Update: Demolition work is now scheduled to begin on Monday, July 10.] Work on the site was scheduled for the summer to minimize disruptions and noise disturbance to students in the surrounding residential facilities.
In July, 2005, the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents approved moving forward with a public-private partnership to construct a new 800-bed residential facility on the Mānoa campus. An agreement has been signed with American Campus Communities of Austin, Texas.
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Tessa Worley bests Tina Maze for giant slalom world title
SCHLADMING, Austria (AP) -- Tessa Worley mastered a difficult giant slalom course twice, earning France its second gold medal and fourth overall at the world skiing championships on Thursday.
Worley, a bronze medalist two years ago, posted the fastest time in both runs on the Planai course, which has a steep and icy finish and is also being used by the men.
Worley finished in a combined time of 2 minutes, 8.06 seconds to lead the field by over a second. Defending champion Tina Maze of Slovenia, who has already won this season's World Cup GS title, came 1.12 back in second for her third medal of the worlds after winning the super-G and placing second in the super-combined.
Anna Fenninger of Austria was third, 1.18 behind to earn the home nation its fourth medal.
"A dream has come true," said Worley, who won seven races on the World Cup - all in GS. "I am very relieved. Winning in Schladming is great. This is not just a race, this is the world championship."
Worley said the rock-hard course, including an unusual steep part for a women's GS, favored her.
"I like difficult hills," Worley said. "I knew before the start I could be really fast on this hill. I just had to ski freely and avoid mistakes."
Worley's victory followed up on gold for Marion Rolland in downhill, silver for Gauthier de Tessieres in super-G and bronze for David Poisson in downhill.
"I am very proud of them all," Worley said. "We have a great atmosphere in our team and now I am a part of the party."
France won its sixth gold medal in women's GS at the worlds and matched the record held by Switzerland.
After winning four races this season, Maze started as a clear favorite but was already over a second behind Worley after a disappointing opening run.
Maze had to adjust her line shortly after the start and never looked comfortable as she struggled for rhythm.
The Slovenian bounced back by putting in an attacking second run with an impressive finish.
"This medal is nicer than all others," Maze said. "I had a bad feeling after the first run. Everything went wrong and I was very down. It was my worst run all season. I tried to stay positive and then my second run was really great."
Fenninger, who lost her super-combined title last week, was relieved to finally win a medal in her last event at her home worlds.
"It was an extremely difficult world championship," Fenninger said. "Somehow I didn't believe in (a medal) anymore. It was hard, all the pressure. Today, I just tried to have fun while racing."
After failing to finish both the super-G and the super-combined races, and placing 11th in downhill, Fenninger left the team base near Schladming for two days and went home.
"I was thinking, `what is really important to me?' That's just ski racing," Fenninger said. "I tried to forget all the rest and ski like it's just an ordinary World Cup race."
In her first appearance at a major championship, American teen Mikaela Shiffrin finished 2.30 behind in sixth for her career best GS result.
"I had a lot of fun today and I think I skied well," Shiffrin said. "I know where I can improve so it's always a good feeling coming out of a day knowing that you can be better but you did well."
Shiffrin will be among the favorites for Saturday's slalom.
Olympic champion Viktoria Rebensburg was slowed by a rib injury following a training crash on Wednesday and finished 3.33 off the lead in 11th. Her German teammate, former overall champ Maria Hoefl-Riesch, was 3.09 back in ninth.
Former Olympic champion Julia Mancuso had two below-par runs and finished 4.74 off the lead in 22nd.
The GS featured a record 139 starters from 55 nations, including China, Uzbekistan, India, Iran, Libya, Taiwan and Armenia. Several skiers finished more than 30 seconds off the lead.
Varsha Devi of India needed almost twice as much time as Worley to complete her run and finished in 2 minutes, 5.99 seconds. Only the top 60 qualified for the second run.