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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Aaron Fulkerson, founder and CEO of MindTouch. Before founding the company in 2005, Fulkerson (and co-founder Steve Bjorg) worked in Microsoft's advanced strategies division. After leaving Microsoft, the duo recognized a growing need for a scalable, easy-to-use open source collaboration platform for business and focused their efforts on a pet project, Deki Wiki. Within three years, Deki Wiki was rated as one of the Top 5 OSS projects by SourceForge.net and ultimately grew to become the company known as MindTouch today. MindTouch offers a robust enterprise collaboration platform with more than 16 million users and 400,000 web visits each month.
Fulkerson has emerged as a true open source leader. Aside from being a much sought-after public speaker and prolific blogger, he has grown and managed MindTouch to a company of 50 that was voted one of the best places to work in San Diego, CA .
Aaron is also a fellow Tar Heel – I learned through my interview that he and I are both UNC-Chapel Hill graduates. After talking college basketball for a few minutes, I wanted to get Aaron's perspective on leading and managing a true open source company, and his views on where open source is headed in the future.
Can you tell me a little bit about the culture at MindTouch? How would you describe the culture at the company that you built? How does it reflect the open source way?
First and foremost, everybody at MindTouch is really passionate about open source and open standards. Furthermore, Steve and I built this company around three cultural tentpoles: honesty, excellence, and pride. We want to work with people who love what they do and are always trying to make themselves better at what they are doing.
The way that we've adopted and systematized these three doctrines (or pillars) ties in very directly to the open source way. For example, we don't fire anybody on the spot if you've been with MindTouch for more than 6 months. Have you ever worked at a company where people are scared because they don't know if they will be fired from day to day? Well, that never happens at MindTouch. Instead, we put people of concern on a correction plan for 60 days.
Regarding excellence, we want our people to excel. That's why we give all of our co-workers $600 per quarter to spend on professional development, which could include classes or any other development tool of the employee's choosing.
And finally, pride. We've worked hard to foster a culture where everyone at MindTouch feels comfortable bringing attention to the co-worker who might be in need of some improvement. "You know that work you just did? Well, it's not the best work I've seen." And that goes all the way to the executive team.
I'll give you an example. One of our marketing admins had a concern about how one of our outside vendors was being treated. She felt comfortable enough to go to the head of the department and say, "Look, I don't like how you're treating this outside vendor. We've been delaying, delaying, delaying in giving the vendor an answer and haven't yet paid them."
There is absolutely a cultural meritocracy at MindTouch. The guy who runs our support team started out as an office manager, and very quickly moved into running the entire support team. He just excelled at it.
And almost every single one of our developers, every single person in engineering, has a side project that they are working on – whether it's a side company, or an open source project.
Leaving Microsoft to start an open source company must have been an interesting transition. Can you compare & contrast the culture at the company you've built with that of Microsoft?
For me, my experience at Microsoft wasn't that different from working at an open source company because Steve and I were in a small research team that reported directly to Craig Mundie, who had been the CTO. On my team was Chuck Thacker, who just won the Turing Award a few weeks ago, and guys like Henrik Frystyk Nielsen who also worked on HTTP 1.1 and co-wrote the SOAP 1.1 & 1.2 specifications. Somehow Steve and I lucked into this small group.
My time there was very different from what most people's experience might have been at Microsoft. It was more academic. I had the opportunity to not only work with a Turing Award winner, but I met other award winners like Jim Gray and Robin Milner in my time working there. It was a very different experience from what one might expect within Microsoft.
Speaking of Turing Award winners, I studied under another while a student at UNC-Chapel Hill. Of course, that man is Fred Brooks, author of the Mythical Man Month and founder of the computer science department at UNC. He's a god.
In your experience working at proprietary companies, do you feel that aspects of a company's culture can stifle innovation? And , conversely, can aspects of an open source company's culture accelerate the rate of innovation?
Some people, when they first come into MindTouch, are surprised by how much freedom they have, both in rising to the occasion and taking on responsibility that might be outside of their specific domain or sphere of influence, but also in simple things like engaging the community.
I had a new employee once ask me "can I write a blog post on this?" I said "Well, yeah, why are you asking me that? It's like asking me if you can go to the bathroom." (laughs)
Who can tweet on the MindTouch account? Whoever wants to! (laughs)
It's that culture of openness that is so typical of open source companies and you don't see in most software companies.
As MindTouch grew and we started bringing on some people who might have had more of a background in proprietary companies and were unaccustomed to working with open source, it even became apparent to me that for them it felt odd. But as we all grew to be more comfortable being open and honest and authentic, it created a humanness for the company that resonates with users and prospective customers. And it drives more users and prospective customers. So that's one key thing that I've seen.
Another thing that I have come to realize is that companies that have tried to own the protocols and own the standards generally don't succeed. Look at what happened during the SOA era – you know, SOAP and all these very heavy web services – the reason why those web services were created the way that they were was because large companies like IBM and Microsoft and all those people who were involved in the standards creation wanted to sell very expensive heavy tools on top of the services infrastructures. And it was frankly a huge failure that undoubtedly set us back 5, 7, maybe 10 years because they wouldn't embrace these open standards that already we've proven could scale and provide a very extensible platform.
Specifically I'm talking of course about HTTP and XML. You look at how these very large companies put all of their weight and dollars and marketing budgets and essentially everything they had into creating this new world of SOA, and all these promises were made ... it was all about them owning the protocol, owning the platform, providing very heavy tools and ultimately it was proven to be a huge failure.
So instead we opt to live in a completely different world where it's open standards and everybody benefits – including companies like MindTouch who adhere to open standards. Everything at MindTouch is like-orienting ... meaning it's all HTTP. Everything we do revolves around open standards. And again, it's a huge benefit.
The third thing I'll say is that MindTouch would have gone out of business a long time ago if we hadn't been able to build up an install base. In the beginning we bootstrapped this company – we certainly didn't have all the resources to dump into sales and marketing and other such things to go out and fight against Oracle and Microsoft.
We've been successful by making our products freely available, building up a large, very fanatic install base of users, and then offering them commercial solutions built on top of that.
Opensource.com is about applying open source principles beyond technology. How do you see open source playing a role in areas such as business, education, law or government? Can you see any opportunities in today's world for the open source way being applied to solve some of our biggest problems?
Absolutely. We're seeing it in education, obviously, with MIT and several other very prominent universities making their courseware, videos, and tutorials available online.
I have also witnessed firsthand how this is changing the legal landscape. It's funny – and most people don't realize this – but the small start-up open source companies that came up in the 2004-2006 cohort, of which MindTouch is one of the younger ones, all shared the development of things like legal contracts and partner agreements to save on legal costs. My contracts might be a little different now, but I remember for the first few years, MindTouch's contract templates tracked back even to JBoss.
What I'd like to see – and I've pushed hard on this but have never been able to see any movement yet from my efforts – is an emergence of open source as applied to manufacturing. We have seen some projects around electric cars, and people like the BugLabs guys and others working on personal devices and things like that. But what I foresee happening is that as more and more of our manufactured products become commodities, true innovation will come from sharing with one another just how these things are manufactured. I think everyone will benefit as a result.
MindTouch recently released a list of "The 20 Most Powerful Voices in Open Source". According to the post, the list is comprised of "the most vocal" open source leaders, i.e. the ones holding the "biggest megaphones". In a community-based format, do you feel that being the most vocal is equivalent to being the most powerful?
No, I don't think that's necessarily the case. MindTouch conducted what was (and probably still is) the most comprehensive survey of best practices in sales and marketing in the enterprise open source space, back in September 2009. We had 25 open source companies participate in the study, including SugarCRM, Jaspersoft, Alfresco, and others.
One of the questions we asked was, "who do you think is the most influential person in open source?" We had 50 executives respond to the question and released the results of that question in a post to the MindTouch blog in October 2009. Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM, received the most mentions. Matt Asay, Marten Mickos, Jim Whitehurst, and Dries Buytaert rounded out the top 5.
The "Most Powerful Voices" study was a different way of looking at this metric. We developed an MPV measure that considered an individual's Twitter and Google "buzz" to determine one's impact and broadcast power. I was a bit skeptical at first but agreed to conduct the analysis, but told my team I wanted to see the list first before posting it.
A bit hesitant, I looked down the list and thought "yeah, I can see it breaking out this way." What I thought was especially cool about it was that there were a lot of people who I didn't even know on the list. Channy Yun from Korea, others from abroad ... names and faces that aren't instantly recognizable. And I thought that was pretty awesome.
We expected the "I don't know any of these people, so it can't be right" reactions. But that's OK. They might be huge in Korea, or huge in Italy, or huge in the communities in which they participate.
So overall, no, I don't necessarily believe that having the biggest microphone makes you the most influential person. In fact, with regards to open source, I think volume can actually be ineffective. Megaphones aren't always the best way to reach engineers.
Want to learn more? Check out Aaron's blog, as well as the MindTouch blog. We particularly enjoyed recent posts on the Brief History of Free and Open Source Software and The Most Powerful Voices in Open Source.
As co-founder and CEO of MindTouch, Aaron, in less than three years, has grown a small open source project into one of the World's most popular and positioned it as #1 in open source collaboration (source: Sourceforge.net) with tens of millions of users globally and an impressive customer list of Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies and mid-market companies. Prior to co-founding MindTouch, Aaron was a member of Microsoft's Advanced Strategies and Policies division and worked on distributed systems research. Previously he owned and operated a successful software and Information Technology consulting firm, Gurion Digital LLP. He has held senior positions at software startups, has helped to launch several non-profits and businesses outside the software industry. Aaron received his BS in Computer Science from University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. He resides in San Diego, CA with his wife and two children. You can find Aaron on LinkedIn and Twitter.


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By Fareed Zakaria
We tend to think of dictators as all-powerful leaders who act with naked cruelty and impunity. Think of Bashar al Assad in Syria. Or, for a celluloid reminder, think of Sacha Baron Cohen as Gen. Admiral Aladeen, a North African despot.
But the film "The Dictator" — and our imagination of dictators — is getting outdated. The new dictator is more evolved and more attuned to how people think.
A new book highlights that trend. It's called "The Dictator's Learning Curve" by William Dobson.
Dictators have gotten smart, Dobson writes, to keep pace with changes in technology. Old-school oppressors like Mao, Pol Pot or Idi Amin could keep their atrocities relatively secret. That's not possible today. If a dictator tried to orchestrate a mass killing and keep it secret, he'd likely fail. It would end up on YouTube.
Uganda's Joseph Kony is now an internet phenomenon. Charles Taylor of Liberia was recently found guilty by the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone. Sudan's President Bashir has been indicted.
So today's cleverest dictators have evolved. They allow a certain amount of dissent, as an escape valve.
Consider China. There's a new study out this week by three political scientists at Harvard. They've devised a way to analyze millions of social media posts in China. What's special is that they claim to do this before the Chinese government gets to censor them - so it provides a unique insight not just into what the Chinese people think, but also what the government deems necessary to censor.
What do they find? Contrary to what you'd think, it turns out criticisms of the state are not more likely to get censored. Even vitriolic criticisms are allowed. Instead, the focus is on stopping mass mobilization. Last year Beijing blocked internet searches for Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" to prevent discussions about the Arab Spring. Similarly last week searches for the numbers 4/6 were censored - the numbers represented June 4th, the anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square.
The Harvard study shows that Beijing's leaders are making measured concessions. It is said that some 500 protests take place every day across China. But anything that could lead to something larger or more organized is instantly censored and clamped down on.
Another example - Putin's Russia has usually allowed the print media a great deal of freedom, on the theory that what a few tens of thousands of people read in Moscow and St. Petersburg doesn't matter. But the regime has taken over television news completely, so mass opinion is carefully controlled out of the Kremlin.
We're witnessing a trend in China, Russia, Venezeula, and many other countries - even Myanmar. Gone are the days when dictators could completely ignore the demands of their people.
As citizens become more exposed to events around the world, more connected to each other on the internet and social media, dictators will have to make greater concessions. It's a situation that is far better than how things were 10, 20, or 50 years ago. Regimes like those in Syria and North Korea can act with all-out brutality, but they are outliers - they represent a fading order.
The new model is to allow a controlled space for free commerce, for open education, even for dissent. Perhaps people in these countries can use that space to expand the realm of freedom and liberty.
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Medium: Black silk satin with jet beads
Date: c.1953
Country: France
Credit: Gift of Despina Messinesi
Balenciaga's millinery ranged from minimalist, sculptural designs to dramatic tributes to his Spanish heritage, adorned with jet beads and ball fringe. Hats played an important part in the total look he created. As with his clothes, Balenciaga's hats were not intended to be conventionally pretty, but rather were for providing the finishing touches to his bold architectural silhouettes.
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Tacita Dean's FILM at Tate Turbine Hall
Joanne McNeil, editor of Rhizome, writes about Tacita Dean's work with and activism for analog film for the Paris Review Daily. An exhibition of Dean's work is currently on view at the New Museum.
As her very craft faces extinction, it fittingly became one of her subjects. Last year, Soho Film Laboratory, where she was a longtime customer, abruptly ended new orders of 16mm film prints due to new management. She was at the time preparing an installation for the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, as The New Yorker explained in a profile of Dean last autumn...
Nostalgia is not quite the right word to describe how Tacita Dean relates to celluloid film. She is firmly rooted in the present while considering what might pass. There's no vaseline on the lens or sepia tone here. Her nostalgia is not for film itself, but film's way to relate the experience time. A film projector measures out minutes and seconds relating to the speed that the footage was shot.
"Film is time made manifest: time as physical length - 24 frames per second, 16 frames in a 35mm foot," she wrote in the accompanying wall text. "It is still images beguiled into movement by movement and is eternally magical. The time in my films is the time of film itself."


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Lunch To-Go: Pepe Rosso
Pepe Rosso To-Go on Sullivan Street is a tiny place, so tiny that they post (friendly, cheeky) signs suggesting you eat fast and make room for the next guest. Which is why this restaurant is one of my favorite takeout and delivery spots in the area. The prices are quite gentle, for the Soho and the South Village area. The food is consistently fresh and people here are nice as can be.
Pastas and daily specials are my go-to orders, in particular the housemade Pappardelle ($10.95), supple wide noodles cooked al dente, laced in a meaty, spicy tomato sauce and crumbled sausage. Coupled with parmesan, extra chili pepper flakes, and warm slices of olive oil-brushed Italian bread, it makes for the ultimate comfort food lunch on a rainy day. If you're in a meaty mood, keep in mind that they do a dependable, rather homey version of Spaghetti Bolognese as well as a Lasagna—a large serving, light on the cheese, but finished with a generous ladle of the aforementioned Bolognese sauce right over the top. Make sure you save that bread to soak it all up!
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The success of the Ford Raptor's sent GM and Chrysler searching for a competitor based on their top-selling trucks. First out of the gate is the Ram Runner, shown on the show floor appropriately dirty.
Rather than offering a factory-built, showroom ready truck, the Ram brand is offering a kit based on the concept that debuted last year. For $3,000 (on the top of the cost of a 1500) the Stage 1 Pre-Runner kit adds base level suspension upgrades. For approximately $13,000 you'll get the full kit. The upgraded exhaust, crazy fiberglass front/rear fenders and modified bumper will cost you even more.
So if you're a Mopar lover who wants to shame the Raptor your options are a $20K upgrade or one of those stickers of Calvin peeing on an SVT logo.


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Farmboys Smokin' BBQ: Memphis-style at its best
Farmboys barbecue catering: Danbury couple brings Memphis-style to doorstep
Matt Lombardo was born in Charleston, S.C., so it's not surprising that slow-cooked barbecue is his meal of choice.
As a young adult, he worked the show horse circuit, traveling to Tennessee, Texas and New Mexico.
"You eat a lot of barbecue on the road," Lombardo said, "Memphis-style, slow-cooked and good."
Now living in Connecticut, Lombardo decided to bring a bit of the South to New England and launched Farmboys Smokin' BBQ.
Though he and his wife, Stacey, live in Danbury, Farmboys' kitchen is in Darien. Matt Lombardo's friend, Chris Sparaco, helps with the catering business.
"This is a labor of love," said pit master Lombardo. "I really just want to do barbecue the way it's supposed to be done."
A mobile smoker is used to slow-cook the meats. It's all done on site; the meats are smoked using various types of wood, including hickory and applewood. Homemade barbecue sauce is provided.
The secret is in the rub and the cooking time, Lombardo said. Beef brisket, pulled pork, barbecued chicken and even pig roasts are among Farmboys' specialties. Meat is purchased through Omaha Beef Co. in Danbury.
The mobile smoker is an indirect wood/charcoal smoker from a company in Georgia. Authenticity in producing a Memphis-style barbecue is key in Lombardo's cooking.
Brisket is smoked for 18 to 20 hours. The corn bread side dish has diced bacon, and on request, diced jalapeno can be added.
Throw in the coleslaw, baked beans with brown sugar and bacon, and the meal's complete.
To kick off its first spring season, Farmboys fired up the smoker at a Newtown home earlier this month.
Beef brisket, pulled pork, pork ribs, chicken, chopped beef and kielbasa all were on the menu for a Saturday meal at 2:30 p.m. The smoking process was started at 7 p.m. the night before, and by Saturday afternoon, everything was ready.
"Delicious," said Jason Tucker, of West Haven, as he sampled the kielbasa. "I eat barbecue all the time, at least once a week, and this is good."
"Oh, that's awesome," said Janet Strand, of Woodstock, as she tasted a spoonful of pulled pork. "I put a sweet sauce on it. I can't wait for the chicken to come out."
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Along with the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE, Sammy also announced the Galaxy S II HD LTE. The HD LTE is similar to the S II LTE, except for the screen. The S II HD LTE is the first Android phone to sport a massive 4.65-inch screen with a 720p (1280×720) HD resolution. This makes the S II HD LTE the first Android phone to have a eye-busting PPI of 316. As its name suggests, the S II HD LTE also supports the blazing-fast LTE network.
Like the S II LTE, the S II HD LTE is also powered by a blazing fast 1.5GHz dual-core Exynos processor, and packs 1GB of RAM along with 16GB of internal storage capacity. The usual connectivity features like GPS with A-GPS, Bluetooth 3.0+HS, Wi-Fi b/g/n, FM Radio, a microSD card slot, MHL port, NFC along with a bunch of sensors like Gyroscope, Ambient Light Sensor and Accelerometer etc.
The handset runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, with TouchWIZ 4.0 on top of it. Like the S II LTE, the HD LTE is also powered by a 1850mAh battery. The Galaxy S II HD LTE will be available under all the three Korean networks SK Telecom, KT Telecom and LG U+. Sammy did not mention anything about the pricing or the availability of the device.


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Glittering Lemon Sandwich Cookies
Almost every part of The Gourmet Cookie Book puts me in the holidays mood, from the sweet little strawberry tart cookies on the cover to the lovely gingerbread men and snowflake-shaped Scandinavian rosettes inside. But possibly the most festive recipe in the book: these Glittering Lemon Sandwich Cookies. Dusted in sparkling sanding sugar, the little lemony cookies are filled and sandwiched together. They really do look like they should be hanging from the branches of a Douglas fir.
At first glance, these Glittering Lemon Sandwich Cookies could easily be mistaken for a sparkly macaron—they have a similarly elegant-sandwich thing going on. But these little guys have a cool, lemony flavors and a melty-crumbly texture from the confectioners' sugar and corn starch in the dough, and the outside is all sugary crunch from the brightly-hued sanding sugar.
Adapted from The Gourmet Cookie Book. Copyright © 2010. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Available wherever books are sold. All Rights Reserved.
- Yield:4 dozen sandwich cookies
- Active time: 1 1/2 hours
- Total time:2 1/2 hours
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- For the Cookies:
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks (1/2 pound) unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- White and colored sanding sugars
- For the Filling:
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 1/2 stick (4 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
For the Cookies: Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Line 2 large baking
sheets with parchment paper.
Whisk together flour, cornstarch, and salt.
Beat together butter and confectioners' sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, then beat in zest and vanilla. At low speed, mix in flour mixture just until a soft dough forms.
Put sanding sugars in different bowls. Roll a scant teaspoon of dough into a ball and drop into sugar, turning to coat. Reshape if necessary and transfer to a baking sheet. Repeat, spacing balls 3/4 inch apart, until baking sheet is filled.
Bake until tops are slightly cracked but still pale (bottoms will be pale golden), 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer cookies on parchment to a rack to cool completely.
Form and bake more cookies on second baking sheet.
For the Filling: Beat together all filling ingredients in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until combined well. Transfer to sealable bag and snip off a corner.
Turn over half of cookies and pipe about 1/2 teaspoon filling on flat side of each. Sandwich with remaining cookies, pressing gently.
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Being an auto writer doesn't mean you have a constant string of Lambos in your garage every month, but I've been privileged to drive a few spirited machines in my time at Jalopnik. And every now and then, something really, really special comes along.
Last summer Matt and I drove a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse in Austin. With 1,200 horsepower and a zero to 60 mph time of 2.4 seconds, it stands as the fastest car I have ever driven.
Hell, there's a good chance that Veyron is the fastest car I ever will drive. There aren't many things that can top it, and I don't know if I'll ever get seat time in a McLaren P1 or something similar. But I'm okay with that.
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Thumbs up to the Taste of Ottawa – first-ever Westboro Holiday Food Market a big success
Nicola Maule is an event planner who is always trying to bring a bit more excitement to Ottawa.
The first Taste of Ottawa- Westboro Holiday Food Market on December 9th, 2012 was a gastronomic success!
More than 700 people visited the market, held at the Westboro Masonic Hall, and no one walked away empty handed including Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson. Many stockings will be filled with delicious treats this Christmas and taste buds will be spoiled.
The doors of the market opened at 10 a.m. and there was a non-stop stream of people for several hours which kept the hall humming. Customers loved the variety of products available and took full advantage of sampling items such as gourmet jams, shortbread, chocolate and honey.
The Relish gourmet food truck served delicious tacos outside the hall and hand thrown calzones baked in Flatbread Pizza's wood burning pizza oven. The smells from the fire caught the attention of many people strolling by and they were not disappointed.
The market ran smoothly thanks to the help of dedicated volunteers. Three teenagers were on hand early in the morning to help the vendors set up their stalls quickly and efficiently.
The also event collected $1,077 and several boxes of food for the Westboro Region Food Bank.
And Westboro resident Brenda Couch won the gift basket filled with products from each vendor .
Diane Allingham and Jen Stewart, brokers with Royal LePage, sponsored the event and their support helped us advertise the market and provide it with signage so customers could easily find the hall.
Taste of Ottawa vendors and organizers all went home with a big smile on their faces knowing that Ottawa's gourmet food scene is healthy and growing! After this event the Taste of Ottawa has 93 Facebook likes and 263 Twitter followers- social media is definitely a great way to reach the foodie community in Ottawa!
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Generate dynamically a string of the above code with all nesting and eval it. (fast and intuitive!)
2. Recursion
Write a function X2() which gets two arrayrefs and returns an arr_ref of the cross product. Call it recursively until @array exceeded.
3. Reduce
is a variation of the above, with List::Util::reduce
The function X() now works somehow like the X operator in perl6, but of course you could also use reduce { X2($a,$b) } @array directly.
The function X2() could be rewritten with two nested maps, but thats a little two cryptic for my taste.
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that's a hack which only works for strings as element type, everything else will be stringified, eg refs!!!
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Carly Pearce, country music's darling, is on her way to starling.
Once a performer at Dollywood, the CMT Music Award winner is climbing the charts with her second single, "Hide the Wine" (No. 26 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart).
In a recent interview, Carly mentions that her musical foundations are deeply rooted by the sounds she treasured growing up in the 90's and 2000's. "I grew up idolizing the [women of the] late '90s and early 2000s," says Carly. "I loved Faith Hill. I loved Trisha Yearwood. I loved the Dixie Chicks, Sara Evans, Reba, Dolly, Patty Loveless—all these women that had such texture and tone to their voices and all had an identity and all were singing and loving country music. Shania pushed the boundaries and did things visually and also in her music that maybe was a little bit of an eyebrow raise, and just Trisha's timeless sound, and I think that all of those girls really made me fall in love with the genre and made me know that that's what I wanted to do. I think that there's no denying when you listen to my album or you come to my show or see my merch that I'm trying to recreate that modern country girl."
It appears that country music fans are in agreement and are embracing the rich throwback sounds. Newcomers like William Michael Morgan, Riley Green, Carlton Anderson and Cody Johnson are hitting the scene and being welcomed with open arms and hungry ears. Chart-topping established acts like, Garth Brooks, Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line are hitting airwaves with new singles that are heavily familiar boasting the hearty flair of honky-tonk acoustics.
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Add Michael Weller's initially promising new play to the list of things George W. Bush has ruined. "Beast," Weller's long-winded shaggy-dog zombie drama, launches with originality to spare when a disfigured Iraq vet and his previously living pal set out across the globe seeking some kind of benediction from the country they've been defending. If this trip ended anywhere besides Crawford, Texas, it would be worth taking, but the otherwise surprising play screws up the endgame by climaxing with a profoundly obnoxious cardboard cut-out caricature of the president, Xeroxed from any number of less interesting plays.
It all starts so well, especially the coffin, a tragically underused theatrical device that adorns all of Eugene Lee's gorgeous sets for this play. Sometimes the flag-draped box is in the middle of the stage, sometimes multiples of it poke up endwise all over the scene, like a dozen patriotic monoliths. In one of these containers we find Benjamin "Voych" Voychevsky (Corey Stoll), a fallen soldier much mourned by his buddy Jimmy Cato (Logan Marshall-Green), who is first seen trying not to cry while talking to the box holding Voych's remains.
It soon becomes clear that, however dead and horribly mutilated Voych is, he's still surprisingly active. At first we're not sure whether or not it has all been a mistake — maybe Voych was in a coma; maybe he was asleep; maybe the doctor working on him hadn't examined his body closely enough. But after Voych insists on going AWOL, we learn he can do things few people are capable of. He can take a large knife in the chest, for example, and he apparently neither breathes nor decomposes. "I'm going through some changes," he says sadly, but that's the problem: He's not.
Stoll's performance utterly sells the first hour-and-a-half of this play. Shambling through various scenes like a worried, polite version of Frankenstein's monster, Voych always seems faintly embarrassed by his undead state, as if reanimation were the social equivalent of a bad haircut. Behind that, though, lurks the familiar monstrosity we've seen in a dozen horror movies, and when Voych attacks a crooked captain selling fake orders and IDs to soldiers, Stoll makes us believe he's about to pull the guy's arms off and beat him with them.
Where "Beast" succeeds most is in domestic settings, such as the Motel 6 where the two mutilated soldiers stop to partake of the affections of two blind prostitutes. It's a highly weird idea, but Weller writes the encounter with an easy naturalism and pauses to break your heart when Voych is alone with his girl, Sherine (given brief, floral life by the marvelous Lisa Joyce). New to tricking, Sherine waits until the senior hooker (Eileen Rivera) has left the room before furtively asking Voych a taboo question: "Am I pretty?" The exchange that follows may be the best in the play.
A scene with Voych's widow (Joyce again); a conversation with the redneck truck driver (a very funny Jeremy Bobb); some hilarious Mount Rushmore puppets — all these vignettes work perfectly despite drastic tonal shifts. New York Theater Workshop is probably doing this play as well as it can be done, with director Jo Bonney orchestrating the wandering madness with a counterbalancing precision.
But frankly, "Beast" may not be worth the trouble. Weller is not all that interested in soldiers as people; the play's subject matter demands some kind of respectful examination of militant patriotism, but we never get that. Why did Cato and Voych sacrifice so much for an unjust war? We don't know. Since Weller realizes we can't place the blame for the conflict at the soldiers' feet, he needs a stooge — and he makes a very popular selection.
Weller's Bush (Butler again, less impressively this time) is a shrill ninny who doesn't understand the cost of sacrifice and makes half a dozen unselfconscious statements engineered for cheap laughs, which they barely get. The play closes then with a whimper.
Someone needs to spread the word among producers and playhouses that the Bush presidency at this point is spilled milk. Bitching is an inalienable right of playwrights, but there's plenty to complain about in this brave new world of irresponsible bank loans, nuclear powers-to-be, rumored wars in Eastern Europe, and the strangest presidential election in recent memory. As painful as it may be, all the outraged anti-Bush plays that have piled up in theaters' literary offices over the last few years should probably go in the circular file, no matter whose name is on them.


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We think the hedgehog is super cute and would be pawsome to play with.
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We have diffurent likes and what is fun here and find the big Nanner toys the ones we ALL like. We have tried several "fill em up" toys and they are fine fur a bit and then we go "ehh, that old thing." We are cats after all and part of being a card carrying cat is keeping our pawrents guessing! MOL
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Would Dezi and Lexi like us to do (as a gift from us to you) an Ecard this year, as we did last year … let us know by email, and email photos of them you might like for us to use … the words you'd like on the card, and your preference on a color scheme ….. Happy Holidays dear friends. Hugs and purrs, the Zoolatry Girls


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It's not that I don't have things to share. Because I do. And it's not that I don't want to spend time with you kind people. Because I do. It's just that I'm so tired and I've sat here for more time than I care to admit trying to say what I came here to share and I'm just so gosh darn tired. Even the coffee I drank in preparation for tonight's post isn't keeping my eyelids propped open.
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It's not food but I just want to eat him up. In fact I do, on a daily basis.
So tomorrow I will return well rested and ready to finish the coffee series.
In the meantime I have a couple of items I'd like to share with you all. 1. WE'RE GOING TO NEW YORK! and by "WE" I mean my husband and I – that's it, no little boys who are as cute as fluffy white kittens, but sometimes you need a break – even from cute fluffy kittens. So I am now opening up the flood gates ready to receive any and all recommendations on where to dine. Keep in mind I love all food – especially the sweet stuff.
2. If you live in the Seattle area get yourself down to Delancey and order up "Ashley's Heirloom Apple Tart" – that's me – I'm Ashley and I made some dessert – so go eat it.
3. Several people have been lusting over the Bodum Insulated cups that I've been serving my coffee in. I don't blame you – they are fantastic cups. We have them in all sizes and we love them. Hot things stay hot. Cold things stay cold. It may sound like it but I am not getting paid to say this – I just really love these cups. You can get them here:
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Algerian president overthrown in '92 coup dies
Former Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid, who gave the country a multiparty political system before he was overthrown in a 1992 military coup, died Saturday at a military hospital, the state news agency said. He was 83.
Bendjedid, who became president in 1979, presided over a series of political reforms that allowed for competitive legislative and municipal elections.
But when an Islamist party swept the first round of parliamentary elections, Algeria's powerful generals stepped in, ousted Benjedid and canceled the elections in 1992.
The coup prompted an armed resistance that turned into a decade-long civil war, which tore the country apart and claimed at least 200,000 lives.
Bendjedid was kept under house arrest hundreds of miles from the capital until 1999, when he was freed.
He was admitted to the Mohamed Seghir Nekkache military hospital last week for kidney-related problems, the state news agency reported, citing family members.


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Lactation is not a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth, and firing someone who wants to pump breast milk is not sex discrimination, according to a federal judge in Texas.
This decision is a stumper. Lactation occurs because of and immediately following pregnancy and childbirth, which makes it "related" to them. Only women lactate, so firing an employee because she needs to pump does discriminate against her on the basis of her sex.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought this suit against debt-collection agency Houston Funding on behalf of an employee whom the company fired, allegedly because she wanted to pump at work. The EEOC is considering appealing the decision by Judge Lynn Hughes (who is male).
Since the firing the federal government passed a law requiring employers to provide break time for new mothers to pump breast milk at work, but it does not prohibit employers from firing workers for pumping. One might have presumed that the anti-discrimination laws already had that covered, but now that is up in the air, and it will probably take years and opinions from higher courts to clear it up.


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Racing is for the rich. Or the smart. Right? Wrong. Here's six ways to get you on a track for 500 bucks or less.
You know we're big fans of 24 Hours of LeMons, the endurance race for $500 cars. At least, they start as $500 cars.
Once you add a pro roll cage, racing seat, some safety gear and a decent set of tires, it really rings in at closer to $2500.
Divide that by 5 drivers and, bingo, $500. Try not to plow the thing into a Camry decorated as a pink Batmobile and you can run the thing again. You can't race wheel-to-wheel for less.
Cost: $500
It's not wheel-to-wheel racing, but it will get your blood flowing. All you need is a car and a parking lot. The events are usually staged by the SCCA, local Porsche club and local BMW club among others.
A lot of times, they'll even let you lend a helmet. (But do really want to stick your head in someone else's helmet. Cough up a couple hundred for a helmet and you're still way under budget.)
Cost: $50
Go-karts aren't just for kids. The serious high-end shifter carts run on road courses and hit 120 miles per hour. Can you do that for $500? Er, no. But you can get into the sport with a used 4-cycle racing kart for $500 easy. Nice thing is, no trailer required.
Don't forget about dirt track karts. Chances are there's a go-kart dirt track near you. These karts are even cheaper and you'll spend the rest of the week wiping the smile (and the mud) off your face.
Cost: $500 or less
Stay with me here. This country cousin to go-kart dirt track racing is pretty serious business. Aluminum flywheels, port and polished flathead engines, the top classes hit 65 miles per hour.
To keep costs down they have several heavily regulated spec classes where you can be competitive for $2-300. And remember it's open-wheel racing. If you can't drive you'll be upside down.
Cost: $200
Drag Racing
Can that heap you drive make it a quarter of a mile? How about an eighth? Then you're ready to go drag racing. Unless your car is amazingly fast (quarter mile is 12 seconds or less), you won't need any additional safety equipment. You show up, you race.
Entry fees run from as low as $15 and, if you get lucky, you could walk away with a cash prize up to $1,000.
Cost: $15 (certainly you can swing that)
Drive Someone Else's Car
It doesn't get simpler than this. Show up with your helmet, leave when the checkers drop. But how do you do that for $500? Easy, racing school. With the economy in a slump, racing school is on sale coast-to-cost.
Ever wanted to do 10 laps in a Sprint Cup car? The going rate is less than $400. How about a session in a race-prepped Z06? I'm doing it next week for $175. No helmet, no suit, no license. Just show up on drive.
Cost: $175-500
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Lots of homeowners get frustrated by unsolicited phone calls from salespeople trying to sell them something that they don't want. But it appears it was a telemarketer's turn to let off steam last week, after he allegedly threatened to blow up the house of a Mead, Colo., homeowner who turned down the offer of some money he'd supposedly won.
"The homeowner was not interested and hung up the phone," Sgt. Tim Schwartz of the Weld County Sheriff's Office told KMGH-TV in Denver. Undeterred, the telemarketer called right back, Schwartz said, "and got pretty rude, telling the homeowner, 'I've placed a bomb in your house.' "
The threat prompted the homeowner to call 911, and led to an evacuation of nearby homes while the victim's home was searched. Authorities found nothing.
The homeowner, who declined to be identified, told KMGH, "I think the call came from overseas. He had a very thick accent."
A neighbor, Elaine Stanchfield, who had to evacuate her home, said that she couldn't believe what had happened. "It was like, 'Oh my God! A bomb threat.' "
Stanchfield said that she thinks telemarketers "are a big pain," because they don't stop calling even after you ask them to. "But to go to those lengths to actually threaten someone is just ridiculous," she said.
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Nationwide, nearly 300,000 workers are employed as telemarketers, also known as telephone sales representatives, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Such jobs don't pay particularly well -- about $11 an hour on average, or about $22,500 annually. The majority of telemarketers -- 89 percent -- are either high school dropouts or hold only a high school diploma.
BLS data suggest that few telemarketers would likely define their jobs as secure, well paid or offering good working conditions. Further, the job can be stressful, involving lots of "cold calling" and rejection from customers who aren't interested in the products or services being sold.
Though this incident is alarming, such threats from telemarketers are exceedingly rare, Sgt. Schwartz told KMGH, adding that authorities may never discover the telemarketer's identity.
"It's completely out of the ordinary," Schwartz said. "I don't know how to explain it. They're just pretty pushy I guess."
Should the telemarketer's identity become known, the actions of law enforcement will depend on where the call originated. If the call was made in the U.S., an arrest warrant will be issued, Schwartz said.
But if it's determined that the call came from outside the country, the FBI will be alerted to the threat.
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ROCKVILLE, MD - (June 12, 2013) - UMES in the Construction Management Technology program at The Universities at Shady Grove now have an opportunity to get hands-on training with an award-winning construction firm after company officials and educators endorsed a new cooperative education agreement.
Leaders from the UMES School of Business and Technology, USG and Grunley Construction Co. recently signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize a partnership to provide "meaningful, co-curricular learning opportunities for students, while growing a diverse talent pool of candidates for Grunley's employment pipeline."
USG is a regional campus of the University System of Maryland, where it offers academic programs in collaboration with nine state universities, including UMES in Princess Anne. Grunley's headquarters is in Rockville less than a mile from the Shady Grove campus in Montgomery County.
"Our firm is firmly committed to excellence and to doing all we can to ensure that the construction management industry in this fast-growing region is helping to prepare, attract and retain the highest quality professionals possible," said Gregory M. Druga, President of Grunley Construction Company, Inc. "We're excited to be teaming up with UMES and USG to launch such an innovative co-op program that will give these construction management technology students an incomparable on-the-job learning experience and an intensive opportunity to explore their career interests and develop their skills."
"UMES is pleased to provide our well-respected Construction Management Technology program at The Universities at Shady Grove and we are excited to partner with Grunley Construction Co., which has such an outstanding reputation in our region," UMES President Juliette B. Bell said. "This is a 'win-win' for our students, who will have opportunities to gain critical, real-world experience while earning academic credit toward their bachelor's degrees."
Among the stated objectives in the newly forged pact between UMES, USG and Grunley:
"One of the aspects of The Universities at Shady Grove that we are so proud of is that virtually everything we do to provide students with the best possible experience starts with creating and maximizing the benefits of unique partnerships," said Dr. Stewart Edelstein, Executive Director of USG and Associate Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University System of Maryland. "This new partnership with UMES and Grunley Construction is a prime example and will generate phenomenal opportunities for students who are selected to participate in the program."
To apply for the co-op program - in which eligible students will be able to earn an hourly wage from Grunley and academic credit from UMES - students must be enrolled in the UMES Construction Management program at USG as a junior or senior with a grade point average of at least 2.5.
Participating students must also go through a pre-screening process conducted by USG's Career and Internship Services Center. Upon successful completion of required work, UMES will award participating students two credits for every 240 hours worked. The students may receive up to four credits maximum through this co-op program.
Other opportunities for participating students will include the chance to earn a $300 book scholarship from Grunley, upon placement in the program; a monetary bonus for successful completion of each of four departmental rotations within the company; professional development and certification opportunities; and an assigned mentor from the Grunley team.
Visit www.shadygrove.umd.edu and search for "Grunley" for more information on the cooperative education partnership between UMES, USG and Grunley Construction Company, Inc. Or, contact contact program director Bijan Shapoorian at (301) 738-6214.


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You may look at weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.Discretize to discretize an attribute independent of the class or discretize a class attribute.
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I've heard all sorts of things discussion about open drivers being blocked by patents over parts of OpenGL. One thing I haven't heard about is efforts to get patent exemptions for open source drivers for open source operating systems. We should articulate to patent holders that we will never be able to make money from this "niche." We will never buy or pay for rights to use it. There is no gain for them to hold us back. Maybe we could articulate some benefits though to them. Any thoughts?
No announcement yet.
We need a Campaign for OpenGL Patent Exemptions for OSS, namely Mesa, and Linux
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It might be a wasted effort to go after individual firms, but I suspect it would be even more of a wasted effort to try to get the law changed. Abolishing software patents is so far from the minds of politicians and from the interest of the general public that I doubt it'll ever gain any traction. Having courts abolish software patents somehow would be the only thing I can think of that would be successful if you're wanting to get rid of them all.
Originally posted by Prescience500 View PostIt might be a wasted effort to go after individual firms, but I suspect it would be even more of a wasted effort to try to get the law changed. Abolishing software patents is so far from the minds of politicians and from the interest of the general public that I doubt it'll ever gain any traction. Having courts abolish software patents somehow would be the only thing I can think of that would be successful if you're wanting to get rid of them all.
How would you suggest convincing politicians and the general public that we need to get rid of software patents? I have a hard enough time talking to friends and family about balancing the budget when there's 1.5 trillion dollar deficit and they understand money. They don't all understand computers.
Software patents root in proprietary.
Software patents were chain reaction to one company reverse-engineering(what they always do) the code from another company and using it.
Later, special sort of companies appeared, those that invest huge amount of money in RnD to create a patent in the areas where technologies will most likely step into. You can call it patent mine.
The idea will not work. They are extremely lazy people that will move their backs only when they hear the magic word "cashflow".
They will not care, if you write them post - they will consider it spam.
They will not care, if you meet them and claim they would never milk enough cash. Why should they care then? Why should they risk?
The future of ClosedGL is same as codebase of ID Software' Commander Keen.
To be milked and then to be forgotten under huge pile of dust.
Either OpenCL will replace it, and very probably proprietary pigs will seek to encumber OpenCL as well. Or someone really writes open standard.
Perhaps letters to ISO/IEEE may push them to define the standard open 3D hardware access API; same as they did with ODF.
Originally posted by deanjo View PostWUT? lol, openCL would have the same patent restrictions against it and has nothing to do if items like S3TC can be implemented in it. You could completely write an entirely different API and still have the patent restriction of not being able to provide it.
Using terms like "ClosedGL" is just pure idiocy. If you remove the patented bits, it's not a useful GL anymore. It's just a piece of shit that nobody wants to use. S3TC you can live without, as it's merely a performance tool, but floating point textures are MANDATORY for modern rendering. If Khronos just removed them to be "more Open" it would basically kill OpenGL dead instantly.
If Khronos wants to do something useful, it needs to WRITE SOME FUCKING CODE.
Have you ever used the OpenGL drivers for anything besides an accelerated desktop and a few stupid Quake 3 clones? Even the proprietary drivers? They're utter shit. They're buggy to all hell. They break their own documentation. Their extensions change with various releases. Things that work perfectly in the Direct3D drivers work completely broken in the OpenGL drivers for the same hardware from the same driver vendor.
(1) Every vendor reimplement all of OpenGL from scratch, and so they introduce bugs and incompatibilities. Microsoft on the other hand provides the upper layers of DirectX, and hardware vendors supply only the low-level hardware interface and low-level shader compiler bits. There's less bugs and less incompatibilities when everyone is using the same core codebase. Linux has Gallium, but that's just for Linux; Khronos needs to provide an OpenGL implementation akin to Mesa (no hardware drivers, but all the upper/middle layers, shader parser, and a software reference implementation). And then it needs to mandate that implementations are only OpenGL certified if they are compatible 100% with that reference implementation (see point 2 below), and then further mandate that driver implementations are only OpenGL certified if they _do not replace the platform-provided libGL_.
(2) There is no OpenGL test suite, so there's no way to know if a driver change is going to break anything until after it's pushed out and users start to bitch. Direct3D has a very complete verification suite that Microsoft requires vendors to comply with. Direct3D drivers are broken much, much less often than OpenGL drivers are because of this.
(3) There are no official OpenGL examples. Learning how to write _correct_ OpenGL code is ridiculously difficult. There are a metric shitload of bad, bad, horribly articles online telling you all kinds of stupid stuff, and a million ancient articles for OpenGL 1/2 that people keep using for new code when half the APIs used in those articles are deprecated (with damn good reason) and removed in the newer Core profiles.
(4) There are no official OpenGL development tools. gDEBugger is okay, but it's not free, and it is (to quote our resident genius) "just like PIX was before PIX came out with the newer version that made it 10x better than it used to be." In other words, the best tools available to OpenGL developers are lightyears behind the best tools available to Direct3D developers. And those tools really matter.
(5) The OpenGL API (and all the other Khronos APIs) are fucking ridiculously stupid, error-prone, impossible to multi-thread correctly, rely on overloaded behavior between versions (the glTexture*D functions are crazy!), type unsafe, and basically require warpping up in a Direct3D-like API in order to make them actually usable in an application without incurring ridiculously heavy numbers of state changes. Rewrite them. Break compatibility with OpenGL 5, finally, for the love of God. Introduce a new shading language that has actually usable semantics and doesn't practically mandate the use of NVIDIA's Cg to get anything useful done.
Imagine that world. A world where the OpenGL implementations are as bug-free as the Direct3D implementation. A world where a new developer can actually figure out how to use OpenGL 3+ with minimal effort. A world where the Mesa developers have an official test suite to develop against. A world where OpenGL actually has a fighting chance of winning the minds and hearts of the throngs of developers who have already seen or used Direct3D 10. That is a beautiful world.


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The entire episode — which went viral after it was posted on YouTube this summer — took just four minutes but generated a lasting sense of goodwill towards the force.
"It's a good news story," Sokoloski tells The Canadian Press. "I'm not going to end up in a big band or gain any popularity or riches out of it but if it enhances the image of policing and of the RCMP, and it makes our job easier to do, you know, then go with it."
Sokoloski, who primarily deals with traffic incidents and acts as a spokesman for the Mounties in Pincher Creek, believes the small positive acts carried out by officers on a daily basis go unnoticed far too often.
"We get chastised for the few bad things we do, but every day there's thousands of good things done by police officers in our communities," he says.
Indeed, the popular drumming video provided a welcome boost to the perception of the Mounties in a year when the RCMP's image has been battered by allegations of harassment and abusive behaviour within the force.
In his community, Sokoloski takes a hands-on approach to policing and focuses on building meaningful relationships with residents. Those bonds, he says, have undoubtedly been strengthened by all the buzz generated by the widely circulated video.
"From a work perspective it's made the job a lot easier and people want to approach you a lot more," he says with a chuckle. "I think it's made it easier for the other members in the area too."
The 17-year veteran of the force says he typically plays the guitar, and used to rock bars in Saskatchewan in the '80s with a band called "Shy Boy." On occasion, he hammered away at the drums as well.
The incident which took place in July was just one part of a regular patrol for Sokoloski, who was driving along a rural forest access road when he spotted a set of drums through the trees. After chatting with the campers who were playing their instruments in the woods, Sokoloski asked if he could join in.
"I had never met the guy before, I didn't know what he was playing, so I just got a feel for it and I just played a beat," he recalls. "I've never seen people jam in the forest before."
The video of Sokoloski rocking out in the woods has since garnered more than 900,000 views on YouTube.
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Brand Pages (2007)
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The introduction of brand pages is what moved the needle for Facebook, helping them make the transition from a networking platform for college kids to one that included young professionals. Since then, we've seen Facebook's user base grow to more than 845 million monthly active users. Brand pages allowed this audience to build social relationships with a company for the first time ever.
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