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Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone:
When she came there, the cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.
It's always bothered me that "bone" doesn't rhyme with "none", especially since the other verses in the poem seem to try harder to rhyme the 2nd and 4th lines.
The third verse is worse:
She went to the undertaker's
To buy him a coffin;
When she came back
The dog was laughing.
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Dr. Gustin is a skilled adjustor, certified in A.R.T.®, and Graston® and is currently finishing up his Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician training - all things that I do. He will fit in perfectly for SF Custom Chiropractic.
San Francisco, California (PRWEB) February 11, 2013
This February, SF Custom Chiropractic is pleased to announce the addition of new chiropractic physician, Dr. Anthony Gustin to work along with head treating doctor, Dr. Adam Jacobs. SF Custom Chiropractic is located in the Financial District of San Francisco. Since January 2011, the innovative chiropractic office has successfully thrived under Dr. Adam Jacobs and staff- becoming one of the Top 5 Chiropractic Clinics in the Bay Area according to ABC's A-List. To help meet the demands of the expanding patient base, Dr. Jacobs and staff are excited to welcome Dr. Anthony Gustin to the practice.
"Dr. Gustin is a skilled adjustor, certified in A.R.T.®, FMS, and Graston® and is currently finishing up his Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician training - all things that I do. He basically is a younger clone of myself and I feel will fit into SF Custom Chiropractic perfectly", says Dr. Adam Jacobs, head treating doctor at SF Custom Chiropractic.
Dr. Anthony Gustin received his Doctorate of Chiropractic degree at University of Western States in Portland Oregon, as well as a Masters of Science in Exercise and Sports Science. After a football injury in high school, Dr. Gustin was exposed to chiropractic care and became very interested in integrative health care. Since then, he aspires to create a positive impact on his patients with chiropractic care and rehabilitative exercise science. Both Dr. Anthony Gustin and Dr. Adam Jacobs are specialized in Active Release Technique and Graston, the gold standards in soft tissue therapy. The active motion involved in A.R.T.® can be used as an adjunct with chiropractic care to help maximize proper soft tissue healing.
Within two years of its opening, SF Custom Chiropractic is successfully thriving and continuously accepting new patients. Dr. Jacobs and staff are excited of the addition of Dr. Gustin to help expand the practice and serve the needs of all patients, whether they are 9 to 5 desk workers or elite professional athletes.
"I could not be more excited to become a part of the thriving community here in the Bay Area," says Dr. Gustin. "I look forward to working with Dr. Jacobs and providing patients with the best chiropractic care possible and bringing my knowledge and experience of exercise rehabilitation and sports medicine to SF Custom Chiropractic."
Based in the Financial District of San Francisco, SF Custom Chiropractic opened in January 2011. Head treating doctor, Dr. Adam Jacobs received his doctorate from Palmer West College of Chiropractic (known for being the leader of sports chiropractic). Dr. Anthony Gustin received both his doctorate and masters from University of Western States in Portland Oregon. Both Dr. Jacobs and Dr. Gustin are Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioners. In addition to their doctorate degrees, Dr. Jacobs has his fully body A.R.T.® Masters degree and long nerve entrapment certification and Dr. Gustin has received a Masters of Science in Exercise and Sports Science. SF Custom Chiropractic takes a holistic full body approach to fix underlying structural problems associated with back pain and many other musculoskeletal disorders. For more information, visit http://www.sfcustomchiro.com or follow us on Twitter @SFCustomChiro.

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Today I am engaged in analysis and writing of some Late Woodland / Huron materials that I excavated in the Balsam Lake area of southern Ontario a few decades ago. I was investigating social, economic and political process among a group of early to late 16th century Huron communities that were undergoing quite a bit of disruption as a result of both in- and out-migrations and early interaction with Europeans in the St. Lawrence valley. That interaction apparently caused some dissension within and between the communities, resulting in village fission and fusion, and the frequent formation and dissolution of alliances. At the end of the 16th century, these communities finally united into a single large town, which then picked up and moved some 50 km westward to join other groups of Hurons in what would become the Huron confederacy. Within the confederacy, these particular people became known to history as the Rock Nation, with whom the French soldier and explorer Champlain formed an alliance on behalf of the French crown in the early 17th century.
Today, specifically, I am re-examining and recording some of the artifacts from the Coulter site, the large cosmopolitan community mentioned above, into which the smaller Balsam Lake villages coalesced. This is part of my long-overdue preparation for writing a book on the archaeological history of the Hurons of Balsam Lake, and their role in the formation of the Huron confederacy and its eventual downfall at the hands of the 5 Nations Iroquois.


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Alaska Wildland Adventures began operating trips in 1977, first under the name Alaska Campout Adventures. Our first trip was a tenting safari that traveled from the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and Chugach National Forest to Denali National Park. In the early years, the company felt fortunate to take fifty to sixty people a year on adventuresome trips throughout Alaska. Our trips now feature cabin overnights and an authentic Alaskan ambiance in comfortable lodge settings.
In 1987, we changed our name to Alaska Wildland Adventures. There was a surge in interest in travel to Alaska, and more people wanted to vacation in a participatory style. Over the years, one small group at a time, we were able to grow to provide new and unique Alaska travel opportunities.
In addition to operating our own trips, we operate trips for Lindblad Expeditions, World Wildlife Federation, the Nature Conservancy and Audubon Nature Odysseys. We also work with a number of national and international tour companies, such as: Glacier Bay Cruiseline, GORPTravel, Alaska Unusual, and Alaska Discovery.
Over the years we have hosted a number of affinity groups, directly and through travel planners. These include: National Trust Group (Australia), Beaver Lake Nature Center, National Audubon Society, Maine Audubon Society, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Florida Audubon Society, Audubon Society of New Hampshire, Delaware Nature Society, Schuylkill Valley Nature Center, Dallas Museum of Natural History, Brandywine Valley Association, Cincinnati Zoo, St. Louis Zoo, Cleveland Zoo, Louisiana Nature Center and Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Our main office is in Girdwood, Alaska, a scenic mountain community 40 miles south of Anchorage. We maintain a two-building office on two scenic acres that adjoin an undeveloped greenway. From our office windows, we view beaver ponds, nesting waterfowl, occasional moose and bear viewings, and a snow-clad mountain backdrop. This probably has something to do with why we are so excited about Alaska when we talk with you on the phone! We have 11 year-round staff and 90 seasonal staff at our summer operations.
Kirk Hoessle is the President and CEO (Chief Exploration Officer) of Alaska Wildland Adventures. He currently is a member of the Board of Directors for the Alaska Travel Industry Association (ATIA), Alaska's 1,000 member travel trade association. From 2012 through 2016, he was one of 32 travel industry leaders appointed to the US Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, advising the US government on issues and policy related to travel and tourism. In October 2015, Kirk was awarded the 2015 Stan Stephens Stewardship Award by ATIA. This award commemorates the passion and dedication that Stan Stephens lived by in his commitment to safeguard Prince William Sound after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and it honors Kirk's work in protecting wild Alaska and sharing its beauty in a responsible and sustainable way. Previously in his work, Kirk was a founding member and two-term President of the Alaska Wilderness Recreation and Tourism Association, Alaska's voice for ecotourism. In the past, he has also served on the Governor of Alaska's Advisory Board of the Trails and Recreation Access for Alaskan's program (TRAAK).
Kirk began leading trips in 1982, when the company only operated one trip. His involvement grew into a managerial role, and then onto the role of owner/operator in 1987. Prior to his involvement in Alaska tourism, Kirk directed the Youth Conservation Corp program in Tanacross, Alaska, was a partner in an interpretive planning and design firm, and he also helped direct and formulate environmental education programs for elementary and high school students.


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Aesthetic: As Science of Expression and General Linguistic
Transaction Publishers, 1 gen 1995 - 503 pagine
Benedetto Croce is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His work in aesthetics and historiography has been controversial, but enduring. When the first edition of Aesthetic appeared in 1902, Croce was seen as foremost in reasserting an idealistic philosophy, which, despite its source in continental idealists from Descartes to Hegel, offers a system that attempts to account for the emergence of scientific systems. Croce thus combines scientific and metaphysical thought into a dynamic aesthetic.
Croce regards aesthetics not merely as a branch of philosophy, but as a fundamental human activity. It is inseparable from historical, psychological, political, economic, and moral considerations, no less than a unique frame of artistic reference. Aesthetic is composed of two parts: Part One concentrates on aesthetic theory and practice. Among the topics it covers are: intuition and expression, art and philosophy, historicism and intellectualism, and beauty in nature and in art. Part Two is devoted to the history of aesthetics. Croce analyzes such subjects as: aesthetic ideas in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Giambattista Vico's contribution to aesthetics, the philosophy of language, and aesthetic psychologism.
In his new introduction to a classic translation, John McCormick reviews Croce's impact in the fields of aesthetic theory and historiography. He notes that the republication of this work is an overdue appreciation of a singular effort to resolve the classic question of the philosophy of art: art for its own sake or art as a social enterprise. Both find a place in Croce's system.
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HlSTORICISM AND INTELLECTUALISM IN ESTHETIC
Analogous Errors in the Theory of History and in Logic
The Theoretic Activity and the Practical Activity
Analogy Between the Theoretical and the Practical
Exclusion of Other Spiritual Forms
Ferments of Thought in the Seventeenth Century
Esthetic Ideas in the Cartesian and Leibnitian Schools and the Esthetic of Baumcarten
Giambattista Vico
Minor Esthetic Doctrines of the Eighteenth Century
Other Esthetic Doctrines of the Same Period
Immanuel Kant
Schiller Schelling Solcer Hegel
Schopenhauer and Herbart
Indivisibility of Expression into Modes or Decrees and Criticism of Rhetoric
Esthetic Feelings and the Distinction Between the Beautiful and the Ugly
Criticism of Esthetic Hedonism
The jEsthetic of the Sympathetic and PseudoAesthetic Concepts
The Physically Beautiful in Nature and in Art
XTV Errors Arising from the Confusion Between Physics and Esthetic
The Activity of Externalization Technique and the Theory of the Arts
Taste and the Reproduction of Art
The History of Literature and Art
Identity of Linguistic and Esthetic
Esthetic Ideas in GrEcoRoman Antiquitv
Esthetic Ideas in the Middle Aces and Renaissance
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Humboldt and Steinthal
Minor German Estheticians
Esthetic in France England and Italy During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Francesco de Sanctis
Esthetic of the Epiconi
Esthetic Positivism and Naturalism
Esthetic Psychologism and Other Recent Tendencies
Historical Sketches of Some Particular Doctrines
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Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
Benedetto Croce
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Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
Benedetto Croce
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Pagina 441 - Que si ķl, en muchas partes de sus escritos, dice que el no guardar el arte antiguo lo hace por conformarse con el gusto de la plebe — que nunca consinti¾ el freno de las leyes y preceptos — , dĒcelo por su natural modestia y porque no atribuya la malicia ignorante a arrogancia lo que es polĒtica perfecci¾n.
Pagina 97 - Beauty in this physical reproduction of 'expression'. He says : 'Monuments of Art the stimulents of aesthetic reproduction are called beautiful things or physical Beauty. This combination of words constitutes a verbal paradox, for the beautiful is not a physical fact; it does not belong to things, but to the activity of man to spiritual energy'.
Pagina 21 - ... a melting furnace formless pieces of bronze and choicest statuettes. Those choicest statuettes must be melted just like the pieces of bronze, before there can be a new statue. The old expressions must descend again to the level of impressions, in order to be synthesized in a new single expression. By elaborating his impressions, man frees himself from them.
Pagina 206 - The mind, without looking any further, rests satisfied with the agreeableness of the picture and the gaiety of the fancy. And it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it, by the severe rules of truth and good reason; whereby it appears that it consists in something that is not perfectly conformable to them.
Pagina 18 - ... to the world of feeling, and so forth, arise from the failure to realize exactly the theoretic character of simple intuition. This simple intuition is quite distinct from intellectual knowledge, as it is distinct from perception of the real; and the statements quoted above arise from the belief that only intellectual cognition is knowledge. We have seen that intuition is knowledge, free from concepts and more simple than the so-called perception of the real. Therefore art is knowledge, form;...
Pagina 9 - Every one can experience the internal illumination which follows upon his success in formulating to himself his impressions and feelings, but only so far as he is able to formulate them. Feelings or impressions, then, pass by means of words from the obscure region of the soul into the clarity of the contemplative spirit.
Pagina xi - What I call spirit is only that inner light of actuality or attention which floods all life as men actually live it on earth. It is roughly the same thing as feeling or thought; it might be called consciousness; it might be identified with the pense'e or cogitatio of Descartes and Spinoza.
Pagina 20 - Not in the least: expression always arises directly from impressions. He who conceives a tragedy puts into a crucible a great quantity, so to say, of impressions: expressions themselves, conceived on other occasions, are fused together with the new in a single mass, in the same way as we can cast into a melting furnace formless pieces of bronze and choicest statuettes. Those choicest statuettes must be melted just like the pieces of bronze, before there can be a new statue. The old expressions must...
Pagina 69 - Here, for instance, it may be asked how an ornament can be joined to expression. Externally ? In that case, either it does not assist the expression and mars it ; or it does form part of it and is not an ornament, but a constituent element of the expression, indivisible and indistinguishable in its unity.
Pagina 11 - We may thus add this to the various verbal descriptions of intuition, noted at the beginning: intuitive knowledge is expressive knowledge. Independent and autonomous in respect to intellectual function; indifferent to later empirical discriminations, to reality and to unreality, to formations and apperceptions of space and time, which are also later: intuition or representation is distinguished as form from what is felt and suffered, from the flux or wave of sensation, or from psychic matter; and...
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Raymond James Financial (RJF) introduced a new desktop-software system to its U.S. advisors on Monday during its annual independent-advisor conference in Orlando.
The launch took place after retiring independent-channel CEO Dick Averitt passed the baton to his replacement, Scott Curtis (left) before an emotional audience of about 1,600 advisors and 1,100 other guests. (Averitt remains chairman of the organization but has given up day-to-day management responsibilities).
"I get it—you need better technology, and some things don't work as you think they should," said private-client CEO Chet Helck, alluding to some of the firm's past challenges. "The world of technology moves fast; it's expensive to keep up, and we're commited to addressing it."
Helck then gave the stage to Vincent Campagnoli, senior vice president of technology, who was hired in October with 27 years of industry experience, including several years at Morgan Stanley (MS) and UBS (UBS).
"Like in sports, when you're challenged, it's best to simplify things—get a game plan and execute," Campagnoli said in his speech. "The new desktop is simple and easy to use. It's been built with the FA in mind, so that everything is pretty much one click away."
The new desktop, which presents data based on client relationships rather than accounts, has been in the pilot stage with some 250 advisors across Raymond James' multiple channels for several months. It will be shared with roughly 4,500 U.S.-based reps in June and July, not including those coming over via the Morgan Keegan acquisition; these reps should gain access to the new desktop software by early 2013 as part of their IT conversion.
"We could have set back and built everything over two to three years," said Campagnoli, "but we didn't want to do that. We decided to get some functionality out there now … we're moving in the right direction. It's not the end, but it's a start."
Advisors can get up to speed with the new software, called Advisor Access, by attending a training session or two during this week's conference. They can also watch online videos, ranging from one or two minute to half an hour, to learn about the software from their offices at any time, said Josh Bohlander, director of the technology advisor group, in an interview with AdvisorOne.
Raymond James executives stress that the new desktop is a work in progress, but it is robust and incorporates data from 25 systems. "You can get this all on one screen or with one click," Campagnoli said in an interview.
The former wirehouse IT exec, who visited with branch offices and teams while he was working on the new software, says that while the larger firms were vigorous in their IT focus and spending, Raymond James could—and would—keep up.
"Should we compare our platforms to those of the wirehouses? Yes. Look at the advisors here, many of whom came from the wirehouses," stressed Campagnoli. "There's a need [across all firms] for information integration. That's why we must keep our eyes on the advisor."
Given that Raymond James is smaller than some Wall Street rivals, does its IT team have fewer organizational layers to work with in the innovation process? "Yes, absolutely, and this is an advantage," Campagnoli said.


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For thousands of people, the annual Capitol Fourth event in Washington D.C. was a great way to celebrate the holiday, but for Bob Malaythong, it proved to be a great way to celebrate being an Olympian in next month's games in Beijing. "We were treated like VIPs," he says of his time at the capitol with eight other Olympians. Bob Malaythong will be part of the USA Badminton team, playing men's doubles with partner Howard Bach.
Even though the event was held on July 4, Malaythong and the others were in D.C. a day early for rehearsal. They also went on a tour of the capitol building, where a dinner party was held in their honor. Many celebrities attended the event, including Brian Strokes Mitchell, Huey Lewis, and former Olympian Kerri Strug, and Scott Hamilton, another former Olympian led the tribute to the athletes. Besides meeting famous people, Malaythong met many others who were just excited for the athletes heading to Beijing next month.
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Just like all hockey fans, Dave Goucher can't wait for the start of the Bruins-Canadiens playoff series.
"To me this is the way it should be," said the Bruins' radio play-by-play voice on the Sports Hub, 98.5 FM. "It's a rivalry that goes back decades and you've got generations upon generations of fans on both sides that look forward to this. It doesn't get much better than this."
The best-of-seven, second-round Stanley Cup playoff series begins at 7:30 tonight at the Garden.
This will be the 34th postseason meeting between the two teams, the most in pro sports.
"There's a pretty good level of hatred on both sides," Goucher said, "from the player side and the fan side."
Despite the heated feelings, Goucher can walk the streets of Montreal without fear.
"That's the beauty of radio," Goucher said. "There's a certain amount of anonymity to it."
Montreal has won a record 24 Stanley Cups and holds a 24-9 edge in playoff series against Boston.
"I don't know if entitlement is the word," Goucher said, "but there is a certain level of kind of arrogance that comes along with being so successful for so many years and that probably rubs Bruins fans the wrong way because a lot of that success came against Boston."
The Bruins have won the last two series, sweeping the Canadiens in 2009 and eliminating them in seven games, three of them OT victories, in 2011 on their way to capturing the Stanley Cup championship.
Even regular season games between these longtime rivals are spirited, so you can imagine how intense their playoff games will be.
"The Bruins would like to play with some controlled emotion," Goucher said, "especially when they get up to Montreal. That can be a bit of a circus-like atmosphere when they get up there."
Goucher believes the Bruins can handle that.
"They've got enough guys on that roster," he said, "who have played in big games in Montreal over the last four or five years, so I think they know what they're in for when they go up there."
Goucher discounts the significance of the Canadiens beating the Bruins in three out of four games during the regular season because the Bruins eliminated the Red Wings in five games in the opening round after also dropping three of four to them during the regular season.
The series will be far more than merely a battle of Montreal's speed against Boston's physicality, in Goucher's estimation.
"I think the Bruins believe they have a pretty good amount of team speed too," Goucher said. "They'd like to follow the blueprint (that they) followed against Detroit, which was to take away Detroit's speed and control the neutral zone. Their defensemen and their forwards back-checked to not allow Detroit any time and space to freewheel through center ice."
Ten Bruins scored in the opening round, but neither Brad Marchand nor David Krejci put the puck in the net and Marchand was held without a point.
As Bruins fans well know, Marchand scored 11 goals in the 2011 playoffs to set a team record for rookies, and Krejci led the NHL in postseason scoring in 2011 and 2013. Goucher was especially shocked by the chances Marchand failed to convert.
"I don't know if it's a case of, as they say in golf parlance, the yips a little bit." Goucher said, "but he's too good a player and too good a goal scorer to not bury those chances and I think eventually he'll be heard from."
On the other hand, Milan Lucic continued to thrive in the playoffs by leading the Bruins with three goals against Detroit. Lucic seems to play his best in Game 7s.
"Think back to that Game 7 comeback against Toronto last year," Goucher said. "He was a man possessed out there in the final 10 minutes and in overtime. He has the ability to take the team on his back."
Montreal swept Tampa Bay, 4-0, in the opening round, but Goucher pointed out that Anders Lindbach didn't play well in goal for the Lightning in place of the injured Ben Bishop. Goucher rates Montreal's Carey Price among the top five goaltenders in the NHL, but he believes Boston's Tuukka Rask is the best.
Goucher expects Thomas Vanek, who has totaled 62 points in 55 games against Boston, to play a key role in the series.
"I've got to believe," he said, "that the Canadiens acquired him (from the Islanders at the trade deadline) with the thought that he's a Bruins killer and they were likely to play the Bruins in the playoffs at some point."
With NBC and its sister cable networks prohibiting NESN from televising any Bruins playoffs after the first round, Goucher hopes more fans tune into his broadcasts on 98.5 FM.
"I think people in New England are real provincial," he said, "and I would hope they would want a call with the local flavor. I know as a sports fan, that's what I like. I don't have any concrete evidence that our listenership goes up, but I would hope it would."
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Network Working Group D. Peterson Request for Comments: 3822 Computer Network Technology (CNT) Category: Standards Track July 2004 Finding Fibre Channel over TCP/IP (FCIP) Entities Using Service Location Protocol version 2 (SLPv2) Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). Abstract This document defines the use of Service Location Protocol version 2 (SLPv2) by Fibre Channel over TCP/IP (FCIP) Entities. 1. Introduction This document describes the use of the Service Location Protocol version 2 in performing dynamic discovery of participating Fibre Channel over TCP/IP (FCIP) Entities. Implementation guidelines, service type templates, and security considerations are specified. 2. Notation Conventions The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. 3. Terminology Here are some definitions that may aid readers that are unfamiliar with either SLP or FCIP. Some of these definitions have been reproduced from [RFC2608] and [RFC3105]. Peterson Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 3822 Finding FCIP Entities Using SLPv2 July 2004 User Agent (UA) A process working on the client's behalf to establish contact with some service. The UA retrieves service information from the Service Agents or Directory Agents. Service Agent (SA) A process working on behalf of one or more services to advertise the services and their capabilities. Directory Agent (DA) A process which collects service advertisements. There can only be one DA present per given host. Scope A named set of services, typically making up a logical administrative group. Service Advertisement A URL, attributes, and a lifetime (indicating how long the advertisement is valid), providing service access information and capabilities description for a particular service. FCIP Entity The principle FCIP interface point to the IP network. FCIP Entity Name The world wide name of the switch if the FCIP Entity resides in a switch or the world wide node name of the associated Nx_Port. FCIP Discovery Domain The FCIP Discovery Domain specifies which FCIP Entities are allowed to discover each other within the bounds of the scope. 4. Using SLPv2 for FCIP Service Discovery At least two FCIP Entities must be involved in the entity discovery process. The end result is that an FCIP Entity will discover one or more peer FCIP Entities. 4.1. Discovering FCIP Entities using SLPv2 Figure 1 shows the relationship between FCIP Entities and their associated SLPv2 agents. Peterson Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 3822 Finding FCIP Entities Using SLPv2 July 2004 +--------------------------------------+ | FCIP Entity | +----------------------------------+ | | FCIP Control and Services Module | | +----------------+ | | | SA | UA | | | +----------------+-----------------+ | | TCP/UDP/IP | | +----------------+-----------------+ | | Interface | | | 192.0.2.10 | | +----------------+-----------------+---| | +------------+ | | SLPv2 DA |----+ IP Network +------------+ | | +----------------+-----------------+---| | Interface | | | 192.0.2.20 | | +----------------+-----------------+ |Show full document text


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As we mentioned in previous posts, HTML5 enables Technical Authors and courseware developers to synchronize different media. One of the key areas where this can be applied is in eLearning, where users are now able to toggle between text-based content and video tutorials.
As a consequence, Technical Communicators will need to decide which form of text to provide with the video.
Should it be:
- a transcript, faithfully documenting every word that was said in the video?;
- an edited, but still conversational, version?; or
- text written in the minimalist writing style we normally see in User Guides and Help files?
Let's look at the case for and against providing an exact copy of what was said in the recording.
The case against a transcript
The manner in which we speak and the way we write are often significantly different. Hugh Lupton, from The Company of Storytellers, once said:
It's a very different journey from the eye to the mind as from the ear to the mind.
In oracy, the artifices of the speech are very important. These are what Marie Shedlock called "the mechanical devices by which we endeavor to attract and hold the attention of the audience." They are the gestures, the pauses, the repeated phrases that a good presenter will use.
For example, in this performance by Daniel Morden and Hugh Lupton, Daniel repeats "not for you" as a way of keeping the audience engaged (from 0:13):
If we make a transcript, we retain these artifices in the written word. Instead of improving the comprehension, when published in written form, they can make it harder for the user to understand. For example, if the user searches for a key word or phrase, the repetition of those key phrases by the speaker is going to make it harder for the user to find the right instance.
The case for a transcript
- Unlike the storytelling examples above, eLearning is rarely delivered in audio form only. In most cases, the presenter and the audience has a shared visual image to view. This helps ensure there is shared understanding.
- A transcript gives a true representation of what the presenter said.
- If a user remembers a key phrase or word in the presentation, then they may want to search for that moment to replay it. If the text has been edited, or is significantly different, then that phrase may have been omitted.
Which approach should you take?
We suspect over time that the text provided in synchronized elearning courses will follow the minimalist style that works in User guides and Online Help, where the subject matter is technical in nature. A more conversational tone may work where the material is non-technical (e.g. easy to use consumer goods), providing an overview, or where there isn't the time to do anything more than provide a transcript.
As they say, time will tell.
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An initial plan that would seize up to 10% of people's bank accounts had spooked depositors and was soundly rejected by MPs. All except the country's two largest lenders had been due to open on Tuesday after the country clinched an 11th-hour deal with the 17-nation eurozone and the International Monetary Fund to provide Cyprus with a bailout.
Without that deal, the country's banks would have collapsed, dragging down the economy and potentially pushing it out of the eurozone.
But the Central Bank said that "for the smooth functioning of the entire banking system, the finance minister has decided, after a recommendation by the governor of the Central Bank, that all banks remain shut up to and including Wednesday".
ATMs have been functioning, but many run quickly out of cash, and a daily withdrawal limit of 100 euros (£85) was imposed on the two largest lenders, Bank of Cyprus and Laiki. Under the deal reached in the early hours of Monday morning in Brussels, Cyprus agreed to slash its oversized banking sector and inflict hefty losses on large depositors in troubled banks to secure the 10 billion euro (£8.5bn) bailout.
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Posted: Tue 26 Nov 2013, 04:02
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Additional thought: if it was a 32-bit vs 64-bit thing, wouldn't we have a
similar bug each time we save to a large external drive on a 32-bit Puppy?
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Posted: Tue 26 Nov 2013, 10:46
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musher0 wrote:
Additional thought: if it was a 32-bit vs 64-bit thing, wouldn't we have a
similar bug each time we save to a large external drive on a 32-bit Puppy?
Just bringing up ideas to check.
Not sure if this is a specific 32 bit operating system problem or more to do with what partition system is on the HDD and how it is supported by the operating system.
Once a remote prospect, an important barrier in disk storage has become a reality: the venerable master boot record (MBR) partitioning scheme can't fully handle disks larger than 2.2TB (2TiB). With disks as large as 3TB readily available and with much larger RAID arrays common, alternatives to the MBR partitioning scheme have become important to understand. The heir apparent is the GUID Partition Table (GPT). Learn how to make sure your Linux system is fully prepared for the future of disk storage.
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Posted: Tue 26 Nov 2013, 21:28
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musher0 wrote:
Hi, bigpup.
Do you mean you had trouble creating a pupsave on a large external
hard drive? (Your wording makes it unclear in my mind.)
In any case, it occurred to me tonight: what if the busybox blkid --
present in both wanderer's CE3 Puppy and 01micko's new slacko --
was the culprit?
The Lucid "breed" of Puppies offers an actual blkid utility and does not
have the pupsave bug.
Just a thought. It's not that important anymore, since we have relatively
easy-to-use work-arounds now.
Hello, bigpup.
I did another test and actually, using the actual blkid utility instead of the
busybox one did solve the pupsave-creation bug at the code level. So we
now have 4 work-arounds and one real code solution. I gather Mick will
find an elegant way to integrate this solution in his next slacko.
Concerning the new GPT disk paradigm you mentioned
-- It's good to
think ahead. But, speaking for myself, at present I have 22 % occupation
of a total 1.128 Tb disk capacity. I have about 10 Puppies on there, plus
XP, and 3 other Linux distros -- not to mention about 100 G worth of back-
ups. I feel it's a bit early for me to be concerned, since I've got 68 %
wiggle-room left. I suppose I'll cross that bridge when I get there -- in a
couple of years.
I'm sure I'm not the only Linuxian taking pleasure in "beating the system"
-- i.e. pushing an older machine to the max before considering buying
newer hardware. It's one of the strengths of Linux generally, and Puppy
has achieved resplendent results in this area. Let's hope BK's successors
-- the new Puppy "guard", so to speak -- will maintain that philosophy.
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Posted: Wed 27 Nov 2013, 02:40
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Hello friends!
I am building another now, made some relevant commits to woof, put blkid in the template is one (TY musher0), and also added some new ideas, some from Mr KRG. There are a few more from zigbert too, hope they work fine for you. Also added bugfixes for hiawatha, categories and other files (TY SFR).
My intent is to get slacko 5.7 out soon, then leave slacko alone for awhile and help pemasu port wheezy to woof-CE. I have already built raspberry pi (ZAP6) with debian wheezy armel bins and that pretty much worked so I'll add the infrastructure included there and get pemasu's advice as needed (when he has time, he's a busy guy ATM).
I think Upup will remain in petty good shape,
has his OVprecise using woof_CE, I urge you to test that too at your convenience.
As usual, when I get closer with these woof bugs, I'll get a non-PAE kernel out too. The only reason this one is PAE is that's what I had in my config at the time!
I'll build video drivers too, so it wont be a 'half arsed' release. I take some pride in my work!
If I get time after that, I'll do updates on thin and phat slacko variants. But as you can appreciate, there is a lot to do with woof alone. I wouldn't mind stepping back from slacko dev all together and letting some one else have a go.. but who would stick up their hand? You? [
The next will be released in delta form only at first, full iso later, and I'll probably start a new thread as it will be "official alpha" or maybe I'll just leave the delta, squash a heap of bugs then go with a full iso for beta as the one after.. I struggle a bit with bandwidth here...[ Oh.. sheet.. can I use the term 'alpha' ?
Thanks everyone for reports and fixes.
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Posted: Fri 29 Nov 2013, 13:49
Post subject: hi
It may be possible that Pi Rasperry worked with Slacko? I'm looking to buy a Pi Rasperry soon.
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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 01:51
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Barry and many others encourage us to use Slacko.
I am on old Lupu 528-005 so I obviously need big help.
I have put Firefox .mozilla directory on the /mnt/home/
for to not eat up the save file and it works very good on Lupu
So now I am lost at how that will interfere with doing the same
on Slacko?
I mean when I boot up lupu it update this .mozilla with my settings
of language and UTF8 and other preferences
If I do the same with Slacko these two different OS will use
the same .mozilla directory
Would it not crash it?
I think that is not a good thing? They will get confused would they not?
So how does one separate these so they does not mess up .mozilla
on the HD?
Dearly hope somebody can sort this out?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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Thanks 01mick0 for a really usable Puppy. I've just installed 5.6 to my Acer Aspire One netbook and I find that the SD slot works perfectly, which is really nice.
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Posted: Mon 13 Jan 2014, 14:46
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sorry if it's been covered before, but what does this icon above the clock in the lower right hand corner mean?
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Posted: Fri 17 Jan 2014, 15:17
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Sometimes that little door is black like in the photo, sometimes just white with a black outline.
So no one knows, and no one cares? Is it indicating spyware or a back door? Only official packages were installed, none of which made that thing appear in other Slacko versions.
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Posted: Fri 17 Jan 2014, 15:48
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mini-jaguar wrote:
Sometimes that little door is black like in the photo, sometimes just white with a black outline.
So no one knows, and no one cares? Is it indicating spyware or a back door? Only official packages were installed, none of which made that thing appear in other Slacko versions.
FWIW, I'm running 4 or 5 Slacko installs (full and frugal) and I've never seen that here.
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Posted: Fri 17 Jan 2014, 15:50
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That is just a terminal window reduced to minimum size. Why it is there though, I have no idea.
Spyware/backdoors would be a bit crapif they advertised themselves that way, so I wouldn't worry that much.
Try running htop with no other progs running, and see what shows up.
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Posted: Wed 22 Jan 2014, 16:52
Post subject: How can I mount sdxc (64 GB sd-card)?
I have an sdxc card that I can't mount in slacko 5.6.
It says that the type exfat is unknown. How can I add it to my slacko? There is fuse-exfat for slackware, but it doesn't show up in the package manager.
Has anyone had the same problem and found a solution? Does anyone know how to do this?
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Posted: Wed 22 Jan 2014, 17:56
Post subject: Video-editing in Slacko-5.6 non-pae
Unexpectedly, both the openshot 1.4.2 and kdenlive SFSes Battleshooter built for Saluki seem to work fine OOTB in Slacko 5.6 non-Pae. Although I haven't noticed any conflicts with applications more recently built for Slacko 5.6, and none involving the applications I frequently use, I can't guaranty that there are none. But as the above are SFSes, the worst that can happen is you'd have to unload them.
Openshot can be found here:
It's best to read the short kdenlive thread, as it requires two SFSes:
Together with don570's cinelerra,
, avidemux (for non-destructive cutting) and ffmpeg for conversions, Slacko 5.6 has a panoply of tools for your video projects.
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Posted: Thu 23 Jan 2014, 10:30
Post subject: Drive contents not displayed when desktop icon clicked
Subject description: SOLVED as mysteriously as it happened
Hi 01micko & all,
Ordinarily, when a desktop drive icon is clicked pmount mounts the drive/partition and then, automatically, rox displays its contents. In slacko 5.6 Final, however, clicking a drive icon, any drive icon, just initiates pmount offering to mount any drive or partition. When one is selected, rox opens it, but pmount remains open.
I don't recall this behavior from Thinslacko or phatslacko.
Perhaps it's just a bi-product of having immediately installed OpenboxPlus?
It's particularly annoying as it also happens when the "home" partition is clicked. As I frugally install almost all my pups to the same "home" partition, that is where I also keep many folders and files I may want to use with them. I developed a work-around, but it's not as convenient as just being able to click a drive icon. I added a second rox "desktop" to /usr/share/applications, called "Rox-opens-MntHome" using the execution argument "rox /mnt/home" and added that "application" to lxpanel. But being a creature of habit, I'd prefer not having to remember that clicking a desktop drive icon doesn't work as expected.
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Posted: Thu 23 Jan 2014, 11:48
Post subject: Re: Drive contents not displayed when desktop icon clicked
mikeslr wrote:
Perhaps it's just a bi-product of having immediately installed OpenboxPlus?
Have you tried a clean install to see if you can replicate the problem?
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Fort Myers is almost ready to unveil its new, downtown waterfront, but developers have yet to sign any contracts to build.
A ribbon-cutting is tentatively scheduled for the first weekend in December, said Don Paight, executive director of the Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency.
"For all practical purposes," he said, "it's pretty much finished."
The project brings the Caloosahatchee riverfront up to Bay Street. It creates two basins that filter pollutants from storm runoff. The basins will be separated by Edwards Drive, which will be converted into a brick-paved bridge.
When the $5.3 million riverfront project broke ground in March, Paight said he expected it finished by September. The contract stipulates Wright Construction Group Inc. has until roughly Nov. 20 to finish.
As the city finishes last-minute touches such as landscaping and lighting, the next step is to find businesses to occupy the new waterfront. The city hopes to put three or four restaurants along the water and 20-25 retail stores next door along Hendry Street and Edwards Drive. The main attraction is supposed to be a 200-room hotel connected to the Harborside Event Center.
Acquest Realty Group is negotiating for the city with hotel developer JWM Management, Inc., a Sarasota-based company that has completed projects including Hyatts and Marriotts. JWM Management would lease the land, which is the Harborside parking lot, from the city. The project will include a parking garage with 200 to 250 spaces, but it has not been determined whether the city or the developer will pay for it.
"Our goal is by the end of this year to try to get an agreement with the hotel developer," Paight said.
After that, it would probably take 12-15 months to finish construction, Paight said. He hopes restaurants will open around the same time as the hotel.
Eight restaurants have expressed interest in leasing a space along the water. Representatives of Columbia Restaurant, a Spanish restaurant chain founded in 1905 in Tampa, visited the site when the project broke ground in March. The city will follow up once the riverfront is done, Paight said. The city wants to get the hotel under contract before it aggressively pursues restaurants and retail stores.
Securing retail storefronts will be left up to the family of former Fort Myers Mayor Wilbur Smith, which owns the block at Hendry Street and Edwards Drive where the city hopes to eventually see shops, Paight said.
Mayor Randy Henderson said he couldn't be more excited for the ribbon-cutting.
"It's going to make a statement," he said.
Kevin Offerman, owner of City Tavern across the street from the project, said he expects the new waterfront will bring people downtown.
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Quick Take for Thursday, October 9, 2008 (Fast Affiliate Live + Same Day Ratings)
Up Against CBS' Premiere Thursday, ABC Earns Second in Viewers and All
Key Adults, While Ranking a Dominant No. 1 on the Night in Women 18-34
Growing Week to Week in Viewers and Young Adults, "Ugly Betty" Takes Second
At 8pm in Viewers and Wins the Hour for the 3rd Straight Week in Women 18-34
ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" Tops the Season Opener of "C.S.I" in Adults 18-34
And Stand as the Thursday's No. 1 Television Program in Women 18-34
ABC's "Life on Mars" Opens as TV's No. 1 New Drama Debut This Season
In Adults 18-49, Qualifying as the Highest-Rated Fall Drama Opener in 1 Year
In the 10pm Hour, "Life on Mars" Beats CBS' Debut of "Eleventh Hour" in Key Adults
Thursday Night (8:00-11:00 p.m.)
Against the premiere of CBS' Thursday dramas, ABC earned second place in Total Viewers (11.5 million) and across all key Adult demos: AD18-34 (3.4/10), AD18-49 (4.0/10) and AD25-54 (4.6/11). ABC posted a dominant first place on the evening in Women 18-34, besting its nearest competition by 26% (4.9/14 vs. 3.9/11 - NBC).
"Ugly Betty" (8:00-9:00 p.m.)
Growing week to week, ABC's "Ugly Betty" took second place in its hour among Total Viewers (8.5 million) to CBS' "Survivor: Gabon," topping NBC's comedies which included the debut of "Kath & Kim" by 1.2 million viewers ("My Name is Earl"/"Kath & Kim" = 7.3 million). Leading its nearest competition in the hour by 16% in Women 18-34 (3.6/11 vs. 3.1/10 - CBS), "Betty" ranked No. 1 in its time period for the 3rd week in a row among young women.
� "Ugly Betty" was up week to week in both Total Viewers (8.5 million vs. 8.3 million) and Adults 18-49 (2.6/7 vs. 2.5/7).
"Grey's Anatomy" (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Opposite the season premiere of CBS' "C.S.I. in the 9 o'clock hour," ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" took second in the hour to stand as Thursday's No. 2 TV show in both Total Viewers (14.5 million) and Adults 18-49 (5.5/13). "Grey's" beat the "C.S.I." premiere by 20% among Adults 18-34 (5.3/14 vs. 4.4/12). The ABC medical drama led the hour by 47% (7.8/19 vs. 5.3/13 � CBS and NBC tied) and registered as Thursday's No. 1 TV show with Women 18-34.
"Life on Mars" (10:00-11:00 p.m.)
TV's highest-rated drama debut of the season, ABC's series debut of "Life on Mars" topped CBS' series premiere of "Eleventh Hour" by solid margins in the 10 o'clock hour across all key Adult demos: AD18-34 +23% (2.7/8 vs. 2.2/7), AD18-49 +15% (3.8/10 vs. 3.3/9) and AD25-54 +14% (4.8/12 vs. 4.2/10). In addition, "Life on Mars" ranked No. 1 in the hour in AD25-54, M25-54 and W25-54, and was the top-rated broadcast show in the slot with Teens 12-17 (1.4/6).
� "Life on Mars" stands as TV's No. 1 drama debut of the season in Adults 18-49, and the highest-rated Fall drama opener in 1 year � since 10/3/07.
� "Life on Mars" improved the time period for ABC over the same night last year (w/"Big Shots") by 3.1 million viewers (11.6 million vs. 8.5 million), by 6% in Adults 18-49 (3.8/10 vs. 3.6/10) and by 17% in Adults 25-54 (4.8/12 vs. 4.1/11).
� "Life on Mars" retained a strong 93% of its lead-in among Men 18-49 (2.8/8 vs. 3.0/8) and built on Grey's Anatomy by 6% in Men 25-54 (3.7/10 vs. 3.5/8).
A note about increasing DVR penetration and year-to-year rating comparisons: Year-to-year rating comparisons based on the Live + Same Day data stream are distorted by the level of DVR penetration in the Nielsen sample, which has jumped up to 28% currently, from 20% at the same point in 2007. More viewers are watching shows on their own timetables, which may not be reflected in the overnight next day numbers. The only truly valid year-to-year comparison would be one based on the Live + 7 Day metric, once those stats are released by Nielsen.
Source: Nielsen Media Research (Fast Affiliate, Live + Same Day Ratings), 10/9/08.


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How much can one disagree with the OPC's view of the covenants and still be eligible to be ordained to an office?
Thanks for your question. I assume by the "OPC's view of the covenants" you mean the doctrine of the covenants as taught in the Westminster Standards. So the question would be "May a candidate for church office differ from something taught in the Westminster Standards and to what degree?"
And the answer is that it is up to a presbytery, in the case of a minister, or a session, in the cases of elders and deacons, to determine whether, whatever differences the candidate may have with the Standards, he can honestly affirm the second ordination vow (FG XXII:13.c(2)): "Do you sincerely receive and adopt the Confession of Faith and Catechisms of this Church, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures?"
If the presbytery judges that a ministerial candidate's view of the covenants differs from the Standards, it will have to determine whether those differences are such that permit him to take this vow with integrity. Such judgment (at either the sessional or presbyterial level) is always subject to complaint and appeal, of course, and consists in the relevant body determining whether the difference is something that would "constitute a violation of the system of doctrine contained in the Holy Scriptures as that system of doctrine is set forth in our Confession of Faith and Catechisms" (BD III.7.b.).
With specific regard to the doctrine of the covenants, should someone, for instance, be permitted to deny the covenant of works, not only as to its form but as to its substance? I do not think so and would argue that vigorously in presbytery, as I believe that it would constitute a violation of the system of doctrine. Someone may scruple at the language "covenant of works," however, and in substance affirm what such language intends to convey. Presbytery would have to listen carefully to the candidate and look carefully at what he teaches so as to make such a determination.
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Connecticut lawmakers recommend additional restrictions on guns
HARTFORD -- There is some consensus between Democrats and Republicans on how to reduce gun violence, particularly concerning universal background checks, but a wide gap remains on an expanded assault weapon ban, limiting magazine sizes, suitability questions and permitting details.
Many of the items approved by Democrats reflected the agenda set by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
There also was disagreement on what the process should be going forward, with state Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, hoping for a bill that incorporates items from the gun violence reduction subcommittee, with recommendations from two other subcommittees dealing with mental health initiatives and school safety, "as soon as possible."
The discussion Tuesday referred to the findings of the Bipartisan Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention and Child Safety, a 48-member committee that was put together in January in response to the murder of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School Dec. 14 in Newtown.
On opposition to expanding the assault weapon ban, state Rep. Craig Miner, R-Litchfield, co-chairman of the gun subcommittee, said the Republicans "believe that it's not the gun that actually kills the person, it's the person who kills the person. That is No. 1. That sounds pretty cold, but that's kind of the way it is."
A letter Looney and Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn, recently sent to GOP leadership and to House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, referred to a bill being ready March 13.
It is up to Sharkey and Williams to sign off on an emergency certified bill that the leadership in both parties will now put together, with Sharkey pledging to only include consensus items from the task force. Looney's definition of bipartisan is broader and said it only needs the support of some members from each party backing a bill.
Several Republican members said there should be more vetting before a bill is presented to lawmakers, with additional work at the subcommittee level.
The two other subcommittees specifically listed their consensus items.
Looney and Miner, the co-chairmen of the gun study group, said the lack of agreement on some major items was apparent last week. Looney said a consensus list was not made because of the degree of "polarity" between the two sides on guns, something that reflects the division in the state and across the country.
"In that sense, the body of issues we had to deal with were somewhat more contentious and less likely to be readily resolvable at this stage," Looney said.
Both leaders actually expressed surprised at the degree to which there was overlap in what the political parties want to see.
Looney said he was pleased that both sides want more permitting for long guns, controls on sale of ammunition for those who can't legally own a gun, and a gun offender registry list.
"We have had significant movement on issues that, at first blush, I think both felt may not have been reconcilable," Miner said. He added, however, that it "doesn't make any sense to me" that they wouldn't go further, either through the committee process or through the task force, if they had more time.
Miner said to come up with any list on gun changes would usually take years to develop. "We are recommending that they change in a matter of weeks. So, I think we have come a long way."
Miner said he has talked to people on both sides of the aisle, and the division is "not a matter of what stripe you wear." He said it is often tied to geography and where in the state one lives.
Looney said that in his 30 years in the legislature, the interest in the subject of guns is "unprecedented ... the heightened interest is quantitatively new."
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, issued a statement again reminding lawmakers of its "sizeable economic presence and workforce in the Constitution state," and expressed disappointment that there was no definitive bipartisan plan "to prevent future violence that involve the criminal misuse of firearms."
Like Miner, the NSSF said the focus should be on keeping firearms "out of the wrong hands."
The national group said "an outright ban of the most popular semiautomatic rifle in the United States today, as some are suggesting, for what are essentially cosmetic reasons would make no one safer" and is unfair to legitimate owners.
The Democratic list would expand the assault weapons ban by reducing to one feature, rather than two characteristics for a firearm with the capacity for an attachable magazine. It would ban the sale and importation of these weapons, but continue to allow their manufacture. As of January 2014, owners of assault weapons would have to seek a certificate of possession from the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
The NSSF said this "holds the real prospective of affecting employment in our state because underlying issues go deeper than whether manufacturing exemptions would be issued."
The Democrats' list, in addition to expanding the definition of an assault weapon, would limit magazine capacity to 10 bullets, with possession of larger magazines dispossessed of by Oct. 1; require a permit to buy a rifle or shotgun for individuals aged 18 and older, with the same application process as is now required for pistols and revolvers; require universal background checks for all firearms, including private sales; require a firearm permit to buy ammunition; and establish a gun offender registry.
The Democrats also want to strengthen laws against trafficking and straw purchasers by increasing minimum fines to $10,000 and raising the felony class from D to C; prohibit individuals from buying more than one pistol or revolver within a 30-day period; expand safe storage in any household where there is a resident prohibited from buying a gun or where there is someone who poses a threat to themselves and others; increase the involuntary commitment lookback period from 12 months to five years; eliminate eligibility certificates for pistols and revolvers; prohibit carrying firearms into a private residence or house of worship without permission; and ban guns in licensed day care centers, among other items.
The Republican list included universal background checks; requiring an eligibility certificate or pistol permit in order to buy a long gun, with the eligibility certificate having a photo, fingerprinting, background check and completion of a safety course; increasing the purchase age to 21 for long guns that can accept a high-capacity magazine greater than 10 bullets; requiring a pistol permit, hunting license or eligibility certificate to purchase any ammunition; requiring buyers of long guns and ammunition over the Internet to provide evidence the buyer is eligible to do so.
Democrats want to look at reconstituting or eliminating the Board of Firearms Examiners, while Republicans would appoint a member with a mental health professional background.
On mental health, the Republicans would deny a permit to those involuntarily committed, from the present 30 days to one to five years, and add a minimum 30-day delay for those who voluntarily enter a psychiatric facility. They want firearms stored safely if there is a person in the household who is "mentally defective," has a restraining order, gun forfeiture order or is a convicted felon; establishment of a gun offender registry; and requiring a permit for a gun show from an elected official and local police chief. They do not want any early release for those convicted of a gun crime.
Republicans would ban sale of armor piercing and incendiary bullets; reconstitute the statewide firearms trafficking task force and provide $1 million in funding; increase penalties for firearms trafficking similar to the fines and felony status recommended by the Democrats.
Correction: State Rep. Craig Miner was misidentified as State Rep. Craig Minor in an earlier version of this story.


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Wednesday, February 6, 2019
(After John Leppard ran the Star Wars Edge of the Empire scenario Ice Station Zulu by David Villegas with Ben Abbott, Laird Davis, Nathan Johnson, and me Saturday, February 3, from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.)
Ten years after the end of the CLONE
WARS, much of the galaxy is in the
grip of the vast and powerful EMPIRE.
Working to consolidate its power, the
EMPIRE has engaged in many
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
(After play testing Star Frontiers with the scenario Crash on Volturnus from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday with Jeff Tolle, Tim, RJ, Derick, Ryan, and Bethany.)
A small group of six had been hired by the government of Truanes Star to carry out a preliminary exploration of a newly discovered planet. The group included two Dralasites: short, rubbery aliens that had no bones nor hard body parts. The one who called himself William the Dralasite was
Monday, April 16, 2007
(After play-testing Albedo: Platinum Catalyst in Bryan Sunday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. with Aaron and Adam Frager.)
As the Second ConFed/ILR War heated up, more EDF troops were sent to the planet Tlakatan in order to help defend the planet and train local Homeguard troops. The group that arrived on-world a few months after the terrorist attack on the moon base on Tindo consisted of three officers and a group of cadets. The officers represented the
Monday, April 2, 2007
(After play-testing Albedo (1st ED) in Bryan Saturday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. with Steve and Scott Allen.)
The three EDF enlisted men had been sent up in a military aerodyne to get some training in zero-g and low-g operations on the only moon of the planet Tlakatan: Tindo.
Squad Leader Boadsun was a bear. He was a bit vulgar and burped and farted repeatedly. A Spec 2 mechanic, he was great with tools. Squad Leader
Wednesday, May 2, 2017
(After Kyle Matheson ran his Basic Roleplaying System original scenario Nine Strangers with Ashton LeBlanc, Austin Davie, Katie Gallant, Ben Abbott, Yorie Latimer, Whitney Ward, Collin Townsend, and me Saturday, April 14, from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.)
What defines a man? What makes him what he is? Is it his past? His hopes? His dreams? His memories? Can he aspire to be something better than those things make of him? Or is he trapped in


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The premiere season of American Horror Story was lousy with horny ghosts. Spirits flocked the halls of the murder house, hungry for nubile bodies in fetishwear. But show creator Ryan Murphy will have none of that, in his brand new, totally rebooted season.
This year's American Horror Story is set in a different time, a different location (a mental institution) — and won't have any ghosts at all.
According to TV Guide:
There are no ghosts in the second season - it's set in an asylum and Jessica Lange is a nun! - executive producer Ryan Murphy promises that there will be no lack of horror. "I think the story is horrifying," he tells us. "The story is a period piece in a mental institution based largely on truth and truth is always scarier than fiction."
Uh, excuse us what? We tuned into a whole season of this show, to watch ghosts put on plastic cat suits and spy on humans cry-masturbating. What is this nonsense? Who will fill in the hours of flashbacks? Will all the "ghost stories" be replaced with "mental patient" stories? Good creepy baby monster, we hope not. This second season just keeps sounding stranger and stranger — and hopefully that will be a good thing. Silver lining? At least we're done with the Harmons.
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Yesterday we had an introduction into setting up a virtual lab to help the DBA learn and test new technologies while improving his/her own skill set.
Today we will continue to discuss the building of a virtual lab. Today we will get a little closer to the SQL portion of things as we will be installing a familiar operating system to SQL Server.
The Operating System will be 2008. And the version of SQL Server will be 2008 R2. I chose these specifically because at the time that I built out my lab, I was setting up the environment to help me study for the MCM exams.
As a sidebar, I was just informed by a friend of another blog series that is also currently discussing setting up Virtual Machines in Virtual Box. Fortunately, his series is based on Windows 2012 and SQL 2012 – so there is a bit of a difference. The author of that series is Matt Velic and you can read his articles on the topic here.
I'll be honest, upon hearing that news I had to go check out his articles to make sure I wasn't doing the exact same thing. And while there may be a little overlap, it looks like we have different things that we are covering.
And now that brings us to recap time.
- Virtual Storage – 10th Day
- Death and Destruction, err Deadlocks – 9th Day
- SSRS Schedules – 8th Day
- Runaway Jobs – 7th Day
- Maintenance Plan Gravage – 6th Day
- Table Compression – 5th Day
- Exercise for msdb – 4th Day
- Backup, Job and Mail History Cleanup – 3rd Day
- Service Broker Out of Control – 2nd Day
- Maint Plan Logs – 1st Day
On the Eleventh Day of pre-Christmas…
The next pre-requisite for this lab is to install a Domain Controller and Active Directory. For this Domain Controller, I have the following Virtual Box settings.
- A single Dynamic Virtual Disk of 20GB
- 2 Network Adapters (1 NAT and 1 Internal)
- 1024 MB memory
To install the operating system, we will mount the iso image the same as we did for the FreeNAS in yesterdays post. This is a Windows setup, and I will not cover that.
Once you have installed the operating system, the first thing to do is to install the guest additions for Virtual Box.
With guest additions installed, next we will turn to the network adapters. I have two adapters installed for good reason. One adapter is visible to the virtual network and will be used for the VMs to talk to each other. The second adapter is installed so I can get windows validated and so patches can be downloaded and installed.
Talking about patches, this is where we want to make sure the operating system is patched. Run windows update, finish all of the requisite reboots, and then come back to the network control panel. Prior to installing the domain, disable the external NIC. We will do this to limit the potential for errors when joining the subsequent machines to the domain.
For the Internal adapter, I will also configure a static IP address as shown here.
Let's now setup the domain and domain controller on this machine. From Server Manager, right click roles and select Add Roles. From the new screen, select Active Directory Domain Services and DNS Server.
You are now ready to configure your domain. I am going to allow you to use your favorite resource for the directions on configuring a domain in Windows 2008. After the domain has been configured, then enable the external network adapter.
The final step is to configure DNS. The main concern in DNS to configure is the reverse lookup zones. I have three subnets (network address ranges) that I will configure. The relevance of these three zones will become apparent in the final article of the lab setup mini-series. The configurations will be along the lines as seen in this next screenshot.
This gets us to where we can start building our SQL Cluster. We will cover that in the next installment.


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Last Friday, Hilltown Families and CAM sponsored a Kids-Made Holiday Bazaar at the Children's Art Museum in Shelburne Falls, coinciding with the town-wide Moonlight Magic Celebration. Kids ranging from ages 4-13 participated in the event, giving them exposure to the field of cottage industries. Each young vendor sold and bartered their kids-made crafts, rewarding them for their creative pursuits.
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For both Rafael (age 13) of Northampton, MA, and Meghan (age 11) of Goshen, MA, this wasn't the first experience with a craft fair. Meghan expressed her excitement of being able to sell her sculpy clay and beaded jewelry, clothespin people, and cards in a craft fair that was just for kids. "The last craft fair I participated in was all adults and I felt so out of place," she commented.
Having a venue for kids to get crafty while having a real world experience and exposure to commerce through the artisan field was the mission of this event. A big congratulations to all vendors for making it a success. And a hearty thank you to everyone who stopped by to shop locally, supporting the event. Hilltown Families and CAM look forward to hosting this event again next year!